Hey Adam curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Sunday May 29 2016. At time
once again for your gizmo nation media assassination episode
eight tonight. This is no agenda monitoring band propagation to
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Capitol the drone Star state here in FEMA Region six Austin
teh house in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry
and from Northern Silicon Valley where I'm getting it right the
first time I'm John C. Dvorak scale.
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rock. Do Yeah, you totally rock. Ah,
right off the bat still raining across the lane. So
yes, Texas weather report. You're right in the middle of
it.
Right now. We're really at the edge of it. So we keep getting a
big dose of rain. Lots of excitement in the sky. Lightning
thunder Hill. No Hill, Rolling Thunder Rolling Thunder, which
is it's almost like a It's it sounds like an like a California
earthquake can feel.
I mean, yes. Yeah, that's that the low note and the low
rolling. Yeah.
And of course, I you know, this, it's obvious where this comes
from. We valiantly the took to the rain sticks to help our
cannon avian friends, which the same night it started raining
there. But as I already explained, when we do the rain
sticks, it shows up in other places. And of course, me being
in Texas makes nothing but sense. Well,
unless you die getting the hell it is, by the way is your
Airstream trailer outside or inside.
That's a good question. It's supposed to be inside at the at
the dealer. If it's not, and I get a hailstorm and it's dented,
then you know they're gonna have to, they're gonna have
to deal with that. Obviously. It's not all hail causes dents.
No, but if you live in Texas, you'll see Yeah, you'll see that
there's definitely you'll see cars driving around. You know,
you know you do right and you know what you always have handy
in case of a hailstorm. Everybody has a big baseball
bat. Yes. Bad and back to the sky. No, everyone has heavy
blankets in their in their car. And we're near the car once
could you just throw the heavy blankets over and then you'll be
safe
over the car? Yeah. Not well, driver.
I never heard that. Not while driving is a bad idea.
Never heard this interesting.
It's true. You're talking about the Greek guy. I wanted to get
to that before we forgot to talk about it. We talked about before
the show.
Oh, no. Well, we were just talking about clothing about
getting socks for Christmas and ties just before we started the
show. And I was going to say that vlogging of Lada showed up
in Greece under reported here in the United States, of course,
but I'm always looking at the European news to have a little
conversation conversation will be going on but it was so odd.
Vladimir Putin shows up he got the I got the clip your full
military guard the whole thing just wasn't even covered here.
Of course not. Especially the full military guard guard that
was look nice red carpet everyone all decked out gun to
the ready. But the Prime Minister is what's his name?
Tsipras. Prime Minister's name, Greek name. Some Greek name that
would be correct. He was not he was just wearing an open shirt
collar was very strange.
Did he have a gold chains he should have
military honors and a warm welcome for Russian President
Vladimir Putin in Athens. At a joint news conference with Greek
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Putin said Russian tourist
numbers to Greece could jump threefold with improved visa
arrangements. He also reiterated his position on the Crimea.
karuma. As for Crimea, he says that question we consider to be
closed completely. It was a historical decision made by the
people living in Crimea, and Russia will not hold any
discussions on this question with anyone. Mr. Putin is
visiting Greece as it searches for investors willing to help
invigorate its ailing economy, while Moscow is looking for
allies among EU members who could help lift or at least ease
the sanctions imposed on Russia following its involvement in the
Ukraine crisis.
This of course on the backdrop of a little g7
powwow. And it's interesting. Yeah,
it's very interesting, especially because the the
optics of the big military guard and then the laid backness of
the of the the premier with no tie. Hey, Vlad, I do mams Come
on, hang up. And this must be irking some people in I don't
know.
There's a couple of things in play. Yeah, I'd say. One of them
is the turkey relationship with Ron Russia. Yeah, yeah, because
they had a big falling out in Turkey was one of the top spots
where Russians used to vacation,
along with Cyprus, which of course is right and right off
the major and other issues.
So, also the French Riviera. Yes, that's all the That's
right. Russian oligarchs who go and blow their money and buy
bottles of champagne
for the whole play, love sank all sang babies on Trump high,
and
they'd go nuts. And now that money is lost, and it looks like
it's gonna all end up in Greece.
Well, they already own half that half of Greece on their own
beaches, and you can put pretty sure they do all that was sold
off 12 since since we're just let's just stick with F Russia
for a moment, then couple things going on. While we have this
backdrop, NATO is about to start on a huge exercise known as this
is a good one Operation Anaconda or otherwise known as Operation
big swinging, Dick, look at us, Vladimir, here we are. Let's see
June 7 217 31,000, ground ground troops and sailors from 24 NATO
and partner partner countries will stage enormous according to
Canadian news, enormous land, sea and air exercises to block a
hypothetical Russian incursion from the east. Yeah, that's,
that's always friendly. That's the way to do it. The State
Department was questioned. Of course, they're always
questioned about Russia and the sanctions and what has to happen
and I caught something which I didn't understand maybe one of
our producers can help me figure it out. Or maybe it's just not
true. What the spokes hold is saying
g7, including the US president adopted the declaration in Japan
regarding the issue of Ukraine, Russia, they stressed that g7
stands ready to take further restrictive measures in order to
increase cost of Russia. Could you clarify this point? And what
circumstance circumstances would lead to that step?
Well, I think, look, I'm just gonna say that, you know, we
believe sanctions need to stay in place regarding Russia, and
regarding its actions in Crimea, as well as in eastern Ukraine
until it meets. Its its commitments. And until it
returns, which is a specific set of sanctions, as well as returns
Crimea for another set of sanctions to its rightful
owners, which is Ukraine. The path to alleviating sanctions is
very clear. Russia needs to comply with its Minsk
commitments.
Now,
the Minsk commitments, which I of course, looked at, again,
says nothing about Crimea.
And I don't remember Crimea ever being in place.
I mean, it doesn't even show up in the agreement that well,
north, it may show up somewhere. Um, see, I have the actual text
here. I don't think it even shows up. Now, it doesn't even
show up in the point and the point, sir, it's all about
Donetsk and Luhansk. That's what it's mainly about. But there's
there's not even something as vague as saying
via you have to what do you say give it back
to Ukraine, the rightful owners?
I know. But the Ukraine, you know, they said,
Yeah. But obviously, Russia didn't take it over. Now they
had a referendum. They
didn't march people in there and take it by force that will help
the Crimean public that voted it in even though that's people are
skeptical about that. Yeah.
Well, this. Well, of course, they're skeptical. But this
anyway, it's not in there. So I don't understand maybe it's
impossible to
make it up as he goes along.
And I'm looking there was a I had a clip of Vladimir Putin
saying that that's not going to happen. Let me see where it was
that
why is that not in my in the folder
you already played? The clip did see where he said it's not going
to happen. There was something that doesn't matter or something
else, but
our T had a very, very funny report, which I'm going to play
this replay this RTX report first now Wait, I'll play it out
in different sequence. We this is all about the boots on the
ground. And of course, we've been following boots on the
ground. We've been talking about the term boots on the ground by
itself being just a horrible thing to say. Because it
diminishes the feet and legs and bodies that are in those boots
on the ground. And we had the the big laugh session with with
Kirby and Matt Lee at the State Department said no, no, we've
never said boots on the ground wouldn't happen when we never
said no boots on the ground. Gee, I don't know. Oh, no, that
was a different kind of boots on the ground. So now we have some
very irritating pictures from the genre false press AFP and
you got to be thinking that this is done on purpose who runs AFP?
John, this is you know, it's considered to be a legitimate
news organization, obviously.
Yeah. I don't know probably French intelligence in cahoots
with MI six. And who knows who
well, they came out with, with picture, not just pictures, but
also video of us boots on the ground, on the front line with
forces that they were supposed to equip was a train and assist,
equip and assist whatever like that not only are they on the
front line to pull the trigger, with, with, with the with their
obviously recognizable hardware, but they're wearing insignias of
the, what the turkey believes to be the the terrorist. And that
of course, is the
PKK or the operation. No, it's
the they are the people for the people. Yeah, the People's
Protection Units. That's the as the PKK Yeah, but they have an
insignia on their arm, which is YPG YPG. Now, the Turks consider
this to be the premier terrorist group. And so we're
first going we're wearing this did this little our guys are
wearing
the YPG insignia on the front lines. So this comes up in the
press corps at the Department of Defense at the Pentagon. And I'm
playing this for a number of reasons. One, so you can hear
this is the denial that of course came first or the non
denial, denial, but also listen to the journalist and the thing
she says, and the beliefs she holds about will just facts I
guess, and truths, which is very worrisome. If you look at the
journalism being practiced today
as the the current rhythms like this, the Syrian Democratic
Forces continue to push south from towards raka that as they
clear an area of ISIS and they you know, quote unquote, take
that territory back then the forward line continues to move
south with them. But I think the thing that that
Stopstopstop and back it up so yeah, by stopping
back and re rack
quote, unquote, take the territory back yes,
this is all the stuff that is so messed up with with the with the
meet
with the press.
What is she talking about, quote, unquote, is the whole
thing of
fiction. She has a lot of these, but I can't explain why she's
saying drops, quote,
unquote, yeah, so I'll be trying it I got a quote unquote, clip
for you, Adam, you could maybe, quote unquote, play it for me.
Well, that would depend if it has to be on the click wheel.
Let me say. Oh, I'm sorry, you lose a turn.
I quote unquote, lose a term. You totally lose a turn I quote
unquote, lose a quote unquote, turn quote unquote, unquote,
what do you say she's quoting somebody, I just don't know who
I presume it's this foxhole? Well, she's either
you either quote somebody, or you're using it in some sort of,
facetious or, or way to indicate that it's not true, or there's a
lot of reasons you'd say that, but there's, I wonder if she did
air
quotes while doing it. No, no, because I started No, she
didn't, because I saw her. But she kept looking over her
shoulder at some other journalist and they're all
nodding, and she would make grimacing faces like it would be
better with video but let's listen again.
The the current or I'm sorry, this this Syrian Democratic
Forces continue to push south from towards raka that as they
clear an area of ISIS, and they you know, quote, unquote, take
that territory back.
I don't know what it means take that target a bit new. Maybe
she's, we call it take that territory back. But really what
we mean is obliterating citizens, maybe that's it. I
don't know. There's more gems in this
than the forward line continues to move south with them. But I
think the thing that that perhaps Louis and I maybe
there's others or are is surprising to us is that we've
consistently been told that these 250 or 300, US forces that
are there are back
now, first of all, another thing that irritates me is the number
of forces of boots of troops, whatever you want to call it, it
is either 250 orders 300 or 305. Is it so hard to give an exact
number at that level? And when you say it's either
Yeah, 250 300
also unacceptable to me. Yeah, that's, that's a large
percentage of 5050 More or less is that
we've consistently been told that these 250 or 300 US forces
that are there, our back our back and, you know, in, in some
sort of a more hardened base or structure facilities.
There's coloring in place, there's a shadow sheltering in
place, cowering in the corner on
thing doing their advising, but now it's clear from this AFP
reporting that they're actually moving south we They're moving
south towards raka with the seer, the SDF, as opposed to
staying in one fixed location, and they understand that you are
firm, but
I understand that you can confirm, okay, she could say
please confirm, but okay, and they understand
that you firm, but but there's photographic evidence from an
esteemed, you know, journalistic organization
and they take photographic evidence at face value.
Apparently, they find that troubling. And there's so many
examples of fake photography in the past decade alone
journalistic organization that proves it, so you don't even
have to confirm it. It's true.
You don't even have to confirm it prow giving them an out.
It's not okay. Hey,
here's the issue. We have photographic evidence. Okay,
there'll be proof for you, young lady, would you please confirm
that this is happening? And she says, she says right there, Hey,
you don't even have to confirm it. Wow, that way to hold the
feet to the fire speaking truth to power baby,
you know, journalistic organization that proves it. So
you don't even have to confirm it. It's true, we can see that
it's true in the photo. So I guess that's the question Is it
now the US troops they are rather than staying back and in
the end doing their training there, they are now moving with
the Syrians moving forward with the Syrians towards Raka. I
guess that's the point is that and that seems to be changed
from our understanding of what they were doing in the past.
We haven't talked much about our forces on the ground in Syria,
for all the reasons I've described. And I'm not gonna get
into it further here, other than to tell you about their mission,
how they've conducted themselves is a dangerous situation for
them, we're not gonna do anything to expose them to
greater risk. At this point, they had been in close
communication with the local forces on the ground, those
commanders that they've been able to establish relationships
with, and they're going to continue to do so carrying out
their mission. And again, not putting them in the lead of this
fight, but providing that support role to those forces.
And, and they're gonna continue to do that.
I think it's clear they're not in the lead of the fight. But it
seems like they might be in the chase vehicle right behind the
fight at this point from that's what the show that they're
right.
And she cracks a joke in the chase. Right there forward with
the Syrian.
I'll leave it for you to characterize with us talking.
She's
taking one too many Adderall this morning. He has she has
well in this continued because then we obviously concluded that
these boots, were wearing the YPG insignia on their uniform,
which I have a funny arty clip about in a second, but first Oh,
okay. How do we explain that away? And is this is this a
typical behavior? I don't know. Have you ever? I mean, I know
that in World War Two, you know, if we were behind enemy lines,
we might dress up as Nazis to try and do some to trick them.
But is this typical behavior that
we that I know act as they won't even get in those you just not?
They're not members of this probably
even some regulation, or maybe even the rule about
your funnier rules. I'm sure we have a lot of military guys that
will tell us what they are. But you can't just swap uniforms.
Right? I'm in the Navy now. All right.
So how do we explain this away? Well, the Pentagon has answers.
First of all, you know, our policy with regard to our
special operations forces, that we're not going to talk very
much about their activities, where they are and what they're
doing, for obvious reasons. They're carrying out a mission,
they are exposing themselves to significant risk. And I'm not
gonna do anything up here that in any way gives anyone the
ability to identify where our forces are operating and what
they're up to at any moment in time. Hope you would understand
that.
I do. I appreciate that concern. But this these are photos that
are now publicly available. And from from the video that I've
seen, it appeared that there wasn't any real reluctance to
not be filmed to not be photographed by the Special
Operations Forces. So here, we have something now on the record
in the public domain, and it's clearly your YPG insignia. So my
question is, is it appropriate to have a YPD G badge on your
shoulder?
I'm not going to comment about specific photos what I will say
is that special operations forces when they operate in
certain areas, do what they can to if you will blend in with the
community to enhance their own
that huge gun he's carrying really blends community
community hey that camo and NVGs very you're blending right in my
friend almost didn't notice you
protection, their own security. And it's special operations
forces in the past have worked with partners and God and in the
past have not so Have some sort of way that they might operate
in a in an atmosphere in which they are supportive of that
local force and their advice and his role. And they might be,
again, for visual purposes might be blank visual
purposes, it's the new optics for visual purposes and
again, with the local community, so fit
in with the community thing with with that partner, I'm not
going to get into describing it other than our forces need to
take the steps that they need to take in order to carry out their
mission and to protect themselves and take every
available step they can take to try and, again, carry out their
mission and be safe in the process of doing so.
Okay. Now, this does come to a head finally, but not before
Russia today, pretty much did a no agenda package on this whole
deal. It was so no agenda like that. I think we might want to
send them an invoice.
US special forces have been photographed for the first time
in Syria helping Kurdish fighters as they advance on
Islamic State's de facto capital Racker. The pictures were
snapped by an agency reporter for AFP.
Pictures kind of give it away the low profile helmets, the
unique camouflage, the latest weaponry that doesn't go for
export, advanced and expensive communications get these
American troops and they're armed to the teeth yet.
Washington maintains that they aren't there to fight, they
are not on the forward line. They are providing advice,
assistance. And again, I'm not going to get into details but
that mission has not changed. Their role has not changed. They
are not leading this fight. They are supporting those forces that
are at the leading edge. Funnily enough
YPG SDF, sorry, a fish.
This is a great kicker. Listen, roll that back for a second.
You're gonna love this. This is so typical, maybe enough.
YPG SDF, sorry, officials on the ground are reportedly saying
that these guys are everywhere they're on the ground, they're
in the air, they're on the frontlines, where the fighting
is taking place fighting against ISIS. So clearly, you know, if
you listen to them, they're involved in the fight. We've
heard for a while Obama promised there'd been no boots on the
ground in in Syria. Well, now you have boots on the ground in
Syria. Funny thing is, though, insignia often the Insignia
American flags are missing from their uniforms. And you have
them American special forces with YPG. And in his case, YPJ.
That's an old female unit of Kurdish fighters.
This is the best part. They don't actually have the YPG
insignia is they have the y p j, which is the all female women
Italia. So our guys are wearing. Maybe that's just oh, wait a
minute that must know what we
got four badges, man. Oh, my god is this box?
Is good via Wi Fi, g j whatever they think that's right, slap it
on
them American special forces with YPG. And in his case, YPJ.
That's an old female unit of Kurdish fighters with their
insignia on instead. Certainly, you know, we are
so dumb.
I can't believe that might have been done on purpose just to
humiliate the other side.
That's possible also that these may be mercenaries. It may not
be, you know, enlisted.
This is what I'm not fully understanding, which is why the
defense department guy said we don't know who these people are.
You say they're an American said the AFP say they are Americans.
But we have no evidence of that and they're not working in the
American flag or anything. What do you think they're Americans?
Why didn't they go in that direction? plausible
deniability. Yeah. Well, they bring some more
that that goes along with the American law that no boots on
the ground, though. It's no secret. And Washington in fact,
is, perhaps been taking it as a bit of a joke.
I mean, there's no point in arguing the boots on the ground
rhetoric. It's absolutely no pointed. I'm not disputing the
fact that we have troops on the ground and they're wearing
boots.
So there you go. Somebody in Syria is wearing boots.
Turkey reacted, what have they got to say about it?
It's no surprise Turkey is hacked off. Really?
You have to find Russian term the
Turkish foreign minister now saying this? Well, take a listen
for yourself.
It is not acceptable for US soldiers to wear YPG terrorists,
Tom Badgers, this is double standards two faced
the YPG has made more progress against the Islamic State than
anyone else yet. Turks consider these guys as well as all
Kurdish military units apart from Iraqi ones to be terrorists
blank Can you now have the United States Turkish NATO ally,
their Special Forces wearing YPG? insignia? So you know,
thankies understandably very upset about this one somewhere.
I
had a clip of the the full statement from the Turkish prime
minister who said, hey, they might as well just be wearing
ISIS DASCH Boko Haram insignias. I can't believe I can't find it
because it was a very nice clip. But anyway, all of this did
result in the following as per the Pentagon,
the fact of the matter is, you know, it's not authorized. So in
this case, they were directed to remove the patches.
As far as any additional reprimands or anything like
that. I'm not aware. But the bottom line and the important
thing is that the situation has been corrected, and that we have
communicated to our allies that that such conduct was
inappropriate. Man,
what do you mean to our allies? Turkey, okay, or allies?
That it's such conduct was inappropriate Gotcha. Man it was
on offer us
the Turkish foreign minister, Josue vented his country's
anger, although they should also wear dynamische, Al Nusrah and
al Qaeda insignia during their operations in other regions of
Syria. They can also wear the Boko Haram insignia when they go
to Africa. The YPG is the most powerful Kurdish Syrian militia
backed by the US currently engaged in fighting ISIL close
to the group's de facto capital Racker.
I think that is worth a mention on network news on the three by
three if the Turkish Prime Minister says hey, you boots in
America, American boots, you should wear Boko Haram and
senior when you're near them. If you were dash,
there was nothing now of course on any of the networks about any
of this now. They just ignored it. They'd rather talk about the
riots in San Diego. Trump stuff. Yeah, I do have one report on I
want to lay out I got a
couple of things.
I got a couple things. What you got? Well,
I got a we already have. I'm starting to go back to listen to
NBC so I can I can see how Katie Turner is doing. The Trump
hater. And she she's now she's just basically lying. And it
says actually, I think I think it's pretty, pretty sad that the
way this goes, let's I want to discuss this aspect of the phony
baloney debate that was supposed to happen between Bernie Sanders
and Trump.
Yes. Now was this actually set up by Jimmy Kimmel? Was that
where it came from? Initially? I have the you have you have the
Genesis? Yes. Okay.
I have the whole genesis and I want everyone to pay careful
attention. This was a supposed question left by Bernie on the
Kimmel show to ask Trump and here we go. Debate clip. 130.
So
I think it's very unfair what's happening to Bernie Sanders,
actually, and, and it's a system that's not a good system. I
asked Bernie
Sanders because he's gonna be here tomorrow to to ask a
question. And you met Bernie, have you guys ever met before?
I've never really had the privilege. I see. Okay, so
here's the question from Bernie. He asked Hillary Clinton back
out of an agreement to debate me in California before the June 7
primary. Are you prepared to debate the major issues facing
our largest state and the country before the California
Primary? Yes or no, he wants to know if he will debate Yes, I
am. How much is he going to pay me
would do it for price what we have because of I debated
him, we would have such high ratings and I think I should
give take that money and give it to some worthy charity.
So if it was done for
I saw my report a charity I would love to do that. Oh,
now Okay, so what do we have what we have established
Bernie's idea. Bernie's concept done on the Kim was show clip to
reiterated the
next night and on the show last night I asked Bernie Sanders to
give me a question to ask Donald Trump and vice versa. And
Bernie's question was will you debate me before the California
Primary on June 7, and Trump said he would if the debate
raised a lot of money for charity, which it would be very
unusual to have a debate like this, which made for a lot of
chatter today on cable news.
Can I interrupt for one second with a comment about the charity
thing and rich people? Yeah. When I back when I was rich,
it's very easy. When you have a lot of money, they'll do
something and give the money to charity. Just wanted to point
out a minor observation not really that important, but it is
very interesting. Where no matter what you do as a
celebrity, you don't have to be rich, but as someone who is is
famous US, everyone's pretty much okay with what you do. But
whenever you go and like, it's particularly with lawsuits, if
you fight someone, then for your right, I mean, I've sued many
publications for copyright infringement, the minute you win
money, which of course, is it going to be a public document?
The whole? Well, in this case, in the Netherlands, a whole
country says, Well, you really better be given that to charity,
man.
It's really it's an odd thing. It's like when you get when you
when you apparently have money, and success and fame, but if you
fight and you win, people are always calling for you to give
it to charity. It's very odd.
That should be we should be able to on this show, we should be
able to trace that to something because that is a commonplace,
it's a it's a societal thing. Yeah. And that and Trump
himself, when he said, you know how much you're gonna pay me
then he had to think twice about? Yes. And then he came up
with a charity thing because at first he was thinking, Man, I
pay debt and get some money. I'll do it. Yes. And he said, Oh
my god, I can't even say that I got it. You know, he's thinking
to himself, and then he says charity and brings it to
charity. Yes. And that's exactly how that's at the point where he
actually lost interest.
Of course have
crapped screw the chair, so he's not getting it he's not doing
it. Alright, anyway, that was an hour so we have so we have this
established what happened. Bernie came up with this idea
Trump said well, maybe for charity, we could do it and
that's the way it ends but no, and so Trump backside of the
thing and the next thing you know, the network's and we'll
start with the worst offender was terror. Terror of NBC. Yeah,
they they've reached they've restructured the story
completely and, and lie about it. She's a lot she is. She's an
unconscionable liar. She's terrible. At this report. Here
she is. Blaming the whole thing on Trump does clip three.
Mr. Trump is going to change his mind many times in a day.
The presumptive GOP nominee first suggested the debate on
Jimmy Kimmel Tuesday night in a bed to diminish Hillary Clinton.
Now Sanders is trying to hold Trump to His Word, daring him to
get back in the ring. He's a big tough guy. Well, Mr. Trump, what
are you afraid of?
It was Trump's idea. Now.
It was Trump's idea. And then she plays these negative clips
about Bernie calling him out as a coward to bully and an idiot.
And she plays this thing, clawed full cloth as she she made this
up. Okay, well, let's go back to ABC where the clip replayed
originally, this time they clipped from the from the
original ABC or CBS. I think this last one is ABC is actually
ABC, which is where this showdown began, so that you
think they would get it right. But even ABC cheats, they don't
cheat as much as she did. She just lied. But they cheat and
give a kind of a false presentation.
Trump is holding a rally in California. There are protesters
outside. Carter
Stopstopstop You're right. This is CBS. That's what I was trying
to tell you. Yeah. You were telling me and I'm looking at
the clip. You're right. Yeah. And this is, by the way, this is
Jane Pauley who's substitutes? Yeah. And she has his unless she
when
she was doing I haven't seen her in a long time. I'll watch for
now.
She is interesting to listen to because when you watch her she
signs looks natural. sounds natural. But when you listen to
her, she's a terrible prompter reader. Yeah, but anyway, go on.
Sorry.
Okay, we'll start again.
Trump is holding a rally in California. They're on
protesters outside. Carter Evans is on the scene garter.
Jane inside the San Diego Convention Center. Donald Trump
addressed 1000s of supporters but California is fertile ground
for the anti Trump movement. And there are a lot of protesters
here as you can see behind me and as the crowd grew. They also
got angrier San Diego police were hoping to keep supporters
and opponents of park but late this afternoon riot police
intervened making arrests, this protester was beaten with
batons. While the protests were mostly peaceful. The crowd was
hardly calm. There is little doubt of where they stand and
emotions have boiled over. This rally has also featured a broad
array of protesters, not just Latino groups, but Muslims,
union leaders and members from the LGBT community.
Members of the LGBT community who live somewhere I think in
Maine
Well, that's not the clip I wanted. No,
I get it. What do you want? Well, now
I mean, I was just it was a backup to the Katy tour clip and
it was ABC doing the same thing. Only they they misrepresented
this whole case by re editing the thing.
I don't think you have a clip about that
here. I'm looking at because I remember clipping it.
Well, no, I don't think so.
Oh, okay, well, they're I went through a lot of trouble.
And do you remember what was on it? Yeah, I
remember exactly what was on it. And it was on ABC just as I had
set it up. And then oh, well, you want to?
Do you want to tell us?
Yeah, ABC did the same thing that Katie Turner did only what
they did, was they they took from the Kimmel show, and they
left all the part out about Bernie and they had they started
off with the clip set with Donald when if you listen to
that original clip number one, where he says, Yeah, I'd be
good. I would like to debate Well, no, when we debate I'd
like to do this and like do that as though he had set the whole
debate up and left us the actual setup all perfect. And it was
very well done. If you if you don't mind. In fact, it was it
was misleading. So exactly why because I remember clipping it.
Well.
Why don't you Why don't you look for that. I'm going to give us a
little overview from Euro land with EURO NEWS who will give us
their take on
the
the elections and the world. According to Donald Trump, I
think it's important to hear what the messaging is in Euro
lands.
Until now Donald Trump has got to where he is the Republican
presidential nominee and waiting with a mixture of bluster and
boasts a simplistic formula bluster
and boast it's a such a simplistic formula. It's not a
blast to him, but times with
Americans fed up with the established parties. He's been
notably policy light, but with the nominations sewn up, Trump
is now making policy pronouncements. And they're
sending shivers down the spines of many America first,
sending shivers down the spines of many. Great. This is all
conjecture, I'd say. I would think the sending shivers down
the spines of many policy pronouncements.
And they're sending shivers down the spines of many America
first, this is credo in America that is rich and great again, he
wants to run the country like a company is
I don't think he's ever said that. No, it may be implied. But
he's never said that.
His critics say he will run America and the rest of the
world into the ground.
Yes, this sounds gonna do that. Well, another thing that the
clip is not over. But another thing that is coming back, and
it's the big meme on the face bags. Now, the most important
reason Donald Trump cannot become president, because as the
President of the United States, and here it is the leader of the
free world. We see everyone's concerned. Women, something's
wrong here. Now, I just everyone's very concerned that
he's going to annihilate the universe. But the the problem
and this is, of course, mainly from the anti Trump's, I would
say people who are not conservatives, the problem is
the arrogance of saying our president is the leader of the
free world is part of the actual problem, in my opinion. I agree
Who the hell wants to hear that over and over again, it's quite
the opposite. Donald Trump is not saying he wants to be the
president or the free leader of the world. He's, he's saying,
well, we should talk to everybody figure it out.
But this is in Russia, in particular,
Russia, China. Well, this I got something that everybody freaked
out, please speaking
to the AIPAC American Jewish gathering, he announced a
significant change and company policy. Were the White House to
fall under trinitas.
A company policy.
Yeah, that's what he said. Does that mean Well, I
think he means country policy, but now he's considering the
United States a company I guess. Let me say
I'm Jewish gathering here now say significant change and
company policy where the White House to fall under Trump
management,
we will move the American Embassy to the eternal capital
of the Jewish people, Jerusalem.
Until recently, these radical positions and others plus the
outsider character of Donald Trump meant the Republican
establishment hated him. Now it looks like he might win. None of
that matters. Trump says he admires Vladimir Putin. He's
already squaring up to take on China and says he's ready to
talk with North Korea's Kim Jong Un.
I would I would speak to him I would have no problem speaking
to him. At the same time, I would put a lot of pressure on
China. We have tremendous power over China shy Nick himself that
problem with one meeting or one phone call. I'm Donald Trump.
Trump's simplistic vision of the world continues into radical
Islam and the war on it. Trump calls it radical Islamic
terrorists, Washington and the checks and balances in the
American system. Ensure much of this will be watered down on
this evidence Trump could be a wrecking ball a wrecking ball of
foreign policy wrecking ball of
illegal immigration By building a wall on our southern border
that Mexico will pay for we will
make America great again.
On Thursday, he delivered the cherry on the cake promising to
build a pipeline canceled by President Obama on environmental
grounds and to ignore yet another international treaty but
also
very, very slippery to say that that he probably was to build
the pipeline. First of all, he's not going to build the pipeline,
he asked for the Canadians to resubmit their application is
very different. But this is how this is how the mainstream
operates. So
let's because everybody Yeah, we got the scammers have got to
stay in office is what the problem isn't. It's unfortunate
that the Trump became the guy and now they know what to do.
Well, I have some info on no yet another international treaty.
So foreign bureaucrats are going to be controlling what we're
using and what we're doing on our land in our country. No way.
Step one more thing, by the way, you know, he's talking about
climate change answering the TPP.
He's talking about, you know, in that case, he's talking about
the Paris Climate Agreement
and writing the Paris Climate Agreement. But these buddies
mainly talking about killing this the Trans Pacific
Partnership. Yeah, the T tip. Now, every row left winger and
Democrats everybody is on the same boat on this. We'd like to
there's a secret agreement. We don't like it. We, which should
be stopped immediately. Yeah. So Trump says the same thing. And
everyone's All right. I can't do that we do. We made these
agreements.
This is actually what the Democrats in the United States
are saying they don't want they don't want it. It's the
Democrats who don't want t tip. Right? Yeah,
actually, most of the Republicans want it. It's true.
Well, there was a, I usually watch the overtime, but I caught
a little bit more of Bill Maher, the most recent episode and on
the show was the guy who was frying a lot of people's brains
in the United States, because everybody loves Dilbert.
Everybody adores Scott Adams. Everybody does. from all walks
of life from all sides of the aisle. But as we know, as he's
been saying, Donald Trump will become the president for quite a
while now.
Yeah, he's been in he's been on Trump for almost since the
beginning.
And and this must confuse people. Because how can this guy
who so understands exactly what it's like to work for an
organization like the Trump Organization? Why? Well, you
know, how can you do this? This is horrible. That's why it's not
discussed very much. So he was on Real Time with Bill Maher.
And he explained exactly how he's come up with, with his
analysis, things I did not know and love this guy,
you are really an expert on persuasion. So I've been trying
to invite people on the show who could explain how we might
defeat Donald Pumpkinhead. And tell me your thoughts on that.
First of all, I'm a trained hypnotist and I'm trained
hypnotist.
Did you know this?
Well, he's a friend of mine, by the way. So I'm, as I mentioned
that Oh, okay. And so you didn't know that? I and that's why I
wanted to mention that because I did not specifically know that.
Okay, so I learned to know him when he was when he used to be
ISDN. expert at Pacific
tell there's a job that's gone. Gone away?
Yeah, well, I can tell you a couple of anecdotes.
Maybe after the clip that might be
fun as a hypnotist, and I'm brain hypnotist. Yes, I learned
hypnosis in my 20s actually went to school for it. And I may or
may we have a volunteer from the audience?
I've been, I've been studying persuasion for decades. And when
I saw Trump last summer, displaying the tools of
persuasion, I thought, Oh my God, he's not a crazy clown.
Everything he's doing, including his complete ignoring of the
facts, is persuasion perfection. And I called him to be the
landslide winner in the general election last year. Because the
tools he's using, essentially, he's basically taking a flame
thrower to a stick fight. There's nobody using the same
tools he's using. So his complete ignoring of facts are
actually part of the persuasion because he doesn't give you
targets. He doesn't give you details of his policies usually.
So he's reducing the number of targets will make you feel good
and focus on the things he wants. So it's not about facts.
It's about focus and attention. He also
seems to be a master of branding. You know, we see this
he never ever says the word Hillary now without crooked
before crooked Hillary. Crazy Bernie. I mean, this is like
sixth grade level stuff. But that's so
no, so wrong.
I love this. You should see Mars face when he said, No, you're
wrong. You're so wrong. It has nothing to do with sixth grade
behavior. You're so wrong. I thought Maura was going to bust
his gut. What but these six year old behavior that everyone is
saying we all know it is schoolyard bullying for
crooked Hillary. Crazy Bernie. I mean, this is like sixth grade
level stuff, but that's so
no so wrong. That is the best persuasion you'll ever say. When
I heard low energy I called Low Energy right? Yeah, I called the
end of boy That day, because that is a sticker. Insult. So
these are not random insults.
I'm not saying they're random. I'm not I'm not saying they
don't work. I'm just saying he brands people low energy. He
still doesn't understand crazy
crooked. No, but there's something else to it. He's
working on confirmation bias. When you see anything come out
in the news that looks like maybe Hillary Clinton did
something a little bit suspicious. You say crooked
Hillary. So he's setting is absolutely reminded of the
minor league comes and if I mean it, it looked great this week,
when that report came out, it fed right into the narrative,
right?
And lyin, Ted, same thing, right? He's a politician. He's
gonna say something, right? Somebody's gonna call a lie. And
when they do, the nickname just pops up.
I remember when he called Dr. Ben Carson, the Sheriff of
nodding off.
And by the way, he AB test this just like software people do. So
he says these these nicknames in front of people. He sees the
reaction, and then he uses them. The brilliant thing he did
recently was he came up with a second one for Clinton. He said,
Well, she heartless is a heartless Hillary, whereas a
crooked Hillary and he actually made people debate whether she
was more heartless or more crooked. And that's all
intentional,
man. Thank you, Scott Adams. Yeah, actually, if
you had if you've been reading his blog, I have of course.
Yeah. That's where he brought started bringing this this stuff
into play.
I know. But I had to wait months for a clip and here it is. Yeah.
I'm surprised. Yeah, they had to be mind boggling, because and it
was interesting to see how which is unusual to see Bill Maher
differ so much. Yeah. And get, you know, pretty much put in his
place. Yeah,
well, the whole show was
was
odd. Melissa Harris Perry was on the show, where she must have
been flat footed. And I'm gonna have a clip. She was wearing a t
shirt that just had one big word across her chest, which said
flawless.
Which is kind of oh my god, really?
I guess it's kind of a joke,
I guess. Probably not. So she's
wearing a t shirt that says flawless across the chest. And
she and it was a t shirt. But around her neck. She had like a
Harry Winston diamond array. I'm sure it wasn't real. But if it
were real, it would have been $50 million. So just blinking at
you the whole time. And this was actually an overtime. This was
not on the show. This is only on the YouTube video. And it's just
not. It has nothing to do with the with Trump. So we'll get
back to the politics, but it was on the show.
Melissa Harris Perry as a professor, do you find there is
a culture of political correctness on college campuses
that is stifling debate and learning?
I don't, but I do. I do think students No, not at all are
like no atmosphere of political correctness on campus.
I don't find that no. And that's hurt. I teach at Wake Forest
University. But I do think that students are struggling with
this. And I feel like
because lots of comedians won't even play colleges anymore,
because nothing's funny. Oh, that has not but
that's not been my experience. Oh, man. I mean, I was telling
me that I've got these 22 students, and we went to Iowa,
New Hampshire, both South Carolina. And
when she talks, she continuously make circle motions in the air
and on the desk from the outside in. I'm not sure what it means.
But she's always making circle motions with both fingers.
Sometimes we have to go in we have to do this in her hand, her
body languages, phenom primaries
in North Carolina primary. They're Democrats and
Republicans and I would assign them to work for candidates,
even if they didn't, if they're not from that party, and they
threw themselves into it. So I had, you know, Republicans
working for Bernie and, you know, Democrats working for
Rubio and are so radical, they, they were very much into it, but
they are struggling with it. And we don't have good language for
talking to each other. We don't
have good language for talking to each other. And
they, they were very much into it, but they are struggling with
it. And we don't have good language for talking to each
other across difference.
We we don't have good language for talking to each other across
difference.
across differences that wishes Yes. And she says
it again in a minute. We don't have good language
to what to Was it something talking across a difference
difference?
I don't think you can use the word difference that way. It's
very awkward. It's like talking over a river, you know,
Rubio and they, they were very much into it, but they are
struggling with it. And we don't have good language for talking
to each other across difference. And I don't know that we're
doing a good job in this country, giving our young people
good tools for conversations across difference, but I think
that's our fault, not theirs.
We need good tools.
Ah,
this is a professor. So she's just she's a professor just so
you know, the announcer at the Hillary Clinton UF CW I get
that's a union, I guess. You know, it
was the wrestling.
United Federation of something car workers now they'll be able
to work with CW this UAW bow of hams, United Federation of ham
radio operators who operate on Morse code only. He obviously
went to went to college brothers
and sisters of UC W. Please welcome your international
president, Mark perot and the future president of United
States Secretary of Treasury, Hillary Clinton,
Secretary ratio of the treasurer,
Secretary Treasurer,
he said Secretary of Treasury was even better.
And the future President of the United States Secretary of
Treasury, Hillary Clinton,
Secretary of Treasury, Secretary of Treasury we laugh about
Trump's anal setup of everything but he may be playing Tiny
Dancer, but at least they don't call him secretary treasurer.
Ah, morons. And then I couldn't find out what party it was,
though some elitist party that Gail, Oprah's girlfriend on the
CBS Morning shows there with Charlie and Nora, that she went
to him. And this shows and I would say she's not a
journalist. But she does ask poignant questions of, of
guests. And it is supposed to be a news crew kind of working in
the morning there isn't with new stuff. But she was quite
unbelievable, not
in the spirit or the letter of the law. So Johnson is in
perspective, how big a deal is, is really I was at an event last
night, and both Democrats and Republicans were quoting Bernie
Sanders saying I'm sick and tired of hearing about your damn
emails. But that was a long time ago. And he has since changed
some of that. Yeah, he has. But the people at this party last
night haven't so is this going to improve anybody's?
But listen, I was with a whole bunch of important people when
they said they don't care what I don't understand. How does that
work? VA did not care. So
Parese clip you gotta put by the way. So United Communications
Workers, the guys who went to Verizon, right Verizon guys.
Yes. Start to play the whole clip again.
Glad you like it. Not in the spirit
or the letter of the law. So John says in perspective, how
big a deal is this? Really, I was at an event last night, and
both Democrats and Republicans were quoting Bernie Sanders
saying I'm sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails.
But that was a long time ago. And he's since changed some of
that. Yeah, he has. But the people at this party last night
haven't so is this going to improve anybody's? Well, clearly
you would those people matter? Who gives a crap about everyone
else? That's the people, my party
ages? Is this going to help their kid get into college and
not be full of debt for the rest of their life? No, but it's
about judgment and character. And we look at our presidents
that way. And the challenge for Secretary Clinton is in the
answers, are they going to raise new questions? In other words,
when she says it was allowed, and it was fine, and I've been
transparent, and then you have an inspector general, not just a
political opponent, but an inspector general saying the
opposite thing. People are getting a test of whether the
candidate is shooting straight with them. And that's, that's a
challenge for any candidate.
You know, I do I left all of that on the clip. But anyway,
that was
I actually liked hearing that because that disguise John
Dickerson kind of fascinates me, because he's, he's seems to be
extremely neutral, but I just can't believe that's true. But I
can't figure out what side he is. I am I'm almost tempted to
think he's a Republican of some sort. Or maybe a libertarian. I
can't tell. But because he's good at hiding it. Was
it ABC you said who had turned against Hillary?
CBS.
Oh, how is ABC?
That is CBS right? Do you listen to? No, but I'm asking.
I'm asking you about ABC. ABC seems
to have they've always been Republican from the beginning
with the Jeb Bush. Period. We follow that vertical. Right,
right. Right. Right. And I think they've kind of just resigned
themselves to supporting Trump reluctantly. That would be my my
takeaway for this stuff.
Didn't you have a number of clips on Thursday show
specifically from ABC? Being anti the hit? Well, who was the
hit job? They were hit jobs, or was that all Trump hit jobs? I
can't remember. I don't know. What did you have?
They still do a little trick to know those are the way they did
it. The way they did and I didn't have the really good
clip. Another clip I lost. But the what was going on with both
ABC and CBS is that they were running what seemed to be kind
of neutral to an anti Trump material, but they left in all
the Trump means crooked Hillary crooked. There was one where
they kept saying crooked Hillary as Scott Adams discussed crooked
Hillary crooked Hillary crooked Hillary constantly in these anti
Trump clips. And it was just like to me No, no, this is this
is not an anti Trump clip at all. We'll take this as this is
pounding Hong crooked Hillary.
Tell me what you think about this. This 42nd blurb from a
from ABC Hillary Clinton reacting tonight after that
harsh report from the State Department about her private
email server. Our team also asking Clinton today what some
of her supporters have been asking after Donald Trump's
attacks. Is Clinton fighting back hard enough.
Let tonight questions about whether Clinton is ready to
battle a rival like Trump. Some of
your supporters would
say that you have to fight back a lot harder against Donald
Trump that his attacks against you and your husband are left
unanswered. I'm going to run a campaign about the American
people and she's getting help. In Japan, President Obama saying
world leaders are worried about a possible Trump presidency.
They are not sure how seriously to take
some of his pronouncements.
But they're rattled by
Ambassador Caroline Kennedy telling ABC News allies tell her
they are concerned about a President Trump
now the way I heard that what they were saying to Hillary is
time for more ad buys. Maybe I just misheard that
when they say you need to fight I
would say half of these reports are time For more advice. Yeah,
that's you know, did you need to fight back fight back? Well,
fight back means air to some ads. It take some ads. Exactly.
Now, you heard you heard about the world leaders being rattled.
World leaders are rattled, I tell you, they're rattled by
Donald Trump. This is what our president said. Oh, first of
all, I think is good at the world leaders are rattled but
irrelevant. Let's take it to the task. And the idea and this is
Barbara Boxer. Please, if you have a chance to look at the
actual video and this is in the in the Senate. Have a look at
the actual video. She looks insane. And she's acting insane.
She has that hunched over now she hunched over the head
forward. So she looks like she has no neck. Your hair is all
like a raccoon. It was very various entities art and what
she's trying to do. What she's trying to do with the deck
deputy Terry deputy Yeah, the deputy, the Deputy Secretary of
State, she's trying to get him to say all ever since Donald
Trump that came on the scene as we can do our work. It's crazy.
Everyone's everyone's rattled about the guy completely
rattled.
Barbara is just what is the setup here? She had it in a
hearing in a hearing. Yes. Okay. This is the full trying to get
this guy to say some
Yeah. And it's the Foreign Relations Committee make any
sense? So she's on the Foreign Relations Committee. And she
obviously wants to have this guy say, Yeah, Trump isn't a hole
because the President's out there saying world leaders are
rattled, you know that these Senate hearings are PR events.
So she'll have this as my opportunity. I'm going to slip
in again. I'm going to be good. She forgot one thing. She forgot
to lead the witness and set them up beforehand.
I know it's a tough question for you. I just want you to say what
you feel in your heart because I we need to know Mexican
officials have said on the record that some of the proposal
mentioned on the campaign trail, we know who we're talking about
here, a candidate who's talking about building a wall having
Mexico do it insulting Mexican Americans here at home.
I don't think he insulted Mexican Americans. He may have
insulted Mexicans who are here illegally. But I don't think he
insulted Mexican Americans,
Mexican Americans here at home that some of the proposals would
have a cataclysmic effect on our bilateral relations cataclysmic
this divisive rhetoric affected diplomatic relations with Mexico
at this point, has it impacted the United States ability to
work with the Mexican government to combat drug trafficking? And
are you concerned that that type of rhetoric could just
completely undermine what we're trying to do here?
Now, this is not the way it's done. If you go and look at you
go, Lindsey Graham is our best. Yeah. John McCain does a pretty
well,
he does a pretty well, would you agree?
Is it not true? Is it not true? Would you agree that your work,
you're it's been very difficult for you to work with your
counterparts in Mexico because of Donald Trump. That's how you
set up a witness. Now, she says, Please tell me what's on your
mind did more wrong and materially
undermine what we're trying to do here?
Well, I will try to strike a balance between answering your
question and not entering too deeply into our own domestic
politics here.
I know it's a tough one. But you know what? When people talk, it
has real life impacts.
She's doubling down. She's trying to lead him but she
doesn't know how to do it,
especially a presumptive nominee.
You have all seen some of the reactions from South Africa.
ordered from our Mexican brothers and sisters, you've
seen President be sent a fox's reactions and others from the
embassy bilateral level to date, we continue to work very closely
together. In my personal opinion, we don't I do not
believe it has gravely affected our ability to do business
together Mexico, last several months, has reiterated,
reiterated its commitment to continuing with the Merida
Initiative where the populace of Mexico stands on this may be
another matter. But we continue to be able to work closely
together
no bilateral and she's thinking, Wait a minute, this is not the
answer. I expected How come this is not causing any problems? And
hey, we had the ex President said in some Oh my god. Well, I
bet I better play along.
So the words haven't had an impact on what is going on at
the very top levels, in your opinion on the work that you
were doing at this point? Not in their
dealings with?
Did you hear the very end you hear the very end what she says?
He says, oh, that's excellent. The
work that you were doing at this point? Not in their dealings
with us. It's excellent. Yeah, that's excellent. We gave up?
Ah, let me see. I think I have I would do it.
Okay, couple more, and then I'm done.
Oh, I have a question for you. Question for you.
Question. Question for you regarding water in California.
Yay.
And we're gonna solve your water problem, you have a water
problem that is so insane. It is so ridiculous, where they're
taking the water and shoving it out to sea. And I just met with
a lot of the farmers who are great people. And they're saying
we don't even understand it. They don't understand. Nobody
understands it. And I've heard this from other friends of mine
in California where they have farms up here. And they don't
get water. I said, Oh, that's too bad as a drought, we have
plenty of water. So what's wrong? Well, we shove it out to
sea. And I said why? And nobody even knows why. And the
environmentalists don't know why. Now they're trying to
protect a certain kind of three inch fish. But fish. So nobody
even knows why. And by the way, the environmentalists don't know
why. And you know, I should say this, I've received many, many
environmental rewards, you know, really rewards and awards. That
was odd. They made the mistake of rewards. Yeah, he was trying
to correct it. But I think he said it again later rewards and
what kind of reward do you get? A good deal?
Here's a reward. Check for 10 bucks.
Yeah, this is something I would latch on to as a journalist
because me could you please give me a list of all the rewards
you've received? Was this a Dead or Alive bounty? I
don't know what to latch on.
Oh, by the way, Barbara Boxer did make so many question for
me. Yes, it's coming. It's coming. Just about Barbara
Boxer. No wonder she couldn't get laid? If that's how she sets
it up. Is it possible that maybe the way I look and the dress I'm
wearing and the heels perhaps you would be interested? Let's
say you hadn't had any sexual relations for 15 years? That's
probably why no one wanted to take her home and they took
her home. Your they didn't do her?
I don't know. Like no one talked.
I have done very well environmentally, and I'm all for
it. But you have some people
I have done very well environmentally. That's pretty
funny. I'm gonna say that myself. How are you doing? Well,
I'm very well and I'm doing very well environmentally Thank you
done very
well, environmentally, and I'm all for it. But you have some
people really want to just get in the way and I don't know if
it's for their ego or what. But there's so many things and you
know, we want jobs, we have to bring jobs back. And if we can
bring this part of the world water that we
have, that we have
you know, my environmental standard is very simple. And
I've said it to everybody. I want clean air and I want clean
water. That's what I want.
clean air, clean water.
Very, very simple. So anyway, so we're gonna be back up here. If
I win, believe me, we're gonna start opening up the water so
that you can have your farmers survive. Alright, so that your
job market will get better and
the fish think of the fish. All right now, even if we weren't
doing this program, I would seek your consult on this and ask you
I know you have an answer. Can Donald Trump turn the water back
on in California?
I think he can. I think there's a couple of changes that can be
made to get a little more water down to that to that valley that
are talking about right now they they have this is called as a
flushing issue that at the end the Delta and there's this fish
this the smelt little smelt. I forgot what kind of smelt that
Like a tilapia version of fish it's a little bitty thing it's
just a fish it's just a natural fishery we don't eat it while we
might be good and they but the problem is if they start pushing
too much water down the valley what happens is the bay the bay
water that from the San Francisco from the ocean and
where the mudflats are still there I mean look, look oh yeah.
Still there.
It would it kind of pushes up the Delta and it gets kind of
too much saltwater up high in a we're shouldn't be what should
be freshwater coming down from the mountains. And if you start
moving that freshwater from the mountains down the San Joaquin
Valley you end up with or you end up with the saltwater coming
up it's a real day we're working on a take they deal with it a
lot of the water is thrown into the ocean that's
okay. So I'm sorry my question because the way this is being
handled this is the reason why I play the clip is Oh, water
scientists Donald Trump.
Oh, you've done by the face bags. Yeah,
I think trouble just do a little jiggle the handle, and then
we'll flush the water down. Everyone have enough water seems
like so that wasn't a very satisfactory answer. No, I'm
sorry. Thanks so many air pollution expert, not a water
pollution expert necessarily. I
thought you would know all about it.
I know that much.
Cleveland, Ohio is where the Republican convention will be
held this year. And I caught a clip with the Cleveland chief of
police with a flood which he clearly didn't give two craps
about for flooding. In fact, he explained his flub concerning
certainly from Ohio, this is a K six.
State right is Kasich country and it's a loaded with voter
voter fraud because of the machines is
well there's there's more this was just more about the optics
of what the police chief is saying. The city of Cleveland
says it is recruiting more police officers and also
bringing in additional equipment like more police motorcycles or
riot gear. But Steven you say you're concerned it's not
happening fast enough. Why so?
Well, we're measuring people for riot gear protect politically
correct its protective gear and
don't have the correct protective gear.
Well, it's just a term for right we're not allowed to call it
riot gear anymore.
That's how we got rid of it. I was wondering how we got rid of
all of that. Then all of our police force remember all we're
gonna get rid of it. It's all gonna be gone. No, it's not
gone. In fact, they're ordering new ones and they're just
calling it protective gear.
They changed the name. Yeah, this is
rebranding everybody. Okay, have we got a problem with with the
militaristic police forces 13 floors as rebranding, rebounding
a little bit.
But that's exactly what it is. Um, it's to protect the
officers. We have. We're way behind. We don't have any of it.
We don't have a gas masks. We don't have helmets. We don't
have protective chest gear. They ordered this stuff. And now, in
fact, tomorrow, they're going to be measuring people prior to or
after they hurt. You ordered it. It's that sounds good. Let's
notion and
so we're ordering more gear, but we're just ordering willy nilly.
The men and women that clean police department and officers
that are going to come help us are going to do the absolute
best that they can do with the equipment. And with the numbers
and with the training that they get. The problem is is that
we're not getting enough of any of that right now. And and
that's cause for concern for us.
Oh, there you go. No, right here. I mean, protective gear.
So is it gonna be riots? Yeah. Well, MSNBC,
US is learning how to deal with the riots. Were riots just being
I mean, it's kind of been I understand for the ratings. But
this this clip, I just caught this by by coincidence. Chris
Hayes is so difficult to watch to
write. correctly, right.
So he sends a right, right, right, right. Right. Right.
Right. So he sends a reporter then, of course, the reporters
walking backwards through the crowd with signs, you know, dump
Trump Trump. F Trump is a whole bunch of different things. And
just just listen to the self importance of this aihole Chris
Hayes and so
far it has been he's been a there hasn't been any physical.
Back and forth. We've seen a lot of yelling. We've seen a lot of
chanting. We've seen a lot of we've seen some pushing between
the protesters and others fuckery in the and then we have
that sorry about Chris and no violence.
I love that it's so great. Listen to Hayes.
And then we have that sorry about that Chris and no violence
physical, at least so far. That's the plan and let's hope
it stays that way she could rest go on outside the venue or don't
speak the top of the hour. Jacob, thanks. Hey, America, if
you see someone who's doing a live shot, and you think it's
funny or smart or clever or disruptive anyway to say what
that guy just said, it's not grow the hell up. Thank you. All
right, everybody.
How long was not funny? news media.
What do you think you're doing? This is not how we're supposed
to learn.
is funny.
I only got one left. But you tell me if you want this is for
Miss Arkansas. Sally Miller has been around for a while this
interview but it's
popping back up.
And it's not popping up by coincidence. You want to hear
what she has to say about Bill in his coke habit.
The older woman, you know, I'm seven years older than Bill and
I think that that's the reason that he confided in me because
he see his mother was the central part of his world, his
life. And he didn't ever really have a strong father figure.
Well, how about Hillary? And I think he felt like he could talk
to me like he would talk to his mother. We laughed a lot. And we
had fun. Of course, he he didn't need it. But I think maybe he
did become a habit that he smoked marijuana and that he did
coke actually. I just realized this is a table. It's funny just
sitting here. All my furniture, collected to the years, but this
is the catch. He said, um, that's the table when he did
coke. Cocaine brought a little like a woman's cosmetic case.
That's the only thing I can describe. And he put it down
here pushed everything aside because he was a little bit
bigger than me. And he rolled it out and there was this a little
mat and he sprinkled this white powder. I was sitting across the
way I was just fascinated because it had a little straw
and he leaned over and
you know in each nostril to cue few big snorts fell better I
guess because he had a big smile on his face.
I asked him if he did coke because it was almost like a
stimulant just think he said it just made him feel better. gave
him more power made him feel courageous and I didn't question
it because everybody has different ways of getting high I
got running and I got to high but if you ever saw pictures of
bail he didn't run much but he did do coke
he did do coke sounds pretty legit to me.
I'm absolutely sure that she's not lying
poor Bill he's where it was
well known in the in the in the friend of mines a consultant in
DC doing political stuff and it was fairly well known in the
hole in the Washington DC area that DVS did CO probably still
does well, so he
would be a great anti coke ad then just show his picture and
this is what's going on guys to your kids.
That one picture for sure.
I mean, I can affect your heart you know you had a heart issue
but yeah combined with no exercise very damning and if you
if you smoke weed to smoke and weed eating Cheetos, doing coke
not exercising.
Yeah, a lot of McDonald's has a big McDonald's McDonald's guy as
well. Yeah. Then he became a vegan which can't be healthy
either. As crazy Well, I
witnessed the two vegans who died on the mountain
I don't know anything about vegans dying on the mountain
there were
like there were four people in a week who died to you know above
second base camp in the Himalayas, you know, of altitude
sickness and it was a husband and wife young beautiful girl
and she died of altitude sickness. But they weren't going
up to prove that vegans can do anything. Yeah, well I'll say
and with that,
I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning
to you John. See you in the C stands for California aquatics
double rack
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So here's here's our chat room. What did I asked the chatroom to
do?
Get a copy of taps. What
does the chat room do?
They don't get your copy.
They post links. Oh, you can get it from here. You can record it
from here. Do they realize I'm doing a show? Yes. So I can then
did download it from there. I've been clip it and make it all
perfect into an mp3.
He's Yeah. Yeah, they're not. They're only partially useful.
Yeah,
I did want to thank you.
I think I would have predicted this Yeah.
I want to thank I believe it's from Sir DH slammer. Did you
receive your copy of the Hillary Rodham Clinton? Some girls are
born to lead book? No. in hardcover, no less?
No. Ah, it's a thing of beauty.
Yes,
I'm gonna have to tweet some pictures. It is really big as a
is remarkable. And this of course, is I think it's a
collectible. I think it's 100% collectible.
Yeah, I actually ordered a copy for myself from Amazon. It
is it is just stunningly beautiful, man. It's she is
she's a saint. Saint Hill. Yeah. And then again, it starts off
you see dudes everywhere. In everything in every assemblage,
you read
a little bit read a select, well, actually, let's get that
was really telling people to go to varric.org/na so we can get
our numbers up a little bit. We had good a good number of people
who came in as executive producers. But when we get to
the second part of this, you'll, you'll see it's drops right off.
We didn't concern enough to get by
another show next month. Coming up on Thursday. Please remember
us at four.org/in A and of course, we think everybody else
in our segment short segment later on, but don't remember our
formula. I mean, remember
it is this. We go out and hit people in the mouth. I need a
belly beats row stack. A citizen
I can read you something from the book. Yes. Read it. Some of
the book, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Some girls are born to
lead. Let's say in the 1950s. It was a man's world. This is how
the book starts. This is the first page. Oh yeah, let's
start off right away with this.
Only boys could grow up to have powerful jobs. Only boys had no
ceilings on their dreams. girls weren't supposed to act smart,
tough or ambitious. Even though deep inside, they may have felt
that way. But in the town of Park Ridge, Illinois, along came
Hillary wearing thick glasses and a sailor dress, acing tests,
upstaging boys in class and lining up sport events to raise
money for the poor. Take that 1950s Some girls are born to
lead, and some are not really the text Yes, and continues and
some love politics and public service. Through her church.
Hillary learned about the troubled world beyond the green
lawns and tree lined streets of her town. Her youth group met
with poor black and Latino teenagers in the inner city,
because they had the best marijuana anywhere. They went to
hear a stirring speech by Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.
do the most good you can Hillary's youth minister taught,
be kind work hard aim high. Our mother argued. They didn't tell
her she could only go so far. Just because she was a
girl. I want to hear more.
Well, I think we should go from I think this is a good segue.
First of all, let's see what she sounds like today. Okay, I got
it. I saw it earlier. We'll play that clip for starters. Yes, I
got it here. Clinton.
Clinton is campaigning in Nevada and California. She criticized
Trump numerous times during the speech in Las Vegas. Donald
Trump is an urgent threat to our rights and to our country. The
Democrats will next go head to head in Puerto Rico.
Wow.
Wow. Seems that our voice is off a little bit today.
But this has been going on for this has been three months.
Yeah, she's got something wrong with her. Yes, thank you. I
don't normally we used to do this more on the show where we
because Jon Stewart used to specialize in this and Conan
O'Brien they used to do some work for us. They would make
these clips of some kind of cliche that every news caster
was using. And they would run every one of them over and over
and over.
I think I have the same click. This is from Saturday Night
Live.
No. Oh, okay.
I got this from Buddha get this from. I got this from Seth.
What's his name that does that late night show?
Yes. Seth? The YES. YES. YES. Also an SNL former SNL guy.
Yes. And he doesn't miss an old type show. And I actually I like
his I like his I like his whole show. Actually, it's not that I
like your show to ever since he went to the news format. I think
it was funny. I always get one big belly laugh
Seth Meyer. Seth Meyers. Yeah. And he does this. So I'm
thinking when you look for these sorts of things, they got this
crew screw on. But who would make develop this into a cliche,
it's
idiotic.
It's drip, drip, drip. I was wondering what it was. Okay,
as yet another drip drip drip of a report saying that she didn't
follow the rules to
drip drip drip of this investigation.
There's a steady drip, drip, drip, drip,
drip, drip, drip, drip, drip.
It's just one more drip. So that's gonna be a big puddle and
one of these days that might just drowner Nice.
Yeah, drip drip. So someone came up with it and stuck. And in 30
years from now, children will be sure that they heard drop, drop
droop, and they'll all be freaking out. We'll have to do
with Mandela. I have the SNL this was so funny because it was
so real. It was a spoof, but I am quite sure I've heard every
single one of these. CBS maybe not CBS they made it to be CBS
the teaser for the 11 o'clock news. I haven't seen the show
this popped up and I thought it was a shareworthy
now, What in God's name is still happening on W CBS two news at
11
high heel self defense tonight at 11 inside a dog's mind
tonight at 11 goes to rest hours tonight at 11 Please yourself
fabulous tonight at 11 big bucks in bags younger eyes. Text
walking the digital breakup digital amnesia digital anxiety
digital dentistry dry drowning and water overdose what's in the
water? What's in your wine? What's in the box?
Danger dog Danger
Danger underground
that she shed the man flu? Dude war patch me pretty summer
sadness? Spike spices sick of food hard beers bad tonight?
I think I've heard every single one of those. I don't know.
I've heard a few of them. Yeah, sure. Yeah.
Probably just an easy one for them home game, just copy
everything is real. And then call it a joke.
Now we have. So there's this guy that showed up. I sent you a
thing to put in the show notes is from this character.
We've been talking about him. He's the guy who who's the the
Clinton biographer, historian, I should say,
well, he's been researching the Clinton Foundation. Right. But
when
he's the Yeah, he's absolutely right. He's the financial
analyst who said it's a big scam. The numbers don't add up.
Now I expected I have this clip of from there's this kind of,
it's like some screwball online network. But this girl was
interviewing the guy and they let him talk forever. So he's
got to bring in a number of factors. And I didn't really
want to play any of this stuff. Because I figured this was going
to eventually pop into the mainstream, and it hasn't. The
Clinton Foundation material
is a no go zone, baby. It's a no go area. No,
those Oh minute. So let's just I want to play some of this. You
can interrupt this as much as you want. And then when you're
sick of it, because he just goes on and on and on. I want to play
part two, which is the part where he summarizes whatever. In
fact, we might have. Well, let's start. Let's start with part
two. As a matter of fact, this is the Clinton charity. So you
get an idea where this guy's coming from by listening to this
part.
So you you consider they consider this to be charity
fraud, then
absolutely. It is an epic charity fraud. I what I would
say is it's much bigger than 2 billion. Bill Clinton and others
around Bill Clinton had been associated with related
charities. And they should have been disclosing their related
charity involvements. They haven't been one of them see
American India foundation, that I believe is a billion dollar
fraud. There's the operation in Haiti, that's about a 12 to $13
billion fraud. There's the operation called the Global
Fund, which is in the many 10s of billions of dollars of fraud
involving disgraced convicted felon Rajat Gupta, former head
of McKinsey, that's something that started in 2000. I think
two or three, the piece of the Clinton Foundation that bill
takes a lot of credit for it, Hillary Chelsea distributing HIV
AIDS medicines around the world, that's a fraud. And there are
serious questions about whether the medicines that have been
delivered around the world are actually genuine and lawfully
produced and effective medicines or whether they may have been
adulterated. There are very serious questions about this rod
that had been raised by some for years. But only recently in
really in the last 15 months I've I decided to take this kind
of effort because I've done the type of painstaking work I've
approached government authorities last year, several
of them and nothing has happened yet so I decided you know enough
is enough people are being harmed here. The public has a
right to know about this and the public needs to rise up and shut
this thing down. bad optics.
So this is like kind of get gets your attention. He
well we we have been talking about this on this show for
years years and just for people who want to play along the the
website for this guy is Charles or help.com So and it's a it's a
blog. Thank you. So you could subscribe to a feed. It's good
guys. He's on the money, and he probably should avoid hot tubs.
canoeist Washington DC late he's
already spilled the beans.
Yeah but it's they're not picking it up and what do you
know what this? Oh, you didn't remember some online news
network right?
Yeah, it was an online so also been he's been here in there
he's been but all it's all been fringe.
You know this guy is you know this guy is this guy is prime
material for a John C Dvorak interview. I mean, if he's doing
shitty web news networks, let's get him on. It's a good idea if
you talk to the guy.
Yeah, he seems very easy to talk to. And he would say you start
playing part one. Where do you want to play much of it? You can
see that he's not only easy to talk to but he just takes it
over which is exactly having done the interview shows. Well,
you know, with a guy like this, it's great.
Now we could do with this with this says it's five seats, four
and a half minutes. You could just cut it up and insert
questions. Old school member how we used to do that. You just ask
the questions and play this interview. problem solve all
public
charities and that's what the Clintons started out as being.
It started out being simply a library and archive based in
Little Rock and that was its sole tax exempt purpose. All
public charities whose revenues exceed a certain number depends
state by state have to provide each year an independent
certified set of financial statements, that is called a
professional audit. The Clinton Foundation since inception on
October 23 1997, has tendered into the public domain documents
that purport to be audits. But they're not audits are not
compliant with the actual tough regulations that exists in
places like your state, California, my state, New York
and around the world. Then when you start pulling up beneath the
surface and looking at the actual financial statements and
cross checking them, these financial statements can readily
be cross checked, there shouldn't be discrepancies that
can be crossed check for the foundation alone. And they can
be cross checked for their disclosures against the
disclosures of charities that say they gave amounts to the
Clinton Foundation. For the last 15 months, I've been doing that
type of painstaking work. And the discrepancies in the numbers
that we see run in the many hundreds of millions of dollars,
you and Andrew Horowitz, were talking about some boy actually
horror was just talking about some scam that should just be
popped into my mind listen to this. And the scam is where do
you your corporation buys medication or pays for a part of
the increased price of medication, you get to deduct it
as a charitable donation, and then you receive the money back
by selling it to the people in the in the first place. Right?
That's a very poor explanation.
Yeah, I'll tell you what it was. It turns out that a lot of the
giant drug companies for one thing, they jack the price,
whoever says $100 a pill or something that used to be a buck
or 10 cents, and nobody can afford this. But the insurance
companies who do have the people that don't have insurance, they
will gouge the insurance companies for it. And then the
insurance companies will reimburse the drug company to
make it more interesting you you create the drug company itself
creates a charity and the charity buys pills for people
who can't afford them, and then bills it out at the $100. And in
other words, you buy over $100. So you take a you take a pill
still gets paid for and then you take a charitable discount from
your taxes for the 100 bucks, because you paid for the pill
supposedly, but even though you got the money, it just it was
just as easy as kind of you make money on the on the overpriced
pills. And now you also make money through the tax
that would the Clinton Foundation be able to do that
with perhaps aids medication?
I don't see why not maybe? Who knows? I don't know. It's from
the sounds of this guy. This operation is just one giant
scam. And I think one of the reasons Hillary wants to get in
to be president as fast as she can so she can
pardon him.
Okay, well, let me ask it. Let me ask you this first, before we
even get into the nitty gritty of the independent audits and
what laws they might be breaking. They're How do you
know you say you've been analyzing this for 15 months?
What kind of access to records you have? And what records are
you looking at to determine this?
All right, well, that's a good, good question. So the starting
place for the Clinton Foundation for the people who don't know
better is to look at their own website. And there they put up
information on financial reports that go back to 1998. But audits
that start in 2004. So in the beginning, there's a bunch of
missing information. The versions that they put up on
their website, are very different materially different
from the versions that you can find by looking in the states
where they have operated inside the United States and out
outside the United States, in online databases that are freely
accessible. The second thing you can cross check are press
releases issued by the Clinton Foundation, and others at the
time that these major donations and grants are made. The third
thing you can check which I've checked, our after action audit
reports, the big governments that give money away have had
troubles to, for example, the government of Norway, government
of Australia, the Government of Canada, the government of
Ireland, the government of the UK, each of these organizations
and multilateral lateral organizations will do special
reports on a country the private progress in the country, and
they contain extensive reports that don't foot but the biggest
place to start is with the largest donor. And the largest
donor to the Clinton Foundation is a name very few people know,
it's called UNITAID, out of the 2 billion in declared
contributions, which may or may not and most likely are not the
total amount of money sent towards the Clinton Foundation
of that 2,600,000,000 came from one organization based in
Switzerland. All right,
so this lack of independent audits then at the Clinton
Foundation, almost fudged to make it look like they did
conduct if they didn't conduct them, as you found, what laws
does this violate is that violate local law, state law,
federal law, charity law, what does that violate?
Right? What the principle law that it violates is charity
fraud solicitation law. This is a charity that while we're on
this broadcast is raising money over the internet it may be
using the phones to do it and may be using them geez, man,
you could have popped his podcast cherry the guys to him
podcast. This is so sad.
This is really sad.
And it's doing this broadly to the public. So when you engage
in that type of behavior, your forms all your filings has to be
true and accurate. There are special laws that apply to
charities charities may not get engaged in quote, any illegal
activity. So all these forms have to be accurate. They are
not accurate. They are raising money. And worse, they are
engaged in disaster relief after the various disasters 911
Katrina and the frauds that happen. Americans and others are
very generous people we see a disaster money flows towards the
charity. After disasters were exposed starting in 2001, the
federal government tightened the sentencing guidelines the FBI
did for disaster relief, charity, charity fraud, these
people are engaged in disaster relief charity fraud, so the
penalties for that and mind you it's not like Peter Schweitzer's
book you don't have to prove quid pro quo all you have to
show is they are soliciting which they admit their forms and
filings are materially false and misleading which I believe they
are.
We just need cash.
I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water just send
your cash and just send your
cash for Hey Bush should be thrown in the slammer to Yeah,
it also
went into the bush found they got it foundations called
something else was huge. You huge. Well, this dovetails into
I had some kind of conversations this week on the in between
shows, actually, you know, there's always these kids
standing on the corner of second and Lavaca, which is right near
the W Hotel. That's either playing pet but Planned
Parenthood or Save the Children. But of course, I always want to
find out what they're doing. And the Planned Parenthood is not
actually asking you to donate to Planned Parenthood, the
organization, it's asking you to donate to planned Planned
Parenthood, the lobbying organization, which of course, I
don't do that. Friday, as I was walking to spin class, no
walking back from spin class. There were and I saw them across
the street on the other corner. And I was like, Oh, that's
interesting. These are new I see new T shirts and as I was
crossing the street I saw it was many cent solve kontio which is
the French version of white is the official version. Of course
the Doctors Without Borders, but it was the French t shirt and
had been both girls are wearing the spiffy white t shirt and
then says hey, would you like to help out Doctors Without
Borders? Oh, that's great. Tell me about tell me about Doctors
Without Borders. Tell me about what you're doing. What is this
money for who you are Doctors Without Borders. Okay. Do you
have any thing look at you want to tell me she had a laminated
folder and said okay, yeah, this seems right. But are you raising
money for them? Yes. Well, and who are you with Doctors Without
Borders? Oh no, we're we're the grassroots Texas.
Understand,
ya know, we go out and we we raise money for Doctors Without
Borders. Oh, why wouldn't I just give directly to Doctors Without
Borders? Well, you see, we're very we're very we're very
important grassroots. So we support progressive issues. And
I said, Oh my well, you triggered me you should have
trigger warning me What are you doing? No trigger
warning me. And so the bottom line is
And I talk to Tina about this because she's, you know, she's
in the nonprofit world, she knows how it works very, very,
very, very wrong to be me, there are lots of organizations,
nonprofits, that all they do is they just collect money, and
then they disperse it to other organizations. There's nothing
wrong with that. It's probably there's probably a lot of
efficiency in that. But to where the but Doctors Without Borders
T shirts and say, Do you want to help doctors without borders
without really disclosing until I first dove into it, and said,
Hold on a second, while I want to give to you guys just like
giving to the Red Cross. And another one of those outfits
that doesn't give directly to buy, even your blood doesn't go
to the, if you donate blood doesn't go to the people who
need it, and what for whatever emergency is being asked.
So that's, that's quite a scam. I'm glad you busted them,
as you call the cops immediately
arrest those two? No, I
didn't. Because there's a second story I want to tell. I finally
got some real insight I got a I won't disclose too much. But
let's say there's a domestic worker who works for friend of
mine.
And I was speaking with her.
And you'll be talking about Trump. And you know, because
here's someone who probably would have some
opinions about that. And I mean, this isn't my opportunity. And
as we're talking, I realize she's here illegally. So I, I
kind of don't really confronted with it, but I kind of weasel
her into it. And she said, Yeah, well, and I said, Well, look, we
just don't know long story short, I get the story out of
her. And it is in now I understand why this problem is
the way it is. Now. I've always said the issue is you we don't
have exit of any we have ways of knowing if you left after the
fact. But that does not go directly into any system that
says hold on a second, this person didn't leave on time. If
you try to come back, then they'll nail you. That's what
happened to Mickey when she was deported. So she came in on on a
tourist visa, her daughter was born here. So her daughter
became an American citizen. But she overstayed her visa with her
husband with the with the I think she has one maybe one
other kid at the time. And so they just stay and they didn't
go back, they just stay because she can petition them to become
American citizens when she reached the age of 21. And I
said, Well, okay, so how do you get around? Well, I have a
driver's license. But I says I can't actually renew it now
because now I need to show my social security number. And it
used to be my TI number. So what are you talking about? Oh, well,
if you overstay illegally, or you see illegal if you overstay
your tourist visa, and you want to work, you call the IRS, and
you say hi, I'm here. I've overstayed my visa, I want to
work and they give you a special tax number.
Anything that you get the money? Isn't that
amazing? And I should wait. You'd see this, as you call up.
You'd say I'm here. Really? Yeah, yes. You just because I'm
here. I passed my visa, but I'm gonna be the petition she didn't
have to mention it was in 20 years from 21 years from then.
And then yeah, so that's, so I could pay my taxes. And with
that, she could get her driver's license. Now, she can't get that
anymore. So the kid turns 21, two years ago, I guess her
husband was in the hospital. So but really, it wasn't a pressing
issue. And now she has now I really want I really want to get
it done. I said why because of Trump's you just know the the
fees are going up. Wait a minute. You so yeah, I pay taxes
in Vietnam, the driver's licenses is a bummer because
they won't accept it. Just the tax number have to have an
actual social security number. So that's problematic for me. I
think she still drives I saw her arrive in a car, this is
a huge issue. And, and said, well
tell me about the fees and said, Well, this is what I expected.
He said it's about $1,600 for all of the paperwork, and I know
all these filings, and then another 3000 for the lawyer. So
in total is going to be about $5,000 You know, no wonder this
is you know, and it's not such a big deal. And there's not really
a huge pushback. No wonder this has happened the way it has. And
now people still aren't freaked out about it. Just saying the
fees are gonna go up. So when you hear that runs from afraid
of Donald Trump, no, they're not doing because they think Donald
Trump's gonna deport them. They just want to get it done now
before the fees go up.
Sounds
sounds like something that's real. Yeah. Yeah. And the only
people upset about Donald Trump are these paid troublemakers
that Soros brought into the picture?
Exactly. When I said to Hillary Clinton, you know what she said?
No, El Diablo
well, people send me all kinds of stuff through email. You can
stop now. Thank you. That's not TAs. That's Reveley. I know.
Thank you everyone Send Now I have a lot of tabs, maybe she
just play them all. One big tab.
I like to Reveley you should just keep that just for use
occasionally
I have a couple I also have the retreat oh
wow I've got first call George some beautiful stuff What else
you got
one of my favorite I don't think they have one
assembly I'm surprised you don't know assembly. I don't know
assembly thought you would to the colors as this
who doesn't recognize it? Nice.
Well, now you got a whole collection. I do. You play a
Hillary clip and then play one of those.
Well, interesting you say that I have a Hillary mix for the end
of the show.
Yah, yah. Yah. Alrighty.
Speaking of Hillary, just then we can leave it alone. Have you
seen the National Enquirer?
Know what its
latest? Ha they're all over the Hillary lesbian? No, it's about
time. And I'll tell you what, how this popped up and what's
being done against it. So who you have? Well, actually, when
we play one of her clips right everybody it's time for some
loopy wisdom concerning Hillary's emails.
If the higher ups knew.
Why did they let it continue? Well, but because they're in a
high Well, you tell me what was their high? What is their? Right
if she? Why wouldn't she
was actually why? Because I know that if they grabbed my email
where she's cussing bill out for some reason, because he forgot
to bring them cutlets home is going to appear in the
newspaper. Right? Why she did it? I don't understand why.
Right. Okay,
because either way, Bill is notorious and said so publicly a
number of times, he never used email
it 111 email, I believe one one email one. That's okay. Because
this is ongoing, this meme and it's all been set up. There was
a meeting, I guess they brought their broomsticks because
Feinstein was on it as well,
for more than a year. Secretary Clinton has said over and over
again that she did not break the rules. But this report makes it
clear that she never asked for permission for a private email
arrangement. And if she had, quote, the State Department did
not and would not approve her exclusive reliance on a personal
email account to conduct department business. Has she
been misleading the public on this for well over a year?
No, I don't think so. I think questions are asked and answers
are sometimes taken out of context. Hillary Clinton broke
no law. I read all 42 pages all Wow, did
it take you a week
of the report? The conclusion of the report does not say that.
Okay, thank you. Finkelstein. Yeah, we know the conclusion of
the report does not say that because that's not what the
report was about another person taking this lie? Well, I'm
sorry. It's true. The report is about what the department should
be doing. But it had Hillary Clinton's name in there about 75
times very specific to what she was doing. I dislike you
Feinstein.
The conclusion of the report does not say that. What it says
is that the department does not handle these electronic platform
operations well, and needs to do better. Hillary herself has
said, Yes, I made a mistake. If I had a chance to do it over
again, I do it differently. I mean, what do people want? This
goes on and on and on. We're reaching the final stages of a
primary Hillary Clinton is going to win this primary. I say
enough is enough. Let's get to the major problems facing this
nation.
But Mrs. Clinton has said that it's been that it was widely
known that she was using her personal email. But if you look
at this report, it says that when State Department staffers
expressed concerns about the arrangement, their supervisor,
quote, instructed the staff never to speak of the
Secretary's personal email system. Again, that's your
sounds like somebody's trying to hide something.
Oh, wait a second. I don't believe he's trying to hide
anything. I've known Hillary for a quarter of a century. Let me
tell you what I do think, I think this is a woman who wants
a little bit of a private life. She wants to be able to
communicate with husbands with daughter with friends and not
have somebody looking over her shoulder into her emails.
Right. Well,
we know you're right bill doesn't send email so that's
certainly not true. I love all the if you go looking for
Hillary Clinton at a laptop computer photo,
it's pretty funny. She, you know,
every single picture of her with a laptop is her hands kind of,
you know, in the nothingness in the palm rests or fingertips or
on the palm rest of the computer, not where you rest
your palms, not fingers on the keyboard or on the trackpad now.
And beautifully lit
backlit.
So, now she could only do it from her Blackberry. I think she
was the only device
she understood. Yeah.
Anyway, so but that's why we now have the National Enquirer with
the with the off it's a presumption or the situation
that a lot of these emails were email she sent back and forth
with her lesbian lovers. And they even say, although I don't
see how they get that in the inquirer that she's going to
come out as bi before the election to get the claim to the
election. Yeah, I don't think that'll work. I think that's
that's not gonna work, though. backfire?
That's what I would say.
Because it'll backfire for the reason that why have you been
hiding it until the very last second? Yeah, if we'd known you
were by since you know, you're a kid and wrote that book. The
Little Book by Hillary that born to lead warned by to Lee then no
one would care but if you putting it off and putting it
off, and then you got this thing we're going on with whom
Aberdeen didn't get the designee wiener thing it brings up all
kinds of issues. Yeah. No, no. But anyway, you can't do that
ever.
I always think it's funny. I like it.
I like it when National Enquirer does that stuff.
Well, they probably you know, I don't see anyone suing him under
those circumstances.
Okay, shall
we take a look at Europe, little Europe, little migrant little
migrant news, we have some updates.
Violence is broken out between Afghan and Sudanese migrants at
a makeshift refugee camp in Calais, or authorities say 40
people have been injured. Around 300 were involved in the
fighting, which broke out around a food distribution point.
During the disturbance tents and temporary structures were burned
to the ground. Firefighters were called to battle the blaze.
local administrators believe some 4000 people live in the
camp. But NGO suggests the numbers are far higher. French
police have launched an investigation.
Unbelievable.
I think it's probably 10,000 people there. It's just insane.
No one cares. Not really. And then and if you thought
everything had stopped with the turkey deal, which for as far as
I can tell is now not working at all. I have not heard anything
about sending any people back. More people just keep coming in
from Libya. Now.
Hundreds of migrants disembark from an Italian navy ship in the
port of Reggio Calabria. The Vega also carry the bodies of 45
people who died when their boat capsized on first day, the UNHCR
thinks up to 700 may have died last week in sinkings off the
coast of Libya. 500 people are said to be missing after leaving
the port of sabratha. Their boat was being towed by another
vessel but was cut free when it began to take on water. Police
in Italy have arrested for suspected people smugglers
survivors have identified one of them a Sudanese national as the
captain of the towing vessel, which was also packed with
people. Some managed to swim to the first boat others were
rescued from the sea. 100 people also thought to be missing after
their boat sank on Wednesday.
None of this is good.
This is horrible. And particularly if you're
a refugee they did she did say refugees now was because more
refugees than migrants. Now the last clip in this trifecta is
from CNN to build this as an exclusive which to me means
someone paid extra. And since we're coming up on June 23, it
is my belief this entire report was paid for by the Leave
campaign regarding the June 23. Brexit votes are on this new
developments of the migrant crisis especially Brawl starts
off with ominous you know, that's a paid to advertise
there on this new developments of the migrant crisis unfolding
in Europe. We're now learning that ISIS fighters are hiding
among the migrant masses, many of them being smuggled through
Libya.
Trade in human cells, awful enough until you think that
perhaps ISIS are using this passage of human life into
Europe to try and infiltrate the continent with sleeper cells.
And notice they won't actually say is they say could be might
be presumed to be
off camera. They've caught different other migrants with
ISIS links off camera and a top Libyan intelligence official
warns us the threat is real. Targets can be top official
among the illegal immigrants on the boats. They travel with
their families without weapons as normal illegal immigrants.
They will wear American dress and have English language
papers. So they cause no suspicion. It is a huge and
uncontrollable coastline where smugglers rule we talked to one
the skies for his safety, who says in the past two months
varying ISIS has become part of the trade. About two weeks ago a
boat left the ISIS stronghold cert. Among them were about 40
Isis that were heading to Europe, but bad weather turns
them back. 10 days later, they tried again. I don't know if
they got there. About a month ago I got a call from a devout
guy I knew was ISIS. He wanted a small boat for 25 people and was
willing to pay about $40,000 I didn't take the deal to you and
other smugglers feel comfortable moving people who may be ISIS
towards Europe smugglers are only interested in smuggling
ISIS anyone they don't care melon or watermelon.
Only money matters. So there you go.
I think yes, I think that's a paid advertisement.
Yeah. how it felt to me well,
they gotta do some the break they leave group I mean, I
whatever the polls say I think the polls are being used there
to manipulate that money to go so you don't know what people do
but I just don't see it. I gotta tell you I got I got a letter
from somebody that is doing find it while you're
looking out. While you're looking. I'll say that again by
received multiple emails from producers in Gitmo nation East
who say Wow, man, you know, that would really not be good. I've,
I have a bad feeling about leaving. So these are our
producers. I want their their thoughts to be known. More
people than are saying that we need to get out.
Yes,
I agree. That's the kind of letters I've been getting. But I
had one guy mentioned it, I don't think see it in front of
me here. The guy mentioned he says, you know, Breton, he's a
you'll always keep saying it's one of our one of our producers
was actually a country you know, a real producer of bees Night.
Night level plus says when you you guys are all for it, you
know, but but Great Britain UK was, you know, you said they
used to get by without being in the EU and now they you know,
why can't they get by again? And of course everyone should and he
saw the movie The Brexit movie, which is great movie. Yeah.
Everyone should watch. And then he mentioned he goes he says
Britain was and I remember this being true, but okay. He says in
the 70s Britain was called The sick man of Europe.
I think I do you remember this? Okay. Well, that's what I read
this when I read the email, I thought, yeah, I think that
rings a bell, but it could be the Mandela Effect.
Sick mafia. Here's the problem with anything about the 70s. The
70s were a depression decade. It was one of the worst we've gone
through the whole world did it was a depression and this called
something else. But it was a depression, almost on par with
the Great Depression of the 30s. And we're going to actually in
this similar decade, right now. And so this is nonsense. I don't
care what was going on in the 70s. It doesn't matter.
Well, they had they had when Margaret Thatcher, of course,
closed the mines. And everyone was riding in the streets. It
was a mess.
It was a mess. But everything was a mess in the 70s it was a
mess in this country with the long gasoline lines to get gas
on every other day. Oh, yeah. And if you did your license
plate had an even or an odd number. And all this other crap
was a mess. So we're not we're not going to use this sort of
thing as
rich back in the 70s. Good times. I
was working for the government.
Oh, yeah. Look rolling in dough.
That was a side looking back on it. Yeah.
It's about podcasting. Yeah. Now
podcaster Oh, well, the show. The point is, is that these,
this is all propaganda. Yeah. And if you okay, if you want to
believe that you're helpless maths and you're no good, and
you're a country that can barely get by on its own. And even
though you're the financial center that, you know, that
pretty much runs the world, in London, fine, stay in the EU and
it's still going to same thing is going to happen, there's
going to be it's going to be worse, because what's going to
end up happening is everything falling apart. This is what I'm
thinking anyway, is that there's going to be a civil war, you
after the EU has puts us army together and you're going to
have all kinds of issues here. This is not going to be this is
not going to do well. I personally think you're better
off destroying this thing before it gets out of control. And
maybe it's already out of control. And it's too late. I'm
not sure I just I'm not a big fan of that. You know, obviously
she's
No, neither am I after having, you know, read the Lisbon Treaty
and all the protocols. It's a bunch of hooey.
And France
is good for international relations. I don't think it's
good for the any sort of trade. I don't think it's good for it.
I don't think it's good for anything. Unless you're one of
the bureaucrats, it gets us cushy job. I
mean, the European Union is basically a trade agreement
that's basically in its essence what it is.
It's a trade agreement.
Yeah, it was a trade agreement plus,
well, it started as a trade agreement. This is how all these
things always started slow moving.
Slow moving,
are the gas lines in Paris and France as the strike, which is
for to not allow companies to fire and hire as easily as it
has been got a lot of notes about that. It is indeed
entirely insane. And it leads to according to our producers, very
bad hiring practices, for obvious reasons. You know, and
it's very hard to get hired at all and a lot of discriminate
discrimination takes place. Because when a company hires
you, it's like a marriage. You're in it for life. So
they're very cautious. Very, very cautious. So and, but from
a worker standpoint, yeah, gravy. Oh, um, someone did say
that. I was incorrect and true. I'm partially incorrect about
the 13th month in the Netherlands. It is not a it is
not a law that everyone has to give that but if you don't want
to give it you have to go through quite a process to prove
why not. And it's only for certain sectors. So anyway, so
the fight continues in France. This report was kind of funny
how they how how being masked? Oh, everything's okay. We're
gonna be all right. We're getting back to normal but of
course the strike is still on.
The French Transport Minister is warning the country's fuel
crisis is not yet over. Following this Saturday's
meeting, Transport Minister Alan V. Dallas said the situation at
fuel depots is improving. In some regions, he says things are
back to normal were keeping a watch on other regions and we
can't say the crisis is over was in Kasia gear. The union's
meanwhile, are refusing to budge. I've never closed the
door to dialogue, he says but to have dialogue there has to be
two people. The standoff worsened this week France
mobilized strategic oil stocks for the first time in six years.
Six of the country's eight refineries are blockaded or on a
go slow.
So the guy says the gas lines getting better. It's all gonna
be back to normal, but the only reason why is because they they
uncork there's no, there's 6 billion they're huge mountain of
oil. Because there's no transportation of it. Yeah. And
we have the UEFA Cup coming up now in what, seven days.
If you're France
as a country, you kind of need the drive thru. And a lot of
people who are going to go to the UEFA the matches will be
driving
as well. Oh, the National Oceanographic and what are the
other two A's for
atmosphere atmospheric administration or agency?
Administration stration. Now they are the ones that are that
have the the numbers to prove global warming. A lot of NASA
has it but the NOAA is always saying warmest year on record
warmest year on record. warmest year on record. I want to make
sure it's not a Mandela Effect. Its warmest year on record that
I heard from NOAA Correct. warmest month even last month,
right.
That's the warmest minute.
Oh, that minute. That was the warmest minute that would be
funny if someone said that.
I have a news here.
Noah has now confirmed Between 10 and 11am was the warmest hour
on record. Just wait for it.
I see sea levels rising, and seas are getting warmer and just
want to make sure I'm right. I'm not trying to be facetious No,
it sounds that way. But sea levels are rising and it's
warmer in the oceans. Right?
Right. Okay. Explain
this clip from them
this year, there is strong variability in several key
climate factors greater than in past years. And so there is
uncertainty as to whether these factors will be reinforcing each
other. This, by
the way is the hurricane season outlook.
There are competing with respect to tropical storm formation.
More specifically, there's uncertainty about whether the
high activity era of Atlantic hurricanes has ended this high
up
what high activity era? Didn't we just close out 127 months of
no hurricanes
in the Atlantic about the era before.
Okay, has ended. This high activity phase began in 1995.
It's associated with an ocean temperature pattern. That is
called the warm phase of the Atlantic multidecadal
oscillation or amo,
the AMO, write it down the a mo. So when it gets warmer than we
get lots more hurricanes.
A warm phase of the AMO leads to warmer Atlantic Ocean
temperatures and a stronger West African monsoon. And these
contribute to the formation of hurricanes. However, during the
past three years, weaker hurricane seasons have been
accompanied by a shift towards the cool signature. The amo
cooler Atlantic Ocean temperatures, weaker West
African monsoon.
I'm confused. Yeah.
If this shift proves to be more than short lived, if it's not
just a temporary blip, blip, then it called blip.
The blip is the new glitch, man, let me tell you a blip is the
way to go. Blip. Now she says three years, that's your 127
months right there, or no, it's
in there.
Just a temporary blip, then it could be signaling the arrival
of a low activity or a four Atlantic hurricanes. Okay,
possibly that's already begun. Possibly we're just in a
transient, high and low phases tend to run 25 to 40 years. No
as outlook for the season indicates that it is most likely
to be a near normal year. In the Atlantic the season, it will
likely produce a range of from 10 to 16, tropical storms, those
are systems with top sustained winds of at least 39 miles an
hour. four to eight of those are expected to become hurricanes,
with top wind speeds sustained at 74 miles an hour or greater.
And between one and four of those of those hurricanes are
expected to grow to major strength of category three or
higher, which translates to wind speeds of at least 111 miles an
hour.
If that is what she calls normal, then what were these
past 127 months.
Those were
near normal, they sound sort of encouraging relax, things are
okay. But I want to emphasize that the predicted level of
activity that I just read off compared to the past three years
that we've experienced, actually suggest we could be in for more
activity than we've seen in recent years.
All right. Well, I don't understand and oh, a
no, you don't.
You don't get it, man. I don't
get it, man. I'm still in the glitch phase.
I don't even know what blips are about my my life.
Well, the one thing which I have didn't clip but there's been
going around this is a pretty funny one is the guy James F.
Black is a Exxon engineer from the 70s 1970s. And he wrote a
paper saying that the there was, I guess he was a research
chemist or something at Exxon, if they didn't know they did
that kind of research, but he did a thing about global
warming, or supposedly Gold Global Warming, at least climate
change in the 1970s. And so His granddaughter's being trotted
out and run around holding up a bunch of papers saying what and
when she went to the board meeting saying Why have nobody
you know that you guys knew about the global warming in the
70s. And, but that seemed to me that everything was just
mentioning climate change. And if you remember the 70s,
especially 1977 when this guy supposedly came out with this,
that was the A year, the number one year, the peak of the global
cooling is crazy. Exactly, yes. 77 and 78 when it was
discovered, and I don't know that I have this find this guy's
papers, because I want to see if he's talking about global
cooling, which is what everyone else was talking about. And
anyone everyone gets all bent out of shape. But if they knew
this the moment and wasn't one article, it was like, hundreds
of articles on how we're all gonna die from global cooling.
Was very was the was the was the the was what we felt at the
moment. what everyone's talking about me I remember it was the
meme was the meme of the moment. And I just find that this whole
thing is, I don't know. And everyone is so I'm almost trying
to figure out what is the point of it. And I keep tracking it
back to one thing and one thing only vegans only ones who
benefit from any of this. Get rid of the cows stop you because
you're farting too much and they're ruining it for
everybody. Yeah, we have to stop eating
meat we do. I don't know.
It's very annoying.
Like to thank some people. Before we do that, I got the
latest New York City Commission on Human Rights pamphlet. This
is from Bill de Blasio is the mayor's office. And it's a
pamphlet that is being distributed and it's good
because I finally know where I fit in on the spectrum, the
gender spectrum. Okay, so I'll just give you some choice bits
from this little pamphlet that's in the show notes anyone wants
to get it a two Niner dot nogen notes.com. In New York City,
it's illegal to discriminate on the basis of gender identity and
gender expression in the workplace and public split
spaces and in housing. The NYC Commission on Human Rights is
committed to ensuring that transgender and gender
nonconforming New Yorkers are treated with dignity and respect
and without threat of discrimination or harassment.
This means individuals have the right to work and live free from
discrimination and harassment due to their gender identity or
expression. Use the bathroom or locker room was consistent with
their gender identity and or expression without being
required to show proof of gender to be addressed with their
preferred pronouns and name without being required to show
proof of gender. Follow dress codes and grooming standards
consistent with their gender identity slash expression. And
then there's two definitions what I think is important for us
gender identity according to the mayor's office, gender identity
is one's internal deeply held sense of one's gender as male,
female, or something else entirely. A transgender person
is someone whose gender identity does not match the sex where
they were that they were assigned at birth. Okay, gender
expression, external representations of gender as
expressed through for example, one's name, pronouns, clothing,
hair cut behavior, voice or body characteristics. Society
identifies these as masculine and feminine although what is
considered masculine and feminine changes over time and
varies by culture. True. Many transgender people align their
gender expression with their gender identity rather than the
sex they were assigned at birth. So are we clear on the identity
and expression definitions?
Do your own thing?
Yes, that's what yeah, that's what it was. Hey, man, do your
own thing. It's all groovy baby.
That was the 70s. Good times,
courtesy 101. If you don't know what pronoun pronouns to use,
ask, be polite and respectful. If you use the wrong pronoun,
apologize and move on. Don't go on. You
see somebody says, Pat from like, Saturday Night Live. Yeah.
You grew up to say, Are you a guy or you're your chick? I
can't tell you what the hell are you? Well, yeah, that's a way to
do it. Well, that's what he that's what he said to do. Yeah.
Respect the terminology a transgender person uses to
describe their identity and don't make assumptions about a
transgender person's sexual orientation. Then they have a
handy little list
of ways somebody Wait, let me get this straight. If somebody
is, a trainer says a transgender girl looks like a woman,
man, girl, woman M to F. MTF,
they will call that you will.
I have to ask them why don't just call them a she? Well, you
hear
what they're presenting. Is it possible that someone that
presents themselves as a woman? No,
no, it's no you can't do this because that would trigger the
person you see. It's better to be safe than sorry and ask
upfront. The I'll tell you, I was looking at some some this is
big Facebook group. Tina's daughter is in it and she shows
me all the steps to the trigger warning content warning group.
So no matter what you say, anything goes but you have to
have a TW or CW before your text. So people We'll know that
you'll be triggered by something that says on that warning,
trigger warning. Yep. And then and then this is one, one thread
where this girl is upset. And she says you should have posted
a trigger warning on what you said. Because you said someone
was stupid. And that is ableism. You're
ableist.
And I had to look, look at making this up. No,
I'm not making it up. And here's how it works. If you were to say
to me, I'm stupid, then you would be an ableist because you
discriminated me on the fact that I have not had college. You
can't call me stupid because
then you are if I call you stupid, because you said
something dumb. Now dumb, doesn't
it? You did it twice. I'm not kidding. This is really the
conversation that's going on as well. And you can post it as
long as you put you know, C W or T w.
And like it say so I can go Hold on hold on. TW You're an idiot.
Can I do that?
Well, the T w would be for someone else who heard it. But
the person who said it to it would be
ableism well, okay, I'm in trouble.
Yes, well, we are definitely able so for instance, if I say
hey, criminal, how you doing very ablest of me, although I
find usually the cripple person enjoys that. And they'll say
hey, I got Tourette's, whatever. Welcome to the club. Do your own
thing, man.
Do your own thing. The
only thing here are some handy some handy terms. And to see if
one fits you I found one for me. Okay, by gender. Is that for
you? Or me now? cross dresser drag king COP this is new.
What's a drag king? That is a woman who dresses up like a man
that when that'd be a bull dyke?
No. girl died No
it's a drag king while you are really horrible. Drag Queen Of
course. Femme queen. I'm not quite sure what that is. male to
male FTM gender Bender gender queer.
male gender Bender then.
Well, that's that's we had that artwork. Alright, that's Bender
wearing a pink tutu. Okay, male to male MTF non op.
I like that
one. Non OB I'm a non op. Are you a non op?
Everyone's they know most.
Most people I know are non op. Hijra pangender. Gendered? I
have no idea
and gender. There you go. But it's his Rob pension that
they're doing his run shears. Rob,
I don't know what his right is. Then we have transsexual and
trans in the book. This is in this pamphlet. I'm reading it
literally literally I reading
this pamphlet anyone out to get in the show notes. No, I want a
copy of physical copy as a collectible. Because God knows a
physical copy around the physical copy.
Yes. Okay. Now listen to this. Because you could I could screw
this one up. Because I have no problem saying oh, there's just
so I noticed you're a transsexual. I could bring that
up in a conversation like that. However, what if the person is
not a trans? Oh, that's not the problem. The you can either it
specifically has transsexual, slash transsexual, transsexual,
the One S or with two s's. Hello. So what do we have to be
transsexual trends?
Sexual trans person. Hmm.
WOMAN Oh, wait, wait, wait, see,
I'm still stuck on this backwards thing. So yet
transsexual trans sexual, which would be the two s's or
transsexual correct
the one yes. There is a subtle difference in how you pronounce
it.
Yeah, yes. I just did it. Yeah,
I'm very I'm very worried. I don't want to throw out the
wrong one. That you don't know. Okay, now and now on the list we
have man
and woman.
Oh, and but
they do it on the list. I don't know
I don't write that down for myself. Okay,
then we have over here Butch. You can use bush.
Robot bull dyke? No,
it's not on there to spirit or stand this now. I thought this
one would be would adhere to me to spirit I liked to spirit I
thought Yeah. Tooth No. Tooth to number two to spirit. Oh a to
two spirits. Yeah, like you have two spirits. You have a male
spirit and a female spirit.
Maybe your camera could be
then we have trans Okay, that should have been closer to the
transsexual I feel if I was making the pamphlet but and then
here's how about a gender?
Gender a gender. Just, um, agenda pronounced
agender like a sexual
could be but well, okay, a gender, the age I'm a gender,
gender Okay, welcome to no agender everybody.
You could turn this into a who's on first bit? No problem.
I think you've been doing that. Then we have third sex which is
also nice. Gender fluid. We've heard that one we have non
binary transgendered and drogyn
non binary transgender non binary what is
the pronoun for a non binary transgender?
No, but I have no idea okay,
androgen androgen, okay, a NDROGY ne androgen or Andrew
androgen,
androgen? Think androgen
I think this is the we've been food supply has been poisoned.
Go on.
Then here it is. Here is the one that I identify with the most. I
think I can safely say I am gender gifted. Gender gifted.
Yep. What the hell's that mean? Obvious boy? Remember I'm a
grower not a shower.
I am gender gifted. That's right. Maybe I'm
most of me.
I don't know. That's the Texas interpretation of it. I don't
care what it's supposed to mean. I'm put I'm printing a business
cards. Vistaprint Here I come. You can also be and I think this
is for you. You may be a gender blender your female
gender gifted and a male Yes. Gifted. I know they should have
different terms.
Yes, you're right. I think you're a gender blender.
Enter blender. Can you be a any combination of
the above? Well, it seems like that because the next one is a
very is a very
a bush. No. Bender, transsexual. Well,
who am I? Who am I to question how you identify or express your
gender. You can do whatever you want. These are just
suggestions. But how about this one? Ready for it? Femme person
of transgender experience. I notice you're a femme person of
transgender experience currently experiencing homelessness whilst
simultaneously experiencing no money.
Jaime, I don't know man. It's or more or did you go through the
whole the
last one is androgynous which is just not a good kicker. Do I
think the femme person have transgender experiences the
kicker you know, you got to know when to get out.
I thought that was well. There you go. I don't know you could
have mixed it up.
Yeah, I could have mixed it up.
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on my phone.
That's right. It's time for tech news. And I like to take on it
we actually look into issues and tell you what's going on.
Because we have nothing to gain and we don't give a shit about
phones. I'm looking forward to what you got for us, John.
Well, right away phones No. Cell phone cancer on ABC.
Thanks. Next night here to your health and to the debate over
cell phones and cancer now reignited a major government
study tonight of brain and heart tumors in male rats that had
been exposed to radiofrequency waves like those from cell
phones. Here's ABCs Eva pilgrim.
Tonight a new government study reigniting the old debate over
whether cell phones could cause cancer researchers exposed rats
to high doses of cell phone radiation, nine hours a day
through their entire lives. About six times the amount of
radiation an average person gets during a cell phone call. The
early findings show a slight increase in cancerous tumors in
the brains and hearts of male rats, but curiously not the
females. And so
I think that it's important for as a public health issue to at
least try to answer that question to give people guidance
as to how they can change or not change their behavior.
No human studies have ever proven a conclusive link between
cell phones and cancer.
I'm always aware I'm always always next to me. I mean,
there's probably something but I don't care. I mean, my cell
phone
many of us keep our phones close by all day long. Even when we
sleep
it's not so difficult to put your phone you know few feet
away from you when you sleep.
The FDA says if you are worried cut down on cell phone use and
go with hands free options. Cell phone industry tells us they are
reviewing this new research but point out that since cell phone
use has grown over the past few decades, the rate of brain
cancer in this country has remained stable David
Pilgrim with us tonight
okay, so that was a non report.
It was I don't know what the point of it was. All the
networks did one now and everybody did this report. It
just came out all at the same time. I don't know who was
behind your why I still can't quite figure out why. But I do
want to play this another version of this report. This is
what they did on this. This is Jane Polly again, because Jane
Pauley who apparently hasn't been working in the, you know,
she's substitute
on a second hold on second book of knowledge.
How old is Jane Polly? Sorry,
I didn't understand the question. I heard the things
useless.
So she
she dropped a little tidbit at the end that I have. I was
stunned because no one ever does this. I have thought about it.
And I've talked about it. But no one ever does this and she drops
a little bomb at the end of this report. And I just thought this
is fantastic. Somebody finally asks the obvious.
Folks who spend hours on the cell phone have probably
wondered what all that radiation is doing to their health.
Tonight, a possible clue. Here's Anna Warner.
In one of the biggest studies to date, the National Toxicology
Program looked at the potential link between cellphone radiation
and cancer. Researchers subjected lab rats to the
radiation and found some rats develop tumors in the brain and
heart. The report authors said given the widespread use of cell
phones, even a very small increase in cancers from
radiation could have broad implications for public health.
The findings will likely launch a new debate as to whether cell
phone use might cause cancer. Dr. Otis Brawley of the American
Cancer Society,
it is game changing in that it's the first time that we've got
evidence that the radio waves from a cell phone actually can
cause cancers.
The FDA says the majority of studies so far have not linked
cell phones with health problems. Dr. Henry Friedman
heads the Brain Tumor Center at Duke University.
This is just an incomplete presentation of information. And
when you do that, you raise far more questions about the
validity of the results.
Oh, it's worth noting the incidence of brain cancer has
not increased in recent years, despite the rapid increase in
cell phone use. But if you're concerned about potential risks,
Jane, the experts say you can use either a set of headphones
keep the phone away from your head
or use a Bluetooth, which sits right next to your head. It does
All right, thank you.
But beside that,
she's the only one who's ever mentioned this obvious
Bluetooth, sticking the Bluetooth thing right in your
ear. Which couldn't get any closer to your brain, which is
got radiation beaming out of it. I think even you know pretty
power of what
I just frequency
has ever brought this up. That's You're
so right. But another thing, what I did, and I've looked at
the study, of course, and you know, this is all like, Oh,
could be maybe it was like the political climate ecologist.
Yeah, I was bogus. But there's no way that I see them take into
their control group or any any, any regard for the D maybe yes,
we have an increase of phone usage, but a decrease in actual
holding it to your head. People aren't using them to call as
much as they did
more than via more texting than ever. Yes, WhatsApp
and texting and holding it in front of you to see video. So we
know that that made this whole study, Bogota is just unique
behavioral study alongside of it, which just wasn't included,
as far as I could tell.
Oh, well, I just think it was planted some somehow some I
don't know who is benefiting from this story. But everyone
was running it.
Ah, that brings me to the next section of our tech news. And
you just heard the book of knowledge fail, of course,
because I was asking you to do some this is the Amazon Echo, or
Alexa, as many people know it. And it fails on anything except
what it's really, really, really good at. And that's why this
device is, is genius because it only has to listen out for a
couple of trigger words. And I think they call them phrases in
the in the SDK and software developers kit. So asking what
time it is or the weather or my for my flash briefing or set a
timer. Or I can do this book of knowledge. Turn the lights off.
Okay, see,
and the lights just went off. So that works because that's
integrated and it knows what to listen for. But the minute you
want to do something outside of that realm, like Wikipedia, and
it can read Wikipedia if you say Wikipedia and then the name, but
if the Wikipedia entry does not contain for instance shame
Polly's age, then it doesn't even know how to how to give a
proper response by saying it's not on the wiki page or
something but all of that would have to be programmed. Well what
are you going to see today if you look around at the tech
horny new shows, you probably already seeing it because now
it's like Apple or open up see You're all gonna have a home
device. So you don't have
to watch any show because I timed out after that one just
gave you the show
in a heartbeat. Here, I'm from the future, this is going to
fail, there is one way where it might work. But all centralized
services, it's just going to fail. Because there is no
artificial intelligence. There's only skip logic, which is not my
term. The CTO of America invented that term, former CTO
of skip logic, and it's simply just listening for trigger
words. And you see all this, oh, this is our artificial
intelligence. And it knows how to grab from that source and
that source and that source. And you'll notice that it's all
transactional. These things work in a transaction mode, of
course, really, the Amazon Echo is intended for you to order
stuff, so I can just I can just say, the book of knowledge.
Order toothpicks.
North row 360 Pack ornate wood toothpicks, it's $5.27 total.
Should I order it?
No. Yes. Fuck you. So that's transactional. And it works
really well, because she understands what I'm looking for
has a catalog could match my voice, but it's not, you know,
open Oh, do all this great stuff for me now. That's why Okay,
Google works kind of, because you know, it knows stuff about
you. But when you if you here's the reason why I'm worked about
this is here's IBM because of course, he very early about this
is good. Yeah. IBM has Watson, they've been building this brand
for a long time. And bogus and they built it for you know,
mainly first it was for the big Jeopardy thing, where they beat
Ken Jennings and Ken Jennings has told me it was a scam. Cuz I
know Ken Jennings, I know people too. We have, we share a lot of
maps. Actually, Ken Jennings and I, we sit around the fire and
talking about maps. And they started marketing is for health
care, and it can give you the right diagnosis. But now they're
taking it to this level, where they bring the CEO of a north
face. And he is talking to his Watson because that's their
brand of this bogus skip logic. Oops. All right, here it is.
Todd's poletto, president of the North Face, we are working on
the prototype to match customers to gear Watson give it a try.
They say it's mid June, and I'm backpacking in Yosemite, of our
353 jackets, I can recommend nine once a week, if it rains,
there is just a 3% chance of rain. So I recommend the
breathable stretch fleece fuse form della meeting jacket, a
perfect choice,
Watson. No wonder our customer loyalty numbers keep climbing. I
believe we can do even better. I like the way
you think. Alright, so this is the reason why I think this
experience will actually happen, although maybe not quite in that
conversational mode. But that's very possible is because the
computer said it, I have three got 356 items. You know, I have
cross reference. It's a small database, it's working, got
it, boom, boom, boom, boom. Now,
so now what come to what Apple is going to try and do. IBM,
everyone will follow and Google will do it. They want to open up
the access to their cloud system. It'll never work. It'll
never work. I can see Amazon failing already, as view now.
Because what would leave the what leaves the room is the
magic. The magic of the Amazon Echo is you could just say here
is an example book of knowledge, blooming. Weather, but equally
believe they're in Austin, it's 83 degrees with clear skies. And
I think my point is made. So it only
done this. Yeah, it's a little package I prepared for you. And
I
stop you right now for a second.
I need a breath anyway.
No, buddy. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. And maybe the
millennials are different or, but I don't think so. But the
way the world of fashion works is to get you to buy stuff that
you like the looks of. So the computer recommending this
Fleece Jacket is yeah, okay, maybe as a suggestion, you could
look at it but you might look at and say this thing is ugly. It's
fugly. I don't like it. I want somebody that looks more
attractive, because I'm spending 100 bucks for this jacket or 200
bucks or 300 bucks and I want to wear some kind of stylish this
thing is a piece of crap.
Yeah, how does that
ever taken into account?
I think the the transactional process would that can easily be
inserted in the I think that would be a step that you can
just put into Hey, you know, take a look at your screen. This
is what you might look at it I mean, that can see what that
would have. But it's all all of this is based upon transactions,
not an not some not a thing that you can tell Talk to it's not
her, it's not happening, it's not so back to the Amazon
failure. So they open it all up. And once you're in their
gateway, alright, so if you have to use a separate trigger word
funny enough to get into the external processes gateway, then
you can use some natural language, you know, just again,
the example of the blah, blah, blah, weather, blah, blah, blah,
because it's just looking for certain phrases. But the problem
is getting into the gateway, I can't for the life of me
remember how to get into StubHub, you always you have to
say open and you have to say open StubHub or ask StubHub and
after three times where it goes wrong. So that's where it breaks
down that it should just understand StubHub. But there's
reasons for the security reasons and other things I think that
Amazon won't want to do, though, couldn't do it. So the only way
this might work
is decentralized. By but that would
probably drain your battery of your phone, right? If you wanted
to have something running. There's a lot of information if
it was your own. And that would be a great app. I'm sure there's
apps that have stuff like that. But this pipe dream of, oh, it's
going to be so great. Of course Apple will have Apple does is
going to No, it's going to be sad and pathetic, like Apple TV,
like the Apple Watch. is pathetic and sad. It's just
can't be done. There is no a I don't. And at what point, John,
your favorite question. Will my refrigerator actually ordered
the milk?
Because I'm out of it? It can't can't.
So, so unless you are going to be making your own your own use
a scripting language to create stuff. And yeah, there's some
learning that can be done. But that's not going to work on us
on a huge bases like that is
not going to work. What's your point? My point is that it's
great to have
devices that do very certain certain things very, very well.
I know it sounds like you're not like your
lights. Exactly. Exactly.
And set the timer and you said multiple timers for cooking and
to can tell me how many tablespoons in the cup and all
this stuff. Those are those are interesting, handy things. But
if anyone thinks again, if you're buying into a into a pipe
dream, there is no AI only the API.
There now I finished it. Okay, well,
I'm all in with you. You got any more? No, I think you did. Well,
no, I
mean, just tech news. Yeah.
I just wanted to say that I think you're dead on about that
whole thing. And you know, you've got the you bought a
thing and it didn't work or does
well, it does work for what it's good at it does not work, for
instance, as as a reference tool for this for this podcast. It's
quite poor actually.
Well, it's once in a while and nails, but it's very rare. Your
thought I got one check news is kind of tech news is the
antibiotic story that's going around for some reason. Nobody,
of course, this is very interesting, because it's showed
up on a bunch of different news reports. Nobody that does
network news, will discuss the real problem here, which is that
the drug companies don't give a crap about developing
antibiotics. Because the whole idea now is to find drugs and
ailments, that you have to buy drugs. You have to keep buying
forever. Some thing you have to keep taking it. That's why
diabetes will never be cured, or cancer, or cancer will never be
cured because they just want to keep giving you something that's
expensive and you have to take until you drop dead. So forget
antibiotics that night. So the result is the following story.
The night the new superbugs scare here in the US a powerful
bacteria making its way to the US for the first time. It's
resistant to an antibiotic considered one of the last lines
of defense. ABC is Lindsey Davis on the new concern tonight.
It's what doctors have dreaded for years, a strain of bacteria
so resistant that the toughest antibiotics can't kill it. And
it's almost here tonight, the CDC is sounding the alarm,
revealing that a woman in Pennsylvania has become infected
with a bug this country has never seen before.
The more we look at drug resistance, the more concerned
we are overuse
of antibiotics has bred superbugs resistant strains, 2
million infections in 2013 alone, even worse, 23,000 of
those infections are fatal. This is the first strain ever found
to be resistant to Cullison. An old drug of last resort rarely
used because of its harsh side effects.
medicine cabinet is empty for some patients. It is the end of
the road for antibiotics unless we act
urgently. So he says act urgently. Lindsey Davis with us
now and we've reported on antibiotics before being
overused. So what kind of conversation should you have
with the doctor after this right don't
ask your doctor for an antibody Add if you don't always need one
and if your doctor does prescribe it for you make sure
you take it for the entire course even if you start feeling
better after a day or two good advice.
Yeah, this tells us nothing they don't they're not going to do
any reporting on the drug companies, especially Pfizer who
used to be the leader in developing antibiotics, they,
they shut down the division
and also they enjoy the preventative medicines such as
vaccines, which gives them complete indemnity and often a
free r&d budget. Ya know, so
that and these, these, these, these network news, if you'll
watch any of them, and I don't recommend it, but if you watch
any of them, you'll just see it, drug add drug, add drug, add
drug add all for a whole half hour, just a million drug. So by
the way, they never even mentioned the superbugs name or
what it is, it turns out to be a form of E. coli, which is nasty
anyway, if you get the wrong kind of E. coli of course,
because everyone the E. coli does exist. It's a safe
it's a de wrecker. But
okay, and yeah, just as it was, I don't know if it's tech news,
but it seemed like it to me something it's a grievance, I
would
like to ask your opinion on
two items. Since you are longtime columnist in Silicon
Valley,
Twitter, moving from 140 characters appears is really
going to happen now. I believe this is the biggest mistake they
could ever make.
I agree. I mean,
there's the only difference in between Facebook and Twitter is
the UI. That's it can be gathered, there are the
differences. But then you can surface that any way you want to
take that away. It's gonna it's gonna ruin Twitter.
I think so too.
I think it should be 140 characters, and they did
accomplishes a lot of make sure it makes us go microblogging.
That was the point of it to begin with. That's why it was
invented. That's why it took off. Yeah. Otherwise, it's just
like a public blog. Yeah. And of course, they Dorsey or whoever
it was said the, oh, well, they're doing it anyway. Because
people you can do you can cheat the system by taking a photo of
a bunch of text and posting it as a picture and go on forever.
And yeah, well, that's, I guess, kind of true, you could do that.
But it's a lot of work. And most people won't do it. And if they
do it, they do it rarely, but I don't know, no, I was this dumb.
I agree, I think is a big mistake I did the other thing, I
believe was just so incredibly stupid. There's this belief that
virtual reality is going to going to happen. There's
certainly applications for it. Certainly. Main, I would say
advertising the advertising is the main that will that will I
think that will emerge as the number one content provider for
virtual reality could be done out. Oh, I see his game demos.
Invest in a 3d game. That's a pretty big gamble. Who's gonna
take that gamble is a lot of well,
I also I think there's a lot of people that can't use these
devices. And I think there's a lot of people that can't use
them for more than a few minutes. Yeah, they're very
stressful on your on your perception system. You know, the
the image is like about an inch away from your eyeball. And you
have to have these crazy lenses so you can see it you know, in
focus on it looks like it's far away. It's just a it's very
sketchy.
So, but I think advertising and then what does I have not used
it but Google Cardboard? Does that work with an iPhone or only
with an Android?
Phone? It doesn't work with any phone? I
have one but I've never I don't know. How about where any phone?
I think any phone that fits in there. Okay. All right.
I think I think that will that that will be fun. People will
use that. They'll look at products and stuff names. But
that's where the money is going to come from. There's tons of
money for that. And I think you know, especially if you just get
the little cardboard thing you slip your phone and oh, that's
cool. You like it, then military when everything else is
militaristic, so I'm just not believing that the hype is going
to going to pay out. And oh, yes. So finally, lots of notes
from dudes named Ben. The who worked with as for hundreds, I
guess 400 the COBOL guys also. Yeah, and all agree with our
stance that although there's one for one of our producers, I'm
going to omit all names here because a lot of people want to
be anonymous said that they use virtual tape to tape drive so
you know that it's no longer floppies etc but just a solid
state hard disk that mounts as as if it's a floppy that's
that looks like a
disc. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
Now, software doesn't care this often. Okay, I can live with
this. And the software is works. It works. It's been there works.
It does. The job is not hackable.
What I heard from more than one of our board dude named Ben
producers, is that these days pretty much everybody outsources
the iron itself so of course the IBM and And there's one
competitor who would
be the competitor. Would that be Microsoft? Yeah, with COBOL
systems?
She's I don't know, well, that should know, but I don't.
Well, maybe it's a it's a third party vendor. But he says very
interesting how you can really only buy cloud services from two
vendors have and every four years. They changed the other
vendor was like collusion just going bad. This is a this was
someone who worked at I believe I the IRS.
There's all kinds of right, we had our IRS guy. Yeah, chimed
in.
The one I wanted to read is see some of our producers here,
anonymous. Now he says right up front, he says I am. I want to
say that I'm extremely biased here because I'm a consultant
specializing in replacing old mainly COBOL systems with newer
ones. I'm currently working fairly high up in the hierarchy.
And I will report back if I hear anything juicy. And this is at a
government agency, like the precious replacement attempts
being classified after spending $2.6 billion. Hey, this is
interesting. Would you like to hear more? I wouldn't. Yeah, I'm
currently working on a government contract, replacing a
system for keeping track of slaves who have failed to pay
the government or other slaves fairly unique governmental
institution in Sweden, when someone doesn't pay taxes,
bills, mortgages, etc. The claimant sends a request, and
the state takes possession of your belongings takes money from
the bank or takes a cut of your salary to pay the claimant. That
sounds like a cool system. You just need to have your
identification via microchip. This system launched in 1977 is
due to be replaced. Now this is not the first attempt. It's the
third attempt. And the other two failed and ran massively over
budget. The problem with the system and the reason it has to
be replaced is that it's a sprawling mess built by cowboys
in the 70s and 80s. With no real supervision and no good
architecture to stand on. The systems are not working as well
as a 30 year old program ought to this particular system has
bug fixes deployed 300 times a year. They start out small and
manageable. But 30 years of shoddy additions creates a
support nightmare. The second problem is the guys who know the
system are aging. One guy in the current team is 78 years old.
But
yeah, spaghetti code. Yeah. And it gets better.
And replacements are hard to find. Actually, they can't be
found since the programmers who made the system have been
reluctant to teach any new ones the code base. And it's
currently so large there at least 50% of the code that no
living person knows what it does. Since no one knows the
whole picture. And since their note, there's no documentation
too much implicit knowledge like restart this Thursday, this
service every Thursday, why I don't know just restarted every
Thursday, it's all been impossible to train new
programmers has been tried, and it's failed. And when the
current batch dies, no one can keep this mess running. So it's
a long note he keeps on going he says the the problem is that
when these systems are being replaced, the every single
agency all administrations government always wants to
replace it one to one not redesign an entirely new system,
which is understandable. From you know, from a no one ever got
fired for buying from IBM, IBM had to design a better system,
which of course, in turn will have many bugs, many flaws,
vulnerabilities, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So there's
your component counterpoint, I guess. But it's not a just
guffawing laughing matter. Like I'm really good ones on
floppies. If you're listening to podcasts, or watching shows that
do that, you need to question yourself and check your
priveledge to check your privileges what you need to
do check your privilege privilege,
as
and then I'm going to leave my Spotify financials for next
Sunday, because that'll hold the bottom line. They're still
losing hundreds of millions.
How could that be? And that'll probably continue.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's never going to end I can make a prediction
right now. They will not go public. This is going to end
very, very bad, which of course will create tons of opportunity.
Everybody, good phones, a landline. And the phone should
be made out of Bakelite. And that is your official tech news.
Oh, all righty.
I just as good as it gets.
I suggested me spin the click wheel, John. And let's see what
which one of your clips had lands on today. Okay, we're
looking for John's clips. And which one is is? Can you read
it? Earthquakes? Yes, that is for 200.
About 7 million people in the United States live in areas at
risk of an earthquake induced by human activity. That's according
to a new report by the US Geological Survey, which said
states including Oklahoma and Kansas, are now at as high of a
risk as earthquake prone California have a devastating
earthquake. The central United States has seen A spike in
seismic activity due to the injection of wastewater from oil
and gas drilling deep underground science. Alright.
And that's how we roll. Right?
That sounds good to me.
Have a good Memorial Day everybody in the United States
or around the world commemorating our fallen our
soldiers. Please do not go to a service man and say thank you
for your courage and service. It's Memorial Day. Thinking
about people. It's kind of rude. Just letting you know, not
everyone understands that.
It's those true yeah.
So I'm just going to grab one of the tabs. I don't know which one
is going to be the right one. But we're just going to
hopefully, is that done with a saxophone? Well, hold on a
second. Maybe
we should check. Let's see. That's a good one. And you have
this one. That sounds live that may be better, more appropriate.
See, and then I have the military one. I know which one
do you know I noticed? Okay, that's good. All right. Coming
to you from the skyscraper here Gitmo nation. That is FEMA
Region six and get my nation in the crockpot condo in Austin,
Texas in the morning everybody. My name is Adam curry
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