That's not a great question. Adam curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Thursday, January 5 2012. Time for your gizmo nation media
assassination episode 371.
This is no agenda
for nicking the Presidential X Factor reality show from Camp
MoPhO here in Austin, Texas, the capital of the drone Star State
in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry
and from Northern Silicon Valley where I'm opening a new red book
for 2012. I'm John C. Dvorak.
Stinger ending nice tight.
Yeah, I got a new Red Book. Ready to go.
Oh, good. Yeah, cuz I remember you. You had left it downstairs
during the previous broadcast,
right. And so the notes were put where they're normally put,
which is on the back of two envelopes.
The old school system? You mean our old filing system? works?
Yeah, ad works. And does
look stuff up, though. Yeah. Would you flip through the old
envelope? Would
you speak out of the Red Book? Would you mind stepping into the
time machine for a second here? No, no, no, no, just No, no, no,
John, John. John, just get in. Just
just just just get his music. I
don't know why. Just get in. Okay. There's the music for the
time. I'll take you back to Sunday show one for Ron Paul.
Three for Mitt. One for ball. Three for Mitt. That's how it's
gonna be. It's gonna be one way.
Here. Let's make some predictions. We got Oh, damn, I
got the new red book, but it's downstairs on. I'm not gonna go
down and get it. I'll have to write on a piece of paper.
I can give you the prediction right now.
Okay, give me your prediction. Okay.
Mitt Romney wins. Number two, Rick Santorum, because they've
just all of a sudden, all of a sudden he's surging in the
polls. So the fix is in on him. They gotta have they gotta have
a buffer between him and Ron Paul. Ron Paul will be third.
Even though of course he will win the election, the nomination
to the caucus. You will actually win it, but they're gonna
they're going to fake it up. It'll be Romney. Santorum, and
then Ron Paul. Okay, you can get out of the time machine now. No,
no, no, no, it's this one. About that, huh?
Yeah, that was spot on.
Yeah. And people were saying, How did you know? It's so easy.
It's just
Well, I have to remind people that you have a thesis, which I
think pays off more often than not, and which is that
everything is everything is rigged. And I think you're this
matches your this matches your World Cup. Yeah. Which actually,
I totally subscribe to the idea that all World Cups are the
winners are based on geopolitical aspects of the
day's news.
Indeed. And this was it was actually quite funny. Now, I
don't know if I think you were doing the Dvorak Horowitz
unplugged show? Although. So it was two hours later from you
actually stayed up until two in the morning. Just because it was
it was such interesting. Not great, but interesting.
Oh, wait, you just because you nailed the prediction. You just
wanted to make sure you when you went to bed you are happy?
Yeah, no, I had a blog post all ready to go and like yeah, no,
no, yeah, no, no. I mean, they had me on the edge of my seat.
Um, but I knew it. I knew what was going to happen. I was it
was like, everything was so beautifully scripted. If you and
I had sat down and said, Okay, we have to do this week's
episode of the presidential X Factor reality show. We would
have done it exactly like this. This is and the way Ron Paul
first showed up and did his speech. And then we had Santorum
show up and do his speech during his speech. He jumps ahead by by
No, no, he's ahead. He jumped he doesn't speech, then Romney
jumps ahead, then then it's back to Santorum and the centaurum
stays ahead until the very end, and then they can't get the
results is it was like, okay, really is so perfect. You know,
clearly it was rigged. And it doesn't matter, because in the
in the system, Ron Paul not only got the electoral votes that he
needs, which is seven, I believe so each of the
well that's not necessarily true, because it turns out when
you start looking into it, that this whole thing is something of
a facade, because they still have another they have another
meeting and then they maybe throw all the votes into anybody
they want to this whole thing was this caucus thing is not
necessarily it's not necessarily by law divided up into each
person getting X number of votes. Now
Oh, but what the Ron Paul campaign has done is they made
sure that their people stayed so that they would actually become
delegates. And I think that's why you get those delegates and
that's what you want as you so it was a completely useless
exercise. It was only good for television. I mean, did you see
Did you watch the very end when the votes I mean, it was it was
absolutely crazy. Anderson Cooper at a certain point said
to what's that? What's that financial douchebags name on
CNN? Are we Gucci
douche bag on CNN?
He says, What the hell is this magic Twitter while you've got
What the hell does it mean? Like the welcome clearly discrediting
all of their stuff. They're swooping stuff back and forth
between screens. Erin Burnett, walking around without her shoes
on, by the way. From purely from a television producer
standpoint, she's done a good job on her lower half.
She's losing weight. You're what you're saying. She's losing
weight still need some work? Well, she's
dressing in black so she hides the belly a little bit, but no,
it's good. I think it's good. The legs still need some work
and stuff. That's why she's not on Fox and why she's on CNN. But
it was just funny at Fox was even funnier. They had What's
your face? The girl who needs to eat Megan? Megan Kelly. Yeah,
she needs to eat. She's She's She's thinning out too much.
She needs Ido. Right. At a certain point. She's
like, zoom out. There's no one here is just us in the makeup
people.
Man, they totally broke down.
Well, they were sick of working on. I mean, that's East Coast
time those three, four in the morning.
It was hilarious. It was a good television. That's what it was.
And I think that the only reason they delayed the the final
results is because I guess they had had to make goods to do or
something on the on the advertiser the ads. Yeah, there
was we ran. It was like three in the morning. Man. So I was
watching C span about this voting process. They had Linda
up Meyer on who was the president of the Iowa caucus?
Who, how. And she makes a number of faux pas. Here's a guy who
calls in. And he's clearly crazy. Of course, that's Yeah,
whenever you call him on the independent line. You can even
see the host go home go I do zoom, crazy crowd breaking up. I
want to make sure that we get this right, you're hearing that
the final tally from Iowa would be counted in Illinois.
Yeah, I just saw that was a report on radio. Just yesterday.
I just read that this morning on the internet. So having a title,
Republican leader, I would like to know where are these votes
going to be counted? Are they gonna be? Or are they doing
anything different this time? Are they gonna be counted behind
closed doors?
Let's talk about how the caucuses work. Go ahead. The
nightmare?
Sure, sure. That's a great question.
That's a great question. That's a
great question. It's not even it's not even a question. Well,
I guess it isn't in the Vegas sense. But how do the caucuses
work is not a great question.
But that's not actually the question. The question is, will
the votes be counted? In Illinois? That's the question.
Well, I know. But the question that she said it was a great
question was refreshing refers to? That's
a great question. Would you like to hear the answer to this great
question, which is not an answer.
Every individual vote that is cast at a caucus will be counted
at the caucus, in full view of everyone there. Every one of the
candidates has an opportunity to have an observer, watch that
count. So everything is counted there. Then they are called in
to a central location. And all that is tallied. Typically that
has been at Camp error. Excuse me at Park camp.
What what what was she going to say? Do you think? I don't know
camp? David? Camp? Yeah. MoPhO. Camp MoPhO. Here. Count of the
votes. Hello. We have the votes from Camp MoPhO
headquarters in Des Moines. I'm not positive. If that's exactly
the location.
She's the president of the whole shebang. I'm not positive. So
she doesn't answer the question. She's not positive. That's where
it was done. To. There's some other guy that I found on the
unit who called into the press office there, the Iowa
Republican or whatever, whoever counts the votes. And, and the
answers that he got into a little snippet here. Were quite
revealing, because the way it works, as you just heard, Linda,
great question. The admirer say is their tally locally, and then
they're called in to a central location. And that, of course,
is the weak link. But I mean,
either way, if it's if it's entered into, into into into a
system, and then that system, there's another human on the
other end of that system. You know, checking checking those
votes? What's the difference between that and someone calling
in? I mean, either way they can. The numbers can be falsified.
Oh, really?
Numbers can be falsified. Oh, right. So the guy goes,
that's what I'm talking about getting it. Yeah, there any
possibility to these numbers can be falsified in the Iowa caucus
that's coming up? No, absolutely not. That would be Listen,
listen to what he said.
or anything like that.
It wouldn't benefit anybody. No, I wouldn't benefit to do that
would make no sense. Why would anyone want to falsify that
makes no benefit. But of course during the broadcast, this is
the single most tweeted item and emailed link to me, which I'm
sure you got exactly the same was when they cut over to the
Ron Paul camp they did they went Ron Paul camp, Santorum camp
Romney camp in their the Ron Paul camp, and again, there's a
soldier in fatigues with a really big 911 Never forget
tattooed in his neck. But oh boy, the following happens for
those of you who are not aware of this, and of course, we do
have many listeners outside of Gitmo nation proper here,
Paul, let's go to Danna bash over at Ron Paul headquarters
right now. I guess more and more people are coming back from
their caucuses to wait for the candidate.
That's right. And we have here somebody who actually did just
go vote for Ron Paul a first time caucus voter, Corporal
Jesse Thorson, who is 28 years old and you're active duty US
Army. Why did you vote for
it? Let's be in the control room. John. Okay. You want to be
the best producer or the director? Which one do you want
to be?
I'll be the director. Okay. Camera to Well, I
I'm really excited to close zoom in on him. Especially when it
comes to moving to move for 10 years now shot all 10 years.
Someone ready over at the Romney camp to see a little peacetime
army. And I think he has come in.
You have done two tours in Afghanistan. You told me you're
I mean, if you can see, though, she had the script your neck
right there. She had the script on your tattoo 911. Picture.
What is she? What is she talking about this tattoos?
Very dangerous, what she wants to bring, like you cut it back
on your host.
Well, I think it would be even more dangerous to start Romney.
Romney Israel is more capable, can mess up the satellite link.
Well, we just lost our tech connection, unfortunately, with
data Dennis, standby, if you can hear me we're gonna get back.
You want to go to Kenny Crowley over at Mitt Romney
headquarters? She's really big fill up that room over there.
She's filling up the room. All right.
And of course, he never came back to him? Of course not. But
it was funny because at a certain point, Anderson Cooper
actually made a comment about it. And he said, I don't have
that here. But he said, Well, you know, we lost the satellite
link. And of course, people on the internet are gonna say we
did it on purpose. Yeah. Why even mentioned that? Because the
internet was saying that you did
it on purpose. So obvious. And then then if that's the only you
know, yeah, it was.
We'd be really good at this. I mean, and we'd work for peanuts.
We'd work cheap would when we're working cheap now. Yeah, no
kidding me by the way in the morning to John I forgot to say
that
in the morning. Do you Adam curry in the morning all ships
at sea boots on the ground and caucuses in the in New
Hampshire's in the mountains? Yes. In the mountains. And so I
noticed. Let me just go bear and I have a clip for you.
Let me just say hi to the chat room. Oh, hello, chat room. Yes
in the morning to your chat room. No agenda stream.com no
agenda chat.net always hear in a full blown caucusing mode when
we're doing the show live on Sunday and Thursday mornings
nine o'clock Gitmo nation West time.
So the Colbert show has just been caught very jumps off of a
cliff with a holding a flag and they always have these different
words flying around him and his one they change every so often.
And there's only one time I've ever seen where he said the
little phrase once and then the next day it was gone. Which was
caucus blocker or no I'm not not caucus but caucus tees. And I
was thinking about if apparently I was like the last person in
the family to get the joke
as in cocktease Yeah, well you're you're not a sexually
oriented guy. That's my generally not
I'm not I don't have a filthy mind to put it that way. Like
you
I'm still young and vibrant. Alright, do you ever click now
you don't have a clue.
I do have a clip I want to play the only one of the clips I
thought was interesting. Or while you're somebody was
actually on CNN play Add Romney in 2008, which I'm not sure that
the overriding meaning of this, but I found it to be kind of
interesting.
Cedar Rapids is in Lane County 6.6% of the population. Governor
Romney, Santorum third there. That's one of the reasons. So as
you watch this now you have the closest race in Iowa caucus
history. Wow. Governor Romney wins 30,015 votes. You want to
see something Erie 25% 30,015 votes, we go back four years.
Governor Romney 30,021 votes? Six votes? Yeah.
He got less votes, actually.
It was, it was all very, very funny. And I'm ready to I think
what happened by the way, you know, so Rick Perry said, You're
gonna go back to Texas and pray. And and Michelle Bachman said,
you know, we're moving forward, so we knew she was out. But I
think Perry got the four. I think Perry got the call, like,
Hello. Yeah. Hi, this is the producer of the presidential X
Factor reality show. I'm sorry, we really need you for this.
This next episode. You know, it's really important for the
ratings. You are you're completely loved. I will give
you a little bump. You know, so you don't have to go into feet.
You can? No, we're gonna give you a bump for next week or two.
So he's coming back.
Yeah, I think there's a couple more interesting things coming
up. They tried to tease one or I think possibly Gingrich went off
the reservation because this didn't get much play. Anywhere.
It was on one of the morning shows. It may have been the
Today Show. And it was reprieved on Colbert. So there's a laugh
track behind it. But I want to play it because I thought it was
the funniest thing. And I know it was not part of the script
because the way it was played out. But look for the words that
clip Gingrich, Gingrich, Newt on Romney suppressed.
Okay. Are you calling Mitt Romney a liar? Yes.
You're calling me a liar.
Once you seen shotput? Yes. Here's this is a man whose staff
created the pack. His millionaire friends fund the
pack. He pretends he has nothing to do with the pack. It's
baloney.
So I found this to be quite interesting. And it should make
for a really good rating on the upcoming Friday or tomorrow's
debate. Yes. Well,
I think what to what happened, because, you know, everyone was
talking about his concession speech where he was really, you
know, he's like, really angry. Yeah. And I think he's angry
because the Clintons had promised to buy a whole bunch
more votes. And either they didn't just put enough money
into it, or whatever. But they failed him. And he was like,
What is this? You guys promised me this? You promised me a tarp
to your position. So he was just po that he hadn't gotten the
support that the Clintons promised them. That's my
assertion. Obviously, that should be in the second half of
the show. There's much better stuff coming up for the second
half of the show. But I do think that we can't make any real
predictions until after Saturday's debate, because of
course, we'll have the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday,
preliminary script writing, I would say we keep Santorum in
the running, we move Perry up. To have more story. We have to
have a little bit of a Cinderella story to obfuscate
Ron Paul success once again. So I think that's probably where
it'll go. Most importantly, though, I think the lineup on
Saturdays debate is something we need to look at. I would be
putting obviously Mitt Romney in the middle Santorum, basically
those two guys next to each other, you know, used to be new
to Newt. We'll have to move over one. But the question is, do we
put Ron Paul next to Santorum or Romney? I'm thinking Romney
Well, I have a problem with not putting Gingrich next to Romney
because that's where the fireworks and that's where the
ratings are
very good. Okay. You're hearing your production meeting and
process by the way
okay. But the problem is, is that you're gonna get some
blowback from the audience because especially the Ron Paul
audience, which is the most the most vocal and you know, point
they point the finger at everything so if you so if you
hadn't a centre you'd have Romney in the centre as usual
and if you put any flanked in with Santorum and and Gingrich
and it would Paul over it would cause a rock huge
ruckus Yeah. So those two Why don't we put the Texans next to
each other so they can cancel each other out?
Well, I I think you could actually almost take a chit
Well, it's sort of content is backwards. Still, we're
screwed. You're gonna
have to put Romney in the middle then you have to put Gingrich on
his left, right. Good. Good spa on his right. And then you would
have to put
a parry next to that.
No, I'm thinking where you gonna put Gingrich? I think Gingrich
should be on the side of Santorum who as opposed to
decide of Ron Paul because it would be better to put Perry
next to Ron Paul and then you could marginalise the two Texans
is a yes.
And I think we should have Ron Paul way left, because that's
how we're positioning him in the media is is these even more left
than Obama? But where do we put Huntsman because it's
unbalanced? We don't have any Well, are we inviting him? He
got wrong. We're not if we invited we're not paying for his
transportation. You can get his own damn hotel room.
I thought that was everybody had to get their own. Oh, yeah.
Right. I can just see Huntsville. Hey, I'm here for my
per diem. Yes, we have the envelope for you here.
Yeah, you're right. It is unbalanced. I think they're just
had to drop Huntsman.
We'll see. I you know, we'll see. We'll see. It'd be
great to have just the five guys that would be nice to town.
Yeah. Yeah, it looks great on camera. Otherwise, you have to
get the job out again, cost extra money. Before we get into
thanking some of our producers here, I would like to play a
prediction from a different red book, which was completely
surprising to me. Pat Robertson, who has the what is it? Is it
the CBN? The Christian Broadcast bypassing
network? Yeah.
So Pat Robertson has been a he's been at the forefront of
American politics since the 60s. Has he not?
If you want to call it that? Well, don't
all the presidents talk to him. And isn't don't isn't that
sure that Obama has ever had a word with him?
About previous presidents? Certainly Republican presidents
have spoken with him. Yeah, advisor really had much to do
with Clinton wasn't a Republican.
Well, Clinton was a Republican as far as I'm concerned. Okay.
So he had a talk with God.
Oh, well, that was must have been entertaining.
It was because God apparently told him who was going to be the
next president. And it was going to be well, he's not allowed to
tell God told them not to tell ya. Why this is
a non transparent situation where we were running into
but the things God did tell him and the questions he asked had
me raising my eyebrows. Let's hear this little segment from
Pat Robertson on this little satellite station,
spent better part of a week in prayer and just saying, God,
show me something. And I'll,
by the way, I'm not mocking God. But I am totally mocking pat
robertson share
with you.
Some things I'll share with you. I think he showed me about the
next president, but I'm not supposed to talk about this.
Because you know, God, yeah, he doesn't want he doesn't want to
blow the ratings. God talked to CNN apparently, too. And CNN
said, Don't please God, don't let Pat spill the beans because
we got the ratings to think, Okay,
we'll leave you in the dark. Probably just as I think I know
who is going to be all right. I'm gonna read just what I wrote
down. As if I'm hearing from the Lord these words, your country
will be torn apart by internal stress. A house divided cannot
stand. Your president holds a radical view of the direction of
your country, which is at odds with the majority, expect chaos
and paralysis. Your president holds a view which is at the
odds for the majority is a radical view of the future of
the country, then so that's why we're having this division. This
is a spiritual battle, which can only be won by overwhelming
prayer. The future of the world is at stake because of American
Falls, there is no longer a strong champion of freedom, and
a champion of the oppressed of the world. There must be an
urgent call to prayer.
This is a lot of people talk to God by the way, you know, they
pray, but to have God reply so simple, very rare. Yeah, that's
good. Last time. It was like an 1100
wedding. We'd like this tablets.
Somebody will get the job now.
But now yeah. But now listen to what Pat Robertson asked God, he
asked more questions, which was his questions where, you know,
if you have God talking to you, you got some questions to ask.
Yeah, some question. I would like to know who's gonna win the
Super Bowl. I need some horses, you know, so I can maybe pick up
some extra cash, stock tips stock.
Okay. And then the Lord said, a time of maximum stress and peril
greater than at any time since the CBN ministry began this
country will begin disintegrating
now this is this though now I'm like oh wow. So the Lord is
predicting Doom
Yep. And he would know
yeah So Pat Could you please ask us what kind of ask the Lord
what kind of doom this could be?
I thought when we start this place I started CBN in I think
1960 We had you think about all the things that went on you have
the assassination of President assassination of Martin Luther
King you've got a war in Vietnam you've got all these things. He
said this a worst stress than before. So I'm saying God let me
give you some so some suggestions and you totally have
no
idea all right, so what would your first suggestion be if
you're if it's a guessing game with God?
I have no idea what this lunatic is even up to so I wouldn't even
come up with something. Let me go on.
Pick one. So I said is it an EMP blast?
Is it an EMP blast or
is it a cosmic or solar radiation bias? No. Is it my and
Galaxy alignment? No, it's not is it a radian or North Korea
nuclear threat? No. Is it an earthquake or volcano? No. Is it
a massive power failure? No. What is it it's an economic
collapse and God's equally issues not my job?
Oh, that's who was good. That's the guy that called me the other
day and I told him about the economic collapse Yeah, there
you go. Well, you know Robertson is old enough to know that about
the cycles and yeah, economic collapse so that's just you can
find that in there. I can find people saying that all over the
place. Where do you have to go to the man upstairs? Doesn't
make sense. I think he
wasted his time. Yeah.
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I always get the biggest kick out of Dutch boutiques. Yeah,
the idea of coordinating colours is alien.
And we had a bill Enderlin calling to some radio show one
of our producers and it's quite funny because I think the guys
who are doing the show know about our show, as you'll hear
in this little clips.
And if you don't have any third Wisdom, what you can do is just
describe what's going on around you can do either or this is
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Wisdom bill in North Carolina man what's on your mind
if you're tired of bullshit media, listen to a dangerous
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the no agenda podcast with Adam curry and John C. Dvorak retired
in the crazy media and Bs they're putting through then
listen to the real people in the legend with what's good. Excuse
me what's going on?
Nicely done and who
to this they hit the bell right after he calls in? They did
Yeah, that wasn't a you know, I just did this was me but he hit
the bell first in the show. But uh, if you're gonna call on the
radio shows, which we highly encourage
Yeah, try to be sober. Or
write it down. You can be drunk and write it down that might
work. But anyway, we highly appreciate the effort there
bill. Definitely got the word out. So that's very good. Of
course everyone else out there you can go and do something very
important which is propagate our formula.
Our formula is this. We go out we hit people in the mouth
shut up
I did some other work. If you want to know
now really, because I've got a couple of things before we get
to that I think what I'd like to talk about all right, Rick
Santorum uses Neuro Linguistic Programming in his
chatter, would you like to explain briefly NLP to our
audience to where you know another an idea you explain it?
Well, Neuro Linguistic Programming is stuff that you do
with your words and with your and with your body language that
essentially communicates a message to the recipient in a
way that will that you can actually get people to do crazy
things. It's a well known science. I'll give an example of
it vorak.org/n, a donating is loving,
jingles are part of a part, Santorum. I got a bunch. I got
two things where he's doing doublespeak. And I want you to
listen to him to try to tell me exactly what he said, because
you won't be able to, but in but earlier, he was on Meet the
Press. And earlier I found I caught this very weird style of
chatter that incorporates I've never seen this before. And I've
tried to do it myself and I can't do it. You know, we're
people you run into people that are always making assumptions
about the way you think so though, so they'll say
something. Why? Because they do it. They didn't always they
dropped the word. Why into the sentence?
Yeah. Well, it's very much like in Silicon Valley people say,
right, which is basically making you affirm what he just said.
Exactly. Right. So they so or look, it's another one why
look.
Exactly why. Yeah. So they so they don't say it always makes
the assumption. I always find it offensive when I hear the word
why? Asked like that, because it's making an assumption that
I'm actually asking the question, then I'd want to know
why. It was just telling me you don't have to ask me why works.
Now. Now. centaurum, you have to listen very carefully to this
Santorum neuro linguistic insertion. He puts why in the
stream in such a way that it doesn't even it's not even a
question. It's just the word why. And I challenge you without
writing something down to actually do what he what you're
about to hear. You'll hear the word why twice. And it's just in
the flow. And I found it extremely fascinating likes the
Republican
Party. The question is, are those values ones that you can
trust, when when they become president I'd states is that
someone who you know is going to fight not just for certain
things, but for the entire Republican platform and plank.
Why? Because those things integrate together. And you've
heard me talking about this many times. You can't have a strong
economy and just a strong economic plan. Unless you have
strong families and you have moral values in this country.
Why? Because that's the underpinning of our society.
As well, he's good at that.
That's very good. It's
actually the phrases why because which is not set asking why and
no, I liked
it. I liked that better, because it doesn't give you time to
think it's like well, Oh, yeah. Oh, but you're white. Yeah,
here's the answer. Okay. Yeah, thank thank you for giving me
the answer. It's much quicker. I think that's a good way of doing
it.
It's amazing. And he does it constantly. Why? Because he does
why
we shouldn't do that too. Don't even know agenda is really a
good idea. Why? Because it will give bring you the truth.
Exactly. We should do that more often ourselves. Why? Because it
really helps. I'm gonna do now I'm gonna I'm gonna practice
this. Why? Because it really works.
So eat. So I've noticing him doing this. I'm breaking that
apart. So then I hear the doublespeak stuff. And I've got
two examples. And the first one is like, it's good. But the
second one, I challenge you to tell me what he said. But let's
play number one,
didn't you when you were running for reelection, do the same
thing you've accused Romney of which is moderating your stance
and tried to win a democratic state
today, I would support laws that would provide for those
exceptions, but I'm not for them. In other words, I support
the Hyde Amendment. The Hyde Amendment provides exception for
rape and incest in the life of the mother. And so yes, I
support laws that provide those exceptions. Because if we can
get those passed, then then we need to do that. But my God a
violation of your pledge. You tried it? I supported the
partial birth abortion ban that does that ban all abortions? No,
but it moves the country in the right direction. And so what
I've said in the past consistently is I'll support
laws that move the ball forward. That doesn't mean that's my
position. And that's where I'd like to go. But that's exactly
the direction that we need to go.
Yeah, I understand what I've been reading this. I haven't
actually heard it. So thank you.
Is that amazing? Yeah. And the reason why I support it, but I
don't I don't support it, but I support it because I didn't have
to support but I don't support I support don't say it's what this
is how
you protect accurate accusations of being a flip flopper why
because he's a flip flopper. See how it is
now now the second one I am asking you had to explain to me
exactly what he says here because it's like, wow, this is
a gym.
And in order to get the necessary votes to get that
done, you have to make compromises. But we did a
direction of limited government, maybe less than what we wanted
to. But we weren't going in the direction of more government and
getting less of more, that's where Republicans have been in
error for so many years. And that is compromising on just a
little less big government. Instead of saying no, no more
compromises and less big government will compromise on
less less. Government. Not going the other way.
Isn't less more.
But not going the other way. I'm telling you, this is a gem of a
quote is no compromise unless less but not going the other
way.
Ladies and gentlemen, we do this so you don't have to. But you
know, you sit around. And you know, you're when you're
watching television, stuff spinning on the screen, and all
kinds of stuff happen. You don't really parse this, and it's so
great to hear just an audio, because then you're not
distracted by his hair or any anything else that flourishes on
the score on the screen is really the way to do it. It's
really good. And he nailed that one. You really did. Less, less,
less, less. Why? Because it's more.
So I'm going the other way. Now,
less is less left. Less is more. Why? Because it's more. Now I
support things, but then I don't support them. Why? Because
supporting them is not the right position to not support why
because it's that way. Vote for me. So anyway, yeah, there were
a couple of bills that were passed. On the on the day of the
caucuses, not couple. Actually, let me count
that they're at a session right now.
I'm sorry. signed by the President.
Yeah, well, he signs it was at all during the dead of night.
Yes, it was actually I can. Let me tell you, you know, bring it
up here. Cuz you guys subscribe to the RSS feed of the press
office. Because it is not like this is on the news anywhere.
And so the press office, this was Yeah, Tuesday January 3. So
it was they do it on when all everyone is in Iowa. No one's
paying attention. Let me count them. 1-234-567-8999 the
President signed nine bills into law. Three of them caught my
eye. And I thought they were rather interesting. Resolution
House resolution 515, known as the act that may be cited as the
Belarusian Democracy and Human Rights Act of 2011. always
interested in something where we're protecting human rights.
To highlights the United States resolve to continue to support
the growth of democratic movements and institutions in
Belarus. We should empower the people of Belarus to end tyranny
in their country. Resolve to continue to refuse to accept the
results of the fundamentally flawed December 9 2010
presidential election held in Belarus and to support calls for
a new presidential and parliamentary elections
conducted in a manner that is free and fair according to Osae
standards. Tom Okay, that's interesting. So the Bella Russa
is definitely being targeted. And then section five is WE'RE
HERE IT COMES radio, television and internet broadcasting to
Belarus quote it is the sense of Congress that the President
should support radio television and internet broadcasting to the
people of Belarus in languages spoken in Belarus by Free Radio
Europe Radio Liberty the Voice of America European radio for
Bella Ruse and Bell SAT. So there's your propaganda
This is a reaction to what took place exactly in Belarus where
they said you can't go on the internet Exactly. Well no they
actually what they said you can't go outside on the
internet. But you can only go to Belarus websites which is what
what what great websites is Belarus have this is going to
entertain the public.
What is their domain name.bs It should be so I thought that was
pretty interesting. Then we have very short one. House Resolution
105 Niner
by the way, it was just a backup on that Bellerose thing again,
if the fact that we're on top of this to such an extreme that the
President be signing stuff means that the route that the Belarus
original reaction of cutting off Internet access to the outside
world had to be because we were pumping stuff in there by the
crapload obviously, you know, pumping in propaganda was some
gold, you know, something in mind And and they got wind of it
and then that's why they did this up we can't have any good
no more get off get off get off the internet and off the
internet the reaction the return reaction
is less less.
It's less less it came up just right away. I mean it must have
so had to be on the top of somebody's list. I mean normally
you just beat around the bush about something like this or all
those crazy Bella rumours people who cares. But no, apparently we
do care because we're doing something we were sneaking it
doing a sneak attack,
I would say Bella Rousses important GOP politically
speaking. Well, I'm gonna look it up. Once you once you take a
look at that. And then I will read a very, very small bill but
not unimportant. House Resolution 1059. Extension of
redaction authority concerning sensitive security information.
There's some just some replacements here in in
subparagraph C by inserting and the Senate Committee on Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs and the House Committee
on Oversight and Government Reform after Senate in
subparagraph II. In other words, redaction powers now expanded to
documentation from the Department of Homeland Security,
the government Governmental Affairs and the House Committee
on Oversight and Government Reform. So essentially shut up
slave, we're not going to show you anything. Send us your FOIA,
we're going to send you my magic marker I just found to be quite
insulting. But what was really crazy John, did you find Belarus
by the way with the deal is with Belarus?
Yeah. appears to be oil shale? Oh,
no. Did you do Belarus oil was that your Google? Bellary was
Google or Belarus scam. One of the two will show you something
good.
So then they apparently have I don't think it's just us that it
has an issue here. The Russians were were in bed with via the
deal between Exxon and Putin directly. It seems to be there's
been a dispute going on between Russia and the Belarussians. And
I think they're probably doing their part to to get to steal
steal the oil.
They want to it's who's who gets Belushi and oil. That's the
whole deal. Right
failed to renew an agreement on crude oil, export tariffs fast
it was a tariff. And
may why else would we care? Why else will we be pointing our
satellite transmissions and internet broadcasts to Belarus?
Wales? Do we care for oil? There's no other reason?
Yeah, a bit which I'm billions of barrels. Big deal.
Yeah. Now the one that blew me away that this guy had no
coverage, I would have thought this at least would have gotten
some coverage House resolution.
I wanted to interrupt you for a second. I want people when
they're driving around, we know we're in a petroleum economy.
But I don't know how much we realise unless we come to grips
with it. Just drive around and look at everything you see if it
wasn't for oil, transportation via the internal combustion
engine, everything you see around you would not exist in
plastic. Well, plastic but but to move to move wood. And to
chop down wood, you need a motor, you chop it down and you
put it on a truck, and then you move it to the place and you
need a power tool. I mean, every single thing and all is a pipe
dream about you know, renewable energy is a joke. But we need
oil,
you know, making yourself popular. Lots, lots of it. Give
us more oil, that people just now anyway, that's a whole
different other set of programming that I don't think
we can combat ourselves now except through carbon, because
you know, we're gonna die if we use more oil.
I don't know about that.
So, so the also the bill that blew me away that it got no
mainstream coverage is House resolution 1892. Better known,
most of the other ones that got no mainstream coverage.
This is why this is what I do for kicks. I could be a Have you
seen Mickey? He's hot, right?
Yeah, you could have other things,
doing other things with my life. This Act may be cited as the
intelligence authoring Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 2012. Oh, yeah, I'm like, Well, this is interesting. This
is who is this for? Well, it turns out funds are hereby
authorised to be appropriated for the following. United States
Government Departments Office of the Director of National
Intelligence the Central Intelligence Agency, the
Department of Defence, the Defence Intelligence Agency,
National Security Agency, Department of the Army, the
Department of the Navy in the Department of the Air Force, the
Coast Guard, Department of State Department of the Treasury,
Department of Energy Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the
National Reconnaissance Office, the National Geospatial
Intelligence Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.
This is not a small deal, I would say. So a couple things
have highlighted Of course, we always have these in the show
notes. You can find it in under clips and stuff. in the show
notes at 371 dot n a show notes.com. The first thing right
off the bat it says the president cannot disclose
anything. The President shall not publicly disclose the
classified schedule of authorizations or any portions
of such schedule, which of course means it's a portion we
don't have it's the classified portion which we're not allowed
to see. So that's just a why? Because it's classified Shut up
slave. There's an authorised Okay, so here's the money
portion, just the Director of National Intelligence. Do you
heard all those departments I mentioned, right? Just the
Director of National Intelligence by himself gets
$576 million.
Why? Today do it's one guy
well, the elements within the intelligence community
management for the Director of National Intelligence, it's
authorised 777 full time or full time equivalent personnel
to do what it spy spy on you. They're not spies. They're
supposed to be coordinating the other spy agencies Oh, there's
a lot of spies to coordinate apparently, the Central
Intelligence Retirement Agency retirement and disability fund,
oh, half a billion dollars.
That's, that's surprisingly low, I guess what the maybe just
bumped. These guys don't retire. You know, it's just sorry, no at
the end of that, or they stay on the dole, no
pension for you. Now, here's something that I found very
interesting, which I'm glad is in here, section 302. The
authorization of appropriations by this act shall not be deemed
to constitute authority for the conduct of any intelligence
activity, which is not otherwise Authorised by the Constitution,
or the laws of the United States. They would say these
guys are doing nothing but doing stuff that is not allowed by the
Constitution or the laws. They do not read that again,
because did you read it? Verbatim? Of course.
I think the trick is the laws of the United States. The
authorization of appropriations by this act shall not be deemed
to constitute authority for the conduct of any intelligence
activity, which is not otherwise Authorised by the Constitution
or the laws of the United States. So I think their
interpretation is what are the laws of the United States? Is
that the Constitution or is that just I don't even think
that's what it says. I think it says that we're giving you money
to do with, as you see fit as you see fit, but it doesn't mean
it's okay. So in other words, I'm giving Sam you're an
assassin I give you I want you to assassinate XYZ, there's
$10,000. Here's $10,000. For your expenses. You know what to
do? I mean, I'm not authorising you to kill anybody.
Oh, you're just authorised to give me the money? Yeah. Okay.
Yeah, I'll tell I think is
a little doublespeak in there. Do you think? I think Rick
Santorum is writing this stuff.
There's a new position, Chief Information Officer of the
intelligence community that has been created. That's a new.
See, I Oh,
yes, the CIO of the CIA. I'm the CIO of the CIA. How you doing?
denies now here's the one that blew me away. Section 414
Creating an official record of the Osama bin Laden operation.
Now we know that he who wins gets to write history. This is
it.
Here is they're gonna hire somebody to phoney up a story
actually wrote it. It's right here. This is their Yeah, this
is the official story. And so this is now on record as the
official story of the Osama bin Laden operation. I think we
should read through it. I'm listening. On May 1 2011. United
States personnel killed terrorist leader Osama bin Laden
during the course of a targeted strike against his secret
compound in Abbottabad. Pakistan. It reads so well, his
secret
does this is pretty good.
Osama bin Laden was the leader of the al Qaeda terrorist
organisation the most significant terrorist threat to
the United States and the international community. Now
here's here's what I think they messed it up and this will come
back to bite him in the butt because this is the official
record. Osama bin Laden was the architect of terrorist attacks,
which killed nearly 3000 civilians on September 11 2001,
the most deadly terrorist attack against our nation in wish al
Qaeda terrorists hijacked four aeroplanes and crashed them into
the World Trade Centre in New York City, the Pentagon and
Washington DC and due to heroic efforts by civilian passengers
to disrupt the terrorist near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, so no
longer can they call any other guy the architect of 911 because
this is it. This is he was the architect so you can't say was
another guy, that old Sheikh Mohammed Shakalaka guy,
whatever. So they can't call him the architect because that's
factually incorrect. Then they have a whole thing about this is
even crazier. Osama bin Laden planned or supported numerous.
What has it created? What was the jobs thing?
Oh yeah, saved or
created, planned or supported numerous other deadly terrorist
attacks against the United States and its allies, including
the 1998 bombings of the United States embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania, the 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, and against
innocent civilians and countries around the world, including the
2004 attack on commuter trains in Madrid, Spain, and 2000
bombings of the mass transit system in London, England.
That's bullcrap. We know that the Madrid Spain was not an
Osama bin Laden operation. I think that's been admitted.
Yeah, I think it was not was not
no, well, no longer it's now the official record. And now of
course, I gotta give some props to George W. following September
11 2001 terrorist attacks, the United States under President
George W. Bush led an international coalition into
Afghanistan to dismantle al Qaeda, deny them a safe haven in
Afghanistan, and ungoverned areas along the Pakistani border
and bring Osama bin Laden to justice. Okay, so we should get
out now that the guy's dead. I guess that's what we were
thinking. Yeah. Well, I guess not. President Barack Obama in
2009 committed additional forces and resources to efforts in
Afghanistan and Pakistan as the quote central front in our
enduring struggle against terrorism and extremism. The
valley and members of the United States Armed Forces have
courageously and vigorously pursued al Qaeda and its
affiliates in Afghanistan and around the world. This is all
official record. The anonymous unsung heroes of the
intelligence community have pursued al Qaeda and its
affiliates in Afghanistan, Pakistan around the world with
tremendous dedication, sacrifice and professionalism. What is
this a jerk off session?
This is what it sounds like unsung heroes.
close collaboration between the armed forces in the intelligence
community prompted the Director of National Intelligence General
James Clapper to state quote, never have I seen a more
remarkable example of focused integration, seamless
collaboration and sheer professionalism, magnificence as
was distributed demonstrated by the intelligence community in
the ultimate demise of Osama bin Laden. This is really like, like
coming to hear the magnificent as a word magnificence
professional magnificence. That's a good one, right? sheer,
sheer professional magnificence. Wow, that goes above and beyond
I'd say I'd say sheer. I would love to have that on my
tombstone. He was a shining example of sheer professional
magnificence. Wow. Thanks. Thanks, buddy. While the death
of Osama bin Laden represents a significant blow to the al Qaeda
organisation and its affiliates, and to terrorist organised
organisations around the world, terrorism remains a critical
threat to the United States national security. Thank you for
clarifying that. President Obama said for over two decades, bin
Laden has been al Qaeda as leader and symbol, and has
continued to plot attacks of cancer for over two decades.
Wait a minute. What wasn't he like hanging out with everybody?
In the past 20 years, with
his bad ego, he goes back to 93 with the first attack on the
World Trade Centre.
What did they say it was him then?
Yeah, well, no, they say it now. Yeah. And then, of course, it
was also that the Yemen guy that we killed, right, something he
had something to do that to everybody does, and I think
there was some embassy bombings I think predated that. So I
think it is two decades.
So I'll skip ahead to the end part here for years to come. for
years to come, John, this like, I love this history. Americans
will look back at this event, I got to do it better. for years
to come. Americans will look back at this event. And as as a
defining point in the history of the United States. It is vitally
important that the United States memorialise all the events that
led to the raid, so that future generations will have an
official record of the events that transpired before, during
and as a result of the operation and preserve. Preserving this
history now will allow the United States to have an
accurate account of the events while those that participated in
the events are still serving in the government. Isn't that
beautiful?
Yeah, I like the way you're ready. You almost got to a good
voice. I think they're gonna put up a memorial of some sort that
people can visit. And if somebody actually maybe took a
look at it probably is just they just need a new place for a dead
drop.
So there is a report not later than 90 days after the
completion of the report being prepared by the Centre for the
Study of intelligence that documents the history of and the
lessons learned from the raid that resulted in the death of
Osama bin Laden, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency
cells submit such report to congressional intelligence
committees, which as we know, of course, can redact everything
because that was in the other act. So we'll never know what
the official record is when the report comes out. But thanks
anyway, guys, I highly appreciate it. I just found it
very interesting that they would codify the official history. And
by the way, will the report have any pictures
made? I think not.
And then, finally, not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this act, the Secretary of Homeland Security
shall submit to the Congressional Intelligence
Committees the Committee on Homeland Security of the House
of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security
and Governmental blah, blah, blah to everybody, on whether
restrictions on the use of airspace are hampering the use
of unmanned aerial vehicles by the Department of Homeland
Security along the international border between the United States
and Mexico. And it is the sense of Congress that the nation's
railway transportation including subway transit network is broad
and technically complex, requiring robust communication
between private sector stakeholders and the
intelligence community to identify, monitor and respond to
threats. The Department of Homeland Security Office of
intelligence analysis maintains a constructive relationship with
the federal agencies and private entities to safeguard our
railways and railway transportation security,
including subway transit security should continue to be
prioritised and the critical infrastructure Threat Assessment
developed by the Office of intelligence and IE, TSA at the
subway.
Well, there was already a report that the Department of Homeland
Security is going to begin putting their officers at subway
stations so here it is the
bus. Yeah, he's not there. Well, they don't say bus specifically
bus.
There'll be buses. It'll be by zip. Which brings us back to
Obama's assertion about not having to take your shoes off at
the railroad station.
I have that. Here we go. Let's just listen to that.
Imagine boarding a train in the centre of a city. No racing to
an airport. And across the terminal. No delays. No sitting
on the tarmac. No lost luggage. No taking off your shoes.
mudo. David obviously. Right. Well, crap,
bull crap. Bullshit.
They didn't go we read the bill. So you don't have to believe me?
No one else is.
Yep. No one else is. Nobody cares.
Nobody cares. But there's your official record of the binlog.
If anybody
really cared they would be every the whole country be up in arms
about that defence act that Obama signed on Saturday, the
last, you know, just before New Year's when nobody was looking.
There was another
bill. I hate to do this to you.
Let me just build day here on no agenda, ladies and gentlemen.
Oh, you know, it is a hook that we
have. This is this has not been signed by the president but it
is a bill proposed by Senator. I'm sorry, Congressman
Representative Charles dent. This is House resolution 3166
and 1698 the enemy expatriation act. Here's the relevant line to
add it to add that engaging in or supporting hostilities
against the United States and the United States will result in
United States nationals losing their nationality. Remember,
they remember they made such a big deal about well, it just
doesn't count for United States citizens. Well, so now they just
put another bill out.
Oh, that's beautiful that now okay, let me write that that
this is the this is the find of the day. You want to write it
down. I'll give you this one. This is the show's over. We can
stop now.
Okay. Well, good night, everybody. It was good.
Great. Good talking to you again.
And remember you're screwed. HR three, one.
new tagline. You're screwed. You're screwed. I want to know
agenda show you're screwed.
It's the enemy expatriation act. It's fantastic. I mean, how
smart is this? Thank you, darlin. Could you just say
donating his loving for me? We'll do it next time. Yeah. No.
Like no.
All right. She wants to get her sexy voice on. Alright. I gotta
work on that. Yeah. Hey, baby. Go put your ear go and put your
earbuds in. Yeah, it's so they don't they just add it. Let me
reread this So the National Defence Authorization Act is the
one that were the they pointed out continuously. No, no, no
this arresting anyone by the military throwing a bag over
your head and throwing you into a van. It doesn't count if
you're an American citizen unless the enemy expatriation
Act goes into effect, which it has not yet but we need to start
screaming about it.
Oh, yeah, it'll be That's a done deal. Engaging in our
engaging in or supporting hostilities against the United
States will result in a United States National losing their
nationality. At which point we could throw a bag over your head
and then throw you into the man
it's a one two punch. Exactly that technicality Yeah, it's
just a little technicality. Well, this reminds me of this
just kind of brings to mind this this story coming out of Texas,
your neck of the woods, some poor girl, you know, right, you
know, left at home and running away. And then before she was
decided to go back when she was 15, the ice people picked her up
and threw her out and threw out of the country. They threw her
into Colombia because she gave a fake name which match some old
woman is a 15 year old match some old you know, I guess some
criminal that was left Colombia to just using a fake ID and she
couldn't get up. She couldn't communicate anything else
because she couldn't speak Spanish the girl. And so they
said, Okay, you're out of here. And they threw and they deported
her. She's just an American citizen. Some kid at the bus
terminal. I
mean, unbelievable. Unbelievable. Really. She's
still in Colombia that Colombian say I don't know. We'll keep
her. She's a good she's good at housekeeping. She's been working
as a maid. I guess.
We next you really horrible.
You're screwed.
Yes, you're screwed courtesy of the no agenda show. Actually, we
should hit this for a second. And now back to real. We haven't
done a real news in a while. I got two pieces of Real News. One
is I just want to play this because that's my two favourite
people in the world. Kim Kardashian and AJ hammer. If
you're gonna come up with the name of show business name,
that's the name AJ hammer everybody AJ did I recommend her
Yeah, listen to this. So California is broke? As you know
and they want to raise taxes
right even though there's no jobs highest unemployment in the
country. Yeah, but who do we tax people more what a tax the rich
that's the way I say Right.
Exactly. Tax the Rich who's rich?
Apparently everybody but the real rich.
Yeah. How about Kim Kardashian? Yeah, attack. She's rich. Last
but
not least Kim Kardashians name being put out there by a
campaign to raise taxes?
What's going on with that
story? Okay, if you do want to make headlines these days, all
you have to do is mentioned the Kardashians and we'll talk about
it. That's what really happened here. The people behind an
initiative to raise California's income tax for millionaires
realise, hey, you know what, we might get some attention. If we
use Kim Kardashian 's name and guess what? It worked. I
actually with one of the guys behind the initiative last night
on showbiz. Tonight, his basic point is that Kim Kardashian
only pays listen to this one percentage point more than
someone who earns around $47,000 a year. This is reportedly and
considering the budget issues in California. He thinks, you know,
somebody like Kardashian, who reportedly earned 12 million
bucks last year can afford to pay a little more. But again, I
think the big story here is you bring Kim Kardashian name into
the mix, and you get attention for whatever it is that you're
trying to peddle.
There you go. That's how it works. Ben Cardin, we need to be
associating with how about we associate ourselves with Kim
Kardashian? We can we can get press?
How about I have a say and no one's ever attempted that.
Well, everyone does it. We should jump on the bandwagon.
That's my point.
Yeah, can we say be you? Yeah, well, I'll tell you this
experiment I have.
Okay, I'm gonna Lois. Lois. Listen up. I have a sex tape of
John C. Dvorak and Kim Kardashian. Our first lady
Michelle Obama is going to make a guest appearance on the
popular Nickelodeon show iCarly and these douchebags have
released a clip of her and this is a talk about your neuro
linguistic programming. How about just tell the kids how to
address the for how would you address the First Lady if you
saw the first lady in person?
I would say Hello, Mrs. President.
Okay, and she prefers a different title actually. Wait
Is she
way down here Your Excellency.
You don't call her your Excellency. No, no,
I kind of like it what an elite
Your Excellency.
Kinda like it is cute. It's supposed to be funny, but it's
not it's rude.
You're screwed courtesy of the no agenda Show All right, well
what else what else you got? I got lots of stuff I'm waiting
for you to come in and blow me away boy.
I'm not gonna blow you away by doing some stuff on some some
things in China cropped up and I thought this was kind of
interesting. I'm listening to the news hour and they're
talking about him out Khomeini the in the Iranians and the bull
crap about the Strait of Hormuz and and then it just piqued my
interest because a strange little mention comes in at the
end of this play that thoughts on on the Khomeini
will calculate that. Whether he will seek deliverance in a
nuclear compromise in order to bring about some some relief to
himself, or whether he will seek deliverance with a nuclear
weapon itself, thinking that that will bring him a shield
from outside pressure. I think recent history doesn't bode very
well, because the example the lesson which commonly learned
from the example in Libya, but that is example in Libya, was
that when Gadhafi abdicated his nuclear programme that made him
vulnerable to outside intervention. Okay,
so the clip I was looking for. That's the that's the one clip
that I didn't want to comment on, which is I was thinking I
was listening to this guy who's was a funny commentator, and
kept having jokes within his commentary. He mentioned that he
said, he says this. Well, you know, they once Qaddafi dropped
the, his development of, because a lot of people would just
believe that Iran, they began development on a nuke during the
Iran Iraq War. And then once that war ended, they continued
for a while, and then once we invaded Iraq, invaded Iraq and
took everybody out, then they stopped. And they haven't done
anything since because there's no real reason to or we got the
oil, and we got the oil. And it's too late for that. And then
because they stopped development, we are in the
process. My thought was this, by the way, I don't I don't know
this for a fact. But my thought was, are we goading them into
developing a nuke bio, say, Okay, here's what happened to
the last guy who didn't continue on the programme. You know, we
took him out. And then you know, it looks like, you know, we're a
big threat in the region. And it's just like, the so the
question comes to mind or week because are we goading Iran to
develop a nuke? Do we did we bring that big, we have a battle
that is not a battleship, but a big aircraft carrier in the
Straits of Hormuz. And we keep talking about how they want to
close the Straits of Hormuz, even though it would kill them
killed themselves, essentially, they can't afford to, because
that's their, there's nice lesser business. Well, I
have a different telco,
I'm thinking that we have the carrier there to kind of you
know, shake him up again, they're thinking you guys are
going to plant something, you're going to screw things up and
blame us. I mean, it seems that all we're doing is goading and
goading, and goading these guys to make some sort of no mistake.
I don't know what they're gonna do about it.
I think it's a different meeting that took place. Of course, you
know, the biggest oil companies in the world are in Iran as
well. They're all there. I mean, the guys that sit in Zook
Switzerland, it's it's Glencore, the guy who actually went to
jail that President Clinton, pardon Mark rich for trading
with Iran. Oil specifically, I think that they all sat down and
had one of their Skype, a Skype meeting. And they, now Medina
Jabba Daab Listen, man, we gotta get the price of oil up more,
this is not good. We tell you what we'll we'll we'll want to
we'll, we'll the Eisenhower into the Straits of Hormuz, and you
like, you know, like, do some stuff and whatever. And you
should come to New York and talk at the UN again. And we'll get
that we'll make everyone afraid we'll call our boys over there
at CNN and Fox. And we'll have my talk about how this this
worry about the Strait of Hormuz is making the oil go up, which
is now happening you see continuously on television.
Unrest in the Strait of Hormuz is resulting in the dollar price
per barrel of oil rising rapidly.
It's got it's a selling opportunity coming your way.
Here's the clip discussion on the Iran Straits of Hormuz, and
then the the something stands out in this little commentary,
and that's
they announced that then the commander of the army said that
they don't think they will do that. And anyway, I mean, they
can't risk closing the Hormoz the Strait of Hormuz because
They they're all experts go to the street and they need the
revenue.
So they'd be cutting off the nose despite the face cream. So
they like in the to drinking a glass of water, we could close
the Strait of Hormuz, as easy as we could drink a glass of water
and reality would be like drinking a glass of gasoline.
And I think the logic of closing the Strait of Hormuz for Iran is
like the logic of conducting a suicide bombing. They would hurt
others, but they would hurt themselves the most. And they
would also be hurting their Chief Commercial and strategic
patron which is China. So exactly. It's it's mostly
bluster.
I'm coming in, John,
this is China. Ciao. Oh, yeah. But
I'm telling you, this is bullcrap. This whole thing,
they're all in cahoots. We're made to believe that that they
hate us, and we hate them. And all these douchebags.
It's fine. But when China's involved, we're always doing
what we can to get them out.
Oh, yeah, their trainers, damn them. Don't want the trainers, I
don't
think they're doing Iranians are being as cooperative as you
might like to imagine what these Chinese being involved unless
they cut them off. And they're not going to do that. So I'm
listening to C span and about and they're now there's a big
finally they're having these meetings a subcommittee, this
guy. Kuhn, one of the representatives is the chairman
of this subcommittee on Africa. And they bring up some very
interest because we've talked about this, what five years ago
on the shows what the Chinese are up to, and I just thought
this was he brought he brought on Africa,
they've gotten millions of Chinese, they're working away
building infrastructure. I thought
this little summary that he gave her right here on this
Subcommittee on on China, it says diner, I thought was a
pretty good wrap up of what we're doing what the Chinese are
doing, and why we're gonna get screwed in this deal. If we
don't change our strategies
on African officials and government is significantly
weakened that when those regimes can simply turn to China for
support with essentially no values strings attached. If
there's one message I wish to convey in this hearing, is that
the long term American objective of promoting open societies in
Africa, countries that embrace transparency and democracy,
respect the environment and protect human rights. He's being
challenged in some ways by China's approach to Africa. By
offering an alternative source of Investment and Development,
China offers African regimes economic opportunity, at times
at the expense of government reform, and in a manner that may
not directly benefit the average African. This highlights a
second key distinction. In my view, the US government has been
investing in the people of Africa. While the Chinese
government has been investing in the infrastructure of Africa,
it's tough to say precisely given a real lack of
transparency. But experts estimate roughly 70% of Chinese
assistance to Africa comes in the form of financing for roads,
stadiums, and government buildings, often built with
Chinese materials, and often by Chinese labourers. Chinese
rarely transferring significant technology to Africa, nor
employing many Africans. In contrast, more than 70%, as this
chart shows, of US government spending is directed toward
investment in the African people, primarily through health
programmes to combat HIV AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other
diseases.
So I'm thinking, isn't this kind of interesting that our foreign
policy when it comes to Africa is not really following our own
advice to ourselves, which is let's build that started
investment let's, you know, push free enterprise that start
businesses, let's, you know, do top down stuff. Instead, it's a
pure socialists, let's give them money to keep them alive as best
we can with vaccines and malaria and all kinds of
pharmaceuticals, but do nothing for the people as
a whole. But that's obvious. The strategy is clear. Keep them
alive, so the Chinese can keep them at work. And then once the
work is done, then we go in. Thanks, China.
Well, the joke of that analysis is that as he said, In here's
the Africans aren't being put to work as the Chinese who are
building this stuff. And they bring in all these Chinese and
they're turning Africa into a colony.
Hmm. Well, then maybe give them vaccines with a time bomb
mechanism. And so they all die. I mean, I don't have no belief
whatsoever that we're doing anything with an actual true
hard to these people. I can find
the whole thing to be distressing.
Hey, Africa, you're screwed. You're screwed. Yes. What? Well,
we do have that thing going on in Uganda. But Well, let's think
about this for a second. So Bill Clinton, of course, along with
Bill Gates, they're trying to keep the Africans alive. Let me
just just work through this for a second. So we know the Chinese
are building everything.
Well, maybe they take taking credit for it. So everything the
roads are Chinese, the stadiums are Chinese, you know, there's
maybe,
maybe we're just keeping them alive so we can arm them when
it's time to kick China's out.
I don't know, all I know is we're keeping them alive and the
Chinese are building stuff. So there's something wrong with
this picture. And the Chinese are screwing with them. They
don't care about, you know, this is onerous ogre regime, you know
that that has no respect for human rights. The Chinese don't
care. They're just building stuff, roads, mostly roads to
get into the you know, so they can get their mineral resources
out.
Yep, that's all they do. There was a great report moving to my
favourite pet peeve Haiti. And I tweeted this link and a lot of
people really enjoy it. It's a report written by Bill Quigley
and Amber, Rama Knouse. Gus of uncommon dreams.org, which I not
too familiar with. But the title of it is seven places where
earthquake money did and did not go. And they really break it
down so beautifully. And I'm not going to read all seven,
obviously, but I'll just read the headlines basically. And
they have it all broken down. They've got all the backup
material. So here's the first one, the largest single
recipient of us earthquake money was the US government. So you
see, we paid ourselves back when we sent 5000 troops in. Well, we
paid ourselves 379 million of your donations, your $10. You
texted you. Oh, really?
So people were telling me that they watched that aid for Haiti.
Reese Witherspoon comes on says, Oh, hi. I George Clooney, George
Clooney was George Clooney. He's there. He's making a big deal.
And it's basically went back to the our do our own government
$379 million worth. So is that what you're telling me? It gets
a little worse. $1.6 billion allocated for relief was spent
in the following manner. This is according to the August 2010
report for the US Congressional Research Office. 655 million was
reimbursed to the Department of Defence.
So they already got 379 million. This is in total that was just
for
the 5000 troops. They had people back at home answering phones
and sending emails 220 million went to the Department of Health
and Human Services to provide grants to injured individual US
states to cover services for Haitian evacuees. That's
disgusting. 350 million went to us AI D Disaster Assistance USA
ID or buddies. 150 million to the US Department of Agriculture
for emergency food assistance. I don't know man, I didn't see
people eat no hamburgers. I saw people eating mud cakes and 15
million to the Department of Homeland Security for
immigration fees. Now the same happened in the international
assistance the UN Special Envoy for Haiti that would be Bill
Clinton reported that of the 2.4 billion in humanitarian funding
34% was provided back to the donors own civil and military
entities for disaster response. So that that's like 700 million
more went back to these countries. 28% was given to UN
agencies and NGOs for specific un projects. 26% was given to
private contractors and other NGOs. 6% was provided to as in
kind services. And 5% of the international and national Red
Cross societies 1%. Went to the government of Haiti. four tenths
of 1% went to the Haitian NGOs it's
a good one
Oh this article is fantastic. There was specific thing in here
about Clinton looking
it up you can people can look it up by typing in Bill Quigley
common dreams and you'll find also in
the show notes of course at 371 dot n a show notes.com A thing
that was kind of cool was about the the money that Clinton and
Bush raised. Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton
announced a fundraising venture for Haiti on January 16. As of
October 11, the Fund had received $54 million in
donations just in this year cash. Wait, hold on a second.
We just need cash. I know a lot of people want to send blankets
or water. Just send your cash.
It has partnered with several Haitian and international
organisations. Though most of its work appears to be
admirable. It has only donated $2 million to the construction
of of Haiti and 29 million to a for profit luxury hotel, which
is what we predicted. We predicted Clinton would build a
great hotel for himself. And there it is. Almost half of the
money went to build a hotel.
Well at Surely I read that wrong. Oh, it donated 2 million
so far to the construction of the 20. Mine doesn't say so far.
What says it is donate 20 I mean, I'm sorry, you're right
indicates so far. I'm sorry. You're right. But that doesn't
mean it doesn't mean more and it's probably you don't give all
the money at once. So it's just a construction project. And I'm
sure that there's probably still holding out for the name of the
place. It's got to be the built in Marriott. And I won't be the
Bill Clinton Marriott it would have to be the something Bill
Clinton luxury suites by a Harry.
Bill and Hillary luxury suites by Marriott. But here's the
smoking gun. Less than a month after the quake hit the US
ambassador. Jim Kenneth Emerton sent a cable titled quote, the
gold rushes on as part of a situation report to Washington
this was released by Haiti liberty and WikiLeaks.
Literally, the guy sent an email a cable saying the Gold Rush is
on get on it everybody is
like these WikiLeaks. Yeah,
of course. But what an idiot
to say you didn't expect to get busted. Wow, this is a scandal.
It's a huge scandal. This article This is Daniel. This is
not a slouch of a writer by the way is a professor of law at
Loyola. Yeah, he's
a real guy. Right?
So yeah, it's not some, you know, some hack. Maybe a hack,
but he's still not a hack writer. This is a this is a
scandal as far as I'm concerned. gold rushes on gold rushes I've
never heard about this one. And I didn't know they were giving
you so all the people all the I don't want to call them idiots
but you call it the day it happened. Don't send your money
to these DT DS organisations don't text $10 Because it's not
going to Haiti, and is 90 that was going to the US military.
This is a new trick for collecting money. I mean, you
know, doing poppy fields was one way of getting near balancing
the books. But this is even better.
shyster show up and take advantage of people's goodwill
and generosity.
You are what you say biatch me horrible, horrible people. This
is so disgusting.
10 is really just really bad. And it's just why isn't this not
front page news everywhere?
You really after five and a half years? You're asking me this
question.
I'm asking it as a rhetorical question for the audience. You
need to say why?
Don't ask me any you're screwed.
You're screwed, dude. All right. I want to get an
epithet. Yeah, I didn't write it down. I made a mistake in out
writing down your tombstone thing but Oh,
sheer
magnificence
sheer, sheer, professional magnificence.
Sheer professional image.
Thank you. That's very important. But I but you know,
I'm not going to be buried. Mickey and Christina have
Express instructions to burn me and smoke me.
Rather you and Keith Richards
now he did the tattoo thing.
No, he smoked his dad. No, I
think he he check it I think he snorted him. I think he's
smaller. Anyway, may snorted. I'm not into the cocaine stuff
or the weed is okay. But not the cocaine's. That's not good. No,
shoot me up either. Attentive, no agenda producer brought the
following national treasure NPR report to my attention. And we
have long time asserted that the public so called Public Media,
which by all reports only receives 1% of their funding is
from the United States government and they'll soon be
zero. Who cares? 1% is a rounding error. Yeah, who cares?
The rest is supposed to become from underwriters.
Yeah, big corporations or advertisers or whatever you want
to call him?
This would be the relevant clip. Okay, moving
on to money. How are NPRs corporate underwriting revenues
holding up in the recession? And what about foundation grants
to different stories? Underwriting is underwriting is
is down it's down for everybody. I mean, this is this is this is
the area that is most down for us is in is in sponsorship,
underwriting advertising, call it whatever you want to
call it, whatever you want. So we'll just call it advertising
for for all intents and purposes now, when you want to get in a
big advertiser when there's when do you know who the biggest
advertisers are these days? Pharmaceutical companies and
related companies turns out that we also have big hospitals are
now the bay Big big sponsors because it's a money making
enterprise you know, this is just look at your bills,
sicknesses is like money in the bank,
sicknesses money in the bank. So when you are taking advertising
from these and of course it sounds good to say you know
this. This programme is underwritten by and then we'll
say What shall we say? Shall we say
voice of terror?
The voice of treason so I thought first I thought I was
going to disregard this because I thought it would be this was
part of on the media which is essentially NPR reporting about
media and it would kind of be okay to do what they did. But
it's not it's a it's a report that aired on was it the Morning
Edition what's the name of that show? They have
the Morning Edition in the Morning Edition whatever in the
Morning Edition
listen to how the just how they blatantly now are saying that
they are taking advertising from the pharmaceutical industrial
complex the
year that just ended hospitals stepped up their spending on
advertising. Blake farmer, a member station, remember he's
saying advertising and W PLN reports that academic medical
centres are some of the latest airing commercials coast to
coast. The biggest
spenders on advertising are also not surprisingly, the household
names advertising Mayo Clinic, Mount Sinai and New York
Presbyterian led the way for the first half of 2011. Overall
hospitals shelled out 20% More during that period than in the
prior year. According to the research firm Kantar Media. One
of the newcomers trying its luck on the national stage is
Vanderbilt University Medical Centre. And the most amazing
part to hear this earring or commercial
is that the most amazing part has yet to come. That's the
promise of discovery.
In the last year the Nashville based teaching hospital bought
ad time on ad time, CNN, Fox News and NPR.
So wait a minute, did he just say they bought ad time on NPR?
Did he just really say that? Yeah, that's
what he said. Jill Austin is Vanderbilt's chief marketing
officer.
We think of it almost as a
service is what you do. By the way, when you score a new
advertiser, you let the chief marketing officer come on in an
advertorial This is what Yeah,
bring him on. Give him some extra some extra bonus extra
juice. Yeah,
we're gonna kick off. So when you advertise on NPR, we're
gonna let you kick off the campaign, with an advertorial
that will do on that are in the Morning Edition report, which is
really popular
to the public to get the word out. The Vanderbilt
ads primarily focused on treatments for cancer and heart
disease that are based on that
we'll make sure we run down everything you do, will let you
know what you primarily focus on. So people are really into
the ad campaign before it kicks in with the advertising
on an individual's DNA. But Austin says luring patients
hasn't been the primary goal.
Ultimately, it helps us attract students to Vanderbilt, faculty
and staff, you know, we ourselves are proud of the work
that we do. So
now we'll let you talk about what why you really advertise.
But just to bounce that out a little bit. We've got to let one
of our shield guys in well, it only be like five seconds. I
promise. It's really focused
in that direction. Despite what
some institutions say, Joel English of the Milwaukee based
marketing firm BVK.
By the way, we'll grab some guy from some marketing thing that
no one's ever heard of, and no one gives a crap about just some
nondescript name
says the thrust of national marketing isn't recruiting or
even fundraising.
There are ancillary benefits to a effective regional or national
campaign. That said, during a time in healthcare where dollars
are precious, I don't believe those would be the key reasons
for a national campaign. I think the key reason is to attract
more patients.
Several teaching hospitals have tried raising their national
profiles. In recent years, the University of Pittsburgh Medical
Centre launched a multimillion dollar campaign in 2005, of
which we got not to money. The University of Michigan Health
System has been on NPR and bought ads in the New York Times
Sunday magazine, English as a lot of the impetus is shrinking
Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements for a particular
squeeze on teaching hospitals. So now I'm going
to shuttle ahead in this report to the very end because that's
where it gets interesting yet again.
But guilt says as much as anything, the institution wants
its name in front of physicians who ultimately make the
referrals.
Now we've got a great audience here at NPR. We have doctors
listening, you know, general practitioners, we've got
specialists, they will also be hearing your ads, and we will be
putting into their brains to recommend going to your
hospital. We have the best audience. It's proven Look,
here's all the research that we have on our audience. They're
smart, and they're educated and they're doctors.
The goals vary. Guilt says and most are hard to measure.
You can't necessarily quantify it Hey, 56 patients came in last
year. But you can say the difference from before to after
is significantly positive. This is
where we say, you know, we don't know where half of your
advertisers advertising dollars will go on NPR but we know half
of it will be working or
it isn't for the latest to broaden its horizons. Vanderbilt
reports a statistically significant change. However, the
University of Michigan Health System wasn't exactly thrilled
with a result of its national ads. spokesman says it recently
moved its national marketing away from pricey traditional
media and to the web instead.
So I'm like, well, that's interesting. Why would they say
at the very end that Michigan is moving away to the web? So all I
did as I listened to the past week of NPR shows
the annual event when the folks at StoryCorps ask people from
around the country to interview the people who matter most to
them. This year, we're hoping you might pay tribute to a
teacher. Tell me more barbershop contributor Lester Spence has
this story for the project. After high school, he was
accepted into the University of Michigan. But the notion of game
this was number one, number two, I want to find out where the new
technology is being developed to make gas engines more efficient.
So I went on a tour of an engine lab with Professor Anna
Stephanopoulos. She's the director of the Automotive
Research Centre at the University of Michigan. And then
we have number three,
rich Rodriguez recently fired as the University of Michigan
football coach decided to clear out his closet of everything
related to the Wolverines and donate it all to the Wayne
Michigan Salvation Army
432 items, most of which will be auctioned tomorrow, including
Michigan jackets, shirts, hand towels, and this big ticket item
says Major John Aaron of the Salvation Army.
So we're really sorry, the guy got fired, but don't worry,
we'll make it up with some cool story about all the shit you're
selling. NPR is a compromised rotten organisation.
Unfortunately, they're making a lot of money.
Yeah, well, you know, the that's what you do. I mean, that's what
people tend to do. They they compromise their principles,
which we haven't done and they make a lot of money. That's why
it works. That's the way the system is and that's why the
public that gets short cheated on the whole thing they don't
get to find out about these bills you went ran into the
other few minutes ago. And are they are even these artists
don't even talk about the National Defence Act which has
this onerous picking, you know, turning the whole country into a
military state and then of course that bill you mentioned
which can take any citizen that is you know, some guy with a
grudge against his local bank and yells at a teller next thing
you know, he's expatriate he's not even a citizen anymore and
thrown into Gitmo and doesn't need to trial none of this is
discussed why would it be
can you imagine going into the bank and saying I'm calling for
a teller BAM what he said Taliban he said Taliban I heard
him saying I'm going to show my school by donating to no agenda
Imagine all the people who could do that oh yeah, that'd be fun
donating his loving
only have eight donors in that $50 or more apparently there's
no love in the world donation is loving is all crap this bowl
crowd loving really well we do have and but there was one one I
want to talk about before we get out of the segment. I'll talk
about it after I mentioned these guys, which is first of all, we
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karma.
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You've got karma.
Scott Rezept guy in Naperville, Illinois 5229 Nicholas Wallace
in Toledo Ohio $50 need some new house Carmen because we found
some water in our breaker box in a new house my wife and I bought
here in Nashville. Keep up all your hard work just getting by
in the United corporations of America.
Get rid of the breaker box karma. You've got karma the
water in the breaker box karma.
And finally, that's it. Yeah. Royce kami and Alia hawaii $50.
And no comment. I do have one letter that came in that was for
and we looked this up. It was Andrew Gardner. He donated a
couple I think on the 20 just before our Christmas clip show.
I think 120 407 Which is the most uninteresting number in the
universe. Yeah. In the universe. So 12407 He says in the morning,
he joined a clip show glad I didn't have to go seven days
have no agenda, donating the least. Or the most uninteresting
number in order to harness to getting laid karma as well as
good karma for my flight to get most Sound of Music. Oh, that's
Austria, Austria, we listen to the guys on my flight over Euro
land. So he sent in saying, Hey, you missed the thing. And so we
looked it up, it didn't come across on the spreadsheet. And
curiously, this is the thing that is the most interesting. He
sent a link where he donated and this got me immediately
suspicious. I clicked on the link. And it took me to the John
C. Dvorak account, which by the way, these things should link to
the no agenda show. Not John C. Dvorak. That's the Oh, no,
that's not what the reason was. I still download that
spreadsheet and incorporate it so that should have still been
in there until I you know, until that dwindles down to know
there's a lot of old subscriptions and stuff and
right Well, those are get cancelled automatically. Don't
worry. Yeah, eventually.
So anyway, I'm looking at says, Okay, well, wait a minute. It
says at the top because it tells you what the donations for it
says. donation for the most uninteresting or least
interesting number in the universe one to 407. It was like
it was like a title of a button. I had ever created this button.
So I went back into the Pay Pal account, the Jhansi Devarakonda.
See, well, maybe somebody came with some scam because he got
this from a Google search. He searched Google for most
uninteresting number least interested enough. And this
Google thing came up and when he clicked on it went to John C.
Dvorak company with this moniker. So I never created the
moniker because I you create your own buttons on PayPal. So I
went in there and I looked up my account that had these these
donations, and I found his donation of one to 407. So it
did go to the right account. Hmm. But how did this button
magically appeared that I never did I never designed somebody
did it from outside somehow? Oh, no. Well, I mean, it's a good
thing to me that you could also scam people, I really do
recommend you go to Dvorak, that org slash N A, or one of the
other conduits into our regular donation pages, as opposed to
just some random thing from Google, although I'm not
complaining, but it just seemed easier or weird to me. And
there's I don't know what to make of it. I didn't know you
could do that. Somewhat. Obviously one of our listeners
go Yeah, of course,
you can always make a make a button for someone else's Pay
Pal. That's actually not a bad idea just to come up with crazy
things, you know, like, you know, donate to shear
professional magnificence. Hour. Oh blame, I
found it interesting.
Slash and a donating his loving sorry. So
anyway, yeah. So that was a kind of a unique experience going
through that. But anyway, I want to thank Andrew for allowing me
to go on and on with that story. So anyway, divorce.org/na
channelled of org.com/na no agenda show.com no agenda
nation.com check on the check the donation buttons that will
probably I'm gonna try to put up a whole new page of for donors
on the main donut nation page with some of these things on
there. I'll put the least interesting number donation on
there. We do have an interesting not to use the word interesting
over and over, but we we do have an interesting date coming up to
112 is as a palindrome. It's February 1 12 21120. That's a
good one. That's a good one. And that's coming up shortly. And,
you know, maybe we should promote that. I haven't done a
mailing for a while. So I'll just say hello to everybody.
Match. Our who's a patron of the show check in said I quit my job
the beginning of November haven't been able to find a
comparable one until now. Well, that wasn't such a good idea.
But you never know. I have a phone interview Friday in the
morning, please give me a shot of Congress for the interview.
Once I have a job again, I'll be sure to finish my knighthood.
I'm only $150 away. So I think we should definitely give him
some karma for that. You've got karma. Thanks for the karma, he
says and for making the best podcast in the universe.
And I want to point out to listeners who complain about the
fact that this segment goes on too long that it will always
have a certain length, but not today. We're short by trying to
pat it.
Yeah, well, good job. Day. One for today. Matt Milligan
Congratulations, brother Jake. Oh, who celebrate his birthday
last Sunday on the first happy birthday from all your buddies
here at the no agenda show. No knighthoods. Today? No Dame
hoods? No,
you said you know when we did the show on the first. You know
where was hungover. You said I don't think anyone's listening.
And I think this kind of proves it out. Yeah.
So another prediction come true. No one's listening. Check it off
the book. The no agenda show where no one's listening and
you're screwed. Okay, a second half of the show. Great news.
I'm very excited about this. We've had a lot of Norwegian
stuff. Playing that sound go on. I can't play that song because
you are the one that has the slide. I'm asking
if I should play the sound. No, I think I thought fine is not
fine.
10s of 1000s of dead herring have carpeted a stretch of coast
in Northern Norway. But here's the crazy thing. The fish
appeared on New Year's Eve. leading to speculation of course
you know, the sciences in the predators might have driven a
huge school ashore they could have been watching the beach by
powerful storm. But here's what's crazy. They were getting
ready to clean it up. Which is the estimated 20 tonne tonnes of
dead fish. The fish disappeared.
l bullcrap. Clearly,
there's a stargate in Norway,
the one who makes that prediction is the star gate with
fish on the other side.
And the star gate open the fish popped out and the star gate
opened again and they flew back into it I'm telling you know you
think I'm crazy about these stargates man but they exist was
actually quite nice doing that with your train whistle. Just
slide whistle at the same time. kind of worked.
I think we're done. No, we're
not done. You're talking about? Absolutely not.
So I was watching PBS and of all things they put on they put on
this disc guy. I just find him to be a joke. This Cornell West.
Oh, this is? Yeah, I know. Yeah. Black guy was here every which
way and a big gap Tuesday. He's just rants. He's the professor
who was crazy professor. He had this like Professor Irwin Corey.
He had the drinks with President Obama had the root beer. I don't
know
if he did or not whatever the case was plate critic. This guy
finally discusses success. And he gets the old meme in there.
Apparently successes when you do your work for other people for
free. You know, on service organisations, that's the way to
go to
doing it. Oh, yes. For the last 35 years, we've taught young
people in every corner of this nation to do what be successful,
be successful, be successful. What does success mean? Material
toys, title, wealth, power, and being well adjusted to
injustice. well adjusted to injustice, well adapted to
indifference is that success. I'm old school. My tradition
told me to be great. She is greatest among you has to do
with the quality of your service to others. And the depth of your
love for others beginning with a great gift to Jewish brothers
and sisters to the world. The prophetic tradition
and he goes off the deep end with someone who doesn't make
any sense.
Can you do me a favour? Are you doing twit on Sunday? It's about
time for you to be on the show again, right? Maybe? Yeah. So at
some point during the broadcast, can you just say I'm old school
man.
Just say that you said even me?
Just say it. I'm old school man. Uh,
whenever it comes up like It's like in yo about some thing that
no one needs like Siri or some gadget you strap on that
monitors your heart rate and your sleep. I just say, I don't
want that. Now I'm old school man. And to say it that way too.
I'm old school man. Hey, good news, John. We're expanding our
operation.
Oh, who was we white man that will Hey,
man. I'm old school man. It's you and me. We're expanding our
operation. Well, the it's going great with the syndication of
our new format.
Okay, when loose or draw.
That's right now we are very happy to present to you. Our
show legend Dynamo Come on. Are you Canadian? This time to play
or drone
has been a lot of talk lately about holes in security along
the border with Canada.
The risk of terrorist activity across our northern border is
actually higher than across our southern border.
But CBC News has learned that hole has now gotten much
smaller. creditor bees from this base in North Dakota have more
than quadrupled their range and are now patrolling 1500
kilometres right to Washington State. As well before they
couldn't fly within 16 kilometres of the Canadian
border. Now they are cleared to fly right up to the line with
950 nautical miles of border. Linear bore by 100 miles deep is
100 miles deep.
So rough math 95,000 square miles.
It's not like the Predator drone has just appeared here. They
were first unveiled amid much fanfare two years ago. But it's
taken this long to train pilots and to prove to federal aviation
authorities that they can operate safely inside civilian
airspace. I noticed you steer away from using the term
terrorist.
Well, there are other applications for this, but
certainly terrorism x comes to mind.
So how effective has the programme been in the past two
years? It's a sensitive issue. Have you been involved in
interceptions in the last two years?
Not Not, not with actual crossings? And used with rest
with actual investigative reporting where you assisted?
precipitate what happened? Correct.
So there you go. drones over Canada, but we've caught no
terrorist, but we are tracking your ass. We're assisting in
investigations.
But it was like Ron Paul says maybe just to keep us in. Yeah.
There's a lot of drone news actually, a Freedom of
Information request to the CAA that's the Civil Aviation
Authority and get my nation he says revealed revealed 60
companies have been granted blanket permissions to fly
unmanned drones within UK civil airspace
was great.
So they have three times my skill Jr. and I are thinking
about starting up a drone, independent drone operation
ourselves to do traffic analysis, have the drones going
up and down at and then around a debate bridge and keep them down
at some low altitude because it'd be the small drones with
cameras and then the cameras would be streamed to the
internet and people could check in and because right now the
competition is cagey. Oh they got one guy in a helicopter and
he's got to do the whole bay area we figure we can have about
10 drones and we can cover everything instantaneously
because the drones would be would be programmed to just go
around in a certain you know certain pattern which to certain
bottlenecks in the in the area and you know the police can use
them if they need them
while I'm but I'm very disappointed by this idea
because I'd where's my cut? Now? Am I not? Am I not a part of the
new and it depends it depends venture Can I
maybe who's gonna be you wanted to set up an Austin branch
Hello. Have any free ways to get any traffic there or? Arts?
We don't have any traffic. I can fly the drones. I can fly him
from here. Okay, well, you'll be the head of training can I know
I want to be head of a flight operations.
Okay. Yeah, that's it your new title head. Hello, I'm Adam
curry flight of a head of flight operations for the what's the
name of the company? Devora
West Coast drone? Oh no, it's
gotta be DeVore ag drone
Devorah curry drones Dvorak and Dvorak drones I don't know if
new will name it. But first we got to start researching these
drones and we're just we're just, it's dumb to listen for
marketing
purposes we credit for drone D C, D Devorah. Curry drones DCD
this again? Is a hot name, DCD
DCD is not bad. Devorah curry drones. Let's get somebody to
get on that one and get got
to get right on that. I'm sure dcd.com has way of a though DCD
draw while DC
possible isn't I can releasing all the new
new let's get DUNS we could use one of those make one called my
drone
exactly dot drone we could own that we could be the registrar
and other side business anything please anything but what we're
doing now because I'm starving over here starving to death and
a couple more drone stories and I'm done with that Montana is
now going to be using drones against wolves it's hard to
track these wolves apparently so they're going to drone the drone
the wall it's one step from joining the lone wolf it's not
far it's it's mind it's conditioning is what it is get
used to people think and drone the wolf and then it'll be drone
the lone wolf and before you notice over drone everyone, same
thing for the Japanese whalers. Drones are now joining in the
fight US military technology adapted as AI in the sky by eco
activists in the Antarctic seas. See these guys are smart,
because they get like all kinds of NGO money to fly their drones
and let's face it, it's just a model rocketry club. This guy's
like, this is great. My hobby is now my business. This is
fantastic. What a great idea. What a great idea. Anyway, that
closes off our segment today for our game show.
Or drone.
I like it DCD.
Okay, well, we're gonna work on
one of our great ideas. One of the better ideas. I'm the
director of flight operations for DCD. Can I have business
cards? Yeah. Yeah. Vistaprint. Vistaprint. Oh, wow. Oh, I
do have one little side thing just changes every live I do
have a pet peeve you're gonna have to listen to this clip.
Okay, this is Charles Barkley on the Jon Stewart show. Okay,
pet peeve coming up between his shoes in the floor.
It's very sad. Who's gonna be the best team this year? Who you
like? Oh, that's
a great question.
Who do you like? That's a great question. How is it question
like, Hey, Adam, how you doing today? That's a great question,
John. Don't stop that's it. That's all I got to say. I mean,
people are must be fed up with my complaining about this. But
that's not a great question. It's a question he must be asked
a million times what makes it great because he can answer it.
You
You've gotta had a way to finish up this great question ramp.
Hi. Well, I get you to do we do the one for last week the last
show that had a great question rant.
It's it's always the same. Yeah, so but you need to wrap it up.
You need to wrap it up a great question. I can't remember I'm
just play the jingle.
Just say the wrap up is that's not a great question. Do it's
not a great question. John Cena borax pet peeve of the day.
Okay, that's my cue from now on.
Okay, that'd be the cue.
All right, I got a couple of things that are important to
look forward to big date January 1, February 1, a second,
February 2. Yet again, the General Attorney General Eric
Holder better known as the general because that's how he's
addressed now in our militarised state, will now appear once
again for the sixth time before the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee to answer further questions about
the Justice Department's handling of Operation Fast and
Furious. Now, interesting. Right along those lines, Laurie
Robinson, Assistant to the general and responsible for
disseminating billions of dollars of stimulus funds, has
abruptly resigned from the Department of Justice.
Oh is heading to Canada. Oops.
Yeah, Laurie is out.
This means her name again. Let me do the book acknowledge
Laurie Robinson. Assistant Attorney General for the
division of the Justice Department that oversees
juvenile justice. Interesting she must be doing more. She
leaves the Office of Justice programmes There you go, which
is the main conduit of federal justice funds. So she's the
machi the bag lady. If you look her up Laurie Robinson wiki PDH
should say bag lady.
She's not even yet designed to see a Wikipedia entry for now.
She's one of these kind of pathetic you're one of the
silent ones. Now she everyone needs to have a Wikipedia entry
or there don't exist. They don't exist anymore.
So here's something crazy. Yesterday,
there she is. She is in the Wikipedia and she's not hot. Oh
no, no, this is Major General Laurie Robinson who was in the
Air Force,
do we call her major?
She's an Air Force Major General who's the director of
legislative liaison office of the Secretary of the Air Force.
Now there's a different there's a bunch of Laurie Robinson.
That's the problem.
That's even worse. Hmm.
There are a few skated by the sheer number of
it's a cult I tell you. Laurie Robinson didn't she used to host
a show a video show on USA Network? Yeah, seriously, all
on? Maybe Laurie? Robin. Robin. So I'm telling you she was my
see. Laurie Robinson,
how do you spell the Lord a u r. I e, and that's where I've got
it. This other one is spelled Laurie with a l o. R I. Here she
is. Oh, God. She looks like a dingbat. Seriously, she's got
this weird hairdo. And a goofball smile, and she just
looks like a dingbat. Does she did her quitting has got nothing
to do with anything.
All right. All right. We'll see. We'll see if it comes up. You
know, I'll be watching. You know, I will be watching. So you
don't have to. So Wednesday morning, we woke up
magna cum laude graduate of Brown University and a member of
Phi Beta Kappa. Just take a look at her.
What do you mean? She's a perfect bag, lady.
Now, maybe. All right, go on. So on.
Wednesday morning, we wake up now this was after I was up
until two, you know, watching our prediction come true. And,
and you know, Austin is beautiful. Here, the sky is
blue. And what are you doing?
This is leaning back and reading the New York Times.
That's so rude. Is this where you're gonna do in board
meetings of the DCD? This is what I do in board meetings. But
this is a show. I need you to pay attention.
Okay, I'm paying attention. So we wake
up. And Mickey says, oh my goodness, chemtrails. And I look
out. And sure enough, I've been here five weeks, I have not seen
a single, persistent jet contrail. And there's one that's
like, clear as day if you took photos. Well, of course, you
know, I haven't published them because it's always the same
pictures but and then I read the Texas Department of State Health
Services. We'll be dropping vaccines from the air on
Wednesday. What it is part of the annual effort to protect
people and livestock from rabies. There'll be dropping
about 1.8 million doses of the rabies vaccine over the next
month. The vaccine are enclosed in small packets dipped in fish
oil and coated with fish meal crumbles. The baits don't pose a
risk to humans but organisers say you should avoid them.
Because animals are less likely to eat the bait if a human has
been messing around with it. So package smack it. They're just
dropping vaccines from the air. That's crazy. That can't be
okay.
Ah, rabies is such a thing.
No, of course not. Because that will give credence to the whole
persistent jet contrails thing i To me that's disturbing this
separate thing. Yeah, sure. Like your Ohio distributes raccoon
vaccines from the air. So this has been going on nobody's been
talking about in fact, it took us forever to pick it up. Here
it is. Here's a picture of it. Beginning last month, Ohio is
dropping 762,000 of these raccoon rabies vaccines over 14
counties by Aaron. It's a little green thing. You have a picture
of yours.
Not online. But yeah,
now it gets a little green cube with a gobbly goo in the middle.
The Ohio Department government has become so concerned about
the potential exposure resins to rabid animals so they began a
massive campaign to distribute rabies vaccines by air Hmm. So
you can show the rabies vaccine is available as of oral vaccine
is that what they're telling my guests Oh, boy, teen and fish
meal that attracts raccoons. Each piece of fish meal is about
the size of a packet of ketchup. Beginning last month the state
isn't catching catch up.
It's gonna kill him with high fructose corn syrup,
apparently, yet to be seen whether the unprecedent AirDrop
will be successful or not.
This is just crazy.
This is weird stories even where it says they're talking about
Michigan to Michigan has not yet had any confirmed cases of rabid
raccoons in 2011. But that doesn't mean we're lacking in
other rabid animals. Like humans. Tally is rabid animals
include Is 45 bats which won't eat this stuff? I'm sure they're
not stupid bats are smart one fox and a woodchuck. And one
dog.
I'm foaming at the mouth. This is crazy. That's
pretty funny. This wouldn't have dreamed up this. What do we got
to figure out who? What companies behind it because they
sold somebody a bill of goods? Yeah, I'm telling you this
doesn't even look right. Listen, this
could be a spin off for the seat for the DCD. We could we could
drop a vaccine packets from our drones. Yeah.
We have to get bigger drones for that. I think you need big yet
at least a big, you know, see 140 or something and throw this
crap out the back.
I do want to say a few things about euro land, since it's kind
of gone quiet, but things are shuffling things are moving.
Looks like Goldman Sachs is making some moves. You know, the
there were three new members to be appointed to the European
Central Bank Board. And of course, the Germans wanted to
German in there.
Now so we should have a German in there. Well,
here's who got appointed. So, so far, they've been French German
and Belgian. Draghi, that's a super mario has replaced the two
Germans with one which is pissing off the Germans to no
end. So they got Juergen Stark out and they put in the Belgian
Peter prot PR a et who whose campaign was supported by Draghi
consistently. So there's some moves there to shut the Germans
up to think is just of note. Ireland and Portugal have gone
to the E FF SF now to be the ESM which is that new European
Stability, movement, whatever management, which is the one
that is open ended, and everyone has to contribute to they have
taken 3 billion euros to keep afloat. And in Germany, just
like we talked about in Greece, now, everywhere in Germany is
cropping up, you can now also pay this Deutschmarks.
And there's a huge rumour going around the internet. And it's
been my son knows about it. And it actually came up by citing a
comment on the Economist. I'll read from the comment there
actually unsubstantiated rumours that the German central bank is
actually printing a new currency as a precautionary measure.
Yeah, this has been this has been a rumour for a couple
months, actually. Yeah,
it started in November. I don't know how much credence I can
give that. They're supposedly doing it from a bank note
company in the UK. They give it seems to me that someone would
have leaked one of these bills,
though. Watch them crop up Photoshop jobs everywhere.
Well, yeah.
Now this other thing that I found interesting, which is I
think Gitmo nation, lowlands will be one of the first to
implement this is the CEPA. S EP a the single euro payments area?
Have you been following this? Yeah, a little bit to the single
euro payments area. The idea is that you can now transfer it's
you know, it's basically we have what do we have i band and stuff
like that there's all these different networks, what's the
other one that we use here? Can't remember? Well, there's
all these ways of transferring money. So it's basically it's a
computer network, a computer system, which all of the banks
and vendors and the galing star,
sorry, like star, if you look on the back of your debit card or
your credit card, it has a bunch of the networks on it, right?
So CEPA will enable and this is how it's being sold, of course
will enable Europeans to transfer money to anyone in any
euro area. Without an additional fee, it'll still have your
regular bank fee. In fact, one of the stipulations is, the fee
cannot be more than it is today. But it's all going to run
through the central command. And Central Command, of course, will
know exactly what you're doing because now the mothership owns
the network. But what I found interesting is an undiscussed
point, because what the this is being introduced February 1 In
gateway nation lowlands, everyone's going to be put pay
using these single euro payments area network. But what is
there's a lot there a lot of consumers who are worried about
this so called direct debit portion of the network. And the
direct debit portion enables entities banks, or in fact
government To direct debit your account. IE, we don't worry
about your taxes, we'll just take that right, we'll just suck
it right out of your bank account. And this is really
being suppressed this information, because of course,
you know, the fact that you're now connected to the government
who can now suck the money out of your account, because you're
essentially going to have to sign a direct debit agreement
with your government, local or Brussels, or both. And your
taxes will be taken care of automatically. No worries, don't
worry. But we'll do all of that for
you make it a good thing that we've said, look, here's how
it's going to work. Normally, you're paying your taxes, you go
through all this process, you're probably screwing up the tax,
you're paying too much. Do you know that aspect of calculation
for you we'll make sure that you get through it? That is right.
The advertising campaign for a long time for the Dutch Internal
Revenue Service, who are doing everything online now has been a
rough translation. We can't make it more fun. We can make it
easier. Bastards. And boo hoo, hoo, hello. Hello, check.
Whoa, yeah, yeah, you're fine. I'm not what happened to you,
hello. Fine. Now I blew up. What you mean, you blew up, I blew
up. You had to do the did the recording stop?
No, no, no, my microphone just turned off for some reason.
Anyway. Whoo hoo. To Mother Jones. Did you see this hit
piece that they published on Ron Paul?
I missed it. Oh, my God, actually, I've been having
trouble watching any of the hit jobs. There was I was watching
something with Chris Wallace. Going after Ron Paul for some
quotes in a book he wrote in 1980. And the quotes are taken
out of context. And they're just as nitpick. And I just can't
watch this stuff anymore. It's just like, it's, it's
embarrassing. And it's so annoying that it's like, you
know, I want you to listen to what the guy has to say. And,
you know, maybe look into the net defence authorization bill
rather than, you know, pounding Ron Paul for something that he
wrote in a book 20 years ago.
The title of the article and Mother Jones written by Kevin
drum, Kevin drone, Kevin drum. Oh, crackpots do not make good
messengers. You can imagine this caught my eye.
Yeah. So that I was about you.
Here it is. So then Ron Paul, should we left these be happy
he's in the presidential race, giving non interventionism voice
even if he has other beliefs, we find less agreeable. Should we
be happy that his non mainstream positions are finally getting a
public hearing? This is depressingly common view. For
example, can we talk? Ron Paul is not a charming oddball with a
few peculiar notions. He's not merely out of the mainstream,
Ron Paul is a full bore crank. In fact, he's practically the
dictionary definition of crank. A person who has a single
obsessive all encompassing idea for how the world should work
and is utterly blinded to the value of any competing ideas or
competing interests. Wow, started off with a dictionary
definition is pretty harsh. And it just goes on and on. It's
like, this isn't the biography of a person who was who with one
or two unusual hobby horses. It's not something you could
pretend doesn't matter. This is great, a crank curry, and all by
itself as a reason enough to want nothing to do with Ron
Paul. But of course, that's not all. As we've all known for the
past four years, you can layer on top of this, Paul's now
infamous newsletters in which he condoned a political strategy
consistently designed to appeal to the worst strains of American
homophobia, racial paranoia, militia hucksterism and New
World Order fear mongering. And on top of that, you can layer on
the fact that Paul is plainly lying about these newsletters
and his role in them. And it just goes on and on and on.
Mother Jones should be ashamed,
plainly lying so that he has proof of this.
He's a dick. Oh, this guy he doesn't mind. Does he have
proof? Let me see. Now he doesn't have proof. Even if
you're a hardcore non interventionist yourself, you
probably think World War Two was a war worth fighting, but not
Ron Paul.
It's not gonna lose some background on the guy According
to Kevin drum. Yeah, he's a cat blogger known for pioneering the
trend of good blogging about his cat. Yeah, seriously.
He's a cat blogger.
Yeah, he's major cat blogger. He's also big into Peak Oil
theory is about liberal blog. Calpine is a big liberal. He
apparently has intellectual heroes who are Franklin
Roosevelt major intellectual, Isaac Newton John Maynard
Keynes, Edward R. Murrow another, you know, intellectual
television performer and Charles Darwin. He also considers Ben
Franklin an all time favourite political hero. He was he was
with Cofax image projects for night products for nine years as
the VP of marketing. He's a he's a pussy blogger is what I say.
And he's a cat blogger. And the drum originally supported the
2003 Iraq War. So I mean, this guy,
no, he's a douche bag. Alright, so as Bob Schieffer by the way,
here's a little opening salvo Scheepers tariff, here's a
little salvo he fired at Rand Paul,
let me ask you this. I mean, your father is a very polite and
decent man. He's He's very nice to deal with. Everybody seems to
like him. But I don't know a single impartial observer who
thinks that he could wind up getting the nomination, let
alone winning in a general election. Does he think he could
win?
He doesn't know a single single solitary sciences, single
sciences. Everybody agrees there's not a single impartial
observer person, not one single one.
Now, he's probably been hanging out with Al Gore too much. I was
switching back and forth. I was watching the coverage. So we had
CNN you had MSNBC with Rocco and who gave up after like one
o'clock she just went home and then brought the guy with the
glasses in her protege. We had Fox and we also had current and
current TV had chunk on what's his name, chunk, chunk, chunk.
Oh, that guy chunk, chunk. chunk. His name is and
interesting. I guess the the honeymoon is over for what's his
name?
Oberman Oh, yeah, there's a big new front page of the business
day New York Times this morning. Oh, Berman in a clash at new
job? Oh,
well, he got kicked out because it Olbermann was not there to
analyse the caucus. instead?
Owner station owner Al Gore
was sitting down. And would you like to hear his views on Ron
Paul? Oh, I'd
love to. I mean, every time we talked about, well, you know, he
has a ceiling except in fantasy land. He had a ceiling. Yeah. He
does not have a ceiling and fantasy. But in the real world.
Look, when people take a look at his actual positions when
Republicans take a look at his actual positions. I mean, cut is
a style thing. The fact that no, I think there's an enormous
amount of frustration, I think that you saw from different
points on the spectrum, Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, on
the right, a lot of people getting very frustrated saying,
Look, this system is not working. The Congress has not a
9% approval rating, you know, as many people have noted, well,
what are the other 91% thinking? I mean, what are those 9%
thinking? So that all is part of a general attitude that, you
know, let's just play 52 Card pickup, let's just up in things
and do something radically different. And I think that he
does culturally, psychologically tap into that, but at some point
when people, you know, look seriously at what his positions
are, I mean, getting rid of the Federal Reserve. I mean, look,
the wars are enormously unpopular, but bringing all
Americans no matter what the dangerous situations are.
Yeah, go screw them as soon as you douche.
This is interesting. I didn't realise that David Borman had
taken over the operations. There was David David Borman was the
guy who was a consultant. I know him he's like, Oh, really? I am
in his house.
Can we get a show there? I don't know. Let's take John Corman
was coming after. He was the A was at Tech TV for a while and
they brought me as a consultant and then he
success story. You won't know
he was at MSNBC. He's the one I think who brought him Soledad
O'Brien into the scheme of things. And then he was
attacked. Then he went he became the head of CNN. I don't know
what happened to him until I just read this article that he's
now running current, which and then the ownership is
interesting. Apparently Al Gore is like it I didn't know this
either, which is Al Gore. The channel which is privately held
by Al Gore and others, and under Perkins is estimated to have
made about 115 million in revenue in 2011. According to
research from SNL Kagan with a cash flow margin of 22.7%, so
they're making money. This is much more MSNBC, a unit of NBC
Universal is made of made 400 million in revenue with a cash
flow margin of 45%. Well, it's much bigger. Well, if
you look also, no, MSNBC is twice as big. I was gonna say,
Yes, sorry, I'm not reading it. Right. Well, they make the money
from cable subs, the cable companies, they bought a company
that had all these cable subs. So that's how they make their
main money. And the rest of is by firing Olbermann, because you
know, they can't even afford his $200,000 a year and
whatever they were paying over millions besides you know, he
apparently wanted to do the election coverage. But they said
no, you didn't did for it, because we're gonna get a long
time ago. And so he got into a beef because they wouldn't let
him on the election coverage the last minute and right, which
they should have been able to do, it seems to me court they
had some other Congresswoman on I think, all right, because
whatever the case
was, was I've still I can't imagine they've new and $110
million,
they haven't, but they have chunker anchoring the thing
that's no good. And they were doing it on the chunk set. The
demon had like a flat and they had CNN on the monitors in the
background that's talking about a low grade operation that's
like us. Worse. Now, not much worse, much
of the New York Times in the background.
Alright, so the only other thing that's interesting is going on
that we're kind of tracking is in the category of weak hand
weight. where President Obama has gone ahead just said, you
know, screw Congress, screw the Senate. I don't care about these
guys. I don't need Senate senatorial approval to appoint
my my terrorist guys, the Head of Financial Consumer Affairs.
I'm just appointing him. And this is creating quite a hubbub.
You follow this?
No, I haven't. Give me the briefing. Okay. So
remember the guy that the President pushed forward to run
the consumer so they pushed me Yeah, right. Did
he did put him through at the end the dead of night? Yeah. So
they pushed on a technicality. And by the way, the question
remains in my mind is why don't they just do everything like
this? Well,
he's going to here's a question from this is scripted by the
way, this is spokes whole carnies little show and he has
the woman from our I recognise her the old BAP I forget her
name, scripted question. We
can't wait.
Sorry, that was the jingle. Here's the scripted question.
You know, could you one domestic one international claims on the
domestic question. Could you give us a little bit more
clarity on this with or without Congress? Because it's being
interpreted by some Gingrich, for example, is virtually
unmonitored. The president says you can't work with Congress.
I'll do it myself. And there's a lot of criticism credit, if you
can explain exactly, you know, what the idea of that is, and
whether it could backfire whether you would look as if he
is trying to just ignore Congress and then you can get
into the
sugar. I appreciate the question. I
appreciate the question, because we agreed you would ask it so I
could bring this up. So what happened is that there is a
technicality that and by the way, this is the guy who wrote
the book on financial terrorism that find that economics bad
economics leads to Lone Wolf terrorists. Remember, we
discussed the his book. Oh, yeah. In detail. Yeah. This is a
lone wolf terrorists guy. And so he's now been put in and the and
of course the Senate's having nothing to do they don't want
this guy or they whatever. But the technicality is, apparently
the president can evoke, invoke, evoke his executive invoke his
executive power. If the Senate is in recess, and the Senate is
technically not in recess, because every single day I watch
it. They go said they do the Pledge of Allegiance. I say it.
Well, we doing do nothing bump bump. See you tomorrow by two,
they're technically still in recess, which of course, is a
trick not in recess. I mean, technically not in recess, even
though they are because it was, you know, partying and out in
St. Barts, whatever. So the President says, you know, that's
just a technical trick. I'm making this guy the head of
Consumer Affairs, because he's a lone wolf terrorist watch guy,
and we've got to have that guy in there. So here's Carney
explaining it,
that we have made clear. And the President's made clear, for a
long time now that he will do whatever he can to help the
economy to help it grow to help create jobs to protect the
middle class. And when Congress refuses to act when Republicans
choose the path of obstruction rather than cooperation, then
the President's not going to sit There's gridlock in Washington
is not an excuse for inaction. He's going to take the actions
that he can take using his executive authority to help the
cause here to help the cause. Americans deal with this
challenging economy and they can be small, medium or large
actions and they don't have to be just executive authority
actions they can be things that we can do working with the
private sector. So you know, it's it's he'll pursue all
tracks.
That's right. Hail the King. I don't think the I don't think
people are gonna take this line down. I don't think they liked
this that they did this.
Well, if they're not, technically it's in recess,
which is what you claim, then they can't he can't do it. It's
illegal. So it'll come
down to a showdown showdown at the OK Corral. And that's right
soon to be broadcast live on the DC D drone network.
I don't see how Congress can do much about it. I mean, if he
just, I mean, it's just like, well, let me change his name to
Tsar and he's done. Because they don't have to prove that that's
where you can name all these czars is
Armenia you can put an executive order out that from now on you
show address me and the First Lady as your Excellency.
Yeah, I could do that. I think he should get it over with all
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don't call her your Excellency. No, no, I kind of like it.
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