are forming the front lines of the war against injustice and
stupidity. Armed with little more than a compass and a rubber
knife. This is no agenda coming to you from the United Kingdom
on the Left Coast of Gitmo nation east. I'm Adam curry.
And I'm John C. Dvorak here in Northern Silicon Valley,
nonexistent location, but it's also known as gizmo nation, West
or northwest.
Yo. Hey, John. Good afternoon to you. Good, good. What is it now?
Good morning.
It's actually still morning here. Yes.
Right. We're a little a little later than usual. today. I was
travelling back from the Netherlands with the lady
Patricia.
How did that go?
It was good. It was the the final popstars live, you know,
they they found the after 10 weeks of searching and
unbelievable peril and, and turmoil they they were able to
succeed John and find three finalists who would form the
number one pop group of the lowlands,
okay, tell us who they were.
When they were there, it's even better than this. You'll love
this. So they the idea of pop stars, they find three finalists
out of 1000s of whatever. And then they form a group. And then
on the final night, they reveal who the group is the name of the
group, and they're single.
Oh, really? Yeah. Single. Yeah. And
so yeah, they were they already had recorded like, 11 different
versions of it. You know, because of the combinations with
different groups. Yeah. Well, the the combination of group
members and they had different album covers and everything. But
it's pretty funny because so they did this big reveal, right
of the name. You know, like, you know, big digital boards
flashing everywhere. And then presuming there's the name and
the crowd, Louis one, and the name is and then it was red,
spelled ar e, the blue E, the E was blue and facing backwards.
With an excellent exclamation point. R E. D. Red. Yeah,
exactly. That's exactly what the crowd did.
It's is this no one got me. Can you reveal this? Are you a non
disclosed?
No, no, it was live last night. So
it was light in
I always tell the truth.
Well, that doesn't sound very exciting. No,
it was that was, but you know, it doesn't matter. Because it
just doesn't matter. I can tell
you, right, the problem with doing something like that, where
you have a type of graphical cute niche with a backward E is
that people cannot, you know, you can't type it in in an
email.
Thank you. Very good point. It's the whole thing. Even the song,
you know, it was like the song was very high school musical.
You know, it's like, to me it was a real anticlimax, but
doesn't really matter. Because it's the excitement and people
like it. And it's a live show and millions of people are
watching and they all vote and it's just like a community type
thing. You know?
Well, as you know, I hate this kind of thing.
Yeah, I know you do. But it's good. Because we did have an
annual real losers. I liked the loser part.
Yeah, you're a loser. Enjoy watching sports events. So they
could go into they stopped doing this, by the way, about five or
six years ago. Usually a big football game, the big game, the
final game of the season in the championship game. Baseball,
too. Yeah. And then they used to go into the losers locker room.
Yeah, to watch. These guys are just miserable. And some of
them. Then about five or six years ago, they stopped doing
that now what they do, and I find it really lame, they find
the coach, the losing coach who's used the standing outside
the locker room looking for Lauren. And then they asked him
a couple of stupid questions. And that's the right we don't
get to see the fun part, which was the losers locker room was
hilarious. So just as an American, it made you feel good
to go into the losers locker room, especially if you were
rooting for the other team, the winning team. It's important.
It's important. There's more to it than just winning is watching
the other team lose. That's really part of the game.
Yeah. Now, but we're not allowed to have losers anymore. I keep
telling people a great new reality show, which by the way,
John, I'm sure you would watch would be America loves losers.
You'd watch that.
Yeah, I would. But you know what, they would never make the
show, right? That just show that? You know, it'd be so you
know, the suits, as they like to be called, would screw it up. So
it would be a bad show. So I probably wouldn't watch it. I
don't know if you produced it if you produce it. And I was
involved in some good writers. Well, we have some but yeah, but
then it would have to be called America loves losers and
hookers. Because, you know, that's your that's your mantra.
Well, you had to drive Shedders before Warren it always is. It's
a fact. Letterman does it. You can throw in the word hookers
because it's a really it's for some reason it's just a funny
word. Always gets it gets a chuckle. It's a cheap joke is
what it is.
Hey, John, hold on one second. I think these I think the kids
turned on the Download again. I swear to God, I bet you they did
that. Alright, go check it out. Do you think you think that
would define me like that? I would hold on to move. All
right, you there? Yeah. Okay, well, indeed, it's funny. This
shows you how kids don't understand stuff when it comes
to the internet. So just before we started the show, I could
tell on the Skype connection that someone was really, we're
still in the old house, of course, with limited bandwidth,
like a megabit down. And then I go to the kids and I say, hey,
you know, you guys downloaded something, you know? Yeah, we're
downloading a film. Okay, that's fine. But yet to stop for the
next hour and a half because we're doing the show. And of
course, even then I got grief. Ooh, no, stop. And then, and
like, I could tell that something was going on. Because
if you started to warble and so I go downstairs. I asked you
guys not to download? No, but it's just a YouTube clip. Okay.
They don't seem to understand. Just the YouTube, it's just
YouTube. That's not downloading. Now, it's your
turn off the machine.
Yeah, they're, they're still doing anyway. It's okay. It'll
it'll last.
So, well, let's talk about that topic. Let me I did this column
for PC Magazine. You can people can look it up. It's called
liars, cheaters and thieves. And it's about that study that
showed that you know, kids are
liars, cheaters and thieves. Exactly a great article. How
many words was it? 20.
So I got this note from this guy, Mike Johnson. And I'm going
to read it. Because it's a very interesting thing. I don't know
quite what to do with this information. And you know, it's
it's got a column written all over it. I'm not sure really,
but that you'll see when you read John, I just wanted to
share this with you in regard your PC Magazine article, liars,
cheaters and thieves and hope you find it of interest in 1987.
I worked for technical studies and analysis, which was a
private contractor working at the Cheyenne Mountain project in
Colorado Springs. While working there, one colonel, whom I
thought was an intelligent man told me several times during
discussions about education of incidents that took place in the
White House during Lyndon Johnson's administration, the
Colonel's name was Bill Yeltsin. And he had been the liaison for
the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the Oval Office during Lyndon
Johnson's administration. So he spent a lot of time at the White
House in the Oval Office Bill told me that the joint chiefs of
staff were called to the Oval Office three times during Lyndon
Johnson's administration to be told that Johnson was going to
declare martial law, suspending the Constitution because of the
riots and demonstrations on college campuses in the United
States. Bill also told me that it was a joint chiefs of staff
that taught jounce Johnson out of it all three times, the
result of the ensuing discussion was the conclusion that an
educated population cannot be controlled, and the United
States should get out of the business of educating the
population. This brilliant decision was made in 1967, and
the SATs scores for college entrance exams peaked in 1969,
and have been in decline ever since. Yeah,
that just changed the scale, they changed the scale, John,
but to make it look good, of course,
the Nixon administration had no problem embracing this
philosophy. And the results are history and indirectly, the
George Bush administration. Anyway,
you know, it's really, it's so nice to hear that someone from
my audience is also paying attention to what you're doing.
Yeah, because that is, that is so on. The money is so
absolutely right. You know, this administration has threatened
martial law to the Congress to when they were on the bailout
bill, right. Like, if you guys don't put this through, there's
going to be martial law. They'll be fighting in the streets. And
of course, they were right, because it's happening now
worldwide. Have you been following Greece? My friend?
Yeah, Greece is a mess. Yeah, Greece is all over it. You know,
the funny thing is, is it's interesting to me this, by the
way, what took place in the late 60s, during the various cities
that had riots in Detroit riots were the most notable, but they
happen in Oakland and other places around the country, which
and
for the people who don't know about the Detroit riots, this
was about housing.
Well, you know, it was the way these things happen. And I think
that Greece situation is exactly the same. It's there's a pent up
hostility,
and then something happens something something happens and
there's a triggering mechanism. And the triggering mechanisms,
you know, the people keep focusing on it when it's not
really what caused it. And the triggering mechanism in Greece
was I guess, some
15 year old boy got shot by police and killed right. Yeah,
that was the trigger. But the people are you know, they've got
pitchforks and, and torches out in front of government. Yeah.
And Belgium have you? You follow what happened in Belgium? Oh,
no,
I'm not on that one. Oh, this
is this is fantastic. So they've had a huge issue with their
government with their parliament in general for the past night,
they actually had no government for several months. And this is
an inherent problem in the region between the Flemish
speaking population of Belgium and the French speaking
population, and they hate each other. And I'm not kidding. They
absolutely for whatever reason, they just hate each other, the
Bologna errs, and the and the Flemish. And so we had this huge
nationalisation of the Fortis Bank, which is half Belgian,
half Dutch, and was subsequently nationalised, partially by the
Dutch government, partially by the Belgian government. And they
tried to pull a fast one, but they wanted to do is sell
fortis, which now was owned by the people by the governments,
they wanted to sell it to the BNP bank, but they did it
without consulting the shareholders who of course, were
in the tank, you know, the it was like, you know, I don't
know, 30 euros a share or whatever, half a year ago, and
now it's a Euro a share. They didn't consult the shareholders.
And of course, there was a revolt among shareholders. But
what happened is, it turns out the Prime Minister and the
Minister of Justice, obstructed justice by trying to you know,
it's not quite clear what they did. But they obstructed justice
to make this merger go through. And then, you know, there was
essentially an intervention and it got stopped. And which of
course will now makes the sale impossible it screws up to
banks. But the the population is outraged, and they're starting
fires in the streets. They're like, you know, you guys don't
love us which get big surprise. Your government doesn't love
you, Belgium. When will when will people wake up? Hey, they
had one of those photo booths at the airport at Schiphol Airport.
The ones that takes the picture of you naked?
Tell me about this. Yeah,
what you don't I'm sure you've seen the pictures. Haven't you
have the soil? I don't know anything about it. I'm
completely out of Oh, come
on, man. So you have these new newfangled security devices. And
there's two now, when you get go to the easy Jate, easy, easy jet
gate, the old fashion put it through the X ray and why what
what what airport is this again, Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam.
Okay, a very modern, you know, of course, right
I've been there, it's a gorgeous air is one of the prettiest
airports have ever been owned by
the government. And so you have the old fashioned, put your shit
through the X ray, and then walk through the metal detector, take
off your shoes, of course, and all everything you have stripped
down. And now on the left hand side, you still have the X ray
for your bag, but then you you go into a booth, it's a clear
booth, you sit you turn 90 degrees facing towards a wall,
you put your hands up above your head in like an like, it's the
weirdest pose because you know, it makes it looks like you're
surrendering, which, of course, is exactly what you are. It's
just a very small like, and then they have the little little
monitor showing what's happening, right. So you see,
you see the so there's a picture taken, then you see all these
wires in his back office. And that's where people are looking
to see what you're wearing. They don't actually show the picture.
But if you google it on the internet, you'll see that it
pretty much it looks like you're naked. That's pretty much what
they're seeing there. And it
sounds like a pretty interesting job to have.
Well, particularly, you know, so my, my wife is a celebrity. And
she's I'm not going to walk through that. And I said, Well,
no, not today because you have a choice. But But tomorrow. And it
was funny because I learned something else about my wife,
she's she's starting to wake up a little bit. Because here's a
here's a trick I do. And here's something I advise to you that
will make you feel much better and probably not get you in jail
when you're at the airport. Now, typically, this is what I find.
It's in the States. It happens a lot. But it was happening at
Amsterdam, Schiphol Airport, the security personnel, so that
would be TSA in the States, they bark at you. And they bark
commands and they know and it's just it's a very, it's offensive
the way it comes across. I've learned that if you speak to
them in an exam, and it's not easy to do, because you got to
practice but if they speak if you speak back at them in
exactly the same tone and volume as they're speaking to you, it
really sets them back. And and so what so you know, I have a
look my little computer bag, there's no computer in it. It's
actually only a netbook would fit into it, but I kind of like
it so I just put my passport and stuff in there. And I put it on
the on the X ray belt. And and this this woman who was just
been barking would like take your laptop out. And I went no
laptop in there. And she went when you could see her like step
back Three steps. And, and she's like, What is what do we do? And
my wife actually stepchange she says, You are just rude. You're
just barking at people. Why do you do that? Why do you have to
bark at people just talk to them in a civil tone of voice. But
I've started doing this. And it's a lot of fun. You know, the
people that, that have little plastic baggies that have these
at Heathrow, they have yellow shirts on. And they have plastic
bags. And this is where you're supposed to put your liquids in
there. And they're literally like, Do you have any liquids?
Do you need a plastic bag? And and I can't help myself like,
No, I don't, I do not need a product binding, no liquids. And
you can see that they're freaked out. And some of them actually
realise crap, you know, I'm talking like a fucking idiot. So
anyway, that's a tip of the day. And I was very happy to see my
wife just step up there for a moment and say, hey, you know,
to chill the fuck out. People are crazy, give give someone a
badge, and they turn into an a Nazi.
It's the old rule. And while you're in the top, where that
top there's couple good books that people should read. One of
them is Sinclair Lewis says it can't happen here, which
actually describes the situation the the badge, turning people
into Nazis. Let me write this down, hold on.
Let me just write it down. It'll be important for bubba as well
as Sinclair who,
Sinclair Lewis, the famous Nobel Prize winning novelist from the
who did most of his good work. And,
you know, the Nobel since Al Gore won at the Nobel Peace
Prize means you
know, that's different indices, I'm talking about Nobel Prize
for Literature, not the Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Prizes
are done in Sweden, the Nobel Peace Prize is done in Norway is
a different group. It's totally different. Okay. Didn't didn't
really understand that.
Sinclair Lewis, it can't happen here. Sounds great. Sounds like
a throwback to Nazi Germany.
Great book. And then there's a book I can't remember the name
of the author is Chinese. It's a thick, and it's very interesting
book to read. And in fact, it was banned, I think, in China.
And it was a best seller in Hong Kong and most of Asia, called
life and death in Shanghai. And life and death in Shanghai is,
is one of the most chilling accounts of people. And how
they, you know, this was during the turnover of Shanghai was a
went communist. And actually, the whole set is the era of
Shanghai, around World War Two. And before and after, I think a
little bit, it's just but it's just a hair raising. excellent
book to read.
And it's so it's so funny, you say that, because, you know, I
often equate to the situation, the scenario that we're into,
you know, very much what happened in World War Two, you
know, we had a lot, you know, the economic conditions turned
out to be the same when we had a lot of luxury and, and society
gossip. And then this guy rose up. And then of course, no,
there was the true fascism, integration of corporations and
government. And so when I equate what's happening with Obama to
Hitler, and Patricia will say, Hey, man, you shouldn't say
that, because he was a really bad dude. So the whole point is,
no one said anything then. And that was the whole problem. If
someone had stepped up, then maybe it would have stopped.
Right? Well, I'm not gonna go as far as to equate Obama was
Hitler until I see the signs. Big giant, and I was with
somebody the other day, who I believe is a he says he's not
but I think he's an economic hitman. So I'm walking down the
street and and we, I noticed that if you go to the fifth
admission garage in San Francisco, and you look down
fifth way down to there's a building with a poster, you
know, the deputy because of these new inkjet printers,
they're printing these, these billboards the size of, you
know, that unbelievable size of a building. And so I saw it, it
was a gap ad or something's huge, but I pointed said, you
know, what, 20 years from now, it's going to be a big picture
of Obama's head with our glorious leader.
Yeah, War is Peace. War is peace. Right. But you know,
where that's from, don't
you? Yeah. 1984 is Yeah. Okay. Just checking. So
yeah, well, but anyway, at least at least he's bringing change
voting alongside President Bush four. We're not voting or how
does this work? President Bush to the Senate said no bailout
for the car companies. And then the President said, Oh, here's
the money. How does that work? Is government no longer
necessary?
I don't know. I don't know how any of this works anymore.
He says he said they still had like 15 billion left from the
first tranche of the tarp, Troubled Asset Relief programme.
And so now they're taking 14.6 of that 15 Bill, I guess 400
million is necessary for some country estate somewhere to more
banker bonuses. So 14 point 6 billion and appropriating that
towards the bailout. I don't understand what I mean, since
when is a car company? How can I qualify as a bank?
Well as General Motors does because they do their own or
they used to do their own fine Announcing Jimmy AC,
right? But that would mean it would go to GMA C and not the
actual production part of the company. Because
I know I know I you know, as far as I can tell, this is some of
the best example of creative bookkeeping that we've ever seen
in the history of the United States. And then of course, we
had the the other thing that we didn't talk about last week.
Every day, we didn't talk much about it. The Bernie
Bernie Madden Yeah. Madden is not mad, mad, mad, mad mad.
Yeah, yeah, the Ponzi scheme guy. What do you mean? We talked
about it a great length.
Do we? Yeah.
Thanks for Thanks for listening. Thanks for being part of the
show. Really, really enjoy your presence. So so this has been
going on since 1970 with this guy,
I know this really amazing. You have to give the guy you know,
but doesn't Don't people now understand that this is exactly
how Wall Street works. I mean, it's clearly the game is up for
everybody. And it's just all collapsing on top of itself. And
this this behaviour this lying like Goldman Sachs saying oil
going to 200 and then you know, now oh, now we got to reverse
that around and and
then just down to 38 bucks a barrel. Yeah. But they
tell you read and then you know, and then they bet on black that
that's the way it is and this and the Ponzi scheme part. That
isn't that exactly what derivatives is all about?
Yeah, it seems so hey, by the way, before we go too far in the
show, I want to do a shout out to two of our listeners who gave
us access to their sling boxes is one is Justin Sloane in
Hawaii. And by the way, if you haven't checked in on that on
that, on the Hawaii news, they got some of these they got a
sportscaster and one of the stations that the guy is the
size of five people. Polynesians certain, you know especially
Samoans, they're just big Yeah, and I'm not talking about you
know, just not fat big big
usually the guys you see on Dog the Bounty Hunter.
Yeah. This guy is so big. It's like oh my god. Anyway, the
other other PAL is Andrew Thompson out of Detroit, which
gives us a little access to the Canadian couple Canadian
channels, which now we need to we need to get some
international people cough up serial number for us.
It's really cool though, because people just send the serial
numbers Uh, hey, go ahead and you know, play around with it
and I love it. And you know, it's like we've discovered
sliced bread here. I mean, the sling boxes have been around for
a while but to have this type of little community is cool
especially when we're the sole benefactors of it
well, it's also works for us because for one thing these both
these guys I guess like you they Oh, by the way your channels you
know, you gotta fix that or I guess when you move Nevermind, I
move I'm gonna fix it. Yeah, because you're stuck on some
it's always stuck on the TV Guide and I can't change the
channel.
No, it's always stuck on whatever I won't have
the he doesn't have the the programme guide hooked up but he
does have the channel selectors you can cheat so you can go look
it up on TV or something and find see what's on what channel
and you can just change the channel. But, ya know, that I
think is very cool. And then what's cool about the fact that
you and I are on different time schedules, so we probably don't
bumped into each other we're actually scanning one of these
one of these boxes
now doesn't conflict. Exactly. Now it's cool and I thoroughly
enjoy it because I I just love as particularly public access
channels, there was some any C span type programme I really
like
the local ones you can't immediate you know, somebody
sent us a note saying well, you know, you could get a lot of
these things on the internet, you know, just go directly and
they have streaming it's not going to some it's like being in
Detroit. Yeah. And then you know what, it's like if you were in a
hotel room I guess and having full access to the whole cable
system and seeing the wacky stuff and watching the local
news it's actually quite entertaining local news is
fantastic that's what I think is really good if we had a big set
up a bunch of these things all over the country and England and
wherever so we could get like I there's nothing better for
example there's say there's a disaster in you know, Raleigh,
North Carolina. It would be cool to watch the local news coverage
of it rather than you know what we get which is just watered
down in full. Here's some freelance correspondent by the
way. Speaking of that, did you hear that for C cables were cut
once again. Oh, really? Yeah. No, I didn't. I was reading hold
on second. Let me just find it. This was it just happened today.
Hello. I'm just getting situated. I don't know where I
read that. I'm sure someone posted it onto my drop site. So
bring that up. Yeah, it's uh, apparently all traffic to India
was was like eight or 80% was was cut off. I get the details.
It's coming up. It's a little bit slow here comes along a
little bit slow.
Usually, one know what the backstory is on this one they
figure they came up with the other one it was just an
accident.
Right here we go. undersea cables cut 14 countries lose
access. Oh this is from Wired Okay hold on. Reports from the
Mediterranean indicate the two of the undersea cables severed
and repaired earlier this year have been cut again disrupting
Internet access and phone service between the Middle East
Europe and parts of Asia and additional third cable is down
in the same region the so called see me we for cable whatever.
Interesting. To me at least involve yet again.
Yes. France Telecom report listed 14 countries affected
Wait, that's a link 14 countries affected by the current problem.
The Maldives are 100% down. Well. There you go. Here we go.
Saudi Arabia 50% out of service, Djibouti 71%, Egypt 52%, United
Arab Emirates 68% out of service and I'm not quite sure how
they're measuring that. India. So they're doing like packet
pings or whatever. At 82% of packets dropped. We'll just
presume, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Pakistan, Qatar,
Syria, Taiwan, Yemen and Zambia. At the same time, Russian
warships pull into Pearl Harbour and Cuba. You didn't know that,
didn't you? What do they have any news there? I mean, do you
know what day it is in America?
Some of you know there's a couple of things. One, we do
have a lot of news. Nicole Kidman got herself through the
wringer for playing a didgeridoo which apparently is not supposed
to be played by women because it makes them infertile. Yeah,
according to legend, and then something Britney Spears I guess
was in the news for something or other that that's pretty much
covers what we're dealing with here.
Excellent. Yeah, so ya know, it's almost like a replay man.
So the beat that's what people in Europe are saying it's like,
wow, and that just kind of like Kennedy, where, you know, early
in his administration, you got the midst of the Cuban Missile
Crisis. Now an actual Russian warship is now in at port in
Cuba.
And I think they're only there for one reason. The cigars.
Hookers
should have known. It's a crazy ass world. Crazy. World.
Yeah. Obviously, they were doing some sabre rattling to keep to
try to keep that missile shield out of Poland or whatever.
Yeah. And when I didn't get to happen, that's going that's
going up.
Now, I don't know. I think Obama's gonna find an excuse not
to put it there. Oh, please. Oh, please. No wasting expensive
waste of money.
Yeah, well, I somehow I doubt that he's going to stop that I
really can't see. And if so then it's just a small piece of the
of the aggression towards that entire region, with with the
troop movements we're putting in there. So maybe,
well, we'll see. Given the guy and I'm giving the guy a benefit
of the doubt. Oh, yeah, I'm giving him a pass a benefit of
the doubt everybody's all over this character from both sides
of the aisle. I mean, the entire, like the total left
wingers out here, including the crazy mayor, we've got over here
in San Francisco came out and moaned and groaned about Obama,
who Obama picked for the convocation. What's that? What's
the convocation? The Convocation is you know when they when he's
gonna get this guy gives a prayer.
Oh, you mean? Oh, yeah. It's a controversial guy or whatever.
The
guy's just one of these you know, megachurch guys, or
evangelist or whatever he is. And, you know, he said, Steve,
he doesn't think much. He was I guess one of the guys that was
that was for Proposition eight in California, you know, that
gay marriage and bow tie. Right? Right. And so because of that,
you know, he's, he's, he's no good. And so they're fussing at
Obama for that, I guess they're fussing at him for a bunch of
other stuff he's doing and then, of course, all the bright wing
talk show guys are, you know, convinced that Obama is Hitler.
And the next thing you know, we're all going to be you know,
we're in brown shirts. And of course, there is that issue of
Obama wanting to have that civilian army of a million
people. Yeah, that's pretty weird, but I think that's gonna
be I think he's gonna be too busy.
I think it's every every American has to do 50 hours of
community service.
That's different though. There's another one he's gonna do like a
military, you know, brown shirts, essentially.
But it's already starting we now have for the Christmas season we
have we're gonna have DUI checkpoints armed by military
for training purposes. Only of course, where's this in
California dude?
Well, I'll tell you one thing that's weird up in Washington,
because now they've declared the border areas of the United
States to be to include one height is like a 100 mile from
the borders is called the border area.
That's a start.
Another was everything in the country except for like Wyoming
and North Dakota and South Dakota is a border area.
Actually, North Dakota is I'm sorry, South Dakota. So show up
in Port Angeles, where I'm where I'm headed. So we're gonna have
a white Christmas is snowing up there, it's gonna be good for a
laugh. There are apparently they called Border Patrol, they got
some new border agency or some bowl, that's actually turns out
to be Homeland Security. And I gave him a different
title. They're doing illegal illegal search and seizure. The
top
10 people left and right for no apparent reason and making them
look open their trunk. They would like acting like cops, but
they have no police power, or they do I don't know what the
deal is a crazy yeah.
But this is all coming from the Northern Command as well, which
was set up by I think Clinton set up the northern commanded
knee, which is the in case of in case of basically the precursor
to martial law. But yeah, there's three or four, maybe
even five battalions now and in California. They're going to be
doing DUI checkpoints, and there'll be forms you get this
story from the news. You didn't know this paper,
you reading the independent or the telegraph Lamy words, the
guy didn't
actually, actually this came from the army times, I think
it's from their own fucking publication.
It seems to me that this is not being played up very much in his
I mean, I'm living in the Berkeley area for God's sake,
there should be riots in the street. These people were
rioting over the gay marriage. Yeah,
exactly. Thank you. That's my point. As always, they're
writing about fraud on Strictly Come Dancing. Exactly. I can
find it for you, if you want. I'm taking
your side now. The Oh, this is if there's if I see one military
guy stopping anybody for any reason in this during this
holiday season, then I'm going to not argue with you anymore.
Will you then do a daily show with me? And we'll just go full
force against the New World Order, John? Until we're killed?
Yeah. Well, that's what I tell my wife. I said, here's what
here's who you call. Here's all the information. And please
don't let anyone tell you that it was suicide by cop. That's
bullshit. That's not so it was. He was depressed. That's what
they did with the guy in Guilford. They literally calling
there's a suicide by cop now, because he was so depressed. He
took a fake gun and waved it at the police so he could get
killed. And it wouldn't it wouldn't shoot wouldn't even
make a noise. suicide by cop. Yeah, well, this is going to
happen. I'm looking up. I'm trying to find an order a good
article for you.
Well, actually, you know, the army times should look at it
more often for the blog, because it's got good material in it.
Well, this is where this is where I learned about it first.
Are you looking at it army times? No, I'm not. I want to
find it for you. Yeah, man. This is this is completely. So for
those of you who don't live in America. And for many of you who
do, there is something called the Posse Comitatus Act, which
specifically forbids under except under special
circumstances, I don't think is I think it's part of the
Constitution of the Constitution. I'm sorry, you're
right. It's part of the Constitution. It forbids the
army being used against American citizens unless special
circumstances voted by Congress. And of course, with all the
executive orders Bush put into place, it can basically now just
happen. It can just take place.
This is interesting. The top story in army times is special
ops surge, it sparks debate, Defence Secretary Robert Gates,
who's going to be working for Obama is obviously working for
him now because he plans to deploy three additional combat
brigades to Afghanistan that's not going to work by the way
what's not going to work anything what but they're only
in Afghanistan as a base.
I mean, they gotta get out of there.
They're not they're gonna stay there forever. They love it. Did
you see the picture of Bush hugging Karzai?
No, dude with a kit with a kissing
almost almost like he had his hand on his like his neck and
his and the back of his neck, you know, like, really, really
like pushing his face against his it was kind of creepy, as of
course is just it's just a snapshot so it's taken on well,
you know, I
have a photo I gotta put this on the blog. I'm have to dig it up
because I you know, I unfortunately take so many
pictures that these I have a lot of material that just starts
disappearing into the ether, you know, Something like I think I'm
up to some outrageous amount like say three 400 gigabytes of
photos. It's horrible. Anyway have this picture during the
during the convention there was when Obama was giving us during
the convention when he's got his numbers or whatever. And Biden
came out on the stage with his wife and Obama gave Biden's wife
a big kiss. And on the lips, I believe, Oh, hot. And I'm
surprised somebody didn't make a fuss about that. But they
didn't. But then what they what they should have made a fuss
about was later I think Biden gave a speech or something and
his daughters came out. And he grabbed one of his daughter's by
I have the picture. Because I took it off the thing off the
screen. He grabbed his daughter's hand like in a good
grabbed her head and then gave her us a big wet one on the
lips.
That's that's kind of wrong. I looked at this
I tell you when you see the picture go what what is wrong
with this picture? Yeah, that to me, it was like, you know, he
was like, it was it like a passionate kiss calling my God.
And I don't know why I didn't blog on it right away. But I
think is one of those busy. You know, some of the stuff falls by
the wayside. Obama tried to get up because it's still I'm still
shaking my head about it. So I don't see anything here on army
times about the town looking up DUI. Army post, Julie, I like
just call them to Sergeant shopper. It's great.
Okay, here we go. What is this from? This is from what I'm
looking for, as I'm looking for like a serious
like a mainstream publication. So I don't get one of those. Oh,
just a conspiracy theory. nutters and, of course, military
police assisting civilian police DUI checkpoints. Just trying to
find a good one. I'll find if it's out there. I mean, with a
little bit of fine wine. So anyway, so it'll be nice to have
you over on our side. John, I cannot wait. Very exciting.
And one of my one of my bloggers may blog that
I'm sure they had this has been going this the conversation
about this has been going on for weeks now ever since it was
first announced in the army times that, that they were now
positioning these like five to 20,000 Troops, strong battalions
in the States. And these are these are guys and gals who just
came out of Iraq. You know, they're they're like, they've
done some serious time.
But as I'm happy, you don't need that those guys floating around
trigger happy.
Right. So I just want to repeat you said that if they're if the
army is involved in DUI checkpoints, if I see or if you
see keep going
a military guy at a roads block somewhere checking for DUI, then
out? I'm on your side for I have no I had no then why I thought
what I said exactly was then I'm not gonna argue with you
anymore. Yeah, no, but I think you'll make the show really
interesting, by the way, but I cannot worry about it.
Hearts are breaking nationwide. I can hear it.
Anyway. So that's nobody picked it up. Of course not. It might
be Bubba may have had it have it over on the cage match. They
have a lot of other stuff over
there. thing is if I start surfing websites, then I want to
do that. But something else that that you may or may not have
heard about. There's this this thing going on with, with
Earth's magnetic field and the distance of space to the earth
if you've been following any of that.
The Oh, that's been they actually I think there was even
a nova that was talking about the Earth's magnetic field is
expected this to you know, it's apparently in the, in the mode
of about to to change poles. Yeah, I mean, it may take 1000
years to do it, but in the process of, of changing and re
recharging itself. Because we need that magnetic field. That's
what keeps us from becoming Mars. Yeah. Right. Because the
cosmic rays are buffered, you know, it's like a buffer and
then anyway, it's a it's like a machine that keeps us from
getting killed. And, but it seems to be having all kinds of
weirdness going on right now with little hotspots of
magnetism and in areas where there's no magnetism, and it's,
you know, I guess the sun's going on.
NASA's five femoris Themis spacecraft have discovered a
breach in Earth's magnetic field 10 times larger than anything
previously thought to exist. Solar Wind can flow in through
the opening to load up the magneto sphere. Yeah, love that
for powerful geomagnetic storms. Which by the way, we had one in
I want to say 9697 98. You remember that when it knocked
out all the satellites and pagers stopped working and cell
phones crapped out and there was no more satellite television?
Don't you remember that?
I remember the discussion about it. But my understand or my
remembrance of it was not that much happened at least around
here.
Well in New York was a big deal because pagers were pretty
important at the time. And cell phones were, you know, we're not
really prolific for some reason.
They were too expensive. That would be, that would
probably have been a part of it. So I don't know what that means.
But a lot of 2012 people are jumping on the store. So those
CDC, SOS are the worst.
Be careful now.
What happens in 2013, this is the thing that's getting, you
know, it's click just around the corner. So I'm actually looking
forward to it. What happens in 2013? I'll tell you exactly what
happens. All these 2012 people are going to go on with this, I
think the calculation was just something the math wasn't.
Their data wasn't quite right.
I mean, this is all these Doom day, people always they always
have their fixed date, they always make it too close to when
they're still alive. So the people that grip them about it.
And so they always, you know, it's always just around the
corner. So and then it comes and goes, and we were supposed to
have the end of the world and 2000 if anybody remembers that.
And then, you know, then comes and goes, and then they're
contrite about it, or they come up with some other bogus reason,
but they usually lose about 70% of their followers, because it's
like, bogus, and then the 30% that stick around, build a new
group with some other phoney baloney doomsday date. I don't
know.
Well, a lot of that too, though. I mean, it's a club for getting
laid, let's face it.
Let me just see if I can find some of those members. Well, but
you know, the basis of the 2012 conversation, of course, is that
the Mayan calendar actually ends then and we usher in the Age of
Aquarius. And so there's a little more to it than just
people picking a date. And
yeah, right now I have I just picked up the calendar today
from the mechanics bank. Hey, guess what? It ends at the end
of 2009. Yeah, well, does that mean it's the end of the world?
No, it means a calendar. I gotta get a new calendar
here. But the Mayans had all kinds of magic powers, dude.
Yeah. They had mathematics where
they got killed off by a bunch of dumb Spaniards.
Were making friends left and right. I do like the office of
the president elect announcing Tom Vilsack as Secretary of
Agriculture. This guy is well, he basically he campaigned using
the Monsanto private jet.
Oh, is that right? Yeah. He's,
he's a major GMO guy. He's all about, you know, Tom Vilsack,
look it up. And there was some melts. I found about Vilsack,
which is related to Hillary Clinton, which was interesting
in an article from March 2007. Democratic presidential
contender Hillary Clinton has agreed to help the one time
candidate who endorsed her on Monday as he seeks to retire a
kept a campaign debt of more than $400,000. And all of a
sudden you're thinking hmm, could that be related to his
appointment? But yeah,
yeah. So Monsanto's in the white house already. Yeah. What you're
telling me Monsanto's,
of course they are. Yeah, I've been doing a lot of reading
about GMO and it's kind of freaking me out.
It's a genetically modified
organism, I guess, is what it's for. But really, so what they
Frankenfoods so what they do is, particularly with corn, which
corn isn't just about everything we eat directly or indirectly,
corn culture, we are a corn culture. They take a 22 calibre,
either shotgun, but a 22 calibre bullet, and they and they jam in
there, the pro like the, I'm gonna say it wrong, either the,
the actual gene or the protein, the part of the DNA of a
pesticide, and they shoot it into the grain oil into the
seed. And then through some magical explosive process, a
protein develops so that this corn can be sprayed with
pesticide. They call it herbicide to make it sound more
friendly. So that the corn will then grow without it, isn't it?
I think it is it is an herbicide because it kills weeds. You're
right, it is an herbicide. So it's killing other plants, but
it's genetically modified. So that it so it doesn't cut
corners, right? But they feed this corn to laboratory
laboratory rats and 50% of them die.
Probably not healthy corn.
No but it's it's in pretty much everything these days. And of
course, as we've identified you turned me on to the story months
ago when With the seed wood, you know, the seed actually spreads
to other to the farmers next door, contaminates everything
contaminates. And it's not just a problem that has been
contaminated and it's genetically modified. But then
Monsanto comes up and says, Hey, excuse me, we own the patent on
that. That's our seed. Either you pay us for it, or we're
going to destroy your crop. Because they own it. They've
patented it, they own food. And that is now indeed in the White
House.
Yeah. Well, that's good news. Thanks for that.
Sure. I got many more. Now that's okay. Now, and then hold
on.
Let me go back to the Nicole Kidman story.
That Australia movie is just wonderful. And by the way, isn't
she barren? I thought that I thought that was the whole
reason that Tom Cruise got rid of her because she was blown
that didgeridoo and she couldn't have
kids. It's possible I see. Sharon I think
so. It's a horrible way to them.
Yeah, no, that's that's the right term man. I mean, nobody
uses that word anymore. I'm surprised you did it. But it's
because it's got to be the worst thing for a woman to you know,
it's like you know, a chicken that can't lay an egg kind of
thing but it's like I mean, it's got can't be a pleasant
situation to be barren just like being sterile You know guys who
don't have enough their sperm count is not what it should be.
It's then they have to you know, just shoot it with blank so you
just always call it
now Baron is I think that's probably old English even I
remember it from the uneven line which was a fantastic series I'm
sure you've never seen and but it was a 1718 hundred's England
and they would talk about she is barren. And that was that was
shameful. If you were barren, you were no good.
So anyway, she had maybe she was been blown that thing too long.
I mean, something I mean, maybe there's some something to it,
who knows. Okay, because of funny thing about the didgeridoo
is that it may which I think is the everyone's you see these
things. I don't know if anybody knows that. This is a long pipe
that's got a I don't know what's even inside the thing. It's like
a string or something. And it you bought the Omega sound and
tune in and make some minor crappy noise. And it's more like
pretty close. And it's you've run into these guys with these
things. Because if something goes wrong, it's right there in
the subways of New York. And I think I've seen one in London
playing the thing with a you know, with a with a hat out for
donations, like you should give him money for this. And I just
find it to be a not an obnoxious instrument but it gives us such
a weird sound and I could see where it could have some some
divots. There you go.
That's actually the kangaroo hop is what that one's called.
Yeah, so anyway, that is the didgeridoo I know we got that
clip. But good one
from the didgeridoo sound clips archive of course.
Knowing it's an obnoxious instrument
you should be cursed by barrenness if you say that.
So the the only thing that sounds worse than that is a
bagpipe.
Oh, boy. Don't make me do that. I have not a repeat not gonna
play bagpipes on the show.
Not a good idea. The Did you get a flu shot this year? Yeah,
I always get a flu shot.
Oh, good, then, besides all the mercury that now is in your
body. It is interesting to note that this is from Reuters. Of
the 50 samples. They tested the current flu on 49 failed the
virus.
Yeah, that's why I always carry I always carry and I tell people
this and it might as well discuss it right now. Because
one of my friends had the flu the other day and didn't she,
you know, didn't do that just because she didn't know and I've
actually sent a memo around last year to the MVNO staff
discussing it that and I always travel whether you're
actually promoting flu flu shots.
No, I always travel with Tamiflu.
Right. So Tamiflu is the stuff that's not working. That's
exactly what the article says Tamiflu is not working against
this. Tamiflu. Do you have a camera? Yes, it does. It says
Tamiflu is not working.
Alright, then I can take it one step further. First, I'm going
to describe what Tamiflu does. But I it was expected by the way
because there used to be a thing called flu muddying or something
like that. That was a precursor to Tamiflu. And it stopped
working about five years ago, just out of the blue, you
wouldn't even can't even be easy got a prescription doesn't do
anything just for no known reason. So everyone's expected.
That's what happened to Tamiflu. There's a fallback called
Relenza.
Now it's listed here as well as not working yeah
no yes it doesn't work either. Yes here it's got a sham you
sent me this link
okay here comes
that's not good
dude the Gearan so in China now of course it's another outbreak
of the bird flu and they've got billions of dollars already
spent on some BS. The thing they're gonna want to inject you
with there's the link, Tamiflu blah, blah, blah. A similar drug
is Relenza, or they just Wait where's the NAMI Vir made by
GlaxoSmithKline tried
it against Relenza, they just say a similar drug and trying to
pass it on. Read. Read the orange and reading
the article. Where's Tamiflu alternative?
Yes, remodelling is the one that
that doesn't work at all. You shouldn't be taking these shots
at all. John, this is your
net shots. These are pills you take or the Tamiflu or pills.
Yeah, don't
take that either. Don't take any of that.
Oh, you just get sick and die. Give me a break. I use Tamiflu
and I had the flu one time a couple years ago that I've used
both of these. And they weren't great. And let me explain what
they do. It's kind of interesting. I've used
Tamiflu for urinary tract infection. You did that was what
I was prescribed with it.
That's weird. So anyway, I have a blog post on Relenza, go to
the divorce.org/blog and type in Relenza, r e l e n z a set of
boring you stick with it because you're just gonna moan and groan
it don't take anything.
Do not government's not anyway, Tamiflu works like a champ.
Well, but not according to this article on the current screen.
This
is a bogus article from Reuters. Okay, good. No, I think it's
like they're trying to get you to get into says CDC says
there's still time for Americans to get a flu shot as the season
usually peaks in February. This is what that that was the punch
line to the story, the last paragraph. So what they're
trying to do is get everyone they get the huge stockpile of
flu vaccine. They're given shots at Costco. And you know, after
that fiasco from a few years ago, now they make too much of
this stuff. And so they're trying to get rid of it. So
that's what this is about.
Okay, so my advice still holds and you'll back me up. Don't let
your don't get injected by anything because it's not going
to work anyway, just get some Tamiflu. Is that what you're
saying?
No, I always get a flu shot.
You're the first one to go, man.
Now, you'll see. Okay, I haven't had the flu ever since to start
getting flu shots. I mean, except that one time where I had
to use Tamiflu. What happened was the flu that was predicting
because these are predictive vaccines. There was something
called the California flu that showed up in around the Bay
Area, and I ended up getting it and I use Tamiflu and Tamiflu
works great. It just basically, essentially, the way Tamiflu and
Relenza work is that this stops the reproductive process of the
that of the flu that's in you, and and, and keep whatever
amount of symptoms you have, when you start taking these
drugs, they stops. But you can maintain those symptoms. So for
five days, but you don't get really sick, and you can still
go to work and get not contagious and all the rest of
it. But anyway, after five days, it gives your body enough time
to actually produce its own flu shot. Because it builds up the
antibodies against his little batch of flu that's still in
you. And then when you do when you get off the drug, you
actually have a spike. It's really actually kind of an
interesting experience. You'd have a spike of flu, it just
like all the drug didn't work is the first thing you think of
because you start getting really sick. And then within it's
almost like within hours, it just disappears. It's like your
body says oh, well, this is no good. And it just goes after
this. And again, it just knocks it out instantly. It's it's
actually the weirdest experience you'll ever have, in terms of
like, you know, disease. And so I always travel with Tamiflu,
and my family that has it all the time will always have a
batch with us. Just in case.
For a while there was said that that was going to be important
for others. Couldn't it also shield you against radiation or
something could help with that. I really never heard
any of this other stuff. I don't know about that. I thought it
was pretty well, you know targeted? I don't know maybe it
does other things against other viruses and his antiviral but I
know it doesn't do anything against a cold. And no, this
article is kind of just articles kind of sketchy.
International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique
Strauss Kahn has warned that advanced nations could face
civil unrest during distressful economic times. Social unrest
may happen in many countries, including advanced economies, if
the economic crises are not properly dealt with, basically
what we're seeing happening now.
Yeah, it's pretty funny.
How come that doesn't happen in America? How How come people
aren't just so pissed off and angry?
Well, there's one main reason we don't know anything we've been
dumbed down like my article and we don't have any news I mean
all I like what is the top of news if I wouldn't look at the
top news stories here see news us
but often it's listed but I don't
know here I'm looking at the Reuters said they had the Tamar
the phoney Tamiflu story. Retailers hope for crowds and
final holiday push top story. Pike Patkar foundation closes
due to Madoff Investment. A lot of charities are going broke.
Yeah. We have some blogs and a Greek police clashed with
protesters. And then a puff piece on Obama. What a good guy
he is. And I'm looking looking looking looking nothing.
Phenomenal. Anyway, here's why there's a noun. That's a Google
Ad actually, the more interesting news news is in the
Google ad. Poll, China and India have had made a big strides in
space in recent months, fueling talk of another race to land a
man on the moon. Should the United States returned to the
moon? Yes, no. So let's put no and see what happens. Look at
this. This 42%. Yes. And 58%. No, see, this is work. Now. We
don't want to go to the moon. There's nothing here. There's no
here. Wait, wait, wait, wait, let me go to the better news
lifestyle.
What are you looking at? This is Google. What are you looking at?
This is the Reuters news site with all the top stories.
Do they have anything about the Internet Tax that New York is
going to charge now? Nothing about that.
There's nothing like it? Well, maybe under politics. Let's see
what politics reveals. By the way that one of their pages fell
apart from bad CSS. Bush auto plan only way to stave off
collapse of the world.
Obama pics climate specialist as science advisor. Oh, that's
Don't even get me started on that one. Yeah, I think so. I
haven't been able to find the link. But somewhere I heard
somewhere I read someone that said, Al Gore said these colder
periods are entirely indicative of global warming.
I know I get it every time we we bring this up on the show quite
a bit. I love doing it. We just get an email from somebody
saying it's natural to be colder during global warming. You know,
it's yeah, of course it is. Makes nothing but sense.
It's natural for it to be colder during global warming. Yes, I
understand. I totally get it. So. So that's that is quite
interesting.
The guy who sent me the note, he said also says that he says
global warming climate change, they're trying to change the
term themselves, is gonna result in really weird erratic weather.
And I'm thinking because I found it. No, I mean, if you start
reading it, because I did this as a project, once I read all in
New York Times newspapers from about 1858 to about 1868. How
long did that take? You? Took a long time, it took a number of
months. And I was collecting stories may or may not have been
the period might have been from 18 6080 to 78. But it was it was
during the around the Civil War. And and I'm not sure I think
yeah, I think it was I think the times was in business. And I
think it was the time I was reading. And he was I was
looking at all these little articles.
You read the originals, of course, when they came out in
1886. So of course,
but my mom threw them away. So anyway. So I'm reading this and
there was a talk about erratic weather. I mean, if you start
reading the history of weather in the United States, it's been
erratic since day one, you know, storms of frogs, you know, it'd
be something happened in North Dakota, and it's just like rain
frogs, you know, all over the place. And, you know, I guess
there were frogs in, you know, people who had this, you know,
you couldn't get sight without stepping out a bunch of frogs
that were raining down for some unknown reason. Nobody even knew
where the frogs came from. And I mean, I remember that one
distinctly going is a real head shaker. And there's all kinds
of, you know, weird to have in the Mormon legend about the
those locusts if you ever seen one of those bugs, that the big
ones that scare size of a rat, yeah, they're scary. And
apparently they came in, you know, in some weather situation,
and they just gobbled up the state of Utah, which is still a
desert. And, I mean, this is nothing new, this erratic
weather. We've had our then the biggest hurricanes we've had in
the past, and there's that hurricane that hit Connecticut
some, you know, around the turn of the century, or sometime in
the, you know, I think it was like, I can't remember the date,
but it was 100 years ago. And so this is bull. I mean, you know,
there's right now it's snowing
in Vegas. You're in Vegas. It's snowing. It's snowing in Vegas.
Yeah, it's snowing in Vegas. It's just weather's what we have
in Vegas once when it's snowing it snows in Texas a lot, which
really is weird since It never snows in the San Francisco Bay
area, or it had it last time I think was 1972 1973 and it
snowed a little bit. And that was the last we've seen of it.
I remember being in Vegas when it snowed in in the 90s in
December a CES not ces what was what was the at Comdex?
Yeah, may have snowed on a Comdex I think it was a couple
years ago it snowed I was at the airport as the snow started
falling and it was I think in January was you know during ces
just cold never stuck though.
Let's just move off this topic for a second heard heard from
the EasyJet flight attendant today, you'll love this. So you
know that the the big talk now in the in Europe in the UK is
the parity because the pound is now almost is like two cents
difference equal to a euro. Wow. Yes. Wow, indeed. And so on
EasyJet, you can pay in Sterling, as we say, or euros.
And, and I had lots of euros, I want to get rid of some euros.
And she asked to do the calculation and she'd say, I can
see her like smoke come out of her ears. I'm like, It's not
that hard. It's like it's almost the same. You know, a euro is a
pound she says, isn't that amazing? I mean, why even bother
going anywhere what travel anymore. People are so used to
everything being cheap when they leave their country because
because the pound being so much more expensive or more valuable
than any other monetary unit that literally that's coming out
of a typical British person. Why bother travelling when the pound
is, you know, is equal to a Euro we can't get a bargain.
That's funny. Can't get a bargain. It never used to it
always used to be traditionally a buck and a half or two $1 for
a pound and it has fluctuated it goes up. I've never seen it as
high as it did this last time. But that, combined with
inflation over there made it impossible to go to England. I
mean, I won't go there.
There's really nothing to do or to see anyway. Once you've done
that once you've done the tower thing that's kind of it. And
have you been
to the Have you been to the I haven't been on the on the big
on the London I had the I London and a big spinning thing. Yeah.
It's called the I the London makes an hour to go around and
and some takes like an hour right? No,
no, no, it's not an hour. It's it's like it's a good 2025
minutes. It's very slow. It's a big Ferris Wheel.
Yeah, Ferris Wheel. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, I've been on that. That that would be a sea ticket
ride at Disney. Oh, really? Whatever the ticket is equal to
the Mad Hatter's Tea Cup. In fact, I think the Mad Hatter tea
cup is more exciting than the London I Yeah, it's
so I probably don't want to bother with it.
I think for taking pictures it will be great. We can see the
London Eye from our new place which is kind of cool. At night
was they lighted up really nice.
Is it is it it's a big plastic ball. It must be all scratched
up. I'm sure you can't get a decent shot through that. That
miserable plastic.
It's interesting. I don't know. It's I thought it was I wasn't
taking you know, serious pictures when I was when I was
on it. So I don't really remember but I know I think it's
a I think it's doable. That's gonna be okay, like, you know,
capsules.
So there's a there was a Charlie Rose show last night that he had
Malcolm Gladwell please the GAO wrote did tipping point and some
other book and he's got a new book out and it's these are
these little bitty books that are you know, where he does a
little research and comes to some crazy conclusions about one
thing or another. Anyway, this last one he's done. And he's a
real weird looking character. He's got some jaggus He's got
some Jamaican and um, so he decides it looks like just a
regular you know, kind of a big, you know, kind of male model is
jaw hit, you know, heavy on the jaw bone facial features with an
afro that is from the 1970s just ridiculous. I mean, it looks
like you know, that picture that I use on my Skype, you know,
with the big ad the coloured afro. Yeah, yeah.
So anyway, he did it. So he came up with a book on on, on some
research that actually my son had told me about about a year
ago. And then Rose had another guy with a similar book,
discussing the same research which indicates there's no such
thing as talent. And so I'm, you know, I first my son tells me
about it, then I see it back to back back stories about these
two books saying that there's no such thing as talent. And I'm
starting to immediately they wouldn't have been bad if he had
one guy would have kind of listened and gone to some other
topic, but no have to in a row. And so I'm now thinking This is
bull, there has to be some alternative reason for these two
storylines to be you know, why are we why are we telling the
public that there's no such thing as talent, what you have
to do is work 10,000 hours to become an expert at anything or
approximately 10 years. That's what the research says.
Okay, there Yeah, it's
a you get your following where this might be. I'm listening,
keep it coming. So I'm thinking white, you know, when I first
heard about this, I said, Yeah, fine, that my son boiled it down
by saying that if you wanted to be a pianist, or if you wanted
to be a trumpet player, you won't have anything. If you
wanted to spend 10 years practising a lot, you will be as
good as you can't be, you can't be any better because you got
your time in and this is as far as it's gonna go. And so I just
immediately because of this back to back propaganda show, I'm
thinking, All right, so this obviously bull, there's
obviously something else going on, I thought about a couple
different things. Now if it takes 10 years to get any, any
level of expertise on anything where you're actually super
good. How does that explain Gore Vidal 's best selling novel that
he wrote when he was 19? Was he practising novel writing? of
nine? I don't think so. And what you remember this, this group,
these two guitar players that came out of South America called
Los Indios, taba, Horace, these were two guys who found a guitar
in the Amazon jungle. I love it. And within a year, or were like
on the tour around the world playing this amazing guitar,
where's the 10 years? Where's the 10,000 hours is not there.
So I'm thinking this, there's something there's I tracing this
back to this. Back to the argument about we don't want an
educated public. We're gonna listen, you know, let's set
these goals, these 10,000 hour goals. If you want to do a lot
of work, Gladwell had an anecdote saying that people with
really high IQs never normally made much of themselves, which
is bull, by the way, also. But he do you there? Yeah, I'm
listening. I'm just listening to right now,
because I just got a beat from that. And
I just sent you a link to the army. Okay.
Anyway, so, so Gladwell mentioned that the genius is
probably he said, all these geniuses, people with really
high IQs he made the claim that once you have an IQ, this is
unbelievable. Once you made it had an IQ of 120, you're good to
go. Now, in other words, anything
else is no good is lame. You're just a loser, just a loser.
And he and he says he looked at people who had these really high
IQs like 161 80, whatever, you know, those are those you know,
these people? And why yes. And you may be one of them. Anyway,
he said that they never made much of their lives. And he said
and he could only conclude that this was because they were smart
enough to realise that the 10,000 hours was just too damn
much work. I'm thinking I'm so I'm thinking now that we're
looking at a new twist, an absolutely new twist to the self
esteem movement. All right, you know, you can be whatever you
can want to be if you want to try out you can be with anything
you want to be as long as you urge. And as long as you put the
work in, you'll get there but out of line. This is bull. Well,
that's very
interesting. So there's two stories that will relate to that
one is and this is a YouTube video, which will have to dig up
for you, which some kids did it but I'm not quite sure. I'm not
too sure the authenticity but apparently the showing a history
book, a grade school history book is used in United States.
So he just went around this is I'm not sure about this, either.
The New World Order Chapter. Oh, no, I didn't No, no, this is
different than when I'm thinking oh, no, I was thinking of okay,
well, I'll tell mine first. So the kid shows his history book.
And then there's a chapter about the New World Order, and and how
we have to get ready for it as we're going to have world
government. And it's in the history book, he shows the page.
It says Get ready for the new world order. I'll have to pick
that one up what was yours in the history book?
Hold on a sec. I'm just trying to think of somebody's name. By
the there was a lot of utopianism that took place
during the 30s and there was a writer in particular who I read
I give her time I can find one of his books is he is actually
very interesting. name's Stuart Chase and people out there want
to track down somebody who was kind of a utopianism and, and
Stewart Chase and also there's a book by the way, one of the
classic books if you can find it, you can find it use
bookstores, it was the number one best seller almost worldwide
sold millions and millions of copies and It was called looking
backward. By Bellamy. It was a best seller and I'm talking
about millions and millions of copies in 1890. And looking
backward is a book written from the perspective of someone in
the year 2000. looking backward on what changed since 1890. And
this is an eye opener, and again, I think you probably will
get to this new world order stuff from any of these types of
books that were produced, probably anywhere from 1880 to
about two, World War Two. And now, of course, has been
reintroduced. I don't know, my story was that it was, but I was
told you were gonna refer to the, the what kids had to read
as a history book, and what they had to know back and there's
there's things, you know, the 1920 or something. And there's
this thing that went around a couple years ago on the
internet, about all these things you had to read and know about.
And it was like completely, it was so far removed from what you
get today, you know, with the self esteem and you know,
everybody's a winner and a, you know, there's no such thing as a
loser and that kind of thing. Back to the losers locker room.
Yes. That's right. That's right. Oh, here, here's this kid.
They literally,
I'm trying to see if I can find it. And I'll just eat American
American nation is the is the title of the book. As I was
looking through it today, it's highly produced. I don't trust
there'll be a hoax.
We can find out one way or the other. Here. It is an old man.
He said, This is an old book or a new book,
a current book. It says America in the New World Order 1972
Present. I'm just reading off the YouTube video.
So what we've seen, okay, well, we'll just we'll just track it
down.
Yeah, I'll send you the link right now. You can we can take a
look at it later. Now,
it's not unusual for this kind of thinking to have come in and
out of vogue. It's very common in the United States. US
history. What the this utopian New World Order one world
government. Well, that was
George George Bush Senior he said, he said it's a big idea,
that new world order.
These internationalists are all around you. I mean, these are
the ones, you know, that we have to be leery of. I mean, it's not
a new group, and they're all very powerful people as a whole
slew of them. And they, you know, they're not communist or
not, you know, this vaguely identifiable here and there, but
they're commonly referred to as internationalists and that they
the
Project Project for a New American Century. Yeah, that's
typical. But the reason for this of course, stems from World War
One when it was decided by your what you would call your
Illuminati or whoever this insiders that we can't keep
having these damn Wars world war two is the real clincher. We
can't keep having these damn wars because they ruin economies
people get killed.
I disagree. Oh, okay. This is where we fundamentally disagree.
No, no, I believe that they actually want the wars for two
reasons. One, they make money by selling weapons to both sides so
they make out like bandits to it reduces the population. I think
they want the wars I disagree with you there.
Okay. I mean, I understand that perspective, and I might You
might be right. Now that you mentioned that door reminded me
something else I saw on Charlie Rose. He I don't know why I'm
watching Charlie Rose so much, but I guess there's nothing else
on It's so pathetic. I don't not a big fan of Charlie Rose
because he always ends up talking about himself. And but
he had William gates on die were good. And I would what's his
name's gates. Richard gates. Is it Richard gates, the secretary
of defence?
Yes. Richard gates. It's Richard.
I thought it was. I don't think it is.
Yeah, it is on gates. Richard gates.
Oh, great. Now I got Firefox's installing your update so we'll
start in a few minutes moments great.
Maybe it's a What the hell is his name? Come on.
What just type in gate secretary of defence and Google I can't do
it because my browser won't open.
Hold on. Secretary. It's ridiculous. We
don't have these things. We know that this ladies and gentlemen
is why we have no agenda. We have no brains. It's
gates, Robert Gates. I'm sorry, Robert.
Yeah, of course.
I can just hear people yelling at their iPods. Idiots you can
pronounce blood Goya, which you don't know who's the secretary
of defence. Canada is not being overtaken by the Queen and it's
getting hot in here people good night.
So, so we had Robert Gates on
and you mean the secretary of defence and he's
chatting with him about how he's going to be the Obama guy you
know, which is and then out of the blue For some reason,
because, because because Charlie Rose does this in fact, he did
it with Gladwell. Gladwell mint mentioned Bill Joy. And
immediately I mean, it's like the armband thing between McCain
and Obama. Immediately rose jumps. This is Oh, I know, Bill
Joy. He's a good friend of mine. He's been on the show 1000
times, which seems unlikely now. What are you trying to get out
of that? So anyway, so he pulls another one of these self
referential moments with Robert Gates and he says, Well, you
and, you know, we're both good friends with Brzezinski. Ah,
Bada bing.
There's the math
as soon as he said that, I think oh gates is with Brzezinski.
Wait a minute. Well, so the case was
with Carter Gates was with Brzezinski Gates was with Carter
he's been he's been in the Defence for since the 70s. That
guy is no change. Okay, no change. No.
Not only no changes like back back to Carter,
it's no change people.
Welcome back, Carter.
She has a music Welcome. Welcome
back. I bet you have it somewhere. That's probably so I
have on my computer. You know what I mean?
Theme song so anyway, so I thought that was little I didn't
I didn't know I'm just you know, I was still looking at that
Nicole Kidman material and so I wasn't granted the Charlie Rose
show because I was looking for TMZ you know, to watch. Extra,
extra extra. I'm looking for that or you're killing me. I
guess the real news there.
So I do this daily thing on me view. It's called me vo today.
Right? You can find it by going to mimio.com Yeah, and
I'm doing all these little things. I had a good one that
someone posted on the drop and I did it at the opening I said
MVNO sports news update. White Sox fans go to the White House.
Cubs fans go to the big house. And you know, with the right
pictures and everything. It's just perfect. I love it. So now
we're getting away with a little bit of
total political commentary won't last.
Yeah, they like it. Everyone likes it. The board likes and
they
like it. They like it for up to a point. I was surprised that we
knew it. By the way, we have to get more people listening to our
little podcast here because we, if everyone would just tell a
friend or give a copy, you know, burn a CD, we double our numbers
overnight. And they've can put data in their car and listen to
us ramble on and not know who Robert Gates is.
Let's do something nonpolitical from well, he's from AP, the
group representing the US recording industry, that would
be the Ria. Friday said it has abandoned its policy of suing
people for sharing songs protected by copyright, and will
now work with internet service providers to cut abusers access
if they ignore repeated warnings. Warnings. Apparently,
it was costing too much money.
No, they were losing money on these laws. Yeah, of course.
Of course they were. The lawyers were loving it.
Oh, I'm sure they were the Lord's are going to be loving
this Bernie thing to imagine.
Oh, no. Oh, yeah. And he's under under house arrest. And I'm sure
he's still in
his limo. He's in his limo. And he's in a mansion. And why? Why
is it Hey, well, let me let's back up a second. Martha
Stewart.
When would the big house went to jail? For $7,000? Maybe Maybe
she may or 70? Who gives a shit what it was? Maybe Maybe she did
something that was a little out of the ordinary. And these guys
are
home maker. rich one. But she's still
Yeah, no, exactly. You're so right. And OJS was still walking
around. Or is he now finally incarcerated?
I think he's done. He's in jail. He's done. He's true. Finally.
But yeah, that's pretty crazy, isn't it?
Where was the SEC
don't they are the what are there was something about the
SEC as well? I mean, there's so much information they seem to do
this when just when there's when we're really interested in
Nicole Kidman. They seem to do all kinds of crazy shit.
Yeah, well, they seem to be doing it on a daily basis.
That's what's weird. That it really is true. So the price oil
is at 38. Anyway, so headed to 30 I think that's where it's
kind of bottomed out, which will bring our gas prices down to a
buck 50 Which is pretty much for premium which is about what it
should Well, yeah. But
now of course, OPEC is doing the largest production cut in
history trying to jack the prices up. I mean, it just makes
me laugh. I mean, we just sit down and go OPEC or whatever,
you know, we're all hypnotised you know, getting a hard on over
Nicole Kidman and and meanwhile, OPEC is just out there saying,
Hey, we're gonna try and Jack your prices up. No one's saying
anything is that's exactly what they're saying. We're in fact,
it's even worse. We're gonna jack it up and here's how we're
gonna Do it.
Yes. It's like a football team that tells you the plays in
advance.
And no one cares. No.
I know. It's unbelievable. But again, it goes back to the
dumbing down of the public. Nobody wants to you know,
nobody's educated anymore.
There's no no, Obama has made it very clear he wants to change
that not by improving education, but by putting internet into
schools.
Right now making them even dumber. I mean, if you listen to
Obama, he never wants talks about anything that has to do
with learning stuff. It's always infrastructure and
infrastructure infrastructure infrastructure. So basically
we're going to have a bunch of you know, it was mostly
Mexicans, you know, building out infrastructure, and people still
be as dumb as ever and they're gonna be looking at you know,
the internet that inner tubes and they're gonna look in do
what I do, they're gonna look at the Nicole Kidman story
wake up sheeple.
It's too late.
Now it's never too late it's never too late. It's over. What
is this? It grew for Karl Rove died in plane crash. Oh, this
crash oh, this is the guy who had the emails for the Ohio
election fraud. He ran out of gas in his plane. Oh, really?
Where'd you get this story? Just send me a link
it's breaking breaking news Yeah. Updated Hold on I'll send
you the link oh my gosh, there's so much happening. It is their
favourite ways that he ran out of gas if you run out of gas in
a plane no reason for you to crash and die okay there's no
reason you can land the plane Yeah, you know in a helicopter
you can auto rotate and of course I don't have any any
information on what the crash actually was but it was probably
suicide by petrol
Yeah, I'm always dubious of man once in a while they actually
around the bay or I think once every couple of years is always
weird to me with some buddies famous gets killed in a plane
elicited lesser some something like a storm. You know, they
shouldn't be flying. So what happened to Bill Graham, but
once in a while at some bonehead doesn't, you know, doesn't talk
but you got to know what happens when he runs out of fuel and
they always lands you know, in a neighbourhood on a highway and
the freeway always land. Very rarely did this guy get killed
because he ran out of gas unless he's you know, where the ocean
there was a guy who had a slight aneurysm in the UK a couple of
weeks ago. And I think it was the UK and so he temporarily
went blind. He could not see and they talked him down as they had
a an army pilot got into like some you know by plane train or
some crap like that was alongside him. talked him down
to the runway and he landed perfectly Wow. Wow. Yeah. And
yeah, it's just it's we hear the Akron Beacon journal reporting
the private plane of GOP is highly placed it guru Mike
Connell went down in Lake Township, Ohio on Friday
evening. He was killed in the crash report had been the only
person on board of course, no reports of anyone on the ground
being hurt. key witness in the in the king Lincoln V. Blackwell
lawsuit regarding fraud in the 2004 presidential election in
Ohio. That recently revived long standing lawsuit led to Connells
recent deposition November 3. All right, so that stinks. That
really stinks. Oh, they gotta they gotta clean some shit up
before they get out of there, I guess.
Yeah. Well, I mean, whose side is he on? And is behind me who's
cleaning him up? I mean, is it I mean, is it the there's no side?
Okay. Oh, okay. Nevermind. Why What am I even bring? Why are
you even
asking that there's no side. So someone tried to register
register they work for us. dot.org Yeah, you should go to
they work for us.org. But is it is registered by the government?
Of course.
It is. You kidding me? Oh, it's
funny. It's actually the federal employees. They work for us.
They got little radio commercials here. I'll play the
radio commercial. It's hilarious. This is really funny
and listen to this.
We protect the integrity of the national banking system. We
protect American democracy and let the public know who
contributes to federal candidates. We ensure the safety
of Americans Food, Drug, medical device and cosmetic products. We
protect the air you breathe and the water you drink. We work to
improve the energy security of the United States and to
safeguard
we are on the frontlines guarding against terrorists.
Federal employees keep our nation vital and strong federal
employees. They work for us
that's great. They get The job with the federal government, I'm
guessing pretty soon they got religion, there won't be any
other work available for anyone?
That's correct.
You are correct. Yeah. If you take a look at the image, this
is essentially we're gonna see what Roosevelt did you know,
just basically the New Deal. Yeah, this is basically,
well, so this is what this is what they're angry about in
Greece, because in Greece, they've already started the New
Deal, because of course, it is a world government. And they're
privatising everything. So you'll see now there's a lot of
movement in, in infrastructure companies, the huge
conglomerates are now shifting all of their money into buying
up companies that build roads, tunnels, etc. It's all being
privatised, and all that money that was flowing to other crap
is now flowing into that, and there's going to be a trillion
dollars that Obama is going to approve as a stimulus. And that
trillion dollars is gonna go right to the same people. And
we're gonna make some BS roads. And of course, the question is,
that's another trillion, we'll tack on to the 8 trillion
already extended in the bailout. The Chinese are now saying, Hey,
we're not gonna lend forever. So that means we'll have to print
it. It goes on the balance sheet,
which means we're gonna get inflation, there's just no, I
just don't see it happening any other way? Well, you have to
have inflation live, but it's gonna be pretty significant.
Well, you have to have inflation for this economy to work the way
they want it to work. And yeah, probably will be significant.
They can't control it very well. But right now they put the the
interest rate down to zero. So that's where we're, that's our
beginning point.
Yeah, it is, it is zero, right? It's near
zero at zero. That's like,
explain what that means. What does that mean for people who
just gloss over that, and take no heed of the fact that there
are people controlling the cost of our homes, the cost of our
groceries, the cost of our cars, they're doing this by
controlling the interest rates, John C. Dvorak, please, in under
one minute and 30 seconds, explain what this is about?
Well, the idea is, of course, to keep to curb inflation by making
by changing the interest rates as, as the only supposedly the
only lever we have that
why is that necessary? Why is it necessary to curb inflation?
Because inflation, if you have a really, if you have really bad
inflation, it causes which could devolve into hyperinflation, it
hurts the banks, and more than any,
okay, so
here's the deal. So I borrow 100 bucks from you. And the 100
bucks is worth like, say 100 bucks, where the gold. And now
now we have inflation, and the 100 bucks is now worth, you
know, 10 cents, where the golden they basically making millions
of dollars a day, or I have a $10 billion note, like, you
know, the Zimbabwe notes. And now I can pay your 100 bucks
back with this cheap money, and you're screwed.
So thank you, actually, you did it in under 30 seconds. It is to
protect the banks. It's to protect them, not for us, is to
protect the banks. Okay, thank you.
Now, but if I'm dying, because you're all out of business, and
we're all the only banker we have is in China. Yeah, let's go
for it. Let's
go. But you mean, if you need to borrow from the bank, I got an
idea. It's called a mattress, stick your shit underneath that,
save it in the sock, save your money and go buy it.
I'm waiting for the interest rates to go negative. Because
what that means is that when I give the Treasury $100, they
give me back 95.
It's fantastic. What a great what a great country or what a
great country or
what. So anyway, so we start so we get it down to a zero because
that's where you want. That's your beginning point. Now we got
lots of room to operate because you were at zero. So when things
start to crank up, we got lots of headroom here. Now we can
move the interest rates up to five and is still going to be
low. And it's going to create a really hot economy. And I think
we're going to have a boom, that is like just going to shock
everybody. But the problem is it's going to be a false boom is
going to fool everybody. Because here's what's going to hear just
in my scenario, of course,
and by the way, I think I'm agreeing with you already. Go
ahead.
So what we've got here, we have this horrible situation that
we're experiencing right now. And so it looks like absolute
bottom, the the pression is the worst thing you can have. We're
going to build from this. We bring in a new president, he's
going to do infrastructure stuff, he's got a little
Roosevelt and thing going on. He's got Brzezinski you know we
get a little cold war action starting again which good keeps
the military happy we got we got on the streets. We got troops in
the streets is perfect. So now we start the crank. We start
with you're throwing money into the system and is starting to
crank up the economy. And we all know that the depression is over
because they only last a little while. You know, this is what
we're experiencing today. And now it's time to get back to
work. So we're going to start cranking this thing up. Obama is
going to be behind the whole thing, and we're going to
everyone is going to go into all the pent up demand is going to
hit the market at the same time, which is going to give you that
hockey stick look. And everybody's going to catch up,
they're going to have panic buying on Wall Street, because
people are going, Oh God, I'm going to miss it. Look at the
stock price. US Steel is down to nothing, it's going up, it's
doubled already is going to double and then they pull the
rug, then they pull the rug. And they do that by doing what
though you don't have to do anything that would who do we're
bankrupt. But it's just gonna do it by itself. It's an automatic
system.
And that's what that's when we that's when we enter. Here's a
new phrase for you the greatest depression.
Oh, I like it. Yeah, nice. Let me write that down before
because somebody might forget the great rate. Oh, that's a
good one that damn it. That's a good one. You're gonna that's
gonna catch on. That should be a t shirt. The greatest depression
Yeah. Which isn't the greatest deployment in addition to that
people should go to no agenda dot angry shirts.com and buy a t
shirt for us. greatest depression Yeah, we should we
have to plug the t shirt at the beginning of the show. Not the
end
of May. If you're satisfied if you're still listening to the
show by damn t shirt okay, if you're listening all through
this What is it now? An hour and a half? We're getting up there.
About an
hour and a half. Yeah, it's
about time the
greatest depression was seeking get greatest depression.com
Before we post this
Yeah, okay, hold on a second is it should be the greatest
depression
but I think you have to get both greatest depression and greatest
depression. Greatest I'm sure nobody's got it.
All I gotta go to Go Daddy. Daddy Daddy go daddy.
That'll be a great that'll be the what will turn the
situation. I mean, it's gonna be a mess. I'm not looking forward
to it. People are moaning now. There is this this beyond
moaning you have to remember during the Roosevelt era they I
mean, there was there was common thinking that they were going to
overthrow the government that it was an
old I of course, don't remember that. Okay, hold on here it is
already taken. The greatest depression.com has already
taken. Let me try a greatest depression
which that's gone to?
Oh, well. Okay,
I know that GoDaddy has not confirmed that yet. It's coming
through is coming through and the answer is, is already taken.
So is there a website?
Probably not. It's probably a Parker or some guy talking about
his wife being depressed.
What Oh, yeah. Parking. It's in parking.
Yeah. All right. Well, I think yeah, well, it was a good shot,
but we can single use
it. Now we can use Absolutely. Right. So that so that that for
you is 2011 Right? That's kind of your
No no 2020 13 I mean, there's two or three scenarios that we
can look at that are based on historical scenarios. And
there's the two that I like the best one of them entails a crash
at the end of next year then then we begin and that's the
real classic 80 year cycle which took place in 1920
That makes sense John because because what we have coming
obviously the credit card House of Cards is about the bout to
cave in. And then then we have commercial real estate because
every single huge chain is out of business commercial real
estate I think is over extended far and beyond the private like
it's
look at San Francisco there's buildings all over the place
who's going to work in these thing when
of empty malls and people are not we're gonna under gonna feel
uncomfortable on the strip malls are gonna have big gaps in it
with places that are just chopped out is gone and no one
to replace it. There's no new businesses,
right? Well anyway, so let me give you the two scenarios for
people who don't know even though I've probably said these
scenarios too many times for some people, but the classic
classic would be the following. You have Obama comes in
everybody's just all jacked up and we have a real hockey stick
run up in the stock market goes to 25,000 By the way, it's a key
number and when when the market has to view us as bulls never
gonna have 25,000 it when does Dow Jones hits 25,000 Sell
everything you own. Okay, and if you could get 30 in your I could
have made more money. Get out, right? Okay. So the market
skyrocket because by the way, you have to remember that in
1929 alone, the Dow Jones tripled right within the year.
So it's not uncommon for something like this to happen
has happened before and before that historically, we don't
There was never a Dow Jones so we couldn't really trace things
but there are other evidences of this. This really fast climb.
And if you look at the way that pound collapse. I mean, it's
ridiculously fast. So things are moving. Anyway, so the market
takes off and you have a crash, traditionally, in October of
2009, the market crash on some Monday or Friday, and and then
it recovers kind of never quite makes it back to the 25,000. But
then it starts to go into a slow slide, which bottoms out in
2013. No matter what scenario I pick, 2013 is still the
operative year for the bottom of the Depression, technically, but
it's so horrible at that point that you don't have a real
student, even recovery, you have kind of a sketchy recovery, it
takes about seven years. So you don't really have anything, you
know, the happy days do not return except the model always
shows. And by the way, this will happen to that in 2017, you have
a kind of a kind of a mini boom, and then it crashes back down.
It's just a short term thing that's happened in 1857. And it
happened and you can almost every 40 years. So anyway, so we
so that's the one possibility, which is the worst case
scenario. Yeah, that sounds good. Yeah, yeah, give me you're
gonna have this one opportunity at the end of 2009, just before
the crash to maybe make some money and put it away. But other
than that, you don't have enough time to get the millions of
dollars, you're going to need to get through to the big one.
Okay, the other possibility happened in 1890, you had a very
interesting situation where there should have been a crash
in 1889. It wasn't we actually had a bull market and a boom,
that took place until about 1890 to 1893. And then they had a
massive crash and and what was called a depression in 1893,
which matches the the that that that cycled, which would match
2013 If you add, you know, 4040 4040 years to it out over
again.
How does the French Revolution play into that? Was that is that
also on one of those 40 to
40? Daily, the French Revolution? I have a bunch of
there's a bunch of international stuff. That's my
1789 to 1799.
Yeah, there was a yeah, there's actually some some things that
happened during that period. I have a chronology that I'm gonna
probably but
but the French Revolution happened for the same reasons.
You had this guy who was printing up the money, and he
was, you know, basically, he had shares in the bank that was
printing the money in
a way that would look like superficially. But if since I'm
a cycle guy, it was part of a cycle more than it was that as
far as I'm concerned,
okay, well, I'm down with that, because it doesn't really
matter. Because people are doing stupid stuff all the time. It's
just every 80 years, the stupid stuff the guy at the time is
doing he gets blamed for it. Right. All except, except that
well, you know, that was same thing with Hoover. And that's
why I was kind of hoping McCain was gonna get in because it
would have reset the political system a little more, logically,
and I think Obama would have been a better president in 2012.
But he got in, so could happen with Hoover, you had this, you
know, Calvin Coolidge was the George Bush of zero, just do
nothing bonehead, and who spent all this time fishing, and which
was exactly the same as bush. In that regard. He was I think he
was out fishing during some natural disaster. And which is
hilarious. Yeah, Katrina, and he like, yeah, and basically
screwed up the economy in such a way that the guy who had to take
over the place which was Hoover, who was another clueless
Republican, he didn't really know what to do if things were
bad. He was like one of those, you know, if some people can run
a company, when, when things are good, and some people can turn
around a company is a specialist and some people can run a
company when things are bad. I mean, you don't have all all
three skills, usually. And the same thing with being a chief
executive, you know, some things are going great, you know, this
guy does the job, but if things turn around, he doesn't know
what to do. And that's what happened. So he got stuck
holding the bag and got kicked out and Roosevelt came in. This
guy said, Obama said, Yeah, but
this time, it's, look, Obama promised that I was gonna get
laid and it ain't gonna happen. All right. That's, that's just
the that's just a long and the short of it.
Well, that's because of your neighbour. The
the moral of the story, ladies and gentlemen, is it doesn't
hurt to check out a little bit of history. And by the way,
Wikipedia does not count. You should look at the
pharmaceutical websites, pharmaceutical pages on
Wikipedia. Hilarious. Oh, they're all just commercials.
Yeah, it's great for you. And no one ever bitches and moans about
that.
Yeah, no, that's right. No, it's really pathetic. Some of the
Wikipedia pages are nothing more than there's the one for Noam
Chomsky as a joke. You should check that one out. It's like
this thing is like a million. This is like a terabyte.
Do you know that schools now let kids use Wikipedia for their
research for their papers.
That's wrong.
Yes it's completely wrong. Schools are allowing it and
Obama Of course we putting more internet in so that we can get
more Wikipedia
and that's about it. Well, it's depressing. No No, no
Not at all. I see it as as another battle that will be
fought uphill and in the rain.
Yeah, well, you won't be liking it when I move into your house
with my family.
John, it'd be more than welcome. Bring some sausage meats. All
right, well, hey, listen. I had that was. That was long. It was
a good time.
Yeah, don't for you. Why you there's a hole in the middle.
You can pull up.
I stopped. Stop the recording when I went downstairs. You mean
that? Okay, I'm not gonna I never cut anything out ever.
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