Adam curry, John C. Dvorak from opposite corners of Gitmo nation
Time again for no agenda on this Thursday, February 26 2000. Nice
is no agenda streaming from Gitmo nation east from the
crackpot command center in southwest London. I'm Adam
curry.
And I'm John C. Dvorak here in Silicon Valley north where it's
raining.
And it's nice and cloudy here in London as well. Yes, important
music means important stuff coming your way. And Buzzkill?
Hey, John, how you doing?
It's good. Yeah,
I miss you, man. We haven't we haven't actually, we haven't
spoken since the last show. Have we? No,
no, you've been in meetings? No, I
have not. I tried to stay away from them. I love the meetings
we have because I've got Scott, you know, I use the same Skype
connection that we're using for the show. And so I can
completely control everything. I can mix all audio levels. So you
know, I'm usually editing during the meetings. Keep an eye out of
what is Oh my name. Yeah, I'm here.
Do you ever put a sound effect in?
Absolutely. Usually it's it's like a reverb or something. Do
something funny, but anyway, I try to stay away from too many
meetings. I do have one after the show today.
up new word out on the street. A new word. Octomom.
Octomom didn't didn't someone offer her money $2 To be in a
porn. Yeah, who wants to see that?
Who knows that is I take the money.
Octomom who fits in the octave box. You know what the octave
boxes
I used to.
The Octave box is what they use on CNBC when they have
eight people. All right, the octave box right eight people on
the screen. I've actually
seen the Decca box where they had 10 people on the screen
phenomenal and then you know, it's really important, right?
And he's like, Oh, stop everything. And we turn up the
volume. They've got the octave box on each
the octave box that's bad enough. So I'm the news. I'm
gonna get to the story beats breaking as we speak. Those who
come in one after another.
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What breaking news this is no
agenda. We have breaking news. John C. Dvorak with breaking
news.
Breaking breaking news in this case, is the no pun intended
because we're talking about cow flatulence again. And sheep
belching so there's a breaking aspect to it. Okay, hit me
apparently, according to all these articles have just showed
up. In fact, in today's Wall Street Journal, it turns out
that sheep belching may account for 12% of manmade global
warming.
Okay, this isn't the Wall Street Journal, you say?
Yeah, today's Wall Street Journal big story on sheep
belching because the sheep apparently belch methane. And
then if I was looking this up a little bit, and it looked at
according to one story 12% of Australian greenhouse gases come
from livestock flatulence. Again, another breaking story.
Meanwhile, as I'm looking at all these different the stories that
I write in you if you start scratching the surface of global
warming, or as they now call it climate change, because they did
the other word is was getting worried. It wasn't it wasn't
working anymore. It wasn't working. But I like it. I still
like it global warming, it sounds better. So if you scratch
the surface of it, you keep coming up with the same thing.
Vegans with an agenda and vegetarians is though somebody
came up with this neat idea some years ago that if you blame, you
know, if you get on this global warming kick, then you can
attack the livestock because at some point, you know, because of
their belching and farting, there's you could tribute global
warming to them. And so I run into the newspaper in Ontario
called the standard St. Catharines. The town St.
Catharines standard. And I think the headline kind of like says
it all and it's about global warming, but the headline is, we
need to solve the now quote marks meat problem.
Ah, yes, I have a meat problem that I need solving to and you
can email me This is unbelievable, but it makes so
much sense. Because, you know, we know that this satellite
failed to separate from the payload from the cone however,
Ronnie, yeah, this was the big fail. This was the satellite
that was actually going to measure the sheep belching and
cow flatulence as a part of manmade climate change from
space. You know, it's out of control.
I wonder what was going on during the era where the entire
western plains are covered with millions and millions and
millions of bison? Well, they
surely you know that bison, they must have fired you know, they
don't fart man. Now, by the way, I have done a quite a bit of
sheep shearing. In my day, when I was much younger, we lived
just south of Amsterdam, and a small farming village. And it
was a lot of fun, really, you know, the old fashioned way,
with shears. And I have held many sheep between my legs.
There's a great drop for you, and held many sheep between my
legs. But I've never heard one belt ever.
Have you? Well, no, actually, we have a sheep. And does he belt?
I have never noticed it. Maybe when they go by? That's actually
a belch? Well, I
think I can tie a couple of things together. Sounds like a
belt, the meat problem. I like that, that you've latched on to
that, because I've it hit me earlier this week. That the
smart grid. It has it of course it has to do with energy power.
But it has to do with a lot more. And I started looking into
it into the smart grid. Now a lot of the money for the smart
grid will be dished out by an outfit called I'm sure you've
heard of them the western area Power Administration.
Have you heard of them? No, actually, they haven't heard of
them.
Oh, okay. Wow. Well, the Western Power a western area Power
Administration. I'll read I'm just reading from their website
wapa.gov part of the government. The part of the Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009, which, of course is the the big
stimulus package. It grants the western area Power
Administration, the authority to borrow up to 3.2 5 billion from
the US Treasury has a whole bunch of basically, they hand
out the grants. And so as I'm looking through, you know, just
going down as deep as I can write
any grants we can get?
Well, interesting. So they, they're handing out a lot of
money to GE, and IBM, these are the two corporations who are
going to receive most of this Smart Grid money. And IBM writes
about, well, here's a little piece from IBM as, as it
pertains to their grant. The world is becoming instrumented
by 2010, there will be a billion trends, transistors per human,
each one costing one 10,000,000th of a cent. The
world is becoming interconnected with a trillion network things
cars, roadways, pipelines, appliances, pharmaceuticals, and
even livestock. The amount of information created by those
interactions grows exponentially. And as you look
through it, a part of this smart grid will be tracking livestock.
Ah, so of course, how do you track lives and also livestock
feed, I'm sure it's going to be a part of it. So when you track
livestock is very simple, because even my pets are
chipped. They all have a little chip inserted, and it's an RFID
RFID chip. And they can they can track each individual piece of
meat all a part of the meat problem. That is not far from
embedding it into humans, John, then we're very, very close to a
complete global matrix that just hovers around us being tracked
everywhere. So this smart grid, I think needs Oh, you already
have that with you. But it's being done through your phone.
Yeah,
exactly. Well, yeah. Because we talked about that about my my
Nokia and I installed Google Maps with latitude. And by the
way, after the show, battery has not run down.
It stopped. Oh, they probably disconnected it remotely.
And then I'm reading about Nokia. Yeah, no, I got I got a
lot of time between meetings. So I'm reading about Nokia. The
other day got a half a half a trillion was a 500 Sorry, maybe
right? It was 500 million, half a billion. Yeah, they got a half
a million. Half a billion euro loan from the EIB the European
Investment Bank who by the way, whose charter is to help out
small and medium enterprises. I don't think Nokia quite
qualifies as a small and medium enterprise.
Got I wouldn't think so by the way, EIB also stands for the
Excellence in broadcasting. Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh.
So the EIB, which, you know, God knows it's a part of the
European Union, they're a shareholder in this bank, you
know, so they're just, they just hand out this money to Nokia or
not handing out it's a loan. But you know, the implications, I
think, are pretty severe when you think about, you know, so
what if, what if the EU says, Hey, Nokia, you know, here's
this money, but you know, put this chip in, instead of that
one, you know, use our souped up version? I mean, who protects
the US from that? Who checks on that stuff? Is there a way to
check? Can you log? Can you see what your phone is doing? I have
serious security concerns about this.
I think in your case, you should yeah. But in
general, it's not just me. Look, I'm not I'm sorry for saying
that. I'm not worried. Let's be clear. It's my new one. I say to
my wife. No, no, no, it's, I want to be very clear. Let's be
clear. Now.
He said that the number of times he also said by the way that he
one time during the speech, which we're gonna get into
later, Obama did go off camera off script. And when he did his
little ad lib was like one sentence ad lib about something.
But she did it twice. There was a joke about Joe Lieberman or
joke about Joe Biden. He said, Look. One time, he went off
JavaScript, he had to say, look,
I'm pretty sure that the Joe Biden quip was written in there.
They could have been Yeah, cuz I read the transcript, which I
think came out almost simultaneously. Is that what
does he hand the speech to the Speaker of the House and the
vice president when he comes in what's in the manila envelopes?
But he hands to them?
Check for a million dollars to shut up?
One of those big phony checks that unfolds here, Joe? I'm
sorry. It's not just Joe Biden, the Vice President it is our
stimulus czar.
Yeah, stimulus formula. The guy who doesn't who doesn't know
what the how the internet works? Apparently, we've discovered
that Joe Biden, I love doesn't know what a website is. They
were taught we know if this was a Republican administration.
They would be all over this.
I have it for you. Hold on. I saved it. I saw you put it on.
On Divorce Act. In fact, I just cut it into a media today for
tomorrow. It's so funny. Here it comes. This is Joe Biden being
interviewed on CBS Early Show about Rick, but by the way, the
journalist is, is a douchebag is a douche. I mean, listen to her.
It's so stupid. By the way. Do you
know the website? You know, I'm embarrassed, you know, the
website number. I know I should have it in front of me. And I
don't. I'm actually embarrassed. I'm gonna call your office to
get it later. It is recovery.gov recovery.gov. Is
that up and running already?
So a couple observations here. First of all, maybe Joe is
really smart. And he's saying he's actually needs the IP
address. Maybe he was just you know, the IP address of that
website? Because he is a command line hacker, obviously. But then
to have the interviewer say, is that up and running on any? Is
she under a frickin rock? Is that up and running on any
host? Well, maybe she was trying to maybe she wasn't doing her
job trying to catch him saying I don't know, when the fact of
course has been running forever.
Well, as well, and it's still stagnant. How long have I been
looking at this thing for three weeks? No change announcements.
last announcement was still February 18.
It reflects the recovery itself, but he
keeps keeps using this and it keeps being said and um, and
showing up in conversations with people particularly on Twitter.
Say well, you know, Hey, man, that's transparency. We got
recovery.gov Yeah, but they actually have to put something
on it
so yeah, anyway, so Biden, by the way, I saw you used another
thing that was kind of weird because I saw you use this on
the show the like it yesterday or whenever there's the is the
the new Broadway play.
About Shrek Shrek the Musical Director
musical where it's just a lot of belching and farting. Talking
about being dramatic for today's show, apparently. What are they
thinking? Do I want to go to a Broadway play to watch some
weird looking fat guy farting with his girlfriend? It just
doesn't sound like entertainment to me. I think kids like it
yeah, I don't know. Be encouraged to like that crap.
It was it was cute. It was funny. Wasn't it wasn't
funny at all. Yeah,
you're a grumpy old man. And maybe you don't like us? Yes.
Like you don't fart.
Man, my friend. He's got nothing to do with I'm not gonna go do
it on stage.
It depends on how much they pay you so much Now, hold on a
second. Yeah, and Kerry's gonna do something here.
So let's go over this speech unless you got something else to
say, No, I
got tons of stuff. But I'd love to go over the speech with you
this one. Okay, well, I
got the speech play by play, I want to bore people stiff. So
I'm going to put my give myself a 10 minute time limit.
Okay, let me let me just set it up for you. Because we have to
know a little bit of background. It is highly unusual for a new
president to address. Congress this session. Yeah. Joint
Session isn't as Norway everybody
call this State of the Union speech? What is with everybody?
It was a it wasn't a state of aging. And no, it was. It was an
address the joint sessions of Congress, but everybody
newspapers and bloggers and everyone between they're in
there. Yeah. Yeah. And it wasn't.
And when I look at this through my European eyes, man, it's no
wonder people think we're dicks. And this This is it's absolutely
atrocious. Show. I mean, all it is, is oh, let's stand up and
clap again. Oh, let's stand up and clap again. We're gonna
lead. Oh, let's turn up. Oh, yes. It's just like, I mean,
don't you feel that?
Oh, do it starts off. I thought I was watching an NFL game. For
one thing, it began late. He was 15 minutes late in his delivery.
But that's beside the point. It starts off and by the way that I
was watching on Fox initially and I could barely take looking
at Shepard Smith because that guy has, if anybody has
reptilian eyes as this Jeff Smith chips
mill Studio B. That's right. We're going down to New Orleans.
By the way, consumer confidence down to 25%. Lower since 1967
When the index was invented. Okay, so Nancy Pelosi is up
there. She looks like share.
Her hair is definitely somewhat out of control. And she's got a
huge chest to at least in that outfit she had on?
Yeah, well, it's probably stuffed with Kleenex. Anyway,
money
was money. So anyway, so it starts off and they bring in
these these guys and make an announcement and they bring in
the Supreme Court, who it looks like they're bringing in a
football team, in teams with a bunch of people on either side,
leaning over high fiving sink pointings Jada and they come
through, you know, these guys, and they're applauding arm and
they sit down and then they go on and on and on. And then they
bring in Obama who comes in like a football quarterback. And
there's all these guys leaning over, shaking his hand patting
him on the back, high fives, you know, knuckle punches, the whole
thing is costing. It's unbelievable. And so they
finally get in. He's pointing by the way he's pointing,
like like Arsenio Hall, kind of like, Hey, man, I see you over
there. How you doing?
Hey, he's pointing his point. He's pointing I'm thinking,
That's okay. I'm okay with that. I mean, it's okay to have a
president who's kind of in this century,
pointing is in the century and coming in high five and you
didn't to give a speech. So he goes up and he does standing
ovation, big standing ovation. He's up there. It begins he gets
up to about 610 It goes on for about five minutes before
actually gets started. 615 Everyone's standing Oh, standing
Oh, so they every now he starts to he just makes it starts to
make his intro. And everybody jumps back up and gives them
another standing Oh, then they go down and then he said any
mentions Michelle up in the audience, and they give her a
standing ovation.
So it was Speaker of the House vice president members of
Congress and I believe the First Lady is around here somewhere. I
mean, it was slick, dude, come on. That was slick.
Why does she get a standing ovation? What did she do?
She's, well, I'm not even gonna say it. She's doing plenty.
So she had Okay, so you think she deserves a standing ovation
from Congress?
Well, just ghost it. No, it just goes to show how
they all sit down again. And he's a he uses the word we will
rebuild standing ovation, rebuild what
our leadership of the world. That's what that's the message
we will lead. We will lead you the rest of the world. We are in
charge of you.
He makes mention as he goes on, he makes mentioned about how
regulations were gutted. Implying that it had to do with
the Bush administration. Most of the banking crisis stems from
the Clinton administration when my first office the first thing
he did, what the first thing that clicked first thing Clinton
did when he got elected, was he changed the regulation against
interstate banking. We used to have it No, it was there was a
provision to Bank of America. If it was in California, it had to
stay in California. You didn't have these national banks,
right? You didn't have these competitive banks that were
every city around the country buying each other up because
supposedly according to Clinton, we needed this to be more
competitive in the world banking work market. The fact of the
matter is we had three of the biggest banks in the world with
that old system in place. then by the end of Clinton's term, he
repealed the Glass Steagall Act, which was put in place by the
Roosevelt administration to Prevent an economic meltdown.
Anyway. And then, of course, the bankruptcy laws were changed.
thanks to Joe Biden, he was one of the main guys on that. So but
that's okay. Blame bush for this. It's fine. The Republicans
didn't do a very good job. Let's face it. So if it goes on, and I
was standing, oh, after standing, oh, up and down, up
and down, you think you're in a Catholic church at midnight
mass. So the next thing that happens is that finally he
starts to get into some partisan stuff. And so Dow less and he
only gets a half a standing, oh, the Republicans stay seated.
Which I thought was kind of interesting. He brings up to
save or create 3.5 million jobs, you know, with this. Bogus by
the way, that number keeps changing. Now it's 3.5 million.
Well, it was it was three, it was four. And then at the end,
it was
fine. It was 2.5. Anyway, but the BBC
on their their news ticker, forgot to add the Create part.
So they were just saying Obama, colon, save 3 million jobs. So
it's already morphing.
It's morphing, then he's good distribution keeps going Yes.
The same pretty much as standard speech. I was very good. I mean,
the guy's a great speaker, especially compared to Bush, I
heard the,
you know, the, the kid who writes his speech, I read in
Financial Times, that he was standing in the corner with his
BlackBerry and he was literally mouthing the words, you know,
like he was lip syncing along with Obama. Because of course,
he wrote it.
As always reminds me when you get when you do a TV shoot, and
you got two people, one of them is an amateur and you're walking
off a prompter and one person is talking and the other one's loud
mouthing along
with the words I know. That was kind of what it was in fact,
once reading off the teleprompter and the other ones
not and he's mouthing along
Yeah, well you wrote it so then they will also have the says
something about Nobody messes with Joe and he gets a standing
ovation and then which I just like why and so you know, can't
you idiots sit down for a minute just listen to the speech
because is is a mafia don man he's he's a big big man on
campus everyone wants to go to shows respect to the dumb kiss
the ring
lending he got it standing over for saying lending fund whatever
that means being me well, they put a camera shot on Joe
Lieberman who was kind of rolling his eyes throughout the
speech. It was kind of humorous. I'm I was reminded right about
this point of the you know, this, this thing where we're
going to do this, we're going to you know, they all these kinds
of threats against the executives.
Go Yeah, you can't get a nice little wash room. No makeover,
forget you forget your fancy jet, because it doesn't compare
to an $11 billion helicopter fleet.
And so I was reminded of the Jimmy Carter banishment of the
three Martini lunch. Similar kind of, you know, what are
these people doing? They're drinking martinis at lunch. My
God. By the way, Hillary Clinton was wearing hot fuchsia.
Somebody mentioned this before that once Hillary stopped
running for office, she could go back to the way she likes to
dress, which apparently is more like a neon sign and anything
else. And so she's wearing this hot fuchsia dress, which is
enough to blind and I think was actually illegal for NTSC.
Intelligence. It's, it's
sort of the color scale the spectrum of this switch, you
know, where she wears it. I mean, you know, politics show
business for Ugly people, she that's why she wants to make
sure that you see or that your eye is drawn to her. It's one of
the oldest tricks in the book. It's like the red tie or the
blue tie.
Exactly. So she's doing the pull back the camera you can see in
the Congress, there was her in the front with this fuchsia
dress, but you can see at least one other person possibly to
also wearing the same Gosh, awful color. And then a third
and fourth person wearing like red, you know, in the middle of
this kind of very dour looking group.
All right, what else anywhere else?
Well, I got the impression watching. You know, I would like
to re cut the speech and instead of having all the standing
ovations, you cut to a clip from a Betty Boop cartoon of that
audience that that clapping and going crazy with the you know,
the hippo in the front and the elephant and all this because I
think it would fit right right in there. He didn't mention the
carbon cap.
Yeah, the cat the cap and trade scheme, right?
Yeah, cap and trade some bullshit and then that got a
double standing ovation. And Biden got out well, but it
started
with the cap and trade is essentially attacks. I did some
reading on him, see if I can find the link for it. But But
essentially, they expect it to fund a lot of the budget. So
that means it's a form of attacks.
Yeah, well, everything's a form of attack. axe to just come up
with a new way of making it, you know, sneaking it in on the
stupid public. Somehow though I got a kick out of this. He snuck
in the Word. And I think this was, you know, this was a little
bit of Nobody. Nobody
didn't sneak in Octomom Diddy.
And no, he snuck into the term clean coal. Hmm. Yeah, I did
hear that. Yeah, he snuck that in. And then of course, he
caught everybody off guard with the bogus pronouncement that we
somehow invented the automobile. I love that. What? Why would I
say what he said?
But you'd be amazed John, how many people believe that?
Oh, I'm sure whereas I'm sure even more believe it now that he
said it
with the claim, of course is that Henry Ford invented the
production assembly line. Yeah, and really the mass produced
vehicle but of course it
was a Jeep Junker. Yeah, it was you know what we're still known
for it to this day. Of course,
it was German guys like Benz and Daimler and Maybach who invented
the automobile
ya know, the Germans were way ahead of us on that
they I think they still are actually
think the Japanese are ahead of everybody. Sorry to tell you to
bad news for the Germans but I don't think anybody makes a
better car than the Japanese and you know, they got the hybrids
out and all this other stuff. I just
rolled out the hybrids. Well,
I still make V eight engines that are that are unbelievable.
I mean, that engine and Alexis a VA that thing has got when I was
a kid, we used VH used to be the big deal. You had to have a VA
but you'd need your soup them up as best you can. But you could
never to get one to get one horsepower per cubic inch was
like you had a race car, essentially. I mean, to get to
that. Comprehend level. Yeah. Yeah, well, these, these
Japanese have gone way beyond that. And it's in the car and
the engines run smooth as glass. It's just like, how does that
work? I mean, you have a four liter engine with 250
horsepower, 300 horsepower in the newer versions, and
they're using Wankel engines. That's why
using nobody use the only that one crappy wangling, at least he
tried it.
I once had a model that I built of a Wankel engine, a plastic
kit model. Yeah, it was cool. And it was a little battery. So
it actually ran, you could understand the principle of the
Wankel, but I just like saying it rankle Yeah, baby, sure you
do touch my
ankle. By the way, I got a meme out of this, which I think
you're gonna run into it here and again, yeah, there's, by the
way, a game called Obama. Bingo. Now, how many times is he gonna
say this and that. But this is the meme. It's not a Democrat
issue. It's not a Republican issue. It's an American issue.
Yeah. I thought that was a good one.
Yeah. And then it's the men and women who sent me here. Not the
Americans, not the people. No, this was a good speech. I didn't
hear anything new. I mean, I'd like to get down to the numbers.
Most interesting, of course, is that a amidst all of what has
happened this week, a bill was introduced that I think it's
voted on today or tomorrow, the omnibus bill, which is kind of
under the radar, of course, it's only $410 billion.
So it's hardly worth mentioning nothing nothing.
Are you familiar with the with the omnibus bill? Now tell me
the omnibus bill which is is just being rammed right through
no pro blamer is what Pelosi calls it all the stuff we had
leftover from the previous administration says like eight
and a half 1000 basically earmarks all jammed into one
bill, which they call the honest report this this is all the pork
is here. And it's just outrageous when you read the
stuff that's in here. Hold on, I just have to bring it up. I
mean, what's nice about all the transparency of course that we
have these days is you can actually get all these documents
and and download them.
So it's like people who do that. David Obey
House Appropriations Chair wants to rebuild Carnegie Library
building in Medford reconstruct historic lighthouses, the sea
perimeter fence around Roundtree airport and Alabama. But you
know, $410 billion worth and no one's talking about it. Call his
tie even has a cool name omnibus. It's now the news is
not covering it. It's an it gets a vote, I believe today or
tomorrow. So now we've just completely lost track. Other
than the total number which actually was just the announced
the total. The President, this administration's budget $1.75
trillion. Yes. Is the the total budget. And I'm sure the 410
billion is a part of it. But it's just mind boggling. You
know, it's just stuff that we don't need. I mean, yeah, I
mean, come on. Do the historic lighthouses and five years,
they'll still be historic.
Yeah, and they'll still be lighthouses. And I don't think
we need another fence. But anyway, I'm sure there's some
really good stuff in there. I should plow through that myself.
I'll have the links will be in the show notes. I've got the
links for it. Okay, as a part of this whole week was just amazing
to watch. Not to be outdone by the G 20. Which of course, over
here, there's a lot of stuff going on. In regards to to the
financial crisis. Europe is, you know, totally preparing to
launch something big. They're all in cahoots in there. And
that being real, you know, real hush hush about when you're
coming out with dumb statements. But not to be outdone, the Obama
administration had their own financial Summit, which just
like appeared out of nowhere. And I, I've been twittering,
I've been searching. Nowhere could I find it? But again, in
the Financial Times, there was a fantastic little piece there
that said that Lauren Summers, who, of course, is the head of
the President's economic advisory board that he fell
asleep on the podium. And and I you know, kind of like the the
Japanese finance minister, like wouldn't it be great to have
those two guys, you know, in a video next to each other, but I
just couldn't no one has it apparently. Or it's been, you
know, embargoed, but this guy apparently falls asleep a lot.
And he's probably got narcolepsy. Yeah, they call him
Lawrence have absurd idea. But
yeah, well, let me just finish my little rundown here. Sure.
Sure, we can get out of it. So anyway, I'm just this is a point
where there's I think about two thirds of the way through all of
a sudden narratives here we come. We're gonna do some, like
make people feel good. There's Solly.
Oh, right. Yeah, yeah. Oh, my goodness. Yep. But he was mostly
invited him. Yeah. Well, I you know what, there is a reason
John, I'm so glad you brought this up. So Sullenberger and the
copilot, his name evades me for a moment, I'll get to that.
We're at the house on this. Yeah. On a on a special FAA
meeting. And it's just it's amazing the things that came out
of that out of that meeting, which was on C span,
essentially, Sullenberger, Sally's message was he know if
we don't take care of the pilots union and and all the other
unions if you know, if we don't, you know, put our money where
our mouth is and keep these people happily gainfully and
properly employed and properly compensated, you know, we just
can't promise your safety that was essentially the message he's
literally saying here Well, there's going to be new pilots
who are less experienced and have been rushed to the system
and basically you know, I guess he's on the this was a ploy for
the for the unions, basically was saying you got to pay up or
forget about it, or you'll just have no safety.
And of course, then they can point to that flight in that one
that was mysteriously crashed with that. 911 woman aboard
what what was funny my mental flight? Yeah, yeah. What was
funny though, is the copilot was also there. I'm looking for the
the exact code also the air traffic controller was there. I
mean, though, the whole trifecta. And so they're talking
about this, this bird strike now, I promised I wouldn't talk
about it anymore, but it's highly unusual. Let's put it
that way for both engines to be snuffed out by birds. You can
google both look on YouTube. You can see how they test these
engines they actually shoot frozen turkeys into the engines
and the engines are fine. They don't stop you know frozen
turkeys. Okay, it's like these, these engines can handle some
some bird strike edge. But normally you'd it particularly
if you went through a flock of geese which were so large that
they snuffed out both engines, there would have been other hull
damage and you don't see any damage at all. And then the
copilot says, this was the biggest bird I've ever seen. He
says that a mistake like what is this big bird from Sesame Street
flying through the air. You know, if you're flying and when
you're driving along, you might have had a bird hit your
windshield. It's really hard to assess the size of the bird when
it hits your windshield going 50 or 60 miles and miles an hour.
So imagine imagine going 150 And it's not against your
windshield. It's apparently to have these big birds in your
engines. I mean, the whole thing just smells and it doesn't smell
rotting bird flats, which is what they also claim they could
smell.
Well, it's possible that they hit a flock of Tara Daniels.
I'm thinking this is a war. There's a war going on between
Airbus and Boeing. And they're just bringing each other's
planes down red random, just to prove that they the other ones.
You heard about this Turkish Air flight that crashed at Schiphol
airport yesterday.
Yeah, I heard about that nine people dead at least now
horrible, horrible scene. But of course,
there's there's two interesting things about this mishap this
accident, one that I found out about it on Twitter before
anything else hit. And it was, you know, the all the pictures
that the new the cable outlets were showing were all Twit pics.
And so it kind of shows that we've built our own news network
around the established media. Which is interesting, because
you know, literally just Twitter when crazy, you know, there's
enough interconnections with people, you follow that and
retweeting going on that it works. And it was definitely
well known to lots of people before it hit the mainstream
media. And so 10 minutes after this, this crash takes place,
I'm already over at a live ATC dotnet, because they they record
all three frequencies of people air traffic control. So they've
got ground delivery, they've got approach, and then they have the
tower. And so I'd start downloading, and they do it by
half hour. So you can just say, Oh, give me this half hour
archive. So it's em, one, two, and three, and I get one and
two. And so that's approach and ground. This is what you've been
hearing on television, you know, where the guy says, Oh, we have
a major emergency here, airplane down, etc. And you also hear the
handoff from approach to the tower. But the tower recordings
offline, 10 minutes after the incident, not available. I've
been following all the news conferences. They say no, no,
that's not going to be released until already and, and just
looking at this accident, John, there's very, I can rule out a
lot of stuff. And I can tell you what I think it is. And I
actually I blogged about it. But once again, you know, why did
these authorities always withhold certain bits of
information? You know, it's public, it was out it's public
airwaves, just let us hear it. Why don't you want Why won't you
let us hear what the tower said what was said, you know, between
the 10 mind the 10 miles out and and the 2000 feet from the from
the threshold? Why won't they let us hear it? It just really
irritates me.
i We noticed. So what is the what is your take on it?
fuel starvation,
fuel starvation. Yeah.
So that means that they were out of fuel on up on their final
approach. Now this is I'm only saying this because I've heard
this from sources who really would are in the position to
know who work at PayPal. And, and it's consistent with a lot
of things like it and didn't know no fire, you know, upon
upon impact, and then a whole whole bunch of things. And also,
these guys were really they were really booked and they were
going very, very fast. Even he hear the approach controller say
well, you'd gone pretty fast with that approach. But within
limits, go ahead and you know, turn to two zero to one eight.
Right. And that's the last we have a recording of it. But and
but you know, it's a big deal because Turkish Airlines is a
state run company, you can't just go around making
accusations obviously. Right? But it's just Oh, no antenna.
Why? Why would they pull that offline? And what what are they
going to? What are they going to say? The reason is, you know,
will they give us any reasonable explanation already to saying
well, it could take a year to figure it out? Let's just hear
that one piece of audio maybe maybe there's something in
there.
Yeah, like we're out of fuel. Yeah, yeah. So what is it what
kind of plane was it
seven through seven Boeing seven through seven 800 relatively new
aircraft.
So we have our Boeing down Airbus down so it'll be an
Airbus will be
the next I will say that you know very much like the Airbus
which had problems the previous day or or two days before this
aircraft also had actually had they aborted a takeoff a day
before with this aircraft because something that
unspecified as of yet what was wrong so anyway, I
was anybody interesting aboard that? Well, there were a couple
of Boeing engineers. But I don't think that well of
course every single person is interesting. Yeah, I know. Life
is interesting. And that's a horrible if
you're a banker on there was yes. There was a banker on board
I saw the couple of reports be banker on board. The next slide.
Excuse me, sir? Are you a banker? Miss Miss? Could I leave
the aircraft? Oh, my goodness, I had a horrible accident, but
just really irritating that they are and you still can't get to
any of the tower archives for the entire day. So, you know,
it's like, and I don't know who runs like I don't think it's the
FAA or anybody who runs a live ATC dotnet. I'm not quite sure
who runs it, you know, but someone's taken something off
for a reason.
Yeah, well, just, it just makes people more suspicious. I don't
know why they bother.
And when they're in the do this press conference, of course I
speak Dutch. So I can, you know, follow a lot of the, you know, I
can read the body language and the tone of voice and they're
irritated that the journalists are saying, Hey, when are you
going to release the tower audio? Well, it's a part of an
ongoing investigation. All right. All right.
All right. So back to the let me finish up my rundown of this
speech.
I'm just injecting some color into it. So it doesn't get too
boring. No, that's, I
think it's a great thing. Because I did just if I just did
the straight up, it would suck. I've come up with the wood.
Because at this point, now we're getting to the end of the speech
where he pulls the Ronald Reagan and starts pointing people out
in the audience. They Solly did this and that you didn't do the
solid one, but he did this black girl and some marine and some
somebody else.
The girl whose school was falling apart.
Yeah. And she said we're not quitters. And you know, she was
sitting there and I've decided that you know, since she's
supposedly this is supposed to be his Reagan like speech and
then they're gonna you know, there's the I get the sense that
he's kind of I think he's going to become the Steven Spielberg
of presidents where he like keeps stealing, you know, other
people's ideas to you know, way presents this stuff. Then at the
end, which is the we're It's over now. The at the end, he
says it takes him forever to get out of the hall because all
these people want his autograph, including all these members of
Congress. And I'm thinking if you're a member of Congress,
don't you see the president once maybe in two years? I mean, at
least for two seconds. Can't you get the autograph then? Yeah, I
mean, it was like he looked like a rock star leaving the place
with all these autographs and of course they left that on for a
while on a couple of these networks and then we got the the
Republican the blame and pathetic Republican response to
all this by who I have to now consider a an idiot. Bobby
Jindal, the governor of Louisiana who comes out and
basically sucks reads from a teleprompter doesn't sound like
even listen to Obama's speech because he's saying stuff in
there. We're not going to do that with Bama never said this
stuff. He never even said it was like a comedy acted was a
complete humiliation that they would have him be the
representative of the Republican Party. He's supposed to be the
future of the party. I don't think so. This guy, you know,
can't read from a prompter. He was nervous. He reminded his his
cadence was exactly like the beaver on Leave It to Beaver.
Wally me it was the same kind of weird, you know, a natural
cadence because he does apparently can't read very well.
And and he had to read from this piece of crap speech that
somebody wrote for him. I even said Baton Rouge. No real Yeah,
I wrote letters Baton Rouge. That's funny. He also talked
about government failures at Katrina and now that then some
right now but he should have said Katrina that would have
been even better.
Well, actually Obama made a mistake on the off the prompter
which indicates a typical prompter where he let's see if I
have it. He there's certain things that you will do if
you're reading off a prompter. You read words wrong that you
would never actually say wrong.
Yeah. Yeah, your cadence will be wrong.
And it's just too Anyway, it's somewhere. So he goes on about
this. So So meanwhile, I switch around. And I go to MSNBC where
they have the you know, the great, you know, apologists for
all things Democrat. Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and
Chris Matthews. After the after the Jin doll speech, they
couldn't even attack him. They basically their their jaws
dropped open, right? They just rerun and just rerun it. That's
better than any commentary.
Seriously, they Oh, here's the one for Obama said sand and said
instead of spend.
Oh, really? Did he correct himself? Yeah, no, I
did it. Meanwhile, so then I switched to CNN, who apparently
are now By using Facebook as their polling mechanism. And
they so they pulled 700,000 According to Erica Hill, 700,000
Facebook users about whether this is makes them more hopeful
or whatever. But what I thought was cool was they they brought
one of the analysts on who was really good. And he he brought
found the mistakes that Obama made and what is wrong with
these guys that don't they have the fact checkers and he brought
up the car, invention of the car, which I said on CNN rocks,
because they you know, they brought it up, nobody else did.
And then he also said that Obama made this comment that we are
now pumping more foreign oil than ever. Which is not true.
That's not true. In fact, in the 70s, we had a spike that was
much more than we're pumping today.
Well, but and consistent themes seems to be the reminder, and it
really seems like a reinforced reminder the way it's delivered
every single time. You know, our reliance on foreign oil. This is
just got to stop. We need cars that drive on batteries, you
know, this reliance on foreign oil reliance on foreign oil. Do
you get any of that? Does it feel like that to you?
Oh, yeah, absolutely. The infected joke of it is, of
course, most of our foreign oil comes from Alberta, Canada. So,
anyway, well,
you know what? That's right. We just wouldn't need to stop doing
business with Canada. Oh, wait a minute. I'm sorry.
So anyway, that's the end of that. That's my rundown. I just
thought the thing was weird. Because Jen doll he like,
whatever Obama did wrong, this idiot Jin doll comes out and
botches the and just response to such an extreme, non
conversational, just to be you know, just everything was it was
just it was rude. Ridiculous, it was stupid. He looked like a
fool. The Republicans look like idiots for choosing him. And if
they think he's the future of their party, they're in for a
surprise. Or maybe not. And
they're setting up the fall guy for the 2012 so that that guy
can lose and Obama can continue. I mean, it's logical, isn't it?
Well, from the perspective that is all fixed,
yeah, from my perspective from from my walk of life
so on February 25, they had on the on the junk news show extra
they had a Michelle Obama interview, she's gonna obviously
start doing stuff with the junk news media. You know, extra, the
Insider. Oh, really? She's
doing all that. Okay. Yeah,
I miss what looks like yeah, so they did a thing with her and
interviewed or some softball thing wasn't very good. But she
did reveal that she has a she she wants she's starstruck over
Will Smith and his girlfriend, Jane, they want to meet them. So
I guess they'll be in the White House in no time. So,
dude, if I was in the White House, I will be partying it up
now. I'm Erin Burnett over every day.
Talking about the Council on Foreign Relations. Yeah, of
course. Why?
What do you mean I'd be a card carrying member you could me
and then we'd have to be everyone get in? So the and then
they want apparently a Portuguese water dog for there.
Yeah, I heard about that. Yeah, that's that'll be that'll be
important news. that'll that'll keep the the slaves happy. As we
just stare mindlessly at programs like Access Hollywood.
Access Hollywood. So you don't realize that those stories are
mostly bought and paid for by publicists?
Well, some of them are even pre edited and delivered on tape.
Yeah, yeah. You don't have to do anything. Just drop it right in.
So I don't have a jingle yet. For the I think what should we
call like the old boys club or the golden boys club, someone
else suggested. Gold member. It's basically the new people
who are being brought into the administration who have
interesting backgrounds. And we have a new Assistant Attorney
General, who will be in charge of anti trust at the United
States Department of Justice. And she she qualifies as a good
old boy. Christine varney. Are you familiar with Christine
varney?
I have heard her name. Yeah.
Probably in the context of Google is where you heard her
name.
Is she from Google?
No. There was a little little kind of wave meme out there
earlier in the week about that she hates Google. Oh, this
is the Google hating woman.
Yes. That that would be the one that yes, that is Christine
varney. And if you look at her a good launching point, although
rarely ever true, completely and Wikipedia. The I love the first
sentence pristine a Varney, isn't it? American lawyer
lobbyist. Internet policy expert. Oh,
wait, hold on a second. Yeah, that'd be the case. I don't know
Obama is not going to put lobbyists in his administration.
So she has lobbied on behalf of Netscape versus Microsoft. She's
Chitwood, she's board of Chairman of the Board of
Directors at trust II, but I guess she might have to resign
that. But in the past, her clients have included eBay,
doubleclick, AOL, Netscape, essentially, in, you know, all
enemies of Google. And she's bringing that lobbyist past with
her, and she's in charge of anti trust. I mean, that seems to be
kind of a conflict, doesn't it?
I don't know. You're gonna have to ask Eric Schmidt, who happens
to be kind of in the periphery of the administration? And what
does he thinking this?
We should call him that you got his number? Surely?
My name is not surely and I don't necessarily. So while
I was doing this, some of that research, you know, the Rahm
Emanuel has an interesting family. Which, and I'm sure
people have heard of this, but it's just kind of fun to bring
it up from time to time. So Rahm Emanuel, of course, his, uh, he
was the what do you call it? The the inspiration for that guy on
the West Wing. Oh, really? Yeah. This is pretty well known. I'm
looking it up now.
And I never liked watching West Wing. I kind of
liked it. Also, I liked commander in chief when? What's
her face was president that was? That was kind of hot. Geez,
another
movie. Another series. I didn't care much for theirs. They're
all just propagandistic crap.
So he was the the inspiration for Josh on the West Wing. Now
his brother, Ari Emanuel. Do you know who he is? No. Ari Emanuel
is the founder of the hottest talent agency in Hollywood. Who
was the model for Ari Gold on HBOs? entourage?
No, interesting. Yeah.
And then you have Zeke. And this guy's awesome. I'm sorry.
So the what you're saying to me as you as you continue on with
this break that with this deconstruction of the family, is
that this is a family of people who don't sit around on their
ass watching TV all day.
No, they make television man. It's just it's really
interesting.
And then what's the last one do what is the last one do? Okay,
Zeke.
Now, they always they always say that he's bringing the family
down because there's no no TV character has been modeled on
him yet. He is chair He's.
He's the the bomb. Yeah, really. He's the
chair of Department of bioethics at the National Institute of
Health Clinical Center.
Oh, she's, it's lame. And yeah.
Just it's interesting how, you know, because, you know, Rahm
Emanuel. I never heard of the guy ever, you know, who knew
that Josh was based on him? It's just, it's
interesting. Yeah. Well, the whole thing is getting more
interesting by the minute and our new comments. Go ahead. I'm
just saying it hasn't. What have we accomplished? You know, but
he's only been, you know, the thing that people that gets me
by the way is that, you know, he's only been in office 30
days. And you have you have two things going on simultaneously.
One is that the Democrats and the Republicans, Hey, give the
guy a break. He's only been in office 30 days. Yeah. And then
you have the Democrats themselves giving this guy
standing ovations like he's done so much. So much good for the
country. All what ready? Which is it?
Save or create? You pick? Anyway, go on. Now we have a new
Commerce Secretary, which I just love it. So this is the third
guy, right? This is
a woman, isn't it? No, no, no, no, no. Was the woman that just
showed up in the radar? Now that's the antitrust woman. know
somebody else to know. Okay. It was so Gary Locke. Gary Locke.
You should know him. He's from Washington. Yeah. Gary Locke,
Governor from Washington, former Governor, former governor. So
you know, it's, I love this choice. So you need a guy for
commerce, Secretary of Commerce. Now, of course, you have to
think what does the Secretary of Commerce do? His job is to
foster promote and develop the foreign and domestic commerce.
So it only makes sense. You know, I can just see him sitting
around like crap, man, all the guys. We want to don't want to
do it and tax evaders, and you know what, let's get a Chinese
American guy. Yeah. Because we need to do commerce with China.
Let's get that guy in. It seems like the perfect choice.
Yeah, actually does seem kind of like the perfect choice. Doesn't
mean he knows what he's doing. No, I don't remember his Um, how
he did his Governor wasn't too bad. I don't think. No, he seems
to have a pretty good governor in there. Now that's just
horrible. Some woman.
All right, from Gitmo nation East then a couple of line items
we should go through. In the telegraph, there's now talk of
remote controlled planes that are typically used in warfare.
If you've ever seen these, they actually launch them by hand.
From the field. Those are those little ones.
Yeah, little ones and they're completely remote controlled and
they have heatsink big ones. So it does bit these big, it's not
a big drone. Now, it's not a UAV it is a UAV, but not doesn't
have a huge payload.
So actually, I saw a bunch of these on display at some trade
show these little ones you're talking about. They're actually
quite interesting. Yeah,
it's like a remote controlled airplane only. Supercharged.
Right.
So binge ended they go hundreds of miles are pretty amazing.
So wacky Jackie, our home office secretary here in the UK has
suggested that hey, you know what, this is cheaper than
helicopters. Police could use these to gather evidence and
track criminals without putting officers at risk. So we're gonna
have these planes buzzing overhead
you know, of course in the United States, that wouldn't
work because we're armed to the teeth and we shoot them out of
the sky. Exactly. Shoot him out of the sky and without worrying
about it. But the arm
for the teeth long though my friend. It's coming down. You
know, I'm sure you've heard about all these bills to take
away guns. But we'll see. And so I love it when you say that
could you just say it more like pry this from my cold dead hands
way like we'll see.
Now the other thing is is that it seems to me that if you're
going to use his remote control planes that these things would
be ripe for hobbyists or anyone who you know would if you could
like throw a net over one Capture One capture stripped the
radio and camera out and turn it into a device for your own use.
I like the idea of target practice that I was like it
comes up on pull I must say the helicopter traffic is pretty
annoying over the city. There is quite a bit of it
is why would kind of crime to that that they have cameras
everywhere. What do you need helicopters for
and all that so that they get the infrared and they want the
other tracking people down there will show on it called heli cops
or sky cops or something like that. All men to condition you
into thinking it's just fine and dandy. I guess
also, you know, there's it's almost impossible to keep track
of all the deals. Oh, we do have our own. We're on website here
that Gordon Brown launched. So in the states of course we have
when you were a little bit more advanced. In the UK, we're a
little bit further the agenda has been is probably five years
ahead of the US in many areas. So whereas in the US we have
recovery.gov here we have Get real help.co.org.gov.uk And it's
amazing. You should go to it.
Get real help.co.uk You're going to have a link to that. Yeah,
I think it's good isn't real? No real help now I think it is
yeah, I'm sorry, real help. now.gov.uk and so on the home of
course we'll have links in the show notes on the home page. You
know, this is all about help. So real help for business, real
health for people, okay, keeping your home and so you go to that
link on keeping your home so it's a one click away from the
homepage and it then gives you a link to housing advice from
shelter. So that's like here here's how you can try and
refinance your mortgage and here's a link to the shelter
service. It's like there's nothing there's nothing in
between homelessness find out where to go to help and check
whether the council has to house you finding a place to live
understanding the pros and cons of both temporary and permanent
options.
So you're telling me some way mate for starters a guy on the
street is now homeless somehow he's going to find his way to
real help
now.to The website of course
shirt because he went on it because he took his Wi Fi laptop
with him when he got kicked out of his house which is shopping
cart around it's
really It's so sad and it's and so many the media buys into this
a well but you know what, it's okay because we created a
website for it and then they for some reasons like okay, well as
a website well then this was done and I go and look at the
website and I'm looking at the website I got some stuff here on
the website. It's just it's
it is stupid. Yeah, no, don't worry, we fixed the problem. We
have a website. I love that. Oh, yeah, no, I That problem has
been resolved. We have got a website. Yeah, no problem. What
else you got? Um, what else is on? Well,
I'll give you another one, just for the UK stuff. Because we are
again, we're, it's amazing I can almost predict what's going to
happen in the United States, just to have a habit having
observed four and a half years of the acid test center. So it
really is Yeah, it really is. This is from I don't know if
this is from beaten. This is Reuters Yahoo. Press
Association. They're talking here in the UK of the summer of
rage. According to a poll, more than a third of voters believe
the army will have to be brought in to deal with a summer of rage
on British streets as the recession bites.
this coming summer. Yeah. Summer vacation. In other words, what
what you can interpret here you can say that, because they're
already preconditioning people with this bullshit
exactly what it is. Yeah, you re are,
they are actually going to because they want to test they
are actually going to make create a situation that that
makes the summer of rage actually has to happen. So they
can see what they're how they can respond to it. And it'll be
like a real world test of the of the of the domestic security
apparatus so
that you then in the United States can look know what to
look forward to.
Now if that's if they actually have some sort of riots or
whatever they're going to do for the summer of rage. You know,
they,
I gotta make, I feel I gotta go. Hey, John, we gotta make jingles
here like, like, but really like love FM like coming to you from
Gitmo nation east. It's the summer of rage. Get your foot on
the street for the summer of rage. Summer of rage. Hey,
everybody, it's no agenda. It's AC DC and AC in the morning, we
got some tickets here for the summer rains. Come on free
ticket to the summer of rage up close and personal.
They won't do much for the tourist business if they pull
this stunt off. Unless it's I mean, they're gonna have to deal
with the backlash. They're probably not considering that
Gordon Brown that much of the tourists anyway, they don't want
people taking pictures anymore.
Oh, no, please. Gordon Brown spokesman said the Prime
Minister's view on this. So this is all yours. So Right. So
preconditioning is that of course he understands people's
concerns. And he also understands that people are
angry, for example, about the behavior of some of the banks.
That's why he's absolutely determined that the government
does everything possible to deal with those concerns, and help
people and businesses get through what is a global
recession. And remember, we've got a website, which has just
reached the end of every press release. And we solved this
problem already with a website called real health now.gov.uk.
It's just despicable. It really I throw up in my mouth every
morning just reading the news.
So yeah, when I say stuff over there, they're really funny.
You've been around
John, have you ever witnessed anything like this in, in
political history or in just in your lifetime? You know, you've
been through 123 a two year cycle. Hey, so you've been
through a couple a couple a couple of downturns. Geez. I
mean, I think
this 70s had a lot of elements of this. I think this you know,
it's always a little different perspective on this fascism
because the last time there was a fascist thread was in the late
20s and early 30s, which then of course, evolved into Hitler. And
but you know, fascism was became as a kind of a was a good thing.
If you really study it, it was like a good thing I mean, not to
me, but to the you know, the the intellectuals the intellectual
class, it was considered like the way to go and the fascist
the out of Italy, you know, they managed to you know, they got
the trains going on time, people were happier and all this kind
of thing, by the way, talking about this kind of thing. There
is a read this is fascinated me there is a re invigoration of
Stalinism in Russia with a number of events that are
bringing Stalin back into the fold as a famous Russian now
considered by some of the pro Stalinist types to be one of the
greatest Russians who ever lived. And, and there's all
these speeches and they having all these events and the Stalin
conferences, they're all over the place. You have all these
old generals who come on I was never anybody as good as Stalin.
Yeah, it was tough, but they had to be tough. And then they hit
Yeah, and then all these youth, these young women and all these,
you know, micro gorks, or whatever they call them, rich
People saying, you know, the way I saw Stalin couldn't have been
that bad of a guy we'd needed someone tough, or he wouldn't
have gotten through World War Two anyway. And yeah, he was
brutal, but it was brutal brutality that was necessary.
And it was all his rationale. And it's like, there. It's like,
a whole load of crap about Stalin. That's almost obviously
a prelude to letting Putin become the next Stalin.
You know what the good news is, though, they've got a website
called Stalin is back.ru. And I'll give you some more this,
this is this was really the big news over here in the UK,
although it's already been buried, because and it's really
sad. But David Cameron, conservative leader, the leader
of the shadow governments of the opposition, his six year old son
died, he had cerebral palsy, and it's pretty messed up. And so,
you know, government actually shut down yesterday in in
observation of this happening. But it came one day on the heels
of Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary. Now, in, I think, a
year ago, he was like a year ago, the House of Lords or I'm
sorry, I'm not too familiar with the whole system or the Commons
or the Lords but they decided there had to be your freedom for
Information Policy, and that they were going to open up
transparency, you know, the putting up a website so that you
couldn't, you know, the Freedom of Information Act was a was a
big deal. And so, of course, what the Freedom of Information
sleuths wanted is the cabinet minutes relating to the decision
to invade Iraq. And Jack Straw comes out and says, Well, we're
not going to release that says we're not going to tell you that
because the public interest in disclosure of the minutes could
not supplant the public interest in maintaining the integrity of
our system of government. It is necessary it is a necessary
decision to protect the public interest in effective cabinet
government. And it's just it's blown everybody away. So
whatever it is that what however, this decision came
down, either it was so lame that they would all be beheaded
because people would find out under what stupid reasoning. We
they joined the coalition to go into Iraq or the way he says it.
Perhaps we're under such enormous incredible threat that
if we knew how severe it was, we'd all be freaking out.
One way or the other?
I mean, how can it be in between? Right, that has to be
the two. I just want to read that again for myself. Okay,
I've read it out loud. Thanks. Nobody's like I it just blows me
a way that he's saying. The public interest in disclosure
minutes could not supplant the public interest in maintaining
the integrity of our system of government. It's just weird man.
The integrity of the system of government it did this makes me
this makes me think that it was something lame,
like illegal or some illegal move or,
or something. Yeah, something negative and something that
wasn't protecting the public from freaking out.
I'm freaking freaking out. Yeah, because it was a lame ass move.
Right?
Yeah. Or is or there's some corruption involved of some
sort, you know? Who knows?
So but that's an actual veto from the Freedom of Information
Act that he pulled first time he's pulled it and of course,
it's on the one thing that everybody really would like to
know. I mean, you know, the scientist who couldn't find the
weapons of mass destruction, he he suicided himself. Remember
that?
Yeah. Yeah, he felt a C shot himself 10 times in the suicide,
something like that shot himself twice.
And let me see I want to do some more, isn't it Oh, Jackie Chan
has pissed off. About what? Well apparently the they auctioned
off the contents of Yves Saint Laurent French digs. He saw Ron
a famous couturier fashion designer who passed away
recently so they auctioned off all his stuff and included in
his stuff were a bronze rat and a bronze rabbit which the
Chinese government says was stolen and should be returned
but they were sold anyway and the French and out you know the
for the French said screw it we're protecting it. This can be
sold as turning into a minor international flap and Jackie
Chan has come out. Like when your Jackie Chan comes out, you
know a website has to be next. Oh yeah, but it's Yes. You know,
I don't understand, you know, the Western world relies heavily
on China. Like, I'd be delivering that, you know, with
the naked chicks here. Here's here's your sculptures man, no
problem. Sorry about that, hey, no hard feelings unless
it is stolen art is pretty well documented either. And the
French are pretty pretty, you know, into like returning stolen
art, I don't understand why they wouldn't return this unless the
documentation was either BS. Somebody's just trying to make
off with the things cheap. Or something. There's some
backstory here we don't know about. Maybe we should look into
Yeah,
I mean, I kind of glossed over the article, I just thought it
was interesting to Jackie Chan was was piping up there. But
talking about piping up, by the way, we do need some more people
to donate to our library. So I can write, and I'll have the
slash library thing done this week. But the point is, is that
it doesn't, you know, if you if you listen to this thing, we do
an hour and a half, you know, twice a week, so it's three
hours. So doing $2 a month.
And notice. There's there's no commercials, there's no ads in
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So I don't think it would hurt go to divorce.org/n. A,
and don't answer the curry divorce library project. Right,
which
is just fund our publicly funded this publicly funded, we're
testing the idea, we don't want to do ads, they interrupt the
flow of, of our thoughts. And I think it interrupts and I don't
want to do these promotions anymore, I'd like to stop doing
them. But it's not going to, we're not going to for a while
because we need to get a lot more people involved. And we
have a lot of listeners and you know, it's just a matter. But
again, you know, somebody's listening to this, and they're
not necessarily at the computer might be listening on iTunes on
iPod, and then they forget, because I've never, I've always
found it very difficult to get anyone to, to connect a like a
TV show to a website or podcast to a website. If they're not
actually on the computer at the time, you just forget to go to
divorce.org/and. A.
And if you can't afford it, if you you know, if we don't feel
like it yet, you know, we'll be happy with some link, love. Give
us a link that also helps. Yeah, something that you've found that
is weird, or just link to us just linked to the show. That
also helps. Right? But yeah, LinkedIn does actually have some
great little Google link juice, baby. Hey, that let me just
touch on that briefly. Because I know you're so anti cloud. And
boy, I was on your side the other the other morning when
Gmail became G fail. And it went down for about three hours.
Yeah.
And I was yeah, they're there. These are the experts. I mean,
if you give G if Google can't maintain a cloud resource, I
mean, how is the how these other kind of, you know, these these
other sketchy companies, let's say like Microsoft, who, you
know, fails all the time, going to do it. I will
say that, you know, I do have a pretty good backup system,
because I don't actually just have a Gmail address. I have
Google Apps. And that went down as well. But of course, in my
head, yeah. In fact, Gmail proper was coming up before the
apps, they didn't, they didn't know they gave me a 15 hour.
Would they call that SLA credit or something like that. So
essentially, getting money back. They're trying to make up it was
a, they did a good job on the, to the SLA bit, which I was kind
of concerned about. But of course, you know, what you
really need to do is as long as you own your domain name, and
can access like, you know, like a GoDaddy account. I have two
mail records in there. So if the first one fails, then it'll go
to a secondary, and then I can pick it up from there. So you
know, there's a lot of there's a lot of ways to get around being
snuffed out by the cloud. But boy, you know, there was, like
100 million people were just not able to access their email.
That's, that's interesting problems, which got it got some
ink here and there, but no one's really thinking about what that
really means. I bet you there was a lot of productivity lost.
Yeah, I'm sure. And this is I think, the sixth time, the thing
is crapped out.
This was one of the bigger ones though. Yeah, notice it
lasted way too long. That's kind of baffling that they can't get
this back up. When it was at some,
no, I read Yeah, I read through whatever it was, but it was
somehow they they did something new and it activated the what
they call the dormant bug and they didn't, you know,
essentially overloaded their servers. And I don't know it
doesn't matter. You know, that's a mumbo jumbo and the people who
do that shit, man, they're amazing. Who fix that stuff. You
know, like our guys ever called one of our guys in the
middle of the night. Yeah, no, it's unbelievable. Yeah.
Then they come out Have a dead sleep pillow. Like hey man, I'm
sorry to wake you up nomads okay, what's it? I'm online What
do I do? Poor guys to Bank of Scotland that was the other big
one had fourth quarter 10 billion pound loss. Of course
the Royal Bank of Scotland is now completely nationalized. But
what was interesting is that RBS and this would kind of make
sense if you think of all the connections won the tender for
doing all of the Dutch government's banking wow so all
the all the Internal Revenue banking everything they do is a
smallest country but they do a lot they do 66 million
transactions the state and and Royal Bank of Scotland is going
to be doing it it's it's very confusing how all these things
fit together. And
what are the Dutch think of this? Can't they do their own
banking? You
don't know about it that they go to the Swiss? No, everyone's
everyone's pulling out of the Swiss No, no one wants a Swiss
bank account anymore. UBS is in deep deep kimchi.
Well, they screwed up. But no, it's not the Swiss were the most
conservative of bankers, but guess not.
But the Netherlands really is another three years ahead of the
UK, except for the camera part, although that's gathering speed
very quickly. And those people are I mean, I love them dearly.
And I lived there a long time, but they're so hypnotized.
They've got a voucher Boss, he's the finance minister. And he
just keeps saying he's like, baby is fine. No, no ing it's
not a problem. Now this bank, meanwhile, ing is had to like
sell warrants to the state, no one would buy any of their bonds
or anything. They're completely falling apart. You got guys in
the financial channel, literally saying that the finance the
Dutch Finance Minister, he would he would call a terminal cancer
patient completely healthy. I mean, that's a pretty, pretty,
pretty hefty little quote there. But people that disbelieve in
anyone talk to him, how's it going? Well, yeah, we got the
crisis. But we're okay. We're gonna be okay. It's like, Damn,
man, you guys really don't know. He was so screwed. The whole
country bought kitchens and patio furniture on second
mortgages. Oh, I feel so bad for him.
So somebody brought up the point at which I blogged by the way I
did to ask you about what you think about the TSA trying to
get involved in private aviation?
Oh, yeah. Where they want to have the same rules where you
have to you can't have more than 100 milliliters of liquid on a
private plane on your own on your own plane, because all of
you could be you could be when we just talking about this the
other day? It's so easy. I mean, of course, you know, I could
pack up my plane with explosives and fly right into the heart of
London. You know, I'd be in there before they could even
scramble a jet, of course. I mean, it's simple. But the end
of the day with the threat is just not as big as it's made out
to be and this is, this could never flow. This will I think
you even wrote the quote, this will go away the minute any of
these guys gets into their private plane, they got to go
through security and you know, all this crap, they'll end it
unless they get special exemptions.
Well, that wouldn't be good, because then you'd have a fuss.
So we ran we ran something on the blog that makes us even more
ludicrous. The TSA dismisses DoD today by the way, TSA says mule
Skinner's need background checks to mule skip. A federal anti
terror law that requires longshoremen, truckers and
others to submit to criminal background checks has ensnared
another class of transportation worker, the mule driver which is
which is what a mule skinner is called. They must abide by
federal law and apply for transportation worker
identification credentials. TSA says yes the so called mule
Skinner's, in this case seasonal workers who dress in colonial
garb at a historic park. Sylvania must apply for a
biometric transportation worker identification credentials. I
guess you could drive one of these mules into the Twin Towers
and detonate and detonate your mule cart this clearly is
they're just trying to get at the Amish man that's what it's
all about. Damn Amish man they're dangerous
crazy I'm how the vegans are behind this I'm sure of it.
Are we just way tuned into this stuff? Or is everyone else just
way tuned out or is this is nuts man what kind of world we live
in what's going on?
I don't know. I mean, somebody's obviously this you know, these
are these these this thing is interesting about the internet
is that you know this actually showed up on cnn.com is just you
know, one of the many stories unfortunately because you know,
we don't have the newspapers are dying. The San Francisco
Chronicle by the ways lost $50 million, or using losing a
million dollars a week. They can't seem to stop bleeding
didn't her say never gonna Shut it down. They said if they don't
sell it, and they actually on January 9, this, I think was the
ninth or the sixth of January. They said that if they don't get
the Seattle post Intelligencer, which is their other paper sold
in 60 days, they're just going to shut it down
to know how long does that paper been around 200 years,
a long time. And the Chronicle, which is, you know, been around
since the 1800s. They bought down from the other family,
because their examiner wasn't doing very well, to say the
least, and it was losing money. And then they buffered this the
other day, I can't remember the name of the family that owned
it, but it was a privately held, they bought, I think spent $600
million for the paper, which of course, and now it's costing 50
million a year more just to keep the thing alive. I don't
understand how you can what, where's this money going? I'd
like to be interesting. I wish these people would open the
books to the public. So we could examine this to just to see
what, what's all the expense. I mean, where's $50 million? And a
newspaper? First of
all, the paper is pretty outrageous when I mean, you've
seen these, you've seen the rolls of the printer. I mean,
you look at that. And then the guy will say, Oh, that's just
for today's run you like what this entire forest I see before
me, it's just for today's run. So I think the papers are huge.
And because a huge expense and, and of course, people but the
the real problem is on the income side. Because this was
basically a business that was being subsidized by classifieds.
And that's what the internet really you surf the internet
doesn't necessarily have better news capabilities or
is good. I think that that which I think this mule skinner store
is a good example. I don't think that the internet serves the
public as well as the newspaper because there was no, there is
no way of seeing the you know, the the stories aren't put in
perspective. They're just a million stories. And so with our
blog, we can take, you know, some of the stories that are
more, you know, we do mostly kind of weird little stories
like this. And we can kind of focus on that. But, you know, if
you're just going to just run news news feeds from Associated
Press, and just and not in a non hierarchical manner. I mean,
some of the best stories are bare. Some of them all the
stories are buried,
which is exactly why this type of program is on fire, because
we're bringing up the buried stories, trying to put some
context around them. Just like two guys who've been around and
don't know, really anything. We don't know nothing about much.
But that elbow, we've seen a lot. But but you can also spot
the BS when because, you know, we're working in an industry
that's filled with it.
Was there another paper that that filed for Chapter 11?
Or some other paper folded? And I'm sure that there it may be
the Enquirer or possibly but the we need, there's got to be a
website and somebody could probably Twitter it to us. Or,
you know, there's got to be a website that has a newspaper
Deathwatch. Yeah. I mean, there has to be I mean, there's, you
know, there's a job or journalist out there, I know
what these people are gonna do for work. Or journalist who has
put up a you know, Deathwatch cite for all the different
newspapers around the country, because they're all doomed. I
mean, I was looking at the New York Times today, as I was
researching the sheep, a belching story, which started
the show with, and I'm looking at the, at this one page, they
had a thing on Brooklyn foodies, and how there's a big trend in
Brooklyn right now to do, you know, make just a bunch of
people that are in Brooklyn doing you know, the foodie
thing, you know, they got special little restaurants and
cool this and, you know, butcheries that are on site at
the, at the actual place and stuff like that. And they had
this picture of all these famous, you know, I guess the
superstar chefs and food people in Brooklyn. And there's a photo
big photo at the top of the story. Great story very
interesting if you're into this. And but instead of just having a
list, here's the left to right, you know, they had a picture do
I 10 People you moused over the picture. Yeah. And every time
the mouse hit the person's head, it would light up their name.
Which is fine, good, good. Good. There's nothing wrong with it.
But if you're a newspaper trying to cut costs, what is the point
of this that there is no way that this isn't hand coded waste
of time? There's nothing I know of no automated system that
could do this. Yeah, it's Ajax. And so somebody had to map these
little figures by hand with you know, I mean, sure, maybe not
taking a lot of time if you do a lot, but it's still time time
consuming and it is pointless. You could just have the lead.
Here's the picture left to right. There's blah, blah, blah,
and blah, blah, blah. And it's actually kind of more
interesting because you can cut and paste that if you wanted to
save these people's names. You can't do that with this little
Ajax Rolesor
the fancy stuff for us people putting show notes together,
please.
Exactly. But the point is, is that here's a paper that's
whining another paper by the New York Times is whining and
moaning. And they want to do this. They want to go all online
and yeah, they and then they do this crap, which is needless
Yeah. It's really neat. I had to say it is cool. But it's it's a
stupid waste of time. This cost money.
So, newspaper deathwatch.com, would you believe it? Is that
the name of it? Yep. Yeah. You'll like it. This is a really
detailed site. That's got it. Yeah. It's got all kinds of it's
got the latest news, the rumors. SF Chronicle on life support.
Very funny. They have Obama with we will recover on the on the
cover. That's funny. That's pretty good. Take a look. We
just got a couple more minutes, John. So I'll just run through
the last bit of notes. I don't have any more notes. Do you
know, but
I'm done. Okay.
So I was kind of amazed, as the President said, you know, I've
never had a helicopter before you know, maybe I've been
deprived. And I didn't know it. Boyle boy, man. I know a bit
about helicopters. But if you if you have a budget, and of course
this will be removed or changed or whatever, or may be hidden
and still go through I don't know. But for fleet of
helicopters. Okay, so there was originally 28 helicopters, the
original costs that bush set up was 6 billion. The project is
now at $11.2 billion. You know, I just can't make the numbers
work, John for 28 helicopters. I just can't make it work. I mean,
even if it was 100 million per helicopter you still can't get
to 11 billion $11 billion
maybe it did some of that money for the infrastructure or for
the world? Well, usually that includes maybe that includes all
the salaries of all the pilots you know, pushed out five years
who knows?
Well, usually what this is, is it's a greatness. Maintenance
filler up. Usually it means that they're essentially designing a
whole new helicopter. You know, designing a new helicopter could
easily cost a billion dollars. But there's still 11 billion and
it sounds like a cover for some money's gonna be
you know, 11 billion. I want some stick time on that bad boy
when it's done. That's what I want. I want give me a little
bit of stick time. This one caught my eye. I thought it was
pretty interesting. Antibodies protect against bird flu and
more. Did you hear about this reacher researchers have
discovered human antibodies that neutralize not only h five n one
bird flu but other strains of influenza as well. And they hope
to develop them into life saving treatments. So what they're
saying is, you know what, it could be one shot that fixes all
flu including bird flu. Yeah, you believe in that. But yeah,
I read the most of the briefings on this instance. They've
discovered the apparently over the years the the the flu
vaccines are based on there's a there's I guess a sheath around
the virus that keeps mutating every year. And they you know,
they can target that as a something that device that they
can make a vaccine for and and kill the viruses that have the
whatever the mutation isn't it kind of predicted which ones are
going to be successful which for they see the way I read it
there's something else that that discovered within the virus that
is doesn't mutate it is a it's fixed. It's it makes the bird
flu what it is and it's nothing that that changes with each
iteration of the of the flu tick as it comes around. And they now
think they can target that with a vaccine of some sort. And
they've they've said early successes right away and if
that's the case, then the flu can be eradicated. And that
would include bird
flu. Fascinating Okay, well you know me I'm not taking any shots
yet not for long
if they have that shot and it's up and it comes through I mean
that shot I'd be lined up for
you're also going to be lined up for the FEMA camps John you know
live
you know, I will have fair warning because you know,
I'll be sending postcards is that we're gonna be calling
in Sunday morning and it's like you know, maybe your wife will
come on and say they took him away last night. I don't know
that I can did scurry up to Washington or I can do something
or I can I got up you got a taxi that goes on the other side is
like a mine under the house that takes me out and drops me off on
your Berkeley sewer system. I can
well you you may want to leave sooner than you think ma'am
because I'm just looking at the state of California. The drought
which of course no one talks about anymore. I'm sure it's
they still
because the rain stars we had over the last week or two have
pretty much negated the drought. The drought is gone. Yeah. Is it
gone for good. Now I have a huge one of these huge it's like a
big galvanized thing that you put tons of ice in and you put
beer in. It's a big giant galvanized thing. It's about two
feet high. And or maybe about a foot and a half. I went up to
Washington, I came back to sting was dead empty. When I left and
we had this big storm last week, and we're having another one
this weekend. It was full. I mean, that's about a foot and a
half of rain, even though they said whatever I mean, eight
inches, they said or something
like China, they do all this cloud seeding and they make it
rain rain. How come they used to
do that? To do that? Well, yeah, then of environmentalists, they
got bent out of shape and some some silver salts and aren't
very good for you, apparently.
And then, depending on how this how the budget now plays out,
and how much bailout money California gets. The los angeles
sheriff is now saying, Hey, I might have let 4000 inmates go.
I like that one. There's a threat. Well, now the other
thing going on, which I think applies to California, more than
anything else is the attempt by Tom amiano. And he was ridiculed
by you know, I don't quite understand the libertarian
Republicans who who are all less government less this less that
more freedom, there are so against this, the guy is trying
to legalize marijuana in the state of California, and it's
actually being considered. And the reason for the consideration
is because it could bring in a billion dollars in taxes right
into the coffers, it could just changes the rate the way we do
incarceration, it change, it saves billions that way, it
changes the way we do law enforcement changes a whole
bunch of things. If you just legalize marijuana and all
everyone's up in arms, you know, the right wing is up and all you
can't do that, because it would be terrible. And you know, they
did it in Amsterdam, and now it would never happen in Amsterdam.
They don't even know
if it's being pulled away. Well, they're not going to legalize
it. John, I'll tell you why. Because the drug trade if it
were completely illegal drug trade, which of course just
look, you're not sorry about that. Gosh, I hate it. When I
say that. Let me be clear. By making by making, let me be
clear, very clear, by making marijuana legal, the price will
have to come down considerably. And the US government, and I'll
just say it is in the drug trafficking trade. That's what
Afghanistan is all about. You know, they they're complicit in
all of this stuff. They do not want you on free or cheap drugs.
They want to get this big money. That's what Wall Street was
running on. Look at Stanford, I mean, this is all drug money. I
was I had a lunch yesterday with a number of people with a very
proper English lunch and I was dressed in my pinstripes. And it
was at a real fancy restaurant right behind Harrods, and a
couple of the guys are money managers for Saudi royal family
members. And, you know, like princes and stuff, and, you
know, they manage billions of dollars. And a couple of
interesting things came out of that. The first one was the
complete agreement within seconds of the topic being
broached about what we're really doing in Afghanistan, these guys
said, oh, yeah, it's all for the drugs. That's why, like, they
knew they're onto it immediately. And then, the other
thing is, they have hundreds of lawsuits right now hundreds,
because all these banks, that are the insurance companies that
provide an insurance, you know, basically a hedge on on an
investment. So you take an investment in something and you
buy insurance. Again, this is a lot of what these credit default
options were swapped, I'm sorry. And so if that if it doesn't pay
off the way you expected it, then you've you've paid a little
bit each month relative of course, with a little bit is and
then you get a payout. So you never really lose your your
principal investment. That's kind of the idea of hedging your
bets. And the banks won't, they won't pay out the insurers. And
what they're doing is they're just waiting. They're just
sitting on it, they just go into the court system, letting the
lawyers deal with it, they're just dragging it all out,
because they know that you're gonna get bailed out or
something else is going to happen. They are not paying. And
it's you know, when you see these guys at that level, and
we're talking hundreds of millions, if not billions of
dollars, no wonder the system is all messed up the American
public and the British public and the Europeans they can't
they can't even print enough money to fix all of that
problem. This whole thing has to go down it has to change.
Well, that's what I probably would have been a good idea.
Just let the insurance companies go bankrupt. And, you know,
these guys do so much for the credit default swaps. Yeah. So I
don't know. Okay. Well, I think we have another enlightening
show, but don't forget to vorak.org/n a go and help us out
here and we'll be back And on Sunday.
Yes. And I want to thank Rick revolution on Twitter, who has
yet again put together a beautiful piece of album art for
us for this show, you'll love this one, John. It's great. I
look forward to it. It's in the same theme. And this is the one
this one's hot. So, yes, Devorah rock.org/na for the donations to
the curry Dvorak library, we're looking to build some kind of
like what Clinton has. Yeah. And Bush doesn't have a library he's
putting together too.
It's only because it's just comic books. I understand. Oh,
where's
my rim shot?
All right, man. So papa, papa Sunday.
Yes, Sunday looks good.
Okay. Hey, thanks for coming prepared. That was kind of fun.
Yeah, I got my new I bought got one of these, you know, marble
covered, wide rule, composition notebook. You carry it over by
the television. So if I ever turn the TV on, I have this
thing ready to go. And I write the notes that says no agenda on
the front. And that's all it's for. And I'll keep doing that.
And that should keep the show. Megan that unfortunately made
the show a little long today.
No, that's all right. I like I liked the fact that you you did
the notes on the joint test session. So we will talk to you
again on Sunday coming to you from the crackpot command center
in southwest London located in Gitmo nation east. I'm Adam
curry,
and I am here in the buzzkill center in northern Silicon
Valley. I am John C. Dvorak.
It's a buzzkill bunker actually,
I liked that Buzzkill.
We'll talk to you right here. I know agenda. Bye bye, everybody.