Hey Adam curry, John C. Dvorak coming to you live from both
corners of Gitmo nation. This is no agenda for March 5 2009. This
is no agenda from the crackpot command center in southwest
London, better known as Gitmo nation east. I'm Adam curry.
And John C. Dvorak here in Northern Silicon Valley, better
known as Gitmo nation, West or the Gitmo nation. Hill
got to be careful not to over produce now.
Yeah, no, that's gonna happen.
Hey, John, guy, good to talk to you. I drove a million miles
just to talk to you today.
Where were you?
I was coming from France. Driving
you drove from France? Yes, I did. So you know that so? Of
course we all know that means you put your car inside the
channel. Yes.
Well, actually, let me rephrase that I put my daughter's car
inside the tunnel. I think you know since I only have that's
the only car we have left. I sold the the other two. Since
we're in the city. And she has a brand new Renault Twingo.
Yes, you know, we've talked about this before
Well, that one? Yeah. It's it's not really just a
you drive in that thing is got to be one of the funniest sites
in history and you even fit in it. Yeah,
I gotta tell you it was very it was very comfortable. It was not
bad at all. Now of course, it's you know, it's 1.5 liter engine.
So once you get into some hill territory, you know, you better
be moving over into the into the left hand lane, because you're
the slow guy. But it was pretty good. I mean, it's got a it's
like a driving iPod. It's got a great sound system it does not
have a lot of exterior noise. And if you know you can cruise
along at about 80 miles an hour and it's it's pretty decent.
When did they open the channel? Again? I thought it was shut
down from that fire. Yeah, they
opened it up. Well, now it's completely open because they had
one too closed. I think they have three tubes. It's
interesting because I was just reading up on that. That you
know, they still predict it's going to take eight to nine
eight to 12 months before traffic is really back up to its
pre fire levels. Let me tell you there was no one on this train.
That's good. Nobody knows it's running I think I mean, I didn't
know
there were 40 cars at best that that I saw Go on now this is a
mid day trip. But still they I was reading they just turned a
profit. The that's good. Well, yeah, after they screw the
bondholders by giving them 10 cents to the to the euro in a
refinance. Refinance deal billions of euros wiped off the
balance sheet. They just reported they made 50 million
euro pre tax profit. So it's still it's still a great way to
go.
I agree. I took that ride and I was impressed and I did take I
took a bunch of photos inside the cars because there was I
noticed there was a little more wear and tear which is forbidden
flash photography forbidden in the tunnel
Yeah, well that wasn't when I was taking it I wasn't taking
flash photography anyway but why you if you look outside there's
nothing but a cement wall what is what are you taking a picture
of is going by like 150 miles an hour
John? were slaves just shut up sit down and follow instructions
don't make up the rules.
I noticed that they also made illegal taking pictures in
London you know, which is a tourist place. You know this
Jack Straw is the guy behind all this.
Well, it's Don't forget this Jackie Smith, who was the
what is the name jacket today? I think it's because they're
jacking the public around. Object boot.
They call her jackboot. Jackie. The what does she do they call
her secretary of homeland of the home office like a secretary to
the home office. She's frightening woman. But there's
lots of stuff going on here and get my nation East John as the
yellows Go,
run them down to us for Dummies over here. We don't get any real
news. i We did get some news about this swingers in England,
there's a bunch of them apparently, wait a minute, and
also Hey, by the way, Brittany's got a new tour, and it's gonna
have to do with the circus in some way, shape or form. I know
what that means.
About 15 minutes from now Michael Jackson will be
announcing his string of dates at the otoo arena. They've got
helicopters circling above. I was just listening on the radio
as I was driving in. He was supposed to make an announcement
at the O to arena at a to four o'clock this afternoon. And he
just left his hotel in his bus at 10 past four. Before he gets
to the O to arena it'll be six o'clock and they've got 1000s of
people waiting there HELOC copters hovering overhead, and
this is supposed to be his big comeback announcement?
Well, you know, we have a lot of action going over here too, you
know, while the economy is collapsing and people are
looting getting thrown out their houses and all the rest of it,
there's gonna there's a whole huge protest. And, and, you
know, on both sides of the issue, because the today the
California Supreme Court is, is going to listen to arguments
about Proposition eight to the gay marriage initiative. And
that seems to be the most important thing anybody can deal
with here.
All right, let's get into some real news that before I shoot
myself twice, Bank of England reduced its interest rate to
0.5%. Another record low for the bank for in its entire what is
it? 300 year history. And they have announced immediate
quantitative easing of the economy. John, have you heard
this term quantitative, or as they say, in England,
quantitative, which I find impossible to pronounce?
Quantitative, quantitative, quantitative.
I know the term over here that's being bandied about is mild
depression.
No, no, no, no quantitative easing is an action that is
being undertaken by the government. Oh, it's called was
mean printing money. Oh, yeah. So they're now going to brag
about it over here. Yeah. No, we just do a lot of it. So now that
they're following suit, they're going to start buying up assets
and and companies of course that'll only be banks and
they're doing that with new money printed money because they
need to protect themselves by creating some inflation because
Oh no, it's not good. Everything's deflating shits
getting cheaper for everybody can't have
that that's the way it works. And that's what they should be
doing because if you got your interest rates at point five,
when they should be you know, traditionally at three or or
more one has anything
under six What are you talking about? The banks are marking it
up by five and a half percent. You can get a you can't get a
mortgage for for one or 2%. No way. Did you know that Gordon
Brown was in Washington did any of that reach you amidst all of
this proposition eight and Britney Spears news?
We all we know is that apparently Gordon Brown was
supposed to meet with Obama and Obama says it's snowing. So he
called a snow day. Really? Oh, man. They never had the meeting.
That's what I mean. That's the last I heard. Maybe they had the
meeting sense. Well, this,
there were a couple of snow days being called Nancy Pelosi was
supposed to speak at the Al Gore Tony Blair was there at the
Global Warming conference. Of course, she got snowed out
couldn't couldn't land. The Global Warming conference.
Global warming, no doubt,
I think is just great. Now Gordon Brown now this is this
one. It's being seen as a huge snub over here. He is the first
European prime minister to visit Obama at at our White House, and
only the fifth Prime Minister ever to address a joint session
of Congress. And he got your right he got he, I think got a
half hour meeting with Obama half hour, which is like, you
know, doing half an hour. And then
she takes 15 minutes to shake all the hands. Yeah. And
then Obama did not even invite him to lunch. He had a working
lunch with some other guys. And then he did his speech to the
joint session of Congress where I think he received 16 standing
ovations except when he said, we should tackle this financial
problem together, you could have heard a pin drop. I just wanted
to play a little bit and then get your reaction to to Mr.
Gordon Brown, hold on here comes on.
So let it be said of the friendship between our two
countries. That it is in times of trial, true, in face of fear,
faithful and amidst the storms of change, constant and let it
be set up our friendship also formed and forged. Over two
tumultuous centuries, a friendship tested and was
strengthened in peace, that it is not just endured, but is
renewed each generation to better serve our shared values,
and fulfill the hopes and dreams of the day. Here it comes not an
alliance of convenience. It is a partnership of purpose purpose.
alliances can wither or be destroyed. But partnerships or
purpose are indestructible. friendships can be shaken, but
our friendship is unshakable. Treaties can be broken. But our
partnership is unbreakable. And I know that there is no power on
earth that can ever drive us Apart
sounded to me like a big brown nose session, Gordon Brown nose.
Well, let's take a look at what he said. Let's see, we only
became friends with the British around 1916 1917.
Yeah, because we didn't we have like a little argument with
them. It's not how
we actually had two arguments with them. We had one in 1776.
Yeah. And we told them that to pound salt, and we kicked them
out of the country. And then of course, they re attacked us in
the War of 1812 and burnt down the US. You know, the Capitol
Building in Washington, DC, am you bris and then we hated him
until around 1916. And, by the way, the civil war in 1860. If
you look into it, any history book written between 1860 and
1900, all blamed the British and the French for fomenting the
war. And it was we were deep in this series of was deep hatred
of for the British until about, you know, night, like I said, a
rod just for World War One, when we were propagandized into
supporting there, the British in the in that war, because of the
banks having some issues with financing that they were going
broke.
Gee, is that it? Was that how many years ago? 80?
Yeah, I guess so. Okay, actually, 90. We're a little
behind two years ago. And so we've had, and then ever since
then, because we've been there good pals.
And we have a special relationship, John special
relationship.
So we've had a special relationship for about 91 years,
and a relationship of hate for over 100. So I'm not you know,
so this. So this thing happening could be, you know, like
turning, turning, like, I hate I'm like giving him maybe
Obama's telling him to screw themselves, because they're the
ones, especially if you look at what the Scott said about what's
an American problem when we were starting to have trouble Well,
economically, and everybody over there was like, Screw you,
you're irresponsible. boneheads you get what you deserve, we're
not going to do it. And now you know that they're having more
trouble than we are. And it's like, well,
well, I think you're right. I think it's very possible.
There's a turning look, regardless, regardless, it's a
snub, you know, there was no joint press conference. I mean,
it's a total like he shines through you. Screw you hear talk
to the plebs over here. Go ahead and talk
to the hand. Yeah. Where what is caught? What caused this? Do we
have any background? Do we have any understanding of why this
happened in the first place?
I don't know. And the thing that that bugs me even more is that
at this very moment, by pumping $30 billion into AIG, we are we
are actually bailing out European banks, it's European
banks who are who are in trouble with AIG is our money is going
to help out the Europeans.
I'm telling you something, there's something's amiss.
There's a missing piece of this puzzle, that and thanks to our
great media over here that needs all the help it can get. Never
gonna find out what it is, unless there's some, you know,
something that we see on C span by accident.
Well, I've seen a lot of things on C span by accident, this this
past week, that are highly entertaining.
Well, what name two?
Well, actually, yeah, by the way, before
we go on, because you mentioned Pelosi a minute ago. Yeah. So if
anybody is on the west coast to get a hold of his current San
Francisco Express, they have an article about the savings and
loan fiasco that took place during you know, went way back
when I guess it was during the Reagan administration. And would
they bailed out Charles Keating and the Keating Five, the
Keating seven or whatever the heck they were, and you know,
all these savings and loans had to be bailed out. This was the
first iteration of this sort of thing wasn't McCain part of the
Keating Five? McCain was but the more interesting person that
shows up in the story, Nancy Pelosi she was apparently on the
on the big you know, bribery not once called bribery, but let's
say campaign donation Htet of Charles Keating is mob and and
she gets me when they found out about it, and they were grilling
her at some apparently some of these investigations that took
place, she was accusing them of being incompetent for
discovering her. Meanwhile, that got off somehow disappeared from
the public record or who knows what now she's like the Speaker
of the House. I'm just cracking up reading this.
Sheila Bair who is the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation? The FDIC says, Hey, we're running out of money, we
may not be able to insure all deposits in all banks. Have you
heard this one? No. Yeah, this, this came out. I think I saw it
late last night or maybe this morning. Without So,
essentially, the way FDIC works, it's it's an insurance. And
every bank has to pay a premium to the FDIC, so that they can
cover what if a bank goes out of business, then and you know,
when this whole crisis started, one of the first things that
happened is the amount that is insured federally, so the
government, the faith and credit of the United States federally
guarantees that your money is safe up to $250,000, I think it
was 100, or 150. But they raised it, if I'm not mistaken,
they raised it to make people feel better, well, feel better
no more. Because so here's the so first of all, she says
without the assessments, so that's the payments from the
banks, the Deposit Insurance Fund could become insolvent this
year, they're wrote in a march two letter to the industry. Now
the problem is that every single bank has to has to pay. So
you've got these smaller community banks, if they have to
have to ante up and pay more into the insurance pot, they're
essentially going to wipe out all of their if they hadn't
profits and probably, you know, start to tank because of it. And
they're saying, Well, you know, we make no distinction in size.
That's the way that's the mandate. Not that they couldn't
change it. They've changed every other mandate, including the
document called the constitution. So this is a this
is a big deal. Particularly is
a big deal. It makes it sounds to me like they're trying to put
the squeeze on the quality little banks, the ones that have
actually survived this disaster. Exactly. And did well and showed
that we did banking laws that were changed by Clinton, where
you could have it national banks, essentially, because of
Bank of America, like I said before, used to only be in
California. And now it's national, it's everything else
is national. And they all these banks are huge monsters, they're
monstrosities, they the customer service is terrible. And all
these little banks, like the one I use over here in my little
town, little privately held bank, they said they're never
going to sell to the, you know, to a big company, and they
haven't they've been in business since 1900. And they do a great
work you can walk in and they all know that they call you at
home, if there's something weird happening to your account, you
have
a mortgage with them, or do you do that with a bigger
institution not having a mortgage? I don't even know.
I have a mortgage with a big crappy institution. Because my
wife had, you know, it's a bone of contention. It's, you know,
it's
one of these, well, I got the free credit card account and I
opened it up.
use credit cards anymore. We only use one by this day said
long story. But the fact of the matter is short.
Oh, shorten it lead us into your life. John, actually one of the
problems
is that this this little bank for during this parish where
this thing where everything was going crazy, they wouldn't give
anybody mortgages. They didn't think it was a good idea.
Does really that little bit you think.
And so to me that what this is all about is screwing quality
little banks. So we have like one big national bank.
Oh, well, yeah. Not just one big National Bank and International
Bank. John, how many times I have to tell you that's the
agenda. It's going to be the IMF is positioning itself. It's
moving into place as we speak. And then this does bring us
right back to the Gordon Brown Obama flap. I'd call it it's I
think it's an international flap being underreported?
Yeah. Well, it's because the you know, the media does what it's
told,
because we have the G 20. Coming up the G 20. Which includes the
US this is going to be in three weeks time. I believe it's
happening over here. You know, this, by the way is the g 20.
Plus to Spain and the Netherlands are both invited,
even though they're not large enough to be in the G 20. Of
course, Netherlands, part of the Anglo Dutch empire. So that's
why Bilderberg they have to be brought in. Yeah, yeah. Get back
to the point. Oh, I'm going to come back to Bilderberg
So drinking club.
Yeah, wait until you hear who's in it. But it looks like Europe
has either a plan and they want then they need America to be a
part of it. Or they have more likely no plan and desperately
want to be a part of whatever America is doing, which also
seems to be pretty much no plan. I mean, weren't we assured that
if we didn't have all the stimuli packages signed that
500,000 Americans would lose their job every month. Well,
that was incorrect. It was actually more like 670,002 We
lost their job in the shortest month of the year. And when is
this shit going to kick in? When is it going to work?
Ya know, what was the point of signing it if it doesn't do
anything
and we had to rush and horrible news front page front page of
the Financial Times. Gordon Ramsay in trouble.
Gordon Ramsay has been in trouble for a while. What's the
latest? Well, it looks like he's getting back to more
interesting.
Meanwhile, that's why it's on the front page of the times. He
has broken some Gordon Ramsay holdings, who are about it's
interesting, because it's a private company. But it's so
typical in a socialist society. This is the same in the
Netherlands, you have to report your numbers to the Chamber of
Commerce and they publish it. So everyone can look at your shoes,
it being private, if that's the case, nothing and then they
ridicule you in the fucking paper. I hate it when that
happens. So, you know, obviously, the guy has to
renegotiate his 6,006,000,000 pound line. I mean, that's
normal in these times. But now they're saying, Well, you know,
according to the file report looks like, you know, just the
fact that it was filed late, he's broken his covenants, and
he's got to be in trouble. It's, it's really, you know, it's a
nasty thing to do. But it's so typical. When someone's high on
the horse, and he's got a big mouth and gee, I've learned this
firsthand. Man, when when people can they will kick you in the
ass so hard, so hard, even a stand up publication, like the
Financial Times. So,
so he's getting kicked in the butt? Is what you're trying to
tell me? Yeah. Big time. Hmm. So what's the deal? I mean, what's
going on with him? Since his all public?
Well, this is exactly what I'm saying is that it looks like
he's broken his covenants, ie he hasn't paid back his loans. And
he's trying to refinance and everyone's waiting for the other
shoe to drop. A couple of celebrity chefs have had to
close their clothes, multiple restaurants over here. This is
Dan, or the economy here. You think this is just a little
taster of what you guys are gonna get. Just a little taster
in the Netherlands, because I had a very European couple of
days. So I was checking out some Dutch news. They already started
crank this cranking this up about a year ago. It was in the
press saying, Well, you know, we have to really work on our
economy. And while we think that we should raise the the
retirement age and the Finance Minister about troubles the
other day said, You know what, we're all gonna have to work
longer moms are gonna have to get off your ass and work
because of all the shortcomings because they bailed out, Fortis
and an ing. So they're actually enslaving people now.
That's what it sounds like. Yeah,
it's true. It's absolutely true. Well, they've
always yearned for the good old days of the serfdom. Well, here
it is a peasant farmer. Hey, let's go get some more that
peasant farmers money.
Speaking of farmers, John, I heard that the farmers is it not
true that most of our corn and wheat comes from Colorado in the
state like 40% is not a huge
No, I know most of it comes from Nebraska and Nebraska. Yeah, I
was pretty much of a Mountain State. Well, I heard
that the farmers are having a real hard time that you know,
I'm not really into these into the commodity prices of corn and
wheat and pork bellies, but apparently they're way
underwater on on selling this stuff. And it's supposedly so
bad that they may not be able to plant new crops
like that there has not been anything good. I haven't heard
this.
I think if there any farmers in the audience, I'd love to know
you know, whether your farm any
farmer is on a hand crank radio,
whether you're farming wheat or corn or if it's livestock. Yeah,
let us know. Let's
get the farming report in on this show. Yeah, because
I don't follow the farming stuff. I'm not good but we
should we
need to follow farming stuff because this is the most
important business basis. And it's basic
to survival Absolutely. Basic to survival.
Well, I do know that this might be part of it. It seems as
though Obama's gonna pull the plug or has pulled the plug or
is pulling the plug on a lot of these subsidies to the huge
Farming corporations that get just a pile of money for doing
pretty much whatever they do anyway, it's just on top of
whatever they make, because it goes back to the depression days
when they used to have to, you know, subsidize the farmer. And
they kept it in play because he's been that's how these big
farming giant farm companies you know, got into into the start
playing the game because they could just score all this easy
money. It may be a kind of a disinformation campaign. You
know, to moan and groan I went about this stuff to benefit
these big corporations the archer Midlands McDaniel's these
kinds of guys that, you know, expecting to get because
everyone else is getting money from the government. Why aren't
we kind of thing? So I'm skeptical. Let's put it that
way.
Well, let's, let's keep our eye on it because it's important.
It's just as important as oil. And thanks to net Pierre, who
just twittered that the minute we started the show the Dow lost
27 points.
Well, we're not Obama would have lost 270
That guy can't get a break. Now. I think I think we're now it's
gonna hover around this level. I believe Jonathan is gonna hover
for a while it may I was expecting a bigger rally today.
Uh, yesterday, there was a rally because that has to happen at a
certain point. You can't just keep good. It's almost like,
well, in any game of Craps, you know, the odds are it's gonna go
up for a little while. And I think we're gonna see some
rallies between seven and 8000. And then and then we're probably
around the summertime. I think that's when we're gonna go hit
six.
We'll go below 2000 way down. Way down right now today on
3.3%. Today Yeah, so far they've been NASDAQ's down three points
before because these guys are always in lockstep. So that
chooses, let me hit the number here. What is it in 1667? I'm
gonna lose I'm gonna lose a bet here if this keeps going. Well,
my wife told me to stop betting because I've had long speak
about a 15 year winning streak
times not every time to stop Hey, let me go ahead.
She says because I lost the Obama bet to a bunch of people
you do. I did. I also took the other side and a couple people.
I love you for that. Dow's at 6638. Geez Louise.
Hay not the most the I went to this masterclass conference for
Final Cut Pro.
Oh, yeah. That's why you're in Europe. Yeah, the video editing
program
and you know what the one of the most exciting things was that I
learned that I'm not the only person who gets a pain in the
ass from sitting down too much and editing. We had a real get
together there for a moment. What do you Well, I use powder.
I use a soft inflatable donut.
It's really that's what they say. Everyone has pain in their
ass from sitting too long sitting behind this frickin
program editing shit. Unbelievable.
You know, I think it's time here's an idea. And I thought
but and by the way, I've thought about this seriously. And I
don't know if it was triggered by Rumsfeld or whatever. But to
go back to the standing desk.
I love standing desks, by the way, standing desks,
which is what Rumsfeld used. And he used to do that too. I got
that snarky note. And one of these, you know, one of these
Abu Grob memos. What's wrong with standing I stand all day.
And but they're standing desk was extremely popular in the
1700s. And I think like Thomas Jefferson used, there's a bunch
of these guys, they all use standing desks because you could
stay us. You could stand and your and your
ass doesn't like come full of bedsores. Essentially, I'm just
being honest about it.
So you know, maybe it's time that we do two of us and what we
bring back
from standing desks? Absolutely. You know, I
had because Yeah, well, what about it? You know, here's just
take it one step further. No one has done this. No one's done a
standing computer desk.
And not true. There's plenty of them. I've looked into this.
There's plenty of standing. Yeah. And you have you even have
computer desks that you can, you can raise and lower
electrically. Now there's some good shit out there. Beautiful,
beautiful desks.
Though I need to go to standing desk, I think because I do too.
I don't mind when I write essays, I tend to I actually
don't even I use a technique that I probably started in the
1980s before there was a mouse. And essentially, I find a mile
away from the monitor, which by the way, has improved my vision
enormously. And I put my throw my feet up on the desk. And I
lean back with the keyboard in my lap and I type away. And
that's why I use keyboards that have the little TrackPoint on
them. Because that went on to get up from that position and
find the mouse and dick around with it.
What size what size font do you use when you're sitting
I use a regular six to 12 point I mean I can read from a huge
distance even though I'm near so I'm nearsighted. But my vision
as you get older your your eyeball starts to go farsighted.
Whether you like it or not. And so far sighted people get
extremely blind, because they go so far sighted that they're the
ones wearing those huge goggle glasses and they're kind of like
a coke bottle bear. Yeah, look at it. Because their eyeball
likes is huge, because all magnified. But nearsighted
people tend to go toward 2020 and I'm at the point now where I
really don't wear my glasses a lot. And but anyway, so I use
this trick of throwing my He's very comfortable and you write
and bow if you feel like some sort of a leisurely writer. And
I'm not sure I could write long essays on a standing desk, but
most of my time is spent surfing and doing research and stuff.
where it'd be nice to walk into the office, you got a standing
desk, you write to it, you'd look up something and you walk
out, you don't sit down. And then your once you sit down, the
momentum of sitting is pushes you down into the chair. And as
you start to fall asleep
in the, in the 80s, when, when I started doing radio
professionally, in the in Europe, everyone had, you know,
sit down consoles, and you'd sit and you'd have everything built
around you. And in the US it was all stand. Everything was stand
all the time, because the theory was the particularly in top 40
radio, the DJ would be more energetic if you were standing
and I buy into that, by the way.
Yeah, I actually worked on Tom Lycus. This show I came in as a
guest. He's one of the he was the number one top 40 guy down
or whatever he talk, I don't know what he was, he was down in
LA. And then he later went up to Seattle after they change
formats. And I don't know what he's doing now. But now he's got
a U haul has worked. And he was working standing up. And I mean,
it was just short of having a lavalier mic.
Yeah, that that I've never gotten into that part the
Lavalier. Mic.
But yeah, he's he would stand up and I
should go back to stand up. I really should. It's just it's
hard because you have to get a desk that's you got to get one
that is adjustable. The electric adjustable, that's just to a
myself, they're very expensive, but they're they're awesome. And
thank you to who is this the Twitter this? Colette, I think
just to remind you that, according to your previous
predictions on no agenda, the Dow at this moment should be
about 20,000.
According to predictions made previously on this show, at this
period in time, the Dow should be about 20,000.
Yeah, I think I'm probably the one who's responsible for that
bullshit. That's correct. That's exactly what that's because I
was thinking of the cycle looking like 1929. But it's
apparently doesn't it looks exactly like it so far. It looks
exactly like 1890, which means the Dow is kind of languishing,
and it should have a little bump, like in a year, and go up
probably not to 20,000 or 25. By the way, one of the numbers I
also bandied about and then crash again at big time. And
this time, we had no money left, and I'll be in 2013. That's my
current thinking I Okay,
well, I believe it's been accelerated. I think that it's
just it's going
much now. No, that's actually i There's no evidence that this
has ever happened in history, because what you're trying to
say, is the following. The market crashed in 2002 1001 and
started in and went dived, and then it went kind of flat and
never recovered. until like, last year, when it didn't
recover, it crashed more. And now it's going even down
further. Actually, we're returning to 1990 price levels,
on everything, including real estate. And it's gonna keep
going down because we're broke. And we're going to have another
tight we just would amount to a 20 year down cycle, which has
never happened in the history of the world. Well, maybe it's up
during the 100 years war, but I'm saying in a normal
environment where there's not some crazy stuff going on. You
know, like,
wait, wait a minute, stop back up for a second. There's not
some crazy stuff going on. What are you saying
like the Black Plague? What are the Nikkei? What are
you talking about? How about how about wars everywhere? We've got
climate change. There's all kinds of scary things happening,
John.
Oh, I gotta move on, man. I gotta move on to our shadow
puppet theater. Oh, yes, there was an announcement. Some new
players on the scene in the White House, as we've had
several potentials who have not been able to be confirmed due to
primarily tax evasion. Of course, Dasha was supposed to
come in to be the health guru. And I saw this on C span I saw
President Obama introducing Nancy and parley. And Kathleen
Sebelius. Now Sebelius is going to be the She's currently the
governor of Kansas, and she is now going to be the what is it?
What's her official title? Health Health. That helped me
out John,
how to know when you're straight. You're swinging in the
wind, my friend.
I'm floundering in the pond is what I'm doing. All right. So
she's supposed to be helping Secretary, I guess as the title.
So what was interesting as I saw this on C span and was it was
very different from any other announcement in in the fact that
the room was only filled with it sounded and looked like from
what I could see. And on C span, you get a pretty good vibe of
the of the environment because there's no voiceover and No, no,
no overlays, and no lower thirds. It's just the video.
There was just a handful of press. Normally, after an
announcement like this, you know, there's lots of applause.
That was nothing. It was just dead silent. 60 churches here
and cameras go off. And then Savelli is who seems pretty
clean, in general, just looking into her background. She, she
does a little thank you very much. And this is important and
health care reform. blahdy blahdy, blah. And then the
President says, Nancy, do you want to say anything and this
this little timid woman. And she's like, she didn't really
want to say anything. And Obama kind of pushes her up to the to
the podium, at which point was kind of funny the minute he was
done with his introduction, that you saw, the two teleprompter
screens get lowered. So his bit was on telling without the
teleprompter, you saw them. You saw them levitate down, is these
two boxes on either sides, a little electro motor in there is
very cool. And then she does some little nondescript live,
you know, whatever, you know, great health care reform.
Fantastic. And then I started looking at this Nancy and the
parli. Oh, my goodness, she is on seven boards of
pharmaceutical companies own stock, millions of dollars worth
of stock. It all of these different companies. And she's
going to be the white hat, the person in the White House, the
on the President's team, and then you're really the liaison
between Sebelius and everybody else.
God, there's your health care reform.
It's just unbelievable. When you and she's got, you know,
hundreds of 1000s of shares and all these companies.
Now we should find your portfolio and outline it. Hey,
by the way is talking about Obama. I do remember when Bush
was president and and he was roundly criticized by the media
for his use of soldiers as an ROPs.
And us we criticize them soldiers as props.
Yeah, no, we never criticized him for this because it was what
was the point? Yeah, he for soldiers his property. Bush was
the first president apparently, who would give a speech with a
whole bunch of soldiers behind him as props. He'd be trying to
an ice it'd be like the Fifth Army will be you know, behind
him, right? And standing there, you know, at attention, you
know, whatever. Okay, so this is the first time this is
exploiting the soldiers of America who puts the puts
himself in there. He's not he never even been in the army and
blah, but you know, even though
Yeah, not a lot of that criticism flying around is
there.
And now Obama, I saw him yesterday and he's standing in
front of a bunch of soldiers. I don't know why they're all back
there behind him and make him look more presidential. And
another
one was this still the lagoon place where he I don't
know which one it was. All I know is I'm looking at this
going wait, what what where's the criticism of Obama pulling
the same? The same scam? You know, Obama is I, you know, he
he's, I've said this before, on the show that he's the Steven
Spielberg of presidents. He steals from the best he takes
every you know, whatever, ready to do something Reagan did. He
has those people with the Stooges in the audience when he
gives a speech, which Reagan perfected. Now, he's using the
bush trick of having the soldiers in the background. They
got somebody and that's administration who has studied
all the things that worked in the past. That's Axelrod I think
he must be Axelrod. He's the only one who would care. No,
lots of flags behind him and of soldiers. And,
yeah, yeah, doing a beautiful job.
But where's the media with their criticism? They were always
leveling on Bush every time the guy turned around, and foreign
media
has been bought and sold and paid for and they're all afraid
of losing their job. And since we barely have jobs, that's why
we tackle these problems head on. We are patently
unemployable. Anyway, so who gives a hoot actually was
697,000 jobs and fairs almost 700,000 jobs lost in the
shortest month of the year.
Yeah, but don't forget to because of this. The bill, there
were at least a million jobs saved.
It's so unbelievable.
So don't think of it as 700,000 jobs last seen a net gain of
300,000.
While we're at it, let's just see if if recovery.gov has any
news today. I Haven't looked. I go there every say every. Now
now they've
actually changed it for you. Okay, well, that's all they
have a new graph.
Okay, change they've made so far.
Yeah, this is the only this is a significant change to have a new
graph at the top and about the estimated distribution of
highway infrastructure funds,
pull on a second I get a boom, I haven't have to have to wait in
my browser.
I know. It's huge. Like get this sharp. That's not an AIB
standard banner Obama, you got to fix that. Now, it's the same
video. That's okay. It's a little makeover. But this I
still see no reporting. where's the where's the reports? Oh,
man, it's not they're
supposed to it goes all here. They're here somewhere because
they promised them
the National Institute of Standards and Technology
received $610 million in funds as part of the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act. What do they need with that money? The
NOAA receives 830 million.
Can we can't get on this ticket.
The UK had had they announced the plan two months ago, I
believe that was supposed to help small and medium
businesses. And of course, there's nowhere except maybe now
on real health now.gov.uk There might be a link. But no one
could really figure out where to get this help this this money
was you know, like a billion pounds. And only last week that
they that they file the appropriate paperwork so that it
goes through the appropriations committee, or however that works
over here. They don't expect the money to be available for
another two months. It's a complete fucking scam. It's just
scamming. You know where the money's going. It's going to
more money going to bankers. And everyone's just go, You know
what, we're stupid. That's what we are. We're stupid. We should
be out there getting our own part of this scam. Just stupid.
We can't get in on a scam. So
let's talk about the Turkish Airlines Flight.
Oh, yes. This is one of your specialties that we need to
actually we wouldn't be talking about producing the show. We
could have a little segment. You know about Adam, you know,
investigates the something. You know, that could be a little
jingle? Yeah, we
could just start that the beginning of the show? Because
that's all I do.
Well, you do plenty of other things.
So let me just give you a quick rundown. So yesterday, the Dutch
Transportation Safety Board, which is headed by the chairman
of that is Mr. Peter from Volvo footwear. I think we have to
stop at that for a moment because we were talking about
him the other day on the show in regards to this horrible
accident, and something else that that happened between
himself and my wife. And that was
Yeah, well, let me summarize. You made the assertion, you
allege that he is a master because he bumped up into your
wife with apparently some sort of excited to member and and
kind of rubbed up against her a little bit. You know what she
was standing there. And she was so gassed by this. And
meanwhile, of course, was not known to the general public. And
I'll bring it up before you do. This was picked up by the Dutch
media.
Yes. Well, and I'm actually I'm actually thinking because we
discussed a lot and you know, although that was a humorous
moment, in that particular segment, we were talking about
the crash about tension between the Secretary General it's one
of the highest service civil servants in the Justice
Department and Turkey and there's all kinds of real weird
shit going on around him and, and child abuse. And so there
was a lot happening in that segment. And that's it. Oh, by
the way, this guy who's heading up the the investigation who's
the chairman of the Traffic Safety Board, he's kind of a
funny guy, because here's what happened with him and the
pattern by the way, that that thing that happened that
happened over 25 years ago, and I didn't point that out. But
time is relative. So that got picked up but it got picked up
by you know, like they they teased it on the 11 o'clock news
that was coming right up and they called the they called the
Royal Dutch you know, the Royal Family Information one you know,
apartment or whatever and said can you and of course of course
they said no comment. And they actually played a snippet of the
show and they had it subtitles Oh man. Unbelievable and I knew
something but they
never gave us any any Guinea they never said that was the no
agenda podcast did they? Well, I
didn't see the I cannot find the actual No, I think they did say
no agenda, but I couldn't find the actual piece online. I
didn't see it live but boy, I knew about it because you know,
of course every stupid top 40 radio Morning Show was calling
me at 7am who had seen it the night before you know then They
do as they get your cell phone number and they call on like
you're supposed to pick up and then they surprise you with this
which I've learned, I've learned to nailed it. Yeah, I've learned
to avoid that. You know if you get a call it seven in the
morning that is unidentified. I mean, seven. That is an
identifiable, you know, it's Something's Afoot. Anyway,
Patricia was she was laughing about it. She's like, Yeah,
well,
I'm glad she has a good sense of humor. She Yeah, come on.
She has a great sense of humor. Not to mention, but I said what
they're gonna call you. She said, Hey, ladies, don't talk
about shit like that. I don't know if they can just if they
want
their husbands. Just go. Oh, yeah, I got some stuff. What's
that wet spot on your back?
Okay, anyway. So when this crash took place, I do want to say my
immediate reaction to this based on information that I had was
fuel starvation, meaning that there was not enough fuel going
into the engines. And then and it's important for the listeners
to understand there's a difference between engines
stalling, and an airspeed stall, every airplane will stay aloft
will float its physics at a certain speed. And that's based
upon the the size, the weight. And of course, the wing is
really what notes it's all about the wing. So if you if you run
out of airspeed, then you will, it will not fly, it's it can be
going 100 miles an hour. But if if that's outside of the
envelope, for that particular aircraft, it will fall to the
ground like a brick, it will not glide at a certain point. Okay,
get to the point.
So they came out. And this was an amazing press conference
particularly so short to have this much detail. Now what they
did not give us his actual cockpit voice recorder
transcripts, or even any inkling of conversation that went on in
the cockpit. But according to the black box, the data recorder
at about 2000 feet. On their final approach, the out LD
altimeter broke, and there's two and this altimeter is locked
into the autopilot and auto thrust, which apparently are two
independent systems. And it then registered, hey, wait a minute,
it would send data to the planes computer saying the the plane is
actually on the ground. It's minus That was eight feet? Well,
it's minus it's minus eight feet, but some people is below
sea level. So it would be approximately on the ground. And
in an auto land approach, and I'm not an expert in the system.
So I'm really just replaying what was said, you know, the the
aircraft when it's on the ground, or when it's approaching
the ground, it will, you know, turn the engines to idle,
because that's what you do. And then you gloat you glide down,
you float boom, and you land and you're done. In some cases, the
autopilot will actually flare the plane. And in other cases,
it could even do a reverse thrust on the engines. I'm
told he read the flare the plane Oh,
so when you're landing, at the very last moment, just before
you're touched the touchdown, you pull back on the stick
gently, so the nose goes up. And then you come down. You know,
that's kind of like just the perfect, right? You try to get
that perfect all wheels at the same time. Well, it depends on
the aircraft, but you flared a little bit, it slows you down,
then you just pop down onto the onto the pavement. So this
happened. So what happened is, so this little under 2000 feet,
the computer all of a sudden gets the signal, hey, wait a
minute, we're on the ground, it starts to it does two things it,
it starts to retard the engines essentially, start starving them
a fuel because it's going to idle, it's not going slower.
It's turning them to idle. And then there's a warning, the
warning says your gear is not down. And of course these guys,
they couldn't see the ground at that point because there was
some cloud cover. But they ignore that warning. And it only
can only be about 15 or 20 seconds later is when they're,
you know, so the engines have cut. And so the plane is losing
speed rather rapidly. And all of a sudden, they noticed because
the stick shaker goes off. That's which is a warning saying
your plane is about to stall because they didn't have enough
airspeed. And then apparently, you know, someone throttled up
really fast and then pulled the nose up and it was just too
little too late. And then the tail hit the ground and then it
slammed down. So here's here's what's interesting about this.
The the first words out of the chairman's mouth were were
sending a message to Boeing. They were they were dead set on
not blaming the pilots. They said Boeing needs to know that
there's a system flaw. If the altimeter doesn't work, you know
that, that in Under no circumstances should the auto
throttle still be engaged if there's a fault and that should
be put into the manual and essentially saying boat not
really blaming Boeing but saying, Boeing you guys, you've
got to change the way you operate because this is a
dangerous situation. Now, another interesting data point
on the flight data recorder, which records 2425 hours, so it
had the last eight flights this aircraft made, the exact same
thing happened twice where the altimeter broke, and started
registering incorrect data passing that through to the to
the flight systems, yet there was no accident. But in flight
terms, the number one things you're supposed to be watching
no matter who's flying the plane autopilot or not, is airspeed
and altitude. And this and if this if all this data is true,
and if it's if it's all correct, and I'm not talking any
bullshit, I hate to say it, but it was complete pilot error.
Because they got three guys in the cockpit. And whatever they
were doing, they were not watching the speed. And I just
ran out of speed. Because if you want to then hit the thrust that
takes three seconds for the engines to spool up from idle,
so that they just had no chance but they were doing something
else other than paying attention to the airspeed. Which anyone
who's ever taken flying lessons. Or currently flies knows that
that is number one. Your airspeed without airspeed you're
dead? And yeah, yeah,
I am in. No, this is the joke of the you know, we had this big
wreck out here in California, and they blame the the engineer.
For the
next thing, the idea was Texas huge
instant texting thing when the fact of the matter is people
have witnessed the fact that the signals were wrong.
But anyway, but it was so so I think that now Turkey, of
course, has responded saying, you know, our pilots are heroes,
you know, this is bullshit. It's not pilot error. And anyone in
aviation knows that if that these are the facts. Yes, there
was something wrong with the aircraft, but they had many,
many opportunities to correct it if they had paid attention to
their airspeed. But you had the you had the the, the captain in
the left seat, and so in the command chair, if you will, and
then the trainee who he's, you know, he had 3000 hours, you
know, the guy has to learn somehow, it's very normal that
you have a first officer trainee, and then the actual
first officer sitting on the jump seat. And whatever was
going on, maybe someone's you know, they might have had all
heads down looking at something else or doing a demo or Hey,
watch force. If you ever hear a pilot say watch this, who? You
know, it's all over.
So where'd you get that you had a document you sent me was a
PDF, or where'd you get that? That had all these details on
it? That was
an official release from from the Transportation Safety Board.
All right, so what is it? What is this all mean? Well, we've
deconstructed it, we'll we'll accept your explanation. That
was pilot error. And it makes sense,
right, I think that I find it interesting that they come up
with so much detail so quickly, that they immediately point
blame towards you know, that it's now a political thing is,
it's very political, because who's going to pay the damages.
But you know, the airline immediately said, oh, we'll give
everyone five grand compensation. And then, of
course, they've already formed a class action that likes fucky.
With your five brand. I don't think so. So everyone's pointing
the other way. And that was just interesting that that was, that
was the main thing that came out so quickly, usually, you know,
there's a preliminary report, but to go into such detail about
you know, there's two systems and there's a altimeter one,
altimeter two, I'd really still like to hear the, the tower,
speaking to the aircraft, which that recording was removed
immediately. And I think we should have at least a
transcript of what was said in the cockpit because the sum
doesn't add up. You know, if you really are three experienced
Airmen, to miss something like your airspeed is it's a real day
record. I mean, it's just it's hard to imagine that that
happened. So but I can't really make a conspiracy out of it. I
wish I could make a Boeing Airbus thing out of it, but
doesn't seem possible.
Yeah, well, I'm sure one of those will come up shortly.
The show is not over yet.
So if you go to my blog, you'll see a very funny I don't usually
put produce videos up but there's a funny episode of The
Daily Show, where they basically slam CNBC. Rick Santelli,
apparently was invited as a guest on the show. And he and he
has, as Stuart said, bailed out. Shall I play it? Is it how long
is it? Not too long. It's really long, but it's really but I
recommend to people because it's extremely funny but the funniest
part is they finally get to the end of it where they had CNBC,
interviewing Stanford that scammer that, you know, they ran
off of a billion dollars. Yeah. And it's just sits as this huge
softball thing and then it builds up to the end and Stewart
stops and says, Okay, he's got the money question coming. Here
it comes in this is gonna really get you Oh, they got the guy in
the chair. You know, here you go. And then he started off with
him saying, How come you didn't get caught up in the investment
scandal? Because it was a scam. So anyway, so the it gets very
sad. The interviewer goes, so Mr. Stanford, what's it like to
be a billionaire?
Oh, my God, really?
And all that was missing the way I saw it was the guy sniggering
and then picking his nose that's amazing. Hey, getting I got a
link for you, man. Hold on.
I'm gonna send you this link. This is something we could have
thought up. Of course, we didn't. Hold on.
We're too busy talking.
This is true. This is a website where you can help choose the
Sexiest Vegetarian next door 2009
Now this has been going on for a few years.
I've never seen this. And the
sex is vegan. I thought
this was new. The old kind of scrawny
peta.org I was looking at yes karate.
I think Brooks pretty meat on your
bones. Amanda look at Brooke Brooks pretty good. Now this is
funny. This is a this is like our it's just like that's the
single elimination tournament and the NC double A or something
they got this thing was off. Hey, we can do our fantasy,
Brooke and she'll take on the winner of amber and Christina
and the next round.
How about Amy? Now? They're
looking at Amy at the bottom. Yeah, she's
scrawny man, and then a lot of implants.
She can't even stand up. She's so thin. She's
lying down. I'm so weak from not eating out.
The poor woman can't stand. I'm so weak. I must lay down in my
lingerie. She looks like she's got fake top.
Hell yeah. It's totally fake.
So that'll be on the
show notes.
Yeah, we'll send you the link and here's one Amanda of age 23.
All tattooed up like Amy Weinstein house or whatever. But
this is good. Amanda. She lives in Australia and California. I
don't know how that would. That's what I call a long
commute. back to her hometown of Fulton, New York. International
what she has
her own little Trilateral Commission right there. She
loves to cook, and especially loves to create her own unique
recipes Much to the delight of her family who God knows where
they live. Amanda says that even her brothers who hunt and fish
enjoyed the meat substitute. The Adventurous vegetarian also
loves skydiving tattoos, notably biking so what is kind of a
hobby is that here comes here comes skating and filmmaking.
She hopes to work in an industry someday well from the looks of
her she's probably working in it now. But the adults
let's see there's a link to a meat replacements meat
substitutes all look like they'd enjoy some meat from time to
time Don't
ya? Filming
well let's pick a winner then. Let's just get let's just do it
just pick a winner
well you know I do like that the girl that can't stand up she's
Amy is so weak she can stand up she can do sex we're gonna get
an email now. Goodness,
I mean I'd have to look there's too many of them here you have
to look at all their pictures and these are all you know
professionally taken photographs. These girls could
be homely as a mighty hand made up of This is bull. Stuff is
ridiculous and there's male contestants I didn't see that I
haven't looked at them. Oh brother. You might as well put
it look at look at Monte where's this one's gonna get you
man Montes in what month is built Monte got Monte may not
eat meat but he's he's definitely caring.
I know what I'm saying. I'm sorry. Okay, enough of this.
Already. It just brings out the bad side of me letting me add
live about this
Do you care with this little white puppy?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's another one. I can guarantee none of
these guys that are on this one are care about much about the
female contestants. Let's put it that way. Hmm. Which is okay.
You know that's you're generalizing Matt. No, I think
you're right.
So why don't just look for yourself. Oh, so anyway, by the
way, I was bitching about the CNBC thing I have to recall
because they black, I'm telling you, this video is worth
watching, because they bring up every buddy what they said. And
then what happened in a very different way than the Daily
Show usually does. I mean, it really apparently put a lot of
work into this. But I remember when I was in New York last
year, I was, while I was up earlier than usual, I got to
watch that early show on the CNBC where this this guy came
out with this, this is before the all the crashes. And he this
guy came on the show who had just finished a book on how
Lehman Brothers was obviously gonna go out of business. And
they just rake this guy over the coals for even suggesting
anything about this great company, Lehman Brothers. And he
said, What makes you think that any of these assertions of yours
are true, and they were just pounding him? And he's kept
pointing at one number? He said, Well, you know, if they can
explain what this number is, I wouldn't even write this book.
But I've asked and asked, and so nobody can explain. There's his
number, you know, in this column here, and they these numbers
don't make any sense. And they don't what do they refer to? And
it was obviously some, you know, some something to balance the
books, right. And they could never come up with anything. But
every but it was still they saw that in the way they attack this
guy. And the fact that he had come up with stuff, and we're
already starting to see, you know, the oil scam, and some of
this other stuff get revealed. I got pretty suspicious.
Well, that oil scam is really working boy, I'll tell you. The
downward scam keeping it below 50 bucks. That is really that is
just Venezuela is now there's all kinds of crap going on
there. Because, you know, when you when you build your
business, ie your country on 140 or $150 $1 per barrel oil, you
know, your plans have to change pretty drastically when your
income is knocked down by 60%. Yeah. And have you been
following the way you've been following Venezuela?
Well, Venezuela, I didn't know I had that. I had that special I
recorded for you on Cesar Chavez that frontline did, by the way,
which is one of the best things if you anybody out there can
find this. Cesar Chavez special on frontline is one of the most
fascinating things I've ever done. But no, Venezuela has got
all kinds of problems. And it's you know, and of course, we're
putting the screws to them. And then of course, they got this,
there was just a special on I think it was 60 minutes or
something over the weekend where the this guy Morales, who's the
Indian coca farmer, that's the head of you know, Bolivia, who
basically told us to get their DEA guys out of the country, you
know, people here in the Andes, we chew coca leaves, and we
can't have these,
we just line up and buy it like everybody else and stop bringing
in your own shipments. You don't transport.
So they went to you know, so they this has become a big
problem. And of course, the Cesar Chavez supports this guy.
And he's kind of, you know, trying to get him to become a
communist. And it's very interesting situation in South
America with these guys. By the way, the coca thing that you
know, you can get coca leaves are a common thing, people chew
and make tea. In both Peru and Bolivia and other South American
countries in the world. You have high altitudes because it's
actually it's a combination of chemicals and these leaves that
give you enough stamina. It doesn't give you a buzz. I've
chewed these things. It but it gives you a lot. I was I'm up at
14,000 feet in the, in the Andes in this little town with a bunch
of guys who were floating around.
Back it up, set the stage. What were you at this time? Chemist?
No, no, no. Like a couple years ago, I was the guy who's runs a
company that got bought by well to goes to phone that got bought
by National Geographic that sells indigenous peoples
artifacts.
They're ripped off shit. Yeah. That's actually the children
pretty good press hold. Let me kill this call. Yeah,
go ahead. You take that call. In the meantime, we'll play a
little bit of music here on that no agenda. We're waiting for
John C. Dvorak to come back.
So anyway, so. So they invited us up to go to Peru and go into
the Andes and visit some of these rock makers. So we're in
this one town, which is just up there. And it means support yet
to take some air sickness pills, and we drank a lot of coca leaf
tea. And then we got up there and then you find these old
farts who had a bags of these leaves and you chew on him. And
then you can wander around because it's pretty, it's
tiresome to watch, because we're not only at high altitudes, but
we're going up and down hills. It's
like sucking on a Red Bull continuously.
Anyway, it's terrible. And so I'm like the oldest guy in this
group I was 30 noms whatever it is a bunch of these young people
that were with the group and there's different ages but let's
just say that I was the oldest of the group and these young
people a couple of them were now now I don't want to choose to
leave because you know it's like I think it's bad are they I
don't know why I don't want to get hooked on the leaf man and
so so it was so funny to what you know once you had enough you
know you've been chewing on stuff enough you just wander
around it's pretty normal you're still a little winded but it's
not too bad but it's something hilarious about walking past on
the way back to the you know are right back down the mountain
walking past two or three of these guys who refuse to chew
the leaves bent over holding you know with their with their hands
on their knees oh yeah they're out of brass yeah unable to move
walking downhill they can't do it
and I walk right past one of them I said I told you you
should have chewed the leaves
have you ever tried to have no problem? We were tried Viagra
No, me neither.
No want to have immediate causes you know it did get you
increases your blood pressure it's not I don't think doesn't
sound like a healthy product no but the leaves anyway so the
leaves are no big deal. I like to fly Yeah, you'd like the
herbs but anyway the leaves are no big deal and they you know
the tea is tasty and you know I don't guys did but don't know
used to actually be legally in United States to sell coca leaf
tea. Until I think it was the Reagan administration. Somebody
with a hair up there. Oh, no, you can't do that. I mean, if
there's actually extracting cocaine from a bag of coca leaf
Hey, you would not get a crystal?
No
no, I just have a I just think is ridiculous. We our drug laws
are stupid. And we should legalize marijuana. I'm a
libertarian 100% of the way on this.
Yeah, but it's not gonna happen. We went through that last week.
It's not going to happen. It would completely ruin the
business.
Your rationale for it is because the government's in bed with the
drug dealers who are all splitting the money.
Yes, I guarantee you marijuana will never be legal in in any of
the United States. Unless they declare independence from from
the Union. He will not be legal, it just won't happen. It will
not happen.
The way I see it, everybody who smokes dope now has a supply.
They get their dope. I mean, Mendocino County price applies
most of it. And it's not less like if they legalize it that
all of a sudden, the body's really specious argument that
came up the other day, and when legalizing it all of a sudden is
not going to increase anybody using it. I mean, I'm not going
to start smoking dope, because it's illegal. I don't care for
it. But here's what here's the argument the guys say, oh, you
know, this is a bogus argument that they're gonna get all these
tax dollars and one of these right wing talk show guys it's a
bogus argument because you know, as well as I do that once it's
legalized, the prices will plummet and the and then the tax
there won't be any tax dollars because it won't cost much if
you tax it by the pound as a fixed rate what difference does
it make what the base price is it's still going to get the tax
money what kind of what kind of math is this that these people
come up with this is just make some horrible argument or some
bullshit argument that you know, those guys may tax money because
the price is gonna go down is nuts. It's crazy. Anyway, sorry.
Any they just do not understand the Republican Party? Right
wing? That's that's for personal responsibility, less government
in your life and all this other stuff. And then they want to
don't government in your life? Yeah. I wish somebody explained
as always for the good of the public Bull.
I watched the show on Monday. They by the
way, marijuana used to be legal in this country, it was used a
lot less when it was
I was watching the show on Monday, called over here in the
UK. I think it was the war of the bins. And it was a
fascinating program. The the municipalities that councils in
throughout the United Kingdom have such an incredible amount
of power and control over the subjects of England, that most
places now have counted them for individual garbage bins, they
must fill appropriately for trash removal. And this I think
we talked about it last week or the week before that there's
already been all you know, these councils are cutting back and in
some cases, they're not picking they're only picking up garbage
every 14 days. 14 days. Okay. verot but they now they're in
schools teaching kids which crap goes into which bin and there's
four of them there's a red one, a green one, a blue one and a
black one. And it's it's amazing they will leave your bin if
there's one thing in there that's wrong they leave it and
then you get fined they've got you know there was showing these
inspectors walking around looking at people's garbage
cans. They've got the wrong thing and then I'm gonna have to
write them up. And to make people recycle this is the
kicker. So in this one municipality, where they have
two bins one is for recyclable and one is for trash. They cut
the trash one in half by size and gave everyone a new bin.
Okay, this is now half as big which means you have to recycle
more I guess. They're completely terrorizing people with these
ugly ass plastic bins that are throughout the entire country.
There's not a single street that doesn't have colored bins out in
front and the forcing people to
well, okay, well let's go we can talk about what we have the bins
here too but we don't have depends on the community. Like
for example, in Berkeley they have a similar situation that
you're talking about with all these you know, not necessarily
inspectors but if they find that you've put a bottle for example
in your garbage instead of in the bottle bin, which you've
already paid by the way for you have to pay like an extra nickel
or a dime because of the bottle bill that was passed in
California years
ago. And those guys they pick it up and they go sell it right
they they sell it to the glass guys.
Yeah, but the funny here's the here's the irony of the whole
thing. Because I used to be an air pollution inspector and one
of the places I inspected was the glass companies there's a
thing called call a call it it's a disability it's the busted up
old bottles from that get recycled into the glass stained
glass businesses always from day one big time into recycled glass
they would did it bring tons of this stuff in and people would
you'd like collected and there was no reason to charges extra
nickel which amounts to being a tax on this bottle every time
you buy anything. Now there's a plastic, even a plastic bottle,
you buy a new bottle of sparkling water, and you go
through the register as the price and plus a CR V are such
something recycled nickel, just another nickel or a dime. And
I've always seen every time one of these guys comes as the
company this this community organizing group in California
called Cal perg that was responsible for this rip off and
every time one of them comes around because they're always
doing something about you know, there's they've always got some
little thing they want to do about now it's about green or
about global warming they there's a couple of them around
the office, by the way in San Francisco has stopped you for
global warming. They want you to sign a petition new which I
always I don't I refuse to sign all petitions of court and so
every time they come around I read them the riot act about
this, you know, I mean, it's just ridiculous. And there's
other things that they do that are just counterproductive. I
mean, this in any way Burke has got the same kind of been thing.
We have a system in Albany, which is probably okay, we have
three bins. But what do we you can own as many garbage bins as
you want to pay for. So if you're a real garbage I know
these are the Rs are government issued man? Yeah, well, these
are issued by the garbage company. And so you get if you
want to garbage bins, find it you can get to and then they
give you free a grey bin for recyclables and they let you mix
them that you could put cardboard in with glass with
paper with right can you can't they sort that out at the best
they can.
That's the point they sorted out at the other end. And then they
have a green bin for if you have a bunch of you know scraps from
the yard, you want to pick up your leaves and put them in
there. So then it's all comes with a machine that you know is
basically this giant truck with a big arms that grabs and stuff
and throws it in there though they don't even look at it. You
could you know if you could mix it up, and I throw bottles away
occasionally into the regular garbage. Nobody cares here. But
in Berkeley Oh, it's terrible. And in San Francisco, they got
close to the San Diego this kind of same thing going on there in
San Francisco like they do in parts of England. And the fact
that the public puts up with this is ridiculous. Thank you
that would be my
long road to the point Yeah,
but it was kind of it was weird man watching these kids in the
classroom learning about global warming and okay what in which
Ben does this go on? And I can I mean, you just fucking charge
enough these batteries to go to work for you aren't you? In New
Jersey, and we had great they came twice a week in New Jersey.
Trash from that binmen in New Jersey. Hey Adam, how you doing?
I have a body you got a dead body that no problem. We'll
throw that into when the mob runs trash the shit works you
know what I'm saying?
Well, you know what's what's what annoys me and we need to
get down to the basics of this thing going on over there and in
Berkeley in San Francisco similar is that they're
essentially having the public do their job. Yeah. Well, Patricia,
from that from this, you got to do all this sorting and sorting
and sorting of the garbage You never used to have to do you're
basically doing somebody else's job this is like
they Trisha had a really good idea she said well if if those
if the bin min collects it let's just talk about recyclables if
the bin men collect those and all they do is they they take
them and you've sorted them for them indeed, and then they go
sell the glass and they go sell the plastic and whatever else
can be sold to wouldn't it be if you just started here on where
we live on our square? And if we all collected it ourselves and
then we brought it in then we split the money or you know or
we put a playground and or something like that? I mean,
would we have to have a tremendous amount of recyclables
to actually make some money because I think people would be
motivated to do it then now it's you know, like you're a little
child and you're being scolded and you're not doing it right
you don't have to and you have to use the government issued
trash bag. And if you don't get cardboard boxes, you have to cut
up the cardboard box and then put the cut up slivers into the
orange plastic bag, otherwise they won't take it away. I hate
this. The only boxes I had after we moved
probably more than two
and it'd be cut into slivers to fit in the bag. Is it possible
can you make money with you? No, no no at 50 families
you know you can burn your cardboard is one of the greatest
cans that burn
anything in in in the City of London. Are you crazy? Can't
start a fire
Do you have a fireplace in your house don't you?
Yep not allowed to burn anything in it? What good is it? Well
it's no good no good. Have you heard about
more this is depressing.
Now let's move on to something else then. This will be up your
alley because you know a lot about illness. Or you know what
are you familiar with?
What does that come from? You all you know
all about illness and sickness and cocoa leaves Morgellons
make sure you hit you have no idea how many people are jealous
of the fact that I got to go up into the Andes and chew coca
leaves. No,
I think it's fantastic. send me pictures. Yeah, screw it. Are
you familiar with Morgellons?
I never heard of it Morgellons
and this is doing the rounds this story so I don't know
anything about it is a multi dimensional disease it's called
have no idea what that is.
starts immediately going into the third dimension the aliens
own you. Starts
with relentless itching, stinging or biting sensations.
Cotton like balls may appear on the body with no reasonable
explanation soon skin rash develops along with lesions that
may not heal that will not heal. Many sufferers reports during
like fibers of varying color popping out through the skin
lesions. fibers can be black, white, red or even iridescent
blue. Others report black specks falling from their bodies that
literally like spontaneous human combustion is eventually a
variety of bugs and worms begins to find their way out of the
body through the lesions that are reading this from natural
news.com Of course. Other accompanying symptoms include
hair loss, debilitating and chronic fatigue hard nodules
beneath the skin and joint pain. Oh no. The door my joint to
hurt. But this is apparently contagious and it's frightening
and two big story.
It's okay, so this thing scrapped up in 2002. The name
given in 2002 by Mary Lutz how to a proposed condition. It's
not a new disorder but a new and misleading name for known
illnesses however, no consensus but I'm reading this from the
great Wikipedia while in
April 2006. The Center for Disease Control recommended an
epidemic epidemiological me illogical epidemiological
investigation of what they were then referring to as a public
health concern in January 2008. They announced a grant to
healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente to test an interview
150 to 500 patients. Now they're on it. Huh? Now, of course is
the GMO link. Typical.
This is interesting, and the CDC opened a website on unexplained
thermography aka Magellan announced an investigation
process. That's what I was just talking about. Yes, symptoms and
diagnosis, blah blah. Okay, doctor. granules are crystals
that appear under the skin as crazy sounds like something from
the X Files.
Well, on the page I'm reading here, saying that there's a link
to genetically modified food That makes love that. Doesn't
that make sense?
That's a good one. They saying it's a new name for an old
condition delusional parasitosis. Wow. Which is I got
to the heart of that at least. Well, you can understand just
from the name of it you can tell it's a psychological illness
where people imagine these crazy things happening to them.
So you say okay, so it's not really happening.
Well, I mean, that's what they say. Some cases of delusional
parasitosis have organic causes other than those associated with
neuro neurological psychological conditions of unknown etiology.
For example, fornication, oh, I'm sorry for vacation. The
sensation that that's a funny interesting word for vacation.
The sensation that bugs are crawling under one's skin,
caused by allergies, diabetic neuropathy, menopause, skin
cancer Demodex mites, or herpes zoster. Both dementia and mental
retardation have been reported in association with do p. Want
to do p and d? Okay. I don't know. Do you see symptoms
associated with delusional parasitosis? Maybe it's diluted
I don't know, including hives. Unexplained tingling and itching
are common side effects and many prescription drugs or drug abuse
sensations are real but the attribution of course you that's
another reason to make drugs illegal. The sensations are real
but these attribution of the sensations to unknown parasites
in the collection of fibers is part of the delusion
seven to nothing to be worried about I guess. I wouldn't think
nothing to see move on people nothing going on.
goes on and on is one of the longest pieces it's a good one
though. I mean, I still think that Mersa or the flesh eating
bacteria is a bigger threat to public health and nobody seems
to you know really do much about that is in gyms now a
professional athletes are getting it friend of mines
almost dying from it. Just a mess. You know, this is that
this? flesh eating bacteria gets inside people. That's nasty. So
I got one more thing here, one or two. So there's a bunch of
photos. The identity reason I should have brought this up
earlier. There's a bunch of photos on the net. I should have
brought up earlier because it reminded me of the of the Gordon
Brown story. The fact he couldn't talk to Gordon Brown.
But apparently Obama has no problem spending time. At the
basketball game.
I saw I was drinking beer, drinking beer. Well, there's
nothing wrong with that. Does anyone have a real problem?
That's wrong. We've
got some guy coming to visit, you know, you might want to take
him to the basketball game.
Yeah, that would have been nice. I don't think he was actually
there, though, because he flew in Tuesday afternoon, mid
afternoon. So that was the day after the game.
I'm sure Obama can get tickets for any game.
We got some crap brewing over here and get mo nation nice
though, my friend. The Ukraine cannot pay its gas bill. So
we're back to that shit. Do what you just solved a couple of
weeks ago. Because they have to pay Russia and state agents took
over the Ukrainian gas company. So there's a flock of things
going on. And Latvia I think did Latvia do an Iceland on us? Did
I hear about that? And I think I heard on the BBC on the World
Service. I think Latvia,
did they? They went belly up. I think the whole country.
Yeah. Well, you know, the UK is next. Well, don't laugh. It's
absolutely going to happen the car companies have now. In fact,
I think the Obama administration told him to do this. They are
now knocking on the doors of the European governments saying Help
us help us bail us out. You know, we've got the Vauxhall and
Opel and Jaguar and all these other brands. And you know, if
you guys don't help us, we're gonna we're gonna go belly up
what we put in at 40 billion now, and everyone knew this shit
wasn't gonna work. Where's the car czar? Is he supposed to say
something? It's at a point here. GM is saying they're gonna be
out of business in a month. Well, da we knew that was gonna
happen. How much more of this insanity we have to look at and
witness
a lot. And believe me, it's good for the show. Yeah, no,
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Okay, well, whatever whatever whatever I was saying I was
going to wind up by saying they are taking down the economy on
purpose they're going to bankrupt everything everybody
and we're going to wind up being controlled by the World Bank or
as a global bank and and you watch the word carbon tax or
credits or something come into it you watch it's going to
happen. But I'm very confused now because the the Gordon Brown
Obama thing that's way under analyzed. I mean, this is there
joking about it in the papers, Gideon Rachman Financial Times
you know him right. The columnist. Yeah. Yeah. He wrote
a pretty funny article. He actually if that, that I didn't
have enough time to pull all the the appropriate quotes for the
show. But he actually wrote them down if I can find them real
quick. Otherwise, I'll skip it love to do it. But I don't
understand. You know, aren't these guys all supposed to be
like saving the world? I mean, the banks saving the world
saving the banks, Gordon? I mean, how does that work? How is
there any analysis being done on it at all in the United States?
No. There's too busy saving their job as the journalists are
trying to scramble around. I mean, now they're worried sick
and me. We got we just lost a Rocky Mountain News, which
happened last week. And then of course, the San Francisco
Chronicle is going out of business and there was a if
anybody can find Phil Bronstein. He used to be the editor in
chief of the Chronicle and before that the examiner which
merged at they can find his he has a lament in his blog, if it
goes on forever, he can't stop writing doesn't understand that
how synchronous is important online, goes on and on and on,
but fails to mention, you know about how the reason for the
collapses of these papers and how we can you know, the
economics doesn't work anymore. But if he fails to mention the
anecdote which you I believe we had that meeting with those
guys, and he at least told me that it was kind of ironic, to
say the least, that Craig Newmark of Craigslist came over
there and was going to hand Craigslist over to the the
examiner or the chronic roid would have on a silver platter.
And they told him to go screw himself. We know how to do
classify John Oh, get out of your kid.
There you go. So yeah, good. All right. Good. Gideon. Rachman in
the Financial Times. So the sky Sky News covered the covered the
brown speech live after the joint session. And the only
thing these guys could talk about at Sky were how many
standing ovations once it I think it was 16. No, no, it was
19 standing ovations. He got as as the puppet puppet theater
continues. But I'll send you a link to this online, you've got
to see the shit that Brown was saying. It is just it's just and
he's almost begging, begging to do it together. And he's didn't
even get the meeting. Thank you. I mean, I'm pissed off i If I
show up to a sales meeting somewhere and the guy doesn't
show. Yeah. Yeah, not going to then go and talk to your
company. You know, if the CEO won't have a little chat with
me. So I feel that that something very nasty is afoot
and something's happening very, very soon, it's going to blow
your at your models, etc. It's just happening much sooner. So
that that would have been the conclusion of whatever I was
saying.
So I think we need a new section and probably a new jingle for
corrections. Oh, did
we screw something up? Yeah,
I got I'm gonna read it to this guy. Michael Peko peko.com sends
me a note. Once again, I find myself screaming into my
earbuds. I don't know what that means. I asked him he says I
don't know either. A couple of years ago, Mrs. pecho. And I
cruise to Bermuda. And I immediately noticed the
difference in this house tops and I found a local and asked
about it. The material is called Bermuda stone. It's a somewhat
porous stone that is quarried on the island and since Bermuda is
a group of coral islands is essentially coral. They
powerwashing from once in a while and they each have
cisterns underneath. And it turns out at somebody else
mentioned he mentioned in a different email that the size of
your cistern is some sort of a prestigious thing. You know, my
my sister and I gotta tell you, my sister and maybe it's been
hanging huge, massive
so I said it was lime or something like that. Okay,
limestone All right.
Well, we we definitely need to have a correction.
Yeah, we can do some corrections because we're basically talking
out of our assets. We try as we we try we know a lot and you've
been around which is that sit at home all day jerking off. Well,
all right. Hey, John. Keep your eye on. Kyrgyzstan.
Kurdish Kurt. Yeah,
those guys if you're on Kurdistan and the Manus airbase,
we're getting kicked out.
Oh, really? Yeah. Well, that means some bad things will
happen to that country for doing that to us.
Not only that, but we need a new base because you know, you got
to be in the stands, man. That's where that's where all the
groovy action has taken place. But they decided no, no, we're
just gonna close the crew just on it. All it is is a big
airbase. So they're gonna have to lease it out to somebody,
maybe to Russia.
Yeah, maybe Russia is causing a lot of trouble. Here's an
October 20 2008 article. October 28 2008. Latvia will not go
bankrupt as Iceland. The cushioning of the European Union
structural funds provides cover for Latvia, which in real terms
minimizes the risk for the Baltic nation to go bankrupt as
has happened to other countries like Iceland. That VM commercial
banks Association, President T adores some two versions or two
virginiana. No, said last week in an interview with the Latvian
state television. He said that regardless of the crisis on
global financial markets, the bank in Latvia would end 2008
with a profit, oh, this probably would not be as large as it used
to be in the past year Latvian banks investments are balanced
and diversified. Therefore, they cannot sustain such losses as
foreign banks did. He reiterated no bank and Latvia is facing any
trouble presently. And who was this that said this is the head
of the US the Latvian commercial banks Association President.
I'm fantastic. All right.
Meanwhile, by the way, the thing that's going on in Latvia now is
the apparently their shoes. Their dissidents are the latest
shoes as a means of political expression. Apparently 100,000
choosers or 10s of 1000s of shoes were sent to the Latvian
Senate or their their legislature. That's right.
Choose coming this summer. It's the summer
fighting as we all I have some shoes in the closet that we're
never going to where ever
you might as well throw them at a politician. Exactly what a
fantastic I got some golf shoes
thrown in jail for that one, but yeah, probably take the spikes
off to be okay.
So the bottom line is your government does not love you.
They do not work for you. But we do and it wouldn't kill you just
to tell a friend about this show. Forget the money. Forget
the library in the winery. Just tell someone to listen to the
show.
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Well, John of girl could dream. Coming to you from Gitmo nation
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