Adam curry, John C. Dvorak and tracking the sliver of overlap
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And from Gitmo nation West actually northern Silicon Valley
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Yeah, there are people that want that there are people who are
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Well, then why don't you you know, crank out a couple of
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Well, on the daily source code is for is different. That's kind
of like my mistress on the side. John, you know, I have to treat
her with a different type of respect.
So a bunch of swine flu stuff came in this week, also. But at
the top of the news, I think, is abama. Like, I guess it was
either yesterday or the day before yesterday gave the
commencement address at Arizona State, which anyone who knows
colleges in the United States knows is a party school.
John McCain's backyard Of course.
Right, which I guess is adding insult to injury? Oh, yeah.
Although, you know, the thing is, I'm always wondering about,
you know, why is he doing this? And because it's like, why would
you go to some school like Arizona State? No offense to
you, Arizona. I know a lot of people from Arizona State and
I've been there. I saw you too, with their lovely stadium.
It's a beautiful place, but it's, you know, it was still in
the Pac 10. The conference in which it belongs. It is the
party school. And, you know, did you see this said commencement,
I saw it. I saw it. It's the same or as the same, you know,
speech he's given. He's got this and by the way, I got tipped off
by somebody out, you got to dig them up. I think I mentioned
them in the I have a blog entry. I think I have to think about
how I dealt with it. But whatever. The mayor just said it
for the show. Anyway, the point is, is that you guys, he was the
trifecta, you know, educate you know, Obama did his big three
you know, education. What are the health care health care and
the big three they're so big we can't even remember them.
I just got
there so big healthcare economy, perhaps?
I didn't remember Yeah, yeah, that must know some
someone with money.
Yes, takes me like an hour. It takes me like two hours to list
like in like an old model T. Just keep going on.
The oil is still a little bit thick.
It was the same old, same old with him. But then what was
weird was at the beginning of the thing, Obama's like they
were introducing all these special students who are, you
know, either came from weird backgrounds, and they got their
degree or their straight A's or and then they had a bunch of
doctoral people that come on, they had some really, some older
woman announcing them and she was up on this podium and she's
looking over her glasses and she looks ominous. She's gonna beat
someone up. She looks just like I don't know what
was told us there.
I didn't see him.
Do you know what I'm talking about? It's something.
teleprompter of the United States. Oh, no, it was,
that was fine. When you first saw the stage. There's these
two, you know, the two prompters Yeah, you know, the back and
forth. We're sitting were there and they were real obvious
because the lights were reflecting off of them funny.
But anyway, the thing that was weird about the whole thing, and
people should try to catch us I'm sure it's gonna be on
YouTube, is that hopefully can catch the whole thing because at
the beginning, they're bringing out these people and some black
girl comes out, because she was you know, got straight A's or
she was in she came from some guy. I don't know what her
background was, but it was weird. It's just kind of cute.
And Obama starts starts eyeballing her. No, really, like
really eyeballing. He's eyeballing her. And so she
comes, she comes and she stands there. And then Obama is like,
staring at her from a distance. And it's like, real obvious on
this thing. It's almost uncomfortable to watch. He's
just like, she's like, he's like laying into her that just kind
of a creepy stare. And she looks over at him and she's like, stop
staring at me. Seriously, and maybe that's why
she was on stage. John. Maybe that's maybe there's something
going on there.
Wish it Well, whatever the case was, he was like giving it to
her. And I just thought that was slightly creepy.
I saw yesterday I was watching CNBC and hadn't really watched
in a while. And the President came out and I guess they've
they're very close or the he was giving a push to some health
care legislation. So they're in the like, maybe the Rose Garden
or whatever. And there was Pelosi Speaker of the House was
next to him and a couple other bronies. But here's what was
interesting. So Obama does this whole thing. It's a no
questions. Press Conference. And he's like, you know, this is
great. And yeah, we're really going to do this. We have to do
this this year. We have to do this this year. He's repeating
it over and over again said, All right, thank you very much. And
then Pelosi says, Excuse me, Mr. President. He's like, what? I
just want to say something, and she gives him the biggest public
blow job I've ever seen in my life. Like, without your
leadership, you have done more for healthcare since healthcare
began in 1951. Is he done? Nothing. But this was the whole
point. So first of all, doesn't the President get like the final
word, isn't it like, doesn't it completely undermine his power?
If you then step up to the microphone and say, excuse me, I
just wanted to say one thing here. It was
raw, like she's conferring him.
But y'all it was, I felt like Whoa, man, and you could see he
was not pleased with that move. And then so he did have the
final word. Okay. Thank you very much. That's it. And yeah, and
then he turns around, he bolts,
but he's got to deal with this woman. So
does he ever Oh, that was I just say a huge faux pas, but man, it
was lipsmacking. World class BJ from Pelosi. Okay. The
the trilogy is health, education and energy. Oh, right, of
course,
reduce our dependence upon for foreign oil, which of course we
we can easily do just by using our own oil, which more or less?
Well, natural gas. We got natural gas.
We got this. We also have a lot of reserves, and we have
untapped reserves, and we have unknown reserves, and we have
wind power. Yes. Anyway. Anyway, so the thing might say he
usually does the Health, Education energy, and then then
he throws in the fourth one, which is the economy. It's
kind of a little little ditty on the side there. Hey, can I ask
you a question, John? Sure. I was, this actually started when?
When I was in San Francisco, I was having my shoes shined on
someone's Oh, really? Yes. Someone's trying to call me I
hate it when they do that. Don't you know I'm doing a show. Yeah,
on second and market, there's a guy who's been there for 25
years. You know, I just love that old fashioned. You see him
in New York still, but the experience if you have the time,
and you have the shoes to just sit down on a street corner with
your feet up and a guy just totally loving your boots. That
sounded very wrong.
Just a guy around the corner.
Second in second market. He's right. He's right on that
corner. shoeshine. Joe. And, and yeah, so this is this guy is.
He's from New Orleans. Originally, he's been in San
Francisco for 50 years, you know, real creole type black guy
from from New Orleans. And so he's a guy who observes a lot,
you know, and I like talking to people, but this kind of guy
just really I like it. This
is like your butcher, who told you that the top drug dealer in
Afghanistan is Karzai.
Oh, I had some good talks with the that's not the butcher. It's
the convenience store. Document. Yeah, that's a different story.
So anyway, and we're watching the we're just watching the
girls stroll by, obviously. And then he says, Man, this is just
out of control. So what are you talking about? He says, Look at
the size of these kids in these strollers. And look what they've
done to strollers to be able to actually carry these loads. He
said these kids are five, six years old, whatever happened to
hurry up, catch up, kid, come on, walk with me. And I can't
stop noticing it. I see kids who are just too big. They can walk,
they can totally walk. They're in strollers, and these mothers
are just pushing them along and the strollers have gotten bigger
and robust. And they're all terrain vehicles by now. And the
wonder because these huge kids have to sit in and what is going
on this should stop.
That's an interesting observation. Well, it was
his observation but once he brought my attention to it, I'm
like, oh, yeah, crying you're so you're so right.
A study looking at stuff he probably see this interesting
because usually those trends sneak up on you. You wouldn't
notice it, but he apparently did. Yeah.
He was really you know, you could tell that he was disgusted
by he's like, you know, whatever happened that just you know,
when I was a kid, it was like, Don't straggle Hurry up. Right.
You know, and and these days just seem. So if this is how
we're
kids are 12 years old or pushing them around and telling you
this is not America. Yeah, this is well, it's not just America,
because I've seen I'm seeing the exact same thing here in Gitmo
nation. should eat the exact same thing. It's a trend. Yeah,
it's a trend and maybe a worldwide trend.
The worst could be could be a bunch of lazy kids.
Well, that's what they that's what we're turning them into.
Yeah, that's not a very good start in life. Yeah, whatever
happened to you know, go out and skin your knees and hurt
yourself and come back and just try not to break anything
because there's too many forms to fill out kid.
I guess those days are over.
Boy, you've heard me.
Okay, well, let's get to a couple of things here. You start
with this one. I want to get to some some items. Now before we
do that, before I get the real news. Yeah. By the way, and I
want to congratulate you know, our audiences. We've gotten the
critical mass not so much with the money but we have with the
with with the talent that we have accumulated. So far as our
producers. I concur. Yes. And our moles. We have artists that
are working for us and we have people out there that are doing
stuff. Yeah. Look at this, and they kind of confirm our
theories. Oh, here we go. Hit me. This from Steve Oh, New York
City. Hey, John. I'm a pharmacist in a busy busy New
York City pharmacy every every every says everybody's ever
since this coming apocalypse pandemic was announced. We've
been selling Tamiflu by the boatload we couldn't get enough
of it. We even had physicians and surgeons coming in and
placing their orders for five and 10 packs. I am in agreement
with you regarding to having a pack on hand when traveling but
I also think people should have biotics with them as well. All
too often people come in from traveling abroad and need
antibiotics and other meds and have to go to a city emergency
room just to see a doctor some vacation. Just a couple of
observations about the swine flu flu deal that I've noticed. All
the Tamiflu that we are getting is short dated.
Oh really?
AKA expiring soon. I feel that this is a stockpile of drugs
that were they were unable to move them by the avian flu scare
a few years
back. Well, we know this for a fact we know that they've had
this stuff.
Roche needed an excuse to unload it before it was expired. Also,
the timing of this flu coincides with the allergy season in this
part of the country as well as other parts. People come in with
a runny nose, sore throat and cough and think they have the
flu. They go to the doctor and get a Tamiflu script and think
they will be all better. Even though I tell them that a
hallmark of the flu is a fever. They either do not believe me or
think I'm wrong. I went to school for over seven years to
do this and all I do is this is day in and day out. That's all I
do day in and day out. But the public rather rather believe the
liberal media whores
damn them. Liberal Media horrors. We need a jingle we
need a jingle for that. Hello.
You do actually we need a jingle for liberal media hordes. Keep
up the great no agenda work. Well
let me talk Let me tie into that. Because you know if you
think that was eloquent, well except for my reading of it now
that that kind of blew. Chris Scoular title of this email
coincidence I don't know if this is just a sick coincidence but
2007 was the Chinese Year of the Chicken bird flu pandemic
devastates parts of Asia 2008 Chinese Year of the Horse equine
influenza decimates Australian racing 2009 Chinese year of the
pig swine flu pandemic kills hundreds of pigs around the
globe. And it gets worst next year 2010 Chinese year of the
COC I'm very worried. So worried now. Cheese, but so weird though
with the Chicken Horse pig.
I guess you could shoehorn anything in anything but caca of
course is another form of chicken. So that would be
another you don't say yeah, so anyway, well I think that's what
it is. So meanwhile, I got another guy who noted that in
Mexico a number of the you know, these 150 or more dead from this
swine flu. It turns out that a lot of them never even had the
requisite fever
no that or the vomit Yeah, they had pneumonia or whatever
or something up so that's the whole thing and by the way, I
want to give you the credit for when we first started bringing
this right you without before we had a shot at even analyzing it
you called it as a fraud instantly Yeah, I came up with
the with the with them with more of these with the theories why
Yeah, but by the way, I didn't want to mention that people who
keep claiming that everything you know what, you know, that's
Hurry into Varric or Korean mainly you this everything is a
conspiracy, you know, a conspiracy, you know if some one
company decides to hire a PR agency and to get rid of some
inventory, and they go through a process to do so even though it
may frighten the public that say it's not a conspiracy, it's just
what you know, these things aren't necessarily conspiracies.
These sometimes are marketing ploys. So one gene, if I go out
and do some crazy thing by myself, you know, with my from
my company, it's not a conspiracy. We're not the
original conspiracy theories, the ones about you know, that
maybe involve the government in bed with the industry to do this
and that and an end to Bilderbergers and all that other
kind of BS, that would be maybe a conspiracy, but for the most
part, we're just talking about, generally speaking, especially
in the case of the Tamiflu a, a simple marketing strategy to get
rid of inventory.
And I was reading somewhere I know, I didn't save the article,
but worth mentioning that there's now an Indian company
who was going to start flooding the market with a a a generic
Tamiflu. I would have thought they still had those rights that
they couldn't do that.
Well, that's a good question. If that's the case, that would be
another good makes
even more sense, doesn't it? Yeah. Because it's Georgie
Harris.
Yeah, horse. Well, we can without mean, Relenza is
probably going to be out of phase two. Let me take a look.
No, no. Oh, by the way, I remember I remember I kept
saying that I had Tamiflu that the doctor gave it to me once
for a urinary tract. And you were like that doesn't doesn't
make sense. It hit me today. It wasn't Tamiflu. It was another
drug at the time. People wanted to have on their in their
possession. It was Cipro. And that was at the time of the
anthrax scares. Right? So I was incorrect about that.
So you got it on that? Well, I'm, I'm looking at Tambov. I
think we're lenses actually predates Tamiflu, but I'm not
sure. I'm looking at these articles. And nobody, you know,
this is one thing that by the way, you don't find this is top
notch, I think about because I'm looking at USA Today story on
the patent, you don't find a lot of news items by the mainstream
media that actually give you the date. You know, it's like this,
the patent runs out on January 15, you know, it might be of
some value to the public. Because if you're paying like
$10 a pill, which is not unusual for these things, these types of
drugs that are patented, it might be a good thing to wait a
day, you know, if you knew that the patent was running out this
month, because now you know, you see this with a bunch of ads
that you have on television, which they shouldn't even have,
saying, you know, don't forget to ask for this, the original
that you know, because this is when the patent starts to run
out on these drugs, they start advertising them as you know,
extra special. Don't let the doctor give you a generic, which
by the way should be busted. Somebody has one of these
government agencies should bust people. It's either a drug
that's based on a chemical this is this very specific, a generic
drug should be exactly the same. It should work exactly the same
or it's or it's obviously not manufactured properly.
Somebody's either in violation of manufacturing standards, or
somebody else's lying. You know, and what then the public doesn't
know that. Oh, I guess I know this, the original has to still
have the real expensive stuff because the generics not as
good.
Yeah, that isn't that isn't that outlawed? Isn't that banned
somehow from them, marketing against it that way,
I'm not seeing any evidence of it.
Well, this is clearly all apart, or ACTA is going to solve a lot
of these problems for the pharmaceutical industry. And
there are there are some massive moves afoot when it comes to
intellectual property. So if you if you don't realize how this
works, and this is and this been some very important drugs in
just the past few years, including the beta blocker, its
name evades me for a moment, the patent runs out and then anyone
can make this drug, which by the way, also means you know, drugs
that can be distributed to people in poor countries who
have no access to this because it's too expensive. So it's a
good thing that there's this exploration and I believe that
they are continuously trying to extend those dates they the it's
a fractal of the of the music industry. In fact, if I can just
deviate for a moment, very important ruling by the House
Judiciary Committee yesterday, they passed the bill 21 to nine
the vote that will levy a new fee on local radio stations for
music aired free to listeners. If an act no 50% of the new fee
will go directly into the coffers of the major record
label companies. Three out of four incidentally which reside
outside the United States. And so it looks like this is the the
final NEC CHOP for radio.
Yeah, that means there's more talk radio ladies and gentlemen.
That's right. Oh, here we are.
That's yeah, here we are. Everybody welcome now that you
can't afford to play any songs on the radio anymore, Desi and
JC
Kouga Alright, so here's that the Indian company, I still
can't get the date. It's weird. Here's a company. Here's a
website called patent baristas. And this is very interesting.
This ran in October of 2005. And let me just read this in a new
twist in the Tamiflu drama being played out across the globe.
It's now being reported that DJI leads sciences, which is
apparently is the developer of Tamiflu is believed to have
terminated his agreement with Roche, which has the exclusive
marketing right on the drug. Now generic manufacturers like
India's Cipla, which is the one you're talking about, you're
wondering who holds the patent rights on the drug and they want
to start making it so something screwy there's a, there's a
backstory about this flu, about Tamiflu and all the rest of it.
And the crazy stuff that's going on that is not just I mean, we
have to go through blogs, to apparently kind of piece it
together. Where is that? What is the media doing?
It's so obvious what it's so obvious what has happened.
They've injected this into the air, or however it was done. And
as
you hear the latest, there was another story that just ran,
which says that something like this just got blocked, by the
way on the divorce.org/blog. Check it out. It talks about to
some guy who broke down this virus and claims there's no way.
Exactly, yeah. And I did read that. Oh, absolutely. And John,
ever since I was a young kid, I've had this thought this this.
And I'm saying like, you know, formative years 13 to 15 is when
I started thinking, you know, I was becoming aware of media and
how it worked. And I was becoming a part of it. And, and
I was like, it seems so amazing that these guys always time
their advertising buys right around the fact when everyone is
completely shit out with the flu. I think you know, and I've
always thought if I had a company, I can see how
incredibly tempting it would be to shoot something into the air
and then have the solution problem solution.
And people wonder if the
people and then people have the audacity to call me a crackpot
and the conspiracy theories when companies are fucking with you
all day long, and you know it.
I'm talking about the computer viruses and anti virus software.
Same thing, same thing we talked about Symantec is the same thing
that worked for the government that worked for the government.
That's their biggest client.
All right. And you don't have to defend yourself. Everybody knows
you're crazy. I love baby.
Now, back to real news. Yes. Two important pieces of real news
tonight, the second preliminary round of the Eurovision Song
Contest?
Yeah, this is not very, we talked about this last sometime
back. But Americans are unfamiliar with this event,
you're going to have to re explain it. Why is it so big?
Because it was one of the first Pan European satellite broadcast
initiatives that came back on a on a on a yearly basis. So very
analogous to the Oscars. And
this is very analogous to the World Cup, you think,
huh? No, not the same.
In terms of country versus country, you know, we're gonna
beat those bastards in France. You know, the Germans want to do
that, or the British think they're gonna win the World Cup.
No,
no, I think it might have been that. No, I don't think it was
it was it was more
as any interest in the country to be rival. No, no, no, no, no,
there's none in this competition. Nobody cares.
No young people care because it's too funny to watch because
this is like the antithesis to the top 40 chart. Everything
that is lame, stupid, cheesy. And pretty much everything is
gay on this show. And it's funny to watch. It is absolutely
hilarious to watch. So it's okay, I go so it's become
counterculture. Of course, people are happy, you know, but
I've never known differently than people. So I think they're
the best and they're gonna win. It was never about our guys that
got to win because each country that is a member of the EU, they
only have to be a member of the European broadcast union. So
it's not even technically just Europeans that are in it. Israel
participates and they're all kinds of different countries.
But it used to be really exciting thing because it would
start off with the Eurovision the Eurovision tune which
everyone can hum that that that that that that everyone knows
what it's like and then you had to like the the satellite
thinking like, oh, yeah, man, we're hooked up. We're
connected. Everyone's watching it live and that was the genesis
in the United Kingdom. Although this will be the first year he's
not doing it ever since. As I was aware of Sir Terry Wogan
doing the commentary The reason to watch in the United Kingdom
was always the commentary from Terry Wogan because he would
just sit there getting hammered completely hammered on whatever
he drinks is good and would just take the piss out of every
single contestant and him seriously and it was just so
it's so incredible
that you think he is the model for the these these shows that
are on syndicated now the
interesting No I think very few people outside of the United
Kingdom
No I'm just saying but from the guys like what's his name now
who's the guy produces American Idol?
Oh, Simon Cowell. Yes, I may sound there. Yeah, that could.
That's a good bit. I think I can do better than that. I can be a
bigger
jerk. Because Terry Wogan is not a jerk because you agree with
him? I was like you just saw right Terry
I agree with Carol. Yeah, okay. And
you and Terry would all say now watch watch for the feathers You
won't believe what's going to happen he would give away all
the all the surprises you know, it's like he's total spoiler on
everything. And then of course when the UK come around who
haven't won in 20 years, because the the product they've
delivered is so crap. You know, he would just be taking the piss
out of out of out of the UK is entry is beautiful, beautiful,
beautiful. Beautiful. Too bad. He's not doing it this year.
I'll really miss him. So that's big news in Gitmo nation east
and apparently it's also according to ponder who
twittered me this. It's blasphemy day in Ireland. And he
requests us to say something grossly insulting
to the Irish. I don't think so. To God, I guess. I don't know. I
don't feel I think he's just he's just egging you on. He
wants to he's probably got a bet down on it. Don't do it. I'm not
I'm not falling for it. Well, since you talked about he's
talked about Twitter, right? Yeah. So here we go. More Real
News. Oh, I'm sorry. And now back to real. Now, I always
admire someone who goes out of their way to get some press
coverage with some sort of a crackpot you know statement that
they'll make publicly so here's the headline this was sent out
over the MMD newswire which is a public relations distribution
network. Headline Twitter use causes serious in quotes, brain
damage media expert says. Social media expert and author David
Seaman David C. Names that. How can you take that guy seriously?
Yeah, man. Yeah. Frequent Twitter use causes the
equivalent of brain damage quote, we're seeing 30 and 40
year olds acting like overly emotional teenagers on Twitter,
Siemens said, it's not all that healthy. Aquitar also uses
complex ideas, or no, Twitter also takes complex ideas and
boils them down to overly simplistic sound bites,
according to Seaman who is annoyed by the service's 140
character, text size and
unlike television, of course, is so in depth and so healthy for
you. Basically, Twitter has some good uses, but it's making us
all a bit stupid.
They're stupid, stupid, or did he say stupid or
so it says Jupiter made him stupid or
beautiful? Well along the lines of brains. When this of course
flows into our conversation from the last show, neuroscientists
think they've identified the part of the brain that causes
Tourette syndrome. The condition that causes random tics,
including compulsive obscenity, how long before we can hack that
part of the brain? So apparently, if you use an empty
eye and magnetic transfer imaging technique to scan the
prefrontal area of the brain of the 19 Tourette sufferers as
well as 20 control subjects, they found alterations in the
HERE IT COMES John because I know you were a brain surgeon in
the past a fronto. Strip, fuck from toes creation front of
stray shield circuitries front of stray shield circuitries
I could probably pronounce where if I could see it, but that's
okay. So so and then what are they going to do about it?
Hold on, let me Skype you this word. I don't think anybody
would want any except for the guys who cuss a lot. You know
that when they did that special on the Tourette's? Nobody
bitched about it too much. They just lived with it. Yeah,
exactly.
Well, let me see what they can do. So changing the architecture
of the front lobe lead to this inhibition of the cingulate
gyrus and abnormal best thing. Galia flocked
to choose to read this story.
I'm a sick man. I need help. I want one of those empty eyes be
kind of cool to see my brain firing up in strange places.
You know, the interesting that can be fun to do. There's a joke
there. I'm not going to use it. Go ahead. Now. Okay, Okay,
frontostriatal Yeah.
frontostriatal Yeah, I think you had it. Hey, Adam, in regards to
the Sunday show where you discuss the Clean Water
Restoration Act and the fact that all water in the US is
subject to Congress, this raised a couple of points in my head
one, I've just read through the United States and United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, I found no reference to
a fundamental right to water, the closest thing to a right to
water in this document is located in article 25, where it
states Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate
for the health and well being of himself and his family,
including food. The question is, is water a part of food? But
more importantly, if the human body is made up of 50% plus
water? Does that mean that if you're inside the borders of the
US, Congress now owns half your body? I think that's an
excellent question. Since they're all water on the planet.
Yes. Now that makes sense.
That's a total New World Order move. I'd say make sense. Hey,
are you made of water? I'm sorry. We own you.
Come this way. Hey, John. Yes.
Could you turn on your speakers? Okay, did thank you. Thank you.
Still, so, so we're slapping back?
Let's see, there's a good thing. People share some stuff. Some
advice. If you get to watch the PBS show, I think it's running
on different local PBS stations. It's a series called behind
closed doors.
I've seen the promo for that, isn't it? How many multi part
series I
think I think that's a multi part series. And it's in it's
weird, because it's a it's a new model for a documentary. I've
never seen this quite done this way before. So essentially,
combining dramatic interpretation with actual
documentary evidence was plus actually interviews with people
who might then be played as a character. And it's mainly about
Stalin. And it's absolutely and Stalin and Churchill. And by the
way, if you if you're one of those people that don't lend it
are people like this that don't that dislike Churchill, you'll
love this series. They just give it to him. And it's very
interesting. It makes it actually makes everybody look
like a bunch of idiots except Stalin. But he makes him look
like a psychopath, which of course, he was obviously of some
sort. Anyways, outstanding is totally riveting. It's got great
pacing, it's just really hard to put down. It's it's just an
amazing series have to say, is this currently running on PBS?
Yeah, it was running. They had an episode last night. But I
think you know, you'll be able to track it down if you're
trying hard enough. Cool. There's also a frontline that
ran this week on Madoff. And if you get a chance to see that
that's worth watching, too. If for no other reason than to
watch they they have brought out a lot of people that got scammed
by him and lost all their money now live in apartments, box
cardboard boxes. It's like, it's very interesting to their take
on things. They're just, I don't know,
can you burn a copy for me?
If I get Yeah, if I pick it up? If he plays again, I'll burn a
copy
for you remember, as a part of the bailout. John? I think the I
forgot which one but the there's some one of the $800 billion
bailouts. There was this homeowner HOPE program, we
actually went to the website and we looked at because you know,
this was in order to make loans affordable for people again.
Yeah, and we kind of figured out how it works essentially, your
your monthly rate is lowered by could be several $100. In some
cases, even a little more extreme up to $1,000. But of
course, you actually wind up paying more over a longer period
of time. So kind of a it's like a refinance, if if anything, but
not necessarily in your favor long term. So there was an
interesting article in Forbes, which is talking and the article
itself is is isn't really what I found interesting. New trouble,
new troubles for a troubled Washington mortgage plan. So one
of the companies and we even saw this on the homeowner help.gov,
whatever website that was purely a marketing site. So it's a
company from Melville, New York called lend America. This is one
of these outfits that I guess the guy has a TV infomercial,
and, you know, get your part of the bailout now and you don't
want to write one of those guys. Nick, what is it? I think it's a
nick. Brett saw Sophos I'm terrible with reading today. So,
so the loans that that lend America made under the program,
50 of them are being investigated. They ended up
being held up pending ongoing federal investigations, but the
news in the article was unbelievable. Senior federal
housing officials say 51 of the loans made under the program 50
were made by blend America. Let me wing that by you again. of
this program. 51 loans were made 50 of them are under
investigation.
Well, there's two things that come immediately to the front
151 loans. That's
it. That's it. 51 loans is all that has been made under this
homeowner health program, according to Forbes, who I guess
might have some of the facts right?
Yeah, actually Forbes is good at about that. 5151
That's ridiculous. What they were how's this helping anybody?
I thought they had they had hundreds of millions were set
aside for this. Hundreds of millions of dollars and it's
only 51 loans were made Can we just say fail?
doesn't sound right. Well, no for one of these things, I mean,
the whole thing is this I mean, Obama's got too much he's too
busy given speeches at ASU
to deal with any with any real news
so yeah, Pakistan is falling apart they got the Taliban has
taken over the place you're gonna love it so so this is
gonna drop it on Islam Abad
and this is what I was talking to my to Achmed about it the the
grocery store, and he's, the guy is now visibly upset when I walk
in, not not at me, but he knows that we're going to talk about
shit. He's like, it's so out of control. He said, right now in
Cabul. People are blowing themselves up left and right.
There's fucking shootings all day long. Right in the middle of
the street. It's like it's complete. Now. It's utter utter
chaos. He said. And, and he showed me pictures because his
brother just came back. He showed me pictures. Look,
here's, here's the US command. And they're sitting down here
with the Taliban and then negotiating the drugs deal. So
all they're doing is only for the drugs, the guy is flipping
out his whole family's there, you know, and, and he's just
like, it's become the most unsafe place on earth. And, you
know, this is not the way it's being portrayed to us in the
media. Now, you know, we just get another surge. And why are
we sending everyone to Afghanistan when the problems
clearly are in Pakistan? Clearly,
oh, well, we can't send our troops to Pakistan, because
they're our ally. And they won't let us.
I gotta find this. There was a quote from who's the guy who
runs the runs the army.
What army who's had Pakistan's
army?
I don't know. That I don't know. And I know they keep showing him
on TV all the time. Don't worry, everything is fine. Here it is.
I
got him. You're not going to believe now. This is from Oh,
shit. Of course. Now the link is gone. Oh, don't give me that
shit. Tourette's? Oh, no, this is so wrong, that maybe I can
still salvage it.
You have to save page as and I want to tell everybody out
there. As you run into a really good article, that seems a
little sketchy because it's like, why are they telling me
this, go to the up to the upper left hand corner under file and
put save page as it would be then you do scroll down where it
says web page complete and then click on that the page gets
saved as a complete copy of the page with all the ads and
everything. And it's saved to a file, I keep them all separate
from the rest of my documents. So I can always access them if I
need them. And then when one of these situations occurs, like
Adams experiencing, you won't have the problem. Because stuff
does get pulled off the internet. You know, and it's and
it never gets archived. And there's a lot of old i There's a
couple of articles I've been wanting from the London Times
back in 2001 that I can't find that I had documented it. That's
when I got the clue about save page as when when something's
really outstanding. You got to do that. And by the way, for
anybody out there. Thanks for anybody out there who is sending
us tips and info. At least for me, please put no agenda on the
subject line some place so I can search these things easier
because sometimes I had to fight to somebody will write me and
then I'll have trouble finding the the what they had to say
because they the subject line. It doesn't say no agenda. John,
thank
you. I've now recovered the article. And I knew you were
doing that appreciate it. This is from the Press Trust of
India, and they call themselves India's premier news agency.
Washington may 11. In a new revelation, Pakistan President,
I'm sorry, CIF Ali Zardari said the CIA of the United States and
his country's isI together created the Tali Bong here's the
quote. I think it was part of your past in our past and the
ISI and CSF CIA, they created them together. He apparently
told an NBC News Channel in an interview which I've not been
able to root to retrieve in the interior which is given to NB to
V NBC so it's an Indian NBC on May 7. Zardari also accused the
US of supporting the military rule of Perez Musharraf, who was
alleged to be taking this side of the Taliban. So here's the
guy saying that, that the ISI and the CS the CIA created the
Taliban, which I believe historically is, is true.
Well, it's possible at least. Because that would have made
sense because, you know, the Taliban was seen as if you
create a fundamentalist organization that can then
control the, the mess that was over there at one time when the
Russians were invading. And you know, why not? You'd come up
with some crackpot scheme like this, again, is of course
harkens back to the legacy of ashes book that you cited before
exactly which essentially, it's just a book documenting all
these botches and blunders I don't think that's in there,
though.
Not like, well, there is a lot about No, I'd have to go look, I
actually get my copy away. I have to go. I have to go look at
it. But what really blew my mind? You probably know it. You
know what you live in Gitmo nation West, you probably did
not hear that the David McKiernan, who was the top US
General in charge of in command, essentially, of everything in
Iraq was relieved of duty and replace. Did you catch this?
Yeah, that was kind of mentioned. Just as a quick news
item.
Okay. So how did that strike you when you when you heard that,
that he was relieved of command and replaced by US special
forces, Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal, did you? Did
you sniff anything on that?
No, I did not. I just figured it was just, uh, you know, that's
our guy. And that's Bush's guy. Let's get rid of him.
Here's the story. Apparently, Nancy Pelosi was in Iraq, I
presume in the green zone.
And she was though Yeah, absolutely. Where else would she
go?
Well, it was a surprise visit to coordinate with Iraqi officials
about the containment of the Kurdish regions, which you hear
nothing about, if there's a lot of crap going on there right
now. Of course, you know, we're focused all over the map. But
what happened is, there was a shootout. And this is just a
source, right? So I don't know how true it is. But man, there
was a shootout. Five US soldiers were killed. Ya know that. That
was a big story here. Okay. But you know, who they apparently
were killed by, by other dissident US soldiers who were
freaking out?
No, it was one guy support that we were told this one guy?
Yeah. Well, no, it was more than one guy. But Pelosi, but Pelosi.
Wait, wait, let me give you the story. The way it's presented
over here, and then you can tell us what you're getting over
there. Okay. Goes like this. Some guy goes into the to get
some help, because he's getting he's freaking out about
something. And he goes into the mental facility that the
hospital facility where it to get some, probably some drugs or
who knows what according nobody says, he goes in there and he
causes a fuss about something gets pissed off. And they sit
and he gets so agitated that they started to guess some of
the military police took his weapon away from him because it
gets easy to brandishing it or who knows what. So he runs off
and goes, gets another weapon, it comes in and shoots up to
place and kills five guys. And then he gets killed. And that's
the end of it. That's the story. And then that's pretty much it.
There. Were there all the follow up is a little news items about
all the stress over there as bad. He's had his third tour of
duty. And that's too many tours for anybody. And you know, he
was going to be good, although he was going to be out of Iraq
in August. So that's basically all we got. And we just take
that as face value. It seems reasonable that could happen
that way.
Well, so it seems to seems to be first of all, this is being
reported to other by other sources to me as a deliberate
attack on the Speaker of the House. And it all stems from
Iranian artillery, artillery and helicopter gunships that have
started attacking Iraq's Kurdistan region. Now the
Israelis are all bent out of shape. This ties right into the
release of that spy Roxana Saberi. Right the US Iranian
journalist Did you catch that? Oh, right. Right,
the rainy right that did and yeah, she was released. You know
that. Here's the way that story was presented here. This girl
was over there. She's like an Iranian student d'oeuvres, and
she was a journalist or something. And she was floating
around, probably doing some, maybe not, but they arrested her
and then get accused of being a spy. They're gonna give her 20
years in jail. And that became a big civil rights issue and
everybody's bent out of shape about it, and I guess they're
releasing her.
So she was released according to the same source, because of
agreements that President Obama has signed. So there's this
there's stuff going on and and I think we were just completely
being lied to. I don't think We have any idea what's happening,
but there are forces at work and shit is changing. And so
apparently
so right now we're deleting here. There's two things you
mentioned. They're kind of interesting that I'm not not
following me. I'm not getting any information on, thus, I'm
not following. One is the Kurdistan or the current area of
Iraq having some right okay, not to mention, we haven't heard
nothing about this. I mean, we haven't heard anything about
what's going on in the Kurdistan or occurred or whatever you want
to call it. I mean, the Kurds call it Kurdistan. That would be
interesting to find some, maybe we have a listener that would
clue us into the current situation, because we don't know
at least here. Well, the other thing is, if there's an attack
on it, you think it was like a, like an attack on Pelosi. And it
ended up with this cover story about the guy going crazy. Yeah,
well, I think that this is happening all over the world.
Now, I believe that what happened in the Netherlands was
an attack on the Queen, and then maybe not. Maybe a warning shot
more than an attack. But yeah, I absolutely believe that those
things are happening. Let me read from this article. And I
don't want to tell you where it's from, because you'd only
poopoo it not being understood by the American people is that
Obama has for the first time since the presidency of John F.
Kennedy launched an all out assault against the powerful
Israeli lobby, and that many experts say has corrupted
American foreign policy and led to their disastrous wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan, which a new survey by the Boston review
shows over 1/3 of American people blame the Jewish people
for the current global financial crisis as well. So there's
obviously a very skewed article, but that's the slant that's
being taken here is that it's,
you're reading this prison planet?
No, no, I'm not. Right? I'm not
you should actually tell us where you're reading it from.
Well read it first. And then tell us the source. Well, I
always put it I always put the source in the show notes. Okay,
nevermind, it's always in there. So you can you can go right to
the show notes. So you can check it out. But it has some very
good links to you know, if for instance, that survey by the
Boston review, I don't know you've known the Boston review
if that's worth anything, but it's a good article and
basically what it's saying is you know, we're we're in so many
conflicts that and so many different moves and deals that
are being made as we speak but we're completely oblivious to it
that's kind of the the essence of the article and it makes
sense because you could easily believe the attack on Pelosi
story as you could just some guy who freaked out and went nutty
five soldiers by the way being killed by one guy is pretty
extreme.
Yeah, and but at some more injured. Yeah. Well, somebody
knows the real story. They're very well, I'm sure they've all
been signed into taking into a room and told not to talk. But
yeah, it does sound dubious, because once one gunshot is
fired a monk soldiers that are in that are dead, or were
hardened. Yeah. And these guys are going to be a mess around
baby, you're gonna be right. Duck and cover and you know,
grab a gun and let's start firing back. Yeah, it is
actually not to mention it. Unless the guy came in with a
submachine gun and caught it and well, we
don't even know that we don't even know that we don't know
anything. We have zero news, zero news. And what the hell was
Pelosi doing in the green zone? What was so important? You know,
it can only can only be if a power person had to show up to
do some and I would say make a deal about something.
You know, Pelosi is like becoming the second government.
She got to watch herself. She she's the kind of person that
will find herself with to to the head and the gun in her right
hand. She could easily become part of the body count. I'm not
sure I agree. I think she's she's on very, very thin ice.
She has to be careful. Well,
I mean, that whole thing with Obama in this game. I
mean, it's like, it seems to me that she's just getting a little
carried away with like being the boss. Well, it
feels to me like when I look at her, it feels to me like this is
what can happen with power. This is a powerful woman who was
given more power. And she's just, she's just flipped out.
She's gone beyond and she must have some powers behind her.
Which gives her this confidence. Oh, that's
you're probably egging her on. Yeah, go ahead. You can do that.
Go go go do it. And I don't get I'm not gonna go You're the
boss. Anyway, coming in. When that runs everything you run the
show. Come on Nancy, run the show. Don't kid yourself. That
guy says the and by the way, you know, Congress has got just too
much powers as the executive office and this guy's weak, he's
weak, he's weak.
He's weak. And look at your hair. It's strong. It's very
strong. You have Samsung hair.
I you know, while talking about that, there was a story that
also ran, which is similar. Now she mentioned that to today had
suicide. That we do have on the blog about how the number of
Democrats including us, Feinstein and others, who has
got her hitting her ringer for some dirty dealing. Say I'll say
that the CIA's After them Did you see that? No
that's something I should I shouldn't be saying. The CIA's
after me John helped me John. Who's saying this
politicians yeah these Democrats. Me go to the peace
teach we get a lot of good pieces by the way the who's
investigating this claim that swine flu virus is created and
blah blah blah. Let's go there's another one. Student hoaxes the
world.
Yeah, I had that one as some real news you should read that
because that's fun SX. It's sad because John Michels jar passed
and I didn't even know it happened I had to read about
John Michel Jarre dying fantastic musician, one of the
early synthesizer pioneers who did some he was one of the
earliest VJs in the truest sense of the word he had visual light
displays and lasers this guy did some amazing shit and he passed
away no one knew about it until this story surfaces that some
kid what does he wrote a quote he wrote
a poem The guy supposedly wrote but his off the kid wrote it and
attributed to this guy and slipped it on the Wikipedia.
And let me guess how many really authoritative organizations cut
and pasted this
blindly? Apparently a lot
and just goes to show
So Democrats charged Tuesday at the CIA is released documents
about congressional briefings on harsh interrogation techniques
in order to deflect attention away from itself. I think
there's so much embarrassment quote it's from some court
quarters of the CIA that people are going to try to shift some
of the responsibility to others that's what I think said Carl
Levin democratic Michigan who sat on the Senate in other words
what it is these guys who sat on the on the on the commission
that would listen to them tell you where were you waterboarding
and all these people that were sitting there going okay, well
knock yourself out. And then now because oh is bad we should we
should indict everybody they say take the other side of the CIA
says Well, yeah, really? Let's see here. Here's some documents
you tell us tell us here what you didn't know back then. Yeah,
exactly. And Pelosi right up front.
Yeah, she's one of them. But she's you know this they're I
think they're nailing the senators first.
Well, good but I truly believe the CIA is still Bush Clinton
controlled. I mean, that's those guys have been running that shop
for so long. It's It's shit man. Bush Senior basically created He
created the whole thing. It's his puppy. It's his family. It's
his it's his whole department. You know this this those guys
don't just all of a sudden work for the President and the
Constitution. That's not how it works. That's not my point.
Well, that makes a lot of sense then with President Obama now
saying oh, we're not going to release any more pictures of
detainee abuse me now everything's shutting down that
now the the transparency has gotten cloudy?
Well, it's been getting that way since day one. Yeah, but yeah,
we're gonna release this and then our night what changed? I
mean, who came in had the meeting? Told Obama look, here's
the deal. Here's the way the games play Obama look last you
here, here here. Here's a ticket to Phoenix.
To take a ride Sonny. Take a ride down
to Phoenix and give a speech
and we'll go fix things back here Don't you worry.
Don't worry your pretty little ahead.
I can just hear Rahm Emanuel saying it that way too. Oh,
baby, you just go on. Oh, you know what? It's lovely this time
of year and Phoenix. Do like it boy
oh boy. Okay, so what else we got? Here's one back to real
news
at least I punched it
Yeah, he did. You punched it. I'm just gonna read you the
headline. woman dies from using jackhammer as sex toy
hey now.
And that one deck, by the way came in from Johnny green.
I have seen this article I think it's been it's been around
Johnny green.
So is there any detail on what kind of jackhammer wasn't
pneumatic was it? Like
you know, that's just like details that are an unnecessary
thrown.
The headline is all you need really in that in that the
truth? Oh, do big as big as real news. And now back to real.
Katie Price, known as glamour model Jordan, and I'm sure
you've heard of her, John. Oh, yeah. I've
heard of Jordan,
who of course has been married to the former Boy Band singer
and successful in his own right Peter Andre are splitting up
This is huge. This has just captured the attention of the
entire nation they actually released a statement through
their agent. And because it people thought this has to be a
publicity stunt, they do this all the time when they're about
to do another reality show, but no, this time, it's for real.
They. Yes, she's choosing horses,
even show up on the radar over here. Will care. Most of these
types of people are very local.
You will care about this. This is from the telegraph. This is
great. I am so I probably don't tell me another 404 cheeses.
Unbelievable. I'm addicted. I didn't say these. Okay, I know
the story. There are now actual posters that are being posted in
Gitmo nation east. If you feel that someone you see on the
street or your neighbor, yeah, we blogged this already. Let me
just get it out. And then you can do the details. Once you
bring up the article from from your blog. If you feel that
these people are wearing too much bling, you should report
them.
No, actually, I remember that specific.
poster says too much bling. I really yeah, let me find now you
know, I gotta go. So wait
a minute, you're telling me that somebody's walking down the
street with a bunch of jewelry or like say a clock around their
neck or a bunch of big rings that are made out of fake gold
or whatever or they just have a gold tooth that says you know,
you know, eat shit on it across your mouth sound like that that
would constitute too much bling here. It should be reported
the latest original and some say ridiculous method of policing in
Britain comes from the Gloucestershire comfortably in a
partnership with Crimestoppers the too much bling give us a
ring campaign has just been launched. hopes to put an end to
ill gains by making regular people contact police officers
once they suspect someone is wearing bling they can't afford
how would they even know if it's real or not? I mean, you can buy
fake bling. You got to see any anywhere you know go to Canal
Street in New York City especially around I think it's
around Amsterdam Broadway one of those streets is an area where
this also just may be another part of the actor that's coming
you know it's a huge crackdown and maybe it's all about even
fake bling. Look at look at this poster. Look at this poster with
a little diamond Bling Ring. Too much bling give us a ring is
someone you know living a lavish lifestyle from the proceeds of
crime. Don't stand for it. Report it. Wow. Gitmo frickin
nation man.
That's unbelievable. No, he did not blog. This is going to be
blogged as soon as we're done with the show though. What did
you blame? This is the guy to be an April Fool's joke. No,
I don't think it is. I don't think it is.
Don't stand for it. This is worse than do when I was a kid.
I remember you know when oh here we go. I remember when I was a
kid. We used to get in grammar school. We used to be told how
horrible it is in Cuba because people turn in their neighbors
for crimes they did you know, everything they do. Everyone's
spying on each other. And Cuba is a terrible place because you
know, you're told to turn your neighbor in as commies. Yeah,
damn commies. Those damn commies make people turn in their
neighbor. And we all went Oh, that's terrible. Why would
anybody do that? It's because they're commies are damn
commies. Well, hey, you got me while we're doing this to do an
extreme. To me much Billings. In other words, don't wear any
jewelry at all.
It's not no you can't wear you can't wear January. You can't
wear fur. You can't wear jewelry. You can't wear sneakers
made by underprivileged children. What? You can't go
naked. By the way. That of course is the ultimate offense.
What's left? What's left just an armband
with an armband and a jock strap.
Another premium item, the no agenda, jockstrap. I'm liking
that with a cup pouch and we can cup sold separately. codpieces
would also be hot. I'd say that again. So let me read this
story. codpieces. That's a t shirt.
You know codpieces? You know, we're dead. Here we go. It's the
name of the guy who? Now we'll talk about later. I just want to
read this article from Reuters. This is were sent in by Ivan
Silva, who says this is a unreported underreported news.
Let me say I was sent a reading and let me just summarize.
They've decriminalized drugs in Mexico
really? Well, that's a solution.
Mexico Senate approved a bill on Tuesday decriminalized
decriminalizing possession of small amounts of narcotics for
personal use in order to free resources to fight violent drug
cartels. The bill proposes in other words to save money, which
was my argument about doing the same thing in California,
because we don't have any money and this and this is a wasted
effort anyway. The bill proposed by conservative president Felipe
Calderon would make it legal to carry up to five grams of
marijuana, 500 milligrams of cocaine, and tiny quantities of
other drugs such as heroin and meth. Hey Puga the Mexico's
Congress passed that similar proposal in 2006. But the bill
was vetoed by Calderon's predecessor Vincent De Fox under
present pressure from the USA.
So that should solve all the problems you watch problems will
go away Mexico dang well,
there was an article in The New York Times, by the way not to
harp on this issue. But there was an article in New York Times
talking about the decriminalization of drugs in
Portugal. Yeah. And apparently after doing it, drug issues have
waned, there's less people addicted, there's less drug use,
it's all gone down.
This is exactly what what we what we talked about when I
discovered it in the first place.
So there you have it. But, you know, I see that this is
bringing more and more credence to your crackpot theory that the
US government's essentially in the drug,
drugs business. And I'll just explain it one more time. The
way I believe it works, is Wall Street was set up specifically,
because we learned all this, we learned this firsthand, you may
not bring $10,000 into the country or take it out of the
country for that matter. Without or the equivalent in stocks,
bonds, paper, etc. without notifying the government. Every
entity every body has to adhere to this rule except for publicly
listed companies. They can accept money from anywhere
without that going through IRS channels without that being
notified and they have their own money. Banking networks. You
know, this is what Iridium does. They they handle a lot of the
banking there. There's all these backbones, all these networks
and how money is transferred. And it's not through the regular
system. Now, if you take into account the mountains of
evidence, the witnesses who have the former officers who have
come forward, and just Google Mina, Arizona, Mike echo,
November, alpha, Mina, Arizona, and you will see how involved
Clinton was in this use of military aircraft to bring drugs
into the country. If you haven't seen the fantastic movie with
Denzel Washington, American Gangster, it's based on a true
story. They brought in drugs and coffins of dead boys and girls,
the Wall Street system, and I believe a large part of the
American economy runs on drug money. And the war on drugs was
set up to pump even more money into the system. I mean, hey, we
might as well make it on both sides. You know, we're making it
with actually bringing the drugs in. Well, we might as well make
a couple billion over here with our own defense companies by
saying that we're combating it when really we're probably only
shipping those arms out and trading them for more drugs. And
it's horrible, but it's what the economy runs on you cannot
legalize marijuana possibly, because it's not a very
efficient drug. When it comes to value for money, you need a lot
of it to make a lot of money. And so it's it's not as portable
as cocaine or heroin. Or, or ecstasy for that matter. I know
people who are in the ecstasy making business in the
Netherlands. I mean, it's not hard to figure out who's doing
this stuff. And these are a couple of parents who parents
would want to script Christina's girlfriend's back in the British
School of Amsterdam. They were totally running an E pill
company. They were doing 100 million a year John in the in
the and I know exactly how they whitewashed it, you know, always
be on the lookout for studios and musicians. You know, that's
a good way to whitewash your money. And it's it's a fact and
we should wake up and and understand that that's what's
happening and just but with the knowledge of it, we can attack
the problems differently. It's so stupid, so stupid.
Well, let's look at the logic of this argument. And and indeed
there are money laundering operations everywhere you look
there's no doubt about it and I actually am suspicious of large
Las Vegas casinos. Oh, well yeah, another perfect way to
launder money cash because yes, they have there are I have been
given tours of places and I've been in the back rooms where you
have all the cameras like it's actually quite interesting to
get into the bowels because there's actually a whole
different world. You open a door and you're in another whole
underground place where this
video it's like back Stage
is wild. But anyway, the there are rooms that involve the
casinos, the High Roller rooms, and they'll show you what they
are. And they say this room brings in, you know, $700
million a year. And it's locked. And yeah, only, you know, if
you're, you know, somebody from Saudi Arabia can get in there to
play with, you know, somebody from Australia who's a gambler.
And you know, somehow they didn't results in $700 million.
I very, I just find the whole thing to be sketchy. Now, let's
go back to this argument of yours. If you decriminalize
drugs, how would that change anything? Except it would save
us the money of the the prisons, the prisoners in the in law
enforcement costs, which is killing us? Oh, yeah. But
I'm not looking at that. I'm looking at the who are the
people that have been benefiting from this, and this is Wall
Street companies, CEOs, and it's not who you expect, it's not
really, you know, Denzel Washington, although he traveled
in exactly the same circles. You know, this is high level
politicians, government officials who've been there
forever. They're all a part of the system. And it's been a it's
been a great cash cow for a long time. I don't give a shit about
the economy. They don't care about you, and all they care
about is themselves. And they're hooked. There's no There's no
substitute for this. You know, where is it? I'm sure it used to
be coffee and tea and other, you know, light, mild drugs back in
the day, which people love to have monopolies on. Think about
the monopoly they've got, they've got the factory, which
is Afghanistan, 90% of all opiates come from Afghanistan is
the only place where they apparently can grow it properly,
or whatever. So they don't care about the economics of it, they
only care about the price. And of course, if it's
decriminalized, then I believe, you know, the price will change
drastically, and they're not prepared to accept that.
That's what the theory is, but I don't see that that's actually
true. Well, I mean, that's about you, I can see where somebody
might fear that was decriminalized, or the price
should go down. You don't think that will happen? Well, maybe it
wouldn't. I mean, it's just
there's got to be a right but if they control the supply,
yeah, then you'd say, well, you know, you're good. They're gonna
pay 100 bucks for this. You're not getting it hold on a
second. If you decriminalize and we have to be aware of what's
going on. If you decriminalize depends on what kind of
decriminalization, so possession would be one distribution would
be another, you know, I don't think Portugal is decriminalized
distribution and holding with intent to distribute. Now, if
they did that, well, then it would be all over because then
you know, I could go to Afghanistan and we'd start up
the you know, agenda opium farm. Yeah, not a bad place to retire.
We'd have to be in the Taliban. No.
I just spit out my tea.
It's about time.
Can you see us in Taliban outfits?
Yeah, that black turban and beard? Of course I'll have this
I can't grow my facial hair. So sketchy. That would be for this
guy. You know, like, you know, they would be questioning me.
So fake as Attali bond, you would look lame. You I don't
think you could pull it off. Pale guy. pale face dolly Bong.
That's an album art we're looking for because I want to
please do that album art in the next 15 minutes so we can put it
up as a part of the show.
Yeah, it's a black turban and a big beard. That's what the
Taliban this year marked by
in the in the chat room. Someone. I love it when when you
look at this anagram. God is gold oil and drugs.
Oh, that's cute. So here's what I got from one of our listeners.
Cocaine. Northfield is the same zip code as Winnetka where
Rumsfeld is from and step on. Company is the one company
licensed to import cocaine and the extracts is still using Coca
Cola, which is not
Rumsfeld company,
you know, it's just it's just coincidental that it's in the
same area where Rumsfeld is from it says,
Sure. coincidental. Like the year of the pig swine flu.
So he's got the Coca Cola I guess Wikipedia because he got
different way competed. So it's questionable but yeah, that's
fair Britain call for five ounces of coca leaf per gallon
of syrup, a significant dose and at 91. If it's just the leaves,
though, that music probably had all that other beneficial
chemicals in it. Coca Cola is probably pretty damn good. I
would think with this dosage.
Have you ever smoked opium?
No, I never have.
I mean, either. That was just curious.
I think you'd have to go I don't know where you even do. I guess
there's probably still opium dens.
I've seen one when I was up at near the Golden Triangle. I
stayed doing doing a documentary I stayed with a Burmese
hilltribe and all I think I told you this before all the women
well, yeah. Where's the horn honking it's Yemenis.
Now you continue with your peated story
all the women basically run the village because the men are all
in the opium den. It's It's really what it is. You walk in
these guys just completely there's no chicks. You know
there's no like song. No fruit baked, baked and flipped over
thrice. I tell you completely completely baked and that's all
they do all day just sit there and get baked. Sad. I guess it's
really addictive.
Probably yeah, and I'm sure it has some benefits. After 1904
Instead of using fresh leaves Coca Cola started using spent
leaves the leftovers of the cocaine extraction process with
cocaine traces left over at a molecular level. Supposedly, to
this day, Coca Cola uses an ingredient a cocaine free coca
leaf extract prepared at a step on Company plant in Maywood, New
Jersey. Those near Wikipedia I mean, it's possible
its own fail alert. I'm sorry, we screwed this up. Didn't we?
Net Pierre? Just DM me on Twitter. Jami shells jar is
still alive. It was his dad who died Okay, now I feel stupid. We
could have launched an entirely new piece of bullshit that
people would be repeating in mainstream media. Can you just
see him playing clips of his songs like Oh, he'll be severely
missed? As heard on no agenda big fan Adam curry said quote, I
will really miss his work.
Sorry, sorry. We have instant feedback.
I love it. I love it. Twitter changed something that people
are all up in arms about of something about the friend
following or something. Did you catch that at all? I'm sure it
will be a topic not to be discussed on twit this Sunday.
I don't know but I lost 10 followers today this is
there's something going on with they changed something what they
did essentially is took a feature away and that's always
going to give you a lot of noise from the from the user base. But
there was something about how you could discover people and
now their replies won't turn up. Unless you follow those people
is weird.
I don't know who cares? I do. Why?
Because it's
become the big thing and celebrity Ville I mean that's
what your article after article is they're just all over the
place. Oh everybody's into everyone's a celebrity now is it
and twittering that's good which is gonna be dead by the way this
is the beginning of the end these people are fickle.
No, it's not the concept is fantastic. I think identica will
get some traction we'll just I told you this we're gonna get
all these these Twitter clones that will work exactly the same
they'll work with your existing software maybe one updates so
you can you know enter a different server and you'll have
you know you'll have this the kind of like the real news
celebrity Twitter which may be the original then you'll have
you know the the geeky Twitter the sex Twitter where you can
just sex each other up. I see. I see a universe of Twitter's
personally.
Could be that would be another one of you. I can say it's not
possible. So here's the thing. Let's see what we got here.
Bilderberg started today.
Yeah, yeah. Can you have any insight on it?
Nothing. I'm just reading prison planet while you're reading
that I'm gonna go back to wine and food news just for a second
for people because they always want us to say something. Okay,
wine and food news.
We need a jingle Wine and Food News. If anybody likes cognac, I
tried to there's a there's a new cognac out there. As a British
guy who was used to work at Barry brothers and Rudd which is
that wine store in Mayfair that I keep telling you to go get me
something and you just basically shine me on and refuse to do it.
He quit. I guess he worked for his consultant if there's a
picture of mine on the website. Anyway, he's got I guess he's
gone to cognac and he scrounged up a lot of really old stocks
that are here and there and he's produced a line of cognac called
Park
pa RS or PA RK
pa RK which is his name. And I think his name is Dominic park
and you can go to the website which is part cognac I think and
you can see a picture of him and you go brother and he looks like
Monty Python character. And he anyway you can get an x O which
is really the sipping cognac you want because it has is
essentially designed to be sipped, but it's also it's older
and it's has it's got all the qualities that you that cognac
develops, for about $65 You can get in x o from Park maybe 75 At
the most that is the equivalent easily of any of the other x Oh
is selling for 130 or 140 or 150 and In fact, he may be better
than all those. It's an absolutely outstanding product.
I was stunned, stunned by how good it is that I rarely do
this. But I went to his website and I sent him a cool, you know,
compliment row. Stand back. Right, it actually it was it was
real work. Wow. So. So take a look for Part konyak. I think
the
actual work involved. work involves good. This is something
that would be blog people think you'd like it Judicial Watch. I
love those guys. I think their entire business, which doesn't
really seem to be a business is sending out freedom of
information requests. And they have received a number of
documents, which makes this whole bank bailout and the TARP
funds seem very much like a Sopranos episode. Available now
online. And there are links that will be linked in the show notes
at no agenda.me veoh.com. The not only the signature on a
piece of paper from each of the bank CEOs, but the actual
talking points when the Obama administration forced forced
mind you forced the banks to take money from the government.
And have you seen these? Yeah. You didn't like him? About what?
Well, the fact that our government did this, and these
guys
that this was, What were you talking about? You're talking
about that they forced the banks to take money?
Yeah. But they made them sign those contracts? Yeah, no, this
is pretty well known.
Did did you read these contracts?
I didn't read them. But I know that they're pretty onerous.
Well, it's like, that's why some of the bank said, Look, we don't
want to do this deal. So I'm currently like Wells is trying
to give them the money back because of this contract. They
think it's sucks.
Well, they're signing four points, basically. And so this
is the first one which signed by Was this the Bank of America 10.
They've literally written in the in the contract $10 billion,
major financial institution participation commitment, hello.
In support of the US financial system and the broader US
economy. The and then name of CFO agrees to four points, one
issue preferred shares and the amount of in this case $10
billion to the US Treasury under the terms and conditions of the
tarp capital purchase program announced today to participate
in the FDIC program guaranteeing new issues of eligible senior
liabilities by banks and bank holding companies and
transaction amounts as announced today. Under the systemic risk
exemption, invoked by the FDIC, US Treasury and Federal Reserve
three, expand the flow of credit to US consumers and businesses
on competitive terms to promote the sustained growth and
validity of the US economy and for continuing to work
diligently under existing programs to modify the terms of
residential mortgages as appropriate to strengthen the
health of the US housing market which as we know, resulted in 51
loans this is pretty pretty amazing stuff that they were
forced to sign this commitment
Well, I don't see anything in there that's that's
the fact that they're forced to sign it.
Well, yeah, that's not good.
No, that's fascism.
Well, this has been the fascist country for a while. Thanks some
level I mean, you know, we've
always you know, point made when you say it that then it's true
point made done, move on. Johnny pedia. Ladies and gentlemen.
Right there. Johnny pedia. When John says it, you know it's
true.
And what I do know is true is that Baba has been doing a great
job of keeping us posted here and there and his various
outlets. Yes. Not bubba. Absolutely. And we've had a
number of fantastic contributors to the show. Yeah,
some good artists that are helping us out. Yeah. So then
you mentioned some people that gave us $50 or more. Oh, hold on
a second. If you don't mind. I'd like to bring us this little
notification and shit
All right, thanks for the no agenda and we suck.
We need Mark Russell. Anyway, so as if there's some one person
out there laughing at that.
Probably a guy named Mark Russell.
John Kilburn. By the way, we got no $100 things this week and it
was actually kind of a disappointing turnout. We have
to, I think we have to hound our listeners more. And I hate to do
that, by the way. John Kilbourne $50 Joshua Brickner $50 Kyle
Miller $50 Elaine hindlimb who I believe is a librarian by the
way Big light. Oh
yeah, me too smokin hot librarian with the hair up in a
bun and the horn rimmed glasses and then in slow motion that she
kind of whips her head around as their hair falls loose. She
takes the glasses off and then she straddles me. Yes, they know
exactly what you're talking about. Hi, Elaine. Thanks. We
really appreciate it.
Maybe she'll make a recording of that and crack up as a ringtone
Cal that's a really good idea. We should do that. We should
just on the show every so often. We should just say certain
things that'd be make great ring to John. We're gonna like
90% of what you say is ringtone worthy my friend
Calvin Perry now here's one that's a little off the wall
$64.21 What does that mean? Do
you think handed over again? What is it
$64 Does Calvin Perry $64.21
I have a feeling you know what it means?
I don't he may have actually written and said it but I don't
remember it
64 I can do it while you're doing the next I'll do a quick
Gmail search see if that pops up.
And then we have another one a John Matthews another 51 Ben
Bruce salah, br U S. C E l la he gave us two donations. And there
must be some significance to this and that you can try to
figure this one out. $59 and then $1. What do you think that
would? I'm not sure. Okay. Now insofar as the odd numerological
stuff is keeping is still coming in. And we have
unlike the past to not at all odd numerological.
Yes. Yeah, we'll never figure those out. 90290 Maybe it's from
90210 maybe should have given us 902 $902.01 would be bet would
probably be a really good donation. So we'll make a jingle
If anyone gives us 90210 Okay, 1701 by we got another 1701 We
got one before we were kind of baffled by it, but now we know
what it is because number of people wrote in and said 1701 is
the designator on the Star Trek Enterprise.
Of course. Why? How could we have missed it? John? I'm
wondering myself because I knew the number looks familiar.
Yes. Is that what's on the side of the USS Enterprise? Yeah,
it's just this and that's this ship number seven. Oil number.
Yeah. 1414 the idea? No, 707 we get to 707 for two different
people in it, which is like, you know, could be a Boeing 707 I
don't know.
So nice. Number 707. Just by itself is a nice number. A good
number.
Yeah. And then 2495 which just sounds like something
that sounds like a like a we got a discount.
Yeah, sounds like a price. Wait, there's more.
It's more for 20 We do get a set of knives. Ginsu knives.
For this, you get three sets. These are so cheap, we have to
give them away. Lovely.
So people who want to donate especially if you're interested
in getting a big call out, go to divorce. iq.org/n A, and one of
our followers Father Frank and Chicago father made an
interesting suggestion, which is that for people who want to be
nice, but they really can't afford just giving us $1,000
Because they can't. There may be some way we could put like a $50
a month or $50 a week thing and people can do it the slow way.
Slow pull like
like layaway.
layaway. Yeah, no
agenda layaway program. Yeah, like that. There you go. Yeah,
that's a good idea.
So we may do that. Well, John, I know it's common slash and a
I could talk with you for hours, my friend as you know, but I'd
like to keep some powder dry for Sunday.
night I got a few more items, including the clean plate
anecdotes, which we still haven't gotten today. Write that
down. Right that's written down here on the computer. On a post
it note.
Okay, I've got moon rising which I need to talk to you about the
buffalo pilot who failed five check rides.
Then you know about the got the tapes out on that crash in the
middle of nowhere with the girl pilots. She doesn't know she's
doing
Oh, really? Is that? Because on the blog? I haven't heard those
yet. No, I started the blog. But look it up. Okay. We'll do.
Yeah, just keep the notes. Cool, because a fast show. Yeah, but
we were still 124 You know, so it's time to end it. Yep. Coming
to you from the southwest quadrant of Gitmo nation east in
my covert crackpot command center which seems to be less
and less crackpot with every day that passes. I'm Adam curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, the place that doesn't
exist yet. It has actual temperatures. I'm in the
buzzkill bunk room. John C. Dvorak
will talk to you again on Sunday right here on no agenda.