December 27th, 2018 • 2h 46m
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well course the worst he's a
demon Adam
curry Johnson this is no agenda
put
their garbage out for
collection even
though it won't be collected
I'm John
Cena boring I think we should
stop the
show right now you should go
out and
knock on everyone's door and
inform them
of this issue what happened was
the
waste management operation
instead of
giving a phone call with an
automated
message about the changing
delivery they
sent out an email oh I read the
email it
says it'll be picked up
tomorrow but no
huh hey you did some weird
sound in the
background you've got there
disconnected
phone during his first day
disconnected a little late do
you want
to go hang it up was it just
sitting
there going dude you asking me
if
they're there you know if I
want to
change my credit card
relationships okay
should stop I don't know why
actually
louder that's everything the
only guy I
know who still has a phone that
you can
take off the hook so that
people won't
call you yeah we have this
called a
landline I know it's so weird
for
wouldn't even understand that
this
exists do not disturb mode but
no no no
no this is this is it rotary or
zit push
it
touch-tone I don't even know if
rotary
works anymore oh that's a good
question
actually
I bet it does I think it's a
marriage
that doesn't ha hadn't even
considered
that it's been deprecated
well or whatever deprecated or
the we're
the only please starting up
again for I
don't know no just keep we
never have
this problem well regardless
welcome to
the no agenda show this is the
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podcasting the universe and
unlike
everywhere else in media no
retrospectives here no best
funny news
stories of the year here no
counting
down to the new year year no
just media
deconstruction for whatever
there was
out there seems like
everybody's on
vacation me we as two
podcasters we
weather the storm to bring you
something
I actually have a couple of
retrospective clips wait before
you
before you go to the lid our
way before
you go anywhere I'm gonna
lecture you a
little more it was a interesting
surprising to see you on Twitter
last Sunday yeah a lot of
people notice
this how wasn't it I had three
goals
get my Twitter followers up
okay plug
the hell out of the no agenda
show yes
what you did I did thank you
very much
yep and a pathway to promoting
some
upcoming books
Wow okay yeah I watched most of
the show
I do have two comments if you're
interested just two two
comments from an
executive one executive
producer to
another yeah what one that in
general I
think that it is time for
people on
podcasts who deal with
technology to
keep referring to the audience
as normal
people regular people who quote
dot dot
dot won't understand won't get
won't
care won't know you did not I'm
not
saying you I'm saying in
general I'm so
tired of hearing regular people
they
wish that was very common theme
on that
show it sit next your hair what
about it
well because of the lighting
it's you
know it's looks normal its
things out a
little bit as you get older the
lighting
is so harsh they're twit that
it I mean
it you can I don't have the
time I look
bald see more like you know
like hearing
in chemo dream it's ridiculous
there is
makeup for this which I was
going to
recommend
yeah they don't use makeup
under no but
you should have your own little
kit bro
if you're gonna do that anymore
you need
to look good yeah
nothing personal just the
general
television observation percent
of the
people that listen to to it do
it on
audio so I'm not too concerned
all right
no but I understand I agree
with you on
both these points okay then I
have one
household question was that you
in the
newsletter
we're so you sent out a
newsletter a
very good run down about
maddest leading
which is why people should
subscribe to
this product it's fantastic
it's a bonus
just like the show notes
there's all
kinds of things you get outside
of the
No Agenda Show podcast itself
you had
funny computer ads many of
which are
just lovely to look at there's
none with
me in there oh because the guy
with the
two chicks little bit could
have been no
okay all right that was just
that was
too funny he's doing gonna bite
him just
well just consider just the
times man
the things that you could get
away with
back in the day yeah versus now
is
anyone doing it to newsletter
missed out
on the kind of a rundown of
just part
one I think I have about three
of these
I can do of all these old
computer ads
from the 70s it's very
interesting
they're great it's a lot of
celebrities
yeah Dom DeLuise was in there
Bill Cosby
what I'd like is you see the
Apple
everyone's advertising about
their you
know 10 megabyte drive you know
they're
they're 4800 baud modem and
Apple back
then alright I was like oh you
will be
able to solve your business
problems you
will be able to do this and
nothing
about what was really inside
the box
which was quite interesting it
was fun
yeah they were selling benefits
not
features yeah yeah and and
markedly
different from they actually
had a real
advertising agency that knew
that rule
right was that Leo Burnett back
then or
would most I think was shot
with this
day I think it was yeah those
guys were
good
anyway I'm so hard you set us
all up
that there's no news because no
one's
working so we know there is
actually
just you know not being
discussed on the
news this there's events
happened there
was it but there was some stuff
to
discuss on the news mostly how
you know
here Trump goes to Iraq I think
I have
one clip of it yeah Trump goes
to Iraq
and under whole news stories
about how
he went after the date that
Bush went or
after the day Obama went three
when
you're overseas three three
months after
he became president what is it
what kind
of a comparison is this tell
you he's
late he's late
he didn't go until we until we
shamed
him when Reagan go first
overseas to the
wars oh wait a minute we didn't
have a
bunch of war zones then so now
they've
normalized war zones yes yes of
course
unbelievable
clip you said hey do i I don't
know you
said you might have a clip I'm
I'm
looking I don't see one I'll
probably
don't have one in this you
wanna well
let you want to talk about
matters just
for a second yes sure I'm good
I thought
your run down was quite good
that you
did they put in the newsletter
I had a
call with pachán ik
you know he's all about the
military
intelligence yeah and he had a
couple of
interesting things to say I'm
gonna pick
up my notes here you got to
write down
this stuff with the chin it
calls okay
so he says I well it's very sad
to
generals are out Kelly and
mattis
because yeah we really counted
on them
Kelly hung in as long as he
could
because he just could not
handle what
bachina calls Woody Woodpecker
which is
how he categorized his Trump
okay
and he gave me this concept I
don't know
if it's a psychological or
mental
concept of idealization and
realization
as a personality well I guess
you'd say
trait and what he means by that
and I
recognize this immediately when
he said
it his Trump does the following
when he
meets somebody who we know
obviously
wants or even if he doesn't oh
I'll give
an example I can't believe it
it's so
great to have you here I love
what
you've done with your with your
computing books and I've loved
what you
do with your columns odd this
is look at
it look at this guy is he the
best ever
is he that best ever or what
within a
couple down the road two weeks
when you
do something he doesn't like
it's
exactly the opposite Wow why do
I even
hire that guy what an idiot why
did is
like a classic Silicon Valley
CEO what's
interesting because I said it
sounds
like every New York Jew I've
worked with
well he's a Jew and he said
yeah that's
that's exactly it it said it's
New York
attitude but it's he calls it
the
idealization and realization
personality
trait yeah yeah so yeah that
makes
nothing but since I like it but
it is
difficult he he believes that
the new
guy the chief of staff what's
his name
Shanahan no no no that's that's
the
Department of Defense chief of
staff
guy's name is unmemorable yeah
that guy
pathetic says he will not last
through
2020 this is impossible
no one can deal with that now
the new
guy Shanahan he likes him a lot
for a
number of reasons
he says this guy well actually
you know
mattis mattis also hung in as
long as he
could and then he just gave up
it was
just just like and he didn't
have to
really do you know he had a
couple more
months left but yeah well
according to
some reports which I put I
hinted at in
the in the rundown that I did
uh Pompeo
told maddest that he was that
Trump was
gonna fire him
that's when mattis write the
note mm-hmm
and quit right and nobody so
and the
media picks it up on as the
media likes
to twist it in their way which
is Oh
Trump pull out of Syria and of
course
that's important to us the
media cuz
we're all war mongers and think
we
should be in Syria of all
places with
our troops who cares about I
mean it's
honest doesn't hurt me right so
Trump
pulls out of Syria thus matters
quit and
disgust
yeah well that of course is the
story
and it looks good you can read
it that
way and it may be exactly that
but but
genic is very happy with
Shanahan coming
in and he believes Trump
understands
this he is MIT Boeing cyber guy
he
understands a lot more than an
old dog
like mattis who understands
kinetic
warfare force structures going
out
blowing shit up tanks troops
etc yeah
that is all shifting and
Shanahan will
shift this big responsibility
and maybe
focus I'd be interested on the
geospatial intelligence agency
because
it's all about I quote cyber
satellites
and missiles
that's what warfare is cyber
satellites
and missiles everything else is
pretty
much unimportant and of course
the the
Russia supersonic missile comes
into
play here Sonny
the hypersonics is we the u.s.
appears
to be not able to deter that
until well
it's all kind of like its demo
where as
far as I can tell right now I
do a
report you can play okay what
you got
hypersonic hypersonic supersonic
President Vladimir Putin
testing a new
intercontinental missile and
President
Donald Trump's metal from a
Moscow
command center Putin watched the
hypersonic missile
leave its launch tube and
according to
the Russians strike a target
3000 and
700 miles away
declaring it invulnerable to
intercept
russia says it can be armed
with a
nuclear weapon and travel up to
20 times
the speed of sound without
confirming
the results of today's test the
Pentagon
has acknowledged that America is
vulnerable we don't have any
defense
that could deny the employment
of such a
weapon against us adding
urgency to the
Pentagon's own plan to develop
an
American version the
hypersonics is a is
a game-changing technology so
important
for us to for us to embrace and
how far
are we from actually shielding
that
technology ourselves so I think
we'll
put a hypersonic system in the
field
before 2023 Russia first
started their
hypersonic missile and March
with an
animation showing warheads
flying
towards Florida both
offensively and
defensively the United States
military
is working very hard on
hypersonics we
are in an arms race his new
missile is a
perfect New Year's gift for the
country
Hans Nichols NBC News the
Pentagon
here's the thing about all that
first of
all after supersonic we now have
hypersonic you know that
whatever Trump
comes up with it'll be warp
speed but
guarantee you warp speed is how
fast we
fly space force think about
these
missiles is if you can control
the cyber
side of it if you can get into
systems
then you can then you don't
need to be
able to shoot the thing out of
the sky
because it's going so fast so
this is
it's really moving towards a
whole new
battlefield I think the whole
thing is
bogus
first of all hypersonic is
nothing new I
remember and I'll give you the
story
then I first heard of and I
think they
experimented with a hypersonic
missile
the air force I believe in the
80s and
the reason I say that is
because when I
wrote the book hyper growth
with Adam
Osborne that's where I got the
term from
uh I used hyper growth was by
coined it
based on I saw a hypersonic
missile test
in the 80s and I said that's a
great
name for
something super fast and so I
took the
term so that so this is
something
there's something basically
bogus about
this whole thing it looks like
some sort
of an excuse to spend more
money it
wouldn't surprise it wouldn't
surprise
me and I think we've discussed
this
before if Putin and Trump are
just you
know talking to each other all
right man
do that demo that you have of
the of
that hypersonic thing so we can
both
start building some more and do
a little
more get some more money out of
our of
our government coffers
it would make nothing but sense
and the
other thing is when they showed
that
hypersonic launch if you looked
at it
they actually put the camera on
the
missile yeah I have seen missile
launches from our silos you
can't get
that missile is out of range of
the
camera immediately gotta be
yeah goes
like a rocket right but so
there's some
piece worried about this and it
sounds
to me like us I hate to keep
saying yeah
yeah but there's a scam here
oh we're way behind it with
wait a
minute stop here we got the
seven six
seven hundred billion dollar
budget how
are we two or three years
behind the
Russians don't look at the
audit please
whatever you're doing now going
back to
Shanahan he is an MBA and he
might and
he did work for Boeing and it
was part
of the 787 and some of these
other major
projects now he might be able
to do the
audit he's the kind of guy that
would be
able to do it or at least clean
up the
books and I don't think
anything the
Pentagon cannot get through an
audit at
all so maybe just clean it up
and kind
of bring in some accountability
speaking
of which I was reading one of
those
government IT blogs that I'd
like to
like to scan and the there's a
there's a
procurement system that is out
for
tender
oh yeah I get one of these
things do the
generals the delicious
mile-long of
stuff well the general service
now this
is a little different the
General
Services Administration is in
the
process of creating an
acquisition
platform as mandated by
Congress from
the 2018 National Defense
Authorization
Act so this this stuff is you
know bits
done on PDFs it's done on you
know Word
docs whatever the hell it was
SharePoint
I don't know what they're using
but
there was this mandate in the
NDAA for
an e-commerce acquisition guess
who's
been doing all the work on this
ecommerce acquisition platform
you tell
me Amazon oh yeah Amazon's get
their
fingers and everything no
wonder they're
they're in virgin this is why
now it
starts to become clear what's
going on
Amazon is the government we're
with the
CIA cloud services now with all
a
cuisine
procurement platform yeah we
should be
of just a rewrite of the Amazon
code
that the shoppers use they just
take
just white label there you go
plug in
your products seems pretty good
they already advised on the
portal
getting you just on the RFP
they advise
once it's a shoo-in for these
guys well
if you advise on the RFP yeah
you your
adviser for yourself your
pointing the
finger at you that's how our
guts how
our process works that's the
beauty of
government contracts I did want
to if
he's becoming you look more
like an evil
bond character yeah
just on the pull outs the pull
outs of
Afghanistan and Syria I do have
a bit of
a retrospective if you just
want to
listen to the news from 2011
the world
is exactly flip-flopped please
hear how
as we know now is Trump's
pulling out of
Syria Afghanistan are screwing
our
partners it's good Isis it's
gonna be
horrible though more war need
more war
need more stuff more missiles
hypersonic
it was exactly the opposite
with the two
parties in 2011 the US
president has
been accused of ignoring the
advice of
his top military commanders on
troop
withdrawals from Afghanistan
Barack
Obama announced that 33,000
troops will
be home by September next year
military
chiefs say that plan is riskier
and more
aggressive than the one they
recommended
Republicans believe Barack
Obama's
Afghanistan decision has more
to do with
politics than military thinking
were
there any of the Joint Chiefs
or any of
the commanders on the ground
that
recommended this particular
action that
the president is taking I'm not
going to
talk about individual
recommendations
the chairman of the Joint
Chiefs did
acknowledge that withdrawing
10,000 u.s.
troops this year wasn't his
choice and
it was more aggressive and it
has more
risk than you know I was
originally
prepared to then I then I
recommended of
course and Afghanistan
commander General
David Petraeus told a Senate
hearing it
wasn't his either
the ultimate decision was a more
aggressive formulation if you
will in
terms of the timeline then what
we had
recommended the US military
leaders
sides their job to salute and
execute
the president's orders any
Republicans
are worried the coalition
allies won't
hang around France and Germany
plan to
follow the u.s. lead I predict
you now
that our allies will accelerate
their
reductions and presence in
Afghanistan
for the most part our allies the
Australians others
are saying we're in it we're
committed
the president was at Fort Drum
thanking
Afghanistan veterans our job is
not
finished
many Democrats wanted Barack
Obama to go
much further and are still
hoping the
drawdown will only accelerate
my my oh
my oh my drawdown even faster I
guess so
they want us to put people back
in and
those Democrats and then in
2014 the
President Obama at the time
came into
the route to the Rose Garden
bringing America's longest war
to an end
President Obama called
reporters to the
White House Rose Garden to lay
out his
plan for pulling out the 32,000
US
troops now left in Afghanistan
America's
combat mission will be over by
the end
of this year starting next year
I just
noticed in the first report
they talked
about 33,000 magic number we're
always
looking forward in reports and
then in
this one we've lost the
thousands now
left in Afghanistan or was it
it was 30
2002 the 33
I don't know has any
significance to lay
out his plan for pulling out
the 32,000
US troops now left in
Afghanistan
America's combat mission will
be over by
the end of this year o garden
next year
Afghans will be fully
responsible for
securing their American
personnel will
be in an advisory role we will
no longer
patrol Afghan cities or towns
mountains
or valleys that is a task for
the Afghan
people Afghan forces have been
in the
lead against insurgents since
last year
and the 9800 US troops will
stay to
continue training them and to
support
counterterrorism operations and
of
course that pull out also
didn't happen
so that's what it was when um
Obama was
president and everyone was on
board and
I think we were all so like
yeah good
get him out drawdown stupid
stop were
staunch anti-war
is bogus Wars death for the
poppies
there's a pop yes mostly yeah
but it
feels a bit like there maybe
well we'll
get to that in a moment there's
war
there's war starting everywhere
well
this I'm not quite sure why
this was
thrown out there and why the
script has
been replicated but it has
people can be
seen lighting things a fire
this has
been taking place all
throughout this
week there have been numerous
clashes
and numerous people who have
been
arrested and they are revolting
against
the poverty in the country and
this all
started after a journalist has
said that
he was going to light himself
on fire he
posted a video that it'll bring
up here
where he talked about how he
had been
trying to find a good job for
the last
eight years without any luck
this is in Tunisia where the
Arab Spring
started in this video you can
actually
see him holding a bottle of
gasoline he
says he's going to light
himself on fire
and he's calling on the
unemployed to
take to the streets to revolt
we later
see in another video that he is
lit on
fire and he ended up dying it's
unclear
whether he lit that match
himself or if
someone else did but what we
have seen
are these mass protests in
Tunisia as a
result and some people say that
this is
actually reminiscent of what we
saw in
2010 remember this man the
Tunisian
street vendor who set himself
on fire to
protest against police
harassment and
that led to revolts not only in
his
country but of course all
throughout the
Middle East well in the 8 years
since
that happened in the 8 years
since the
Arab Spring began this
journalist says
that nothing has changed in his
country
and in his words that
everything is lies
and that is why he is called
his fellow
Tunisians to take to the
streets to
revolt against the economic
conditions
in his country now this was a
report
from AFP French international
outfit
right and they have lots of
what he
called interests in the region
yes a
French was a French outpost
actually
exactly but they have interests
in the
region in the region as well
and so now
we have a dirt and out-of-work
journalist who hasn't been able
to
work for what he's a eight
years but he
says yeah we don't know who he
is we
don't know who he worked for we
don't
know if someone lit the match
or if he
did it I don't even know if
it's him in
the video but someone's trying
to get
something started yes this
looks like a
pro a provocation and what's
interesting
about this and this is of
course you're
right as a fractal of the
earlier events
which started the Arab Spring
is that
Muslims aren't the ones their
self em'ly
latest it's the Buddhist that
do that
yes fractal so we find the
whole thing
suspicious and interesting
well this there's stuff going
on in
Africa
yeah first of all the Congo was
supposed
to have their election today
yeah I have
a clip oh good I do - what do
you have I
have a of P again because
they're all
over this no I think it's yes I
see PBS
behind me I wanna listen also
today
Congo delayed elections in
three cities
where a deadly Ebola outbreak is
centered the cities are
considered
opposition strongholds and the
delay
will affect some 1 million
voters they
will now wait until March to
cast
ballots the rest of the country
votes on
Sunday that's their entire
report yes
that's PBS it's only gonna give
you that
is your PBS news that's all
that didn't
even mention what's what's
going on now
this isn't this is incredible
well might
be I got the main stream to
review yes
the real story yeah to review
I've been
following the election that
we've been
following the Congo in general
whenever
Ebola shows up that's usually
when
troops follow we haven't seen
that
happen yet but in this
particular region
is where very important
minerals are
mined for everyone's cell phone
there's
a less than most oil in all of
Africa
apparently comes from the Congo
there's always strife there the
Chinese
are running Rambo's oil
actually comes
from Nigeria I thought that
they have
the most oil it may not all
come from
there but I think they have the
most
it's no very it's not as each
research
gone but definitely own the
minerals
they own the minerals gold
diamonds and
there's you know 50 million
around
killing each other it's all
about power
to get these minerals as
cheaply as
possible whoever leads the
country will
be the king and whoever funds
the the
king rules and where they had
the voting
machines which I want to bring
in the
population staunchly against it
call
them you know the lying what
they call
them the maybe in this report
they see
them as not real that's not the
way to
go rap and of course you don't
want
touchscreens anywhere there's
Ebola but
there's also that the reports
from our
on France press about the
election
doesn't even mention Ebola if
is if I
can recall stall
the Democratic Republic of
Congo where
opposition leaders have slammed
the
postponement elections country
had been
due to vote this Sunday in a
poll it was
hoped would end the two year
old crisis
over the future of President
Joseph
Kabila
on Thursday the Aussies
Electoral
Commission ordered the poll be
put back
a week in order to replace
voting
equipment lost in a warehouse
fire
Alliance of the parties backing
opposition wait for as that any
further
delay will not be accepted yeah
we know
very well that this delay has
nothing to
do with the reasons put forward
by the
Electoral Commission to give us
excuse
after excuse that one day
they'll run
out of excuses to their excuses
Felice
GC Katie told the supporters to
remain
calm in the next few days but
the 30th
of December is redline
according to the
u DPS a red line that shall not
be
crossed otherwise the militants
would
take the matter in their own
hands
without waiting for the party's
instruction according to the
secretary-general meanwhile on
Friday
Joseph Allen Gong Co the
president of
the government Commission's
charged with
monitoring the elections
preparation
urged the authorities to accept
the UN
help to deploy voting materials
across
the country so that the
election can be
held on the 30th of December
meanwhile
several people have been killed
after a
plane chartered by DRC's
National
Electoral Commission crash near
Kinshasa
the Antonov 26 operated by the
company
go mare was a returning to the
capital
of delivering election results
forms the
central city of her Chi Kappa
have been
at varying accounts the number
of people
on board and the number of
casualties
while PBS omits the fact that
two-thirds
of the voting machines burned
in a fire
and that people from the
Election
Committee died in the fiery
plane crash
than they had election forms on
board
Wow looks like they'll just
vote early
unbelievable yes really man
that is BS
nowadays weather I don't know
what what
completely happened but they've
turned
into a very
I think it's like not even in
on par
with NBC News it's well if they
were NBC
at least would be something to
laugh at
this is not even funny
now this this may have
something to do
with China this is what I keep
referring
to but I really can't find you
know
anything that points to them
directly or
who the key I mean we're
obviously a
player in in this fight I don't
know who
were with or what side were on
but China
is now moving into the next
phase of
their no Road three belt
strategy and
because Kenya could not repay a
loan the
China infrastructure loan the
Chinese
had given to them they now have
taken
possession of Kenya's main port
economic
hitman bigger this is huge oh
they just
do it differently yeah no no
bloodshed
yeah I think people will know
this but
in general hey just give them
given
offer they can't refuse that
they
actually can't even fulfill and
then
take over whatever you need
you know they took over the
deport yeah
it just came out just came out
over yeah
well well that should be
interesting the
geopolitics in China or China
and the
reference I was just
fascinating yeah so
anyway so maybe now is the time
to send
in troops for you know the
Ebola issue
yes unless unless it's going
the way we
want it I mean it would have to
be
not not for Kenya but I mean
for for the
for the Congo for DRC it
probably is
going the way we want it to go
I don't know what the point
that put the
troops abroad just to serve
some other
function I don't know all right
well at
least we're on it
you know if somebody is I'm
like abs PVS
been unbelievable then we have
Wesley
Clark showing up in the news
again maybe
if you're gonna run for
president again
well that's an interesting
point that's
a reminder about Wesley Clark
he told
this story a few years after
9/11 about
something that happened to him
in the
Pentagon two weeks after 9/11
where he
received the following briefing
we call
it the West Clark 7 so I came
back to
see him a few weeks later and
by that
time we were bombing in
Afghanistan I
said are we still going to war
with Iraq
and he said oh it's worse than
that
he said he reached over on his
desk he
picked up a piece of paper he
said I
just he said I just got this
down from
upstairs meeting the secretary
defense
office today and he said this
is a memo
that describes how we're gonna
take out
seven countries in five years
starting
with Iraq and then Syria
Lebanon Libya
Somalia Sudan and finishing off
Iran so
that was the plan that plan is
probably
still on the books but here he
is
speaking of the pullout which
of course
he would be staunchly against
although
Syria wasn't on his list he
understands
how the neocon war machine
works and
he's a part of it general let
me start
with you CNN reporting that the
abrupt
decision to withdraw from Syria
that
started this cascading events
occurred
after the president spoke with
turkish
President Erdogan and
essentially said
take it it's yours we're out
Turkey is
part of the NATO coalition that
you once
led how concerned are you about
this
process or lack thereof and the
essential giving seating of
influence to
Turkey and presumably other
actors in
erdowan orbit
well I'm very concerned because
it
doesn't seem to be any strategic
rationale for the decision and
if
there's no strategic rationale
for the
decision you have to ask why
was the
decision made I can tell you
that people
around the world are asking
this and
some of our friends and allies
in the
Middle East are asking well did
did
order one bail the president
was there
payoff or something what is it
why would
a guy make a decision like this
because
all the
was did air21 blackmail the
president
was there a payoff the president
recommendations were against it
and it
looked like that all the facts
are
against it - were not quite
finished
with Isis we're not taking a
lot of
casualties over there the Kurds
have
been reliable allies why do
this huge
casualties the American
taxpayer right
now and this is the the matter
that's of
most concern or should be most
concerned
- all says what does this say
about the
foreign policy of the United
States that
were not reliable that we make
strategic
decisions based on no strategic
logic so
what kind of person is driving
the helm
that's the issue but this is a
political
issue not a military issue Jim
mattis
took a political post in this
administration his job was to
support
the president the United States
when all
the chips are down he couldn't
do it he
left trumps now replaced him
all that is
in the court is with the way it
should
be the odd man what you're
completely I
wasn't quite sure exactly I
mean is this
the truth wants to come out or
let's
just listen to that last bit
again I
found it incomprehensible not a
military
issue Jim mattis took a
political post
in this administration his job
was to
support the president the
United States
when all the chips are down he
couldn't
do it he left trumps now
replaced him
all that is in the court is
with the way
it should be interesting that
is the
debt must be a truth should
come out
thing not quite quite sure it's
a this
is okay what he what he may be
saying is
mattis is out and that's the
way it
should be we needed him out of
there
for something else or we needed
the
other guy in the Madison's not
getting
any work anywhere I mean I put
it very
made it very clear in the
newsletter and
I'll reiterate this one of the
points he
was a board member and made a
big point
of being aboard the board of
theranos
the perhaps the biggest scam in
Silicon
Valley history and he's on the
board of
directors this guy and that's
because
and I'm I I kind of accuse him
of being
a sucker for the blondie that
ran the
place it was a I batter you
know hyena
with the big debate you know I
have a
deep voice what that means I'm
sexy and
so and on top of it you know
you have to
remember this guy is a bachelor
he he
proposed to one woman ever and
she at
the day of the wedding or just
before
the way she called it off what
I didn't
know this about matters nine so
he's got
a Napoleonic complex and he is
not a guy
that you just assume that not
have him
even working in the position of
authority like that because he's
unstable yes he got dumped but
he got
dumped on his wedding he got
run around
by this by Elizabeth Holmes and
made a
fool out of himself he should
have never
gotten a position of any sort
after that
experience right what's she
doing there
I didn't get couldn't see
through this
scam that he was dealing with
well the
problem with fairness or
theranos is
that a lot of guys like that
gut scammed
including : Powell he was in
that group
as well on the board yeah guys
who were
susceptible to some blondie you
know but
bleached blonde let's make that
clear uh
who likes to manipulate men hey
middle-aged men is very
susceptible to
this if they're you know any
bit you
know thinking of the feeling
their oats
as it were let's see who else
let me
just look at this board again
see who was on let's see who
else is uh
is unfit yeah I believe anyone
who was
on that board is unfit to have a
position of authority
Reilly missed the mark of the
devil
you're out Reilly BEC tell
of the Bechtel group economic
hitmen
Bechtel David Boies
the lawyer boys Schiller and
Flexner
yeah old older guy William fooj
former
director CDC Richard kovachev
ik Wells
Fargo another crook
Fabrizio garlic rook what so
you can't
call him a crook no okay I
can't call
him a crook I was running a crap
organization yes yes okay thank
you
I want to get sued Fabrizio
bonanni
Amgen well that make sense and
then
mattis so he was really that
the board
is much smaller than I thought
at least
that was the 2016 board yeah it
may have
been bigger earlier because I
was quite
sure that : Powell was on there
I think he has some association
you know
Tim Draper did he was in love
with her
and was was he still thinks she
can make
a comeback what a character
fantastic
yeah meanwhile The Washington
Post is
doing their job to make Trump
look bad
in this a headline in Syria
Assad's
government is doubling down on
executions of political
prisoners course
atrocities we need another ah
we need
another Doctors Without Borders
chemical
attack well the last time there
was the
doctors a border thing I think
it was
our troops that blew one of
their
hospitals to smithereens
remember that
yep the big of the big
for one of the big planes it
has a lot
of guns on one side kept
circling it and
pounding I have the old big
plane gun
I've begun playing with a big
play with
guns gunship also know that
shit Turkey
also now making all kinds of
moves
against Greece making noise
this is so
much going when it comes to
this you
don't even know how much this is
accurate though of what of all
these
news reports well none of this
do it
took is doing what with Greece
well I'll
tell you what it's all well
here's the
issue the issue is and I think
as always
it's all about the energy in the
pipeline so we know that Israel
wants
their pipelines to come up
through
Greece there any of their
Leviathan
filled turkey is in bed with
Russia for
all of this and they want their
Turks
stream to be the you know the
thing that
brings everything in that they
want to
stop all at all costs and South
they're
talking about you know airspace
who
owned Cyprus all this crap it's
it's the
same stuff they always do but
they're
making noise and they'll
probably
position ships in the region or
blow up
a pipeline meanwhile Poland I
know if we
talked about it Poland isn't
now signed
their third agreement with the
u.s.
liquid natural liquefied
natural gas to
afford their country instead of
taking
gas from Russia through Ukraine
I don't know what the you know
I the
poles do anything to get better
visa
deal with us I guess it's gotta
tell you
that's the one thing that Trump
really I
don't understand why he won't
let let
the polls be a part of esta you
can just
need you just visit the US with
a you
know with a quick online form he
promised it yeah but somehow
they didn't
pushback from someone a lot of
people
says the Israelis that would be
Bachan X
conclusion as well
but hey he's trumps done enough
favors
for the Israelis he can do this
favor
for the poles yeah who's gonna
who's
gonna tell are they gonna say
Raley's
gonna turn on us if that deal
is done
come on no I don't think so so
what I
have seen in the in the
mainstream by
the way how was your Christmas
was it good did you guys all
together
were you up there where's
people down
there what you do know
everybody's
scattered around so our
Christmas is
coming in about five days yes
the
Dvorak's always celebrating on a
different date for every
occasion you
guys kill me well you have the
tree up
and everything still when y'all
get
together yeah not great
interesting
the news is and I think it's a
mistake
but you know they believe it's
the way
to go for ratings they're now
all
pivoting after our end of year
retrospectives all pivoting to
2020
that's all about who's gonna be
running
for 2020 they're just going to
can they
believe that political news and
I'm
talking about the three big
mainstream
n5m news channels MSNBC CNN and
Fox
that's all they seem to be able
to talk
about three bees and a camel
toe that's
right everybody that's who's
running
Bernie Biden Beto and Kamala
Harris
yeah but those are three that's
four of
them there's a in fact of
course we have
dozens of people running on
both sides
because people think they can
take out
Trump so we have losers like
Kasich
going on about how he's gonna
run
because he doesn't think this
president's doing well and the
public
wants him huh I mean we did
these guys
I've never seen so many
delusional
people the only person that
really if
we're gonna go ahead you know
this is
the it's the well if Trump can
win
anyone can win I can win
realize that
Trump has been a high-profile
character
that can win he gets votes
because he's
so high-profile the only person
like
that is Oprah right and they're
different and people say well
Oprah can
not there's another one Tom
Hanks
Tom Hanks's well I think he
could do it
I think he could do it well
here's the
problem with Oprah she would we
know of
trump wanting to run for
president says
the 80s he's always talked
about it and
interestingly with the same
agenda about
China it's fit has not wavered
when it
comes to doesn't waver much
Oprah was
never shown any interest in it
at all so
she'd be forced into it so
she's not
gonna do it Tom Hanks it's a
lark he
just want to go through the
grind of it
especially a Hollywood
character with
all the still luggage does
Hollywood
people have it be miserable
right but
what I'm saying is the media
has the
media has already chosen on the
Democrat
side they've chosen the yes he
had to do
they had to take a stamp
because it's
part of the strategy to block
Hillary
yeah and and every story after
you're
right every story I've seen is
followed
by 70% of Democrats don't want
Hillary
anywhere near the word run
yeah which is a lie that's a lie
people who are screaming in the
streets
after Trump won and we're
gathered at
Javits and were in tears
afterwards they
don't hate Hillary now
right
Rand Paul is paying there did
their dare
just this is the skin not gonna
use it
again this is a fraud Hillary is
probably the leading candidate
if you
ask me
interesting she well she has
yet to
raise her ugly head look how
long it
took the first time because if
she
doesn't raise her ugly head for
a long
time she gets to gather a lot
of money
and that money goes in a
different
account so if she doesn't win
anything
that money still is hers yeah I
agree
though I have not seen I've not
seen the
candidate that would would make
it work
Biden four years ago I mean
it's all
about appearance and and I'll
say it
again that's how we elect our
presidents
we buy our soap it's all the
same way
it's gotta look pretty make you
feel
nice and white out give you a
nice smile
well if you remember the guy
the CIA xgi
a guy who wrote that behind the
scenes
book in the White House during
the
waning years of the Obama
administration
slammed Biden for being wrong
on every
single topic it hasn't got a
prayer
doesn't really matter it
doesn't really
matter the president doesn't
have to be
right especially if you're
running it's
you know your sales guy
to sales guy in a poppy or
mommy yeah
you have to sale sell past the
media's
there's a real problem Rand
Paul I think
is gonna make another run okay
I think
he just does that for to keep
his
profile i well but he's changed
something he's now he is honing
his
tweeting skills I'm not kidding
this
that you should look at his
Twitter feed
look at he's you know he's
standing on a
beach next to you know a bunch
of sticks
looks like a bonfire but I
guess you
could say it looks like a
teepee and his
tweet is I came to say happy
Festivus to
my friend Elizabeth Warren but
I can't
find her I mean this he's
trolling 'he's
going after Warren hey Street
dub that's
a direct hit let's see what was
the
other one
speaking of criminal justice
reform I
have to give Jared Kushner
credit he was
great on this and I'm glad I
got to know
him because before that I was a
bit
suspicious he was the kid from
The Omen
movie all grown up that sounds
like it's
professionally written yet a
writer he
has a writer oh yeah
so he's and he was making fun
of Ted
Cruz posting memes of Cruz with
a crazy
beard and yeah that's I think
he's
testing his Twitter skills he
knows
where that is where the 2020
election
will be fought of course or
whatever
Twitter feeds with her Twitter
that's
what that's that's where you
win yeah
rules are changed and he at
least seems
to understand that I don't
think he has
it in him I've always liked him
kind of
well he's just the public will
never go
for it we've been sold the
American pose
been sold on a bill of war
here's
Gillibrand on the the Van Jones
show on
CNN she wants to run yo she
does but she
kind of cuts herself out in the
in an
odd way about what's right in
the world
I do believe we should fight
for each
other's kids as hard as my own
I do
believe that we what is the
issue with
saying I do believe what's the
difference between you saying I
do
believe and saying I believe it
would be
someone would say that because
they have
the feeling idea or perhaps
proof that
someone thinks you don't
believe that
but there's no evidence of that
she's
just saying I do believe I did
Gauls but
I see a lot of professional
athletes
through many of which many of
whom are
borderline if not illiterate
despite their college degrees
it's
rarely most of them quit cause
because
they go to the pros and make
all these
millions you know unlike the
suckers are
stay in school kids there you
go there's
Uncle John telling you like it
is so
they did their border line your
litter
and they say I do believe well
so does
Jill Bryan I have a vision for
America
about what's right in the world
I do
believe we should fight for
each other's
kids as hard as we fight for
our own I
do believe that we should
restore the
golden rule and actually care
about one
another and I do believe no
matter what
block you grew up on you should
have a
chance this is a big thing this
this
block you grow up on or zip
code you
grow up in then I hear this
everywhere
this pork this pork it you'll
hear the
music
this poor child if only were
born in
one-zip code over would have
had a very
different life as if the
physical place
my sister was born in Uganda a
January
1st 1967
so you tell me you know that's
a bad zip
code that's not the good zip
code to
grow it but to grow up in for
sure so
anyway there's a lot of that
you should
have a chance to live out your
god-given
potential and that means good
schools
that are public schools you
know jet
free college things that really
make
opportunity possible so debt
free
college another zinger I miss
that the
first time oh that is that's a
good way
of putting it that's a great
campaign
line I like I believe in
debt-free
college because you kind of
just yeah
yeah yeah
I believe in debt-free homes I
believe
in a debt-free car free college
things
that really make opportunity
possible so
I have that vision and so the
question
is do I do that from a
presidential
platform or do I do it from the
US
Senate and that is the question
I will
decide very soon we got a poll
we should
put up with a did knows in that
poll
that the top three were I think
Biden
Bernie and bado threebees and
all white
guys in a party as diverse as
ours
it doesn't worry you to see the
top
three being white guys yes I
aspire for
our country to recognize the
beauty of
our diversity in some point in
the
future and I hope someday we
have a
woman president I love the fact
that
Barack Obama was our president
for eight
years I hope more people of
color not
only aspire and win the
presidency
because that's what makes
America so
extraordinary that where we are
all of
that we are everything and I
think a
more inclusive America is a
stronger
America what is interesting to
me is
here's Van Jones on CNN the
actual
organization who has pre chosen
the
three B's it's not like there's
no one
else running to all we hear
about is the
three B's in the camel toe
that's all we
hear about three B's instead of
saying
oh it's the party oh yeah see
and then
maybe you should include some
other
people on your list to give
them some
exposure
yes it is I agree WAP Oh Times
CNN CNN's
just I mean they they went all
in very
quickly
and they seem to have dropped
common
hair years before give me a
break I'm
telling even the mh17 flight
that was
lost after a year CNN finally
just had
to give up I mean this too much
you can
have too much Pro of one type of
programming the public will not
either
look we've been in television a
long
time John if you switch and
every every
channel you go to is election
this
election that it's going to get
old
ratings will slip
yeah
I agree but maybe it's all just
a deal
making stage for the for the
ads hey
look we've been really good to
you guys
we've we've you know we've done
the
three B's and you know you
might be
right it's almost like the
network news
people that people I've said
this before
we've talked about on the show
everyone
but all those those network
news it's
only old people who watch that
in those
news things it's a dying
audience
although nobody takes into
account that
new people are getting old but
that's
okay it's a dying audience is
terrible
no the network news folk
appeal to the oldsters because
they have
ads for them specifically lots
of drug
ads aches and pains ads you
know the
incontinence ads and all the
stuff that
old people need so it's not
like they're
doing it there they're screwing
up and
what's interesting is that the
derivative of the audience
they're
talking to and when I what I
mean by
that is little clips that show
up on
social media that's kind of a
bonus you
know they know that they can't
with a
straight face say to any ad
agency your
media buyer yeah we got 18 to
24 we're
right here in the pocket they
can't say
it cuz no one will believe them
it's not
true they can say look we got
to 55 plus
and that's a big market for
pharma and
the derivative is just what is
posted
online and circulates around
these the
people who are looking at this
are not
watching those channels they're
just
taking the snippets and
throwing it into
the outrage machine and feeding
back and
just you know it's part of the
big loop
it's really quite genius I mean
not that
anyone's how they make money
not that
anyone more money we do now
before we
take a break I'd like to get
your take
on the gyrations in the
financial
markets because the funniest
thing I saw
over Christmas was a tweet from
the
president after we closed
Christmas Day
with you know two days was it
three days
down in a row and all horrible
worst
christmas clothes ever the
president
after minuchin has called the
working
group on financial markets to
see how
they're doing with cash
last time we used that name we
called
him by their nickname the plunge
Protection Team we're working
group on
financial markets that is the
plunge
Protection Team yeah so he
called them
with all this is said everyone
into it
you know you just know santa
rally let's
put it like that and then the
president
the next day tweets if I were
you but by
the dip my mind exploded he's
doing by
BT
d by the dip everybody and it
shoots up
a thousand points the next
market day
think 1085 something like that
it was
the most in history that was
fantastic
he is the stock whisperer of
course she
had to sell at the end of the
day
otherwise she gets screwed I'm
sure it's
down today's no no down estate
look I'm
sure it is
I'm sure it is I think it was
down three
or four hundred points at all
this
morning it's yeah did you see
best I've
heard the best commentary I've
heard was
it's down 396 yeah the best
commentary
I've ever heard was some some
real
old-timer was on one of these
financial
station shows and he says this
this is his computer training
it's just
the way it works nowadays you
have a
downward trend for a little
while the
computers all jump on it and
they they
position themselves that that
it's gonna
go down you know what it is its
algorithmic amplification
itself this is
exactly what it is
he says it's gotten exaggerated
some
more exaggerated than ever
because the
computers will push away down
and then
it starts to go up and they
they all and
then they all go nuts the
computers in a
matter of form they all go nuts
and
things skyrocket and then it
goes down
it goes up good stuff it's
crazy this is
like seems like the perfect
time if you
have any clue about how they
how it's
actually working it you can as
a day
trader you should be able make
millions
of dollars a year well get off
cycle
your yeah you're done I think
you can do
it on indexes but individual
stocks is a
little more a little more
complicated
because the out there's
probably five
basic algos I've studied some
of them
and you know some really dumb
that'll
just go on on a certain time of
day if
they're an upward motion but
they
obviously they will they will
suppress
price your true pricing
I think algorithmic
amplification may be
the only thing
today's algorithms are really
good at no
matter what it is
that's what we've seen on the
social
media networks like what what
do the
algos do this is a good point
because
this is actually stems from the
fractal
of the semiconductors and one
of the
greatest things semiconductors
could do
is amplify
it's yeah it is a fractal
that's it it's
either compression or
amplification they
can do that too
yes because the world that mean
we love
mr. compression yeah well
there's
different kinds of compression
but
compression in time you know
abstraction
of of operations anything that
can be
compressed is its in it's in
our human
DNA almost to want to compress
things
but the amplification part yeah
that
that is truly what computers do
amplify
us decompress yeah huh modulate
demodulate well here's um Rick
ferryman
binary baby this binary man is
nothing
else to it
Rick Santelli from CNBC had his
own take
on this Olson is the Treasury
secretary
during the crisis you know at
first they
were going to borrow three
quarters
worth trillion dollars to buy
toxic
assets that never materialized
it
morphed on the fly things could
get
messy I can't believe some of
the
nuances though really they can't
understand that anybody would
be worried
about liquidity I'll tell you
what go
visit any major FCM in this
business and
ask them how many hours a day
they're
putting in what markets are
moving like
this or talk about margin and
leverage
for how many times Treasury
secretary
minutiae was concerned about
market
structure all the articles
beginning in
December listen I understand
every
nuance is the wrong nuance
because the
message isn't really any of
these
individual thoughts but what the
Treasury secretary is saying
the issue
is quite simple the central
banks of the
world propped up the stock
market to a
point where it can sustain
itself during
normalization and normalization
of only
a few of the participants in
the grand
liquefied scheme of things that
is the
main issue the markets have to
contend
with and they could point blame
whatever
they want there's an oil
industry that
does that and this president
certainly
doesn't get the benefits of
much de
what did he actually say
I have no idea I mean I kind of
was
catching it then that the and
he talks
about the president doesn't get
something and I don't know what
he meant
by that
I don't know well yeah I think
our
thesis here is actually quite a
good one
because the end of year there's
always
stuff going on there's a pension
institutional rebalancing thank
you
chatroom troll room there's a
number of
things but it's the algorithmic
amplification that gives you
these wild
swings and we can probably look
to see
this is something we need to be
on the
lookout for anywhere an
algorithm is
running let's see if we can
find the
amplification because eventually
something has to break
yeah amplification for
amplifications
sake is not the way to go
that's why
audio amplifiers need a preamp
with it
with a volume control on it you
can
stick your pure stuff into the
amp
straight up and then it just
gets
blasted Blatt you blow your
house up but
if you have a preamp which is a
little
controller that says hey I mean
I'm
gonna give you a little bit of
this
juice not all of it
then it's it calms it down we
don't have
a preamp for the economy
interesting
what the Fed I guess would want
to be
the dial Turner to dial their
volume
control yeah the volume control
they I
guess that's what they have
that what
they feel their role is you
know turn up
interest rates turn them down
or inflate
the money supply little tone
control but
then they know and with that
I'd like to
say in the morning to you and
thank you
to the man who put the C in
compression
John C deck
I want to thank you and I want
to thank
all the boots on the ground
feet in the
air subs in the water and all
the Dames
tonight's out there in the
morning to
the troll room let me see how
many
trolls we got here today let me
just do
a quick little scan
Wow 896 that's not bad for a
Christmas
week well in the morning to you
trolls
good to see you got your troll
poles
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title of that - a sword and
again lots
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because it was
it really does nice
illustration it was
the White House and a bunch of
protesters in comics or
bloggers true
form with his his comic comic
strip
drawing and they were holding
up the
protest signs such as peace
sucks
stopped peace Trump do war not
more war
let's do war Dan was very
appropriate I
think for for the episode was
there any
there was other art I think
that art
that was okay it was good and
wasn't
great but I personally like
this one
because it had the it had the
the tone
that were bitching about which
is all
these Democrats and you just
proved that
with some earlier clips yep
all these you know peaceniks
war was the
only yeah it's not American
enough to
know that one but it was good we
appreciated no agenda art
generator calm
we always loved looking at all
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the art is available for anyone
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it is
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appreciate
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the anonymous China I don't
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don't think I've ever heard of
the
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midnight
he's a nice and a knight yes
but we
don't know who he haven't heard
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for a while I don't think it
was at the
meet up but he's in San Ramon
California
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meet up 1098 whoa we have not
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time it's
been a number of months this
being
episode 1098 I also noticed by
the way I
did the priest dream art it is
ten nine
eight as we count down the year
ten nine
eight seven six five four three
two one
yes exactly
anyway back to our anonymous
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I'm still a loyal listener to
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this donation is for show ten
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slaves like
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and what have we done in the
past
I thought the pr2 Commission
yet the
Commission and committee had
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out many years they did too but
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I'll
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like the way
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he's in and out of
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you've got car for anyone who
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thank you very much sir mark
Milliman
yeah why don't you let us know
if you
have a protectorate if you are
a baron
and then we're gladly upgraded
you
there's no rush then though it
goes on
oh I'm sorry I do not need
karma but I
do need karma because I need
this
satellite deal to come through
or else
I'll need job karma your last
Sunday
show is right on target with my
assignment of the Huawei with my
assessment of the Huawei
situation are
already explained another
component of
the fuck Trump in China planned
from the
deep State these elitist
assholes don't
care who they ruin but Boeing
SpaceX
Hughes and the others are
involved in it
so they are messing with the
big boys
except for the Ilan who is just
a little
boy he's in the business yeah
oh yeah
those up in that area you know
yes I
hope you two have a Merry
Christmas with
your respective families thank
you for
covering these beats so I don't
have to
my amygdala can't handle the
m5m at all
it is for in this current form
including
Fox News and WSJ I always see
so much
more when I read or watch
anything from
the MSA I always see so much
more when I
read or watch anything from the
m5m well
thanks to us Adam I hope your
theory
about AOC is wrong I know she
provides
great source for the show but
she is an
idiot there is no simpler or
nicest way
to put it the problem is that
many of
the Millennial idiots think
she's a
genius let the fucking of
Hillary began
I know Bernie recognizes that
his
political life is ending so he
will pump
up a OC it should be
entertaining it
should be an entertaining ride
we need
to give him a satellite yes and
that of
course is the bottom line as
long as
it's an entertaining ride for
the No
Agenda show and our network
here we
don't care sir mark Millman I
know
exactly what he does I know why
he wants
the satellite Karma and I
really hope
works here you go you've got
karma we
have some of the most amazing
people in
our audience did you see that
have the
great Twitter thread the the No
Agenda
selfie thread on Twitter no oh
man I
think you started off
two of our producers I think in
Colorado
and then everyone was doing
really
close-up selfies of half your
head and
you know when we got some
interesting
looking people oh my goodness
great
though you know sir Chris of
course with
his you know his washed up on
the beach
you know been on a desert
island for 30
years
his everyone jumped in on it
you just
look at this thread because the
people
we got good lookers you
luminarias in
her lab coat I mean was just
fun to see
everyone working on the day
after
Christmas and and where they
were and
what they were doing I don't
know was
something about what people
would call
community but what I call our
Valley for
value network or the network it
was fun
okay now we have an interesting
one Kyle
from Cincinnati $7.99 88 from
Chapel
Hill North Carolina
ah right he actually
let me reach over hold on a
second yeah
I reach around the dirty the
dirty
little jive that's what can you
do
okay uh I don't think
you know he's sent to check in
and he
has some no I don't really have
anything
shall I go back to my Dirty
Jobs then
again to entertain people why
you look
why don't I read up I could
never look
this I'm not guide we're moving
on he's
just had to check with I think
very it's
just the no jingles or
something like
along those lines but I got a
kick I was
just Kyle from Cincinnati
buddies in
Chapel Hill so it's alright if
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to say something yes No thank
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much Kyle Michael Hall Bobby
I'm sorry
Michael Halbe e Michael Halbe e
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I've been
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so it
seems only appropriate to cap
off the
year completing my knighthood
Merry
Christmas Happy New Year
Michael paddle
me Oh Michael thank you so much
that's
fair you know I said it's
interesting
those old days the old days
back into
like this kind of a theme you
know with
the with the old advertisements
that you
put in the newsletter oh yeah
if you
didn't see the news though you
missed
out that's for sure but someone
sent me
I'll just play it you tell me
when you
want me to stop a clip of you
which i
think is from the 80s about the
new
being interviewed about viruses
can I play a little bit just as
I wanted
I'm interested now why do
hackers plant
viruses what kind of guys are
these we
visited computer columnist John
Dvorak
to learn more about Oh where's
the sea
oh-ho-ho what's up with that
yeah
psychological profile of the
virus
hacker there there young the
mostly male
they probably like pizza and
coca-cola
you can probably find them at a
7-eleven
they probably have weird hours
you know
they stay up real late that may
sound
like the description of a
typical
teenager
but beware because it may also
be the
picture of a typical computer
hacker
according to the computer virus
Industry
Association some 60,000 pcs
across the
country are infected by viruses
every
month hackers try to infiltrate
the
systems for a variety of
reasons for
some it's just a practical joke
others
may have a score to settle with
a former
boss
the real reason may be a whole
lot
simpler but just as harmful
here it
comes
there's two things that make
people
create viruses one is some peer
group
pressure they're in a group
that does
this kind of stuff the other
one is
boredom because they you know
maybe
these people were employed and
actually
there are some people who are
employed
that create viruses and there's
just a
cheap thrill of doing it and
seeing
seeing what happens to your
creation it
is a little bit like graffiti
art in
that regard you know throwing
something
up on the wall and then taking
off
before the police catch up no
it's not
your wall that's that's it man
that's
that's what that's why hackers
do what
they do
that was the hackers then and
then they
decided they figure out they
make money
in that chain oh yeah no it's a
very
different situation it's just
funny I
mean if you play some clips for
me from
MTV for I'll sound very stupid
believe
me I'll get them yeah you
should hey
people out there I know a lot
of you
have collected Adams old MTV
stuff send
me some of the bitter stuff
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with the new years donation of
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this year
what was that you say actually
should be
what was that you asked if you
remember
at the beginning of April I
started my
retirement with the driving
trip to
Arizona while heading down a
lonesome
desert road a deer ran across
ahead of
me I swerved and my newer used
car
bought four days before ended
up on its
side off the road demolished in
a
boulder ouch after cutting me
out of the
car I was airlifted to the
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where I stayed for over a week
only
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well I don't always agree with
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don't have
to mention that to us because
we know
you're studied analysis and
commentary
against the insanity of the m5m
belches
out Babette belches out quieted
my
amygdala so much so that I could
concentrate on healing
that's an interesting theory so
he never
got the swollen amygdala and
that could
heal better instead of you know
being
all freaked out there may be
something
to that I think so too
and I'm not normally buying
into a lot
of this but I kind of think
that's
probably true because the ever
since we
found out about the amygdala
issue yeah
I bet there are others who have
been
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there
this is very interesting
doctors of hmm doctors of
deconstruction
yeah next time I do a business
you know
it's very it's very similar to
the way
medicine used to work in the
old days it
would you know the doctor the
town
doctor he no one would pay him
he'd get
value in return
here's chicken you know I'll
help you
build your barn it's a very
similar
system they paid him
now what not in Little House on
the
Prairie they didn't the the
doctor was
always out of money well so are
we
that's what I mean so exactly
it's the
same my point exactly thank you
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ologist
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I think I
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I think
so if I mean there's a guy named
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think I
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you get
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I'm very happy with the gifts
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well it's something with the
publishing
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but it's completely separate
I've been following ipfs for a
couple of
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it it's ipfs stands for the
interplanetary file system yeah
and
yesterday I did the ultimate is
something that one of these
like Tim
berners-lee or one of these
types of
guys or came up with no no not
at all
who did it I think the main guy
is a kid
from Stanford okay and oh it's
not in
anyone's interest except us
to have something like this
running and
what what tipped me over I went
I
revisit these these things from
time to
time to see if they're useful
and I've
come to the conclusion that
ipfs the
interplanetary file system is
almost
useful for large podcast
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now I'm not gonna get it I'm
not gonna
get into the way it works but
very
nicely CloudFlare has set up a
gateway
in order for this to work and
it's a
distributed file system and of
course
it's you know the Internet is
the cloud
and everyone's hosting your
files and a
lot of stuff that you've heard
before
but this one seems to be
something that
can get legs because they've
incorporated into blockchain in
fact
it's very similar to what
github does a
very similar type of system
ology or
system but klutzo in if you
don't have
the software running to
basically a
little local server to use the
because
it's just a hash instead of a
full URL
you can say you can use a
public gateway
and CloudFlare set up a public
gateway
for this yeah they said it's
just to
stimulate to stimulate now in
all these
cases having a you know a main
front end
or like a distribution network
we even
if you can distribute between
other
peers that that are hosting the
file
that's being requested it's not
bad to
have you know a couple of
have a system that can you know
rotate
amongst these public gateways
for people
who don't have them anyway long
story
short I've started a second RSS
feed is
completely separate I've tested
it it
works it'll be in the show
notes in a
show notes calm or no agenda
show calm
and if anyone wants to try it
out
because pretty much I'm
uploading a
hundred and twenty Meg file
which is the
average size for our show and
it's going
into the IEP FS I'm not hosting
it I'm
hosting one original copy on my
laptop
and everyone who subscribes to
that
should be able to receive it
and I'm
just interested to see how well
that
works if just you know it's a
test but I
think it's an important one
who's
hosting it well no one's
hosting with
it's the the fog they just
floats around
is data in the cloud and then
it gets
picked off yeah yeah so in
other words
is freeloading
well it's no different the
freeloading
than torrents only you don't
have to
have a central tracker as long
as you
have the hash of the file you're
requesting and that's what
pushed me
over the edge I tweeted just
the hash
not a URL just the hash that
can anyone
see this and was a hash for an
image I'd
drawn that said it worked and a
lot of
people got it and they knew how
to
retrieve it I was like okay so
there's
enough out there to start
testing I know
there's some just with all this
deep
platforming going on there is
stuff
that's working and I love
trying to lead
that charge because there's no
money in
this there's no money anywhere
so these
guys because we're losing money
cuz
we're associated with them
exactly yeah
can't do that so good but I'm
glad
you're doing this there's also
a you
know the last thing in the
world I'd do
I don't trust any of this stuff
yeah
well there's and there's
interesting
because it's it's created with a
blockchain there's interesting
ways you
can add in payments for either
hosting
or storing some of it or for
content I
mean I'm not too interested in
that part
but I am very interested in the
ability
to just share a file with
anybody by
dropping it into a folder
Almighty knows
it's the ultimate goal it's
like Dropbox
you know it's like you got was
thinking
Dropbox when you said yeah and
it just
came to me as well it's pretty
much like
Dropbox you throw it in you
copy the
location which is not a URL and
then
anyone can go and get it now
the issue
of course is you put something
up there
there's no way for you to ever
get it
off where it's unlikely because
once
copies are made you know you're
removing
it unlike Dropbox is not going
to remove
it so you want to be careful
what you
put up
um anyway that'll be a test and
I'd love
to hear back from our dudes and
dudettes
named Ben and Ben and and
benjamina to
see if they had any success
with that
and we'll continue to look huh
yeah well
good yeah yeah how about this
drone
story this gatwick drone story
is I'm a
long version of it because this
this now
that as I understand it Gatwick
was shut
down for at least 24 hours 36
hours this
is an outrage and aviation
outrage it
makes no sense someone is lying
I mean there's a million ways
to detect
that they couldn't find it
could there's
no way to find a signal for
that was
controlling the drone I don't
need I
think it was even a picture of
the drone
well it's going to sell some new
products yes I've noticed this
as well
the drone dome security well
there's a
couple of them there's one
domestic
there's one in Israel that both
of them
are discussing the drone threat
at
airports report from MB NBC with
millions of Americans flying
over these
holidays US officials tonight
are
growing increasingly concerned
that our
airports could face an illegal
drone
disruption like the one that
shut down a
major airport last week NBC's
Pete
Williams now on the push to
protect the
skies after struggling with
dozens of
drone sightings by shutting down
operations twice Gatwick
Airport south
of London finally brought in a
system
designed by an Israeli company
to detect
drones according to British
media the
challenge of keeping drones and
planes
apart is growing more difficult
and even
accidentally bumping into a
plane could
be disastrous a larger format
drone 10
to 15 pounds could do a
significant
amount of damage to an airplane
and if
it were close to the ground it
could
result in loss of the airplanes
even
more worrisome is the prospect
of an
intentional attack Isis
terrorists
overseas have been using
hobbyist drones
to carry explosives or dropped
small
bombs Congress has been slow to
respond
to the drone threat it only
recently
gave the federal government
authority to
disable drones that fly into
restricted
airspace and security experts
say most
airports are not prepared to
deal with
them Salt Lake City's Airport is
monitoring two of its runways
with a
system to deal with potential
drones
made by a Utah company it uses
radar to
detect them and dispatches a
drone
hunter to bring them down it's
not just
airports that are unprepared
when we go
into stadiums when we go to
airports
there's fences there's all
sorts of
checkpoints and what we're
learning now
is that America needs to invest
in
airspace security just like
ground
security it's a rapidly growing
threat
with two million drones
estimated to be
in the hands of American
hobbyists by
the end of 2019
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I've heard these drones that
have nets
and they just get to the drone
and throw
a net on him the one company I
have is
Rafael advanced defense systems
they
make the drone dome
has now been ordered by the UK
first
customer for the counter
unmanned air
system equipment yeah
that's the one I think was
discussed and
of course they did find some
saps and
blamed it all on them and the
media went
while then it turned out
oopsie no it wasn't them the
couple
arrested and later released
without
being charged for a drone
disruption at
Gatwick Airport in London last
week they
are now speaking out for the
first time
Paul Gates says they were
treated very
badly as you can probably
imagine we're
feeling very feeling completely
violated
a home has been searched and
our privacy
in identity completely exposed
our names
photos and other personal
information
have been bull cast throughout
the world
yeah and even their response
was so hard
I have a different theory
though I'm
well I would say for you in
school just
a just a superficial theory the
company
that makes the drone dome is
the one who
sent a drone in there mm-hmm
you know probably a one that's
not
controlled you don't need a lot
of them
are nowadays or you can just
program the
drone to do stuff and it goes
out and
doesn't comes back home or go
someplace
else or whatever you want it to
do and
you go in there and just you
mess with
them and then you come in there
with
your sales guys and say hey let
go we
got that would be the the most
superficial analysis on what's
missing
from this is evidence of any
drone at
all what's missing from this is
is more
than one aircraft reporting a
drone did
not happen
there's no recording of it
there's no
one saying there's drones about
drones
are all over airports people are
assholes they fly these things
and I say
that as an aviator they they
fly these
things everywhere airports do
deal with
this and to shut down Gatwick
for 36
hours can only be because of
one thing
what unidentified flying object
ray
I'm serious about that I'm not
saying it
was a spaceship but I think
there was
something unidentified they
couldn't
figure it out and they had to
bring in a
whole bunch of people and we'll
never
hear about radar cool because
if there
was visible they would have
dead bee
videos all over the place oh man
UFOs don't show up on radar
hello how
was this visible what are you
talking
about I think I think it was
visible
I've seen I've seen a picture
which I
don't think is is I mean who
the hell
knows I've seen a picture of
where
something is flying there that
looks
like it might be some kind of
disc
shaped object that I don't
could be a
frisbee for all I know I'm
saying this
type of shut down for 36 hours
not
because do we think someone's
flying a
drone around which we haven't
seen have
no pictures of no radar in no
ground
this ground radar nothing
this was something much bigger
well it's not it's not the
Occam's razor
and now this is no but that's
not why
people come to the No Agenda
show John
[Music]
more will be revealed yes this
is all
that mainstream news and most
of it was
about scammers a real you must
have felt
right at home sorry you must
have felt
right at home yeah scam scam so
so they
they got two of these clips one
of them
is I think educational I think
people
will enjoy listening to it
but the other one is just like
what is
this stupidity this is a this
to me is a
native ad for Netflix because
this the
scam they're about to discuss
it's not
even anything new and specific
or
specific to Netflix has been
going on
with PayPal for decades but
play the
Netflix CBS scam for dummies
the Federal
Trade Commission warning Netflix
customers about a new email scam
criminals are posing as Netflix
in these
emails and asking recipients to
confirm
payment details experts say
it's a good
idea to avoid clicking on links
and
emails like this altogether
best to log
on to your Netflix account on
the
Netflix site yeah that's not
the most
egregious of them the one I am
despising
is the Amazon giftcard
I have the gift card one but
it's not
the Amazon giftcard gentleman
here was a
generic gift card scam mm-hmm
Amazon was
never mentioned no interesting
so it
wasn't a native ad in fact it
wasn't an
ad for anything I thought this
was an
actually a mainly because Andrew
Horowitz his father-in-law fell
for this
brother yes and he's apparently
others
beside himself how bad were to
get what
happened to all is it's like
something
like 10 grand or something here
here's
one here's a gift card scammer
this is
the rundown of how it works I
have more
details from someone from that
let me
just before before we play the
report
here's my observation with the
Amazon
gift card scam it comes in you
see the
subject line and it's so no no
this is
not email oh I'm sorry
okay that I have an email issue
yours is
different you tell us later but
it's not
this the cards are an
increasingly
popular holiday present turns
out
thieves like them to federal
regulators
say in the past three years
gift card
fraud has jumped two hundred
and seventy
percent Tony to cocoa spoke
with someone
who's been scammed all the
steps that
were being done and taken real
Trinidad
Gonzalez says a man claiming to
be her
grandson called saying he was
in jail
and needed thousands of dollars
immediately he then put someone
on the
phone who posed as an attorney
you know
I was hesitant because that's a
lot of
money but the caller said he
would make
it easy for the 76 year old
grandmother
he told her to purchase gift
cards from
Walmart and give him the
numbers on the
back of the cards he warned her
not to
answer questions from store
employees
they asked me do you know where
this
money is going to and I said
it's going
to my grandchildren that night
she
figured out her real grandson
was at
home in Virginia by that point
Gonzalez
who had recently lost her
husband was
out four thousand dollars so
much money
so much money for me to hand
over to a
stranger like that according to
the
Federal Trade Commission 26
percent of
victims paid scammers with a
gift card
between January and September
this year
that's up from only 7% in 2015
it's a
huge issue Pennsylvania
Attorney General
Josh Shapiro why wouldn't a
scammer just
ask for cash or a credit card
number
well typically with cash you'd
have to
have a meet-up somehow and so
they don't
want to create that risk and on
a credit
card that's much easier to
trace and
easier for the bank to shut
down the
money flowing to the scammer
Trinidad
Gonzalez says she hopes her
story will
put others on high alert I hope
it
helped somebody somebody who
likes me
thinks they're smart enough not
to fall
for it and to question things
more cuz I
didn't question anything yeah
just one
that happened with horowitz's I
think
his father in law it wasn't his
father's
father in law the kid was in
Tijuana I
was getting a grandson kid was
in
Tijuana he just got busted and
he's got
to get out of jail I was just
have to
spend a month in a Tijuana
prison or
someone goes like Andrews kid
no it's
one that one of the kids Oh
whose kid it
was was one of them grandkids
somewhere
in the family I don't have the
map of it
but it was one of these kids
everyone
knows who it is and he has to
get this
money to him immediately and so
he went
did the same thing same routine
and he
gave me senilis money meanwhile
the kid
is you know parked in Loveland
Colorado
or just a big fort lauderdale or
something he's home all the
time no and
nobody bothered to call him or
say hey
what is you know cuz he wasn't
it wasn't
in Mexico at all Wow and so of
course
now you have to eat crap for
the rest of
your life for being a sucker
but this
apparently goes on and it says
hit
Andrew got is one of the people
that's
familiar with it so people
should know
about this
this gives gift cards are
dubious anyway
so what's the one you're
talking about
the one I'm talking about is
you get an
email and I get emails from
Amazon I
still order some things to the
mom
really trying to curtail my
purchases
from Amazon evil Corp so
they'll sense
they'll send something about Oh
get your
Amazon gift card and it's
something
about the wording is
sophisticated the
wording
even the return email address
which is
what you usually want to look
at and
I've gone so far as to load
images on
one of these because I have my
images
turned off because that's how
they track
one of the many ways they can
track if
you're if you're if you've read
their
mail and so of course the
minute I
turned on the images and
they're like
wait a minute this isn't really
from
Amazon I'd already signaled
them that
hey here's a sucker send some
more and
you can they keep changing the
email
address and you don't really
want to
block the word Amazon so it
becomes a
little complicated it's a good
one
though I don't know that I've
seen this
yeah it's like a $50 gift card
if you
fill out their survey
where's this war you lot you
login with
login with your Amazon
credentials oh
you don't you don't actually
get a gift
card surprise surprise
earlier one of our producers in
the
donation segment talked about
AOC
Alexandria Ocasio cortes and
how stupid
she is and is the word he used
idiot
idiot or stupid idiot he said
idiot
right well I think she's going
to be
very big in our future I've
said this
before and her green New Deal is
catching all kinds of steam if
she made
it the green nuke deal I could
actually
get on board with that but I
don't know
if the if children a nukes bad
nuke is
bad according to the younger
generation
but this constant mu she is
leading the
charge of the children who have
been
abused by their parents and by
the media
their parents consumed it's all
around
us and the message and I'll just
reiterating for those of you
who are new
who can come to us from this
week in
tech that we're overlooking the
children
are being told they're going to
die you
have ten more years before you
die the
planet will be held children
are drink
in the garden and and are
drawing
pictures of the world is hell a
fiery
hell and we're all dead and
we're
surprised by this so to get us
into the
child abuse which is as I see
it abusing
children to propagate this
message and
this is a real whammy this is
the
fifteen-year-old girl this was
at the
end of the Poland climate
summit this is
the fifteen-year-old Swedish
girl just
play that so you can hear the
abuse that
is taking place
fifteen-year-old environmental
activists
from Sweden is scolding world
leaders on
what she says is their failure
to
address climate change
Greta Sundberg addressed the
climate
change summit that wrapped up
in Poland
on Sunday on Saturday and she
didn't
hold back she accused the
negotiators
from nearly 200 nations of
abandoning
young people and stealing their
future
by refusing to commit to
measures that
will truly halt global warming
you are not mature enough to
tell it
like it is even that burden you
leave to
us and children but I don't
care about
being popular I care about
climate
justice and the Living Planet
our
civilization is being
sacrificed for the
opportunity of a very small
number of
people to continue making
enormous
amounts of money the Thunder
became a
hero to many young
environmentalists
after she skipped school back in
September to protest climate
change
outside the swedish parliament
so this
is he yes just a girl I played
the clip
of last show yes show before I
know
that's why I said to reiterate
ah it's
the key word now so this type
of abuse
of this young girl which is
being
propagated onto her peer group
and she's
looking for climate justice
which I love
that she and she's looking for
that has
resulted in an affliction and
the
affliction needs to be dealt
with it is
serious a lot of kids have it
and it is
called climate grief if you pay
attention to climate change
news these
days this is NBC it's pretty
distressing
I don't know if I'm hopeful
that we will
avoid climate catastrophe it
seems like
that window of time is rapidly
closing
climate catastrophe another
good one
hold on I got to write the
climate
catastrophe huh Marcela
Mulholland is 21
years old she's a college
student from
Orlando for a few years now
she's been
feeling angst over the climate
choosing
to be pay attention and to be
aware in
the world at this time is like
a deeply
painful daily exercise and
definitely
anxious like totally really sad
about
the world but yeah now there's
a name
for what she's feeling
climate grief climate grief is
such a
thing and I'm glad that they
there's a
label for it now and people are
working
on fry out of your voice lady
that's
climate grief cuz it's so real
Marcella
when did she first feel climate
grief
so the fur
John John when did you first
feel
climate green I first looked
outside
there's a dead bird so the
first time I
became aware of like climbing
wow what
does that tell why is she
laughing was
interesting yeah listen don't
you again
the question when did you first
climb
agrees yes Marcella what does
she first
feel climate grief so the first
time I
became aware of like climate
change I
was like a severe existential
threat to
humanity into all of life on
Earth was
my freshman year of college and
I took a
sustainability class you go to
school
and then they try to make you
feel like
you're gonna die and I was
really sad
for a while
and I was just really mad that
I had
lived in the world for like 18
years and
had never like no one ever told
me that
we were like rapidly luckily
luckily now
I don't want to take away from
this
young lady's experience yeah
and she may
really be feeling that she
don't but
clearly she has climate grief
and there
is there they do have some
solutions
there's ways you can deal with
climate
grief Amy Lewis row and Laura
Schmidt
are the founders of the good
grief
Network the held the session at
the
conference and how to deal with
climate
grief before the session I
asked Laura
what exactly is climate grief
climate
grief is the gut punch that you
feel
when you realize that your
imagined
future may not exist anymore
when you
realize that what we've done to
the
planet will not make tomorrow
look like
yesterday I asked Amy what she
hoped
people would get out of the
session
tools and community and
reminders that
they're not alone so is this
the climate
depression session that's
Kelton one of
the seventeen people who showed
up at
this session sounds like you
were
meeting we were young is the
climate
depression session he and Laura
said low
to the ground chairs in a
circle in the
grass
Circle the group was surrounded
by tall
trees and desert mountains
sitting under
the clear blue sky not a cloud
in sight
was incredibly quiet the only
sound was
a little bit of wind passing by
yeah
that's how you you go to the
good grief
Network and and they take care
of your
climate grief and I think
there's one
last term we need to learn a
couple
years ago Amy and Laura started
working
at a 10-step program to deal
with
collective grief things like
mass
shootings and climate change
alright ten
steps to psychosocial resilience
psychosocial resilience holy
moly
what is that they shared their
steps at
the uplift session one accept
the
problem and its severity to
acknowledge
that I am part of the problem
as well as
the solution are you following
along
because this is gonna help you
get
through your part of the
private and
she's part of the problem it's
so sad
with these children are being
put
through they had this is the
mantra that
listen let's deconstruct them
acknowledge that I am part of
the
problem that was the first one
one
except the problem and its
severity so
right off the bat the severity
is using
the 12-step yes yes and so
they're doing
it with the first one is you
have to
accept that you're going to die
existential problem to
acknowledge that
I am part of the problem as
well as the
solution part of the problem
MassDEP
three practice sitting with
uncertainty
practice sitting with
uncertainty these
are life skills here at four
confront my
own mortality and the mortality
of all
five feel my feelings John I
feel my
feelings feel my feelings how
do you not
feel your feelings six do inner
work
step seven do you know work is
working
on yourself John working on
your mental
health minute to take breaks
and rest as
needed ah there it is luckily
you can
take some breaks and rest when
we break
I need the rest as needed
I you know I've thought about
this over
my most of my life I've thought
about
this idea of taking breaks and
resting
you know like going to bed yeah
it's a
pretty good idea should be on
the list
but this is more when needed so
you can
say I'm sorry I need to stop
working
right now I need a little break
oh I
need a nail that that's exactly
what
this is it more of that noodle
boy stuff
yes social psychosocial
resilience baby
yes I need a break what do you
need the
rest for what's the problem I
just need
it I have my inner feelings I
understand
myself and I know when I need a
break
and as I'm telling myself in
there in
internally inside myself I'm
saying to
myself I need a break
and so I I need a break step 7
take
breaks and rest as needed step 8
develop awareness of brain
patterns and
perception brain pattern
develop step 8
develop awareness of brain
patterns and
perception develop awareness of
brain
patterns and perception
that's deep what it's inane
it's it's
lucky going nine-nine show up
show up
show up ten reinvest into
problem
solving efforts
Wow this is the this is a
10-step
program for morons I give you a
clip of
the day by the way oh thank you
I
thought it was a nice little
collection
of the thing I'm saying about
this is
you're starting this thing
you're gonna
continue I'm sure no no but I'm
thinking
about the child abuse thing is
when you
have these I never thought
about it
quite like this moment it is
I'm going
to express so you have these
kindergarteners and first
graders
drawing the little stick
figures with
the rayon sort of the world on
fire and
then you use you for some
reason how do
they get this idea in the first
place
and then you take the picture
say look
even the little kids are seeing
the
world as a horrible place is
gonna be
burnt to the ground cause like
time in
change we've got to do
something for the
children is really sick
that's exactly what's happening
and
parents are not have zero
realization of
the harm they're doing and Al
Gore up
front doors the worst he's a
demon I
mean it used to be you saw the
sad
little polar bear and kids
could kind of
get into that even though the
polar bear
can slim swim very well doesn't
need the
little piece of ice and ice and
the
polar bear population has
increased
substantially yes a popular
right-wing
troop is white-winged robust
old right
trope but now we changed it too
and in
particular this this last
report with we
have ten years before we died
and that's
the way it's being interpreted
even
though that's not even what it
says that
has really pushed these kids
over over
the the tipping point and as we
heard in
the clip they all learn about
this and
all become afflicted with
climate grief
once they hit college where
they're
taught you're going to die
unbelievable
what college was this that I
don't know
you know in a good college well
at least
when I was a kid in a good
university
the kids are pretty smart and
they take
question authority or they used
to I
don't think they do much
anymore they
just there's not a no this
climate stuff
has been rammed in and I mean
if you
question climate change you
deny it
you're basically denying the
Holocaust I
mean where were you where all
this has
been taking place this is you
cannot
question science is in how many
times do
we have to tell the children
this that's
okay if you want to believe and
we've
believed in all kinds of crazy
science
like we went to the moon in
1965 you're
mudding your own water my point
is when
you tell the children you're
going to
die from something because
nothing's
been done about it that's a
whole that's
next-level stuff and that's
where we're
at where we're at today and
it's going
to affect it's affecting
children the
joke of it to me and I think in
some
ways to you and everybody that
listens
the show is nuclear energy yeah
now is
the technology that yeah I was
thinking
about this for possibly another
book
that I'm not gonna write most
every
technology that ever shows up
is always
dangerous when it first shows
up I mean
steam all technology ste all
technology
steam is a good example they
were
blowing up boilers field were
dying left
and right from boiler
explosions from
the 1800s throughout the 1800s
and I
took a long time to tame the
the steam
demon yeah nuke was not very
safe the
way it was being handled by
General
Electric and some of these
other guys
but those problems have been
solved
including including the waste
yeah
everything has been solved so
you could
use it's the cleanest form of
energy and
if you're all-in on climate
change in
you don't you're not I don't
have a
problem with somebody's all in
on
climate change but what the
problem I
have is that they were all in
high
climate change weren't they all
in on
nuclear energy because this was
another
great campaign it started with
the China
Syndrome and Three Mile Island
lovely
plans
right within a week of each
other with
Hollywood we are all going to
die from
nuclear and Ina syndrome was a
fictional
story yeah and it was released
in the
same week that three miles of
Three Mile
Island hangovers that's
absolutely true
yes it is it is true we've even
discussed this on the show and
I think
you said the same thing or no
if it was
like now it's three days every
time I
heard that yes within three
days with
him three visit yeah it was
yeah but if
you look at all of the the
nuclear
disasters we've had and
Chernobyl I
think really is the worst but
because
that was a military grade
installation
which exploded and and but it's
not that
many people died and I think
you know
low 20s of course all that all
of your
entire country of France is run
by a
whole string of nuclear power
plants
they're all over the place and
they
bitch about him
they've nobody's died from any
of them
they've haven't had any
problems there
they're low they're not the
highest you
know most efficient but there
were the
ones that are the most
practical and
they're gonna shut those down
because of
these idiots yeah that my
crona's Manu
has already announced that yeah
we're
gonna start dismantling well
Germany did
the same well Jeremy did and
they've
cost of energy was skyrocketing
the
economies who actually went to
a kind of
flatlined yep
no instead we're going to get
projects
that test aerosols in the air
and let's
see if we can reflect the Sun
in the
back and so we it doesn't warm
up here
and the you know chemtrails
basically
the Geo geoengineering
until dust I got stuff in the
show knows
people who look at it go watch
the movie
snowpiercer that's where it
ends up
there you go
you
um see one last thing but yeah
I got a
couple let me get this out of
the way
sure cuz we're talking about
scammers I
forgot about this one this was
a this is
that this is a whatever
happened to I
have this but you have a new
thing on
the show I have another one
mine is whatever happened to
okay you
know like this is these are
clips from
like two three four or five
years ago
that were scandalous things and
I'm
asking what ever happened to
they don't
even talk about this stuff
anymore
let's do charity fraud for us
cancer
charities are being accused of
massive
fraud the Federal Trade
Commission says
the groups funneled some 187
million
dollars into top officials
pockets the
charities are the Cancer Fund
of America
Cancer Support Services
Children's
Cancer Fund of America and the
Breast
Cancer Society it could be one
of the
largest charity fraud cases of
all time
whatever happened
ever happens not only 15
whatever
happened but nothing no follow
of it
here's another one here's
another
whatever happened is Bank
scandal Bank
scandal or down right before
the end of
the closing day so they were
actually
able to manipulate the currency
market
this is actually an antitrust
case so
these banks are guilty of
colluding to
manipulate to the foreign
exchange
market and it's very rare that
you see a
financial institution that
actually has
to plead guilty to any charges
must let
an antitrust charge so it
sounds as if
there's no question the people
involved
knew what they were doing was
wrong was
illegal what about higher-ups
Carrie
Geiger did they know what was
going on
and if they didn't why not well
I mean
this ferret this calls into the
question
of basically how banks
compliance works
and banks these Wall Street
banks are
huge giant operations and it
looks like
that the senior executive at
these banks
did not know this activity was
going on
I'm sure if they did it would
have been
stopped because they don't want
any
legal activity happening in
their banks
but the larger problem is that
it's
become virtually impossible as
we've
seen over the last couple years
with all
these enforcement actions
against Wall
Street so police every
individual that's
working in these banks oh we
just can't
do that we can't police
everybody no
only for stupid slaves at home
we can
police you yeah whatever
happened to it
nothing by the way as I
continue this
series yes that will be the
answer to
all of that I will have my
answer ready
for your series I look forward
to it and
before we take our break to
thank some
people here a word about and
you this is
another thing you always put in
the in
the newsletter and I don't
think we'd
discuss it regularly or yet
regular
enough and that is advertising
on the
internet and how we made a
conscious
decision not to do that we have
content
creation decisions production
decisions
we don't want anyone to tell us
what we
can or can't do which you when
when you
bow to the god advertiser you
are locked
in you just you cannot
and get around that but New York
magazine finally did a little
bit of
work in their December 26th
edition how
much of the Internet is fake
turns out a
lot of it actually and this is
a very
end another actually at whatever
happened to you recall the
eight people
accused of click fraud thirty
six
million dollars with bought
traffic that
masqueraded as humans it was a
couple
weeks ago yeah it happens all
the time
so this this article it
happened to yes
I'll give you the gist the head
of the
paragraph headlines that said
that
they're dealing with it's worth
reading
no agenda producers know what
it is so a
lot of its fake the metrics are
fake the
people are fake the businesses
are fake
the content is fake our
politics are
fake we ourselves are in fact
pretty
fake and it's a good article it
explains
exactly what is wrong with
advertising
on the Internet and one of
these days
I'll be able to explain in
great deal
great detail what I mean when I
say you
cannot monetize the network
imagine all
the people who could do with us
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he sent us
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actually said a
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I'm like oh my god it's it's
it's a gift
from John it was wrapped and
everything
yeah it was a gift from me no
it wasn't
it says it on the outside I
scribbled a
little note on the outside I
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Mimi got into it some years ago
and her
gift wrapping is ridiculous
infectious
spend days on it and Jay
decided to top
it so she's doing all these
ridiculous
wrap jobs and that's very funny
Mimi has this idea and I know
it would
actually work is set up a
pop-up store
in Beverly Hills during the
Christmas
wrapping station yeah mm-hmm do
do
laborat yes yes
pricing would be an issue how
much
should price these 20 bucks
when I guess
20 bucks might work in Beverly
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bucks I think could be higher
you ought to I mean that
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there is how well it was it was
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there was
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yeah it was you know like
product
samples and there was always
some kale
which we laugh about and we
would pretty
much eat everything well see he
switched
don't know if you recall but he
switched
because that so many people
came in on
doing this and with big money
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from him
he moved to Colorado I think he
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Colorado maybe he moved to
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maybe from here to California
and he
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yeah jumbo and he sent me a
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jambo it's Jambo Jambo sorry
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quick note
in this flu season as
everyone's being
told to go and get your flu
shot okay
don't get your flu shot get
your flu
shot this didn't get a lot of
play and
it's kind of sad because he's
quite
young senator
Jose Peralta New York State
was a big proponent of the flu
vaccine
flu shot and he in fact he yet
he did a
huge push to get everyone to
get the flu
shot he got his own flu shot on
November
20th and four days later he died
and what happened is he became
septic No
I don't want to blame this on
the flu
shot but man that sucks
yeah yeah blame it on the flu
shot
yeah just saying one of those
things you
people Tamiflu and there was an
update
to an old friend of ours the
Smith Mont
act well let's put it this way
there's
an update in news around it and
the
Smith Mont act was brought in
was
brought in the 80s I believe
and what
the Smith Mont Acts basically
said is as
law the United States government
propagandize its own people so
it's okay
if you have Voice of America
overseas
and you're you know you're
broadcasting
propaganda to Russia and China
wherever
we have all the VOA stations
but you
can't do it to your American
audience
now it is true that no matter
what if
Americans saw it because they
sought it
out themselves that was deemed
okay but
now there is a congressional
issue as it
appears Voice of America which
is
completely funded by the US
government
the broadcast Board of
Governors is
violating the Smith Munt Act
and is
interesting because I've seen
this and
didn't didn't even hit me but
luckily
someone in Congress is doing
something
about it and has turned it over
to the
Attorney General
they have been advertising on
Facebook
about their Voice of America
services
and they actually they pulled
out the
you know there was a request
for all of
the ads that they've purchased
on
Facebook and they're targeting
them at
Americans in American States by
American
age ranges and they're in
trouble now I
don't know what kind of trouble
they're
gonna get in but at least it's
being
raised yeah the trouble is a
slap on the
wrist
more content recent Voice of
America has
run in the Democratic Republic
of Congo
from promoted and promoted I
can just
stop there you know enough
ya know enough it's how it
works and
even though it was repealed in
2012 as a
part of the 2013 National
Defense
Authorization Act you still
even though
if you find it on the internet
it's okay
but you're it's not okay for
them to be
targeting Americans to read
this so
violation
though I have there was there
talking
about on Democracy Now they
were talking
about Madison poor guidance
Shanahan
again took over but instead of
putting
it in a positive positive spin
of course
they won't do that it just
deposit of
spin which we would put it in
which is
that you got a guy is Big Shot
from
Boeing right that can may be
doing out
it may be get to the bottom of
the maybe
budget yeah maybe do some
important
stuff like cyber satellites and
missiles
there's a million possibilities
that are
positive but no democracy now
doesn't
see things that way and I want
you Rudy
let's start with when I say
talk to you
about Boeing what do you think
about
what do you think mostly never
they make
giant Playhouse injure planes
that's
what that's what most people
would think
of yes yeah okay well let's
play this
clip Manish Shanahan Boeing the
break
for the richest Americans and
President
Trump says improving the
economy and now
the stock market has plummeted
back to
the depression times explain
well you
know we've had an economy that
never
really is strong one it's one
no you you
playing Richard Wolff dn1 I'm
sorry what
did you tell me to play mattis
Shanahan's bowling god I'm so
sorry
positive here we go uh we'll
take it
again from the top after growing
increasingly angry with his
defense
chief Trump said mattis will
leave on
January 1st he previously been
expected
to retire at the end of
February to
attend a NATO meeting Patrick
Shanahan
will become Acting Secretary of
Defense
Shanahan is a former executive
at the
u.s. weapons manufacturer
Boeing why did
you say aerospace and defense
which
would be the actual term yeah
now weapons man you reckon
killing
machine maker yes Judy no
what's her
name Amy Amy yes Amy Amy that
with the
permanent vocal fry in case you
missed
it that's our number one foam
finger
industry killing machines yep
it is
so she brought on this this dis
economist from one of the
schools and
he's a Trump hater and she and
this is
where this is a clip you just
played
before the guy he makes an
assertion
about you if you were Trump you
wouldn't
even passing economics 101
again I was
one which isn't fine but I want
to play
two clips from him more I don't
think he
could pass it either okay I
start with
this clip one the break for the
richest
Americans and President Trump
says he
was improving the economy and
now the
stock market has plummeted back
to the
Depression times explain well
you know
we've had an economy that never
really
escaped the crash of 2008 in a
way the
last ten years have been an
economy on
life support vast amounts of
money
pumped into the economy record
drops and
interest rates in diving
everybody
business individuals
governments to
borrow money a debt sustained
situation and after a while you
can't
mount up the debt on the basis
of an
economy that hasn't really
gotten going
and we're seeing the eventual
break you
know the the capitalist system
has a
downturn every four to seven
years it's
had that for centuries and the
last big
downturn was 2008 and nine so
if you do
four and stuff you add the 3 to
the 1
times 5 you get 33 he says you
have a
downturn every 4 to 7 years
that's
almost double look at 2009 and
you add 4
plus 7 he just threw that in
there it
just makes it up what you don't
add the
numbers it's you four or seven
so this
played out so you have his
assertion
about not passing economics 1
and the
last big downturn was 2008 and
9 so if
you do four and seven you edit
the nine
we're due for one and every
major stock
market observer Bank and so on
predicts
that we're having a downturn so
it's
really only a question of
exactly when
and the stock market
anticipates this
and so we're having in a way
economic
chickens coming home to roost
and the
notion that it's just the feds
policy
that explains this is really
the kind of
remark that would get a student
a very
low grade in any economics
course I
guess maybe it's math that kind
of lower
spread yeah but he does have an
economics issue at the next
clip which i
think is just even better but
Richard
why if over the last 10 years
of the
Federal Reserve kept interest
rates too
low and provided so much cheap
money and
why has an inflation increased
dramatically in the US over
this period
of time well you know the irony
is it's
one of it is our ways an
economy works
there was no incentive to take
all that
money and go in and produce
things that
might have driven up prices and
so on
what if you produce things you
would put
a glut it would it would reduce
prices
it wouldn't push prices up and
such who
is this guy this guy's Richard
Wolff wo
LFE and he is like an economist
is one
of the schools back east
and it's like everything he
says is like
that it's like nobody's nobody
knows
notes nobody knows it's like
it's back
to our n nobody I'm talking
about basic
economic theory that you're
taught in
college yeah supply and demand
yes
that's a supply increases the
price goes
down not a doesn't go up not in
his book
and such which is another thing
that
your by the way there and such
and such
I think we just add that to
everything
and such and such you can just
end the
end a sentence listen I'm not
having any
of this and such such and such
adios mofos and such yeah it
works
everywhere you can put it in
everything
yeah that's great it's one of
the best
yeah that the Mark Levin the
radio guy
he always says and so on and so
forth
you can say yeah there's this
this
pillows got feathers and so on
and so
forth and such and such' get
the combo
and so on and so forth and such
I think
the combo is the way to go
maybe get a
job in radio yes a lot of dogs
Britain
the United Kingdom gitmo nation
East is
now forbidding puppies and
kittens from
being sold by pet shops what
yes the
government said it will roll
out the
legislation next year there's a
95
percent support for the ban
here we have
a quote this is 95 percent
support yes
this will mean that anyone
looking to
buy or adopt a puppy or kitten
under six
months must either deal
directly with
the breeder or with an animal
rehoming
Center animal rehoming yes it's
a gray
really brief animal rehoming
Center with
re and such the Department of
Environment Food and Rural
Affairs Defra
said this on Sunday is a part
of its
Christmas animal welfare push
yes that's
me too much do you know that
people want
a dog a puppy and a kitten and
they
don't really want it and they
get abused
and they toss them out and they
get
mistreated
um this does give me the
opportunity to
the generality well that's what
they
like can't date the Brits I I
did want
to say one thing is we're you
know a
couple months away from moving
out of
downtown Austin for no yes
you're
planning to leave downtown
probably the
one of the Nexus a nexus point
in the
universe and you're living in
it and
you're gonna leave it I'm not
gonna move
that far just need to get out of
downtown two reasons
two big Asians this building is
to
keeping with the dogs or people
to be is
what is known as a pet-friendly
building
it is something you don't want
well I
think that when they when you
start you
have a building like this and
you make
it smoke-free pet friendly do
you
probably expect there to be
people with
dogs yeah but today we I think
we have
about 70% of the apartments in
this
building have dogs okay usually
more
than one oh the problem says
the dog
needs a friend
the problem is every day
everywhere
every entrance every exit for
the garage
the elevators everywhere
there's hair
and dog piss everywhere and of
course
they don't clean every single
day it's
also not feasible really to do
that so
the dogs the the pet owners are
becoming
a problem because they they I
mean it's
really disgusting I'll do a
video I'll
do a video yes everywhere it's
no link
to it in the newsletter yes
I'll make
sure you get that the other
problem has
just been up to once again is
the
ductless mobility craze that
Austin is
ground zero you're right were
at the
Nexus now the Ford Motor
Company who
have spin a rideshare company
dropped
100 extra scooters into the
Austin
streets on Friday with hundreds
more
planned
Jesus scooter overload how many
do you
think we have in downtown
Austin now
today 10,000 Wow 9,000 the City
of
Austin allows each this from
KXAN our
local NBC affiliate the City of
Austin
allows each rideshare company
to have up
to 500 scooters in the downtown
area but
there's no limit on how many
companies
can operate in the city as a
result
there are about 9,000 scooters
licensed
to operate in downtown Austin
operated
by seven major companies which
sounds
kind of wrong doesn't sound
right the
math is if you're allowed to
have 500
yes you'd only be thirty five
hundred
scooters right but there's nine
thousand
now downtown and yesterday I
threw my
first I cast my first one aside
in anger
because I'm pretty I'm pretty
mellow but
it was right in the middle of
the
sidewalk and I and you know now
there's
a Torchy's that's opened up
near our
building you know it's as
upscale shitty
tacos it's a it's a taco place
a taco
place in Texas that's a chain
oh yeah oh
we have tons of chains here huh
yeah
Tour cheese and so never
someone rode
the tortured torture in the
lunch hour
parked and right in the middle
of the
sidewalk I picked it up by its
stem and
threw it in anger against the
wall of
Torchy's and I felt interesting
that I
felt pretty good about it but
they all
have these wires I got to study
him I
got to talk to her friend yeah
our
friend who does this I'm just
gonna
carry along a clipper
just clip the wires oh that's a
funny
idea not if it's the break I
don't know
which I don't like the break
line you
can figure that out what clip
what wire
you want to clip is you guys
you be some
electrical thing we got a clip
something
because it's a scourge yeah
anyway
yay yay Austin whoo so you're
moving to
where though you're say you're
downtown
in the Nexus yeah all the
action so
there's dog pee probably poop
always
that's a lie yep poop the
library is
right near by filled with the
homeless
up with homeless is the
brand-new bridge
between the extension of
downtown the
westward extension there's a
footbridge
really is turning into
California
completely completely
California uber
alles exactly
so where you move it I'm gonna
stay in
Austin just got a downtown so
you're
looking now did you find a
place yet
weak well since we'll be
renting your
buddy's a piece of property
outside of
town with what with what John
with what
with your good looks
yeah I think credit I have a
FICO score
in the 500s no never mind
yeah Tina barely wants to marry
me
because of it she's afraid that
her FICO
score of 9,000 will be affected
so she
could get anything she wants
it's me
that's the problem well let her
do the
preliminary work get married
after what
are we gonna don't want a house
I want
to be able to get out when it
gets it's
too good would your Quonset hut
would
listen we're in our 50s neither
of us is
gonna make this as an investment
yeah well let's invest have you
seen the
property taxes
it's worse than California now
so Californians all move to
Austin yeah
come on in here the weather is
better in
Austin
yeah yeah well good luck in
your happy
hunting yeah we'll find
something
we'll find something good yeah
I mean we
don't we don't need much and
we'll
definitely it'll be cheaper for
sure
well that's a plus Austin is I
think now
the most expensive city to live
in
it's ridiculous yes it is
ridiculous
want you to move to New York
City yeah
it's worth considering I mean
that you
can move anywhere and then
maybe but
it's not just the cost it's you
know
it's a douchebaggery that's the
problem
yeah well I think you're
adapting to the
Texas lifestyle yeah yes I
don't want to
be I don't want my Texas
lifestyle
tainted by California GU yeah
well for
dogs
I've won last Japan begins
whaling again
I think that is a story that we
need to
follow yeah I saw big headlines
about it
Japan says it will quit the
International Whaling
Commission and
resume commercial whale hunting
for the
first time in 30 years Japanese
officials say whale stocks have
recovered sufficiently something
wildlife groups dispute the new
hunts
will be limited to Japan's
territorial
waters and will not extend to
the
Antarctic No okay so so that's
their own
water yeah they do whatever
they want I
think so what do they use
though though
what is that besides that oh
it's sad
we're killing whales what is
the what is
so important about whaling what
is used
of fat and some of that a lot
of their
cosmetics okay and they eat the
meat
and they don't care are they
are whales
in are they in extinction mode
the
Japanese claim they're they're
back on
track to to propagating and the
whaling
authorities say no they're not
so we
don't know the facts okay it
does make a
lot of people hate the Japanese
again
well yeah it does
European Union parliament
member forget
her name Rhys I think her name
is is on
a on a mission to get rid of
the use of
single-use plastics this is a
European
Union mandate that will be
coming down
the pike to all the Nationals
at the
national state level you will
not be
able to purchase or consume
single-use
plastics as she explains what
she means
and what that means here but
the kicker
is at the end the effort to end
plastic
pollution in our oceans was one
of the
key themes of 2018 with
European Union
lawmakers ending the year with
an
agreement to ban certain
single-use
plastics by 2021 Belgian MEP
Frederic
Rees is behind the law cutting
bad
straws I should have started
with the
straws the plates are going to
be bent
and why are they going to be
bent
because there are the articles
that you
must be fond you know on our
beaches in
our oceans and because there are
alternatives a central issue in
the
single use plastic ban is who
is going
to pay the new European
directive means
fishing gear manufacturers will
bear the
costs of collecting nets lost
at sea
rather than the fishermen the
same kind
of principle is being applied
to the
tobacco industry and it's
plastic
cigarette and an estimated 8
million
tons of plastic waste ends up
in the
oceans every year the e use ban
is
significant in terms of setting
a policy
precedent but it won't change
the seas
very much as 90% of the plastic
pollution is believed to come
from 10
rivers 8 in Asia and 2 in Africa
Wow we are so stupid in the
West is a
great clip Africa is polluting
the water
with single-use plastics and we
get
blamed for it and we get shamed
shamed
into using a stronger than
money for
global warming oh my goodness
Africa you know what we're
moving to
Africa I'm gonna find one of
those elite
strongholds where the European
leaders
are all hanging out we're gonna
go live
there it's gonna be safe and
beautiful
in the rivers and throw your
stuff a
window you can go get it in
California
here Dvorak is my straw my
wellness yeah
I know if I can top that I do
have like
you top with the weather report
which
cuz a lot of people I guess I'm
surprised we get the kind of
great
donations we got because of
these
blizzards there are the
blizzards they
be a come we had a big storm
last night
in Austin yeah I heard that I
was
looking at the map they're
showing today
the blizzards report came out
and I saw
Austin surrounded by a giant
red like a
dome right that yes right
downtown and
it woke us up and and woke us
up and
then you got the flash boom
right a
crackling boom so it was right
over
downtown millions of Americans
could
have trouble getting home after
Christmas a powerful winter
storm is
blowing across the country
parts of the
plains and Midwest will get the
worst of
it
blizzard conditions are
possible in the
Dakotas tonight powerful winds
floods
and even tornadoes could hit the
southwest
what no mention of climate
change well I
was it wasn't a fire fire that
guy or
fire that guy no good climate
change in
that
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to the
guy who invented sir it's
pronounced GT
according to the guy who
invented the
word mouth Charlotte they got
all they
got all GD with it
they're all shitty about a
shutdown the
wall what does it take for you
to
realize that we need more money
the wall
we're going to have a shutdown
there's
nothing we can do about that
what time
shall call for I will shut down
the
government if I don't know I
will
none of us examine the wall you
said you
wanted to put that I said I'll
take it
okay the wall wall the wall I
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