January 5th, 2020 • 2h 44m
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in the
morning everybody
I'm Adam curry and from
Northern Silicon
Valley where there'll be no
record set
today because we miss the
Zephyr I'm
John C Dvorak thought to be
fair the
Zephyr was just earlier than
normal we
didn't really miss anything
well I saw
go by ok but yeah anyway
G
I guess some stuff stuff
happened days
is when it always takes place
but before
we go into Iran I do want to
make
mention that Thursday by a
request from
Sir Chris Wilson in Australia
we were
requested to give yet another
massive
shake of our rain sticks which
are
precision instruments these are
not just
some phony-baloney tourist
thing these
were made by sherry Osbourne in
Utah and
they work conditions have eased
on the
far south coast of New South
Wales after
fire threatened the town of
Eden live
now to our reporter Trudi
McIntosh trees
in Eden treating it take us
through
what's happened well we're
starting to
see a sprinkling of rain here
in the
town of Eden but yes you can
see behind
me there's certainly still
plenty of
smoke blanketing this area
plenty of
people who have camped here for
the
night at the Eden Wharf after
what has
been a pretty difficult few
days in this
town it must be said people are
staying
here because this morning there
was an
emergency level fire that had
been
coming from the Victorian
border towards
this town I spoke to one local
resident
Joann a short time ago she
tells me
about what it was like to be in
the town
as this fire came towards it I
thought I
would have to come down here
tonight but
with this rain it's heaven-sent
and I
went home wash me hey my hair
was that
dirty I couldn't believe it and
the
birds come out and they started
singing
this afternoon so we figured
that we're
we're right not out of the
woods yet but
heaven sent birds and rain in
Australia
did you see this morning's
report about
the rain
no this was caused by the
intense heat
bullcrap it was caused by rain
sticks we
all know how this works intense
heat we
never get credit for any never
ever do
it now we need a lot more rain
to fall
but it's a good start and
they're
predicting a lot more so
hopefully
things will look I sent out a
note on
Thursday to all produce a
Australian
producers and
you guys do one and everybody
kind of
had the time I've had the same
same
feedback it's like yeah it's
bad it's
been worse but you know there
was a lot
that could be done and oh yes
some of
this may have been set by
arsonists
which I think is with 85% of
all forest
fires has some chance of arson
involved
that crazy people
arsonists well yeah and well if
I have a
report they actually know where
the
arsonists are apparently in
Australia
well listen to this the flies
destructive force was fast and
furious
now the meticulous investigation
will soon be pouring over the
devastated
fire grounds all along the
south coast
vital work for the coroner who
will
probe all aspects of the fire
there's an
enormous amount of work to
prepare for
the coroner not just with the
burned out
buildings and structures but
also
clearly the deaths of people
that have
occurred as a result of these
fires and
a more sinister consideration
were the
fires intentionally started
police have
formed strike force in daraa
comprising
detectives from homicide and
arson
squads plus drawing on insights
from
officers with local knowledge
who will
lead the work we'll make
available any
other specialist resources in
terms of
our Forensic Services Group and
other
criminal investigators arson
squad
detectives are also part of
this strike
force responsible for tracking
down fire
bugs nine to be responsible for
lighting
deliberately lit fires like
this one at
South Tara mara last November
part of
their Charter is also proactive
knocking
on the doors of known arsonists
when
conditions get this bad hey
mister
arsonist hey just want to check
make
sure you're not starting any
fires that
sounds kind of weird well it
doesn't
happen so much in this country
because
we find ways to throw the key
away with
an arsonist because because
it's been
determined it's not just it's
beyond me
it's beyond a sicknesses as a
sexual
perversion oh I didn't know
about the
sexual perversion part well it
doesn't
disgust a lot but in Australia
you just
go you know where they are you
just go
knock on the door hey registered
arsonist hey 70 fires lately
hey don't
do it okay don't do any
knocking on the
doors of known arsonists when
conditions
get this bad to prevent them
from
getting up to no good well
seven years
has been Tulsa believable
I find that very lackadaisical
if you
have a tinderbox card you with
this have
a tinderbox country you know
maybe you
should keep a real just not you
know
happenstance just drop by and
knock on
the arches in his door it's
like when I
was in Tuktoyaktuk North I was
in the
North Pole years and years ago
but yes I
took two yoke took is the
hangman tight
yes it's a little bit above
Inuvik in
the northwestern territories
and this
was the Molson ice polar beach
party
with metallica and whole and
Veruca Salt
was and we cyber casted this is
a long
time ago so we're up there it's
a cyber
casted oh we had a MUX we had
24 I've
heard enough going 24 phone
lines that
we that we combined into MUX
with the
was at 9600 baud modems and so
that's
how we did the cyber cast
anyway it was
at the time we were there was
23 hours
light during the day and you
know you're
up there and it's kind of like
an oil
rig area and you know just kids
are
driving around on their bikes
midnight
because it's you know the sun's
out
and where the whole crew is
looking for
something to drink and which of
course
is not allowed in that in that
area in
those territories and so you
kind of
side up to a kid say hey do you
know I'm
any chance and the kid
immediately will
go oh you want the drug dealer
or the
booze guide it's that house or
that
house that's kind of like the
arsonist
in Australia oh you live with a
mate
yeah just like that but not
only are we
helping with the rain stick
apparently
Australian government even
listens to
our show
well that would be a different
yeah the
Prime Minister he's he not only
does he
listen he's taking our material
around
people lifting our material and
not
credit crediting us I'm
absolutely sure
of that well here it is boots
on the
ground planes in the air ships
at sea
and trucks rolling into
communities that
have been impacted just taking
our
material
well there's no subs in the
water it's
not gonna help much with the
fires
anyway
we wish Australia the best we
hope
everything is going very well
so some guy got shot or blowed
blowed up
yeah apparently right after our
show
yeah thanks and it was this it
was a guy
I don't know about you but I
made the
claim that no one's have heard
of this
guy now all of a sudden he's
the most
famous guy in the world
first and he had people
protesting
people protesting in San
Francisco
Suleiman's unfairly it was like
they
don't know who this guy is they
can't
identify Iran I mentioned this
in a
newsletter you couldn't find it
on a map
I think we need to open the
segment
properly we've done this
segment about
Iran probably since the third
year of
the show and we have jingles
whenever we
talk about Iran
[Music]
the war machine is rolling once
again
everybody loves a little bit of
war with
Iran because we all get to talk
talk and
pontificate and talk and
threaten Mart
to Sherry signs shake a carry
signs and
be smart and tweet and tweet
well if I
know about that thing in San
Francisco I
would have had it over there
because
there's had to be a lot of
collectible
signs I have an m5 M Kampala a
short one
of their ass immediate
assessment of
silver money as you know a
revered man
John an iconic military leader
a revered
figure money is is difficult to
convey
how revered he is regarded as
personally
incredibly brave the troops
loved him
trying to think of somebody I
was
thinking to call a brilliant
man he was
the Cardinal Richelieu
he was the Machiavelli even
many of
sulemani 's enemies admitted he
was a
military genius he was at the
Baghdad he
at the Baghdad Airport and
deserved this
ok let's just stipulate that
let's just
say maybe it was the right
decision to
take him out but you have in
that case
right decision wrong
commander-in-chief
good how does all this jive
with Thomas
Friedman's column which I
actually had
excerpted in the newsletter yes
where he
starts off by saying sulemani
was the
dumbest guy ever he's a
bonehead nobody
like oh I gotta play the CIA
analyst
who's on the BBC
so again he was the dumbest guy
was that
that's what that's what
Friedman said
yeah dumbest guy and they're
gonna name
a street after Trump because
they killed
him obviously a dramatic
development for
a complicated region here to
break it
all down is Kenneth Pollack a
former CIA
intelligence analyst who's now
at the
American Enterprise Institute
thanks for
being with us always a pleasure
so you wrote that general
Soleimani was
like a combination of Lady Gaga
James
Bond and Rommel all rolled into
them how
significant is the moment of
his death
very significant
he was hugely important for
Iranians he
was extremely popular within
Iran he was
a critical elements of the
Iranian
leadership arguably perhaps the
second
most powerful man in Iran yes
just like
James Bond and Lady gaga rolled
up into
one
so we're getting mixed messages
from the
CIA the way I see yeah no
kidding
and I'm guessing that Friedman's
probably better connected than
that guy
yeah this is yeah I've heard
he's a
go-to guy for the BBC well they
should
go go to someplace else
[Music]
mm-hmm well let's listen to
some regular
regions just the normal
straight up
reports it's funny that one
that's the
most one of the most objective
ones I'm
you know they would play it
right away
is the democracy now they
actually did I
think they were more
even-handed than
ABC let's listen to this is soo
Lee su
Lee they're all called su Lee
and this
is ABC's intro oh you want to
ABC first
um yes I would at first it
would get to
Amy Amy Dame you took good they
all took
it to ten minutes all the
networks and
Amy - okay big segment big
segment okay
here's a Democracy Now ABC as
we come on
president Trump has now
addressed the
nation about that major
escalation in a
conflict with Iran the US drone
strike
targeting an Iranian military
chief
minutes after he landed at the
airport
in Baghdad general Qasem
Soleimani the
architect of iranian
intelligence and
military operations across the
region
for decades a revered figure in
Iran
today thousands mourning and
protesting
in Tehran Iran's supreme leader
vowing
harsh retaliation and revenge
for the
death of the man he called a
martyr but
president Trump blame Soleimani
for the
killing of hundreds of
Americans and
claimed he was actively
plotting to kill
more when he was found and
terminated
the president saying he did not
order
the strike to start a war with
Iran but
to stop one and yet tonight
some 3,500
more troops are being sent to
the region
and others put on alert ABC's
chief
global affairs correspondent
Martha
Raddatz leading us off with the
timeline
and the Swift reaction
all right so there was some
typed it
there for some reason time line
swift
reaction and by the way this
swift
reaction the this was obviously
not
Trump's operation no no no no
no yeah
because their indy trump start
driving
drones around following guys
and if i
well hold on let's just stop
there for
one second about the drones i
looked up
some of the statistics and at
this point
in his presidency under
President Trump
there have been more drone
killings than
under Obama and Obama was kind
of the
drone king now granted you
don't hear
about them much anymore I think
a lot of
them are taking place in Yemen
and
that's paid work for the for
the Saudis
but I personally I despise drone
killings and the reason is it
is it is
absolute terror that you have
drones
flying around everywhere in the
world
except America the drone flies
and
people ducking they're freaking
out
because you know that usually
means
you're gonna hear something
next and
then someone gets blown to
smithereens I
do not like this type of
warfare and we
got to be very careful of being
all
shitty about it because we
already have
unidentified drones flying over
Colorado
now granted they're not the same
platform as what we're talking
about
here but these drones can carry
some
weaponry then one day one day
we will
have drone strikes on Americans
there's
no doubt about it I'm just
saying don't
get all too happy about this
because
it's fucked up shit drones I
don't like
it at all
well that's one way of putting
it
let's play that I'm gonna back
off from
his ABC report oh there's a
switch back
coming never mind play ABC
switch back
dead end weird this is the
weird clip
here I wanted to separate it out
marry most members of Congress
were not
given a heads up about the
president's
action against Iran and tonight
lawmakers from both parties are
demanding more information what
both
sides are eager to know what
comes next
what's the broader strategy
here and
what's the plan for if and when
Iran
retaliates we do expect the
full Senate
will receive a classified
briefing next
week and speaker Pelosi is
demanding the
same over in the house what
would what
exactly was that was the switch
back
there I I think it's because
they he
started off with the assertion
that
nobody knew what was going on
and they
wanted to find out more and
then they
never did even addressed it
well I think
let's just talk about about that
response for a moment where all
of a
sudden Congress has some kind of
conscience and they're like
well you you
can't do that you the Congress
needs to
declare war let's just set it
straight
real quick
ever since September 11 2001 a
little
bit after that we've had the
authorized
use of military force as long
as you
couldn't use the words
terrorists in a
sentence you can operate under
that and
do anything you want
killing how do you think we got
into
into Syria under Obama Congress
didn't
authorize a war in Syria you
know if
anything Congress needs to shut
up
because we've been acting we've
we've
been conducting acts of war
against Iran
with the sanctions I consider
that to be
actual warfare they didn't
condone
actually they did condone it
Congress
has just decided stuff they
don't know
what to do because this is an
affecting
their whole strategy for the
election
now yes
well you mentioned the part of
my
Congress shut up let's go to
the CNN
version of this report this is
the an
analyst who came on CNN who
mentioned
who thought didn't think much of
sulemani he thought he was in
moron for
going into he just blows into a
rock on
his own after the embassy
attack just
shows up like you know how you
doing I'm
here to see my boys anyway just
play
this so you get it
officials in France say that
today we
may we wake up to a ward
world Democratic Senator Chris
Murphy
asks the question
did America just assassinate
without
congressional authorization the
second
most powerful person in Iran
knowingly
setting off a potential
potential
massive regional war so he's
America
safer without Sun wonnie this
morning
what I would say to senator
Murphy is
why don't you just be quiet
wind as Iran ever demonstrated
self-restraint I mean that's the
question I have so is the world
more
dangerous today maybe it's more
dangerous but when has it not
been
dangerous when have we not been
a target
of a regime like exists in
Tehran I mean
it happens as a matter of
routine what I
find an amazingly brazen is the
fact
that sulamani felt comfortable
and he
felt somewhat naive that he
could simply
show up in Baghdad and in his
role as
the leader of the IRGC in the
cooze
force he shows up and he says
hey guys
how's it going how's this
attack on the
US embassy going absolutely
brazen and
at that moment in advance we
had built
up intelligence which was
pattern of
life different forms of
intelligence and
so we had this target folder on
sulamani
and this opportunity presented
itself
and I'm certain what happened
was we
decided the president made the
determination let's pull the
trigger now
and it was I would say not
causally
linked to what occurred at the
u.s.
embassy a couple of days before
other
than he happened to be there
checking up
on what was what was taking
place he's
so smart I mean all you need is
one of
those drone target locator
devices in
your pocket also known as a
smart phone
that's how that's how you
target a guy
like that
I think I got a lot of
briefings over
the past two days so we can get
into
that in a moment I want to hear
what
other clips you have I do want
to play
one brief one here from debbie
Wasserman
Schultz she is a congresswoman
from
Florida not well-liked here on
the no
agenda show and of course she
had to go
where you mentioned just a
minute ago
that all well we all
but this is really but we know
why Trump
does these things what what I
think is
going on here right frankly is
that this
action was taken more in
president
Trump's self-interest rather
than our
national interest we had you
know
damning developments in just
the last
day where emails came out that
made it
very clear that they covered up
the real
reason behind the the
withholding of the
hundreds of millions of dollars
to
Ukraine just impeached or we
can have to
go and we need to get to the
bottom of
how and who carried helped him
carry out
this illegal cover-up to allow
him to
withhold aid to help him
politically and
personally allowance you crane
to
interfere in the presidential
election
2020 that's outrageous and I
think that
has a lot to do with what she's
way off
message here
well you know she used to write
those
messages and pretty much think
she still
has the ability to go freelance
she's
gone rogue alright okay let's
go let's
just skip the rest of the ABC
stuff it's
not that good let's go to Amy
and this
will be sue Lee rundown WTF one
demonic
States assassinated the Iranian
commander Major General Qasem
Soleimani
in a major escalation of the
conflict
between Iran and the United
States which
now threatens to engulf Iraq in
the
Middle East
president Trump authorized the
drone
strike that killed sue the
money at the
Baghdad International Airport
it killed
also four other people
including a
high-level Iraqi militia chief
this
happened Thursday night u.s.
time Friday
morning in Baghdad general
Soleimani has
long been one of the most
powerful
figures in Iran he was the
leader of the
Islamic Revolutionary Guard
Corps Cootes
force Iran's powerful foreign
military
force similar to a combination
of the
CIA and US Special Forces Iran
called
Suleiman is assassination and
active
international terrorism yeah
did you
hear what she said what what
was that
Trump called the assassination
of
sulemani and of international
terrorism
hear that again powerful foreign
military force similar to a
combination
of the CIA and US Special
Forces Iran
called sulemani s assassination
an
active internationally run not
Trump
Iran called it that
well then I'm missing time miss
heard
hope I'm hoping for the best
okay you're
losing the plot run down to me
I got if
the Islamic Republic decides to
challenge and fight a country
it will do
so unequivocally we're strongly
committed to our country's
interests in
our peace we're strongly
committed to
the dignity of our country we're
strongly committed to the
progress and
greatness of our country and if
anyone
threatens that we will without
any
hesitation to confront it and
strike it
the targeted assassination came
after
members of an Iranian backed a
rocking
militia and its supporters
attacked the
US Embassy in Baghdad and set
fire to a
gate house in response to a
slew of US
airstrikes in Iraq and Syria
that killed
two dozen members of the
Iranian backed
Iraqi militia cut the Abe
Hezbollah
these strikes were in
retaliation for
the killing of an American
contractor in
a rocket attack and care cook
Iraq a
week ago
you know I don't know about you
but it
seems to me that the Iraqis
have no
control over their own country
all this
action is Iranian oh yeah oh
yeah well
there's I mean I have a bit of
an
analysis I want to wait and see
what
what Clips we get out of the
way first
clips real aim he would get her
get her
rolling here the head of catan
Hezbollah
Abu Mehdi mohandas was also
killed in
the drone strike the New York
Times
reports general Soleimani had
flown into
Baghdad from Syria in order to
urge
irani and back militias in Iraq
to do
more to stop the wave of
anti-iran
protests that have swept Iraq
in recent
months the militias are already
accused
of killing and disappearing
protesters
and human rights activists the
Pentagon
spent more has sent more than 14
thousand US troops to the
region since
May the u.s. is now warning
American
civilians to leave Iraq
immediately the
attack has sparked fear and
alarm in
Iraq and across the world
france's Deputy Minister for
Foreign
Affairs said this morning we
are waking
up in a more dangerous world
unquote
tensions between the United
States and
Iran have been escalating since
President Trump withdrew the
u.s. from
the landmark Iran nuclear deal
and
imposed crushing economic
sanctions on
Iran in response to the
assassination
protests are planned Saturday
and at
least 30 cities across the US
as part of
a national day of action US
troops out
of Iraq now as usual Democracy
Now and
ABC and I'm sure most most
mainstream
networks in the United States
really had
no analysis it was just
regurgitating
blah blah blah on a protest and
did no
one really wasn't doing there
was no
analysis that which I actually
prefer
especially from Democracy Now
well the BBC the CIA basically
went
straight to BBC they had all
their guys
out there everybody was talking
to the
BBC and relaxants yeah okay
well I mean I think that they
were
trying well yeah I do it as
part of this
system I'm you want him yes
plant
information overseas and then
point to
it welcome in other words hum
Friedman
going on and on about the guy
being a
moron so I have a couple of
clips from
the BBC news hour regarding
well the
whole really the whole sequence
so first
about you know the actual
reasoning for
doing this well here's the clip
I've
spoken now to two officials who
were
briefed on the intelligence
that led to
this strike and what they're
both saying
is that the claim that there
was a
unitary would have claimed
what I said she in a library
way she
whispering her report it's a
very
serious matter what they're
both saying
is that the claim that there
was an
imminent attack that would have
claimed
hundreds of lives is razor thin
in fact the intelligence showed
three
things number one there was a
pattern of
travels for general Soleimani
that
showed that he had been in Iraq
in
Lebanon and in Syria meeting
with Shia
proxies that are known to have a
confrontational relationship
with the
u.s. number two there was
chatter of a
conversation between at this
general
yeah this this chatter word
actually
popped up a couple of times in
in emails
that I was said from people hey
there's
chatter over it whenever
someone says
chatter I'm thinking you're
spook unless
you're copying something from a
spook
verbatim in the news there was
chatter
of a conversation between at
this
general and the Supreme Leader
of Iran
where the general said
something on the
order of I would like to have
approval
for this operation and the
leader of
Iran
asked him to come to her on for
consultations basically not
giving a
go-ahead and thirdly there's
been a
pattern of increasing
bellicosity
towards US interests in the
area that we
saw with the attack on the
walls of the
embassy but what dear fishes
are telling
me is that even though one two
and three
are worrying it is not evidence
of what
we have been told which is this
imminent
attack so there was a
conflation if you
like of these three bits of
evidence and
a deduction that something big
was
planned and that the targets
were
American that's right and as one
official put it it was an
illogical leap
so this I thought was
interesting
because what it implies is that
there
was a difference of opinion
between the
Supreme Leader of Iran I guess
that will
be home a knee and Soleimani
and how
many didn't want him to go
ahead with
this did
to do this big strike which is
apparently what we counter
struck I
thought that was interesting
that there
may have been some disagreement
in the
ranks there Trump was
subsequently
presented with multiple a
smorgasbord of
options of things he could do
and mind
you I think that the
president's coming
into a room and the only people
he might
be able to trust there are his
daughter
and her son-in-law but then
again no
probably not everybody there
hates Iran
everybody wants to bomb the
shit out of
them so he chose the extreme
option as I
understand it the assassination
of
general Soleimani was one of
many
options being discussed as
retaliation
for the attack on an Iraqi air
base
which killed an American
contractor on
December the 27th that's right
so the
discussions appear to have
begun with
President Trump on the 27th of
December
it's following the strike that
killed
this American contractor and at
that
point he was presented what
onesource
described to me as a menu of
options
where the killing of silly
money was
basically that the far out most
extreme
measure that could be taken at
that
point on the 27th the President
himself
did not choose that option he
chose a
more moderate path which was a
strike on
several bases that were linked
to this
Iranian backed militia in Iraq
and in
the region however soon after
that what
we saw was an attack by Iranian
backed
elements on the wall of the US
Embassy
and at that point President
Trump
decided to go for this much
more extreme
option yeah yeah I'm gonna call
bullcrap
on that so Agent Orange our
military
intelligence he actually called
me
Friday he rarely does he call
he called
me to explain what he thought
was
happening I got a lot of
different
briefings from people you know
there's
some pachán ik information
that as well
but I think that something else
is going
on here and that this may have
been a
very interesting move by Trump
although
again I'm against all drone
killings I
don't like it at all
so
Toula money it was a little bit
of
background which I don't think
anyone
gave any any proper background
he's a
hero of the iran-iraq war he was
promoted to division commander
when he
was 23 well you know we've all
heard he
was you know mr. James Bond all
superstar is fantastic so it
becomes the
commander of the revolutionary
Revolutionary Guard and then
commander
of the cuds force which is it's
kind of
like Special Forces but it
really has a
different position from what I
understand it's above the the
revolutionary the the Iranian
or Armed
Forces so they have kind of
their own
special status so during when
Ahmadinejad was in power the
Revolutionary Guard there was a
privatization scheme that that
they got
underway and the RG
Revolutionary Guard
came in in possession really or
control
of a lot of important
organizations at
economic power they were given
control
over border regions the Secret
Service
the Straits of Hormuz all the
Revolutionary Guard but also
they had
smuggling networks
money-laundering
really proxy wars that's what
this guy
was doing and he was the master
of the
proxy war strategy close ties
to Putin
and you know which of course
ties into
everything that happened in
Syria so
this guy in short formidable
force he
had you know what they say
50,000 troops
armed and trained shutting down
the Gulf
of Hormuz making us shoot down
our own
drones over the of the Straits
of Hormuz
not the Gulf does the Straits
of Hormuz
whether they shot it down or we
did and
doesn't make any difference but
because
of this this guy is also a
political
force to be reckoned for and
once
Khomeini started tweeting back
at Trump
which we saw with with the
so-called
breach of the of the green zone
and the
embassy which you know you and
I this
thing is a fortress you cannot
get in
you can get in through the the
first
wall if you have a yeah they
pass and
you'd only get that part day
let you yeah and you got a pass
you can
come in there were special
forces there
I have pictures of Special
Forces there
as that was taking place so no
way was
there any danger of anything
really
happening so that may have been
part of
a setup and I think when you
see hominy
and Trump tweeting back and
forth well
we're gonna kick your ass
we'll kick 52 or your asses for
every
one of those people you had in
1979 then
I knew it the show is on
everything's determined it's
all over
this was something that
benefits hominy
it benefits him to have this
guy out of
the way Trump has wanted to
have a deal
with Iran and now they're just
playing
playing the game back and forth
to make
it all look real I think that
this may
have even been done in cahoots
with the
mullahs then with well that's an
interesting thesis because if
it's true
that he didn't want this
sulemani to do
some plan and so he's probably
pretty
much of an independent
contractor at
this point he could do it
anyway very
money has to be taken out yes
so so
there could have been some
back-channel
action saying yes okay once you
didn't
blow up up and we'll deal with
it later
now in mind you soleimani was
in Iraq
let me just get my notes here
he was in
Iraq because there was bad
blood with Al
Amir
allomere is the leader of the
Badr party
in Iraq so there was already
all kinds
of strife and I think all Emir
actually
so Allah meeya were supposed to
have a
meeting with Soleimani
he cancels sends his deputy who
also got
iced in this in this drone
strike so you
know took out his own possible
political
foe or adversary
second-in-command in
Iraq you know I'm not gonna say
Trump is
the genius mastermind behind
this I
think it would be more
something that
how many himself came up with
but to me
and every Iranian you would
speak to and
I know many of them they always
say the
same thing but how many and the
Americans are all playing
together it's
one big game and they know it
but this
guy who they got rid of I think
he may
have been a real problem and it
may
actually change things for the
better a
deal could be possibly in the
future I
certainly don't think we're
gonna see
anyone and no I don't we're not
gonna
see retaliation we already had a
sorry-ass lame fake news
bullcrap they
hacked one of the United States
government websites did you see
this
yeah of some some division I've
never
heard of there's a question
that that
has never been asked Oh buddy
ever crops
up I can't find the answer to
it and it
seems somewhat important is the
pro
genesis of the whole thing
wishes which
is to keep talking about the
american
contractor who was this guy
yeah that's a good question was
he a CIA
guy well yeah you know a guy
was he some
bonehead from Bechtel who was
it what's
his name yeah we don't know
that at
least I haven't found it but
30% of all
activity is done by contractors
this is
why these a-holes love war is
because
its commercial business you
know there's
big money it's been it's been
completely
outsourced so before we
continue let me
just give you a few choice
sound bits
here of who people think will
get killed
in retaliation or who the
possible
targets could be oh yeah we're
gonna
turn this into a really big
super shit
show yet previous US presidents
when
given the opportunity to kill
him passed
on it because they were fearful
of what
it would unleash so what could
the
consequences be this time well
this is
the problem or we don't know
but you're
absolutely right
previous administration's
certainly
thought about may have had
opportunities
as they characterized that they
passed
on those opportunities because
they
didn't know how Iran would
respond and
it's dangerous business for
states to
start killing off each other's
highest
level leaders we totally
wouldn't like
it if the Iranians killed off
someone
like a Mike Pompeo okay there's
one vote
for Mike Pompeo let's go to
Senator Tom
Udall and I think what the
president has
done here killing this major
general
that is a part of the defense
establishment in Iran is the
same thing
as if they had attacked us and
assassinated our Secretary of
Defense Oh
someplace this is getting us
into a very
bad road and putting us on a
very bad
path secretary defense of
course no one
knows s Pershore wouldn t
wouldn't even
make her the second page of the
newspaper let's talk to the
u.s. NATO
Admiral James stavridis
potentially raising the stakes
for
American military planners
military-to-military how would
you
expect the Iranians would fare
against
the u.s. they would fare badly
they
cannot match us in conventional
forces
but they are masters of
asymmetric
warfare the Iranians may turn
around and
attempt the same kind of
activity
against the US ambassador this
was a
proportional operation I Got
News for
you
nothing's gonna happen no
retaliation
this is a stupid show
and it's in you know what this
was even
to some degree predicted by our
buddy
unfortunately he's no longer
with us as
a big new Brzezinski the the
grand chess
game the architect the master
the man
who knows all the man who
fathered Mika
Brzezinski and were still
pissed off
about it
2008 he made the following
statement on
the c-span show about Iran's
relationship to the United
States and
Iran's relationship with Iraq
so the
three countries that are in
play right
here right now Iran Iraq and
the United
States we can certainly take
another
look at some recent historical
experience after 9/11 we
decided to go
into Afghanistan for obvious
reasons to
eliminate al Qaeda which
country was
close to being most helpful to
us when
we undertook that task
Iran this is completely ignored
in any
public discussion of Iran which
is
consistently painted as a
menacing enemy
of the United States there are
no
friends of ours I have no
illusions
about that but because of their
own
national interest they chose to
be
helpful to us in Afghanistan in
a very
significant way why shouldn't
they be
helpful to us in Iraq they have
mixed
interests they don't like the
Iraqis
Sunni Arabs previous rivals but
at the
same time they don't like our
presence
there I think we could discuss
some
arrangements in which perhaps
emphasize
perhaps in capital letters we
could
reach some understanding but
we'll never
know the answer that
possibility unless
we try but there certainly is
some
commonality of interest here in
a stable
Middle East and let me add one
more
dimension which should be of
importance
to most Americans we are in the
midst of
a growing energy crunch have we
spent
any time publicly discussing
what would
be the consequences for energy
of an American Iranian
accommodation
what would happen to the price
of oil
and there was this dramatic
increase in
Iranian flows what will happen
to the
objective of energy diversity
for Europe
if Iranian oil and gas could
flow
through Turkey to Europe these
are
strategic interests of ours
which are
being completely ignored in a
kind of
blind antagonism for the self
perpetuation so there's all
kinds of
reasons for us to be working
with Iran
secretly it's important that
that's the
most important part because
Saudi
Arabia's for a whole bunch of
reasons
not just oil something about
religion
they disagree on stuff
and we were their pals and we
have to to
their tune extreme you know and
we can't
be doing the bidding of Iran
which is
what we had have done by basis
on the
basis of your theory by blowing
up this
character who they did maybe
one of dead
because he's getting to be
uppity well
he's very annoying he's causing
a lot it
what he's he's he's a big dog
on campus
so yeah I think that this is
much more
devious than them we're seeing a
definitely benefits Trump by
getting
everyone off of impeachment
talking
about something else and so
there's no
doubt that that helps you know
the funny
thing about in Trump's
reputation the
right-wing talkers don't see it
the way
you do or I do for that matter
they see
it as the following Obama you
know he
had a shot at this guy he never
took it
and Clinton could have killed
Osama bin
Laden two years before 9/11 he
had a
shot at him and they wouldn't
take it
yeah so everybody had these
shots at
these guys in history would
have been so
much better if like for example
Clinton
had killed Osama bin Laden when
he had
the chance of course that
doesn't
include the possibility that
Osama bin
Laden was working for us all
along and
there and may not even be dead
by that's
beside the point
Clinton had a shot at him
didn't take
you know Obama wouldn't take a
shot even
though Obama's shooting
everybody out of
this you know with this drone
let's kill
this guy today yeah well he had
the the
the kill list Tuesday you
listen but
Trump at Trump again under
Trump there's
been more more drone killings
very
disappointed in all this and
the end the
top it off oh I can't believe
the
president said this my highest
no no it
is to uphold protect the
Constitution
that is your oath that is your
highest
order of business that is your
duty oh
god I despise that so it may
you know
what it will do for sure is set
it set
the Machine rolling everybody
gets to
tweet everybody gets to say
something
you see what Rose McGowan said
oh she's
nuts that woman dear Iran the
USA has
disrespected your country your
flag your
people 52%
of us humbly apologize she
speaks on
behalf of 52% of the country
apparently
we want peace with your nation
we are
being held hostage by a
terrorist regime
we do not know how to escape
please do
not kill us Wow is she actually
she
issued an apology or at not an
apology
an explanation of what she
meant and she
did it in a video I don't
support Iran
over America I want America to
be better
I want rave to stop and I want
Harvey
Weinstein to go to jail
she can't she can't let that go
they're
not wrong like Trump errs and
right-wingers when they're like
Hollywood's a bunch of fake
liberals I
make yeah they're not wrong
they aid and
abet many many criminals here's
the
thing I do not believe
governments I
don't believe Iran is
government I
believe in American government
Clinton
on the eve of his impeachment
launch
rockets at Iraq I mean and this
is the
weirdest part I became so
disenfranchised with the
Democrats after
learning the extent knowing how
closely
Weinstein worked with the
Democratic
Party for years how interlinked
he was
now I said he was Hollywood's
cult
leader but he was protected by
the
Democratic Party for sure so I
grew so
disenfranchised and disgusted
with them
and I'm somebody who like when
I first
moved to America when I was 10
I was
handing out vote to caucus
cigarettes in
little cellophane box to like
out and
knock on doors like a cigarette
vote to
caucus when I was at 11 I was
handing
out anti-iran pamphlets like
opposing
Sharia law and their treatment
of women
and children Moran I come from
an
extremely political family and
I was
raised this way
yeah well she's cuckoo
uh I don't think that made
anything
better for what she just said
cuz all
she can do is you know then
bring it
around to herself and Weinstein
etc
Callen Kaepernick Kaepernick
tweets
there's nothing new about
American
terrorist attacks against black
and
brown people for the expansion
of
American imperialism America
has always
sanctioned and besieged black
and brown
bodies both at home and abroad
American
militarism is the weapon
wielded by
American imperialism to enforce
its
policing and plundering of the
non-white
world thanks cap what is idiot
you know
he makes a mistake it's brown
people who
live in Sandy areas okay it's
not just
brown people universally if you
live in
sand and you're brown then you
got to
watch your back but these types
of
responses is unhinged
and well the whole thing is
unusual a
problem again yeah but the
whole thing
yeah anyway
now there's a back and forth
between
Steve Kerr who's condemning
pants for
being a liar and then Trump's
not a
sketball guys like breezes
right back to
your basketball analysis Murray
who were
that guy from fs1 accused the
entire NBA
of being in China's pocket
well the tweet about that pence
put put
out there saying well you know
this guy
is related to the 9/11 attacks
depends
is full of crap that was totally
bullcrap he's like yeah they
came from
you know they came from Iran no
I don't
understand where pence was well
Pence
was allowed to make this diss
tweet and
I think that if anyone's gonna
make up
some bullcrap retaliation list
put pants
on the top he's the number two
guy you
know he's the guy that should be
watching his back and yeah
whatever he
was tweeting that was not
approved he
was not read in I don't know
why he did
that it makes no sense yeah it
was
actually it made no sense what
a Steve
Kerr got to do with it yeah
everybody's
part of the machine if you're on
television if you have a
platform you're
part of the Machine and this
was the
reddest meet you can give the
Machine
everything everybody loves it
and
honestly it's good for our show
we got
to talk about something
different for a
little bit but what a piss-poor
analysis
from everybody just yeah it's
like it
truly looks more like wag the
dog than
anything I've seen yes very
well in fact
it started with it started with
the
shoot with the death of the
unknown
contractor right which the dog
ever
since with with the the Green
Zone with
people walking around with
brand new
flags lobbing even the the
so-called
protesters were saying these gas
canisters Americans are
shooting at us
now
because it wasn't anything was
not
intended to be anything
but I guess we'll maybe we can
crack
down at the airports maybe the
TSA I
mean this is not over yet
this this is just beginning and
I think
we'll see the security state
and getting
all Gd we've seen the stocks
are up
everybody loves that oil is
gonna go up
it's fantastic for everybody
else and a
skyrocket except for the sludge
because
of Iranian oils not even on the
on the
table but they figured that
well maybe
this will escalate and it'll
affect the
other oil-producing regions some
historical context for this
very entry
we all know the Wesley Clark
General
Wesley Clark seven countries in
five
years clip in fact I'll play it
just so
we can remember what it is seven
countries in five years
starting with
Iraq and then Syria Lebanon
Libya
Somalia Sudan and finishing off
Iran so
these were the seven countries
that we
were going to attack in five
years after
9/11 this was given to him in a
in a
verbal briefing there's no no
he handed
him a sheet of paper he tells
it a
little differently in a new
version of
the story which I've come into
possession of this is it's a
little
different the sheet of paper
was not the
actual order and I wanted to
play this
clip because it explains very
clearly
when this really started and
where this
is all coming from and who the
players
are that involved and that
there's an
entire faction in the media in
academia
in the middle of course in the
military-industrial complex and
in the
US government who want this
still today
and then I came back to the
Pentagon
about six weeks later I saw the
same
officer I said why why haven't
we
attacked Iraq we still going to
attack
Iraq he said officer he says
it's worse
than that he pulled up a piece
of paper
off his desk because I just got
this
memo he didn't hand it to him
he's
reading it to him the Secretary
of
Defense's office it says we're
going to
attack and destroy the
government's in
in seven countries in five
years we're
going to start with Iraq and
then we're
going to move to Syria Lebanon
Libya
Somalia Sudan and Iran by seven
seven
countries in five years I said
is that a
class
memo he said yes sir I said
well don't
show it to me
he was about to show it to me
sit right
there and now listen to listen
to what
he says though listen what he
says why
he doesn't want it by seven
seven
countries in five years I said
is that a
classified memo he said yes sir
I said
well don't show it to me
he was about to show it to me
so because
I want to talk about it
apparently if
you haven't actually seen the
memo then
you haven't seen the classified
information I guess this is an
interesting question because
this
brought up the you know the
people in
the some people in the
intelligence
community that can't look at
WikiLeaks
right you can hear about it but
you if
you actually see it see the
actual
document then you can this is a
question
that somebody needs to answer
for us cuz
we don't know the answer to it
Roach's
the do which is that you should
be
phrased as following if you know
something's top secret and but
you don't
know but you've not seen any
you have
not personally seen the memo
the top
secret information or you've
never been
actually shown it right but you
know
it's top secret because
somebody told
you it was and urine in the in
the
community
can you talk about it well
according to
Clarke here yes I seven seven
countries
landed in five years I said is
that a
classified memo he said yes sir
I said
well don't show it to me he was
about to
show it to me I said because I
want to
talk about it and I couldn't
believe it
would really be true but that's
actually
what happened these people took
control
of the policy in the United
States and I
realized then it came back to
me a 1991
meeting I had with Paul
Wolfowitz you
know in 2001 he was Deputy
Secretary of
Defense but in 1991 he was the
Undersecretary of defense for
policy
it's the number three position
of the
Pentagon so I called and up
there he was
available and he brought me in
and I
said to Paul I said and this is
1991 I
said mr. secretary he must be
pretty
happy with the performance of
the troops
and in Desert Storm and he said
well
yeah he said but but not really
he said
because the truth is we should
have
gotten rid of Saddam Hussein
and we
didn't he said but one thing we
did
learn he said we learned that
we can use
our military in the region in
the Middle
East and the Soviets won't stop
us he
said and we've got about five
or ten
years to clean up those old
Soviet
client regimes Syria Iran Iraq
before
the next great superpower comes
on to
challenge us it was a pretty
stunning
thing I mean the purpose of the
military
is to start Wars and change
governments
it's not the sort of deter
conflict
we're gonna invade countries
and I you
know my mind was spinning this
country
was taken over by a group of
people with
a policy coup Wolfowitz and
Cheney and
Rumsfeld and you could name a
half-dozen
other collaborators from the
project for
a new American Century they
wanted us to
destabilize the Middle East
turn it
upside down make it under our
control
and that's what's going on here
to this
day still
these jagoffs who do this stuff
interesting if we take a let's
try to
reanalyze the idea that this
sulemani
guy had to be taken out because
he was
working against those interests
hmm
because he was it he would have
led to
the possibility because what we
do the
real proof in the pudding of
the pudding
whatever of some other pudding
is is
whether or not at the end of
this whole
series of events Iran gets
rubberized or
not oh yeah I guarantee you is
not going
to happen
guaranteed is not gonna happen
what
happened here is someone went
too far
yo if you kill American boys
and girls
in the military okay that's
just justice
what happens do you kill a
contractor
like part of an American
business and
now we're pissed off that's
what I'm
seeing that's what I'm seeing
this is
disgusting hey what you hurting
that
company now this is bottom-line
stuff no
no no no we can't have that so
now how
complicit Trump was in this I
don't know
he was at mar-a-lago
behind-closed-doors
the press pool didn't see him
come in or
out really while it is during
the the
New Year celebration and
thereafter so
he might have been a big part
of it I
know most of the reports that I
have but
I still have a lot of clips
which we
don't have to play no I'm
interested if
there's anything good but there
was
mention of Trump during the
whole thing
playing golf I thought I
thought it was
eating ice cream again wasn't
that
wasn't that the report he's
playing golf
but he did the playing the golf
didn't
match the timeline because right
generally speaking plays golf
in the
morning but while we're doing
our show
right and this happened later
it was in
the early morning and over
there but he
wouldn't be playing golf after
guts gets
dark nobody plays golf at night
you can
you lose the ball yeah it's not
a great
time to play golf
yeah I don't I don't know how
complicit
he was but just looking at the
show
that's unfolding
look this is the twin this is
21st
century warfare this is 21st
century
stuff that we're we're used to
it here
Trump tweeting around by the
whatever
but for home a need for home a
need to
tweet back yeah doc that was
that was
the tell for me that's like
okay he's
like hey hey Khomeini guy
listen up
tweet back at me man come on
clap back
I'm gonna say something you say
something and I will talk about
stuff
and
you threatened I'll threaten and
meanwhile let's work on a deal
manse
work on a deal we'll work
something out
you stay in power you stay big
I think the analysis my
analysis is
clear but complete wag the dog
scenario
and we'll see how long the
media can run
with it oh they'll take it as
long as it
doe try to scare the public as
best they
can
well now the problem is for
them it's
detracting from impeachment
talk so
there are agendas here at home
they're
hand wringing over this more we
talk
about this is gonna make Trump
look good
you can't have that
there's no doubt about that on
my mind
now let's play this this is
there's Amy
she gave her now she goes on
and on with
a very long explanation of
everything
but she does bring this guy on
you know
to discuss it they never bring
anybody
on des balance it brings some
socialists
on but they did bring this guy
on and I
just want to play a little bit
of this
he's from the Quincy Institute
which is
some new think-tank and by the
way this
is where you make money these
think
tanks they just get a bunch of
money in
this case they I know who he
gets the
money from but or he put him in
the
Quincy Institute do you name it
after
some like I'm some founding
fathers kind
of named Quincy John Quincy
Adams
so you give us some name like
that the
Hamilton is yeah you use that
or you put
the word freedom in there yeah
freedom
freedom heritage all good this
got
absolutely nothing to tell us
that he
just doesn't like Trump welcome
to
Democracy Now tree to parcel
your
response to the assassination of
sulemani I think a couple of
former
Obama officials on TV yesterday
put it
best when they said that this
is an act
of war it's an act of war that
took
place without any consultation
with
Congress any approval from
Congress any
a thought authorization from
Congress
it's fascinating to see that
the last
couple of days
Pompeyo has been spending a lot
of time
talking to the foreign
ministers and the
leaders of Saudi Arabia the UAE
and
Israel and not until today that
he
actually started making phone
calls to
the Europeans and others so
this is
something that is going to be a
major
point of escalation it's a
decision that
I think ultimately
has made America less rather
than more
safe I think that's clear from
the
decision by the State
Department today
to urge all Americans to
immediately
leave Iraq rather than ending
these
endless wars that Trump
promised his
base that he would do he's
sending more
troops to the Middle East he's
doing
things that is further
destabilizing the
Middle East and that will
probably trap
American service when men and
women in
the Middle East for a longer
period of
time so we have the same memes
over and
over from all the reporters and
from
every analyst on this side of
the water
know that it makes us less safe
and
Congress wasn't consulted
that's it
that's all they got it's all
the guy
wasn't consulted as you pointed
out and
everybody really knows this
Congress
doesn't need to be supported or
I'm
sorry informed about a drone
hit on
someone no what have they ever
been
informed of it but Obama had
his hit
list was he calling Congress
something
saying what do you think Nancy
should I
kill this guy at the wedding we
went
into Syria without a
declaration of war
come on this I mean but that's
that's
just grasping at straws but more
importantly today here you say
that
there's real money and these
think tanks
is that possibly the exit
strategy we
should be looking at there's
real money
in these think tanks if you if
you know
how to manage one the you have
to have
we need if somebody out there
who could
do grantsmanship so I think we
should
have the curry Dvorak Lincoln
Washington
consortium don't you think so
does that
sound official Consort
consortium group
no what do we need curry Dvorak
Lincoln
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looking for the
right Lincoln Washington just a
good
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how about strategic strategy
group
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now the countdown begins to our
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castile
soap I'm a couple of years
younger than
Adam but when I was a boy scout
dr.
Bronner always came along in my
backpack
on camping trips well it was
somewhat
effective as somewhat effective
as soap
it was exceptionally aromatic
which
after a few days on the trail
was also
appreciated according to the
microscopic
print on the balls have you
ever seen
when he's polish yes I did and
I love
his little run down here of
what's
actually on the bottle in the
microscopic print yeah he says
dr.
Bronner can serve as a shampoo
body soap
dog soap dishwashing soap
laundry soap
toothpaste mouthwash deodorant
massage
oil and ice cream topping
useless drinks
mixer head grease or personal
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motor oil refreshing beverage
laxative
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repellent etc
really a great product it does
all those
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i everyone should keep a bottle
close to
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despite as
many uses it's not on saudi
arabia's
prohibited list so everyone's
soap up I
was mesmerised by the multiple
you know
when I was on the Middle East
at one
time it is before I can before
9/11
you couldn't even bring up a
cell phone
or a camera in to Saudi Arabia
oh no no
I was mesmerised by the
multiple usages
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to know
that despite is useful nature
the
political rantings of dr.
Bronner's
manifesto was BS hopefully the
Millennial fascination stops at
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certainly
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antidote enough to counter any
of these
multi-purpose more Kuro
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about that
the messaging on there's a
bunch of
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anyone
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for cash
I've only seen it that's right
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well they
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they definitely pay bills with
it yeah
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tar so
for years extensive use of
subtitles is
all yes that's another one
subtitles -
real as a small get-together
you know
I've talked about this
Nik Jays fiancé
I said I come in there the TV
room
Anushka is there watching
something and
it's got the subtitles on ah
I said subtitles are subtitles
he's and
he claims he's a musician he
claims that
the subtitles are on because
their sound
is poorly mixed you know John
we've only
talked about this for 50 days
subsequently I don't know why
it's
coming back up as a small girl
gets a
small get-together in
Millennials a girl
asked him I'm reading again to
turn on
the subtitles because she
couldn't
understand the Boston accents
of The
Departed Wow I wouldn't allow it
Adam I I owe you a report on my
experience with companies that
prey on
the people who have fallen prey
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everyone can code bs yours in
exile so
two things one
yes we've discussed quite
extensively
the abundant millennial use of
subtitles
a lot of this is because of
distracted
second screens a lot of it is
definitely
because of the 5-1 sound makes
that is
being jammed through a
shitty-ass a
sound bar that's another issue
big
problem in fact maybe one of
the main
ones and there's also a
cognition issue
that's taking place because
people are
so used to reading little short
bits of
text is just like a tweet each
of these
subtitle cards that pops up
people are
losing the actual ability to
translate
sound into something that they
can
recognize in their brain that
we're all
gonna be deaf eventually we'll
just be
reading subtitles everywhere
well what's
interesting to me is not
understanding
the really mild Boston accent
or any
Boston accent it's not that hard
well I think another problem
and is when
you when you don't when you're
not
exposed to accents you see this
a lot
with love island UK which was
really big
during the season which is a
stupid
reality show but everyone's
speaking in
a very British accent you know
very
slang ish as well and it's it's
you know
you got a folk
and listen and having lived
there I
think I know a lot of the slang
but I
think when people use crutches
continuously then you lose the
ability
to understand what someone's
saying
through an accent or even in a
different
language I can hear someone
speak in any
language they can pretty much
pick out
what they mean if it's a simple
thing
just because I've been around
language
and I've had to decode it by
listening
to it I think people you lose
that
ability the brain is very very
good at
parsing stuff you have some
exposure to
some you know maybe a little
bit of
French might help a little bit
of
Spanish you can understand a
lot of
different languages but not if
you're
just always reading a
translation or a
subtitle I think you lose it
you don't
use it you lose it
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then goat slipped in there
there was the
the other big story in my
opinion which
wasn't covered as much and but
I thought
was much more intriguing is the
is the
gold story now this is the the
automobile executive who was I
guess he
was kicked out of his job and
arrested
he was or he was going to he
was in
house arrest and he was going
to come
forward on some unspecified
financial
shenanigans charges which
looked and
tried the only thing I could
find and
maybe you have an answer here
in these
clips from what I understand
the only
thing that was a problem was his
apparent wish to have a merger
between
Nissan and Renault is that
right and now
there's more to it than this is
really
interesting
yeah I'd love to know well
let's let's
play a couple of clips and then
I'll
discuss what I think it's going
okay
this play goes in through
Turkey one so
for what Turkey has said is
that it has
launched an investigation the
Istanbul
prosecutor's office has is
looking into
it now and they have detained
seven
people as you mentioned four of
them
pilots one is a manager at a
private
aviation company as well as two
ground
staff service workers so the
Istanbul
police now is going to be going
through
their testimony trying to piece
together
what happened and what we know
about
this mystery this puzzle is
that there
was a flight that took off from
Osaka
Japan and landed in Istanbul a
little
while later another flight took
off from
Istanbul and went to Beirut
that all
coinciding with the timeline of
guns
mysterious disappearance back
to Beirut
and the Istanbul police now are
trying
to figure out what happened on
the
ground in Istanbul atatürk
Airport
that's Istanbul main
international
airport it was the Commission
just a
while ago and now only services
cargo
planes and private jets like
the one
that gone is suspected of having
maybe some of the testimony
that the
Turkish police gather from
these seven
detained suspects will shed
light on the
mystery of what's happening and
the
international the Interpol the
red
notice that has been issued is
basically
going to make it a bit more of
an
international issue for gone
but there
is no extradition between
Lebanon and
Japan so the likelihood of him
being
returned to Japan is very low
and that
Interpol red notice of course
is just a
request to international law
enforcement
and it's not an order so what
will
happen what will come out of
that is
something we just don't know at
this
point what we do know that here
in
Turkey at least one small part
of the
puzzle now is in the hands of
the
Istanbul police and perhaps
they will be
able to shed some light on how
gone got
away again everyone focusing on
how he
got away instead of why he had
to get
away in the in the first place
yes in
fact there's a bunch of crazy
stories
about this which is like he was
put in a
double bass cello case and
hauled out of
there and all the rest of it
and then
there's another story where he
escaped
his house what happened was he
was
actually in jail so let's start
there I
thought it was under house
arrest he was
in jail and then they he had a
lawyer
that had begged and begged and
begged
there's no reason to keep this
guy in
jail he should go to his house
and they
could keep him there under
house arrest
and under surveillance mhm and
so they
gave him bail let him go home
and
supposedly the one of the
stories is he
was the cello case which makes
no sense
what's funny the other one he
put on a
mask
and a hat and a beard and just
walked
out of there and went straight
to the
airport and took off mm-hmm
under all
this elaborate surveillance I'm
thinking
first of all they wanted it
they did
Jeff this is an embarrassment
to the jab
and I thought you promised me
you're
gonna tell me why why they
because he
understated his income tax
that's the
reason why that's the main
reason why
and then they started digging
into and
apparently the company they
lied about
how much they paid him and it's
all
about income and so then it's
all and
then the company wasn't making
a lot of
money they didn't know what to
do with
this guy they wanted to get him
out and
I believe the following this
guy was
trying to orchestrate and then
there was
a fallout between Renault and
Nissan
during Japanese can't work with
a French
let's be fair nobody can work
with the
French really so he so they
that didn't
work out and he's not was
losing you
weren't losing money they were
still in
a profitable company but they
weren't
making the billions and
billions are
supposed to make his Toyota's
making all
the money
I think the following they
didn't want
this guy to stand trial and he
still
claims he's gonna spill the
goods on
Nissan and maybe it's a corrupt
organization he claims he's
gonna have a
press conference and to tell
all but
they had to get rid of him they
couldn't
bring him on up to trial so
they they
let him walk out of there oh
he's got a
mask and a dog yeah you can go
because
the embarrassment of whatever
was
happening with the merger or not
happening with the merger or
what kind
of crap is going on with Nissan
okay and
also the one I think this is
even more
primary the Japanese and you
can talk to
people who have been involved
in the 80s
especially when the Japanese
were
kicking everybody's butt
economically
and there was a riot every we
should all
do it the Japanese do you know
cuz the
Japanese economy is gonna kill
us or
there's so much Sony was going
to own
the world I remember it once
the Walkman
came out we like that's it they
got
Betamax they got the Walkman
they're
gonna own all of us
so the Japanese if anyone you
know has
worked for a Japanese company
United
States during that era there
were these
things called the death bus's
then I had
a guy who explained it to me in
great
detail just as losses yeah
you'd be running a Japanese
operation
here in the United States it
was mostly
Americans and then once you
started
making profit that you weren't
getting
profitable and everything was
going well
the so-called death buses would
come in
and these were your
replacements oh who
you had to train long Japanese
right so
the death buses so the Japanese
do not
like I'm ever stringer that guy
who ran
this sony Sony the Sony Music
Group or
the Entertainment Group yeah the
Japanese do not like to be
shown up by
foreigners right huh so they
have a guy
running one of their basic major
companies Nissan Motors and
they they
didn't lie I think they just
didn't like
this guy because he was
probably moving
them to in a direction that was
not
Japanese e-enough and they they
they
railroaded him and then finally
dragged
it got him out of town he got
himself
out of town and he's gonna talk
about it
eventually but this whole thing
stinks
and the other guy does look
like mr.
bean and is the whole story
this spooky
story is could this somehow
also be
related to the to another
merger with I
think it's Pozzo and Citroen
are they is
it not Pujo and Citroen who are
merging
who is I just heard this the
other day
well that could be but it would
just
would have nothing to do with
it this is
a Renault which is different
since it
was French and it's it was yeah
I was
French Renault and now it looks
as
though did the deal that was
gonna come
down it looked like well this
guy was
still there was that since the
Renault
thing wasn't working out it
looked as if
Chrysler which is privately
owned was
going to buy Nissan and Renault
and do
the whole thing itself out of
town right
but now we have Chrysler
agreeing to
merge with Pujo and and Citroen
yeah
well they gave up
on this because there's
something up and
it's the Japanese culture and I
think
they didn't like this guy you
ran him
out of town he's you know he's
introducing foreign ideas I
don't know
but it did the whole thing is
suspect
and and he escaped
they let him escape there's no
way he
was gonna get past the
surveillance and
all the rest of it so and how
would the
story still has continues to
unfold I
just thought it was the funnier
story of
the two what is the what's in
the second
clip
the second clip is it's more of
the same
we play it out yes on that
Carlos gon
investigation now reports just
out in
Lebanon say the government has
received
an Interpol arrest warrant for
Carlos
gone now the former Nissan
Chairman
arrived in Lebanon on Tuesday
after
jumping bail in Japan where he
was
awaiting trial meanwhile police
in
Turkey have detained seven
people
including four pilots and a
private
airline on suspicion of helping
GaN
escape rule to soothe now is
live for us
an instable
assemble with the latest I mean
go look
at the plot thickens here
Turkey's
demanding answers we now have
this
Interpol alert do officials
there have
any idea how Turkey was
incredible that
certainly gone thinks he's free
and
clear now especially as he
remains in
Lebanon he will likely speak to
the
media in the next few days but
in the
meantime the Japanese are
trying to
piece this together as well so
embarrassing for them
considering this
was supposed to be a man who
was under
surveillance
absolutely I mean this is quite
an
embarrassment for the Japanese
this was
a very high-profile individual
for them
and their legal system was
working to
basically bring him to justice
and
instead of that happening he's
now fled
in this audacious escape and we
don't
have a lot of answers for it
but Gorn is
expected to speak and so far
what he
said has been very very
critical of the
Japanese justice system he's
called it
rigged he said that it's
discriminatory
so all in all a very
embarrassing moment
for Japan and at this point now
that
he's in Lebanon there isn't
much that
they can do to bring this man
to justice
in front of their own legal
system
regardless of what's happening
here and
it seems like the media is only
focusing
on his escape and how he
escaped and did
he get into a musical
instrument case or
did he take a covert and
chartered jet
flights but no one's focusing
on the
real news and I thought
honestly from
your T's in the newsletter I
thought
we'd get a little bit more
about what
actually is going on with this
guy and
with Nissan and this supposed
merger or
failed merger
but there's another backdrop
and that is
that Japan is now our ally in
the Strait
of Hormuz and they're moving
their fleet
in there so maybe there's some
embarrassment that's taking
place it's I
don't know if there's any
connection at
all this guy by the way I
should be
mentioned that he's kind of
spooky
he's got passports from France
three or
four different paths Lebanon
and he's
got a passport from Brazil yeah
which is
another place if you want to go
and hide
out somewhere they we should
all not
extradition with everyone we
should all
have a Brazilian passport
actually we
see what I posted that one just
in case
but well you inspired me on the
previous
show with your retrospectives
and that the big and actually
was two
shows ago the big the big
stories of
2019 and I wanted to follow
that up and
I was actually planning on
peppering
this throughout today's episode
but
we're already halfway through
here are
some of the big stories that
were not
recapped at the end of 2019 the
one that
you mentioned specifically and
I think
really these would go as the
big media
misses of 2019 let's just
remember how
accurate your m5m stations were
in the
past year we start with the
story that
no one wants to talk about
anymore
jussie Smollett Empire star
Jesse
Smollett was the victim of a
vicious
racist and homophobic attack his
attackers hurled racial and
homophobic
slurs not only talk about
racism we're
talking about hate with
steroids they
are looking for two suspects
who were
apparently wearing make America
great
again hats the offender's
uttered this
is mega country
this is stomach-turning mind
boggling
information telling this is a
horrible
story
yeah parentis and unacceptable
this is America in 2019 so let
me see
did they get that one right
John that
Jessie small that story did
they did
they were they right on the
money with
that
wrong wrong let's try another
one how
about the covington high school
kids
with the Native American War
hero
outraged over this now viral
video
showing high school teenagers
harassing
a Native American elder well
the Native
American man who was beating
the drum
Nathan Phillips and those kids
and the
make America great again hats
that we're
kind of smirking at him and
kind of
looking down their noses at him
as one
smirking high school student
blocks the
elders path the video appears
to show
dozens of youths wearing make
America
great again hats mocking Native
American
elder and Vietnam veteran Mason
Phillips
a veteran a Native American man
was you
know how to standoff with
students who
were you know mocking him we
feel that
President Trump is giving
license to
some of this behavior
let me see were they right
about that
one John about the about the
kids
smirking and no wrong wrong Joe
Biden
likes to touch people's sniff
their hair
especially children let's remind
ourselves how the media handled
this
story when people's first
started to get
creeped out by him very
affectionate I
find people on the mouth he
shouldn't
he's always touching people's
shoulders
I've seen him rub the shoulders
of women
and men Joe Biden calls them
expressions
of affection he is an
affectionate
old-school politician he's a
really nice
generous funny connecting guy
Uncle Joe as we affectionately
call him
he's a very affectionate very
likable
person you know he's just an
affectionate guy I've know Joe
Biden a
long time as I many others and
have
always found him a very
emotional man
who is very very affectionate
he's touchy-feely he's been
doing it in
his entire life in a an
affectionate way
I think the next time I see Joe
Biden if
he doesn't hug me and give me a
kiss and
hold my hand that's not the Joe
Biden I
knew he's a nice guy
he's not a predator and this is
ridiculous so do they still
talk like
that about Joe are they little
more
creeped out about it now this
this is
why you listen and why you help
produce
the No Agenda show because this
is the
bullcrap that the media puts
into your
head 24 hours a day if you
allow it and
it goes through your eardrums
into your
brain processing and then
swells up your
amygdala and then you become
insane
let's check another one
um remember the Trump meme
where he was
shooting all the media was
killing them
which was from the from the
movie what
movie was that in the church
what was
that again
did you just walk away you just
walked
away you just walked away from
the show
it's like it's like here I am
I'm
looking for my wingman to
introduce you
something I have to go get a
sheet of
paper from the desk and then
you then
you threw it to me for some
unknown
reason because I don't know
that movie
Kingsman yes you do Kingsman Oh
Kingsman
yeah you know I never got to
see the
second one well but you know you
remember the meme where they
had all the
mainstream media logos on the
people in
the church and Trump was there
with his
head killing them all in the
night right
this video do you remember what
about
what how horrible that was I
was going
to kill everybody in the media
yeah
video was shown at a conference
you know
whose supporters it's about so
much more
than a single video it's about a
president and his supporters
who were
sowing seeds of hate and
division
there's something very ugly at
the heart
of trumpism and we saw that in
in this
video it's vile
some of his supporters would
think this
might even be somehow funny you
know
there are real people's bodies
and lives
on the last easy for all of you
judging
me that I'm offended and upset
by the
video you try doing this once a
member
of your family is continued to
have this
happen over and over and over
again now
did anyone from the media die
and
did anyone at the end of 2019
wrap up
the Muller report about how
right the
media was and how spot-on they
were with
their analysis oh you mean how
it was
that he was doomed because of
the Muller
report he's gonna be delivering
what I
think are gonna be his
indictments the
final indictments this is
suborning
perjury I think there's no
question it's
an impeachable offense and at
that point
we are in high crimes that
misdemeanor
and we are an impeachment the
spirit of
what Trump did is clearly
treasonous
there's outright treason I
think he's
feeling the noose around his
neck
the noose is tightening he
feels the
noose is tightening the noose is
tightening people might go to
jail
you're exactly right that's
their lives
I think they're all going to
jail well I
think they're all going to end
up
together in prison and maybe
that's why
he has no idea that right he's
going
down the investigation is over
and
according to a senior DOJ
official there
will be no further indictments
how can
they let Trump off the horse did
everyone go to jail with the
indictments
imminent was the report of any
significance no apparently not
now I've
one more last one okay last one
this has
got to be my favorite because
it's been
so many it's been years since
they first
laid this smack on us and it's
good to
remember how incredibly wrong
the media
were or was about the steel
dossier
parts of the now-infamous
dossier on
Trump have proven to be true
your Intel
community has corroborated all
of the
details in there that when the
president
just refers to a fake dossier
that is
false I I don't think that's
bad that's
the accurate characterization
back to
Gators have corroborated part
of the
dossier we do know that parts
of it have
been corroborated it's not been
corroborated but it hasn't been
disproven no major thing from
the
dossier has been conclusively
disproven
to date none of it has been
disproven
and whole big parts of it are
holding up
its dossier
holds up well it's a fact that
none of
not one word have been
disproven in fact
a lot of it turned out to be
right on
the money
the FBI would not have just
taken a
dossier to the FISA Court and
use that
as their predicate for the
surveillance
they had to corroborate it
themselves
that's how they operate so if
you're
wondering or someone in your
family is
wondering why you listen to
this podcast
that's why and I'm sure we can
do the
same thing with this iran/iraq
soleimani
thing at the end of this year
you know
the funny thing about that
dossier story
is that Oh Lords we didn't
document as
specifically is the way the
dossier
story kept changing and
morphing in
regards to the FISA Court yes
when they
first came out they said well
it wasn't
that important to our fights or
you know
requests yeah and then it became
important to the fight then it
was
apparently was the only thing
that it
was divisive request was based
on was
the dossier this dossier was a
I don't
understand how it it got as far
as it
did cuz it was just look phony
from the
get-go it has stunk and he had
a smell
test I might get a clipped for
Thursday
it's an interview with the
author of the
book the I think it's the the
plot to
bring down the American
president forget
exactly what the title of the
book is
and this guy has done all the
research
and his assertion is that the
dossier
was not used for the FISA
warrant
application it was written
specifically
for the Flexer warrant
application by
slipping in one or two very
pertinent
lines which literally say the
Trump is
compromised by a foreign power
and that
that line and not but that was
written
in specific that's interesting
enough
that makes that it's that it's
exactly
reversed that that the the
steel dossier
was not the genesis of the
warrant but
they knew they wanted to get
this
warrant so they had they
created this
through steel and you know
there's lots
of implications as
was complicit in writing this
anyway I
digress
I'm reminded I want to just
want to just
ran into because I was going
through
some of my old files and I
forgot about
it this was from a year earlier
and this
was classic because everybody
bought
into this and they bought into
a hook
line & sinker and they've all
since
forgotten forgotten about it
Donald
Trump's guerrilla channel Trump
like the
watch television but he was the
girl
you're right I got about that
he had to
watch guerrillas so they
created a fake
channel for him so he could
watch
guerrillas and so they as he
watched the
girls she's always bitching and
moaning
about they weren't fighting
enough so
everybody pass this around his
fact
Donald Trump into gorilla
Channel that's
a good one yep petaa me of the
stupidity
of the left and this the basic
audience
out there there are suckers for
this
sort of thing and that was
probably
promulgated by everybody there
was a lot
of TV stories on it and it was
all over
the network and there the
Internet yeah
but the gorilla Channel yeah
nice lassic
do we have any clips about that
I'm sure
we probably go back probably
2017 mmm I
don't see anything offhand I
should
probably put together a little
compilation of that of the of
the
gorilla Channel that was
hilarious that
was the the Russian pranksters
as
they're known I just liked I
prefer to
call him the podcasters vuelven
and
Lexus have they struck again now
previously they had gotten
through to
congressman Adam shifts office
claiming
that they had compromised and
compromising pictures of Trump
if you
remember we had some of that
some of
that phone call and these guys
like
radio guys like weenie in the
butt of
Moscow so they have a new
gambit and
they went after Maxine Waters
and
pretending to be great
to beg and grant his dad and
they made
up this they made up the name
of an
island chunga Changa I think
that's
literally what it's called and
they
decided they're gonna call in
to Maxine
Maxine Waters office get her on
the
phone and they will listen
there Maxine
you know it's Gretta and
Greta's dad and
we're here in I think it's when
they say
they were South Carolina and
you know
we're here to to garner support
to save
the island of chunga Changa and
could
you please help us out we'll
put you on
speakerphone and I pulled the
pertinent
clip from this from this
YouTube video
and you know this used to be
what
Americans did we used to be the
fun
phone phone pranksters we've
let Russia
grab that away from US
Congresswoman
yeah I have Greta in her
father's Avante
on the line very much
congresswoman this
is wanted for the greatest
father and
very happy to talk to you
well thank you both for calling
me and
I'm very anxious to hear from
you yes I
know that you're called you
aunt Maxine
brilliant brilliant butter up
first
bikes are calling her aunty
Maxine
that's it you'll love that
butter up
very good by the way these guys
sound
nothing like Swedish Greta and
her dad
but still Maxine is falling for
it
that's so nice we have
wonderful climate
strike to support the the
ecology of
chunga Changa islands thousands
of
people came to meet me well
thank you
and I'm so glad you came to my
stage and
of course I know all about you
you have
made quite a big big big
thunder on this
issue I am really really very
proud of
you and the work that you're
doing we're
now in a North Carolina so we
are in the
climate strike here in a
meeting okay so
you're in the meeting now you
start the
meeting
yes yes all right yes yes we're
not here
now in the meeting and if you
will allow
me I will put you on a
speakerphone so
yes and we will let you say to
people
who is around here which island
are they
targeting this is this is a
part I like
the best all these politicians
are like
that it's like if I can get
anything out
of you and of course typically
these
calls are about money but right
now I
was like oh shit I can align
myself with
Greta Jim Betty this is
fantastic this
is good for me and they can
roll out
some bullcrap script be just
right off
the cuff even Maxine and she's
up there
an age but she's still she's a
pro at
rolling it out so she has a
little bit
of information she knows it's
North
Carolina she knows it's Greta
who's a
thunder apparently she knows
it's chunga
Changa island which doesn't
exist and
she's gonna do little promo oh
yeah and
we will let you say to people
who is
around here which island are
they
targeting chunga Changa yes
hello
everybody this is congresswoman
Maxine
Waters
and I am so pleased to be on
this
telephone call with Greta on
this
telephone call with Greta
fatberg I am
just so proud of her and her
father
savant a dead bird and the work
that
they are doing as you know
Greta is an
environmental activist and she
took part
in the United Nations climate
summit in
New York recently and she has
been
traveling and she has been the
greatest
advocate for what is happening
with our
climate and the environment and
I'm very
pleased that she's with you in
North
Carolina where you
to saying on protecting the very
important island of tula
challenge I'm
so happy she's supporting the
very
important the critically
important
island of chimichanga you Greta
thud
berg and your dad Devante thud
berg come
on well I believe these these
two
comrades deserve a medal for
this work
this is really very good well
let's give
them a taste clip of the day
yeah you
know I wonder what that we
should do a
Russian version so we can don't
know how
good they were
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comrade now both of them sound
like a
couple of Russians more
ludicrous it's
it's a 15-minute call there's
there's
more in it but I thought that
was the
funniest one especially the
thud Berg
what a moron that should be on
the
normal news don't you think yes
it
should be but no we can't
impeach a
member of Congress so stupid to
fall for
this I mean if she was keeping
up with
anything she knows that grete
boogie
back to home base and she's not
in North
Carolina she didn't go to North
Carolina
after the event in New York the
whole
thing is just ludicrous and it
should be
regular news that that's
regular news
story I agree
no no cuz the news media is so
fraught
with Democrat left-wingers just
to be
honest about it they can't bring
themselves to do these stories
yeah oh
my god it makes it look so
stupid
I refuse to run that story Wow
hey we
did have kind of a crappy story
here in
Austin on Friday was a Friday or
Saturday morning we had a
stabbing one
person died
South Congress I mean really
like ten
minutes from my house
let me see if there's a so
here's what
happens it's at a a burrito
joint and
this is right on Riverside and
South
Congress this is really where
I've lived
for a lot of the years in
Austin this
general area and so first there
was an
altercation in a coffee shop
then this
27 year old suspect he was
detained by
people because it was harassing
a woman
so there were civilians I think
and they
detained him the guy broke
loose the
cops arrived the cops run after
him he
you know the cops can't catch
him he
runs into the burrito joint
stabs two
people wounding one one cook
there
fatally then he runs up onto
the roof
and Swan dives while the cops
are trying
to you know are ordering him to
come
down
he Swan dives off the roof onto
his head
and people could hear his neck
bones
cracking he's in critical
condition and
of course in the hospital but
in custody
and you know what people in
Austin think
right away is who is this guy
everyone
thinks he's homeless or
transient that
sparked an immediate Rauh
between the
governor of Texas Abbott and
the mayor
of Austin mayor Adler an Abbott
tweeted
there we go 21st century
diplomacy he
tweeted and said holy crap I'll
bet you
this guy was homeless once
again that
the mayor of Austin is not
protecting
his the people who put him in
office and
then our mayor turns around and
tweets
back how dare you how very dare
you
assumed it was a homeless
person or as
he would say how dare you
assume it was
a person experiencing
homelessness
and of course it turns out that
that's
exactly what it was and I
Austin police
say the man accused of carrying
out a
deadly stabbing attack Friday is
homeless that information being
shared
as the governor continues his
attack on
Austin's policies toward people
living
on the streets he most recently
tweeted
today quote the city's top job
is Public
Safety and they are failing
kxan's Caitlin Carr mood taught
to
Austin's mayor who's pushing
back before
realize that there's not a link
between
homelessness and criminality
that's like
suggesting that all all
immigrants are
rapists
just not true and it is this is
mayor
Adler's response to Governor
Abbott's
tweets we talked to him while
he's in a
New York Hospital waiting for
his
daughter to give birth he felt
it
necessary to respond to the
governor's
attacks on Austin policies
towards
homeless people this comes
after a 27
year old man attacked three
people they
South Congress shopping center
killing
one shortly after Governor
Abbott
suggested that the suspect
would likely
be a homeless person
mayor Adler called that
suggestion
irresponsible and today APD
confirmed
the suspected killer is
homeless today
governor Abbott had a series of
tweets
suggesting that the city must
ensure its
homeless policies doesn't
endanger
innocent people the mayor
Adler's
response most of the crimes
you're not
community 5 people experiencing
homelessness so to demonize
people that
way and they guess scared of
people does
a real disservice to the
community
mayor Adler says instead of a
Twitter
feud he'd like to speak to the
governor
face-to-face
I want the state to be a
partner how to
be working with us well I'll
tell you
not a lot of not a lot of
credibility
left for the mayor here in
Austin yeah
vote him for him i I really
like the way
he sticks to the memes
homelessness you
can't just cut it down to
homeless no no
you can't you have to sakes and
you have
to see neighbors experiencing
homelessness but the problem is
just
like California cities here now
as well
the
you know there's no prosecution
for
small crime there's no
prosecution for
small assault there was a woman
and it
could have been the same guy
for all I
know a couple weeks ago was
assaulted on
this thing of the South first
or South
Congress bridge and you know
it's become
violent because these are not
just you
right he's right homelessness
or people
experiencing homelessness
that's not
necessarily the issue but
Austin has
become a mecca for transients
to come
through because this everything
is free
here free money camp where you
want do
what you want just because you
can't
camp downtown every median of
grass now
outside of the downtown area is
filled
with tents barbecues people
park in
there their cars on hot
nemedian our
mailbox was broken into
yesterday you
know as you know we don't have
mailboxes
we have one up at the top of
the the top
of the street but broken open
all the
mail stolen packages ripped
open which
is a federal crime I might add
so that's
thank you thank you yes that's
not just
some some petty crime where's
the ring
doorbell now where's all that
but I you
know you don't see the cops
running
around now saying oh do you
have any
ring doorbell video and
doorbell any
video and no they don't even
show up for
it well we have a still do
California
versus Boston we have a new
issue and
the left media left-leaning
media leases
on this one and it's not quite
the same
as what you just described but
it's it's
an issue cuz it's gonna cause
somebody
it could be anybody a lot of
money
another money grab and here's a
report
from one of the stations I
think in
Southern California on the new
California water law all right
so many
laws get considered each and
every year
they're discussed and in their
past all
right this one I'm not sure how
I feel
about this you're not gonna be
allowed
to shower and do a load of
laundry in
the same day III had the same
misgivings
doing a load of laundry it
takes about
40 to 50 gallons of water
taking a
shower for about eight minutes
takes
about
tene gallons of water well
there's a
limitation on your daily use of
water of
fifty five gallons per day so
that means
if you are taking a shower and
doing a
load of laundry you can't do
both
without being a violation of
the law
there are some exceptions about
this you
can't do both without being in
violation
of the law there are some
exceptions
about this there are some
caveats for
instance if you have a multi
person
household if you have four
people in
your household or three people
in a
household that 55 gallon limit
per day
applies in for each person so
it you
could do a load of laundry if
you have a
multi person household and okay
well you
you can actually see your your
water
uses on a daily rate with your
water
meter now there are actually
fines
available for this as well your
your
first your violation is $1,000
for each
day that you're in violation
it's the
state legislature the governor
signed
into effect effect January 1st
now
there's also another caveat if
we're in
drought conditions and the
governor
declares an emergency that fine
can go
up to $10,000 a day so be
careful you
could change their word to
serenity to
anger now so all of a sudden I
can smoke
marijuana as much as I want but
I can't
take a shower yeah I saw this
and I
clipped it as well that's KTLA
the law
very famous Los Angeles station
it's what was most fascinating
to me is
the female anchor says oh who
made this
law hello news lady you're
supposed to
be on top of this this was a
state
legislature and it was signed
into law
and they can completely track
this right
down to your micro gallon you
know
exactly how much you how many
people
live in there two people that's
110 cal
at gallons a day don't go over
it oh
yeah fines are coming yeah
well luckily you don't bathe
that much
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you know you don't need to
Britt bathe
if you use dr. Bronner's
doesn't it
require some water no this
stuff doesn't
get some unbelievable fabulous
I'd know
I just wipe it on and wipe it
off use a
squeegee yeah let's start off
with
spanking a few people for sure
12:05 mmm
starting with Mike Nick Kalai
at Chuck
Nicholai Nicholai Chuck nickel
nickel
I'd say Nikolaj physic uh he
says he's
by the way one of my one of the
guys
that tracks the newsletter and
he's I
got a lot of people that didn't
get the
news I got a second mail email
from you
so we had another problem with
the with
the email reaching and I'll
give you a
little background on this I'm
trying to
figure out how many emails just
aren't
getting to the place at all
which i
think is a problem with
MailChimp mm-hmm
and so I've been discussing
this over
various second secondary
mailings and
people are the everyone writes
in oh I
got it I don't care if you got
it so I
this time I came up with the
bright idea
which was email me if you
didn't get it
why no I always say that the
problem was
everyone emailed me anyway
where they
got it or not but this time I
added the
stupid easy thing I should have
always
done which was used the subject
line
yeah I didn't get the email
yeah so that
way I can sort out the people
just want
to chat and people who actually
didn't
get the email and made it a lot
easier
net and I can see it was like
twenty or
thirty people which means it's
just this
tip of the iceberg is not
everybody's
even gonna bother right but so
they were
not getting the mail out or
something
there's something amiss the way
I see
cuz if you're not getting it at
all even
in your spam box yeah there's
something
wrong well you know what
because I've
been working with a lot of
email in my
with my
workflows on Linux I've noticed
that in
particularly Google Gmail is
being very
very stringent with the Demark
you familiar with Demark no I'm
not DM
RAC yeah this is a it's like a
policy
what does Demark stand for
domain
message authentication reporting
that's Demark and their be
they've
tightened that up I only just
started
looking into it because I know
that I
don't have my D marks that are
properly
on curry calm
so if MailChimp doesn't have
that set up
properly if there's one small
and not
anomaly immediate non-delivery
that I
don't even know if it sends a
bounce
message
so there's once again it's
mainly Google
but I'm sure the others are
falling suit
whatever Google does everyone
does yeah
yes right
anyway he is actually sir
a raw SK
of the Paris of the prairies
from
Saskatoon obviously yes and you
I just
give him a D douching okay
you've been
deduced John Robin a 100 bucks
forgotten
eight Sebastopol California 69
69 beer
earn mark 10 or twice a month
Whittier
California six seven eight nine
sir tom
dari fifty five to twenty five
ten from
DeForest Wisconsin Francisco
Tejeda 5432
Steven son da Vall 5333 michael
gates
fifty to eighty oh it's another
news
item Michael gates so Bill
Gates big
makes a big stink yeah I think
we should
have you know Washington State
is one of
the few states like Texas
Florida Nevada
there's a few that have no
personal
income tax yes you have other
work
mechanisms Washington State
they use
speed traps and they come here
we use a
property tax well they use
property tax
too but it seems to be better
running
states with when you start
getting the
state income tax they states
get corrupt
and California is the worst
example
mm-hmm but so Bill Gates comes
out the
big statement Washington State
now this
is after this guy's already
shut them
shut the lid on the submarine
he's in uh
watch this state should have
because he
has no personal income anymore
at all
he's got zero he did all his
money is
just money in the bank that he
spends
the state of Washington should
have a
income tax this is this is
ridiculous of
a guy like just to say that
just butt
out it got everybody all up in
arms so
our producer Michael Gates
should call
his family member and tell them
to shut
up is that the connection
that's the
reason
Eric local and Mauro's Joycelyn
$52
Brian Burgess in Pelican Rapids
Minnesota
50:33 so this is an honor to
help
produce the show it provides
in-depth
analysis no one even attempts
esra Robert shots in San Diego
California 2020 Matthew Grice
5005 and
he's got a happy and a Happy
New Year to
us and he's got a birthday for
someone
he has well first of all this
was 73
didgeridoos which comes out to
5005 and
always daughter Freya on the
birthday
list yes January 20th she'll be
12 so
we're a little bit early but
she's on
the list I think she's on the
list for
today in the following people
are $50
donate donators yes starting
with
Matthew Haynes
Matthew Janiszewski in Chicago
Chicago
sir Matthew yeah and raised
dominate
dominici Domenici Domenici
domain that
she I think Newman anyway yeah
Adam
energy is in Puerto Rico boots
on the
ground report on dress like to
know what
else is going on yeah yeah Paul
Dubois
in Kirk honks in New York no no
sir Bret
Farrell in OKC
Barron Alan bean in Oakland
Jeffery
cinnamon in South Euclid Ohio
and last
but not least sir Bryan Watson
in
Raleigh North Carolina
shortlisted a
very disappointing in that
regard but
wouldn't think all these folks
are
helping us in produce show
12:05 yes and
everyone under $50 we see you
we see you
there in fact I think a lot of
those
didn't even come through on the
spreadsheet John I'm looking
like
there's nothing under ten we
always have
fives and fours I don't see
them on the
list today so I'm not certain
yeah this is part of the power
outage
the tumbleweed terror that Eric
the
shill is going through so if we
missed
you which is possible then
please just
email us and we'll make sure we
fix that
this is this is one that it
just blame
it on the tumbleweed we can't
help it at
all but we do thank everybody
who came
in as a producer today thank
the execs
and the associate execs earlier
and
again under that $50.00 many
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that for reasons of anonymity
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there's subscriptions that are
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Karma
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we did get the smallest
together luckily
for this this day of January
2020 Scot
of the tall corn will turn 39
years old
tomorrow as I said earlier
Matthew
gryce's happy birthday in
advance to his
daughter Freya she tore freo
she turns
12 on January 20th and brian
says happy
birthday to Erik you on me who
celebrated on January 1st happy
birthday
for everybody here at the best
podcast
in the universe as far as we
know we
have one title change for today
sir
cumference has upped his
supports to the
show and another $1000 and has
changed
his title now to baronet as he
moves on
up the peerage ladder and you
can always
check the status of of all of
our
peerage at ITM . IM / peerage
as should
be a map in there somewhere as
well
which i i'm thinking i should
put in the
show notes more regularly and
thank you
very much sir cumference for
your
support of the show
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it's just like a potty only
it's a non
triggering event everybody is
welcome
with the no agenda meetups where
producers from around the world
get
together in all corners of the
earth
here's an overview of what's
coming up
in the near future on Tuesday
the second
biannual Knoxville meet up at
four
o'clock sir seat suit sir seat
sitter
we'll be waiting for you at
Barley's
Knoxville upstairs at the pool
tables
next Thursday and no agenda
tuned man
tour this is Jesse coy Nelson
his
Beirut's top six o'clock
European
Standard Time meet Jesse at the
rabbit-hole down Mac DC Street
in Beirut
Lebanon one of the West Clark 7
make
sure you get there before they
rebel
eyes then next Saturday we'll
have the
Long Island meet up Long Island
New York
7:30 Excelsior slaves come one
come all
it'll be at the st. James
restaurant and
bar Andrew Grasso is your host
for that
let me see if we have I keep
reading
because I have to read this
note for me
me
I'm ready these meetups I'm
well I'm
reading the milk for me me so
what do
you like talking about a
separate note
well why don't you do that then
well I
have to find the note so keep
reading
that's what I said keep reading
for now
I this is interesting because I
see
here's a secondary Long Island
meetup on
the same Saturday no this can't
be right
the Saint Jane notes this I'm
sorry this
is a doubling so it is that is
there is
one Long Island meet up there
you go
that's the one at the st. James
restaurant and bar then next
Thursday
the 16th so now we're already a
Thursday
a week and a half away will be
once
again the Austin local 512
meetup it'll
be a docks backyard in Sunset
Valley and
that is of course or Scott
baronet of
the No Agenda armory and his
wife
Christine will be organizing
that and if
you had did not hear something
that is
coming up near you go to no
agenda
meetups calm you can find out
more
information about it you can
start your
own and a reminder February
21st Adam
and the keeper will be in
Florida at the
meet up which is being
scheduled for
Delray Beach and we look
forward and
this is the problem
so what happened and nobody
seems to
respond to me me on this and
she's just
got a mess on her hands and she
says no
one can make a decision and
she's not
gonna do it because she's gonna
get
blamed and she says you're
gonna have to
do it there are one two three
four five
competing delray meetups
there's the saltwater brewery
at 6:30
Mike Scott this is 735 heads
there's a
saltwater brewery at six my
organizer
crystal and David Copa there's
brews
rooms sports grill at six
first there's the saltwater
brewery
again at six by Nick be sounds
like the
saltwater brewery is the place
to be
yeah yeah so let's make it to
saltwater
brewery which one 632 seven
seven thirty
six can I ask you a question
why are you so angry at me what
do I
have to do with this I have to
do this
I'm being firm with the
organizers
well somebody has to make a
decision
about which one you're gonna do
gonna
pick saltwater brewery but
which one six
six thirty seven thirty by the
way
somebody else has one that he
wants to
go to four in the morning with
okay so
it's gonna be at the saltwater
brewery
and it'll be around 6:00 and
everybody
who's organizing that except
for the one
person who had a different one
I'll see
you there
don't the organizer we're gonna
stick
Krystal and David Kulpa are
gonna be the
organizers okay Scott mez and
Nick B
have to contact them and then
maybe you
can switch ownership of this
thing if
you want to but Adam is decided
that is
the saltwater brewery 6:00 p.m.
organizer crystal and David yes
there
you go
that wasn't so hard I'm sorry
there was
so much angst in the Dvorak
household
about what an actual meeting no
no this
will not stand
yeah that's why we had to go to
go to
the goat go-to-guy which is you
okay
come up with something else
oh I so I hear I do see the
note here
finally Cavalia okay I have oh
man I
love when Mimi gets all upset
it's all
for the joy of the 21st
February 21st
and saltwater I like that
everyone chose
the saltwater brewery
except for Lou Lou don't go to
Bruce
room Sports Grille will see it
the
saltwater brew he's gonna put
the shoal
water brewery must be a good
place for a
meet-up
yeah if everyone's thinking
that way
it's gonna be a great meet up I
think
Horowitz might show up and by
the way
because he was very concerned
about this
if Horowitz shows up everybody
pretend
you don't know who he is
what do you do a podcast with
who with
do you don't show with John -
never
heard it - make sure you do
that because
it's very concerned if people
wouldn't
know who he was you being the
kind
gentleman you already decided
to set him
up exactly what else are
friends for
so that is a current overview I
did want
to mention the 25th of January
as an
additional that'll be in Moscow
Russia
so make sure you get nan I
would love to
go to one of those we got it
we've got
it got to do more trek more
traveling
this year I've decided then a I
know
your laugh you say that every
year
that's exactly what Tina says I
want to
remind you every year you tell
me we
need to travel more we now have
a map
with pins in it it was a
Christmas gift
yeah so I got a big map with
pins where
we're going yeah I have a
meetup report
a audio report this is really
the only
kind that works best for a
podcast so I
appreciate sir Roderick Zelo we
all know
sir rod he is night of the no
agenda
roundtable also host of his his
own
podcast in the Netherlands
which is very
successful he organized the
Amsterdam
Meetup and recorded everybody in
attendance this is the rod that
imagine
meetup Amsterdam and this is
sir pate
with the protectorates of
Friesland and
North Holland
I'm Tim Farley and from
hormones boy
Adam I'm getting lots of things
so
that's a really cool time
you're do you
of Harlem's writing this is my
second
meetup in one week in the
Netherlands
I'm are now from I'm Sylvain
whose
cadaver
hi Adam and John this is Jacob
from
Wisconsin coming to you from
Amsterdam
I'm Jakob bina I'm day most
doomsday
deniers and we're not talking
about
impeachment hello
Esquire and soon I will be
surveying
night to see empty PayPal
accounts hello
Jon and Adam this is
entrepreneurial
from Amsterdam young Johnson
hi Martin tiny fire just
dropping in
sure here Co Knights of the
papal
fiefdom of Utrecht second
meetup in one
week not too much never enough
the
bitter bulls are excellent now
that's
meetup report I live how they
talk to
I think that that wasn't one of
the best
meetup reports you've had I
think it was
introduced for some time get it
out of
the way yep dynamite dinosaur
odd no
rotor I keep II produced it so
you cut
it up nicely made it all work I
love the
guy the future night of the
empty PayPal
account I think that's a great
night
name that's a good name yes
thank you
all very much and remember no
agenda
meet ups comm is where you can
hey we
need some more people to
organize and
meet up on the 21st let's see
if we can
find some other locations it'll
be fun
yeah or just find something
near you and
go attend it's a great
opportunity for a
trigger 'less conversation about
anything good drinks across
boundaries
across age groups race creed
religion
background age you name it
we're a crazy
cult go find your meetup
have a stinkbug update
talked about the stinkbug yes
and now
nobody knew about anything
going on but
apparently these stink bugs
have invaded
a good part of Washington State
this is
the marmorated stink bug I
believe is
the force exactly I got a lot
of emails
from people about your story
apparently
yes they're everywhere brown
marmorated
stink bug is something Darrell
fiefdom
of Varitek's pest control has
plenty of
experience with their asius :
Vader and
if they come in right about now
but now
and again and particularly now
homeowners call in with little
clue
about this critter wondering
what it is
where it came from and whether
it's
harmful I do all the multi care
there's
like six hospitals and forty
you know
outpatient centers originally
from Asia
the stink bug first crossed our
border
in 2010 since 2012 it has
spread quickly
from Clark County to 20 others
working
its way across Washington wait
out the
winter and cracks and crannies
of heated
homes and then they get busy I
mean they
propagate over the past month
the emails
and phone calls have flooded
into WSU
researchers more than 300 so
far most of
those sightings and King Pierce
and
Thurston counties so what do
you do
what's there inside don'ts
question
because they will stink either
vacuum
them up throw away the bag when
you're
through there throw away the
bag that
you will win you're through
vacuuming
because your vacuum will reek
for weeks
the real threat is outside
where they're
ready to gorge on trees and
shrubs and
they don't discriminate they
decimate
which is why agriculture
experts hope
people help them keep track in
Seattle
Copeland King 5 news so a
question just
looking at these pictures how
big is a
marble we don't have them in
Texas I
don't think how big is one of
these
defects how big are they
they're the size of a thumbtack
okay so
relatively small hmm
maybe that's what I could tell
some tech
now do you remember cuz this is
I think
we maybe went to two cycles of
these bug
stories bug again ins it was
probably
two years ago maybe three
bedbugs yeah
it was a re after story about
bedbugs
and hotels and met bugs and bed
bugs and
bed bugs and that what did what
happened
to all the bed bugs died I came
that
story just dropped off to it
just
nothing it wasn't scary enough
the
apparently these stink bugs are
now the
story so hmm it's always some
bug now
can you eat them are they tasty
of course not if they stink and
they
will make a good vacuum cleaner
reek
apparently it's a nauseating
smell
because I that's why it's
called a stink
yeah I've definitely seen this
type of
bug it looks familiar but I
don't think
I've ever seen one here in
Texas you're
right yet but and I'd like to
do I'd
like to know a little bit more
what is
this - what is maybe we should
send you
a few made a couple for
yourself you
won't do that that's not a good
idea at
all
updates Epstein updates the
apparently
FBI is now officially looking
to to talk
to some people like wow they
figured
maybe you'd be good idea to go
have a
chat with Gil a Maxwell and see
if she
had any involvement in any of
this stuff
financing trial on sex
trafficking
charges but the case isn't
closed
Reuters has learned the FBI is
investigating people who may
have been
accomplices to Epstein's illegal
behavior to law enforcement
sources told
Reuters the principle focus is
British
socialite Guylaine Maxwell seen
here in
2013 Maxwell has not been
accused of
criminal wrongdoing her lawyers
did not
respond to a request for
comment one of
Epstein's accusers virginia
goof ray
said in a civil lawsuit that
Maxwell
recruited her into Epstein's a
circle
and so she introduced you to
Jeffrey
have stated yeah so you were
hired to be
a masseuse for him initially
yeah
Maxwell has called goof Ray's
allegations lies who Freight
claims
Epstein forced her to have sex
with
friends including Britain's
Prince
Andrew Andrew 59 also
categorically
denies the accusations and has
said he
has no recollection of meeting
GU Frey
the law enforcement sources
said the
FBI's focuses on people who
facilitated
Epstein and that Andrew does
not fit
that category
ah somehow I think they're just
never
really gonna talk to Gillian
Maxwell or
as they say well they say
socialite
British socialite now she's
protected
she's protected she's protected
she's a
spook she's protected by
multiple
intelligence agencies and will
never
know anything however tonight
60 minutes is promising
something new
Sharon Alfonzo has investigated
Epstein's death for five months
and
reveals what happened in the
moments
after his body was found what
did the
prison guards do with Geoffrey
Epstein's
body so immediately after they
discovered him they took him to
the
hospital
they were trying to do CPR on
him about
an hour after he got to the
hospital
they declared him officially
dead about
7:30 and then he was seeing the
morgue
where they did the autopsy the
next day
what do we know about what was
found in
Geoffrey Epstein's jail cell so
it's
interesting you would think
that it
would be sparse right this is a
federal
prison high-security what we
have
learned through our reporting
is that
there was multiple sheets in
there lots
of bedding an electrical cord
prescription medicine
there was actually notes and a
paper he
had written a note so in the
piece you
were heard saying that a guard
was
saying breathe Jeffrey breathe
so this
was widely known what was
happening in
the prison or - we aren't sure
well we
know the way that the prison
was set up
he was in a secure area where
there were
about eight cells and so we
have heard
and our sources tell us that
the guards
could be overheard saying
breathe
epstein breathe and what's kind
of eerie
is that after that the
prisoners that
were in that secure area all
started
chanting breathe epstein
breathe so the
prison they were the prisoners
other
prisoners were aware of what
was going
on they knew something was
going on it's
you know the doors are blocked
they
probably couldn't see that much
but
certainly they heard the
commotion
whether it was their video
surveillance
in there in that area it's a
great
question we know there's video
surveillance facing the guard
steps
which is outside of the area
where he
was we are told that the video
facing
the cells the video that might
have seen
his cell door was corrupted
was interrupted meaning we
don't know
okay good question no problem
finding
ring doorbell video of anything
in the
fucking universe but oh this
one's
corrupted in the jail and he had
electrical cords and she had
everything
what this is an abomination it
truly is
an abomination and it's
insulting to
people's intelligence yeah but
then
again what's new what's new
with this
story I didn't know I didn't
know what
they had all this he had all
that stuff
in his cell well even so but
that's kind
of pertinent to how someone
kills
themself it's all I ever said
they saw
the cord wrapped around his
neck I
always imagined something there
choking
him saying breathe breathe that
actually
think is the best theory ever
the guy's
standing there saying breathe
Epstein
while he's choking him that I
think is
is something to look at imagine
it yeah
yeah now don't I don't expect
much not
expecting I'm not even gonna
watch it i
watch a football game instead
well you
do that I'll watch I have an
old clip
that I wanted to get out of the
way is
this gonna be our last clip
yeah okay
wasn't we can go back to 2016 I
I never
heard this clip we never played
it on
the show that I know of
this is before Trump was even
elected he
had just been nominated
president and
there was a discussion with
Harry Reid
he said he hasn't been elected
he'd been
nominated president with wood
Oh what
did you just say he's not been
elected
yet this is before the election
oh he
has the nomination of there's
the
nominee for the Republicans got
it so he
just she's just a new nominee
so he's
not any big thing but there he
is and
this is the kind of thing that
was going
on during that era where Trump
just got
nominated here's what the
Democrats were
doing it's obvious that he
doesn't know
what he's talking about
it's obvious he can't control
his mind
or his tongue and what I
suggested if
now because he's the nominee
for the
party and he gets he's entitled
to
briefings from the CIA for
example I
told I said publicly giving fake
briefings pretend your briefing
don't
tell him anything that you
don't want to
get out and that's how I feel
about it I
think that the man is a loose
cannon I
think he's done so much to hurt
our
country with our international
relations
already what is the Republican
nominee
isn't he entitled to get those
briefings
give him fake briefings what
does that
even mean
it means they'll tell him stuff
you
won't know the difference you're
basically telling the
intelligence
community to lie to him like
I'm not
gonna lie to you but I have to
tell you
everything is that one of ours
no I
found it on the interwebs
well it kind of was surprised
when I
heard I had no idea this was
gone that
far back he's already ruined the
relations with the world he
just got
nominated and this is what this
is where
they were headed with and this
is where
it began I think this predates
even you
know the stuff that was just
prior to
the election well just before
the new
year Al Green representative Al
Green of
Texas who has put his foot in
his mouth
multiple times when it comes to
impeachment he is of course the
the man
who said well if we don't
impeach him
he'll he'll win he'll be
reelected which
is I think kind of the money
quote for
2019
just before the New Year's he's
on with
the Chris Hayes on MSNBC
talking about
the genesis of impeachment and
when when
when the decision was really
made that
you know this guy needs to be
impeached
and leveled against Democrats
during
this entire affair particularly
since
September when the formal
impeachment
inquiry started in you you play
a
starring role in those charges
I mean
the argument goes like this of
House
Republicans and Trump and his
allies the
president as allies is
basically the
Democrats want to do impeach
Donald
Trump from day one they cast
about
looking for a set of facts that
they
could plausibly use to do it
and all of
it was pretextual and
reverse-engineered
to get to this point exhibit one
congressman Al Green who's been
calling
for the man's impeachment for
two years
now what's your response to
that charge
well the genesis of impeachment
to be
very candid with you was when
the
president was running for
office and he
had members of his own party to
talk
about his unfitness to hold
office so
when he was running before he
was even
the nominee we knew we had to
impeach
him
yeah I pretty much says it all
in this
Harry Reid thing I mean this
guys were
these Democrats were not gonna
let this
guy Wow ever it's pretty
astonishing
actually it's a great time to
be alive
an even better time to be a
podcaster
would you agree I would say
there's
nothing else that you could do
if you
want to get information out you
have to
be a podcaster because the
media is not
gonna or the mainstream is not
gonna
pick up on it
no they won't they won't run
with it
because that's against some
narrative
that unspoken narrative that I
guess
everybody internalizes and then
we end
up with what you get which is
crap so if
you're looking for non crap but
a whole
lot of stinkbug check in with us
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the
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air travel and such bomb bomb
bomb bomb
bomb Iran
good evening everybody the
United States
is once again attacking Iraq
sort of as
like a big boulder sitting
little the
road in yes bill we're hearing
us a
series we're hearing a series
of very
loud
the aftermath shows an attack
that was
deliberate and sustained with
around a
half-dozen explosions the
Americans
firing with teal and missiles
awesome
you want to declare war we took
action
last night to stop a war
present another
Gulf War we did not cause her
acting
today it is less likely that we
will
face these dangers in this
movie he was
plotting attacks against
Americans but
now we increase of America's
ability to
prevent future acts of violence
and
aggression last night at my
direction
the United States military
executed a
flawless strike that terminated
the
terrorists ringleader earlier
today I
ordered America's armed forces
destroyed
military and security targets
and ladies
and gentlemen I know I sound
like a
broken record to many of you of
the last
six years speaking so much
about Iraq if
you're a Sunday morning junkie
you've
had to hear me almost every
Sunday
morning to demonstrate once
again that
reckless acts have consequences
and I am
ready and prepared to take
whatever
action is necessary to do this
tell me
how this ends Charlie let me
close by
addressing one other issue that
the
serious debate currently before
the
House of Representatives would
distract
Americans are we Canaris off to
facing
down other Democrats are
questioning the
timing of this strike which
comes as the
president faces a looming
impeachment
trial while the Congress was
voting to
impeach the president the US
military
was bombing Baghdad this could
escalate
they could lead to a cycle of
violence
it just got more dangerous
you know I don't know about
that are you
gonna be with me Charlie huh
here
because they're coming see if I
can turn
that to a song
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it's coming
it's coming it's coming
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