October 20th, 2024 • 3h 14m
Shownotes
Every new episode of No Agenda is accompanied by a comprehensive list of shownotes curated by Adam while preparing for the show. Clips played by the hosts during the show can also be found here.
Big Tech AI and the Socials
TikTok brain rot BOTG
Hello!
Listening to 1703 about TikTok. I’m 33 and got completely sucked in, even knowing that it’s bad and it can influence your opinions. At some point, every minute I’ve had I would open an app, my screen time got to more than 7 hours on average. I tried using screen time features to limit use, but that was no good, TikTok algo is just that good. Nothing helped until I deleted an app.
But I quickly found the same in the Instagram with Reels and started using X more. I spent less quality time with family (always looking in my phone), my work quality started to go down quickly. I was feeling depressed most of the time. Up until recently, when I removed every “feed” app from my phone. I felt a change almost immediately. This is a brain rot and I think teenagers cope better with it than us - adults.
Kamala
Kamala isn't Campaigning, she's Camplaining
The Brahmins have spoken BOTG
Dear Adam and John,
As a Brahmin Knight, I am officially denouncing Kamala Harris on behalf of my community.
Adam said in the last show that no Brahmins have written into the show denouncing Kamala, so you're going to assume Brahmins back Kamala just because of her caste.
I'm letting you know this is not the case. We want nothing to do with her. She a swamp creature and we're just as fed up as everyone else with these types.
Thanks
Sir Abs
NATO
'Secret' Clause of Zelensky's 'Victory Plan' – Join NATO Through Nuclear Blackmail - Global Research
However, already the next day, CNN’s claim was denied by none other than Zelensky himself. Namely, he stated, in no uncertain terms, that if the Neo-Nazi junta isn’t allowed to join NATO, its “only option” will be to acquire nuclear weapons. So much for a “non-nuclear strategic deterrence package”. To make matters worse, he said this during a press conference following his speech in Brussels. He also made a false claim that “Ukraine was the only one who gave up its nuclear weapons” and that “this is why it’s fighting today”. However, this is patently false. Only one country dismantled its own nuclear arsenal completely and that was South Africa (officially in 1994). At around that time, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan signed an agreement on the transfer of Soviet thermonuclear weapons back to Russia, the sole successor state of the USSR.
BRICS
Big Pharma
Season of Reveal
Tentative agreement for postal letter carriers - insultingly low BOTG
As ups and port workers get 25-60% increases the postal service and the
nalc reach a tentative agreement for 1.3% increase a year with cola
based on national CPI data.
Insultingly low
Workers upset, cannot strike, several news outlets acting like this is golden
The new PD Brief on DoD
Key points (particularly sections c & d):
3.3. LEVELS OF AUTHORITY.
Subject to Paragraph 3.1., Defense Intelligence Components may provide personnel to assist a
Federal department or agency, including a Federal law enforcement agency, or a State or local
law enforcement agency when lives are in danger, in response to a request for such assistance, in
accordance with the following approval authorities:
a. Secretary of Defense Approval.
(1) The Secretary of Defense may approve any type of requested permissible assistance
described in Paragraph 3.2.
(2) The decision to approve requests for these types of permissible assistance described
in Paragraph 3.2. to law enforcement agencies and other civil authorities are reserved to the
Secretary of Defense:
(a) Provision of personnel to support response efforts for civil disturbances, which
may also require Presidential authorization.
(b) DoD response to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield
explosive incidents.
(c) Assistance in responding with assets with potential for lethality, or any situation
in which it is reasonably foreseeable that providing the requested assistance may involve the use
of force that is likely to result in lethal force, including death or serious bodily injury. It also
includes all support to civilian law enforcement officials in situations where a confrontation
between civilian law enforcement and civilian individuals or groups is reasonably anticipated.
Such use of force must be in accordance with DoDD 5210.56, potentially as further restricted
based on the specifics of the requested support.
(d) Provision or use of DoD unmanned systems in the United States except as
delegated by the Secretary of Defense pursuant to the October 31, 2023 Secretary of Defense
Memorandum.
Deconstruction of the OD Brief
There's a lot of clickbait articles about some supposedly new DoD directive to allow the US Military to use lethal force against citizens if the Army is ordered to help local police. But it's not new, they're updating the directive that has been there since 1990-something.
screencaps and links in the tweet
"I am seeing a ton of misinformation over this new DOD Directive.
Newsflash: The DOD has always had this authority.
I'll explain as briefly as I can.
This new directive has to do with intelligence assistance to domestic law enforcement. Not physical, troops on the ground assistance. It is essentially saying that if the military is going to be providing intelligence assets or equipment to law enforcement that could potentially result in us of lethal force (like drones for example), then it requires specific approval directly from SECDEF.
The DOD has actually always had “authority” to use lethal force if/when assisting local law enforcement. There is a specific directive dealing with use of deadly force going back to the 90s from what I could find online but it was most recently updated November 6th, 2020 (interesting timing) - DOD DIRECTIVE 5210.56 - ARMING AND THE USE OF FORCE.
Here is the section in DoDD 5210.56 relating to deadly force when assisting domestic law enforcement.
The Posse Comitatus Act restricts use of military domestically without special authorization. If anything, I believe this new directive broadens that special authority to bypass congress and giving the President and SECDEF more leeway.
We could argue whether having the authority to use lethal force at all is a good thing but that authority has always been there."
Climate Change
Boeing
Raytheon corruption detail - Boeing
Adam,
One thing about the Raytheon scandal that you didn’t mention is that Boeing‘s new CEO came from Rockwell where he was CEO and Rockwell is owned by Raytheon. He had not been at Raytheon for several years but the timeframe that he was there overlaps pretty thoroughly with the crimes in the Department of Justice settlement. Not saying he was directly involved, but certainly it doesn’t reflect that well on Boeing as a company trying to escape scandal.
