No Agenda Episode 403: "Pharmacy in a Fruit" (2012-04-26)

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John C. Dvorak:
[chokes] I swallowed the slide whistle.
Jingle:
[announcer] Adam Curry. John C. Dvorak.
Adam Curry:
It's Thursday, April twenty sixth [26], two thousand twelve [2012]. Time for your gitmo nation media assassination. Episode four zero three [403].
Jingle:
[announcer] This is No Agenda.
Adam Curry:
Enjoying my sustainable slavery, here at Camp Mofo, in the capital of the drone star state, Austin, TayHoss. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
John C. Dvorak:
And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's raining, I'm John C. Dvorak.
Jingle:
[announcer] It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! [singers} In the morning! [stinger]
Adam Curry:
All right, man. What happened with the war on chicken, dude?
John C. Dvorak:
What about it?
Adam Curry:
It turned into the war on mad cow!
John C. Dvorak:
Well, the chicken thing wasn't working out.
Adam Curry:
I'm like, WHAT? They can't be, like, doing that! It was the war on chicken.
John C. Dvorak:
The war on chicken will return. They've been busted. The media finally got a clue. It was just all PETA. Always bitching about everything.
Adam Curry:
I actually think I found out what that was about.
John C. Dvorak:
Okay.
Adam Curry:
The war on chicken.
John C. Dvorak:
You might as well play the theme, 'cause it might be the last time we get to play it.
Adam Curry:
All right, let's do that right now.
Jingle:
[chicken clucks, gunshot, rooster crow][announcer] The war on chicken.
Adam Curry:
I've become so overly sensitive to these PR moves now, that everything I see is, "Aw, that's gotta be a PR move. I gotta go check it out."
John C. Dvorak:
[chuckles]
Adam Curry:
And so, here's what I came up on this one. For those of you that didn't know..it probably was world-wide news.."Oh we've got a mad cows disease in America!" And uh, "the mad cow, mad cow, mad cow, mad cow!" And they show the crazy cow, chewing with the tongue out the side of his face.
John C. Dvorak:
[laughs]
Adam Curry:
Which is the International symbol for mad cow. Right?
John C. Dvorak:
[laughs] Pretty much.
Adam Curry:
And it's like, "Oh, this is horrible." And this cow was discovered at Baker Commodities. Baker Commodities doesn't make cow meat for human consumption. If you look at bakercommodities.com, they take basically dead animals, who are already dead. And they process them into bio diesel, leather jackets. It's literally on their web site. They've got a little flower sticking out of a petrol tank. That's your dead cow bio diesel. They've got hides. And you see some leather jackets. Yellow grease. Which is some kind of cooking oil, I guess.
John C. Dvorak:
Tallow. It's not used for cooking.
Adam Curry:
No, no. There's tallow, but they also have yellow grease. What's yellow grease.
John C. Dvorak:
Ugh. I don't know. I don't like the sounds of it.
Adam Curry:
It's like pink slime?
John C. Dvorak:
Hey, we need more yellow grease on the griddle! Pancakes! Pancakes!
Adam Curry:
Here it is. Yellow grease is the product produced from the recycling of used cooking oil. It is utilized as a high energy feed additive. Where you see a bunch of very happy chickens in the picture. Anyway, this has nothing to do with the human food chain, apparently as they say. Things happen really, really quickly. So, first there was, like, [in an up and down voice} "Oh mad cow, mad cow, mad cow, mad cow! Let's show the picture of mad cow." [blathering voice trails off] And then, it's like, "Don't worry about it. It had bovine disease inherent. It happens. Don't worry about it." Then..
John C. Dvorak:
Hold on a second. Maybe you could do a cartoon voice. That bit you do with the blah-blah-blah-blah-blah is actually quite amusing. Very cartoonish.
Adam Curry:
[laughs] It's good? Okay, I'll start auditioning for that. Looking at our production numbers today, I might have to.
John C. Dvorak:
Yes, we're below the minimum.
Adam Curry:
But then, here's what caught my eye and I'm aware of this. South Korea then says "Aw, no more meat from America!" And we know from Uncle Don that the beef import thing in South Korea is a big deal. Right? It's a huge..
John C. Dvorak:
They're very proud that they grow their own beef and eat their own beef. It's a high quality product and they are very reluctant to get involved in the world trade of carcasses.
Adam Curry:
Right. Of dead things. So two [2] big supermarkets said, "No more American beef. We don't trust it." And, literally, twenty four [24] hours, maybe thirty [30] hours later, "Oh, it's okay! We're back on. We're good with the beef from America." Like, wait a minute!
John C. Dvorak:
[chuckles]
Adam Curry:
So, I go searching around..
John C. Dvorak:
Who was pulling strings on that one?
Adam Curry:
Yeah. Someone must have been. And then I read..I'm not really good at the charts. I'm going to ask you to take a look at this. I read analysis of this, and some people say this is not a food health and safety issue. This is a political financial issue. Like, okay. South Korea pulls a lot of eight with the cattle futures. And here is the report I get from Bloomberg. And maybe I'm misunderstanding what is written here [reads] "Cattle futures rebounded from a nine [9] month low, as countries from Canada to Japan said they will continue to import American beef after the U.S. reported it's first case of mad cow disease in six [6] years". So apparently, and if you look at the chart, we see that the cattle futures were down. And I guess, if you were to manipulate these markets, and there's a lot of high frequency trading in cattle futures as well,
John C. Dvorak:
Mmm, I'm not sure about that.
Adam Curry:
Well, I see it everywhere.
John C. Dvorak:
Go on. That's beside the point.
Adam Curry:
Okay. I could be wrong on this. But, is it possible that these..and you see so much volume. Like a lot of volume just before the beginning of April..
John C. Dvorak:
The answer to the question you haven't asked yet is, Yes.
Adam Curry:
It was manipulated.
John C. Dvorak:
I'm reminded of, over the last couple of days, PBS has been playing all these great stories. Two-part, four hours of the bankers crash. And a special on the twenty nine ['29] stock market crash. And there was a clip, which kind of relates to this in an odd way, how the market was manipulated in the twenties [20's], and I've got this nineteen twenty [1920] stock market game clip. And the very first of the clip I missed, but the guy is talking about the reporters that worked for all the major newspapers and how they were bribed into writing stories to play the game. But, play the clip.
Clip:
Financial journals were on the take. This included the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The Herald Tribune, you name it. So, if you were a pool operator, you call your friend at the Times and say, "Look, Charlie. There's an envelope waiting for you here and we think that perhaps you should write something nice about RCA." And Charlie would write something nice about RCA. A publicity man called A. Newton Plumber had cancelled checks from practically every major journalist in New York City.
Clip (Speaker 1):
Then they would begin to what was called 'painting the tape.' And they would make the stock look exciting. They would trade among themselves and you'd see these big prints in RCA and people would say it looks as though that stock is being accumulated.
Clip:
Now, if they are behind it, you want to join them. So you go out and you buy stock also. What is happening is the stock goes from ten [10] to fifteen [15] to twenty [20]. And now it's at twenty [20] and you start buying. Other people start buying. Thirty [30], forty [40]. The original group, the pool, they stop buying. They're selling you the stock. It's now fifty [50] and they're out of it. And what happens, is of course, the stock collapses.
Adam Curry:
So, the only thing that we are doing wrong in our analysis..so you agree with me that this was a total market manipulation..there's a whole bunch.. and you can see on the volume of the cattle futures, just about mid-March, just about the last week of March..all of a sudden volume is up by four [4] times the volume it's been since December. What we do wrong is we catch it right after they do it.
John C. Dvorak:
That's what the problem is. You have to actually, literally, be on the inside of it..
Adam Curry:
Be in the game! You gotta be in the game.
John C. Dvorak:
We're not on the inside of it. It is very hard to pick these things. This is the problem with amateur stock market people.
Adam Curry:
Like us.
John C. Dvorak:
And I put myself in that category. Otherwise we wouldn't be doing the show.
Adam Curry:
We wouldn't be doing the show. No. I wouldn't be talking to you. Nothing like that.
John C. Dvorak:
No. We'd be in Paris. You know, having a nice meal. So anyway, the guys who pull the stunts, unless you are in with them, you just never..it's just always, "Oh, I just missed..Oh, jeez, I just missed that one." It's just everything you just miss it. And if you try to play the game you'll usually get burned.
Adam Curry:
Yeah, you usually get screwed.
John C. Dvorak:
Because the idea is that you will get in to..I mean, like they said, the guys who promote the thing as it goes up, they're the ones who are selling it.
Adam Curry:
Right. Of course, that's what it is. You're selling it on the..sell on the news.
Adam Curry:
Sell on the news.
John C. Dvorak:
yeah, sell on good news, buy on bad news.
Adam Curry:
So, let me just see who's, maybe there's someone in this company or someone that we would recognize, cause someone had to be on the inside at Baker Commodities.
John C. Dvorak:
Well, what I would do, you know, most of these companies have PR agencies. And nowadays, all the PR agencies are pretty much one...two major companies and the conflict of interest is written all over it. One of these days in an upcoming newsletter,
Adam Curry:
Yeah, we should do that.
Adam Curry:
Yeah, we should do that.
John C. Dvorak:
I'll discuss this in more detail.
Adam Curry:
Yeah, I have another one that I want to talk about. But first, let's thank uh, our one Executive Producer for the day.
John C. Dvorak:
And by the way, we would have had none. This Executive Producer came in at the last minute and the only reason I let him go past the midnight deadline is cause it's his birthday today. But he came in late. But uh, we would have had zero Executive Producers for this show cause this people have either uh.
Adam Curry:
Given up on us.
John C. Dvorak:
lost interest in the show, or our last show sucked.
Adam Curry:
Given up on us.
John C. Dvorak:
lost interest in the show, or the last show sucked or they
Adam Curry:
That's possible. That's possible. That's possible.
John C. Dvorak:
No other reason.I mean, you could blame the tax thing, but I think the tax thing should end.
Adam Curry:
No, I'll go for last show sucked.
John C. Dvorak:
Ok, last show sucked.
Adam Curry:
Last show sucked.
John C. Dvorak:
We'll just assume it sucked and that was that. Uh, and that's Alan Thomson, who's in New Carrollton, Maryland. $333.33 he's donating today to celebrate his birthday which is today. Uh, with this donation he has donated over a thousand dollars, please see the accounting below to complete my Knighthood. Please call me out.
John C. Dvorak:
Please see the accounting below to complete my Knighthood. Please call out all non-donors as douchebags.
Jingle:
Douchebag!
John C. Dvorak:
And then he'll take some Karma.
Adam Curry:
Of course. We're happy to give that to you. Thank you for being our Executive Producer.
Jingle:
You've got Karma.
Adam Curry:
The sole Executive Producer. I also have no PR mentions, so uh, there we go. We've hit peak podcasting.
John C. Dvorak:
(laughs) Apparently. Yeah, just like peak oil.
Adam Curry:
Yeah, peak podcasting. We're over the edge and it's all downhill from here on out.
Adam Curry:
Yeah, peak podcasting. We're over the edge and it's all downhill from here on out. It's alright, cause I already did the work, so we may as well tell everyone what we've been working on. But if you'd like to support us, and actually, I'll take a minute here. We've been working on the Hot Pockets 2009 Tour and, of course, no one has been able to come up with a trailer that we can tow to do our tour and the the only other...
John C. Dvorak:
Maybe none of our listeners have trailers.
Adam Curry:
This is possible.
John C. Dvorak:
This is a weird group of people
John C. Dvorak:
Maybe none of our listeners have trailers.
Adam Curry:
This is possible.
John C. Dvorak:
It's a weird group of people that have trailers and probably don't listen to our show.
Adam Curry:
Even weirder than the RV'ers. So..
John C. Dvorak:
We did have a couple of RV offers, you know, when we did.
Adam Curry:
So renting an RV is out of the question. Renting a trailer is about $100 a day. Um, and of course, Mustang Sally is already in the kitty, so to speak. We already have the Dodge Ram, 2002, with the new tires. So, that will be able to
Adam Curry:
with the new tires. So, that will be able to do the job. But if we want to do two or three weeks, we'll need additional two or three thousand dollars that would have to be donated in order to do the tour. I mean, we could do it that way if we don't want to wait to see if someone has some rickety thing that we can tow.
John C. Dvorak:
Well, lets give it a couple more weeks.
Adam Curry:
Ok. Alright. At any rate, I do want to thank Scott Morgan, producer here local in Austin, who is going to do a fundraising barbecue event in Austin.
Adam Curry:
local in Austin, who is going to do a fundraising barbecue event in Austin.
John C. Dvorak:
A fundraising barbecue event?
Adam Curry:
Yeah. Yeah. For the Hot Pockets Tour.
John C. Dvorak:
Oh, good.
Adam Curry:
Yeah, I think it's a great idea. So we're going to figure out when to do that. And of course, if you like what you hear, if you like the deconstruction of the news, if you like hearing that all that bullcrap about Mad Cow Disease turns out to be a big scam that none of us were in on.
John C. Dvorak:
No, otherwise we wouldn't be moaning.
Adam Curry:
But at least when you're at the cocktail party, or the office water cooler.
Adam Curry:
At least when you're at the cocktail party or the office water cooler, you can sound a lot smarter by saying, "Uh, excuse me. That was market manipulation. And here's how it works." You can go and print out the chart and hold it up and people will go, "Wow. You're smart. You should have a raise".
John C. Dvorak:
Give the man a raise.
Adam Curry:
And please go to:
Jingle:
Dvorak.org/na
Adam Curry:
Of course, we're always looking for people to go out there and propagate the formula. It's extremely simple. Here it is.
Jingle:
Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Jingle:
Our formula is this: We go out and hit people in the mouth.
NEW...WORLD...ORDER. Shut up, slaves!
Adam Curry:
So, while we're on it, let me roll out another one. This is...now, I learned this from you. On the last you, you did an excellent job of catching the uh, was it the last show? Or the show before?
Adam Curry:
On the last you, you did an excellent job of catching the uh, was it the last show? Or the show, when was the War on Chicken? Was that the last show? Or the show before?
John C. Dvorak:
The War on Chicken began two shows ago.
Adam Curry:
Right, but on the last show, you deconstructed the whole thing or was that? Anyway, there's actually a Youtube video which, uh.
John C. Dvorak:
On the War on Chicken?
Adam Curry:
Yeah, yeah. I tweeted it. It's really good. That's Arsonomics. He puts together Youtube videos of little bits of the show, and he goes to the websites, and so he showed all the websites with the dizzying sped-up productions.
John C. Dvorak:
Oh, right. That was last show that I think I had the dizzing. Dizzying.
John C. Dvorak:
Oh, right. That was last show that I think I had the dizzing.
Adam Curry:
Exactly. Exactly.
John C. Dvorak:
Dizzying.
Adam Curry:
Dizzying, exactly. So, I came across a new one. I have not yet found the origin of it. I may need your help in that. I'm sure our producers can get into it. I'll play the ABC News Report and you can Google all the keywords, and you'll see this is exactly the same idea. There's a number of words in here. Look for words "disturbing trend". [laughs]
John C. Dvorak:
[laughs] "Disturbing Trends."
John C. Dvorak:
[laughs] "Disturbing Trends."
Adam Curry:
Actually, it's "disturbing trends among teens."
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, it's got to be long enough to really bring it home that it's all cut-and-paste.
Adam Curry:
Yeah. "Disturbing trend among teens" and "foam".
Clip:
Warning to parents. There is a disturbing new trend among teens. They're using hand sanitizer to get drunk. Doctors are so worried
Clip:
It's supposed to clean up our lives. [hand sanitizer squirting sound effect] But it's becoming a dirty and dangerous household secret.
sfx:
Ding!
Clip:
And it's sending teens to the hospital. Kids getting hammered off hand sanitizer.
Adam Curry:
[laughs] I like that. Good alliteration. Kids getting *Hammered* of *Hand* sanitizer. Heeya!
Clip:
They're separating the alcohol through a distillation process. And creating a potent punch that's like slammin' a shot of the hardest liquor.
Adam Curry:
Yeaaaaah...
Clip:
They're taking table salt, mixing it with the hand gels, and subsequently putting it in a filter.
Clip:
mixing it with the hand gels, and subsequently then putting it in a filter. And the liquid that is produced is a very high-content alcohol.
And just yesterday, an emergency press conference at LA's Students Hospital was called after nearly a dozen area teenagers wound up in ERs with alcohol poisoning.
We have patients coming into the Emergency Department with these kinds of signs of symptoms: slurred speech, lack of balance, changes in their mental state.
The kids don't realize how concentrated it is, and take a large quantity of it. Take a few shots. Certainly, kids can die from this.
Clip:
quantity of it. Take a few shots. Certainly, kids can die from this.
Parents: Be cautious. When not using the gel, make sure you place it out of reach, or you can consider using a foam sanitizer because it's much harder to distill.
sfx:
Ding!
Adam Curry:
Mmkay. So, uh, I go into the Googles. And I use "disturbing teen trend". Uhhh, let me see. I have 64,000 results.
John C. Dvorak:
[laughs]
Adam Curry:
And it's all the same thing. It's "disturbing trend among teens". "Dangerous new trend for teens", "Dangerous teen trend"
Adam Curry:
It's "disturbing trend among teens". "Dangerous new trend for teens", "Dangerous teen trends". "Getting drunk". "Use foam". "Use foam". "Use foam". Here's another example...
John C. Dvorak:
So it's obviously...so, we would deconstruct this. I'm gonna just jump ahead and tell me where I'm wrong. You're going to deconstruct this to show that this is a promotion for some foam company that makes the foam version of these sanitizers.
Adam Curry:
Yeah...
John C. Dvorak:
Cause parents are the ones who get or uh... Kids don't watch these news stories.
Adam Curry:
No, of course! They're too busy getting hammered on hand sanitizer! They got no time for that.
John C. Dvorak:
Parents will be watching this and
Adam Curry:
too busy getting hammered on hand sanitizer! They got no time for that!
John C. Dvorak:
So, the parents will be watching that and they'll say "Well, my, who knows! Maybe little Sally is getting wasted on the hand sanitizer!"
Adam Curry:
Let's buy the foam!
John C. Dvorak:
...Lets buy the from kind from now on!
Adam Curry:
Here's the CNN report. It's a lot shorter.
Clip:
Concerned this noon about teens drinking the alcohol from hand sanitizer in order to get drunk. A half a dozen teenagers in southern California had to be taken to Emergency Rooms in the past few months for alcohol poisoning. Many liquid hand sanitizers are about 62% alcohol, which makes a
Clip:
hand sanitizers are about 62% alcohol, which makes a 120 proof drink. Experts say parents should buy *foam* hand sanitizer because it...
Adam Curry:
She can't even... *Foam*...hand...sanitizer. So, the only company, so I looked at Purell, cause they do have a foam hand sanitizer. They're not promoting it on their website, so I don't think that's the one. Wal-Mart does appear to have a big push towards foam sanitizer.
John C. Dvorak:
Ahh.
Adam Curry:
So, I'm thinking this is a Wal-Mart. I can't find the original press release, though. But, it did, and this is the real tip off, it's not like the hospital, all of a sudden.
Adam Curry:
press release, though. But, it did, and this is the real tip off, it's not like the hospital, all of a sudden said, "Ohh...we've got to call a press conference about this". No. This is the University of California in San Francisco, who have a division, uhh, let me just get the name of the division because it was quoted everywhere as well. And they did some research. So, you know, they are probably getting their research funded by Johnson & Johnson, or Wal-Mart, or whoever it is. Umm...
John C. Dvorak:
They could be working together, too.
Adam Curry:
or whoever it is. Umm...
John C. Dvorak:
They could be working together, too.
Adam Curry:
Yeah, they could be working together. But it's so obvious that this is, you know, ...no kid has died. You know, do kids come in confused?
John C. Dvorak:
And by the way, yeah, I wonder how many kids have ever...I mean, who's going to do it? It's humiliating. If you're such a loser that you can't find some older kid to go buy you some beer...
Adam Curry:
Yeah.
John C. Dvorak:
What the hell kind of a kid are you?
Adam Curry:
And they actually show a Youtube video where the kid squirting the hand sanitizer right into his mouth.
John C. Dvorak:
Ahhhhhh!
Adam Curry:
video, with a kid squirting the hand sanitizer right into his mouth.
John C. Dvorak:
Ahhhh!
Adam Curry:
You know that's a joke. You know that's some douchebag, just like "Hey, watch this. I'll get on tv!" It's completely nuts. Hey, in the morning to you, by the way, John.
John C. Dvorak:
Well, in the morning to you, Adam Curry. In the morning to all ships at sea, and boots on the ground, and feet in the air.
Adam Curry:
And to our human resources in the chat room, all lined up, charged up, ready to go at noagendastream.com, noagendachat.net. Thanks to Mr. Oil, Gitmo Slave, we got four rocking streams now.
Adam Curry:
we got four rocking streams now. Uh, so uh, we should be good to go for a while now. Just piggybacking on that... this whole idea of showing Youtube videos as proof...
John C. Dvorak:
[laughs]
Adam Curry:
...of something. It's really...it's really annoying.
John C. Dvorak:
It's getting worse!
Adam Curry:
Yeah, so here's, this is about Syria. Now, I have a lot of thoughts about Syria. Of course, now that we have the so-called UN Monitors, which apparently, looking at the only video that's available, which is Youtube video
Adam Curry:
which apparently, looking at the only video that's available, which is Youtube video, is two Land Rovers with big 'UN' letters on the back. That's all we see...just driving...
John C. Dvorak:
I saw one guy with a blue beret.
Adam Curry:
Oooh, ok. Well, I didn't see that.
John C. Dvorak:
Roaming around some nondescript area.
Adam Curry:
Some set. [laughs] It's just stock footage.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, no. It's all B-roll.
Adam Curry:
So, we can have UN monitors in Syria, but apparently we can't have any journalists there. No one is there to document it. So you have this shill, this incredible douchebag, what's her name...uh,
Adam Curry:
shill. This incredible douche bag. What's her name? You'll recognize her voice. She's the one that was roaming around Ghadafi's RV. [chuckles] Remember that? She did the tour of the RV?
John C. Dvorak:
Oh yeah.
Adam Curry:
She speaks arabic, which is her hook and she's in Beirut, in Lebanon, where she is reporting. Of course, Lebanon is in on this whole Syria deal. And she..the report..there is NO fact. Just listen to this.
Adam Curry:
It drives me nuts. She only has YouTube, unconfirmed sources, people from the opposition, nothing, not a single fact. And this is news.
Clip:
Posted to YouTube late on Wednesday appear to show
Adam Curry:
Appear to show.
Clip:
UN monitors touring the Damascus suburb of Duma. This an area that had been under siege. According to opposition activists
Adam Curry:
Opposition activists
Clip:
for the last few days. It is also an area where dramatic video was posted to YouTube
Adam Curry:
Dramatic video posted to YouTube.
Clip:
on Wednesday showing rebel fighters firing on government armor as it moved
Adam Curry:
You don't see rebel fighters. You see, like, some tracers going through the air.
Clip:
through streets in this particular suburb. And when it comes to a cease fire, well, many will tell you that it most certainly does not exist at this stage with the
Adam Curry:
Many will tell you.
John C. Dvorak:
Many.
Adam Curry:
Many. Many. I did some reporting. Many, many people said it doesn't exist. Hey! Doesn't exist.
Clip:
death toll continuing to rise. Hundreds being killed
Adam Curry:
Hundreds! One hundred [100], two hundred [200], three hundred [300], nine hundred [900]?
Clip:
person that was allegedly said to have
Adam Curry:
Allegedly.
Clip:
implemented and violence being reported
Adam Curry:
Being reported! Ahhhhghh! You're killing me bitch.
Clip:
throughout pretty much the entire country.
Adam Curry:
Pretty much. Pretty much. It's just a very small
John C. Dvorak:
Pretty much.
Adam Curry:
Pretty much.
Clip:
activists are saying
Adam Curry:
Activists are saying.
Clip:
in some parts of
Adam Curry:
Some parts. It could be north, could be south, could be over there.
Clip:
the government has removed it's tanks from certain areas, only to hide them in others. Video posted to YouTube showing that taking place in the province
Adam Curry:
You see a tank behind, like, a mole hill. [laughs] Like they're hiding. "Shhhhh, I can see they're hiding those bastards. They're hiding behind that dirt over there, 'cause I can see the big tank."
Clip:
of Humma for example.
Adam Curry:
For example.
Clip:
Many opposition activists and analysts are saying
Adam Curry:
Analysts! Oh! Analysts now.
Clip:
If and when the three hundred [300] monitors do eventually arrive in Syria, that is quite simply not a sufficient number to truly monitor the entire country.
Clip:
Opposition activists
Adam Curry:
Opposition activists.
Clip:
are also saying that even if there should be some sort of hypothetical end to the bloodshed and to the government onslaught, they would be unwilling to sit down to any sort of negotiating table with the regime, as long as Bashar al-Assad remains in power. Which makes any sort of political transition at this stage highly unrealistic.
Adam Curry:
So, the only thing she did well in that was the pronunciation of Assad's name. That's the only thing that was good. [garbles name] That she can do.
John C. Dvorak:
Wow. What was this on?
Adam Curry:
CNN!
John C. Dvorak:
Aw, CNN is just gone down the tubes.
Adam Curry:
But, this is their main correspondent.
John C. Dvorak:
This is a vague report with no real substantiation for anything. And no specifics at all.
Adam Curry:
But, it's all YouTube videos and alleged in some parts and could be over here, could be over there. You know, like the opposition says. He said. She said.
John C. Dvorak:
There's plenty of journalists over there. Plenty. We've talked about this in show after show and you can find them. They're on French tv, work for Russia Today, they work for Swedish group. They work all over the place..
Adam Curry:
No, I thought they all got killed.
John C. Dvorak:
They're all saying the same thing. This is bull crap.
Adam Curry:
[chuckles]
John C. Dvorak:
But, those reports are no good.
Adam Curry:
No, of course it's not good and I'll tell you why. They're trying to escalate this and the Foreign Minister of France has already called for action within the next two [2] weeks. Gee, why would that be? Let me think.
Adam Curry:
What's going in in France. Hmmmm. Oh! Elections perhaps? He is calling for immediate action. We have to go in there..of course we have all kinds of bombs exploding, allegedly seen on YouTube. We don't really know, because nobody has any factual reporting. It's just all, here's the smoke plume on YouTube. Sixty four [64] people killed.
Adam Curry:
They want to keep Sarkozy in. They're so afraid that he's not going to make the cut, which is a very likely possibility. And by the way, say hello to the new boss, same as the old boss. Hollande. First thing he wants to do is renegotiate the fiscal compact with the European Union, for growth. [laughs] Yeah, that's a good one. They're willing to actually go and kill people.
Adam Curry:
They're willing to do it. Of course, if you're in the middle of a war and you've got stuff happening, you don't want to, at that point, kick anybody out, because that would be bad and he could shill on that. It's disgusting. So, not only is the news media helping President's get elected, but they're selling you bogus foam sanitizer. There's two ends of the spectrum.
Adam Curry:
That's it, I'm done. Good night everybody.
John C. Dvorak:
Okay. So long. See you again next week.
Adam Curry:
All right.
John C. Dvorak:
Be here all the week. Well, while we're talking about the bogus reporting, we have to point out..I had a couple of clips I might as well bring out early, which is..
Adam Curry:
Whip it out, Johnny boy.
John C. Dvorak:
The BBC, which you'd think would be a good news organization, is actually full of crap!
Adam Curry:
Mmmm. Which one? The first one?
John C. Dvorak:
I've got two of them here. I've got two clips...
Adam Curry:
One of them is 'full of crap' and one is 'full of shit', so I'm not sure which one to play.
John C. Dvorak:
Let's go with 'full of shit' first.
Clip (Speaker 1):
Now one of those great chefs, Marco Pierre White, has a starring roll in the summit and he joins me now in our Singapore studios. Mr. White, thank you so much for joining us. You've been dubbed a celebrity chef, a restaurateur, television personality, even the godfather of modern cooking. Do you like to be called all of these titles?
Clip (Speaker 2):
I don't care about it. I'm not that bothered, really.
Clip (Speaker 1):
[laughs] You just like to be called a cook. A chef.
Clip (Speaker 2):
That's right.
Clip (Speaker 1):
Tell us, Mr. White, how did it all start? When did you get this inclination to become a chef?
Adam Curry:
[French accent] When I cooked an egg on my head.
John C. Dvorak:
Now, first of all, I never heard of this guy.
Adam Curry:
And you're a foodie. You know this stuff.
John C. Dvorak:
Then I realized I have heard of him. He was the replacement for Ramsey in Hell's Kitchen. He's like a Ramsey clone.
Adam Curry:
He's an actor.
John C. Dvorak:
Even though he claims to be Ramsey's mentor.
Adam Curry:
He's an actor.
John C. Dvorak:
[chuckles]He is an actor. So, I started looking up some of his stuff. The godfather of modern cooking, it just made me laugh out loud. That comes right from his Wikipedia page that has been so carefully massaged
John C. Dvorak:
that's based on another article, essentially Ask Men or some web site. They ask you, "Can you give us a profile?" and public relations people send a bunch of crap that's bull crap and you just print it. And then Wikipedia picks that up and puts it in the Wikipedia, including this odd fact..the one that really got me..the youngest chef in England to win three [3] stars from Michelin
John C. Dvorak:
and then the other one which snuck in there, he has the first restaurant..and this cropped up in there two or three place..the first restaurant in the UK to get three stars in nineteen ninety five [1995]. Well, I remember going to three [3] star restaurants before nineteen ninety five [1995] so I did a little research, so I discovered it was actually nineteen eighty two [1982] that La Gava Roche got three [3] stars, which was a bit before nineteen ninety five [1995]. This is all bull crap.
Adam Curry:
Well, it's fine reporting.
John C. Dvorak:
And this guy, this idiot from Singapore, that sounds like Rico Chacone, from ABC here locally, who can barely speak..
Adam Curry:
[chuckles] I know what that is, actually.
John C. Dvorak:
The guy? Or Rico Chacone?
Adam Curry:
Rico Chacone.
John C. Dvorak:
[rolls the r's]Rico Chacone! It was never Rico Chacone. It was always [rolls r's] Rico Chacone!
Adam Curry:
[rolls r's]Rico! Rico Chacone.
John C. Dvorak:
[with accent] San Jose.
Adam Curry:
[with accent] I'm Rico Chacone, the news, San Francisco, San Jose.
John C. Dvorak:
So this is a fluff piece for this character. But it's all bull crap.
Adam Curry:
Wait a minute. The BBC is running their show, I presume.
John C. Dvorak:
I would assume so.
Adam Curry:
Yeah.
John C. Dvorak:
So, here we go. "The BBC is full of crap". This one is the one that was, "Holy!"..actually, J.C. and I were watching at the same time as he's looking this stuff up. He's saying "this is all bull." Run the clip and then I'll tell you what they were running on the screen.
Clip:
[female reporter]Half a century ago the Salton Sea was known as the French Riviera of California. But, now the good time [inaudible] are drying up.
Adam Curry:
[Laughing] Wait a minute! I've BEEN to Salton Sea.
John C. Dvorak:
You already get it.
Adam Curry:
Salton Sea. It's trailer park.
John C. Dvorak:
There's a trailer park and there's never been more than a trailer park there and they're showing this clip, the French Riviera of California, which is a dead sea in the middle of California.
Adam Curry:
Let me play it again.
Clip:
[female reporter]Half a century ago, the Salton Sea was known as the French Riviera of California. But now, the good times and the sea itself are drying up. Formed accidentally in the early nineteen hundreds [1900's], the area became a tourist attraction, boasting
Clip:
[female reporter] boasting yacht clubs and all the trappings of a luxury resort.
Adam Curry:
Pffffttttt. [laughing]
Clip:
[female reporter] and now the price tag to save the sea is too high for the cash strapped state.
Adam Curry:
Wait a minute. Let me just say something. Miss Micky and I, when we did our test run with the RV. Remember, we did a test run and we went to Joshua Tree. And the route we took brought us, on the way back, to Salton Sea. And Micky was like, "Oh look, there's a little lake. Let's go have lunch there."
Adam Curry:
And we're driving through and she's like, "Wow, can I take pictures?" And I'm like, "No, not only are you staying in the car, you're locking the doors." It's a trailer park and we had lunch which consisted of a pizza, like a Digiorno pizza that was heated up in a toaster oven at the local shop. Indeed, everything is closed there.
John C. Dvorak:
What was there to begin with?
Adam Curry:
It never was the Riviera of Califonria. That's total crap.
John C. Dvorak:
[laughs] They say fifty [50] years ago, which was nineteen sixty five [1965], which is in recent memory, but it has always been just a shit hole..
Adam Curry:
Yeah.
John C. Dvorak:
..that people used to boat on and so they show these pictures to try to get some feeling of the Riviera..so they have some old b-roll..and they've got one thing that was a family at a picnic table with an old Pontiac behind them.
Adam Curry:
It's still there! That old Pontiac.
John C. Dvorak:
There's nothing there. There never HAS been anything there. Why are they making this..this is a bull shit story
John C. Dvorak:
Why are they making this?.... This is a bullshit story of the highest order, pushed out the BBC for some political reason that has to do with, you know, fixing the Salton Sea, or washing it away, or just closing down the area. But to make up something like "used to be the French Riviera of California". It's beyond belief that they would do this. They are a fucked up oranization.
Adam Curry:
Whoa!
Jingle:
John C. Dvorak's pet peeve of the day.
Adam Curry:
Harsh, but I like it! I like when you talk dirty, big boy.
Adam Curry:
I like it! I like when you talk dirty, big boy. Wow.
John C. Dvorak:
I was jut...it was just galling.
Adam Curry:
Yeah, I'm looking at the wiki page to see if someone...
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, the wiki page...it's a joke!
Adam Curry:
...slipped it in. Did someone slip French Riviera? No. No.
John C. Dvorak:
Not yet. According to the BBC, it's the French Riviera!
Adam Curry:
Someone please put that it. Could you put that in? Remember we had the wiki page for annoying, and someone indeed put Christina Legard's picture full page? It's still in the history, it lasted about three seconds.
Adam Curry:
Legard's picture full page? It's still in the history, it lasted about three seconds.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, there were a lot of... [trails off]
Adam Curry:
[talking over] And the wiki police went "Oooh, you can't put annoying in the..."... And I want to commend you, John for a very good news letter that you sent out. Not commending you because it didn't help in any donations to the show, but it was what I expected to see from you. It was a blurb, a column, uh, what do you call it? A column, yeah. It was a good newsletter, and it was about the uh
Adam Curry:
A column, yeah. It was a good newsletter, and it was about the uh, potential for race riots as part of the scampaign by the current administration in the United States of Gitmo Nation. And not two seconds...not two seconds, after this thing drops into everyone's mailbox, we get like, Dr. Drew is going to have Rodney King on, and we've got, oh my goodness, what is this, I have...
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, that was weird. CNN started
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, it was weird. The CNN story was as though they got the newsletter and said "here's our story, let's go with this!"
Adam Curry:
I'm telling you! This is uh...what is this. NBC Los Angeles. They're doing something amazing. If you go, I can't believe they are doing this. If you go to twitter.com/realtimelariots. They have queued up the reporting on the riots from 20 years ago with today's timeline and they are tweeting
Adam Curry:
the riots from 20 years ago with today's timeline and they are tweeting in realtime as if it was 1992. Are you with me?
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, that's interesting.
Adam Curry:
So if you go to realtimelariots right now on Twitter, uh, oops, for some reason I messed that one up. Let's see what they say right now. Twitter slash realtimelariots. Let's see what's happening with the riots in real time, twenty years ago! We can
Adam Curry:
what's happening with the riots in real time, twenty years ago! We can get up to speed thanks to NBC Los Angeles! It's taking a second here. [reading from twitter posts] "Officer should be entitled to use sufficient force to subdue a criminal or to protect his own life, forewoman said report via LA Times" [reading another tweet] "Total deliberation time so far: 12 hours" They're counting it down to the riots on Twitter. And then we've got Dr. Drew, who brought out of all people, Marcia
Adam Curry:
Dr. Drew, who brought out of all people, Marcia Clark.
John C. Dvorak:
Oh, God.
Adam Curry:
The attorney for OJ Simpson, the prosecutor against OJ Simpson. Who has...this is what she does. She has written a book, everyone's promoting a book. Rodney King's promoting a book! I mean, that's why he was on! Rodney King's book is, uh..what is it called, 'The Riot Within: My Journey From Rebellion to Redemption'. Here's just a little piece to show how Dr. Drew
Adam Curry:
to redemption. Here's just a little piece to show you how Dr. Drew just combines this with the Trayvon Martin case.
Clip:
(Dr. Drew) This footage of myself and Rodney King at the site today where he was beaten in 1992. Officers from Los Angeles Police Department were acquitted of that beating. Rodney King, the outrage over the controversial verdict sparked days of civil unrest throughout Los Angeles. I recently asked King if he felt a kinship with Trayvon Martin.
Adam Curry:
Ohhh...of course! Why wouldn't we do that?
Clip:
[continuing] ...another African-American male, whose tragic plight has, of course, triggered outrage.
[Rodney King speaking] I've been in Trayvon Martin's shoes many times.
Clip:
outrage.
[Rodney King speaking] I've been in Trayvon's shoes many times.
[Dr. Drew] Tell me.
[King] And uh, and I've been in Trayvon's shoes when I was young.
Adam Curry:
(groans) This is not good!
Clip:
[King continuing] ...at that age. And it's scary being black and growing up these days. When I was young...
John C. Dvorak:
These days?
Adam Curry:
It's scary growing up these days! Not even scary being black, it's scary being a white girl in Los Angeles! It's scary being the PARENT of a white girl in Los Angeles!
Clip:
[King] by myself. It was scary. It was a different feeling for me. It's like survival.
[Dr. Drew] Yeah.
[King] It's like, you know
Clip:
[King] It's like a different feeling for me. It's like survival.
[Dr. Drew] Yeah.
[King] It's like, you know, you watch your back. But it's hard to explain it, but it's a different feeling being black and growing up. And being black and being by yourself.
Adam Curry:
Now this is very interesting. Cause the conversation is being taken in a very.... a particular direction. And he'll come back to that with Marcia Clark.
Clip:
[King] ...and growing up in the world is also, its another ballgame.
[Dr. Drew] Is it better now?
[King] It's definitely better. Things are definitely better and good thing...
Adam Curry:
Yeah, because.
Clip:
[King] It's definitely better. Things are definitely better and good thing...
Adam Curry:
Yeah, because we got food stamps now on the credit card. It's much better than it used to be!
Clip:
[King] You know, this is America. Things will always be getting better. You know, just based on history and how our country was built. Things are definitely not like they used to be and laws and things. It's a slow process.
Adam Curry:
You know, I think Rodney King is actually pretty good in all this. I mean, he's being a positive guy. I like that. But then Drew will bring it right back down with Marcia Clark.
Clip:
[King] We have come a long ways. We gotta give ourselves
Adam Curry:
But then Drew will bring it right back down with Marcia Clark.
Clip:
[King] We have come a long ways. We gotta give ourselves credit for that, you know?
[Drew] I thought that was rather profound what Rodney was saying there, and yet he is taking grief for being compared, comparisons that he doesn't make, being compared with Trayvon Martin.
Adam Curry:
YOU made the comparison, Drew!
Clip:
[Marcia Clark] Yeah, some people have said that he HAS compared himself to Trayvon Martin in some of these statements.
[Drew] Here, he just said I've been in his shoes when I was younger.
[Clark] That's right.
[Drew] Which is a very distinct thing.
[Clark] I agree with you. It really is a distinct thing. He's not saying "that night that I was beaten, I was doing the same thing as Trayvon Martin." He's not saying that.
Adam Curry:
No, but you're making that
Clip:
[Clark] "that night that I was beaten, I was doing the same thing as Trayvon Martin." He's not saying that.
Adam Curry:
No, but you're making that convenient combination for us.
Clip:
[Clark] And what he's saying is unarguable. You can't argue with that. Growing up black in the United States is a different experience than growing up white.
Adam Curry:
Now, I have an issue with this.
John C. Dvorak:
Like, how would she know one way or the other?
Adam Curry:
Yeah, so here's two white people talking about something, and it's a fact. You can't argue. Well, it's a fact growing up many many different scenarios growing up in America. I'm telling you...
John C. Dvorak:
Not if you're trying to set up race riots in the country.
Adam Curry:
shhhhh! Ixnay on the ace riotays!
John C. Dvorak:
race riots in the country.
Adam Curry:
shhhhh! Ixnay on the ace riotays! Whatevers ay. Don't talk about that! My daughter's 21 years old. A white woman in Los Angeles. She gets harrassed continuously. Continuously! Touched, groped! You know, it's not easy growing up any...it's not easy growing up! Period. But why do we have to single this out? I mean, what's the point?
John C. Dvorak:
Well, we got to get Obama reelected.
Adam Curry:
So here's the big issue I have. I had a
John C. Dvorak:
Obama reelected.
Adam Curry:
So here's the big issue I have. I had a, I actually had an argument with Miss Micky the other day. Argument is a big word.
John C. Dvorak:
Argument? Auf arf af arf.
Adam Curry:
It's a big word. We were having a conversation, we had some friends over for dinner, and she said well, you know... and whenever I bring out the, what I think is historical fact, she goes, aw shoot, you know, I uh, she's awesome at that. She's like, I hadn't thought about that. But America gets this big, ugly stamp as we are the racists, the KKK, the horrible people.
Adam Curry:
as we are the racists, the KKK, we're the horrible people. Our history, I mean. It was the Dutch who transported the slaves! They bought them, they stole them and sold them! And today, we have have over a quarter of the population discriminates women by making them walk behind them and cutting their genitalia! Why do we have as Americans, this incredible stamp as horrible racists?! This is worldwide! People, "yeah, well you know, you guys had the slaves
Adam Curry:
racists?! This is worldwide! People, "yeah, well you know, you guys had the slaves", you know. What?! Although, I'll say. If someone said to me, "you have a horrible slave issue right now because you have a majority of black people in prison, working for 3 cents an hour, making billions of dollars worth of products". I'll say, "Ok, I agree with you on that one". But stop already with the slavery! Stop already! Let he who lives in the glass house cast the first
Adam Curry:
Stop already! Let he who lives in the glass house cast the first stone.
John C. Dvorak:
So, what was the argument about?
Adam Curry:
That America is not the worst country in the world when it comes to slavery or discrimination of what one would think would be God-given-rights. Often confused with human rights.
John C. Dvorak:
No. Except for the prisons.
Adam Curry:
The prison system, I'm all down with that. So this is clearly trying to to build something up.
John C. Dvorak:
This is trying to incite...
Adam Curry:
Incite a riot.
John C. Dvorak:
This is inciting a riot. We are
John C. Dvorak:
This is trying to incite...
Adam Curry:
Incite a riot.
John C. Dvorak:
This is inciting a riot. We are on our way to incite riots by bringing this stuff up. And where are all the left wingers who made such a fuss about women not being included in the conversation in Congress when it was all men talking about birth control? When we have all whites talking about racism. You know, without, I mean, it was Marcia Clark and this Dr. Drew yakking with each other, and both asking leading questions of Rodney King, who's kind of a naive fellow, you know, minimally.
John C. Dvorak:
of Rodney King, who's kind of a naive fellow, you know, minimally. And so he could be easily led down the primrose path of saying what you want him to say. But that's CNN. There was some other stuff on CNN that somebody sent us mail talking about how they're...CNN is...
Adam Curry:
Well, they're doing a whole special. Uh, I think NBC is doing a...Rodney King is making the rounds. I mean, he's just going everywhere and he's like, "I got a book, you know."
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, he's got...some agent came up to him. Probably part of a scheme.
Adam Curry:
I mean, why not the 25th anniversary? Why does it have to be the 20th anniversary?
Adam Curry:
I mean, why not the 25th anniversary? Why does it have to be the 20th anniversary?
John C. Dvorak:
Because it better matches what's going on. We're pre-election.
Adam Curry:
So, how about in August?
John C. Dvorak:
It's all, this is all...I would take this all back to Axlerod.
Adam Curry:
Oh yeah...pffft. Yes. Hitler, you mean? He looks like Hitler, doesn't he? Don't you think he's the son of Hitler?
John C. Dvorak:
[laughs] If Hitler gained some weight!
Adam Curry:
Don't you think he looks like a son of Hitler?
John C. Dvorak:
Somewhere between Jon Hodgeman and Hitler.
Adam Curry:
If you draw a little Hitler mustache on Axlerod, he's Hitler! Think about it.
John C. Dvorak:
Oh, definitely a Hitleresque
Adam Curry:
Think about it.
John C. Dvorak:
Oh, definitely a Hitleresque character. He stammers in a funny, kind of staccato way that makes you kind of have to listen to specific little phraseologies that he inserts...
Adam Curry:
Let me make a prediction here. So uh, on the 29th of April, that's when we have the culmination of the 20th anniversary. We should have a big celebration. We should do a concert for the 20th anniversary of the Rodney King LA riots. Now, uh, 1965
Adam Curry:
the Rodney King LA riots. Now, uh, 1965, August 11th, we had the Watts riots. That would coincide nicely, I think, with the verdict in the Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin case. Don't you think?
John C. Dvorak:
Right. And we know the way, well, if they are going to play the same fractal script. Which is what I imply in that newsletter.
Adam Curry:
Yeah.
John C. Dvorak:
Um, Zimmerman has to get off.
Adam Curry:
No, of course he does!
John C. Dvorak:
Um, Zimmerman has to get off.
Adam Curry:
No, of course he does! No, this is obvious.
John C. Dvorak:
So, he's found not guilty and all [in unison with Curry]hell breaks loose. And then all these news networks get to yak about their, and they get to analyze this to death, with all kinds of hand-wringing, and "Oh my God, what about Obama?" Obama gets slipped in, this has Axlerod written all over it.
Adam Curry:
Ahh, by the way, Obama went off-script. Let me just say it this way. They're trying a new script. He came out with a video
Adam Curry:
a new script. He came out with a video, which was not one of his regular show things. Not like the weekly address. And it was a video of Arabic subtitles, and it was directed specifically at the people of Sudan. He had a message for the people of Sudan.
Clip:
[President Obama] In recent weeks, rising violence and fighting has taken the lives of innocent civilians. Men, women and children. Heated rhetoric on both sides has raised the risk.
Clip:
[President Obama] women and children. Heated rhetoric on both sides has raised the risk of war. So today, I want to speak directly to you, the people of Sudan and South Sudan. In your lives, you've endured extrordinary hardship. You carry in your hearts memory of family and friends you've lost. But in recent years, against great odds, you've made remarkable progress towards breaking the violent cycles of the past. Toward building a future of peace and greater prosperity. Now
Clip:
[President Obama] greater prosperity. Now all that progress is at risk of unraveling. So my message to you today is simple. It doesn't have to be this way. The future belongs to you. It is in your hands. You have the power, the choice to say what comes next. Whether your children will live in war or peace. The choice is yours, and now is the time to choose peace. As I've said before, those who have the courage to walk the path of peace will not be alone.
Clip:
[President Obama]As I've said before, those who have the courage to walk the path of peace will not be alone. You will have a strong and steady partner in the United States of America.
Adam Curry:
So, this is something new. Of course, we have slaughter going on. We have Sudan killing people who live in the caves, who obviously have internet and are watching this.
John C. Dvorak:
[laughs]
Adam Curry:
And they live right there on the pipeline, which is being blown up. It's all part of kicking the Chiners out. And this comes in concerto with a United Nations Security
Adam Curry:
in concerto with a United Nations Security Council resolution. You know we're the boss now of the Security Council, and the boss hog is Susan Rice, my favorite. And I was listening to her, they call it right after they come out of the security council meeting, they do a little standup in front of the microphone. And as she was talking, I heard all these acronyms, and I had to look them up.
Clip:
[Susan Rice] Members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms, the attack on an African Union United Nations hybrid operation in Darfur.
Adam Curry:
Hybrid
Clip:
Union United Nations hybrid operation in Darfur.
Adam Curry:
Hybrid operation. I'm like, whoa, hybrid. What is going on?
Clip:
[Rice] UNAMID patrol.
Adam Curry:
UNAMID.
Clip:
[Rice] in west Darfur on 20 April, in which four peacekeepers...
Adam Curry:
Peacekeepers!
Clip:
...were wounded. One of whom subsequently died as a result of injuries sustained in the attack.
Adam Curry:
So here's what we do. We got to start killing the peacekeepers. Let's look up this UNAMID. What is UNAMID, and who are the peacekeepers. UNAMID is the African Union United Nations Hybrid Operaitons