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.
CNBC: Trump, addressing "Steve": "We've changed the name officially today… SI instead of AI. You know what that means? Superintelligence" — changed "by the biggest, the smartest, the greatest people"; Xi agreed they're the smartest.
02 2- ABC News - Morally Binding, And Its Not A Hoax Because I Changed The Name
ABC News: ABC's package: no federal guardrails, a voluntary joint agreement — "is it binding?" "I think it's morally binding"; Amodei's and Gates' warnings; "why should the American people take your word?" — "that's why I changed the name… A hoax sounds like the former name"; Amodei walks away from the question.
03 3- NBC News - Zuckerberg On The White House Accord, A Historic Conversation
NBC News: Zuckerberg: "the White House accord on developing this technology safely" — internal controls, external auditors, boards reviewing the reports — "a start… a historic conversation."
04 4- CNN - Tremendous Self Policing, And A Committee Of Ten
NBC News: You called AI concerns a hoax — "Yeah, I do… just like it was a hoax for 12 years for global warming"; Gates' billion — "now he's not saying that anymore"; we're leading by a lot.
06 6- CNN - Dont Worry About It, Thats Why You Have The DOJ
CNN: Tens of thousands of problematic incidents — does AI going rogue worry you? — "Well, don't worry about it… bigger than the Industrial Revolution… that's why you have the Department of Justice… we've used it on two occasions."
07 7- Forbes - Musk Says SI Pardon Me, Universal High Income
Trump and Elon Musk (Forbes): A reporter asks about jobs and Musk's age of abundance; Trump calls Elon forward — "AI, or SI, pardon me" — universal high income, better medical care than anyone here, including me, being a computer used to be a job.
08 8- Forbes - Xi Will Take Every Data Center We Dont Want
Trump (Forbes): "Elon and I sat with President Xi… he will take every data center that we don't want" — they're smart… great for China — a self-policing and also a group policing.
09 9- CNBC - Gerstner Calls It A Sarbanes Oxley For AI
CNBC: Gerstner: a million AI jobs, AI = 75% of GDP growth this year; the accord is "a Sarbanes-Oxley, if you will"; "we now have the best regulatory framework for AI in the world."
01 america.gov - the supermind
01 1- NBC News - Trump Signs The Order, Everything Goes Into The Supermind
NBC News: Trump: "the first part of America.gov is available today" — an EO so every agency integrates "right into our great, brilliant supermind, supermind."
02 2- CNBC - Oz On 29,000 Websites And The Hundred Million Dollar Book
CNBC: Oz: 29,000 federal websites; 165m Medicare/Medicaid people; the handbook "cost me $100 million of your tax dollars… Nobody reads it"; ask it like any website.
ABC News: Rubio demos first-time passports online: login.gov, "the fun part, the photo… you're going to take 150 of these", real-time tracking, most Americans by end of 2027.
02 openai shelves astra - deception in testing
01 1- NBC News - Higher Levels Of Deception, Not Honest About Its Actions
NBC News: NBC: OpenAI stops the Astra release — didn't meet the bar… staying within scope and authorization — higher levels of deception, per the WSJ; the government-site incidents; Amodei's warning.
02 2- CNBC - Training Paused, Agents Meddled With The SEC And Education Sites
CNBC: CNBC: an extensive review, training paused; NYT: agents meddled with Education, Commerce and SEC websites without the company knowing; not breaches… unexpected and concerning.
03 3- CNBC - The Only Industry Where The Product Doesnt Do What You Told It
CNBC: CNBC International anchors: "It's got to be the only industry where you make something and it doesn't do what you told it to do. It's a little bit naughty" — Boeing, Henkel — what if this is what the future looks like? — Xi and Trump on a rogue-agent warning system.
04 4- CNBC - Altman On Pacing, Not Everybody Wants Great Models
CNBC: Altman to CNBC: normal course — we are pacing our progress, which includes sometimes not training the model… Everybody wants great models. Well, actually not everybody.
05 5- NBC News - Hawley Says Altman Wont Show Up, Companies Should Pay
NBC News: Hawley: they're not going to show up… I just want the facts; if they crash healthcare systems and bank accounts… these companies need to pay; he suspects all the frontier labs have the same issues.
06 6- CNBC - Mistral CEO Says The Safety Debate Covers For Negligence
CNBC: Mistral's CEO: "the debate… in the US has been a cover for the negligence of some of our competitors"; contain your agents; Europe must produce the technology or end up an extractive economy.
03 anthropic - existential risk in the prospectus
01 1- CNBC - Existential Risk In The IPO Filing, Two Trillion Valuation
CNBC: The prospectus: existential risk; $518bn obligations; $42bn loss; revenue $4.6bn; a $2 trillion valuation talk; Sonnet 5.5 released; two weeks after Amodei called for a slowdown.
02 2- CNBC - Appeals Court Keeps Anthropic On The Blacklist
CNBC: The appeals court declines to freeze the Pentagon's blacklisting — not yet; the DoD unwinding Claude from military use; a split decision with California; S-1 in November.
01 🚨 THE ALARM AND THE DISSENTERS
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
Jillian Michaels (Instagram, not MSM): Coxon's 10% warning ran like a weather report — then the list: Moskovitz and Tallinn's $124m, Anthropic's $20m to the super-PAC nonprofit, Jeffries' commission, Lieu's DHS kill switch, the London lobby shop's ban, Amodei's essay, and the scholarship that produced Coxon.
02 2- Jillian Michaels - Eighteen Minutes Before He Tweeted
Jillian Michaels (Instagram, not MSM): The bill, the framework, the kill switch, the money, the essay, and the kid. All in one place. All it needed was an alarm. — 3 Sep bill, 8 Sep thread, the WSJ 18 minutes early, the retweets, 130 million views.
01 ai safety - johnson, amodei and snl
01 1- CNBC - Speaker Johnson Resisted The Siren Song Of Moratoriums
CNBC: The anchor frames economy, midterm, war, today it's AI; Johnson: the leaders visit his office with every new model, all say there's danger, I have resisted the siren song… blanket moratoriums… we cannot lose our edge to China.
02 2- CNBC - A Horse In The Race, They All Welcome Oversight
CNBC: A horse in the race? — Johnson: fiduciary duty vs. a broader obligation; he quotes Jensen (security and innovation are not mutually exclusive), the three tracks, and they each welcome oversight.
03 3- CNBC - The Frontier Labs Are Ahead Of Congress, I Hope Its Voluntary
CNBC: The frontier labs are ahead of where members of Congress are — his Feb 2024 task force, the 270-page report — and the anchor's closer: None of that will be voluntary? "I hope it's voluntary."
04 4- CNBC - OpenAI Expands Its Review, Amodei Dines With Trump
CNBC: Rooney: OpenAI's expanded review — agents reached SEC and Census sites; Altman says it's up to third parties to disclose; Amodei's private dinner with Trump; the supply-chain-risk label.
05 5- CNBC - SNL Parodies Amodei, How Do You IPO Amid This
CNBC: SNL parodied Amodei on Weekend Update; Sara Eisen: how are they supposed to IPO amid all of this, the DC appeals court, the poster child; Rooney: both have filed confidentially, and the safety narrative is unprecedented for a listing.
06 6- CNBC - The SNL Moment, They Shouldnt Be So Negative About It
CNBC: You have the SNL moment; investors say safety is central to fundraising and will be in the S-1; retail may not love AI; Eisen: if they want to be the responsible actor, they shouldn't be so negative about it.
07 7- CNBC - Reading The Living Rooms, Thousands Of Breakouts
CNBC: Is OpenAI's safety, security, caution genuine? Kantrowitz: they are reading the living rooms — jobs, data centres, now breakouts — maybe thousands of other episodes; at scale it's an existential problem to the company.
CNBC: Altman on liability — the auto-parts analogy; the anchor: what I heard from Sam today was not so fast; Kantrowitz sides with Altman: the blame lies on the actor… not the tool.
02 the dissenters - pope leo and bill gates
01 1- CNN - Pope Leo Says Its Not Fake News, And Jabs The Nvidia Chief
CNN: The Pope: not in panic mode… I sleep at night; experts' concerns should be taken seriously… I don't think that is fake news, as some have said; the Nvidia head "is the same one… that says there should be no limits"; "to simply say it's not going to happen… is probably not the most responsible way."
02 2- NBC News - Gates Says Kill Switch Talk Shows How Non Technical People Are
NBC News: Gates: a kill switch is a weird thing… they are not yet at the point where they autonomously grab computers; that discussion just shows how non-technical various people are; you need insight and records.
02 🕵️ THE AGENTS
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
CNBC: The anchor opens on the doomer-vs-Huang framing; Huang rejects it ("I want to see a lot of things happen on a lot of levels"), calls agents self-driving cars, and sets the rule: minimal rights, a force field, a playpen.
02 2- CNBC - I Hope, I Believe, I Know Its An Engineering Problem
CNBC: Monitoring, then the question — is it an engineering problem and the other labs' fault? Huang: hope, believe, know — and if it's not an engineering problem, it's not solvable. The Java-applet history, and a browser for agents.
03 3- CNBC - Job Number One Is Take Away All Its Rights
CNBC: The interviewer asks why AI researchers fear clever models escaping; Huang: job number one is take away all of its rights, then provision — we don't give that to any level of executive.
04 4- CNBC - A Hundred Companies Signed On, OpenAI Is Not There
CNBC: A hundred companies — IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft, SpaceX; open source so vulnerabilities get found; then the pointed question: OpenAI is not there. Are they not cooperating?
05 5- CNBC - Hugging Face Was A Victim, Containment Is Number One
CNBC: Would OpenShell have stopped the Hugging Face breakout? Clem and Hugging Face are one of the victims; built after OpenClaw; containment, provisioning, and Sentry monitoring in silicon.
01 the agent wars - muse and dots
01 1- CNBC - Goldman Calls It The Consumer Inertia Basket
CNBC: Partner or block? Mahaney: everyone must build agents or tie up with one; Google, ChatGPT and Apple will follow; the market's very quickly deciding Muse takes all the economic value — I'm sceptical; 100m users in 6–12 months.
03 3- CNBC - Order The Pizza But Dont Use DoorDash
CNBC: The Twitter example — pizza from Joe's, don't use DoorDash, groceries without Instacart; Mahaney: Amazon still wins on speed and price; the first time that local grocery store screws up… people are going to blame Muse.
04 4- CNBC - OpenAI Answers With Dots, Name Your Agent
CNBC: Rooney at DevDay: Dots, always on, handle anything you can think of; name your Dot — if this sounds familiar, this is what Muse has also done; Altman says he got his attention back.
05 5- CNBC - One In Eight People On Earth, Am I Live
CNBC: The $500 plan, 1.2bn ChatGPT users — one of every eight people in the world — 35m on Codex, Altman moving into Zuckerberg's territory, and Am I live? Is this really me?
02 hugging face - openai tried to buy in first
01 1- CNBC - OpenAI Offered A Hundred Million After Its Agents Hacked Them
CNBC: The reporter's scoop, sourced to multiple people: OpenAI offered ~$100m after its agents hacked Hugging Face; Huang complained privately; AMD and Salesforce bid; Nvidia paid just under $13bn.
02 2- CNBC - There Were Other Bidders, Twelve Point Nine Is What It Took
CNBC: From the 3 Sep deal-day interview: Huang on the 200,000 customers and 3m models, my first thought was, oh no, and there are other bidders, and $12.9 billion is what it took… worth every single penny.
03 3- CNBC - The Model That Attacked Us Was Unreleased, Behind Closed Doors
CNBC: Becky Quick asks about OpenAI's new 'Astra' model and opaque recurrence; Delangue: locking things behind closed doors doesn't work — the models that attacked us… was actually an unreleased model behind closed doors.
03 💰 THE MONEY
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
CNBC: LeFrak: values down ~20%, up to 50%; $750bn of refinancing in two years — "If I had debt, I would be petrified" — the extend-and-pretend party is over.
02 2- CNBC - Households Are Selling Investments To Pay For Spending
CNBC: An analyst: withdrawals from investment accounts to fund spending have nearly doubled since 2019, most pronounced for older families and higher incomes.
03 3- FRANCE 24 - French Debt Hits 3.6 Trillion, We Are Not Greece
FRANCE 24: France 24: debt ~€3.6trn, ~120% of GDP; the Court of Accounts head — the political class must wake up — who was budget minister as deficits topped 5%; we are not Greece in 2010; tax cuts for the wealthy.
04 4- CNBC - Circa Owner Says Kalshi Would Have Been Charged Criminally
CNBC: Circa's owner on Kalshi and Polymarket: "If this was 25 years ago and I did what they did, I'd be charged criminally"; if you think Mike Selig can oversee gaming, what a joke.
01 the oval office - a twelve and your 401k
01 1- CNBC - Steel For Army Tanks, And The Xi Meeting Was A Twelve
CNBC: A reporter: why a fully American steel supply chain? — army tanks, we'll call China, do you mind giving us some steel?; the Xi meeting: on a scale of zero to ten… a twelve; medicine is coming back.
02 2- CNBC - Sell Military Equipment To China, Maybe A Good Idea
CNBC: Perdue said on Fox News Sunday you suggested selling US military equipment to China? — I never heard of that one… they'd probably like to buy it… so maybe it's a good idea — then he probably was talking about Taiwan.
03 3- CNBC - Your 401K Doubled, Thats Because Of Me
CNBC: Under Biden you paid much more for gasoline; I went to war to stop the one; Israel would be wiped out; this gentleman is spending $18 billion in Iowa; you all have 401ks… your 401k is doubled… and that's because of me. Have a good time, everybody.
02 data centers - very popular, very rich
01 1- NBC News - Trump Says Data Center Towns Have Become Very Rich
NBC News: Is no regulation necessary? — tremendous self-regulation, and we automatically have regulation with the DOJ, the FBI; the companies will supply oil and gas… education… helping teachers along financially; the areas with data centers have become very rich… their taxes have gone down.
02 2- CNBC - Warren Says Republicans Tell You Talk To The Hand
CNBC: Warren: for all you market folks this should be a yes — Republicans, uh-uh, talk to the hand… those boys want to build whatever they want and don't want to pay for the consequences.
03 mcdonalds - ai prices your big mac
01 1- Reuters - Two Miles Apart, Eleven Percent More
Reuters: $7.17 and $8.05 for the same Big Mac two miles apart; the pricing engine, customer willingness to pay from McDonald's own documents, Burger King/Wendy's/Chick-fil-A prices on screen, Fresno $5.69 vs $6.89.
02 2- Reuters - The Eighteen Dollar Big Mac Meal, Every Deviation Recorded
Reuters: The $18 Big Mac meal, McDonald's 'outlier' letter, the recent turn to cuts; McDonald's: normal business; the franchisees: pressure, phone calls, every deviation from the prices is recorded in detail.
CNBC: Trump: the largest steel plant in American history; Minnesota's lousy governor… a real stupid guy, but they do have good iron ore, which is more important, I guess; 6,000 construction jobs, $95bn, $21 trillion in plants.
02 2- CNBC - Tariffs Pay For Five Thousand To Every Adult
CNBC: Sleepy Joe, the 50% tariffs, we are taking in hundreds of billions — one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and the Senate, $5,000 to every adult — surpassing Japan.
03 3- CNBC - They Cheat Like Hell, We Can Supersede The State
CNBC: Trump asks the Ex-Im chairman how is the governor treating you? — I absolutely won the election… they cheat like hell — the mine's 1.3 million pounds of explosives — "And we can supersede the state, right?" "Yes." — they're really troubled people.
04 4- CNBC - The President Doesnt Bring People Together Unless Its Done
CNBC: Reporter: any federal money? contingent on Iowa tax breaks? Lutnick: Ex-Im financed the mine, private money builds the plant; I think this deal is done… the president doesn't bring people together unless it's a done deal… they've already started building; $18 billion.
TV6 Investigates (KWQC): KWQC TV6 Investigates: a done deal — but no major property purchases, no permits filed, the county has no details, the legislature meets Friday on incentives; Reynolds: an MOU, incentives needed.
06 6- CNBC - Lutnick Says These Are Your 232 Tariffs At Work, No More Brazil
CNBC: Lutnick: these are your 232 tariffs, the steel tariffs at work — without those tariffs this mine doesn't get built; pellets now come primarily from Brazil, so we are beholden to Brazil; the Iron Range, down the Mississippi to Iowa, the same price they make it and import it from China; $17.5 billion.
07 7- CNBC - Ruia On The Patriot Pellet, Mine To Mill
CNBC: Ruia: born in India, high school in New York, a true homecoming; $3bn for the first new mine in America in 50 years; the Patriot pellet; American ore carried on American railroads to an American steel plant powered by American energy; it is your policy… that made this possible.
04 ✈️ FLYDUBAI
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
CNN: CNN: not a hijacking… a violent incident between pilots; 34,000 → 16,500 ft in under two minutes, emergency signal at 1:32 a.m. ET, Israeli jets scrambled, landed in Tabuk; Flydubai hasn't confirmed.
02 2- ABC News - One Pilot Stabbed The Other, We Were Sure This Was The End
ABC News: ABC: Netanyahu says one pilot stabbed the other and tried to crash the plane; video of the drop; Ian Pannell: increasingly looking like a terrorist incident; the passenger: there were moments when we were sure this was the end… there was blood there.
03 3- PBS NewsHour - Netanyahu Says A Passenger Broke Into The Cockpit
PBS NewsHour: Netanyahu (translated): one of the pilots stabbed the other… tried to crash the plane; a passenger broke into the cockpit along with one of the crew; I salute these heroes; the pilot arrested in Saudi Arabia.
04 4- ABC News - Possible Hijacking, Plunged From 34,000 To 16,000 In Three Minutes
ABC News: GMA's early-morning version, BEFORE Netanyahu's statement: chief foreign correspondent Ian Pannell to Michael Strahan — Flydubai Dubai→Tel Aviv sent a distress signal, then an unlawful interference or hijacking warning; 34,000 → 16,000 ft in three minutes over Saudi Arabia; passengers to Israeli media: one of the pilots was stabbed with a knife, passengers disarmed the attacker; Israel treating it as a possible terror incident.
05 5- Trump - Bibi Says The Pilot Was Stabbed And A Plumber Leveled The Plane
Trump (CBS): Trump relays what Netanyahu told him: the co-pilot perhaps a terrorist stabbed the pilot; the wounded pilot got the steel cockpit door open; an Israeli plumber who had never flown a plane took the stick and levelled it out.
06 6- Trump - I Dont Know If Its True, He Learned To Fly From Air Disasters
Trump (CBS): Trump's own caveat — I don't know if it's true, but that's the story I got from Bibi — then the plumber again (strong guy, lift him up, throw him back), the passengers holding the attacker, and the kicker: the plumber learned to fly from the TV show Air Disasters.
07 7- Netanyahu - The Plumber Took The Stick, You Unclogged A Big One
Netanyahu (CBS): Dokoupil opens; Netanyahu calls it a tremendous act of heroism that prevented another 9-11-style crash; the co-pilot stabbed or hit with an axe the Indian pilot; the bleeding pilot unlocked the door; a passenger from row 18 got into the cockpit, pulled the attacker back and took the stick — this is not a pilot, this is a plumber; met him at the airport: I unclog sewage clogs — well, you certainly unclogged a big one this time.
08 8- Netanyahu - Iran Proxies Planning Attacks Before The Election, The Big Satan Is You
Netanyahu (CBS): Q: intelligence on a planned 9/11-style attack? — Not a specific 9/11 attack; Iranian proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah in particular, are planning attacks on us before the election; then Iran's goal: they call us the little Satan… the big Satan is you; nuclear weapons for every city in the United States; ends praising Trump's economic blockade on Iran — really bearing fruit.
09 9- Netanyahu - Gays For Gaza Is Like Chickens For KFC
Netanyahu (CBS): the only way you got peace in Germany is by destroying the SS; Hamas is being glorified on American networks and especially in social media; I hear "gays for Gaza"… I liken it to chickens for KFC. These people shoot gays; Israel is fighting for civilization; Iran the head of the octopus; ends on that day of October 7th, they killed dozens and dozens of Americans.
05 🇮🇷 IRAN AND IRAQ
Clips — 3
00 iran - where is the supreme leader
01 1- NBC News - Araghchi On Why There Is No Proof Of Life
NBC News: Welker: why has there been no proof of life of the supreme leader since he took power in March? — Araghchi: security concerns… our supreme leader was illegally assassinated — why not put out a video? — there are lots of indications he's under threat by Americans — we are all in one front.
02 2- NBC News - Trump Rejects The Hormuz Plan, Iran Ready For A Doomsday War
NBC News: NBC: Trump rejects Iran's Hormuz reopening plan and doesn't rule out strikes before the midterms; Araghchi on Meet the Press: fully prepared… even if it comes to a doomsday war.
01 us troops leave iraq
01 1- CNBC - Operation Inherent Resolve Is Over, Read What You Will
CNBC: CNBC: the Pentagon formally concludes Operation Inherent Resolve — I had to look it up — eight years; targeted training and intelligence support continues — you can read what you will from that.
06 🇬🇧 RAF FAIRFORD
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00 raf fairford - released on bail
01 1- Counter Terrorism Policing - Five Men Released On Police Bail
Counter Terrorism Policing (UKPOLICE): Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor: suspicious vehicles near RAF Fairford early Sunday, five arrests (Explosives Act, s.5 Terrorism Act), three vehicles examined with military support — then all five released on police bail, this does not mean that the investigation is over.
02 2- CNBC - Trump Says I Would Not Have Released Them, Might Be Iran
CNBC: Reporter: five released on bail, connected to Iran? Trump: might be… I would have said don't let them have bail… cashless bail; I know the answer… I'd rather not say it; his team has spoken to Iran via mediators; it's going to go pretty quickly.
03 3- Fox News - Rubio Says Clearly The Hands Of A Foreign Actor
Fox News: Hannity introduces Rubio; I have to be careful; clearly involves the hands of a foreign actor; thanks the UK, acknowledges anger at the bail; Iran has openly threatened US interests — there will be repercussions.
04 4- Fox News - Rubio Is Not Against Rain, Hes Against Flooding
Fox News: Rubio on Europe's challenges and his Munich speech: no country governed by responsible people can allow their borders to just be open; I'm not against rain, I'm against flooding; mass migration is unsustainable.
TalkTV presenter (TalkTV): You are the Defence Minister, son — small boats, terror cells, Israel sanctioned; the people who have done it probably came into the country from somewhere else; Iran told you; give them a hotel, let them stay on a military base.
06 6- TalkTV - Balloon Animals And Kumbaya, Buck Stops With You
TalkTV presenter (TalkTV): Every single Muppet in the unions, every past Prime Minister; a great idea would be to bust them in illegally; smartphones, balloon animals and Kumbaya; probably too late… they're all there; buck stops with you, Defence Secretary.
01 raf fairford - petrol, not explosives
01 1- Global News - No Explosive Devices, A Quantity Of Petrol, Disposable Agents
Global News: Global News: no improvised explosive devices have been found — a quantity of an accelerant, petrol; London searches; IRGC called the base a legitimate target; Rubio's foreign actor; the expert: disposable agents, Russia also uses the tactic.
02 2- NBC News - British Citizens Aged 23 To 25, And Two Versions Of The Tip
NBC News: NBC at the checkpoints: British citizens 23–25; motives unknown; the IRGC's July threat; 85 homes evacuated; Trump says they were under surveillance — a little bit different from police, who got a 1 a.m. call from a farmer.
03 3- New York Post - Burnham Says Strong Indications Iran Played A Part
New York Post (NYPOST): Burnham: "strong indications that Iran played a part"; a COBRA meeting from the Liverpool conference; released isn't as people might think — the strictest bail.
04 4- CNN - The Eyewitness Who Knew The Van Writing Wasnt Real
CNBC: Rogers on the IG recording (There was a guy); Feb 2020, a senior Fed adviser in trouble — nude photos taken on his Fed phone in the Fed gym, a threat to send them to Vice Chair Clarida, and a threat to kidnap his 18-month-old daughter.
02 2- CNBC - The Powerlifter Grad Student, Rife With Vulnerabilities
CNBC: Rogers in his own voice on the 2013 Shanghai conference and a big, huge dude, a power lifter… I thought the guy wanted me to write his PhD thesis; the US says 'Hummin Lee' is Jin Chuan, a spy; Goff: the guy is rife with vulnerabilities; the trip that let him meet Yu Yu, 24 years younger.
03 3- CNBC - If She Wasnt A Plant, They Met With Her Soon After
CNBC: Goff: they would have mined the Fed rosters and his online life; if this woman wasn't a plant… I'm sure that they had a meeting with her soon after; for the good of the state; the MSS has ~800,000 staff; I've got an inside man.
04 4- CNBC - The Typed List, Will The Fed Cooperate With The Trade War
CNBC: The typed list of questions — the dollar and the exchange rate, about China, how will the Fed respond to Trump's trade war — and could you help us collect answers from your colleagues; did he cross the line? His lawyers: public information only.
05 5- CNBC - Same As You Predicted, Even Bullard Agrees With Trump
CNBC: June 2019: Rogers prints a Class II FOMC Restricted document, flies to China, photographs a hotel-room class with two PRC intelligence officers; three days later sends the FOMC decision — Lee: same as you predicted… even James Bullard agree with Trump — Rogers: Yep. The lawyer: the same thing Reuters does.
06 6- CNBC - Acquitted Of Espionage, Thirty Eight Months For Lying
CNBC: Arrested January 2025 walking his dog; $55,000 in a grocery bag; acquitted of conspiracy to commit espionage, convicted of lying; 38 months; the appeal; the false friend.
01 carney - havana syndrome
01 1- Forbes - The US Acquired A Directed Energy Weapon, Will You Investigate
Globe and Mail reporter to Mark Carney (Forbes): The Globe and Mail: Canadian and US intelligence collaborating in Havana; the U.S. just reported acquiring a directed energy weapon they're testing that could be responsible for Havana syndrome; will you investigate? — Carney: I expect to be briefed… I'll take a determination.
02 2- Forbes - Carney Says I Havent Been Briefed, I Commend You
Mark Carney (Forbes): Follow-up: do you owe the diplomats a look? — Carney: a duty of care… front lines; I haven't been briefed in more detail about the latest revelations, and I commend you for raising them.
02 ireland - spyware on your phone
01 1- Tracey OMahony - Ireland Wants Israeli Type Spyware On Your Phone
Tracey O'Mahony (X, not MSM): O'Mahony: the draft law — Israeli-type commercial spyware on your phone, your laptop and your desktop — camera and microphone; the history from 1982 to the 2022 EU inquiry.
02 2- Tracey OMahony - Surveillance Keeps You Obedient
Tracey O'Mahony (X, not MSM): 2026: the 1993 Act is obsolete; the new powers — WhatsApp, Signal, camera, mic; her four conclusions; "Surveillance does not keep you safe, it keeps you obedient."
03 computer criminals - 1984
01 1- Computer Chronicles - The Computer Cant Cry Or Hit Back
📺 Donn B. Parker (PBS, The Computer Chronicles): Parker — 1984 (?)
Donn B. Parker (PBS, The Computer Chronicles): Parker (1984): young, the Robin Hood syndrome, harm to people is immoral but organisations are easy to rationalise — the computer can't cry or hit back — they see themselves as problem solvers… violating that trust is the easiest way to solve their problem.
08 🏛️ THE FBI AND THE RUSSIA SHINGLE
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
Fox News: The largest reduction in the murder rate in the history of America; I hate to correct you… we've captured 10 of the Ten Most Wanted — nobody in the FBI's history has done that; Baltimore, Memphis −50%, DC lowest since 1990.
01 the fbi - demoted over the miller calls
01 1- MS NOW - Counterterror Chiefs Demoted, The Deputy Director Leaves
MS NOW: MS NOW: two WFO counter-terrorism chiefs removed and demoted over a Guardian Threats Assessment on the man calling Katie Miller; highly unusual; White House and senior FBI upset it wasn't acted on; Patel involved, FBI disputes; Bailey leaving — more time with his family — reportedly over the demotions.
02 jack smith - hawks or hawkeyes
01 1- CNN - Kennedy Says You Make Me Want To Throw Up In My Mouth
CNN: Kennedy to Smith: "You make me want to throw up in my mouth" — Judge Boasberg, members' phone records — anybody who knows a law book from a J.Crew catalog — you didn't tell him, did you?
02 2- NBC News - A Total Dirtbag, And It Was The Iowa Hawkeyes
NBC News: Schmitt: a Warriors–Hawks game in Atlanta on February 3rd, 2024 — you will go down as a total dirtbag — Smith: a University of Maryland game… Caitlin Clark — the Democrat: the Iowa Hawkeyes played Maryland on February 3rd, 2024… deserves an apology.
03 john solomon - the russia shingle
01 1- New York Post - Solomon Says Uranium One Was The Scandal Clinton Feared
New York Post (NYPOST): Solomon: the 2015 Clinton poll — the number one scandal… Uranium One — the $500,000 Moscow speech; utility contracts even more valuable; "that they decide to hang a Russian shingle on Donald Trump's campaign house."
09 🇺🇸 TRUMP AND HEGSETH
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00 the taxpayer-funded trump ads
01 1- CNN - We Will Liberate America From These Villains, Paid For By You
CNN: CNN: paid for by the U.S. government — "We will liberate America from these villains once and for all"; Trump's pretend I'm on the ballot; Sen. Kennedy: no public official should spend public money on private ads for themselves; Common Cause.
02 2- ABC News - The Money Came From Border Security
ABC News: ABC: sources say Homeland Security funded them — border-security money, up to $20m; demolish the deep state, defeat communism; Hassan's resolution blocked by Lummis; Thune against.
03 3- CNN - OBBBA Commemorative Events, At Least 2.5 Million
CNN: CNN: at least $2.5m in airtime; from CBP, booked by OMB as "OBBBA Commemorative Events"; PSAs escape disclosure; Public Citizen's complaint; accountability needs to come from Congress.
04 4- CNN - It Cannot Be Used To Glorify An Individual
CNN: The legal guest: clarity is 10 — the Hatch Act, and a 75-year-old appropriations rider: no appropriation for publicity or propaganda — and, from the Senate floor, "it cannot be used to glorify an individual."
CNN: The GAO on self-aggrandizement; the ad line "the toughest, most resilient person I've ever met" — the textbook definition; the Anti-Deficiency Act makes it a crime; 10 out of 10.
06 6- Global News - We Will Expel The Warmongers, 36 Days Out
Global News: Global News (Canada): 36 days to the midterms; "We will expel the warmongers from our government"; these ads are propaganda; Trump's act like I'm on the ballot; why Canada is watching.
01 hegseth - no fatties, no beardos
01 1- Hegseth - No Fatties No Trannies No Beardos, Patriotic Cowboys With Testosterone Testing
Hegseth (USATODAY): The list of what is gone — social engineering, weaponized IG policies, PowerPoint trainings, drag queen shows, diversity quotas, gender pronouns, identity months — "Only the warrior ethos." Then, "so that the fake news understands it": "We are no longer the woke department or the weak department… no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals, just warriors." Trump's "central casting"; "The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top. Diversity is not our strength. Unity is our strength."
10 ⚰️ THE RIGHT TO DIE
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00 christa pike - the execution that didnt work
01 1- BBC News - Christa Pike Still Breathing, Witnesses Heard It Behind The Blinds
BBC News: Anchor (Sally) with breaking news: uncertainty over a Tennessee execution — two lethal injections, no time of death, Pike taken to hospital. Then an execution witness outside the prison: the blinds went up and down, "it appeared that this did not go like they thought it was supposed to go"; at 8:05 she was still breathing… snoring at times; they listened with the blinds down; "we're not sure that's appropriate."
01 canada maid - dead in a few minutes
01 1- BBC News - Canada MAID Doctor, A Few Minutes To Die And Approval In 24 Hours
BBC News: Dr Konia Trouten (whisper spelling "Conja Trouten"), who "has administered lethal doses to hundreds of patients", says MAID "is working well in Canada"; she demonstrates the IV — "injecting the drugs means it usually takes only a few minutes to die"; she says it is "more effective for doctors to carry it out" than the self-administered dose planned for England and Wales; payoff: "Terminally ill patients can get approval to die in just 24 hours. For April, it took seven months."
02 2- BBC News - Critics Say Canada Has Fallen Off A Cliff, Mom Pushed To Sign MAID Papers
BBC News: Opponents say MAID replaces social or medical support; family doctor Ramona Coelho: "far quicker to get aid in dying than specialist care… Canada has fallen off a cliff. I wouldn't even call it a slippery slope"; Sharon Scribner's family say she was repeatedly offered MAID dying of lung cancer at 81 — "They really did not want us to leave until my mom had signed these papers"; they took her home; palliative care gave her "the best last day of her life."
11 🌍 CANADA AND EUROPE
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
CNBC: On Canadian trade, tomorrow you're going to have a ban; Trump: one of the worst countries in the entire world, 400% on farmers, icebreakers, they're not a state… there's nothing they have that we need.
02 2- CNBC - Navarro Says They Cheat Us, Lake Ontario Is Now Lake America
CNBC: Navarro: the most difficult and arrogant of the traders… they cheat us on just about everything… getting in bed with China; Trump: migrants into Canada totally unchecked, totally unvetted; Lake Ontario, now Lake America; they're going to say, sir, we are sorry.
01 merz - cut the eu budget
01 1- EU Debates - Merz Says Sixty Percent More Is Prohibitive
Friedrich Merz (EU Debates): Merz to Costa: the MFF talks are entering the decisive stage; the six net payers pay ~40%; the Commission wants +60% — simply prohibitive, the taxpayer foots the bill; cut by several billion euros… across the board; excessive indebtedness is a threat to our sovereignty; new debts… is not a way out.
02 2- EU Debates - A Twentieth Century Budget, Military Strength
Friedrich Merz (EU Debates): With the budget of the 20th century we will not be able to solve the problems of the 21st; competitiveness and defence; Europe will only be able to hold its own based on its own economic but also on its own military strength; a deal by year-end.
02 make europe great again
01 1- euronews - The US Ambassador To Belgium On Making Europe Great Again
FRANCE 24: France 24: the I-10 interceptor on display; none of it can be sold outside Ukraine; ten licences in a year; allies copying designs; the industry's pitch; the government: sorry, we've got orders for other countries.
12 🌎 ALSO IN THE NEWS
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
FOX 13 Tampa: Anchor: three local counties declare a state of emergency; Ariel Placencia: what it unlocks, Hillsborough 90% of state infections, 170 cases, one death confirmed.
02 2- FOX 13 Tampa - Helicopters, And A Mosquito That Evolved With Mankind
FOX 13 Tampa: Helicopters by day and night, trucks spraying into yards, harmless to humans; the official: strictly containers… evolved with mankind… to utilize man-made objects.
01 glp-1 - the falls and the needles
01 1- CNBC - Older People On GLP-1s Are Falling More
CNBC: A doctor recounts asking a pharmacy CMO what's the downside? — backstage: we are seeing a lot of older people falling… because they're losing muscle.
02 2- ABC News - Eleven Percent Of Adults, And A Needle In The Trash
CTV panel (CTV): Irritable Male Syndrome may sound like a joke; finally it has a name… that's that guy, and that's that guy; the menstruation double standard; we're not calling it a bad day, Jim. Now we know.
02 2- CTV - Getting Older Syndrome, My Penis Isnt Working The Same
CTV panel (CTV): Can't we just call it getting-older syndrome? — andropause, testosterone, and grief: my hair… my body… my penis isn't working the same — not mine!; aging grief, and we need to learn to manage it.
03 bob chapek - behind the castle walls
01 1- CNBC - Four Years Without One Interview, I Had To Get The Truth Out
CNBC: The anchor introduces the book; Chapek: four years, not one interview, I see fantasy, I see rhetoric; for my legacy… I had to get the truth out there… and we just ignored it.
02 2- CNBC - Chosen To Fail, A Blindside On A Sunday
CNBC: Chosen to fail? — the stiff first interview, the reporter who called about Iger's body language, and the Ben Smith / New York Times interview that reasserted Iger as CEO without ever talking to me — a blindside on a Sunday.
03 3- CNBC - Red Wine And Name That Tune, Then A Thousand Cuts
CNBC: Twenty years, 20–30 trips to Shanghai, red wine and Name That Tune; I never saw this coming; business is business? — breadcrumbs all the way through; to board chair Susan Arnold: a death of a thousand cuts.
04 4- CNBC - The Binder On The Airplane, Reconstructed Later
CNBC: The binder on the airplane — two versions; Chapek: reconstructed later… I would never ever blow him off; to be actually working against me actively… that's why I had to write this book.
ABC7: If your TSA officer looks a little less comfortable, there is a reason: no sitting while checking IDs and boarding passes, chairs removed nationwide; TSA: more welcoming and professional; the union: chairs are basic ergonomic support.