October 8th • 2h 55m
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.
00 🇫🇷 FRANCE BURNING
France - A Hand Blown Off, Six Thousand Arrested: Today first: stun grenades suspended and a quieter Wednesday → the money is not there because the bond market is watching → Tuesday's scale and the 16-year-old who says violence is the only way to be heard → Engel inside the running battle, the hand and the jaw → BBC in Lille: 6,000 arrested, 'they injure things, not people', tear gas, an election in six months → France 24: the boy in Lens and the teacher doused in petrol → France 24's anchor: why does a democracy fire stun grenades at children? · France - Who Is Really Rioting: Trump's post read live on Fox and Gardiner says he is right → ABC: it is not about immigration → TalkTV's professor: not grassroots, the far left showing its army, then Samuel Paty, then the flags, then 'correlation is not causation, but we cannot deny it' → NBC: a catch-all movement → France 24: the *casseurs* in black. · France - Immigrants, Muslims And Saint-Denis: Fox: the flags and the fifth of France of migrant background → the Trump post again and the red-green alliance → GB News: 'we don't know their background yet… you don't set fire to the fire engine' → Brannan on Saint-Denis and its mayor → Butterworth pushes back → Watkins: show me the evidence → Mark White in Paris: immigrant descent, Palestinian flags → TalkTV: immigration as warfare. · France - The Fake Videos: Alex Jones' 'dead bodies everywhere' → the 2023 bus and the priests that weren't → Tommy Robinson's 2022 video → 'France has fallen' was a football party. · The Euro - France Pays More Than Greece: CNBC: the euro, France above Greece, Bank of America's maths → why France was never 'core' → the IMF: get your house in order → France 24: 119%, and Lescure's 'highly credible borrower'.
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
Clips — 33
00 france - a hand blown off, six thousand arrested
01 1- BBC - Stun Grenades Suspended, The Lycee Students Pile Up The Bins Again
📺 BBC (MSM)
BBC (BBC): BBC, Wednesday: France suspends stun grenades at school protests; the Interior Minister opens inquiries into police force; 250,000 marched Tuesday. Hugh Schofield at the Lycée Jules Ferry: the students pile up the bins again, 'patchy', a lull, the PM on TV tonight, a grievance website that is 'not cutting the mustard'.
02 2- BBC - No Money On The Table, The Bond Markets Are Watching
📺 BBC (MSM)
BBC (BBC): Schofield: no money on the table — 'creative accountancy' at best; 'the unreported part of this story': the bond markets demand more for French debt, interest costs climb, 'a precipice'; any sign of opening the coffers is read as a house not in order.
03 3- CBS - Sixty Five Hundred Arrests, Violence Is The Only Way To Be Heard
📺 CBS News (MSM)
CBS (CBS): CBS: 250,000 out, nearly 2,000 schools shut, 6,500+ arrests, mostly teenagers; protests began 17 September; dumpsters lit in Nation Square; 16-year-old Ava: without violence 'we never ever will hear about our cause'; 488 detained and 43 police hurt Tuesday; classes suspended for the week.
04 4- NBC - Engel In A Running Battle, Bricks At The Riot Police
📺 NBC News (MSM)
NBC (NBC): NBC, Richard Engel live in Place de la Nation: 'a running battle going on right around us', bricks thrown at riot police, one officer down, charges and tear gas, fireworks going off; it began with rats, leaks and too few teachers.
05 5- NBC - A Hand Blown Off, A Stun Grenade To The Jaw
📺 NBC News (MSM)
NBC (NBC): Engel: no longer just students — unions joined, now 'against the government of Emmanuel Macron'; two serious injuries: a hand lost to a stun grenade and a student who lost most of his teeth to a grenade fired from a police launcher at close range; 5,000, 6,000 arrests 'and the number continues to go up'.
06 6- BBC - Six Thousand Arrested In Lille, They Injure Things Not People
📺 BBC (MSM)
BBC (BBC): BBC in Lille: the largest student protests in years, almost 6,000 arrested, 24 schools burned and ransacked, teachers injured, the boy in Lens; a protester: the police get violent first — 'students don't injure people. They injure things.'
07 7- BBC - Tear Gas In Lille, Six Months From A Presidential Election
📺 BBC (MSM)
BBC (BBC): BBC: riot police fire tear gas past the crew ('singeing my eyes'); mostly peaceful, then a group pulls up bollards and bins; six months to a presidential election, the far right 'at the gates of power', the far left strong — it will 'build and build… or it will dissipate'.
08 8- France 24 - The Boy In Lens, A Teacher Doused In Petrol
📺 France 24 (MSM)
France 24 (FRANCE24): France 24 package: the 15-year-old in Lens; police unions say he picked up the sting-ball grenade to throw it back; a woman with flames aimed at her face in Marseille; a teacher doused in petrol; masked youths blocking firefighters at the Lycée Vaucouleurs with students still inside; 500 schools shut since 17 September.
09 9- France 24 - Why Fire Stun Grenades At Children, One Answer Since The Yellow Vests
📺 France 24 (MSM)
France 24 (FRANCE24): France 24's anchor to Ariane Bogain: 'A 15-year-old child has lost a hand… if this happened in Russia, in Myanmar… savagery'; Bogain: since the Yellow Vests (2018) the state has one response — riot police, mass arrests; the farmers got different treatment; 'this is really, really serious'.
01 france - who is really rioting
01 1- Fox News - Trump Posts It Is Islam Not Schools, Gardner Says He Is Right
📺 Fox News (MSM)
Fox News (FOX): Fox, live: Harris Faulkner reads Trump's Truth Social post as it lands — 'out of control mass migration… this is about Islam wanting to take over a once great country'; Nile Gardiner: 'President Trump is absolutely right', Islamists plus communists, Islamic-country migration down 95%, Europe must deport Islamists, 'it's as simple as that'.
02 2- ABC - Not About Immigration As Trump Claimed, Tear Gas Is The Only Message
📺 ABC News (MSM)
ABC (ABC): ABC Start Here: Brad Mielke puts Trump's claim to Paris; Tom Soufi Burridge: 'It's not about immigration, as President Trump claimed… we met white people, black people'; yes, it began in deprived suburbs with more North African families; a teacher: 'if the only message we send to young people… is tear gas, that's sad'.
03 3- TalkTV - Not A Grassroots Movement, The Far Left Shows Its Army
📺 TALKTV (?)
TalkTV (TALKTV): TalkTV: 5,000 arrested, a hand blown off, Mélenchon's '1968'; Ralph Schoellhammer: 'this is not a grassroots movement… instigated by the French far left… a power play… they have their riotous veto now' — a signal to Le Pen's voters; the host: one burned school was state of the art, with a climbing wall.
04 4- TalkTV - Samuel Paty, You Cannot Teach In Some Of These Areas
📺 TALKTV (?)
TalkTV (TALKTV): The host: French polls do support the cause, but 'that bunch of thugs'; Schoellhammer: Samuel Paty was beheaded for showing the cartoons — you cannot provide an education where pupils 'have a significant inclination towards violence'; 'I'm gonna burn everything down'.
05 5- TalkTV - Palestinian And Algerian Flags, A Migrant Reserve Army
📺 TALKTV (?)
TalkTV (TALKTV): Schoellhammer: few French flags, many Palestinian, Algerian, Moroccan; 'a migrant reserve army' the left thinks it controls — Iran 1979; the host: 'some of the most violent videos… I'm not seeing a white face there… second or third generation migrants, often from Muslim countries'.
06 6- TalkTV - Correlation Is Not Causation, But We Cannot Deny It
📺 TALKTV (?)
TalkTV (TALKTV): Host: not about skin colour — segregated enclaves, no-go areas, the middle class moves away; Schoellhammer: 'correlation is not the same as causation. But there is significant correlation… we cannot continue to deny it.'
07 7- NBC - A Catch-All Movement, Free Palestine Signs And The Police
📺 NBC News (MSM)
NBC (NBC): NBC's Engel: cost of living, women's rights — 'as new groups join the movement, they are bringing their causes'; 'quite a few Free Palestine signs'; one school became hundreds; 'now also an anti-police movement'.
08 8- France 24 - A Website For Grievances, The Casseurs In Black
📺 France 24 (MSM)
France 24 (FRANCE24): France 24's Claire Paccalin in the march: the education minister's grievance website — students: 'we've been doing that for years'; and 'very small groups… wearing black with their faces and their heads covered… the troublemakers, the casseurs', plus undercover police in the crowd; calm but tense.
02 france - immigrants, muslims and saint-denis
01 1- Fox News - Hankinson, Flags That Are Not French, A Fifth Of Migrant Background
📺 Fox News (MSM)
Fox News (FOX): Hankinson: 'what's different here… is just the sheer scale and the flags that you see that are not French'; 'mass migration on a scale that we've never seen in European history… 18–20% of the French population is migrant or of migrant background'; schools 'vastly majority North African or sub-Saharan African'; Marseille's northern quarters and the banlieues 'concentrate poverty and immigrants… a powder keg'; 'half of them won't even be able to give you a straight answer.'
02 2- Fox News - Trump Post Read Again, Hankinson On The Red-Green Alliance
📺 Fox News (MSM)
Fox News (FOX): Faulkner re-reads Trump: 'nothing less than out of control mass migration… Islam wanting to take over a once great country'; Hankinson: Macron 'absent without leave'; 'a red-green alliance' — Mélenchon's France Insoumise 'in bed with' Muslim voters 'because that's a voter block that they can count on… strange bedfellows, but for the time being, they're together.'
03 3- GB News - We Dont Know Their Background Yet, Dont Set Fire To The Fire Engine
📺 GB News (MSM)
GB News (GBNEWS): GB News host: 'no, we don't yet know the immigration background of the people committing these attacks… but… disorder erupting in some of the very communities where France has spent decades wrestling with immigration, integration'; a warning to Britain; 'This country is now your country too… And when the fire brigade turns up, you don't set fire to the fire engine.'
04 4- GB News - Brannan, Saint-Denis And Its Mayor
📺 GB News (MSM)
GB News (GBNEWS): Brannan: 'France is cooked'; Saint-Denis — 'the home of Gothic architecture' — now 'the migrant capital… over 90% of the population there are immigrants, mostly from Muslim and African nations', 'a no-go zone'; mayor Bally Bagayoko, 'first generation Frenchman, his parents are from… Mali… Muslim… being investigated for embezzlement'; funding 'from supposedly drug dealers and traffickers'.
05 5- GB News - RIGHT TO IMMIGRATE - Butterworth, Puzzled By The Link To Immigration
📺 GB News (MSM)
GB News (GBNEWS): The panel named; Butterworth: 'it does feel a little bit like the French will French… I'm a bit puzzled as to the link to immigration and racial tensions' — the riots began over underfunded schools; France's colonial history means people from Tunisia, Algeria, Mali 'have a right to stay'; the host: 'are you saying they deserve this?' — 'No… their debate is more complicated than it would be for us.' ⚠️ a panelist talks over the last line.
06 6- GB News - Watkins, The AP Is Not Reporting An Immigrant Uprising
📺 GB News (MSM)
GB News (GBNEWS): Watkins: 'the AP and Le Monde… are not reporting that the unrest has been established by an immigrant uprising' — host: 'Of course they wouldn't'; 'we shouldn't retrofit every episode of violence in France into an immigration story without evidence… I'm waiting to see the evidence… I've said that now three times.'
07 7- GB News - Immigrant Descent And Palestinian Flags In Saint-Denis
📺 GB News (MSM)
GB News (GBNEWS): GB News's Mark White in Paris: 'it's morphed to wider disaffection and particularly with the immigrant community. Many of those that are taking part… clearly immigrants or of immigrant descent… carrying Palestinian flags'; Saint-Denis '90% of… immigrant background… very anti-Western'; antisemitic graffiti 'dealt with with tolerance'.
08 8- TalkTV - Immigration As Warfare, Ceuta And A Moratorium
📺 TALKTV (?)
TalkTV (TALKTV): TalkTV's guest: 'these people setting fire to France have been… dragged into the country… by our enemies who use immigration as warfare'; Ceuta — 'just a load of Moroccans going for a swim one day… organised… on a state level', social accounts 'in Algeria'; Wagner and the Taliban running migrant flows; 'stop all immigration from terrorist-riddled countries… We're done in five years, mate.'
03 france - the fake videos
01 1- France 24 - Truth Or Fake, Alex Jones Says Dead Bodies Everywhere
📺 France 24 (MSM)
France 24 (FRANCE24): France 24 Truth or Fake: far-right figures 'from Trumpist circles to Britain's Tommy Robinson' push 'a civil war'; Alex Jones: 'a globalist planned anti-white civil war… dead bodies are everywhere' — 'entirely baseless… no deaths… nothing to do, as claimed by Alex Jones, with immigration.'
02 2- France 24 - A Burning Bus From 2023, No Priests Set On Fire
📺 France 24 (MSM)
France 24 (FRANCE24): Jones' montage opens on a burning bus — a school bus fire in Nîmes three years ago; '100 videos of any white person… lynched' and 'a dozen videos of Catholic priests also being set on fire' — 'no acts of violence against Catholic institutions, churches or clergy.'
03 3- France 24 - Tommy Robinson Shares A 2022 Video
📺 France 24 (MSM)
France 24 (FRANCE24): Tommy Robinson (Yaxley-Lennon) shares 'the Green-Islamic unholy alliance' — actually a 2022 Paris protest; his 'occupied France' videos are real but misused — 'nothing to do with immigration'.
04 4- France 24 - France Has Fallen Was The PSG Celebration
📺 France 24 (MSM)
France 24 (FRANCE24): 'France has fallen' — 5 million views, smoke at the Eiffel Tower — is May's PSG Champions League celebration; Donald Trump Jr. linked a BBC article to 'unfettered immigration'; the anchor: Robinson 'funded by a lot of very wealthy Americans'.
04 the euro - france pays more than greece
01 1- CNBC - The Euro At A 17 Month Low, France Pays More Than Greece
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): CNBC: the worry moved from Treasuries to French paper; a trillion euros due by 2030; France's borrowing costs now exceed Greece's; the OAT-Bund spread at a euro-crisis high; the euro at a May-2025 low, down ~3.5% since September; Lescure: not at the point of the ECB's TPI; deficit gap ~€160B.
02 2- CNBC - Why I Never Went To Paris In The Debt Crisis
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): CNBC Europe anchor: on the road for the 2010–12 debt crisis — Reykjavik, Dublin, Madrid, Nicosia, Lisbon — 'why wasn't I in Paris?' Debt 88% of GDP then; leaders 'refused to appreciate that France was part of the problem… now it's coming back to bite us.'
03 3- CNBC - The IMF Chief To France, Get Your House In Order
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): Georgieva: the French economy is growing; the deficit must go under 5%; Europe has the ECB and new tools — 'Yet again, my message is get your house in order. Otherwise the price you would pay… takes away money from other priorities.'
04 4- France 24 - Debt At 119 Percent, A Highly Credible Borrower
📺 France 24 (MSM)
France 24 (FRANCE24): France 24: the euro at a 17-month low (~$1.12) on French and Spanish political risk; debt 119% of GDP, deficit 5.4%, €54B of cuts and revenues sought; the 10-year's biggest quarterly jump in nearly four decades; Lescure: 'France remains a highly credible borrower… our banks are among the strongest.'
01 🤖 THE AI BUBBLE
Effort News - The Ai That Finds The Grift: Why 80% of news is solicited and nobody reads the public records → the method: three-day AI queries on the HHS grant table → the $21 billion race-based payments, 'this is illegal' → EA funded everyone in one Guardian article → $40 million to influencers and the TIME 100 → the ex-Anthropic doomer and an NGO called Newspeak. · Super Intelligence Force - Some Bad Things Will Happen: France 24: the czar and the toothless pledge → 120 days, and 'a hoax' → Altman: accept some bad things → Fox Business plays Altman — 'Oh, Sam, no… duty of care' → change is not harm; nobody has catastrophe insurance → Kanter: non-binding principles are traffic lights as suggestions → the czar: speed and safety are no trade-off. · Bezos - We Have Been To The Moon: The moon and the conspiracies → SI, and the good bubble → the labor shortage → regulate murder, not knives. · Constellation - Google Buys The Nuclear Power: The deal and the 'monster' read → are these deals taking power from homes? 'Separate from ratepayers… small next to the prize of winning AI.' · Microsoft - Muse On Windows And A 2599 Laptop: CNBC: Windows invites in the competition (Muse) and cages the agents → Microsoft on stage: the laptop built around Nvidia's AI chip. · Data Centers - A Fistfight In Memphis: 'The power of the people' chant, the postponement, the fight, the midterms. · Yandex - Ukraine Hits Russias Biggest Data Center: The fire, the outage, the biggest data centre, and the data-centre war both ways. · Ai Hiker - Claude Planned The Route: The plan, the Widowmaker, the helicopter, the warning. · Ai In Court - The Victim Spoke At Sentencing: The AI Pelkey speaks; the judge loved it → the maximum sentence, the appeal, and where the line is.
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
Clips — 27
00 effort news - the ai that finds the grift
01 1- Joe Lonsdale - Brian Chow, Most News Stories Are Solicited
📺 LONSDALE (?)
Joe Lonsdale (LONSDALE): Lonsdale: what did Alliance for the Future teach you about journalism? Brian Chau: 'more than 80% of news stories are solicited' — a source brings the story; the Nixon-era promise that public disclosure would be the disinfectant failed because nobody put in the effort to read the PDFs — 'that's why it's Effort News'.
02 2- Joe Lonsdale - Three Day AI Queries On The HHS Grant Table
📺 LONSDALE (?)
Joe Lonsdale (LONSDALE): Chau: 'we run these long-running AI queries, 24, 48, 72 hours' over HHS, Medicare/Medicaid and defense spending tables; the prompt: 'find me newsworthy items from the HHS grant table… grants that expanded a lot'; journalists on immigration and DEI said 'I have no idea what this is'; 'my jaw was just on the floor'.
03 3- Joe Lonsdale - A 21 Billion Dollar Racial Wealth Transfer, This Is Illegal
📺 LONSDALE (?)
Joe Lonsdale (LONSDALE): Lonsdale: 'we're going to break some news' — How COVID-era financial engineering created a $21 billion racial wealth transfer; Chau: state programmes, many in red states, pay providers more for treating Black and Hispanic patients, mostly with federal Medicaid/Medicare money; Lonsdale: 'it's blatantly illegal, isn't it?' Chau: 'Under the plain text of the Civil Rights Act, this is illegal.'
04 4- Joe Lonsdale - Effective Altruism Funded Everyone In The Guardian Article
📺 LONSDALE (?)
Joe Lonsdale (LONSDALE): Lonsdale: 'how effective altruism bought the media' — Dustin Moskovitz, AI doomers 'funding fake anti-AI articles'; Chau: one Guardian article — Open Philanthropy (renamed Coefficient Giving 'because it got so unpopular') and Jaan Tallinn's Survival and Flourishing Fund funded the journalist, the Guardian, the subject and all three experts: 'six people… every single one… funded by the same ecosystem'.
05 5- Joe Lonsdale - Forty Million To Influencers, The Time 100 Is The Time 42
📺 LONSDALE (?)
Joe Lonsdale (LONSDALE): Chau: '$40 million… so far that we know of' to influencers, YouTube channels (Kurzgesagt), TikTok creators, journalists' salaries; 'the TIME 100 is really the TIME 42 because 58 of the 100 profiles were bought'; Jensen Huang not on it; Lonsdale: 'astroturfing… trying to create a movement'.
06 6- Joe Lonsdale - The Ex-Anthropic Doomer, An NGO Called Newspeak
📺 LONSDALE (?)
Joe Lonsdale (LONSDALE): Lonsdale: 'the crazy ex-Anthropic guy' who worked there six weeks and said they will destroy the world; Chau: he was part of a left-wing NGO run by ex-Hillary Clinton staffers and ex-Extinction Rebellion — 'one version of doom to another'; a Guardian profile called it 'hacking democracy'; the NGO's name: 'Newspeak… We've finally actually created it.'
07 7- Jeff Roster - Lonsdale On Ruthless, The EAs Found A New Religion
Source: producer file, sent by email — no public link
📺 7- Jeff Roster (?)
Joe Lonsdale (Ruthless podcast, 6 Oct — producer Jeff Roster's clip, as sent): asked about the effective altruists who talk about AI only in apocalyptic terms — 'these crazy people talking about their Messiah… some of them host funerals when they destroy the old model and build a new one, and they're talking about rights for your AI.' ⚠️ Explicit.
01 super intelligence force - some bad things will happen
⭐ ADAM MUST-INCLUDE — ⚖️ What is "duty of care" for a corporation?
Adam, 8 Oct: "make sure this makes it into the OPML node for the Superintelligence Force topic"
Context: 15-4 — Nuala O'Connor on Altman's "some bad things are going to happen": "Once you know that something bad's gonna happen, your duty of care… is to try to avoid it."
There are two different duties.
1. Directors' and officers' duty of care (corporate law) — owed to the corporation and its shareholders
One of the two main fiduciary duties (the other is loyalty).
Standard: act in good faith, be reasonably informed, and use the care an ordinarily prudent person in a like position would use (Model Business Corporation Act §8.30).
Delaware (where most big US companies are incorporated): a breach needs gross negligence, not ordinary carelessness. Classic case: Smith v. Van Gorkom (1985) — a board approved a merger after a two-hour meeting with no proper information and was held liable.
Business judgment rule: courts presume directors acted on an informed basis, in good faith, in the honest belief the decision was in the company's best interest. A plaintiff must overcome that.
Exculpation: Delaware §102(b)(7) lets the charter remove directors' personal money liability for care breaches (officers too, since 2022). Most companies do it, so care claims rarely produce damages.
Oversight (Caremark): the board must make a good-faith effort to have a reporting and monitoring system. Liability needs a near-total failure, or ignoring red flags. These claims have grown since 2019 — Marchand v. Barnhill (Blue Bell listeria), the Boeing 737 MAX case.
2. The corporation's duty of care to others (tort law) — owed to customers, employees, the public
As a legal person, a corporation must take reasonable care not to cause foreseeable harm.
Negligence = four elements: duty, breach (below a reasonable standard), causation, damages.
Standard: what a reasonable company in the same position would do — industry practice, regulation and how foreseeable the harm was all count.
Examples: product safety, premises liability, workplace safety, duties set by statute (OSHA, environmental law).
UK: Caparo v Dickman (1990) — foreseeability, proximity, and that it is fair, just and reasonable to impose a duty.
Tie-in to Altman: O'Connor's point is the tort sense — if harm is foreseeable (and Altman says it is), the law expects reasonable steps to avoid it. Saying "bad things will happen" in public makes the harm foreseeable.
⚠️ Summary from Sam's general knowledge, not a live legal check; standards vary by state and country.
01 1- France 24 - Clayton Named AI Czar, A Legally Toothless Pledge
📺 France 24 (MSM)
France 24 (FRANCE24): France 24: Trump 'not a fan' of 'artificial' — 'he thinks the word artificial makes it sound fake'; Jay Clayton, DNI ('a different kind of intelligence'), to head the Super Intelligence Force, after a 'morally binding but legally toothless pledge'; the force will engage consumers, religious organisations and 'superintelligence companies'.
02 2- France 24 - 120 Days, And Fears Trump Calls A Hoax
📺 France 24 (MSM)
France 24 (FRANCE24): 120 days to report; last week's EO renaming AI; Anthropic, Meta and Google sign a 'morally but not legally binding' commitment at the White House; industry leaders call for regulation; fears 'dismissed by Trump as a hoax'.
03 3- CNBC - Altman, The World Should Accept Some Bad Things
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): CNBC: Altman to Politico — 'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology'; not 'catastrophic risk'; against control by 'a small number of AI labs in San Francisco'; after the Hugging Face hack; the force's members: Ferguson, Emil Michael, Scott Kupor of a16z.
04 4- Fox Business - Altman Played, Oh Sam No, Duty Of Care
📺 Fox Business (MSM)
Fox Business (FOXBUSINESS): Fox Business plays Altman — 'some bad things are going to happen as society figures out the resilience'; Nuala O'Connor: 'Oh, Sam, no… Once you know that something bad's gonna happen, your duty of care… is to try to avoid it'; the host: bioweapons and extinction are a different harm from 'jumble up the workforce'.
05 5- Fox Business - Change Is Not Harm, No Insurance For Catastrophe
📺 Fox Business (MSM)
Fox Business (FOXBUSINESS): O'Connor: 'if you make a product that legitimately, physically or financially harms someone, you ought to be accountable'; change (the automobile, the steam engine) is not harm; the NYC Council asked tech policy heads if they had insurance for catastrophic occurrences — 'none of them did.'
06 6- CNBC - Kanter, The Task Force Is Basically Vaporware
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): Jonathan Kanter: 'It's basically vaporware… non-binding principles are like traffic lights being a suggestion'; 'we want lines on the road'; duties of care so companies are held responsible.
07 7- CNBC - The AI Czar, Speed And Safety Are No Trade-off
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): The White House AI czar: 'a real false dichotomy… a trade-off of speed and safety… American leadership is absolutely essential to safety.'
02 bezos - we have been to the moon
⭐ ADAM MUST-INCLUDE — 🧮 Did Apollo really cost 3% of GDP?
Adam, 8 Oct: "make sure that goes into the OPML"
Bezos (41-1): "We spent 3% of GDP when we did it in 1969." Overstated. NASA peaked at about 4% of the federal budget, which was about 0.7% of GDP (1966). He seems to have mixed up the two.
His 3%, taken at face value: 1969 GDP was about $1 trillion → about $30B a year then → about $270B a year in today's dollars. Against today's GDP (about $31T), 3% would be about $900B a year — roughly the whole US defense budget, every year.
What Apollo actually cost: about $26B total, 1960–1973 → about $280–330B in today's dollars, roughly $25B a year; peak NASA year about $6B (1966).
Can Bezos and Musk match it? Against 3% of GDP: no — $900B a year is more than either is worth (Musk roughly $400–500B, Bezos roughly $230–250B, mostly stock). Against Apollo's real cost: roughly yes, over a decade — Bezos says $28B of his own money is in Blue Origin plus $10B just raised; SpaceX funds Starship from tens of billions a year in revenue. His real point: reusable rockets make it far cheaper — "we're going to do it at much lower cost."
⚠️ Net-worth and revenue figures are from training data, not a live check — verify before air. The 0.7% of GDP and $26B Apollo figures are well-established history.
01 1- Fox News - Bezos, The Moon Is A Gift, And Yes We Have Been There
📺 Fox News (MSM)
Fox News (FOX): Baier: 'you have been a moon guy'; Bezos: 'it's not good to skip steps… The moon is a gift… only three days away… 28 times less energy to lift something off the moon'; solar cells from lunar dirt, oxygen, water; 'And for the conspiracies out there, just to be clear, we have been there before. We absolutely have been to the moon. We went there in 1969… why is it so hard… We spent… almost 3% of GDP… So it was very expensive.'
02 2- Fox News - Bezos Likes SI, An Industrial Bubble Is Good
📺 Fox News (MSM)
Fox News (FOX): Baier: 'the president says SI. Are you into SI?' Bezos: 'artificial is not a very flattering thing. Nobody wants an artificial sweetener… artificial sort of means fake'; AI 'a kind of industrial bubble' — biotech in the 90s, fibre in 2000: 'the inventions don't disappear when the bubble pops… We're still benefiting from it today.'
03 3- Fox News - Bezos, AI Will Create A Labor Shortage
📺 Fox News (MSM)
Fox News (FOX): Baier: AI will create a labor shortage? But Amazon cut ~30,000 corporate roles; Bezos: pandemic over-hiring; productivity means a two-earner household may not need two earners, 'I can support my family working three days a week'; 'a labor shortage… I just happen to disagree with those smart people.'
04 4- Fox News - Bezos, Regulate Murder Not Knives
📺 Fox News (MSM)
Fox News (FOX): Baier plays the White House pledge ('morally binding') and a critic ('entirely unenforceable'); Bezos: light, smart regulation — certified planes, FDA trials — but 'you don't want to regulate knives. You want to regulate murder… AI is a tool… a very good baby, Brett… I promise you, it's a very good baby.'
03 constellation - google buys the nuclear power
01 1- CNBC - Three Point Six Gigawatts, A Monster Deal
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): CNBC: Alphabet signs 20 years, 3.6 GW with Constellation (≈3 million homes), $4B+ across 11 nuclear units, stock +11.5%; James West (Melius): 'a monster deal, but not surprising' — hyperscalers see power as the biggest constraint; 2025 was restarts, 2026 is upgrades paid for by the hyperscalers; Vistra's DOE loan.
02 2- CNBC - Separate From Ratepayers, They Do Not Want The Backlash
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): Future deals? 'a new paradigm' — gigawatt data centres need gigawatt deals; are they taking power from homes? West: 'separate from ratepayers', FERC and PJM keep them out of the auction — 'don't hurt ratepayers'; the hyperscalers 'don't want the backlash… It's small… next to the prize of winning AI'.
04 microsoft - muse on windows and a 2599 laptop
01 1- CNBC - Windows Opens Up To Meta Muse, Containers For The Agents
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): CNBC at Microsoft's event: Nadella — 'the next era isn't about the model itself, but the system around it'; Windows opens to rival agents, Meta's Muse in particular; 'containers' to keep agents 'that have hacked into different startups' out of files they should not access; a coding model and a new Surface laptop.
02 2- CNET - Surface Laptop Ultra, A Petaflop Of AI Compute
📺 CNET (?)
CNET (CNET): Microsoft on stage: Surface Laptop Ultra built around Nvidia RTX Spark — up to 128 GB unified memory, 'up to a petaflop of AI compute', models 'that simply don't fit on a traditional machine'; 2.5× thermal capacity, 99% power on battery, under 4.5 lb, magnetic USB-C; beats M5 Pro laptops on time-to-first-token; 'available today for pre-order'.
05 data centers - a fistfight in memphis
01 1- ABC - Memphis Council Postpones, A Fistfight In The Lobby
📺 ABC News (MSM)
ABC (ABC): ABC: 'the power of the people' chant; Memphis postpones a vote on a data-centre moratorium; a hot mic; a fistfight in the lobby; under a quarter of Americans want one nearby; now a midterm issue.
06 yandex - ukraine hits russias biggest data center
01 1- Kanal 13 - Fire At Yandex In Sasovo, Russians Lose Their Services
📺 Kanal 13 — KANAL13 (?)
Kanal 13 (KANAL13): Kanal 13: fire at the Yandex data centre in Sasovo, Ryazan, after a drone attack (OSINT, eyewitness video); smoke for kilometres; outages confirmed by Downdetector; built 2012, commissioned 2014, its own 110 kV substation, 53 MW — 'the company's largest data center'.
07 ai hiker - claude planned the route
01 1- CTV - A BC Teen Asked Claude, Stranded On The Widowmaker
📺 CTV (?)
CTV (CTV): CTV: a BC 16-year-old indoor climber 'reportedly asked Claude AI to plan a trip to Crown Mountain'; it led him onto 'a steep climbing route called the Widowmaker'; North Shore Rescue hoisted him; 'not to rely on AI for their outdoor adventures'.
08 ai in court - the victim spoke at sentencing
01 1- NBC - An AI Victim Video, I Believe In Forgiveness
📺 NBC News (MSM)
NBC (NBC): NBC: 'I am a version of Chris Pelkey recreated through AI' — the victim's AI video at sentencing: 'I believe in forgiveness'; the judge: 'I love that AI. Thank you for that'; his sister: it 'humanized Chris'.
02 2- NBC - The Maximum Sentence Thrown Out
📺 NBC News (MSM)
NBC (NBC): 10.5 years, the maximum (prosecutors asked nine); the defence: it 'played on emotion'; the appeals court: the AI video 'isn't genuine… a depiction of what the family thought the victim would say'; resentencing; 'where is the line drawn?'
02 ⚔️ IRAN AND THE MILITARY
Iran - Let Them Take Out Los Angeles: Trump's own words, LA and San Diego → Vietnam, Afghanistan and Venezuela in 'one hour and 48 minutes' → ABC: the backlash, diesel up 77% → Newsom: 'Where the hell is Congress?' · Fairford - The Bombers Go Home: PBS: Trump links it to Iran, Vance 'extremely cautious' → ABC: gone before the tankers arrived, now flying from South Dakota → Trump: 'if they did, they'll suffer greatly.' · Al Udeid - Senator Murphy Denied Access: Denied the base, denied a briefing, 'trying to hide the true cost of this war'. · The Navy - A Shipyard And Autonomous Subs: The shipyard and the real-estate eye → autonomous subs. · Germany - The Spy Chief And The Steakhouse Heiress: The arrest and the steakhouse heiress kidnapping → the documents, the chief of staff, the foreign power, Karlsruhe. · Cia - 298 Gold Bars: The gold, the fake program, the houses — and the leaked source.
Clips — 13
00 iran - let them take out los angeles
01 1- New York Post - Trump, Let Them Take Out Los Angeles, A Small Price
📺 New York Post (MSM)
New York Post (NYPOST): Trump in Nebraska: fuel prices 'artificial… a small price to pay… They can take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego… a very small price to pay'; 'they need it'; then Venezuela: 'we took it over. China left. Russia left… One hour and 48 minutes it took us.'
02 2- New York Post - Trump, Vietnam 21 Years, Venezuela One Hour
📺 New York Post (MSM)
New York Post (NYPOST): 'Nobody killed… we were in Vietnam for 21 years… Afghanistan… thousands killed'; 'the largest oil supply outside of our own'; 'we're twice the size of Russia and Saudi Arabia combined'; prices 'are going to come down very sharply… please, sir, it's going down too fast.'
03 3- ABC - San Diego Is Not Collateral Damage, Diesel Up 77 Percent
📺 ABC News (MSM)
ABC (ABC): ABC: 'two American cities run by Democrats'; Newsom 'deranged and dangerous'; Gloria: 'San Diego is not collateral damage… never a small price to pay'; Bass: 'not to actively threaten it'; the red-dye EO; diesel up 77% this year, the war in its seventh month, 'no end in sight'.
04 4- Forbes - Newsom, Where The Hell Is Congress
📺 FORBES (?)
Forbes (FORBES): Newsom: 'the same one who sent in the National Guard into Los Angeles… just invited Iran to take out' LA and San Diego, '130,000 active duty personnel'; 'Where the hell is Congress? Where the hell are you, Speaker Johnson?… Find a backbone.'
01 fairford - the bombers go home
01 1- PBS - An Iran-Linked Threat, A Dozen B-1s Rushed Home
📺 PBS NewsHour (MSM)
PBS (PBS): PBS: Trump says an Iran-linked threat moved the bombers; a dozen B-1s rushed home Sunday; Rubio: 'not unusual'; Vance: 'out of an abundance of caution… the Iranian state has done for 49 years'; the UK says Iran played a part in last month's incident; Tehran denies.
02 2- ABC - Gone Before The Tankers Arrived, Now From South Dakota
📺 ABC News (MSM)
ABC (ABC): ABC: 'removed very quickly… thousands of miles from the combat zone'; a Ukrainian-style drone attack possible; 'many of them had left the UK prior to the refuelers being in place'; now Ellsworth, South Dakota — 'more complicated operationally'.
03 3- New York Post - Trump, If They Did Theyll Suffer Greatly
📺 New York Post (MSM)
New York Post (NYPOST): Trump: 'they didn't fly out by accident… rather than tempting the enemy… we moved them around a little bit'; Iranian drones in the UK? 'I can't tell you that. But if they did, they'll suffer greatly.'
02 al udeid - senator murphy denied access
01 1- Forbes - Murphy, Hegseth Is Hiding The Cost Of The War
📺 FORBES (?)
Forbes (FORBES): Murphy: 'I have been denied total access to U.S. military facilities in the region… Al Udeid'; 'a coordinated, deliberate campaign by the Department of Defense to try to hide… the true cost of this war'; 'under orders from Pete Hegseth' no briefing even at the embassy; 'happening both to Democrats and Republicans'; 'a war that is spiraling out of control by the day'.
03 the navy - a shipyard and autonomous subs
01 1- New York Post - Trump At Sparrows Point, A Nice Piece Of Real Estate
📺 New York Post (MSM)
New York Post (NYPOST): Trump: 'the largest new shipyard in the United States… since World War II' at Sparrows Point — frigates, the Empire State steel, the first Liberty ship; 'I flew over it… being a real estate developer… that's a nice piece of real estate.'
02 2- Global News - Trump, Autonomous Subs, I Would Rather Float
📺 Global News — GLOBALNEWS (?)
Global News (GLOBALNEWS): Trump: 'I love the idea of the autonomous sub… I'm not sure that I would have the courage to go into submarines… I'd rather be floating on the sea.'
04 germany - the spy chief and the steakhouse heiress
01 1- France 24 - August Hanning Arrested, The Steakhouse Heiress Kidnapping
📺 France 24 (MSM)
France 24 (FRANCE24): France 24: August Hanning, 80, BND chief 1998–2005, arrested for treason and espionage; with his ex-chief of staff 'Manfred D.' and Christina Block, heiress of the Block House steakhouses — 'the original hamburger joint'; police raided Hanning over the kidnapping of Block's children in Copenhagen and found 'a couple of thousand top-secret intelligence documents'.
02 2- France 24 - Thousands Of Secret Files For A Foreign Power
📺 France 24 (MSM)
France 24 (FRANCE24): The chief of staff passed documents for pay; Hanning wrote briefings 'for a foreign power, not the Russians'; BND chief Martin Jäger opens an internal inquiry; 15 or 16 years; MPs want ex-spy chiefs barred from private consultancies; Karlsruhe tomorrow.
05 cia - 298 gold bars
01 1- NBC - David Rush Pleads Guilty, A Fake CIA Program
📺 NBC News (MSM)
NBC (NBC): NBC: the 298 gold bars, $2M cash, Rolexes — over $40M; David Rush pleads guilty; $194M stolen via 'a fake CIA program'; $30M and $40M oceanfront homes, $1.8M on charters; and he told a foreign official about a top-secret source.
03 ⛽ OIL AND ENERGY
Diesel - Red Dye For The Truckers: NBC: the order and the midterm timing → what red dye is → why it may wash out, and the state laws → $6.32 and 'supply, supply, supply' → Currie: help at the margin, a structural shortage → 'everything else is dirt and diesel', the Rhine too low for barges → the $76 million tanker. · Oil - Brent At 101 And Food Next: France 24: Brent at 101, exports above pre-war, reserves are no fix → Chevron: don't ban exports → Singapore: Trump's not wrong about Asia → food is next. · Venezuela - Aluminum Up The Mississippi: The ship, the first in a decade, 'a renewed partnership' after the strikes, and the tonnage to come.
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00 diesel - red dye for the truckers
01 1- NBC - Trump Waives The Off-Road Rule, Four Weeks To The Midterms
📺 NBC News (MSM)
NBC (NBC): NBC: four weeks to the midterms; Trump floats suspending the federal gas tax; at the Nebraska rally he signs the order to 'waive the off-road requirement and allow anyone to purchase tax-free red dye diesel for any reason… we're not going to need it long… your prices are plummeting'; Senate battleground money in Iowa and Alaska.
02 2- NBC - What Red Dye Is, The Inspector With A Dipstick
📺 NBC News (MSM)
NBC (NBC): Brian Cheung: what red-dye diesel is — farm fuel, dyed because it is tax-free so an inspector's dipstick catches cheaters; the order lets tractor-trailers use it; but the federal tax is only ~25 cents and 'none of this does anything to actually improve the supply'.
03 3- NBC - More Demand Washes It Out, The State Laws Still Say No
📺 NBC News (MSM)
NBC (NBC): Welker: will it strain inventories and cost farmers? Cheung: more demand could lift prices and 'wash out the effect'; states enforce red dye on-road bans; you fill it at wholesalers — 'can you pull up a large tractor trailer to where you would normally pull up a John Deere tractor?'
04 4- NBC - Six Thirty Two A Gallon, Supply Supply Supply
📺 NBC News (MSM)
NBC (NBC): Welker: the biggest driver is the war with Iran; Cheung: diesel $6.32, pre-war $3.76; 'supply, supply, supply' — Hormuz, the Red Sea, and Russian refineries under Ukrainian attack.
05 5- CNBC - Currie, Help At The Margin, Diesel Over Two Hundred A Barrel
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): CNBC: the order explained; Jeff Currie: 'it helps at the margin' — they are 'pulling every lever', SPR, off-road diesel; physical cash crude $128, diesel over $200 a barrel, the back of the futures curve rising: 'more structural than transient… It's not transient.'
06 6- CNBC - Currie, Everything Else Is Dirt And Diesel, The Rhine Too Low
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): Currie: 'all other commodities are dirt and diesel'; diesel $7 to $9 and gasoline $5 are possible, risk to the upside; Saudi infrastructure hit over the weekend, Hormuz, Russia — and the Rhine so low barges can't move, 'gasoline queues in places like France': 'war and weather'.
07 7- CNBC - A Supertanker To China For 76 Million, Ten Times The Prewar Rate
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): CNBC Power Insider: a supertanker, the Alexandros, chartered Houston → China by Trafigura for $76M vs $7–10M pre-war; ~2M barrels = $38 a barrel just to sail it; 'the physical cost of actually moving a barrel… continues to go up, up, and up'.
01 oil - brent at 101 and food next
01 1- France 24 - Brent At 101, Exports Above Prewar, Reserves Are No Fix
📺 France 24 (MSM)
France 24 (FRANCE24): France 24: Houthi claims on Saudi oil 'would normally send crude soaring' — Brent ~$101.50 vs ~$70 pre-war; Mideast exports above pre-war, 16.5M bpd, 40% avoiding Hormuz; 100M barrels of reserves due; an analyst: reserves are 'a temporary measure… two live conflicts'.
02 2- CNBC - Chevron CEO, A Diesel Export Ban Would Be Unwise
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): Chevron's Wirth: an export ban would be 'unwise' — the US is a reliable supplier; SPR releases, off-road diesel on-road, Jones Act relief 'allow the market to work'; Venezuela 'can be part of a more secure energy system', but its output is 'dwarfed by the amount that's at risk in the Middle East'.
03 3- CNBC - Singapore, Trump Is Not Completely Wrong On Asias Oil
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): Balakrishnan: the US is not the major importer of Mideast oil — not 1979; it out-produces Russia and Saudi combined — 'when President Trump says… this is actually Asia's problem, he's not completely wrong'; 'I wouldn't be surprised by a surprise in the midterm elections.'
04 4- Global News - Thanksgiving Costs More, Diesel Drives Food Prices
📺 Global News — GLOBALNEWS (?)
Global News (GLOBALNEWS): Global: a First Nations food hub; Dalhousie: a turkey dinner for four $35.72, +10%; 'the correlation between diesel prices and food prices is incredibly high'; 'today's high gas and diesel prices will fuel even higher food costs next year… the most important one for Canadians will be food.'
02 venezuela - aluminum up the mississippi
01 1- WWL - Fifteen Thousand Tons From Venezuela, A New Trade Corridor
📺 WWL (?)
WWL (WWL): WWL: 15,000 tons of aluminium from Venezuela at Avondale — 'a new U.S. trade corridor', the first in nearly a decade, up the Mississippi; to be refined here; 'a bridge' after US strikes and the arrest of Venezuela's president in January; 200–300,000 tons a year to come.
04 💰 THE ECONOMY
The Fed - Another Hike Coming: The Fed expects to hike → inflation expectations rising. · China - 670 Banks Gone In A Year: 670 entities gone — but merged, not collapsed; why the rural banks are weak (property, low rates); the test is whether merging moves the problem into bigger banks.
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00 steel - no paper cuts at the mill
01 1- Demands - We Want It Yesterday And More Tomorrow
📺 Union boss parody — YouTube (clip)
Union boss parody (YouTube): the steelworker's levity clip 'Demands' (@plokij001001, as sent — 'I want THIS guy in Pittsburgh negotiating my contract'): 'we want it now. I want it yesterday. I want more tomorrow. And the demands will all be changed then.'
01 the fed - another hike coming
01 1- CNBC - Fed Minutes, Another Hike By Year End
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): CNBC: FOMC minutes — another hike 'likely appropriate' by year end, October or December; a higher path 'prudent on risk-management grounds… insurance against high inflation'; policy 'not restrictive or only mildly'.
02 2- CNBC - Inflation Expectations Highest Since 2023
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): CNBC: NY Fed survey — one-year inflation expectations 3.9%, highest since May 2023; three-year 3.3%, five-year 3%; home prices 3%; job-loss fears the lowest since December 2020.
02 china - 670 banks gone in a year
01 1- Business Standard - 670 Banks Closed, Fewer And Stronger Lenders
📺 Business Standard — BUSINESSSTANDARD (?)
Business Standard (BUSINESSSTANDARD): Business Standard: 670+ banking entities closed in China in 2025, almost all rural (FT) — merged, dissolved or absorbed, not collapsed; banks down 23% in four years to 3,139; property slump since 2021, households paying down mortgages, low rates squeezing margins; Wuhan's Z-Bank absorbed in July; merging does not fix bad loans.
05 🦠 PLAGUE AND PESTILENCE
Plague - We Dont Think Its A Bioweapon: Trump today: not a bioweapon, 'we don't think so' — and the China comparison → Trump: the microbes got smarter, we'll help → CNN's ex-COVID czar: the red flags (no vaccine, no antibiotics, 200 quarantined, a lab with a bioweapons history) → 'they don't feel like they're getting a straight answer' → CNBC's Bhadelia: why didn't she get antibiotics, why didn't she warn the hospital → Global: the lab, the rumours, can Moscow be trusted → Global: what WHO asked and what Russia answered. · Ebola - Kenyas First Case Came Through The Airport: The ministry's own statement: the route, the screening, the death, the contacts, the quarantine. · Measles - The Amish Midwife: 1,000 cases, the Amish midwife and the baby's grave → let midwives give the vaccine. · Glp-1 - The Man Who Went Blind: The man who went blind → the lawsuits and the missing warning → drugs on Instagram, and his wife.
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00 plague - we dont think its a bioweapon
01 1- NBC - Trump, We Dont Think Its A Bioweapon, China Didnt Say Much Either
📺 NBC News (MSM)
NBC (NBC): NBC: 'Is the plague in Russia a bioweapon?' Trump: 'We don't think so… if you listen to them, it's under control. People have said that before'; same vibe as China and COVID? 'China didn't say much and Russia's not saying much either.'
02 2- New York Post - Trump, The Microbes Got Smarter, Like An Army
📺 New York Post (MSM)
New York Post (NYPOST): Trump: 'that's a disease we used to be able to control, but somehow those microbes have gotten stronger and smarter. They're like an army… things that used to work on pneumonia don't work as well anymore… but we'll help.'
03 3- CNN - Ex-COVID Czar, Red Flags And A Bioweapons Program
📺 CNN (MSM)
CNN (CNN): CNN's ex-COVID czar: 'a lot of red flags' — she should have been vaccinated and on antibiotics; 200 under quarantine is 'not what you would expect from a simple lab accident'; Russia 'has a very extensive biological weapons program'.
04 4- CNN - Ex-COVID Czar, Officials Say Russia Is Not Giving A Straight Answer
📺 CNN (MSM)
CNN (CNN): The anchor: the FSB involved, hospitals locked down — do you trust the information? 'The lab… supposed to be a civilian lab… a long history of military biological weapons research'; 'three conversations [with the administration] in the last 24 hours. They're concerned… not getting a straight answer from Russia.'
05 5- CNBC - Bhadelia, Why No Antibiotics, Five Hospitals Quarantined
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): Bhadelia: an anti-plague researcher knows the rules — why no post-exposure antibiotics? 'Even more curious… she ended up in the hospital with symptoms but didn't tell the hospital'; five hospitals reportedly quarantined; WHO calls it low risk.
06 6- Global News - The Lab In Irkutsk, Can The Official Word Be Trusted
📺 Global News — GLOBALNEWS (?)
Global News (GLOBALNEWS): Global: Irkutsk looks normal, 'rumors are rampant'; officially pneumonia, no pathogen; local reports: Daria Shipilova broke a test tube; Shelekhov hospital quarantined, 200 contacts; an expert: not a bioweapon, a biosafety failure; 'can the official word be trusted now?'; Rubio; Canada's health minister.
07 7- Global News - WHO Asks Russia, Searches Up Five Thousand Percent
📺 Global News — GLOBALNEWS (?)
Global News (GLOBALNEWS): Global: WHO 'aware of reports'; searches up 5,000%; WHO asked Russia on 3 Oct; Russia answered 6 Oct: 'no case of plague has been recorded' in her or anyone else; WHO's risk: moderate-to-low Irkutsk, very low for Europe.
01 ebola - kenyas first case came through the airport
01 1- AP - Kenya Health Ministry, 28 Contacts And A Flight To Trace
📺 AP (MSM)
AP (AP): Kenya's Health Ministry: the first imported Ebola (Bundibugyo) case — a Kenyan in DRC seven years, ill a month, by road to Kampala, flight to Nairobi Saturday, through JKIA screening and immigration; died last night; 28 contacts, 23 passengers and 4 crew being traced; quarantine prepared.
02 measles - the amish midwife
01 1- 6abc - A Thousand Cases, The Amish Midwife Buries A Baby
📺 6abc Philadelphia (ABC) (MSM)
6abc (6ABC): 6abc: 1,000+ cases, the largest state outbreak in three decades; Chester County 'in a race'; Lancaster midwife Roberta Devers: 'every mother that I'm taking care of either has had the measles, has had children who have'; 'carrying a little baby to a grave, a 17-week-old fetal demise. That was last month.'
02 2- 6abc - Midwives Ask To Give The Vaccine Themselves
📺 6abc Philadelphia (ABC) (MSM)
6abc (6ABC): 'We know for a fact this is much larger than any number on any dashboard'; 84 Chester cases, all unvaccinated; midwives as the trusted voice — 'we're in their bedrooms delivering their babies'; the Amish 'are not anti-vaccine… they follow tradition'; let midwives give MMR — 'a lot of baby deaths before we reach herd immunity'.
03 glp-1 - the man who went blind
01 1- NPR - Ozempic, Then Both Eyes Went Black
📺 NPR (MSM)
NPR (NPR): NPR: 1 in 10 Americans on a GLP-1; Todd Engel on Ozempic — 'I couldn't see anything. It was all dark' — NAION; his wife asked the doctor about Ozempic: 'we have heard nothing'; research came later; then the other eye; 'I will never, never be able to see my wife's beautiful face every day.'
02 2- NPR - 247 Plaintiffs With NAION, The FDA Asks For No Warning
📺 NPR (MSM)
NPR (NPR): He sues Novo Nordisk — no warning; Novo: 'exceedingly rare'; the FDA has not asked for label changes; attorney Jonathan Orent: Europe updated warnings; 247 NAION plaintiffs, 4,000+ pancreatitis/gallstones; FDA reports: ~2,000 pancreatitis and ~1,000 optic neuropathy among ~190,000 since 2024.
03 3- NPR - Drugs On Instagram, He Needs Escorting To The Bathroom
📺 NPR (MSM)
NPR (NPR): Online sales: 'How often do you get drugs on Instagram?' — people call poison centres, not doctors; Shelley Engel: 'Todd was like an outgoing, vivacious kind of guy… needs escorting to the bathroom. Like it's humiliating.'
06 🏛️ POLITICS
The Maga Dam - Always About To Break: The chorus: cracks, floods and the wet spot → 'a very tough dam', back to 2015, and the YOLO caucus that ran out of spine. · Trump Tv - The Ads And The Ai Photo: ABC: taxpayer ads featuring himself, now the PAC pays → CNBC: the switch → Vance: not partisan → France 24: the Trump TV photo is AI → made from a Super Bowl flight → $10M, 13 ads. · Tillis - They Didnt Pass Their Annual Reviews: CNN: the annual reviews and the $10M → CNBC: the $5,000 payment is a gimmick. · Camp Donald - The Golf Club Retreat: 'Are you going to call it Camp Donald?' — 'It's already called Trump International.' · Canada - Quebec And Alberta Want Out: Quebec elects the separatists → Alberta's separatists and Washington.
Clips — 13
00 the maga dam - always about to break
01 1- Karli Bonne - Cracks, Floods And A Small Wet Spot
📺 Karli Bonne — KARLIBONNE (?)
Karli Bonne (KARLIBONNE): Karli Bonne': 'Why are we constantly believing that there are cracks in the MAGA fortress?' — a run of anchors: cracks, armor, 'the dam is starting to break… a flood', 'a small wet spot on the front of its pants', the Epstein files, 'Trump fever breaks', 'there might be a dam breaking'.
02 2- Karli Bonne - A Very Tough Dam, The YOLO Caucus
📺 Karli Bonne — KARLIBONNE (?)
Karli Bonne (KARLIBONNE): 'Is that the same dam that's breaking this year?' — 'This is a very tough dam!' — back to 2015 and McCain; the 'Wounded Bear Caucus' (Tillis, Cassidy, Cornyn), 'the YOLO caucus' — who all voted to confirm Todd Blanche: 'we are all out of spine'.
01 trump tv - the ads and the ai photo
01 1- ABC - Taxpayer Ads Featuring Himself, Now The Super PAC Pays
📺 ABC News (MSM)
ABC (ABC): ABC's Rachel: after days of defending them, Trump stops using taxpayer money for TV ads featuring himself — one 'nearly identical to an ad that ran during the 2024 campaign' — and will use super-PAC money; ~$1.5M so far; no word on reimbursing.
02 2- CNBC - MAGA Inc Will Pay For The Ads Instead
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): CNBC: MAGA Inc. will pay; the ads were paid by DHS; lawmakers said they might violate federal law; the White House called them PSAs; Trump: 'positive promotion for our great USA'.
03 3- CNN - Vance, The Ads Are Not Partisan
📺 CNN (MSM)
CNN (CNN): Vance: 'Do you think the PSAs are a good use of taxpayer dollars?' — Obama did it with the ACA; 'part of… living in a constitutional republic… They're not partisan… about how great the United States of America is.'
04 4- France 24 - Truth Or Fake, The White House Trump TV Photo
📺 France 24 (MSM)
France 24 (FRANCE24): France 24 Truth or Fake: the White House posted a packed airplane 'tuning in to watch Trump TV' — the YouTube channel launched after it banned Politico, CNN and MS NOW — captioned 'it's what everybody is watching'.
05 5- France 24 - Made With OpenAI From A Super Bowl Flight
📺 France 24 (MSM)
France 24 (FRANCE24): The catch: an invisible SynthID watermark — made with OpenAI image tools; the original: a passenger's February 2023 photo of a flight watching the Super Bowl (and one man watching Hitch); no AI label — Trump calls AI fears 'a hoax' and says the only guardrail needed is 'a strong and smart, high IQ president'.
06 6- France 24 - Ten Million In Taxpayer Ads, Thirteen Of Them
📺 France 24 (MSM)
France 24 (FRANCE24): France 24: 'he'd no longer be funding television ads praising him'; the 'Golden Age of America' ads; Truth Social: 'positive promotion for our great USA… the patriotic thing'; no reimbursement; AdImpact: $10M+, at least 13 ads (CNN), DHS money.
02 tillis - they didnt pass their annual reviews
01 1- CNN - Tillis, Nuttier Than Squirrel, Pay The Ten Million Back
📺 CNN (MSM)
CNN (CNN): Tillis: 'I'm sick of Pete Hegseth treating us like… a manufacturing line'; Hegseth his biggest regret; RFK Jr.; Gabbard and Mensa; Noem 'a dog murderer'; Lutnick 'nuttier than squirrel s' — 'I'll stand by all that'; 'I'm giving them their annual review. They didn't pass'; reimburse the ads? 'It will be the $10 million that didn't get reimbursed.'
02 2- CNBC - Tillis, The 5000 Dollar Payment Is A Gimmick
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): Tillis on the $5,000 payment: '$1.35 trillion… 71 million kids… $16,000 worth of debt… we don't have any genies making that money. Those are the gimmicks and things that I think most people see through.'
03 camp donald - the golf club retreat
01 1- CNN - Trump, A Camp David For Future Presidents At His Club
📺 CNN (MSM)
CNN (CNN): Reporter: a retreat for future presidents at his West Palm golf club — 'are you going to call it Camp Donald?' Trump: 'It's already called Trump International… suggested to me by the military and Secret Service… no high buildings… two minutes away from the airport… This wouldn't be for me.'
04 canada - quebec and alberta want out
01 1- Global News - Quebec Elects Separatists, A Referendum After Trump
📺 Global News — GLOBALNEWS (?)
Global News (GLOBALNEWS): Global: the PQ's comeback — 'Québec, un pays!' — Plamondon promises a third referendum but 'after U.S. President Donald Trump is out of office'; the CAQ routed after eight years; Liberal Milliard: 'no way' on a referendum; Conservative Duhaime finally elected.
02 2- Global News - Alberta Separatists In Touch With The State Department
📺 Global News — GLOBALNEWS (?)
Global News (GLOBALNEWS): Global: separatist lawyer Jeff Rath — 'assured by American officials… there would still be massive U.S. demand for Alberta oil… a free trade agreement'; 'regular contact' with the State Department; 'not the 51st state'; a federalist: 'traitors'; 652,000 mail-in ballots, Sylvestre already questioning them.
07 📺 THE MEDIA
Paramount Skydance - Five Companies, Ninety Percent: NBC: the Court says no, goodbye Warner Brothers → MS NOW: five corporations, 90% → Ellison, Bari Weiss, and 'the sooner Ellison takes over CNN, the better'. · Karoline Leavitt - She Joins Fox News: The Fox family announcement.
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00 paramount skydance - five companies, ninety percent
01 1- NBC - The Supreme Court Says No, Goodbye Warner Brothers
📺 NBC News (MSM)
NBC (NBC): NBC: an 11th-hour Supreme Court appeal over the settlement's concessions (an editorial-independence board, reapplication rights) was denied — 'Goodbye, Warner Brothers Discovery. Goodbye, Paramount. It's just one company called Skydance now.'
02 2- MS NOW - Five Corporations Control Ninety Percent Of Media
📺 MS NOW — MSNBC (MSM)
MS NOW (MSNOW): Ruhle: the $110B deal closed — David Ellison, 'close to Donald Trump'; 'five corporations now control 90 percent of the U.S. media landscape'; CBS, CNN, HBO Max, Paramount+, MTV, Comedy Central, TNT, Nickelodeon, DC — 'potentially for democracy itself'.
03 3- MS NOW - Ellison, Bari Weiss And CNN Is Next
📺 MS NOW — MSNBC (MSM)
MS NOW (MSNOW): Ellison 'aggressively courted the Trump administration'; who decides 'which stories get buried'; Bari Weiss at CBS News and the 60 Minutes complaint; CNN next; Trump: 'the sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better' — Ruhle: 'saying the quiet parts out loud'.
01 karoline leavitt - she joins fox news
01 1- Fox News - Karoline Leavitt Joins Fox As A Contributor
📺 Fox News (MSM)
Fox News (FOX): Fox: 'the Fox family is expanding' — Karoline Leavitt, press secretary Jan 2025 to August, joins as a contributor on 1 Nov.
08 ⚰️ CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Mall Of America - Isis Plot Charged: The announcement, the charge (AK-47 + 200 rounds), the 30-to-60 target, 'the threat is active and continuing'. · Christa Pike - Awake And Speaking: NBC today: awake and talking, still shackled → the governor's pause, competency, and the victim's mother → (Adam's two WGTDT-53 clips) CNN: the drug and Blanche's 'gold standard' → WBIR: what she did in 1995. · Hastert - The Speaker Who Paid Hush Money: From coach to Speaker, the hush money, the funeral → 'he would never say the word'. · Jim Bakker - The Ptl Club Preacher Dies: The PTL empire, the 1987 'ye without sin' Nightline, prison, and his death.
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
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00 mall of america - isis plot charged
01 1- US Attorney - Mall Of America ISIS Plot, An AK-47 And 200 Rounds
📺 US Attorney — X / social (clip)
US Attorney (X): Federal prosecutor at the Minneapolis presser: the FBI 'yesterday arrested and today we have charged an individual who was planning a mass casualty attack in support of ISIS at the Mall of America later this month'; the complaint charges Mohamud with 'acquiring an AK-47 assault rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition'; he meant to kill 'in his words maybe thirty to sixty people'; 'the threat of terrorism in support of ISIS … is active and continuing.'
01 christa pike - awake and speaking
01 1- NBC - Awake And Speaking, Still Shackled To The Bed
📺 NBC News (MSM)
NBC (NBC): NBC TODAY: after two lethal injections, six days later Pike is 'awake and communicating', still handcuffed and shackled in a Nashville hospital; full sentences, no memory of the attempt (Dr. Joel Zivot); 50, three decades on death row for murdering Colleen Slemmer in 1995; set to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years.
02 2- NBC - The Governor Pauses Executions, The Mother Knew She Would Live
📺 NBC News (MSM)
NBC (NBC): Lawyers: 'punishment greater than any other person in the history of the American death penalty'; the governor paused the remaining executions this year pending review; competency will decide it; no comment from the governor or Corrections; Slemmer's mother 'knew all along that Pike would live' and does not expect another attempt.
03 3- CNN - Pike Survives, Blanche Called Pentobarbital The Gold Standard
📺 CNN (MSM)
CNN (CNN): CNN explainer (WGTDT-53 03A): Pike survived two doses; pentobarbital's history (fluid in the lungs, suffocation); Biden's DOJ dropped it; AG Todd Blanche called it 'the gold standard'; vein issues; lawyers ask Gov. Bill Lee to commute.
04 4- WBIR - Half An Hour Of Torture, A Pentagram And A Piece Of Her Skull
📺 WBIR (?)
WBIR (WBIR): WBIR (WGTDT-53 03C, de-clicked) — GRAPHIC: the 1995 murder at the UT agriculture campus by the Job Corps Center — half an hour of torture, a pentagram carved into the victim, and Pike keeping a piece of her skull.
02 hastert - the speaker who paid hush money
01 1- WGN - From Coach To Speaker, Hush Money To A Victim
📺 WGN (?)
WGN (WGN): WGN: 'from high school coach to speaker'; died at 84 in Kendall County; Republicans' 1999 'party of values' choice after the Clinton impeachment; charged with structuring $1.5M — hush money over abuse as a Yorkville wrestling coach; Jolene Burgess at her brother Steve's 1995 funeral: 'I want to know why you did what you did to my brother' — 'he just stayed silent.'
02 2- WGN - He Would Never Say The Word
📺 WGN (?)
WGN (WGN): Four years later he was Speaker; 16 more before indictment; in court 'he would never say the word'; five students; survivor Scott Cross pushed to change the statute of limitations; prison for banking laws, not abuse.
03 jim bakker - the ptl club preacher dies
01 1- PBS - Jim Bakker Dies At 86, Praise The Lord
📺 PBS NewsHour (MSM)
PBS (PBS): PBS: Jim Bakker dies at 86; the PTL Club ('Praise the Lord') with Tammy Faye, 13 million daily viewers; 1987 sexual-assault accusation and hush money; Nightline: 'Ye without sin cast the first stone'; fraud, 45 years, ~5 served; his wife Lori announced it.
09 🌎 ALSO IN THE NEWS
Tuberville - Furries In The Cockpit: The floor speech: from gender confusion to 'your pilot could have a deranged fetish of dressing up like an animal', then 'bring back mental institutions… it's coming' → TMZ the next day: how does he know? 'They had a pilots section at their convention.' · Flydubai - A Vertical Roller Coaster: What the cabin felt.
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00 tuberville - furries in the cockpit
01 1- AL.com - Tuberville On The Senate Floor, Your Pilot Could Dress Like An Animal
📺 Sen. Tommy Tuberville — Senate floor speech (official)
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (Senate floor): 22 Sep speech, uploaded by AL.com — 'gender confusion is a mental illness'; the furry community 'touts the fact that many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community. Lord help us… your pilot… could have a deranged fetish of dressing up like an animal'; bring back mental institutions — 'It's coming.'
02 2- TMZ - Tuberville Says The Furry Convention Had A Pilots Section
📺 TMZ (?)
TMZ (TMZ): TMZ the next day: 'you went viral'; Tuberville: 'all you gotta do is look at their convention. They had a pilots section… in Minnesota'; 'some, not all… they have a club'; 'if you're a good pilot, who really cares?' — 'I don't want somebody flying me… if they think they're an animal.'
01 flydubai - a vertical roller coaster
01 1- New York Post - The Simulator, A 16000 Foot Plunge
📺 New York Post (MSM)
New York Post (NYPOST): A pilot in the simulator: speed rising, the overspeed clicker, past maximum structural speed, 11,600 feet per minute, negative G — 'everything unsecured will fly over the cabin… a very, very vertical roller coaster.'
10 🎵 END OF SHOW
Producer audio, as sent: RocketBoy333's AI song and Sir Jeramey Johnson's country end-of-show mix (first sent 3 Sep, never aired).
Clips — 2
00 producer - two ai songs and a country end of show
01 2- RocketBoy333 - Ghosts In The Broadcast
Source: producer file, sent by email — no public link
📺 2- RocketBoy333 (?)
RocketBoy333 (producer, AI-generated song, as sent): 'Ghosts In The Broadcast', 1:51 — sent with his 'Frat boy' email; lyrics not transcribed (music blocks whisper) — listen before air.
02 3- Sir Jeramey Johnson - The Best Podcast In The Universe, Country
Source: producer file, sent by email — no public link
📺 3- Sir Jeramey Johnson (?)
Sir Jeramey Johnson (producer EOS mix, as sent): a country No Agenda song — 'value for value keeps it rolling… some voices leave the airway, but the stories carry on… the best part of this universe has always been all of you.'