No Agenda Episode 1823 - "Secretary of Egg"

  No Agenda Episode 1823 - "Secretary of Egg"
    "Secretary of Egg"
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  Credits
    "Secretary of Egg"
    Executive Producers:
      Bob Dietrich - katedietrich.net
      Dame Melavation
      Sir Adam of The Koch Empire
    Associate Executive Producers:
      Christopher Graves - Littlejohnscandies.com
      William Swenson
      Baronet Sir Twenty-Threes Knight of the Electric Sea
      Gary Macy
      Eli the coffee guy- Gigawattcoffeeroasters.com
      William Wild
      Linda Lu, Duchess of jobs & writer of winning résumés - imagmakersink.com
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      Jeff Homan
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      Sir Twenty-Threes, Knight of the Electric Sea > Baronet
    Art By: Blue Acorn
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  Cover Art
    Art By: Blue Acorn
  Shownotes
    North Sea Nexus
      Venezuela denounces US-ordered ‘forced sale’ of oil company Citgo Oil and Gas News Al Jazeera
      Top Obama DEA Official Charged With Laundering Money For Mexican Drug Cartel ZeroHedge
      'Diseased Temple' FBI boss reveals criminal investigation into feds who ran Arctic Frost probe Just The News
    Africa News
      Benin Coup
        ### Overview of Political Issues in Benin
          Benin, a West African nation, has historically been regarded as one of the more stable democracies in sub-Saharan Africa, but it has faced significant challenges in recent years, including democratic backsliding, corruption, and emerging security threats. Under President Patrice Talon, who has been in power since 2016, the government has been accused of using the judicial system to target political opponents, restricting press freedoms, and manipulating electoral processes to consolidate power. This has led to a decline in civil liberties and political rights, with opposition figures often facing arrests or exile. Economic inequality and youth unemployment have also fueled social unrest, contributing to periodic protests.
          On December 7, 2025—the current date—a group of soldiers appeared on national television announcing a takeover, claiming to have seized power to address unspecified grievances. However, the government quickly declared that the armed forces had foiled this attempted coup, describing it as a "mutiny" by a small group aimed at destabilizing the state. Loyalist troops quelled the effort, and Interior Minister Alassane Seidou confirmed the situation was under control. This incident marks Benin as the latest in a wave of military interventions across West Africa since 2020, highlighting broader regional instability. It underscores internal divisions within the military and potential dissatisfaction with governance.
          Beyond domestic politics, Benin faces external pressures, including the southward spread of jihadist groups from the Sahel region, which could exacerbate intercommunal tensions and criminal violence in coastal West Africa. Corruption remains a pervasive issue, with extortion, embezzlement, and mismanagement of public funds undermining development and eroding public trust.
        ### Are the Issues About Resources, Oil, or Drugs?
          Benin's political challenges are not primarily driven by conflicts over natural resources in the same way as in resource-rich neighbors like Nigeria or the Democratic Republic of Congo. Instead, they stem more from governance failures, elite capture of state institutions, and regional security dynamics. However, resource-related corruption and illicit economies do play a role:
            - **Resources**: Benin's economy relies heavily on agriculture (e.g., cotton and cashews) and trade, rather than extractive industries. Corruption in managing public resources, including aid and state revenues, is a key political flashpoint, often leading to accusations of elite enrichment at the expense of development. There are no major internal resource wars, but mismanagement amplifies inequality.
            - **Oil**: Benin is not a major oil producer, with limited onshore and offshore reserves. Production is modest (around 10,000-15,000 barrels per day in recent years), and the country imports most of its fuel. However, regional oil-related issues affect Benin, including a new oil export pipeline from Niger through Benin to the port of Cotonou, which has sparked diplomatic tensions with Niger over transit fees and border closures. In the broader Gulf of Guinea, oil theft, piracy targeting petroleum vessels, and black-market fuel trade contribute to instability, with international oil corporations influencing local governance through opaque deals. These factors indirectly fuel political corruption but are not the core of Benin's internal politics.
            - **Drugs**: Benin serves as a significant transit hub for illicit drugs, particularly cocaine from Latin America en route to Europe and other African markets. This is facilitated by weak border controls and corruption among officials. While not a primary producer, the drug trade generates political risks through organized crime networks that can influence local elites and exacerbate instability. Recent large cocaine seizures highlight the scale of the problem.
        ### Particular Focus on the Ports
          Benin's ports, especially the Port of Cotonou—the country's main commercial gateway—are central to both its economy and its vulnerabilities. As a key transit point for landlocked neighbors like Niger and Burkina Faso, the port handles significant legitimate trade in goods like cotton, vehicles, and food. However, its strategic location in the Gulf of Guinea makes it a hotspot for illicit activities:
            - **Drug Trafficking**: Criminal networks have long used Cotonou to import cocaine, with containers often concealing shipments amid legal cargo. This has led to international concerns about Benin's role in West Africa's growing drug corridor.
            - **Maritime Security Threats**: The port and surrounding waters face piracy, armed robbery at sea, and oil bunkering (illegal fuel siphoning), part of broader Gulf of Guinea issues where attacks on vessels carrying petroleum products feed black markets. Illegal fishing and human trafficking also occur, straining political relations with regional partners.
            - **Political Implications**: Control over the port generates revenue but also corruption opportunities, with allegations of kickbacks in contracts and customs. The recent Niger-Benin pipeline terminates at Cotonou, adding geopolitical tensions—Niger's military junta has accused Benin of sabotage, leading to border disputes that could politicize port operations further.
        Overall, while Benin's political issues are rooted in governance and security, the ports amplify risks from transnational crime, potentially intersecting with the recent coup attempt if economic grievances or criminal influences played a role. The situation remains fluid following today's events.
    J6
      Pipe Bomber
        1) Criminal Mastermind who evaded the FBI for 4+ yrs
        2) Spaced out his component purchases over 15 months... but used his own credit card
        3) Had materials for 6 bombs, dropped 2 - never did it again
        4) No indication where he got the BOMB part of the bomb (black powder)
        5) Caught on camera waving to Law enforcement
        6) Carried his own cell phone for his crime
        7) Used his OWN phone during the commission of the crime
        8) Drove his OWN car with his OWN license plate showing into DC where there are dozens of License Plate Readers
        9) Is an autistic loner who lives in his mom's basement
        10) ... And he is a black male who initially placed his bomb outside the Congressional Black Caucus Institute.
        11) The USCP Officers found the second device in 11 min 7 seconds from their dispatch
    M5M
      A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips – The White House
      MAGA Melts Down Over Netflix Deal: ‘Obama Taking Over’
    Big Pharma
      Regional patterns of excess mortality in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic: a state-level analysis - PMC
      Donald Glover’s Stroke Highlights a Troubling Trend for Young People | TIME
    Big Tech AI and The Socials
      The Omniwriter
      The New York Times sues Perplexity, alleging copyright infringement
      Data Center Equipment Turnover
        In the morning Adam and John,
        I wanted to give a boots on the ground report about what Niley Patel was discussing on episode 1823. When he said that the turnover for data center equipment is 5 years, he was incorrect.
        I can confirm that John was correct and that number is actually closer to 2 years.
        I work for an ITAD (IT Asset Disposition) company based in Atlanta, and we do business with many large data center companies located throughout the country. We do tear downs of their used IT assets whenever they retired or are EOL. Most, if not all major data centers, replace their equipment once every 2-3 years. This is due to maintenance contracts with large OEM supplies like IBM, Dell, HPE, and others; where they have to upgrade ever so often. This means BIG business for us down streamers who e-cycle the used gear.
        However, it doe not stop at just data centers. This is case for all IT equipment that is in corporate offices; laptops, desktops, monitors, keyboards, mice, etc. All Fortune 500 companies have deals with OEM’s and thus must replace these “outdated” assets within a certain time frame.
        Love the show, keep up the great work.
      How AI Music copyright discovery works
        they run very small and targeted models for each of the rights-holders, with agents that focus on notes, text, and tone. They sit in the middle of queries from the AI co's (like open AI) and send an agent to probe a model that identifies the _result_ of the prompt before it's delivered back to the user and sends it over to the mini-license models (aka, if Sony owns the IP or the John Denver estate, etc). Then the agent will run an engine that puts together an algo that assigns a percentage of likelihood/probibliity/similar survey against the content. For example, the user asks for a song in the style of John Denver with lyrics about a cat. Some percent of the lyrics will be taken from other John Denver songs (like if the verse starts "Take me home, silly cat", the "take me home" part would go towards the percentage). They add up the percentages from their review and come up with a figure that then is applied to the licensing fee. So, if the estate says we're going to charge 1 cent for each time an AI model presents a user with one of our songs, looks at what the AI spits out, decides that the result is 75% based on the John Denver IP, and then sends a bill to OpenAI for $0.0075.
        They can also take multiple IP owners and do the same thing. So if the result returned to the user is 10% from AC/DC, 25% from Stephen Sondheim, and 60% from a WMG property, they can take that amount, bill OpenAI and then distribute it to the righs holders. takes a small percentage of the exchange, of course. And when you take a small percentage of a billion queries a day, it adds up to a lot of money.
    Airbus vs Boeing
      Airbus Update - Computer Engineer, this is shifty
        I am a computer engineer who specializes in embedded firmware development. While I don't work in aviation, I can tell you that "solar radiation flipping a bit" in flight control systems, is NOT something that should be getting fixed via a software update.
        To be clear: this phenomenon is very real, and has been known about for airplanes, satellites, etc for a long time now. The way it is avoided is with something called a lockstep processor - where two or more processors conduct the same calculations and operations at the same time, and are checked against each other before the code executes: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockstep_(computing)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockstep_\(computing\))
        This makes me think that someone is being negligent in implementation. The only way that ECC memory or lockstep computation should fail, is if you get TWO bits flipped (one on each processor, in the exact same place) OR if the error correction codes on the ECC are crap, and have collisions, where a flipped bit inappropriately evaluates as another valid number (ultra rare, and software won't save you here).
        This doesn't pass the smell test. Very suspicious that a "bad update" would break these fundamental checks against solar radiation.
    USD BTC STABLE
      Could paper checks be on the way out, like the penny? | CNN Business
    Replacement Migration
      ICE Austin BOTG
        I deliver sodas out of the Austin area, and part of that is delivering to HEB. Was in conversation with couple meat/seafood managers and topic of beef came up. Was told as you’ve discussed their beef is brought in from other countries and processed local so it gets a USA sticker slapped on it, hence why quality of HEB beef is crap here lately. Seafood manager said you think that’s bad, said they get most of their seafood from Asia. Same situation as beef, process fish/shrimp in house and now product of USA. Said personally will not eat any seafood they carry because how it’s raised..
        Also part of job is delivering to stores, some out in the heavily Hispanic areas outside of Austin. Let alone the rise in prices of aluminum and sugar, add in the ICE raids our business has dropped well over 50% in past few months. Mainly from Hispanic workers not going into stores before/after work. Even beer guys I talk to say same thing. Some of stores coming out these places is out right wild. ICE mainly only rounding up the males, leaving woman to fend for their households themselves. They’re have been car chases, some that end with shots fired. Raids going on in middle of night, supposedly been some firefights involved. I go to Mexican grocery stores that are size of smaller HEBs and they’re ghost towns compared to last year. None of this makes it onto the news.
        And also being in the trucking world the freight economy is on a huge downward shift. Part of the ICE movement truckers are now being targeted to check their legal status on top of that. Recently there was over 4,000 CDL schools shut down nationwide, due in part to the slow down and from passing people that don’t speak or read English. Trucking companies are now starting lay offs and some even shutting down to due high cost and lack of freight.
        Sorry for long winded report, feel like boots on ground from what I’m seeing out here might be of interest.
        George B
  Clips and Docs
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      Benin minister says attempted military coup 'foiled' Africa News.mp3
      CBS FTN - Margaret Brennan, Scott Bessent -2- affordability is a hoax.mp3
      CBS FTN - Margaret Brennan, Scott Bessent -3- biden created the worst inflation of all time.mp3
      CBS FTN - Margaret Brennan, Scott Bessent -4- bridge payment for farmers.mp3
      CBS FTN - Margaret Brennan, Scott Bessent -5- bridge payment for farmers clarification.mp3
      CBS FTN - Margaret Brennan, Scott Bessent -6- trump accounts for citizen children.mp3
      CBS FTN - Margaret Brennan, Scott Bessent -7- new tax-deferred vehicle for newborns.mp3
      CBS FTN - Margaret Brennan, Scott Bessent -8- investigating somali terrorist.mp3
      Dealbook - Fink worried about EO disallowing them to vote their share holdings.mp3
      CBS FTN - Margaret Brennan, Scott Bessent -1- strong holiday season.mp3
      CBS FTN - Margaret Brennan, Dr. Scott Gottlieb -1- hep B vaccine.mp3
      CBS FTN - Margaret Brennan, Dr. Scott Gottlieb -2- the decision now is to wait 2 mo.mp3
      CBS FTN - Margaret Brennan, Dr. Scott Gottlieb -3- The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).mp3
      CBS FTN - Margaret Brennan, Dr. Scott Gottlieb -4- sell-off in biotech stocks triggered by reports COVID-19 vaccines may have contributed to the deaths of at least 10 children.mp3
      CBS FTN - Margaret Brennan, Dr. Scott Gottlieb -5- did the covid vaccine kill more healthy kids than it saved.mp3
      CDC vaccine advisory committee votes to remove universal recommendation for hepatitis B shot at birth ABC.mp3
      Forever chemicals found in cereals, bread, pasta and other food according to new study • FRANCE 24.mp3
      Lawyer Aaron Siri question 1986 vaccine immunity law.mp3
      ‘Scromiting’ is the brutal new side effect of chronic cannabis use as ER visits surge.mp3
      European Commission hits Elon Musk’s social network X with €120 million fine Euronews.mp3
      Theheran Drought - Water Bankruptsy Sky News.mp3
      Zelenskyy hails 'substansive' call with US officials following peace talks with Ukrainian delegation Euronews.mp3
      Trump To BETRAY Zelensky For Putin Macron Drops ‘DANGER’ Warning In Leaked Call With EU Leaders Times of India.mp3
      US threatens withdrawal from NATO if Europe doesn't take defense lead by 2027 • FRANCE 24 English.mp3
      Hegseth attacks BBC kicker 2.mp3
      Hegseth Chemical weapons BBC.mp3
      IHIPodxcast spew trouble ahead.mp3
      Immigration crackdown ANAL 1.mp3
      Immigration crackdown ANAL 2.mp3
      Immigration crackdown ANAL 3.mp3
      Immigration crackdown ANAL 4.mp3
      ISO Fab.mp3
      ISO HOLY.mp3
      ISO podcasts.mp3
      Isreal MUST withdraw BBC.mp3
      Mangione update npr.mp3
      mispronounce NPT.mp3
      Neew Army Command WOW NPR.mp3
      Read a Book wtf NPR.mp3
      Rocks to riches BBC.mp3
      SO AFrica shooting BBC 1.mp3
      SO AFrica shooting BBC 2.mp3
      Swine fever lab leak BBC.mp3
      Tricia MclAughlin New Porleans ntd.mp3
      VAX Hep B Horror 1.mp3
      VAX Hep B Horror 2.mp3
      VAX Hep B Horror 3.mp3
      VAX Hep B NPR 2 wtf.mp3
      VAX Hep B NPR 3.mp3
      VAX Hep B NPR.mp3
      voter registration suits ntd.mp3
      BBC Sat tease.mp3
      birthriught update.mp3
      Hegseth attacks BBC 1.mp3
      Hegseth attacks BBC 3.mp3
      Netflix buys Warner Bros. Discovery in $72B USD deal - what it means for Canada Global.mp3
      President Trump presents medals for Kennedy Center honorees.mp3
      Four countries to boycott 2026 Eurovision after EBU says Israel can take part Euronews.mp3
      US Supreme Court allows Texas to use map favoring Republicans in 2026 • FRANCE 24 English.mp3
      Trump attacks European values in new security strategy • FRANCE 24 English.mp3
      Trump's National Security Strategy warns Europe could face civilizational erasure CBS.mp3
      US 2025 Strategy Document.pdf
      US unveils new security strategy focused on own interests WAR NAT-POPS - Global News.mp3
      EU reacts to US security strategy document saying Europe face 'civilisational erasure' • FRANCE 24.mp3
      In new national security memo, Trump seeks to revive Monroe Doctrine NBC.mp3
      PBS National Security Policy - Atlantic Council’s Matthew Kroenig.mp3
      ABC TW - George Stephanopoulos, Rep. Adam Smith -3- is this really about drugs.mp3
      ABC TW - George Stephanopoulos, Rep. Adam Smith -4- land strikes in venezuela and regime change.mp3
      CBS FTN - Margaret Brennan, Rep. Jim Himes -1- Lawmakers shown video of second strike on survivors.mp3
      CBS FTN - Margaret Brennan, Rep. Jim Himes -2- release the boat strike video.mp3
      CBS FTN - Margaret Brennan, Rep. Jim Himes -3- DoD law of war manual.mp3
      CBS FTN - Margaret Brennan, Rep. Jim Himes -4- nobody can characterize who all the people in the boats are.mp3
      CBS FTN - Margaret Brennan, Rep. Jim Himes -5- i'm not convinced there is a list at all.mp3
      CBS FTN - Margaret Brennan, Rep. Jim Himes -6- we dont give a damn about who is on the list.mp3
      NBC MTP - Kristen Welker, Sen. Tom Cotton -1- drug boats.mp3
      NBC MTP - Kristen Welker, Sen. Tom Cotton -2- drug boats.mp3
      NBC MTP - Kristen Welker, Sen. Tom Cotton -3- drug boats.mp3
      The Liz Truss Show PROMO The Home of the Counter- Revolution.mp3
      ABC TW - George Stephanopoulos, Rep. Adam Smith -1- two survivors on a overturned boat.mp3
      ABC TW - George Stephanopoulos, Rep. Adam Smith -2- survivors of drug boat strike still in the fight.mp3
      CBS FTN - Margaret Brennan, Rep. Ilhan Omar -2- largest covid fraud scheme in the country.mp3
      CBS FTN - Margaret Brennan, Rep. Ilhan Omar -3- brazen fraudulent activity.mp3
      CBS FTN - Margaret Brennan, Rep. Ilhan Omar -4- investigating somali terrorist, laugh tell.mp3
      CBS FTN - Margaret Brennan, Rep. Ilhan Omar -1- omar's allies tied to fraud.mp3
      Logan THEY -1- Fauci - made man.mp3
      Logan THEY -1- Council for the inspectors general on Integrity and Efficiency.mp3
      Belgian drug chief warns illegal vapes could hook children on opioids Euronews.mp3