Back to episode — Episode 2360 CWSA 01/21/24
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rganization that has a number of past CIA leaders. You know, I think Clapper is actually in the organization that Rob Reiner organizes. So we know he has personal connections in the intel world. And we know that he's blaming the CIA for the murder of JFK along with the mafia. So his take is that it's a little more complicated than the normal way the story is told, but that basically there were el…
← Previous segment →top. It was rather rogue right-wing elements of the CIA. So the CIA leadership, no problem. They weren't involved. But rogue right-wing elements of the CIA. What does that remind you of? The rogue right-wing elements. Does it sound a lot like the military looking for the white supremacists in the military? Oh it does, doesn't it? Yeah. Because then the military can be good but the white supremacists, those damn Republicans as they might say, well they're bad. If you just get rid of them you'd be in good shape. And it seems that Rob Reiner would like us to believe something similar like that is happening with the CIA. Oh the CIA is not totally clean. Yeah, no he's not saying that. They're not totally clean. But if you could only get rid of those right-wing elements it might be. So do you think he's throwing the CIA under the bus or is he giving them cover and throwing Republicans under the bus? To me it looks like he's making a case: CIA good unless they're Republicans and right-wingers. It's all good except for those right-wingers. So we got to get rid of them. Yeah, that's what I think. So if Reiner is trying to look exactly like a CIA asset, he's pulling it off perfectly.
Somebody says that John Cusack falls into that category and I would say Cusack might be a little more complicated. He might be a little more complicated. Yeah. So I don't know what his deal is.
All right. Sam Altman apparently is looking to create a network of factories to make AI-related chips in the United States. Now you might know that we can't have China or some other country control our AI chips because those will be the most valuable ones probably. But the United States has not been super good at building chip factories for reasons I don't know. So now Sam Altman in my opinion is putting together a portfolio that could make him as rich as Elon Musk because he's going to have investments in AI which will be the biggest thing. He has long had investments in fusion which if it ever comes online will make AI and robots and everything far more practical. And if he builds a chip factory he's going to own the AI chips. And the fusion would be the power to power all this. You know, I love how Elon Musk companies always seem to have something in common or they work with the others. You know, the Starlink seems to work really well with cars and spaceships. If you've got AI it's going to work with all those things. If you can manufacture anything it's, you know. So it feels like Musk's businesses have all these, I hate to say synergies, but it's the word. Nobody's come up with a better word for it yet so I'll just say it. You know as a creator of Dilbert I hate to say synergies because I mock that word all the time. But that's what it is. But if you do it right it's actually a good idea.
Well, a bunch of states, 33 states, are going to sue Meta, the Facebook parent company, for its damage to children's mental health. They say quote Meta has harnessed powerful and unprecedented technologies to entice, engage and ultimately ensnare youth and teens. Its motive is profit, blah blah blah blah. Kids and teenagers are suffering fro
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m record levels of poor mental health. You think this is going to work? I don't know. You know I always say insurance is the only thing that predicts. So if Meta wins the suit then I guess there's no insurance implication. But what if this science showed that young kids are actually injured? And what if some enterprising lawyers find a way to tie any one kid's suicide or mental health problem to t…
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