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An independent fact-check review that revisits every episode of the No Agenda show in order, starting with Episode 1 from 2007. Each claim is checked twice: against what was known at the time, and against what we know now. Produced for reporting and commentary purposes only. Not affiliated with, or endorsed by, No Agenda, Adam Curry, or John C. Dvorak. Do you like what you hear? Consider buying me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/ironhide1975

  1. 14h ago

    Episode 030 — May 10, 2008: China Smog, Oil at $200, the Golden Cage and Authoritarianism

    Revisiting No Agenda Episode 30, "Authoritarianism" (May 10, 2008): John is back from Korea with Chinese smog, a quarantined train and a dead phone; Adam covers cameras, Freesat and a London booze ban — plus the origin of Big Brother and the books behind the title. Every claim judged then and now. • John — China's smog drifts over Korea and across the Pacific, sometimes to California: Mixed. • Adam — Clinton: censoring China's internet is "like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall": Correct. • John — Deadly EV71 outbreak in China: 35 children dead; adults carry it with zero symptoms: Mixed. • John — Canada train quarantined; norovirus at JavaOne sickened 35: Correct. • Adam — UK: four million cameras, only 3% of crime solved: Correct. • John — Oil at $126 will hit $200 before year-end, then reverse; US gas $6–7: Incorrect. • John — AIG lost $8 billion; S&P cutting its "triple A" rating to AA−: Mixed. • John/Adam — GSM phones and the iPhone don't work in Korea, but do in China: Correct. • Adam — Freesat: £60 box, ~$120–130 installed, pay-per-day premium extras: Mixed. • Adam — Post-strike TV ratings all down 14%, American Idol excepted: Mixed. • John — The average movie costs $66 million to produce: Correct. • John — Real Life (1979), Albert Brooks's first film, spoofed reality TV early: Correct. • Adam — Big Brother began as the "Golden Cage": a year locked in, a million prize: Mixed. • Adam — Boris Johnson bans alcohol on London transport from June 1: Correct. • John — Rio's big stadium holds 350,000 people: Incorrect. • John — US airports on orange alert for five years straight, never moved: Mixed. • John/Adam — Adorno's Authoritarian Personality; Altemeyer's The Authoritarians: Correct. • John — Bankruptcy reform: "you still have to pay the credit card companies": Mixed. • John — Brazil credit cards charge 120% interest: Correct. Episode score: 19 claims — 9 correct, 8 mixed, 2 incorrect. Series so far: 364 claims — 167 correct, 135 mixed, 48 incorrect, 16 unverified. Sources: https://airbornescience.nasa.gov/sunsat/content/A_satellite-based_assessment_of_transpacific_transport_of_pollution_aerosol https://www.brookings.edu/articles/a-brief-experiment-in-a-more-open-chinese-web/ https://news.un.org/en/story/2008/05/258072-virus-outbreak-claims-lives-20-young-children-china-un-health-agency https://celos.ca/wiki/wiki.php?n=EmergencyPreparedness.SafeHasNeverBeenSoScary https://www.computing.co.uk/news/1846134/cctv-scheme-labelled-fiasco https://crudeoilprice.org/oil-price-history/2008-oil-price-spike/ https://www.gao.gov/assets/a585561.html https://www.macworld.com/article/193874/iphone_korea.html https://www.advanced-television.com/2008/05/07/freesat-launches/ https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/79850/nielsen-viewers-were-tv-loyal-during-strike.html?edition= https://emanuellevy.com/oscar/hollywood-2007-state-of-the-film-industry-6/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Life_(1979_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(Dutch_TV_series) https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2008/05/07/boris-johnson-bans-boozing-on-london-transport/867491 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maracan%C3%A3_stadium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_Security_Advisory_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Authoritarian_Personality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_Abuse_Prevention_and_Consumer_Protection_Act https://www.paymentsjournal.com/brazil-attacks-high-credit-card-interest-rates/amp/ If you like this show, check out our other fact-check shows: Timcast IRL Fact Checked, Louder with Crowder Fact Checked, and Joe Rogan Fact Checked. If this show helps you, please leave a rating or a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. It really does help other people find it. Do you like what you hear? Consider buying me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/ironhide1975 This is an independent fact-check review, produced for reporting and commentary purposes only. It is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the No Agenda show.

    Episode 030 — May 10, 2008: China Smog, Oil at $200, the Golden Cage and Authoritarianism

  2. 1d ago

    Episode 029 — May 3, 2008: Boris, Brazil, MacBASIC and the Zen Offer

    Revisiting No Agenda Episode 29, "The Zen 'Offer'" (May 3, 2008): Boris wins London, Brazil baffles, a BASIC that never shipped, Amazon leans on POD publishers, and two friends argue about the coming crash — every claim judged then and now. Correction to Episode 28: the pay-to-stay jails claim was Adam's, not John's. • Adam — Boris Johnson won; London votes first + second favourite; Labour lost "400 council seats": Mixed. • Adam — "Gobsmacked": recent slang, first recorded in the 1980s, from gob (mouth): Mixed. • Adam/John — BAA is Spanish-owned, runs Heathrow & Gatwick; Terminal 5 "messed up": Mixed. • John — Southwest's CEO: "Planes on the ground do not make money": Mixed. • Adam — EasyJet was founded by Stelios, the Greek shipping magnate; all orange: Correct. • John — The Van Gogh Museum holds "hundreds and hundreds" of paintings: Mixed. • John — Amsterdam's hidden Catholic church, built into houses when Catholic worship was banned: Correct. • Adam — Brazil: no mortgages until six weeks ago; rates "68 percent": Incorrect. • Adam/John — Rio "around 19 million", São Paulo "around 25": Incorrect. • Adam — "Boris Johnson is going to take us through the Olympics" (he self-corrected): Correct — he did, in 2012. • John — The $1 Ruth Wakefield Toll House cookbook, from 1940, with a 1-cent postcard inside: Correct. • John — "Book titles are not copyrightable": Correct. • John — Gates killed MacBASIC by threatening to pull Microsoft Office: Mixed. • Adam — Amazon will only carry print-on-demand books from its own BookSurge; WA Attorney General investigating: Mixed. • John — Stock tip: Capital One (COF) as a short: Correct — it fell below $10 by March 2009. • John — Collapse in a year and a half, then hyperinflation: Mixed (the crash came sooner; hyperinflation never did). • John — Cycle dates: crash in October 2009, bottom in summer 2013: Incorrect. • Adam/John — McCain will win and the market will rocket; the Dow "tripled" in 1929 and could pass 30,000: Incorrect. • Adam — "Both Obama and Clinton were quite clear they would bomb Iran": Mixed. Episode score: 19 claims checked — 6 correct, 9 mixed, 4 incorrect. Series totals so far: 345 claims — 158 correct, 127 mixed, 46 incorrect, 16 unverified. Sources: - London mayoral election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_London_mayoral_election - 2008 local elections: https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/RP08-48/RP08-48.pdf - Gobsmacked: https://www.etymonline.com/word/gobsmacked - BAA plc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAA_plc - Southwest / FAA fine: https://www.aviationpros.com/home/news/10436826/inspectors-faa-officials-let-southwest-avoid-checks - EasyJet history: https://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/7/easyJet-Airline-Company-Limited.html - Van Gogh Museum: https://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/110-van-gogh-museum - Our Lord in the Attic: https://www.thegeographicalcure.com/post/guide-our-lord-in-the-attic - Brazilian mortgages: https://www.euromoney.com/article/27bjsstsqxhkmh1lt710u/opinion/the-lure-of-brazilian-mortgages/ - Johnson, London 2012: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/johnson-to-take-centre-stage-during-london-2012-after-winning-re-election-as-mayor - Ruth Wakefield: https://newengland.com/yankee/magazine/close-ruth-wakefield-chocolate-chip-cookie/ - Titles not copyrightable: https://www.zalaiplaw.com/what-cannot-be-copyrighted - MacBASIC: http://rip.so/macbasic.html - Amazon / BookSurge: https://www.atg.wa.gov/public-notice-re-inquiries-concerning-amazoncom-s-print-demand-policy - Recession of 2007–2009: https://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2012/the-recession-of-2007-2009/pdf/the-recession-of-2007-2009.pdf - Candidates on Iran: https://www.military-quotes.com/forums/threads/next-hot-topic-in-u-s-campaign-the-iran-question.59123/ Do you like what you hear? Consider buying me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/ironhide1975 Independent fact-check review, for reporting and commentary only; not affiliated with No Agenda.

    Episode 029 — May 3, 2008: Boris, Brazil, MacBASIC and the Zen Offer

  3. 2d ago

    Episode 028 — April 27, 2008: Mevio, Snipes, $200 Oil and the Sheep in the Tunnel

    Revisiting No Agenda Episode 28, "The Future of Media" (April 27, 2008): Podshow becomes Mevio, Wesley Snipes goes down, oil heads for $200, and a train meets a flock of sheep — every checkable claim judged by what was known then and what we know now. • Adam — Podshow renamed Mevio; hundreds of names blocked by $200–300K domain asks: Mixed. • Adam/John — The US has 5% of the world's people and 25% of its prisoners; ~$40K a year to jail one man: Correct. • Adam/John — Snipes' advisers got 4½ and 10 years; he paid $5M toward $17M owed and still went to jail: Correct. • John — California's pay-to-stay "luxury" jails: Correct. • John — Cattle methane is propaganda; grass-fed cattle would emit less: Incorrect. • Adam — Oil at $116–$120; Shell to report ~$11B profit "tomorrow": Mixed. • John — The excess profits tax, "popular in the 20s and 30s": Mixed. • John — Prediction: oil to $200 by year-end, then a collapse below $50: Mixed — the crash call was vindicated. • John — Canola is bred rapeseed; the name means Canadian oil, low acid: Correct. • John — The China–Congo deal: $6B of infrastructure and a tax-exemption kicker: Mixed. • Adam — Frequent ejaculation linked to one-third lower prostate cancer risk (Cancer Council Victoria): Correct. • Adam/John — German ICE train derailed by sheep; 3 broken bones, 20 slight injuries: Correct. • John — Peru has "something like 5,000 kinds of potatoes": Mixed. • John — Texas "took 500 kids" in the FLDS raid; the removal looks illegal: Mixed — the courts agreed with him. • John — Circulation: NYT ~1.04M, WSJ 2M, USA Today 2.2M: Correct. Episode score: 15 claims checked — 7 correct, 7 mixed, 1 incorrect. Series totals so far: 326 claims — 152 correct, 118 mixed, 42 incorrect, 16 unverified. Sources: - Mevio rename: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PodShow - Prison numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate - Snipes sentencing (DOJ): https://www.justice.gov/archive/tax/usaopress/2008/txdv08343.htm - Pay-to-stay jails: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay-to-stay - Livestock's Long Shadow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livestock%27s_Long_Shadow - Shell Q1 2008 results: https://royaldutchshellgroup.com/2008/04/29/shell-reports-stronger-first-quarter-earnings/ - Excess profits tax (CRS): https://d27r7ebsgu0es2.cloudfront.net/files/20060309_RL33305_d2d4a43bb0c24892e744130838e853a7951e32b4.html - The 2008 oil crash (UNCTAD): https://unctad.org/system/files/official-document/cid2_en.pdf - Canola: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canola_oil - China–Congo (SAIS-CARI): https://www.landmatrix.org/media/filer_public/04/08/04086a7e-65e8-4cc4-8558-5d78ba0d0a9c/landry2018_china_cari_wp.pdf - Prostate study (Harvard Health): https://sf0518d2b7f8b8209.jimcontent.com/download/version/1614661591/module/9515705882/name/ProstateHealth_HH.pdf - ICE sheep derailment (Reuters): https://friendsoftherail.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2008 - Peruvian potatoes (CIP): https://cipotato.org/potato/native-potato-varieties/ - FLDS ruling (Texas Supreme Court): https://bishop-accountability.org/news2008/05_06/2008_05_30_Moritz_TexasSupreme.htm - 2008 circulation (Editor & Publisher): https://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=24539722 Independent fact-check review, for reporting and commentary only; not affiliated with No Agenda. Do you like what you hear? Consider buying me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/ironhide1975

    Episode 028 — April 27, 2008: Mevio, Snipes, $200 Oil and the Sheep in the Tunnel

  4. 3d ago

    Episode 027 — April 19, 2008: The new five-dollar bill, the Twitter jailbreak, the two-dollar euro that never came, and China syndrome

    Episode 27 re-reviews No Agenda, April 19, 2008, "China Syndrome" — checked then, and now. • Adam — SIP expands to Session Initiation Protocol: the IETF standard behind internet voice calls (RFC 3261, 2002). Correct. • John — The redesigned $5 bill: big Lincoln portrait, huge lavender 5 on the back: issued March 13, 2008, the purple numeral added for the visually impaired. Correct. • John — The Smart car came to the US under a different name: it arrived in January 2008 as the smart fortwo — a new model name, the same Smart brand. Mixed. • Adam — Gordon Brown visited Bush and all three candidates, buried under the Pope's visit: April 16–18, 2008, while Benedict's tour ran the same week. Correct. • John — A kid tweeted his arrest in Egypt and got out of jail: James Karl Buck, arrested April 10, 2008; his one-word tweet helped free him the next day. Correct. • Adam — The surge: 30,000 US troops plus 70,000 hired militias: the troop figure is right; the Sons of Iraq were US-paid locals, over 90,000 under contract by then — not mercenaries. Mixed. • John — Pixelated camouflage makes soldiers disappear, only heads visible: digital camo was real (MARPAT, CADPAT, the Army's grey UCP) and helps at distance — not invisibility; UCP was later scrapped. Mixed. • John — The dollar at 1.585 will push to $2 a euro, then reverse and force China off the peg: the euro peaked at 1.6038 that July, then fell to about 1.25; China froze the yuan instead. Mixed. • John — China has taken over 75% of world manufacturing: the US still led in 2008, 16.9% to China's 15%; China took the top spot around 2010 at under a fifth. Incorrect. • Adam — The Olympics open August 8, into the rainy season: they opened August 8 at 8:08 pm; Beijing fired 1,104 rockets to keep the stadium dry. Correct. • John — China is taking over Africa, and a Mugabe deal is a known fact: that weekend a Chinese ship carrying 3 million rounds for Zimbabwe was turned away from Durban; the dam grey-market scheme stays single-source. Mixed. • John — Vancouver to Shanghai is six hours; San Francisco to Shanghai eight to ten in total: the nonstop alone runs about twelve and a half hours. Incorrect. • John — "Our depression," with a reset coming in a couple of years: the crisis came that September, but it was the Great Recession — GDP down 4.3%, not a depression's 27%. Mixed. Score: 5 correct · 6 mixed · 2 incorrect · 0 unverified. Series: 311 — 145 correct · 111 mixed · 41 incorrect · 16 unverified. Sources:https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-sip-rfc2543bis-09.txthttps://www.uscurrency.gov/media/news/redesigned-5-bill-enter-circulation-march-13/index.htmlhttps://www.autoblog.com/news/smart-fortwo-turns-tenhttps://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/visits/2008http://techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/twitter-saves-man-from-egyptian-justice/https://www.cfr.org/backgrounders/finding-place-sons-iraqhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Camouflage_Patternhttps://fx-rates.vallis.info/en/pair/eur-usd.htmlhttp://www.scdigest.com/assets/On_Target/08-08-11-2.php?cid=1847https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Summer_Olympics_Opening_Ceremonyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Yue_Jianghttps://flight-status.com/air-canada/ac-25/https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/great-recession-and-its-aftermath Independent fact-check review, for reporting and commentary only; not affiliated with No Agenda.

    Episode 027 — April 19, 2008: The new five-dollar bill, the Twitter jailbreak, the two-dollar euro that never came, and China syndrome

  5. 4d ago

    Episode 026 — April 12, 2008: The Skype laptop scoop, the great M D 80 grounding, leaded gasoline, and Miss USA

    Episode 26 re-reviews No Agenda, April 12, 2008, "Feeling Fat?" — checked then, and now. • Adam Curry — A PR deck says email is becoming snail mail, replaced by Skype, with Harris Interactive hired to support it: no such study surfaced; email was growing (Pew: 60% daily, 2008); Skype never replaced it. Mixed. • John C. Dvorak and Adam Curry — eBay wants to prop up Skype's value to dump it: sold 70% in Nov 2009 at a $2.75B valuation; Microsoft paid $8.5B in 2011. Correct. • Adam Curry — Skype deals with Harpo (Oprah video calls) and Hearst: Skype sponsored Oprah's "A New Earth" webcast from Mar 3, 2008, with live Skype video questions; Hearst uncorroborated. Correct. • John C. Dvorak — FAA inspectors are going by the book to shut the system down after Congress scolded the agency: the scolding, fine and audit were real, and American cancelled nearly 3,300 flights Apr 8–12 over wire-tie spacing; but the groundings were the airlines' own compliance move. Mixed. • Adam Curry — 99% of all accidents is maintenance: Boeing puts maintenance in about 12% of major accidents; AOPA 2007: under 17%, vs about 74% pilot error. Incorrect. • Adam Curry — 20 or 25 M D 80 nose gears failed to retract over the wiring issue: gear incidents exist in NASA reports, but nothing ties that count to the directive, whose risk was arcing and fire. Unverified. • Adam Curry — A border officer said about a million people are wrongly in the screening database; redress via DHS TRIP: TRIP is real; the ACLU counter hit one million records in July 2008 — about 400,000 individuals, said the Screening Center. Mixed. • John C. Dvorak — Resistor tolerance bands: gold 5%, silver 10%: exactly right, then and now. Correct. • John C. Dvorak — Leaded gasoline: four grams of tetraethyl lead a gallon, three out the tailpipe; lead protected the engine; half a gram until redesign: quantities roughly right; the real issue was valve-seat recession (his own correction); the phase-down did reach 0.5 g/gal in 1979. Mixed. • John C. Dvorak — Michelin is a tyre company; guide a century old; three stars max; France has 26 three-stars, nine in Paris: the 2008 French guide lists exactly 26 and nine. Correct. • John C. Dvorak — Miss Pennsylvania finished last because judge Heather Mills zeroed her over a cosmetics answer: Mills was a judge and asked it; Merola was fourth runner-up; her round scores were strong, ballots secret. Mixed. • Adam Curry — Studies show the first performer scores lowest 99% of the time: serial-position research is real (Bruine de Bruin, 2005–06) — a tilt, not 99 percent. Mixed. • The Pink Patch ad — "Feeling Fat? Lose a stone in two weeks" via a skin patch: no clinical evidence then or now; never FDA evaluated. Incorrect. • Adam Curry — He played the lead in Swamp Thing's "Smoke and Mirrors," rock star Nathan: Curry as Nathan Stone, season 2 episode 9, Feb 28, 1992. Correct. Score: 5 correct · 6 mixed · 2 incorrect · 1 unverified. Series: 298 — 140 correct · 105 mixed · 39 incorrect · 16 unverified. Sources: https://techcrunch.com/2009/11/19/ebay-skype-sale/ https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/ebay-inc-reiterates-truth-about-skype/ https://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2008/03/the-oprah-tizat.html https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/html/2006/03/14/E6-3565.html https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/research-and-analysis-report/2022/aviation/aircraft-maintenance-safety-survey https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/terrorist-watch-list-hits-one-million-names https://www.gem.wiki/Leaded_gasoline http://tucsoncitizen.com/morgue/2008/03/19/80006-michelin-reveals-france-s-restaurant-winners-losers/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_USA_2008 https://www3.scienceblog.com/community/older/2005/2/200501648.shtml https://thebeautybrains.com/2008/03/does-the-pink-patch-weight-loss-patch-really-work/ https://swampthing.fandom.com/wiki/Smoke_and_Mirrors_(Episode) Independent fact-check review, for reporting and commentary only; not affiliated with No Agenda.

    Episode 026 — April 12, 2008: The Skype laptop scoop, the great M D 80 grounding, leaded gasoline, and Miss USA

  6. 5d ago

    Episode 025 — April 5, 2008: Grapes the size of little oranges, Naomi Campbell at Terminal 5, and three dead airlines

    Episode 25 re-reviews No Agenda, Saturday, April 5, 2008, "Grapes The Size of Little Oranges" — claims checked twice: then, and now.• Adam Curry — Nature editorial: humans can't influence the climate, it's just a cycle: no such pre-April-5 editorial; closest paper came May 1, said only a temporary offset; its decade-pause prediction failed. Mixed.• Adam Curry — MTV invented the jump cut, forbidden until the early 1980s: Méliès 1896; Godard's Breathless (1960) made it a style; MTV popularized it. Incorrect.• John C. Dvorak — Talent shows descend from Ted Mack's Amateur Hour: Bowes began it on radio 1934; Mack revived it 1948; TV to 1970; progenitor of Idol. Correct.• Adam Curry — America moved DST two weeks earlier than the rest of the world: 2008: US Mar 9, EU Mar 30 — three weeks; most of the world doesn't observe DST. Mixed.• John C. Dvorak — Kodak pocket camera shoots 720p HD with stereo mics: V1273 (Feb 2008) does 720p 16:9; single mono mic. Mixed.• Adam Curry — Naomi Campbell arrested at T5 over a missing bag; BA cancelled 12 more flights: arrested Apr 3 over a YSL outfit bag; guilty Jun 20, 200 hours' service; a dozen T5-glitch cancellations that weekend. Correct.• John C. Dvorak — Beijing's new terminal bigger than all Heathrow terminals, built in T5's time, two miles long: T3 is 3.25 km, opened Feb 29, 2008, built in just over four years. Correct.• John C. Dvorak — Doc McGhee busted on a Learjet with 5,000 kilos of coke, then staged a Moscow concert: deal and festival (Aug 1989, Lenin Stadium) real; bust was 20 tons of marijuana on a shrimp boat, 1982. Mixed.• John C. Dvorak — Reagan dropped "evil empire" after Moscow: May 31, 1988, Red Square — "I was talking about another time, another era." Correct.• John C. Dvorak — Arkansas only state growing all four grape kinds; muscadines the size of little oranges; 45 wineries pre-Prohibition; one bought by Gallo: region real, "45" in range, muscadines outsized; NC and VA grow the same four; no Gallo buy. Mixed.• John C. Dvorak and Adam Curry — Fairness Doctrine abolished 1987, Limbaugh first to exploit it; 15M listeners, $30M a year: abolished Aug 4, 1987; Limbaugh national Aug 1988; 2001 contract $31.25M a year. Correct.• Adam Curry — Three airlines out of business in a week, blaming fuel: Aloha Mar 31, ATA Apr 3, Skybus Apr 5, 2008. Correct.• John C. Dvorak — The 777 had a fuel pressure pump problem, landed short at Heathrow, fleet not grounded: BA38, Jan 17, 2008, ~1,000 ft short; ice in the fuel, not a pump; fleet never grounded. Mixed.• Adam Curry — BBC will publish a blacklist of ISPs shaping iPlayer: Highfield's Apr 2 blog proposed naming ISPs "to avoid"; press called it a blacklist. Correct.• Adam Curry — Comcast's 50 Mbps system in Minnesota, about $150 a month: launched Apr 2, 2008, 50/5 Mbps for $149.95 a month. Correct.Score: 8 correct · 6 mixed · 1 incorrect · 0 unverified. Series: 284 claims — 135 correct · 99 mixed · 37 incorrect · 15 unverified.Sources:https://skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=3220https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-a-jump-cut/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Original_Amateur_Hourhttps://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/usa?year=2008https://www.imaging-resource.com/cameras/compare/kodak-v1273/panasonic-dmc-fx150/https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2008/04/03/naomi-campbell-cuffed-in-heathrow-terminal-5/920987https://www.jobakeronline.com/article/terminal-creativity/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_McGheehttps://nsarchive.gwu.edu/node/2612https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_winehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrinehttps://airlinegeeks.com/2017/04/05/nine-years-later-the-triple-airline-defuncts-of-2008/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_38https://www.ispreview.co.uk/news/EkpZkkyAlVBgeOqiLT.htmlhttps://www.lightreading.com/cable-technology/comcast-enters-the-wideband-eraIndependent fact-check review, for reporting and commentary only; not affiliated with No Agenda.

    Episode 025 — April 5, 2008: Grapes the size of little oranges, Naomi Campbell at Terminal 5, and three dead airlines

  7. 6d ago

    Episode 024 — March 29, 2008: Fresh & Easy's doom, the soy milk scare, and who owns the Bank of England

    No Agenda - Revisited: Episode 24 re-reviews No Agenda from Saturday, March 29, 2008, "Bagging Your Own Reality" — Adam Curry in Britain, John C. Dvorak in Northern California. Each claim is checked twice: then, and now. • Adam Curry — Wilders released his film Thursday evening; half of third-generation Dutch Muslims want Sharia law: the March 27 release checks out; the "half" figure is in no poll. Mixed. • John C. Dvorak — Tesco's Fresh & Easy is on the wrong trends and investors will lose their shirts: Tesco quit the US in 2013, losing £1.2 billion; the chain closed by 2015. Correct. • John C. Dvorak — Soy milk shrinks your brain and gives men breasts: a 2000 observational tofu study (association only, never retracted); hormone meta-analyses null; harm only at extreme intakes. Mixed. • John C. Dvorak — A British banger is half bread and illegal in the US: US law caps sausage cereal binder at 3.5%; bangers run 10–20% rusk, not half. Mixed. • Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak — Plastic is washing up at Midway, and most plastic is now made to biodegrade: Midway debris confirmed; ordinary plastic only fragments into microplastics. Mixed. • John C. Dvorak — Oregon bans pumping your own gas: right in 2008; self-service allowed in 2023; New Jersey is now the only full-service state. Correct. • Adam Curry — Wembley lost the 2010 final over player taxes: Madrid got it on March 28, 2008; Platini confirmed taxes were the reason; Wembley hosted 2011 and 2013. Correct. • Adam Curry — The Bank of England is owned by private families, per The Money Masters: nationalized in 1946, wholly Treasury-owned; the film is from 1996, not the 1970s–80s. Incorrect. • Adam Curry — The Federal Reserve has nothing to do with the US government; the Rothschilds run the world: a hybrid; its Board is a federal agency; family control unproven. Mixed. • Adam Curry — The Revolution was really about colonial scrip, not taxes: the 1764 Currency Act was a real grievance, one cause among several; scrip's record varied. Mixed. • Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak — No presidential candidate this cycle is a Skull and Bones member: true for 2008; both 2004 nominees, Bush and Kerry, were members. Correct. • Adam Curry — Terminal 5 took 19 years and $8 billion and opened in chaos, BA's fault: opened March 27, 2008 (£4.3 billion); 501 flights cancelled, 42,000 bags stranded. Correct. • John C. Dvorak — Canseco's Juiced blew the steroid scandal open, with another book coming: the Mitchell Report backed the depth; Vindicated's A-Rod claim was admitted in 2009. Correct. Score for this episode: 6 correct · 6 mixed · 1 incorrect · 0 unverified. Series totals after Episode 24: 269 claims checked — 127 correct · 93 mixed · 36 incorrect · 15 unverified. Sources: Fitna: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08THEHAGUE302_a.html Fresh & Easy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresh_%26_Easy Soy/brain: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10763906/ Soy/hormones: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19524224/ Sausage standard: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/9/319.140 Midway plastic (NOAA): https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/podcast/mar18/nop14-ocean-garbage-patches.html Oregon fueling: https://www.oregon.gov/osfm/pages/self-serve-fueling.aspx 2010 final: https://worldsoccertalk.com/news/2010-cl-and-uefa-cup-final-locations-announced-20080329-CMS-74042.html Bank of England 1946: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_England_Act_1946 The Money Masters: https://archive.org/details/MoneyMasters1996 Fed structure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_of_the_Federal_Reserve_System Currency Act: https://alphahistory.com/americanrevolution/currency-act/ Skull and Bones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Skull_and_Bones_members Terminal 5 inquiry: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmtran/543/543we10.htm Canseco: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banned_substances_in_baseball Independent fact-check review, for reporting and commentary only; not affiliated with No Agenda.

    Episode 024 — March 29, 2008: Fresh & Easy's doom, the soy milk scare, and who owns the Bank of England

  8. Nov 4

    Episode 023 — March 23, 2008: Bear Stearns for the price of its building, Phorm, and what is the deal with Tibet

    No Agenda - Revisited: Episode 23 re-reviews No Agenda from Sunday, March 23, 2008 — Adam Curry snowed in in Britain and John C. Dvorak in warm Northern California. Each claim is checked twice: then, and now.• One of the hosts — The Fed gave $30 billion to JPMorgan to buy Bear: March 16 financing, tidied to $29 billion plus $1 billion from Morgan on March 24. Correct.• One of the hosts — Cramer said Bear Stearns was fine six days before the collapse: March 11, stock in the sixties; sold for $2 a share on March 16. Correct.• One of the hosts — The Bear deal includes a headquarters building worth $1.2 billion, for a $230 million price: 383 Madison Avenue, valued $1.1–1.4 billion. Correct.• One of the hosts — The Canadian dollar is worth more than the US dollar, after years at 75 cents: parity in autumn 2007, 62 cents in 2002. Correct.• One of the hosts — Fallon resigned Tuesday, Spitzer announced Wednesday, and nobody talked about Fallon: March 11 and March 12, exactly. Correct.• Adam Curry — Phorm signed up BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk, 80–90% of UK ISPs, opt-out: three providers real, but nearer 70%, agreements preliminary, and all three walked away by July 2009. Mixed.• John C. Dvorak — Limbaugh's Operation Chaos urges Republicans to vote for Hillary in open primaries: launched March 3, 2008; later study found no significant effect, as John guessed. Correct.• Adam Curry — Northern Rock: a run, then nationalisation, now 6.5–6.7% savings because it is government-owned and safe: nationalised February 22, 2008; rates around 6.49% plus a bonus. Correct.• One of the hosts — We could see a $2 euro: it topped out near $1.60 in 2008 and never reached $2. Incorrect.• John C. Dvorak — Tibet has 300,000 people: far too low; the hosts corrected on air to six million. Incorrect.• John C. Dvorak — China annexed Tibet and the Dalai Lama was thrown out: 1950–51 incorporation, flight to India in 1959; legitimacy still contested. Correct.• John C. Dvorak — California's ants are Argentine ants that join other nests instead of fighting: a supercolony, recognised as kin. Correct.• One of the hosts — Cheney answered an Iraq question with "So?": March 19, 2008, to Martha Raddatz; his fuller answer was about polls, not people. Correct.• John C. Dvorak — In the 1920s, vasectomies were used to look younger, not for birth control: Steinach's rejuvenation craze, Freud in 1923; the science did not hold up. Correct.Score for this episode: 11 correct · 1 mixed · 2 incorrect · 0 unverified. Series totals after Episode 22: 256 claims checked — 121 correct · 87 mixed · 35 incorrect · 15 unverified.Sources:Bear financing: https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/press-releases-federal-reserve-bank-new-york-7035/statement-financing-arrangement-jpmorgan-chases-acquisition-bear-stearns-646079/fulltextCramer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUkbdjetlY8Bear building: https://www.bisnow.com/news/national/capital-markets/that-time-jp-morgan-bought-a-bank-and-got-a-11b-skyscraper-thrown-in-for-free-86144Canadian dollar: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/data/EXCAUSFallon: https://www.dvidshub.net/news/17273/gates-accepts-resignation-centcom-chief-fallonPhorm: https://edri.org/?p=24046Operation Chaos: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11127-010-9664-z?Northern Rock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalisation_of_Northern_Rock$2 euro: https://themunicheye.com/euro-falls-below-1-20-548Tibet: https://www.refworld.org/reference/countryrep/mrgi/2017/119721Argentine ants: https://www.newscientist.com/article/1858491-we-are-family/Cheney: https://Georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/03/print/text/20080319-5.htmlVasectomy: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-history-science-science-everywhere/getting-steinached-was-all-rage-roaring-20sIndependent fact-check review, for reporting and commentary only; not affiliated with No Agenda.

    Episode 023 — March 23, 2008: Bear Stearns for the price of its building, Phorm, and what is the deal with Tibet
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