Here are some things I’ve learned recently from the No Agenda podcast, which I have not seen mentioned anywhere else in mainstream media.  (The podcast is a terrible production but at least they have interesting topics - usually.)  Investigations on any of these subjects would make it much more interesting to watch the news.

Russian programmer and ex-employee Sergey Aleynikov stole (allegedly) the source code to Goldman Sachs’ proprietary super-secret trading software.  Apparently if the code were to end up in “the wrong hands,” they could manipulate the market.  Which obviously begs the question:  What exactly is Goldman Sachs doing with this code?

EPA Secretary Lisa Jackson basically admitted in Senate hearings that the 1,400-page Cap-and-Trade bill passed in the House would have little impact on emissions that allegedly cause global warming.  Here are two more YouTube clips of the hearing:  Sen. Barrasso (R-WY) questions Sec. Jackson;  Sen. Inhofe (R-OK) questions Sec. Jackson.  (Sorry, it’s almost impossible to find links to Senate hearing videos that aren’t chopped up into sound bite sizes.)

The United States and the world is gearing up for a massive campaign to get everyone vaccinated against Swine Flu this fall.  Locally, according to flu.gov, Virginia has had 306 cases and 2 fatalities (as of today) from Swine Flu.  If my math is right, Virginia has received around $9.5 million in government funds to fight the pandemic of sniffles.

At the recent G8 Summit, Russian president Medvedev showed a sample coin of the new reserve currency that he hopes will replace the U.S. dollar someday.  It bears the slogan “unity in diversity,” which sounds suspiciously Orwellian.  (However, I can find no references to a direct quote from the book 1984.)

And finally this was news to me:  Weather Channel founder John Coleman, along with what he claimed was a group of some 30,000 dissenting scientists - among them 9,000 PhDs - were trying to sue Al Gore to make it known that not every scientist agrees with anthropogenic warming.  The date on that story is March 2008; I’m really curious what happened to that effort.  Bing and Google are suspiciously silent on the topic.