No Agenda - Revisited: Episode 13 re-reviews No Agenda from January 19, 2008 — the "Turned on by Esther Dyson" show, with Adam reading the weekend Financial Times in the UK and John reading from a notebook he can barely decipher. Each claim is checked twice: against what was known at the time, and against what we know now.• Adam — Gordon Brown's China visit: the Beijing trip and the welcome for Chinese investment were real, but Northern Rock was nationalised weeks later, not bought. Mixed.• Adam — the non-dom £30,000 annual charge to keep the remittance basis from April 2008. Correct.• Adam — Americans are taxed on capital gains wherever in the world they arise. Correct.• John — Ireland's artist deal: a real tax exemption since 1969, but not citizenship and not freedom from all tax. Mixed.• Adam — the Trans-Australian Railway holds the world's longest straight stretch of track, 478 km across the Nullarbor. Correct.• One of the hosts — Neanderthals were redheads: some were, per the October 2007 Science paper, but pigmentation varied. Mixed.• One of the hosts — the 787 Dreamliner Wi-Fi hack fear: the FAA's January 2008 special conditions were real, but no passenger ever hacked a 787's flight controls. Mixed.• Adam — the Heathrow 777 crash: engines that would not answer on final approach, caused by ice in the fuel. Correct.• Adam — the 777 as the only large fly-by-wire aircraft: Boeing's first, but the A320 came first and the A340 is fly-by-wire too, as John corrected on air. Mixed.• Adam — Esther Dyson's father Freeman, the famous physicist. Correct.• Adam — the Financial Times motto, "Without Fear and Without Favor." Correct.• Adam — hackers cutting power to whole countries: the CIA analyst really said it in January 2008, but the details were never confirmed. Mixed.Score for this episode: 6 correct · 6 mixed · 0 incorrect · 0 unverified. Series totals after Episode 13: 146 claims checked — 65 correct · 51 mixed · 22 incorrect · 10 unverified.Sources:Brown in Beijing, Jan 2008: https://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/domestic_politics/invest%2bin%2buk%2bbrown%2btells%2bchina/1356147.htmlNon-dom £30,000 charge: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=b4bcb21f-ed5f-40ee-9a56-c189be061996US worldwide taxation: https://www.claconnect.com/en/resources/articles/us-citizens-living-abroad-must-report-all-income-and-pay-taxesIrish artists' exemption: https://www.mccarthyaccountants.com/tax-services/artists-tax-exemption/Nullarbor straight track: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullarbor_PlainNeanderthal MC1R paper: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/11/dna-reveals-neanderthal-redheads/FAA 787 special conditions: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/html/2007/12/28/E7-25075.htmlBA Flight 38 findings: https://www.faa.gov/lessons_learned/transport_airplane/accidents/G-YMMMFly-by-wire history: https://theaeroinsider.com/fly-by-wire-vs-mechanical-controls/Freeman Dyson obituary: https://sciencex.com/wire-news/344594748/freeman-j-dyson-19232020-scientist-and-writer-who-dreamt-among-t.htmlFT motto: https://www.historic-newspapers.com/en-in/blogs/article/financial-times-historyCIA power-grid disclosure: https://www.scworld.com/news/cia-analyst-reports-hacker-attack-on-foreign-power-gridIndependent fact-check review for reporting and commentary purposes only; not affiliated with No Agenda, Adam Curry, or John C. Dvorak.