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	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	Protecting you from the Ides of March all across Gitmo Nation, this is no agenda for March 15, 2009.
	This is no agenda.
	Navigating the matrix from the Crackpot Command Center in southwest London, a borough of Gitmo Nation east, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from the Gitmo Nation northwest and Buzzkill Central, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Wow!
	I think we did it.
	Yeah, well, I decided to.
	You decided not to mess with me?
	Last week, you know, when we ran that, I listened to it.
	It actually came out perfect.
	No, it wasn't quite right, because you could hear you kind of...
	I think a couple people tweeted it, saying, hey, that was great.
	That was just awesome.
	That was...
	I got a...
	You know, people send us stuff all the time.
	And actually, this was the impetus, or is that the right word?
	The inspiration for a lot of the work I've been doing this past week.
	Have a listen to this.
	This was sent in.
	It was regarding Michelle Obama possibly being a kind of Lady Macbeth or someone lurking in the shadows at the White House telling people that if they don't shape up, they will be killed.
	So listen to this.
	If you do that one more time, I will kill you.
	You know what?
	You will step back and shut the fuck up.
	That's what you will do.
	Or quit.
	As he shouted each name, he stabbed the table with a steak knife.
	Nat Landau, dead!
	Cliff Jackson, dead!
	Apparently others at the table joined in.
	So he is a candidate?
	Yeah, he's a candidate.
	The message is really conveyed in very short sound bites.
	If you do that one more time, I will kill you.
	So what are you using?
	You're just like twisting?
	You're using audacity?
	No, I didn't do this.
	One of our listeners did this.
	And we really don't have any place in the show.
	You have great listeners that do all this work.
	No, they're fantastic.
	Are you kidding me?
	And so this is where I was thinking, what can I do with stuff like this?
	Because it doesn't really make sense to play that in the context of the show.
	This one, because it's 50 seconds or less than a minute.
	And I think, well, why don't I do something with the No Agenda stream?
	Because we only have it up twice a week for the show.
	But then there's all kinds of cool...
	and services out there, and you have this thing called Auto DJ, where you can set up playlists and rotation, and basically it talks to the Shoutcast server, and it does it all out there, so I don't have to be uploading or streaming anything from the Crackpot Command Center.
	And I'm thinking, you know, it would be kind of cool.
	So I started uploading songs, you know, lots of revolution songs, screw the government songs, but across multiple decades.
	And I kind of got into it.
	I started having fun, you know, and I'm putting up our jingles, our sweepers, so every three songs there's a station identification.
	And people are tuning into it, man.
	They're listening to us.
	Station identification.
	And from the internet.
	Yeah, I threw in every 25 songs the New York Times front page podcast roll so you get a little bit of news in there.
	If you check into the stream once a day, once or twice a day, you get some cool songs that you probably haven't heard before because we're trying to keep low on the repeats.
	But we could also put Tech 5 in there to run a couple times during the day.
	So this would be running kind of not, this is not our show, this is like something that's just running that people, as they checked in, waiting for our show, or just out of the blue, they would have it.
	So that's an interesting thing to do.
	So you created this automated station.
	Yeah, exactly.
	In fashion sense, only it's just weirder.
	Exactly.
	And if people make stuff like this, and we can also schedule encore presentations of the show, although I don't think that makes much sense.
	You might as well just go download the podcast.
	But we can also put promos in, promoting stuff that we're working on.
	There's a whole bunch of stuff.
	And what that led to, and this happens to me at least once a year, usually in the springtime, You know, so I'm FTPing files up to this server.
	And when it comes to graphical user interfaces, they really messed up FTP. You know, back in the old days, command line stuff, you know, it all just kind of worked.
	You have your input, and you can use your wild cards, and you can, you know, make it a lot easier than this freaking drag and drop.
	And I get into this vibe of everything command line now.
	And then I, you know, I'll install Pyne.
	And then configure Pine to work with Gmail through IMAP. And then I'm like, yeah, this is actually good, you know, C-A-L, calendar, ooh!
	And it's just amazing how burdened we've become with the GUI for some very simple tasks.
	Hmm.
	You're not a command line guy, I take it.
	Never have been.
	I used to be.
	Hey, give me a break.
	I was during the North Star DOS CPM era.
	I mean, I started this whole business in the late 70s.
	I mean, come on.
	Right, but not Unix command line, more DOS and stuff like that?
	Well, I mean, right now I've become like an Ubuntu person.
	You're now an Ubuntu guy.
	But, you know, the fact of the matter is times have changed and drag and drop, drag and drop, you know, seems to be, I mean, there's no, I mean, I think it can be all minimized.
	I mean, yeah, once in a while you have to type something in and sometimes it's a lot more efficient.
	I've seen guys, you know, you know these guys, some of the guys in the office.
	Use Emacs.
	They immediately just jump into a command line and just type them.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But it's not that hard.
	In fact, there's a lot that makes it really easy with autocomplete.
	As a matter of fact, I used to lecture people when I gave my speeches about how, you know, all the command, you know, people say, oh, I can't use that.
	I said, you have to type stuff in.
	Oh, yeah, like D-I-R. You've got to type, oh, it's so hard.
	And I used to, you know, rag on the command line haters.
	But since, you know...
	I think we should bring it back.
	I think we should start ragging on command.
	I think we should bring back the command line love, honestly.
	See, there you go.
	That was Pine.
	Just alerting me to a new email message.
	So I have one window and I can switch between all these wonderful applications.
	Yeah, it doesn't have all the groovy looking...
	But even just writing a document.
	Who needs Word?
	Except for the presentation layer.
	Like the fonts and the formatting, except for that.
	As a matter of fact, this is funny.
	But not even formatting, John.
	All these tools have great formatting.
	I'll take your side a little bit.
	Thank you.
	Until about three years, four years, maybe three, I don't know how many years ago, just recently, considering how long I've been writing, I never, ever used Word to submit copy to editors.
	Ever since I began writing, which has been a while, I've always used the computer to send stuff.
	In fact, when I was writing for the San Francisco Examiner, instead of submitting copy, I talked to the IT guys, and this is before anything, And I said, give me the, you know, let me be able to call the computer remotely and then file into the system directly.
	And you'd have to do that with text.
	You have to do it with ASCII text.
	That's the only way you could do it.
	And I always used an ASCII text editor to write until just a few years ago when I started using Word.
	And it actually, what's funny is because you usually write to length.
	You'd get used to a certain amount of text that you could see on the screen, and you knew it was like 700 words or 800 words or whatever.
	You could just tell.
	Then you switch over to Word, and the next thing you know, it's like, and then you have to keep checking the word count because you didn't know, oh, okay, to get to the number you're looking for.
	But now I use Word for...
	Which is grep minus wc for your word count.
	Isn't that it?
	I don't know, and I don't care.
	I guess my point is, what's really nice about...
	Yeah, what is your point?
	I got a point.
	What's really nice about it, so if I want to...
	If you're using Windows or a Mac, I use a Mac, and you want to periodically check to see if there's a new Tech 5 podcast available.
	If it's available, you want it to be downloaded or actually uploaded to the appropriate directory on the streaming server.
	It has to be a newer version.
	Otherwise, don't replace it.
	Replace it with the same file name.
	All this shit.
	You'd be looking for shareware programs for three days to find out a way to do that.
	Whereas on the command line, then it's done.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	It really gives you the power of the computer back.
	I guess that's it.
	We've lost the power to make our computer do shit.
	Well, you know, the thing is that the PC world, the PC side of the business, has always been into that until Windows came along.
	And the Mac side of the world has always never been into it.
	Yeah, until we got OS X, which has a terminal and command line in Unix.
	How many Mac users even know what a terminal is?
	No, no, no.
	I'm not saying people should learn Terminal and go back, but if you're really looking to do stuff with your computer beyond the applications that you can buy or are given, it's beautiful.
	That's all.
	Because it's a real operating system.
	Yeah, and you can pipe stuff from one command into the other, and you don't have to be a programmer.
	Just kind of speak the language a little bit.
	Okay.
	Maybe a cheat sheet would be good.
	A no-agenda cheat sheet for those who wouldn't.
	You know, just a few interesting little commands that people can play with, and so they get used to it.
	You can do that.
	You seem to be into it.
	Yeah, but that looks like real work, so I might step back.
	We got a review.
	A review of the show?
	Yeah, a very positive review on the daily podcast reviews.
	Huh.
	And would you like to hear some of our review?
	I'd like to hear the whole thing, but just give me the snippets.
	I'll give you the second half.
	That's probably the best.
	It's hard to explain this show to people who don't see themselves beyond calling themselves a Democrat or Republican.
	So you can see this show as two guys blathering about nonsense.
	However, if you're into completely insane ideas about government and politics, this show is for you.
	In fact, if you sheeple will just wake up, maybe these two guys aren't the crazy ones, and we are in turn crazy and nuts after all.
	Anyhow, listen to an episode of this show and see what you think.
	It's just a preferable show if you have a bit of crazy conspiracy thinking mindset.
	No agenda is released every Thursday and Sunday in the morning.
	Hey, where was your cue?
	I wanted to read it verbatim, because that's literally what it says.
	In the morning thing in there at the end.
	So I thought that was really nice.
	I appreciate that.
	That's probably more or less a good description.
	People that either like this show or they think we're idiots.
	Yeah, I'd say it's...
	Well, I'd like the people who think we're idiots to listen anyway.
	A few do.
	I should hope so.
	We had our annual Red Nose Day in the United Kingdom on Friday.
	Big build-up to it.
	Are you familiar with the Red Nose Day phenomenon?
	The first time I ran into Red Nose Day was in South Africa.
	In fact, I think I still have the Red Nose because we happen to be there on Red Nose Day.
	And I thought, well, that's interesting.
	It reminds me, there's another thing that a lot of these countries have with something to do with these ducks.
	They have a number on the duck and then they throw the duck in the water.
	You know, these little floating ducks.
	Yeah, I've seen that.
	I don't know.
	Red Nose Day is bigger.
	Well, I'll explain it because I don't even remember what it was.
	It's a charity or something.
	But yes, it's comic relief.
	The idea is to do something funny for money.
	Essentially, it builds up over a week's time, and you have big chains like Sainsbury's supermarket selling the red noses, but also selling specially marked red nose products, of which a portion goes to Comic Relief.
	Is this a red nose that clips on or the red nose that's like a little spongy thing?
	A spongy thing.
	It's like a plastic nose that you pinch it and it clips on your nose.
	Yeah, it's spongy and it clips on your nose.
	Exactly.
	That's not what I was asking, but okay.
	Well, you said is it spongy or does it clip on your nose?
	Well, yes, it does both.
	It clips on your nose, but it was hard plastic.
	Oh, no.
	It's like a Nerf ball with a slit.
	Okay.
	To some known as a girlfriend.
	In this case, it's a red nose.
	And it culminates in a Jerry Lewis-like marathon, a telethon, where they have the big tote board and they keep counting up the money, and they intersperse that with horrible, and man, this year, absolutely horrible videos.
	And so they have all the celebrities who work, not just for the BBC, but for other broadcast outlets as well, and they all do something cool where they're You know, they're dancing.
	Nine of them climbed Mount Kilimanjaro for money.
	Did you get on?
	No, I was not.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Hold on.
	But you were invited to see the Queen and you couldn't get on this thing?
	No.
	I couldn't get on this damn boat, man.
	Well.
	But a couple things were interesting.
	One is they were doing it for malaria.
	And their whole pitch, well, actually, they added in, I think they added in later, and also for poor people in the United Kingdom, which makes sense, because people are dying of no money, no home, no food, right here in the UK. And then, you know, there was a lot of pre-buzz saying, hey, why are we sending all this money to Africa?
	We need some money here.
	So they added in some UK charitable organizations.
	But the whole push is for malaria, you know, five pounds, bison net, which will save a life.
	And I'm just flabbergasted by this malaria thing.
	So they raised over 50 million pounds.
	So that's a lot of malaria nets.
	But malaria, first of all, is a completely treatable or preventable disease.
	And Bill Gates has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into this.
	Where is it going and why doesn't everyone have a frickin' net by now?
	If we've got a total of three, four hundred million dollars flowing specifically to Africa to combat malaria, it just sounds sketchy.
	Well, I'm not saying that it's sketchy or a bad charity.
	I don't get it.
	I mean, how many people live in Africa that need a net?
	That aren't serviced by Bill.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's just the whole thing was...
	But they show children dying before your very eyes on television.
	Why don't they save them if they've got the cameraman and crew there?
	I don't know if...
	I guess you can't.
	I guess if you...
	Hey, there's another one over here dying.
	Come on, bring the camera.
	That's exactly what it looked like.
	I need to help my kid.
	No, no, boo, lady.
	If it was really sad, now don't laugh about it.
	Let's keep shooting.
	It was really, really sad.
	You see this child just...
	Breathing out its last breath.
	You know, close up.
	Dying of fever.
	Jesus Christ.
	It was...
	Heart-wrenching and twisted and satisfying, yet not so all at the same time.
	Weird.
	Yeah, well, it gives people something to do.
	What ever happened to band aid?
	Yeah, really.
	What ever happened to Hands Across America?
	What happened to all the money?
	That was started back God knows when, and it was supposed to solve...
	The homeless problem was going to be ended by Hands Across America.
	I didn't notice that it had any effect at all.
	I think it's just these things are just like one layer below drinking clubs.
	We had USA for Africa, Band-Aid, Live Aid, Live 8, lots of stuff like that.
	Yeah, I think we should make a list.
	You know those songs I learned a couple years ago, the USA for Africa song, which was written by Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, and who else wrote?
	I'm feeling Lionel Richie wrote it, co-wrote it with Michael Jackson.
	You know that the royalties for that song reverted back to them after two years?
	Yeah, I do know that.
	I think you brought that up once before.
	We might have talked about that before, yeah.
	It was like, you're giving this away or you're not giving it away?
	Yeah, what's the point, peeps?
	Well, probably the point is they know that these guys that produce these things are scamming the public.
	They might as well get their money back eventually because it's not going to anybody.
	Where do you want to go, man?
	Space wars, climate change, bailout, Madoff, China, bird flu?
	Lindsay Lohan, arrest warrant issued.
	Oh crap, hold on a second.
	And now, back to real news.
	Alright, Lindsay Lohan, hit me John.
	An arrest warrant for Lindsay Lohan was issued by the Beverly Hills Superior Court on Friday related to her 2007 DUI and hit-and-run case.
	That is according to People.
	I'm getting this from Entertainment Weekly, which is really my source of news.
	Of course.
	That and the Jon Stewart Show for politics.
	Well, the exact nature of the charges...
	That's all we got here, by the way, is the Entertainment Weekly and the Jon Stewart Show.
	And the Jon Stewart Show.
	That's it.
	Pretty much.
	I mean, you can read the...
	You can go online and read the Independent in England.
	It's pretty decent.
	But it doesn't have the local news.
	It won't have the Lindsay Lohan story.
	I mean, what is wrong with these British...
	Anyway, Lohan's lawyer, Sean Chapman Hawley, called the warrant a misunderstanding.
	Apparently the warrant was issued for any number of infractions, including minor administrative problems, like failing to update an address.
	But that's just the general reason you can issue, but they don't say what this one was issued for.
	It's kind of vague.
	It says...
	He said that she'd been complying with the terms of her probation, and then the police were not actively looking, although they wouldn't mind having sex with her.
	I didn't say that.
	She is very hot in that lesbian kind of way, I've got to admit.
	When you see her, she is extremely attractive.
	Yeah, she is.
	She's subject to arrest, he says.
	She's expected to attend a hearing on her face.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	I don't know how much more I can handle.
	She's got a film coming out, and this looks like it's connected.
	If you read this last sentence, the star whose film, Labor Pains, opens in May, is currently serving three years probation for the May and July 2007 incidents in which she is alleged to have been imposed.
	Wait a minute.
	If she was found she's on probation from a court case, it's over.
	Why would you use the word alleged?
	Because it's stellar reporting, John.
	No, it's like somebody just drops away.
	What was the cocaine alleged?
	That's our news.
	So you have anything else?
	Was there anything happening in the world of politics?
	Yeah, there were several things happening in the world of politics.
	You want to start with our president.
	The news, although there's no real detail about his...
	His CIO having to take a bit of leave after the FBI raid.
	It's all very, very...
	CTO. CTO, I'm sorry.
	It's all very quiet, you know.
	Everyone's just regurgitating the news, but no one's doing any background on these guys.
	Their names are known.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	It's baffling to me.
	And in general, I have a question.
	So now we know that...
	The Microsoft security dude.
	I'm just pulling up the article here.
	Philip Retinge.
	Does that ring a bell with you?
	No.
	Chief trustworthy infrastructure strategist at Microsoft has been appointed the lead role in protecting the U.S. government's computing network from cyber attack.
	So he is now...
	The guy from Microsoft?
	Yes.
	He was tapped by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
	It doesn't sound right.
	Microsoft, who pretty much can't secure their operating system from anything, doesn't seem like...
	Well, he would certainly know what gets through, I guess.
	But then...
	He's got a list.
	He's got a list of stuff.
	Oh, there's another one.
	We had that PIST.exe virus that was floating out there that Symantec or Norton, which I guess is a Symantec company, said, hey, you know, don't worry about it.
	Yeah, it's dialing home to us, but it's just an update thingy and it shouldn't have triggered all your warnings.
	You followed that, I'm sure.
	Yeah, well, kind of.
	Right.
	So, I don't have any Norton on my Mac.
	It does exist.
	I use the built-in firewall.
	Why does anyone trust these guys?
	If you look at what Symantec basically is, Symantec is a government company.
	Their biggest business comes from government.
	They do all of the security, or most of it, for the government.
	You look at their board of directors.
	This is funny.
	Vice Chairman of the Bechtel Group is on the board of directors.
	We know that from Confessions of an Economic Hitman.
	Why do we even trust a company like Symantec or Norton?
	Or do you?
	I use ABG. And I recommend everyone else use AVG. No publicity here, but free.greaseoff.com.
	That's open source?
	It is free, I believe.
	No, it's a shareware antiviral system.
	They have spyware and antivirus.
	It works fine.
	It works as well as anything.
	And it seems to be less intrusive.
	Norton, in particular, although they've cleaned this up a little bit, tends to muck up things.
	You can't install programs, and it's just in there, looking at too many things, slowing down the system performance, or used to.
	Well, I'm not having it.
	Well, why should you?
	There'll be something for the Mac that's pretty clean.
	It'll be done with, you know, like a bouncing duck or something.
	It'll be the logo.
	A nice little bouncing duck icon that tells me something.
	You know, a chirping bird.
	In the show notes for today's episode of No Agenda, a very good article from NewAmericaMedia.org.
	About the $11 billion helicopter order.
	Exactly the things we were talking about last week.
	Only much more detail.
	All the companies that are involved.
	How it came together.
	This is a massive, massive scam that's going on.
	Under-reported, obviously.
	But just a great read if you want to catch up on how that whole thing came to be.
	And of course, nothing has happened.
	I don't think the President has said, I won't have it.
	Or I'm going to reduce...
	I refuse this scam.
	I was looking.
	He'll say something when somebody writes it for the prompter.
	Right.
	So there's a lot of news floating around, by the way.
	In fact, I'm starting to see it as a meme about legalizing drugs.
	Yeah.
	It's showing up a little more than usual.
	I don't know when...
	Because Chris, I was mentioning it's got nothing to do with me, but I may have picked it up.
	But it's got...
	I know Ron Paul's floating around.
	Well, he's got...
	What they're doing now is they're doing lots of...
	It is kind of like a meme, and so all these cable news outlets are so desperate for material.
	I saw...
	What's the girl from, the woman from The View?
	Ipanema?
	Yeah.
	The View, she filled in for Larry King recently.
	Joy, is her name?
	Is it Joy?
	I don't know.
	I didn't see it.
	I don't watch Larry King.
	Whatever.
	Well, I saw the YouTube clip, and so she was filling in, and she had Ron Paul, Congressman Ron Paul, on as a...
	Pro-decriminalization, not necessarily legalization, but decriminalization.
	And against drugs, of all people, was Stephen Baldwin.
	We have it on the blog.
	We have that clip on the blog.
	And it's like the irony of that, of a Hollywood guy.
	Maybe Stephen's as straight as an arrow, but, you know, come on.
	Oh, jeez.
	Well, I don't know where it's coming from, and it just seems kind of like a distraction.
	Well, you know, I think I know where it is.
	At least I know where the real impetus is.
	I mean, the big one, the big move now is a front-page story on The Economist and a big editorial in The Economist that goes on and on and on about why we should legalize everything.
	Oh, right, and talking about how much tax money they'll make off of it.
	Well, essentially, there's a couple of things.
	Besides making, like, who knows how much tax money, it will save the United States, I believe, or maybe it's a world number, but I think it's the United States number, $40 billion in enforcement costs and incarceration costs, and that's not counting the taxes.
	I mean, we're talking about probably close to $100 billion into the economy, and like everyone says, and there's a lot of evidence that there's nothing really, there's less people using these things when they were legal.
	In terms of per capita.
	And I think it would probably be that way now.
	I think people would stop because there is a kind of a dirty girl thing involved with, ooh, let's do that.
	It's illegal.
	Yeah, let's try it.
	All the kids are doing it.
	It's cool.
	When you go to Amsterdam, even though they're recriminalizing everything over there...
	No, no, no.
	They're not recriminalizing.
	They are making the sale almost impossible.
	They're systematically taking away the coffee shops, which is the distribution.
	Okay.
	But the point is that when you're in Amsterdam, where it's wide open...
	You don't just...
	I mean, I don't see people walking around stoned out of their brains or anything.
	I don't agree with that.
	You must not be in the right spot in Amsterdam.
	30th of April, my friend.
	I'm taking you.
	I'll show you some stoned Dutch guys.
	But I read an article, I can't find it right now, I read an article, maybe it was a Dutch article, where they looked at what the taxation would have to be, and they did some, I've got to find this article, some huge calculation, and apparently, at the end of the day, it would have to be like $89 an ounce just in tax, or some crazy amount like that.
	Why does it have to be anything?
	I mean, what does that mean?
	Why does it have to be anything?
	But at the end of the day, if it's decriminalized, if it's legalized, then you'll just grow it.
	I mean, why set up an industry?
	That's the beauty of it.
	It's a weed.
	They don't call it a weed for nothing.
	You throw the seeds in the ground, you tinkle some water on it, and the shit just grows.
	It's not hard.
	I think legalization of marijuana is nonsensical.
	I don't understand why they sell tomatoes in the grocery store, because after all, I can put a tomato seed in there, and I can have free tomatoes.
	Why should I be paying $2.59, by the way, which is what you have to pay at a crappy grocery store for a crappy tomato?
	No, for a pound of tomatoes.
	And it's expensive, because one good-sized tomato...
	Well, there's your answer, John.
	Lots of people grow tomatoes.
	Yes, but they're still selling them in the stores.
	Well, it's all academic.
	It'll never be legalized because they cannot legalize the drug trade of any kind because that will really ruin the economy because everything, including Wall Street, runs on drug money.
	End of story.
	So it's not going to happen.
	Here we go.
	It's not going to happen.
	There's hundreds of billions of dollars.
	You know, we got a store here.
	I thought it was what they call the Pakistani store.
	That's always open regardless of religious holiday.
	And they have newspapers and it's kind of like a little convenience store.
	And I'm talking to the guy and he's from Afghanistan.
	And he's been here for 20 years, and he says, you know, I said, man, you're never laughing.
	He says, oh, I have such pain in my heart for my country.
	I wish I could be in my country.
	And I said, oh, where are you from?
	Afghanistan.
	Oh, really?
	And so, of course, he left right after the Mujahideen kicked out Russia, and then the situation changed dramatically.
	I said, man, there's a bunch of crooks over there.
	I said, how about Karzai, first thing out of his mouth?
	He said, the biggest drug dealer in the world.
	I said, no, I thought that was his brother.
	He said, his brother is just peanuts.
	Karzai is the biggest drug dealer in the world.
	And it makes total sense.
	Well, I don't know.
	I mean, why not?
	It just all ties into the fact that it's not going away.
	The war on drugs is a huge money maker.
	It is a disaster.
	Like somebody said, you know, we used to joke about it.
	Well, you know, these guys that kicked out the Russians.
	The Russians attacked.
	The British attacked twice.
	I mean, one country after another keeps going.
	Their entire culture is only designed to keep people out.
	And so now we're there, and we looked good for a few minutes, and then the next thing you know, these guys are just saying, well, we figured out what they're doing, they showed all their cards, now what do we have to do to get these idiots out of here?
	So, I don't know.
	Let's move over to the...
	It's hopeless.
	It is hopeless.
	Another big story of the week.
	It was so funny to watch the cable news outlets all disappointed.
	They didn't have a story anymore with Nadoff.
	You know, like, damn.
	There's no investigation.
	There's no story.
	There's nothing to say.
	They have no angle left.
	It's like, what is that?
	Where did all the money go?
	Which, of course, leads right into massive reporting now, John.
	Links in the show notes about the International Finance Court, which will be recommended to the G20. So you can watch my prediction come true.
	But I had a good laugh about the judge who...
	Did he convict?
	Is that a conviction?
	Yeah.
	Who convicted Madoff.
	Judge Denny Chin.
	And I'm kind of bemused that no one is talking about this guy.
	The cases he's been involved in.
	Anna Nicole Smith.
	Elliot Spitzer.
	Several...
	He's thrown out cases against the Bank of New York.
	Yeah, interesting, isn't it?
	He's had some really high-profile, like showbiz-type things.
	The guy seems pretty clean.
	There's a couple of mob references that I found.
	But I'm still thinking that this was just played too clean, too beautiful.
	Yeah, pretty slick.
	I'm still of the opinion that he may have never had anything to do with it, just as an interesting point of conjecture.
	Well...
	It's a fractal, man.
	There's a much bigger version of this above Madoff, and that's probably what's being...
	Well, I guess the whole derivative...
	Well, that's kind of almost what Jon Stewart was intimating.
	Over the last week, one of the interesting things...
	We need a little jingle.
	Somebody out there maybe can make it, or you can make it.
	You know, a nice booming thing about...
	Something about news for the point of distraction.
	Which is, you know, your theme, you know, everyone's all worked at, you know, targeting some, oh my god, this is the...
	Yeah, don't look at the economy, look at the people, look at the people.
	Yeah, exactly, there you go.
	And so they had, curiously, my friend Andrew Horowitz was supposed to be on that show.
	He got bummed.
	But they referenced his piece, which must have confused some members of the audience, because I guess he did a sober analysis of how to short sell or what it was all about.
	And Stuart referred to him as someone who's just normal instead of screaming and yelling and punching buttons that do sound effects.
	And he really gave it to Kramer for...
	Because Kramer says, well, you know, I'm just an entertainer, he says.
	And Stuart says, well, this isn't entertainment.
	This is like people's livelihoods, you know, we're talking about.
	And it was actually pretty...
	I mean, Stuart was not funny, let's put it that way.
	He was just drilling into the guy.
	It was almost major cringe.
	I felt the clips he showed of that 2006 interview were way out of context.
	I didn't even know what it was from.
	I'm just looking at it going, what is this from?
	What is the point?
	I mean, it could have been an interview about show business on television.
	That wasn't completely clear.
	I felt that was a bit unfair, the way he used that.
	Yeah, well, I think what they were trying to do is show off the fact that they can dig up anything.
	Yeah, well, it's all YouTube shit.
	We got all the same videos on Dvorak.org and on Curry.com.
	Yeah, there's a lot of good stuff out there.
	Anyway, so that was a big moment of distraction, and CNBC still hasn't responded to anybody about anything.
	They continued their merry way.
	Robert Gibbs, the press secretary, had something to say about it.
	You want to hear that?
	Yep.
	Well, listen to the implication he makes about CNBC being ashamed of Jim Cramer.
	Thank you, Robert.
	It's a serious question.
	It's an easier one.
	I don't know if you and the President saw the Jon Stewart piece last night with Kramer, but it was serious journalism.
	Does the White House believe that...
	This is a serious question!
	This is serious journalism!
	This is a serious question!
	The White House Press Corps, by the way, those are the ones who should be shot, except for Helen.
	Lined up.
	Lined up, one by one.
	The obligation of journalists to call out lies to warn the public of their damn question.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Get to your damn question.
	Um...
	The president and I talked earlier in the day yesterday about watching it.
	I forgot to email and remind him that it was on.
	I love that.
	I forgot to email him that it was on.
	Like he doesn't know.
	And, like, you can't tape it.
	Yeah, it's called DVR, dude.
	And I'm sure he can...
	Maybe the president could look at the YouTube clip as an example.
	Unbelievable.
	Unbelievable that they would say that.
	That's ridiculous.
	Oh, it gets better.
	Hold on, let me rewind a little bit.
	Yeah, it's funny.
	He's seen it.
	I... I enjoyed it thoroughly.
	Smug little bastard.
	Let me rephrase that.
	Smug little cocksucker.
	Despite, even as Mr.
	Stewart said, that it may have been uncomfortable to conduct and uncomfortable to watch, I thought it was...
	I thought somebody asked a lot of tough questions.
	And I am not surprised that the video of Mr.
	Kramer's appearance doesn't appear on CNBC's website today.
	So that put a whole new perspective on this.
	So Horowitz thinks that Stewart was probably burned.
	You know, he makes about a million bucks a year and must have had his money and something in this market collapsing.
	He didn't get out, you know, or was misadvised or told to hold, you know, which was, oh, just wait, he'll come back someday.
	And so I think he's steamed because he does have an anger that is abnormal.
	It's with good humor, but he still smirks, but it's like you can just see he's irked.
	He's probably lost millions.
	Yeah.
	Possibly.
	It wasn't like you.
	Gold.
	Gold, baby.
	That's where it is.
	That's where it's at.
	2.6 million viewers for The Jon Stewart Show.
	Yeah, it's a good number.
	For them, it's a great number, yeah.
	It's probably almost triple what they normally do.
	Right, it's worth about that much money.
	So anyway, but there's another thing here that's kind of being overlooked.
	It's obvious that Kramer has been targeted to be thrown under the bus.
	He comes up in the conversation way too much.
	He's been sent out on a dog and pony show to all the other NBC news outlets.
	To take his whipping.
	Yeah, to take a whipping.
	And then he goes, I mean, why would he do an hour?
	He did the whole show.
	I've watched the Jon Stewart show for years.
	I've never seen anyone sit down.
	He's had Barack Obama on the show, and he only had him in the segment at the end.
	You know, I mean, he has Clinton on.
	He has him on the segment at the end.
	The whole show was devoted to beating this guy up.
	He is the scapegoat.
	For the entire collapse of the economy, and he's going to end up...
	It's ridiculous that they would just...
	There's other people that are just as bad or worse.
	He's going to end up as a bit player on no agenda.
	That's what's going to happen to him.
	Yeah, well, that'd be okay.
	Although he's already...
	You know, I used to do CNBC more than I do now, and I would always find out what block I was in, and I'd say, what block is Kramer in?
	Because he would come on with Aaron, and they'd chit-chat.
	And if it was before my block, I'd go, oh my god, because he would step all over your block.
	And you get no time.
	That's why I was laughing when Horowitz was bumped, because I said, oh, well, there you go.
	Par for the course.
	But here's the strange thing.
	So you have Jon Stewart basically saying, what the hell is this?
	A financial news network that is basically running a scam.
	The guy who should know this best is Jon Stewart.
	This is what he does all day long.
	He does nothing but make fun about politicians, financial experts, cable television.
	He does it all day.
	Did he honestly think that CNBC wasn't some form of a scam?
	Well, not a scam, an entertainment form of entertainment.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	Well, like I said, you know, the theory is he probably lost his shirt.
	Because, you know, a lot of people lost, like, we're not talking about losing half a year.
	Did you look for him on the list, on the Madoff list?
	Maybe he was invested in Madoff.
	No, that would have been in the news.
	You'd be surprised what's not in the news, John.
	Well, see, the problem with the Madoff...
	Horowitz points this out.
	The problem with the Madoff list with its 4,000 or 5,000 people...
	Yeah, it doesn't include the feeder funds.
	It doesn't count any of the feeder funds.
	There's probably at least twice as many more that were in some feeder fund that went into Madoff's fund, and they lost their money that way, and they're not listed on the number one sucker's list.
	Those are just the A-list.
	Mm-hmm.
	So, who knows?
	I mean, maybe.
	I mean, it's not the kind of thing you'd want to admit to.
	Although the guy who heads U.S. News and World Report was on some show early on admitting to it.
	And he was, you know, and he's bitching about it.
	He's like he was head of some charity and the entire charity was just wiped out because of Madoff.
	Funny article in the Telegraph over here in the U.K., What is the difference between Gordon Brown and Bernie Madoff?
	Yes.
	Bernie's pleading guilty.
	They want Gordon Brown to apologize.
	That's what they're pushing for here.
	They want him to stand up and say, alright, all this shit happened during my watch when I was Chancellor of the Checker.
	David Cameron, the opposition, is already saying, oh, we're sorry.
	We're running the country, but we're sorry anyway.
	As the net of poverty comes down, everyone's pissed off about the AIG bonuses being paid out, $165 million.
	I'm sure you've heard this.
	Oh yeah.
	I don't understand why they don't indict somehow.
	What they're saying is it is absolutely critical That they pay these bonuses, otherwise they're going to lose all these very talented people.
	Really?
	Where are these guys going?
	Who have run this thing into the ground?
	They're so talented.
	Yeah, but where are these guys going if they lose them?
	It's bullshit.
	It's total bullshit.
	It's unbelievable.
	And nobody's just, you know, I think they should, you know, the olden days when people would, like, have torches and, you know, carry shovels and torches and storm a place and burn it to the ground and, you know.
	Yeah, like what happens in Athens, in Iceland, other places except the civilized world, yes.
	It's just kind of, you know, it would be fun to see.
	Especially the AIG thing.
	Just like 100,000 people converge on the AIG offices and just trash the place.
	I don't think it's a good idea, because I believe that's exactly what the government wants you to do.
	That's why they're already saying, ooh, it's the summer of rage, and everyone's going to be pissed off, and we're going to have all kinds of shit.
	I mean, that's what they want.
	They want people to start rioting.
	As a distraction.
	Well, get them rioting, because then, swoop down, military comes in, picks them up, throws them in the camps, done.
	Mission accomplished.
	Sorry I brought it up, I knew you'd bring it.
	Camps.
	I've been looking at recovery.gov, waiting for the transparency.
	And I've noticed something interesting about this site.
	Of course, this is the transparency website of the administration.
	Basically, it's a news blog.
	It has all these stories like, oh, it's 3,000 aviation jobs.
	And you click, and then it says you will now be transported to the Department of Homeland Security website.
	So they keep shuttling you off to other government websites where they have a whole different format.
	You have to search through the press.
	There's a press release, but then there's no actual information on how the money is being spent.
	And then to top it all off, from motherjones.com, which I think is pretty reputable, They have a story about different counties in California trading their stimulus funds from each other at discounts.
	So here's how it works.
	So you have $44 million that's meant for transportation.
	But you only need maybe 30, or that's what you think.
	But you really need more in agriculture.
	So what they're doing now is they're trading these pieces of money.
	Okay, this was earmarked.
	It's just the same money, right?
	But this was earmarked for transportation, so you can buy some of my transportation money.
	And they're literally selling it.
	Let me see...
	There was an example here.
	La Habra Heights, a city of 6,000, has sold its 500,000, this is a small amount, $500,000 in federal funds to the city of Westlake Village for $310,000 in cash.
	And what the fuck is this?
	This is ridiculous.
	Rolling Hills, population 1,900, sold its $500,000 share to the city of Rancho Palos Verdes for $305,000 in cash.
	And the city of Avalon has reached an agreement to swap its $500,000 with L.A. County.
	This is wrong.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	Yeah, it makes plenty of sense.
	I mean, how are they going to count?
	I got $500,000.
	I don't need it.
	I don't need it.
	So you give me cash.
	Give me some cash, and I give you some of the money.
	It's an outrage.
	I hear birds.
	Yes, there's a canary in this room.
	For my fellow...
	It comes through that loud?
	Because Mike's very directional.
	Yeah, no, it came through loud and clear.
	Look, Mike's kind of pointing at the bird.
	I just look at it behind me.
	So when I move my head, it's aimed right at the bird.
	And what kind of bird is it, John?
	A canary.
	Oh, it really is a canary.
	You've got a canary in a cage.
	Exactly.
	So if the fucker falls over...
	Just in case if he drops dead, I'm leaving here.
	Oh, boy.
	Speaking of such...
	Well, wait.
	Hit the jingle for real news.
	I'm going to give you another story.
	Well, before we get to the real news story, let me talk about Canaries for a second.
	Guardian, the fine communist newspaper of the United Kingdom.
	World will agree new climate deal, says Al Gore.
	Former U.S. Vice President delivers an upbeat assessment of the global response to climate change today, saying he believes a political tipping point has been reached, which will enable leaders to avert environmental catastrophe.
	So he's basically saying, it's all good, everyone believes it, you're crazy if you don't.
	And this is the paragraph that...
	Are you a denier?
	Yes.
	The earth is flat.
	I'm a denier.
	You're a denier.
	That means you're a creationist.
	You're insane.
	Holocaust denier.
	You don't believe that there's a holocaust.
	You don't believe in evolution.
	And you're nuts.
	And you have a mental disorder.
	So let me root around in your brain, John.
	I didn't know you were that crazy.
	So what's wrong with you?
	I think that Darwin, this has been proven.
	I mean, science has to use it.
	I don't understand why you'd believe in creationism.
	It doesn't make any sense to me.
	You're a reasonable person.
	John, I don't like playing that game.
	It's not even funny.
	Well, that's what George Monbiot is doing, your buddy over there at The Guardian.
	Yeah, he hasn't published me there yet.
	Listen to this.
	Gore warns business leaders who did not get it.
	I love that.
	Hey, you don't get it.
	We're going to die.
	You don't get it.
	Gore warns business leaders who did not yet get it that they should look to the collapse of the subprime mortgage market as a warning.
	Listen to what he does here, John.
	What?
	Listen to this.
	I got the quote.
	It'll blow you away.
	We now have several trillion dollars worth of subprime carbon assets whose value is based on the assumption that CO2 is free and there's nothing wrong with 70 million tons of it entering into the atmosphere every 24 hours, he says.
	That assumption is also in the process of collapsing and the remedy for it will include a change in business practices.
	What does that mean?
	It doesn't mean anything.
	The guy's criminally insane.
	That's what I thought it was.
	Look at the collapse of the subprime mortgage market as a warning.
	We now have several trillion dollars worth of subprime carbon assets whose value is based on the assumption that CO2 is free and there's nothing wrong with 70...
	The guy's a lunatic.
	This is the craziest thing I've ever...
	What's the connection?
	Oh, well, you don't get it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You don't get it.
	You don't get it.
	Which is a very Silicon Valley term, by the way.
	It comes from...
	You don't get Twitter, man.
	You just don't get it.
	Okay?
	You don't get it.
	So you'll never be successful in your life.
	You don't get it.
	You'll be no IPO for you.
	You don't get it.
	Google's not going to acquire you because you don't get it.
	Isn't that the way they talk?
	Yep.
	As a matter of fact.
	And it all comes from Earhard Seminar Training.
	Is that where the get it comes from?
	That's where the you-don't-get-it thing basically was popularized by Werner Erhard, who was one of these guys who did these crazy seminars, the one notorious for not being able to take a bathroom break.
	And they were talking this gibberish, just similar to what Al Gore did, where you'd connect weird things in kind of a non-sequitur way.
	Well, basically he's saying the world is...
	And people would pretend to understand it, and if you didn't, then you didn't get it.
	And it was like a harp on this.
	Oh, they don't get it.
	They don't get it.
	I'm trying to find this, there was an article, I think it was in the Financial Times today, a great new discovery.
	Maybe it's Meyers shipping?
	It was one of the shipping companies who said, we know our way out of this jam, because, you know, international shipping is pretty much dead at this point.
	No one's shipping anything.
	There are ships just literally sitting in port here in the UK with foreigners on it.
	We have quite a few of them in San Francisco Bay.
	Same thing.
	Oh, here it is, Meyers tanked.
	Listen to this.
	This made me laugh when you think about how ridiculous it is.
	Myers tankers looking at sea transport of CO2. One of the world's biggest owners of oil and gas tankers have become the first major operator to announce plans to enter the market to transport captured carbon dioxide.
	So here they are.
	They're going to take a tanker full of basically exhaled air and Sealed up.
	It's a tanker full of nothing.
	And they're shipping it off to another part of the world where they're going to put it in another container.
	And therefore it's not released into the atmosphere.
	John, who's mentally insane?
	I'm telling you, you know, the thing is plants need that CO2. You know, the weird thing about CO2, of course, it would always have to be realized is that CO2 is heavier.
	and it tends to go down, not up, which has never been discussed.
	And in fact, in the desert, like in the Death Valley, for example, and places like that, people who have to spend the night camping, or if you think that's fun, you always have to, and this is a known fact that there are depressions in the desert that are like little sinkhole and this is a known fact that there are depressions in the desert that are like little sinkhole things, and people sometimes will go down into them and then spend Yeah, because all the CO2 is sitting there and they've got no oxygen.
	See?
	CO2 kills.
	Yeah.
	I'm just saying.
	Al Gore believes a global climate deal will be agreed at the UN-brokered climate talks scheduled in Copenhagen for December.
	So, mark it down on your calendar.
	You know, this all began with the rather new discipline of climatology.
	Let me just give you the last bit because this is the real important connection.
	Gore says, there is a very impressive consensus now emerging around the world that the solutions to the economic crisis are also the solutions to the climate crisis.
	That's your carbon credits.
	That's your carbon tax.
	That's all of that shit right there.
	In that one little sentence.
	Please continue.
	I can't.
	I mean, that's just ridiculous.
	That guy, he's one of the most dangerous men in history.
	I can't imagine what would have happened if he was actually elected president.
	Hold on a second.
	Could you please...
	That was really good, man.
	Do that again.
	That guy.
	Hold on.
	Let's do it again.
	And now, an important analysis from John C. Dvorak.
	Al Gore is one of the most dangerous men in the history of mankind.
	I don't know what it would have been like if he was actually elected president.
	In the morning!
	Excellent.
	That'll be reused.
	We'll put that on the stream.
	Meanwhile, Buckingham Palace, one of the Least green buildings in the top ten list in London.
	Thermal imaging.
	Gee, you think?
	Yeah, it's only 775 rooms, this palace.
	So it's Buckingham Palace.
	I love number two.
	So they're number one.
	Number two, this really will make any Brit chuckle.
	DEFRA, the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
	Actually, it's Department for...
	Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, but there's the DECC. That is for climate change.
	Number three, the Ministry of Defense.
	Number four, the Horse Guards Barracks.
	A lot of CO2 coming from there as well.
	I think we should shoot the horses.
	Save the world, shoot the horses.
	Number five, the Shell Building.
	Number six, the Home Office.
	Number seven, Houses of Parliament.
	Number eight, the Treasury Building.
	Nine, Portcullis House, then MI6, and then a whole bunch of...
	Are they allowed to burn coal in the Buckingham Palace?
	They don't.
	Remember, it's all electric.
	Oh.
	I'm not saying that's any better, but that's what they're doing.
	I think we should hit on China for a few moments, because China's in the news.
	I was going to give you some real news first.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Hold on one second.
	And now, ladies and gentlemen, time once again...
	And now, back to real news.
	America's next top model auditions led to a semi-riot and arrest in New York.
	Oh, no!
	Yeah, melee...
	Let me read this from...
	This is Entertainment Weekly again.
	One of the two news sources we use here in the United States.
	Which was Entertainment Weekly?
	And the other one is a daily show with Jon Stewart.
	A melee at the New York auditions for the CW series America's Next Top Model led to six injuries and three arrests Saturday.
	According to the New York Times, witnesses told the paper that the fracas broke out when the wannabe contestants' nerves were frayed by the disorganized conditions after they'd waited on the street overnight.
	It was cold, by the way.
	For a chance to try out on Tyra Banks' reality show.
	Three people were reportedly arrested for disorderly contact and two of the six injured.
	They were transported to the hospital.
	You're killing me, man.
	The next day's audition, ironically, were canceled, which must have irked everybody in line.
	I have real news, but I'm not even going to do it now.
	That was too much.
	This is important.
	I mean, this kind of thing happens.
	This is what's going on in the country.
	The Obama administration is desperately trying to reassure China that we're good for the money.
	That is pretty bad.
	Let me just boil it all down for you.
	That's what's going on.
	Hey, look.
	I'll pay you on Tuesday.
	Really, seriously.
	Come on, I know.
	Come on, man.
	What's the big on this shit, man?
	Come on, brother.
	The money besides that, what are you going to do about it?
	Chinese Premier Wen Jiabo.
	Jiabo?
	Is that how you pronounce it?
	Jiabo?
	I know how you pronounce Premier.
	Premier.
	Well, he's basically said publicly, hey, you know, I'm a little worried about the $2 trillion you guys borrowed from us.
	Here's the quote.
	I request the U.S. to maintain its good credit, to honor its promises, and to guarantee the safety of China's assets.
	Yeah, good luck, buddy.
	Yeah.
	Does he not watch CNBC? Does he not know how much money we're creating and how much we're devaluing their share?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's like ratcheting down.
	So, missing from this story, of course, is the eminent domain.
	But I really think that he's looking for reassurances.
	What more reassurance can we give him than Hillary Clinton saying, don't worry.
	Don't worry.
	It's all good.
	Well, the reassurance is simple.
	Look, we have a new eminent domain law.
	Look.
	And we'll give you China, let's say, what would you want?
	Do you want Arizona?
	They want Hollywood.
	They want Hollywood.
	Give them a Hollywood.
	I think it would be great to split.
	Here's what should happen.
	If you go to the blog, I'll repost this.
	I've been posting it for years.
	I think California should be divided into three states because it's too big to be one state.
	And as three states, it could also pick up another four senators, which would give us more representation.
	And more governors, right?
	And two more governors.
	Three more governors, yeah.
	So it would be better.
	And then you'd have Northern California and then the Central California area and then Southern California, which could then be sold to Mexico or it could be sold to China, which has Hollywood down there.
	And then they can deal with their water problem through the Rio Grande or something, besides taking all our water from Northern California and piping it all the way down to Southern California so some idiot can fill his pool and water his lawn when they live in the middle of a desert. besides taking all our water from Northern California and piping And so sell, you know, but, you know, divide the state up to three and sell off the bottom part to China.
	Let China have it.
	I mean, what's the big deal?
	I think China should take Southern California and turn it into the trash dump.
	The International Heritage Tribune says that they're now turning away other countries' trash.
	They're not taking it anymore.
	In China?
	In China, yeah.
	This is a big problem.
	Somebody has to be done about trash.
	Nobody wants to talk about trash recycling.
	And by the way, trash, when it's buried and just let the rot, produces a lot of methane, which contributes to global whatever.
	Climate change.
	So this stuff should either be burned, because I think CO2 is better than methane.
	I think everybody agrees with that.
	You just don't get it, man.
	Burned, recycled, something.
	You know, something different.
	The collapse of the recycling business has affected trash pickers, the middlemen who buy their waste in the factories that refashion metal, paper, glass, plastic into products bound for the supermarket shelves.
	China is refusing their shipments.
	The recycling business has collapsed.
	Now what?
	Shouldn't we be focusing on that?
	Shouldn't we be looking at trash?
	I think trash is a problem.
	It's huge.
	It's a huge problem.
	The United States exports $22 billion worth of recyclable materials.
	That was 2007.
	That amount of money, $22 billion, has decreased by an estimated 70%.
	I guess it's because recyclables don't go in.
	There's no more manufacturing or there's less manufacturing, so they don't need materials, right?
	Well, I mean, if everything slows down, then you don't need so much, you know...
	That's a big slowdown, man.
	70% is a big-ass slowdown.
	Yeah, I don't know what it represents of the total, though.
	I mean, how much has the economy slowed down?
	I don't think the economy slowed down 70%.
	I think that's like the edges of the economy, which is the first thing to be affected because there's still raw materials.
	I think what we want to look at is copper and cement production and see what the slowdown is in those two industries, and then we know what the real slowdown is.
	China is rumored to be using...
	There was a good spot there for in the morning.
	No, I wasn't ready for it.
	I need to give you your own in the morning.
	I'm going to have to get my own buttons here.
	Bloomberg is writing that China might use part of its $2 trillion in foreign exchange reserves to buy gold.
	Yeah.
	There's a thought, boys.
	A little late.
	Nah, well, it's gone down a bit.
	It's a low 900s now.
	So there was a little fracas with a U.S. ship out there hunting for subs, and the Chinese said, hey, what are you doing?
	Get out of here.
	And did you see, they showed pictures of this, and I wish, unfortunately, I didn't get a screenshot.
	But the thing, that crazy boat that the U.S. was in was a screwball thing.
	Did you see pictures of that thing?
	Yeah, but no.
	And then the fracas was a couple that looked like overgrown tugboats with tires all around the outside, old wooden boats floating around.
	They looked just like the next generation junk.
	And it was like, you know, and they were saying, hey, this story seems like a bogus story.
	There's something phony about it because our boat was too weird looking and their boats were like too dinky.
	Well, according to the Times newspaper in the UK, a potential conflict brewing as of last night in the South China Sea after President Obama dispatched heavily armed American destroyers to the scene of the naval standoff.
	Gee, I bet that's not in Entertainment Weekly.
	Standoff?
	It was a joke.
	There was no standoff.
	There's just these weird-looking, two of these horrible-looking wooden boats.
	Yeah, but the U.S. boat, the U.S. has admitted, was looking at submarines.
	It was unarmed, but it was like a submarine snooping boat.
	You know, I think the whole story's bull.
	Really?
	It was there, yeah.
	But that ship was so screwy-looking.
	I don't see what it had to do with submarines.
	Maybe it was a sub-chaser or something like that.
	I don't know what the point was.
	And, you know, why couldn't they?
	Were they past the 12th?
	This story's sketchy.
	Where were they exactly?
	Let's listen to the story.
	South China Sea?
	Let's listen to the story.
	There's a video that goes along with it.
	Let's see.
	On the surface, this doesn't look like a terribly serious problem.
	An American surveillance ship, the impeccable, was harassed by Chinese vessels on Sunday in the South China Sea, and nothing more dangerous than a high-powered water hose was used in the exchange.
	But actually, underlying this incident is something far more serious.
	This area is one of the most strategic waterways in the world.
	The Americans are now sending heavily armed destroyers to escort their surveillance ships in the area.
	And the Chinese have responded by denouncing the American actions as hostile and declaring that this area is exclusively for Chinese use early.
	There you go.
	There's something wrong with the story.
	I don't know what it is.
	I can't have a clue.
	But that's a bunch of sketchy information.
	Who knows what...
	The old one, they attacked him with water hoses.
	I mean, what does that fit into the picture?
	Things were like, they would look like two wooden, old fire boats.
	Floating around, you know, lost.
	And they had to probably spray the American boat because the thing was like 20,000 times bigger than these little pieces of crap.
	Yeah, one of those catamaran jobbies.
	They probably had to spray the boat with the fire hose to get their attention.
	Please don't ram us.
	I don't know.
	Well, but this is...
	I think it's a ruse for something else.
	We've had so many things.
	There was a huge terrorist warning in the Netherlands.
	Oh, man, this really set my in-laws off.
	Poor, poor people.
	They're 83 years old.
	They're on the phone.
	Of course, they call me immediately thinking that I'm going to know anything.
	Do they listen to no agenda?
	Thank God they don't.
	My God.
	Adam, do you have to swear so much?
	I think it would be different.
	Adam, you have to be living.
	So they shut down a huge shopping area, including the Ikea, because they got a call.
	This is the best.
	They got a call from a Belgian prepaid mobile phone, which apparently had such an explicit description of the bombs and the people who were going to set them off, suicide or otherwise, that That they immediately locked it down.
	The whole country went into red alert.
	Everyone's freaking out.
	They arrested seven guys.
	They're pounding through all these people's houses.
	Immediately the news comes out.
	One of these guys is linked to one of the Madrid bombers that got away.
	Which I don't think they actually...
	I think they never convicted anyone of the Madrid bombings.
	And two days later, of course, they had to set all seven of them free.
	Yeah.
	Sounds like a typical exercise in futility.
	Well, or perhaps, please, whatever you do, don't look at the AEX. Don't look at the stock market.
	Don't look at what's happening in the world.
	Don't listen to real news.
	We have all these horrible things happening with these multiple shootings.
	What?
	Well, you know, the one in Germany.
	Oh, yeah.
	You know, there's just lots of stuff.
	All of a sudden, lots of death and destruction coming down.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	Ladies and gentlemen...
	And now, back to real news.
	Beavers could be reintroduced into England.
	England has no beavers?
	And now, back to real news.
	More than 500 years it's been since we've had them in the UK. They're going to reintroduce the beavers to this island.
	They say it's good because they eat stuff.
	And chop down trees.
	Big controversy about the beavers, whether we should have beavers or not.
	Actually, remember that guy from the band, I think it was Blink-182, DJ AM? Remember he was in a plane crash, a private plane crash, and he lived there?
	I'm sure you caught that real news.
	No.
	This was a while ago.
	Yeah, there were two guys who survived this Learjet crash which ran off the end of the runway and broke up and caught fire.
	And he was in the real news saying that he actually was scheduled to be on the Buffalo flight.
	What are the chances of that?
	That guy should emigrate.
	That is weird.
	I mean, they say that chances of you dying in an air disaster are so small, but then to come so close twice is pretty amazing.
	There was somebody in one of these catastrophes that was supposed to be in another catastrophe, but they missed the flight or something.
	I was reading about it.
	That happens all the time.
	The guy would have been killed, but then he coincidentally missed the flight, and then he gets killed on another flight.
	It's like the guy sees a safe falling from the building above and moves out of the way and gets hit by the piano.
	Prince Charles, who just when I thought the guy was going to be okay from AP, Britain's Prince Charles warned on Thursday, mankind has 100 months or less to save the planet from a climate-caused disaster.
	Didn't they say this like a couple years ago?
	100 months or less.
	Here's what bothers me.
	We had a story that we have a climate change junkie on the blog.
	He's always, every time you post any skepticism, he posts something else that says we're all doomed.
	But the one that gets me is the more recent mention of this guy, climate change expert Nicholas Stern, who's told 2,000 climate scientists meeting in Copenhagen that they fail to clearly tell humanity what it faces if global temperatures reach the upper range of forecasts made by the...
	IPCC, which is the United Nations Intergovernment Panel for Climate Change and Destroying All Western Economies, which should be the real title.
	He says there's been a lot of scientific evidence.
	He goes on and on.
	He says, new findings show that these projections were vastly understated.
	And everybody, oh, it's worse than we thought.
	What I'm thinking when I read this stuff is, can't you get this right?
	I mean, it's like worse than we thought.
	It's better than we thought.
	It's worse than we thought.
	Where are these?
	These numbers are so solid.
	Why do they keep upgrading and changing them in flux?
	Yeah.
	I mean, in other words, if we're so solidly, you know, we have strong evidence that's irrefutable and everyone agrees, well, did everyone agree that it just changed?
	I can't believe that Prince Charles is not on the front page of every single newspaper with this.
	Listen to what he's saying.
	The best projections tell us that we have less than 100 months to alter our behavior before we risk catastrophic climate change and the unimaginable horrors that this would bring.
	What are those horrors you ask, John?
	Any difficulties which the world faces today will be nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the worldwide economy, he said.
	It will result in vast movements of people escaping either flooding or droughts, in uncertain production of foods and lack of water, and of course increasing social instability and potential conflict.
	It will affect the well-being of every man once again.
	woman, and child on our planet!
	So it sounds like to me for an excuse for a European army to keep out the raggedy poor.
	Well, I'm glad you brought that up because that's exactly what Sarkozy has been moving toward.
	The president of France who just the other day after 40 years said, you know what?
	That NATO thing?
	Yeah, we should be in that.
	This is shaking the French to their very roots.
	Well, the French have got to get rid of that guy.
	I'm going to be more French.
	The only thing French about him is he's got a hot wife.
	And that's not actually that French, if you think about it.
	She's Italian, dude.
	Remember, Silvio gave her to him.
	Somewhere there's an article I was reading.
	Oh, I think it's in that helicopter story.
	That Berlusconi leaned over to Sarkozy and said during some public thing in his ear, remember, I gave you Carla.
	I'm telling you, man, it makes so much sense.
	These guys are on a little...
	You're right, they are in the drinking club.
	And guess what?
	They drink your blood.
	They're doing wife swapping.
	They drink your blood in this club.
	They are drinking your blood.
	And...
	A link in the show notes to all of the fantastic articles, as predicted, linking Jade Goody to the HPV vaccination.
	Luckily, and this blows me away, I didn't know this, luckily, also a lot of women in the United Kingdom have gone for a cervical test, which in America we call a pap schmear.
	They don't call it that here.
	A schmear?
	A schmear.
	It's like you put it on your bagel.
	Cream cheese on a bagel.
	Hey, John, would you like some pap shmear?
	I'd like to get a shmear.
	Here you go.
	I'd like a pap shmear with that beer.
	You know that women do not get a cervical test under the UK Health Plan until they're 25?
	That sounds wrong.
	I don't know.
	Yeah.
	So now the FDA has approved DNA testing for HPV. So this is, of course, the route that it needs to take.
	So not only can we inject you with whatever we say is safe, but do this test so we have your DNA on file, and we can actually see if you're going to get this cancer based upon your DNA. And this is like space-age shit, man.
	Of course it's bad.
	FDA approves two new HPV tests.
	They're just trying to get a database of everybody's DNA. That's right.
	And they're going to get it, too.
	It's going to be a lot easier to trump up charges.
	Did I also see somewhere a couple of news articles about some...
	It was like an imaging of...
	It was some test some scientists had done.
	It was a little sidebar column that they can do imaging on your brain patterns and based upon how your brain thinks...
	This is actually big news here.
	Okay, so it was very marginal news here.
	It fires off...
	Neutron shit, whatever is electrons.
	And they can image that and then they can identify you just based on a scan of people's brain waves.
	Yeah, for pre-crime.
	Right, to see if you're going to actually...
	Well, I think...
	I would say this is probably linked into those new airport scanners.
	So here's the theory, man.
	Oh, good, because I went on one of the newest of the new scanners.
	I usually do this.
	Tell me about your experience.
	Okay, well, the scanner, the first thing I went through, some months back they had these things called puffers, and you go in there and they just blow a little air all over you, and then they analyze the air and see if there's any chemicals.
	They took those out.
	So now they've got this new thing called a micron or a micro or some weird thing.
	I think it takes a single, I think, I don't know what the mechanism is, but I'm guessing it's ultra, it's ultra wide pulse radio x-ray.
	They basically, they can see what you look like naked.
	That's basically the result.
	It's a true thing.
	Okay, so you get in, but who knows what's going on.
	You've got to put your hands up in the air.
	You put your hands up in the air.
	How shitty do you feel?
	How much enslaved do you feel when they make you stand in that box and put your arms up like a fucking criminal?
	It takes forever because the guy turns away and says, oh, a little higher.
	And so anyway, here's the thing.
	They have a big sign at the airport.
	And they have only one of these things, and there's like three or four, six lines maybe going through.
	And if you go to this line, it says, if you go into this crazy machine, there'll be less chance of a pat-down and less chance of this, less chance of that.
	Bull!
	It's just the opposite.
	You go into the machine, and if you have a piece of paper in your pants, the guys are like...
	Or something else that's really big.
	Yeah, well, next time I'm wearing a sock.
	So anyway, you go through this thing, and they take a look at you, and you say, this guy could lose a little weight.
	And then they...
	They say that, like, whisper that, man, a guy's a fat fucking pig.
	Look at what's coming up in line number three there.
	Holy...
	Oh, boy, get her over in my line.
	So anyway, so they...
	So the guy says, what's in your front right?
	Because I had a piece of paper in my pocket and he saw the paper.
	Weirdly enough, he didn't see the comb in my back pocket.
	So the thing didn't work that well.
	So anyway, so he pats me down and he's just patting like a maniac because I think they're testing this gear and they want to see what mistakes it made.
	And by the way, during the pat down, he missed the comb himself.
	Unbelievable.
	And you could kill someone with a comb, you know?
	Oh, you could.
	You could.
	You slit their throat.
	You could comb the pilot's hair.
	So anyway, and he's patting me down so much in the back.
	Just one second, I was like, could you scratch a little bit to the right?
	You said that?
	No, I couldn't bring myself to it because I just was observing.
	That's funny.
	I went to this for the purposes of our listeners.
	I went through this process.
	Because I would refuse.
	Go ahead.
	I always like to check these things out, but I tell people, don't go through it.
	It's just a big waste of time and it takes longer.
	So meanwhile, I was carrying all this gear in my luggage, and so they had to look at my luggage, too.
	So this guy says, is this your bag?
	But meanwhile, the whole line is slow.
	Did you have meats in it?
	Did you have meats in your bag?
	I only have meats when I'm going back.
	Oh, okay.
	So I had a bunch of meat when I was coming in from Wisconsin, though, and they stopped me and said, what's this?
	You know, because it looks like these sausages from Wisconsin, they look like dynamite or something, right?
	Because it's in there.
	So what do you got?
	You got frozen meat?
	Yes.
	Oh, okay.
	I said, you can't leave Wisconsin without meat.
	And I said, you're right.
	Hey, hey, tell someone there to stop downloading porn, man.
	You're breaking up.
	So it shouldn't be anything going well.
	Anyway, with this 10 megabits, I shouldn't be breaking up ever.
	Anyway, so I go through the end, and then I say to the guy who's going through my luggage to look at this equipment, and I said, well, that thing is a piece of crap, you know, talking about the device.
	I said, that thing's a piece of crap.
	It's supposed to make things faster.
	It doesn't even seem to work.
	And the guy says, don't be such a buzzkill, man.
	The guy says to me, I know.
	It's total garbage.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Well, so while it's not picking up that comb in your back pocket, I think it's probably scanning some kind of profile, and they can see you through the satellite.
	That's crap.
	It's a piece of crap.
	So that thing's another expensive piece of junk.
	And you're right.
	You have to stand there with the arms in the air.
	It's stupid.
	It's the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
	It's just demeaning.
	I don't like it.
	But anyways, just for people, when you see one of those machines, go to the other end because it'll slow you down.
	They claim it's going to speed things up.
	It doesn't speed things up.
	It cuts the numbers in half.
	It goes twice as slow with this piece of garbage in the way.
	So there you have it.
	So since we can't seem to get a break on anyone reporting on this horrible...
	A mixture of bird flu and flu vaccine, since mainstream media is just completely ignoring it in every country where it's been distributed, where it was sent to.
	It's weird.
	Yeah, I will say, though, that currently 58 cases of bird flu in Egypt.
	So I think you just got to start looking at places where this is breaking out and watch it spread and watch it happen as they start to tell us we need to get a vaccine, a shot.
	It's disgusting.
	And by the way, which brings me to the point that stuff like this is what makes the show interesting.
	Now, last week I said I was going to mention all the $100 and the $50 contributors.
	So I was going to do that from here.
	We're going to have to do it on Thursday because I went to my PayPal account, which has a list of all of them.
	And for some reason, because we got a lot of subscriptions last week.
	Donations.
	It's told me that I couldn't access the account because I needed a security code, because I think I'm coming in from a different IP, so they have enough information about me that they now won't let me look at my own account, even though I have the password and everything.
	I need a secondary password, which is actually a good thing, because PayPal's always, everyone's scared they're a hacker.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So I can't read the names because they won't let me look at the list until I get back home to the other house.
	So on Thursday we'll list everybody off who donated $50 or $100 and then we'll thank everybody else who's...
	Who has a continuing contribution of some sort.
	But if you feel the need, and you should, because we're the only ones talking about this bird flu story, for example, it's dvorak.org slash na.
	Or noagendalibrary.com.
	It's Dvorak.org slash NA is the place to go.
	Why not just noagendalibrary.com?
	It goes to the same place.
	I think it's harder.
	I also like the NA thing.
	It doesn't make any difference if the money goes.
	It's not like we're competing.
	And we don't actually have counters on these sites to see who goes to Adam's site and mine, although we could.
	No, God, no.
	That means work.
	It's definitely competition.
	Anyway, there's three things you can do.
	You can give us a straight-up donation, which we'd appreciate.
	$50 or $100 is ideal, because then you get mentioned with maybe some fanfare.
	A jingle.
	With a jingle.
	Yeah, that's what we'll do.
	We'll get a new subscriber who's donated a lot.
	We're going to give you an In the Morning!
	In the Morning!
	Like a shout-out.
	We'll give you an In the Morning.
	So we'll do this on Thursday.
	Sorry.
	I apologize in advance.
	This gives more people the opportunity to help out.
	I'd like to thank Cheryl, who listened to our call about farming.
	Remember, we asked if there were any farmers in the audience, and not only did we get a farmer, but we got a woman, which is like a double whammy for us.
	I think the count now is four female listeners to this program.
	I heard it was six.
	Adam, thanks for your concern about farmers and their ability to plant a crop this year.
	My husband and I are Midwestern corn farmers and have witnessed a few neighbors having difficulty obtaining financing for crop inputs this year.
	In fact, we have some cropland that we rent to a fairly large farmer whose rent check for this year just bounced.
	Last year's commodity prices rode to record levels, so did our fertilizer, chemical, seed, fuel, land rent, other input costs.
	Grain prices have dropped dramatically, but most input costs have not.
	Rent is doubled.
	Since costs were completely out of control last fall, many farmers prepaid inputs in order to control costs and sold grain on futures contracts to local ethanol plants to cover their butts.
	If they sold to Verison, the bankruptcy court has ordered the farmers to deliver the grain to the plants, but the $4 to $6 a bushel they were promised for their grain will not be honored.
	These people are getting screwed, man.
	You know, yeah, there's also that ethanol thing going on.
	Did I mention I was in Wisconsin?
	I rented one of those little funky-looking Chevys that looked like a PT Cruiser, and it used Flex Fuel.
	Was that a combo...
	It means it'll run on gasoline or what they call E85. And E85 is ethanol, 85% ethanol, and I don't know what else.
	I guess some gasoline is necessary in there.
	And so I'm going back to the airport, and I'm driving along, and I have to get some gas to fill up the tank.
	And that's because I don't take that scam deal that car rental companies give you.
	We'll prepay.
	And so I'm going back and there's a gas station that has E85. I've never seen an E85 pump in my life.
	Actually, I've got to blog this because I took a picture of it.
	Was it a good experience?
	Yeah, no, besides that, ethanol I think is a really interesting fuel.
	But the most interesting thing was if you took a picture of the sign, the regular gas at the time was $2.19 a gallon, and then the premium was like $2.40, and the diesel was like $2.40 or so.
	The E85 was $1.69.
	So it's really cheap.
	It's cheaper than everything.
	And so I'm thinking, well, you know, if you can keep the price down.
	My understanding is you can't make a profit from this stuff.
	But if you're selling at such a low price, it seems that somebody's making money.
	But I don't know how many E85 cars are floating around.
	Maybe it's just they have to lower the price to get people to use this stuff.
	I'm not sure.
	Cheryl winds up by saying the mega-farmers seem to know how to work the system and they get all the huge subsidies.
	Of course.
	Obama wants to reduce the maximum gross farm revenue from direct farm payments.
	A net income ceiling would be more sensible.
	Larger farmers can afford to postpone selling their crop in order to maximize government payments.
	Have no fear about food shortages, though.
	The big farms will snap up available cropland immediately.
	Ha ha.
	Yeah.
	Monsanto will.
	Well, Monsanto sells the seeds to those big guys.
	You know, bud.
	As of today, the...
	And by the way, the worst part about these big farmers, and I think this woman or anybody who's in the farming community would agree, they produce crap.
	I mean, the difference...
	Total shit.
	Total shit.
	We do not shop for food at Sainsbury's anymore.
	All that, the fake organic that has a nice little picture of a chicken running around in acres of grassland, it's bullshit.
	Okay, that's not really organic.
	So I'm, you know, some years ago, you know, I was, before I had children and all the rest of it, and I've gotten into being the foodie, You know, I'd only eat butter lettuce and I would always eschew, you know, iceberg lettuce because it was like, you know, low rent.
	But when you have kids and you want to feed them lettuce of any sort, you have to actually get iceberg lettuce because the kids won't eat anything else.
	Damn kids.
	They won't eat butter lettuce or Boston lettuce or bib lettuce.
	They want something crunchy.
	So you start using iceberg lettuce again.
	I did not realize, and now I actually use it still all the time just for my own, because I like it, because what I was doing, I didn't realize that I had early on, especially when I was a kid and whenever, the iceberg lettuce that my mom and even I might have gotten from a big chain like Safeway,
	compared to the iceberg lettuce I get from a vegetable market, like in the Berkeley area we have Monterey Foods and the Berkeley Bowl, but I shop at Monterey Foods, I think it's But anyway, the iceberg lettuce from them is radically different.
	And so I didn't realize this until a few years ago.
	I'm eating this iceberg lettuce from Monterey Foods and it's like, you know, it's pretty, you know, it's tasty.
	It's got good crunch.
	For some reason, I had to get some lettuce and I went to Safeway.
	And I bought the Bud, or whatever this brand is, you know, this national brand of maximizing.
	You daredevil you.
	So I went and got this lettuce, and I took one bite of it, and it was horrible.
	It tasted, it had no flavor.
	In fact, it had like a negative flavor.
	It was like sucking the flavor.
	Sucking lifeblood out of you.
	It was like horrible lettuce.
	It had no taste.
	It was repulsive.
	And I realized, at that point, you know, of course I kind of realized it to some extent, but I didn't realize how bad some of these fruits and vegetables are that are manufactured by the machine of Big Farm.
	Anyway, that's my little story.
	Well, since we've been living here in southwest London, we have that butcher shop, which is really more than a butcher shop.
	It's got everything but fish.
	So it has all kinds of meats, poultry, but also fresh vegetables, potatoes, you know, right there, sacks of it.
	That is a real organic and written certification from the farmers about what each animal was fed.
	These guys would properly hang it up so that you got one bloody end of these big slabs of meat.
	We are just amazed at the taste of real food because when we were living in Guilford, there was really no butcher or green grocer to go to.
	You were pretty much locked into either driving all day just to get a meal from all these different shops because nothing is located conveniently next to each other or go to the big box Sainsbury.
	And we are just blown away by taste again.
	You have no idea how much you're missing with the shit that they're processed, crap, colorized, water-injected shit they're selling you.
	How do you really feel?
	Oh.
	Yeah, no, I agree.
	And the fact is that real food is something that we have to promote because it's good for you.
	It's got to be good for you.
	I hate to be corny, but it's kind of life-affirming.
	I have this piece of meat and I go, this is life-affirming because it tastes so damn good.
	I feel alive today.
	As opposed to something that just tastes like crap.
	You can taste it.
	It's manufactured.
	I was in a wine tasting once with a bunch of pros.
	It was a professional tasting of some California wines in a competition.
	And this was back, I think, in the mid-90s or so when Gallo-Sonoma was just opening up its shop and they had brought over these fermenters from Australia and they were making this based on the setup over the Daryl Groom hat over at Geyser Peak, which is a very Australian-style winery.
	And so they set up shop that same way, and they have this Gina Gallo, who's like this famous, you know, winemaker and everything.
	And of course, I was working at ZDTV with one of the girls there that happened to be with the competitor family, the Franzias, who apparently split up with the Gallo sometime in the 1800s, and the two families hate each other, and she has all the dirt.
	She says that Gina doesn't really make anything at all.
	She's just a front man.
	And she thought that wines were horrible, of course.
	But of course, Franzia makes wines in a box, so what can you say?
	Anyway, back to the story.
	So Gallo had put a lot...
	But Gallo has an interesting marketing trick, which is very similar to the razor blade companies, at least they were alleged, to when you buy a new blade.
	There's always a new triple from so-and-so from Gillette.
	You buy the sample with the two blades.
	I think sharper lasts for months and years almost.
	And then you buy the replacement blades that go dull after a week.
	And so Gallo has this trick where if anyone sees a new winery, they have, I think, Turning Leaf was one of theirs.
	They roll out this wine, a new brand.
	The stuff is absolutely dynamite for like one or two vintages.
	I mean, really, and seriously cheap and tasty, and then they just start to...
	Then, you know, you go back...
	Then they start cutting it with baking soda.
	Well, they cut it...
	Well, not baking soda necessarily, but obviously they're not using the same quality ingredients later.
	But it's a trick.
	It's a marketing trick.
	But the thing about the...
	So they had these really fancy Cabernets they were making.
	I think the 96 Vintage was one of them in that era.
	And the stuff was absolutely delicious.
	It tasted just like a Cabernet.
	But I was discussing one, and they were always winning awards because everyone would blind taste and you'd just think it was great.
	But after a couple of years of this, I was sitting around at the lunch with one of these guys who's a big wine buyer for a big chain.
	And I said, yeah, I kind of like the way that Gallo is tasting.
	And the guy just says to me, just out and out, he says, you don't think it tastes manufactured?
	Which is the kind of thing you do in wine tasting circles.
	You bring up something like that.
	You didn't notice it was oxidized?
	It was corked.
	It was clearly corked.
	Well, cork wines anyone could spot.
	So anyway, as soon as he said that, it dawned on me that there is a manufactured taste in Gallo wines, and that wine actually exhibited it.
	And the manufactured taste is sometimes, you know, is artificially tasty, or they fake it, or they do something, you know, they pump it up.
	And that's what, if you look in the back of a cereal box of these big companies, the ingredients are like, there's a million things in there to give you the impression that it's a better quality than it is.
	I've become a real ingredient reader.
	I got to tell you.
	If there's anything in there that you don't know what it is, don't eat it.
	That's the way I look at it.
	That's nice.
	I won't eat that.
	Anyway, my wine story harkens back to a PR guy that worked for one of these companies.
	He says, when you go into the back of these winers where they're making all this stuff, he says, the kinds of bags of weird things.
	Weird ingredient.
	Weird shit going in there.
	Just makes you wonder what the heck this wine's consistent, you know, what's in this wine.
	That's why we only drink French wine.
	Well, they adulterate too, but not the better winers in Bordeaux.
	Let me just run down some important...
	By the way, let me just stop you.
	Somebody asked for more wine and food chit-chat, so I thought I'd throw in a couple anecdotes.
	There you go.
	No, thank you.
	It's highly appreciated.
	It ties into so many different things, certainly regarding food.
	You know, Disney is now selling eggs.
	Did you see this?
	I'm surprised that you didn't have this on the blog, the Disney eggs.
	No, I never would.
	Oh, it's freaky, man.
	Yeah, and you get a little mold with it so you can make like a Mickey Mouse.
	Is there moldy eggs?
	Is that what you're saying?
	You get a mold that you press into the egg or you break the egg into so it fries like Mickey Mouse ears.
	But each egg is stamped with an individual character.
	It's just scary, man.
	I would not buy my eggs from Disney.
	I'm surprised that the yolk is even yellow.
	Oh, in the commercial, there's a link in the show notes, extremely yellow.
	In fact, it looks a little undercooked in the commercial.
	If the yolk is really yellow, then with an American egg, it's really, I mean, unless it's a yard egg.
	I mean, we have our own chickens, and so we get these great eggs.
	They're like the ones you get in England, which have a really dark yolk.
	And apparently somebody discovered Americans don't like dark yolks.
	They want something that's bland and kind of light yellow, which is like nauseating.
	Just the whole egg thing, when you think about it, it's not really nice.
	It's nasty.
	It's one cell.
	It's a one cell.
	Anyway, so eating a cell.
	I don't know.
	It's interesting, Disney eggs.
	Stuff in not just our food, but I don't know if this is a big deal over in the States.
	It should be.
	More than half of the baby shampoos, lotions, and other infant care products that have been analyzed by, of course, the Health Advocacy Group found stuff like, oh, formaldehyde.
	Dioxane.
	This is not stuff you should be putting on your baby, I don't think.
	You can put your baby in formaldehyde.
	My baby's covered with dioxin.
	And this is like from the Johnson& Johnson company, man.
	Formaldehyde, obviously, it's to keep the product, to help it last longer, I presume.
	Shelf life.
	Shelf life, yeah.
	But, I mean, you can't be putting formaldehyde in shit that babies put on their skin.
	This doesn't make sense.
	It's a sick world.
	Not quite as sick as the UK. As of today, as of today, at this very moment, my surfing habits, IP addresses, times of use, connections made through the interwebs are being logged by my ISP and handed over to the intelligence services of the United Kingdom.
	They're going to wonder why you were on so long today.
	What's he doing?
	What is he doing?
	He's streaming.
	I can just see a guy smoking a cigarette.
	Hey, man.
	Oh, no!
	Oh, no, man.
	It's Curry and Dvorak.
	He's streaming again.
	Uh-oh.
	What are we going to do?
	Actually, it's even worse with you.
	You're not only streaming to our little audience of live listeners, but you're doing a Skype call.
	So you've got actually two streams coming out.
	Double up.
	Double up.
	So that's suspicious right there.
	Sir Tim Berners-Lee is turning up the heat.
	I do want to give him a plug because he's really trying to stop this shit.
	Unfortunately...
	For some reason, whenever someone says the web, everyone hails Tim Berners-Lee.
	Oh, Tim Berners-Lee, he's the man.
	He did it all.
	He's fantastic.
	Wow, Tim Berners-Lee, you fucking rock!
	But when the guy is standing there saying, hey, help!
	The internet is being fucked!
	Literally, by form and by this data directive, he started a foundation.
	No one talks about it.
	No one.
	We're all the fanboys now.
	You should be linking to these stories, helping him out.
	He set up a huge foundation, which is huge in name and grandeur and ideas, but I don't think anyone belongs to it.
	We have the...
	I'll quote him.
	We use the internet without a thought that a third party would know what we have clicked on.
	But the URLs people use reveal a huge amount about their lives, loves, hates, and fears.
	This is extremely sensitive information.
	People use the web in a crisis.
	He's going on and on.
	He doesn't want this company form, P-H-O-R-M... Which is being introduced by all five major ISPs here to be logging your clickstream and then inserting ads wherever they feel appropriate.
	And of course the whole idea that all of your data is at this moment as of today not only being captured by the ISP but being handed over to the authorities for them to root through it.
	Seems as though the British public is pretty passive about all this stuff.
	I think they're going to snap.
	At a certain point...
	Yeah, that's what you keep saying.
	And there's evidence that it's happened in the past, but I think maybe they're being so beaten down.
	It's really, really, really sad, is what it is.
	And of course, what I've resorted to now, what I'll do is I just set up the VPN connection with the San Francisco office and surf through there.
	Yeah, I could do the same thing.
	It's a little bit slower, unfortunately.
	Although I don't think you're tracking us as much.
	I don't know.
	Is that FISA bill, man?
	Maybe it just might be.
	Okay, to wrap it up...
	We've talked about this before, but now President Obama also declares that the ACTA... This is the...
	Intellectual Property Treaty, which is a global one, is a national security secret, and therefore nothing about this agreement can be disclosed to the public.
	I'm sorry?
	Nothing about this agreement can be disclosed to the public.
	What's the agreement?
	This is the ACTA, the Intellectual Property Agreement.
	Yeah, but there's an Intellectual Property Agreement.
	People need to know what it is so they can act appropriately regarding their own intellectual property.
	So what's it all about?
	What's it say?
	Please be advised the documents you seek are being withheld in full.
	Wrote Carmen Suro Brady, Chief Freedom of Information Officer in the White House's Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
	Hold on a second.
	Isn't this supposed to be a transparent White House?
	This is national security, man.
	Who are you?
	Who are you to question?
	Who are you to question national security, dude?
	National security.
	Well, it's really important that no one copies our really good ideas, okay?
	That's national security, dude.
	Well, that's fine.
	There's nothing wrong with that, but what's that got to do with not knowing what the bill says?
	It's because it's bad for the children.
	That always comes down to that.
	You watch.
	You watch.
	It's for the children.
	I don't understand it.
	It makes no sense that you have an intellectual property agreement.
	We need a jingle.
	Yeah, follow up.
	And, once again, the shuttle launch has been delayed.
	They say it might go today.
	The International Space Station was actually evacuated earlier in the week.
	It was evacuated during our show, if you recall.
	Was it actually during our show?
	I think so, because I was reading a newsflash.
	Yeah, the Russians had to get out because there was a five-inch piece of metal that was flying away.
	That could do some damage, I guess.
	I guess.
	So the space wars continue.
	We're still hunting for Chinese submarines.
	The world is pretty much the same.
	Although, I have to say, every single periodical in the United Kingdom in the past two days was very upbeat.
	Everyone is very excited because the economy, based upon the Dow Jones rally, is doing much better.
	We're pulling out.
	It could be.
	I mean, if Obama now comes out and actually does some positive messages, it would help a little.
	Rather, as opposed to his dour, it's going to get worse.
	Because the whole thing is just a bluff.
	Well, it seems very simple to me.
	It's not a bluff that people lost their jobs, but I'm just saying.
	It seems really simple to me.
	Please just deal with the $1.2 quadrillion of toxic assets.
	Adjust the currency accordingly.
	Move on with your life and start over again.
	Can't they just do that?
	It's not in the scheme of things.
	They have some plan that we don't know.
	We can maybe deconstruct it after it happens, but we don't know what it is yet.
	I don't even know who they is.
	Although you seem to.
	Well, they listen.
	They snoop.
	They know what we do.
	Well, if we snooping now, we're going to actually have some fans within MI6, I suppose, because of the show being tapped by the...
	Although it's coming through...
	Well, no, the stream is very tappable, because you can just pick that up.
	Well, you can just listen to it.
	Hey, listen, MI6, it's noagendastream.com.
	Go ahead.
	Listen all you want.
	Maybe they could give us some money.
	You know, I think we could do with the $100,000 from MI6 and give them the one minute.
	The disinformation moment of the show.
	The disinformation moment.
	One minute.
	So no, I'm right there with you.
	I'm going to remain very positive because I like the fact that everyone is on a positive tip.
	Everyone's saying, hey, wait a minute, things are going okay.
	You know, we raised the maximum amount or the most money ever for Red Nose Day.
	The weather is nice.
	It's sunny.
	You know, lots of people without a job, but other than that, it just might be okay.
	Well, we have a little mini-boom coming up that would follow my pattern a little better.
	I have to hope for that.
	I have thought about that.
	It could be your mini-boom.
	Yeah, the mini-boom.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Coming to you from Gitmo Nation, East and Southwest London, hidden away in the Crackpot Command Center, I'm Adam Curry.
	And I'm up here in the Pacific Northwest, Gitmo Nation, Pacific Northwest, best like they do.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll talk to you again on Thursday.

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