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136: Is iTunes a Government Honeypot?
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Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's October 4th, 2009.
Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 136.
This is no agenda.
As we approach the vestibule of mass swine flu vaccinations, wear the nasal spray that won't kill you.
Coming to you from the Minimum Security Containment Cell in Gitmo Nation West, San Francisco, California.
In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
And on the heels of another Saturday slaughter of the miserable cow bears here in northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
Hey.
Yeah!
Hello.
So I watched a football game yesterday.
It took away four hours of my life I'll never regain.
Well, you know, you did the wrong thing because yesterday was the annual Loveolution Love Parade in this beautiful city of San Francisco.
John, the city of love.
Where were you?
Never heard of the Loveolution Parade.
When did that show up?
It started six years ago.
This was the sixth time.
It's a derivative of the Berlin Love Parade and I think there was maybe an Austrian Love Parade.
You should have told me about it.
I would have come over and watched it.
Well, actually, a couple of times I thought you were actually in the parade.
Because they're all these old naked dudes walking around?
Yeah?
Did they have big giant schwances?
Yes!
In fact, they did.
With things hanging off of them.
It was great.
It actually sounds rather disgusting.
No, it's cool because it's all about the love.
What was going on six years ago?
2003?
That is the bottom of the last downturn.
Well, there you go.
It actually started on 2nd Street, so it was cool.
We walked right out, and everyone was wearing crazy outfits, and so we bought a couple of...
Sounds like Gay Parade 2.
It's kind of like Gay Parade only not everybody's gay.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah, really.
And then, so we were walking around and the supper club float came by, so Mickey got us on that.
So we rode all the way up to the Civic Center, which was, it was like a huge rave, that entire square, which is beautiful, by the way.
Is that the Senate building?
Is that what they call it?
City Hall.
With a dome on it?
City Hall.
That's just City Hall?
Wow.
Yeah, City Hall.
There's no Senate in San Francisco.
It's a city.
Don't they have a Senate in San Francisco?
They should.
It's modeled after the...
The Capitol Building.
It looks a bit like the Capitol Building.
Yeah, it's actually quite pretty.
San Francisco was built around a theory years and years ago when the city was formulated that every city should have a building like that.
It looks like a little bitty Washington, D.C. in that area.
In that area, yeah, it does.
And they have these various types of federal type buildings and then a square that nobody goes to because it's not a town square.
It's kind of a government square.
During the day it's totally dead and it's really weird because you have these streets where you have two lanes going one way and one lane coming the other way.
So invariably guys like me are like, oh I'm just going to get in the left hand lane to turn left which of course means I'm going exactly against traffic.
For people coming around the corner.
It's a very, very weird square.
But there were 100,000 people there yesterday.
It would probably be lively if there were people there.
Generally speaking, there's nobody there except hobos and panhandlers and drug dealers.
Well, yesterday we had homos and drug dealers, but no panhandlers.
Oh, hobos.
I'm sorry.
Hobos and drug dealers.
And it's pretty, it's kind of pathetic.
And there's a number of books written on the topic of these failed civic centers like that, like San Francisco's, which have never evolved into anything.
Like if you go to Europe and you go, almost every old town in Europe that was built in the, you know, From the 1600s on, or from the 1300s on, you always find this little square surrounded by restaurants and cafes, and you go in there, and usually the square is filled with tables or things going on.
Yeah, like in Amsterdam, you have that.
You have it in Berlin.
Paris has multiple squares like that, I guess.
Yeah, and there's a lot of activity going on.
San Francisco, there's nothing.
This guy's like on skateboards.
It's typical of the, not even that, it's typical of the American attempt to, without understanding, the American attempt to artificially create these situations.
But, that said, that city hall building is still quite pretty.
It's a beautiful building, and when you have that, it took a lot of pictures, so I'll get some of them up here and there.
When you see 100,000 people on the square, and you see people that were shooting gold confetti with confetti guns into the air, I mean, it looked really, really pretty.
Yeah, littering.
Yes, littering.
You are the buzzkill, man.
It was a love illusion, John.
You know, where people just thought about love.
It's the currency of the 21st century.
Get with it.
2003, yeah, I see what's going on.
A lot of ecstasy being sold in 2003.
Yeah, I have to say that has not gotten any better.
There was a lot of that going on this year as well.
Hi, man.
I love you, man.
I totally love you.
Hey, this is great.
Don't you like the confetti?
So, yeah, too bad.
I missed it.
Oh, well.
They have a lot of events like that in San Francisco.
But the funniest thing was...
It was the same people, I might add.
Well, it's the same people, though.
I did hear from multiple people that there were more naked people walking around this year than usual.
Which, of course, let's just be honest.
Naked guys, not a good look.
Period.
No matter what.
Unless you're, you know, unless you're really cut.
As in, you work out a lot.
Yeah.
By the way, most of these guys cut.
How come these guys, by the way, how come there's not just massive arrests and people get put on the sexual offender list?
Well, in fact, guys were walking around with signs naked saying nudity is not a crime.
And they were not getting arrested.
And I have to say, for these United States of America, I thought that was a pretty big deal.
I'm like, huh, wow, I totally expected them to get arrested.
And throw it on the sex offender list.
But they weren't.
Yeah, well next time.
Maybe it's because they spray painted their bodies gold.
Brother.
Maybe that's the trick.
So I got up extra early this morning thinking I would pull off a couple of clips off of my DVR. And I was very happy that I checked email beforehand because you had already pulled the clips that I was about to pull.
Because apparently we both forced ourselves, once again, you thought the football game was bad, we forced ourselves to watch Bill Maher on Friday night.
Even I was going, oh my god!
And it wasn't so much even Bill Maher until the end, and you pulled the exact clip I was going to pull.
We'll get to that.
But on this program, Janine Garofalo.
Oh, what a tool.
Who was coked out, I might add.
I noticed that too.
Oh my God.
She kept going to her nose.
The thing that giveaways, people that just keep rubbing their nose, touching their nose and trying to get that laugh.
And she was shaking.
She was shaking, John.
The whole first segment.
Her head was shaking.
Her hands were shaking.
She kept rubbing the top of her nose, the bottom of her nose.
I'm like, girl, you are so coked out right now.
And I think Bill Maher knew it.
Because he was not fawning over her as usual.
But also probably because she took her...
We have to find a word for it.
When you incite racism the way she did, there's got to be a description for that.
There's got to be one descriptive word for it.
Yeah, well, you know, I think what annoyed...
And he actually glared at her a couple of times because he was going on with one of his bits that was obviously written.
He's got ten writers.
Well, nine including him.
I mean, ten including him, nine total.
Ten total, actually.
Well, never mind.
In the chat room, new title, Coke Time with Bill Maher.
So anyway, he gave her the look because he was working on a couple of things, schtick, and she jumps in and interrupts him and tells him he's full of crap and something else.
Her analysis of the world, which is crazy.
I mean, people call me crazy.
She's completely nuts.
And I don't know what happened, how this came about, because I kind of used to like her.
You know, she was a pretty funny comedian.
She had a kind of a vibe going on there.
And, you know, the dykeyness, you know how that kind of attracts me in a way.
But then she just went off the deep end, man.
It's like they put a chip into her head or something.
Yeah, no, she definitely...
Is it Garofalo 1?
Is that the one where she goes off on the racism stuff?
Probably.
I haven't listened to the clip, so I just presume that that's it.
Also, I'd like to say that it's obvious to, I think, anybody who has eyes in this country that the teabaggers, the 912ers, these separatist groups that pretend that it's about policy, they are clearly white identity movements.
They are clearly white power movements.
That was so huge when I heard that.
I mean, that's like calling people skinheads.
I mean, white power movement, that's pretty severe to call someone that.
Yeah, when we're talking about a bunch of housewives.
Yeah, with signs like, end the Fed.
Oh, yeah.
What they don't like about the president is that he's black or half black, which they...
And listen to the crowd!
And they...
What also is shocking is that people keep pretending that that's not really the case with these people.
Now she comes after us, John.
I'm not talking about people that do have problems with his policy.
That's fine.
Oh, okay.
We're fine.
These people who are also being led by the Glenn Beck's, Michelle Bachman's, the Rush Limbaugh's, whomever, they are no different than any other white identity movement that's part of our history.
This has been going on since the founding of this country, that white power movements have tried to establish themselves and hold on to power.
The white power movements?
Since the founding of this country?
I thought they had it all under lock and key at the time.
Didn't we have, like, slaves?
We didn't need a white power movement.
Yeah, we had a white power movement since the founding.
Yeah.
So, you know, Rush Limbaugh addressed this nonsense, not since the show, but during the week.
He said, because this racism thing keeps cropping up, he says, have not any of these people noticed that the right-wing conservatives go after Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in particular?
Who are white.
More than they do Obama?
Yeah.
More than they do...
I mean, Nancy Pelosi is like a huge target.
But once again, you know, this is the most dangerous thing to do, is to say that people are racist.
What is the definition of racism, John?
The actual textbook definition?
I'd have to look it up, but it tends to be someone who is bigoted toward a race other than their own.
Ah, definition of racism.
We might as well do it.
But I think if you're holding up a sign that says, end the Fed, you may be, you know, overly hopeful.
You may be overly hopeful.
Because we don't want to, the Fed is obviously run by a bunch of, I don't know.
White guys?
White?
White guys?
Okay.
Oh, interesting.
So according to, what is this?
Merriam-Webster's online dictionary, which I guess is pretty good.
It's as good as any.
The word dates from 1933.
That's not since the founding of our country.
Definition one, a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.
Hmm.
What the hell does that mean?
I don't know.
I don't fit it.
Whatever that description is.
It's just crazy.
It's just really...
And it's irritating.
And if that's her message, screw her.
She's a racist.
She's a pig.
I don't know.
I don't see where you get that she's a racist.
Well, she's the one that seems to be...
Well, not based on that definition.
But based on the fact that she keeps bringing it up, she's racially interested in...
Her view of the world is based on race.
Yeah.
Well, that's a very good point.
She's the one that is looking at black and white.
And not at issues.
In fact, I don't think once she said anything about pure issues, it was all about, oh, they're racist.
Oh, they don't like the president because he's a black man.
Jesus Christ.
This is the conversation you would have hoped we wouldn't have to have in 2009.
You know, she's the one bringing it up.
Conservatives have very rarely said anything about it.
In fact, most people who are Republicans, I think I can speak for them on this basis, always believed that the first black president was going to be a Republican.
And they're the ones with Clarence Thomas, who was a Republican.
But these same people were all over him.
And it seems to me that they're the ones who were actually the racists.
And if you take a look at the typical liberal out there, the ones, say, in Palo Alto, they won't move next to a black person.
Does Garofalo live in a mixed neighborhood?
I doubt it.
I doubt that.
You're right.
But where were these cries of racism when...
I hate to mention to these people, Obama won the election.
Hello?
Yeah, exactly.
Doesn't that count for something?
Doesn't that mean something?
Yeah, but how about Condoleezza Rice?
How about Colin Powell?
I never heard anyone say anything, well, you know, people...
Because, you know, there were people going straight up in Congress, straight up into Condoleezza Rice's face and yelling at her.
There's a huge backlash amongst the liberals against any black person who doesn't toe the line and become a Democrat.
I mean, the blacks that are out there, and there's plenty of them, lots of them, as a matter of fact, who are Republicans who have gotten a clue, or even conservatives...
And they are just treated like crap.
Yeah.
Because...
Oh, yeah, yeah, right.
Because they have to be...
Because they're not acting like, you know, slaves.
I mean, I'm telling you, it's the liberals that are the racists.
All right.
You're kind of cutting in and out.
Do you think that's a router thing?
No, not at this place.
Okay.
Something else.
And then we have Garofalo on Dubai.
I vaguely remember...
What this was about.
Play this one.
I don't think it's about the sex or the eroticism.
It's about foreign policy decisions.
It may be some inner turmoil about the sexuality, but there's far more sexualized cultures around the world.
They could go to Dubai, for Christ's sake, Brazil.
Dubai!
What the hell?
I don't...
What is he saying?
She is making the implication that Dubai is some sort of wide-open party town.
She's obviously never been there.
The women are covered in hate.
Wait a minute.
Are you sure she wasn't saying the opposite?
No, no, that's why she said Brazil.
Let me listen to this.
I don't think it's about the sex or the eroticism.
It's about foreign policy decisions.
It may be some inner turmoil about the sexuality, but there's far more sexualized cultures around the world.
They could go to Dubai, if I say Brazil.
I have been to Dubai, let me tell you.
I've been to Dubai.
No.
That's crazy.
She's got her head up her ass.
Yeah.
Let me play.
You have a clip from the last week because I want to play another interesting.
The way these people slip in, like information that's inaccurate or flawed or stereotypical, is kind of bothering me more and more.
Can you find the clip?
Do you have the list of the clips from last week?
Yeah, I have Emmys Lieberman on NYC FBI, linoleic acids.
Thank you for calling, Mr.
Benton.
Too many agencies.
White supremacist?
Yeah, play that one.
Okay, hold on.
Let me set it up.
Yeah, okay, go.
There's been a bunch of shows on the History Channel and elsewhere talking about gangs.
And in this case, it was about, I think, skinheads or hate groups or something like that.
And so they're discussing some character who was, I don't know if he's the Ku Klux Klan or something or other.
I mean, it was rather innocuous.
But a woman comes in in the middle of this guy.
This guy's doing a background on this one person who's basically complaining about the...
The number of illegal aliens in southern Arkansas.
And this woman comes in who's, you know, the entire liberal front is, you know, for some reason, and I can't explain.
Explain it.
Thinks it's okay for illegal aliens to just take over the jobs of people that were normally in unions.
There's actually an anti-union kind of a thing going on with the liberals, and I can't figure out why.
And one of the things they've done is they've kind of restructured the debate, including the one I find the most offensive since I was around during this period.
And Again, I'll remind people that I was actually a union organizer, technically.
Ah, you were a member of ACORN. No.
SEIU. No, but actually we did get screwed by the SEIU. Alright, so what's your point?
Anyway, the point is that they would say things like all of a sudden Cesar Chavez was brought into the debate as someone who would be for all these poor illegals.
We populated our country with aliens and we need more and all that sort of thing when this is really just a scam by big business to get cheap labor.
The fact is, Cesar Chavez was dead set against this illegal alien thing because he was unionizing the Mexican-Americans in this country that were farm workers.
It was the Farm Workers Union.
And he didn't like the idea that they were bringing in braceros and illegals and all the rest of this to screw these people.
But somehow they've twisted it so somehow, in some imaginary world, Cesar Chavez would be for this.
There's just a comment by this woman in this one piece, which I'm sorry I'm beating this up too much, that just made me irked.
Play it.
Roper focuses his hate on the changes in his hometown of Russellville, Arkansas.
Arkansas has seen a rapid increase in its Latino population during the last two decades.
Really, this part of rural Arkansas looks no different from Southern California now.
And it's like this in Iowa.
It's like this in Georgia.
Anywhere you have these big meat processing plants, they've brought in the illegals and it's really transformed the entire communities in these different states that before were almost entirely white.
It's been a rapid transformation.
I mean, the only thing more rapid was maybe the Visigoths transforming Rome.
But that's what's happening here.
It's an invasion by the end of the name.
We have a long history that Mexican and Chinese immigrants built the railroads.
Hold it!
Mexican and Chinese immigrants built the railroads?
In the Lucky Luke cartoons, maybe.
What Mexican immigrants built the railroads?
Actually, most of the railroads, we were still at, not quite, but we had a war with Mexico in 1840.
Weren't they built by slaves and chain gangs?
No, they were built by, no, they weren't.
They were built by Irish immigrants.
Irish immigrants built this part in the east, and the Chinese immigrants built the part in the west.
There were no Mexicans involved.
So why did he just gratuitously throw this in?
This is the kind of thing that's going on, and I find it extremely annoying.
You know, when Christina and I visited San Francisco State University, you know that they have a Cesar Chavez Hall?
Who?
The university.
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised.
I was like, huh.
Anyway, more of this?
Nah, that's good.
That's enough.
Mexicans built a railroad.
Let's take a little bit of an interlude, John.
We just need to catch our breath here for a second.
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That was...
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Jennifer...
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Chocholacek.
Jennifer Chocholacek.
Now, the, which I think is how you pronounce her last name.
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That's not the one.
This one.
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Hold on.
Wait, wait.
Anyway, yeah, she did that using a cheap mic, unfortunately, I think.
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Yeah, that was a good one.
Now, anyone who wants to give us one of these, we'll play them if they're remotely good.
And those both were good.
But make them 45 seconds or one minute.
Well, yeah, because this actually would have required a special ad buy because it was 115.
So it would have required two ad units and half an ad unit.
So...
It was a little bit long.
But this does lead us to a project that we're working on, on resurrecting the No Agenda stream into something a little more interesting, such as putting a whole bunch of shows on there.
That are kind of along the same vibe, either our show specifically, the Horowitz show you do.
We're going to put up a couple other good shows.
We're basically going to make a full-time radio stream, I guess.
And these would run in between programming as spots.
Right.
As actual commercials.
And I might as well say right now before we forget about it, we need someone to help us with that so that we can actually, you know, because we have a lot of good ideas.
We have like zero initiative.
We get nothing done.
So we've discussed taking some money out of the kitchen.
We get nothing done.
We get the show done.
Yeah, that's about it.
Taking some money out of the kitty and paying someone to actually upload all this stuff.
We'll give you the access to the stream so that you can program it in and basically make that thing fun to listen to.
So whenever you tune into it, there's going to be something fresh or something new or probably something you haven't heard on it.
And just something you can dip into once in a while.
Like, I don't know, like a radio station.
Duh.
Right, without going through a rigmarole.
Yeah.
You just type in noagendastream.com and you're there.
Yeah, so...
Although I'd like to have something even simpler, like, you know, just call letters.
Well, I mean, noagendastream.com makes sense.
I mean, that makes sense.
No, I'm not saying it doesn't make sense, but it doesn't mean the only thing...
You can have ten different entries.
You don't have to have just the one.
Right.
So send us an email if you're interested in managing that project and we will actually pay you.
Not very much.
Well, not very much based on the kind of numbers we got this last week.
It turns out that we're so dependent on iTunes, it's pretty pathetic.
Oh, you know, there was something that messed up somehow, and iTunes cashed like a 404 instead of our feed, and we've been calling Apple and sending them messages, and God knows what they're doing over there, but if something hiccups somewhere in the system, it's like they cashed stuff for maybe a week, I don't know, but yeah, you're right.
No downloads for you.
It's been pretty sad.
Of course, the fact is, you know, my wife hasn't picked up the show for the last two or three weeks.
She's been listening to the Michelle Malkin book on tape.
Oh, God.
Wait a minute.
Let me do one.
Oh, brother.
So, uh...
Which, by the way, sounds like a pretty good piece of work, but Malkin's style is not what it should be.
So she has actually replaced this fine piece of audio programming for Michelle Malkin's audio book, and why does it take her two weeks to listen to it?
She only listens to it when she's driving Jay to school.
Well, why doesn't she just listen?
I mean, that's an outrage.
She only listens to our show when she's in the car.
Divorce her.
This has got to end.
How do you spell that?
D-I-V-O-R-C-E. All right, one more clip from Bill Maher just to wrap it up.
What's the one on there?
Here's the one that we talk about a couple of times.
Actually, I think I've got two more clips from Maher.
You want to do Friedman as well?
I'm a little done with Maher.
No, let's do the two Maher things.
Get him out of the way.
We don't do him that much.
Let's do Friedman first.
Okay, good.
Here's the one, of course, this is the meme that we're concerned about on the show, which is the one that keeps bringing up that the...
Assassination of a president in such a way that I find it distressing that it's even discussed.
And I always thought you weren't supposed to talk about stuff like this based on the laws.
But it keeps coming up in the conversation and it's very annoying.
And here it is again.
And this is by Tom Friedman, who's a columnist for the New York Times.
I'm reminded of the story that Gina Smith told me once when she was graduating from college, she had a journalism degree, and the CIA approached her to become a writer for a newspaper.
And she was supposed to go work for a newspaper, and then every so often she would have to put a story in there or she'd have to do something.
She was kind of going to be on the government payroll at the same time.
And I believe there's a bunch of people like that out there.
And when certain people seem to be...
Who I don't...
There's certain people, I can't say which ones for sure, but they're always in the right place at the right time under certain weird circumstances, and then they do these memes, and this one really bothers me.
I'm not saying that Friedman's a CIA guy.
No, but Friedman is the guy who writes about...
What is it?
The world is flat, and now it's like the world is a flat-crowded place, and now my girlfriend is flat.
It's like everything's flat with this guy.
This was prefaced by Maher, who was skeptically saying, you know, you never write about, you're not the domestic policy guy.
Why did you write this about, why did you write this column?
Because the CIA told him to, John.
You're absolutely right.
Let's listen to him.
You don't usually write about domestic politics.
You wrote about this this week.
What worried me, Bill, I happened to have been in Israel when Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated.
Actually, right before he was assassinated.
Coincidence!
Now, Yitzhak Rabin, wasn't he...
Did he get assassinated with...
Was that the close-up gunshot?
I think so, by the right-wing nut.
Yeah, you're right.
Coincidence?
I think not!
There was extremely ugly characters of Rabin as a Nazi, denunciations that he was a traitor, and his opponents winked at that.
And what no one recognized there at the time was that other people were listening.
The molecules were being heated up, and one of them, an extreme right-wing nationalist, took it as a message that there was a kind of license to kill.
So why doesn't he stop fucking talking about it?
He's the one heating up the molecules.
That God would be on his side.
And so he did.
And I wrote that column because I've been deeply concerned that when you go to Facebook and you read about it, and sure, only a tiny number of people went there, that there's a poll, and should someone kill the president?
Yes, no, maybe.
That, by the way, I don't think was the actual title of the poll, should someone kill the president.
I don't think that's what it was.
I think it was, you know, is there a chance of or something like that?
I think he's already inciting shit just by misnoming the poll.
Could be.
If he takes away my health care.
That's not funny anymore.
And it certainly wasn't if he takes away my health care.
Because you don't know what molecules are being heated up.
That was written by a kid, though.
But Trent Franks, who's a congressman from Arizona, called Obama an enemy of humanity.
What worries me, Bill, is it's a process of gradual just delegitimation, you know.
And that's really, I think, what people are trying to chip away here.
You delegitimize them, and then ultimately you weaken them.
But what worries me is in this crazy time, you never know who's listening.
Yeah, exactly.
Or who's watching the Bill Maher show.
Freaking idiot.
And then somewhere else in the program, they referred to this article written by John L. Perry on Newsmax.
Did you catch that?
That was in that same segment.
I cut it out.
I had to cut a bunch of stuff.
You cut that out, but I went to Newsmax because I heard about this article that was like, wow, this is something...
Because John L. Perry was what?
He was a high-ranking politician, wasn't he?
I don't know who he is.
Yeah, no, I think he was like...
Well, what did you find out about him?
Well, the column has been taken down by Newsmax, which I found interesting, but of course, this being the Incarnet, I found a copy of it, and I saved it, John.
Hey.
And what he essentially wrote...
By the way, to interrupt you, I want to remind everybody, when you see a page that's kind of weird, save it, save page as.
Save page as.
Title of the column, Obama Risks a Domestic Military Intervention.
First two paragraphs, there's a remote, although gaining possibility, America's military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the Obama problem.
Don't dismiss it as unrealistic.
America isn't the third world.
If a military coup does occur here, it will be civilized.
Though it has never happened doesn't mean it won't.
Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it.
So view the following through military eyes.
And then he goes on to cite a whole bunch of things about the Constitution, the right to bear arms, etc.
And essentially what he's saying here is people would get so pissed off that there could be a military coup.
They could basically make Obama kind of like a puppet, which you see happen in many, many countries around the world where the military basically controls it.
And I have to say, reading through this article, yeah, it's possible, certainly knowing that there is a feud going on right now.
And Thomas Friedman, I would have to assert that he probably is on the CIA payroll.
And they probably said, hey, man, why don't you stoke those molecules up a little bit?
Why don't you tell everybody that it's good, man?
Well, he did remind everybody about the Facebook thing, which I think a lot of people were not even aware of because it wasn't up that long.
Now, by the way, I want to remind people out there, and we do have a reference on the blog about this, and I guess I could relink it.
This was attempted, or there was a moderate attempt to do a military takeover of this country by the Democrats when Roosevelt was elected.
John Perry is an award-winning newspaper editor and writer who served on White House staffs of two presidents.
There you go.
So he wasn't actually a political official, but he was in White House staff.
And he talks about the bloodless coup.
And for that column to be taken down also told me something.
Yeah.
You know, it's definitely weird.
I don't like it.
No.
No, I don't like it either.
So the last thing we'll do, and this will be the end of Mar for a long time, because it's always the same.
It's always the same.
So the thing is, I was thinking, as I was watching the show, and you were too, I'm thinking, well, where's his normal ageist, weird ageist, creepy ageist?
Which, by the way, is no better or worse than racism.
It's another ism.
You can hate black people, you can hate white people, yellow people, red people, or old people!
And I want to mention this, by the way.
When this ran, they kept cutting to Garofalo, who was laughing her butt off.
Oh, it's so funny!
She is an obvious ageist creep.
Play it.
A coked-out ageist creep.
No!
Shut up, Grandpa!
This week, ancient pop singer Andy Williams announced he thinks Obama is a Marxist who wants the country to fail.
And then he made Moon River in his diapers.
Actually, it's not so shocking Andy Williams says Obama's a communist.
It's shocking Andy Williams is alive.
He doesn't do shows.
He has viewings.
You know, like a funeral.
Anyway, new rule.
Yeah, and that bugs me.
He couldn't get through a show without it.
But this was, and I think they had a little lower third there, a coot.
They called Annie Williams a coot.
Yeah, a coot.
Yeah.
So I just don't think there's nothing worse than it being an ism of any kind.
No, he's obviously bigoted, and so is Garofalo, and they're bigoted against people that are older than they are.
But it's ageism.
It's just plain and simple.
And it's funny, because the left wing was always going on.
We always expected the left wingers to stick to kind of a moral high ground on all these isms, because they're the ones that make a big fuss about it.
But boy, it didn't take long for them to turn on that one.
And they don't even, you know, it's fine with them.
Oh, yeah.
Well, that's funny.
Black people, Mexicans, I don't care.
Hey, old.
You shouldn't be dead.
You shouldn't be dead and useless.
And of course, that hits you a little harder than it hits me.
Of course, I'm a target.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, you know what we do here on this show.
It's very clear.
The formula is damn simple.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
And it really does work.
We don't get paid a lot of money, but it does work.
You know what's interesting is that we have enough memes in this show that there's a wiki page about this show, which has them all listed.
Really?
We have a Wikipedia page?
Yeah, and there's no agenda wiki page, and it's got all our memes are listed.
It's pretty humorous, actually.
Oh, yeah, the show is like a stereotype.
So meanwhile, while we're all obsessed with Bill Maher, and of course we need to take a serious shot of two to the head of no agenda to get us out and assassinate the media, a little thing happened over in Europe, which you may have heard about, John.
Namely, the Irish voted yes in round two of the Lisbon Treaty.
Yep, we blogged it.
And, yeah, but I didn't see it spread wide across the universe.
No, it was a miracle we found out about it.
And I can kind of tell you what's going to happen now, and this has been the setup.
So I guess now we have Poland and the Czech Republic.
Yeah, those are the two holdouts.
Now, I guess they only have to ratify it, and then they're good to go.
But you do know what's going to happen politically.
You do know who's waiting in the wings to become president of the European Union, don't you?
Who?
Tony Blair.
Tony Blair.
Yeah, Tony Blair.
He will become the president of Europe and will have Obama as the president of the United States.
And it's going to be beautiful.
It's all going to be fine.
Please continue your shopping experience.
Everything is good.
Everything is okay.
They're fucked over there.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, well, it's a form of...
It'll be interesting to see how the Germans handled all this over the long haul.
What do you mean, the Germans?
Well, the Germans and the French, I can't see how they can put up with this.
No, they voted Merkel back in.
And by the way, you know...
That is pretty dumb.
Merkel is like the blandest person in history over there.
Are they using voting machines in the EU? Do they use voting machines in...
I don't know.
Maybe one of our listeners in Germany can tell us.
I bet you, you know, I still have a huge distrust of voting machines.
And I think there's a lot of, well, we know that they're hackable.
We know that there's manipulation possible.
But to see a 20% increase in the yes vote all of a sudden, I mean, literally within, what, a year of the no vote?
Yeah, it makes no sense at all.
And all it is, it's only delayed plans by a year because it was a year ago.
It was like, oh, we have to have this done by October.
It has to be done by October.
Now, of course, they wanted it to happen by October because they knew that the entire financial crisis was coming and they needed to set up all of their world government, world financial system, world banking system.
And so now, this is why it's pretty easy for me to predict.
The next drop...
The next shoe is literally going to drop.
The economy is going to tank.
And all economic indicators point towards it, by the way.
So I think that that's just in time, exactly what they wanted.
They're going to come up with some bullshit assessment so that they can go ahead without the polls and the checks ratifying it.
And we'll get our European Army and of course Ryanair and Apple and all these guys will be real happy because they get all the tax breaks for helping to push this through in Ireland and everybody else gets screwed.
Gitmo Nation East is now complete.
Well, not quite.
You still have the Poland and the Czech thing.
I don't think it matters.
I think they're just going to move right along.
I just don't see it being a problem.
Well, you're probably right.
And by the way, you think that those no missiles in Poland had anything to do with it?
Hey, you're not going to ratify that?
How about we take away these missiles, Poland?
How do you feel now, bitch?
So I guess the Polanski thing is still going on.
And by the way, there's another kind of element to it that should be mentioned.
Really?
We really have to?
Yeah, because I still think it's part of a scheme to get his movie in distribution.
And you have to remember that Rahm Emanuel's brother is in the business.
Oh, that's right.
He's Ari Fleischer.
He's a producer.
No, he's an agent.
Oh, he's an agent, right.
But if he did the deal, here's what my scenario is.
The thing kind of boils over.
The movie gets into production.
Obama pardons him.
He comes back to the United States to Hollywood and then produces another movie here and then he retires.
Good one.
Good one.
Can I just go back to world finances for a moment?
Yeah, I guess I have no choice.
Robert Zoellick.
The president of the World Bank has said, oh, by the way, we're going to run out of money in 12 months.
Yeah.
Speaking at the opening of the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Istanbul, which of course we know how incredibly important Turkey is these days and everything, said the bank needs capital increase of as much as $11.1 billion to keep functioning.
He said he really hoped that its shareholders, including the UK and other leading nations, would decide on resources before its spring meeting next April.
This is the redistribution of the wealth on a grand scale.
It's what this is.
And meanwhile, the SDRs keep cropping up.
This will be our new form of currency, it seems, as that's what the G20 is going to use as the world currency, the computerized currency, special drawing rights.
And no one's really saying anything.
It's like, hey, yeah, you know, I think it's really a good idea.
We should all have, you know, like one kind of money and all the banks should be working together.
Yeah, this is really good.
All the central banks should really be colluding together.
Yeah, I think that's a good idea.
Hey, let's go to Macy's.
So the Japanese finance minister from the last party killed himself.
Well...
I don't think that's what we knew.
Let's just call it suicided.
This was the guy who was drunk at that...
Supposedly drunk.
I think he was drugged.
Yeah.
Well, they tried then and they didn't get away with it.
Or didn't take enough of his cold medicine or whatever.
I think you're right.
It's really dangerous to be in international finance.
We cannot say it often enough.
Kids, if you're studying to go into international finance, stop.
You might as well just stop.
You have a likelihood of dying between your 40th and 50th birthday.
If you know too much.
Yeah, apparently.
So, yeah, I know that first.
The guy was known for being, you know, kind of a sober character, and then he...
All of a sudden, he shows up drunk.
Drunk and drugged and babbling.
I mean, the thing that was the giveaway wasn't...
Most people, when they're drunk, there's a...
Like, they're just drunk.
I mean, you know, they slur their words, and they have all these issues, but they don't talk about, you know, strange...
You know, they're just not hallucinating.
So he's dead now.
Yeah.
Yeah, it happens to the best of them.
All around that, between 40 and 50.
He may have been...
It seems like he was probably closer to 50.
But, yeah, he's dead in bed.
Yeah, and his wife wakes up.
Oh, he's dead.
Okay.
You're right.
Okey-dokey.
Meanwhile, the biggest hoodwink, I would have to say, of the past month was this whole bullshit...
Trip Obama made to Copenhagen.
Well, everyone's like, oh, yes, he's going to...
And, of course, Fox News jumps on this, and this was the big Fox News distraction this week, is, you know, don't look at what's happening with the Lisbon Treaty.
Don't look at what's happening in Europe.
Please don't look at anything.
Don't look at the finance minister.
No, because Obama is trying to get the Olympics to come to Chicago.
Um...
But I really don't believe it had anything to do...
I think it was a diversionary tactic.
There are reports that he stopped off in Russia...
On the way to Copenhagen.
There are reports from where?
From Russia.
From Russia.
You found some information on the web somehow that he stopped in Russia?
Yes.
I did the timings on this, by the way.
It takes 7 hours and 55 minutes from Washington, D.C. to Copenhagen.
It takes 11 hours, 11 and a half hours to get to Moscow.
Which means there's about 4 hours to get to Copenhagen from Moscow.
But you'd think that there's international traffic control.
There's all these things.
I don't know.
I guess you can get in and hop.
Normally I would say, okay, highly unlikely, John, except we know that Netanyahu did a secret mission to go visit Putin.
It was denied, and oh no, it's not possible, and then they found some records, and they got a couple of flight logs somehow, and then all of a sudden it's like, oh well, no shit, busted, you got us.
Yeah, he made a secret visit over to Putin.
So why is it unthinkable?
It's just not.
And I don't think...
We would have to really look at the departure logs of Air Force One.
And by the way, who says that he wasn't actually on the plane with Michelle Obama that went over a day ahead of time?
Who knows?
I don't know this.
I know they don't keep us apprised of his timeline very well.
Of course they don't.
Now, I was thinking about this possibility.
First of all, I think it's possible that, looking at what timelines we do have available, it's possible that, and what is Michelle going over there on a separate plane for anyway?
That was the diversionary tactic.
Obama went over a day before on that plane.
There's something about it.
For that very reason, it's all suspicious.
And he also had a meeting with the guy from Afghanistan in the plane.
There's some photos of that.
He was in London, I guess, at a seminar.
Yeah, the whole thing is kind of funky, but the only reason I'm kind of maybe buying your theory here is because he shows up at the Olympic thing, he only spent an hour, and he apparently, according to the people that were at the committee, they thought he was rude, the way he came in and made his presentation.
Yeah, he came in really late and bopped out after an hour, right?
He was in and out.
Yeah, he was in and out.
So in other words, he spent $1.5 million supposedly to take that plane to Copenhagen and back in costs of all the extra people and all the things you have to do.
And I guess they have to pay Denmark some money for all the service that they have to provide.
And by the way, there are two Air Force Ones.
Yes, there's two big jets and they fly both of them usually.
And so he goes over there for one hour and then jumps back in his plane and comes back.
You're right.
It makes no sense.
This is like when I travel, for example.
Say I had a speech to give in Paris.
I am not going to go fly to Paris and then fly back and kill myself.
If I'm going to be in Paris, while I'm there, I might as well do some other things since I'm there.
I don't go there all the time.
And doesn't he take every single opportunity, wherever he goes, to go make a little public appearance, do a little thing, do a little thing here, do a little thing there?
No, he didn't take any of that time as usual.
Why?
Because he went to see Putin.
It may have been on the way back.
That's also possible.
Because there was just too many planes, too many things going on, and there was a whole bunch of distractions here at home, i.e.
the Roman Polanski thing.
There's a lot of stuff going on, and people aren't paying attention to that.
The press certainly isn't paying attention to it.
Most Americans, smoke comes out of their ear when they try to figure out the time zone difference for making a freaking international phone call, let alone try and figure out flight schedules and when someone might have landed.
Okay, so let's say what would he go to Russia for?
He would go to Russia to basically...
I think there's more than one answer.
Well, okay, the answer I think is that he's basically asking for help because the military...
The CIA, the military, it's all in total disarray.
I think you and I pretty much agree that the CIA is against Obama.
And he put this kind of like Uber control above all of the agencies.
No one knows where they get their money from, except, of course, from the drugs, which are flown in from Afghanistan.
And the troops on the ground who are running the drugs back from Afghanistan to the U.S., which funds the CIA, they're asking for more troops.
They want 40,000 more, and no decisions are being made.
And there was a meeting on Wednesday With, let me see, there was some meeting going on with all the top of the military, and I think Obama was like, there was some anger somewhere.
Just let me see, there's an AP news report.
But you know that what's leaking out is that the commanders on the ground have asked for more troops, and the president says he hasn't even had time to read the report.
You know, I think he went to Russia and said, dude, help me.
I need some help here.
I really do.
I mean, there's been all this cozying up to Russia anyway.
And I think he basically said, dude, I got no power.
I need some help over here.
You know, I'm not going to say it's not a possibility.
I think if he was going to go to Russia, it would have something to do with the Iran situation and the fact that the Israeli guys are going to Russia.
I think it's just a part of something weird is going to happen.
Well, don't forget we have that John Perry article about the bloodless coup, about the army taking over.
I mean, why would this guy write it if he didn't have some kind of information?
The guy's clearly an insider.
So maybe there's something going on.
Maybe there really is.
Yeah, well, something's up.
It's weird.
I mean, there's too much, you know, this trip to Copenhagen was a joke.
I mean, and of course the right-wingers, instead of concentrating on anything else, they just concentrate on the waste of money.
So all the right-wing talk shows, and then they were happy he didn't get the...
By the way, there was a funny press briefing on C-SPAN with the State Department, and one of the reporters asked the State Department official about the Olympic bid, and do we think we were humiliated by the fact that we came in last?
In the voting.
And then you think it was part of the TSA, you know, because our TSA is so strict and it's so hard to get into the country that we're not friendly.
And the guy says, well, he says, I don't think it's that.
But he went on and on.
And then he turns over to his assistant who says, oh, wait, no, we didn't come in last.
We came in fourth.
Yeah, that's great.
How many people were, how many countries were contenders?
Four?
Four.
That's alright, Timmy.
You didn't come in last.
You came in fourth.
Alright, time once again.
As it looks like, we've got the first shipments of the H1N1 flu vaccine expected in Los Angeles in just one week from now.
And this will be the nasal spray, the nasal version of the vaccine, which is just all of a sudden cropped up.
I had no idea.
I thought vaccines were always administered.
No, this nasal administration is nothing new, but it did just crop up.
Yeah, all of a sudden.
Like a couple weeks ago.
You never heard of it.
There are people talking about adjuvants, and we're talking on this on, and we're reading as much as we can on it.
We're looking at all the research and everything in between.
And then all of a sudden, this stuff shows up on the market.
Huh?
Yeah, and there was a...
Unfortunately, there was...
I think it was on...
What was it?
I don't remember which day it was now.
Maybe it was Friday.
There was supposed to be a live White House chat with video, and Sebelius was supposed to be on this live video.
And I'm like, yeah, okay, 5.30 Eastern, 2.30 Pacific.
I'm ready to go.
I'm sitting there.
And the thing's just not loading.
And so I start Twittering about it, and everyone around the world is getting exactly the same experience.
There's no video loading.
I guess they had some technical difficulties.
But it was no coincidence this was happening, because it was on the same day that I got a CDC alert, and they have released what is known as a VIS, a Vaccination Information Statement.
And you can get these at immunize.org slash VIS or through the CDC website.
And so I downloaded the fact sheet, essentially.
And there's been a lot of questions about who is this for, who's supposed to go first, what's going to happen with this.
And they have two fact sheets.
One is for the live attenuated vaccine.
That's the nasal spray.
And then they have the...
Inactivated, which is the flu shot.
Do you know what the difference is between the two?
No, and I mean, I always thought they were all live attenuated.
I thought that was the nature of these shots.
Well, the spray vaccine is the live attenuated, and the shot is the inactive, and I'm not quite sure what that means.
We'll get a note in the mail.
Yes, we will.
So there's a couple different points here.
And this is essentially, I guess, what the media uses, what doctors use, what everyone uses to answer all the questions.
It's like an FAQ. Instead of a VIS, it's an FAQ. So I'll just read through a couple of the headlines and then get to the good stuff.
So what is the H1N1 influenza?
They say...
2009 H1N1 influenza, sometimes called swine flu, was caused by a new strain of influenza virus.
It has spread to many countries.
Great.
Most people feel better within a week, but some people get pneumonia or other serious illnesses.
Some people have to be hospitalized and some die.
Sounds like...
Nice.
How is it different from regular seasonal flu?
I'll skip that.
Now the vaccine...
Vaccines are available to protect against 2001 H1N1 influenza.
These vaccines are made just like seasonal flu vaccines.
A lie.
They are expected to be as safe and effective as seasonal flu vaccines.
A lie.
They will not prevent influenza-like illnesses caused by other viruses.
Probably true.
So here's what you need to know.
Children through nine years of age should get two doses of the vaccine about one month apart.
Wait, wait, wait.
Stop, stop, stop.
If it's just like the seasonal flu vaccine which covers four different versions of the flu every time they formulate it, then why would you need twice as much if it's exactly the same?
Well, here we go.
So, this vaccine is approved from people 2 through 49 years of age who are not pregnant and do not have certain health conditions.
See number 5.
We'll get to that in a second.
Groups recommended to receive the vaccine are healthy people who are from ages 2 through 24 and are from 25 through 49 years of age.
That's like basically saying the same as 2 through 50.
I don't know why they separate it out.
Make me if you're 24 and a half.
As more vaccines become available, other healthy 25 through 49-year-olds should also be vaccinated.
Oh, if you're 25 through 49 and you live with or care for infants younger than 6 months of age or are health care or emergency medical personnel, you need to get it.
Now...
This is a great one.
The federal government is providing this vaccine for receipt on a voluntary basis.
However, state law or employers may require vaccination for certain persons.
It says it right there.
State law.
So your state, like New Jersey, which is now mandating all children be vaccinated, otherwise no school for you.
State law can mandate it.
And here's a good one.
Vaccine injury compensation.
If you or your child has a reaction to the vaccine, your ability to sue is limited by law.
Just so you know that it's really true, the shit that we've been saying all this time.
And this is a real giveaway.
Some people who should not get the vaccine or should wait.
So first of all, if you have a severe, which means life-threatening allergy to eggs or any other substance in the vaccine, because they're made in eggs, I guess, even though we spent a couple billion on non-egg development, should not be given to the following groups.
Children younger than two, adults 50 years or older.
John, you're in the clear.
Yes.
Pregnant women should not receive the vaccine, okay?
Now, there's been a lot of talk about them, that they should be receiving it, in fact, even first, so they should not.
Anyone with a weakened immune system, anyone with long-term health problems, and they list a couple of them, children younger than five years with asthma, anyone with certain muscle or nerve disorders, and blah, blah, blah, blah.
Tell your...
It's almost like an ad.
Tell your doctor if you've ever had a life-threatening allergic reaction after a dose of seasonal flu vaccine or, here it comes, Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Guillain.
Yeah, that one.
If you've had that, you should tell your doctor.
Usually a doctor would have known at some point.
So I went to my doctor and he said, what do you think about this flu shot?
He says, I think Americans are over-vaccinated.
You've been over-vaccinated.
Move along, please.
He did bring something up that apparently, you know, he's like, I wouldn't say he's a hippie doctor, but, you know, he's...
He's into alternative everything.
And he's a good doctor.
But he says the latest thing going on, and he just kind of mentioned it, and I started researching it.
I haven't quite researched it enough to get any really good links.
He says the hot thing going on right now is this vitamin D3. I think we even talked about this on the show, that people who get a lot of vitamin D, which is basically sunshine, is the best source of vitamin D, that they will probably not even get the swine flu at all.
But D3 in huge doses, they keep testing the toxicity levels of D3. It turns out to be extremely high.
He said that in my case, he says typically if he has a feeling of onset of the flu, he'll take 100,000 IUs.
I'm not recommending this for anybody, by the way.
I'm just telling you what he told me.
100,000 I use for three days and it'll knock it out.
He says, since I'm a big guy, I can easily take 150, which I thought was somewhat insulting.
But besides that, the problem is if you go to Costco, the typical D3s are 400 pills, which means you have to take two bottles of this stuff.
Wow.
And you have to be careful that you don't have the ones with the vitamin A in it.
You have to get pure D3. And so he tossed me a bottle of 5000 IUD3, which apparently that one bottle will carry...
You just use that whole bottle up over three days and you...
It's a thought that's going...
It's the meme amongst these sorts of doctors who are always looking for some way not to give themselves another flu shot.
Well, I'm sure that will be outlawed soon enough.
Yes, I'm sure it will.
Of course it will.
I'll say it again.
The Codex Alimentarius, they're going to outlaw all of these supplements, all vitamins.
If they're not FDA approved, you won't be able to take them.
Oh, that'll happen.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
But there's a great movie that Christina and I saw Friday night, which kind of plays along with this.
It's Zombieland with Woody Harrelson.
Yeah, how is that?
Very funny.
So the idea is mad cow disease morphed into mad human disease and then made everybody zombies.
And of course, you know the rule of zombies.
If you get bitten by a zombie, then you turn into a zombie.
Yeah, everyone knows that.
Everyone knows that.
Funny.
Very, very funny movie.
If you just want to go see some gratuitous violence and funny stuff.
And Bill Murray in this movie is awesome.
And you didn't even know he was in there.
So it's kind of a spoiler.
Yeah, well Murray and Harrelson worked together before in Kingpins, which is one of the weirdest funny movies ever.
It's a guy's movie, though.
Women all find the movie distasteful.
Yeah.
Well, this was...
Christina and I both were vibing on this movie.
It was definitely good.
Uh...
So, by the way, I didn't make a clip of this.
I got a couple more clips I like to play.
But I didn't make a clip of this because it was kind of boring.
But somebody did burn me on Twitter knowing that I saw it, which was in the last episode of Law& Order this week.
The chief, the woman who runs the department, the police department, she's the head squad leader, the sergeant, I don't know what she is, what her title, specifically, she's the supervisor.
She's in with her doctor, and her doctor's telling her that she's got the papilloma virus.
Oh no, you're kidding me.
She's got it.
Oh no.
And then they have a long discussion about, well, you could have gotten vaccinated.
You could have been saved!
You know, it's just exploiting.
Tell people again, how expensive is that vaccination?
I believe it's $350 a shot, and it's a series of three.
You get two at the doctor, and I've heard some reports where the doctor says, hey, here's a syringe, do your last one at home.
Go ahead and self-medicate yourself.
But we got a Twitter from someone who received a marketing package hung on their doorknob at their dorm in college.
And this package, I mean, it was beautiful.
It had this spin wheel in there to determine if you were right for the vaccine.
It had fold-outs, flip-outs, shifting.
And everything on the wheel said yes.
Yes, you.
Yes, you.
And we thought somewhere between $5 and $10 a pop to make this particular packet.
I mean, it's gorgeous.
And it's encased in plastic.
And so, yeah, this is a huge moneymaker for Cerevix.
I think it's Cerevix and Gardazil.
Yeah, Gardazil.
I think that was a Gardazil one, wasn't it?
Whatever the case is, it's, you know, I'm thinking, you know, and I don't...
I'm thinking that NBCUniversal is not the network that's kicking butt.
And they have a lot of drug commercials on that network.
And it seems to me that somebody says, can you help us?
It's product placement, John.
It's not just, can you help me?
It's product placement.
There's no difference between that and the cups of Coke on American Idol.
There's no difference.
They just write it right in.
Yeah.
And let's face it, the writers are like, man, finally, another storyline.
We were kind of out of ideas anyway.
This is a good one.
Let's take that.
That's excellent.
A little follow-up on...
Hardin, Montana, where apparently a police force has descended upon the prison there.
And some interesting research has been done about the leader of the APF, which you can find, interestingly, at AmericanPoliceForce.com.
Michael Hilton is the guy's name who runs this outfit.
And so he has quite a rap sheet.
14 felonies, 10 counts of grand theft, 1 count of attempted grand theft, 3 counts of diversion of construction funds.
That's according to Orange County court records.
Sentenced to 2 years in prison.
Although, of course, unclear how much time he served.
And then we connected some interesting dots.
Someone Twittered you.
That their coat of arms, their shield, if you will, because of course they have to have a great emblem.
And you've got to take a look at this website for this outfit, because they do everything from hostage negotiations to international protection a la Blackwater.
Someone pointed out that their coat of arms look like, was it a Bosnian coat of arms?
Serbia.
Serbia.
I'm sorry, Serbia.
And it turns out in some of this research...
That this guy Hilton, that his real name, or that is, let's say, he legally changed his name to Michael Hilton, but he has used aliases of Midrag Liadokovic and Michael Miodrag.
And it turns out that this guy was some kind of a warlord in the former Yugoslav Republic.
So this guy is just like a thug.
He's a thug!
He's a thug with all kinds of ambitions.
I mean, this guy...
Jeez.
I mean, it's unbelievable how far some people can get when they're just focused.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's interesting you say that.
But, yeah.
You can kind of do everything if you're really focused on it.
Even if you're like a warlord and a con.
And a con.
And you've been arrested a million times and you're out.
And were you following this...
This exercise the military did in...
What the hell was that?
Newton.
Oh, now I can't find out what state this was.
Newton, Massachusetts?
No, it wasn't.
It's only Newton I know of offhand.
In a matter of hours, hundreds of soldiers will converge on Obion County.
Soldiers from the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky Yeah, Kentucky.
Are scheduled to arrive starting this afternoon an impressive convoy of military vehicles complete with helicopters flying overhead that will travel along Kentucky's Purchase Parkway across the state line into Obion County.
At press time, estimated the convoy will start arriving between 1 and 2 p.m.
300 soldiers in total will be in and around Troy all day Wednesday for a special training mission that will help prepare them for real combat scenarios in Kentucky, apparently.
The action is set to start.
Caravan, about 50 military vehicles roll into the Duggar family farm near Troy to set up camp.
It's just kind of weird that they're setting up these huge...
I mean, don't we have, like, Afghanistan to do that shit?
Can we go train them for real over there?
Why do we have to train in Kentucky?
Just to show the show of power.
Yeah, I think you're right.
To wow the locals.
Yeah, there was an opportunity to view the helicopters that afternoon.
But I don't know.
Well, this is this militarization of the country's mentality.
I mean, like I'm reminded of the football game I mentioned before that I went to some weeks back.
And during the halftime, this is at the University of California, which is normally, except that they basically made everyone docile there by getting rid of the students that would protest.
And they were swearing in a bunch of kids into the army in the middle of the field.
What?
They did the swearing in right there during the game?
Before the game?
No, at the halftime ceremony.
Jesus Christ.
We're watching the game and the band comes out.
Then they go back and forth and back and forth.
And then a bunch of military guys come out with a bunch of kids who are wearing their civilian clothes.
You know, the kids with the shorts.
Wait a minute.
Was this an Army-Navy game or what was this?
No, it was a game against University of California versus Maryland.
Well, this is not okay.
And so they march these kids out, and then they give them the oath that they have to say, and they're all doing it in unison.
And then the kids, they march them off the field, and everyone cheers.
Wow.
And then when we see pictures of China, who had their big celebration, their...
What is it?
60th anniversary of something?
And we have the revolution.
Oh, the revolution, right?
And we see all the Chinese soldiers lined up.
We're all freaked out.
Oh, no!
Oh, no!
They've got an army and they can stand in an exact straight line.
But meanwhile, we're doing exactly the same thing during our football games.
I was appalled by it.
I mean, I don't care if people want to join the army, but what is the point of doing this in the middle of a football game?
It's a propagandistic thing.
It is appalling, John.
I agree with you.
And by the way, the Chinese, they use some special weather systems to make it a beautiful day.
Did you hear about that?
Yeah, they're really going crazy with the silver iodide over there.
You think it's not cloud-busting?
You don't think it's orgone machines?
It's silver iodide is what they do.
I've ordered my materials.
Okay.
I've ordered my stuff.
If you do something wrong, you're going to end up like a withered person.
You're going to look like Mr.
Burns on The Simpsons.
Okay.
There'll be Buzzkill and the other Buzzkill.
Two Buzzkills.
That's no good.
We can't have that.
I'm going to call it again a run on the banks.
I'm just going to call it because it's heating up this FDIC borrowing money from the banks.
Now the Times is writing about it.
So here are the numbers.
The FDIC is essentially in the hole for about $4 trillion.
So that's our money, right?
That's the guarantee of our money should a bank go down the tubes that the government will guarantee your deposit previously up to $100,000, now up to $250,000.
So they don't have the money.
And they are, by law, if I'm reading this article properly, by law they're allowed to borrow from the Treasury $100 billion immediately and up to $500 billion with the approval of the Treasury Secretary and the Federal Reserve.
But still, you're like 75% short.
And so now they're going back to the banks, who essentially have our money in the first place, which we gave them, and they're going to borrow that.
And they don't even have to put it on the books.
This is the best thing.
Didn't you bring this up on Thursday?
Isn't this a rerun?
Yeah, but this is now in the New York Times, and now we're getting more details.
Now we have the actual numbers.
It's really happening.
And this is exactly...
Why the FDIC is in place, which is supposed to be this...
Yeah, I am repeating myself.
You're right.
It's exactly why I'm doing it.
It's because this is what happened in the 1930s.
Are you supposed to sound the horn when you do that?
Yeah, no problem.
Here we go.
Created in 1933 to restore confidence and arrest a wave of bank runs that contributed to the Great Depression, the insurance fund now stands behind some $4.8 trillion in deposits.
Unfortunately, there is no money.
So when your bank goes down, at best, inflation is going to go up because the Fed will have to print more money to give it back to you.
You know what I'm doing tomorrow?
I'm running on my own bank.
How's our bank?
Do you think our bank will be okay, John?
Yeah, you know, our bank is the bank with the little, with the letter, with the little, for one thing, they didn't do a bunch of mortgages.
They never got involved in that scam.
Right.
And they have a little, I got the biggest kick out of going in there, and there's a little newspaper article saying, you know, our bank, which I won't, you know, we should.
Don't mention it.
Refuses to take the government's bailout.
We don't need it.
So, here's what I recommend.
Since there's going to be this huge run on the bank, since we will be basically buying bread with wheelbarrows full of money, please send us money this week.
Because now it actually means something.
Now we can still actually use that money, like getting a manager to run the stream, etc.
And you tell me, if in the next week...
I'll make this deal with you.
If in the next week you hear anywhere, on any mainstream...
News outlet, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, Fox News, if they actually mention anything about your money, your money in your bank account being unsafe, don't send us anything, okay?
Because they're not going to, because that is what you get on this program and this program only.
You're pounding a table?
I'm pounding my laptop.
Geez, don't do that.
This is how dependent we are on Apple, obviously, and I think it's distressing.
We only had five donations over $50 from the last show.
And by the way, our show, moving ahead, we're exposing some really interesting things, and then all of a sudden, Apple decides to show a 404 on our feed.
Coincidence?
I think not!
So let's at least mention our friends here.
Sterling Ellsworth, $77.77 from Santa Barbara.
Matthew Fannin in Lexington, Kentucky, $53.
I think he's given us money a couple of times now.
We do have some regulars who seem to come up every couple of months and give us more like Liam Hemmings in Buckinghamshire, UK, $75.
I think it's Buckinghamshire.
Buckinghamshire, right.
I think you say Shire.
Yeah, right, right.
Buckinghamshire.
Buckinghamshire.
Yeah.
Robert Slate, S-L-A-G-H-T, I think it's slight or slight, slate, in Queen, what a name of a town, Queen Creek, Arizona, $100.
Thank you.
And Matthias Merkitt, That was it?
That's what came in?
That's it!
And by the way, a lot of times I'll take money in our PayPal account and I'll give it to other sites that have donation buttons as well because they're doing good reporting.
And so we donate back to sites all around the Internet.
It's kind of like, I don't know, like a system.
It kind of works.
Except we don't have derivatives and we don't lie about your money being safe when it's not really safe.
So, the guy in the Holland White Rabbit, can you pronounce his name for him?
It's J-E-R-O-E-N. Jeroen.
Jeroen.
Moolman.
M-E-U-L-M-A-N. Melman.
Melman.
Jeroen Melman.
Jeroen Melman.
It's a good thing you're here.
Yeah.
I mean...
Hey, I knew there was a point.
He said that when he gave us that weird amount, $50 plus $25, he says the $25 was on behalf of that crackpot that keeps harassing the show.
Oh, a troll?
We have a troll.
Yeah.
And...
Anyway, yeah, that's the best we could do.
I would hope some people would give us a better hand, but again, if nobody's listening to the show, my wife's listening to Michelle Malkin, but it wouldn't make any difference because she takes the show off of iTunes, so she wouldn't be able to get the show anyway.
Yeah, it really sucks.
Have you checked if we're back up?
No, I haven't checked because I take direct links.
I don't use iTunes much because I don't trust it.
But there is a lot of downloads that come through iTunes.
I'll tell you that.
It's pretty significant.
Yeah, well, to the point that we got five lousy donations, I would hope people would go to noagendashow.com or dvorak.org slash na and give us a hand this next week so we can kind of make up for this last week, which was terrible.
Let me just see if the feed is responding again in the iTunes store.
Hold on a second.
No agenda.
Yeah, hit subscribe.
Yeah, subscribe.
What does it say?
I hate how iTunes works.
Nah, it's a shame that...
Yeah, then you've got to go back and you've got to go no agenda.
Where is it?
Still not working.
Crap!
I hate that.
Here it is.
Mevio.com slash 404.php could not be found on the server.
These guys are caching everything.
So somewhere there's a hiccup.
Whatever happens, which it happens from time to time.
It's the internet, right?
Shit just happens.
And so maybe they got a 404.
Maybe we fucked up.
It doesn't matter.
We've checked everything a million times.
All of our shit is right.
We know what feed URL has been submitted.
We send messages to everybody.
We're a supposed partner of Apple.
We're one of the four...
The only commercial one that has its own page that we have tools to manage on iTunes.
We can't get the fucking time of day when it comes to a serious problem.
This is a big show for Mevio when it comes to search traffic.
Yeah.
If you type in Mevio, you'll find our show shows up at the top of a Google search.
Yeah, this is a huge deal.
And so what do we get?
No love.
Which leads me to think that there's...
Maybe there's something more going on.
I don't know.
It's possible.
Yeah, hell yeah, it's possible.
Because, you know, let's face it, this show is a nuisance show.
Yeah, we are quite irritating.
Let's be honest about it.
And now, back to real news.
Right, on the cusp.
Another hero bites the dust, John.
This is very sad real news.
A Chicago area man was arrested at O'Hare Airport.
Michael David Barrett arrested Friday night as he arrived on a flight from Buffalo, New York.
He faces federal charges of interstate stalking for taping surreptitious nude videos of ESPN reporter Aaron Andrews.
Man, they went through all that trouble to track this guy down?
Who cares?
They got him.
The feds went after him because of the Aaron Andrews, who cares, Aaron Andrews' Google post?
YouTube post?
Yeah.
No, that's not possible.
Yes.
We've got better things to do with our money.
Andrews thanked FBI agents and federal prosecutors for their work on the arrest.
It's like this is more important to her than rolling up a terror cell.
It's like you have really saved humanity.
For my part, she says, I will make every effort to strengthen the laws on state and federal level to better protect victims of criminal stalking.
Was she being stalked or was this just a goofy video the guy wanted to make?
And if he was stalking her, how come he's in Chicago?
I don't know.
I don't make it up.
I just report the news.
Barrett made a reservation at a Milwaukee hotel where she stayed in July 2008.
They found her door's peephole similarly rigged.
So it was a reverse peephole.
Yeah.
Amazing.
How do you do that, though?
I mean, can you move the peephole from the outside?
Oh, I seriously doubt that.
So he has to get in the room somehow.
Yeah.
Which is probably not that hard.
Well, maybe.
Huh.
Well, whatever the case is, it seems like a waste of resources, unless the guy was a genuine stalker and it was like a problem.
But then again, this sounds like an interstate crime task force event.
Well, I thought he was on to something there.
Sorry.
We never got to Letterman.
I don't care.
We did so much mainstream stuff.
I think the whole Letterman thing was just another distraction so we wouldn't notice that Obama was going to Russia.
We didn't get to the Lieberman clips.
And we didn't get to the fact that the United States paid off one of the original witnesses in convicting McGrahee, the Lockerbie bomber who was set free.
Oh, they did?
Yeah, three million dollars.
Hey, that's a way to get a witness.
Huh.
Yeah.
No, I think we've pretty much covered it, John.
All right, well, I would advise people to go to thenoagendashow.com and devork.org slash NA and help us out this week since we can't seem to get on iTunes, and this is killing us.
Yeah, we're seriously behind.
Oh, and hey, by the way, aren't we eligible for a podcast award, John?
Yeah?
What award are you thinking of?
Well, let's see.
It won't be best produced.
I don't know.
People's Choice?
People's Choice?
That's an idea.
We probably have enough people to promote that.
I think voting opens today.
Where?
At podcastawards.com.
Okay.
Hook a brother up.
Alright, coming to you from Gitmo Nation West, under threat of eminent domain, unfair abuse of, I'm Adam Curry.
And still reeling from the miserable football game that crummy Cal Bears gave us, I'm John C. Dvorak.
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