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	Snakes.
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Devorak.
	It's January 17, 2010.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 166.
	This is no agenda.
	Providing disaster relief to all nations of Gitmo Nation.
	And all citizens from coast to coast coming to you live from the Minimum Security Containment Cell Crackpot Command Center in Gitmo Nation West, San Francisco, California.
	In San Francisco, in the morning, I'm confused.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's raining as we speak, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackbot and Buzzkill!
	In the morning!
	In the morning to you, John.
	In the morning to you.
	In the morning, everybody.
	It's No Agenda episode 166.
	And we're off to a rockin' start.
	Hey, man, you're right.
	The weather report says we're supposed to have a week of the worst weather in a decade.
	You know, they're always wrong about that.
	I know.
	Wait a minute, I'm telling you, that's science!
	The science is in!
	It should be pouring right now and it's just kind of drizzling.
	It's kind of drizzling, I know.
	It did start on time, though.
	The drizzle started yesterday exactly when they predicted.
	Yeah, no, they got that part right.
	But I was looking at the big, you know, if anybody wants to go look at the good satellite map, should you go to Google and type in Purdue, like university, Purdue University?
	Purdue Unisys.
	U-N-I-S-Y-S, the company.
	And they have one of the best weather sites there that bases most of the stuff on satellite imagery.
	And you get to see all these great satellite shots.
	And they have 12-hour loops and all the rest of it.
	And I don't know about you, but I was looking at this last night to see what the rain was going to be like.
	We're going to get some rain, but the Pacific Northwest, Oregon in particular, is going to get pounded.
	Well, so they say.
	No, I'm sure the map shows.
	They're getting pounded now.
	Oh, right now.
	Hey, John, before we delve into uselessness, who is this episode's executive producer?
	We have a number of executive producers.
	All executives or some associates?
	One executive and some associates.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Wow, that's good.
	So we have our new executive producer this week is Roman Vizentine.
	Roman Byzantine?
	Yeah.
	Visi, V-I-S-I-N-T-I-N-E. And he is also a knight now.
	He gave us $1,000.
	Oh, wow.
	He is officially...
	We need an official knight sound, actually.
	So, I have to read his message, which I'll read a second time.
	Unfortunately, I think he watered it down, but he says, Since Adam was so pissed off about the donations on Thursday's show, here is my payment for knighthood.
	I also signed up for the $5 a month plan.
	Suck it, Adam!
	Okay, thank you.
	But then he put a smiley face in it, which I thought watered down the whole thing.
	I didn't say that I was, or I wouldn't say I was pissed off, I was just disappointed and depressed.
	I don't think I, or is this an old note from a couple episodes ago when I was pissed off?
	No, no.
	You were irked.
	So we have three executive associate producers.
	Ralph Nellison.
	N-E-L-L-E-S-E-N from Aachen, Deutschland.
	Oh, there's the 910 on time.
	Yeah.
	And he gave us 250.52.
	Thank you, Ralph.
	Russell Keller.
	Oops.
	He actually wants to be called Breetai.
	Breetai.
	Can you spell that for me?
	B-R-E-E-T-A-I. And that was his BBS handle.
	Hey, nice going, John.
	Nice going in the witness protection program there.
	Thanks a lot.
	It's like having that blue dot over the guy's head and then falling asleep with the joystick.
	Yeah.
	Grittai.
	Grittai, yes.
	Isn't that bad?
	And then, who gave us $200, and then Oliver Judge gave us $250.
	He is in Canterbury.
	In the United, in the Gitmo Nation East?
	Yeah, Oliver Judge.
	Canterbury.
	I've flown over there many times.
	Yeah.
	You can always tell by the huge cathedral.
	I don't know if I've ever been to...
	I mean, where is...
	It's near the east coast of Gitmo Nation.
	Yeah, I probably haven't been there.
	I tend to always go to...
	Well, the cathedral is amazing and it's well known.
	And it's a great landmark.
	You could be flying in mist and be like, oh, there it is.
	You can't miss it.
	Of course, if you're flying in mist and you see it, you're probably too close.
	Yeah, maybe.
	So, whatever the case, thanks to our group of supporters.
	Well, yeah, let's not just say thanks, but first, let's congratulate Roman Vicentine on not only being executive producer for this episode of No Agenda 166, but becoming an official knight of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	We appreciate your donation.
	I will indeed suck it now, Roman, right after the show.
	And as you know, you can put this on your resume, it can get you work, it can get you gigs, it can get you hookers and blow in the right circles.
	And that also goes for our associate executive producers, Ralph Nalison, Grittai, and Oliver Judge.
	We highly appreciate it.
	Without you, this program wouldn't be possible at all.
	At all.
	There's no difference, by the way, between executive producing an episode of No Agenda or Avatar.
	It's just as valuable.
	It's a credit.
	It's exactly the same thing.
	We have, and there's a lot of messages.
	For some reason this week, all of our donors...
	All sent a message with their donation?
	We have a lot of messages, so the donation element of this particular No Agenda show will be a little long.
	Okay, I'm glad you reminded me because I just have to set the timer.
	You know, I just mentioned James Cameron.
	Someone sent me a link.
	I saw that.
	And, well, the link was, James Cameron must be listening to no agenda, as here's the quote.
	Hey, what's this banner that's popping up?
	Even if he doesn't take home a statue, referring to the Oscars, Avatar's $1.3 billion grosses are already making him feel like king of the world.
	This of course is in reference to him acting kind of like a dick when he won for Titanic.
	Let me put it this way, he says, all those naysayers, the nattering nabobs of negativity, the people who are saying the movie looks bad before they've seen anything, you have to learn to ignore them.
	So there you go.
	It's the nattering nebobs of negativity.
	Yeah, I don't think you got that from us.
	I don't know, man.
	I don't know.
	The amount of people tuning into this show is, I think, it's becoming, in my view, spectacular.
	Yeah, no, we have a lot of important people.
	Yeah, there's lots of Hollywood people, there's politicians, I know there's a ton of Gitmo Nation Lowlands politicians who are listening, and I know because they send me messages, and they say, hey man, I'm listening.
	Yeah, we have probably the biggest Dutch audience of any podcast in the United States.
	We have a bigger Dutch audience than mainstream media in the Lowlands, I'm telling you.
	We're knocking it out of the park there, because the Dutch are so suppressed.
	That they have to, they need to let some steam off, and this is the place they can do it.
	And of course, because we have a very simple formula, you know what it is.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	I got some mouth-hitting to do today.
	Alright, start it off.
	Well, I mean, I guess we just have to start with Haiti.
	I would assume.
	There's just nothing else.
	I must have 15 different links in the show notes at noagendashow.com.
	A lot of which kind of come down to what I'm feeling right now about all of this.
	First, I would like to say that I did...
	Can I try to outguess?
	Can I try to guess what you might be feeling knowing you?
	Oh, sure.
	Go ahead.
	You think...
	That the earthquake was created because we're sick of Haiti being such a backwater jerk-off place that we decided just to take the place over.
	That wasn't exactly what I was going to say.
	I'm going to separate it.
	I was going to keep the earthquake machine out of it for a moment, but since you bring it up, I did accurately predict the next earthquake would be in Iran.
	Magnitude 5.0 yesterday in western Iran.
	So let's just leave that out of it for a second.
	But of course this is being used as a friendly invasion of the country of Haiti, which is half of the island of Hispaniola.
	Which, of course, houses the Dominican Republic right on the other side, who had no damage whatsoever, right?
	I don't even know of any reports.
	I've heard of a report.
	I don't think a glass fell off the wall.
	Nothing happened over there, because, of course, it was not a natural earthquake.
	But we'll just leave that to this side.
	Here's what I did, John.
	In cases like this, of course, you can't turn on the television without seeing something about Haiti.
	And here are the memes that I'm seeing, and here's the actual footage that is bothering me so much.
	First of all, I see a lot of, and I think Fox News was doing most of this.
	This just goes to show we're not all assholes.
	We're there first.
	We're on the scene.
	We're Americans.
	We help people.
	There was a lot of that going on.
	But what bothered me the most is, all I see is heroic rescue stories.
	And I have yet to see, and by the way, there's now a super aircraft carrier is there.
	There's five other warships.
	We apparently have anywhere between seven, and I've been looking at the official government websites, between seven and ten thousand military, either on the ships or on shore.
	That's very unclear.
	But not at any moment have I seen anyone of authority with a uniform standing saying, alright, we got our shit down, we've got these guys here, we're moving in, we've got logistics going on over here, we've got airlifts happening here, we've got the hospitals being set up over there.
	Nothing!
	Not a single thing.
	All I see is news crews rescuing people.
	The big heroes, the news crews.
	And there's a million journalists there.
	Yeah, looks like you're thinking with CBIT or something.
	Nothing.
	All I see is blue helmets, apparently Bolivian UN troops who were there already as peacekeepers.
	And then the weird stuff is I was watching Anderson Cooper.
	We kind of stuck on that because Mickey thinks he's hot looking.
	And I've got to admit, he looks kind of hot in his army shirt.
	Yeah, he's very buff.
	Yeah, he's an attractive man.
	Vanderbilt.
	We should just call him Vanderbilt.
	Hey, hey, back to the topic.
	So Anderson Vanderbilt.
	And so he's got Sanjay Gupta, who has a stethoscope around his neck.
	Why?
	We're going to have a heart attack?
	He's got a stethoscope around his neck.
	It was really weird, though, because, yes, Anderson, I'm here in this hospital.
	There's 25 people who have been operated on.
	And officials came by and told all the doctors to leave.
	And now it's just me here.
	And I'm like, what?
	And it's like, there's really weird shit going on there.
	And by the way, as David Brooks pointed out in the New York Times, there's 10,000 aid organizations in Haiti already.
	And now we've got all this stuff piling on.
	Everybody's like, oh, help the Haitians!
	Donate money!
	And I put my money into, and I'll tell you where in a minute, because there is some stuff I think is worth donating to.
	But I have a very, very, very bad feeling about all this.
	And if you look at the history of Haiti, and I'm sure you and I will get into some of that, this is just a hostile takeover.
	I'm sorry, a friendly hostile takeover.
	I think it's about time.
	Really?
	Well, I mean, you know, so now that I think you or somebody has dug out, apparently, like, Hillary's there.
	Why is Hillary there?
	This is an unsafe place to be, but Hillary's there.
	She's checking in on her investments.
	No, no, Hillary's already mentioned, and that's in the show notes, she's already mentioned that she thinks that, you know, after we reform, you're hearing this word a lot, it's time for rescue, relief, and reform.
	This will be the meme, by the way.
	That's the meme, yeah.
	Reform.
	Northern Haiti will become a nice little resort.
	We haven't been able to get Cuba back.
	So we've got no place.
	And all those islands that are all over the place, very few of them, you know, Virgin Islands maybe, which is a crap hole.
	None of these places are really owned by us.
	And Cuba seems to be getting bought up by the Canadians, and that's going to be their place where they're going to go.
	We don't have a place for rich Americans on the East Coast.
	To go hang out.
	To go hang out that's owned, that recycles the money back into the U.S. coffers.
	Right.
	We have Jamaica, but it's not good enough.
	Jamaica's not American, though.
	It's British, isn't it?
	Or no, it's independent.
	It's West Indies, officially.
	Well, so yeah, we needed a good place to go hang out, that's for sure.
	Be new.
	We have to build new stuff.
	We don't want to, you know, I think there's some, you know, I think the focus groups are looking at Cuba, because, you know, this is going to eventually be released, and they're going to say, you know, I don't know about you, but I don't think, personally, I'd love to go to Cuba, and I, as a journalist, can actually go there legally.
	John, if you keep doing this show, you're going to Cuba, my friend.
	That little bit on the south tip there called Gitmo.
	Keep the show going.
	You get a free ticket.
	So I would like to go to Havana to see the old falling apart buildings and the 57 Chevys that are still on the road and all that sort of thing.
	But you know that a focus group of people that typically go on vacation, they don't want any of that.
	No, of course not.
	They want new, clean...
	Mai Tais, Pina Coladas.
	Yeah, they want a place to be just a phony resort.
	And so this is what we're going to do.
	We're going to build a bunch of resorts in the northern part of Haiti.
	What I'm waiting for is for someone to say, Boy, it's really smart we didn't close Gitmo, otherwise we wouldn't have all those facilities nearby.
	I'm just waiting for that.
	Maybe.
	That could happen.
	So there were already 400 Cuban doctors in Haiti working.
	I mean, people who don't know, and I think most of our audience probably does, but it's worth mentioning that Haiti, of course, was already a disaster.
	Before this happened, certainly Port-au-Prince.
	And this has all been geopolitical.
	And actually, I was thinking about the Pat Robertson quote where he said that Haiti signed a pact with the devil.
	He actually, metaphorically speaking, was not far from it because the history of Haiti, and we occupied the place between 1915 and 1934, but I guess we couldn't get the tourist resort up and running fast enough.
	Haiti, I think...
	Our Marines built that capital building that fell over.
	Yeah, well, there you go.
	Quality.
	Good work.
	Chinese steel.
	You know, you've got all these...
	The army is in there.
	All these different people are in there.
	Except for the Army Corps of Engineers.
	Yeah, which is the only group that makes any sense to be there.
	No, because you know what's going to come in.
	It's going to be KBR, it's going to be Halliburton, which is the same company, of course.
	It's going to be Blackwater is already rumored to be providing security for news crews.
	This is going to be a whole quagmire of money-making organizations.
	But I was going to say that the Haitians, as far as I know, are one of the few, if not the only slave culture that actually rose up against their slave masters and kicked them out.
	I think the Dominican Republic is the same thing.
	Well, Haiti, I just know about the...
	I've only studied the history of Haiti, so this happened 200 years ago, and what they did then, in their infinite wisdom, is say, okay, so they kicked their French slave masters out, and they said, you know what?
	We're going to pay you, slave masters, unbelievably enough, we're going to pay you off...
	So that we can participate in world economics, which of course was a fait accompli.
	They could have remained impoverished forever and be cut off from the world.
	And by the way, I think it was Clinton and George H. Walker Bush who had many embargoes against Haiti, and now they're all, you know, these...
	These douchebags are like, oh, we're all getting together.
	It's George W. and Obama and Clinton, and oh, we're all for Haiti.
	These guys have already got their plots picked out up there in the North.
	They're already ready.
	They've got their home plans built.
	They've got the blueprints ready.
	Yeah.
	While we're on the topic of Robertson, you might want to play the Behar pieces.
	I knew you were going to have this.
	I was watching, because of course, inevitably, she's right in the middle of all the other channels, and you flip over to CNN, and it's like, oh jeez, Behar is talking about 80s.
	She's a stand-up comic.
	She's a yenta.
	This is the definition of a yenta.
	She's a stand-up comic.
	Who's decided to become a commentator, and she hasn't got the chops for it.
	And let me just play the first part of Behar 1, and then you can stop it as Robertson begins, but I can assure you...
	Robertson?
	Yeah, no, just Behar, just as Joy Behar.
	Okay.
	Yesterday, Pat Robertson said the people of Haiti are suffering because in the 1700s, they made a pact with the devil, and they've been cursed ever since.
	How does he know that?
	Did he speak to the devil?
	He must have some long-distance plan.
	Take a look.
	Okay.
	We could go on and play the Pat Robertson clip.
	We might as well, because we do have new listeners.
	Not everyone has heard this that we played on the last show.
	Okay.
	But the point is, we already deconstructed what he was saying right here on the show.
	What I want to mention here is that out of the blue, because as you know, I've gotten to a beef over some quotes where I was misquoted.
	Out of the blue, because she's such a genius, Pat Robertson specifically says Napoleon III. Napoleon III's reign of power was pretty much around 1860.
	She specifically said the 1700s.
	Does she think that Napoleon III was in the 1700s?
	Or is she mixing up her Napoleons?
	Or what is she?
	As far as she knows, Napoleon is a brandy.
	It's a cognac.
	He never says...
	It's a brand name.
	This is Napoleon Cognac.
	He never says the 1700s anywhere, but she says he did.
	Yeah, because, you know, 1700, 1800, what does 100 years difference make?
	Okay, let's listen, because it's worth listening to Pat Robertson again.
	I want to hear it as well, because I think he was actually saying something kind of smart there.
	Hold on.
	Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it.
	By the way, that's the smart way to do it.
	Just say, a long time ago.
	I'm going to do that myself.
	It's a long time ago.
	He isolates it.
	Under the heel of the French.
	You know, Napoleon III or whatever.
	And they got together and swore a pact to the devil.
	They said, we will serve you if you'll get us free from the French.
	True story.
	And so the devil said, okay, it's a deal.
	Ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other.
	True story.
	Yeah.
	With me now to discuss is Arianna Huffington, co-founder and managing editor of the HuffingtonPost.com.
	Oh, you should have texted me, man.
	I would have loved to have seen this.
	Have those two on at the same time?
	That's fantastic.
	It gets worse.
	Let me listen to this.
	I cut it off.
	I don't really play much.
	Well, go ahead.
	Just a little bit.
	Just to hear her.
	I just want to hear her go, oh, Joey.
	Correspondent with The Nation and Frank Schaeffer, author of Patience with God, Faith for People Who Don't Like Religion.
	Welcome.
	Arianna, are you horrified by these remarks from Robertson?
	Well, you know what, Joy?
	Andy Borovitz said it best in a blog post on the Huffington Post today.
	He said that God...
	Boy, she gets her plugs in early, doesn't she?
	Oh yeah, right off the bat.
	She's good at that.
	Considers Pat Robertson a public relations nightmare.
	Boy, that's so smart, Ariana.
	You're so intellectual.
	In a way, the metaphor is right, and actually I would say the devil in this case would be the IMF, who, by the way, has offered another $65 million loan, but only if minimum wages are, which it's always been about minimum wage in Haiti, if those are frozen or busted up, and electricity prices can go up.
	This is all the caveats they've got on the loan.
	It's the fine print.
	Well, that's the new devil.
	Yeah.
	Okay, so we'll just assume...
	But anyway, here's what's funnier.
	You've got to play the next Behar clip because she's asking around the horn and she's just flabbergasted that this guy...
	But here's the thing that really gets me.
	The next comment made by this guy from The Nation just galled me.
	Oh, is this this douchebag who...
	He knows everything, right?
	Oh, so does Behar.
	No, but this guy's work.
	Together they're like Yenta and Yatka.
	Hold on, let's go.
	...feminists and gays.
	Oh, well, that's the show right there.
	But when he says, uh, true story...
	No, but Bob Robertson agreed with him.
	Oh, yeah, they agreed with each other.
	But, you know, the question is, is he crazy?
	He says, and then the devil said...
	I mean, maybe he's just mentally ill.
	What do you think, Ari?
	You know, I just think that what you're seeing is the really ugly side of this right-wing movement.
	You know, there are people sitting at home...
	What right-wing movement?
	The right-wing movement.
	The ugly side of what right-wing movement?
	It was Clinton who did away with all of the rice imports so that U.S. rice could go in and actually forced Haiti to lower their import tariffs on rice, which completely destroyed the entire rice industry.
	And everyone's eating U.S. rice, even though they can grow their own.
	And he's a, what is he?
	A Democrat!
	Yeah, but besides that, Pat Robertson comes on with this crazy story about, you know, the devil coming down and shaking hands and signing a document or whatever.
	I mean, it's just Pat Robertson.
	I mean, he's been saying crazy stuff like this.
	It doesn't make any difference.
	This is not a right-wing movement.
	No, he's just a dude.
	With a TV show.
	We're going to have to talk about this.
	And the truth is, not only do we have to talk about it, we have to confront it because this person has a following.
	And I do believe they say they see God's hand in these actions and bad things happen to bad people.
	It's a reverse of the explanations we usually hear because they think these folks are getting punished and then it comes with a right-wing ideology.
	In other words, it's not just religious, it's also, as you said, gays and feminists.
	It's wrong and we have to stand up to it.
	Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
	It's gays and feminists.
	That's the problem.
	Wow.
	It's like crazy talk.
	Oh, man.
	All right, so all I'm seeing...
	Don't get this straight.
	He says that some deal was done with Napoleon III back in 1860, or as Joy would have in the 1700s.
	And now this has something to do with gays and feminists.
	Yeah, they're to blame.
	I don't know.
	What is this guy?
	By the way, this show must have no ratings.
	No, it has huge ratings.
	Are you kidding me?
	Yes!
	Yes, it has huge ratings.
	The Joy Behar show?
	Yes, yes.
	Hold on.
	I'm going to see.
	Joy.
	Oh, look it up right now.
	Behar.
	Yeah, you'd be amazed.
	You'll be amazed.
	It's like a ratings bonanza.
	I'm telling you.
	Solid debut.
	Who listens to this idiot?
	Idiots?
	Other idiots.
	Yeah, she's doing about a.5, a.6.
	With this coverage, she's probably lower than the overall rating right now because everyone switches on these cable channels, the cable news.
	But you're not seeing anything.
	This is what's pissing me off.
	All you're seeing...
	I watched for 15 minutes!
	Anderson Vanderbilt, standing there in Haiti, talking to two people back in America, I think on the West Coast, who had adopted a Haitian child, and the child is on camera in a third window, looking real happy, by the way, touching the camera and everything, and they're like, oh, and they're crying, oh, we can't see our adopted child!
	Like, what?
	And it went on for 15 minutes!
	I was like, how do you feel now knowing that you can't visit your child?
	The child was great.
	You know, the orphanage was destroyed.
	I mean, I'm not saying this isn't a huge problem.
	But it's like, move on already.
	And then, you know...
	Well, I got a topper.
	So, if you want to...
	I think the absolute best coverage...
	Which actually, my son JC and I both watched this at the same time and just fell out of our chairs when we heard this line.
	Democracy Now.
	Okay.
	Instead of putting people on the street, play the Democracy Now clip.
	This is their coverage of Haiti.
	From Kim Ives from Brooklyn, who is a journalist with a newspaper, Haiti Liberté.
	Kim, can you read us some of the tweets that you're getting right now from Haiti?
	Most of the tweets have been coming from Richard Morse, a musician and manager of the Olufsen Hotel, the historic Olufsen Hotel in Port-au-Prince.
	he has been keeping people abreast talking about the buildings falling down if the Montana Hotel and Hotel Christopher are gone I don't know where the UN leadership is that was 28 minutes ago so they've got a guy in Brooklyn reading the tweets Reading the tweets that anybody could read.
	And this is news.
	Oh my goodness.
	So tell us what tweets have you received lately?
	Oh my goodness.
	Let's go around the table.
	Who are you following?
	Who are you following?
	This is crap!
	So, um...
	Immediately, um...
	There's lots of organizations who you can text a number and then money will be deducted or will be added onto your phone bill.
	Which, by the way, I don't think is a really good way to do it because the money actually doesn't start to flow until you pay your bill.
	And a lot of people, of course, will dispute that.
	And that's always a messed up.
	But Wyclef Jean...
	He was right up there in the front.
	He got in real quick with his charity, and a lot of people were tweeting about that.
	Then AP releases a report.
	You've always got to question where this comes from, but groups that vet charities are raising doubts about the organization backed by a Haitian-born rapper.
	He's a little more than a rapper, by the way.
	Wyclef Jean.
	Questioning its accounting practices and ability to function.
	Actually, they got in pretty deep.
	It's questionable, says Art Taylor, president and chief executive of the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance based in Arlington, Virginia, home of the spooks.
	Taylor reviewed IRS tax returns for the organization, also known as the Yele Haiti Foundation, from 2005 to 2007.
	So this guy, within seconds, he's like, hey, I've got to go check the IRS records.
	Red flags all over the place.
	And you should read the article.
	This had to be set up in advance.
	Totally.
	There's no way you'd get to a story like that so quickly.
	No, and this came out on...
	So obviously this...
	This came out on Friday, John.
	Friday they were already saying...
	Because you know what it is?
	A lot of these things are scams.
	Yeah, and they're probably somebody that already knows they're a scam.
	They're just waiting for some opportunity to blow this story out.
	Because you don't develop a story like that This quickly.
	It's just not humanly possible.
	He's going all the way back to 2005.
	Oh, the smoking gun is involved in this story as well.
	Yeah, the smoking gun was a triggering mechanism for the story's release.
	And it makes me wonder now about what purposes the smoking gun actually serve to the community at large and specifically the intelligence community.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Well, bottom line, I would have to say that, first and foremost, this is, of course, a horrible disaster, a humanitarian disaster, but it's being misused for two main purposes.
	One, with the meme that, oh, America is great.
	We're the ones there.
	We're helping everybody out.
	Stop calling us imperialists.
	And two, it is totally being used as a means for a takeover.
	A complete takeover.
	Yeah.
	No doubt about it.
	I think it's about time.
	Well, see, I find that hard to believe that you would have that opinion.
	What do you mean it's about time?
	We've already really kind of been controlling the country as one of many.
	Yeah, but you've done such a crappy job of it.
	It's been done with, you know, these kind of embargoes and then running these guys out of town, the various guys we don't like running the place.
	We find some way to get rid of them.
	Yeah, we took Aristide out and threw him into the jungle.
	Aristides got like a billion of our dollars.
	There's other guys that do valiers or whatever they are.
	Baby Doc, Papa Doc, those two idiots, they walked out with millions and billions.
	So you're saying this is a good thing?
	Yeah.
	And what good will come of it for the indigenous people of Haiti?
	Well, this is like kind of one of the things you have to want.
	They can become waders.
	And limbo dancers.
	Yep.
	There's nothing else.
	We've tried everything else.
	We have to do this.
	They're never going to run the damn place by themselves.
	You pass the money over there as a goodwill gesture of any sort, and the guy either puts it in his pocket or if he gives it to somebody else, that guy puts it in his pocket.
	The money never gets down to anything, but if you actually set up shop there and have, you know, set up...
	We already have sweatshops there.
	Well, we can now have official ones.
	We have control over the sweatshops.
	At least we can make them so they're safer.
	I mean, I think it will improve the situation.
	I think 20 years from now, you're going to look back at Haiti as some sort of miracle.
	Interesting thesis.
	Well, okay.
	It's an imperialistic concept.
	Yeah, it is.
	Totally.
	But it's being done so slick.
	I mean, you've observed it yourself.
	Yeah.
	The Clintons are in on the deal.
	Everyone's in on it.
	The Bushes are in on the deal.
	They're going to own the property up in the northern part.
	It's going to be replaced with Cuba.
	Here's another one.
	Casinos.
	Casinos.
	All over the place.
	It's going to benefit the people.
	It's already a tax haven, right?
	It's already a lot of...
	Yeah.
	It's a big tax haven.
	That makes a lot of sense.
	Oh, you know what?
	In a way, you're right.
	It's a lot closer by than Paraguay.
	Yeah, it's closer than Paraguay, and it's a good jumping-off spot to Paraguay if you have to get out of town.
	Notice they didn't have the earthquake machine wreck the airport.
	That still kind of works.
	I did want to mention, if you want to actually help some people, there's a husband and wife who run the Schweitzer Hospital about 80 miles north of Port-au-Prince, and they've been running that for about 10, 12 years.
	And that's the real deal.
	And they, of course, are not overwhelmed with casualties that are coming up north.
	I'll put a link in the show notes at NoAgendaShow.com.
	If you want to donate some money, I would suggest doing it to that because that's the real deal.
	It's not a huge organization where your money usually doesn't arrive anywhere.
	It just goes into the organization.
	They've got a little PayPal account set up.
	I handed some bucks over to them.
	I thought that would be good.
	That came through my cousin, Lucy.
	Yeah, and she's right on board with me.
	She's like, dude, we've been screwing that country for so long.
	But yeah, and the news organizations were definitely, in one way or another, in on the deal.
	They're embedded.
	If you look at the department, all the DOD or the DHS websites, it was like a lottery.
	It's like, we have 20 seats available on the next C-130.
	Head in over there, call this number and get your seat now.
	It was like last-minute travel tickets.
	So everyone's jumping on board.
	Every country in the world has their embedded journalists.
	Embedded in what?
	Because I don't see any uniforms other than a couple of blue helmets.
	But the coverage is literally...
	I'm seeing the same footage over and over again.
	And I'm seeing...
	This is what I don't understand.
	I don't even see any camcorder stuff.
	No.
	But what freaks me out is you'll have these interviews and it's like a mother and twin sons.
	We were buried under rubble for hours, and it was completely messed up, and we were saved after 36 hours.
	The twins have matching outfits.
	They're completely clean, showered, hairbrushed, brand new suits on.
	She's wearing a clean t-shirt.
	I don't get it.
	I thought there was no water.
	People couldn't shower.
	I mean, it's confusing.
	My brain hurts from this type of information.
	And they're also showing footage from other earthquakes.
	They're showing aerial footage from other countries, from other earthquakes.
	It's a devastated building and they just throw it in.
	Yeah.
	So, and what are the real reports?
	It's like, first it was half a million, then it was 50,000, then it was maybe 100,000, now it's thousands and thousands, and what I've seen is Anderson Cooper Vanderbilt in front of a mound, and you see a truck drive up,
	up and I gotta say it's a pretty gruesome shot that he did there when the truck rolls up and it dumps a dump truck literally and it dumps out all this debris and there's probably 10-15 bodies mangled throughout the debris it's nasty to look at but I'm not necessarily just show it I need to see lots of dead people like this like the tsunami you know that That impacted me.
	Remember, you saw that picture, you thought, wow, that's a lot of twigs and trees in the water there.
	Oh, crap, those are people.
	Those are bodies.
	But you don't see this.
	So it's all under these buildings?
	I don't know, John.
	I got a weird, weird freaking feeling about this.
	There's so much that doesn't add up in the coverage.
	They're all over the place.
	They've got their cameras everywhere, and all I see is news crews keep rescuing babies.
	That's what it is.
	It's CNN rescuing babies in Haiti.
	Where's the interviews with the officials?
	We've got 10,000 troops there.
	We've got Marines.
	We've got the commander of the Southern Command was in Haiti before this took place.
	Why can't we talk to this guy?
	I don't know.
	The whole thing is weird.
	I agree.
	The coverage is offbeat.
	And there's way too many people over there for so little coverage coming out.
	And there's a lot of repetitive scenes.
	And in fact, I was looking for some photos today.
	None.
	To run on the blog.
	And looking for some slideshows or anything.
	And with all these, you know, the ease of transmitting this stuff.
	I mean, there's satellite phones.
	They could be bouncing images.
	Easy.
	Back to New York.
	It should have happened days ago.
	And I'm not seeing anything that's...
	You know, there's some series of footage I saw showing a few guys walking down the street with machetes and, you know, pushing people to the side.
	You know, punks.
	And then there's a couple of scenes of one long street with people walking up and down it with, you know...
	I don't see...
	I don't know.
	The whole thing is rather baffling.
	And there's not a lot of...
	Where's all the fires there should be?
	Usually when there's an earthquake...
	Yeah, no fires.
	The Heritage Foundation published this little ditty.
	You want to just give a quick background on the Heritage Foundation, John?
	The Heritage Foundation is the leading right-wing think tank in the world.
	In addition to providing immediate humanitarian assistance, the U.S. response to the tragic earthquake in Haiti offers opportunities to reshape Haiti's long dysfunctional government and economy, as well as to improve the public image of the United States in the region.
	That's it.
	That's it.
	That's what we're doing.
	Yeah.
	We're going to take over the place and then turn it around into some fancy place.
	And by the way, that's going to be the meme.
	It's going to be the miracle that is Haiti.
	Oh, that's right.
	Come see the miracle of Haiti.
	Enjoy your pina colada in the safety of the compound.
	That's what it's going to be.
	I can see the commercials already.
	It's going to be great.
	Let's book early, John.
	White beaches.
	Sand beaches.
	White sand beaches.
	They'll bring the sand in.
	It'll be like Waikiki.
	A lot of people don't realize that the Waikiki beach, the great Waikiki beach, is bogus.
	It's rocks, isn't it?
	No, no.
	It's a beautiful...
	I mean, without the sand that they brought in...
	But, you know, you can bring sand in anywhere.
	Stuff's cheap.
	And so, you know, you load it up in Saudi Arabia, bring it over, dump it on the beaches in northern Haiti, put it in front of the Hotel Clinton, and boom, you're there.
	Anyway, I stand by my assertion that this was not a natural disaster, particularly when you see...
	There is some footage, I think, and it was like boiling water.
	There's all kinds of weird reports coming out about what happened just prior to the earthquake.
	I stand by my assertion that this was an earthquake machine, better known as a scalar weapon, also known as longitudinal wave interferometers or Tesla howitzers.
	This has been talked about the Russians.
	Even Khrushchev talked about this 40 years ago when he said, we have a new weapon.
	It's fantastic.
	It could wipe out all life on Earth.
	And I've put a couple of links in the show notes if you just want to read up on that.
	The technology is real.
	The technology has been around for almost 100 years.
	And you've got a question where this is being used.
	And I find this an amazing occurrence.
	I find it phenomenal that nothing has happened in the Dominican Republic.
	Nothing.
	It's the same island.
	Yeah, there's a mountain range between the two countries.
	And as I predicted, the next earthquakes will be in Iran, and already that's happening at 5.0 yesterday, and there will be more.
	No, that was in Venezuela, wasn't it?
	No, yesterday, 5.0 Western Iran.
	I thought there was a Venezuelan earthquake, too.
	Oh, that'd be a good place.
	But it's all targeted.
	It really is.
	This is harp.
	This is what's going on.
	This is how it works.
	Yeah, go ahead.
	I mean, I'm not going to.
	I mean, there's a lot of people, in fact, including the left-wing nutters, you know, the ones that go way off the end.
	Are you calling me a nutter?
	Did I say that?
	I said left-wing nutters.
	Including.
	Yeah, alright.
	Who say what?
	This is an earthquake machine?
	Well, I mean, Naomi Klein apparently is like one of them.
	She is like one of the worst.
	And all she does is...
	She's Canadian, you know.
	Oh, is she now?
	Yeah.
	That's right, I did know that.
	But she's in there with the Thaum Hartman as the left-wing nutters.
	Thaum and the Canadian.
	They should do it.
	Everybody, it's Thaum and the Canadian!
	In the morning!
	How you doing?
	That would be pretty good.
	And then my favorite was, and this was great from Gitmo Nation Lowlands.
	Love this one.
	A politician from the, I believe, the Dutch Labour Party, Chantal Gillard, tweeted out, If we don't act now, we'll have many more natural disasters like Haiti!
	Science!
	Science!
	And, of course, she did this in Dutch.
	We don't act now.
	What are we supposed to do?
	Literally, I am translating on the fly.
	If we do not act now, disasters like the one that just took place in Haiti will continue to happen.
	We have to attack climate change now and save the coast of the islands.
	The science is in!
	But what was great was, although this gets a very small mention in the mainstream media, the Twitter sphere was like, people were just like the funniest shit.
	It was like entertainment.
	I had to follow this woman just for the entertainment value alone.
	People were slamming her so hard.
	It was fantastic.
	But of course, Danny Glover said more or less the same thing.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Although, it was taken way out of context.
	When I actually saw what he said, it was like, eh.
	Reminds me that, you know, that Joy Behar again, going off on Rush Limbaugh.
	What is he, a climate expert?
	He says there's no blah, blah, blah.
	And, you know, what, is Danny Glover a climate expert?
	I mean, what's he got to do with it?
	Who cares?
	Climate change has nothing to do with this earthquake?
	No, it's the scalar weapons.
	Please!
	Well, go that far, but...
	It's definitely weird that you'd have an earthquake there now.
	Yeah, first one in at least 100 years, conservatively, and certainly 200.
	But it is weird, and just the whole thing is weird.
	It's a ring of fire where most of the action takes place due to the nature of the tectonic plates.
	And the ring of fire, of course, is the Pacific Rim, where all the volcanoes and earthquakes mostly occur.
	And then they have something like this in the middle of Nowheresville.
	Just is odd.
	Especially a whopper like that.
	Anyway, of course, what we have to be, and I say this to all of our No Agenda listeners slash producers, we have to be very, very diligent in times like these, because when this is going on and the news media is all focused on saving babies, that's when other shit takes place that is not reported on.
	And we really got to be looking out for what's happening because a lot of things are coming down.
	We've got all kinds of elections happening at a local level.
	We've got just tons of stuff that will go completely unreported.
	I'm sure the health care bill, something's going to pass real quietly.
	A lot of stuff is just going to, whoops, where'd that go?
	Yeah, I agree.
	Just a fantastic opportunity to start doing stuff.
	Yeah.
	So I would like to refer back to the previous program for two, well, one quick comment.
	First of all, mea culpa.
	Mickey was not caring about the show.
	And she was not hating you when she interrupted with Skype on the last show.
	She actually booted up Skype on her iPhone and it sent in a message.
	She thought something was wrong because I had sent her a message the night previously.
	And it came in as if it was a new message with a new time stamp.
	And so that's why she called.
	So she was like, wow, something must be really bad.
	I mean, he should be doing the show right now.
	Alright, she's off the hook and you look like a douche.
	Yes, correct.
	Once again.
	You almost heard of Shelly Berman.
	However, she did catch...
	There's a number of listeners out there that get that reference.
	So why don't you hand it to us?
	What is Shelly Berman?
	Shelley Berman's a very famous stand-up comic back in the 50s and 60s, and he was in the same league at the time as Mort Sahl, Jonathan Winters, Bob Newhart.
	And Shelley Berman was actually the fourth one of these superstars of the era.
	And he was kind of full of himself.
	You still see him as an actor now and again.
	But his career was ruined by a documentary done about him.
	And I think it was done by DuPont.
	And I actually watched this as a little kid, this thing.
	And when I saw it, I knew it was a disaster.
	He did kind of maudlin Jewish humor that entailed a lot of pathos, including a bit that he liked to do, which was a phone call to his dear mom who was dying or something.
	I can't remember what the bit was about, but it was a long phone call type thing.
	I think he modeled it after Bob Newhart's success doing phone call bits.
	Newhart maybe got it from him, whatever the case.
	So they're filming this thing on this documentary about Shelley Berman.
	And so he's got on the phone, he's...
	And then, oh, Mom, you know, just as it's getting bad, a real phone starts ringing offstage behind him.
	And you can see him kind of steaming.
	He still goes to the thing, but the phone just keeps ringing.
	Ring!
	And so, okay, so he's done with the bit.
	He goes off stage and blows up.
	I mean, and they record the whole thing.
	And he is chewing out everybody, poor little, you know, assistants, associates, little girls, you know, babies.
	He's yelling and screaming, and he's making a huge fuss, and he's just completely off the deep end with this.
	You know, accusing people of this, that, that.
	Yeah, yeah, we get it.
	So...
	They ask him, they say, look, we filmed this, you know, for this document.
	Oh, no, go ahead and use it.
	He gives them the go ahead.
	You know, they'll understand.
	It shows the better part, the other side of me, blah, blah, blah.
	He's such an egotist that he didn't even realize.
	Boom.
	Career over.
	Oh, well, so what you're saying is my career is now over.
	No, it could have been.
	You were going off the deep end in public.
	All right.
	So thanks for that diversion.
	Yeah.
	Hey, where's the applause machine?
	I'm sorry I asked.
	I need a laugh track here.
	You do.
	All right.
	But she did catch on.
	Of course, we always review the show.
	And I start talking about Chantix.
	And I start reading some of the emails that we have received from people.
	Now, if you missed the last show, we played a commercial and it's still running.
	I saw it.
	And by the way, she's not hot at all.
	The mom who's taken the Chantix in the commercials.
	I never said she was hot.
	You said you'd think she was hot.
	I don't think so.
	Oh, I said you'd think she was hot.
	Just say no.
	That was a guess I was wrong.
	Bad guess.
	Real bad.
	Insultingly so.
	And she's like a Joy Behar.
	Ah, yes she is.
	And Mickey says, oh my god, my doctor pushed that on me.
	Actually, just before we met, which was of course like...
	No wonder she likes you!
	Exactly!
	And she said, oh, you know, I wanted to stop smoking anyway.
	And the doctor said, oh, you have to try this.
	It's a miracle.
	It's a miracle drug, I tell you.
	And of course, Mickey is very in touch with her body, you know, with the yoga and the acting.
	And immediately she knew that this was weird.
	But it did actually, she stopped smoking.
	And then she stopped the Chantix.
	She said she went freaking insane.
	And it took her about 10 days and she absolutely had to...
	It was complete withdrawal.
	Major cold turkey trying to kick off of this stuff.
	It was a nightmare, she said.
	It is the most...
	It is a horrible hallucinogenic drug.
	And literally she says...
	And she started smoking...
	That was the only thing that helped her was to start smoking again.
	That's what got rid of all the...
	All the horrible detox of getting this out of her system was to start smoking again.
	But that corroborates, and I just want to give a couple of these emails.
	Brian from Austin, Texas.
	I did Chantix.
	We're even talking about it like a drug.
	I did Chantix.
	I was a lifelong smoker.
	52 smoked since I was 16 or 17.
	Amazing how well this stuff works.
	You just stop wanting to smoke forever.
	For a while I was raving about it, telling my friends it's fantastic.
	And you even get a little light buzz while you're on the stuff, similar to the one you get after a six-hour flight in a dash to the sidewalk to choke down a SIG. Yeah, we all know that buzz, don't we?
	And so by week eight, he'd completely stopped.
	He says, now the bad.
	I'm a pretty level-headed guy with a bit of a temper.
	Now I go from zero to ready to rip your heart out in seconds.
	Also, the depression.
	I've always been a glass half full guy, happy joker, life of the party.
	But I started to get sad.
	Not while taking it, but when I stopped, which is the hallmark of a great drug, by the way, from a financial standpoint.
	I'm talking serious depression, sad.
	Not suicidal, but damn close.
	All this at a time when everything is going so well.
	It's been months.
	I see no change in attitude or outlook.
	I think this shit has seriously messed up my head.
	So that's Brian in Texas.
	Then we have Hunter.
	From...
	I don't know where he's from.
	Very, very bad stuff.
	My wife took this at the doctor's urging.
	You mean the pusher.
	Side effect was psoriasis, skin disorder.
	That is the potentially lethal skin disease we were talking about, John.
	Because psoriasis can kill you.
	You can die from it.
	Then there's Levi...
	And Levi, my girlfriend recently started Chantix and can attest to the insane dreams.
	This is how the drug works.
	You take it for a while, you keep smoking, then for the next three weeks you take the pill two times a day.
	It does make you very depressed.
	If you don't eat the pill, you get pretty bad nausea, and it never stops.
	And then the final one from Emily, a female listener.
	I just got to read this.
	This is like...
	It's the first drug I've ever taken that I didn't read the little insert for.
	I just wanted to quit smoking because my doctor said my smoking was actually working as a catalyst for my cervical cancer.
	And seeing as I've read a U of M study that said smoking was a catalyst for people more susceptible to cancer, I figured I'd better quit right away, seeing as I already had cancer.
	My doctor mentioned that it can cause stomach upset, which I didn't care about, and also goofy dreams.
	I like goofy dreams, so the ideas seem pretty dandy.
	There you go.
	That's what we always say.
	People like it when you say this can cause goofy dreams.
	Like, hey, that's a good drug.
	I'll try that.
	Man, other things have started to happen.
	Severe depression, which is normal for me, so it's no big deal.
	Mania.
	I see shit.
	Think of Aurora Borealis in the middle of the day.
	I'm angry at people for no reason.
	In fact, I think I'm a total bitch now.
	I really don't think I was one before.
	One day I was going super nuts.
	I locked myself in my room in the dark and just saw little dancing creatures I knew weren't even there.
	How could they be there?
	Little demon creatures, give me an effing break.
	I hate everybody.
	I really do.
	I hate you, Adam, but I think you're cute and I don't want to kill you.
	And I want to kill people.
	I don't usually want to kill people.
	I fantasized a few times about it in pregnancy, but nothing in normal life, so yeah.
	I've experienced all the side effects that you guys talked about, except the life-threatening skin condition.
	And I'm really pissed off that my doctor had prescribed something that can kill me right away to combat something that will kill me over time.
	I'm sorry.
	This is so nutty.
	I'm usually really nice.
	XXXO XXXO, Emily.
	So, needless to say, I've decided not to guinea-big this stuff.
	My God.
	It's amazing.
	I've heard that after reading those four letters, you'll probably get another dozen.
	Because what's amazing to me is that a doctor would push this crap.
	They're pushing everything.
	They're getting paid to push it.
	It is a legal drug trade.
	And this is a perfect drug.
	It's a great one.
	You can't stop it.
	If you stop, then you go nuts.
	This is like heroin, cocaine, crack.
	This is what it is.
	This is a great drug.
	How does this stuff ever get approved by the FDA? Where is the FDA in this world?
	Whatever happened to them?
	Well, these are the same guys that when Rumsfeld got...
	What's the sweetener?
	Aspartame?
	Aspartame.
	Yeah, the FDA kept refusing it until the first Bush administration got in, and then Rumsfeld got in, and boom, new guy at the FDA, boom, done!
	It's all over!
	And who do we have now at the FDA? The former consultant for Burger King?
	Peggy is her name?
	Peggy?
	I saw her giving testimony on C-SPAN the other day.
	I said, why is this woman the head of the FDA? She's just an obvious apologist for corruption.
	Her husband is in the pharmaceutical business, I believe, because she is a neighbor of Cousin Lucy.
	And they're loaded, like super-duper loaded rich.
	And she couldn't decide whether she wanted to be on the local PTA or the FDA. It has three letters, ends in an A. It'll be just as fun to do.
	That's what's going on.
	And of course she has lots of experience as a consultant for Burger King.
	Yeah, like all the rest of the...
	And by the way, she's fat.
	And she's fat.
	I mean, what's her name again?
	I think she's fat.
	I think she is.
	Peggy FDA. Yeah, I think she is.
	I think she is.
	Let me see.
	Yeah, I don't remember her being fat.
	Dr.
	Margaret Peggy Hamburg.
	Hamburger.
	That's hilarious.
	Her name was Hamburg.
	Oh, you're right.
	I'm sorry, you're right.
	She's not fat.
	Oh, I'm sorry, you're not right.
	She's not fat.
	She's one of...
	Oh!
	Oh!
	You've got to look at her.
	She's one of those Sebelius types, isn't she?
	Yes!
	That's right.
	That's what it is.
	Hold on.
	You've got to look at her.
	You know how when you get older, John, like me and you, and you can recognize a certain type of personality just by looking at someone, and it's always right?
	Oh, yeah.
	Look at her.
	Yeah, I've got to click to your...
	Margaret A. Hamburg, MD, better known as Peggy Hamburger, It was confirmed May 18th by unanimous Senate voice vote, which means they didn't actually count the votes.
	So, let's see.
	Graduated Harvard Medical School.
	She was a New York president of internal medicine.
	Conducted research on neuroscience.
	Yeah, she looks exactly like in the San Francisco Bay Area.
	There's a certain type of person.
	Totally.
	Let me give you another anecdote, not to bore you, Steph.
	No, no, I love that.
	She looks like the typical wife of a VC. Yeah, a VC's got the pearls, but there's an area in San Francisco.
	And you look so concerned.
	I'm here for your health and safety.
	What's the area?
	It's not Knob Hill.
	It's Pacific Heights.
	Pacific Heights, yeah.
	She's a classic Pacific Heights dingbat.
	I always remember one time I was at some event that was down on the marina, and there was a military group there.
	And...
	And there's a woman who looks just like this, walking her chihuahua along the grass.
	And she goes up to this big sergeant, marine sergeant.
	He has a bunch of equipment that he's showing off.
	And she says, oh, oh, what is that?
	And the guy says, it's an anti-personnel mine.
	And she says, oh, really?
	I have a friend who works in personnel.
	And then she walks off.
	Oh, my God.
	Hamburg's mother, Beatrix, was the first African-American woman to attend Vassar College.
	And earn a degree from Yale University School of Medicine.
	Her father, David, had a career in academic medicine and mental illness research, public policy, and philanthropic leadership.
	Sounds like a think tanker.
	She's married to artificial intelligence researcher Peter Fitzhugh Brown.
	The guy is loaded, though.
	I know that they got a lot of dough.
	I just got a note from one of our producers saying that Pfizer plans Shantex ad blitz to counter scrutiny.
	An ad blitz?
	Yeah, that'll help.
	Yeah, well, they've got to move this stuff before it gets pulled.
	But it is amazing.
	They just tell you right out there, this is what it's going to do.
	And you know what?
	It does it all.
	It does all that bad stuff.
	It absolutely does it.
	Yeah, they're not lying to you.
	It comes through on the promises, but how in the hell that can actually be pushed upon the public by these doctors who are clearly being paid to push it.
	It's a legal drug system.
	It's completely legal.
	It's awesome.
	And you know what, John?
	We're not in the game.
	Nope.
	We're not in the game.
	Serving a higher cause.
	Hell yeah.
	On that note...
	Brother Dvorak, in the morning to you.
	So we're going to go over some of the people that gave us money for the last few days, and this is going to take a while because everybody seems to have left a note.
	Yeah, it's not like all those...
	We were off to a very poor start of 2010.
	Yeah.
	But at least the people who sent in money had something to say, which is kind of nice, I think.
	If it's dumb, don't say it.
	Let me run off, well, no, I'm going to be judicious, but let me run off, first let me run off the people who gave us $50 to $100 just casually.
	Eric Henderson, South San Francisco, Ron Vitale, Dick Vitale, Vitale, Ron Vitale in Haverton, Pennsylvania, who runs thepodcouple.com.
	Go check it out.
	That sounds like a wife-swapping show.
	P-O-D-D-Couple.com.
	And then we have in Vianen, Netherlands.
	Is it Vianen?
	V-I-A-N-E-N? Vianen.
	Vianen.
	That's right south of Utrecht.
	And it's on behalf of my son Hugo Ysbrand.
	Ysbrand.
	Pieters.
	P-I-E-T-E-R-S? Pieters.
	I'd love to hear you butcher that one, John.
	Good job, my friend.
	Success.
	And it's actually, the woman is Maike, M-A-I-K-E. Maike.
	Maike Boelsma.
	B-O-E-L-S-M-A. Boelsma.
	Okay, I got that.
	All right.
	Hey, John, just say this.
	Lick me reet.
	No.
	Beninda of Munich.
	Joseph Harper of Arnold, Maryland.
	John Trainor, who's pushing his...
	His night thing.
	Ernie Ernst of Zurich, who does have a message I want to read.
	Keith McBride of Gibsonia, Pennsylvania.
	And here's another one.
	Flores Jan Mauritz.
	Flores Jan Mauritz.
	Mauritz.
	F-I-E-D-E-L-D-I-J. Spell that again?
	F-I-E-D-E-L-D-I-J. Fetal Dyke?
	Dopp.
	D-O-P. Whatever.
	I don't care.
	My brain hurts.
	Permarind.
	Permarind.
	Dude, we can't even get through the names.
	When are we getting to the notes?
	Pete Sneeks.
	P-E-E-T-N-S-N-E-E-K-E-S. Snakes.
	Snakes?
	Snakes on a plane.
	Snakes on a plane.
	So, we said something that really got the Dutch sending money.
	A lot of them send in 50 bucks.
	Okay.
	And we appreciate it.
	But you know what?
	The Dutch are smart.
	They really are.
	They're suppressed peoples living under an awful terrorist monarchy.
	And they've got the GPS boxes coming into the cars.
	They'll be the first ones, dude.
	And they're not stupid.
	The Dutch are not stupid.
	They just have almost no chance of climbing out of the hole they've let themselves get into.
	So they're looking to us to save them.
	It shows you how smart they are.
	Well, we're doing our best.
	Of all the people that wrote in this level, Ernie Ernst and Zurich, he does say he has a bunch of notes, but I'm going to only read the part you'd be interested in.
	Number three, and most important, it is very naive to think that all aliens come to our planet with good intentions.
	They are advanced, and so are their deception techniques.
	That's correct.
	That's correct.
	The greys are not our friends.
	That's right.
	No, it's the tall blondes are good, including present company.
	And the greys are...
	The greys you can actually do business with, so they don't have an agenda one way or the other.
	They're the no-agenda aliens, really.
	But you do have to deal with them.
	You have to do business with them.
	Otherwise, they'll just take...
	They're like the Romulans.
	No, not the Romulans.
	Who are the little creepy people on Star Trek?
	Ferengi.
	Ferengi, thank you.
	Ferengi is all about the money.
	Now I'm going to read the notes.
	John Cox, Adkins, Texas.
	He says, I'm giving $110 because you guys give 110%.
	Jay, thank you very much.
	Yes, we do.
	Russell Keller.
	Oops, geez, I did it again.
	Please don't mention my name on the air.
	Welcome to the No Agenda Witness Protection Program, where you're guaranteed to get...
	When we talk about you on the air.
	He just wanted to get off his chest and say that requiring the government's approval for a marriage is totalitarian and is indicative of the political climate today because so little consideration is taken seriously as to whether or not the government shouldn't be doing that in the first place.
	I see that as a sign we are screwed and the people do love Big Brother.
	Yeah, they do.
	Have you seen that...
	That the FBI is now putting on the big Jumbotron screen in Times Square, which is run by Clear Channel.
	Just like 1984, they're doing the top ten list for their most wanted criminals.
	Oh yeah, I heard about that.
	That's creepy.
	This is creepy.
	That's Big Brother.
	It's like, here's the bad people you need.
	Thanks from Britaille, $200.
	Also $250 from Oliver Judge, who really just says keep up the good work.
	Uh...
	We also have a request.
	I'm going to read it because I want to tell Greg Wilson why we can't do this.
	He says, I'd like the donation plus the value of the following suggestion.
	He writes to be the executive producer of the first five episodes of No Agenda Ever Created.
	Don't state my donation because it's not important, but he wants us to retroactively name executive producers, blah, blah, blah.
	And he says, that's a great idea.
	You should give me a few.
	No, we can't do that because it's not in the show.
	No.
	We can't do it because this is not a bogus title.
	No, it's the real deal.
	And you're mentioned in the show.
	It's discussed.
	We talk about the credit.
	You can send a clipping.
	No, it's a real official credit.
	And it is exactly the definition of an executive producer.
	You paid money into the deal.
	That means you get to screw the actresses.
	Right.
	And one of these days when we get some actresses working for you, you can line up.
	You can have them all.
	And then, of course, $250.52 from Ralph Nellison, N-E-L-L-E-S-S-E-N. Nellison, yeah.
	From Aachen.
	$83 from Mark Botterford, Mobile, Alabama.
	$100 from John Smith of St.
	Pete again.
	He's halfway to nighthood.
	He will probably never be executive producer or associate producer, but I can give $100 a month, blah, blah, blah.
	This is dedicated to the Australian, it was an Australian guy by the way, not an Austrian, who had the balls of steel to do the in the morning plug during an interview.
	He's my hero!
	Yeah, he is.
	I played that again for myself just for a jolly.
	That was so good.
	Roman Vizantine from San Jose is our big executive producer and new knight.
	And he says again, I'm going to read this again because he deserves to have it read twice.
	Since Adam was so pissed off about the donations on Thursday, here is my payment for knighthood.
	I signed up for the $5 a month plan.
	Suck it, Adam.
	I'm sucking it, my friend.
	So keep up the good work.
	I love the show and I guess that's probably directed at me.
	So that's our group for this week.
	We appreciate that and all the little donations especially.
	And the $5 subscriptions will be good.
	That's all we got?
	Yeah, that's all we got.
	Alright, so I did get a few notes from people saying, hey, where's the $30 donation link?
	John, thanks for doing that.
	Yeah, that'll be up on Tuesday.
	The whole point was to have it up so people could, like, do it when they heard the show.
	I saw the one guy complaining.
	Okay, it was only one.
	But still.
	Good things come in threes.
	Yeah.
	There's a couple guys that say...
	So that was it, huh?
	That was it.
	All right, well...
	Thank you very much.
	We appreciate every single donation counts.
	At least getting some keeps us motivated.
	Please consider getting on a 5 or a 10 or, by Tuesday, a $30 a month plan.
	Now, that may seem steep for some people, but it really isn't.
	No, for some people, it's not even steep for...
	There's some people that can afford it, and it's not really...
	If you take a look at what you're paying for parking...
	Yeah.
	Noagendashow.com Yeah, thanks for all the bitching.
	Yeah, complain, complain, complain.
	These Russians.
	So I would have to say the best governmental fail of the week has to go to the FBI. And I did go to the FBI website to make sure that this wasn't a hoax, because I've been hoaxed a couple times.
	They put out a new composite picture of Osama Bin Laden, what he looks like today.
	Yeah.
	He looks like the guy who runs my gas station down here.
	Well, unfortunately, he looks like a Spanish politician.
	Yeah.
	I'm sure you saw this, John.
	You must have blogged it.
	So they actually took a picture of, by the way, an anti-New World Order politician.
	Coincidentally?
	Yeah.
	Coincidence?
	I think not!
	And they morphed his picture with Osama Bin Laden's.
	And it's very obvious when you see the hairline and even the eyes and the nose.
	All the links are in the show notes at NoAgendaShow.com under the heading Ministry of Truth.
	And, of course, it's got no real play anywhere.
	But, wow.
	I mean, this tells you a couple things.
	One, composite pictures are bogus.
	That's lame.
	They have no technology.
	It's like CSI Miami.
	Oh, we have put together a new composite.
	This is what, with aging techniques and all of our sophisticated algorithms, this is what it looks like today.
	No, they just took two pictures.
	They took a picture of a guy they hated already and morphed it in Photoshop.
	That's unbelievable.
	That has to tell you something about it.
	And by the way, have you looked at the top ten most wanted?
	It's all guys from Spain and Mexico, and they're all wanted for killing their wife.
	And then there's Bin Laden, who's not even wanted for the September 11th attacks.
	Hey, there's the 1017.
	Or is it the 1015 that's two minutes late?
	I think it's a 10-15 that's two minutes late.
	When it rains, the trains go real slow down the track.
	I wanted to give a little shout out to the boys and girls down under.
	Not only do we have a lot of listeners slash producers in the lowlands, but also in Gitmo Nation down under.
	I guess this is kind of a tradition.
	Every year they have one of the Australian rules footballers, which isn't quite the same as rugby, I think.
	No, no.
	It's a much more complicated game.
	It's actually highly entertaining.
	Well, Australia in general is entertaining.
	And by the way, I'm going.
	John, you and I are going.
	We're going to Australia this year.
	We should just go.
	You're game, right?
	Yeah, I've always wanted to go to Australia, as long as I don't have to go to Perth.
	Persia's beautiful.
	And prostitution is legal in Sydney.
	Let's go this weekend.
	So they have the lamb council.
	Because they've got a lot of lambs.
	A lot of sheep.
	A lot of lambs.
	And they want people to eat it.
	Because it's good food.
	So they get one of these Australian rules football players, and they made a commercial.
	I just want to play the commercial because it's kind of funny.
	It gets really good at the end.
	And so the guy's obviously reading from a script, but it's a beautiful fake set, I presume.
	It's looking like the United Nations...
	Big Brother-esque, and he's got big screens up on the wall of him, and he's doing this speech.
	And he wants the United Nations to declare January 26th as International Australia Day in his so-called 2010 address.
	But I really like some of the memes he's pushing out there.
	My fellow Australians, and the rest of you, mankind is facing a pandemic that threatens its very existence.
	Un-Australianism.
	As a planet, we're not eating enough lamb.
	In Chinese he says, for example, a billion Chinese people not eating chops with their chopsticks.
	Chew young pie.
	Consequently, un-Australian behaviour is rife worldwide.
	In my own region, rugby league teams touring New Zealand would do a lot better if they shared lamb cutlets in their hotel rooms instead of what's on offer at the pub.
	And why can't English speakers pronounce Turkey air properly?
	Factory calling a proud nation Turkey.
	What a load of Istanbul!
	People of the world.
	It's time to focus on what truly unites us.
	Lamb!
	What do Iraq and Barack have in common?
	A rack in their name.
	Is there anyone in the Middle East who doesn't love a lamb feast?
	We could revive peace talks and bring everyone back to the table by renaming the holy city Jerusalem.
	And as anyone that's had a curry in Pakistan knows, is lamb a bad?
	Of course it bloody well isn't.
	So the message is clear.
	Our world would be a better place if we were more Australian.
	If we all came together as mates over a lamb barbie, just like we do down under.
	Which is why I'm asking the United Nations to declare January the 26th, International Australia Day.
	A day when every citizen of the world throws some chops on the grill and proudly proclaims, Ish fin ain't barbecuer.
	That should just about get me the Nobel Peace Prize next year.
	So don't be un-Australian.
	Eat lamb on International Australia Day.
	You know it makes sense.
	I'm Sam Kekovic.
	I think that's good.
	It is pretty funny.
	I like it.
	Lots of puns.
	Islamabad?
	I bloody well think not.
	Islamabad.
	This is what I mean.
	We gotta go there, man.
	This is humor.
	I'm glad this stuff can still make it on the air.
	In America, it would be like, oh, you can't do that.
	You can't say that about these countries.
	Jerusalem.
	Oh, you Zionist.
	As Jerusalem.
	It's racist, man.
	It's racist.
	It's racist, dude.
	Totally racist.
	So, of course, we were way ahead of the curb.
	Of the curb.
	We're ahead of the curb, too, I can tell you right now.
	That's it.
	We are ahead of the curb.
	So, now reports are coming out all over the world.
	In fact, I got this report from Pakistan.
	That there is a lot more tungsten fake gold than we ever could have imagined.
	Apparently in the Bank of England, in Fort Knox, and this all kind of started with the gold that the Chinese received in 2009.
	And they did a little test on it.
	You know, you've got to test your dope.
	And they said, okay, we're sending this back.
	Because it was just tungsten with a little bit of gold on the outside.
	Which still, you know, a tungsten gold bar still costs, I guess, like $30,000 or $40,000 to put together.
	But that's a hell of a lot better than the $400,000 that it should be.
	Well, actually, it's more now.
	Okay, but here's what's interesting.
	There was an article in late January 2004 in the...
	I think it must have been the New York Post.
	District Attorney Investigating NYMEX Executive...
	This is February 2nd, 2004.
	A top executive at the New York Mercantile Exchange is being investigated by the Manhattan District Attorney.
	Sources close to the exchange said that Stuart Smith, I love this name because you can Google that, you're going to get a million people except this guy.
	It's an impossible name to Google.
	Yes.
	Senior Vice President of Operations at the Exchange was served with a search warrant by the District Attorney's Office last week.
	Details of the investigation have not been disclosed, but a NYMEX spokeswoman said it was unrelated to any of the exchange markets.
	She declined to comment, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	The offices of the Senior Vice President of Operations, NYMEX, is exactly, of course, where you'd go to find the records of every gold bar.
	They're all stamped.
	Thank you, darling.
	They all have a physical number.
	And this is how they're all...
	These are the guys that track the gold bars.
	And they have to keep these records.
	So they show...
	You can track every single bar of gold.
	Now, the guy resigned.
	And no one has heard from him since.
	Okay?
	Coincidence?
	I think not!
	That's interesting.
	Yes.
	Now...
	April 14, 2004, a few months later, from Reuters, N.M. Rothschild& Sons Ltd., the London-based unit of investment bank Rothschild, has announced it will withdraw from trading commodities, including gold, in London as it reviews its operations.
	So why did the Rothschild get out of gold two months after that investigation?
	Because they didn't want to have anything to do with it.
	They're like, we're getting out of this.
	This is a mess.
	It's all going to come...
	It's going to blow up.
	People are going to figure this shit out.
	We don't want any part of it.
	They got out in 2004.
	Good for them.
	Very, very smart.
	So...
	I think that, you know what, maybe it would just be fun because we've got this whole end the Fed movement Perhaps the thing to do, really, is to say, you know what?
	Okay, forget the trillions of dollars that you won't tell us who you sent it to.
	You know, the offshore banks.
	And, of course, the poor Bloomberg reporter who sued the Federal Reserve over this information died mysteriously of a mysterious disease.
	Guy was 6'9", huge, athletic, fun guy.
	So forget about that.
	We don't care.
	My advice to reporters getting involved in stories like this, just collect tweets.
	And read them on the air.
	You too can make a paycheck.
	I think we should just check the gold.
	You know, this is another thing.
	They always say, yeah, sure, you can check the gold.
	Make an appointment.
	So I think we should check the gold.
	But not just look at it physically, but we've got to test it.
	We've got to drill holes in it.
	We've got to see if there's tungsten in there.
	No one can stop that.
	There would be outrage if people said, we just want to see our gold.
	This has happened before, I believe.
	And they sent a whole bunch of shields in.
	You know, this is the way to stretch the budget.
	What do you mean?
	You take your gold, you got 10 bars of gold, and you say, well, I can make this into 100 bars of gold by buying a bunch of tungsten with one of the bars, and you use one bar to buy the tungsten, and then you need a little smelter, I guess, and then you make them go in.
	A little smelter.
	So, actually, now that you mock me for saying little smelter, ah, that brings me to the point that this cannot be a two-bit operation.
	Oh, no.
	Oh, no, this is real.
	Yeah, this is real.
	Well, yeah.
	Probably involving the gold smelters themselves, the big boys.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	I think that it would be interesting to just test our gold.
	There's nothing wrong with that.
	You know what?
	All the fake money, all that stuff that you guys have been hiding, we'll trade that.
	Just show us the gold.
	Show us the gold.
	That's a good meme, by the way, as well.
	People can get into that.
	Show us the gold.
	Anyway, yeah.
	Alright, you've got a couple more clips.
	I'm bored of hearing myself.
	I've got some other clips.
	These are just miscellaneous clips that are kind of interesting.
	I think I've spotted a new meme that might be coming about.
	I've got a little thing on the Tea Party because I thought it was interesting to listen to these guys on the McLaughlin Report.
	By the way, our continued discussion of Monica Crowley.
	I'm going to blog this.
	She was on the McLaughlin Report and I swear to God she was wearing some dominatrix spikes.
	I don't know how tall they were.
	Some Italian CFM shoe with a real pointy toe.
	And the camera guys caught it and I took a photo.
	And who was wearing these?
	The blonde.
	Monica Crowley?
	Crowley.
	Really?
	Yeah, they were CFM shoes if ever there were.
	And they were stilettos.
	Huh, so what are you saying?
	She's a dominant?
	She's into kinky sex stuff?
	No, maybe.
	She might be kinky into sex, but it was funny to compare her to the other woman that's on the show who was wearing the Democrat.
	She was wearing flats.
	Yes.
	They were actually sensible shoes.
	Yes, sensible flats, like your Crocs.
	Anyway, exactly.
	So anyway, so I'm listening to some of these shows.
	So I caught one of the other blondies that's floating around is this Margaret Hoover, who O'Reilly just adores, and he just always calls her Hoover.
	So they're talking about something or other.
	Which, by the way, is another sexual reference.
	Hoover.
	Oh, yes, yes.
	Because, of course, Hoover is a vacuum cleaner in the United Kingdom, so she's actually a sucker.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I'm just saying.
	Oral sex is what you're referring to.
	Correct.
	So Hoover, she goes off the deep end trying to explain something and gets it so screwy that, just play the Hoover piece and then it will go into the fact that, by the way, as you're listening to it, remember that there's a very famous book called Plato's Republic.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	It was not written by Aristotle.
	Oh, I saw this.
	I saw this.
	I saw this piece, yeah.
	And I don't know if the Danes are so happy.
	Well, it's subjective.
	I know it's subjective.
	But when I heard the Danes are the happiest people on earth, I thought back to my ancestors in Ireland who were beheaded and raped by the Danish Vikings.
	And I don't know if that was a happy experience perpetuated by the Danes back then.
	You know what I mean?
	If you think Aristotle had anything good to say about happiness...
	Aristotle?
	Is he Danish?
	I thought he was Greek.
	No, but listen to me, because he had a few good nuggets that have lasted for a few thousand years.
	He says happiness comes from satisfaction in four things.
	Vocation, family, community, and faith.
	And the more the government...
	Aristotle said that?
	Yeah, he did.
	I'm just stilling it down for you so you don't have to read the Republic.
	Excellent.
	Here's the deal.
	Yeah.
	And this was, by the way, in reference to Oprah featuring Denmark as the happiest place on earth.
	And she was up there talking to the Danes and they were like, yeah, we have free health care, so we're happy!
	Yeah, it was basically a propaganda piece.
	But to whoever come off with this, with this, you know, the fourth Aristotle said about happiness including faith.
	Yeah.
	It sounds like maybe Voltaire would have said this, but it was just off the wall, and then she claims that he wrote The Republic.
	She's crazy, this girl.
	Well, we all know that Aristotle said there are four things to happiness.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	So, John, now you don't have to read The Republic.
	I won't have to read The Republic.
	Okay, so now, anyway, I thought that was interesting.
	Here's a couple other little pieces I got.
	Apparently, the swine flu thing, and you might want to hit the swine flu minute thing because it's only going to be a minute.
	They've got this.
	Now everybody's a little bit upset about the fact that they've all these governments, local, state, federal, they've all bought all these shots that nobody's taking.
	And they're saying, uh, it was the pharmaceutical companies, man!
	They took us for a ride, dude!
	They hyped it up!
	It wasn't true!
	The media's complicit!
	And now the county apparently is trying to get people to take this shot for free.
	Just come and get it.
	Just take it already.
	We've got to write it off.
	But it's this woman who's giving this report, the way she's with the county, and the latest rationale is not that there's going to be another wave.
	It's just her argument is just take a shot.
	What's the problem?
	It's not going to hurt, is it?
	I think in order to just...
	To limit the impact that this is going to have on our community, the thing that you can do to help us out, to help everybody out, is to just get vaccinated.
	County offered 10,000 doses of the H1N1 vaccine today.
	If you need to get vaccinated, you can contact your local health department.
	Just, you know, just help us out here.
	Just take it.
	Just get vaccinated.
	Just help us out.
	Just help us out.
	Help us out.
	Help a brother out, will you?
	Look, we got like a million doses of this stuff.
	Help me out.
	Just get the shot already.
	Because, you know, the doctors do get paid for the shot they administer.
	Ah, well, they need the money.
	Yeah.
	Okay, so now I'm watching the Monica Crowley show with McLaughlin and her and her shoes.
	I want to see this picture.
	I want to see this picture of her shoes.
	You're going to go, wow.
	So they're really like high-end Italian jobs?
	They're serious, expensive stilettos.
	But they're really stilettos.
	Show me this picture!
	I can't enjoy the sound clip without the visual.
	Well, this sound clip's got nothing to do with that.
	We'll bring up the picture later.
	It's on the camera.
	This is a question I had to ask.
	I just play a little bit of this tea party stuff.
	They start talking about the tea party on the show, and they're talking about who might lead it, and nobody leads its leader list, and it's this, that, and the other thing.
	But just play this, and then I have a comment to make.
	Who galvanized the tea party?
	Well, that's a good question about galvanization.
	And by the way, I have to say that there was a time when I felt that you were a bit like McLaughlin.
	There's a little bit of McLaughlin in you.
	It probably is.
	Yeah, a little bit.
	But I enunciate it better.
	Yeah, well, he's gone over the edge.
	Now he's really old.
	Predictions next!
	Wrong!
	Wrong!
	Wrong is what's happening.
	Is that crazy woman?
	What's her name?
	Ellen, what's her name?
	Eleanor.
	Yeah, she's the one with the sense of shoes.
	She's the one with the flats.
	Yeah, yeah, that would make sense.
	All right, here we go.
	Because Ron Paul was...
	I'm sorry, I've got to back it up.
	I like Tony.
	You know Tony?
	Yeah, Tony's not on anymore.
	Oh, I love Tony.
	It's Monica Bump Tony.
	Oh, because Tony was kind of like a soprano.
	Yeah, and he's gone, and he's not hot.
	No, he's definitely not hot, but I liked him because he always had the sensible kind of point of view, and he had the nice-looking threads.
	This was Clarence Page, Monica, Eleanor, and Buchanan.
	Okay, at least Monica's on, with her hot stilettos.
	Okay, here we go.
	Well, that's a good question about galvanization because Ron Paul was one of them, but there are a number of people around the country with different tea parties.
	Yeah, Dick Army was certainly one who, with his organization, has helped to fund buses and all this.
	Ron Paul wasn't a tea party member.
	That's crap.
	No, the whole thing is false.
	He's a member of the Republican Party, and he's not a member.
	I mean, he thinks it's good.
	No, but they bring it around to the fact that the Tea Party people tend to like Ron Paul.
	Oh, okay.
	Bring people out.
	But you've got a lot of Tea Parties around the country.
	This is what?
	Followers without real leaders.
	They've got figureheads.
	Yeah, this is a true grassroots movement.
	Okay, stop right there.
	That's basically what I was getting to.
	What happened to the meme they kept trying to push that it wasn't grassroots?
	A bunch of racists.
	Yeah, and it was the pharmaceutical companies and Big Oil and these were the guys behind it.
	It was AstroTurf.
	And they were carrying Nazi signs.
	So now it's a true grassroots movement, and that's the new meme.
	Why did they give up?
	Of course, they couldn't keep pushing that phony, because they keep coming back at them.
	Who was saying that?
	That was Clarence Page from the Chicago Tribune, the black guy.
	But they all agreed.
	They all went around the horn and saying the same thing, which is, yeah, it's kind of a leader.
	Well, I'll tell you why, John.
	I'll tell you why.
	Everybody is hedging their bets, because they know how big this really is.
	The media is not showing it.
	The politicians know it.
	The media really does know.
	The Tea Party movement is big.
	And we've got a lot of people in the chat room listening to the stream who are a member of local Tea Party groups.
	It's very much like we are change.
	These are people who really do stuff.
	And it's a hedge.
	It's a hedge because these people are all afraid that when the Tea Party starts to grow, they're going to get their ass kicked.
	So they're starting to suck up now.
	Yeah, no, I think that's exactly what it is.
	Let's listen a little bit more.
	I like this.
	This is a good conversation.
	Let me hear some more.
	There's no Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin, who they like, but nobody has really taken real leadership here or real organization.
	What's happening here, though?
	We don't know.
	Oh, I'll take it one step further.
	I'll take it one step further for you, sir.
	They are trying to help find the leader.
	Because if you can get the leader and be on his side in the beginning, then that's where all the power is going to be.
	No, I think it's even more...
	I think it's more sinister than that.
	I think what they're really going to do...
	I don't think I get all the way to the end of this whole clip, but at the very end...
	Well, let's try it.
	Let's try it.
	What the hell?
	Let's try it.
	Let's just go through it.
	This is interesting.
	This is the kind of stuff...
	We have to deconstruct this, John.
	This is our job.
	We took an oath.
	When we entered...
	An oath of poverty, apparently.
	Yeah.
	We're like monks.
	We need some alms.
	We should stop calling it donation and call it alms.
	All right, Brother John, here's our oath of poverty.
	How big the Tea Party movement is, we do know they've got a loud voice, and that they are working right now at the precinct level in the Republican Party to try to work their way up.
	But if they really become a significant force, I think we're going to start to see Democrats begin to listen to them.
	This hasn't happened yet.
	You saw the Tea Party group basically in action twice in the last two or three years.
	One was for the anti-immigration reform thing where they really took down the Kennedy, McCain, Bush immigration reform by a grassroots movement.
	The second was after the nomination of Sarah Palin.
	This enormous surge to McCain, huge crowds coming out when he couldn't get a couple hundred people before then.
	It's an ad hoc, it's a very broad-based movement.
	I think it's even broader than simply economics.
	But what Paul is...
	Don't forget Buchanan Brigades.
	Well, Buchanan Brigades and Paratistas in 92 and the early 90s were the same, exact same things.
	This could be very important in the primaries.
	Now, Paul...
	Stop, stop, stop.
	The who?
	The Paratistas?
	Paratistas?
	I don't know what he's referring to, but it's some sort of, I guess, I don't know, party.
	He's saying it's the same as the Tea Party.
	We should know about it in the 90s.
	You were alive then.
	Well, I was, yeah, and I remember the Buchanan stuff.
	It was all underground, but I don't know that moniker.
	I've never heard it before.
	I mean, it's probably in Wikipedia.
	But I haven't heard the moniker before.
	He just threw it out there trying to make it appear as though he, Buchanan, who makes some good observations, but I think he's always felt he's been slighted as a serious politico.
	True.
	By the way, a correction.
	Ron Paul actually held the first Tea Party in modern times, and from that the Tea Party was born.
	But it was indeed called the Tea Party.
	And it was a great meme that he said.
	Guy's a genius!
	The freaking genius.
	Here we go.
	Well, Buchanan Brigades and Perotistas in 92 and the early 90s were the same, exact same things.
	This could be very important in the primaries.
	Now, Paul, Ron Paul will do better.
	He's not going to be nominated, but he will do better than he did before if he runs again, because you'll get some of those folks.
	But right now, quite frankly, the one candidate who can get them better than anybody else is Miss Sarah Palin.
	Who wins Massachusetts, Brown or Democrat Coakley?
	Brown wins.
	The revolution is on.
	Well, it would be very sad if that happened.
	I agree.
	And that is quite sinister.
	I agree.
	And I think you're spot on the money, John.
	It makes a lot of sense.
	Bring her on to Fox.
	Give her the Glenn Beck type of exposure and voice.
	And she'll be talking tea party this, tea party that.
	And the true tea party will have to be very vigilant in combating that.
	Because it's going to be, people are going to, oh, she's perfect for us!
	And she will suck up, she'll hoover up to the tea party like nobody's business.
	And I don't hate her, but she's wrong.
	She is not right for the tea party.
	Right.
	Yeah, you're right.
	That's pretty sinister.
	So they're working on pushing her agenda.
	And of course, I think we've discussed this before.
	All these networks are owned by the same basic people.
	And so they're going to take Sarah and move her into a higher profile so she gets a lot of attention as an analyst.
	Oh, it was Perot, dude.
	The Perotistas.
	Oh, right.
	Perotistas.
	Perot.
	Ross Perot.
	Duh.
	Thank you, chat room.
	I got my eye on you.
	Anyway, so somebody does.
	Or it was the Paraquat Smokers Union.
	We're not quite sure.
	There's a debate.
	Paraquat.
	Very dangerous stuff, by the way.
	So they're going to push...
	Sarah, on to the top, make her the head of the thing somehow.
	Oh gosh, that would be...
	Wait, stop!
	This shows how powerful this movement is!
	This is huge!
	This really shows it!
	If they are so afraid that they are now already trying...
	And make no mistake, this airs on MSNBC, I think?
	No, that show airs on PBS. It is PBS, I'm sorry.
	Yes, the people who take advertising...
	Or whatever you want to call it.
	Or whatever you want to call it.
	They are so afraid of this movement that's going on that they are now trying...
	And this happens all the time.
	They do this in foreign countries.
	This is what the CIA actually does.
	You know, we've got to push a new leader in there.
	And it's the new Che Guevara.
	And you know what?
	You can take that to the bank.
	You can take it to the bank.
	So anyway, I found that to be a little upsetting.
	Yeah, because I have a huge belief in the Tea Party movement, and a lot of people in my...
	We have two knights that are in the movement.
	Oh, yeah.
	Two nights, we have a lot of people who are in the movement.
	And you know what?
	But there's a lot of people who are really starting to wake up.
	They're still very susceptible to what's going on, and they could be fooled.
	So I just want to make no mistake.
	Sarah Palin in the Tea Party is not a good idea.
	It's a bad idea.
	We need, like, some farmers.
	Willie Nelson would be good.
	So now I'm looking, of course, it's hard, you know, a lot of people watch this and kind of miss the fact that it's a little piece of propaganda because they're staring at Monica's feet.
	Yeah, at the stiletto, it's like, oh, hot, hot chick stiletto.
	Sarah Palin is good for the tea party.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's how it works.
	That's weird.
	You know what's next, John?
	Okay, we have determined that Sarah Palin is perfect to lead the tea party.
	The science is in!
	Okay, now the last clip I have, thank God, is a new, I think there's a new meme coming up.
	They do this every once in a while.
	I'm not absolutely sure.
	I'm just going to let you play it.
	I'm not absolutely sure why they're doing it.
	Apparently they're doing it in England and they've already ran it out.
	And there's nothing wrong with cutting down on your salt consumption.
	I'm just a little concerned when we have government propaganda showing up as news stories.
	This is actually not even produced locally, but played around.
	It's one of those video press...
	Oh, electronic press kit.
	Electronic press kit.
	Insert your local reporter here.
	Right, and in fact, in this case, they didn't insert anybody that's local, but it's like, it's supposed to be a balanced report, you know, and they have somebody saying, and the only thing I can deconstruct from it that's interesting is that they're trying to make the idiotic argument that flavor stems from a lot of salt.
	And I'm not sure if they're actually trying to push salt with this, or they're trying to tell people to use less salt, but I think it's one of these, we should stop doing this, and then with the underlying message that we should do it more.
	Kind of like a drug commercial.
	I could be wrong.
	Yeah, like a drug commercial.
	Let's have a little listen.
	A popular seasoning used to give...
	Okay, stop.
	It's not a seasoning.
	It's not a seasoning.
	Even I know that.
	It's not a seasoning.
	It was intended initially to keep stuff from rotting.
	Isn't that what salt was used for?
	Wasn't that the big...
	Yeah, it's a preservative.
	Preservative.
	Thank you.
	That's the word.
	Salt was a huge discovery because you could put your meats in there and they would not rot.
	Yeah, but you use it to offset.
	It does change the electrolytic balance of your taste buds and whatever.
	Oh, sure.
	It does make things taste different.
	But anyone who's ever gone completely off of salt knows that your flavor buds pick up after a while.
	You try to get a balance.
	You don't obviously want your food to be too salty.
	Where did you record this from?
	This was a local news show.
	I think it was KPIX. So is that part of the W? Yeah.
	No, it wouldn't be a W. This would be a CBS station.
	CBS, right.
	CBS. Yes.
	A popular seasoning.
	A popular seasoning used to give bland food a cake.
	And you know that was in the script.
	Oh yeah.
	That was in the script.
	She's not just dumb.
	It was in the script.
	And it's supposed to give bland food a kick.
	A popular seasoning used to give bland food a kick is under attack.
	The government is looking for ways to get people to cut back on how much salt they use.
	Brian Wilson reports on the salt crackdown.
	Brian Wilson, wasn't he a top 40 disc jockey?
	No, it sounds like he used to be the head of the Beast Boys.
	No, this guy, by the way, he's not a local reporter.
	He is like somebody who's in Washington, D.C. or something.
	But anyway.
	All right, I'm going to hit it from the top and shut up.
	A popular seasoning used to give bland food a kick is under attack.
	The government is looking for ways to get people to cut back on how much salt they use.
	Brian Wilson reports on the Salt Crackdown.
	In New York City, the health commissioner says we need to slash 25% of the salt from our foods.
	Today, New Yorkers were responding as only they can.
	It makes the food taste good.
	We don't have to eat it and we don't have to buy it.
	No one's putting a gun to our head.
	I like Kraft macaroni and cheese and it's loaded with salt.
	Let me eat it!
	Currently, the FDA says you should consume at most about 2,300 milligrams of salt each day.
	That's about a teaspoon.
	But there are signs the FDA is on board with this idea of cutting the amount of salt in your food.
	FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said...
	that's peggie hamburger the f_d_a_ is investigating ways to work with others in government and in industry to reduce sodium in the american diet the national salt reduction initiative shines an important spotlight on the sodium issue and is helping to stimulate public and industry interest in sodium reduction over in the u_k_ where the food is so bad that you have to add a lot of salt Okay.
	I mean, that's like...
	Britain should now...
	I knew you'd love that.
	Britain should declare a war on the United States.
	Yeah.
	Over in the UK, where food is so bad, you've got to be drunk, and you've got to pour the whole salt shaker on it just to get it down your guillet.
	This is what passes for news reports.
	Oh, boy.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Let's hear that one again.
	Public and industry interest in sodium reduction.
	Over in the UK, where the food is so bad that you have to add a lot of salt in order to choke it down, the...
	It's a joke.
	Yeah.
	Subjective reporting.
	Oh my god.
	I'm actually choking on my own vomit.
	Hold on.
	Alright.
	I gotta hear it again.
	Public and industry interest in sodium reduction.
	Over in the UK, where the food is so bad that you have to add a lot of salt in order to choke it down, this assault on salt has been going on for some time.
	Salt is your food for living.
	Well, is it?
	The Salt Institute insists that without salt, foods will be bland and people will just pick up the salt shaker.
	Those who manufacture foods, they say, will likely experiment with other ways to make food taste better.
	And that could be a complex cocktail of chemicals that folks don't want and they'd much rather have natural, organic salt that people have been eating for thousands of years.
	And it seems unlikely that restauranteurs will be willing to use less salt, who, after all, wants the reputation of being that place that serves food with no taste.
	I want the food to taste great.
	So the only thing that could really persuade me to stop using salt would be if people started insisting that I not use salt, i.e., my customers, not the government.
	So what should consumers, who do not want the government pinching their salt, do about all this?
	Oh, pinching their salt?
	Good little pun, buddy!
	I think consumers who really just enjoy food that tastes good should make their voices be heard, you know?
	And if not, they should probably stock up on salt shakers.
	Before I'm contacted by angry doctors from across the country, let me acknowledge that too much salt is bad for you.
	It can hurt your heart, it can hurt your kidneys, and it can give you high blood pressure.
	It's also true that salt is an essential element of life, just as important as water.
	In Washington, Brian Wilson.
	There is so much, so much in this.
	I know there's some clips we can pull out, too.
	Yeah.
	Okay, so first of all, for those of you who are...
	So we should have maybe done the choke it down thing after Hoover.
	Yeah, really.
	Sorry.
	So, okay, so, wow.
	Wow, wow, wow.
	So first of all, people, if you look at the table, there's another thing next to it which is actually intended to add a cake to your food.
	It's called pepper.
	And there are many herbs and spices that can make your food taste wonderful.
	This salt thing is crazy.
	I think, John, actually what this may be, and I have a story here from Gitmo Nation UK. It seems more like this is a part of the government just telling you how to live your life.
	Actually, I'm sorry, not UK. This is from down under.
	This is from Australia.
	Government workers will teach Victorian parents how to raise their children under a radical overhaul of the state's child protection system.
	Newly hired social workers will spend up to a year teaching parents basic skills, such as disciplining children, making healthy meals, and managing school schedules.
	I think, if anything, it's more this.
	It's more of, you know what?
	You don't know what's good for you.
	We're going to tell you what's good for you.
	Yeah, you can fight us, but it's really unhealthy for you.
	And the government knows what's good for you, and you should listen to us.
	I think that has to be a big part of it.
	On the other hand, I'm sorry.
	It was this woman hamburger and her salt reduction initiative.
	Instead of keeping these crazy drugs like Chantix off the market, this is what she's doing.
	I don't get it as a 58th problem.
	I'm just looking.
	I'm seeing if I can find anything about salt.
	Salt Reduction Initiative.
	American Salt Reduction Initiative or some crazy thing.
	I can listen to the clip again.
	It was too long, but I can pull it out.
	Well, something we should certainly keep our eye on.
	It's crazy.
	And if anything, it was an assault on the empire of the United Kingdom.
	It was an all-in-all-out assault.
	Notice the pun.
	It's an assault.
	It's an assault.
	Ha ha ha ha.
	By the way, Byte Law just sent me a note, which I think I should mention.
	It's got nothing to do with this, but I should mention it anyway.
	He says that Pat Buchanan's comment about Sarah Palin may be an indicator that he wants her to run for president with him as VP. Yeah, there's a ticket.
	There's a ticket to hell.
	If they dress up in leather, maybe.
	Get some of Crowley's heels.
	And I'm looking at you, Pat Buchanan.
	Then maybe.
	Maybe, maybe, maybe.
	Alright.
	Monsanto.
	Tons of great news about the world's best company.
	Best run company with the world's best CEO. We know it as Monsanto.
	Monsanto News!
	We should have our own special Monsanto News bulletin, since they soon will be their own country.
	They have purchased Westbread for $45 million in a move that will expand its Seeds and Traits portfolio to include wheat.
	Westbred, a company specializing in wheat germoplasm, the crop's genetic material with breeding capabilities and commercial operations that will form the heart of Monsanto's wheat portfolio.
	John, could you please tell me what this could mean to us?
	I don't know, some sort of toxin in the food supply.
	Well, I mean, tell me about wheat.
	Wheat is used everywhere.
	It's used to make bread.
	Yeah.
	Don't we, like, eat a lot of bread?
	It's a staple.
	It's a staple, right?
	Here's the one that kind of freaked me out though.
	They've hired a new guy at the Gates Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
	And this is the man named Sam Dryden.
	And Sam Dryden is a Monsanto shill.
	He has been in the GM business all his career.
	He was also, by the way, at Union Carbide during the famous Bhopal India disaster.
	No, I'm sorry, that happened right after he left.
	But of course, that plant was put into operation while he was there.
	What's this guy's name again?
	Sam Dryden, D-R-Y-D-E-N. In addition to his for-profit activities, Sam has extensive pro bono involvement in efforts related to food security and international economic hitmen.
	I mean development.
	Currently, he is an advisor to the World Bank regarding rural development strategy, a member of the board of directors of the Global Crop Diversity Trust.
	Nice.
	Sam serves on the Nation Academics Panel on Science and Technology for Global Sustainability.
	Dude, this guy has eugenicists written all over him.
	In the past, he's served on the Steering Committee for the Global Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology led by the World Bank, a member of the Executive Council as well as the Private Sector Committee, a consultative group on international agricultural research.
	He has been advisor to the Rockefeller, McKnight, and MacArthur Foundations, and a member of the Design Advisory Committee and Scientific Advisory Board of its African Agricultural Technology Foundation.
	In the mid-80s, Sam chaired a Rockefeller Brothers Fund development initiative to benefit developing country food security.
	Food security.
	He also served on the board of the South and North Development Initiative, a private Rockefeller Family Foundation for alleviation of rural poverty.
	Sam is also a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and serves on its Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property and American Competitiveness, also known as the People Who Protect Monsanto.
	In the past, he served on its study group analyzing trade issues between the United States and Europe surrounding genetically modified foods.
	Whoa.
	This is not a good dude.
	So, I just thought that was rather interesting.
	Let me just read just a commentary from the Grist who's talking about this.
	This is just the blogger saying the following, that whether Western biotech can really feed the world remains a matter of great debate.
	But the Gates Foundation positions on whether GMOs are a panacea no longer need to be debated.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	Oh, John, don't tell me.
	Yes.
	The science is in.
	No longer needs to be debated.
	We all agree.
	Science!
	Science!
	Of course, what he meant by that is that the Gates have bought in hook, line, and sinker, obviously.
	There's more about Peggy Hamburger of the FDA, and this kind of blew me away.
	In a major shift on Friday, the agency said, oh my goodness, BPA... Or, by Cephanol A, widely used in plastic bottles and food packaging, which it declared safe in 2008, Peggy Hamburger comes out and says, Well, there's some concern about the potential effects of BPA on the brain, behavior, and prostate gland of fetuses, infants, and children.
	This stuff might actually kill you!
	So, what do we believe here?
	It was safe in 2008, and now they're actually going on to say, here's some things you can do to limit your exposure to BPA. Throw away scratched or worn bottles or cups made with BPA, which is plastic.
	Don't put very hot liquids into cups or bottles with BPA and check the labels on containers to make sure they are microwave safe.
	Also, the agency recommended mothers breastfeed their infants for at least 12 months.
	Liquid formula contains traces of BPA. I mean, whoa.
	I'm talking sippy cups.
	Almost every single child eating utensil or vessel is made of plastic with BPA. A lot of it is.
	Most of the modern plastics are this hard, interesting plastic.
	Right, but you got kids like teething and they scrape that.
	No, they probably eat the stuff.
	Yeah, no, probably they are.
	You have kids.
	Your kids still are on the sippy cup.
	They are.
	mainly because he's at Mevio, and that's required.
	That's right.
	That's true.
	Okay, so we got to look at, you know, there may be something more to this story, and I'm going to start digging, because...
	Let's see, in the U.S., the biphenyl A, sexist bisphenyl A, was estimated, in the U.S., it's manufactured by Bayer, Material Science, Dowl Chemical, and S-A-B-I-C, GE Plastics, formerly Hexion Specialty, and Sunoco.
	These companies, are they in the doghouse for some reason or other would be the question I'd start to ask.
	Could be.
	Could be.
	They're getting slapped?
	Yeah, it's possible.
	Alright, let me run through a couple more, John, as we kind of wind down.
	Just some stuff that I have to get off my chest.
	Senior Iranian anti-drug official has officially accused the U.S., Britain, and Canada of playing a major role in Afghanistan's lucrative drug trade.
	This happens on the sidelines of an anti-drug conference in Tehran.
	I love these coincidences.
	It's like having a Gamblers Anonymous at the win.
	On the sidelines of an anti-drug conference in Tehran, Deputy Head of Iran's Drug Control Headquarters, Taha Taheri, said that Western powers are aiding the drug trade in Afghanistan.
	Oh, you don't say!
	According to our indisputable information...
	Which I'd like to see.
	The presence of the United States, Britain and Canada has not reduced the drug trade and the three countries have had major roles in the distribution of drugs.
	IRIB quoted, I guess the Russian press bureau, quoted Tahiria saying on Thursday.
	Yeah, really?
	Yeah, don't say.
	But here's what was interesting.
	And you'll have to help me explain this.
	Taheri added that drug catalysts are being smuggled into Afghanistan through borders that are controlled by the US, British and Canadian troops.
	Some 13,000 tons of drug catalysts are brought into Afghanistan every year as the war-torn country is the producer of 90% of the world's opium.
	A drug catalyst?
	Yeah, apparently.
	I don't know what the drug catalyst is, but now they mention it.
	It would be a chemical that's involved in the manufacturing and hastens whatever process is going on.
	It's roundup ready.
	Well, no, Rhonda Breddy is not a catalyst of any sort.
	It's something like the platinum in the catalytic converter in your car where you get the gas goes through it.
	The platinum helps break.
	Oh, okay.
	It gives you more power.
	No, it doesn't give you more power.
	It takes out what it's supposed to take out in an efficient way.
	In other words, the catalyst makes manufacturing the drug easier.
	Gotcha.
	I would just say the thing to do is Google...
	U.S. Troops Protecting Poppy Fields, and click on the Images tab, and you will see tons and tons of pictures of, and it could be Blackwater for all I know.
	You can't really tell.
	I'd hate to think that our troops were actually doing that, but they're protecting the poppy fields.
	This is a well-known scam.
	And by the way, this Haitian thing is handy because they can stop the coke trade, which they hate.
	That's why they've been poisoning it with anti-worming, deworming crap.
	Because it's heroin they want you on.
	They want you on Chantix and heroin.
	And by the way, what's the difference?
	It's the same stuff.
	At least it seems that way.
	Well, it seems highly...
	It's not a good product to be ingesting.
	Then I have one more for you, John.
	And now, back to real movies.
	Oh, finally!
	Yes.
	The headline of the week, floor collapses at Swedish Weight Watchers Clinic.
	Yeah, yeah, a classic.
	I loved it.
	That's too funny.
	We suddenly heard a huge thud.
	We almost thought it was an earthquake and everything flew up in the air.
	The floor collapsed in one corner of the room and along the walls.
	Then the floor started to give way in other parts of the room.
	Shortly thereafter, the smell of sewage began to waft up into the room.
	Oh, God!
	That was my favorite part of my favorite real news of the day.
	I really like it.
	It can't be.
	And then this was really nice.
	This is from a...
	This is from a show running on Nickelodeon, so it's for kids.
	It's called The Mighty Bee.
	I don't know if you've ever seen this.
	I have not, but listen to this nice little clip from The Mighty Bee.
	I could have written the script myself.
	Water?
	Check.
	Taffy?
	Check.
	Headlamp?
	Check.
	Medical records?
	Check.
	One copy of Atlas Shrugged?
	Check.
	There we go.
	Oh, please.
	God.
	I do have one other piece of real news, which is kind of fun.
	San Diego.
	Dateline San Diego.
	Students were evacuated from Millennial Tech Magnet Middle School in the Chollisview neighborhood Friday afternoon after an 11-year-old student brought a personal science project that he had been making at home to school, authorities said.
	Maurice Luke, spokesman for the San Diego Fire Rescue Department, said the student had been making the device in his home garage.
	A vice principal saw the student showing it to other students at school around 11.40 a.m.
	and was concerned that it might be harmful.
	The San Diego police were notified.
	Time for Dragnet.
	The school, which has about 440 students in grades 6 to 8, emphasizes technology skills, was initially put on lockdown.
	Lockdown!
	Shut up, kids!
	You're locked down!
	no one getting out locked down.
	Well, authorities responded.
	Luque said the project was made of a half-empty liter Gatorade bottle with some wires and other electrical components attached.
	There was no substance inside.
	When police and the Metro Arson Strike Team responded, I didn't know we had that.
	The Metro Arson Strike Team.
	They also found electrical components in the student's backpack.
	Which could be like a cell phone, for all you know.
	After talking to the student, it was decided about 1 p.m.
	So they were on lockdown for almost two hours...
	Can you imagine the message?
	You know, this story, for one thing, this is a technical school, supposedly, where the kids are supposed to be doing this kind of stuff.
	The kid was making a motion detector advice, which is known as, I think, an Argus plate or something.
	It's a very simple experiment.
	Yeah, no, it's something kids would do if they're into science.
	It's like a volcano.
	It's like the baking soda volcano.
	Yes, I'm sorry.
	Science!
	So the question you have to ask yourself with all these kids, what is their takeaway insofar as how adults act?
	This has got to scare the crap out of kids.
	Well, it gets better.
	The student, John, will not be prosecuted, but authorities were recommending that he and his parents get counseling!
	Get counseling, you slave!
	Don't you dare make an Argus plate motion detector!
	Don't you dare make a baking soda volcano!
	You need counseling!
	Well, that may have been because the kid told him to...
	Go fuck yourself!
	It's like, hey, Principal, suck this!
	Hoover this, bitch!
	Sorry to throw that out at the end, but I've been pretty good.
	No, you had about three.
	I'm going to bring the duck call out, and I'm just going to keep track of your cursing.
	But anyway, the point is, this is one of the dumbest stories I've ever heard.
	We have it on the blog, by the way, if anybody wants to go read it there.
	My headline was, Idiots at School Go on Lockdown Over Child Science Project That Has Wires.
	Lockdown.
	I did put one...
	I'd put one story in the show notes just because it still is ongoing, obviously, but there's a pretty interesting story about NOAA, GISS. These, of course, are the National Climate Data Centers in the United States who have done a great job of helping us all believe the science is in on climate change by removing weather data from Here's
	the key piece.
	In the 70s, G-I-S-S and N-O-A-A... What's G-I-S-S, John?
	It's the...
	I have no idea.
	I can look it up.
	It's the...
	Government Interagency Services...
	I don't know.
	Anyway, the NOAA is the National Oceanaga...
	What is it?
	You don't get...
	You know, those guys.
	Write it down next time.
	Those guys.
	They took their temperature data from 6,000 weather stations.
	Institute for Space Studies.
	Thank you.
	Oh, there you go.
	So these are like NASA dudes.
	These are government organizations.
	They took their temperature data from 6,000 weather stations around the world.
	By 1990, this figure had mysteriously dropped to 1,500.
	Even more mysteriously, this 75% reduction in the number of stations that occurred had a clear bias against those at higher latitudes and elevations, like in Bolivia, where...
	Here it is.
	Where it's not warming up so much.
	Right.
	So we've just got to keep on top of these stories.
	That's what the show notes are for at NoAgendaShow.com.
	There's just a lot of links and it's just good to track all of this stuff because someone's got to do it.
	And I'll just give myself some props.
	There's good stuff in there.
	There's good stuff in these show notes.
	It's really worth it.
	Yeah, it's good.
	In fact, I would save page complete when looking at them in case they all disappear for some reason.
	Yeah, I use some of that Instapaper stuff, which is actually quite good.
	So, anyway, Dvorak.org slash NA or channeldvorak.com slash NA to help us out.
	Yeah, or just go to noagendashow.com.
	And we do need some help.
	We've had a pretty rough start for 2010.
	Understandable with the loss of jobs, the economy.
	It's understandable, but please think of us because we're not doing that well.
	We have taken the oath of poverty to bring you this information.
	I think we're bringing out good material.
	We are.
	And we're going to follow up on some of it, like the spike heels that Monica Crowley likes so much.
	Yes, important things we have to look into.
	At any rate, I will say that you have all the tools inside of you to change your perception, your reality of the world.
	Just look inside instead of buying the new Nike shoes.
	That's really all you need to do.
	You have it all inside of you.
	Human beings are the most creative beings in the universe.
	And with that, I say, coming to you from Gitmo Nation, West San Francisco, California, in the Crackpot Command Center, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from the Buzzkill Bunker here in raining northern Silicon Valley, where raining, it's raining, I'm John C. Dvorak.

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