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	Madam Speaker!
	The President of the United States.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's January 28th, 2010.
	Time for your Gibbo Nation media assassination episode 169.
	This is no agenda.
	Exposing the boils on the ass of America and coming to you live from the Minimum Security Containment Cell Crackpot Command Center in Gibbo Nation West, San Francisco, California.
	In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
	And you heard him say it, Mimimum.
	I'm in northern Silicon Valley.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	I'm Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	No, clearly the Skype connection is so crappy that you think I'm saying mimimimimim.
	You did.
	I said minimum.
	Okay.
	I was fine.
	Let the audience be the judge.
	Well, you know what?
	I'm just going to make you sound like crap today to the Skype.
	Oops.
	You're not going to have to.
	Oops.
	Oh, it worked.
	The chat room went crazy on us.
	They think we should do a sitcom.
	We'd have to change.
	It wouldn't be Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	It would be The Big Dick and Buzzkill.
	Ah, well.
	The Big...
	Well, I didn't mean The Big Dick.
	Well, yeah, I guess you...
	Anatomically, you're correct.
	And you shouldn't be such a grump, considering we have four executive producers today.
	Wow!
	Okay, lay it on me, big boy.
	Who we got executive producing the show?
	Well, the executive, executive, executive producer is Tanya Wayman, who is from New York City, and she's been building her way up to knighthood with nickel and dimes, and she said, screw it, and finish the job off with $662.20, to be exact.
	Should we do the ceremony right now?
	I think you should.
	Tanya from New York, right?
	Yeah.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	Tanya from New York City!
	I hereby knight you Dame Tanya.
	I hope I didn't hurt her.
	That sounds like you chopped her head off.
	No, that's only on the shoulders.
	It's okay, you can stand up, Tanya.
	Jeez.
	That's cool.
	Well, welcome to damedom or knighthood, whichever we call it, and the first to receive the official knighthood ceremony.
	Yeah, that took you a while, huh?
	Are you going to bitch about that too, old man?
	Let's see.
	$385.80 from Jordy Ramirez in Cancun.
	And he's also a night layaway.
	He'll get there pretty soon, right?
	He'll get there soon.
	Two more weeks.
	I mean, one more time, I think he's in.
	So he's our associate executive producer.
	And then, of course, another one that's working on this is Spongberg Enterprises.
	Our friends from Alberta.
	Spongberg Enterprises.
	What do they do, John?
	Spongberg?
	I don't know.
	He never says.
	Huh.
	But he wants the publicity.
	He's up there in Alberta.
	Rocky Mountain House, to be exact.
	And he actually has a request.
	Which is, what is Adam's rig...
	They want to copy it.
	I laughed when I read that one.
	By the way, you're getting worse by the second.
	The rig is fine.
	It's John's connection that is the part that sucks.
	You know what?
	I've started documenting it, but it's complicated.
	I don't even know how to document it.
	People go like, huh?
	How do I do that?
	Basically what he's done is he's jerry-rigged his Macintosh into a mixer, recorder, and when he shows it to you, it's like you might as well shoot yourself if you think you're going to copy it.
	But, they could use your microphone.
	That would probably be a start.
	Yeah, that's good.
	I mean, I want to document all of this.
	God, John, it's unbelievable.
	You call in, it sounds great.
	Well, let's get through the executive producers and I'll bitch about that.
	Alright, last is Go-Go's Michael.
	Go-Go's?
	Or Michael Go-Go's, I think, sorry.
	Michael Go-Go's.
	284.
	And he is from Tokyo.
	Hey, excellent.
	Wow!
	Okay, well, it's fantastic.
	Good morning.
	Ava just walked in.
	Well, that's fantastic.
	We've got three executive producers for this show, the top dog being Tanya from New York City, the executive producer.
	I'm just filling out the credit roll here.
	And then, of course, the associate executive producers, Jody Ramirez, Spongberg Enterprises, and Michael Gogos from Tokyo.
	You know the deal.
	Put this on your resume.
	Pull out the snippet from this recording if you need to back it up, and you're guaranteed to get...
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	And it really works.
	Even people who have not put it on their...
	On their resume have just gotten jobs by donating to the show.
	They got a job, right?
	We've proven this.
	Karma.
	Karma.
	Indeed.
	So I'm just not going to say anything more about the quality of your connection.
	Yeah, well I'm looking at my task manager to see if there's anything possibly running because I know there's nothing else in the house.
	I don't see anything going on.
	Look at it and tell me how many bits are you sending out.
	You can see that on the...
	Don't you have a bandwidth monitor in the PC? I have a really good one on the other PC, but this one here just has whatever the network monitor says.
	I mean, it's just degraded.
	You come in great loud and clear, and then it goes, steps right down to crap.
	So, that's Skype saying, on your end, saying, ooh, I don't have a good connection, I've got to lower the bitrate.
	It's your Skype that's doing it.
	Let's put it that way.
	Your Skype is lowering the bitrate.
	Why is it my Skype?
	Because that's the way Skype works.
	When my connection starts to fill up, when, like, Mickey sends out a picture, then all of a sudden, my Skype degrades the connection.
	When your Skype degrades the connection, what does that do to me sounding good or bad?
	No it does nothing to you.
	Then you hear me sounding like crap.
	You see?
	I've never heard you sounding like crap.
	Yes, you did.
	The minute Mickey sent a picture a couple weeks ago, you said, oh, it just sounds like you went to shortwave.
	And I said, oh, hold on a second.
	And I could see what was happening right here on the connection.
	And she was sending out a picture.
	My connection gets crunched, and then Skype starts to degrade the codex.
	So it's something in your place.
	It's your son, that commie.
	He's sabotaging it.
	He's in Washington at the moment.
	Well, he's VPN'd in somehow.
	So, I'm not completely buying into your, although I can still, of course, have a new router, so I have to change the port forwarding.
	But I'm not completely buying this because this never happens when you're not in San Francisco.
	It does.
	It does happen.
	And it doesn't happen with anybody but you.
	Well, isn't that unfortunate that we'd have to do a show twice a week and it sucks?
	I think you need to move.
	I think you need to get something other than AT&T DSL. Yeah, if it was available.
	We went through that.
	I can't get anything.
	Anyway.
	I'll just have to live with it.
	I think so.
	Unfortunately, the audience has to live with it.
	You shouldn't be so concerned.
	Well, it's hard to hear you sometimes.
	What about this thing here?
	There's this interesting little program called iPod Service.
	That listens to your USB, and if you connect an iPod, then it fires up your iTunes.
	It keeps coming and bouncing around where I don't like seeing it.
	I think I'm going to get rid of it.
	You know what?
	I think you should just get a Mac.
	What's that going to do?
	How's that going to change my Skype connection?
	Well, I don't know, because I know more about Macs than I can help you troubleshoot.
	It's Windows, man.
	It's always talking to home base.
	It's always doing something.
	It's communicating with the NSA and the CIA. I truly believe that there is something in your system that is uploading.
	That's why I said Carbonite.
	You've got to have some online backup system or something that's firing up.
	Not on this machine.
	There's really literally nothing on here.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	So what is this?
	NSA.sendhome.exe.
	Hmm.
	I wonder what that could be.
	All right, John.
	Let's get into the meat of this program.
	It was funny to watch all the tweets coming by last night.
	People are saying, oh, I know what they're going to be talking about on no agenda.
	And I'm like, do people really think that we're going to comment for a long while on that State of the Union?
	Well, I took a lot of notes.
	Okay, why don't you lay in with the notes and I'll comment back.
	We have no sound clips from it.
	I don't.
	I don't think you have any notes either.
	No, there's no reason to take sound clips from it.
	I got sound clips, but I don't have sound clips from that.
	That would be dull.
	The speech was dull enough.
	Yeah.
	There was something funny, though, that happened on Hannity.
	Well, before you get into that, can I just say the timing of all of this was so incredibly interesting.
	This State of the Union was actually postponed, and they were going to do it on a different day, and then they moved it to Wednesday.
	And I'm pretty sure that we can, without a doubt, speak of the...
	The distraction of the week on the agenda.
	Seeing as Wednesday was not only the announcement of the iPad...
	These guys know that so many people on the internet are going to be preoccupied with the iPad, that they won't have time to be preparing and thinking about the State of the Union.
	But also, it was the...
	The testimony and grilling of the financial division of the government, including little Timmy Geithner, Hank Paulson, about this scandal revolving around AIG and the backdoor bailout.
	And I'm pretty convinced that was timed specifically to cover that up.
	Do you have some clips from that?
	Yeah, I do.
	But let's get into the State of the Union first.
	Well, before we get too deep into it, do you notice this is all done with pool cameras?
	Everybody was shooting, you know, was sharing the images.
	Did you watch the whole thing and saw that one shot?
	It was only done once that I can remember, or that I saw, of the overhead shot that was straight.
	It appeared to be coming from the dome itself.
	Yeah.
	No, I didn't.
	In fact, I was watching C-SPAN, and I was kind of disappointed later when I switched over to look at some of the post-game analysis.
	And then, of course, you get all the networks are in HD. I mean, C-SPAN, it's like they're shooting it with a flip cam.
	I don't know what kind of cameras they got.
	I mean, yeah, maybe it's a pool cam, but dude, it was horrible.
	And I don't think it was all the same cameras.
	I don't think it was all one pool.
	Well, there may have been two pools, but the pool I was watching, which was the one used by CBS, which was in great quality.
	You could see everybody yawning, and they had a lot of nice shots of the audience.
	And they caught a lot of interesting things like, what were all the military generals doing in front there?
	And they never clapped, they never got up, they never got down.
	You know, this particular event is probably 90% of the exercise most of these people get on a year-by-year basis.
	They're up, they're down, they're up, they're down.
	I saw the Republicans were sitting down most of the time.
	They weren't getting up a hell of a lot.
	No, they got up once or twice, but it was rare.
	But the generals never got up except when Obama brought up the VA. They got up.
	The whole time I'm thinking, these guys are never going to get up because I guess they're not supposed to.
	But they did.
	Well, here...
	Is it possible?
	Now, they must release this script before the president gets up and delivers it.
	And I'll tell you why.
	No, no.
	This is already a well-known fact.
	Hannity had it posted on his website the night before.
	Oh, okay, good.
	Because I started getting CNBC iPhone app alerts about...
	One of the policies that Obama announced, you know, was like the...
	Maybe the freeze.
	But it was something.
	It came like 10 minutes before he said it in the speech.
	I got the alert.
	I'm like, huh?
	He hasn't even talked about this yet.
	It was kind of weird.
	And by the way, you know what this show is missing?
	Because it is a show.
	It's missing Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet as everyone's coming in.
	That would be great.
	Hey, and what is this fine yellow outfit you have on?
	What was up with that?
	All these women in yellow?
	This is new.
	Yellow and red for the women.
	The guys all wore either dark navy.
	A couple of old farts had gray suits on from Brooks Brothers.
	And all the ties were the same looking ties, and all the shirts were either blue or white.
	There was no variation other than that.
	It was ludicrous.
	Although, I must say, and producer-listener Chris pointed this out, Biden's tie matched Pelosi's suit.
	They coordinated.
	Biden's tie was kind of a blue tie with stripes going in the opposite direction of Obama's red tie.
	Correct.
	That, by the way, is a mind-control trick.
	I think so.
	And Flosie, she was wearing about 25 grand in pearls.
	Those things were bigger than my testicles.
	They were amazing.
	They were huge black and white pearls.
	She was wearing sealed testicles around her neck.
	It was outrageous.
	And she had a very sedate kind of a purplish, whatever the hell she was wearing, as opposed to all the women in the audience.
	Yeah.
	They're all red or yellow.
	It was coordinated, though.
	I mean, they had totally, what do you, you know, I'm sure Pelosi called up Jill.
	Jill, um, what's he going to wear?
	She probably did.
	Yeah, of course she did.
	Somebody's coordinating these outfits.
	Yeah.
	So here's the one that cracked me up in the whole speech.
	The funniest thing.
	By the way, that overhead shot that you didn't get to see is unbelievable.
	Straight down on the whole thing with a super wide angle fisheye lens.
	Oh, wow.
	It's astonishing.
	They only showed it once.
	Maybe not supposed to show it at all.
	I don't know.
	It was screwy looking.
	It's just my imagination.
	Doesn't he usually come through the side door and he came down the middle of the aisle this time?
	Oh, you know, that's funny.
	I think he's done both.
	Okay.
	Because Mickey's like, oh, he's going to come down the middle of the aisle.
	I'm like, no, he always comes through the side door.
	And there he was.
	He came right down the middle.
	It was totally like the Oscars.
	We were just missing Ryan Seacrest.
	That's all.
	So here's the funniest moment.
	Besides the guy getting up and down and up and down.
	So he turns to Michelle, and you have to kind of deconstruct this if you want to really appreciate it.
	It's pretty apparent, if you've been following this first year, that if Michelle Obama is allowed to go in her own direction with her own jet flying all over the world, pigging out, she's going to be the size of a house in about a year.
	Did you see the dress that she was wearing?
	Yeah.
	Every woman knows that she has to wear these big dresses to hide her enormous ass.
	So, Obama's assigned her the job of being in charge of some childhood obesity program.
	I know, it's hilarious.
	She was giving him the stink eye over this.
	Oh yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	And she actually told everyone to sit down.
	To sit down.
	It's not funny.
	That bastard.
	And he laughed about it, but she gave him a glare that there was enough to, you know, dissolve a block of ice instantly.
	Oh, yeah.
	Because obviously what he's done, he says, okay, if you're going to be in charge of childhood obesity, you're not going to be able to go out as a big fat woman.
	You've got to get rid of that butt, baby.
	But I can hear the conversation going, oh yeah, did you see that Peggy Hamburger who's in charge of the FDA? Now that's fat!
	And by the way, people can't help being fat, I guess.
	No, but you can help from flying around and going from place to place and chowing down constantly.
	I mean, you know, and you can, if you have to, you know, actors and actresses that are naturally fat, they can control their weight pretty well because they've got a role to play.
	And so Obama's, Michelle Obama's now got a role to play.
	Yeah, take some more classes.
	Come on, that's what we hired you guys for, to act.
	Act like it already.
	All right.
	Another thing that was weird was, Two things were going on behind Obama.
	One, especially at the beginning, you'd think that O'Biden was...
	You ever see that little monkey that has the symbols and you wind it up and it just...
	That's what Biden was looking like.
	And Pelosi would have these crazy smiles like a psychopath that would just crop up every so often.
	And the shot that I had on C-SPAN, you could just see her mouth and the tip of her nose in the background the whole time.
	It was a horrible shot.
	And you could see it.
	It's like that big.
	It's like faker than Hollywood fake.
	The smile.
	And also, I do understand you're really self-conscious when you're up there.
	You're like, oh, people are looking at me the whole time.
	But yeah, that smile is pretty crazy.
	We had producer Kevin did a little tally for us, because there were some changes in the script writing.
	We did not get a single, let me be clear...
	There was a single listen and only one look.
	Yeah, I remember the look.
	Yeah, I remember that, too.
	But there are a couple of new ones that are slipped in there.
	And this is from Kevin's note.
	It seems like now and still, followed by a pause, has taken over.
	Now, still.
	Make no mistakes were in there.
	Let me repeat.
	Remember this.
	The word job was said at least five times.
	Work, ten times.
	A few of the job and works were not in context.
	In total, the word jobs, Kevin says, twenty times.
	And this is interesting, the timing of it.
	For people who have never seen a State of the Union...
	It's kind of weird, because Mickey, who I think has never seen one, was like, what are they doing?
	Why do they keep clapping and standing up and sitting down and clapping?
	You think it's high mass at the Catholic Church?
	Yeah, a waste of time.
	So after they announced the President, it took four minutes until Pelosi introduced Obama, followed by another 50 seconds of applause, 75 minutes total from the time Obama walked into the room until the speech was over, and that time, 24 minutes of applause, Followed by one minute applause after the speech ended, which was short, I felt, and lackluster.
	Yeah, in general, I thought the applaud, there was less hooting and hollering, and of course it was supposed to be kind of solemn, I guess, because everybody's hurting.
	State of the Union.
	Everybody's hurting.
	So, did he say that he wants the troops out by the end of August of this year?
	You know, and this is what got me.
	I even had, you know, Nick, who works over at Mevio, who is kind of waking up to the, you know, the guy's like 30.
	He's kind of waking up.
	He's like, hey, wait a minute, there's something going on in the world.
	Is this what you guys talk about?
	So he texts me.
	He's like, oh, you've got to admit, that was a pretty good speech.
	You know, for people who can't really see through it, and if you don't know the background, yeah, it sounds great when he says, oh, I'm going to get the troops out.
	I'm going to get the troops out by the...
	No, actually, he said the combat troops will be out by August, and by the end of his term, that's four years, all troops will be out.
	You can take that to the bank.
	So, of course, we know the lie behind that is that this was going to be the first thing he was going to fix and take everybody out, and the subtlety between combat troops and troops, and then how about contractors?
	He should say, I'm going to get Blackwater out.
	Then I'd be standing up and applauding if he said that.
	And then there was the gays in the military.
	It's like, what's up with another empty, vapid promise?
	It's like he keeps promising stuff.
	I noticed that the generals didn't stand up and clap for that one.
	No, they were like, what?
	What?
	Hey, wait, that wasn't in the script.
	He didn't say that.
	And also, they caught, apparently CBS or one of the stations caught the Supreme Court Judge Aliotto.
	Yeah.
	When Obama's bitching about the fact that they passed this, you know, they had a decision based on how much money corporations can spend on campaigns.
	They're leaning over and saying, that's bullshit.
	Yeah.
	Oh, really?
	He said, that's bullshit?
	Well, he said, you know, he said it's not true or something.
	They caught him shaking his head and talking to the justice next to him as though Obama's full of crap.
	Oh, no, that's funny.
	I didn't catch that.
	They had a shot of them on C-SPAN when he called them out, but I didn't see any of that.
	I was actually looking.
	For some reason, this link broke.
	Who's the crazy Democrat?
	The one in Florida?
	Yeah, what's his name again?
	I don't remember.
	I can never remember that guy's name.
	Hold on, I've got it here.
	He's come out with a bill.
	This is crazy.
	This Thomas thing, it's like this guy's bill has changed locations on thomas.gov four times.
	And now it doesn't exist.
	Okay, I thought it was Bill H.R. 4431.
	That's what I wrote in my show notes.
	Where he's proposing a 500% tax on corporations who want to spend money on media campaigns for elected officials.
	Of course, it'll go nowhere.
	It's total grandstanding.
	But the idea is kind of funny.
	I don't understand why I can't find it.
	Oh, here it is.
	Okay.
	H.R. 4431, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a 500% excise tax on corporate contributions to political committees and on corporate expenditures on political advocacy campaigns.
	Grayson, Alan Grayson from Florida.
	Yeah, Grayson, that's his name.
	Yeah, you'll find that in the show notes at noagendashow.com.
	Funny, I like it, but, you know, useless.
	No co-sponsors.
	Hey, you don't say it.
	Boy, that thing went away quick, huh?
	You know the media's not going to talk about that.
	I've got to explain that to everybody.
	How come no one talks about this?
	Well, because who's the beneficiary of all that money?
	It's the media.
	Of course they're not going to talk about it.
	Of course not.
	I wouldn't.
	No.
	In fact, if we had sponsors, we wouldn't be talking about it.
	We should mention that.
	Yeah.
	So, yeah.
	It was just a...
	It was a speech, right?
	So here's another one I should mention.
	If people want to deconstruct this stuff, they should take, you know, take, the Republicans are trying to get this right, but it's like so obvious when you watch it, if anybody just actually thinks about it.
	So they had this guy, Bob McDonald from Virginia, the governor of Virginia, you know, doing kind of a slipshod response.
	At least it wasn't Bobby Jindal who basically screwed his, any chances of ever becoming a presidential.
	Yeah, this is the Republican response to the state of Yeah, the Republican response.
	So they had it in the state house of Virginia, which, you know, is kind of a cool looking place.
	But the thing was rigged in such a way that he's standing there at the podium and behind him are four people.
	There's one on the upper left, upper right, lower left, lower right.
	And it was just like so staged.
	It was worse than...
	I mean, it was so obvious.
	On the upper left was a black woman.
	On the upper right was some vague Asian-looking guy.
	They had to have a gay guy in there, hopefully.
	He may have been gay.
	And then in the lower...
	He may have been a dual purpose.
	And then on the lower left...
	He gets paid twice scale because he's a dual actor.
	And the lower left was some military guy in his uniform, bald, and he could have been gay too for all I know.
	And then on the lower right, that was the lower left, and the lower right was some hot chick that was nodding constantly.
	Who was the hot chick then?
	I don't know.
	It's just some girl.
	She's really attractive.
	And she's sitting there nodding at everything this guy says.
	Oh, I love it.
	The whole thing.
	You couldn't watch it that much without looking at these four goofballs.
	Right.
	And, of course, nothing was actually said.
	No, I didn't say anything.
	The only notes I made was they do have a website called solutions.gop.gov.
	Oh, solutions.
	Solutions.
	What are they, an IT firm now?
	That's what it sounds like.
	I've got solutions.
	All right, so meanwhile, all this was covering up a whole bunch of other stuff and...
	I sat through a lot of C-SPAN over the past two days.
	Actually, I have to go back actually a week in time for something that I caught.
	A couple other people caught this in some of the circles that I travel.
	Remember, they had the whole slew up there.
	They had Napolitano.
	They had Leiter.
	He's the guy that went on his ski vacation after the crotch bomber was caught.
	And one other jabroni was up there.
	So they were talking about, you know, how could this guy get through?
	What's happening?
	What's wrong with our airport security?
	All the impetus, of course, to the introduction of backscatter and millimeter wave body scanners.
	And this lighter says something really interesting about the watch list.
	This is not the no-fly list, but about the watch list.
	And I missed it, actually.
	And I watched this thing live, and I kind of missed what he said.
	And I'd just like to play that before we get into some of the financial stuff.
	Are you ready for that?
	Yeah.
	So this is, I forget his first name.
	His name is Leiter.
	He's got really weird eyes and these freaky eyebrows and he's always trying to make funny jokes which fall completely flat.
	So here comes the question about these watch lists and how many people are on it and what are we actually doing with these watch lists?
	How many that were on the watch list last year approximately were allowed into the country?
	They're on the watch list?
	A very significant number.
	Just to give you a snapshot, of course, the watch list is approximately 400,000 names.
	Out of those, I believe only approximately 14,000 were selectees and only 4,000 no-flies.
	So a very significant number would they have traveled to the United States at most would have been met at the border with some sort of secondary inspection.
	It would have been a larger number that would not have been...
	It would have been a very large number eligible to come in whether or not they were ultimately turned away at the border.
	I can't give you that number.
	That's sort of instinctively troubling, is it not?
	Senator, I think...
	In one way it is, and I think that goes right back to the standards, or what are the standards?
	Have we set the standards so low that we really have too high a bar to get somebody into that no-fly select e-list before they get to our shores?
	I'm talking about the watch list who were allowed.
	We don't know exactly how many came into the country who were on the watch list.
	No, I will tell you that when people come to the country, if they are on the watch list, It is because we have generally made the choice that we want them here in the country for some reason or another.
	There you go.
	What?
	Yep, you heard it correctly.
	If they're on the watch list and they're let in, that's because we want them to come in for some reason or another.
	Listen to it again.
	If they are on the watch list, it is because we have generally made the choice that we want them here in the country for some reason or another.
	There you go.
	So, what's to say, and of course this douchebag doesn't follow up on it.
	Hello?
	Hello?
	The question is, was the crotch bomber on the watch list and did you let him in for some reason or another?
	That is the weirdest thing I've ever heard in terms of clips you've dug up.
	It's troubling, right?
	Well, I don't know.
	It's baffling more than troubling.
	I guess it is troubling if what he says, unless he was just, you know, not particularly aware of what he was saying, which is possible.
	No, I think he's very clear.
	He's saying people who are on the watch list don't get into the country unless we decide that we want them in for one reason or another, which I guess could only be...
	To follow them or, you know, whatever.
	But that makes no sense.
	No, it doesn't make any sense at all.
	Okay, well, I guess we'll have to...
	I don't know.
	Obviously, this guy's not going to follow up with an interesting question.
	We're never going to figure out the answer to that unless we got a hold of this guy and asked him.
	Well, this, of course, is the problem with all of these congressional hearings, is that nothing ever comes of him.
	Nothing ever happens.
	No one ever...
	Oh, hold on a second, John.
	We just have a very important clip.
	This is Wreath Witherspoon during the Haiti telethon.
	Great!
	And we really appreciate your call.
	You're calling in to donate for the Hope for Haiti program?
	Yes, I am.
	Wonderful.
	Well, we are going to have an operator get on the line and actually take your donation.
	Have you already spoken to an operator?
	Yes, I have.
	Okay, great.
	And thank you so much for your donation.
	And you can't even imagine how much love and great, wonderful energy is here today.
	And people are just doing everything they can to make a difference in these people's lives.
	I'm just glad I could help out.
	I couldn't donate a lot, but what I could, I did donate.
	Oh, crap.
	This is the wrong one.
	I was wondering where you were going to stop.
	By the way, she's referred to by some people as Greasy Reezy.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Here's the one I wanted to play.
	I'm sorry I screwed up.
	I suck.
	Well, this is Reese Witherspoon.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Oh, it's paining me to hear her again.
	Hi, Reese.
	You're calling in to donate?
	Yeah, I'd like to donate to No Agenda.
	Alright, that joke sucks.
	I really blew it.
	I'm sorry.
	When will you play it next week?
	Yeah, when we've all forgotten about it.
	I'm a douche.
	Alright, let's get into the meat.
	You're not labeling your clips.
	Nah, you're right, I labeled it the wrong way.
	We gotta talk about little Timmy Geithner.
	This is what I think the big cover-up was.
	So this was pretty amazing.
	There was a question whether Timothy Geithner was going to be called in to testify at all.
	And I put the whole video, it's like two hours, into the show notes.
	You can find it at noagendashow.com, curry.com, dvorak.org, slash blog.
	I encourage you to watch it.
	Not that anything will ever come of it, but if you want to understand the illegality, the backdoor bailout, if you really want to understand what happened, you have to watch this.
	Because nothing will happen to this guy.
	Yeah, maybe he'll resign.
	He's not going to go to jail, as he should.
	But what is cool is that these congressmen, or senators, They ask the questions, basically in their question they state the facts of what went down and then they ask, is that true?
	And then the guy just makes up some crap and he lies about it.
	But if you want the facts as to what actually happened, you need to watch this stuff and listen to it.
	It was kind of funny though how it started.
	So anyway, the guy has only two hours because he has an important meeting and he has to leave.
	So it's like, after two hours, they're like, well, Mr.
	Geithner, you know, we can only have one minute from each side of the room, one minute for the Democrats, one minute for the Republicans, because Mr.
	Geithner has a very busy schedule and he has to go.
	Like, what?
	Waterboard this turd.
	So here he is after getting sworn in.
	Chairman Towns?
	Yes.
	Ranking member ISA, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today.
	I welcome the committee's attention to this issue, and we will continue to work closely with this committee, with all other oversight bodies.
	Mr.
	Secretary, pull the mic just a little closer.
	We're having a little trouble.
	I'm almost eating it.
	I know.
	How's that?
	I thought that was pretty funny.
	He's almost eating it.
	I'm almost eating it.
	And then we get ISA, and ISA asked him a question.
	And it's very clear that ISA listens to no agenda.
	Not only ISA, but Timmy Geithner's kids listen to no agenda.
	And I have proof right here in the following soundbite.
	It's easier to read on the screen.
	Where are you on the AIG counterparty disclosure issue?
	Okay, I've got to set this up.
	So, ISA is showing an email where a day before the news breaks, Geithner sends an email to his, quote, replacement at the New York Federal Reserve and says, hey man, where are we on this issue?
	What are we going to do?
	You're basically like, shit, what are we going to do about it?
	Yeah, it's easier to read on the screen.
	Where are you on the AIG counterparty disclosure issue?
	Long after you left, you made this email...
	What was it about, and what was the answer?
	Well, Congressman, as you know, this question of disclosure was the subject of a huge amount of controversy.
	And most people think...
	Yeah.
	That's what my son says, and I agree with you.
	I love it.
	You think?
	You think?
	Yeah.
	Anyway, the...
	The person who really nailed Geithner, and I got tons of clips, and I don't even think we should play them all because they're all a bit long, but the one who really pegged him was Captor, Nancy Captor, and she's amazing.
	She's a Democrat, I think, by the way.
	And, by the way, the Democrats equally as harsh on little Timmy Geithner, so there's definitely some plan to get him out, and probably Paul Volkler is going to take over or something like that.
	But she basically just kept making the connections between Tim Geithner and Goldman Sachs, and it was just embarrassing.
	Thank you, Mr.
	Chairman.
	Mr.
	Secretary, welcome.
	Can you provide for the record a copy of the recusal agreement that you signed when you were at the New York Fed?
	So, Timmy Geithner, this is the thing that's strange.
	He remained the president of the New York Federal Reserve, which is a conglomerate of commercial banks.
	While he was the advisor to the President and moving into his role as Secretary of the Treasury, so he had to recuse himself.
	So Captur is saying, could you please provide a copy of the letter where you recused yourself?
	The definition of recusal, John?
	That means you've extracted yourself from a situation that would be a conflict of interest.
	I did not sign a recusal agreement.
	I withdrew from day-to-day management operations policies of the New York Fed, and my colleagues both in Washington and in New York can attest to that.
	So there was no formal agreement?
	No, as I said in my testimony, what I did is I withdrew from, and this was very important to do.
	I mean, how weird is that?
	The guy recuses himself, but he doesn't do it officially?
	Well, what he's claiming is that he quit, so what difference does it make?
	Well, but you kind of got to make that...
	He didn't quit.
	He was basically straddling.
	He was in both places at the same time.
	He was still the president of the New York Federal Reserve Board, but he didn't actually recuse himself.
	If you recuse yourself, you do that with a letter.
	How hard can it be?
	Again, no precedent for this.
	A sitting President of New York Fed being nominated to be Secretary of the Treasury.
	And I withdrew from, after carefully consulting my colleagues from, involvement in monetary policy decisions.
	I did not go to the FOMC meeting in December.
	And I withdrew from all decisions about these individual cases involving the financial system and from day-to-day management.
	And that was the right thing to do at that time.
	Thank you.
	Number two, a lot of people think that the president of the New York Fed works for the U.S. government, but in fact you work for the private banks that elected you.
	No, that is not true.
	Can you provide for the record the names of the handful of bankers on the board of the New York Fed that elected you in 2003, please?
	That is a matter of public record, and of course we can do that.
	Thank you very much.
	Congressman, can I just say, what you just said was not true.
	I work in the public interest.
	Officials of the Federal Reserve work for the public interest and they work for the government.
	But the people don't elect you.
	The heads of the feds around the country don't elect you.
	It's the individuals who sit on the board of the New York Fed that elect you.
	Is that correct?
	It's slightly more complicated than that.
	Hey, you don't know how it works.
	It's very complicated.
	This is not for American people to understand.
	This is very complicated.
	Alright?
	I don't work for private banks.
	I work for the people.
	The Congress did in setting up the Fed.
	It set up a system where the presidents of the regional reserve banks are elected by their board, but it requires the approval of the chairman of the Board of Governors in Washington for them to serve.
	So it is a delicate balance of checks and balances, and Congress designed that system.
	My understanding is he's still got his salary.
	As if he was working full-time, so there's a conflict of interest there.
	He was.
	That's the whole point.
	He was working full-time as the president of the New York Federal Reserve, not elected by the people.
	She's about to tell us who elected him.
	And he was receiving his salary, and of course we know that he's very poor at paying taxes.
	Um...
	And at the same time, he was nominated to be the Treasury or the Secretary, and then this bailout has to happen.
	So he's in both places at once.
	He is the black widow, the spider in the middle.
	Private banks that elected you, and I would like you to provide that for the record, please.
	Oh, absolutely.
	It's a matter of public record.
	The Cleveland Fed is not equal to the New York Fed, so I'm very interested in your answer to the record.
	Number three, Goldman Sachs was the largest domestic recipient of funds in this AIG counterparty arrangement.
	Let me ask you, now as Treasury Secretary, your chief of staff is the gatekeeper for access to you, Could you please provide his name?
	His name is Mark Patterson.
	Thank you.
	And for whom did he work before you selected him as your chief of staff?
	He worked for the president's transition team.
	No, before that.
	Which Wall Street firm did he work for?
	And before that, again, this is a matter of public record, and you know the answer to this question, he worked for Goldman Sachs.
	Thank you very much.
	Yeah, you answered my question, Mr.
	Secretary.
	Now, let me say this.
	The AIG... Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	He worked for the president's transition team.
	I mean, how obvious is it?
	He's trying to hide this.
	He was selling candy bars with the Girl Scouts that Saturday.
	Girl Scout cookies.
	You have answered the question.
	No, what you're doing is...
	Shut up, Timmy!
	Timmy!
	The AIG transaction was disturbing to many observers.
	Why did our government not require the bank creditors to take the lead and bear some of the cost in any plan to stabilize...
	Anyway, she goes on, and you've got to see this video.
	If you care at all about what's going on in the world, you've got to see this.
	He made hundreds, she has the phone records, hundreds of calls to Paulson.
	Who, of course, we know as ex-Goldman Sachs.
	And I'll just give you, to finish this up, Dennis Kucinich.
	I'll give you his lead-in question.
	We don't even have to listen to the answer, because Kucinich basically tells you what happened right here in his question.
	Mr.
	Geithner.
	The New York Fed agreed to Goldman Sachs' demands for billions to settle its counterparty claims with AIG, 100 cents on a dollar.
	But for more than a year before that, Goldman and AIG had been locked into a dispute over that money and Goldman believed it would lose up to 2.5 billion if AIG defaulted.
	Did you know at the time that Goldman Sachs had concluded it would not receive 100 cents on a dollar from AIG in the event of default?
	So, that's something I didn't realize, that they were basically in a court case over this money.
	And, of course, Kucinich goes on to state that, hey, look, these guys would have never gotten 100 cents on the dollar in a court case.
	At best, it would have cost them tens of millions of dollars in court to sue them over it.
	So, it would have cost them money.
	Therefore, there was no reason not to give them less than 100 cents on the dollar.
	This whole thing stinks to high heaven.
	They should be throwing people in jail.
	That's the disturbing part.
	And at the end, regardless of who it is, except for Captor, they all pretty much say, well, we really appreciate you coming here today and thank you for your service and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Except for Micah.
	I think that's his name.
	He really laid into him.
	So, yeah, the whole thing.
	It's not just disturbing.
	It's fraud.
	Geithner is there perjuring himself, as far as I'm concerned, lying.
	Because it's very clear what he did.
	There was a backdoor bailout, 100 cents on the dollar, and we paid for it.
	He didn't act in our interest.
	And he was conflicted and didn't even write down on a piece of paper that he was conflicted.
	It was well known.
	They should be...
	I'm telling you, they should waterboard...
	Waterboard little Timmy.
	Waterboard Timmy.
	All right.
	You won't get this.
	I mean, you know, it's...
	I wish they would make some time in mainstream media to actually analyze some of this stuff.
	It's not that hard.
	It just takes a little while to go through the clip and just actually listen to what the guy is saying.
	It's obvious.
	He's lying.
	He's just lying.
	And nothing will happen.
	No, nothing will happen.
	Nothing will happen, except that now Paul Volcker is being kind of pushed to the foreground, who actually I think was a pretty good guy.
	And he was also head of the Federal Reserve during...
	He was pre-Greenspan.
	Yeah, pre-Greenspan, right.
	So now he's going to take over or something's going to happen here.
	But the way they hustled Timmy Geithner in and out after two hours, like, oh, he's got a lunch date.
	He's got to leave now.
	It was just crap.
	I love that part.
	Sorry, but he's got to go to lunch.
	Yeah, got to go to lunch.
	We have no time.
	So anyway, they also had Bernanke on the dais taking abuse from everybody.
	Same thing.
	And they're going to probably put the guy back in.
	And he's just, he's as deep as in it.
	Who, Bernanke?
	You think they can put Bernanke back in?
	Yeah.
	Well, Obama wants to keep him.
	I'm trying to call him Bernicke.
	I like Bernicke better.
	Bernicke's better.
	I do agree.
	Let's just call him Bernicke.
	Yeah, Bernicke.
	That's much better.
	So, Bernicke's...
	Yeah, Obama wants him for some unknown reason.
	I mean, he's not even Obama's guy.
	You know, my favorite thing is the Republicans love the guy, at least most of them do, except not all of them, of course.
	The smart ones don't.
	And...
	And still my favorite argument, which he had on the show some weeks ago, which is the guy says, well, since you screwed everything up, you know best how to fix it, kind of argument.
	So we should put him back in because he's incompetent.
	I thought that argument was the most interesting.
	Yeah, it's just unbelievable that no one cares.
	We're all too consumed by the iPad.
	That's really what it's all about.
	Yep, products.
	This does tie into a very weird occurrence, a typical case of two to the head up there in Davo in Switzerland.
	As Dr.
	Marcus Reinhardt, longtime Swiss police commander, Who is in charge of security at the World Economic Forum, which I guess kicks off in a week or two, right?
	It might, but I know they're giving speeches now.
	There was just one the other day where the Prime Minister of Greece was moaning and groaning, saying that they're trying to set him up to be a fall guy.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, of course.
	I mean, Greece has been the fall guy for a whole bunch of stuff that's going on in the European Union.
	So this is a long-term Swiss police commander.
	He literally, and I have the reports here, it slays me when I read it.
	An apparent suicide, he shot himself in the head twice.
	I kid you not!
	I kid you not!
	Just to make sure he was dead, he shot himself twice in the head.
	With the gun in his left hand.
	And I do have information on what happened.
	And I think this is quite telling.
	So the World Economic Forum.
	This is where all the bankers basically get together and party.
	Oh boy.
	I think I just lost John.
	That doesn't happen very often.
	We'll see if he calls back.
	Hopefully he will.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	John, maybe we should be careful playing these sound effects.
	Oh, come on, John.
	and call me back.
	Ugh.
	Where is he?
	Where is he? Where is he?
	There he is.
	Hold on.
	Don't you find it peculiar?
	Yeah, no, wait a minute.
	Don't even say anything.
	Don't even say anything.
	You there?
	Yeah.
	Go ahead.
	Don't you find it peculiar that we get disconnected on this particular discussion topic?
	Oh yeah.
	Oh yeah.
	While you were gone, I'm playing like the two to the head sounds.
	Yeah.
	Very peculiar.
	I mean, we could be disconnected at any point in the show.
	Yeah.
	It has to happen on this very topic as I'm about to tell everybody what's going on.
	So, yeah, it's pretty peculiar.
	Okay, you found out because I looked into this story about this guy shooting himself twice in the head, which, again, that's almost like code now, it seems to me.
	Well, yeah.
	I think they're sending messages to us.
	I think they're making a joke.
	Hey, let's fuck with those no-agenda guys.
	Let's shoot them twice.
	I don't think anybody listens to this show.
	They'll go on for hours about it.
	Let's do them twice.
	Here, one more.
	Hey, Bruno, hit him one more time, man.
	That's funny.
	That's what they're doing.
	There's that possibility.
	If you're working with some of these guys, a lot of them are jokers.
	And they like to pull stuff like that.
	Of course they do.
	Why do you think that they're talking about you think in the Senate?
	Dude, this show is making a difference.
	Well, let's hope.
	You wait.
	In the Senate, within this year, someone's going to say, in the morning.
	In the morning.
	I guarantee you someone's going to say it.
	That's possible.
	Let me just give you my theory here.
	This comes from my sources.
	So, all the bankers are going to be in one place at the same time.
	And, of course, if you follow my theory, which, John, I think you subscribe to some of it, but probably not all, that a lot of this financial trouble that we're in is done on purpose.
	There's a purposeful takedown of the economy for a whole bunch of reasons, mainly for people to enrich themselves and They're getting all the money now, and then when everything collapses, they're going to buy up your shit.
	They're going to buy your land, your farm, your house, your plane, your car, everything that you own, they're going to own, with the money they stole in the first place, which is your money through bailouts.
	Just look at all the bonuses that are being handed out.
	So they come together, and this is basically what you would call John the Drinking Club, where they all are going to discuss how we're going to pull the final levers, which may involve Greece and a number of other countries.
	So this guy has to do security.
	And obviously, there's a lot of security you've got to put in place for all these bankers.
	So, he apparently, this Marcus Reinhart, You've got to spell it with DT, otherwise you get some bodybuilder on Google, which is kind of weird.
	I got the bodybuilder.
	Yeah, I got the bodybuilder the first time, too.
	So he was setting up all new kinds of security, and he had these hypersensitive listening devices.
	So you can actually hear a gun being cocked.
	You can detect all kinds of, you know, it's highly tuned stuff.
	And he apparently overheard something about the real plan for the final collapse of the global banking system.
	And they found out about it, and that's why they had to do him.
	You know, it's a good storyline for a good Hollywood movie.
	I think there was that movie, The International, or whatever it is, about the corrupt bankers.
	I mean, let's face it, there is a corrupt aspect to what's going on.
	You think?
	And I don't see this guy committing suicide.
	No, of course not.
	Something is wrong with this picture.
	He's been a commander of the Swiss police for years.
	The guy was 61, you know, it's like, if you're upset, how are you like 61 all of a sudden, oh, now I'm going to kill myself.
	You just don't do that when you get to that age, John.
	So ByteLaw says there's something that they could do to get away with and send a message to his boss.
	In other words, everybody gets the word that, look, stop doing this.
	Well, yeah.
	Stop the...
	And, of course, the code word is too...
	Too to the head.
	Committed suicide, but he's shooting himself in the head twice.
	That is obvious code.
	And, of course, that's it, right?
	That's like, out of respect for the family, no further details will be released.
	Okay.
	And that probably gives them a pack of money.
	Did you find anything else on this particular topic?
	No, I was kind of frustrated by it.
	I didn't get to, I don't have a couple of your sources.
	And so I was just basically left out of the, I gave up.
	Well.
	So let's go to some real news.
	Oh, oh gee, it's about time.
	And now, back to real news.
	There's a couple of things I got here, but this isn't actually real news, but I guess it kind of qualifies as real.
	Actually, I got a couple of different news, but I was looking for some messages in a Law& Order show, especially the new ones that are produced by USA Network, which is the worst.
	They took the Law& Order Criminal Intent show, and they gave it to these guys who can't really do a very good job.
	So you know how you always talk about, if you just listen to the show, Instead of watch it, how bad the acting is?
	Yes, if you're not watching, you're only listening to the dialogue, that's when you really can hear how atrocious it is.
	I got this clip, and this is including Jeff Goldblum, who's a Hollywood actor that should do well.
	But no.
	So this is just a little clip from the show, a recent episode, which is called Bad Acting.
	Just try to listen to this with a straight face.
	It's not very long, but the whole thing is ludicrous.
	So you sent over a convincer?
	I have no idea what you're talking about.
	Ladies?
	Lane, what are you doing here?
	I'm sorry, Archie.
	I had an affair with Ron Hemmings.
	I just wasn't getting the emotional support that I needed from you.
	You know, that's exactly how my divorce went.
	That's exactly how I said it.
	I just wasn't getting the emotional support from you.
	Yes, I'm sorry I was having an affair.
	Dr.
	Ernst made me realize that I owed it to myself to actualize my feelings.
	And from his sessions with Ron Hemmings, he knew that Hemmings liked your wife.
	Did you know that Dr.
	Ernst pimped her out to get Hemmings' investment?
	Of course not, I'm shocked.
	He sent her back again after things went bust.
	Oh, my God.
	This is like acting class 101 in high school.
	I love the guy who says, Oh, I'm shocked.
	I'm shocked.
	Oh, I'm...
	Oh, my God.
	I can take another 20 seconds.
	That's about the whole clip.
	To calm Hemmings down and to convince us the only thing he was upset about was their love affair.
	She wasn't sure that it worked.
	I told you they didn't believe me.
	And you didn't want them talking about your involvement in Beulis Securities.
	Because that might lead us to start asking some questions.
	John, don't do this to me.
	Come on, you might as well get the answer.
	There is actually a punchline at the end.
	You make sure you keep quiet with this.
	This is insane.
	This is, uh...
	Okay, that's it.
	This is insane.
	This is insane.
	Oh, I am shocked.
	I am shocked.
	Well, you tried to kill him, yes?
	Yes, no, I did not.
	Hey, John.
	It's so robotic.
	In the morning to you.
	In the morning to you, to Adam.
	Yes, good, John.
	Hey.
	I'm just not getting the emotional support I need from you in our relationship, John, in the morning.
	Yes, I am shocked too.
	Now, okay, now I got some, this is closer to real news.
	You might as well just play this.
	It's the Super Bowl clip.
	This is a big controversy.
	It's not quite taken off like everybody hoped it would, but they tried to make it take off.
	Apparently some family consortium of a bunch of family, kind of right-wing family church-going types that are pro-life have gotten CBS to take an ad for the Super Bowl.
	I don't know how they can afford to take this ad out and what the point of it would be.
	But it's kind of football-related because it's a story about How Tim Tebow, who is this great quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner at Florida, was going to be...
	Apparently his mother was told to get an abortion because she's having complications.
	And she said, no, no, I'm not going to.
	And now Tim Tebow arrives and he's this great football player.
	So...
	Oh, okay.
	So wait a minute.
	Now I understand what you're saying.
	So he could have been an aborted fetus, but because he wasn't aborted, he is this fantastic Heisman Trophy winning football player.
	Yeah.
	That's the underlying, that's the subtext.
	So meanwhile, a bunch of different people come, but this is presented on Fox, and this is part of, and, you know, I don't care one way or the other way to run this ad, I'm sure it'll be fine, but Fox, you know, is trying to make it into an issue because there's apparently a few left-wing groups that are, you know, I think this shouldn't be on, you know, because these people are bad.
	So they do the old trick, well, let's find somebody who represents the other side who doesn't want to see this ad, and let's see, who can we find?
	Oh, here's a stuttering black woman who can barely walk and chew gum at the same time.
	Let's put her on TV, and so she can represent that side of the argument.
	Let's focus on the family anti-woman.
	The Women's Media Center calls them homophobic and anti-equality.
	Here's what the executive director of Choice USA told us.
	They're known to spew hate and to be, again, very divisive.
	And I have no doubt that that will come through, and I don't believe that it has a place.
	Again, this un-American hate doesn't have a place in this all-American pastime.
	They say CBS should know better, Trace.
	Well, there's a lot of controversy over the ad that no one's really seen, right?
	What do we know about it?
	That's just the joke of it.
	No one's seen this ad.
	They don't even know what they're talking about, and they're doing whole stories on it.
	Nobody knows what they're talking about.
	Nobody's seen the ad, and they have this woman who is representing God knows what organization, but she looks like she has about as much interest in football and the Super Bowl as nobody.
	And it's like, so now she's, well, it's an all-American pastime and we can't have, you know, this kind of agenda on the show.
	I'm thinking, what a phony baloney story this is.
	How does this even pass for news?
	Well, it's CBS, dude.
	No, it's Fox.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, it's the same thing, run by the same people.
	Yeah.
	Makes no difference.
	Interesting.
	So this is the kind of stuff.
	We try to deconstruct everything we can.
	Yes, we do.
	And so I think we should go into our pitch, but before we do, we should run the latest and greatest news hour, at the end of the news hour, which is a PBS news show, which is as biased as anything out there.
	Their unbiased credit roll at the end where they tell you who's actually paying for this.
	Okay, so this is PBS.
	This is, along with NPR, National Treasure, These are programs that are licensed to be broadcast because they are done in the public interest, and they are underwritten.
	Although some would say it could be called advertising sponsorship.
	Call it whatever you want, according to the president herself.
	And this is the McNeil Lehrer NewsHour.
	Well, it used to be McNeil Lehrer.
	Now it's just Lehrer?
	Yeah.
	What happened to McNeil?
	He retired.
	He retired.
	He's living on a Monsanto compound somewhere.
	He may be dead.
	Here's the credit roll.
	Major funding for the PBS NewsHour has been provided by...
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	And by Toyota.
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	Science!
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	And...
	This program was made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
	And by contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you.
	Thank you.
	And don't forget your tasty GM snacks on the way out of the theater, people.
	Unbelievable.
	So we had Chevron, Toyota, we had...
	Conveniently doing a recall so that wasn't talked up.
	Yeah, Grant Thornton, the accountants.
	Do you think that they talk about any controversial subjects regarding these companies or climate change on that program?
	They don't do a lot in that regard, but they'll analyze things that have nothing to do with anything that's important.
	So it's very difficult for people to understand that in broadcasting, it is very, very hard to bring up topics that surround your sponsors.
	It's a no-go area.
	It's a no-fly zone.
	And this is why we decided very early...
	Very early on, we don't want to take any, even if it's like, you know, GoDaddy and Squarespace, we don't care.
	We don't want, we want to be able to rag on people, we want to be able to expose fraud, bring you truth, as far as a couple of guys reading Google can bring you truth, but at least we're giving you an analysis of stuff, and we have no dog in this hunt, as they say.
	Google.
	We've got no dog in this hunt.
	And the only way we can continue to do it is if you actually help us out and donate to the program.
	Now, I must say, nice that we had multiple executive producers, and of course our $5 donations are a fine base.
	But it's very difficult, particularly when we've taken an oath, a very solemn oath.
	Yeah, an oath of poverty.
	Yeah.
	Which is the direction we're headed right now.
	I have a couple of shout-outs I've got to do real quick, because sometimes you get a little confused.
	Jeffrey Lanches listens to us every single time we have a show on his massive commute in Gitmo Nation Lowlands.
	He's having a rough time right now, but I know he's gearing up to be a future knight.
	And apparently Claudia sent us a note that she sent us $50 to have her husband's name mentioned for his 40th birthday, Kendall George from Norman, Oklahoma.
	But we mentioned Claudia last week.
	Yeah, no kidding.
	Whenever we've got a female on the donation list, it gets highlighted.
	But it was actually for a happy birthday wish for Kendall George.
	Belated.
	Yeah, belated.
	Well, we've made that mistake a few times.
	Yes, well, you have.
	Well, so anyway, I want to reiterate our Michael Gogo, Spongberg Enterprises, Jordy Ramirez, and Tanya Wayman, our new night.
	And then we have some, we didn't actually have a lot of donations this week, but we did have a few in the $50 arena, and I'll just name them off.
	This is between, we have DUI Help, Barry Wilson, and OKC Defensive Tactics who are on a night program, but I thought I'd mention them again.
	Mark Iacono in New York City, Brian Curry of Connell, I think Q-U-E-S-N-E-L, British Columbia, Guy Brown of North Sydney, South Wales, and he wanted to donate ever since the squirrel episode, which I thought was our best.
	Which I thought was the lowest of all lows of our series, and you thought it was the best?
	He thought it was the best, and of course it got my wife into trouble.
	Yeah, with me.
	Well, there was also the squirrel that ran under the car.
	We also have a donation from the beloved internet personality Rube in Guilford.
	Oh, in Surrey.
	Eric Williams in Hampshire.
	I don't know.
	That's where it's from.
	I don't know what Guildford's got to do with it.
	Dizzy Stuff from Newtown, New South Wales.
	And then, ta-da!
	We got $55 from Anna Kuzmina.
	K-U-Z-M-I-N-A from Moscow.
	Hi!
	She's the one who got us to put up the channel Dvorak.com slash NA because she says that in Russia you can't get Dvorak.org because I'm censored.
	That's it.
	That's it?
	Yeah, that's it.
	It's real weird because we got some good executive producers.
	We got, like, nobody in between.
	It's just a bunch of 50-buck donations.
	Hopefully we can do better.
	We got the month's ending, so people are going to be getting their checks.
	So go to noagendashow.com, dvorak.org, slash N-A, and channel dvorak.com, slash N-A, for you who...
	We can't get to the normal.
	You know, I don't want to put our situation on any equality with what's happened to the poor people of Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
	But when you see how people respond to that and how much money is being raised, Gitmo Nation Lowlands, the Netherlands, raised 100 million euros.
	100 million euros.
	It's like 140 million dollars.
	Jennifer Aniston...
	And we've kind of been tracking this.
	Who are the celebrities who are really cool?
	She donated $500,000 to Doctors Without Borders.
	I'm all for that.
	You do not want to be donating to this scam set up by former Presidents Bush and Clinton.
	If you want to know more about that, listen to No Agenda 168.
	I thought it would be helpful to play...
	The clip of when Bush and Clinton were on Meet the Press.
	And so, as we deconstructed last week, the money goes into their fund, but there's really no fund.
	So it goes into the Clinton Foundation and some foundation in Texas that Bush is a part of.
	And both of these foundations have collectively almost a billion dollars in cash.
	And stocks and bonds, of course, because they're making money off of trading it.
	Listen, if you missed this, listen to how these guys are talking about it.
	You can just tell that they are bandits.
	President Bush, what did you learn in your government's response to the tsunami, to the disaster response to Katrina?
	What lessons did you learn that this administration should bear in mind?
	First of all, it takes time to get the supplies in place.
	But that shouldn't deter them.
	In other words, there's an expectation amongst people that things are going to happen quickly.
	And sometimes it's hard to make things happen quickly.
	So he's now actually polishing up his own image by saying, oh, it takes time, you know.
	Whereas we know that they just did nothing.
	Right.
	Nothing.
	Good work, Barney.
	Yeah, nothing at all.
	And while he's on the Katrina topic, there's now...
	A local recommendation in Louisiana, in New Orleans, the media is not allowed to call it the Katrina disaster because it was not Katrina that flooded everything.
	It was the levees breaking.
	It was a federal mistake and the court approved this mandate on the media.
	What?
	Oh, you didn't hear about this?
	No.
	Oh my gosh.
	You mean a mandate on the media?
	Yes.
	Well, a mandate as in a strong recommendation.
	So the city council, they got together...
	So to be politically correct, you mean?
	Yes, because they call it Katrina shorthand.
	You're not allowed to use Katrina shorthand, saying the Katrina disaster, because a day after Katrina was already gone, there was no flooding.
	It wasn't until the levees broke, which these poor people have been complaining about for years, saying this needs to be fixed, and that's the responsibility of the Army Corps of Engineers to make sure those levees are strong enough.
	But it doesn't matter anymore.
	No one gives a crap about Katrina.
	And here's Bush trying to polish up his lameness of getting FEMA into gear.
	Whether it was his fault or not, he's responsible at that point for FEMA. And it just didn't happen.
	So he's like, oh, it takes some time to get help on the ground.
	Yeah, you've got to get 20,000 Marines in first.
	Quickly.
	Secondly, there is a great reservoir of goodwill that wants to help.
	And that's why he asked us to help.
	And we're glad to do it.
	I need to put a pitch in for the ClintonBushHateHeFund.org.
	One of my concerns around any crisis is that shysters show up and take advantage of people's goodwill.
	Yeah.
	They're sitting right there.
	The shysters are in front of my very nose!
	One of my concerns is that shysters show up.
	Yeah, like the guy pitching ClintonBushForHaiti.org, which does not exist.
	A non-existent fund.
	It's a website.
	And the money goes straight into your own foundation.
	The Clinton Foundation and this Texas...
	$600 million fund foundation?
	It doesn't even exist.
	And then you're going to decide who to give it to?
	Where's the accounting?
	Yeah, really?
	I know where it is.
	It's sitting there in the same folder of the accounting for the Fed.
	Yeah.
	We got an analysis from one of our producers who works in a non-profit.
	I didn't want to mention my name.
	For the past two and a half years, I've worked as an accountant for a non-profit based in Los Angeles.
	After hearing you mention the annual Clinton payroll and travel budget, I had to do a double take.
	I reconcile our payroll and expense reports every month.
	If I extrapolate using my annual numbers to the Clinton payroll, their foundation would need to have approximately 280 employees, assuming similar salaries to ours.
	Now look, 280 employees for a non-profit is huge.
	Most non-profits I deal with have less than 30 employees, and working for a non-profit, I can tell you, salaries are tight and usually compare low to similar jobs.
	If we can believe that the Clintons are really out to do good, which I'm sure they are, We should encourage more former heads of state to start non-profits.
	280 new jobs!
	Imagine that!
	Maybe this is how the U.S. will save and or create those jobs we have been hearing about.
	A new nation truly devoted to service.
	$30 million in payroll, huh?
	He says, you can take that to the bank.
	You can take that to the bank.
	It's unbelievable.
	I just love that clip where Bush is saying they give us money and look out for shysters.
	One of my concerns around any crisis is that shysters show up and take advantage of people's goodwill and generosity.
	Do you see any shysters here, John?
	I see Bush.
	Could that be it?
	Oh my goodness.
	So I need that clip.
	Yeah, it's a good clip.
	So we spoke to Brooks, who was actually on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Well, before we go to Brooks, let's make sure that we reiterate that we do need some contributions.
	So go to Dvorak.org slash NA or NoAgendaShow.com.
	Yeah, and don't worry.
	We're admitted shysters.
	We're going to spend it on bills, hookers, and blow.
	Okay?
	We're right up front about it.
	Yeah, we're probably mostly on bills, unfortunately.
	Yeah.
	We haven't got enough money to do with the hookers and blow.
	Before I forget, Britney Spears is also contributing.
	She is donating...
	She can't even find Haiti on a map.
	She's donating the silver Versace gown she wore for her high-profile comeback appearance at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards.
	She can't fit in it.
	She's donating it to be auctioned off.
	So she's helping for Haiti.
	Ugh.
	Yeah, I'm going to give all my stuff to the assignment shop and send the profits to Haiti.
	You know, why is it that you get a guy like the Bloomberg reporter who dies unexpectedly while he's trying to figure out where the $2 trillion that the Federal Reserve stole went to, you know, effectively he gets two to the head and Britney Spears gets to live.
	This is a, you know...
	I've got to hear the shyster one more time.
	The B-Crisis is that shysters show up and take advantage of people's goodwill and generosity.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I like the way it says shysters.
	Shysters.
	I'm a real shyster.
	That's so funny.
	No, it's not funny.
	So anyway, this was kind of interesting.
	So I found out that it was actually President Clinton who put together the deal between Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, the investors, and Haiti to buy up this island, Labadee, which is, I guess it's a part of Haiti, but apparently they own it.
	And that's where this cruise ship docked.
	Now, here's what you didn't hear in the news.
	Okay, go back and reiterate.
	Brooks is the producer, or one of the producers, of Cranky Geeks.
	Yeah.
	And he went on a cruise that happened to be, and he left just before the earthquake, or just right at the time of the earthquake.
	And I remember when he was leaving, he says, well, I'm going to be gone for a week.
	Yeah.
	I guess I won't be stopping in Haiti like that's on the agenda.
	But he did stop there, and he says that the whole reporting that was going on about them going in there and just partying was felicious.
	Now, he said they did go out and party, but that this island, Labadee, is 250 miles north of Port-au-Prince.
	The reporting made it sound like there was, you know, just over the fence.
	No, I was under the impression from the report that what I heard when I was listening to the news, because we were thinking about, well, this must be Brooke's boat.
	It sounded like they dropped him off the northern part of the island where they just all started partying hardy, and then there was maybe, you know, like a barbed wire fence to keep the other, the ne'er-do-wells from coming in and getting their food.
	Yeah.
	So that wasn't the case at all.
	And in fact, they raised $250,000 cash on board.
	But of course, then they made the mistake of giving it to the Red Cross.
	Right.
	They raised over $200,000 on the ship itself.
	And according to Brooks, they dropped off a bunch of food and supplies and stuff that were shipped into the Port-au-Prince.
	So they were actually a mercy ship.
	In a way.
	Well, yeah.
	So that's good.
	But it just shows you what kind of reporting you get.
	And we, of course, copied that verbatim.
	Good on us.
	You know, the thing, yeah, I mean, that's the reason people should be giving us some support here, because we, I mean, we have a lot of friends that are, you know, first person at these things, like the Haiti deal.
	We show that the media is doing really a poor job of reporting anything, and we, I think, are as good as anybody I've heard, especially when you listen to these talk show guys, the Hannity's and the Everybody.
	Everybody.
	All of them.
	Their deconstruction is done by low-paid staffers, and they miss a lot of stuff.
	And it's very biased.
	I mean, Hannity is, to me, I think the most, in some ways, the most entertaining and the most ridiculously biased guy ever.
	On the air, and he did a survey on his show about the Obama thing.
	I've got to post a picture I took off the screen, because it's just so funny.
	Because the Obama speech was just, as Nick said, when you talked to him, that was a pretty good speech.
	For Nick, it was probably a pretty good speech, if you haven't heard Obama talk before.
	It was basically another Obama speech that was...
	It was another great performance.
	Great performances in presidential history.
	They surveyed their listeners, and it was like 2% thought it was really a good speech, 3% thought it was just neutral, and 85% thought it really was terrible.
	And I'm thinking, this is not even good.
	Why are you even putting this bullshit out?
	Why are you even watching, is my question.
	I told you, I think he's the most entertaining of the group because he's so...
	he's so knee-jerk.
	Under the heading, not good for you, in Gitmo Nation East, the United Kingdom, kids are now starting to drop dead from this stuff you can get off the internet called Mephedrone.
	Have you ever heard of this?
	No, I don't know anything about it.
	M-E-P-H-E-D-R-O-N-E. Maybe you can get some of the chemical analysis.
	Mephedrone, better known as Meow Meow, And it's legal to sell this.
	People are selling it off websites making about £25,000 a week.
	Cheap drug gives a similar high to that of ecstasy and amphetamine.
	So you know this shit's going to be outlawed pretty quick because we need you kids on heroin.
	We need you kids on the good stuff.
	So kids are dropping dead from this over there.
	It's kind of like a...
	I guess it's kind of like a date rape type drug where you kind of go, like GHB, where you kind of go lethargic.
	But I'm not quite sure why this is legal or what it is.
	It looks kind of like a packet of the silicone you get when you buy a new laptop.
	Maybe it is that stuff.
	I don't know.
	Kids be snorting that stuff.
	Hey, let's just give this to the kids.
	But more interesting is there seems to be a rogue manufacturer of Botox.
	And the feds are very worried about it because if there is actually someone out there and the prospect is that it's a factory in Chechnya churning out raw botulinum toxin, That means that someone could have enough dope of this stuff to go kill people with.
	Because if you have the raw stuff, one drop, one grain of this stuff can take you out.
	So I think that what's next is they're going to outlaw Botox.
	They've already been trying to tax the thing.
	And there's a fascinating story from the Washington Post, which I'll put in the show notes at NoAgendaShow.com.
	You want me to check it out if you're a user of the Botox.
	John, you might kind of look good with some Botox.
	It's too late for me.
	No, not at all.
	That's not true.
	Have you investigated this?
	Who gave you that advice?
	That's not true.
	I looked in the mirror.
	I said, uh-oh, too late.
	So this stuff is 2-methylamino-1-P-tolypropan-1.
	1-1, also known as methylmethylcathione.
	You know, the trouble with chemistry is that there's about, I don't know, at least three or four major naming conventions, and then there's a whole bunch of spin-offs, so there's all these different words for it until you run into what it might be.
	Methylphedrone.
	I bet you this has something to do with ephedrine.
	Well, apparently it's quite good.
	It's called meow meow.
	Meanwhile, kids don't have enough trouble.
	Here's a story that I thought I got a blog and discussed.
	It's one of the more annoying things going on, which is the watering down...
	By reprehensible government officials, the watering down of the sex offenders situation where you are now putting some guy who pees in the park on the same sex offender list as a guy, as a 50-year-old man who kidnaps a six-year-old who rapes and murders her.
	Same thing, according to these people.
	So here's what's going on now.
	This is in Valparaiso, which is...
	I don't know what state this is in.
	I don't have it.
	It doesn't say.
	Two Ben Franklin Middle School students who Valparaiso police said were caught using their cell phones to exchange nude pictures of each other.
	A practice called sexting are facing criminal charges.
	A 13-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy were referred to juvenile probation and the charges of possession of child pornography and child exploitation.
	An adult court charges would carry a maximum penalty of 11 years in prisons.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	It goes on.
	They're going to be on the sex offenders list.
	So this is basically what they've done, is they've criminalized and made sex offenders out of kids who are playing the I'll show you mine if you show me yours game, which I think kids do, if I'm not mistaken.
	I plead the fifth.
	The point is that these are not these kids who are taking lewd pictures of themselves.
	And by the way, when did pornography...
	I always thought that pornography actually entailed some insertion or something other than just a naked picture of yourself.
	Oh, no, no, no, no.
	And, of course, the crazy thing is that body scanners are not pornography.
	And if you're operating with one of these machines, you don't fall under the...
	Yeah, I think so, too.
	But if you're going to take it to an extreme, and you're going to make every kid who's sexting, you know, somebody taking a picture of themselves, into sex offenders, I mean, the whole thing is disgusting, to be honest about it.
	Because what they've done is that they've...
	So this 12-year-old girl or 12-year-old boy and the 13-year-old girl, they're going to be categorized the same as a murderer-rapist In the sex offenders deal where you have to be tracked for the rest of your life going from town to town and the guy who pees in the park, same thing.
	I'm not getting what...
	Unless they've actually wanted to water down the, you know, the really bad guys and mix it up so much that everybody's on the list and so it doesn't make any difference anymore, which is a possibility, I suppose, by your theory where you think everybody in the high office is a pedophile.
	Yeah.
	I mean, that could be, but it's an unbelievable trend.
	Nobody's going to say anything about it because, oh, you know, child porn is bad.
	But now I'm wondering, what is the definition of child porn?
	Because this takes me back to the label of a bottle of Mouton Rothschild that came out.
	I think it was the 73 vintage, maybe, or the, I think it was the 73 or something like that.
	There was a, and Mouton Rothschild always has a little piece of art on the label, and there was some, it was a painting drawing of some, I don't know, a kid, a little young kid, just like a naked picture, but it wasn't even the script.
	I mean, it was just, it was just a very vague drawing.
	You could, people can look up the Mouton Rothschild porn label, and they'd probably find the picture of it.
	It's on the net.
	Anyway, they banned it.
	Oh, it's child porn.
	And I'm thinking, how is this child porn?
	Where's the porn part of it?
	A. And where's the child?
	I mean, there's no child, there's no porn, but it's child porn.
	So, like, everything is being, you know, lumped into this thing, and these poor kids for a sex thing, which, by the way, 40% of teenagers apparently do this, um...
	I don't know.
	I find the whole thing reprehensible.
	I agree with you, John.
	And I have a couple of different theories about this.
	First of all, the sickness, it is to dichotomize your brain.
	Because, of course, on television, all you see is Viagra ads, Cialis ads.
	You know, this is all about having sex.
	Every other commercial has a sexual tint to it.
	So I believe it's in some ways meant as a mind control measure to confuse your brain.
	On the other hand, yes, I do believe that in high government circles, there is a large portion of that population are pedophiles, and certainly in some countries more than others.
	And that, you know, they like to distract attention from themselves, make themselves look like they're all against it, which is very typical, by the way, for all sorts of criminals.
	Oh, I'm completely against it.
	Like, look at the Wall Street guys.
	It's the same thing.
	They're all against, you know, stealing and...
	And shysters.
	And shysters.
	Thank you.
	There you go.
	It's exactly...
	It's the same mentality.
	Oh, you know, I hate shysters.
	Who's going to say that?
	The biggest shyster himself.
	We have a saying in Holland.
	What you say by yourself...
	What you say is what you are.
	And these sayings don't exist just for no reason.
	And probably even more evil is they want to get these kids into juvenile homes so they can be abused by the very same people who are trying to make up these crazy-ass laws.
	There's so much abuse going on in these systems.
	Child Protection Services.
	Give me a break.
	If people want to look something up that's kind of interesting, look up Boys Town Scandal.
	Yeah.
	This is the channel for the ITV documentary you have to see.
	Yeah, and try to find the ITV documentary, which apparently was banned.
	It was taken off the air.
	They destroyed all copies, but there was one VHS tape floating around, which is still available on Google, on their Google videos, not the YouTube.
	And...
	You should just watch it.
	I mean, it's just all city corruption.
	And in fact, it sounded to me as though the entire state of Nebraska is completely corrupt.
	And it looks as though, which explains that crazy thing that happened.
	In fact, it's brought up in a Katie Kirk interview with Rahm Emanuel, which we actually have for today's show if you want to run it.
	She brings it up.
	Nebraska got a sweet deal on the health care bill for some unknown reason.
	Wow, very interesting combination.
	So let me just briefly about this documentary.
	Actually, I slipped into the show notes, I think, two shows ago.
	I'll put it in again.
	I think it's called Conspiracy of Silence.
	No.
	Maybe it's Pedophilia in the USA. It doesn't matter, but it goes all the way up to the Bush Senior White House.
	And, of course, some of the people who were involved in this scandal, because it was a scandal, are dead, suicided.
	But it did take place in Nebraska, and it was in the highest echelons of politics in this place called Boys Town, USA, originally set up by Father Flanagan, I believe.
	But at the time, heavy involvement from this guy called Lawrence King.
	For short, it was Larry King, so obviously not the old white dude.
	there's a black guy Yeah.
	And if you watch that...
	A black Republican, you know.
	And it's very disturbing, and it's, you know, exactly what it is.
	These boys are being taken out of the Boys Town, USA, being taken to high-end parties with politicians and people of influence.
	In Washington, D.C., they're being pulled out.
	Flying in, flown in there, abused, and then sent back.
	And then, of course, brainwashed that nothing happened.
	Really, it's disgusting, but it's a real television documentary, and several senators who were involved in this bought the station off.
	I think they paid at the time $250,000 for it not to air, which seems like a minimal amount.
	I'm sure there was other pressure going on, but I think it was the independent producers who had to get paid off.
	And so now, indeed, very interesting to see, and I want to play this Rahm Emanuel interview.
	That Nebraska got this huge payoff.
	This was around the Medicare payments, I believe?
	This interview was Katie Couric.
	This is an interesting interview for a couple of reasons.
	It took place before the speech, and it was about what Obama was going to say.
	But Couric, if she actually, if Couric was like this all the time, she would really get a lot of attention because she was very mean.
	She was asking crazy questions that were often...
	Emanuel did two or three takes, triple blinks, and head wiggles, and whoa, and all those kinds of things you do when you're being confronted by a crazy person.
	But I tried to say, well, this is where maybe Kirk, she knows she's going to lose her job, and so now she's becoming really aggressive as an interviewer.
	Then I realized, no, she's just irked by the fact that Obama, that they lost Massachusetts.
	She's like a real Democrat.
	She's irked at they lost Massachusetts, so she jumps all over Rahm Emanuel and she gives him nothing but crap.
	But she does bring up this Nebraska thing about how they got a sweet deal in Nebraska.
	Why?
	I'm his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.
	I began by asking him what mistakes the president will acknowledge tonight.
	He is not going to sit there and kind of list a set of mistakes, in his view.
	What he will do is, in a couple places in the speech talk, take responsibility where he could have done things different or better.
	Like what?
	In the sense of communicating and explaining the challenges we had and what were the missions of what he was setting out for the country to do or tackle in areas of healthcare.
	Will you scale back and compromise some of your goals, or will you try to keep basically the same legislation in place?
	I think the objectives will never change.
	Okay?
	So the decision now is, what are we going to do to go forward?
	The notion of...
	Now, why would he?
	He's Rahm Emanuel.
	You don't want to get suicided.
	Not doing something is off the table.
	The President says he wants to work with Republicans, but that really hasn't happened so far, so what makes you think it will now?
	The President will continue to reach out to Republicans, offer them the chance to work together.
	I do think now that the Republicans clearly have 41C, with that ability comes accountability.
	They too will have responsibility for the direction of this country.
	It's funny because, you know, Mickey was in Los Angeles and hanging out with all her Democratic actor friends.
	And this came up, she says, you know, because she walked in right as the State of the Union was about to start.
	She says, well, you know, the Republicans, you know, they're making it hard.
	They're not cooperating.
	I said, they don't need the Republicans.
	They have enough votes to pass anything they want.
	Yeah, but you're the Republican.
	Obama even made mention of this in the State of the Union.
	Oh, well, you know, they've got a filibuster.
	That can be removed at any point.
	You can just have a vote, remove the filibuster rule, but they don't want to do that because they want to use it themselves.
	The whole 41 thing, now the Republicans are responsible for everything, is so bogus.
	I don't like the Republicans either.
	Let's play the rest of it.
	And the choices we make.
	As you know, people were pretty disgusted by deals that were made up on Capitol Hill like the one given to Ben Nelson to win his support.
	If the White House was so involved, was this done with your blessing?
	Look, we were involved in the legislation all the way through.
	Were you involved in that?
	I'm not going to go through all of it.
	Why tell you, Katie Couric?
	You're just media.
	You have to do what I say, biatch!
	What I pay you for!
	We were helpful in getting the bill off the Senate floor and in retrospect to things, as I said to you just earlier, things you would have done different.
	You're considered a master political operative.
	You were the guy four years ago, of course, who orchestrated the Democratic takeover of the House.
	Where were you when Massachusetts was going down in flames for the Democrats?
	Well, I mean, as soon as it was brought to my attention, or the White House's attention, we immediately got involved in it.
	I suppose, Katie, you could say that I'm responsible for not having done more at the White House, but I think that...
	I think your analysis is spot on, John.
	This is the kind of question you'd ask at, like, the drinking club.
	Hey, dude, where were you?
	Where were you, Mr.
	Big Man?
	Mr.
	Nine-and-a-half fingers?
	Where were you?
	Where were you when this was going down?
	She gets meaner.
	Listen.
	A period of time between her winning the primary and us getting a phone call to get involved, we were immediately up there with whatever resources they asked for and more.
	Would you say you dropped the ball?
	That I, Rahm Emanuel, dropped the ball.
	Oh, that I, Rahm Emanuel, dropped the ball.
	He was blinking a lot, by the way, after which he did that.
	I, Rahm Emanuel, Rahm Emanuel, dropped the ball.
	And did he throw a shocker at her right there?
	No, back it up and then play for a question, but you have to imagine him blinking like a maniac.
	Of course, he's like, are you seriously questioning me, the center of Chicago hitman politics, Rahm Emanuel, as dropping the ball?
	Between her winning the primary and us getting a phone call to get involved, we were immediately up there with whatever resources they asked for and more.
	Would you say he dropped the ball?
	The White House.
	The Democrats.
	Katie Couric?
	Katie Couric?
	Look, I don't want to relitigate this, but there's no doubt in my mind we could have won that race.
	Meanwhile, I asked Emmanuel if his job is secure.
	He said, as long as the president wants me, I'm here.
	CBS News will, of course, bring...
	Emmanuel wants to get out, by the way.
	I'm sure he wants to get out.
	He wants to jump this ship big time.
	I wouldn't argue that because it's got to be thankless.
	And I don't see what he's getting out of.
	It's got to be a nightmarish job.
	He's probably not getting much sleep and you have to be all doped up to even be effective.
	I don't know.
	Alright, I've got two quick topics which are not to be overlooked, John.
	This is from the BBC. I have not heard or seen any of this anywhere in the United States press.
	This is from the Financial Times.
	General Stanley McChrystal, this is the whack job who sleeps three hours a night and looks like the cryptkeeper.
	He says there's been enough fighting in Afghanistan.
	He says it's time for a political solution.
	I'm like, wow, this is the guy who was begging for, you know...
	40,000 troops.
	Yeah, he actually says the arrival of the extra 30,000 troops pledged by President Obama and the additional 7,000 troops promised by other NATO countries should deliver very demonstrable positive progress in 2010.
	He says...
	The Taliban are, at this point, part of the political fabric of the country.
	Now, add to that, and this really blew me away, the UN Security Council Committee announced Tuesday it has lifted sanctions against five former Taliban officials.
	And they've been trying to do...
	Russia has been blocking this movement to basically lift these sanctions.
	They finally agreed.
	They said, yeah, you know what, we should just lift all these sanctions.
	I think that they're trying to settle it, John.
	I think they are actually trying to buy the Taliban off.
	And settle this thing and just, you know, work it all out.
	Hey, look, here's the way I would see it.
	Look, you know, this is senseless.
	It's like, you know, PBS even reported on this.
	The trucking supply companies who are funded by U.S. tax dollars, they pay off the Taliban to get a free ride, not a free ride, but a safe ride up to the troops.
	So, you know, our money is going to the same guys we're fighting.
	Taliban, by the way, they didn't bring down the World Trade Centers, if that's what you believe.
	It was Al-Qaeda, which is now admitted many times over is a fake name.
	It's a brand invented by the CIA. This thing is just a big quagmire.
	At the end of the day, it's all about the pipeline and the drugs.
	We'll just split the money with you guys.
	Let's take it easy.
	Once in a while, we'll give a couple of guys two to the head to make it look like the war is still going on.
	We'll let those crazy Blackwater guys do it.
	Meanwhile, we'll blow up some shit in Pakistan.
	Let's just split the dough and get the drugs rolling and the pipeline moving.
	They are going for a complete settlement.
	The war is effectively over.
	Karzai came out with a comment the other day.
	He was kind of maybe indicating something similar to that, but insisted that Afghanistan is going to need the help.
	They're going to need help for the next 15 years.
	He was very specific, which I thought was peculiar.
	I think I have that clip, actually.
	Let me see what I have here of Karzai.
	This is him talking on the BBC last week.
	I was interested in reconciliation and in bringing the Taliban back to their own country many, many years ago.
	The difference this time is that now we have the backing of our partners of the United States.
	Oh, it's our partners.
	Our partners.
	And for other allies in Europe.
	And of the countries in the region, there is broader, better understanding on the need for reconciliation and on relations with Pakistan, where we have better understanding of our situations, where they have suffered as well.
	Most importantly of all, now we have a concrete plan of action, a resourced one that would provide opportunities for those Taliban who return.
	Oh, I know what it is!
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yay!
	The one thing that had to have occurred, if you think about the history of the Taliban in this area and their crazy governance, is that they were the ones that for some reason or other...
	We're burning up the poppy fields and making, you know, saying, nope, we're not going to be doing any more of that business.
	They were getting rid of it!
	Exactly!
	It was almost decimated.
	So they have had to now agree, so the battle had to be between pro-poppy growing and not poppy growing, and the Taliban have had to have agreed, for some reason or other, that okay, we will be part of this business that we're running in Afghanistan of growing poppies,
	And making heroin to be shipped to the idiots in Europe, they must have been convinced that, well, the Europeans are so corrupt, and the only way that the new caliphate is ever going to reform is to let the Europeans kill themselves with this stuff.
	What difference does it make to you?
	You should be encouraging it, not tearing down the poppy field.
	And maybe there's some, you know, debate that went on for the last couple of years.
	And the Taliban maybe have seen the light and said, hey, yeah, OK, well, you can grow the poppies as long as we get a piece of the action.
	And we'll try to, you know, settle down into some manageable situation.
	That's the only thing I can think of happened.
	Yeah.
	Well, I'm going to contention is the poppy field.
	Yeah, of course.
	And the oil pipeline, obviously.
	I think they don't care about the pipeline.
	I mean, they're probably getting royalties for that anyway.
	Yeah, they want people to have jobs.
	Build them poppy.
	Poppy jobs.
	So I suspect then that over the next few years, because the poppy thing is, you know, except for the occasional, you know, photo op where somebody in the army says, whoa, look, we found another poppy field.
	Unbelievable.
	We're burning it.
	Watch.
	Take a picture.
	We're burning it.
	But actually they're burning corn in the field next to it.
	Probably burning it after it's been harvested because people don't even know what a poppy field looks like.
	Yeah, no, of course not.
	Or it could be a cornfield, you're right.
	But anyway, the point is that they're going to now, it seems to me if this is what our theory is, which is the whole thing is about opium, if our theory is correct, that means the price of heroin will drop.
	Drastically over the next two or three years.
	And we need to do that because Meow Meow is cutting into the market.
	We need to get rid of that shit.
	Get rid of the Coke.
	Get rid of the Meow Meow.
	Get rid of the E. And get everyone on heroin.
	It's good for you.
	I want to take heroin epidemic in the 70s, which is an era I think there was a lot of activity going on.
	In fact, there was a number of movies made about Afghanistan being the Paris of the, you know, of that part of the world.
	And they had hippies were moving to Afghanistan.
	It was a party town.
	It's crazy, dude.
	And that was like in 72, something like that, and that's when there was, you know, people were getting strung out on heroin, and there was a song by Steely Dan, Chasing the Dragon, which is a reference to smoking it, and, yeah.
	Sounds right.
	Alright, then I've got one more which is very worrisome.
	It's actually a YouTube clip of Canadian news broadcast to go along with this, which I bumped into and I did some research and found a couple of, this is a very well-sourced article with links.
	This is about the upcoming Olympics in Canada.
	I believe it's in Vancouver, right?
	The Winter Olympics?
	Vancouver.
	So there is a high likelihood, according to sources, that there could be a false flag terror attack on the Olympics.
	And you have to understand up front that a deal has already been struck.
	If something happens up there, U.S. troops move into Canada.
	Ha ha ha!
	I'm not buying this one.
	Well, I got the news report, so I'll play that in a second.
	So first of all, what's happened is 6,000 tons of ammonium nitrate has gone missing from a storage facility in the Vancouver area.
	Wow, 6,000 tons?
	Yes, and what is ammonium nitrate?
	That would blow up Vancouver.
	Thank you.
	And this is from a company that was recently bought for $22 billion.
	So the company that lost 6,000 tons of ammonium nitrate was purchased for $22 billion by Goldman Sachs, AIG, the Carlyle Group, amongst others.
	The company was called Kinder Morgan.
	Kinder would be kind of funnier.
	Kinder Morgan.
	It's Kinder.
	Yeah, I know, but it sounds better.
	They did not report these two tons missing for over two months due to a clerical error.
	Hey, John, you seen that 6,000 tons of ammonium nitrate anywhere?
	I missed it.
	I think it's in my backyard.
	So listen to the news reports from Canada.
	And you will get a little better view as to what is possible that could happen and why this would happen.
	And of course that would be to bring in the North American Union with the troops...
	Body scanners could soon land at an airport near you.
	CBC News has confirmed the federal government plans to introduce the high-tech scanners at all of Canada's major airports.
	The transportation minister is in fact holding a news conference this afternoon to outline the new security measures.
	Breaking news from Ottawa.
	For weeks we've been hearing that Prime Minister Stephen Harper was considering asking the Governor-General to suspend Parliament.
	Now he is gone.
	Think about this for a moment.
	The American army crossing the border into Canada.
	That is part of the plan if there's a major emergency during the Olympics.
	Just three weeks before the Olympic Games, two tons of explosive material missing from a Surrey storage facility still isn't accounted for.
	CDB News broke the story of missing ammonium nitrate earlier this month.
	And tonight we have learned how the Mounties are stepping up their search for it.
	That's the part I miss, by the way, that the government has been suspended conveniently during all of this.
	So what is his music in the background?
	Where'd you get this clip?
	This is, you know, one of those YouTube things where they try to produce it.
	Hold on, there's more.
	I don't like the music either.
	These guys are trying to dramatize things with music.
	Give me a break.
	Hey, you guys who do that stuff, stop it.
	Stop doing that, yeah.
	The apparatus of Olympic security is becoming apparent.
	Along with the fencing around venues are the security cameras.
	Hundreds of them.
	Kirk Williams is live outside GM Place where the cameras were put in today.
	Kirk.
	Ian, Gloria, if you live around here or you plan on attending an event at GM or BC Place, chances are you will be on camera.
	The question is, what to do with them after the Games?
	The words are alarming.
	Last night, we reported on a U.S. State Department travel advisory for people coming here during the 2010 Winter Olympics.
	U.S. officials are telling visitors that our Games could be a prime target for Al-Qaeda terrorists.
	Stop!
	So all we need now is an exercise.
	We need a drill.
	Just be on the lookout for someone doing an anti-terrorist drill around the Olympics.
	And then you know what's going to happen.
	Yeah, that's almost maybe like a code or something just to warn people.
	So in other words, the drill takes place.
	Do yourself a favor and don't do something that is obviously related or going to be related.
	Could be.
	I mean, your list of coincidences...
	You are fast.
	Coincidence?
	I think not!
	I think is valid.
	Thank you.
	And on that note, on that happy note...
	Well, before you...
	Well, I got one more thing, but it would be depressing, more depressing.
	Oh, good.
	There's a new meme.
	Now, this is a long clip, but you're only going to play it to a point, which is maybe a minute in.
	But there's a new meme that people have to keep an eye out for.
	I first heard it on some right-wing talkers, and then I ran into it on this PBS thing.
	And that is that there's going to be some sort of an attack within the next four years, a weapon of mass destruction, and the meme very slowly evolves into the weapon of mass destruction will probably be a bioweapon.
	Yeah, of botulism.
	Could be.
	That's a good point.
	That's a nice catch.
	But there's going to be an attack of some sort, and we are ill-prepared to deal with it, which is another one.
	So it's a combination product here we're dealing with in terms of a meme.
	But this is an interview that took place with a couple guys, ex-senators or whatever, that do this report every so often about our readiness, and it turns out that our readiness is close to nil.
	And where is this from, this report?
	This was on your NewsHour, sponsored by Chevron.
	Oh, and Toyota and...
	Everybody.
	And Monsanto.
	Here we go.
	Thank you for being here.
	Great to be here.
	Let's start with your assessment actually 14 months ago.
	Is there any doubt in your mind, and I'll begin with you Senator Graham, but either of you, that the threat remains as you assessed it then, that within the next four years it is likely or more likely than not that some terrorists somewhere in the world will use a weapon of mass destruction?
	If anything, the odds that we gave a year ago, which was more likely than not, have probably gone up in the past 14 months.
	That is, it is higher than just a straight, slightly more than 50-50, that someplace on Earth a terrorist group would use a weapon of mass destruction between now and the end of 2013.
	And the reason for that is that accessibility, particularly of biological materials, has increased.
	The sophistication of Al-Qaeda, as we saw on Christmas Day, has become, if anything...
	Put it in the guy's crotch!
	Sophistication!
	Sophistication!
	...greater and more diffused.
	We believe that the risk is real and growing.
	And this was a unanimous finding.
	Yeah, and we'll reach a probability by around 2013.
	Of course, we don't have intel telling us the attacks are going to occur in 2013, but if you look at the trend lines, it's a short-term risk.
	That was our point.
	This is not the next generation that has to worry about this.
	And when you say trend lines, briefly, what do you mean?
	Well, although we are doing things, we are making progress in particular areas as a government and with allies, they are active also.
	And it's like we're running, but they're running faster.
	Alright, so let's take one of the F that I think made everyone the most nervous, which was that a system still hadn't been developed to respond quickly to a bioterror attack.
	Are you talking about what?
	You know who's really heavily...
	Israel does drills all the time for bioterror attacks.
	With the whole population.
	It's like the duck and cover stuff.
	Everybody knows what to do.
	They did one just two weeks ago.
	Yeah, we don't do that.
	Preventing mass casualties?
	What do you mean by that?
	No, we take pictures of you naked.
	First, we mean deterrence.
	The reality is that if a terrorist gains access to a biological weapon, they're going to ask themselves where can we use this weapon to the greatest effect.
	So the degree to which you are prepared to respond to it becomes a significant amount of your deterrence that it will not be used against you.
	But if you are attacked, the adequacy of your response capabilities can reduce the number of casualties into the thousands, not the tens or hundreds of thousands, and therefore make it something less than a mass destructive event.
	So, Senator Talent, what is missing in that area?
	What hasn't been done?
	Well, unfortunately, about everything is missing.
	I mean, we've not stockpiled the countermeasures.
	We didn't even have enough vaccines for H1N1 with six months' notice.
	We don't have planned systems for distributing the countermeasures.
	Oh, okay.
	So we have to stock up on anti-bio crap?
	I guess apparently you have to stock up on everything.
	And, you know, vaccines for anthrax, which are incredibly dangerous, and all these other things.
	I have no idea.
	All I know is I'm seeing the meme.
	I'm not sure what the end game is.
	It probably is to spend a bunch of money.
	And...
	I have no idea.
	If there's some phony-blowny false flag event in Vancouver, that will just expedite these things.
	In other words, what we're hearing here is a prelude to a kind of, let's panic the American public again and get them to cough up a bunch of money and then be leery of everything and put up with the scanners that you're going to have at the airport so these guys can get their rocks off.
	Not that that's what they're doing.
	But, come on.
	And...
	I don't know.
	Just the whole thing.
	I mean, I just keep seeing the meme.
	I keep hearing it.
	And so I'm thinking something's up.
	And it's going to resolve itself probably within the next month or two, and we'll discuss it in great detail.
	Yeah, if we're still alive.
	But we have it.
	It's like everything else we do on this show.
	And we've done it from the H1N1 and even before.
	We were so far ahead of the game...
	The financial crisis.
	I called the stock market exactly, by the way, as to what the low would be.
	H1N1. We've called all of this stuff.
	It gets to the point where by the time everyone's like, oh, that was a scam, they've forgotten that we were the ones telling you it was a scam.
	So this is a new one.
	This is a new scam coming up.
	It's just cropping up in too many of the places.
	You know, it's like we were talking about how the intelligence agencies will have these things planted so they can get the word out.
	This meme is cropping up in all the right places.
	It just keeps cropping up here and there and here and there, all the places that get the word out.
	Stage two is coming up, and I don't know what that's going to be.
	It could be this Vancouver thing, or the Vancouver thing could be a red herring.
	...NGOs would be to...
	And so, therefore, if people want to help, weister show up.
	My concerns around any crisis is that shysters show up and take advantage of people.
	That's got to be the title of the show.
	Shysters show up.
	Is that with a Y? S-H-Y? S-H-Y-S-T-E-R-S, yeah.
	Shysters.
	So, of course, just talking in this way, that is actually terror.
	This is actually what terror is all about, about frightening people.
	And you know what?
	I just got to say it again.
	You have all the tools to be happy and to fight this within yourself.
	Okay?
	You can be a happy person.
	Just look at John and I. We're happy!
	We're so incredibly happy!
	And you know what?
	We are proud to serve you and keep an eye out for the shysters that show up.
	Yes, and we will be happier, by the way, if you go to the NoAgendaShow.com and click on the donation button.
	Yeah.
	And even if you give us a larger amount, please consider signing up for our $5 or even better, the lucky $30 a month donation program.
	And it is quite lucky because you can get a job.
	It's karma.
	Good karma.
	It's proven.
	We have more people emailing and telling us that they've gotten a job right after they've donated, and then they usually come back and donate more.
	And we need it, because I've got to go right now.
	It's 11.15.
	I've got a meeting at noon.
	Who does a meeting at noon?
	That's a lunch meeting.
	Yeah.
	Coming to you from the minimum security containment cell, Crackpot Command Center in Gitmo Nation West, San Francisco, California, in the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where the sun is out again, but I'll bet you it's going to cloud up tonight at John C. Dvorak.
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