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172: Palin Teapot Party

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	You know, these kinds of documents that you keep digging up about, this is kind of disturbing.
	Adam Couring, John C. Dvorak.
	It's February 7, 2010.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 172.
	This is No Agenda.
	Watching C-SPAN so you don't have to.
	And coming to you live 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 there's not a cloud in the sky, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	And the morning to you, my friend.
	Same to you.
	In the morning.
	In the morning.
	Yes.
	Have you Twittered?
	Have you Tweet and Heimered?
	No, of course not.
	You spend all that time getting ready.
	And then, actually, I need to do a couple things, too.
	So I couldn't get...
	You know, C-SPAN was boring this week.
	No, C-SPAN was awesome last night!
	Last night?
	What did they do?
	Yes, I sent you a text message, didn't you?
	You know what?
	Can I just say something?
	You've got onto this damn Google Voice crap, and so now I have like 18 numbers that are all Google Voice numbers, and you show up as John C. Dvorak on my phone, and I'm like, I'm texting you, and you're not reading my text, so you don't get them, or, you know, it's crazy, and then I get, Hi, it's John, this is my Google Voicemail.
	Who gives a crap if it's your Google voicemail?
	You're just giving me more useless information.
	You're getting messages?
	Yes!
	You have a message.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, so I sent you...
	Sarah Palin was on C-SPAN last night with her keynote for the tea party.
	Yeah, we gotta talk about her.
	And I sent you a message saying...
	I was busy working on the mailing thing.
	I watched enough stuff on C-SPAN and I saw the Franken stuff and the other crap.
	Well, I got the Franken stuff, but first of all, why don't we...
	Did you send out the Twitter?
	No, let me send out the Twitter.
	Oh my God, what are you doing?
	I'm listening to you berate me.
	And you deserve it.
	I can't believe...
	I mean, text messaging is supposed to be the ultimate...
	Communication, you know, guaranteed delivery.
	I got your message.
	You got my message and you ignored it?
	No, I didn't realize it was from you.
	It came in from some really weird number.
	This is what Google Voice does.
	They assign a crazy number to me so that you can't recognize who I am.
	It's dumb.
	Google Voice sucks balls.
	Okay.
	So, uh...
	Who is our executive producer for this final program?
	We have a number of them for today.
	Oh, that's nice.
	We have our executive producer, our old buddy who seems to be on his way to knighthood, Stephen Pelsmockers.
	Wait, isn't he a knight already by now?
	No, he needs one more.
	Stephen Pelsmockers.
	It's $333.33.
	Who, by the way, does not...
	I love the magic number, Stephen.
	He does not live in the Netherlands, by the way.
	He's a Belgian.
	Yes, he is.
	He says, this is part two of the neighborhood layaway plan on behalf of my colleague, the separator.
	Ah, okay, so we have to put the separator in parens again, right?
	Yeah.
	Please remember, it's the Belgians, the bravest of Gallic warriors that carry the show.
	For this episode, it's absolutely true.
	Yeah.
	Long live the Belgians.
	Thank you, Stephen.
	It's highly appreciated, as always.
	Yes.
	And he's a member of the...
	He's on his way.
	He's on his way to a nightclub.
	He's a Belgian.
	They're all great.
	Yeah.
	We love them.
	I was watching Poirot last night, as a matter of fact.
	What were you watching?
	Poirot.
	Poirot?
	The murder mystery.
	I thought Poirot was French.
	No, he's Belgian.
	Oh.
	Right on.
	John Kilburn, Houston, Texas, $200.
	Thank you, John.
	And another return visit from our pal, Elon Shemes.
	Shemes.com, Pumarind, Netherlands.
	Pumarind.
	Oh.
	And then, of course, we have...
	Chris Schooler, who actually visited us at the offices.
	Yeah, this was kind of cool.
	We had one of our producers from Get My Nation down under a little bit to the left, New Zealand, on his way back from his ski trip in Colorado, stop by the office.
	In fact, he stopped by when neither of us were there.
	And then I'm walking to the office.
	And you know how weird it is when you're walking down the street all of a sudden someone comes up from behind and starts saying something to you?
	You mean like, hey, jerk off, move.
	No, like, that could only be one person.
	I'm like, oh crap, here it is.
	I'm getting it now.
	That could be one person.
	And the guy's like six feet tall.
	I'm like, huh.
	And he says, you must be Adam.
	And then he hands you a summons.
	Exactly.
	You've been served.
	Yeah.
	And so he brought his donation personally, which we also appreciate.
	And so he is also listed as an executive producer today.
	What's his last name again?
	Schooler.
	S-C-O-U-L-E-R. Schooler.
	Right.
	Right.
	And I think we also said, hey, dude, you really need to get us some information from New Zealand.
	Yeah, we did.
	He gave us $206, and so he's the associate executive producer for this week.
	And my son mentions, since he was sitting down in the street, he says, hey, was that guy you were talking to from Wellington?
	I said, what do you have?
	And I looked at his card.
	He is from Wellington.
	Apparently there's a specific Wellington accent that my son can identify because he has a friend from Wellington.
	Really?
	I don't know.
	I thought it was weird.
	Well, thank you very much, John Kilburn, Ian Seamus.
	Chris Shuler and of course our Associate Executive Producers and our Executive Producer for episode number 172 of No Agenda, Steven Pelschmakers.
	On behalf of The Separator, you know that you need to put this on your CV. It'll look really good.
	It looks professional and it is absolutely true that you are making this episode possible through your financing which gets you the Executive Producer credit and it does get you jobs.
	Jobs and jobs.
	And more jobs.
	But it's proven.
	It's actually proven people who have donated to this program have gotten jobs because of it.
	They haven't gotten laid, though, I don't think.
	That's on the list of premiums we'll be promising soon.
	We're working on it.
	I do want to give you some props, John.
	Okay.
	May I? I knew that would get your attention.
	You called it, I'm going to say four weeks ago, you called it and you said it looks like they're trying to make Sarah Palin the leader of the Tea Party.
	And that this was being orchestrated mainly through Fox News, and in particular through Glenn Beck.
	Yeah, I think Beck is looking for some action.
	No, but seriously, you called it.
	Yeah, I know I called it.
	It was writing, it was on the wall.
	But here's an interesting thing about it, and we're going to talk about this.
	I might as well mention, and you probably have some clips of Sarah's.
	Yes, I do.
	But there's a big scandal going on because MSNBC had...
	Requested through Freedom of Information Act all her emails when she was a governor of Alaska during the period that she was running.
	And the state, let me get the story up.
	It's actually Metafilter's got a good rundown of this.
	Apparently, they've gotten this 3,000 pages of emails.
	Let me just read this one little section here that somebody mentioned.
	So this is recent, these emails that they're published.
	Yeah, this just basically showed up.
	MSNBC just got these.
	Let me just read a quote here.
	When MSNBC.com and other news organizations and citizens of Alaska sought Palin email records after she was named Republican vice president and her running mate in August, the state initially quoted a cost as high as $15 million for state technicians to find the emails, for state interns to print out the emails one at a time.
	Well, that's about what it costs to put up a website for the government, so that's not surprising.
	For state lawyers to read them and determine what information could be withheld.
	That's still the laborious approach the state has taken, which is a cost of more than $500,000 in staff time.
	But the prices it is charging have come down considerably.
	You note it was $15 million before.
	Now, the state charged MSNBC $323.58.
	That sounds about right, actually.
	I mean, it is a lot of work, those Freedom of Information Act requests.
	Yeah, but with email, you know, you should be able to get this stuff out pretty easily.
	No, no, but it all has to be read.
	What's the point of printing each one out?
	Well, that's usually how it's requested.
	I have been through some of this, and every single email has to be read.
	They have to redact it.
	That's why it's printed out.
	And then they eventually, I think, scan them back into PDF. There's a procedure.
	I mean, it's very laborious.
	That's not what the story's about.
	I just thought it was amusing.
	Well, then don't digress.
	I always digress.
	Don't digress.
	Where's the show?
	Okay, it's time to wrap it up.
	So anyway, it appears that it looks as though, according to these emails, and I think the direction they're going to go is they're going to make it appear, and it may or may not be true, that Todd Palin was actually running the place.
	No, you're kidding me.
	No, there's all kinds of weird stuff coming up.
	Really?
	And then there's all these little petty corruption.
	For example, one of the analysts said the governor coached her staff on how to disguise the amount of electrical work needed at the mansion to hook up her new tanning bed.
	The manager of Palin's travel schedule searched for a public event to use as justification.
	I just need one, quote unquote, to charge the state for an airplane flight for Palin's daughter, Willow, who made the trip but had missed the event given as its justification.
	She actually wrote about that in her book.
	The shadow apparently Apparently Todd was picking the judicial appointment and doing contract negotiations.
	I read the book and a lot of what you're telling me whether it's true or not and seems pretty uninteresting in general she has addressed most of those things in her book.
	She addressed electrical work needed for the tanning bed?
	Yeah, well not tanning bed specifically but electrical work.
	Yeah, she's addressed most of that.
	And she coached the staff on how to disguise the amount needed?
	Is the word disguise in the actual email?
	I don't think so.
	Well, maybe not.
	Whatever the case is, I'm sure...
	It's a hit piece by MSNBC. The point I'm trying to make is not the facts of the matter or anything else.
	Here's what I'm trying to get to, but if you wouldn't continually interrupt my train of thought.
	A... MSNBC is going to take this stuff and they're going to give it to Olbermann and that idiot, what's her name?
	And they're going to blow out all this stuff and basically try to derail Palin's potential as being a presidential candidate.
	If these people were Republicans, they would bury this stuff, get her in as the candidate, and then bring it out and ruin the chances of her being elected.
	This is what they did with Muskie, and this is what they tend to do.
	The Democrats are so kind of like in your face that they don't even get how this mechanism works, and they're playing this completely wrong.
	That's my only point.
	Well, they've wasted about $400,000 because circulating the net today is a picture of Sarah Palin from her keynote at the Tea Party convention.
	And you've probably seen it by now.
	The chat room is all over it.
	She had crib notes written on her left hand.
	Yeah.
	Three points.
	It was energy, tax cuts, and lift American spirits.
	And of course, this is the only thing the American public will hear about.
	And I'm not pro-Palin as a presidential candidate, and I do believe the Tea Party is being hijacked.
	But...
	There is a difference between what she actually said, what happened there in Tennessee.
	And this is, I guarantee you, the only thing you're going to hear is about the crib notes on her left hand.
	That's the only thing.
	So they don't even need these emails.
	They will ridicule her down to, oh, she's like a sixth grader, needs crib notes.
	You watch.
	You watch this happen.
	without it, it will be the complete distraction of the week on the agenda.
	Now, you saw that, right?
	You saw the crib notes.
	Yeah, but it was like, unfortunately, what did it say, I wonder?
	That's what I just told you.
	I just told you what it says.
	I mean, have we actually seen a photo of it?
	Yes, there's a video and a photo.
	I saw that same video you saw, and it's very unclear.
	There's a picture taken while she's at the lectern.
	You want me to send it to you right now so you can see it?
	Or do you believe me?
	Yeah, you want to see it?
	Hold on a second.
	There's a photo of her taken at the lectern where it actually...
	Hold on, I've just got to save this.
	Because I'm convinced it should buy bread.
	No, it didn't say buy bread.
	Damn.
	All right, here it is.
	Coming at you.
	No, it says...
	It says energy tax cut, and there's actually one word crossed off, and it says lift American spirits, which could be smoke American spirits.
	I don't know.
	You got that?
	It's coming.
	We really shouldn't do this.
	It's really bad for the connection.
	Yeah, it is, but it doesn't seem to be affecting it at the moment.
	Well, not on your end, my friend.
	No.
	Okay, you got it?
	Now, take a look, and you'll see that's a pretty damn good picture.
	They got it close up.
	And I guarantee you that is the only thing that will be discussed about her entire speech.
	What does it say?
	Energy?
	Yeah, it says energy, tax cuts...
	And Lift American Spirits.
	What is it that's X'd out?
	Who cares?
	You sound like one of these news shows.
	What is X'd out?
	Whoa, we've analyzed it.
	Well, for one thing, I'm dubious that this is actually what it is.
	Yeah, it is.
	It is.
	It is.
	Now, John.
	This is like the CIS. Enhance it.
	Enhance.
	Zoom in on that.
	Okay, can you clarify?
	What kind of pen was it written with?
	So anyway, the whole point, of course, is it's laughable because the President of the United States uses a teleprompter.
	And in the very spirit of no agenda, this is what you pay for, my friends.
	What we do is you don't have to C-spin.
	So I spent my time last night watching this, and I would like to review it with you, John, and play a couple of clips.
	Thanks.
	So, first of all, this is, of course, a hijack of the Tea Party movement.
	By the way, Sarah Palin was introduced by Andrew Breitbart.
	Of biggovernment.com.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	So, you know, there's people with egos all over the place, which is kind of like, alright.
	When I saw that, I was like, hmm, not liking this.
	Because the whole point of the Tea Party is it's a grassroots national movement where people on a local level are kicking incumbents out of office, which is, I think, great.
	And there should not be a leader, which Sarah Palin does discuss.
	But at the end, there's a clip that kind of shows you what things are to come.
	Remember, this room is filled with Republicans, independents, disgruntled Democrats in this convention center in Tennessee.
	And I have to say, it was like she had read the show notes to know an agenda.
	Every single topic, she went boom, boom, boom, boom.
	She hit every single one.
	This speech was for the Tea Party movement, for people who are pissed off about what's happening, was a brilliant speech.
	Without a teleprompter, I will say.
	And I got a couple of clips, starting off with the major slam that was...
	It's an open door, as we call it, but it was well done and made a lot of sense for her to start the speech off this way.
	I am so proud to be American.
	Thank you.
	Cash, thank you.
	Happy birthday, Ronald Reagan!
	Oh, by the way, there was a lot of happy birthday, Ronald Reagan.
	I watched some of the convention earlier, because it would have been Ronald Reagan's 99th birthday.
	So there's a lot of Ronald Reagan was great stuff all over the evening.
	Well, a special hello to the C-SPAN viewers.
	You may not be welcome in those healthcare negotiations, but you have an invitation to the tea party.
	So, that's good, right?
	Yeah, it's okay.
	I thought it was good.
	I didn't like the fact...
	I don't...
	I have mixed feelings about...
	Anyway, just play it.
	I'm going to listen.
	I wouldn't mind hearing your feedback.
	I can't put it in words, but there's something about her being the spokesperson for the Tea Party and welcoming C-SPAN when she's not really a spokesperson.
	She's just a public speaker.
	Well, here she addresses that very topic.
	And your voice is too important, so work hard for these candidates, but put your faith in ideas.
	And in that spirit, I caution against allowing this movement to be defined by any one leader or politician.
	The Tea Party movement is not a top-down operation, it's a ground-up call to action that is forcing both parties to change the way that they're doing business, and that's beautiful!
	So, I think this is the clip we need to save, because here she's saying it should not be one politician.
	There should be no leader, and she cautions everybody for that.
	So, she addressed that pretty early on.
	Then, of course, as I said, I don't care which way you look at it, she is, besides the voice, which is just, it really starts to gnaw at you.
	It's a grating voice, and it's like this squeaky, squawky thing.
	I mean, when I first saw her bio and all that, I had predicted she would be a candidate, and wasn't surprised when they picked her.
	And then when I realized that she sounds just dreadful, it just makes you want to...
	Put earmuffs on or start screaming.
	Yeah, Nikki said the same thing.
	It's a little grating.
	I agree.
	But anyway, just moving through.
	Here she slams the president.
	Listen to the crowd, by the way.
	They were loving her.
	standing ovation after standing ovation This is about the people, and it's bigger than any king or queen of a tea party, and it's a lot bigger than any charismatic guy with a teleprompter.
	I have to say, it was like one after another.
	It was like zing, zing, zing.
	Then the meat of the keynote, which I really didn't like, because she's all over...
	She has a kid in Iraq, and so I can understand where she's coming from to some degree, but she really is stepping up on the security of the country.
	I don't think she says homeland, at least I hope not.
	So she really lays into...
	The double speak in Washington, and then go straight into the crotch bomber.
	And I think this was really the main crux of her platform, which unfortunately may become the platform of the Tea Party if she actually becomes some kind of candidate for them.
	Now, in recent weeks, many of us have grown even more uneasy about our administration's approach to national security.
	The most important role ascribed to our federal government, let me say, too, it's not...
	Politicizing our security to discuss our concerns because Americans deserve to know the truth about the threats that we face and what the administration is or isn't doing about them, so let's talk about them.
	New terms used like overseas contingency operation instead of the word war that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face.
	We can't spin our way out of this threat.
	It's one thing to call a pay raise a job created or saved.
	It's quite another to call the devastation that a homicide bomber can inflict a man-made disaster.
	And I just say, come on, Washington, if nowhere else, national security, that's one place where you gotta call it like it is.
	Right.
	And in that spirit, in that spirit, we should acknowledge that on Christmas Day, the system did not work.
	Abdulmutallab passed through airport security with a bomb, and he boarded a flight, hell-bent on killing innocent passengers.
	This terrorist trained in Yemen with Al-Qaeda.
	His American visa was not revoked until after he tried to kill hundreds of passengers.
	On Christmas Day, the only thing that stopped this terrorist was blind luck and brave passengers.
	Really, it was a Christmas miracle, and that is not the way that the system is supposed to work.
	See, she's all over this, and I'm not liking how she's...
	She's basically saying we should have waterboarded the guy as she moves on.
	You know, saying we only interrogated him for 50 minutes.
	So she's kind of on the waterboarding tip, which I'm not too hot on.
	I don't know.
	I mean, I think...
	I don't know.
	I'm surprised that she's even still in the picture and people are standing and clapping for her.
	Well, I think you're misunderstanding what's happening, even though you called it, is this is a group of people who are very angry, and the most dangerous thing that's happened is they've brought in a robotic shill to rile them up.
	And she looks reasonably pleasing.
	They have to work on the voice.
	I think they could detune it a little bit.
	Maybe put one of those auto-tuners in her voice box to just bring it down half an octave would be fine.
	But my point is, every single thing she did was just hit after hit after hit of all the things that the people who are angry about and listen to Rush Limbaugh or Hannity or...
	What's his name?
	Beck.
	Riley and Beck.
	Yeah.
	So, here's another one.
	What's another huge...
	She's just hitting back at everything.
	Everything's being blamed on the previous administration, so she has to hit that as well.
	The lesson of the last year is this.
	Foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality.
	And our president would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy had made once he was in office, that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.
	I don't know if Kennedy actually said that.
	Can you recall anything like that?
	Uh-uh.
	I never heard that.
	No, I never heard it.
	Now, of course, she lays into the...
	I mean, Kennedy, for one thing, followed like an extremely popular president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, who wasn't really blamed for anything because, in fact, during that era and into this probably until about the mid-1970s, at least amongst the...
	Democrats, and possibly amongst Republicans, Eisenhower was called and considered a do-nothing president.
	Never really created any problems.
	He was just basically a maintenance guy.
	Did Kennedy inherit some kind of huge problem except for the big pigs?
	No, the only problem that was kind of inherited, the Korean War was over I believe, but the thing that was kind of inherited was the police action that the French were involved in in Vietnam, and it was a minor nothing at the time, and Kennedy came in and screwed it up.
	Then it was further screwed up by Lyndon Johnson.
	So we should investigate if you actually ever use that quote, because I'd never heard of it.
	I think it's made up.
	But maybe somebody...
	We have a million listeners, so let's see.
	Someone will source it for us, yeah.
	So, of course, along with the populist...
	Her popular speech, she obviously has to lay into hope and change and the transparency and how Washington was going to change, and she hits that one right on the mark again.
	Remember, this was easy to do.
	You and I could have done this.
	We probably could have done it in high heels, but we definitely could have done the speech.
	Plus, remember our administration promised that it would be good stewards of taxpayer dollars.
	Remember?
	Remember Vice President Biden?
	He was put in charge of a tough, unprecedented oversight effort.
	That's how it was introduced.
	You know why?
	because nobody messes with Joe.
	Now, this was all part of that hope and change and transparency, and now a year later, I've got to ask those supporters of all that, how's that hopey-changey I've got to ask those supporters of all that, how's that hopey-changey stuff working out Yeah.
	I thought that was pretty funny.
	How's that hopey-changey stuff working out for ya?
	Anyway, so then she bitches about the transparency.
	She nails the 40 lobbyists currently in the administration.
	I'm not going to play those clips for you.
	But then finally, the one that we really are waiting for is, you know, so is she going to be the leader of the Tea Party?
	Remember, she just said that this should not take place.
	There should be no leader.
	And she's then interviewed after this.
	She gets like three or four questions after her speech.
	And of course she's asked if there'll be President Palin.
	And the question was kind of asked two times.
	So just the second answer as she's about to go.
	And that'll kind of sum it all up where this is headed.
	So thank you so much for coming down here.
	We really appreciate it.
	You may have to fight your way out of here from all these people who don't want you to leave.
	Well, I appreciate the opportunity to be here.
	I have to apologize if I had anything to do with any of the controversy that some of the media spun up.
	What controversy?
	I am happy, honored, proud to take any speaking fee that was ever going to be written out for me via a check and turn it right back around and give it to the cause.
	This isn't about money.
	It's not about a title.
	it's not about a leader position here in this movement.
	It is about the people.
	I will live, I will die for the people of America, whatever I can do to help.
	And this party, this party that we call the Tea Party, this movement, as I say, is the future of politics in America, and I am proud to get to be here today.
	So she's setting herself up.
	Yeah, I don't know, you know, it's like the brown shirts at some level.
	Without the violence, but that can change.
	And she thinks she can be the boss.
	I don't know.
	To be honest about it, at this point, I just find her so incredibly annoying that I'm having a hard time even with this segment.
	Even though I didn't predict that this was going to happen.
	And the problem is what was really ultra-annoying is not even this part.
	I think this is going to continue.
	We're going to still have to deal with this woman.
	Well, first of all, it is our service, and we need to at least listen to all of this stuff to know what is going on and what's being said.
	And I think that the way I analyze it is very simple.
	There's two things going on.
	First of all, it's beautiful to see a room full of Americans who are actually pissed off and want to do something about it and have started to organize.
	On the other hand, this is the tipping point.
	This is the moment where it's about to go all wrong.
	You've got all these weird people in there, including Sarah Palin, and they're taking over the movement.
	They are We're completely hijacking the movement, which is like it was set up months in advance, John.
	I think it goes all the way back to her quitting the governorship.
	They already knew what they were going to do.
	And the media is on board.
	Fox is on board because she's got her platform.
	They've got everything all set up.
	They're ready to go.
	And it's a very dangerous tipping point in the entire Tea Party movement.
	And I might point out that the very first Tea Party, as far as I can remember...
	Was Ron Paul, and he is not mentioned once in this entire symposium, which I watched hours of it yesterday.
	Oh, really?
	Not once.
	And by the way, he wasn't invited, he wasn't there, so I just can't take it seriously.
	It can't be the real deal.
	No, if Ron Paul...
	You're right.
	And Ron Paul is the giveaway.
	He is the...
	The Harbinger there.
	You have Breitbart, but you don't have Ron Paul.
	You have Sarah Palin, but you don't have Ron Paul.
	And then nobody mentions Ron Paul, but they keep making accolades to Reagan in some sort of, you know, hoping to get a knee-jerk reaction.
	Oh, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan.
	It was the whole time.
	And I'm sure it wasn't chosen on Reagan's 99th birthday by accident.
	Or as we say...
	Coincidence?
	I think not!
	Yeah, they're working with... Order.
	Shut up.
	What the hell?
	I like that.
	Yeah, we got a new jingle.
	I love it.
	It's great.
	Alright, enough Palin.
	Hey, it's a service.
	Now you can at least slam her and the Tea Party hijacking intelligently at your Super Bowl party.
	Alright?
	You can say, I know what's going on.
	I saw it.
	It's a service.
	Alright, so on real news...
	And now, back to real news.
	This is on the blog.
	I should mention it just in case anyone wants to know because Valentine's Day is coming up here in Toronto.
	Toronto, I'm going to read for the article.
	Toronto's Mildred Temple Kitchen is inviting customers to have sex in its bathrooms.
	This is what?
	A restaurant?
	What did you say?
	Yeah, the Valentine's weekend promotion takes uncomfortable but electrifying sex from the close confines of an airplane and transfers to the unisex stalls of the Hana Avenue restaurant.
	The Liberty Village restaurant...
	I'm sorry, it's the Liberty Village.
	Mildred's Temple Kitchen.
	The Liberty Village restaurant proposes its modern bathrooms become one of the 101 places to have sex before you die.
	What are the other 100?
	Mildred's Temple, sorry.
	In Liberty Village, I didn't realize that's who it was.
	Mildred's has always elicited a certain response.
	One customer didn't want to be named remembers going to a wedding at the Eater's Old location and seeing a copy of the Kama Sutra in the bathroom.
	They invited, says the customer.
	This time the invitation is explicit.
	On their website, Mildred's asks, What is the point?
	I don't know.
	This is just more commercialism around a stupid date.
	It's dumb.
	I know, I hate it too.
	But I have to say, this is at least a little creative.
	And in Canada, in the United States, you couldn't do this because you'd be put on the sex offenders list.
	Oh yeah, you can't do that.
	No, we can't have any fun anymore.
	Remember when stuff used to be fun, John?
	Yeah, I remember that back in the day.
	I'm even old enough to remember when stuff used to be fun.
	You used to read fun stuff and think, ha, that's fun.
	Yeah, nowadays, you know, when I was a kid, you know, they used to make out at the drive-in theaters.
	That's right.
	Hugging and kissing in the backseat.
	Well, they were doing more than kissing in a lot of these cars, because the funny thing is about the drive-in theater is that the car windows would fog up to an extreme.
	It's just the nature of...
	Of the, you know, being in a cold night car, you're breathing a lot, completely fogged up, and if you wanted to have sex in the back seat, it wasn't like very difficult to do.
	Nowadays, you would be busted and put on the sex offenders list.
	And given an ankle bracelet.
	So we can track you.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Anyway, so I just thought it was a good real news story.
	Yeah, I love it.
	You want some real, real news?
	I mean, the euro is collapsing.
	Is that of any interest to you?
	It's not as collapsing as I'd like it to.
	It's down to $1.36, I think.
	This is pretty interesting, though, what's happened, because we have the Club Med, as it's being known, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Who essentially, you know, they're all on board the Euro, and so they don't have their own currency, and they have, you know, huge deficits, like 10%, 12%, and it's not supposed to be more than three, I think, is the general agreement.
	And, you know, and there's all kinds of corruption, and all this crap is coming out, and the farmers are burning all their shit.
	And, of course, these countries don't have their own currency to inflate or mess with to combat what's happening.
	And so now the question is, will the European Union, i.e. the other states in Gitmo Nation East, will they bail out these countries or will they have to leave the Union or what happens?
	And no one really knows and there's all kinds, everyone's freaking out in the financial sector.
	And it seems like no good can come of it.
	And now, just announced or reported, investors withdraw up to $10 billion from Greece as government prepares tax crackdown to cut down the deficit, which is about the only thing they can do is to raise taxes.
	So all the money is now flowing out of Greece into Switzerland and other places.
	Traditionally, the Greece already...
	The Greek already put their money in Switzerland, but they're into shipping and stuff.
	So now they're taking all their private money out.
	There'll be no money left in Greece.
	Seriously, none.
	No money.
	Taxes will go sky high.
	No one's going to want to go on vacation there.
	It's horrible.
	Well, you know, Greece has always been kind of a dingy place.
	I mean, it has.
	I mean, some of the islands are really nice.
	That Acropolis thing is dusty, man.
	It's no good.
	I'm talking about Athens, a regular city where people live.
	It's just grimy.
	And there's also something about Greece.
	I went to, this was a while back, but I did go to Greece, and I went and contrasted it with Istanbul, the Athens and Istanbul, back-to-back.
	And I have, like, a couple anecdotes.
	First of all, I was with a group and so I figured out what the absolute best restaurant in town was in Athens.
	And I wish I had the name in front of me because they need to be called out.
	But people know this story.
	They had one of the top awards from the Wine Spectator for the spectacular wine list of tens of thousands of unbelievably rare and great wine.
	So I started going in.
	I did my research.
	So I started ordering some of these wines.
	And it kept coming back like this.
	We only have one bottle of that left, so you can't have it.
	Why can't you have the last bottle?
	Well, it went on and on.
	And I said, no, you only have one bottle of that left.
	This went on and on.
	It was wine after wine.
	And finally, the guy said, well, there's a couple of bottles.
	I said, okay, we'll get one.
	So we brought it back, and then he says, well, we only have one left, so you can't have the other one.
	It was just a shill.
	It was just to keep the wines on the list.
	Wow, okay.
	So it was a total scam.
	So they had this huge wine list with all these famous wines on it, but you can't buy them because there were only ones left.
	It was just bullshit.
	Anyway, so I was very annoying.
	Well, you know, that just proves it.
	The country deserves to go to shit because they screw with their wine lists.
	I agree.
	I think that's true.
	The French would never do that.
	No.
	So anyway, so meanwhile, I'm contrasting Olympic air with, and anyone who's flown these carriers.
	Oh yeah, I've flown Olympic air.
	Olympic air.
	I mean, I'm surprised they don't start the engine with a shotgun, you know.
	There we go.
	So we get on this plane, which is a piece of crap, and it's just that I'm in business class, and it's like everyone can smoke, but it's like the last airline lever, everyone's smoking all over the place, but what's funny is that the thing is in the runway, and before the wheels are up, I'm smelling smoke, and I'm looking around, it's the stewardess.
	And it wasn't from her mouth!
	So anyway, so she's like, you can't wait to lie down.
	So meanwhile, so I took my next leg of this flight, I took Turkish Airways.
	Turkish Airways is using nothing but new equipment.
	It was gorgeous.
	Was this one of these sex vacations you usually book, John, or was this something else?
	No, this was just a, let's find a lousy, wineless vacation.
	I'm buying rugs.
	Anyway, the central bankers of the world are desperately trying to figure out what to do.
	And there's a meeting today and tomorrow in Australia, of all places.
	So we really need our No Agenda Militia down under to go and check it out.
	They are meeting with, of course, the Bank of International Settlements.
	Which, of course, is the true central bank of all the central banks.
	And you're not hearing a lot about this, by the way.
	I would say it's kind of secret.
	But they're really freaking out.
	And Geithner's going to be there, little Timmy and Bernanke, and everyone's going to be down there in Australia.
	I mean, why do they have to go to Australia?
	Because they don't want people to throw rocks at them.
	Yeah, that would be one of the two reasons.
	Secrecy and a no-rock policy.
	Yeah, the Australians don't, you know, as far as they're concerned, just the tourist dollars.
	So, uh...
	Well, I think the whole thing could...
	What happens if Greece goes down?
	I mean, this is...
	Well, it's not just Greece.
	It's Portugal and it's Spain.
	If it goes down, well, the euro, I think, could conceivably go to, like, 90 cents against the dollar.
	That's what it's supposed to be.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	So, interesting.
	Well, let's hope it happens.
	You know, the thing is, you know, our government seems to think that a weak dollar is great because it's going to help encourage exports.
	You know, what do we export?
	Boeing jets.
	Okay, well, those are big ticket items and maybe Caterpillar.
	Most of the stuff, we're not a big export country.
	I mean, let's take a look at the balance of the budget.
	If we get a strong dollar, which is what we should have, it's going to encourage investment.
	Because people jump into the stock market, the dollar's going to be worth more and more money, so the company doesn't even have to profit anymore.
	It's just going to be naturally profitable.
	And so that is where the direction we should go.
	We should go to the strong dollar policy.
	But these idiots in Washington, I'm not absolutely sure they get that at all.
	I don't think they get anything.
	Well, while on the topic, let's see.
	Where is my...
	I have some clips.
	Okay.
	These are the clips you don't remember.
	It's unbelievable.
	Here's the joke of it.
	So I'm going to actually go look at the list of clips.
	See, I don't want to mention the names because it kind of gives away what it is, but I've got them in front of me.
	Let me just look at the...
	There's one that's...
	Oh, brother.
	Just go on to your next topic and let me go dig this up.
	It's like you don't care about what I say.
	That's because I'm preoccupied with these clips and what are they?
	Okay.
	It's just, I'm off.
	It's my biorhythms.
	I was looking at them on my Nexus One phone.
	It's got a little biorhythms program.
	This is like a triple down drink today.
	Biorhythms program on your Nexus One.
	Well, okay.
	I'll hook into that.
	I love the fact that Google has announced a, quote, partnership with the NSA, the National Security Agency, the biggest spooks on the...
	Face of the planet.
	It's a partnership to work together to ward off these cyber attacks.
	I'm sorry, but this has been glossed over so easily by everybody.
	A partnership.
	Google has been compromised.
	compromised.
	The critical question is, at what level will the American public be comfortable with Google sharing information with the NSA?
	Said Ellen McCarthy, president of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, an organization of current and former intelligence and national security officials that seeks ways to foster greater sharing of information between government and industry, i.e. a spook retirement home.
	Is this the only person you could find, Washington Post?
	You're compromised as well.
	They're all compromised.
	It's crazy.
	The NSA in partnership with Google.
	We already suspected they were part of the CIA or that they had the CIA in there.
	But now, I mean, the NSA, this is unbelievable.
	Unbelievable.
	Do no evil.
	How about just skip the do no and just be.
	The mark of the beast.
	Google is evil.
	And that phone, dude, throw that in the toilet, now!
	I keep it turned off, I'm not worried.
	There's a little man in there.
	He needs to be fed.
	He needs to be fed.
	Keep your batteries fired up, dude.
	Get a clip of this, but some guy in...
	You have nothing to say about this Google NSA? No, I mean, it's a foregone conclusion.
	At least they're honest about it.
	They should put the NSA logo at the bottom of the Google search engine.
	No, not at the bottom, at the top.
	In the O's.
	For your safety.
	In partnership with NSA, for your safety against the Chinese.
	Thank you, darling.
	It's nuts.
	I just can't believe it.
	What are we supposed to say about it?
	Am I supposed to write a column and say, ooh, these bad people at Google, they've got the NSA in their bedrooms or whatever?
	It would be a good start.
	It would be a good start.
	And now the...
	What was this?
	FBI wants records of websites visited, kept for two years.
	FBI pressing internet service providers to record which websites customers visit and retain those logs for two years.
	A requirement, here it comes, that law enforcement believes could help its investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes.
	Is that the only thing we worry about?
	Apparently.
	That and flat breasts.
	Well, that's the Australians.
	That's Australia.
	They got their own internet problems.
	But I mean, seriously!
	Are these people for real?
	You know, child porn is now being used as essentially the cover for fishing expeditions of all sorts.
	It's a cover.
	Oh, we gotta do it for this reason.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, gee, we can't.
	We all hate that.
	And meanwhile, they're looking for anything.
	Political affiliations, stock market tips.
	I mean, the only reason people want to violate your privacy is so they can blackmail you.
	There you go.
	Well, you know, it's no big deal.
	Anyone can be blackmailed.
	Maybe we need to...
	Maybe we don't forget about it.
	You know what?
	If it's something that you don't want to be known, just don't put it online.
	Write it down on some paper and eat it.
	Eat the paper.
	Eat your notes.
	That's the safest.
	We need to go back.
	That's why they won't teach kids to write script cursive anymore.
	They don't want people writing.
	They want it all digital.
	Yeah, it's true.
	You might be right.
	That may be true.
	Now, I heard this is no longer in the curriculum, that cursive writing is no longer required, and it's all supposed to be block letters.
	I could be wrong, but I think I read this somewhere, that that's the new curriculum, driven by the government.
	Make sure you're writing block letters in the blocks.
	Yeah, inside the lines.
	You know what you have to do, slave.
	Because they don't want people to write.
	We also used to learn Greek and Latin.
	You had mandatory Greek and Latin, didn't you, in school?
	No, we had mandatory foreign languages, but the Latin requirement had disappeared by the time I got to high school.
	Look at all e pluribus unum.
	Isn't that like Latin?
	Shouldn't we be learning that language if it's on our money?
	Yeah, we should.
	I think we should learn Latin anyway.
	It makes you much easier to pick up other languages, and it gives you the sense of where these words came from and what they really mean.
	Yeah, but that's all been removed.
	All of the ancient mysteries of the world were all in Latin and Greek, and that's why they don't want you learning it, because they don't want you to know all the ancient...
	The ancient techniques.
	They don't want you to know anything.
	No, that's correct.
	So I'm looking at this story, by the way.
	This is what I was looking for.
	There's this professor at Portland State gets up and he points out some 30-year-old student in the...
	Oh, yes.
	No, I've read this story.
	Yes.
	Amazing.
	Classroom says, this man is an agent for the FBI. I want him out of here.
	And he went and made a big stink.
	And the kid, kid, he's 30, apparently going around giving classes on how to make Molotov cocktails and how to buy assault weapons and all this other stuff, which doesn't sound like he's an agent of the FBI. But what it obviously was, he was a honeypot of some sort.
	You know, FBI phoning, trying to see who would be interested in making a Molotov cocktail.
	And I guess this professor who was raised in Eastern Europe who knew how to spot guys like this because he was noticing them in Bulgaria when he was a student himself, I guess, or something like that.
	The background is sketchy.
	but he's been a professor at Portland State for 25 years or so, spotted this phony, which he believes would be a phony, alleged phony, and called him.
	Of course, the professor got fired, and the kids, you know, nobody's not talking anything.
	I thought that was a peculiar story.
	So there's a thought now that all the schools are loaded with these phony, you know, these older kids who are really FBI people.
	Yeah, well, older kids.
	I mean, 30 is not a kid.
	By the way, his name was Mr.
	Bucharest.
	I mean, please.
	I know his name is Bucharest.
	Bucharest.
	And here's the FBI in Portland confirmed last month, then again Thursday, the suggestion that Mr.
	Bucharest in any way has tried to incite violence or illegal activity is false.
	The suggestion that Mr.
	Bucharest in any way has threatened any PSU student is false.
	Mr.
	Bucharest is disheartened that Professor Hall's union representative is making inflammatory public statements rather than letting the PSU investigation run its course.
	Why doesn't the FBI just say he's not a fucking Fed?
	But they're not saying that.
	They're saying he didn't incite violence.
	He was a peaceful FBI agent.
	I wish I had audio or video.
	This guy apparently really exploded and just freaked out on him.
	Yeah, we need to record...
	People out there, you need to record everything.
	Yeah, please.
	It's material.
	But I... Oh, here it is.
	Here's the details.
	About 30 minutes left in the class, Hall, that's the professor, made a dramatic announcement.
	An FBI informant was enrolled in the class.
	He talked about his experience with government informants in East Germany, then identified the student as Zach Bucharest.
	Hal put a letter detailing his accusations on the overhead projector, so they're still using overhead projectors there, interesting to note, so the class could read it.
	Hall then handed Bucharest a packet to give to his superiors.
	Cool.
	Like, here's all the info you want, douchebag.
	Then he proceeded to say a lot of unpleasant things about Bucharest.
	For instance, Hall called Bucharest a killer and said that he had the spirit of Cain and the spirit of Judas.
	Hall snapped a digital photo of Bucharest and said that if he ever saw him on campus again, he would plaster his photos all over campus and tell everyone who he was.
	I mean, you know, this guy didn't just freak out like that.
	I'm sure he's right.
	Yeah, I'm sure he is.
	He probably knew the earmarks and then he did a little research, I'm sure.
	You know, before he blew up and then blew up.
	But you know, first of all, I totally believe that there are shills in campuses.
	I also think they're in all houses of worship and churches, synagogues, everywhere.
	I mean, yes, of course they are.
	That's what they do.
	Yeah, they're probably in a lot of corporations.
	Yeah.
	Uh-oh.
	In fact, there was an interesting article, which is also on the blog, which This guy Samuel Bowles was talking about what he calls guard labor.
	In the 2007 paper on the subject, he and co-author Arun Yehadev, an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, make an astonishing claim.
	Roughly one in four Americans is employed to keep fellow citizens in line and protect private wealth from would-be Robin Hoods.
	Job descriptions of guard labor range from imposing work discipline, think of the corporate IT spies who keep desk jockeys from slacking off online, to enforcing law enforcement like officers of the Santa Fe Police Department paddy wagon, parked outside of Walmart.
	The greater of the inequalities are in a society, the more guard labor it requires, Bowles finds.
	This holds true among US states, with relatively unequal states like New Mexico employing a greater share of guard labor than relatively egalitarian states like Wisconsin.
	Do you remember the movie Scanners?
	You know, I've only seen the clips of the guy's heads blowing up.
	I've never actually watched the movie.
	Actually, here's a better one.
	Invasion of the Body Snatchers would be better.
	So we need to kind of have...
	You know when they would see one of them?
	Or when one of them would see you and you were not a pod person?
	They would go...
	So we need to do that when we spot a fed.
	Thank God Mickey's not activated yet.
	And we have to have a better word than fed.
	Fed is a bad word.
	It's not good anymore.
	I like this guard labor thing, though.
	This is interesting.
	Yeah, but it's like too many syllables.
	Yeah, and there has to be some little catchy little term that we can make into a jingle.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And then you can play it on your Pocket No Agenda app.
	You can play the jingle.
	Right, that's what you do.
	You push the button and it indicates only insiders would know, but they would all know.
	Yeah, but it's pretty sad.
	And you know what?
	I have some background in the spook arena.
	Totally.
	They're in corporations.
	News organizations is where they are the most.
	Most CIA and FBI and other type of information jobs, it's not all like running around with satellite dishes and spy satellites and secret little mini-recorders.
	A lot of it is just indoctrinating the media.
	It's just pure COINTELPRO. That's what a lot of the work is.
	And in this case, just checking up on everybody.
	Making sure you're all on board with the program.
	Anyone get out of line?
	We have to...
	Oh, sorry.
	You will drown in a pool of aspirin.
	So we can play a clip here that would be kind of someone who is completely out of control.
	So I'm watching, most of my clips come from today.
	Normally I don't listen to the show because it makes my teeth itch.
	Fedhead is a suggestion from the No Agenda Militia.
	I like that, Fedhead.
	Fedhead could work.
	Anyway, so I'm watching the Democracy Now show with Amy Lipless Wonder Goodman.
	No, no, no need to get personal, John.
	I'm sorry.
	So I just think she's, she just, I don't know, she's just someone that's on the air and so full of herself that it's just hard to watch.
	And she's wordy.
	Is she friends with Arianna Huffington?
	You know, I don't know.
	That's a good question.
	I don't think so.
	But they could easily become friends.
	Anyway, so they're playing.
	Everything is slanted on the show to an extreme.
	And they're moaning about the Olympics in Vancouver.
	Not as though Vancouver hasn't got enough problems with their own.
	It doesn't want to snow for the Winter Olympics, which is just too funny.
	So they get some, there's apparently a protest, and there's, oh, there's protest, and they're going to talk about the protest, and there's like, I swear to God, it's like eight people to protest.
	And so they get all these news guys.
	There are more news guys than protesters, and they're all listening to this rabid complainer.
	But it's not that you think she should be complaining about the Olympics in some way, but no, since she had the mics on her, you'll hear this, she decided to go on this rant about every injustice that she could think of that wasn't written on the palm of her hand.
	But play it.
	The ad has not been publicly shown, but it's said to show the mother...
	Oh, I'm so sorry.
	I just hit the Amy Goodman.
	My mistake.
	Here we go, Olympics.
	...address.
	And in Canada, activists in the city of Vancouver are gearing up for protests against this month's Olympic Games.
	The Olympics Resistance Network has organized a people's summit to...
	Wow, that sounds real 40s, doesn't it?
	Oh, terrible.
	The Olympics Resistance Network.
	It ain't no no agenda militia, boy, I'll tell you.
	...organized a people summit to coincide with the game's opening ceremonies next week.
	Harsha Walia of the Olympics Resistance Network said the games are undermining indigenous rights and social services.
	We see that the games have been overrun with a budget of over $7 billion.
	Indigenous lands continue to be exploited and stolen with ski resort development all across British Columbia.
	Increasing poverty and criminalization of the poor in the downtown east side.
	A massive cutback in public spending and an increasing budget for policing and militarization here in Vancouver.
	We have $1 billion that are being sunk into a military police state in the lead up to the Olympics.
	Man, what's your problem?
	Join the club.
	But what is she going on about budget considerations and development?
	Who cares?
	It has nothing to do with the Olympics.
	It has nothing to do with indigenous peoples either.
	No.
	I listen to stuff and I shake my head.
	I go, what is wrong with these people?
	I feel bad because essentially she's just angry, but then you're right.
	She doesn't know how to project her anger into intellectual non-sequiturs.
	Which is more than I can do, but still.
	Play the Amy Goodman and Planned Parenthood clip.
	Okay, because I have a Planned Parenthood thing here as well, I think.
	I got a couple.
	Okay.
	The ad has not been publicly shown, but it's said to show the mother of college.
	Okay, hold on.
	Let me give you a little background.
	Yeah, please.
	This is the Super Bowl ad?
	Oh, there's a Super Bowl ad, and everyone's commenting on it, and we're on the left, just commenting on it, because essentially, you know, here's the litany.
	This horrible ad, although we haven't seen it.
	Have you seen it?
	No, I haven't seen it.
	Have you seen it?
	No, I haven't seen it.
	But it's horrible.
	This horrible ad.
	This is almost like the GoDaddy ads where everyone's like, oh, wait, this has to be banned, but no one's actually seen it because it's a PR stunt.
	Yeah, and so these guys are all worked up, and they're all in a lather over all this ad because it's done by the consortium.
	Which is one of the very hated Dobson group.
	And they, oh, they're terrible.
	Whatever they do is going to be bad because of some, because these people are, oh, by the way, Amy and the rest of you, it's called stereotyping what you're doing.
	And it's supposed to be bad according to your philosophies.
	But anyway, leave that alone.
	Nobody's seen the ad.
	They all worked up about it.
	And so they start comparing it to another ad which somebody supposedly wanted to run even though it's some gay dating service which doesn't have the $2.5 million to pay for this ad.
	And basically it just shows two guys making out and it appears to be filmed with like a camcorder, like a cheap ad.
	Oh, that's hot.
	I don't see why they won't take the gay ad.
	They're going to take this ad that we haven't seen.
	Nobody knows what it looks like.
	It's driving me crazy to listen to these idiots, but play this thing again, sorry.
	The ad has not been publicly shown, but it's said to show the mother of college football star Tim Tebow talking about her choice to continue her pregnancy in 1987 against medical advice of her doctor.
	The website Daily Beast reported CBS worked with Focus on the Family on the ad's script.
	Gary Schneeberger, a spokesperson for Focus on the Family, said, quote, Okay, stop.
	So, this is actually, I should have played an earlier clip where she says that apparently the ad was presented to CBS and CBS says, no, you can't do this, you can't say that, you can't say this.
	So, they censored the ad somewhat, so it wouldn't be a provocative ad.
	But if you listen to the Daily Beast, CBS helped them write the ad.
	When you give something to a publisher and they say, this has got to go, you can't use it, that's not helping you write the ad.
	No, it's called censorship.
	So, you know, let's get the story straight.
	Helping you write the ad is not the same as censoring it.
	Anyway, sorry, go on.
	...about the specific wording of the spot, and we came to a compromise.
	Well, Planned Parenthood responded to the Tebow ad by producing this online video featuring former NFL player Sean James and the Olympic gold medalist Al Joyner.
	I'm Sean James.
	I'm a former college and professional football player.
	Now you can stop it.
	So apparently there's a Planned Parenthood ad to rebuke the other unseen ad.
	They put the Planned Parenthood person on and they'll play that clip.
	They're going to rebuke it.
	They got their own ad.
	So then Amy starts asking the woman, I'm trying to get it so we don't have to listen to these long clips.
	She asked the woman, well, have you ever seen the ad?
	No, no, I've never seen the other ad.
	Are you going to run this ad on the Super Bowl?
	And she says, no, we can't afford running an ad on the Super Bowl.
	So what is the point?
	Does anyone have a clue here what the point is?
	Yeah, just to rile people up and get some free marketing.
	Trying to get it to go viral.
	That's the only thing I see.
	Well, it's not going anywhere because it's boring.
	Play Sports Writer Part 2.
	Than it was 20 years ago.
	A lot of people watch just to see the commercials.
	And for CBS to give an organization like Focus on the Family, that kind of viewership, to me, is beneath contempt.
	And I think Planned Parenthood should have equal time on Super Bowl Sunday and should not have to spend one dime to have it.
	What's your response?
	I love that idea.
	I think that'd be a wonderful, wonderful thing.
	Can't we just see Janet Jackson's nipple again?
	That was cool.
	You know...
	Here's a couple more points.
	This is definitely a pet peeve moment.
	Well, on this show, none of them are interested in football whatsoever.
	This sports writer who wrote The People's History of Sports, which is a takeoff on the Zen book, The People's History of the United States, which is kind of a socialist tome, I doubt if he may watch the game.
	The women sure aren't interested.
	Nobody who watches Democracy Now probably watches football.
	I mean, the 25 viewers that they have, or whatever.
	The whole thing is like a tempest in a teapot.
	They're They're just making a big stink about this over something they cite unseen.
	I mean, it's the most hypocritical thing.
	And then this guy comes off, well, they should give in a socialist manner, I might add, says, well, if they're going to let them run that, then we need equal time, and the Planned Parenthood ad should run to counter it, even though they don't know what this ad is or what it says.
	I mean, it just galls me.
	The show, the people who produce it, and their attitude about things, they're the ones who are beneath contempt.
	John C. DeBoer acts at P.B. Day.
	Ta-da.
	Yeah.
	I am going to watch the game, by the way.
	Okay.
	Yeah, I like watching the game.
	It's great television.
	I always like to see what the directors are doing.
	It's high-tech stuff.
	Sometimes the ads are interesting, but I watch for the technical aspect of the television show.
	In HD, I haven't seen a Super Bowl in HD ever.
	I'm very excited about that.
	Yeah, that's cool.
	It's a lot better.
	Yeah, of course.
	But all that other crap is just that.
	It's crap!
	It's crap.
	Let's have a little break, John, from the Cleveland show.
	I thought you were shipped off to the Middle East!
	I was, but I heard you were in trouble, so I raided a Blackwater operative and stole his 250 pounds of Afghani heroin.
	The best heroin in the world!
	Those guys are writing some good shit over there on the Cleveland show.
	I mean, come on.
	Are they listening to No Agenda or what?
	They've got to be.
	Somebody's reading the news.
	I think the Cleveland show isn't doing too well in the ratings, but I'm slipping that one in.
	Nice.
	Well, actually, there was one that was done on the American Dad that was very similar.
	Well, that's the one we played last week, which was the crack one, wasn't it?
	Yeah.
	Thanks for listening.
	Ten minutes after the show's over, I'm out of here.
	I check out.
	Then you're like, okay, I need to concentrate on the Nexus for Leo's show.
	I know what's going on.
	I'm not doing Leo's show today.
	I'm watching a football game.
	You have the gay ad here.
	Am I supposed to play that?
	Yeah, you can play that if you want to.
	Is this the actual gay ad?
	Yeah.
	Oh, cool.
	But this is the one with the camcorder.
	It's just a poorly produced ad.
	And most of it's music, but play it.
	To look at an ad that CBS did not accept.
	CBS accepted the Focus on the Family ad for the Super Bowl and the Daily Visas.
	They helped write it.
	Listen to how she's talking.
	Because I'm about everything.
	Helped perfect the script.
	But CBS refused to air this ad from mancrunch.com, an online dating site for gay men.
	Ten!
	Five!
	Let's go!
	Yeah!
	That's what I'm talking about, baby!
	Woo!
	You suck!
	Yeah, that's right.
	Let's go.
	I want to kiss this guy.
	I really, really, really want to kiss this guy.
	You're with me, why not?
	For our radio audience, the ad ends with a scene of two male football fans kissing in a statement.
	You know, for the first two years that I heard Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix, I swear to God I thought it was singing Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy.
	That's funny, because what's funny, I saw Hendrix play it numerous times, and what's funny is that it says, I want to kiss the sky, but when he performed it live, he would always point to the bass player and say, kiss this guy.
	Really?
	Yeah, every time.
	And he'd laugh.
	He thought that was so humorous.
	Okay, so I wasn't that off anyway.
	Hmm.
	No.
	Hmm.
	Commercial interruptions, John, is one thing we don't believe here on No Agenda.
	And I'd like to talk about that.
	Actually, I'd like you to talk about it for a moment.
	Well, this is our...
	When we ask for donations, you know, one of the things that keeps cropping up is...
	And I want to get to the people who gave us money this last round...
	One of the things that keeps cropping up is people saying, well, what difference does it make if you have commercials?
	Because you have commercials on other things you do.
	You do this, you do that.
	Me, VO, we got pre-rolls on some of our videos that take around.
	By the way, let me just say, the BushHaitifund.org pre-rolls and banners that show up next to our show, we have nothing to do with it.
	I think they're scanning our show notes and thinking, here's how the ad networks work.
	Oh, there's a link here to the Bush Haiti Fund.org.
	I think I shall put a banner up next to this show.
	This will be really good, which of course is not so good.
	We were writing a story on the Dvorak Uncensored site once about the crazy Muslim cab driver that refused to pick up anybody if they're buying bacon, for example.
	Yeah.
	And so it was just a very nasty piece about these idiots, the cab drivers, that happened to be Muslim, and that's why they wouldn't let bacon in their car.
	And then so the Muslim dating service thing shows up.
	On the Google Ads.
	Cool.
	Cool.
	So they don't seem to understand how to do negative stuff.
	One of the things I wanted to make a plea for, because we're always asking for donations, but we try to get people to give us a leftover PayPal account or various amounts of money based on something or other, but we haven't done this one, and I think it's something people out there should think about.
	And this is why we don't run ads.
	The typical ad ratio, and we've talked about this before on broadcast media, is two to one.
	You get two minutes of programming for one minute of advertising.
	And I'm surprised, is that good?
	Certainly on AM radio.
	Oh, AM is probably worse.
	Even television is two to one, because every hour is 40 minutes worth of programming.
	Every half hour is 20.
	Yeah, you're right.
	And so we do basically a two-hour show.
	With that ratio, that would mean to get...
	Our show finished, it would take you three hours.
	I don't care how much fooling around you think you can do by moving the little thing somehow and getting rid of the ads.
	The ads would be embedded.
	They'd be very difficult to get rid of.
	It's not as easy as it is on TiVo.
	So essentially what we're doing in doing a straight two hour show instead of three hours, which it would take to do the ads and pay for the show the way, you know, everybody, some people have recommended is we're saving you an hour of your time.
	Yeah.
	What's that worth to you?
	Huh?
	Now, an hour of most people's time, especially our listeners is probably the low end is typically not with everybody because we have a lot of students.
	Why don't we just take minimum wage in California?
	Well, that would be 10 bucks.
	The $9.97 to be exact.
	$9.97 would be good, but for most people, their time is worth about $150.
	Really?
	Yeah, wow.
	Think about it.
	Now, so we're essentially saving you $150 if your time is worth anything.
	Then be hooker prices.
	You should figure out what your time's worth and send us a donation for that time because we're in fact saving you that money and we could use that money as opposed to like wasting your time with excessive amounts of advertising which is just ridiculous in a show like this.
	Which I don't believe really works anyway.
	It doesn't work anymore.
	I mean, I just got to come out and say it.
	The only thing that works is repetitive ads that are just in your face all the time.
	That works.
	And maybe from time to time a really clever ad like the Apple PC ads.
	Everything else, it's just mind control and programming and I'm against that and it doesn't really make you endear a product.
	I've tried for five years trying to change advertising.
	I'm freaking tired of it.
	I don't care.
	It just doesn't work.
	So think about the hour.
	That's a very good analogy.
	Give us an hour of your time.
	Yeah, whatever your time's worth.
	Whatever your time's worth.
	Now, for the hookers out there who listen to the show, you're going to be spending, I mean, let me see, an outcall is, what does outcall these days go for, John?
	About $450?
	No, I think if you shop around, you can go for about $250.
	You're reliably informed.
	I like it.
	Alright, please consider us because we've got a lot of plans for this year.
	I'd actually like to talk about one of the plans that we're instigating on Monday.
	We're sending out our first email to all of the producers who have helped us out.
	Up to date?
	Is that it?
	Yeah, the ones up to...
	Well, if it's somebody...
	As of tomorrow, anyone who's helped us out will get this letter tomorrow at 9 a.m.
	in their box.
	And what it's going to do is we're going to discuss the future of the show, where we're going with it, the future of the No Agenda stream in particular, and some other initiatives and some promotions and other things we want to do, or the money we're going to need for some of the things we're going to do, which includes buying airtime, because we want to put this on some AM stations.
	But in that case, you have to buy the entire hour, because we don't want any...
	We don't want interruptions, yeah.
	We don't want a bunch of interruptions, and that's going to cost money.
	We discussed this in the letter, which you'll be getting tomorrow, anyone who's donated, I think, up to tonight.
	But let me go over the donors for this week, by the way, while we're on the topic.
	First of all, we had a lot of $50 ones, so I'm just going to name them off.
	Daniel Howes in Portland, Maine.
	We have our night guys coming up.
	Tristan Lennon, Mike Westerfield, John Traynor, and Travis Wynn.
	And the only reason I want to mention them is so I can say Wagga Wagga, which is where Tristan's from.
	Reinhard Kane, Wind River Systems, actually.
	He's in Salzburg, Austria, which is just a gorgeous town to visit, and I'd recommend it to anybody.
	Kohai Zama in Tokyo, Japan.
	Paul Heldens in Horst, Netherlands.
	And he wants me to read, I, JCD, out of my own free will hereby declare that people on IRC are all very balanced individuals and not at all bipolar.
	And they are all members of the No Agenda Militia and we are proud to have them.
	And many of them are showing their butt crack and their long flowing locks and will actually save your sorry ass when the man comes down on you.
	Tegan Murray in Calgary, Alberta gave us a palindrome 50-05 and he has no job.
	He says, okay, let's try this out.
	I'm going to give you 50 bucks if I get a job.
	But he also requests that we never play the Miley Cyrus clip ever again.
	Okay, done.
	Consider it done, my friend.
	We got $66.66 from Kyle Koch, who is in Cincinnati and wants us to plug Scandoc.com, which is a very interesting product, by the way.
	Yeah, I like that.
	It's like an old-fashioned...
	It's like made of wood, right?
	Yeah, it's for putting your little cell phone on and doing the scanned documents.
	Get it?
	Scandoc, it's a pun.
	I liked it.
	It's a real low-tech solution.
	And it was very nice.
	Yeah.
	I thought it was good.
	And actually, he put in two donations, right?
	$33.33 for the scan doc, and then $30.
	Actually, he's also going to donate $3.33 for the sale of every scan doc.
	Yeah, so if you buy a ScanDuck, you're helping us out.
	Ryan Breedlove, also Armory, Mississippi, 66.66, and he's promoting the March 3rd.
	He wants us to push the March 3rd money-making idea.
	$104 from Troy Dallas of Love Grove Drive, and then we have our executive producers, Pelsmacher, Stephen Pelsmacher, John Kilburn, Chris Schooler, and...
	Elon Shemes, and that's what we got this week.
	So anyone, when you're considering sending in money for your time...
	Please also consider joining one of our regular subscription programs because that's really the base that we have to go after long term because we can't just live on this ebb and flow of donations.
	One week it's good, one week it's okay, then it's really, really bad.
	And by the way, it kind of goes in that flow.
	It's like, oh, we had a great week, then the next week we get nothing.
	Seriously!
	Yeah, that's happened a couple times.
	It's rather frustrating.
	And we still want to move to that third show a week.
	And I really want to do it in 2010.
	It would really be nice.
	I mean, I'm making the changes I promised.
	The Delta Sierra is now officially up for sale, and I'm going to need that for the changes I'm making.
	In fact, within the next two weeks, you will hear a change in Command Center and all kinds of interesting things.
	I'm just not ready to talk about right now because, you know, the NES is all over the Googles.
	The NSA, sorry.
	What, the N-E-S? N-A-S. I don't know where that came from.
	The N-A-S. Nas is a rapper.
	I've been listening to too much hip-hop.
	And anyway, if anybody who's contributed doesn't get that letter tomorrow at 9 a.m., check your spam box.
	It could show up in there, or let us know.
	If people contribute today, will they still get the letter?
	Yeah, I'll make sure that they get on the list.
	Okay.
	The whole thing that we've actually found is that it's a percentage.
	And we're trying to work out exactly what, but it's like 1% of the people who listen to the show actually donate.
	1%.
	That means in the chat room, there's about 398 of you who are just in there enjoying the show and not contributing.
	I'm just saying.
	So go to noagendashow.com, dvorak.org slash NA or channeldvorak.com slash NA.
	That's noagendashow, dvorak.org slash NA, channeldvorak.com slash NA and help us out for this next week.
	And the rest and the people who, and you also, we'll start doing it since I got the mailing list thing all figured out now and I'm using MailChimp for anybody out there who wants to know.
	I'd looked at all the other ones and I figured this is one of the best solutions It's actually pretty cool.
	And we will be doing a newsletter.
	We will probably create a special mailing list for anybody who wants a newsletter.
	I don't have to limit that to any group of people.
	I think we need to open up a new topic since this seems to be a continuous movement.
	Shysters show up and take advantage of people's goodwill and generosity.
	We just need cash.
	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
	Just send your cash.
	So, we have a lot of...
	Actually, I'm amazed.
	I've spoken to more PhDs and professors during the lifetime of this show than in my lifetime.
	You know, I'm not a huge academic, but I get professors, I get really incredibly intelligent, interesting people who listen to this program, are sharing it with others, which by the way, gosh, if you can't donate, please turn a couple people on to the show.
	I mean, growing our audience is always going to help.
	And we have a lot of people in the non-profit sector listening as well.
	And I got this link which just blew me away from the Better Business Bureau, BBB.org.
	It also reviews charities.
	And it reviewed the William J. Clinton Foundation.
	And this link will be in the show notes.
	This is everything that we discuss on NoAgenda.
	It will be on NoAgendaShow.com.
	And I just have to read some of the conclusions that they've made about the William J. Clinton Foundation.
	Now again, the Clinton-Bush Foundation.
	Haitifund.org does not exist.
	The money that is being collected by this foundation, there is no foundation.
	It goes into Clinton's foundation and this crazy Texas thing that George Bush is a part of.
	Collectively they have a billion dollars in assets and they've got huge salaries.
	So here's the evaluation conclusions.
	Standard 1.
	Oversight of operations and staff.
	The foundation does not meet this standard because its board of directors does not, A, approve the organization's budget, B, receive information about the financial arrangements, C, have a voting member of the board who is assigned the responsibility of serving as the treasurer.
	In general, the board's treasurer helps provide independent oversight of the organization's finances.
	So fail one.
	Standard number two.
	Number of board members soliciting organizations shall have a board of directors with minimum of five voting members.
	The foundation does not meet this standard because the organization has three voting members.
	Standard number three.
	Hold on a second.
	This is the Clinton deal?
	This is the Clinton Foundation.
	Who are the three?
	Well, I think it's Bill, Hillary, and...
	Chelsea.
	I don't have that doc open.
	We'll find out.
	Go on.
	Standard 3, frequency and attendance of board meetings.
	An organization shall have a minimum of three evenly spaced meetings per year.
	According to BBB, the foundation does not meet this standard because the board of directors held no board meetings in the last year.
	Standard 4.
	Compensated board members.
	Not more than 1 or 10%, whichever is greater, directly or indirectly compensated persons serving as voting members of the board.
	Compensated members shall not serve as the board's chair or treasurer.
	The Better Bureau of Business says the foundation does not meet this standard because the paid chief executive also serves as the chair of the board of directors.
	That would be Bill.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Hold on a second.
	There's more to come.
	This is the Clinton Foundation we're talking about?
	Yes, and this is the Better Business Bureau.
	These are the guys you call when you want to check on doing business with somebody.
	Okay, go on.
	Standard number seven.
	Board approval of written report of effectiveness.
	Submit to the organization's governing body for its approval a written report that outlines the results of the aforementioned performance.
	BBB says the foundation does not meet the standard because it has not conducted an organizational effectiveness assessment in the past two years.
	Standard 16.
	Annual Report.
	Have an annual report available to all on request that includes the organization's mission statement, a summary of the past year's program service accomplishments, a roster of the officers and board members of the board of directors, financial information that includes total income and the past fiscal year expenses in the same program, fundraising, and administrative categories as in the financial statements and ending net assets.
	Better Bureau of Business says...
	The Foundation does not meet the standard because the most recent annual report did not include a roster of the Board of Directors and end-of-year net assets.
	And Standard 17, website disclosures.
	Include on any charity websites that solicit contributions the same information that is recommended for annual reports, as well as the mailing address of the charity and electronic access to the most recent IRS Form 990.
	BBB says the foundation does not meet this standard because the organization's website, clintonfoundation.org, does not include all the recommended information for those charity websites that solicit for donations.
	Specifically, it does not include a roster of the board of directors.
	The William J. Clinton Foundation, however, does meet the remaining 13 standards for charity accountability.
	So, can we say fail?
	Well, it doesn't sound right.
	What are the 13 that they meet?
	I can look at them.
	By the way, total income for the past year, $132 million.
	Wait a minute.
	You see, this is what people were worried about in the Democrat Party about Hillary.
	And one of the reasons that it was probably okay for her to not run for anything.
	They were afraid, at least some people were afraid, that if they put her in and somebody started looking, probing this problem, This sump fund, or whatever you want to call it, that Bill has, that he calls a foundation.
	And they're going to find a lot of Arab money, a quid pro quo crash, cash that came in because he did somebody a favor.
	Probably a ton of money from Mark Rich, that crooked guy who was given a pardon at the very last minute, just before Clinton left office.
	And there's probably a lot of crazy money in there, which is just 100% corrupt.
	I mean, Clinton is a poor boy from Arkansas.
	Now he's close to being a billionaire just because he was president.
	Something's wrong.
	Yeah, and he's taking your money.
	Yeah, for Haiti.
	Don't send us blankets.
	Send us cash.
	I have two more things on Haiti.
	Of course, we spoke about the crazy Scientologists showing up with those yellow t-shirts that said Scientology Healing Minister and was freaking everybody out because they were touching them and trying to heal them.
	So how did they get there?
	Well, John Travolta flew his jet down there filled with these yellow t-shirted maggots.
	And there's a video, which I will share a little bit, as they interview John Travolta on the tarmac of Port-au-Prince Airport in Haiti with his 727.
	I think he's actually surprised to see the press.
	We have the ability to actually help make a difference.
	In the situation in Haiti, and I just can't, you know, see not using this plane to help.
	And they're offloading boxes of, they seem pretty light.
	I think there's t-shirts in the boxes, actually.
	You know, it's not unlike when I saw, you know, my wife and I saw New Orleans.
	We were there right away with this airplane.
	You've got to see this video.
	It's freaky to see all the yellow shirts in the background, and they're all, like, huddled around him.
	Ooh.
	So, you know, I've been a fan of John Travolta, but get your plane off the tarmac!
	Just get it off!
	Let some real help in.
	Yeah, they blocked all kinds of people from landing.
	So, you know, John, you're a real big fan of comparing news stories, right?
	Yeah, because you can twist the same exact story to have it mean one thing or another just by varying the headline.
	So I was from Sweden, I believe.
	Let me double check.
	Maybe it was from Denmark.
	Looks like a Danish article, but I think someone in Sweden sent it to me.
	So there's two articles.
	One is from The Guardian, the communist newspaper of Gitmo Nation East.
	And it's about the surgical work that is being done in the Haitian hospitals in Port-au-Prince, where they are amputating people just left and right.
	In fact, they're calling it war surgery, says Dr.
	George Butin, a 73-year-old surgeon from Fort Lauderdale, guillotine style.
	And so he's blaming it on no facilities, and we really can't work, and we just got to chop everybody's limbs off.
	Chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop.
	And it's horrible because everyone's been maimed.
	So they are just amputating people all over the place.
	So you've got to read that article first, and then you go to this, and I have a Google translation, where Doctors Without Borders, the French outfit who I hold in high regard, are furious about what the American doctors are doing.
	And they're saying, this is crazy.
	These guys are just chopping everybody's limb off.
	And the only reason why is because the American doctors who are there apparently don't feel that it's worth the effort to save these limbs because, ah, you know, we won't have any support for them anyway.
	We won't be able to really maintain their health.
	So we might as well just chop it all off.
	So they're amputating, and they use the same thing, guillotine amputations, for no reason.
	Other than the doctors are making these decisions saying, yeah, you know what, we're not going to stick around to actually help these people, so we'll just chop it off and it'll be easier for them.
	God, this is like gross.
	It's extremely gross and it's sickening.
	And so this person who was blowing the whistle is very afraid.
	He doesn't want to give his name.
	He says, you know, I really don't want there to be this huge dispute.
	He thinks it could really blow up if people knew what was really going on.
	But it's in here, this frustration in the French ranks growing by the fact that many of the American surgeons just chop off the limbs and then leave.
	They don't want to oversee the patients.
	They don't want to help anybody through care.
	That's why just chop it off.
	We're done.
	Where a lot of these limbs could be saved.
	Freaky.
	It's terrible.
	I mean, this kind of story is annoying.
	Well, maybe even more annoying from the two to the head category, Phil Jones, this is the scientist who's right at the center of the climate gate scandal.
	Yeah, he's one of the big original promoters.
	He says, I love this article, he contemplated suicide.
	Why?
	Professor Phil Jones said in an exclusive interview with the Sunday Times he thought about killing himself several times.
	Wait, wait.
	How can you kill yourself several times?
	Well, you know, these guys are good.
	He acknowledged similarities to Dr.
	David Kelly.
	This is what I found interesting.
	The scientist who committed suicide after being exposed as the source for a BBC report that alleged the government had sexed up evidence to justify the evasion of Iraq, which is a lie, times.
	What happened is, he was a weapons inspector, and he knew what was going on, and it was all bullcrap, and then they suicided him with a butter knife and aspirin.
	So he's saying, yeah, no, it's taken a severe toll on my health.
	He's lost like eight pounds.
	He defends his unit science.
	I stand by it.
	But now he accepts that he did not treat the Freedom of Information requests for the data as seriously as he should have done.
	Jones believes the unit was maliciously targeted with multiple Freedom of Information requests by climate change skeptics determined to disrupt his incredibly important work.
	Science!
	So, I found the connection to Dr.
	David Kelly interesting.
	Because this is a setup, and it wouldn't surprise me if this guy winds up dead.
	And it won't be, it'll be two to the head for sure.
	Well, that will get the sympathy vote and put people back on the climate change bandwagon.
	And they've got to shut this guy up.
	If he cracks, then it's all over.
	Yeah, it sounds like he's about to crack.
	There was another two-to-the-head story, which got a little mention, just a teeny one in the, I think, the New York Post.
	Gigi Jordan, who is an executive for the Farmers, and it's very, the reporting is so sketchy it's not funny.
	I'm actually looking for the proper article here.
	Gigi Jordan killed her son in the Peninsula Hotel in New York.
	Now, she's worth like $100 million.
	And she's been running pharmaceutical companies.
	And she checked in with her five-year-old son and apparently killed him with a whole bunch of meds and she was going to kill herself.
	And she sent an email to a family member and said, I'm checking out email.
	Of course, you never know that's really from the person who looks like the person sending it.
	But what's interesting in the story is that in her so-called suicide email, She says, there are documents on my laptop that will explain why.
	So, I'm thinking pharmaceutical industry, I'm thinking suicide, I'm thinking why does someone who is worth a hundred million dollars, why are you going to kill yourself and your son?
	What is going on and what is with these documents on the laptop?
	Geez, it sounds like a Law& Order plot.
	Yeah.
	Oh, by the way, speaking of Law& Order, or television plots, have you ever seen the show Fringe, John?
	Yeah, yep.
	Because I know what's on in the UK. It's another J.J. Abrams-style crazy show.
	I've watched it on and off.
	It's very enjoyable from the complete crackpot perspective.
	They've got the crazy guys in there.
	It's actually kind of interesting.
	But it's very much like Lost.
	It's like a story that you can't follow, and it's kind of just disturbing.
	It's not really very good entertainment.
	It's just mostly just, I don't care for it.
	How about mind control?
	Maybe that's what its intended use is.
	It might be.
	I just can't watch it.
	Well, you know what?
	It may be more fun when you listen to it, because then, of course, you hear the horrible acting.
	I love listening.
	Now, ever since we've stumbled onto this factoid, it's actually more interesting now to listen to it.
	So there's like an earthquake, and of course there's an explanation as to why the earthquake has taken place.
	It's about a minute-long clip.
	I'll play all of it so you can hear some of the bad acting.
	is kind of fun.
	Hey.
	Hey.
	I thought you were getting out of here.
	Afraid not.
	It's gonna be a late month.
	I think a second?
	Is that real coffee?
	Where did you get that?
	Is that real coffee?
	Where did you get that?
	I don't know.
	I have my sources.
	I got a cousin in Hawaii.
	She has a secret stash.
	She sends me stuff.
	Alright, so now the building's shaking.
	This is getting nuts.
	What is that, six since yesterday?
	Yeah, well, I'm from California, so I'm used to, you know.
	But this is New York.
	Don't you think it's strange?
	So there's an earthquake.
	The lights are dimming.
	The building's rocking.
	But this is New York.
	Don't you think that's strange, John?
	John, don't you think that's strange?
	And then just, you know, keep walking.
	And by the way, the coffee, just holding it.
	No problem.
	What are they saying on the news?
	That they're just these little quakes, you know?
	Microquakes.
	Probably just a byproduct of global warming.
	Ah, there we go.
	Oh, brother.
	Microquakes.
	A byproduct of global warming!
	Don't be a denier!
	The science is in!
	Science!
	While we know, of course, that earthquakes are actually caused by earthquake machines, and I have yet more evidence of this, my friends, another document has surfaced.
	Very important to solidify my theory that many of these anomalies in weather, climate, and actual geophysical shifts are being done by, are being created by military and government and actual geophysical shifts are being done by, are being created And we might as well remind them of another crackpot thing you said, which is they're going to direct one at Iran so we can keep them from bombing Israel.
	Yes, because it's much easier to earthquake a country and then to walk right in, like they did with Burma not too long ago.
	So anyway, I have showed you testimony where these earthquake machines have been mentioned.
	Now I take you back to 1977.
	This is from the United Nations.
	It's a United Nations document.
	You can find it in the show notes at noagendashow.com.
	It is the convention...
	This is always interesting when you have these agreements, you have conventions, you have protocols.
	All these documents are distributed all over the place, very much like the Lisbon Treaty.
	It's the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques.
	So this is the agreement between nations in the United Nations, basically not to earthquake each other.
	And I will read the relevant article, understanding relating to Article 2.
	And Article 2, you have to go back and forth.
	You have to be a lawyer to read this stuff.
	The term environmental modification techniques refers to any technique for changing through the deliberate manipulation of natural processes, the dynamics, composition, or structure of the Earth, including its biota, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere, or of outer space.
	So now we scroll back down and we read the understanding relating to Article 2.
	It is the understanding of the committee that the following examples are illustrative of phenomenon that could be caused by the use of environmental modification techniques as defined in Article 2 of the Convention.
	Earthquakes, tsunamis, an upset and ecological balance of a region, changes in weather patterns, clouds, precipitation, cyclones of various types, and tornadic storms, changes in climate patterns, changes in ocean currents, changes in the state of the ozone layer, and changes in the state of the atmosphere.
	It is further understood that all the phenomenon listed above, when produced by military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques, would result or could reasonably be expected to result in widespread, long-lasting or severe destruction, damage, or industry.
	Does that not kind of tell you that they knew about this and that it was possible in 1977?
	You know, these kinds of documents you keep digging up about, this is kind of disturbing.
	Yeah, I'm glad you feel that way.
	So, you know, what's interesting, though, is I was thinking about this kind of dorky idea when the news unit, apparently Washington, D.C. is just being slammed.
	Oh, you know what?
	We got one of our homeland security sources, Deep Throat.
	He said that there was more or less a memo to keep the horrible weather quiet because they didn't want people panicking.
	They said they kept it real quiet, and there was no real warning.
	This is the worst storm in, what, 30 years?
	Yeah, it's a whopper.
	It shut down the government.
	It's a blizzard.
	And it's barely being reported on.
	Well, it was reported on.
	I saw it on TV. Yeah, but our guy sent us this memo three days before the storm hit.
	Three days.
	And we didn't, of course, it was on the day after we did our last show, so we didn't have time to report on it.
	And he said, wow, you know, I'm hearing that these guys want to keep it quiet.
	They don't want people freaking out.
	They're going to shut down the government.
	And, of course, the government has been shut down, I believe.
	The Capitol?
	Yeah.
	They've shut it down.
	Well, you can't get there.
	I mean, you know.
	Here's an interesting story that just came over the transom.
	NASA will study Haiti's earthquake faults with a series of overflights by a jet equipped with a special airborne radar system.
	Yeah, they're looking for oil.
	Well, they have to be careful.
	You know, the oil, it looks like it may be offshore.
	So they're going to have to deal with the fault that they, by your theory, have screwed up and have to...
	Because you don't want to build a really expensive platform and have the thing get knocked around.
	And they're still having aftershocks there between 5 and 6 on the Richter scale, which at least that's what the reports are.
	That would make sense.
	Once you get a bit quick, everything's got to adjust.
	So Ravi Shankar Uchabi...
	I mean, what's his name?
	Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the UN's International Panel on Climate Change.
	That guy, that corrupt-looking guy.
	Well, of course he's corrupt.
	He told the Financial Times on Wednesday that he, of course, has been the victim of a carefully orchestrated campaign to block climate change legislation.
	And who is behind it all, John?
	Is it Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak who are deniers?
	No!
	I would say that they are nefarious designs behind people trying to attack me with lies and falsehoods.
	Climate change skeptics are people who deny the link between smoking and cancer.
	They are people who say that asbestos is as good as talcum powder.
	I hope they apply the asbestos to their faces every day.
	Is he clinically insane?
	He does look like...
	He does look like he's pretty insane, doesn't he?
	He looks like Svengali.
	He's a horrible looking person.
	But can you believe that?
	This is like...
	People who say asbestos is as good as talcum powder.
	John, I can't recall mentioning that on this show.
	It's people who say eating babies is a good thing and killing puppies.
	I'm telling you, could the guy be any more on the defensive?
	Doesn't that just reek of guilt?
	Yeah, it's like the shysters comment.
	Yeah, it really is.
	And I'd like to follow up on Stevia.
	Yeah.
	Well, it's interesting because our producer over there, Alex, in the UK, he said, look, there's some kind of artificial crisis being created in sugar.
	So sugar is almost unaffordable.
	The prices are going to go sky high of sugar.
	Whoops!
	In pop stevia, all of a sudden approved to be used.
	By the way, what you'll be seeing in Coca-Cola is a hybridized form of stevia, which we all know what that means, don't we?
	Yeah, it means it's going to kill you.
	Yeah, Monsanto.
	And I was looking at, because the FDA wouldn't approve this for the longest time, and I was looking at some of those early reports from the FDA, and here's what they said.
	Cancer in the laboratory, now this is a derivative of stevia, it's steviol, Steviol can be converted into a mutagenic compound which may promote cancer by causing mutations in the cell's genetic material.
	Energy metabolism, very large amounts of steviocide, can interfere with the absorption of carbohydrates in animals and disrupt the conversion of food into energy within cells.
	But the most interesting is reproductive problems.
	It seems to affect the male reproductive organ system.
	And when I look at all the eugenicist movement, I'm thinking this is perfect.
	We create this horrible crisis in sugar.
	We bring in the stevia products so that we can't reproduce.
	Bada bing!
	And there's our crackpot theory of the day, ladies and gentlemen.
	That's what you're paying good money for.
	Now, you call me a crackpot, but I don't trust it.
	Besides that you say the stuff tastes like crap.
	It tastes like crap.
	Now somebody says, well, you know, it tastes like licorice and I don't like licorice and so I don't think it tastes that good.
	Hey, I love licorice and it tastes like crap, okay?
	So this stuff is going to be a huge disappointment.
	I'm telling you, if Coca-Cola comes out with this stuff and it tastes like normal Coke, tastes sweet and like it was sugar, then something's up.
	Because you can go down to the health food store right now and get some Stevia liquid dropper, and you can drop some Stevia in your tea or coffee or whatever you want to mix with it.
	And you tell me...
	You tell me it doesn't taste like crap.
	It is terrible.
	It doesn't taste anything like sugar.
	It's reminiscent of sugar.
	That's the best I can say for it.
	Anyway, Alex, who is a commodities trader, is now on to the next deal.
	So he probably made a bundle off of the sugar thing and the stevia.
	Guy's really smart.
	I love him for it.
	He says coffee is next.
	They're all over coffee.
	Coffee shortages.
	The prices haven't gone up yet, but they're about to skyrocket.
	So I suspect to see a new Monsanto bean coming up pretty quick.
	Yeah, well, they're going to have trouble pushing it because most coffee is grown out in the middle of nowhere.
	I'm sorry.
	Didn't mean to do that.
	What was that?
	It was my coffee jingle.
	I'm sorry.
	Oh, hit it.
	Oh, okay.
	So what was that new jingle somebody sent us?
	Yeah, I liked it a lot.
	lot is kind of a staple for us.
	New World Order Can you play that with people in the mouth, like on top of it?
	New World World Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Order.
	Shut up.
	You will be made.
	Yeah, that's pretty good.
	That's not bad.
	You should make that like that.
	There's a mix-up.
	I can use it for the next pre-stream show.
	Yeah, that's not bad.
	I like it.
	You got anything else, Johnny Boy?
	Let's see.
	I got my little list here.
	Let's see.
	There's this.
	Before you go, eat your notes.
	Todd Kalin, we did that.
	Oh, I do have a little thing here.
	Oh, wait.
	I got one.
	I got one.
	Okay.
	Of course, we do this on the devark.org slash blog all the time, these stories.
	So some little nine-year-old came into school with a small two-inch long toy plastic gun, you know, the kind you have with the little soldier sets.
	Oh, we've got to waterboard that freak.
	And the little kids go, and they shoot the little things back and forth.
	So he was suspended from school for bringing a weapon to school.
	It's a little plastic gun.
	It was suspended from school.
	Didn't they waterboard him?
	I'm sure they wanted to.
	With an Evian bottle?
	Suspended from school.
	The mom is just completely livid.
	Yeah, you wonder why.
	Alright, and then here's something to look forward to for the week.
	Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
	Sorry I butchered your name, dude.
	Says the nation will deliver a harsh blow to the global arrogance on this year's anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, February 11th.
	A harsh blow will be dealt.
	What does that mean?
	I know what it means.
	Hello, I am Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
	A harsh blow will be dealt to the arrogance of the grovers.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	I think it's going to go out and hit people in the mouth.
	I would like to find out what this is.
	Sounds to me maybe he's just going to give another speech.
	Well, you know what?
	We're going to find out February 11th.
	Which is...
	Valentine's Day.
	Yeah.
	No, that's the 14th, John.
	Please don't go to the restaurant on the 11th and say, I want to have sex now in the bathroom.
	Please, please, that'll be the wrong day.
	I think they want you to have sex in that bathroom all the time.
	I go up to Canada just enough to...
	They have a lot of restaurants in Canada that have unisex bathrooms.
	Well, that's really cool.
	Picture at 11.
	I just got a visual of you having sex in the bathroom, and it's not pretty.
	That depends.
	No.
	No, it's not.
	No matter what you say.
	Alright, I will be watching the game for the technical aspects of the television program.
	Who's playing, actually, this year?
	Take note.
	Who's playing?
	I really don't know.
	Yeah, it doesn't surprise me.
	Well, what's actually interesting about this game, there's two teams that are playing that could have both gone undefeated the entire year, and we'd have two undefeated teams playing against each other, but it didn't work out because they screwed up at the end.
	But for one thing, the one team is the New Orleans Saints, which is the first time they've ever even been to the playoffs or the championship game, let alone the Super Bowl, so they're going to be a nervous wreck.
	But when you see this team play, they're phenomenal when they're playing at their game, but they can also be beaten.
	And the other team is the team that's already won one Super Bowl.
	That was a tough one.
	I don't know why.
	But anyway, they've already won once.
	And he's got this great quarterback, Peyton Manning.
	You have Peyton Manning and Drew Brees.
	These two quarterbacks.
	This is what you want to watch.
	What's the team?
	I just want to know the teams!
	The Colts and the Saints.
	Thank you.
	Your answer could have been that succinct.
	I don't care.
	You're going to be watching this again.
	Let me give you a tip.
	These two quarterbacks are the most pinpoint accurate guys.
	There's a few others that are pretty pinpoint.
	But these guys are astonishing.
	And it's going to be an interesting game.
	It's going to be mostly passing.
	And it should be high scoring.
	But you never know.
	Sometimes you think it's high scoring and then it turns into a defensive battle.
	Oh, I just suicided myself.
	You should have.
	What I just said, since you didn't even know who was playing, this shows you disinterest in the sport.
	Yes, I'm completely disinterested in the sport.
	I don't give a crap.
	I just want to see it because it's great television.
	That's all.
	All right.
	It's interesting to watch the technical aspects.
	They've always got something new.
	They roll out the new Grass Valley Group Switcher or something like that.
	The new Telestrator.
	I like it.
	It's fun to watch.
	Yeah, shoot yourself.
	What time does it start?
	3.30, I believe.
	Oh, wow.
	That's late.
	Well, they want to get into prime time with it.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Well, I'll have time to produce the show and get it up before then.
	All right.
	NoagendaShow.com for the show notes and donations, along with Dvorak.org slash NA and ChannelDvorak.com slash NA. Until Thursday, my name's Adam Curry.
	And I'm his counterpoint.
	Here in northern Silicon Valley where the sun is shining, but we'll be inside instead watching football.
	I'm John C. DeBarack.

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