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	Get the left stapler, you have to get my stapler, I'm gonna have it in the morning, I'm gonna burn the place down, that's what I'm gonna do.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's February 14, 2010.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 174.
	This is No Agenda.
	Now in high Fidela Thai and coming to you live from the SoCal Southern Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center in Gitmo Nation West.
	In the morning, everyone.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And it's a foggy Valentine's Day here in northern Silicon Valley.
	I'm John C. Devorak.
	In the morning to you, my friend.
	Same to you.
	Say it.
	In the morning!
	Yes, happy Valentine's Day.
	Valentine's Day it is.
	And also the Chinese New Year, I'm reliably informed.
	Gung Ho Fat Choi.
	Yes.
	And I'd like some of that, please, with an egg roll.
	Yeah.
	You know, luckily now that I've...
	So, first things first.
	We have a real connection now.
	I only had to move to Los Angeles to get it.
	But we are now broadcasting in 64 kilobits per second on the stream, and John, you sound wonderful.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	That's weird, because apparently from your perspective, this is always my fault.
	It's always your connection.
	But the good news is, I no longer have to say minimum, because I'm not in the minimum security containment cell.
	You're in a maximum security control?
	No, I'm in the Hilltop Watchtower now.
	So I'm overlooking everything.
	But it's too bad because I finally got a jingle because I couldn't pronounce minimum.
	So this is what came in.
	minimum minimum minimum Okay.
	It's cute, right?
	Yeah, it's cute.
	Yeah, well, you don't have to say it anymore, so you're lucky.
	No.
	No.
	Have no fear.
	I'm overlooking all of Southern California for you.
	So you could be lobbing grenades from where you are.
	Dude, it's the perfect place.
	Now, we've downsized a little bit.
	It's not quite as big as the security containment cell, but you can't beat the view.
	It looked pretty big to me.
	Square footage-wise?
	No.
	No, the other place was much bigger.
	Yeah, but the other place was just kind of useless square footage.
	It was like a bowling alley in there.
	Well, if you're a bowler, it's not useless.
	Well, you need the pins and the machine.
	Alright, well anyway, I'm real happy, man, because now we're kind of on equal footing.
	I can hear you.
	There's almost no delay.
	Did you send out a tweet?
	No.
	Of course not.
	Of course you didn't.
	Let me go do that.
	So anyway, so we're on Time Warner Cable while you're doing that.
	And it's pretty good.
	We have 12 megabits down and 1 megabit up.
	Today's show is a full-on, full-bore test.
	I've even asked Mickey to upload some porn to see if that breaks the connection.
	Are you really going for broke here?
	Oh yeah, we're going all out, brother.
	It's nice.
	That ADSL, how much crap was that?
	It was horrible.
	This is so nice.
	We could even do video.
	Yeah, we were practicing on this thing the other day and you could do video.
	Yeah, it was pretty good.
	Something we're not going to be doing, ladies and gentlemen.
	No, please.
	Don't be asking for it.
	You do not want to see me.
	I can't speak on behalf of my partner in crime, John, but I have a feeling you don't want to see him in the morning either.
	I would say that's true.
	Yes.
	Okay, you've tweeted, right?
	No, I'm typing it out now.
	For someone who writes for a living...
	You write pretty slow.
	Well, when I'm sitting here with a microphone on my face and this thing down on my lap, I'm not going to be speed typing.
	I usually type, my writing usually takes place with my legs up on the desk, the keyboard on my lap, and I use one of those with a trackpad.
	And your pants around your ankles.
	That would be uncomfortable.
	And then I just type away, but when I have to, when I'm like, you know, this is going to be slow typing.
	Really?
	So you lean back with your feet on the desk and you have the keyboard on your lap?
	That's how you type normally?
	Yeah, that's the way I, when I first got a computer, before there were mice, there were, you know, that's the way you would do it, and it's actually very comfortable.
	And so then when the mouse came along, it was like, oh no, up and down, up and down.
	That thing will never catch on.
	Save the bacon.
	That's true.
	So when it came out with a trackpad keyboard, or even the ones with the other pad, I could keep doing that.
	And also it gets you way back from the monitor.
	I'm like, I don't know, four or five feet away from the monitor.
	And so you have to really exercise your eyeballs to be able to read anything on the screen from that distance.
	Have you considered, what are those things called?
	Yeah, my eyesight has improved.
	Oh, sure.
	But have you considered...
	It's a new device.
	It's called a laptop.
	How am I going to lean with a laptop?
	It'd be heavy and hot?
	Forget it.
	You know, this is exactly why they developed them.
	They developed them as a cheap substitute for a desktop and space-saving.
	And, you know, for people who didn't want to actually have a real laptop.
	Okay.
	You can't type with a laptop in that position.
	Yeah, of course you can.
	No.
	They're perfect for that.
	All right.
	John.
	You need something that's stable.
	You don't need that awkward screen.
	Anyway, that's just what I do.
	John.
	Please tell us who is or are the executive producers for episode 174 of this fine program known as No Attenders.
	We actually went over the top here this week with a bunch of executive producers, but our top guy, the executive producer, is Robert B. Lee.
	Robert.
	Robert, Brandon Lee.
	Hey, John and Adam.
	My wife has donated several times and has convinced me to contribute resources as well.
	We love the show and would like to support the stream, as my wife has.
	Thanks for all you do.
	$444.44.
	Clinton, North Carolina.
	Oh, that's awesome.
	Thank you so much, Robert B. Lee and your wife.
	North Carolina, by the way, I believe will become one of the great wine-growing areas of the country.
	It's interesting, last night on HBO, Bill Maher had his stand-up, and I think that was from, I think he was in North Carolina.
	North Carolina's a great place.
	Then we have our associate executive producers, eonshemes.com, shemes, S-H-E-M-E-S.com, from Permarind, Netherlands.
	Yeah.
	What?
	It's Ian, not Eon.
	I mean Ian, yeah, right, Eon.
	Give us $258, and he keeps coming in.
	Then we have Nelson Ferreira from New Rochelle, New York, who's crediting $210 on behalf of his wife, and she's the one who's going to be the executive producer.
	Indira Hoffman.
	Okay, so do we put both of them in, or just Indira?
	No, no, he wants it for her.
	Okay, hold on.
	Indira Hoffman, right?
	Oh, wow.
	H-F-M-A-N-N. Yeah, we'll get all the spelling later.
	$200 from Paul Rudkin from Buckingham.
	Bucks, UK. Yeah, Bucks.
	That's near Buckinghamshire.
	202.02.
	A palindrome from Lucas Holkinson from Selkirk, Manitoba.
	- Canadia. - 216th from Dylan Rebelo.
	Last name's pronounced Rebelo.
	Here's part of my tax return.
	You guys do a great job. - I was gonna say, because there's a lot of executive producers, but very few Americans.
	And of course, we pleaded that you think of us when you receive your tax return check.
	So Dylan is the first one?
	Or do you think Robert had something to do with that?
	I don't know, but he's in Cincinnati.
	Gorgeous town.
	$201.95 from Eric Hertha.
	Coral Gables, Florida.
	And finally, out of Hong Kong, China Neals.
	N-I-E-L-S. That's what he wants me to refer to.
	And he has ChinaNeals.com, I believe, is a website.
	12VPN.com is what it is.
	Oh, that's right.
	Yeah, 12VPN.com.
	You mentioned him last week.
	All right.
	And he's living out of Hong Kong, apparently.
	Anderson Limited.
	Anyway, that's our group.
	Well, you know what?
	That's a great group and it's a very nice Valentine's gift.
	It's highly appreciated.
	I certainly have had some additional costs.
	I would think.
	Yeah.
	You had to move everything you had.
	You owned in San Francisco.
	You moved it down there.
	Yeah.
	And really, the thing I was most excited about was the connection.
	I swear to God.
	I was like, I'm going to get a really blast.
	And look at it.
	We've upgraded everything.
	The stream connection is upgraded.
	What were you running the stream at before?
	32.
	Oh.
	Yeah.
	I mean, still, if I go on the road, I'm still going to have to keep it down to 32 kilobits because of hotel connections and stuff.
	But for here at the Hilltop Watchtower, fantastic.
	You sound great.
	I mean, who knew you had a voice?
	I did.
	I listened to the Horowitz Show.
	Which you can hear on noagendastream.com.
	So thank you very much to our executive producers.
	Robert B. Lee is our executive producer with his wife.
	Then we have associate executive producers, Ian Shamus from ianshamus.com, Indira Hoffman, Paul Rudkin, Luca Hawkinson, Dylan Rebelow, Eric Kurtha and China Neils.
	All of you are producers for episode 174 of No Agenda.
	Executive producers, I should say.
	Please feel free to list that on your resume.
	We'll vouch for you.
	And once you become a knight, by the way, then you get phone numbers, right?
	And we'll actually do reference calls and stuff.
	I said we would have to put it up to a vote of the round table.
	I think the Knights will be okay with it.
	It's kind of good.
	We'll find out.
	But it has been proven to get you jobs.
	Yeah, actually I had a couple letters.
	Somebody was talking about that.
	We got a note in the email about a guy, our friend who was from New Zealand, came out and saw us at the media offices, gave us some contribution and found $30 on his way home.
	Don't you love that?
	Crack me up.
	I mean, how often do you find $30 on the street?
	Never.
	Not often enough.
	We also have some PR associates for this morning.
	The first one is mainly in Dutch, but it's short.
	It's Hendrik Smit, who was at a symposium where they were talking about conspiracy theories.
	And he was actually arguing with, I think, the editor of the Volkskrant, which is probably the most respected leftist.
	It's kind of like the Guardian, I would say, of the Netherlands.
	So a bit of a commie thing, but they've been around forever.
	And he was saying, hey, you guys just don't write about stuff that you deem to be a conspiracy theory.
	And, of course, he worked us in, so let's listen to it.
	Our Dutch listeners will appreciate this.
	It's a problem.
	That's pretty cool.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's awesome.
	And our buddy Maynard from Australia, he sent me a note.
	He says, it's unbelievable what's happened with the in the morning meme.
	He's even doing it without being conscious of it.
	So he's being tossed to by one of his colleagues on ABC Radio, an Australian broadcasting company.
	And, yeah, he said he actually had to go back to what they call the logger, which is this, you know, it's a machine essentially that's just recording everything.
	Yeah, it picks up the stream and puts it on a cassette.
	Well, I don't think it's cassette anymore.
	Or whatever on a disc nowadays.
	Yeah, and I think the whole point is it's actually logged by hour, so if you want to go...
	You know, fast forward to a certain clip, you just kind of log into a little database.
	So here's what he found himself doing.
	He says it was completely subconsciously, but I find that hard to believe.
	I mean, well, let's listen to it, and then I'll give you my opinion.
	The bassoon that indicates it's time for Planet Maynard.
	That's what we're doing here, grooving slowly.
	We are very slow grooving.
	Now look, I've been driving around the Hunter.
	I was up at Scone this morning, in the morning, and then before that I was...
	Were you?
	At Scone?
	Yeah, and then I went to Beresfield for a while.
	You know, do you think the guy is like in bed with his girlfriend going, oh yeah, baby, oh, that's it, in the morning, oh yeah.
	It's possible.
	It is possible, but like, whoa.
	So, Hendrick Smith and our buddy Maynard from ABC, both PR associates for this episode of No Agenda.
	It's appreciated because that is as good as a donation often.
	Yeah, what we need is more listeners because to get the word out is important.
	And it's a very simple formula.
	First of all, just to get the word out is important.
	Second of all, it really helps us because we know that approximately 1.5% of all listeners donate to the show.
	So if we have more listeners, then that obviously is going to help.
	Oh, this is funny.
	I just got a tweet saying I misspelled noagendastream.com.
	I got to go put this back in.
	Meanwhile, let me tell everyone about our formula.
	It is so elegant.
	It is very simple.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	That's right.
	And we do it twice a week.
	New.
	Water.
	Water.
	Shut up.
	You can take that to the bank.
	you So, you know, there's a bunch of murder stories this week.
	Really?
	Well, first, you start off with the one that got my attention about this trend.
	I mean, first there's some guy shot up some restaurant, and then there's this crazy story, which I have a clip of, which is kind of gross.
	This is the 11-year-old?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Want me to play that?
	Yeah, play it.
	Let's check in again with our legal guys.
	We're going to begin with a pretty disturbing case involving an 11-year-old who is believed to have shot and killed his father's fiancé.
	The child is now 12.
	Our legal guys are back with us.
	Avery Friedman is a civil rights attorney and law professor joining us from Cleveland.
	And Richard Herman is a New York criminal defense attorney and law professor joining us from Las Vegas.
	I guess we're looking at the images right now of the crime scene.
	And there was also the mugshot of this now 12-year-old Jordan Brown.
	What?
	Thanks.
	A mugshot of...
	I mean, you can't do that of a minor.
	Apparently.
	That's crazy.
	So, Richard, what is the charge that is being considered?
	Is it first-degree murder?
	It's two counts for this homicide, Fred, for not only the woman, but for the eight-month-old fetus.
	It's a classic circumstantial case.
	He got a shotgun for Christmas.
	It was the gun that was in the house.
	The ballistics matched the gun.
	The seven-year-old daughter of the dead woman said, this boy did it.
	That's the testimony they have.
	Wait a minute.
	So, the story, as I understand it, is this 11-year-old got a shotgun for Christmas.
	Yeah.
	So, we go right into the...
	Yeah, I mean, yeah.
	So...
	So he got a shotgun for Christmas.
	Apparently he was jealous about this woman who was dating his dad, and I guess he hated her.
	And so he, I guess late in the night or whenever she was sleeping in bed, and he put the shotgun up against her head and blew her head off.
	We have a mugshot of the kid, but do we have a picture of that?
	No.
	No, I don't think we was.
	You know, I have a hard time believing this.
	I mean, I'm...
	This sounds so much like a plant for the anti-gun lobby.
	I mean, look at all these beautiful pieces that fit together.
	And first of all, what father gives his 11-year-old a shotgun in Nevada, I might remind you.
	Nevada.
	This is not like Montana.
	And doesn't have it secured and locked up properly and under supervision.
	That just makes no sense.
	I mean, yeah, it's okay.
	I mean, if you're given your first firearm, parents are supposed to supervise children.
	You can't just say, oh, here it is.
	Be careful, kid.
	That's ludicrous.
	Now, the other weird story, there's a couple miscellaneous shootings here and there, but the other weird one, which I don't have a clip for, I did have it, I don't know where it went, but a professor at the University of Alabama Walked into a meeting, a female sociology professor, armed, I guess, to the teeth with a nine millimeter, and they didn't grant her tenure, so she shot six people in the meeting, killed three of them.
	Again, you know, guns.
	But this is an interesting story because this goes back, apparently the fox had turned up the fact that she'd already killed her brother some years earlier with a shotgun.
	The story goes as follows.
	Whoever was witnessing this heard it.
	First, there was a shotgun blast in the bedroom.
	And then an argument ensued between her and her brother.
	Then she shotgunned him in the chest.
	And then, apparently, before leaving and running off, she blew his head off with another blast.
	And she got off.
	As an accidental shooting because the former police chief of Boston or some town, some little town in Massachusetts, this is in Massachusetts, just dropped the case.
	She ends up in Alabama with a nine and kills three people.
	Yeah.
	This is like a crazy story.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I don't know.
	I mean, there's a lot of pieces to that story.
	I think the Nevada story is just so much more interesting.
	An 11-year-old with a shotgun in the house, unsupervised.
	It just makes no sense.
	Yeah, there's some, well, all these stories are cropping up now and again.
	And I'm noticing, you know, there's two things that are going on.
	One is the anti-gun lobby is doing what it can to, you know, just basically disarm the public.
	And at the same time, we're getting a whole bunch of, we're getting more military coverage.
	Actually, I was going to say, have we really gotten more military coverage?
	Because there was a massive, massive pre-communicated attack on the Helmand province in Afghanistan.
	That it's very interesting to read about this.
	You know about this huge surge they did?
	I have a clip.
	Oh, nice, because I have a theory about it.
	Well, I think the clip may have your theory in it.
	Okay, so let's just get some of the facts here.
	15,000 soldiers strong, which was not just U.S., but apparently also U.K., Operatives.
	And it concentrated on the town of Marjah, Which in most stories you'll see mentioned as a Taliban stronghold, but there is something else going on with Marjah.
	Yes, and my clip will reveal it.
	Because the people of Marjah were already preparing for this surge up to almost three weeks ago, February 4th, I have articles of people in Marjah saying, hey, we know they're coming, we're getting ready for them.
	And perhaps your clip will explain.
	We supposedly told them that we were coming in advance to separate the wheat from the chaff, as it were.
	Yeah.
	They figured that, well, you know, well, anyway, the clip kind of says, basically, if anyone who listens to our show for a while and they hear this clip, they're going to all go, okay.
	Yeah, here it comes.
	Too early in an operation.
	Taking a look at a map, Marja is in southern Afghanistan, about 360 miles southwest of Kabul.
	It is also a key area for drug traffickers.
	Helmand Province is known for producing two-thirds of Afghanistan's poppy crop needed to make heroin, which is also financing the insurgency.
	A White House spokesman says President Obama has received multiple updates from the White House Situation Room on the operation in Marja and is due to speak with National Security Advisor Jim Jones tonight about this operation.
	Well, there you go.
	So, of course, they had to announce and say, hey, we're coming because we're coming for those poppy fields, so don't burn them down!
	Protect them!
	I got some great pictures from Marja of 12-year-old kids sitting peacefully amongst the poppy fields.
	I bet.
	No shotguns for them.
	By the way, they're in bloom.
	Once they're in bloom, isn't that too late then?
	You know, I read that we did this about four months ago before they were going to do the October, because October is one of the...
	You harvest those things, I think, twice a year.
	So, I think they're one of the harvest times is like the first of November.
	I think there's another one in first of March or April.
	Yeah, check this picture I just Skyped to you.
	But, you know, the trouble is I don't remember all the details now, but...
	I'm not sure that it...
	It's that bulb underneath the flower that...
	Wow!
	Beautiful, isn't it?
	Oh, these are the white ones.
	I saw there was a couple...
	Occasionally you'll see in the...
	They're red ones, aren't they?
	Yeah, they're red ones you see in the United States.
	And it's a stunning plant.
	No, it's beautiful.
	I remember, I mean, poppies kind of can grow anywhere, right?
	Oh yeah, you can, in fact, until recently, they had their radiator do something because when you bought poppy seeds from the spice shop for your poppy seed rolls, those are those poppies.
	We're the good ones.
	Yeah, and so you could take the box of the poppies and throw them out in your backyard and you have a bunch of opium poppies.
	So how come we don't grow opium stateside?
	Why does it all have to be in Afghanistan?
	I think it has to do with the, I think maybe it optimizes there, or maybe you can set up the facilities to make the heroin easier.
	Oops, you still there, John?
	Oh, wow.
	What just happened?
	Okay, we're talking about poppy seeds and the connection just broke.
	Do you have a connection, Mick?
	Did you kick something?
	Did something...
	No, he's back.
	Hold on.
	Hold on, John.
	You there?
	Yeah.
	I swear to God, we start talking about the poppies and my connection went down.
	I'm not kidding.
	Well, it's just...
	It's a coincidence.
	Coincidence?
	I think not!
	That's crazy, man.
	The minute we start talking about, you know, can't you just grow poppies anywhere?
	You know the guys are just sitting there going like, we have a fix on him.
	Okay, he's moved apparently from San Francisco.
	We can no longer lock the doors on the minimum security containment cell.
	He's up there in the hilltop watchtower.
	Ah, they're talking about growing poppies at home.
	Disconnect!
	Disconnect!
	Pull the plug!
	Pull the plug!
	So, anyway, you can use to be able to just grow them.
	I mean, the problem is it's a heavy labor-intensive process.
	I don't think it's trivial to make the...
	I mean, there were some poppies growing in a lavender field in Squim, Washington, that I saw.
	I was looking around here.
	I actually took pictures.
	I should post them.
	It's like, what are these poppies?
	Because I said, these look like opium poppies.
	By the way, they're very tall.
	But you're still not answering the question, is can we actually, I mean, why don't we just grow them everywhere?
	Because it's illegal.
	Hello?
	Yeah, but so is marijuana.
	I mean, and we don't have a problem growing that.
	Can you grow them indoors?
	Can you do them under lights?
	Poppies, you know, if you had a big poppy field instead of a marijuana field, you'd lose money on the deal.
	Oh, really?
	The worst thing in the marijuana field, you just pull down the plants and start selling chunks of it.
	You don't have to do any work.
	Just smoke it.
	Smoking from just off the field.
	Right, I'm sorry.
	You've got to cut the little budge.
	Oh, no, no.
	It's work.
	No, no, you're right.
	I'm sorry.
	It's work.
	What am I thinking?
	It's work.
	It's work.
	Oh, my God.
	Those people are specialists back there.
	So, let me just say, it's very clear what is going on here.
	This whole raid, which was...
	Here, I have the...
	Let me see, I have an article.
	If you look at this article that I sent you, John, it actually says, It's the worst-kept secret in Afghanistan, the major offensive set to begin within a few days.
	This is posted February 4th.
	If not ours...
	We have a global post.
	Yeah, if not ours, we'll be for Marja, a district just 15 miles from Helvin's provincial capital, Laksharga.
	That's like an escargot, Laksharga.
	The military has been scattering leaflets...
	Broad hints everywhere else, seemingly hoping that the insurgents will follow recent patterns and melt away.
	Yeah, right.
	I'd like to see what was on the leaflet.
	Hey, you!
	Somebody's got to get us a copy of the leaflet.
	Yeah, for sure.
	Yeah, that'd be interesting.
	Interesting to see.
	But, you know, the thing is, I think it was like, we're coming to get you, Taliban.
	Here, if you want to get out of town while we go pick these poppies, it's okay.
	How come no one sees this?
	Well, this woman, Gene McKenzie and Aziz Ahmad Tassal, they apparently see it.
	Yeah, but they're not really linking the...
	I mean, if you look at the whole story, it's not actually saying...
	They're saying, oh, well, we have to go get the poppies because that's funding the insurgency.
	A bullcrap.
	It's funding the CIA and Wall Street.
	Well, it's doing a good job.
	Yeah.
	No, it's not.
	Wall Street is not doing so good.
	Well, maybe we get it up to production.
	I mean, there's some other action that's going on.
	What was my son was telling me about?
	Some crazy...
	The more toxic...
	Oh, by the way, click on the link on that page that says the Dutch are cracking down on the marijuana trade.
	Where does it say that?
	Look at the picture.
	Where does it say that?
	It's right next to that...
	On the right, just right of that article, it says Dutch cracking down on marijuana.
	Maybe I have a different page.
	Maybe it's dynamically generated.
	It says most popular.
	It's just under the email article print version.
	Add to Reddit.
	I don't have it, man.
	Are you...
	Well, click on that link you sent me.
	Yeah, I'm on that link.
	I'm looking at it right now.
	And there's no most popular?
	No.
	Okay, well, here, let me just send you the link.
	You're going to crack up.
	Okay.
	Dutch cracking down on marijuana?
	Yeah.
	That's what it was?
	Okay.
	Well, will you send it already?
	No, I'm cutting the G's.
	It's Command-L, Alt-Tab, and then to Skype, and then Control-V. It's right there.
	You got it.
	It takes you forever, old-timer.
	Huh?
	You push what?
	Some of Amsterdam...
	Well, didn't we talk about this just yesterday?
	No, but look at the picture.
	It says free Adam.
	Okay, that's funny.
	That's a good picture.
	Yeah, you know, we identified something interesting as our producers have been emailing in about the wacky weed.
	So this was the story on Thursday's show about this air traveler who got arrested because he was flipping out on weed.
	And, of course, I highly question that probability, being an expert and...
	No, we're going to see, like we said before, we're going to see a lot of propaganda about this because for some reason they do not want the Californians to pass the legalized marijuana referendum.
	So I agree with you on that, but I have received a number of very disturbing similar emails from our audience, listeners, producers, and apparently potheads.
	Potheads?
	Yeah, whenever it starts with dude, dude.
	Dude, on episode 173 you talk about the guy flipping out on a plane on weed.
	Well, not quite the same thing.
	My girlfriend had a similar experience a few weeks ago.
	We don't smoke much, but have been regular smokers for a pretty long time.
	She literally took two tokes and flipped the F out for 18 hours straight.
	I had two hits of the same bowl and I was fine, but she completely flipped.
	She wasn't violent, but she was way paranoid.
	Yeah, dude, that's kind of like...
	Sounds like PCP. So he even says that he thought it might be PCP, but he smoked the same weed and it didn't affect him at all.
	But I'm thinking, John, could it be a binary thing where maybe it's in combination with something else...
	That you have some other substance, like McDonald's french fries.
	Yeah, people are going to have to go back to show 140 to get that reference.
	Yeah.
	So a doctor emailed in.
	Okay, listening to the last episode about the guy in the San Francisco flight who double-dosed on weed, you gave two reasons why he acted like that.
	One, it was laced.
	Two, it was a bullshit story.
	Well...
	As a nurse in a drug alcohol rehab and psychiatric facility, we've got quite a great audience, don't we?
	John, we can get hooked up anywhere.
	I give you option three.
	The most likely, because I see it all the time in Southern California, he was some psychotic guy who happened to get a script for medical marijuana.
	The guy would have done that regardless, even if he had smoked before the flight or not.
	So what this person is saying is if you're already kind of psycho, Then the weed could make it worse.
	But this makes no sense, because I've never seen that.
	You've never...
	After the Reefer Madness campaign of the...
	What was that, the 30s, John?
	Yeah, late 30s.
	Late 30s, which of course was built up by the...
	Paper people.
	Yeah, by Hearst.
	Wasn't it Hearst?
	Yeah, Hearst and Anslinger working for the government.
	Yeah, because they didn't want cheap paper being made out of hemp.
	Hemp.
	Right.
	So then they made up this thing about Mexicans raping and killing women and kids going crazy and killing each other.
	But really, if you really look at the news reports, you just don't see very often Guy Smokes Joint goes on killing rampage.
	By the way, here's the problem with Reefer Madness.
	I don't think they ever got.
	The movie wasn't about killing.
	It was about going crazy and going nuts sexually.
	And so you have these guys smoking.
	It's a great movie.
	Everyone should watch it.
	Just to get the secondary message goes like this.
	The guy's a normal, shy character, and he goes to a party, and there's a bunch of hotties there, and then they start smoking.
	And then the guys just get real horny and the girls go crazy and they're all, you know, without saying it, they're all apparently all having wild sex.
	Which is like a good thing.
	So I'm thinking, what does the teenager think when he sees this whole, wow, if I can fucking smoke pot, I mean, I gotta get me some of that.
	Yeah, I think it was a poorly done, well, not documentary, it's a fictional bullscrap story, but I think they gave the wrong message.
	It was a thinly veiled endorsement, is what you're trying to say.
	Yes, exactly.
	Meanwhile, while all of that, of course, is being outlawed, we have the VaccinesForTeens.net website, John, which you must take a look at.
	And there's also a bunch of Valentine billboards around the country.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Get a date for Valentine.
	Get vaccinated for Valentine's Day.
	I know.
	I've got some of that in the show notes.
	What's the name of this thing?
	Here, I'll send you the link because it's such a crazy one, you can't even spell it.
	Vaccines4teens.net.
	You have to look at this.
	Oh brother.
	Oh my, they're going for broke with this.
	The NBA and the WNBA cares.
	Influenza, HPV, meningitis, pertussis.
	And what is pertussis?
	That's a respiratory disease, isn't it?
	It's a whooping cough, isn't it?
	Which you get anyway, unless this is a different version.
	I thought it was whooping cough.
	Well, the whole point, though, is that essentially here they are, you know, once again propagating drugs with vaccines, which we know is like the big, that's the big pipeline.
	They've got like the Benetton kids here on this website.
	Now, here's the interesting thing.
	Who is vaccines4teens.net?
	Who do you think owns that domain name, John?
	Pfizer?
	No, it's even better than that.
	I don't know.
	It's Publicis.
	Motor Media.
	Yeah, of course.
	Oh, right, the public relations.
	Of course.
	Of course, public relations.
	There you go.
	And...
	See what you can do.
	Yeah, it's pretty weird.
	And then on top of that, there are now some legal bills in New York that are pending.
	If passed, These two bills in New York State would allow healthcare practitioners to vaccinate children under 18 against HPV without their parents' consent.
	This, by the way, is targeting the black audience.
	There's an NBA endorsement.
	Everybody in this picture is black except one...
	No, I think everybody.
	She looks a little light-skinned.
	She's part black.
	So here's how it works.
	Let me explain.
	This is really terrible.
	It is abhorrent, I think, is the word you would use.
	So the way this is coming down is that Gardasil and, well, basically Merck and GlaxoSmithKline So they get the approval for this.
	And they've got to sell it.
	They've got to move this stuff.
	It's like $200 a shot.
	You have to get two.
	This is big, big business.
	This is real important for their bottom line.
	They're putting out $40 to $50 marketing kits in dorm rooms hanging on doors.
	They're giving away $75 shopping sprees to kids in malls.
	And now they're trying to ram through legislation...
	And you're right, it is targeting the black audience because they think it's an easy target.
	And oh, by the way, let's be like Mike.
	The NBA endorses it.
	It's disgusting.
	It's absolutely disgusting.
	Well, the black community has to be targeted a little bit because there is an undercurrent within the black community that all this is bullcrap.
	And it's just the white man trying to kill some black men in some odd way.
	And that's what it is.
	Yeah, that's the joke of it.
	Yeah, real funny.
	But in the meantime, when you actually get the NBA, the NBA to endorse this, you know, that's like, you know, we know the NBA helps sell tennis shoes and sneakers.
	So yeah, it's a slam dunk for HPV and influenza.
	Slam dunk.
	No pun intended.
	No, I try.
	Okay.
	Yeah, that's bad.
	This is bad.
	Oh, well.
	No, it's beyond bad.
	It's highly irritating.
	And I think someone should call them on.
	I mean, are we the only people that see through this scam?
	No, I think most of our listeners, as soon as they see stuff like this, the red flags go up all over the place.
	And who knows how effective it is?
	It's a crappy website that just showed up.
	Probably nobody goes to it.
	It's one of those things where publicists or whoever it is that puts it up gets to ding the NBA for a bunch of money.
	How many people are going to...
	How many black people or white people?
	Anybody.
	Who's going to go to this website?
	Well, but there's a bigger organization behind it, which is the...
	U.S. Government.
	Society for Adolescent Medicine.
	Oh, well, we need to look into them.
	Well, it's adolescenthealth.org is what it is.
	And they call it SAM, a multidisciplinary organization of health professionals who are committed to advancing the health and well-being of adolescents by killing them.
	Yeah.
	Hey, there's an annual meeting.
	Hey, we got a population control issue here.
	There's an annual meeting in Toronto on April 7th.
	Adolescent clinical care.
	How to kill your teens with an injection.
	It's nasty.
	SAM, Society for Adolescent Medicine.
	Lovely.
	Also the name of a strike force missile.
	A surface-to-air missile, I think, is what it is.
	Yeah, that's what it is, Sam.
	Douchebag!
	So, that's our new douchebag.
	You have to say douchebag after you name somebody's name.
	I don't think you just do a generality about...
	Okay, let me try this.
	John C. Dvorak.
	Douchebag!
	No, it doesn't quite work.
	Hmm.
	Can we just stay on health?
	By the way, I have a pet peeve.
	Before we do that, can I just stay on health for one second?
	No.
	Go ahead.
	No, no, no.
	Please, I would not want to.
	Not unless you've got something good to say.
	I really actually, well, you know, I have actually a couple today, but this one really bugs me.
	So I got this paper because I had to put it in to print on the printer from Printworks, recycled, multi-purpose paper with a big picture of a leaf on the cover and an element tree, a big kind of a recycled symbol and another recycled symbol and it's all printed in green.
	And it's packaged in plastic!
	What?
	How is this recycling?
	It's impossible to open thick plastic packaging around this recycled paper.
	This doesn't sound like recycling to me.
	It's a scam.
	Anyway, that's it.
	Hold on.
	John, hold on a second.
	We have a stream fail, apparently.
	Oh, yeah, the stream.
	Somebody said the stream went down.
	Although it looked like it was broadcasting to me.
	Hold on.
	Let me just set it up so people don't get all pissed off.
	It's worth it.
	Hold on.
	Wait a minute, that didn't work.
	Thank you.
	Bear with me.
	Let's try that again.
	Okay, that should bring it back up.
	Okay, good.
	Sorry about that.
	So, just so people...
	John, what are you doing?
	I'm typing a Twitter out saying that you started the stream back up.
	Okay, do your pet peeve of the day again.
	The pet peeve of the day is that I bought this recycled paper that's got all these logos all over it, and it's recycled this way.
	It's elementary and print works, recycled paper, picture of a leaf, designed for everyday use, contains...
	Recycled this and that.
	And it's packaged in this plastic package.
	It's plastic.
	And it's hard to order.
	What kind of recycling is this?
	Yeah, it's faux green, is what we call that.
	Faux green.
	Anyway.
	Alright, so for those of you rejoining us on the stream, I guess we dropped out the minute we started talking about growing poppies at home in America.
	They pulled the plug.
	Without advocating it, by the way.
	No, not at all.
	It was just a question.
	It was scientific research.
	And all of a sudden, the plug got pulled.
	But seriously, on my end, this connection has been up for 24 hours.
	And then the minute we talk about that, boom, it goes.
	Eh.
	Yeah.
	Coincidence?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Coincidence?
	I think not!
	So, uh, what else we got here?
	So here's the thing that's interesting.
	We're talking about the gun situation.
	Now I'm cruising around the Dish Network, which just cavalierly, you know, drops channels in and out of the whole thing.
	So 9405 shows up.
	Okay, a new channel.
	Yeah.
	And what is it?
	The Pentagon Channel.
	You know, you can get that on Ustream and a couple other...
	You can always get it.
	It's been around since 2004.
	But apparently Gates, during the Bush administration in 2008, decided...
	Because it was originally designed as a kind of a TV channel for a closed channel for the military.
	So they can get, you know, official news.
	Internal only.
	And so then they said, yeah, let's use this as a, you know, why should we do press conferences with the media?
	And there's a really nasty, interesting story on ABC's blotter about it, bitching about this thing, because, you know, they don't have to, it's just a propaganda thing.
	You know what the problem is with that channel?
	They don't have any good reality shows.
	Oh, they will.
	They need to have a cooking show.
	They have a cooking show with a sergeant guy, and it's like, as far as I can tell, looking at the way these wars are going, we don't even use army cooks anymore.
	They seem to be outsourced.
	I think we need a reality show like, you know, some poppy growers in Afghanistan and how they're always, you know, it's like, and they have the GIs come by and, hey, we're going to attack you next week.
	You better hide it.
	Kind of, you know, like that 70s show.
	That would really make the channel interesting.
	Right now it's pretty boring.
	It's always kind of interesting when you see everyone in uniform when they're on screen.
	Yeah, you know, a guy's giving the news he's wearing.
	It's like, that doesn't really work.
	How about a suit and tie?
	You know, it's like...
	So if people want to check it out, you go to PentagonChannel.mil.
	Yeah.
	Oh, they have streaming there?
	On that site?
	They have all the stuff.
	Yeah, kind of.
	All the stories are there.
	You can click on them.
	So I've diversified, John.
	I took the television package from Time Warner.
	So, with your cable?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Did you get a phone, too?
	Yeah, yeah, I got the phone.
	You got triple play.
	Yes, and it feels good.
	I got triple play.
	I got triple charge is what you get.
	Damn, that's expensive.
	No wonder people are giving up their cable subscriptions.
	It's unaffordable.
	It's pretty high.
	Considering it's a passive business, except for the fact they have to keep up the internet.
	Well, that's not entirely true, because they do have to pay HBO and Showtime and Cinemax, and they have these carry charges.
	I mean, there is actual cost involved with all this.
	It's not free for them to pass that on.
	So what, did you get the full package, the full Monty?
	Yeah, of course I did.
	Yeah, no, I've got to be able to scan.
	You've got the Dish Network, so you've got the channels there covered, and I've got to see what's going on over here.
	Of course, HD, the first thing I flipped this thing on, the first HD I get is a slow-mo of the Georgian loser slamming into the steel pipes at the Olympics.
	My God.
	They stopped showing that.
	I didn't get to see it.
	I actually wasn't interested.
	Oh, yeah.
	I turned it on almost, it could have been more than an hour after it happened.
	And they were running repeats and slow-mos and looked pretty good in HD.
	I mean, not for the guy, but wow.
	He went over the edge and slammed into a pipe?
	Yeah, so, well, first of all, you forget that these are actually kind of dangerous sports, and in a way, it's probably very good for the ratings, because people go, oh, shit, man, that's like NASCAR. Stuff can actually go wrong.
	So the guy, you know...
	You can get killed!
	Yeah, you can.
	This is dangerous stuff.
	So he's near the...
	He comes out of a turn into a short straightaway, but he loses control of his sled, and then, you know, he flips over, and he flips out of the track and hits this steel beam...
	And of course people are like, well, you know, we should have had the beam padded.
	I'm like, listen, it's not speed that kills, it's the lack of speed.
	And it doesn't matter if you hit a steel beam or a padded steel beam, your organs are going 90 miles an hour and you bring those to a full stop, you're going to die.
	Or you're going to be severely hurt.
	Yeah, he'd be a vegetable if it was padded.
	Yeah, so he passed away.
	Of course, it's incredibly sad, but great for the ratings.
	I can just hear the executives go, oh, hee hee.
	Oh, hee hee.
	Because now people are watching.
	So, uh...
	I see Nelson Ferrara just sent us an email where he gave the money for his wife and he said, by the way, her location is in Brazil.
	And then he dared me to pronounce it right.
	You want to give it a shot?
	Curitiba.
	Curitiba, I think.
	I say you failed.
	Probably.
	Hey, what's that story?
	You know, we were talking about pharmaceutical companies.
	What's that story about 11 tons of plasma that was stolen?
	Yeah, didn't we do that last week?
	No, no, it came in during the week.
	And apparently, so here's the story.
	In Poland, police, oh, actually they recovered 11 tons of human blood plasma that had been stolen from Baxter International.
	Now, Baxter, of course, we know as the company that released the H1N1 virus in a vaccine and sent it to 13 or 18 countries in Europe, and luckily a lab technician discovered it before people were infected and killed.
	And, you know, what is Baxter doing?
	I didn't know Baxter was in the plasma business, which we know is a huge business.
	Oh yeah, it's a big business.
	Sucking it out of poor people and selling it to rich.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	But 11 tons of plasma?
	That's a lot of sucking.
	That's a lot of plasma?
	Yeah.
	Huh.
	I don't know.
	It's another one of them stories that we'll probably keep in the back of our minds and then something will trigger a thought and we'll figure out what's going on there.
	Maybe they're doping it up with some sort of crazy virus or something.
	Well, you don't know.
	Anyway, so just to stay briefly on these Winter Olympics...
	So, you know, the story now about Whistler, and it's not just Whistler, it's the big snow problem they have.
	And it seems like, and I'm no weather expert, and I'm certainly not a climatologist, although looking at the IPCC, it doesn't take much to become one and contribute to and report.
	But it seems like the lack of snow is being used as a pro-global warming tactic.
	Yeah.
	And from what we're getting from...
	Wait a minute.
	Aren't they the ones who say climate and weather don't...
	Is that the same thing?
	How can they...
	They moan and groan, these people, when you talk about those snowstorms in Washington, D.C., but now they can use the same argument when it comes to Vancouver?
	You're telling me that?
	Apparently.
	Well, that doesn't make any sense.
	Yeah, but it's whatever hits the headlines.
	So we're getting a lot of interesting feedback on this from our Canadian listeners.
	We have quite a number of them.
	And they're saying, you know, typically the weather, that's kind of what the weather is.
	The whole point of Whistler in particular is that it's kind of nice.
	You know, it can get to like 6 or 7 degrees Celsius.
	You know, but you're on a glacier up there, so you can still ski and snowboard.
	I've been up there, and I have to say, the weather was really nice.
	You know, you can wear like summer clothes almost.
	Yeah, Whistler's notorious for being warm and snowy.
	Yeah, but so they don't have any snow, and all the officials are like, oh, this is freaky, and whoa, this has never happened before.
	Meanwhile, the rest of the world is in shambles.
	You know, it's still snowing in Europe, in most parts of Western Europe.
	The east coast of the United States is under Snarmageddon.
	Snarmageddon.
	Snowmageddon.
	That's like Smarmageddon.
	Smarmageddon sounds good.
	Yeah.
	So it seems like this is just being used a little bit.
	And, you know, they went, oh, you know, all of the snow was melted while they were injecting water onto the ski slope.
	And they actually, you know, like they had left the hose on overnight or something or forgot about it and screwed up the slope.
	Screwed up the slope.
	I don't know, man.
	I think they should just do the Winter Olympics.
	Instead of regular skis, have those skis that have wheels on them.
	Yeah, that'll be fine.
	Just go down to dirt.
	And isn't the Olympics, isn't that traditionally...
	Isn't it supposed to be like a truce, like a ceasefire in all wars around the world whenever the Olympics are held?
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, that's what it is.
	Yeah, maybe pre-World War I. Well, I'm just saying, because of course we had that massive Marjah offensive that was launched during the, pretty much at the same time the, oh, but that was a nice distraction of the week now, come to think of it.
	Yeah, the Olympic Games, the Winter Olympic Games open up and we move into the poppy fields.
	The distraction of the week on the world's agenda.
	There you go.
	You know, you gotta pick those things when you gotta pick them.
	You don't have a lot of choices.
	It's not like a big, it's not like a huge two-month, I don't think, you know, range of time where you get to get in there and get that juice out of there.
	The poppies I'm talking about.
	Right.
	Well, let's find out exactly when the harvest is, so we know for sure.
	All right.
	Interestingly enough, there was a story that I found in the Atlantic online, the business section.
	They're saying that Greece's financial problems, which, of course, a lot of it was just covered up, And their deficit was supposed to be, you know, like 3% or 3.1%, but it, you know, after they said, ooh, looks like we had some accounting error, it shot up to 12 or 13.
	A lot of news now is saying that this is because of the 2004 Olympics, that they went so deep into debt.
	Oh, yeah.
	That that basically screwed up the entire trade balance.
	I remember when they were putting...
	I was actually in Greece, I think, a year before the...
	They're building out for the Olympics coming in 2004.
	And they were talking about breaking the country then.
	Well...
	It's going to break the country.
	We can't afford it.
	This is ridiculous.
	Oh, we must have it.
	We are Greece, and Greece is where it began.
	You know, which is nonsense, of course, because the whole thing is just a staged commercial enterprise.
	And with huge gaps between, you know, what happened.
	And it wasn't the same.
	They were naked, by the way, in the original Olympics.
	Which was cool, back in the day.
	So, uh...
	Well, that was on...
	I was seeing the...
	I think it was the Colbert Report, and they had the guy on who was a curator for some museum, and he was going through the artwork for different Olympics.
	And it was always about the individual, and of course, naked individual.
	And then even in the 40s, you had the Olympics in...
	Berlin, you had the...
	Actually, the 30s, I think, is when the...
	The 30s, I'm sorry, the Berlin Olympics.
	And it was all the individual, the individual.
	Then all of a sudden, we got these crappy logos and weird puzzle-looking pieces and all this crazy stuff.
	It was no longer about the individual.
	It was basically about the corporation, the corporations that are sponsoring it.
	Right, and the nationalist teams.
	Right.
	How many medals did the United States get today, Jim?
	We got three golds, one silver, and one bronze.
	What about Russia?
	There was some weird brouhaha.
	Let me see if I can find it.
	Or a brouhaha, perhaps.
	Nah, brouhaha.
	Let me see if I can get the story right.
	So, you have the Olympic...
	The Winter Olympic logo, which includes this wacky set of bears, right?
	But somebody made a picture and put what they call the pedo bear in there.
	So the pedo bear is, of course, that's short for pedophile bear.
	What's a pedo bear?
	Okay, so if you just Google it, you'll find out.
	Okay, so you have the Winter Olympics logo, which is these bears, right?
	These bears with the Olympic rings on their chest.
	And then someone, as a joke, I guess the pedo bear, here it is, originally devised by members of the anarchic 4chan message board as a way of mocking users who expressed a sexual interest in young people.
	And so they redid the logo with this pedo bear...
	Pedobear.org.
	Mainstream news is so stupid.
	They're just grabbing it from Google, right?
	Because it's got all the juice.
	Basically, the Pedobear is showing up everywhere.
	Pedobear seal of approval.
	Let me find this.
	Pedobear.org.
	Yeah, pedobear.org.
	That's bad.
	It is pedobear plush as a ride.
	Yeah, that's the one.
	So you see, if you Google for the Winter Olympic, it's the mascot.
	This is very funny.
	It's showing up in programming guides and newspapers.
	It's like the wrong Sarah Palin book that started showing up all the time.
	It's like publishing Goatsy.
	It's just as bad.
	Polish newspaper claims pedo bear is 2010 Vancouver Olympics logo.
	Pedo bear.
	Yeah, if you look up Winter Olympics pedo bear in Google and then hit the news thing, you'll get...
	Apparently, it's...
	Of course, to start with, this Polish paper looks like...
	Yeah, they're the ones that published it first, but unbeknowing...
	Everybody's gone that way.
	Co-ed magazine.
	There's a whole bunch of different ones.
	Stupid idiots.
	And of course they can't go and debunk it on mainstream news, you know, because then we'd be talking about, we could be deemed sex offenders as news readers.
	It would be so wrong.
	Pinot Bear joins Winter Olympics lineup.
	This bad.
	You're just surfing and enjoying it, aren't you?
	Sorry, I'm just a...
	This is one of the pictures that was in the newspaper.
	It had all these different little logo characters.
	The Peto Bear is in there.
	That's bad.
	They're a great gag, guys.
	Pass it on to whoever they were and give them our compliments.
	That's a good one.
	And we need more of that.
	We need to know Agenda Bear.
	Yeah, we do need an agenda bear.
	Slip him in here and there.
	Or no agenda, some sort of mascots or maybe a series of them that can be kind of dropped in.
	They have to look like something that would be like official.
	That's so bad, John.
	That's so bad.
	All right.
	I think we should talk about how people can help us find these fantastic little nuggets of internet lore and pass them on to you, because this, of course, will get you good yucks at any cocktail party, if you can turn people on to the pedo bear.
	Yeah, definitely.
	And as you know, we have no commercial interruptions on this program because we're interrupted enough by the CIA and the NSA disconnecting us.
	So why bother with even more disruption by putting in commercial messages and, of course, severely limiting our ability to actually speak about topics?
	Can you imagine if we were sponsored by the Olympics?
	Oh yeah, we'd be in jail.
	Yeah.
	You and me and a guy named Bubba.
	Right.
	The real pedo bear.
	So, all right, let's go over a couple of people that gave us money.
	Let's start with somebody we overlooked.
	Idiosyncrasy is his codename, and he wants us to plug tots2.net, T-O-T-S-E-2.net.
	Which is kind of a weird sight.
	I mean, there's all kinds of interesting stories, but there's a lot of hostility on it as well.
	There's a lot of hostility out there.
	Paul Stecklenburg, 6699, he has an interesting idea for donors, especially in Europe.
	He's in Breda, Netherlands.
	Breda.
	Breda.
	How do you say gouda again?
	Couda.
	He says he thinks it's a great idea to donate now before the euro falls more.
	Oh yeah, because it'll only get more expensive.
	Yeah, you get more bang for your buck.
	Brandon Cayley, LeSueur, Minnesota.
	50, Leon Hemings.
	And by the way, Leon Hemings is in Bourne and Buckinghamshire.
	But he's on the street, or something, I guess, I don't know, but the name of the street is Witch End, W-A-T-C-H. The rear end, of course.
	Witch End.
	Bill Airst, also in London, 55-55, 54-20, from Brent Wojnowski in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, home of the Oshkosh Air Show.
	Sorry?
	Home of the Oshkosh Air Show.
	Oh, that too.
	Right.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oshkosh is the mecca of air shows.
	Are you kidding me?
	Yeah.
	And then 6660 from Dean Chartier in Calgary, who's I think even before, but he has a long note I'm going to...
	The second payment has resulted from canceling the cable.
	I like to think of it as my own program for redistributing wealth from giant media to No Agenda.
	Thank you.
	I also signed up for a $5 per month plan to supplement my personal layaway night program.
	I'd be sending more money to the No Agenda stream program a little later in the month, but I want to keep the redistribution of media cash on the main program.
	More people should try it.
	I don't miss cable, and in fact, I was out of town on Groundhog Day and turned on CNN to see what was going on around the world.
	The top two stories were the study about how people...
	Who watch more than four hours of TV a day are 80% more likely to get heart disease.
	You know what?
	I'm down with that.
	And if you're thinking of giving up your cable, think about it.
	Cable is like $600 or $700 a year.
	If you're lucky.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And then you've got no internet with it.
	I mean, I pay $55 for the premium package.
	That's on top of the $30 standard package.
	That's a knighthood.
	That's a knighthood right there on an annual basis.
	It's crazy.
	And you can get everything you want.
	So there's that one show you want to see?
	Oh, go get it from Hulu.
	And then hook a brother up.
	I've talked to more people that watch Hulu all the time.
	$100 from Francis Guare.
	Square.
	It rhymes with square.
	It's Guare.
	Deerfield, Illinois.
	Tristan Lennon again from Wagga Wagga.
	Another $100 from him.
	He's a regular.
	Isn't he close to...
	He must be like three quarters of the way to a knighthood.
	Yeah, he's almost there, but I just like saying Wagga Wagga.
	Ray Manguel from Jersey City, $50.
	He wants to plug RadioGuy.com.
	And then Robert Wright, a student from West Midlands, UK, and he's donated $50.
	He says he's a student and he can't afford it, but he's going to do it anyway.
	And finally, Tong Andrew, who's in Hong Kong, another 50 from him, and he did say, Gung Ho Fat Choi, as a reminder that's New Year's.
	Happy New Year.
	Well, you know, it's heartwarming when I hear a student from the British Midlands who really can't afford it, but is still, you know, donating to the show.
	And he's, you know, he's a great example to his peers.
	And by the way, donate to all forms of alternative media.
	Yeah, that you enjoy.
	You know what?
	We can set up a small economy of money that's flowing around.
	PayPal, although expensive and not necessarily the best way, it seems to be the most ubiquitous way to send money online.
	We're going to add a Google thing, too, because some people just insist.
	Okay, that's fine.
	You can never have too many ways to donate the money, but I do use PayPal to send it back.
	I buy apps on my iPhone, which is not, of course, PayPal, but it is the digital money.
	I donate to other websites, to other shows.
	I donate $10 a month to Twit, or at least that's Tip Leo, because I listen to the show.
	I found myself actually, this is a while back, I was like, I'm a freaking hypocrite.
	One of the few shows that I watch regularly, I actually watch it.
	I like watching the video portion.
	I think it's extremely well done.
	And then Leo starts his tip thing up again.
	I'm like, okay, I'll subscribe for $10 a month, which I think is the only option.
	And it's worth it.
	It's a $10 a month show.
	No doubt about it.
	It's worth every penny.
	But then there's websites.
	If they have a donation drive, I'll donate to them.
	And even some of our listeners have hit me up for cash because they're like starving and I've given money to them through PayPal.
	So you can go to noagendashow.com, dvorak.org, slash N-A, and...
	ChannelDevorak.com slash N-A-N. We would appreciate it.
	We also will be listing all the executive producers who were so kind this week to give us a great amount of donations.
	I might as well re-mention their names.
	Robert Lee, Ian Shemes, Indira Hoffman, Nelson Ferrara, Paul Rudkin, Lucas Hockinson, Dylan Rebello, Eric Hertha, and China Neils.
	And I'd also like to say that many of the No Agenda militia who you can always find hanging around the chat room at noagendachat.com are software developers, and And back in the early days, pre-PayPal, we had this thing called freeware or shareware.
	And there would be a little thing that say, hey, can you contribute?
	Of course, then it was check or money order, which was very inconvenient.
	But if you download a program that asks for a donation, and if you find yourself using it regularly, or maybe it's a one-off deal, but in many cases, you have these little programs that you're using over and over again, and yeah, it costs you nothing to download and to use, but send some money to those guys.
	You know, you can really create an economy.
	Now, John and I can't live off of this yet, but we would like to, and I'm definitely moving in that direction just by setting myself up for it.
	With a better connection.
	But think about it.
	I mean, it's already $100 a month just for the internet, and then...
	You don't even want to know.
	Our stream costs are going up, by the way.
	That shit's not free.
	I've discovered.
	Yeah.
	No, we're going to have...
	That's one reason we're starting our North Enda stream fund.
	And they don't take...
	Credit.
	No, it's right off the credit card.
	And then finally, Adam and John...
	Despite your attempts, my name was still pronounced incorrectly during the donation section of No Agenda 173.
	My name is spelled G-I-E-L-E-N. That's the I before the E. My name is Chris Geelen.
	Geelen.
	Not Geilen.
	Which, of course, is being horny.
	Oh, right.
	Highland means being horny?
	How would you use that in a sentence?
	You would say, ze zat me op te geilen.
	Oh man, you know an American can say that.
	It sounds like you're trying to cough up something stuck in your lungs.
	NoagendaShow.com or go directly to the donation page at Dvorak.org slash NA or ChannelDvorak.com slash NA. I do agree.
	If you are thinking of donating, now is the time to do it because the euro is probably only going down from here.
	And you can get in cheaper now.
	And we really appreciate it.
	And if you're going for a larger amount, please, please consider going for a monthly donation.
	$5 a month is, I think, our lowest option.
	But, you know, the lucky number 30 is in there.
	And it is known to bring good karma upon you.
	Curious who didn't get any lucky number 30s this last week, that I recall.
	By the way, we did get a couple of checks, which were sent to the box, and I'll thank these people on Sunday, because there was a really interesting note that came with it that I want to read.
	So, okay, back to work.
	Yeah, let me start off with this one.
	Because when I first started talking about this, over a year ago, even you, John, scoffed at me.
	I don't scoff.
	Oh, you do.
	You go, oh, brother.
	Oh, here we go again.
	As I told you that they were going to shoot lasers from airplanes down on objects either on the ground or flying around.
	Actual lasers, yeah.
	This is Dr.
	Evil stuff.
	We told you so on No Way.
	We got a couple of We Told You So jingles.
	We told you so.
	Ha!
	I think if you have one as an opener, one as a closer.
	Okay, all right.
	And I never disagree with the fact that they were going to shoot lasers from an airplane at some point.
	You were at some point, and I said they were already testing it, and it was working.
	So let me just do this again.
	We told you so, I know what you do.
	It's time to rub it in your face once again, as we told you so, that they were going to shoot you with lasers from the sky.
	A high-powered laser aboard a modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet shot down an in-flight ballistic missile for the first time.
	Yeah, not really, because we know about the test that was going on.
	Highlighting a new class of ray guns.
	Yes, the flying laser.
	There's pictures.
	Have you seen this thing?
	The ALTB, the airborne laser test.
	The plane can fly after they fire this thing.
	But it has no recoil.
	No, I'm talking about the amount of energy it sucks and it must put up a magnetic field.
	God knows what's going on in there.
	Well, it's a forward-directed, you know, it's a forward-looking laser.
	I think a laser with a recoil would be great.
	Yeah.
	And they're even talking about it now.
	This is the stuff that I remember you chuckling when I said directed energy weapons.
	Here it is.
	And this is in the official...
	This is Reuters.
	Directed energy weapons use highly focused rays to attack a target rather than chemical-powered arms.
	Those in control can tweak the strength involved, unlike a bullet or a bomb, allowing for less than lethal uses, i.e.
	stun versus set to kill.
	This is great stuff.
	So, you heard it more than a year ago right here on No Agenda.
	Now it's official on the record and you won't see it on the news.
	We told you so.
	You know, I wonder what it is.
	The details are so sketchy on this story.
	They don't tell you what the missile was.
	This is the Air Force's news article.
	I'm not sure.
	No, it's the official website of the U.S. Air Force.
	I'm looking at their press release.
	Yeah, well, it looks like they'll be blasting us in a, you know, one of these days, a single flyover and then blow up the, you know, the protesters.
	Yeah, no, it'll just be targeted, lock on, just fry you.
	And I'm telling you, this is how they got Michael Jackson.
	They fried that guy from outer space, whether it was from the international space.
	Okay, okay, all right, here we go.
	And by the way, one more thing about Michael Jackson.
	Okay, maybe you don't agree with my theory as to how they killed him, but you can't deny that they now have a murder suspect.
	Yeah, people out there who haven't listened to the show long enough should realize that Adam actually went on to CNBC or one of these networks to talk about Michael Jackson, who he knew, and said, I don't know why they're not looking into it as murder.
	This is like right after the thing, and they just cut him off.
	It was while they were announcing the big ceremony, the big thing they were going to hold at the Nokia Arena or whatever.
	And they needed some filler.
	In the morning on that one.
	I don't think we were doing in the morning at the time.
	So I got a piece of...
	I think we were...
	Oh, you're right.
	We brought that in after that family game.
	Yeah, no, it was much later.
	Much later than that.
	So I got a couple more clips here that I want to go over.
	But you want to do something a little light?
	Well, we could do...
	And now, back to real movies.
	Well, you know how there's a joke that goes around about people who do the, you know, where they have to do a post edit and they drop somebody's voice in or something like that to cover up some mistake?
	You rarely see it done in high-end network productions, like perhaps you wouldn't expect to see it on the Letterman show.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	So what we're talking about is something went wrong, or someone said a bad word, or give me the example.
	No, somebody said something different.
	It's like...
	And here we have our guest.
	Hello, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Oh, because I said the wrong name.
	Right.
	Okay, got it.
	So this happened on the Letterman Show?
	Check it out.
	Okay, here we go.
	Wow.
	There they are.
	Survivor Heroes vs.
	Villains premieres Thursday, February 11th at 8 p.m.
	right here on CBS. Do you remember?
	But he does that on purpose.
	No!
	Yes, he does.
	He messed it up, but instead of trying to make it sound exactly the same, he decided...
	This is the old, if you can't cover it up, turn it up.
	That's funny.
	Maybe.
	It's possible.
	Wow.
	There they are.
	Survivor Heroes vs.
	Villains premieres Thursday, February 11th at 8pm right here on CBS. Do you remember?
	You might be right.
	It was important.
	Here's what happened.
	So he says it wrong, but it's a plug for a CBS performance.
	So the network guys are all freaking out.
	It's like, the whole point of having them on your damn show was to promote the performance on the 11th and you said the 12th.
	Exactly.
	And then Letterman goes, alright, I'll fix it.
	Watch this, bitches.
	Wow.
	There they are.
	Survivor Heroes vs.
	Villains premieres Thursday, February 11th at 8pm right here on CBS. Do you remember?
	Yeah, I think you're right.
	Perfect.
	That's what I would do.
	That's funny.
	So, but I cracked up when I heard it because it was just so odd.
	It was just ridiculous.
	Yeah.
	You've got a couple more clips.
	In the olden days when he was doing the show on NBC, the later show, he used to do these experiments constantly.
	One show, they would rotate the camera 360, just so he was flat, and then he'd be slowly angling to the right, and then about halfway through the show, he'd be completely upside down.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, I remember that.
	But my all-time favorite one was they took the show, made a transcript of it, and then overdubbed everybody's voice with a guy with a deep Mexican accent.
	Yeah, yeah.
	All right.
	So the Democrats seem to be quite self-destructing here, if you haven't noticed.
	I've been trying to stay away from it.
	I feel it's not good for my heart.
	So, but it's funny, there's a show that's trying to make, trying to get traction, that's getting none, called The Ed Show.
	It's a ranting Democrat.
	You know, I've actually, I saw a bit of The Ed Show.
	They seem to have some reasonable reporting here and there that it's kind of funny.
	Yeah, but Ed is just a ranter and he's trying to get attention, but he's definitely like a Democrat ranter.
	Yeah.
	Here is a little clip where he just rants about what's wrong with the party, and then he's got a guy from The Nation, which is another apologist for the Democrat Party, explaining why everything is going awry.
	And this is all based, this is the background, this is based on the fact that apparently Al Franken came out publicly and said that the Obama administration's, the people in the White House, the managers, which would be Rahm Emanuel and the rest of them, are incompetent boobs.
	Yeah.
	Boobs, you say?
	So these guys went in a little tirade here.
	And what network is this air on?
	CNN? No, I think the Ed Show, I thought it was MSNBC. No, it's an NBC subsidiary.
	Okay, the Ed Show.
	What you have to realize is that now is the time.
	We are in a critical time right now to get something done and to put something off on the back burner is only hurting themselves even further.
	Harry Reid is going to lose.
	No matter how you cut it, he's going to lose.
	It is going to take a miraculous comeback for him to win in Nevada.
	You know, this is a meme that's going on.
	I hear a lot of this Harry Reid is losing out, and I hear the Democrats say it a lot, actually.
	Yeah.
	So why doesn't he just say, let's go get it done?
	To hell with the Republicans.
	They've obstructed it.
	The people get that.
	They understand that.
	What are the Democrats waiting for?
	Well, they are waiting for what you said they need to grow.
	But let's be blunt about this.
	The Democratic Party has bad political leadership.
	Right now, the signal that they are getting is that they should be a managerial party, that they should come in and manage the mess that the Republicans left.
	The fact is, nobody in America, not liberals and not Tea Party conservatives, Yeah, he was.
	Yeah, he was.
	And Debbie Wasserman Schultz, congresswoman from Florida, said that they could lose up to 25 seats in the House.
	You think that's an accurate number?
	Yeah, I've charted it, Ed.
	So, meanwhile, of course, MSNBC hosting, according to this news story, Ed, which is Ed Schultz is his name, is tearing in the Robert Gibbs and the rest of the Obama team telling the White House press secretary that it's full of shit.
	Well, you know what?
	They actually are.
	And I have the most recent briefing from Robert Gibbs where he gives up the podium to Christy Romer.
	You know who Christy Romer is?
	No, no.
	Krusty Romer.
	She is the...
	I've got to call her Krusty now.
	Krusty Romer.
	She heads up the president's economic team.
	And she never had a real job in her life.
	She's an academic.
	And she presented the economic report.
	And when you hear this woman talk, you want to slap her.
	She's like a kindergarten teacher.
	She's the most irritating, like, well, hello class, let me just, here, listen to this.
	Listen for a second.
	I've got to get a shot clock up here.
	You Gibbs, you dick.
	I hate that guy.
	Dick.
	So he's going to introduce Christy Romer.
	Google her for a second, John.
	She looks like a kindergarten teacher.
	How do you spell it?
	It's just Christina Romer.
	R-O-M-E-R, I believe.
	Let me see.
	R-O-M-E-R. Christina Romer.
	She is the chair...
	A chairwoman.
	Oh, right, right, right.
	No, I've seen this woman before.
	So she's speaking...
	Somebody's forcing her to eat too many potatoes, I can tell you that right now.
	But, you know, it's like...
	Oh, and she's just disgusting.
	She looks condescending.
	She looks sanctimonious.
	And this is something that is happening all over the place.
	We get these women who just look, they look condescending, they speak condescendingly, and what does she have to back it up?
	She's an academic.
	She's never been in any type of big business, little business, or any business as far as I can tell.
	But she's so proud to be the chairperson of the President's Council of Economic Advisers.
	Isn't John Doerr on that?
	I mean, these are some people who have been in serious business, and she's the leader of them.
	It's just, it's weird.
	Let me just fast forward and we'll get to her.
	Three things.
	It talks about the challenges, the economic challenges that we face as a country.
	It talks about what policies were put into place in the previous year and how they worked.
	And it lays out the President's economic agenda going forward.
	I like to think that this year's economic report is particularly important, not because of me, but because of the times that we are facing.
	She sounds like the principal from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
	Listen to her.
	I think if you think about the economic challenges that we face, there's probably not for a very long time been as great a set of economic challenges.
	And of course these span all the way from, you know, of course the immediate crisis, right?
	When we came in, if you remember back to a year ago, we were losing close to 800,000 jobs a month.
	Real GDP was plummeting.
	Our financial system was certainly very stressed and there were real questions about what would be happening.
	But we also know that there was a reason that the president had run for president on a lot of economic issues even before the economic crisis.
	Children before the economic crisis.
	And the president inherited all of this.
	So we know from all the studies that we'd have done.
	Bueller.
	Stagnating incomes for middle class families.
	Soaring health care costs.
	She says it so cavalierly.
	You know, she's never really, it looks like, she went to, right out of high school, she went to College of William and Mary, and then got a PhD from MIT, probably in economics, obviously, which is, like, interesting.
	And then, upon completion of her doctor, this is according to Wikipedia, so it's probably sketchy, but upon completion of her doctor, she started working as an assistant professor right away at Princeton.
	In 1988, she moved to UC Berkeley, and she was promoted to full professorship at night.
	She's never done anything but this.
	Yet she's in charge of advising the president on what to do.
	I mean, how does that make sense?
	She probably talks a good game.
	You know, you always have to remember there are some people that are, you know, when you get them in a certain kind of a situation in a meeting, they can talk you into hiring them because they're actually natural salespeople, and she must be one of them.
	I mean, it's a skill set that you don't have to, you know, it exists in all areas of life.
	I mean, you sell yourself to become a professor.
	You sell yourself to get a job as a writer.
	You go out and sell cars.
	She must be really good at this, and she's managed to talk her way into this position.
	Well, I don't think it's because she was blowing somebody.
	That's for sure.
	I never know, though.
	Well, yeah, well, I'm guessing you're right, though.
	So anyway, yeah, well, Gibbs.
	Gibbs.
	Gibbs.
	Gibbs, the man who writes on his hand.
	All right, so what else we got here?
	I got a couple more I want to do.
	Okay.
	Because now I got to get the other screen back up.
	I could tell you I'd do a little intramesso.
	Okay, so we have...
	I also want to get to a meme I am sensing.
	And one of the reasons I got involved with the Pentagon channel dot mill is because of this meme that I keep...
	I'm starting to hear more and more of.
	And what's really weird about this next clip, this is the Wolf Blitzer clip.
	This has got Jane Harman arguing with a Republican, and she's not getting a word in edgewise.
	Blitzer is essentially taking the Republican tact.
	This has to do with the never-ending story about the Mutala crotch bomber and the fact that the FBI arrested him and then within 55 minutes read him his Miranda rights and everybody's all upset about it because we should be waterboarding the kid.
	And so this has become a, I think this is a big setup for further militarization of the public in the United States.
	No, you don't say.
	Because they want the military to start, you know, being involved in arrests, not reading people Miranda rights, which, you know...
	Right.
	Oh, of course.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So, of course, yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
	So we make a big deal about how we blew it this time.
	And by the way, so what Blitzer does here is he points to a public opinion poll that was probably questionable to begin with, saying that 76% of the people disagree with the idea of addressing the crotch bomber and then, you know, by the police and then sending him to a civilian court.
	He should have been tortured minimally.
	We've already gone over the meme about how great waterboarding is.
	But this one here, this is the most egregious kind of railroad job I've ever heard Blitzer do, because he obviously got the word to just tell Harmon to screw herself and then just go on with the Republican who was on the side of, why didn't they, you know, they shouldn't have done that.
	It is old news, by the way, but they're still, but watch the way he handles this, the conversation between the two people, and then he cuts them off.
	Claiming that the satellite was going down when you could visually see there was nothing going on.
	There was no satellite going down.
	Oh yeah, I know.
	That's my favorite.
	Oh, sorry.
	We lost you.
	Oh, we'll have to try to get back to them later.
	It's a long clip, but did you hear it out?
	Oh, you're talking to me?
	Yes, on that phone call.
	When John Brennan called you and told you he was in FBI custody, Abdul Farouk, Abdul Matalib, did you ask whether he had read his Miranda rights?
	No, I did not.
	Was that a mistake?
	Now, in hindsight, now that John Brennan is saying that we had that discussion, there are lots of questions that I had that night that were not answered.
	It was a very quick, cursory overview.
	And then, as John Brennan said himself on Sunday, we will stay in touch with you, Congressman, as we move forward.
	Most Americans, according to this Quinnipiac University poll, Congresswoman Harmon, agree with Congressman Hoekstra on this issue.
	The Christmas Day bombing suspect should be tried.
	As an enemy combatant, 76% say he should be.
	Only 19% say he should be tried as an ordinary criminal, which is what the Obama administration wants to do.
	Who's right?
	Well, I think this argument is really foolish, Wolf, and let me explain why.
	We missed an opportunity right after 9-11 to put a very clear set of rules around interrogations and detentions of all of these folks arrested after that date.
	We missed it, and we've been in a hodgepodge system ever since.
	This man was arrested on U.S. soil, and every single case of someone arrested on U.S. soil means that he goes into the criminal justice system.
	There was not just an FBI, but an FBI, CIA. You're in the minority.
	You're in the minority.
	You're in the 19%.
	No, but let me respond to some of the things that you said in the last segment.
	Let's let Pete Hoekstra respond to that.
	You're in the majority 76%, but I take it that he was treated, Abdulmutallab, exactly the way Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, was treated.
	He was read his Miranda rights within minutes.
	He was treated in a criminal court.
	Let me let Congressman Hoekstra respond to that.
	Were you complaining at the time of the Bush administration's handling of these domestically arrested terrorists?
	I think that you identify exactly the problem, Wolf.
	Richard Reed was treated that way.
	There were no alternatives.
	Since that time, Congress has passed legislation that would allow the Christmas Day bomber that there would be a decision that could be made that would put him into military custody.
	That way we could have had more thorough investigations.
	He would not have had the right to stay silent.
	He would not have had the right to an attorney while he was being investigated.
	We could have gotten more valuable information that perhaps would have been actionable, and we could have done things in Yemen going after Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula.
	We missed opportunities.
	All right, to be continued.
	Unfortunately, we're losing your satellite connection right now, but I promise both of you will be back to continue this conversation.
	Now, in all fairness, I will say, I think what he meant was he might be losing the satellite window, but even that seems like a pretty thin excuse.
	Well, she was trying to get a word in.
	I hear a mumbling in the background.
	He just basically wasn't going to listen to her.
	So something's up, because CNN and Wolf Blitzer are not...
	Yeah.
	So somebody's sending a message.
	There's two messages that are going out.
	Besides this one, which is militarization of the general public or the public space.
	In other words, here.
	In other words, somebody could just determine you're a military or an enemy combatant because you said something bad, by the way, and that there are proposals to keep people from talking.
	Oh, yeah.
	Even though we are not even at war.
	No, if you're a Ron Paul supporter...
	Or if you carry the Constitution around on your iPod as an app.
	Or if you listen to No Agenda, you could be deemed a military combatant, and then you can be waterboarded and thrown before a military tribunal.
	That's the whole point.
	Now, the other thing is, somebody's after John Brennan.
	And I haven't gotten to the bottom of this yet, but he is the...
	If you listen to that clip again, right off the bat, John Brennan, John Brennan, John Brennan.
	And I've seen a lot of...
	They're slamming this guy.
	He's ex-CIA, I believe.
	Wait a minute.
	Didn't John Brennan, wasn't he running the whole Iraq show for the first couple of years?
	Maybe.
	Wasn't he the...
	Because I've always wondered...
	That's Brenner.
	Oh, that's Brenner.
	Okay.
	Yeah, that's a different guy.
	No, this is a guy who was ex-CIA, or he was going to be the ex-CIA. He was assumed early on...
	Let me read the entry here in his bio.
	It was assumed early on that Brennan would be appointed the next director of the CIA by Obama.
	Brennan withdrew his name from consideration over concerns that his nomination would be a distraction due to his previous association with controversial harsh CIA interrogations.
	So he's a waterboarding guy.
	Okay, got it.
	Now, I don't know what the deal is, why they're out to get this guy, or if this is part of the CIA-Obama feud, or what.
	But he was the CEO, I think, before he got involved with the Obama campaign of something called the Analysis Corporation.
	Oh, that sounds pretty groovy.
	That sounds like some Blackwater kind of thing.
	And if you look at their logo, it says, Where Technology and Intelligence Converge.
	A private company in McLean, Virginia, of course.
	And they have a website.
	Well, it's a think tank, isn't it?
	Well, it's called, and it's also got the logo that says TAC. Yeah, it's probably a think tank or some sort of a money laundering, you know, I wouldn't say that necessarily.
	I'm not accusing them of that.
	I'm just saying it may be a conduit for moving money around.
	And by the way, I just clicked on their website.
	It's not coming up at all.
	So who knows?
	Maybe they closed when he quit.
	I don't know.
	So more investigation needed, I guess.
	Yeah, no, we have to figure out what the deal is because they're out to get this guy.
	A number of people are out to get this guy.
	And I don't know if even Obama wants to keep him or maybe he's got something to do with it.
	I have no idea.
	But this Wolf Blitzer turnaround, picking the side of, you know, military justice over civilian justice in the USA on our soil, I thought was peculiar.
	We wouldn't let Harmon get in where we're edgewise and she's the Democrat.
	The whole thing doesn't make any sense unless it's a set up.
	Gee, on CNN? You think that would happen?
	Huh.
	You mentioned Blackwater.
	Just to make sure we don't overlook all the fun facts, two former employees of Blackwater Worldwide.
	We know that there's two whistleblowers, and of course this is really underreported news.
	They now are accusing the private security contractor of defrauding the government for years through phony billing, including charging taxpayers for alcohol-filled parties, spa trips, and a prostitute.
	One prostitute?
	She was really good.
	Well, they passed her around, but she was actually on the payroll.
	Hookers and Blow paid for you.
	But she was on the payroll.
	She was on the payroll, yeah.
	Oh, that's pretty nice.
	That's sweet.
	Yeah, it's like, hey, call Miss Jones up there.
	I thought these guys were like a bunch of Christian characters that were evangelicals.
	I mean, the guy who heads Blackwater is a very religious person.
	I find it hard to believe.
	This story may be bogus, because I find it hard to believe that such a religious group...
	No, no, no.
	These are court papers.
	because these whistleblowers, you know, this is a real case that is taking place.
	So court papers, and I don't have the actual court papers here.
	I'm sure we can get a hold of them.
	Mellon Davis said in court papers that while working in Blackwater's finance department, she questioned how the company could bill the government for its workers' travel expenses to and from Iraq when it lacked the documentation for those trips.
	She said she later traveled to a hotel in Amman, Jordan, where Blackwater personnel often stopped en route to Iraq, While there, she said corporate officers directed her and two co-workers to generate reams of false invoices for plane travel at inflated rates so her bosses could overcharge the government.
	So this is, you know, here we go.
	Overpayments allowed the vendor to provide a barbecue pit for Blackwater staff parties, which is nice, by the way.
	And the Davises, this is a husband and wife team.
	These guys aren't making enough profit that they can buy the damn barbecue pit without phoning up the records.
	This is sketchy.
	The Davises assert that Blackwater officials kept a Filipino prostitute on the company payroll for a State Department contract in Afghanistan and billed the government for her time working for male Blackwater employees in Kabul.
	The prostitute's salary was categorized as part of the company's morale welfare recreation expenses.
	That's what we need to call it, John.
	I like it.
	Yeah, the No Agenda Morale Welfare Recreation Expense Fund.
	Please, send us your money.
	My God.
	I don't know.
	This sounded like a straw man, red herring kind of a thing here.
	Something doesn't add up.
	These guys are making money hand over fist and they're phoning up records so they can buy a barbecue pit?
	Come on.
	Well, you know, once this type of corruption really gets into an organization, I mean, this is low-level stuff, right?
	This is not at the top.
	So that's just cultural, you know, when everyone's doing it.
	Hey, let's just get a barbecue pit.
	Hey, let's get some hookers in here.
	That's how it goes.
	Well, I mean, there's some truth to that.
	It's low-level.
	It's low-level.
	It's low-level and unimportant because even if it's a conviction, like, clean up your books, fire the people who are doing that shit, but it comes from the top.
	Yeah, no, everything comes from the top.
	So I see Steck just sent me an email about, we're talking about the Muttalab guy.
	And apparently Joe Biden on Meet the Press just now made a gaffe.
	He keeps, yeah.
	And let me just read about it.
	I'll read it from this report.
	You've got to love Joe Biden to watch Meet the Press, blah, blah, blah.
	When asked about Mirandizing terrorists...
	Joe defended the decision.
	He went on to say that we look good in the world's eyes if we are fair and treat terrorists fairly.
	Then he went on to say that we're going to find him guilty anyway and he will be executed.
	Indeed.
	Mr.
	O'Biden coming to get you.
	Mr.
	O'Biden.
	We're going to...
	It doesn't matter, dude.
	We're going to kill you.
	It's just...
	You're getting two to the head.
	This is how...
	I'm sorry.
	This is how it works.
	You know, we know he set you up, and you did the right thing, but, you know, you didn't read the fine print of your CIA contract.
	You get two to the head, my brother.
	So, I got one last clip, which will help end things, and this is from Thom Hartman's show.
	And the only reason I'm playing this is because I don't know whether any of this is true or not, but it's disgusting if so.
	And you have to, you have to, I'm going to look into it, but I was kind of like, whoa, I didn't realize.
	You remember when we did the tar and all the rest of it, all these bailouts and whatever, and they were going to put in, within the law that was going to be passed, there was going to be provision, people had to buy American.
	Yes, it had to be American cars.
	It had to be American cars.
	It had to be American this, American that.
	And everybody got all bent out of shape about it, including the Canadians who said, well, that doesn't make any sense.
	And so there's a big brouhaha over this whole issue, and they took that proviso out.
	But Hartman brings up an interesting point, which I thought was worth at least considering when we discuss this in the future.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	People in Washington are nuts.
	Yeah, well, the answer is they're not nuts.
	They're bought off.
	The fact of the matter is that when China passed an $820-some-odd billion stimulus package a year ago passed, I mean, they mandated it, The Chinese stimulus, 100% of that money had to be spent on Chinese goods made by Chinese workers inside China.
	When the Japanese passed their stimulus bill and their Cash for Clunker program, they had one that was almost identical to ours, both required that all products be made by Japanese in Japan, period.
	When we passed ours, there was a Buy American provision put in there by Russ Feingold from Wisconsin, as I recall.
	And it was taken out.
	It was taken out because, first of all, the Republicans insisted, demanded that it be taken out.
	But even then, when the Republicans were able to get it passed...
	You know, past a filibuster, they could get 60 Democratic votes.
	The only way they could get 60 Democratic votes was because you had conservadems like Max Baucus saying, oh no, you can't have Buy America only in there.
	That would be wrong.
	That would be inconsistent with free trade.
	I thought that was kind of interesting.
	So, I'm not sure what to make of it, but something to think about.
	I can't end the show with that, John.
	Besides the fact that we have way too much to talk about, for instance...
	The Department of Justice, on its official website, has job listings, and of course, I look there from time to time to supplement my income.
	Its Civil Rights Division is seeking 10 experienced trial attorneys for its voting section in Washington, D.C., and of course, as federally mandated, encourages qualified applicants with targeted disabilities to apply.
	And if you then look at the targeted disabilities, it includes mental retardation and mental illness, as those who may apply as trial attorneys for its voting section.
	What?
	You weren't listening to me, were you?
	I'm looking at federalspending.org, but then you're going on about apparently mentally deficient attorneys for some trials.
	There's a job listing on the Department of Justice's official website.
	The Civil Rights Division seeking 10 experienced trial attorneys for its voting section in D.C. and says qualified applicants with targeted disabilities should apply.
	And then if you click on the link for targeted disabilities, it says blindness, deafness, mental redactation, and mental illness.
	What?
	Yes.
	So, well, of course, that means that there's no, for one thing, it says you have to be a qualified, you know, trial attorney.
	And, of course, nobody that has those disabilities is one.
	No.
	So the whole thing's a scam.
	So they could say, well, we asked for it, and nobody's up here.
	You know, they didn't want the job.
	Americans, no jobs Americans don't want.
	But at the same time, what kind of, what if they got one of these guys?
	They have to take him.
	Criminally insane.
	Just thought it was kind of interesting.
	I thought it was kind of...
	Yeah, that is weird.
	Let's see.
	I'm sure you've blogged about this, but there's still some chatter in the wake of Davo where the chief research and strategy officer for Microsoft said, you know, we really should have...
	Bloggers should be licensed.
	Should have like a driver's license.
	What a douchebag.
	Whoa, there he is.
	There he is.
	What's his name again?
	Craig Mundy, Chief Research Strategy Officer for Microsoft.
	Douchebag.
	There you go.
	Finally.
	Yeah, have a freaking driver's license for blogging.
	I didn't hear this story, by the way.
	Really?
	Control freaks want web license to end bloggers' anonymity.
	That's it.
	It's all in the show notes at NoAgendaShow.com.
	And I'll just say it myself.
	I'll pat myself on the back.
	These show notes are pretty good.
	There's definitely...
	Well, I'm supposed to say that.
	That's the deal we made.
	You give me like 15 bucks a week to say it.
	You just wanted to hold out on me.
	Now I'm not going to get the 15 bucks.
	That's right.
	I'm welching on it, dude.
	I'm not giving you anything.
	Airport body scanners apparently violate Islamic law.
	Makes sense.
	Makes nothing but sense.
	Yeah, it violates my law, too.
	It's wrong.
	So I think it'd be funny if they said, okay, well, you're a Muslim?
	No, okay, get in there.
	You're a Muslim?
	Go ahead.
	Go on through.
	Go on in front of the line.
	Yeah, exactly.
	How cool would that be?
	Waiting in line violates the...
	So there's apparently a fatwa that forbids Muslims from going through the scanners at airports.
	And I had the choice at SFO on the way down to Los Angeles, and I went into the longer line, and I just looked at all those people.
	And I looked at them and said, you poor sheep.
	You poor sheep, just wait.
	And none of them actually think it's cool.
	You can tell people are kind of excited.
	Well, if you're an exhibition, as you would.
	They don't know better.
	What if you got a really long schlong?
	Wouldn't you like to go in that thing just to make everybody go, hey, buddy, good luck with your life.
	Check it out.
	Mickey refused to go through because, of course, she's a staunch listener and supporter of No Agenda and makes the pancakes every Sunday morning.
	And so they forced her through the naked scanner, and she said, you know, I really would prefer a pat-down.
	I don't want to be scanned.
	And so here's what happened.
	They say, okay.
	And then they cordon you off in like a three-by-three.
	They literally pull that tape around you, you know, the one that is on the spring roll that you pull out and hook up to the other pole.
	So they put her in this box.
	She waits for like 10 minutes for a female assist to come over.
	Then she has to go behind the glass, which I've never understood.
	You get patted down behind the glass so everyone can see you anyway.
	She gets patted down.
	But she felt kind of like, you know, stupid just standing there in this little 3x3 cordoned-off box And then they say, so why didn't you want...
	What?
	That's to make her feel stupid so that she won't do it again.
	Exactly.
	And then they said, so why didn't you want to go through?
	And she says, well, you know, I'm 39.
	I'm still of childbearing age.
	I have no idea what your scanner is going to do, and I don't trust it.
	There's not enough information about it.
	And they said, yeah, you could be right.
	Acceptable answer.
	Please, carry on.
	Enjoy your shopping experience.
	It's crazy.
	So I think there's some evidence that does millimeter waves cause cataracts.
	Well, they can cause all kinds of...
	I mean, you should not have any form of...
	I mean, you shouldn't stick your head in the microwave either.
	But it's just radiation.
	You know, who knows?
	Well, it's not gamma rays.
	It's not gamma rays.
	No, it's not that kind of radiation.
	It's like radio waves.
	Look, for years they're telling you you're going to get brain cancer from your cell phone, yet please step into this box.
	Well, the other thing is, I mean, for years, when I was a kid, they used to have these fluorescent devices in the shoe store, and you'd put your feet in there, and you could see how the shoes fit, because it was x-rays.
	Oh, yeah, I remember those.
	At Kenny's shoes.
	They had them everywhere.
	And then somebody came up and said, holy crap, this isn't good for you.
	And so they stopped doing it.
	But who knows about these things?
	They're not tested.
	I'm sure these, you know, take the pat down and bitch about it.
	Just make the other line longer.
	Yeah.
	I mean, if the Muslims don't go through it, you know, what's the point?
	We're led to believe that all the terrorists are Muslims, and it seems as though most, at least all the ones that are trying to blow a plane seem to be.
	So, and they're not going to go through this thing, and they're supposed to be protecting us against the crotch bomber.
	What good is it to have it at all?
	It's just a waste of the taxpayers' money.
	Duh.
	And of course, it's Michael Chertoff who owns the company, former Secretary of Homeland Security.
	He owns that company, or he's one of the owners and board members.
	It's his company.
	It's a total scam, and they're buying a thousand of them.
	It's in the budget.
	It's already in there.
	We read it so you don't have to.
	So they have it at SFO? How many?
	Only one at SFO at the international departure, which is where Virgin America flies from.
	Well, you know, you can still get in there by going through the United thing and then walking your way over to the International thing because you're inside the...
	Oh, really?
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, I'm just going to ask.
	I mean, they have signs right there.
	If you want a private pat-down, you can ask for it.
	So when it gets to the point where you have no choice between the metal detector or the naked scanner, I'm just going to ask for a pat-down.
	I'm not going to go through it.
	I'm not going to.
	No way.
	Anna, you're right.
	If I had a huge schlong, I would consider it.
	Yeah.
	There you go.
	Other people up for the two to the head of the week award.
	Sergei Aleninkov is now on trial.
	This is the spy who was immediately picked up by the FBI who apparently worked for Goldman Sachs.
	He took the code for the...
	High volume flash trading system.
	And so it's going to be very interesting to see what he says while on the stand.
	I don't think it will behoove people to hear him actually say what's going on with this.
	Because of course this is how the markets are manipulated and how Goldman Sachs is becoming wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.
	Completely manipulating the market and admitting to it.
	So he's on trial.
	So we pray for him because, of course, he is part of the No Agenda militia by extension, being a programmer.
	And then we have this other guy, Baltasar Garçon.
	And this is interesting.
	This is a very well-known magistrate in Spain.
	And he is investigating the fate of 114,000 people who disappeared without a trace after the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s.
	And the government is up in arms about this.
	The public prosecutor's office says Mr.
	Garzon has no right to conduct the investigation because of an amnesty law introduced in 1977.
	But of course, do you know anything about these disappearing people, John?
	I think it was said that Nazi concentration camps were just gunned down and thrown in a pit.
	They were the people fighting the fascists.
	So this guy will turn out to be a pedophile, right?
	That's what will happen with him.
	Either that or he winds up killing himself.
	Or both.
	Yeah, it'll be something like that.
	Or that or...
	I mean, of course, they say that there's an amnesty thing, which is to protect the people that were involved.
	But it was only to protect them from prosecution.
	It's not to protect them.
	It's not a gag order.
	So they were just irked about the fact that he's going to...
	He's going to name names if he can.
	And there's going to be a lot of, you know, probably important people that everyone had a high-risk guard for, and then they find out they're part of a death squad.
	And interestingly enough, right the day after, we once again exposed the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation as sketchy at best, scam at the worst, with high executive salary, no disclosure or insufficient disclosure according to Better Business Bureau.
	And the guy has to go in for another heart surgery.
	He's like, hey man, Bill, John and Adam are at it again.
	Oh, my chest.
	Yeah, right.
	It would be so funny if Bill Clinton actually listened to this podcast.
	But he was out the next day.
	Yeah, I know.
	Isn't that weird?
	Yeah, and he went out to talk to reporters and he seemed fine.
	But I guess what they did is they put a stent in his leg?
	I thought it was his chest that was bothering him.
	I think they put a bomb in him.
	Exploding boobies.
	He probably does have moobs.
	But anyway, he hopped out to say hi to reporters the next day, so I guess he's doing okay.
	Something interesting out of Iceland, who of course are being squeezed to no end by the British and the Dutch for these loans that...
	The Icelanders refuse to pay.
	Well, it was the commercial banks that messed up, and Britain and the Netherlands paid off the IceSave banks' debts, and now they're saying to the government, hey, you guys, you've got to pay up.
	And they're like, well, hold on, that was a commercial bank.
	No, but the whole country is liable for it.
	But now, Iceland has the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, And they want to make it like a free haven for bloggers and podcasters, and they want to kind of make it the WikiLeaks of the world.
	I like that idea.
	Yeah, you want to hear a little bit of a clip?
	Yeah.
	Let's see, I've got something here from the BBC. I think proposals are very interesting proposals.
	It's very interesting, it's very important that a country thinks hard about the law that protects its freedom of expression.
	I guess I have a couple of comments about the proposed law.
	First of all, I think they are likely to be of more symbolic value than they are practical value.
	Very difficult to enforce outside of Well there you go John.
	We can always live in Iceland.
	We'll be okay there.
	We might be chilly, but we'll be okay.
	It's just not that cold.
	I mean, it gets cold, but it's a nice place.
	And it's actually kind of, you know, they heat the place with all the geysers that they essentially run through.
	They get free energy from geothermal, and then they take the waters from the geysers and they run them into town.
	And so your hot water and your heating, so that's free.
	It's actually kind of interesting.
	Microsoft...
	I'm just moving along.
	One more little anecdote.
	I've talked about this before, but I'm going to repeat myself.
	The one funny thing about it is that they pump that hot...
	You're repeating yourself.
	No.
	The funny thing is they pump that hot water into the shower, so when you take a shower, you stink to high heaven afterwards.
	Well, that kind of removes the whole point of a shower, doesn't it?
	Yeah, those Icelandic people.
	Microsoft, as of yesterday, in Gitmo Nation East, Great Britain, we found the extension pack for Microsoft Flight Simulator, the UAV Predator module.
	There you go.
	Reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition.
	Yes, kids, you too can learn now how to fly a Predator drone.
	There's a future for you in the Army.
	This reminds me of the movie The Last Starfighter, an under-credited classic cult film, where apparently aliens from outer space had planted a couple of video game machines, and any kid who could beat the game would then become the next general of the army because he could fly these missions.
	Yeah, cool.
	And I'm thinking that this is just basically training.
	Yeah, well, that's exactly what it is.
	It's preconditioning.
	Yeah.
	It's getting you ready.
	Oh, absolutely.
	I think there's going to be thousands and thousands of these predators eventually.
	They're going to be flying over everywhere.
	And I still thought it would be funny if at the Super Bowl they flew about 30 predators over.
	In formation.
	Well, they're going to be used over the 2012 Olympics in East London.
	So we already know that, and they'll, hey, you know, it's only a small step to putting one of those lasers on it.
	It shouldn't be that hard.
	And it's not a powerful one, just one to stun you.
	Hey, hey, hey, slave!
	Hey, hey, hey!
	What?
	You're not going to bait?
	We need to get a sound effect for the laser going off.
	I do have a sound effect for the earthquake machine, which leads me right into our next topic.
	Do you smell what Barack is cooking?
	Oops.
	What is that?
	You smell what Barack is cooking.
	As we turn the earthquake machine vector towards the Canary Islands...
	There we go.
	It's a definite rollercoaster.
	Yeah, I know.
	I didn't make it.
	Okay, so some interesting information about the Canary Islands.
	As you know, I rescinded my original prediction of the next earthquake machine target being Iran, and have changed that to the Canary Islands.
	And boy, people have really been doing some research, the producers out there.
	First of all, this article, and it's all in the show notes at NoAgendaShow.com, under the Haiti and Earthquakes section, which will be expanded to the Haiti and Canary Islands earthquake section.
	The eruption of a volcano in the Canary Islands could trigger a mega tsunami that would devastate Atlantic coastlines with waves as high as 330 feet, scientists said on Wednesday.
	So it would actually be pretty damn bad.
	There was actually a small earthquake two weeks ago, 3.8 on the Richter scale, so not really worth mentioning.
	They do have an active volcano.
	And then, here it is, Canary Islands information.
	Okay.
	Did you know, John, Canary Islands is a major sub-transatlantic underwater telecommunications data hub?
	It is an excellent position in relation to the America's continent, Africa and Europe.
	Even Columbus thought so when he sailed from La Gomera towards America.
	Yeah, we knew that.
	It's strategically located.
	The United States already used the Canary Islands as a hub for its deployment to conflict areas.
	It's a hotspot for CIA rendition flights.
	And the reports, and we spoke about this by Repsol, YPF2008, Canary Islands has a major 1,000 million barrel deposit of oil that they know of.
	So it's a really very interesting place and would make a lot of sense to take over.
	Yeah, we need to take it over.
	And it wouldn't take much, you know, just to say, hey, you know...
	We're coming to help you.
	Yeah.
	Oh, and by the way, sourced from the chat room, as if the Everybody Hurt song wasn't bad enough.
	Now, I didn't even know this was happening.
	This is a complete outrage.
	They have remade...
	We are the world for Haiti.
	You sure?
	Or is that a hoax?
	It's not a hoax.
	I have the video here.
	I'm going to bring it up.
	It's introduced by, let's see, I think Jamie Foxx does the introduction.
	25 years ago, we recorded We Are the World to Help Africa.
	This is Lionel Richie.
	Now it's time to help Haiti.
	So please download to donate at world25.org.
	That's what we need, John.
	We need Lionel Richie and Quincy Jones.
	Hey, made possible by Visa.
	Thanks, guys.
	We need Lionel Richie and Quincy Jones to get people to donate for us.
	25 years ago, Quincy Jones gathered an amazing group of artists and musicians to create We Are The World.
	Where did that money go?
	Yeah, exactly.
	How did that work out, that original We Are The World USA for Africa?
	How did that work out?
	By the way, that was 1980...
	I want to say it was 1982?
	83?
	So it was more than 25 years ago, wasn't it?
	I don't know.
	I don't have the date.
	I'll tell you this.
	I was watching the final football...
	I've got to play some of this for you, John.
	Yeah, we've got to listen to some of the song.
	I thought it was just the same song.
	They changed the lyrics.
	Of course.
	Well, I don't know if they changed the lyrics, but it's different people singing it.
	It's a new arrangement.
	And now the money goes to Haiti.
	Which, by the way, it's only for three years that the license is valid.
	Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and Quincy Jones, after three years, they got all the money from the sale of this song.
	It no longer went to Africa.
	That's proof.
	I have that.
	Okay, we see a kid waving on the...
	Oh, he's waving.
	He's so happy.
	Help me now.
	There comes a time.
	I don't even know who this is.
	Lil Wayne.
	What?
	Who's in this thing, Junk?
	Can you Google that?
	Yeah, Pink, Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Nick Jonas, LL Cool J, Robin Thicke, Celine Dion, Akron...
	He's the guy from Dignation!
	Jeff Bridges, Vince Vaughn, Barbra Streisand, Jordan Sparks...
	On and on and on.
	Tony Bennett, Josh Gordon, Snoop Dogg.
	It's a laundry list.
	Oh, auto-tune.
	In the chat room.
	Hey, that's a list of people who should be waterboarded.
	Oh, they mix in Michael Jackson.
	Oh, my God.
	Oh, my God.
	They just mixed in Michael Jackson singing from the original.
	There's a choice we're making.
	We're singing along.
	We're saving our own lives.
	I hate you.
	I hate you.
	This is so wrong.
	We just need cash.
	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
	Just send your cash.
	Shysters show up and take advantage of people's goodwill and generosity.
	So I'm watching the last Inside the NFL, which summarized the football game from last Sunday, the Super Bowl, and they talked about, you know, what it did for the city of New Orleans and whatnot, and they ended up going and talking to people from the Lower Ninth Ward, and they have the photos.
	Nothing's changed.
	The place is a disaster.
	It's still a mess.
	People are there wondering, why is everybody sending their money to Haiti?
	We're still homeless here, and nothing's going on.
	What's the deal?
	Yeah, and you know what?
	I saw a little clip.
	It must have been...
	Maybe it was Insider.
	You've got to help me find this.
	We'll end the show with this.
	Gary Coleman.
	I think he said Insider.
	So Gary Coleman, who of course is a little wacky, ever since he went wacky, he's on there on this panel being interviewed and he's like, I'm sick and tired of hearing about Haiti.
	Yeah.
	And the panel goes, what?
	I'm sick and tired of it.
	I don't want anybody to go to Haiti.
	They need to send it to New Orleans.
	And of course the guy's making total sense and they make him look like a total idiot.
	Like a total crazy fuck.
	There must be...
	Oh, I hope there's a video of it somewhere.
	I can't find it anywhere.
	I just remembered.
	I could not believe it.
	He was going completely nuts.
	And the panel was like, you know, we know we have bipolar disorder.
	I mean, clearly it's...
	You know, there's medication for this, Gary.
	And he's like...
	But he's right.
	He's saying, you know, until we get some money for Katrina relief...
	Actually, we shouldn't say that for the levy breaking because the Army Corps of Engineers didn't secure it enough relief.
	He said, I don't want any money going to Haiti.
	Why are we sending money to them and not helping the people in our own country?
	I think I've got the clip for you.
	Oh, really?
	Send me the link.
	Oh, this will be odd.
	The guy was flipping out.
	Are you Skyping it to me?
	Remember.
	You've got to know.
	I'm not instant here.
	I know.
	It takes a while.
	Oh, it's with Victoria Rocano.
	That's hilarious.
	Was it with Victoria?
	Yeah, isn't that funny?
	No, I don't think she was on the show, John.
	Well, this is a Haiti clip from the interview on the Insider.
	Is it?
	Yeah, but she hasn't been on the Insider.
	No, this has to be old because she hasn't been on that show.
	No, no, no.
	That's old.
	That's old.
	I'll find it.
	I'll play it on Thursday.
	All right.
	Because it was just like, what?
	I can't believe that's going on.
	Yeah, this is old.
	Okay, then just blowing through a couple things, because there is a lot of stuff that we just need to mention, because you won't hear it anywhere.
	EU leaders now are agreeing on a rescue for Greece, and it will be done through the IMF, so please go read Confessions of Greece.
	Yes, please go read Confessions of an Economic Hitman.
	Once the IMF gets its claws into you, which of course is funded by bankers.
	Yeah, countries, sure.
	But it's really the bankers who own that.
	You know, the minute they default, then they own Greece.
	And they'll have a nice couple islands all to themselves.
	So, indeed, go buy Greece.
	We'd asked our...
	Our producer Chris from New Zealand, if you could send some New Zealand news, said there wasn't really a lot, although the internet is being shut down there, kind of the same as in Australia, but Hillary Clinton was supposed to visit and she didn't come and it apparently cost the New Zealand taxpayers $100,000 in planning costs.
	Why does it cost so much just to receive the Secretary of State?
	Doesn't make any sense.
	Apparently.
	Sounds like somebody's overcharging.
	And this was an interesting vote.
	The ministers of the European Parliament voted down a proposal that would give United States authorities access to swift banking transactions between European member states.
	Which, of course, is a good thing, but more important is this was proposed, I guess, by the Starfleet Command, the Council of the European Union, and there were enough parliamentarians who were against it that they voted that down.
	So that's pretty good.
	Yeah, well, you don't think that we already have access to the SWIFT data?
	Yeah, of course we do.
	There's a backdoor.
	Everyone knows that it's made by an Israeli company.
	Yeah.
	Everyone knows how that works.
	The president now announced in the New York Times, which of course is the propaganda arm for the administration.
	Actually, Rahm Emanuel announced it.
	We are reviewing a list of presidential executive orders and directives to get the job done across the whole front of issues, such as cap and trade.
	Yep, they're just going to do it by executive order.
	That's right.
	Welcome to the fascist state.
	Yep, the Environmental Protection Agency.
	Hell with the Congress.
	That's right.
	the EPA will be moving forward with possible regulations on heat-trapping gases blamed for climate change, while a bill to cap such emissions languishes in the Senate.
	So the government doesn't matter, the House of Representatives doesn't matter, Senate doesn't matter, executive order.
	How does this work, John?
	Executive order can just be thrown out there whenever, and I mean, do we need these houses of representatives?
	Apparently not necessarily.
	Now, here's the other thing that's going to happen.
	You're going to end up with all those, you're going to need a permit to sell your house.
	Right.
	We already discussed that on the last show.
	Right.
	But how can it be, I mean, we have a Congress and a Senate for a reason, but apparently the President can just say, you know what, I woke up this morning, I feel like, yeah, like making some laws.
	And he can just do that?
	If you're in a dictatorship, you can.
	No, but seriously, legally, come on.
	No, these executive orders went into play some years ago, and they started getting more and more abused.
	You know, I think Clinton was a huge user of these things, besides letting off a bunch of criminals at the end of his term.
	It's just ridiculous, and there's nothing that anybody can do about it, and just, you know...
	Unless it somehow shows up in the Supreme Court's death.
	But is that constitutional?
	How does that work?
	That doesn't make any sense from a constitutional viewpoint.
	The president, he can do things.
	He can take a crapping out of the bathroom.
	He can take a leak.
	It's not in the Constitution prohibiting it.
	Interesting.
	Well, do you think the Americans will stand for it?
	It's just the way it is, and we're going to be screwed, and this stuff's going to be kept a secret.
	We're going to be talking about it.
	Every once in a while, one of them will crop up, and someone will say, hey, look at this.
	It's just terrible.
	I mean, Clinton abused this thing.
	Bush set it up to make it even more powerful, thanks to Cheney.
	I don't know how much abuse he...
	probably plenty, but...
	Is this because we're under a state of emergency that this can still be done?
	No, no, it's got nothing to do with it.
	This can be done any time.
	All right.
	Executive orders, this is like earmarks.
	They started off as a good idea, and then they started abusing it.
	Oh, look what we can do.
	We can just start giving ourselves money.
	Who's going to care?
	Who's going to notice?
	So now the president decides executive orders.
	He can do anything he wants.
	I think Clinton did some sort of a huge pile of money for people to make high fructose corn syrup.
	I think that's part of an executive order for free money.
	Here, take all this money and go build a refinery.
	Well, okay, that makes total sense.
	As we've been talking about the artificial...
	Sugar crisis.
	And, of course, we asked our producers to do some research.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	It's real simple.
	So there's a couple of all-natural, quote, sweeteners that are on the list.
	There's a Susta that is now being sold.
	There's a couple of new sweeteners being...
	And, of course, this will just go through executive order now.
	It'll just be approved.
	The EPA will have all the power.
	Allatame.
	It's pending FDA approval.
	Cyclamate.
	And of course, Steviocide, which is not Stevia, but it's a hybridized version of Stevia.
	And then, this is the best, and it's probably, if you look at Occam's razor, this is probably the answer why we are in a synthetic sugar crisis, i.e.
	it's not real.
	Aspartame is being rebranded And now marketed as a natural sweetener under the name Amnio Sweet.
	How's it natural?
	Just because they say it is.
	Yep.
	There you go.
	Ajinomoto, maker of aspartame, which hopes to pull the wool over the eyes of the public with its rebranded version of aspartame called Amnio-Sweet.
	All natural.
	Well, you can call it all natural as long as it comes from the universe around us.
	Yeah, everything's natural from that perspective.
	Yeah, Coke is natural.
	Synthetic heroin.
	Methadone.
	Everything is natural.
	Yeah, it's not from outer space.
	Not that we know of.
	Although, that's something I will look into.
	I like that idea.
	Although, you can make the argument that stuff from outer space is natural.
	It exists in the universe.
	So that's probably what's going to happen.
	They're going to rebrand it.
	And I think the whole idea of the Stevia stuff, which will just taste like crap, and then boom, out comes Amnio Sweet.
	It's all natural and good for you.
	I think that they're going to find a new moniker.
	This is my prediction for today.
	And then we can sign off.
	I think we're done.
	Yes, we are.
	My prediction will be they're going to rebrand high fructose corn syrup.
	Really?
	They'll call it something else.
	Huh.
	Well, maybe we can help them come up with a good name.
	They need a good brand.
	Yeah.
	I'm sure we can help him.
	Something that'll be funny.
	Makes you fat a lot.
	Sweet and fat a lot.
	Yeah, that's it.
	Alright, well, sorry for the interruptions.
	I have to say that these interruptions and the breaking of the stream came at very interesting moments in this program.
	I think not!
	When we were talking about heroin poppies, and when we were talking about the outrage that is executive orders bypassing two houses of government, which are kind of the way it's supposed to work, the stream goes.
	And I mean, like, I was disconnected here.
	Like, the plug was physically pulled.
	So, you tell me what's going on.
	Well, you know, the helicopters can land right on the roof here, so...
	As long as we record it, then it'll be fine.
	If I'm going down, I want it to be in flames.
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