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March 25, 2010 - No Agenda
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185: VATBS vs AQAP
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Oh no, I'm sorry, it's not a Lindsay Lohan promo, John.
Sorry.
Adam Curry.
John C. Dvorak.
It's March 25th, 2010.
Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 185.
This is no agenda.
Ridaling the War of the Roses while leading a life of fighting crime.
From the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center in Gitmo Nation West in the People's Republic of Southern California, where there is no sunshine.
In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
And from soggy northern Silicon Valley, where it just rained a minute ago, I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill!
In the morning!
In the morning to you, my friend.
In the morning.
Ah, you know, because of stuff I was doing earlier this morning, I didn't have time to pull this awesome clip from, you know, Joel Spolsky?
Joel on software?
Yeah.
Yeah, he, on this podcast, he made this awesome reference to us.
Oh, that's good to know.
Yeah, clearly he's a listener, but I just didn't have time to pull the clip.
But it was really cool.
You know, he was doing like the whole, was it the dog debate?
You're going to give him an associate public relations?
Yeah, he should get one, actually, because, you know what, I'll pull the clip on Sunday and then we'll make a decision then.
But it's just nice to know that he's listening.
That's kind of cool.
I want to mention something to people since I'm sure everyone will run into this situation.
Have you booted Firefox recently?
Yeah, booted, rebooted.
I got another update.
I guess you're going to complain about that.
Yeah, well, they forced an update on everybody.
I hate it when they do that.
3.6.2, and with it, they've added this new feature called Personas.
Oh, yeah, no, I got that.
I made the mistake of actually installing one.
Yeah.
And uninstalled expeditiously.
Yeah.
Well, the problem is, of course, it kind of screws up the tabs because many of these things bleed through the...
Yeah, you can't see what...
That's exactly why it uninstalled.
It's like, I can't see what...
I can't even see the little X mark to get rid of it.
Well, anyway, so the thing that kind of got me is that I booted a different computer, so they came up with these suggested personas.
And for anyone who hasn't seen this, these are just essentially designs, little artwork that gets splashed across the top.
But I noticed it was different, so I clicked on it, and I didn't realize they have 2,100 of these things.
Yeah.
And on the first page of them, though, I find it interesting because obviously somebody has to make a decision on where these things go.
So why is Bob Marley, even though he's deceased, getting free publicity on page one of the Persona page?
I'm just wondering.
They've got a bunch of reggae...
Well, clearly it's all part of the upcoming referendum on marijuana, John.
It's pro-smoke.
It could be.
That's a good one, then.
Well, good.
Carry on.
I do want to give a little credit, and I don't have this person's name, but I have the link in the show notes on Zazzle.com.
GP1477 is his username there.
And he has made a number of No Agenda coffee mugs.
Which actually, let me send you the link, because, and the reason I bring this up is two-fold.
One, it's, you know, obviously it's another effort to promote the show, which we always appreciate.
But also, well, first of all, they're funny.
So we've got, oh yeah, Mickey just says appropriately, have we Twittered?
That the show is starting?
No, I haven't.
Hold on.
Oh, this is interesting.
I like the coffee cup that says, ask me about harp.
That's a good one.
So, by the way, I wanted to mention the...
Well, just before I finish, I just want everyone to know that this is a very, in that regard, a very open source program.
We feel it's a very bad idea for us to get into the business of doing T-shirts and coffee mugs and paraphernalia and merchandise.
And we encourage everybody to go ahead and promote No Agenda, sell products, sell iPhone apps, Android apps, Blackberry apps.
Please think about us when you make some money.
Give us a hit.
We're not even telling you how much.
Just give us some of that cash that you make, if you make any.
Give us a taste.
Give us a little taste.
Give us some goodies.
But that's really important because I think that is a part of our model for the future.
This is the mob's model, by the way.
True.
True. True. True.
And your point is...
It's a good model.
It works.
Yeah, it's fantastic.
Speaking of mob, maybe we should just get this out of the way right away.
How cool is our vice president?
Well, he has mobsters tourettes.
You know, all these guys talk like that.
Of course, if you don't know by now, I think it's been played everywhere on every news channel where the president is introduced by the vice president to basically announce the fact that the health care bill is passed.
And then Joe hugs him and says, this is a big fucking deal.
Yeah, everyone's been...
You can just hear them all talking like that, right?
I mean, I visualize this.
Rahm Emanuel and Joe Biden.
Hey, what the fuck?
Hey, man, get these fuckers out of there.
It's just, they're mobsters.
Well, Emanuel definitely has the, apparently, the dirtiest mouth in Washington.
He doesn't deny it.
No, but how, you know, anyway, it doesn't matter.
Tony Soprano is a vice president.
Anyway, it doesn't matter.
I want to go back to that.
I want to go back to this personas thing.
Oh, sorry.
If you go onto the personas page and you just mouse over anything, it changes it just temporarily at the top.
We need a no agenda.
Oh, persona, yes.
Persona that people can use.
Very good.
So either Paul T or Randy or any of these artists or anybody can dream.
First, we have to figure out how to make it so they don't cover up the tabs.
Yeah, the compatibility is obviously all that needs to be learned, and that's just artwork.
We also need more stickers, people putting stickers up.
We do have some good stickers, guys.
And don't forget to change your Wi-Fi name, your SSID, to noagendastream.com.
Or noagendashow.com.
I thought that's what we picked.
It could be.
Either one is fine.
And I have gotten a couple of reports from people who are saying, you know, I found one.
Now, the other thing is you want the password to be generated, because, you know, password generation, that little algorithm, it was WEP, the wimpiest of the password systems.
If you have it as a guest channel on your router, you want the password to be derived from in the morning, all one word, and it will generate a code that should...
Be the same from router to router because there's a standards body that made that code generator a standardized thing.
So anytime you type in in the morning, you should get the same code.
It gives you four options.
Obviously, choose the first one.
It's EC, something or other.
I don't have it in front of me.
Yeah, and obviously, don't do this on your main access, but as John pointed out on the last show, on most modern routers, on the 802.11n routers, you can have a guest password where they can...
yes and do it a couple of you want to get a couple of things out of the way the executive producers today yes uh todd simons s-y-m-m-o-n-s from eight mile plains queensland i believe he has He's a regular, he's a knight as a matter of fact.
Yes.
So he gave us $275.50.
And associate executive producer is Douglas Lang, 24680.
He's in Santa Cruz.
And let me see if he had a comment here.
He's calling himself out as a douchebag.
Oh, no.
He's looking for a new gig and thought that an executive producer title would shake up my mojo.
You know what?
It will not only shake up your mojo, but it is going to get you all kinds of benefits in life.
Because when you can put on your resume that you are an executive or an associate executive producer of a media property that is not only known the world over, but is also highlighted and featured on Joel Spolsky's podcast, then you know that only good things can come of that.
Yeah.
No doubt about it.
Was that it?
Those are our two producers for this show?
Yeah, that's it.
Okay, well, you both know that you can now go out and apply our very simple formula, which is this.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
And of course, we highly appreciate the support.
And we'll be talking about more people who are supporting the show later on as we talk about the people who support our show later on in the show.
So, So what's up for today?
There's way too much material for this show from today.
I'm very annoyed by it.
I have 15 clips that we're obviously not going to get to.
No, you have 16 clips.
16, right.
There was an extra one, a bonus.
Well, there's a couple things.
We could start just to ease into it with the most emailed article of the week.
Which, without a doubt, would have to be the naked body scanner incident in the United Kingdom.
So for those of you who don't know exactly what happened...
And I find this whole story to be very sketchy.
Apparently, a security colleague...
Zapped his female colleague when she accidentally, which is the thing that sounds kind of sketchy to me.
Yeah, that's the fishy part.
Yeah, accidentally walked through this booth.
Yeah, that has a revolving door that locks you in.
It's like, this is nothing accidental, I don't think.
But if it is, then it just proves you don't really have to stand like an incarcerated felon with your hands above your head on the two yellow footprints.
And then he got a snapshot of her, and I guess he said something to the effect of, nice rack.
And of course everyone's falling over this, because that means that obviously you can see the nice rack in these naked body scanners.
And I'm not quite sure what to make of it.
I don't like the fact that this is an accidental thing.
It just doesn't make sense to me.
You don't just accidentally walk into it.
Oh, like I couldn't walk around it.
I couldn't go any other direction.
I had to get to the other side and had to accidentally walk through it.
Yeah, no, the whole thing is sketchy.
I think this is maybe even...
I don't know.
Well, I did get some interesting inside information from...
I have a couple of friends who work at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam.
And I remember I had discussed on the show that I flew from Amsterdam to Los Angeles and that this is the airport that allowed the crotch bomber to get on board.
Right, and you mentioned there's no...
Yeah, there was no naked body scanner.
There was no naked body scanner.
No, there were two regular metal detectors, and I did get a pat down, although I did not receive any happy ending in the crotch there, so they didn't check to see if I was a potential copycat crotcher.
The reason why those have not been installed yet, check this out, is they have to upgrade their network.
Of course, I have sysadmin friends everywhere.
That's what we cater to.
Well, yeah, they're the ones that are truly going to save the world at the end of the day.
And he says, no, the network could not handle the amount of data because the way it works is they take a picture of you and then they ship that data over to the room where they actually look at you.
And, of course, he will not tell me if they store it or not.
He actually doesn't.
He says he doesn't know if they store that photograph.
But the fact that the network can't handle it tells me that these are very high-resolution pictures.
Very high-resolution.
So that just makes you wonder.
Huh.
Yeah, they would have...
Well, see, they deny that, but it's not as though they're running you through that thing like there's no tomorrow.
No, I mean...
Okay, hold your hands up, and then they make, you know, it takes like a minute, and you're stuck in there, and then you leave.
And, I mean, how much data could they be making?
I mean, it's got to be hundreds of megabytes for it to be that slow.
Either that or just a poor algorithm.
Possible.
Possible.
I just thought that was interesting.
Or the third option, by the way, that could be BS and maybe the network's got nothing to do with it.
There's just something else wrong with them.
No, he wouldn't.
I think that's true.
That could be the official line that he picked up, but it may not be the real reason.
He also mentioned that when you leave the airport, you definitely would like to take those bag tags off because he says that most airports now do embed RFID in them.
Oh, really?
Yes, People Airport certainly does.
Now, that does make some sense, obviously, so that they keep track of your bags as they're going through all the different...
Bag smashers.
Hey, that's Dvorak's.
Let's stomp on it for a moment.
They need to know which one to stomp on.
But you definitely might want to take it off.
I've got this story from Roger McGuinn, who apparently is still irked about this.
He goes around, he's a guitar player, most people know him, and he apparently flew into London or one of these places, and he has one of his most valuable guitars in a metal case.
He opens it up, the guitar is smashed to bits.
And they didn't even reimburse him for it, did they?
No.
Bastards.
They say he must have packed it that way.
Yeah.
Hey, man, you don't know how to pack your guitar in a metal case.
Oh, well, forget about it.
So I'm presuming the one thing you might want to talk about is the passing of the health care bill.
I think a lot of our audience definitely wants to hear our take on it.
Hold on a second.
So I'm like, I just clicked on it to get the list of the clips with this new 3.6, whatever the heck it is, browser.
And now I get all kinds of weird little rollover things that just popped up and then disappear.
Like some...
I don't know.
Never mind.
I don't want to get into it.
Shall I play a little clip?
Because, you know, and this will lead into something that maybe we can talk about later.
But the president actually announced the passing of the health care bill twice.
Did you know that?
No.
There were two celebrations.
Yeah.
That's because there were two health care bills.
And to Obamas, this was the other guy.
It might have happened simultaneously, for all we know.
No, he did another celebration, as they call it.
And I picked this up from Associated Press, because there's a meme that I've been following, and this meme showed up, and it said that he...
Later at a second celebration, Obama said, dot, dot, dot.
And I was like, second celebration?
What's that?
And of course, handy c-span.org's television archives helped me find it.
He was at the Department of the Interior, and it's a relatively short clip, about 45 seconds.
Joe Biden introduced him, and I just want you to hear the meme, and I think I know why this is cropping up and confusing.
Well, anyway, just listen to the clip for a second.
So here's the second celebration, the one you did not see on television.
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama.
I could have cut the applause out, but I felt it was important to set the stage.
Fine.
We won't do this twice.
Because there's so many people we have to thank.
And as I look around the room, we've got leaders of labor who helped to make this happen.
We've got ordinary folks who knocked on doors and made phone calls at the last minute to get this thing over the top.
My extraordinary members of my cabinet, we've still got some additional members of Congress who helped lead the charge on this.
My staff, who I see are still here.
At any given moment, I thought they were going to quit, but they just stuck it out with me.
So the main purpose here is to say thank you.
And thank you on behalf of the American people.
After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise.
It is the law of the land.
Thank you.
It is the law of the land.
Well, there you have it.
And I've been watching this one, the law of the land.
Oh, you and the law of the land thing.
Well, I think I know what it is.
And I put a couple of links in the show notes, noagendashow.com, and you can see how often this law of the land meme is being propagated.
By the way, only in this administration.
I believe that I can almost visualize the talking points being handed out.
Because this is such an issue regarding the Constitution, whenever there is a law passed, That is deemed possibly unconstitutional or can be, you know, they have to set this in people's minds saying this is now basically a constitutional move.
The law of the land, as the founders described the constitution, they called it the supreme law of the land.
And I went back and I have all the links to show this.
The Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
And I believe that this constant, incessant use of law of the land is to embed into people's minds that this is now a constitutional move.
Your right to health care is the law of the land.
Timothy Geithner does the same thing when he talks about the Federal Reserve Act.
It's the law of the land, like it's a constitutional move.
Yeah, I think you're onto something with this thing.
So just keep your eye on it.
Yeah, no, I mean, we noticed it before we pointed it out, like about a month ago when we first started seeing it crop up.
And we did a little research, and then I kind of haven't paid attention because they are sneaking it by you.
Well, it's programming, you know?
It's real programming.
Yeah, I know.
This is what we do on this show, and I hope people pay attention to it because we're finding this stuff constantly.
I mean, it's essentially what we try to, you know, it's just an awareness thing, and the law of the land thing has slipped by me a number of times.
While we're on the topic, there's a couple of interesting observations that were made by Charles Krauthimer.
He's on Fox?
Is that Chuck?
The Chuck guy?
Chuck guy, yeah.
He's on Fox now.
What's wrong with his face?
Well, he has...
I don't know what...
He's disabled.
He's in a wheelchair.
Oh, okay.
He's got some...
I forgot what it is that he has, but he's been that way for a long time.
And he...
I've always thought that as an essayist, he is one of the really great logicians and essayists that we've seen for decades.
He definitely seems to be very well informed.
I do enjoy listening to him.
He seems to be...
Very well connected, so he has a lot of it.
But he does it.
He looks for the stuff that we look for, which is kind of behind the scenes, what might be going on.
I want to play a couple clips that are kind of interesting, especially this one, which is Coming Tax, you see, K. To reduce the deficit, we now have $8 trillion in debt.
CBO has said that even without healthcare, we're going to add another $9 trillion in a decade.
You add in healthcare, it's another $2.5 trillion.
He knows that if you don't do anything about it, we're going over a cliff.
So he's appointed a commission.
It reports after the election.
Remember, after the election.
And I predict that the major recommendation is going to be a national sales tax.
There's no other way to produce the revenue they're going to need.
It's a river of revenue.
The Europeans have it.
We are going to have it.
A river of revenue.
A river of revenue.
Yeah, River of Revenue.
He brought this up early in this conversation.
This is off of O'Reilly.
And he brought up earlier that there's...
And we've talked about this, I think, about a year ago, about the potential for a value-added tax in this country.
And I don't know what you said or how we concluded, but...
According to him, it says there's no other way of getting the river of revenue, which is what it would be.
So, in other words, like, for example, in California, where we have a 10% personal income tax, and locally we have a 10% sales tax, plus there's taxes on gasoline and a million other things.
I mean, you can't do anything.
You buy a can of water, and you have to pay a nickel for the can, just for the can, just for the can, just for access to the can, because of the bottle bill that some idiots I was just going to say,
a value-added tax, which I have dealt with for most of my life, the Netherlands has it, Belgium has it, the United Kingdom has it, so it's known as VAT, or in Gitmo Nation Lowlands, BTW. It's actually 19%, I believe it's still 19% in the Netherlands, 21%, almost a quarter in Belgium.
And what's interesting about a value-added tax is it gets added every step of the way in the process.
So if you buy a car, every piece of that car is sold with a value-added tax to the next person.
Now, there are certain cases where businesses can deduct that, but the money is still flowing because you don't get to just not pay it.
You have to pay it, and then you can get a refund of that later.
But every product, everything you do, it's not just the 19 or 20% that's added on.
It's the aggregate of all of those value-added tax additions all the way down the line until the final product is in your hands.
Yeah.
So it's huge.
What would you pay for a...
What would you pay for a car?
Oh, well, a car might not be the best example because they have very specific extra taxes in Europe for gas guzzlers.
They have extra gas guzzler tax.
But just think of a pie.
You know, you buy the pie, but the apples were purchased with a value-added tax.
Everything is going to be much more expensive.
Everything.
Everything.
Yeah, well they're going to tax the crap out of us in every way they can.
There's a thing Eric just pointed out, which is called www.streamlinedsalestax.org, which is another thing.
I mean, we are going to be, I would say that, although already most people that calculate these things say that we're paying about 55% taxes on everything we do, So this could be up to, because we're getting, you know, the value-added tax in England, they don't also have a state tax and a local tax as much as we do.
No, they do.
They have council taxes.
Are they as much as ours?
Is it 10%?
Well, it's not over income.
It's for services, and it could easily be a couple thousand a year.
Just if you're living in a certain area, you're going to pay council taxes.
Was that any different than property tax?
You have to pay it even if you're renting.
You have to pay council taxes.
But most people believe that we like to think that the Europeans are taxed to death.
Most people that look at the numbers say, we are one of the highest taxed countries.
Let me tell you how it feels.
When I go over to England, everything is outrageously expensive.
Of course, I'm taking the conversion of the dollar to pound into account.
But when I'm in the Netherlands, even though the euro is still around 135, I believe, to the dollar, it still feels cheaper than the United States.
Except for things like gasoline, which is outrageous.
It's like three times as much.
Here, I'm like, yay!
Fill up that Range Rover!
Yeah!
Let's put it on sport mode!
Yeah!
Who cares?
Let's gas guzzle!
I love it!
But that kind of stuff is unaffordable.
But, on the other hand, you have to go through so many hoops.
And some things are so incredibly expensive.
But still, all in all, I would say cost of living feels...
Less expensive in Gitmo Nation lowlands.
A few years ago I went to England when the pound was really out there and it was like I had the opportunity to just go to Holland and stay there.
I actually scooted out of England prematurely because I was almost feeling the money.
It pulled from me while I was standing.
And you just sense how expensive it can be when the pound is now $1.45, which might help a little, is extremely expensive.
And I never felt that I was getting ripped off constantly when I was in Holland.
I mean, you know, it's like, you know, when you buy a hot dog on the street or stuff like that, I mean, you can really see the difference when the hot dog is six bucks versus a couple, you know, a buck and a half or whatever.
Yeah, on the other hand, of course, the food you actually buy in Holland is cardboard stuck together with the glue.
It's not actual food.
I mean, I don't know what they sell there at the Albany.
No, I'm just telling you, I mean, even the fruit is like, this is not real.
You know, this is fake.
It all tastes fake.
I don't know what's going on, but nasty stuff.
Well, anyway, so value-added tax is coming, and it's going to go the way all these...
Once it gets entrenched, you can't get rid of it, so that's going to be a problem.
And it'll start off low, like, ah, it's only going to be 3%, 3.6%.
It's only pennies!
It's just pennies!
Right.
And then every year it'll crank up and crank up, and before you know it, it'll be what it is in Belgium, which is 20%, which will be on top of the 10% here.
21.
21%.
21%.
It'll be on top of the 10% we're already paying in California, and they'll probably jack that up, too, because...
You know, people aren't buying as much because people won't buy as much when they have to pay this kind of taxes.
And because they're not paying, you know, buying as much, they're not collecting as much taxes.
So let's jack the taxes up even more.
So we'll be, you know, to buy a $1 product is going to cost us probably about $1.75.
So, um...
In California, in San Francisco, and you and I talked about this on the show previously, there's a mandate, I guess a city-wide mandate, that restaurants provide health care for their workers.
And for at least a year that we've been talking about it, you will see on your bill, many restaurants do this, it's called the health tax tax.
And they actually add, I think, 4% to your bill.
And sometimes they'll put a little smiley face saying, sorry, we're being forced to do this.
We're being forced to provide health care.
That apparently is not going to go away even, I've heard.
That they're going to continue to charge that.
It's gotten so bad in California with taxes.
I'll give you two examples.
One, I rented a car.
The advertised price is $192 a week.
By the time you're done, and I've put the gas in, it's $400.
And yeah, there's some of that stupid insurance that you almost can't get out of, but the taxes, you've got tourist tax and state tax, and there's like 18, 19% of tax on there already.
And the other thing, and I hate to say it, but this is the way, I can't do it anymore.
When I leave a tip in a restaurant, I leave the tip over the amount before taxes.
Screw it.
I'm not going to do it over the entire amount because there's 20% extra tax money on that bill.
And I'm a big tipper.
But I'm doing it over the amount before taxes.
I'm not doing it over the whole amount anymore.
I just can't.
It's driving me nuts.
So that's how it's going to hurt the economy too.
Yeah.
No, there's a...
Taxes have never helped anybody's economy.
All it's good for is to keep a welfare state alive.
But, uh, we're talking about that sort of thing.
I have a clip here that's kind of interesting.
Um, let me go back to my clip list.
The Cal cost cutting.
This is a, this is what people should always be looking out for.
This is a, we'll deconstruct this a little bit.
This is a clip I heard on, it was really abhorrent, and I love the word apparently.
Uh, News item that was on a local news channel about the University of California educational system and what they're going to have to change.
And it was the whole story developed out of the idea that Cal may let people graduate with a bachelor's degree in three years.
I don't know.
I mean, you could always graduate in two or three years if you wanted to just crank up your credits.
So I don't see how this is new.
But just play this clip and listen to the subtext.
What would you say to a three-year bachelor degree?
It's an idea the UC system is considering to cut costs.
Special Commission is looking at several proposals, including charging extra for popular campuses, including Cal and UCLA, offering more online classes and part-time programs, establishing financial aid eligibility for students who are illegal immigrants, And boosting enrollment of out-of-state students from 5% to 10% because they pay a lot more in tuition.
All right.
Now, you heard it, right?
Yeah, I did.
Where, anywhere in that story is cost-cutting.
Nowhere.
There was no cost-cutting.
They used the term, Roe Cal is going to do cost-cutting.
This is a total piece of propaganda.
There's no cost-cutting.
They're going to increase revenues.
There's not one mention of cost-cutting, but yet the story was about cost-cutting.
In fact, we're going to ram more students through because we're pumping them out the door.
We're pooping them out.
Yeah, we're going to have more foreign students because they pay more money, and we're going to also find ways for illegal aliens.
I don't get that, to get through the system.
Cal years ago gave up on actually trying to educate the students of the state of California because they're rascals.
They would learn a few things, and then they'd start protesting.
So they'd rather have people from overseas that are worried about getting deported.
Or illegal aliens that would be worried about getting turned in.
But this is a classic example of the news media.
I don't know how they bought this story as cost-cutting.
And I found the whole thing to be just an annoying story.
Well, you know what?
They probably literally bought the story.
It was probably one of those electronic press kit stories that is ready to go.
And they subscribe to the service.
And they're like, oh, here's some news.
We don't have to do anything.
Let's just play this.
They probably actually bought it.
Well, the best example of that this week, and I have a clip of this.
This will be my last clip for a while.
I first saw this story on the network news.
I saw it on CBS, and I saw the story on, I think it was NBC. Then I started seeing the story, exactly the same story.
Excuse me, with the exact same clips on the local news, and I saw it on a different local, exactly the same.
And this is the clip, which is canned false flag bullcrap in Congress clip.
Oh, okay.
I saw this happen yesterday as well.
Here it comes.
Oh, the day you did this, Mr.
Stupac.
Death threats from pro-life callers started pouring into the office of Michigan's Bart Stupac as soon as the anti-abortion rights Democrat announced he'd vote yes.
I hope you die.
There are millions of people across the country who wish you ill.
You are talented punk, stupid.
That's what you are.
You and your family are skull.
Democrat Louise Slaughter received one call threatening to, quote, kill the children of the members who voted yes.
Her headquarters in Niagara Falls, New York, is one of four Democratic offices around the country that have been vandalized.
Among them, the Tucson, Arizona headquarters for Congressman Gabrielle Giffords, Where windows were smashed.
We've got to take a time out, folks.
We've gone too far in certain areas, and this should not be tolerated.
Democrats accuse their GOP colleagues of inciting such acts with inflammatory rhetoric, like Texas Republican Randy Nogabauer's outburst on the House floor Sunday night, shouting baby killers when Congressman Stupak was speaking.
the vast majority of the American people.
The funny thing was about this story, they couldn't even get a good sound bite from the baby killers' shout out, and they played this shhh, couldn't hear anything.
But the point is they...
Every one of these news outlets had the exact same package.
And the same clips.
The exact same sound bites.
Yeah, I saw this on...
What's the guy's name?
The Ed Show or whatever.
I heard the same things.
It was all over the place.
Yeah, and it was the exact...
It wasn't like some news guy said, well, let me try to find some other stuff out.
No, it was the exact same package.
Who produced this thing?
Yeah, that's the big question.
Was it the White House?
That's the big question.
And you know what gets me?
And I don't think we should dwell on this too long, because at the end of the day, look, our system is our democratically elected representatives voted for this, and now we've got to live with it.
So, you know, we'll keep our eye on it and we'll see what happens.
But what's interesting to me...
Is of all these news organizations who are apparently running these pre-packaged soundbites and stories, which really have nothing to do with...
You know, look, it passed, okay?
So what I'm looking for, and I scanned all the channels all weekend long for the past two days.
I'm also looking...
There were 32 million Americans who apparently could not get coverage and now can get coverage.
There were hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of children, specifically I hear children, with pre-existing conditions who could not get health care.
Why am I not seeing a single one of 8% of the population in America being interviewed on television?
Why do I not see a single person saying,''Hey, I'm so happy.
This is awesome.
I'm getting health care.'' Why have they not been able to present one person to me?
One!
Of the 32 million that is being reported.
Canada News, go down, walk, you should be able to bump into someone.
You should just be able to hold your microphone in the air and say, are you getting healthcare now?
Yeah, and I'm really happy about it.
Why am I not seeing these 32 million people anywhere?
That, to me, is weird.
Yeah, I know.
I don't know what the endgame is here with this.
Oh, I do.
Okay, tell us.
Here's the endgame.
This is a piece of audio from Congressman John Dingell, some might say Dingell, who is Congressman for Michigan.
Listen very carefully to what he says in this clip.
You'll be reasonably astounded.
Hold on a second for some reason.
Oh, here it comes.
Are we ready to let 72,000 more people die in our country if 18,000 died or whatever the number is, the figure that anyone comes up with per year because of a lack of health insurance or health care when this bill doesn't basically take effect until 2014?
We're not ready to be doing it, but let me remind you, this has been going on for years.
We are bringing it to a halt.
The harsh fact of the matter is, when you're going to pass legislation that will cover 300 American people in different ways, it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.
There you go.
It takes a long time to put the necessary legislative steps together to control the people.
We've got to control them people.
Hold on a second.
And, you know, that definitely calls for...
Well, if we're going to go in that direction with this discussion, and by the way, I want to tell people out there, we're going to try to keep the show shorter.
I didn't do it.
You know what my wife said to me about the show being over two hours?
No.
She said she wants to listen to a show.
She doesn't want it to be a job.
A job listening to the show?
Yeah, it's a job.
The thing is, John, then we need to go to three shows a week so we can keep them shorter.
I mean, I don't see how you can do it.
We can keep them shorter by keeping them shorter.
Let's get off of healthcare.
Let's do something else.
No, but I want to go back to this control thing.
You have to control the people.
Because I have a clip, and when I first listened to it, I realized that the initial layer, when you listen to this clip, and I'm not going to play the whole thing because it's actually pretty long, it's a news item, about a guy named Bing Li, who is apparently Chinese, doesn't speak any English, he's got Alzheimer's and dementia, and apparently he keeps leaving the hospital or the healthcare or the nursing home or something and roams around, and they've got to track him down and bring him back.
And he's also on medication.
This story is just the weirdest story, but the thing that you immediately, the thing that you take away from it or that you're supposed to take away from it, I believe, is the way they present this story as a piece of propaganda is the amount of money that goes into tracking this guy down.
Play Bing Lee.
A man with Alzheimer's and dementia has disappeared for the third time in San Francisco, and there is quite a bit of manpower dedicated to finding him.
Sheriff's deputies from three counties, a CHP helicopter, police officers on horses and motorcycles have been searching for Bingley.
Uh, yeah.
Police on horses?
Yeah, everybody.
This old Chinese guy's roaming around.
He's like almost 90.
Meanwhile, we've got 100,000 homeless people just walking backwards, completely zonked out, not knowing what they're doing.
And what, the police horses are just stepping over him?
I mean, what is up with that?
Who is this Bing Lee guy?
Well, this is a story, but I was real, I tried to take this story apart, figuring out, you know, because the first thing I got, I was going to run this thing, thinking, look at all the money they're spending on choppers and all this stuff over this one guy, you know, will probably show up somehow.
And I realized this is not about that.
This is a story to get, to actually get you outraged about the expense that Bing Lee is creating.
And so what do we do to cut, to keep that expense from not happening?
RFID. Yeah, of course.
RFID. That's how they're going to track if you're taking your meds.
I mean, it's all about RFID. This is huge.
Didn't you have a whole page of links somewhere that...
Yeah, it's on the blog.
Yeah, some hacker has a page of links.
Yeah, I'll send you the link to the link so you can post it on this week's show notes.
But yeah, all those things you can do with RFID. And then somebody sent us some email showing one of the companies that actually produces the little RFID tabs that they want you to put in your kids.
Yeah.
Well, Verizon is already promoting this whole idea.
You've probably seen the commercial where the mom is taking her daughter to the mall and it's her first time that she's going to be roaming the mall by herself with her friends.
But you're really at ease and you feel good because you can track your kid.
And this little Verizon map appears above the kid's head.
You know, it's like this is totally being put into the psyche.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And news stories like this, I should remind people, are actually part of a marketing campaign.
I mean, the way marketing really works is, first of all, you've got to create a demand and you have to have an attitude to really do marketing well.
So you just sell the bejeebers out of something.
You've got to set the stage first.
And that's what, you know, it's different than advertising and other forms of selling.
But marketing is setting the stage.
And you get the stage beautifully set up everywhere.
Can you roll these products when there's going to be very little resistance to them?
And where is our media in all of this?
They're part of it.
They're part of the scam.
In a way, I was very proud of Channel 4 in Gitmo Nation East earlier this week, although you have to...
The newspapers in the UK, I think that they really can...
They operate pretty independently.
I know there's all kinds of stuff being put in, but there's real good gems being published there, and they have a lot of newspapers, and people are very loyal to them.
But Channel 4 did an expose, which I don't think you could even do in the United States because you would go to jail for illegally videotaping.
So Channel 4 set up a fake company This company is basically looking for lobbyists or access to the government to get government funding for certain things.
So they set it up really quite well.
They set the scam up perfectly.
And they took a hidden camera into a number of ex-ministers of Parliament, even some people from the House of Lords, and they basically were sitting down saying, hey, can you get us access?
They contacted 20 people.
I think 19 responded, and they set up appointments with 10, including Stephen Byers, Patricia Hewitt, Jeff Hoon.
These are all people who are cabinet ministers or former cabinet ministers, and they had them all sitting there literally sitting Like, well, you know, for like three or somewhere between three or five thousand pounds a day, I can get you access.
Yeah, you know, hey, look, I got David Cameron right into the conservative party.
There's no problem with the conservatives.
I can get you access.
Just pay me three to five thousand dollars a day.
It's unbelievable.
Now, a lot of these people have been kicked out.
They've been, yeah, they've been forced to resign.
The ones that were caught.
The ones that were caught, yeah.
But, you know, it's like Stephen Byers saying, I'm a bit like a cab for hire, you know, like he's a taxi cab.
But they're all, it's just, when you see this video and the show is called, it's Dispatches, Thank you very much to our producers who, of course, you can only access this online if you're in the United Kingdom.
I sent out one tweet.
Three minutes later, I had a full copy, so I can't obviously link to that in the show notes.
Because of copyright.
But if you Google it, you can find it.
You have to see this.
It is an astounding bit of journalistic work, but also shows you how it really works.
You know, this is the kind of expose we need in this country.
Because this is exactly what's happening.
Only it's probably a lot more above board.
You know, no one's even hiding the fact that they're doing it.
It's just never reported on.
Yeah, well...
Yeah, another cheery show here on the no agenda front.
No, I'm very cheery because at least people get to hear it.
People get to be exposed to it.
Think about it.
If you didn't have this show, you'd never even hear about it.
No, that's unfortunately true.
It's kind of sick.
What else we got?
Well...
Here's a couple things I wanted to talk about this week.
By the way, it looks like they're cranking up the Yemen situation.
They're trying to get the public to buy into a new front.
Of course, it's beginning.
They're setting this one up to look like a Vietnam War thing where we only have advisors.
And apparently now all of a sudden we have a new term, AQAP. The AQAPs.
What's that?
What's AQAP? What is that?
AQAP. Oh, AQAP. They keep saying it.
And it's Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula.
Oh, my God.
I hadn't heard this one.
Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula.
Yeah, they're called AQAPs.
And what they mean by that is the guys in Yemen, you know, we've been primed for this Yemenese thing by the crotch bomber, who couldn't, who, of course, we would have never been primed for it if it wasn't for the fact that the crotch bomber failed.
And, uh...
Even though, if we look back, you know, the USS Cole was essentially, you know, killed a bunch of sailors during the Clinton administration, and that was off of Yemen.
And during that period, there was a lot of chit-chat about Yemen being a stronghold.
In fact, I think Ben Laden himself is actually born in Yemen, and apparently stays there a lot.
He's like a, you know...
He's probably there now, for all we know.
No, no, he's dead.
We're leading up to some sort of weirdness about Yemen, and here's a...
I actually took a clip just to show you how they're going to try to dramatize it.
They took a...
And this is from PBS, our fabulous...
Oh, our national treasure!
Our national treasure, PBS, is on the NewsHour.
This is the weirdest thing about it.
I don't know why.
I guess she wanted to take a trip or she needed a vacation.
I'm not sure.
But they sent that one reporter, Margaret Warner, who's a fairly mousy kind of a person that you can't imagine being around guns at all, people shooting.
And they sent her to Yemen to report on the old activity down there where they're training people.
And the whole theme, I only have a short clip, but if you played the whole clip, which goes on forever, by the way, it's all about soaking the U.S. and Britain for money.
So the Yemenis can build their forces up so they can do this and so they can do that.
I think they're going to push the argument that, well, you know, all this expensive stuff that we're doing in Iraq, and look at all the money we threw away there, and then Afghanistan.
Oh, this is the real place we need to be.
Oh, don't look over there.
Look over here.
This is where we need to be.
And it's going to be a lot of money, but it's going to be less money because we're not going to have any Americans so far, even though we think, as we've read other reports of this, They're already there doing different kinds of things.
Can I play this clip already?
Yeah, play it, play it.
At the end of the program with a preview of what you'll find tonight on the NewsHour's website.
But for now, back to Gwen.
Next tonight, combating terrorism on the Arabian Peninsula.
The government of Saudi Arabia arrested 113 alleged al-Qaeda militants today who they said were planning to attack oil facilities.
Wait a minute, 113?
I love the number.
Gotta love the number.
51 of them were from neighboring Yemen.
That's where Margaret Warner has been this week, reporting on how that nation is fighting terrorism.
Meet the face of Yemen's covert fight against jihadists.
These are the ranks of Yemen's counter-terrorism unit, hunting down al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP. Today is coming with a mock assault on an AQAP safehouse with live fire.
A similar raid three weeks ago netted nearly a dozen militants.
Authorities say we're preparing a suicide attack in the capital of I can't listen anymore.
I understand exactly what they're doing.
It's all bull.
By the way, why is Margaret Warner going there?
If she can bring it, you have a budget.
Anyone out there who wants to do something for just a kick, So, type into your Google browser or search box, Yemen Tourism, and take a look at the sites and stuff you can see in Yemen.
They want to prepare this place.
I know, they're getting it ready.
They're getting it ready.
Are you kidding me?
They're oil off the shore.
We've figured that out already.
They're cleaning out the place as best they can, but as a tourism destination, This place is unbelievable.
And don't forget the star portal that's right in the water, right off the coast of Yemen.
No, no, no.
There's a star portal that's a very, very special place.
Yeah, well, there'll be some, yeah.
Well, you know, and this makes so much sense in light of the fact that our two friends, you know who I'm going to talk about.
Shysters show up and take advantage of people's goodwill and generosity.
George Bush, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton were in Haiti this week, yesterday, in fact.
They wanted to see what the good works they were doing there.
No, no, they're getting their plots ready.
You know, for their bungalows.
And the UN is all over this thing.
I'm not going to get all the way into it, but if you look...
So the plan is essentially being...
The plan, remember we talked about that.
Haiti needs $11.4 billion to rebuild Port-au-Prince.
Hello?
$11.4 billion.
Of the $14 million, the William J. Clinton Foundation has collected.
An astounding $3 million has been paid out to all these other organizations.
Just go look at the website.
He's given it to USAID, given it to UNESCO, UNICEF. The money's coming in.
It's being handed off every single time.
It's completely untraceable.
Just publishing some numbers.
Where's all the other money?
Where's the $11 million that is left over?
And what do you mean only $14 million?
The numbers don't add up.
It's very sketchy.
And the fact that now the UN is putting together a plan to rebuild all of Haiti...
Not just Port-au-Prince, which was really decimated, but all of Haiti with $11.4 billion.
You know that this is going to be a Valhalla.
You are so right, John.
It's going to be casinos.
It's going to be big banks.
This is the new Dubai.
And I would like you to take a look at this.
This just really shows you what kind of shysters these guys are.
Look at this YouTube clip.
Actually, I'm going to paste this link into the chat room because I want the people who are listening along right now to see this.
George Bush and Bill Clinton are shaking hands with Haitian people.
And I don't know if George Bush, if it was a sweaty hand he got, a bloody hand, or wait, maybe he just doesn't like touching black people.
He wipes his hand on Bill Clinton's shirt like a nine-year-old.
It's hilarious.
And he's literally doing it.
He shakes his hands and then he looks at his hand and he goes like, and then he rubs it really slowly right down Bill Clinton's arms.
And Clinton's looking at him going like, what?
What are you doing?
It's like these guys are pre-teen.
They are total shysters.
And if you just read what Clinton's Haiti update, what he's saying, that, oh, you know, in the time of Lincoln, America screwed this country.
Yeah, unlike what you did, bastard.
Both of them.
This is both of them, yeah.
Total imperialism.
Total expansion, 20,000 U.S. troops there, and of course it's off the radar.
We're not talking about it anymore.
Hey, how did you enjoy texting your money to these shysters?
How did you enjoy sending your money to them?
We just need cash.
I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
Just send your cash.
Just send your cash.
It's sitting there in Clinton and Bush's bank accounts of their foundations, which, by the way, sits there for more money to be made.
They have commodities traders and all kinds of, you know, probably ex-Goldman folks who are making more money out of this money.
They pay themselves outrageous salaries.
It's a scam.
It's an absolute total scam.
$11 billion.
$11 billion is needed.
What do you need that for?
It's going to be a nice place when they're done with it.
It is going to be awesome.
It's totally going to rock.
Look on the bright side.
It's going to be really nice.
And they already have all the hotel help and the maid service people there and the wait staff.
Everybody's ready to go.
It's exactly...
You know, so, you know, people joke about me, even though I can back it up with some actual factual proof about the earthquake machines, but you really got to wonder, you know, this was a...
What a great operation.
You know, we flipped the switch.
I'm just going to remind everybody...
The US military happened to be doing an exercise for a natural disaster in Haiti anyway.
Whoa!
Let's just roll in with 10,000 troops initially, now 20,000 troops in there.
There's 10,000 NGOs in Haiti, non-governmental organizations.
I mean, this was a total setup.
Either that, or they were just waiting for the earthquake to happen, which hasn't happened in 90 years, which seems like, you know, why risk it?
Why spend all that money floating around off the coast?
No, no, no.
This is the kind of stuff that absolutely happens.
And then we get distracted with, let me think, oh yes, Sandra Bullock's guy cheating with a whore.
You know?
Please, pay attention to that.
Why is it that we can spend all this time on Sandra Bullock and Jesse James and the Nazi stripper, yet we can't spend any time on Climategate, which is just continuing?
It's as if this had never, ever happened.
It never happened.
No, no, no, I can't hear you, I can't hear you, I can't hear you.
That kind of thing.
To the gate, to the gate, to the Climategate.
I just wanted to give you the latest because I believe that this will be the new one that's going to be spread when it comes to memes.
In the Bay of Bengal, the Bengalese Bay, this is a great...
This one was all over the news yesterday.
Of course, it's nothing as big as...
Oh, you're talking about the island?
The island that disappeared.
So I'm looking at AP, of course, our friends from Associated Press.
Yeah, it's all because of climate change.
No, no, no.
Literally, what these...
What these two countries could not achieve from years of talking, because there's always been a war between Bangladesh and India as to who owns this island, New Moor Island.
Global warming has resolved it!
Global warming has...
The seawater has risen up above the...
It's gone because of the global warming.
So I'm like, let me find out about this little island.
The thing you've got to do with your Google searches when you're investigating things is you have to do a date range because Google purposely, I believe, is so inundated with the news, whatever the news is, that you'll have to go through 15, 20 pages to get anything.
So essentially just chop off this week and go back 10 years and Yeah, you always want to chop off the current events.
In other words, with the date range, which is done with the Julian calculator.
You can look it up and figure out how to do it, but everyone should be doing this.
So this Newmore Island, also known as South Talpati Island, It wasn't always there.
It actually emerged in 1971.
And it's not like this is a piece of bedrock.
It's actually made from alluvium.
And alluvium is essentially sediments that build up.
And right after a cyclone hit...
In the 70s, that's when all of a sudden this island emerged.
And that's why there was a dispute over who owned it.
Exactly.
So no one gives you any of the background immediately, oh, global warming is ruining the island.
Well, this is not even, it's a buildup of sediment.
It's not like a landmass that is connected.
It's just, it's alluvium.
I looked it up.
I put the link in the show notes what alluvium is.
Well, I saw this picture, and what I did, I didn't go through all this trouble.
I didn't know that.
The thing was just a thing that cropped up.
In 1971.
Yeah, okay, but what I did was they said, you know, over 30 years, they've been arguing over this thing, which makes sense, which, you know, the 70s, I guess.
And...
But they had the calculation of the sea.
They said it was rising at.1,.01 or something, or.1,.15 inches per year.
If you did the calculation, best case scenario, somehow, even though this is probably not true either, but the oceans or the water around that island could have maybe gone up in 30 years, One, two, three, four inches.
Maybe a half a foot.
The tree on the left that they show, the water is up at least five feet.
Because the tree, there's a big tree, and you can see that the water is up at least five feet into this tree.
And who knows if that's the tree on the island?
You don't know that.
Well, it doesn't make any difference.
The whole thing is a bunch of ridiculous BS because we're talking about an inch, maybe, of seawater rise and it's got nothing to do with anything.
This thing probably just washed away, basically.
I mean, it's the biggest bogus story I have seen all week.
But just do the math.
The math is right in the article.
You can do the calculation with the calculator on your computer, and you can see that the number is so ridiculously low.
Look at that tree and tell me if that represents an inch or two.
Of course, I thought about doing that, but doing math makes smoke come out of my ears.
So I'm just like, oh, just Google this place.
The remote sensing image of the island was taken in 1974 for the first time.
At the time, the island was an average of 2,500 square meters.
Now this, by the way, I might remind you, is when we had the big global cooling warning.
So let's just take it along those lines.
Everyone was saying, oh, the new ice age!
Oh, the ice age is coming!
Am I correct, John?
Yep, same period.
So if you would even believe that it was climate generated, then we would be in a global cooling right now because now the island is going away.
Oh, the whole thing is ridiculous.
It is.
But what bothers me is the people that are just lock-stepped.
They're just locked into this.
A lot of them are our listeners.
They are locked in to the litany.
Locked in.
It's impossible to shake them away from it.
And, uh...
Because you know why?
Because everyone agrees.
That's right.
You know what, John?
It's very clear.
Don't be a denier!
The science is in.
Science.
Good reporting done by The Telegraph about the World Wildlife Fund, which is bummed out because they're having little trouble hiding their agenda of selling $60 which is bummed out because they're having little trouble hiding their agenda of selling $60 $60 billion worth.
Carbon credits.
What a scam.
Yes.
Now, I want to remind you of the history of the World Wildlife Fund set up by Prince Bernard of the Netherlands, the very same man who set up the Bilderberg Group.
Yes, a scam?
Absolutely.
And by the way, the World Wildlife Fund makes $600 million a year in donations and funding from governments and other tax-deductible contributions, which comes from our pocket, taxpayers.
And this is all about, oh yeah, so we have to sell the carbon credits.
They were making up, making up carbon credits.
Just making it up.
I mean, you have to create them out of something.
It's not like, here's $60 billion worth of gold, here's a carbon credit.
No.
It's like, here's all this carbon we're going to save, and here's, oh, now it's worth $60 billion, and we're selling it to you.
I think we need a no-agenda carbon credit fund.
Yeah.
No, I don't think so.
If anyone wants to do that, go ahead.
I don't want any more work.
I don't want any more work.
Prince Bernard also involved in a bribery scandal with Lockheed, rumored to be an SS... Soldier.
I don't know if that's a rumor.
I think that's actually true.
I just want to be careful what I'm saying when I don't have it in front of me.
But that's how far back this stuff goes.
And this World Wildlife Fund is...
These guys are so powerful, they made the World Wrestling Federation change their name.
Yeah, I know.
And that's powerful stuff right there.
When you can take on the rock, man, then you know you've got some juice.
So along these lines, I've got one clip here.
And I have yet to deconstruct what they're up to, but there's something going on.
I know that this has been going on for a while where a lot of these, I don't know what to call them, tree huggers, but naturalists, which is a nudist, that's different too.
But these people, they want to get rid of dams.
And we, you know, set things up.
Really?
Like the Hoover Dam?
We've got to get rid of that?
Well, no.
The Hoover Dam, that's going to take a while before they get around to that one.
But there's a lot of dams here and there that are used for, you know, there's purposes for dams other than just electricity generation.
But most of them are small generators of electricity.
But there was this crazy ad that's been going around and is sponsored by American Express.
And it's about a guy, this is a commercial I recorded, the guy is an old fart, and he's a mountain climber, and he makes some sort of thing you can put in the rock without damaging the rock.
Oh, I've seen this one, yeah.
But he's also a dam buster.
He's like a non-sequitur.
He switches to dams and he bitches about some dam.
They're going to tear it out.
But his commentary about the dam is interesting.
But play it.
We're part of nature and as we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves.
It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.
I never intended to be a businessman.
We made the world's best climbing equipment out of here.
We realized that putting in and taking out of all these pitons was causing damage to the rock.
So I made these little soft aluminum chocks that you just put in with your fingers.
And I'm a dam buster.
We've been working for years to take this dam out.
It is only four feet deep.
The water gets real warm.
Kills a lot of the life in the river.
When you take out a dam, that's a real victory.
You need a concrete victory, so to speak.
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I have seen this commercial and I remember going like, what?
I don't get it.
Yeah, I know.
There were two things.
The first thing that caught my attention, besides the non-sequitur part of it, was the guys bitching about the dam not really damming anything.
It's only four feet deep on the other side.
And you look up and they have a photo of this, or they have him standing there under the dam.
And it's about 50, 60 feet high and there's water running over the top of it.
Is this perhaps...
I mean, what are dams for?
They're for water management?
They're for power generation?
Those are basically two of the reasons you dam something.
But the point I'm making is if this thing is only four feet deep on the other side and rancid or whatever he says, first of all, what difference does it make?
But how does the water get up 60 feet and come flowing over the top?
So this whole ad is set up as a complete scam from the get-go.
And if the thing is only four feet deep on the other side, you take the dam out, what are you going to have, a trickle?
I mean, I don't understand the premise for this ad in the first place.
And then I don't really get what the meme is or what they're trying to convince us, how they're trying to manipulate our thinking about the dam or this idiot or American Express.
Just the whole thing is crazy.
I think it has to do with power generation.
I think it's, you know, trying to kickstart a meme to break down the dams.
And I don't know.
I think water...
It's just the opposite.
This guy's supposed to be a greenie.
And meanwhile, dams, if they are power generators, they should be...
That's a green form of energy.
But, you know, is this produced by the oil companies?
It's kind of a twisted way of getting people not to get dams down?
It's Amex, so it's a financial gain for someone somewhere.
And you can bet it's not just about selling credit cards.
Maybe the guy just gets an erection from breaking concrete.
You know, maybe he should be on the sex offender list.
I don't know.
I think people should be on the lookout for this dam, this dam, dam thing.
Yeah, that's a good one.
This is the kind of stuff that we do here on No Agenda, and I think we've given you quite a bit of insight and information.
Certain amount of debunking, but really our job is to help you see through what you are being spoon-fed.
And it's an actual job.
And despite what your wife says, John, I want it to be a job for people to listen because it's hard.
It's very hard work to awaken yourself into seeing that most what is being fed to you at least has an agenda and there is a reasoning behind it.
And you do have to work.
It's hard work and it gets tiring if we do it.
For us, it's tiring.
Yes, and depressing.
It's not depressing.
I don't find it depressing at all.
I revel in all these things we're uncovering and peeling back layers because I know that we're changing people's lives.
One day, beyond us, I'm afraid, because it will take quite a while, People just won't take it anymore.
And they'll just say, no, no, I can see through this.
I know how it works.
And then, you know, when we're long dead and gone, we're going to get some, like, three-foot-tall statue that's going to be hidden away.
A bowling trophy.
Bowling...
No, no.
They're going to name lanes after us.
Two bowling lanes.
It'll be the Adam Curry bowling lane and the John C. Dvorak bowling lane.
And that'll be...
That'll be the end of it.
That'll be it.
But we can't...
As long as they support us and they're doing that, we're okay.
I'm going to name some people that helped us out this week.
Eric Bodenstab in Bonner Springs, Kansas.
120 bucks.
Mark Bray...
Brait Waite, B-R-A-I-T-E, in Seattle.
Actually, these are two 55-10s, one for Anthony R. Justin Holbrook, Olive Hill, Kentucky, $100.
Jason Williams, Pittsburgh, California, $100.
Mark Magpao.
AgPayO in Cerritos, California is M-A-G-P-A-Y-O 99.99 33.33 times 3, which is actually a pretty good one.
Michael Gribas, Cole Township, Pennsylvania.
Stephen Taft, Marietta, Georgia.
Second Mile Productions, again, 5510.
John Therese.
Theodorsen.
T-H-E-O-D-O-R-S-E-N. I wonder what...
I have a lot of sympathy for teachers in grammar school.
Doing roll call.
Yeah.
Theodorsen.
It's got to be.
Anyway, Midland, Western Australia.
Gerald Preeb, P-R-I-E-B-E, in Bryson City, North Carolina.
Wayne Hay, H-A-I-G-H. In Yorkshire.
Douglas Kuhlman in Shevlin, Minnesota.
Another 5510 from Podcast for Peace.
Craig Whiting in the UK. Mark Giacoma.
Or Jeacoma.
J-E-A-C-O-M-A in Merrick, New York.
I think it's Jeacoma.
Charles Ross.
There's a name.
Finally, a good old name we can pronounce.
Love it!
Shane Reimer from Winnipeg.
Curiously, it came in as Winnipeg, United States.
You know, and I just want to say, if I can just interrupt you for a moment, John.
John and I had a little bit of a tiff.
I won't get into it.
It was on email.
I don't know if you're trying to mind control me or if you're really angry.
That's my goal in life.
It does work.
These donations are very complicated to keep track of.
We have Eric now.
By the way, we call him Eric the Shill.
Eric is working with us and really working hard on sorting all of this out, getting all the names right.
We want everyone to have proper credit.
But I will say that PayPal is not the...
It seems like it's not the most accurate or the way they set things up.
Things come through...
In interesting forms, particularly when you download the spreadsheet version.
And it's really a lot of work.
We went through, we must have done 100 emails this past week, working on a format for a spreadsheet that we can actually read from during the segment for supporters on the show.
And it's really, really hard.
And so give us a little bit of leeway if we get your name wrong.
Well, if you get your name wrong, tough luck.
We try.
We really do try.
You know, I've always thought I was good at pronouncing names until I started doing this show.
Yeah, and it turns out you're not.
Nobody could pronounce half of these names.
Well, we take a pretty good stab, but also the No Agenda stream producers, you know, sometimes we haven't received something, or, you know, there's a lot of administration, and we are now taking money that you are sending us, and we are paying Eric to actually help us and do this.
And as we grow, I think we're going to have to have more people help us on the administrative side, because at the end of the day, we suck.
We just really suck at anything administrative, and we really try hard in between all of the basic prep for the show.
If we could, all we'd do is just do the show.
I wouldn't even be doing show notes, which is another point of contention.
Yeah, there's a lot of show notes.
Well, let me finish the names here.
Now, this one is a rough one, because he's from Sodermanland, Sweden.
Sodermanland.
Yes.
And it's J-O-A-K-I-M-D-E-L It's Joachim Delrund.
I can do this.
Joachim Delrund.
And he wants to congratulate the hamster of Jomelunda with his birthday.
And he actually has a little note that says, Where's my cake, you douchebag?
Not quite sure why.
And this is a $51 donation, correct?
Yeah.
And Anthony Rico, San Diego, and finally Jeffrey Glennon in Gales Ferry, Connecticut.
It's also 50.
And we have a couple of people that we left off.
So we've yet to thank GEIR, G-E-I-R. Is that pronounced right?
Yeah, gear.
Gear.
And Alex VanderHenkst, who apparently didn't put the van in, which is important to him.
And probably anybody else is in the VanderHenkst family.
Erica Blazinski, Samuel Vanderplanck, who is a regular.
Edward Jacobs and Nicholas M. E-H-M.
Now, we do have some comments, and this is going to chew up a little time.
Some call-outs.
We've got a 20-year-old college student, Michael Gribos, who wants to call out as douchebags his sister Elise, Chris Smith, and Kyle DeFasis.
Douchebag.
I don't know if you can call a girl a douchebag.
I don't think that's somewhere that feels wrong.
Well, here's one that feels wrong.
How about a douche clutch?
Here's what feels wrong.
Forrest Walker, or Walken, or Walker, probably Walker.
You can look it on the list.
Forrest, where are you?
Yes, Walker.
He didn't give us, you know, he gave us, he's a 15-year-old kid.
He gave us, you know, $10, which was nice.
But he's calling his dad out as a douchebag.
He says that would be great.
All right.
Forrest's dad, hello!
Douchebag!
Dad's name is Chuck.
Meanwhile, to keep this soap opera going, by the way, this is going to die off on its own because people are saying, you know, this is stupid.
Jeffrey Glenn, who was called out by his girlfriend Heather as being a loser last week, not only decided not to be a douchebag anymore, he says, but he joined the Knights program and took out a subscription and he expects to be eventually Sir Jeffrey so he could lord it over Heather.
So I think that should be an interesting relationship to follow.
Yeah, we could do a whole reality show out of those two.
It would be better than Fly Girls that I watched last night.
I'll tell you that.
Mark Mapayo gave his 33 times 3 for his dad.
Eric Bodenstadt gave us a donation because NPR asked for a donation.
I like the logic.
They're doing it again.
They're doing their whole drive.
PBS as well.
Ugh.
There's a website we're going to plug called howtofailatretail.com.
Somebody gave us some money and said, here, can you plug this website?
Let's see.
Douglas Lang wants to call himself, I think we talked about that.
Wayne Hague, eliminate the ampersand.
This is an interesting point.
He wants you to take the ampersand out of the show notes.
Because it comes, and this is true, a lot of times you get that amp, you know, you get that horrible, it doesn't get parsed right, the ampersand.
You know what's interesting is, I'm going to leave it in, because this is an Apple issue.
I enter these MP3 tags in iTunes, that's how I tag everything in the show.
And I know it shows up nine times out of ten, it shows up incorrectly, but that's something Apple needs to fix.
And I figure if I just do it long enough and people get irritated enough, it will fix itself.
And there's a lot of people at Apple that listen to us, by the way.
A substantial amount, you'd be surprised.
So this will get fixed.
This will be an interesting theory.
And finally, the last one is Charles Ross, who's a newbie, calls out Sam Jones.
Yeah, but why does he call out Sam Jones?
Because apparently Sam Jones got him into the show and has never donated.
Douchebag!
So, that's that.
That's the notes in summary.
That's less than last week.
Yeah, well, last week was a banner week, but whatever.
Sometimes...
So we have no knights.
We have...
Well, actually, you know, I do want to proclaim a knight as an honorary knight.
I think a knight who's actually paid out already, because I did a calculation on all the art he's done, and we agreed with our artists that once they do X amount of art, they would get an honorary knighthood.
I know who you're talking about.
Paul.
Yes, Paul T., Um, okay.
Have you sharpened that thing?
Here it is.
Paul T, kneel before us!
As we know, solemnly knight thee, Sir Paul Knight of the Images of the No Agenda Roundtable.
Please, enjoy our hookers and blow.
We really appreciate what Paul T. does.
Yeah, and all the other artists, too.
He's not the only one.
No, we've got Randy.
If you send something and we don't use it, believe me, we save all of it, because Paul doesn't always have time.
Sometimes he doesn't even like what he's done, and we try to discuss it as best as possible, and we delve into the archives, and all of it's appreciated.
It adds a dimension to the show that no other show has.
We have real art.
And it makes us laugh.
Some of it is quite good.
It always makes us laugh.
But all of this, of course, is a mood point since we're all about to die, John.
Oh yeah, now what?
Oh yeah, well...
Tuesday...
The European researcher said, next week, we're going to really fire up that thing in Switzerland.
The Large Hadron Collider.
They're going for their 7-TEV test.
This means it's going to carry out ultra-high energy collisions between two microscopic beams of particles at a combined speed of 7 terelectron volts.
Never been done before.
And I don't understand how this $6 billion...
Why don't you close down the $6 billion wheel of fortune and give that to Haiti?
I think it's going to be a great tourist attraction.
I do not like this thing.
No one questions it.
There's never any real reports on, hey, what could actually happen...
When you're flipping all this stuff around, looking for the Big Bang, doesn't the words Big Bang, like, kind of warn you that if you're trying to find the Big Bang...
That's the thing that gets me.
We're trying to duplicate the Big Bang.
Duplicate the Big Bang.
Oh, really?
Yeah, doesn't that kind of give you a clue that this may not be a really good idea?
Big Bang?
Well, you know, if they actually could duplicate the Big Bang and create a new universe, it would just wipe...
Let's say it wipes everybody out.
We wouldn't be worried about it.
At least it would be quick.
At least I'd hope it would be quick.
Yeah, not some slow, torturous thing like the movie The Black Hole, the Disney film that came out after Star Wars.
It was supposed to be as good but sucked.
So there's something that I've been sitting on for a couple of weeks, and Stephen Pelsmacher is actually one of our knights and contributors and supporters who works somewhere in the aviation field.
He's been sending me information on this continuously, a couple other people as well.
About these toxic fumes in aircraft.
And in fact, he had sent you a couple links and I think he copied you on the email and you said, oh yeah, really?
Well, I don't see the big deal.
And then boom, on Tuesday, another report comes out.
These are continuous, by the way, of odors.
That are filling up both the cabin and the cockpit on airliners.
It seems to happen on both Airbus and Boeings, but typically with Rolls-Royce engines.
And in many cases, actually, these aircraft return back to the field and land because of these fumes.
They've even had pilots who got dizzy and could barely land the plane.
And it's a huge cover-up.
Huge cover-up because no one wants to know about it.
No one wants to talk about it.
And the media is barely reporting on it.
Yes, there are some articles, but we need to keep our eye on this because this is a general concern.
But when you get into these big things in aviation, no one wants to rock the boat because that's how you get fired.
And I'm an aviator.
Our safety is at risk.
And what's happening is, you know how you get air in the aircraft is through the engines.
It's called bleed air, and you have a pressurized cabin.
So air comes in through the engines, and a part of that is fed into the cabin, the cockpit, and then actually it's pressurized through the tail cone, and that's how they keep the pressure.
I don't want to get into how pressurization works, but the air is actually coming in through.
It's not like a vent or something like this.
It's open.
No, but the vent, you know, and that's how your air is coming in.
It's coming into the engine.
And apparently because of leaking seal rings, which is not such a big deal in an engine in general, or doesn't have to be, the air is being passed through this motor oil, which is made by mobile, or this particular type of oil made by mobile, and it's making people sick.
And worse, it's making air crew ill.
And I have one, two, three, four, six links in the show notes under aviation that talk about this problem.
And it is being ignored.
And of course, something bad has to happen.
Or maybe something bad has happened and we don't know about it.
But for some reason, this is such a huge problem to fix that no one wants to discuss it.
And I want you to know that no agenda will be here to say, we told you so when something bad happens.
Or perhaps someone who's listening to the show could do something about it.
What a concept.
It's always a possibility.
Well, talking about what you would call contamination.
I have a contamination story.
I was watching, by the way, for people out there, you know, I do watch some commercial TV, but generally speaking, I'm watching the stuff that we report on in the show.
I watch all the right-wing talk show guys, I watch all the left-wing talk show guys, and I watch, you know, network news and all the rest of this crap.
But of course, I watch Democracy Now!, the war and peace report.
Yeah.
Every so often.
And they run through these stories like they're actually reporting with this woman who I really dislike.
And this story here got my attention.
Just listen to the Coca-Cola in India story and ask yourself, what's wrong with this picture?
In India, a government panel has recommended a $47 million fine against the Indian subsidiary of the soft drink giant Coca-Cola for environmental damage.
The panel found a Coca-Cola bottling plant polluted the water and soil around the village of Plachimata by discharging toxins including cadmium and lead.
The plant was shut down in 2004 after local residents successfully won a campaign for its closure.
Coca-Cola has denied responsibility for the environmental damage and says it rejects the panel's recommendation.
Lead?
What was it, cadmium and lead?
Yeah.
What are they bottling at this place?
It's a bottling plant.
You bring in the syrup, you bring in the water, you bring in the bottles, and you put the cap on it.
Where's the cadmium and lead part of it that nobody asks?
Are these idiots just read the press release?
Well, of course, this particular show is essentially communists that dislike all big business.
And, you know, the big Noam Chomsky fans.
And so they'll read something like this, wrote...
Just imagine whoever listens to this stuff and takes it in, going, oh, those horrible people with coke put in cadmium, so they got no lead.
I'm thinking, how does this work?
What is cadmium?
Cadmium is a metal.
It's extremely toxic.
It's used in all kinds of industrial processes, but not bottling.
Hmm.
Remember we talked about General John Sheehan?
Of course, this isn't really in the news.
It is in Gitmo Nation lowlands right now.
He's trying to keep gays out of the military, and as we played on the previous show, which I think you can still see on NoAgendaTV.com, He said, well, you know, the Dutch basically lost their stronghold in Srebrenica because they were gay!
They're weak gays, and they couldn't handle it.
And by the way, one of these days, I will really do the expose on Srebrenica because the Dutch were set up.
Huge, huge scandal, which people in the United States don't even know where that is.
No one gives a crap here.
But it was horrible, what we've seen of it, at least.
And so this, of course, has outraged the men and women in service in the Netherlands, and rightly so.
However, the way they are approaching retaliation is...
I cannot believe who is in charge of the PR for the Dutch Army.
Because what they've done now is they set up the Dutch Foundation, the Pink Army...
And here's what the Pink Army is saying.
They're saying they want him to take it back and say he's sorry.
I'm like, this is so wrong!
It's like, how stupid can you be?
Can you just imagine how this comes across on people who already think that gays are weak and effeminate?
Like...
I'm in the Pink Army.
Take it back and make him say it ain't so.
It's a lie.
This is so stupid.
They need to take this John Sheehan and bang him on the head and hold him upside down.
I cannot believe that the Dutch are so stupid.
It's the stupidest way ever to approach this problem with the Pink Army.
How about get some general on your side to stand up and say, that's bullshit.
That's bullshit.
It's done for a purpose.
Because they're in cahoots, because they actually don't want gays in the military.
They're in cahoots, and the people on your side are setting you up for a huge fall second time around.
It's dumb.
Yeah, well, I'm glad you dug that one up for the public.
No, but it's important that people see what's being done here.
They're being set up by their own people.
Well, this is funny.
It's not funny.
It's outrageously stupid.
Well, that's that too.
So I had a couple of clips that I made out of the blue.
I actually should have clued you into them.
As we were doing the show, you could just drop them in any time you wanted.
The Real News Teaser and the Real News Teaser 2.
And now, back to Real News Teaser 2.
The majority of my life, no one, including girls, could stand me.
Was that it?
No, that's the Jesse James quote, though.
I thought it was quite amusing.
I'm sorry.
I just picked one.
Which one is it?
Real news, what I did was if you want to listen to teasers that tell you nothing, you want to watch Extra.
Okay, well wait.
Tonight on Extra!
And now, back to Real News.
Still to come, AH Nation addresses the ongoing issue of the state of Lindsay.
She insisted she had changed.
I no longer intend on doing that.
But night after night, is it the same old story?
Come on, Lindsay.
Careful, careful.
But first, Courtney's kiss and tell about Sheryl Crow's cougar wave.
The story I heard was, Dolly's life coming to the big screen?
Who will play Dolly?
That's right, everybody.
It's an extra.
In the morning.
Look over here.
Nothing to see here.
Look at that.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
Did Tiger really date Leanne Rimes?
Plus the real reason Tim and Reggie split.
Did Kate Gosselin spend $35,000 on Botox and fillers?
And Judge Bruno unleashed about the new women of dancing.
Oh, she's a 13, 13 girl.
Oh, yeah, pay attention.
Oh, you gotta look over here.
Look over here.
Nothing to see here.
Look at that.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
Yeah!
Well, there you have it.
That's pretty much what...
That's what passes for entertainment.
I like the Lindsay Lohan thing, and you hear her just screaming.
She fell down.
She fell down.
You want to hear something funny?
Here's Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, which I have a little news item about.
Not a little one, actually.
And here he is fighting, and he's taking a page from the Rachel Maddow playbook.
He has been wrong on every single issue about the economy.
When the people look at what the Conservative Party proposed, they will see they were wrong on Northern Rock, they were wrong on the restructuring of the banks, they were wrong on help for the unemployed, they were wrong on help for mortgage owners, they were wrong for help for small businesses, and when it comes to right or wrong, they were wrong on Lord Ashcroft.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Wrong, wrong, wrong!
You're wrong!
Shut up, slave!
You're wrong!
You don't know what you're talking about!
Meanwhile, Gordon Brown has been ordered to release information before the general election coming up about his controversial or controversial decision to sell Britain's gold reserves.
Now, if you didn't know, Gordon Brown, when he was chancellor of the Exchequer, i.e. Treasury Secretary in the United Kingdom, when Tony Blair was prime minister, he sold a lot of the Gitmo Nation East gold at pretty much all low price in he sold a lot of the Gitmo Nation East gold at pretty much all It has since he sold that gold has quadrupled in price, costing the U.K. owners of that gold.
i.e.
the taxpayers, about 7 billion pounds, about 10 billion dollars.
So now he's been ordered to release all the information about the sale of this 400 tons of gold.
Yep.
The joke could be on the buyer.
Well, I've actually done some research, and the general thinking in circles in which I traverse, in which I travel...
Is that he did that to help out his friends J.P. Morgan and AIG. And here's the reason why.
Britain has traditionally always gladly, they call it least in the United Kingdom, but essentially loaned out their gold to these bullion traders.
Both AIG was hedging tremendously on gold, as was J.P. Morgan.
Now we're going back to the turn of the century when all this took place.
And these guys would essentially borrow it from the government.
They actually take the gold, they borrow it at 1%, and then they go and sell it at a profit, making anywhere between 4% and 5%.
And they'd sell it to India.
And who knows, maybe they would keep it and make some tungsten and sell that.
That's all totally possible.
Certainly reported as some weird stuff going on.
But essentially, or eventually, they have to give the gold back.
You can't just keep this gold the whole time because you're paying, even though it's 1%, you've got to pay it back.
And when the price of gold rises during that period, it becomes more and more costly for you to buy gold back to give it back to the government.
And so the general thinking is that because gold all of a sudden looked like it was going to rise, someone had to intervene, someone had to manipulate the price, and Gordon Brown, because he is a product of Wall Street and of the City of London, he is a total shill, mind-controlled robot.
Are you going to get to the point?
Yes, he sold the gold to bail out J.P. Morgan, who a year later got out of the bullion market altogether.
So he sold that gold to bail out J.P. Morgan and AIG. And this will come out eventually if people do their homework when he releases this information.
Alright.
Oh, you don't care?
Well, it seemed like a dead-end story to me.
It's not a dead-end.
It's a huge story because people have to understand how these prices are being manipulated and the politicians are complicit.
I think it's pretty freaking important.
Well, if you can connect the dots, I'll begin.
Oh, no, I'm sorry.
It's not a Lindsay Lohan promo, John.
Sorry.
I'm just saying.
It's like, you know, I should reiterate your commentary.
Well, there's three minutes of my life I'll never get back.
Which you say every time I roll out a dull analysis.
Okay.
It's a dull analysis.
You don't care.
Fine.
No, I don't.
Fine.
I'll care when there's more details.
Okay, fine.
I'd rather listen...
I know I hurt your feelings because I really think this is an important story.
Let's listen to more of your clips.
Okay?
Please play another clip about a damn buster that goes nowhere.
How about, well, I have a Shantix commercial.
Okay, I'm into that.
I like the Shantix commercials.
They've taken a new tact, which is interesting.
This time, instead of just doing the, I think it's over a minute's worth of disclaimers, this is the stuff that, you know, for smokers.
Now they're putting a bunch of different information on the screen as opposed to what they say.
Okay, can we play it now?
Because your setups are so long and boring.
And they also, now they have, this is a real person, not an actress at the beginning.
Can I play it now?
You want to say anything more about it?
Can I play it now?
Go.
Go.
My name's Lisa.
I'm from Fayetteville, North Carolina and I smoked for 29 years.
The one thing about smoking is it dominates your life and it dominated mine.
I honestly loved smoking and I honestly didn't think I would ever quit.
It was very interesting that you could smoke on the first week.
Chantix is a non-nicotine pill.
In studies, 44% of Chantix users were quit during weeks 9 to 12 of treatment compared to 18% on sugar pill.
It's proven to reduce the urge to smoke.
I did have an unopened pack of cigarettes in my purse and said, what the heck, I don't need these.
I said, you know, bye, I don't need you anymore.
You're not my crutch.
I don't need a crutch.
Talk to your doctor about Chantix and a support plan that's right for you.
Some people have had changes in behavior, hostility, agitation, depressed mood, and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping Chantix.
If you notice agitation, hostility, depression, or changes in behavior, thinking, or mood that are not typical for you, or if you develop suicidal thoughts or actions, stop taking Chantix and call your doctor right away.
Talk to your doctor about any history of depression or other mental health problems, which can get worse while taking Chantix.
Some people can have allergic or serious skin reactions to Chantix, some of which can be life-threatening.
If you notice swelling of face, mouth, throat, or a rash, stop taking Chantix and see your doctor right away.
Tell your doctor which medicines you're taking as they may work differently when you quit smoking.
Chantix dosing may be different if you have kidney problems.
The most common side effect is nausea.
Patients also reported trouble sleeping and vivid unusual or strange dreams.
Until you know how Chantix may affect you, use caution when driving or operating machinery.
Chantix should not be taken with other quit smoking products.
With the Chantix and with the support system, it worked.
It worked for me.
What's the support system to find out if prescription Chantix is right for you?
So let me just remind the audience that we have had many people listening to this show.
You might be new to no agenda.
Chantix is evil.
What happens is some dreams, some suicidal thoughts, no.
You go completely bonkers.
You're stoned off your ass.
You're walking around backwards.
People waking up in places they don't remember going to.
Half-eaten sandwiches they don't remember buying.
You go completely crazy.
People have killed themselves and others while on this drug.
And the worst is when you stop taking it.
The only way we have found through non-scientific means, the only way to stop the craziness in your head is to stop taking the Chantix and to start smoking again.
That's the only apparent antidote, but it is an outrageous, just Google Chantix, an outrageously horrible drug.
Didn't we also discover that pilots can't use it, the armies banned it from certain...
Oh yeah, absolutely.
No one operating heavy machinery can use it.
But there are tons of stories.
We had the New York Times Magazine article where the author just went completely off his tits.
You go crazy from this stuff.
If you're on it right now, immediately, and I am going to make this a recommendation, stop taking it and light up a cigarette.
And I don't want you to die from cancer, but it is the only way to stop, and then there are other ways to stop smoking.
This is not it.
This is a horrible drug.
The other thing that's interesting to me is the stats they gave.
It only works on 44% of people, which means 56% of people does nothing for, and then 18% of people could have the same effect from a sugar pill.
So how much of it is psychological?
I think a lot of those...
Well, a lot of drugs in general is psychological, but this is just outrageous.
This stuff is so...
It's lethal, and it makes you completely high, which, of course, I think is what they're selling.
When I listen to a minute and six seconds of what it'll do to you...
I'm actually like, yeah, I wouldn't mind.
Well, actually, if you remember when we first started exploring this product, you wanted to try it just to see what it was like, and you got nothing but email from people who had used it.
Telling you to stay away from this stuff.
Don't even think about experimenting with it.
There's a couple of very scary things going on when it comes to this.
Not just from Chantix, but the drug industry in general.
And I think we're going to bring this full circle back to the healthcare bill, which I just have a couple things to mention.
I received a couple of emails, had a little thread going with one of our listeners who works in a California hospital.
And he says, for the past six weeks...
He has seen an increased number of psychotic teens who come in acting crazy, like off the Richter scale crazy, he says.
One thing they all have in common is that when they get out, if the kids who do get out of this psychotic state, they all say the last thing they remember was smoking some weed that made them trip so badly they thought they were never going to get out of it.
A number of these kids do not get out of this psychotic state, and they are sent to a long-term facility.
Yeah, this is just beginning.
With a diagnosis, NOS. Psychosis NOS. Not otherwise specified.
Yeah, this is the beginning of the...
Although we've had preludes, this is the beginning of the anti-marijuana push.
But they're poisoning people because clearly the marijuana is being laced.
It could be, you know, the old traditional way of poisoning people with laced marijuana was to lace it with PCP, which will make you this way.
And they probably assume that it's like, you know, something you can get over.
But I remember reports years and years and years ago about PCP-laced marijuana and all the effects it had on people.
It made them absolutely psychotic, murderous.
Well, look at Rodney King.
They couldn't keep the guy down.
Right, and he was on PCP. Yeah, he was on PCP. It's crazy stuff, but the fact that they are...
It seems so evident to me that someone is out there lacing the marijuana, and I've never heard of this...
I've never heard of people going...
Yes, you hear lots of people that schizophrenia...
Of course, there are many examples of this, but in the past six weeks, numerous kids coming in completely psychotic, freaking out, a number of which don't snap out of it.
This is new.
This is very new.
Well, it'd be nice to get to the source of the poisoning.
Speaking of poisoning, a lot of people emailed us this article as well.
The rotavirus vaccine known as Rotarix...
Contaminated with, and we'll get to what the contamination is in a second, but first let's just talk about the rotavirus and the fact that there's a vaccine for that.
Rotavirus is basically stomach flu, which you get severe diarrhea, which pretty much happens to every kid, and each time you get it, it's less severe, and you build up resistance against it.
That's my understanding.
I don't know, John, if you have a different understanding of rotavirus.
Yeah, I had it once.
Yeah, you get stomach flu, you puke, or you shit, or whatever, and there you go, and then you get over it.
It doesn't last very long.
No, it doesn't last very long.
This, of course, can be lethal to people who don't have access to proper water, but in the Western world, in general, I think it's probably a reasonable idea to just go through it.
Adults never get it.
It's really kids.
Yeah.
Although rotavirus around the world kills more than 500,000 infants annually, but yes, in countries where there's poor access to water because you dehydrate very quickly, that's probably an issue.
But this rotavirus vaccine, Rotorix, made by GlaxoSmithKline, which has temporarily been halted due to contamination material, And I'm not quite sure how they discovered this.
I guess someone did an accidental test.
DNA from the porcine circovirus 1, which as far as I can tell is swine flu.
It's a version of swine flu.
It's a virus from pigs, known not to cause diseases in humans or animals, but they have taken it off the market and gladly let their competitor, Merck, who make Rota Tech, pump up the volume on their vaccine because it's not contaminated.
I want to know how these contaminations occur.
Yeah, this reminds me of the Baxter contamination we talked about.
That's exactly what it reminds me of.
Exactly.
And this, you know, I don't know what...
The Baxter one actually had bird flu.
Well, it had a combination.
It had bird flu and swine flu.
Yeah, like they're trying to make a witch's brew, because you get that out, they start to...
That bird flu is the one that these virologists are scared to death of, because it has an 80% kill rate.
Well, we don't know enough about this DNA from porcine circovirus.
We just don't know enough about it.
But, oh no, we're not pulling it off the market, says the PR executive.
We're just suspending its use during this period while we're collecting more information.
What kind of outfit are you running?
How can your vaccine be contaminated?
This is stuff that you're telling us that our doctors, who are paid by you, are telling us to put into our children.
How can you do this?
What is going on?
We need to have an immediate investigation.
That's never going to happen.
And meanwhile, if you look at the health care bill, and yes, I have read it, and it's not an easy one.
It's not as hard as the Lisbon Treaty, because there's still a lot of legalese.
Two very important things.
One, vaccines, oh, that's going to be free.
No copayment.
No, no, no, no.
This whole thing is built, certainly built for the vaccine industry.
The whole concept of...
Well, they knew that.
That's why they were writing this in their annual reports that we exposed.
Yes, and Merck, along with IBM, GM, and UPMC, I don't know who they are, and Battelle, are building a brand new plant for vaccines...
Probably based upon the fact that this bill is now law of the land.
So they're really going to crank it up.
You're going to get all kinds of vaccines that are going to save you from cocaine addiction.
Here's my favorite.
From the Telegraph, a new vaccine on the way that will cure you of your fears of spiders, sharks, snakes, heights, and other phobias.
Hold on a second.
With one simple shot.
A vaccine, by definition, is something that lets your body react to disease vectors of one sort or another, viruses and bacteria or whatever.
What has this got to do with fear of spiders?
This is bogus.
Well, early test show that a dose of this makes you, what does it say, it interacts with the receptors, I guess, somehow that...
I know, I mean, it's crazy!
Stupid.
Why don't you just take a pill?
Well, I don't know if that's a good idea.
Well, I'm just saying, you know, I'm not going to just say and just say and we got to stop saying just saying anyway.
And they're also another study and all of these links are in the show notes.
No agenda show dot com.
They're creating mosquitoes.
That can carry vaccine.
Oh, oh, yeah, you get this one.
This is from science mag dot org.
Geez.
A vaccine?
Hey, let some more mosquitoes in the house or we'll be a lot healthier.
A group of Japanese researchers has developed a mosquito that spreads vaccine instead of disease.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
So they just shoot up these mosquitoes with vaccine because it's good for you and the government will pay for it.
And the healthiest people are scratching themselves constantly.
One thing, just to get back to the, just to bring it all full circle, there's one thing that really bugs me about the health care bill, and here's something that I can actually prove.
It's in the document.
Did you not hear everyone say that you will, didn't I hear the president say you will have the same health care as people in Congress?
I don't know.
I don't remember him saying that.
Uh, well...
I might have heard that, but I can't say for sure.
I know it was brought up.
I'm pretty sure...
Okay, well, let's end the point of it.
Okay, so there's a clause, page 65 of House Resolution 3590.
Members of Congress in the Exchange.
Requirement.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law after the effective date of this subtitle, the only health plans that the federal government may make available to members of Congress and Congressional staff with respect to their service as a member of Congress or Congressional staff shall be health plans that are, one, created under this Act or an amendment made by this Act, Or two, offered through an exchange established under this act or amendment made by this act.
So, that's great, right?
That means that the members of Congress are...
Right, they're stuck with the same stuff we're going to be stuck with, supposedly.
Right.
But...
So, the term Congressional Staff...
And this is where they trick you, means all full-time and part-time employees employed by the official office of a member of Congress, whether in Washington, D.C. or outside of Washington, D.C. In other words, not the actual congressman, but only full-time and part-time employees employed by the official office of a member of Congress.
So they actually wrote themselves right out of the bill.
Wisely.
Yes.
So this is something that you can call them on.
And you can read it for yourself.
I mean, just go to page 65.
I'll put a link in the show notes to the PDF of HR 3590.
You can read it for yourself.
And it's these little things that make me a little cautious about their intent.
Well, you're going back to that direction.
By the way, you know we forgot to mention that people should go to Dvorak.org slash NA and channel Dvorak.com slash NA for donations.
We are so stupid.
That definitely guarantees no money this week.
That's pretty funny.
The whole run-up and then we forget to actually promote how you can support the show.
Great.
Yeah, we're dummies.
So play the Charles Krauthimer clip number two.
Now this is the first time I've ever heard this analysis and I think it nails it.
...wing House members who said we won't support this unless you have a public option.
Why they all caved in is because the administration finally explained to them, got it through their thick heads, that you don't need a public option.
The insurance companies are going to become utilities.
They are the public option.
The rules...
That they are going to be administering will all come from the federal government.
They're going to collect the money.
They're going to collect the premiums.
And the government in Washington will control how they insure, who they insure, and how much it will cost.
Alright.
Very interesting.
In other words, how do they get all these Democrats who demand the public option and how do you get past the fact that Obama said, I will not sign a bill, we had this clip, we played it, I will not sign a bill that does not include a public option.
He explained it.
The insurance companies are going to be lapdogs for the government, and all they're going to do is be money collectors with the help of the IRS, and they're just going to take your money, and it is a public option.
It's funny because I was watching Charlie Rose last night.
I guess he does a version of the show on Bloomberg, and he had David Axelrod on.
Actually, I should have pulled that as a clip.
Charlie Rose, who was a tool, by the way.
Yes, but by the way, I want to say this.
I think David Axelrod is behind all those, that anti-Republican craziness that all news sources were playing.
That's his job.
He is Goebbels.
David Axel Goebbelsrod.
So, you know, Charlie Rose talks about the public option.
Well, what did the president say about that?
And I'm thinking, yeah, we have the clip where he says, you know, I'm not going to sign anything without...
Okay, you can break your promises.
That's okay.
But just admit it.
You know, it's like, oh, we didn't do it.
We didn't do the public option.
But President Obama definitely campaigned on the public option.
And Axelrod fumbles.
He's like, well, the president said...
And you can just see his head going, oh, crap.
It would be like a good idea.
It was just unbelievable.
He dropped the ball?
I'll pull that for Sunday.
He completely fumbled.
And then I saw O'Reilly interviewing Jon Stewart's friend Anthony Weiner.
I don't want to get too much into this, but it is an obvious fact that the IRS will have 16,500 extra agents, many of them I presume outfitted with the 750 shotguns they just ordered, to go and collect the money if you don't have health care.
And the only thing O'Reilly was saying was, please tell me when I don't pay, when I skirt the law, who was going to come and collect it?
And Anthony Weiner, he could not answer it.
It was so amazing to watch him go around the issue, and all he had to say was the IRS, because the IRS will collect it.
If you don't pay your taxes, the IRS does come and collect it from you.
Why are they trying to hide this fact?
I don't know!
I mean, why not just say it?
Because everybody knows it.
Everybody who watches O'Reilly knows this.
The government said it.
I don't know.
He just couldn't say it.
Are these guys so locked in on talking points that they can't even ad-lib a fart?
He almost threw a hissy fit.
I mean, Wiener was actually like, I'm not going to talk to you like I just did to you.
Which is okay for me, but I'm not a congressman.
And he's like, I'm not going to talk to you.
That's astonishing.
If you don't let me answer the question.
Can you get that clip for Sunday?
Yeah, I will.
Then he goes into these analogies of like, well, if you throw litter, no one's going to come and pick up your litter.
No, but if you don't pay the fine, if you don't pay your taxes, then the IRS will fine you eventually.
They do find you.
They have power to take money out of your bank account.
They already have that.
They have power to garnish your wages.
I mean, they've got a lot.
And they've got guns.
Shotguns.
Good ones, too.
Shotguns.
So it's just unbelievable.
You know what's going to happen?
An IRS guy is going to stupidly shoot some old grandma, and that's going to be the end of those shotguns.
Yeah, maybe.
I got one more commercial, unless you want to wrap up the show.
I can move this up to Sunday.
We're getting close.
Let's do another commercial.
What you got?
This one, I don't have it up in front of me.
It's the other lyricist or something.
Lyricia?
Lyricia?
Something like that.
But this is another...
I just want to ask people out there the question.
Why are these drugs that are supposed to...
They all do different things, but why do they make you go crazy?
What is in this stuff?
Because they're good!
That's good shit, man!
I had ongoing pain.
A deep ache all over.
I found out that connected to our muscles are nerves that send messages through the body.
My doctor diagnosed it as fibromyalgia.
What is it?
Okay, wait, there's a couple of things right at the top.
One is that it's fibromyalgia.
This means all your nerves are firing for no good reason and you're in great pain as though somebody, you know, I guess it's like shingles or something.
Fibromyalgia.
Okay.
Fibromyalgia.
But I like the way she starts off saying, I found out that there are nerves in your body.
And I'm thinking, what are you, an idiot?
Oh, no!
I have nerves!
Oh, no!
All right.
I'm sorry for interrupting.
Let's play the whole thing.
This is great.
Hey, kids, this is your life on drugs.
I had ongoing pain, a deep ache all over.
I found out that connected to our muscles are nerves that send messages through the body.
My doctor diagnosed it as fibromyalgia, thought to be the result of overactive nerves that cause chronic widespread pain.
Lyrica is believed to calm these nerves.
I learned Lyrica can provide significant relief from fibromyalgia pain.
So now I can do more of what I love.
Lyrica is not for everyone.
Lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions.
Tell your doctor right away if you have these.
new or worsening depression or unusual changes in mood or behavior, or any swelling or affected breathing or skin, or changes in eyesight including blurry vision or muscle pain with fever or tired feeling.
Common side effects are dizziness, sleepiness, weight gain, and swelling of hands, legs, and feet.
Don't drink alcohol while taking Lyrica.
Don't drive or use machinery until you know how Lyrica affects you.
I found answers about fibromyalgia.
Then, I found Lyrica.
Ask your doctor about Lyrica today.
What is the name of these?
What is the name of these?
Lyrica.
I mean, this is unbelievable.
This stuff causes hallucinations, suicidal thoughts, and makes you swell up like a balloon.
I mean, can't they find some...
Take aspirin.
That's a good painkiller.
It doesn't do any of those things.
Drink water.
You'd be amazed if you just drink some water, what that'll do for 8 out of 10 problems you have.
Go to watercure.com and read about that.
All right, then I'm just going to lay one bombshell on you that I've been working on.
It won't be Sunday.
It'll be next week.
Houseofnumbers.com.
A fantastic award-winning documentary has come out, which includes a lengthy interview with the Nobel Prize winner who discovered HIV. And he has now come out and said, well, you know, you don't actually, A, get AIDS from HIV. In fact, you can probably get rid of HIV yourself just by eating healthy for a couple of weeks.
Of course, this is not reported anywhere.
And it's a very huge topic, a very sensitive topic.
But the general consensus surrounding people who are, of course, these are all deniers, And who are interested in what the guy who found the HIV virus, who discovered it, is now saying is that perhaps it is the AZT drug that you administer that actually kills you.
And that AIDS does not equal HIV. And we've actually picked up on this meme, John, people saying HIV-AIDS. It used to be AIDS and it was HIV. This is because my belief is that the pharmaceutical industry just wants to keep you sick.
And you're force-fed.
How many times do we have to do stories on doctors making hundreds of thousands of dollars teaching other doctors how to sell this crap to people?
And there's a drug for everything.
And it all makes you suicidal.
All of it!
But this is huge.
Houseofnumbers.com.
The actual documentary won't be available online or on CD or DVD until June 1st.
But it's already won awards at film festivals all over the world.
And there's a trailer there.
And it's just an outstanding piece of work.
And it really...
It's something that needs attention.
But I believe that the drug industry is just so huge...
Can I add one more recommendation?
The book that you recommended to me about the Bush family?
Oh, the Family of Secrets?
What do you think?
Wow!
I told you it was outstanding!
That is one book!
Man!
How far are you?
Are you all the way through yet?
Well, you know, the great thing about that book is you can read it like the Bible.
Yeah, you can just put it down and come back.
You can leave it in the bathroom.
You can just open it.
I mean, it's not necessarily a storyline that has to be followed from beginning to end.
It is just loaded.
It's just almost like anecdotal.
It's unbelievable.
It's absolutely unbelievable.
And every single source or quotation he has, there must be a hundred pages in the book that is just all the footnotes and where he got the information from.
It's well-researched, well done.
Of course, it's getting no play.
And written by Russ Baker, who I will be interviewing after.
I haven't even read them.
It's like Atlas Shrugged is how big this thing is.
It's huge.
I don't even know where to start interviewing other than this guy has totally connected the entire Bush family together.
To an evil, sinister, crime-connected elitism that goes beyond even your belief.
And you wouldn't believe it unless he had all of these sources that are listed in the book that you can go to.
I'll give you the teaser that people might get a kick out of.
The Watergate, which of course is kind of like, what?
Watergate wasn't about Nixon trying to get information.
It was about them trying to get Nixon information.
Right.
Apparently there is something in there.
The whole thing is very sketchy from this guy's perspective.
But anyway, that's a book that people should read if you get a chance.
This will be one of our recommended, on the recommended list for this show of ours.
Actually, there is a noagendabookclub.com where this is listed.
Someone else is maintaining that for us.
And the only thing I'm missing so far is I'm missing all of the pedophile sex stuff in this book.
I don't know if it shows up later on.
I haven't finished it, as I said.
I have started a Sex Wars subheading at NoAgendaShow.com and once again it's AngerFan and you really need to check this website from time to time who makes a lot of interesting connections.
Once again, passing right through clergy to justice system to the highest echelons of government all through All kinds of organizations that are actually supposedly helping children It's just outrageous.
Actually, we wanted to get to one of those topics about the Pope this week, but we'll have to do it on Sunday.
Anyway, this book is definitely an amazing product.
This guy really did the job.
All the people that wrote blurbs for the book are all high-level, so it's not like this is a crazy book written for some obscure right-wing press.
No.
No, not at all.
And in fact, his whole introduction to the book, he says, you know, actually I wanted to write something about George W. Bush, felt that some things had been just kind of left for what they were, and he actually stumbled upon all of this stuff about George H. W. Bush that he just could not ignore, and that's why a lot of the book is about that.
And really, oh, it's just chilling.
And that really brings you to the...
It actually is depressing.
Well, not, because I like that this is available and that we can share this and people can take a different view on things.
I think our show is at risk.
So, NoAgendaShow.com, Dvorak.org slash NA. By the way, if anyone contributes to the stream, go to Dvorak.org slash NAS, and you can contribute to the sustaining producer over on the stream, which we are trying to put some emphasis on.
Can I just ask you why you think our show is at risk?
Well, I mean, I just don't think...
I just honestly believe that at some point, not tomorrow, but I think somewhere down the road, somebody's going to listen to this show and say, you know, these two idiots, you know, this is too much material here.
Let's shut them down, or let's filter them, or let's put them on the spam list that the Dvorak uncensored's on.
You can't get it in half the companies in the country.
You can't get it in China because it's got the word uncensored.
But, you know, I mean, once they start filtering this stuff, it's not appropriate for kids.
You know, who knows?
I mean, there's a lot of ways of just squelching people.
You don't have to, you know, come over and beat us up or anything.
They can just, you know, filter us out.
And, you know, there's a bunch of these systems right now.
They're all over the country.
They're companies.
And there are also ISPs that they have these little lists.
And if something comes from that domain, it just gets blocked.
You can just get blocked.
The United States is...
Probably more over-censored than China when it comes to this stuff.
There's site after site after site you can't go to.
And that's not going to go the other direction.
It's going to get worse.
And our show is one of these things that at some point, I mean, our SISOP buddies can help us a little bit.
I was just going to say.
It could be forced underground or be a big hassle or they could just, you know, who knows.
I just think the show is at risk because it's just scary.
It's got too much of this kind of material in it.
Well, and that's why I do think...
If you stop with the pedophile stuff, we'd be, you know, have a break.
Do you really want me to stop?
No, no, no.
I'm just saying in terms of like, you know, I just think the show has, we bring out stuff that I think people would rather not have us do.
Well, that's true.
And this book is astonishing.
And I definitely try to tread lightly on the pedophile stuff, but I can't withhold the fact that this information is out there.
I just, you know, I can't.
Well, I think it's fine to point people to it so they can check it out.
So that's what I've done.
I'm putting links in.
Do you think the links are okay?
No, the links are fine.
Okay.
I've been very cautious about that.
I've said that the thing that frightens me most is exposing this because lots of people get killed over this stuff.
There's just lots of people.
There's a whole path that's littered with bodies of people who try to expose this stuff.
But I do want the people who are diligently working on uncovering the connections.
It needs to be known.
I mean, okay.
I just have to do it.
Got to do it.
But I do hope that our sysadmins and network administrators will help us any way you can when the hammer starts to come down.
I think we're still pretty much okay.
Maybe I need to do more crazy shit.
Yeah, we haven't heard too much about the flying saucers or the greens and the grays and the blues and whatever else is going on.
Well, I do have good news.
According to the Times, indeed, the assertion I made, it does appear to be true in their, what is it called here, the world's strangest laws, if a pregnant woman needs to urinate, by request, she can urinate in a policeman's hat.
In the United Kingdom.
Oh.
Okay, I think people should take advantage of this law.
And the first woman to do that and to prove it will become an automatic dame of the no agenda.
Proving is the tough part.
Someone has to document it and then what do we do?
Oh my goodness.
Okay, stuff that I'm working on for Sunday.
Well, actually, John and I have been talking about a possible civil war in the United States of Europe between France and Germany.
And in our lifetime.
Oh yeah, no doubt about it.
The schemes that are going on surrounding the bailout of Greece, many different interesting angles.
I think we still have to dive into ClimateGate, if only to protect the truth and the fact that everyone's just rolling right over this, just saying, hey, who cares about what's going on?
We don't need any investigations.
We're still going to die from global warming.
We need to stay on that.
And the CIA wars.
And what did we do?
We still did two hours?
Is that where we're at?
Yep.
Unfortunately.
Jesus Christ.
Sorry.
Don't mean to take his name in vain.
And of course, that the European Union wants to shut down the German bakers because they put too much salt in their bread.
Well, this salt thing needs more exploration.
There's something weird about it.
So coming to you from the Hilltop Watchtower in Gibbon Nation West in Southern California.
In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
And you should all go to Dvorak.org slash NA or ChannelDvorak.com slash NA or NAS and help us out.
I'm John C. Dvorak from Northern Silicon Valley.
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