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	There's no tech reporting going on.
	It's all late.
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Dvorak.
	It's April 1st, 2010.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 187.
	This is no agenda.
	Absolutely no foolin'.
	And coming to you from the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center in Gitmo Nation West in the People's Republic of Southern California.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I missed my cue, of course, I could tell by the timing there, because we have a lag all the time on the show.
	Northern Silicon Valley here.
	No April Fool's.
	John C. Devorak.
	You missed more than your cue.
	You missed, like, the whole start of the show.
	It's 9.23.
	I don't think we've ever started this late.
	No, no, no.
	We've started later than that.
	Unless I had an absolute technological meltdown.
	Well, it was a number of...
	Just one thing after another.
	This is April Fool's, so we can start late.
	Yeah, so you want to talk about that briefly before we get into executive producers?
	Yeah, we had this April...
	I don't know.
	Wait, let me correct you right off the bat.
	Not we, Kimo Sabe.
	You sent me an email and said, look, it's a tradition.
	I've got to do an April Fool's gag.
	Just say yes.
	I'm like, oh, okay.
	So the whole thing, I don't...
	Unfortunately, the clip has to be dissected, but the...
	So here's the idea.
	And by the way, I'm known for these fabulous April Fool's gags.
	Oh yeah, you're like the wacky uncle with the slideshow when it comes to that.
	So I say, well, I got an idea.
	We'll have Leo make the announcement.
	Actually, it came from Randy Asher, our...
	One of our artists.
	One of our artists who came up with this idea.
	And so he did the art.
	So I said, well, you know, we can work around this.
	And so the idea was going to be that we're going to do the third show, but it's going to be on the Twit, on Leo's Twit network.
	And Leo would announce that he kind of got kicked away, I guess, and said that he bought us out.
	And so he did.
	But the problem is, you know, I said, so I contacted his people.
	And said, hey, here's the gag.
	Here's what we want to do.
	Leo is going to have this.
	I want Leo to record that he's buying us or he bought our third show or something like that.
	Something funny.
	And then...
	And then...
	I was going to get pissed off.
	I was going to get angry.
	You were supposed to get pissed off and then we got to act a little bit.
	Yeah.
	I was looking forward to the acting part.
	We were going to do this acting.
	little bit.
	Give us a little bit of it.
	I can't believe you've done that, John.
	After 187 episodes, I told you about this two weeks ago.
	This is bullshit, John.
	This is absolute crap.
	I told you, look, I have to do I have to go dig through the show?
	I told you about this two weeks ago.
	In the morning.
	So anyway, so we're going to do some acting.
	Wait a minute, wait a minute.
	Mickey, you're a professional actor.
	How do we do it?
	I'm going to start working a Ugi That's right.
	She just quit.
	Mickey just quit acting altogether.
	Hey, you know, it's pretty hard to top that kind of material.
	I mean, that is pure genius.
	That's gold, baby.
	That's Oscar-winning material right there.
	What?
	But because Leo essentially has flipped out some, I don't know, a few years back and has decided to put himself on the air 24-7, he does the recording live with the cameras on him yesterday.
	Which of course blows up the whole joke.
	It blows the whole gag.
	And I'm getting like tweets from everyone, hey, April Fool's coming up from Leo.
	Now they think it's Leo's gag.
	It's like completely ruined.
	Leo gets all the credit.
	That serves us right.
	Well, you know, the worst part about it is we had a script.
	It wasn't a script.
	It was kind of like a script outline.
	We were going to do some tremendous acting.
	Yeah, I mean, you just heard a fine slice of it.
	And then I was going to complain about the fact I can't get a bit part in a movie.
	So, but the whole thing blew up because Leo has the camera on him 24-7.
	I think this is some psychological thing because he's always saying stuff that he would never say on any of his shows.
	You know, it's like his alter ego is basically...
	Well, this is what happens, you know, you forget and then it's just all of a sudden everything's out there.
	It's...
	So that was our gag of the day, and it didn't, you know, hey, we got next year to do it.
	So, of course, I've been looking around for good April Fool's gags, and I'm still not convinced that this next one, if it is or isn't an April Fool's joke, it is certainly one of the most emailed stories of the day.
	Congressman Hank Johnson, have you seen this video of him?
	No.
	Oh my God.
	I swear to God, this has to be an April Fool's joke.
	I'm trying to find the video edit.
	Something is wrong here.
	He's speaking to an admiral.
	About Guam, because they want to put, you know, an additional 5 or 8,000 troops on Guam.
	And he keeps on going on about the size of Guam.
	And just listen to what he says.
	It's the least widest place on the island.
	He's the congressman from Georgia.
	About 12 miles wide.
	Now listen.
	On the widest part of the island.
	And...
	I don't know how many square miles that is.
	So he sounds drunk, right?
	Wait, wait, wait.
	I can certainly supply it to you if you'd like.
	My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.
	And I'm like, I'm playing this four times.
	I'm like, is this guy for real?
	He's afraid the whole island will tip over and capsize.
	This is the most unbelievable thing in the world.
	I know this has to be an April Fool's joke, but it really appears to be a congressional hearing.
	When was it posted?
	The 25th of March.
	April Fool's jokes technically have to be done on April 1st.
	They're not jokes or hoaxes.
	That's different.
	So this guy is for real.
	He starts for like a minute and a half about the size of Guam, and it's really long, and it's like 12 miles long.
	Does he think islands are floating?
	Apparently.
	And the Admiral, I'll just back it up one second.
	The Admiral, he's like, uh, what?
	What?
	We don't anticipate that.
	The Guam population, I think, currently about 175,000.
	He just rolls right over and, uh, we don't anticipate that.
	Yeah, we don't anticipate the island capsizing.
	Oh my god.
	And the guy makes $174,000 as a congressman.
	Just an FYI. It's amazing how these people get in office and how the public that votes them in is so oblivious to this sort of thing.
	I think the guy just was hammered.
	He sounds a little hammered.
	It's possible.
	I think half the guys...
	Look, if you ever...
	We even listen to C-SPAN. We have to get hammered.
	Just to listen to it.
	It's like, oh my god.
	Yesterday, the Haitian conference was on.
	C-SPAN won.
	I watched all three hours of it.
	Oh.
	Sorry.
	Yeah, it was worth it.
	Hey, who's our executive producer for today?
	Well, we got an executive producer to the tune of 3333.
	Ooh, is that the first of his three installments?
	He left no note.
	He just threw money at us and took off.
	Adam Miller.
	Ah.
	From Perryville, Missouri.
	Missouri.
	And I think he has given us money before, so it's quite possible, I had to look in the records, that he's either going to be a knight or should be a knight or wants to be a knight or doesn't care.
	He's going to be very close to a knight, yeah.
	So, of course, the way that works is if you donate three payments of $333.33, you are almost at the knighthood's $1,000 threshold.
	We kick in the extra penny and make you a knight right on the spot.
	So, Adam Miller, thank you very much for being here.
	Our executive producer, associate executive producer, John?
	We have two.
	We have Ralph Nellison.
	Nellison.
	Nellison from Aachen.
	Oh, from Germany.
	Aachen, Deutschland.
	Yes.
	Not Germany.
	Sorry, excuse me.
	He also...
	I thought we agreed we were going to be calling it Deutschland.
	Yeah, Deutschland, you're right.
	It's Deutschland.
	And he's also apparently...
	He's also...
	It will be a knight today.
	Oh, okay.
	Let me just make a note of that.
	And then, finally...
	Nielsen, yeah.
	Yeah?
	Luke Vanderhelm.
	Luke Vanderhelm.
	Vanderhelm.
	Wait a minute, is it Vanderhelm or Vanderhelm?
	It's V-A-N. Okay, Vanderhelm.
	Okay.
	Oh, that's nice.
	He sent us an email to how to pronounce his name, or to what his name was, because he didn't want to deal with PayPal.
	We do have an arrangement.
	People can wire the money internationally.
	And so he wired in to 1993.
	But it came in from, wire from Helm van der Lenardus Johannes.
	A fine Dutch boy living in Finland.
	In euros.
	Oh, nice.
	And so was it a symbolic amount?
	I couldn't see it being such.
	219 what?
	Well, it came in as dollars, 219.93, but in euros it was 183, which, I don't know, I didn't see that he mentioned it meant anything.
	So he's our other associate executive producer.
	So, we're going to do our knighthoods later on because we have another knight who has actually sent his own knighthood theme song or theme tune, Jeff Smith.
	So, we have two knighthoods coming up.
	We do have a number of PR associates that I'd like to mention, John, a couple of interesting things.
	First is Pranav.
	Parikh, I think is how you pronounce it, he's done a Facebook advertising campaign of No Agenda.
	Yes, he's actually our first Indian.
	Our first Indian giver.
	Yeah, our first Indian giver.
	He gave us a, actually mailed in, because you can't do PayPal in India, apparently.
	Really?
	I think those guys run PayPal?
	What is that?
	I don't know.
	Whatever the case is, he actually sent us a hundred rupees or something in the form of a bill.
	500 rupees, actually.
	500, yes, which is, I think, 45 cents.
	You're hoarding that, aren't you?
	You're sitting on that.
	Yeah, I am, actually.
	You're hoarding the dough.
	It's framed.
	It's going to go into the No Agenda Studios.
	We appreciate the Facebook campaign.
	Also, Jim has built a World of Warcraft No Agenda Guild.
	Yeah, I love that.
	Yeah, I mean, I saw the screenshots.
	They looked awesome.
	I mean, it's kind of like Second Life in a way, right?
	The way it looks.
	Yeah.
	So I haven't been into World of Warcraft, but if you're into World of Warcraft, and I have a feeling some of our listeners slash producers might be, then you can go look for the World of Warcraft Guild.
	And M, we have M, M at slash slash who actually gave a pretty good idea.
	We've had a number of promotional ideas such as changing your Wi-Fi name to No Agenda Stream or NoAgendaShow.com.
	He says, hey guys, here's an idea.
	Why don't all of your listeners create a Twitter list Such as, no agenda show, douchebag, and put people like PressSec and at Barack Obama in the list.
	He thinks it will trend on Twitter.
	So, I like the idea.
	I like these kind of, you know, social hacking ideas.
	I do too, and what I think is funny is that we're getting some real creative ideas from listeners in a feedback mechanism that I don't know if really exists in normal broadcasting.
	Oh, it totally doesn't.
	Absolutely.
	Not...
	And the thing is that there's much better ideas than we'd ever come up with.
	You think?
	I mean, when you see the idea, like the noagendashow.com SSID. That's brilliant, right?
	It's like you look at it and say, oh, it's an obviously great idea that I could have thought of, but you never will.
	This is crowdsourcing in a way.
	Totally.
	It's amazing.
	Two clips I want to play, quick ones, from James and Sarah Eakins.
	James is a sysadmin by day and musician by night.
	His wife is also a singer.
	They are with an outfit called Broad Daylight, myspace.com slash broad daylight.
	And they were doing a guest spot on killradio.org, which apparently a lot of people listen to and...
	Here's a way to piss off the hosts of a show.
	I'm still sharp, but yeah, it was a long night last night.
	I was out quite late.
	A lot later than I thought I was going to.
	And the time changed.
	This is on something called Los Angeles Free Radio, I guess.
	Because it didn't deny me.
	Can I somehow blame that on the government?
	Yes.
	In the morning.
	I would like to take this moment, just I hope you don't mind, to give a shout out to noagendashow.com, which is just an amazing show.
	In the morning to you, Sarah.
	In the morning too, James.
	And we love you, Adam.
	Love you too, baby.
	And John, who I've always had a man crush on, John Dvorak.
	And they'll be hearing this.
	And I just got to say to Adam Curry, thank you for turning me on to Atlas Shrugged.
	Anyways, that's a side note.
	Sorry.
	Any more shout-outs?
	Let's do some more.
	Any more shout-outs?
	The guy's like pissed off now.
	Any more shout-outs?
	Stupid shout-outs.
	Hey, great, James and Sarah.
	I think that was an awesome one.
	And without a doubt, the PR executive of the week goes to Eric Newman.
	As you know, Leo Laporte does his Tech Guy show.
	I think it's Saturday and Sunday.
	It's on KFI. I think it's just on one of the two days.
	I have a feeling maybe sometimes it's both days, but I listen to KFI all the time because it's a Los Angeles provocative talk radio.
	Yeah, so it's a flamethrower.
	You can't not listen to it.
	It's like a 50,000-watt station, and so Leo does his tech, which is kind of a weird show on this station.
	This is the station that has Rush Limbaugh in the morning.
	Which ironically is the guy who bumped Leo off of KNBR when Leo was a talk show host.
	Oh really?
	And pushed Leo into the tech stuff that has now made him a millionaire.
	Interesting.
	Irony of ironies.
	So, one of our producers calls up, and I just love this bit, and my Twitter exploded, my text messaging exploded, everyone was freaking out because, of course, because of the, you're right, the flamethrower size of KFI. It was great.
	Yes, exactly.
	And I also want to give you some radio love and tell you, I've been listening to you and watching you on tech TV. By the way, that's a great way to get your plug in, is suck up to the host first.
	Yeah.
	That's really good.
	Entire century.
	You've been my generation's Walter Cronkite.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	For the incredible service that you provide.
	If you don't mind, I'm a producer on this podcast I'd like to tell you about really quickly.
	I see it right here.
	Is it Nightcast?
	Oh, no.
	I used to run their servers, actually.
	That's a UCF student radio station.
	It's an internet-based radio station.
	What's the podcast?
	Well, we like to do it in the morning.
	It's a podcast with some friends of mine where we like to deconstruct some media called No Agenda.
	You do No Agenda?
	Well, I know about No Agenda.
	What do you do for No Agenda?
	This is the funny part.
	Leo's like, hey, you produced that show.
	He's thinking the guy runs around and gets us coffee and stuff, right?
	What's producers end up doing?
	No, not our producers.
	Well, this.
	You can call me a PR associate.
	My job is to go around and get the word out, to awaken people.
	So you need to do like Howard Stern.
	You need to have something like Baba Booey.
	He just said in the morning.
	You even missed that on Twitch.
	Yeah, I know.
	I missed it.
	In the morning is our catchphrase.
	That is totally our catchphrase.
	People will know about it.
	Of course, John C. Dvorak is a good friend, old friend, guy who got me started in the business.
	Is that true?
	Yeah.
	You got him started in the business, in radio business?
	In the tech business.
	He was a talk show host.
	The story, what happened was we were, I did his show a couple of times when he was doing normal talk show, you know, interviewing the local newspaper column, this kind of thing.
	And, um...
	You know, it turned out that I didn't realize he was like a geek.
	Right.
	And so we chatted a lot about this.
	And so he actually thought of the idea of doing a show together on tech on the weekends.
	Ah, good.
	But he couldn't apparently sell it to them just himself because he's...
	Yeah, he needed someone with credibility.
	Yeah, so they had to bring me in, so I got him started in that way.
	Okay, let's continue this so we can get on to the real news.
	His podcast, No Agenda, is a morning show.
	In fact, that's funny.
	It's a morning show.
	I think it's Sunday mornings, isn't it?
	Where he and Adam Curry, who you may remember the name Adam Curry, he's that guy with the big hair.
	You can just hear Leo thinking, fucking douchebag.
	He's that douchebag, douchebag.
	The guy with the hair.
	He was one of the first MTV VJs.
	And Adam's kind of a conspiracy buff.
	And John's kind of a curmudgeon.
	Take that, Dvorak.
	That's what you get for helping the guy in the business, you curmudgeon.
	Between the two of them, it's kind of a funny show.
	No Agenda.
	If you go to Google No Agenda or NoAgenda.mevio.com, you can find out more about it.
	Alright, perfect.
	So we picked up about four or five listeners with that.
	Yeah, and no money.
	And no money.
	We appreciate the effort, though.
	That's really helpful.
	Well, thank you very much to Adam Miller as our executive producer of No Agenda, episode 187.
	Ralph Nalison and Luke von der Helm as our associate executive producers.
	You guys by now know that you need to go out and propagate our message and our formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	And Adam Miller now on the second of three payments.
	And soon he'll have one of those actual rings to hit people in the mouth with.
	Order.
	Shut up, slave.
	All right, John.
	Alright, we got a lot of news this week that is weird.
	God, you know, the show notes, we're still not sending them out on the mailing list yet.
	They are off the charts.
	I've got so many articles and things.
	This is getting ridiculous.
	It's time for a third show.
	Well, we don't have the finances for it.
	But anyway, the...
	I don't know.
	There's a lot of distractive news.
	It's distractive.
	I don't know if that's a real word, but a lot of distractions this week.
	The distraction of the week on the agenda.
	Look over there.
	I mean, it's just like a potload of these things.
	Yeah, there's the South Korean destroyer.
	By the way, Uncle Don is going over to Korea next week, so I'm going to call him and find out and see if I can get any information.
	Yeah, good luck, right?
	Why would he...
	I don't know.
	Exactly.
	The guy's 80, but he's going to go do something.
	He's listed on Wikipedia, you know.
	Oh, yeah.
	And he's supposedly retired.
	He's very famous.
	Then, of course, we had the militia group who were raided.
	We had the boob bombers in Russia, which I think is probably the most interesting one.
	And there was more.
	It just seemed not to stop.
	Still Tiger Woods is back in the news.
	There's a bunch of celebrity stuff.
	I don't know.
	I mean, obviously there's some real something that's important to happen, and they couldn't take a chance on covering it up with one or two distractions, and so they just barraged us with smoke screens.
	I do have a thought that one of the things that could have happened is our president...
	President Obama made a surprise visit to the troops in Afghanistan.
	Yeah, this was an interesting out-of-the-blue story.
	Yeah, and this stuff has happened before, and the reports I'm getting is that he actually had a secret...
	There's no way to do the timetable on it, because you don't know exactly when he took off, and it's a lot of work, and nothing very clear about when Air Force One left, and of course there's two Air Force Ones.
	So you can easily land one.
	It's just all kinds of difficult information to obtain, but the reports I'm getting is that he actually had a meeting with Chinese Communist leader Hu Jintao.
	And that the Afghanistan trip was used as cover.
	This is the second time, at least we've talked about this.
	This may have happened during his Copenhagen visit.
	Exactly.
	Or Copenhagen.
	Which also has a bunch of missing time elements.
	This one, of course, the news media, the mainstream news guys...
	The right wing and the left wing both had different takes on this visit to Afghanistan.
	Of course, the left wing is great that he'd do this.
	But the right wing, what is he?
	He comes in at midnight.
	He meets with these guys.
	They're all in bed.
	Yeah, he's just like, hey, Barack, dude, call me in the morning, will you?
	And he's only there for a few hours, and they bitch and moan about this, not even thinking that maybe this was something else going on, because the fact of the matter is, I think the giveaway, I think why you're on the right track, is that...
	He was only there for a few hours.
	Why would he fly all the way to Afghanistan, which is a miserable...
	That is as far as you can go.
	Yeah, ever hear of Skype?
	I mean, come on.
	This is ridiculous.
	That's as far as you can go.
	I mean, you're in a plane for 14 hours to get there, depending on which way you went, over the Pacific, over the Atlantic.
	Well, he can refuel in flight if he has to.
	Yeah, but the point is that it's the longest, you can't really make a longer trip than that.
	It's the other side of the globe almost exactly.
	But anyway, so he flies all that way for, what, to shake a couple of hands and leave?
	That makes no sense whatsoever.
	He had to be doing something else.
	He's not going to make a long trip like that without doing something else and that something else wasn't reported and nobody even thought to ask.
	So here's the theory from Russian reports.
	Because, of course, the Russians immediately say, ah, it's over there in China.
	We know exactly what's going on.
	Apparently, China has their half-century crisis or disaster.
	And this, I believe the last time this happened was in the 60s, which kind of makes sense on the timeline.
	They have a 50-year drought cycle in China.
	And the last time this happened in the 60s, it's estimated 20 to 50 million Chinese died of literally water starvation.
	Starvation, you know, so they couldn't grow any food and they had no water.
	Right.
	Bad.
	Very bad.
	And at the time, of course, this is, I'm going to say this is Nixon's period.
	And Nixon, of course, sent his guy...
	Well, Nixon was actually...
	Nixon didn't really crop up until 68.
	Yeah.
	I think this happened during the Johnson era, but go ahead.
	Well, this was around the time that George H.W. Bush was ambassador to the United Nations.
	And when he started calling for the new world order and there was going to be a global solution to famine and all this stuff.
	And Henry Kissinger, of course, he went over to China on a secret visit.
	And then we had Nixon's historic 1972 meeting with the Chinese.
	Remember all that?
	I mean, it's hard for me to remember because I was all like nine years old.
	I was 50.
	But the reports are that the Chinese are basically saying, okay, now America has to help us, and we need water, resources, and basically a place to put our people.
	We've got to move them.
	Well, they moved a lot of them to the San Francisco Bay Area.
	Precisely!
	A hell of a lot of them!
	And you don't see them, right?
	They're like no-see-ums.
	He's like, hey, there's a lot of Chinese around here all of a sudden.
	A lot.
	So, you know, the reports are sketchy, but I do like kind of the theory of the 50-year drought, and I guess that they're interesting.
	I don't read about it, because God forbid the news media give us some actual news and do some investigative reporting, but it does seem about time that the Chinese are in for a big water issue.
	I don't know.
	Could be.
	But, you know, that's the problem.
	Nobody asks questions.
	The White House press corps is a joke.
	I mean, they're basically lapdog.
	And, you know, they have to be because if they ask a smart question, they get thrown off out of the room and they never get to come back.
	I mean, this is one of the most corrupt situations.
	It's slowly evolved and the press is complicit because they put up with this.
	It seems to me that the press wanted to really ask hard questions.
	And when somebody did that and got thrown off the bus, the entire group should say, we're not doing this anymore.
	This is bogus.
	What's the point of having these meetings?
	Just send us a memo.
	Fax it to us.
	You're not answering questions.
	You're not interacting.
	It's ridiculous.
	But no.
	So that's the thing I believe it may have been covering up.
	Then, of course, the distraction slash, I think CIA, I have to really think this is a CIA deal.
	These bombers in the Russian subways.
	So first, you know, it would make so much sense because once again, oh, now it's women.
	Because, you know, you can't profile a terrorist.
	No, it could be just a chick.
	A boob bomber.
	And although horrible, of course, because there were some magic numbers.
	I read 30, 33, more than 30, all kinds of three numbers of people who perished during this bombing.
	Of course, CCTV cameras didn't catch any of them because, oh, well, we need some more of them now.
	Yeah, that's a classic too.
	There's too many checklist elements on this bombing, you know, that serve some other purpose.
	One, it serves the purpose of you can't profile, serves the purpose of homegrown terrorism, serves the purpose of we need more cameras because for some unknown reason all our brainiacs couldn't put the cameras in the right place or they knew where the cameras were or it was an inside job.
	I mean, this kind of thing is...
	And we had this on 60 Minutes when they were interviewing you.
	I gave you a copy of the show.
	It was last Sunday.
	Oh yeah, they had the Jihad Jane from 2006.
	I didn't even know that Jihad Jane had already been used previously as a moniker for female terrorists.
	Yeah, so they had this Jihad Jane who had a great story to tell and we don't know why this was on 60 Minutes in the first place.
	It was basically a sob story, how the government or somebody screwed this woman over.
	And for all we know, we don't even know if she's still working for the agency or whatever.
	I mean, it was all hard to tell.
	The thing was so, it was produced to elicit sympathy for her for some reason.
	And also to give you the indication that we have, I don't know, it is like a lot of mixed messages in there.
	I never could deconstruct it.
	Uh, because 60 Minutes, by the way, you can't, except for the real obvious stories, and my kids can deconstruct, you know, occasionally 60 Minutes will do a profile on Sheryl Crow, and then one of the kids will say, oh yeah, she's on the record label that's owned by Viacom.
	Right.
	They have the whole thing figured out.
	They're doing the puff piece, and 60 Minutes does these all the time.
	They're always doing puff pieces on something they have some connection to on a money basis, some fiduciary deal.
	There is a financial angle to this.
	That's interesting you bring that up.
	Let me just look at this article.
	The financial angle was that running right up to the actual bombing attack, there was a lot of positive news about the ruble.
	Hold on, let me just get this.
	I've got the timeline.
	It was very interesting.
	Here we are.
	Maybe I don't have it.
	Anyway, the day of the bombing, the ruble tanked.
	Like tanked, and they were like, everything was great.
	Before the bombing or after the bombing?
	Right after the bombing.
	Right after the bombing, the ruble tanked.
	Huh.
	Yeah, and I was like, hmm, okay.
	You know, I'm no financial expert.
	You know, I think there's a lot of stuff that goes on that involves, I mean, there was a lot of people that before the 9-11 takedown of the World Trade Center, there was a lot of people that shorted the airline stops.
	Oh yeah, airline, absolutely.
	Here we go.
	March 24th, NATO and Russia clashed on the 24th of March over how to tackle the drug problem in Afghanistan, which, by the way, the Russians are now yelling at the Americans, in particular the CIA, saying that they are killing millions of Russians a year because apparently a lot of the heroin is being trafficked into Russia that is coming from Afghanistan.
	We know that this is...
	Well, here they come.
	That's a military helicopter, isn't it?
	Now he's here.
	Nothing out of the ordinary.
	28th of March, Russian ambassador to Tehran, Alexander Sadovnikov, described Moscow-Tehran relations as excellent.
	So now a little saber-rattling.
	Hey, we like Iran!
	28th of March as well, Russia hailed a new nuclear arms treaty.
	With the United States, but warned that U.S. missile defense plans could derail its implementation.
	29th of March, Russia's future growth looks set to be increasingly driven by domestic demand as a recovery in industrial production supports job creation and earnings growth.
	And then after the blast, boom!
	Ruble drops the most in two months versus the euro after the Moscow blast.
	So there's something there.
	Yeah, something's fishy.
	As usual.
	And besides the fact that it's just more terrorism, that they didn't catch on camera.
	And they also want to reinstate the death penalty now in Russia.
	In Russia?
	Yeah.
	I didn't know that they ever uninstated it.
	Well, like an official death penalty.
	Usually they just walk up behind you and it's like, you know, you're dead.
	Don't write that.
	You can't be a journalist.
	No, we have to kill you.
	And now they can actually put you before some tribunal and do some stuff to you.
	Alright, well, so that's part of the...
	I mean, this week was a very hard week to dissect.
	So I, of course, did a couple things.
	We'll do this later in the show, but I did decide to go and dissect a Dick Wolf show.
	And people always complain about us, or me in particular.
	All you're doing is watching television.
	I watch television.
	I mean, I watch a lot of C-SPAN, but I watch regular television because most people watch television in this country.
	Go figure, four hours a day.
	So we have to know what they're being programmed with.
	It's what we do.
	We need to see the programming so we can say, hey, look, this is what's going on.
	And you can identify certain trends based on...
	You talk about the reporters and the news people.
	You know, they give us mediocre coverage.
	They don't do their job half the time.
	And the ones that do, you know, you never find the material anyway.
	It doesn't get much broad distribution.
	But the real writers, the writers who make money, res writers, the big, I mean, they don't make as much money as a Daniel Steele writing novel.
	The guys who write these screenplays, those are the real writers.
	I mean, not the people that work for the New York Times.
	They're just reporters that kind of are like cogs in a wheel and much of their work is mechanical.
	These guys are the creative ones that are brainwashing you.
	Yeah, because they write stories that you get sucked into, and it's a dramatic series.
	And actually, there was a lot this week that was quite outrageous when it comes to stories.
	And of course, we know the connections between Dick Wolf and, well, certainly Bush.
	And we know that there's the Hollywood Creative Association, what is that called again, who actually admit to putting messages into their dramatized productions.
	Yeah, and there was memos from the White House telling him to do it.
	Yeah!
	He's like, oh yeah, sure, we'll do it.
	We want to push volunteerism, you know, this year of that.
	So, anyway.
	So we have some interesting clips.
	But I also have a couple, since we were talking about the CIA and some of the strangeness with the Russians in the Middle East.
	Play the Blitzer clip.
	This is the rundown on a news story that still has me shaking my head because Blitzer...
	Actually, the clip is, I'm sorry, I think, no, it's a CIA grabs Iranian clip.
	It's like, they don't give you the timeline or the dates or anything.
	They just, the Blitzer show, which is on CNN, is one of the worst news shows ever.
	And after we play this clip, I'm going to prove it to you by bringing up another clip called the Blitzer clip that's next.
	It just, there's no information.
	The Cafferty file.
	It's a potential goldmine of information on Iran's nuclear program.
	We're following reports that the United States has convinced an Iranian scientist to defect and bring along with him secrets the Tehran government doesn't want the West or the world to know about.
	Our foreign affairs correspondent Jill Doherty is here working the story for us.
	All right, to update our viewers, what do we know about this?
	Okay, the man's name is Shamram Amiri.
	We did report on him a few months ago.
	I think he's donated to No Agenda, hasn't he?
	Shamram Amiri?
	Could be.
	And I think we have a picture that we can show.
	It comes from Iran's press TV. So he is a nuclear scientist.
	He was working at a university that is allied with the nuclear program of Iran.
	He goes to Saudi Arabia to the holy sites, and then he disappears.
	And at that point, Iran says he's been kidnapped by the United States.
	However, this new report that came out from ABC News says that actually he defected to the CIA and that he's been given some valuable information.
	As you might expect, there's no confirmation coming from the U.S. government, the State Department, anybody officially.
	But, you know, one of the things, it's a bit murky, Wolf, because it's unclear exactly what he knew.
	Remember when we were talking about comms?
	Two things about this clip.
	Actually, three things.
	One, it's called the Situation Room.
	Wolf Blitzer implies that he is in some kind of information hub, very similar or analogous to the White House's Situation Room when there's something going on.
	This sounds like essentially, oh, standby, new information coming about Iran's nuclear capabilities.
	It's just a setup to have some kind of report leak that Iran is ready to nuke us.
	And three, the question I have for you, John, I'll bet you this girl is hot.
	Yep.
	Yep.
	Okay.
	All right.
	She's a good-looking woman.
	But the thing is, there's no real information here.
	It's just a bunch of vague reasons.
	She talks about this.
	We first heard about this a couple of months ago.
	We don't have a timeline.
	We don't have a sense of a timeline.
	We don't have any clue.
	I didn't even know you could defect to the CIA. I didn't think they were a country.
	But apparently, this guy did.
	And I guess the guy defected, what, in...
	In Mecca?
	I'm defecting to the CIA. That's a good one.
	I hadn't even thought of that.
	I like it.
	I'm defecting to the CIA. This is like really bad.
	But the worst example, I'm sorry, I'm listening to this and I say, this is terrible.
	And so then I just picked up this little, this blitzer clip.
	There's a, he's giving news item, news item, news item.
	And this one news item showed up right in the middle of a string of useless news items with no details whatsoever.
	And as soon as I heard it, I said, wait a minute, this is like actually kind of interesting.
	But he just blows right by it.
	Play that.
	...in Iraq.
	And a Lebanese TV host is fighting for his life in Saudi Arabia.
	He's been sentenced to death for practicing sorcery.
	Says he could be beheaded on Friday.
	And older women who take daily vitamins might be increasing their risk.
	That's great.
	What a segue.
	He could be beheaded on Friday.
	And older women who are taking vitamins.
	Like, this is awesome.
	By the way, Phil 11.
	Let's watch that.
	It's unbelievable.
	I mean, this shallow reporting is beyond...
	It's astonishing to me.
	So I had to look up...
	Of course, I, you know, being a citizen of the internets...
	Of Gitmo Nation.
	Decided to look up the sorcery guy.
	What can he do?
	Can he make us magically enough money to do a third show?
	So Blitzer, it just baffles me how they could miss what a great story this is.
	Apparently this guy is a show host on a TV show where he plays kind of a...
	A John Edwards character.
	Oh, okay.
	You know, like the crossing over guy?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.
	But he does this bogus car neck predicting the future.
	I see in the future the oil wells are drying up.
	He's predicting, he's making these bogus, he's an entertainer.
	I love it.
	And they're going to chop his head off.
	Tomorrow.
	It's a setup, so of course it's not real, but I bet you it'll be televised.
	Listen, something's happening tomorrow.
	We need to look everywhere for the real news because I have a feeling this could be the clip of the day.
	Distraction of the week of the television host.
	And by the way, what a message.
	I think it's a great message.
	Hey, Rachel Maddow.
	If you don't follow the message, then this is what will happen to you.
	We're going to chop your head off.
	So the guy is just a, you know, he's an entertainer that does this bit.
	You know, there's been these guys over the years, but apparently, I guess somebody in Saudi Arabia, he's predicting that maybe he got something right.
	And so, oh my God, the guy's a sorcerer.
	We have to kill him.
	So, staying with Saudi Arabia and weird news, this comes out in the Washington Post.
	And see if you can catch what's wrong with the story.
	The United States test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads during a joint military exercise Wednesday in Saudi Arabia.
	No.
	Saudi Arabia is in the middle of the desert.
	Where is the submarine?
	It must be offshore, but that's not in Saudi Arabia.
	No, Saudi Arabia could not be more in the middle of the desert.
	So where did they launch?
	The Trident missile launch was carried out in the kingdom, the official said.
	In the kingdom?
	You can't have a submarine in the desert.
	This is crazy!
	Do these guys have Google Earth?
	Do they even care to look at the map and say Saudi Arabia and the Trident?
	So they've got a Trident in Saudi Arabia.
	How does that work?
	Maybe they hauled the sub out of the water and hauled it down to Rydia and had it sitting there and launched it.
	I don't know.
	It's just...
	It has to be in the water outside.
	I mean, Saudi Arabia borders on some water, so they could...
	No, it doesn't.
	No, it does not.
	Saudi Arabia...
	Yeah, it does, doesn't it?
	Sure it does.
	No, no, it does not.
	Go look at Google right now.
	Here, I'm going to do it with you.
	Maps.Google.
	Here, people in the chat room do this.
	Saudi Arabia is...
	Now, they're saying...
	Unless they're wrong on...
	Yeah, it borders on the two oceans.
	It's got two bodies of water next to it.
	No, it doesn't.
	That's not Saudi Arabia.
	Saudi Arabia is huge, and it's got the...
	What is that body of water there?
	No, but that's not Saudi Arabia.
	That's where the Suez Canal is just off of it.
	You've got Yemen down to the south.
	You've got Oman down to the southeast.
	What's on the west and the east?
	You've got two bodies of water.
	You're going to tell me they had it in the...
	What is that?
	The...
	We're just like two kids here.
	We can't remember...
	No, but this is over here.
	It's like you've got Mecca...
	But then you've got, it's basically Kuwait on the east, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, you know, you've got Dubai.
	Yeah, but just north of there is Saudi Arabia territory, and that's bordering on that water.
	And then the whole left side of Saudi Arabia is all water.
	Jeddah is right on the water, it looks like.
	Well, I find it highly suspicious.
	I don't think this is a very strange report.
	Well, I think you've marked up the wrong tree.
	You think?
	Okay.
	Well, I could be wrong.
	I'll be the first to admit I'm wrong.
	What's the name of this body of water?
	So the chat room knows.
	What's the body of that huge body of water on the left?
	All right.
	Then let me go to something I actually really did some work on.
	You're blaming me for being late.
	Yesterday, there was the United Nations...
	A conference on Haiti.
	And this was a three-hour program which C-SPAN broadcast live.
	A lot of it was in French, unfortunately.
	However, both Bill and Hillary Clinton were at this conference.
	And I couldn't even begin to pull clips because they are pulling such a smokescreen over the fact that Port-au-Prince...
	It has been destroyed, but now we're rebuilding all of Haiti with $11 billion worth of money, of which the United States pledges $1.5 billion right off the bat.
	Hillary Clinton just said it right there.
	I didn't hear any congressional hearings about it, but I guess that's okay.
	The United Nations, the World Bank, and private investors will be in charge of rebuilding hundreds of miles of roads, hotels, according to Bill, The Pentagon currently is now using Haiti as a training ground for Afghanistan, which just blew me away.
	They're using the broken down buildings as training spots for what it's like to work in Afghanistan.
	Britain has been cut out of the mix because I guess they're not on board with the program.
	They were even denied a speaking slot, which was a little brouhaha.
	And, you know, it's amazing how Bill Clinton sits there and says, well, you know, we can't wait.
	You know, it's really great.
	We're going to rebuild the entire economy.
	We're going to rebuild the entire country.
	But, oh yeah, there's about 100,000 people who are basically living in tents.
	We've got to help them out before the hurricane season comes.
	And I don't understand how you can have a conference with a bunch of yahoos like Ban Ki-moon and Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton.
	The shill president that was installed there by kicking the real president down to Africa, over to Africa, and still have 100,000 people without decent food and water.
	20,000 troops practicing for...
	Work in Afghanistan for warfare in Afghanistan.
	And they have not done a single thing to help the people.
	I mean, how hard can it be?
	It's been six, seven weeks.
	How hard can it be?
	For Christ's sakes, get the old Katrina trailers with formaldehyde for all I care.
	Do something.
	They're doing nothing.
	It is a total hijack of the country.
	And please listen to Hillary Clinton.
	And this blew me away.
	To that end, the United States pledges $1.15 billion for Haiti's long-term recovery and reconstruction.
	This money will go towards supporting the government of Haiti's plan to strengthen agriculture, energy, health, security, and governance.
	Okay, so that's drugs, child trafficking, oil, and tourism.
	We are committed to working with the people and organizations throughout Haiti, including civil society groups, private businesses, NGOs, and citizens.
	Nice.
	Total takeover.
	And I'm very glad to see so many of them represented here today.
	We will also be looking for ways to engage our Haitian diaspora.
	Haitian Americans have much to contribute to this effort.
	And we will seek specifically to empower the women of Haiti.
	I've said this so many times that I know I sound like a broken record.
	But investing in women is the best investment we can make in any country.
	And investing in the Haitian women will fuel the long-term economic recovery and progress, not only for them, but for their families.
	So what does that mean, John?
	I don't know.
	I'm baffled by it myself.
	And I'm listening to that, and I played the clip over again.
	And by the way, when she does this, her body language is very interesting.
	She puts her right hand over her heart.
	When she talks about this, like, I'm really sincere.
	It must be code.
	That's code.
	It's got to be something.
	And it's like investing in women.
	What does that mean?
	Children is not important.
	I mean, what does it mean?
	The best investment we can make anywhere is in women.
	What is this?
	Hookers.
	Yeah, Bill's like, uh-huh, uh-huh.
	You go Hillary?
	That's good.
	I'll be investing in women once we get the whole casino set up.
	It's going to be great.
	So this is a complete takeover of the country.
	It's a great country to take over, of course.
	Oh, yeah, it's a no-brainer.
	It's strategically located.
	Bill Clinton was already involved as a special envoy.
	Now he's the UN special envoy to Haiti, United Nations, and the World Bank.
	And the whole thing is all about the World Bank going to finance this.
	So the Haitians are totally screwed.
	Team, we just need cash.
	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
	Just send your cash.
	Shysters show up and take advantage of people's good will and generosity.
	It's just, it's unbelievable to me.
	And no, of course, no one is fighting.
	You know, where's Anderson Cooper now?
	Hey, Anderson Vanderbilt, where are you now, now that this is happening?
	It's like, oh, it's all, stop the news reports, no longer important.
	People are still dying.
	There's pigs and people living together.
	They gotta get rid of as many as they can before they actually do anything.
	They're annihilating them.
	They're annihilating these people.
	Yeah, no, it's just a form of, yeah, I think so.
	Genocide.
	I think it's total genocide.
	It's just...
	Anyway, I have a whole Haiti section in the show notes.
	Oh, one other minor thing you might find of interest.
	Of course, I believe that the Haiti earthquake was set off intentionally with an earthquake-like machine, which could certainly be HAARP located in Alaska.
	Oh, bull.
	Well...
	Here's something interesting.
	The HAARP has a website, and they publish charts of their frequencies.
	So their frequencies are 18.11 MHz, 14.1, 100 to 200 MHz, etc.
	Interestingly enough, they deleted all of the archived charts of the day before the earthquake.
	Yes, the chart archives on the HARP website, which shows the archive of their frequencies and what they're transmitting, were deleted.
	No other deletions that I could find between 2004 and current day of any of the data, except for the day before the Haitian earthquake, some charts are missing, like all of the charts.
	Well, I find that peculiar.
	Yes.
	Because, you know, this is what people...
	It's not hard.
	There's all kinds of people monitoring this stuff.
	So I'm now looking for...
	I have received some reports from people saying that HAARP was very active the day before.
	But I like it when it comes from maestro.harp.alaska.edu.
	You know, that's like a pretty official site that monitors the HAARP frequencies.
	Charts gone.
	Hmm.
	I'm just saying.
	Alright, we'll make note.
	By the way, it's the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
	Oh, so we've got tridents in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf?
	One of the two.
	It didn't say which one.
	I'd say probably the Red Sea.
	That's the deep one.
	Persian Gulf, you know, dead ends in Iraq.
	Okay.
	Actually, not as you mentioned, the Persian Gulf would be the place you'd do it because it's like two minutes.
	I mean, the Persian Gulf is alongside, on one side is Saudi Arabia, on the other side is Iran, and then Iraq is at the top.
	And so you'd go into the Persian Gulf and you'd set off a missile.
	This is like, no, I don't think they'd do it.
	That's too obvious.
	It's right next to Iran.
	They'd have to go do it in the Red Sea.
	So, well, I'm happy that they just say Saudi Arabia in the Washington Post in the news reporting.
	It would help if they actually told us what was going on.
	Yeah, a little more details would be useful.
	And what would really help is if we had help...
	Especially when you think Saudi Arabia is landlocked.
	Well, Riyadh is right in the middle of the desert.
	Yeah, I know it is.
	The whole thing is a desert.
	So, what would help is if we actually had more help.
	John, we have your son Eric now participating and working on a lot of stuff for us.
	The first thing to tackle was the supporters of the show and of No Agenda stream just to get their names right and their donations right.
	I said on the pre-stream this morning, we're actually getting to the point...
	Where we're going to have to shit or get off the pot.
	And the one thing we're missing is the shit part.
	We need more money.
	I'm just going to say it.
	Don't send us blankets.
	Just send us cash.
	Because we're never going to get to three shows a week this way.
	You know, blankets are okay.
	I'm not really in that area.
	In fact, we did get...
	We got the Team Vegan t-shirts.
	Yeah, and hold on one second.
	I've got to get to Ryan.
	I think it's Ryan Lee.
	Yeah.
	Sorry about that.
	Yeah, also, call out to the mic.
	Call out to Ryan Lee, who sent me a University of Kentucky sweatshirt, a beauty, by the way, and a couple of t-shirts, and he says one of the t-shirts is for you.
	Yeah, that's our vegan in residence, right?
	No, no, this is another guy.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, I like those, too.
	And it'll keep us warm when I can't pay the heating bill.
	Thanks.
	But we do have some actual donors that sent us cash instead of clothes.
	Cash, not clothes.
	The Kentucky thing was fantastic.
	Oh, by the way, number 12, we have our old friend from Santa Barbara coughing up another $77.77.
	Oh, Sterling?
	Sterling Ellsworth?
	Exactly.
	Nice.
	Thank you, Sterling.
	And Thomas Alley, A-L-L-Y, in Belleville, Ohio, $65.
	And he says he gave $65 to the EFF.org and thought we deserved the same amount.
	Paolo Santos.
	Hey, by the way, thanks for using his nickname.
	Sorry?
	Yeah.
	Trallius.
	You've got to read the notes.
	I'm looking at the notes.
	I don't see...
	Oh, there it is.
	Scroll over to the side.
	This spreadsheet is really wide.
	There we have Paolo Santos.
	And it says, Istanbul, Istanbul, Portugal.
	And I'm not sure where in Portugal there's Istanbul, Istanbul.
	That seems more like Turkey to me.
	But, well, it's a Portuguese name, Santos.
	In fact, Santos used to be the best linguiça maker in the San Francisco Bay Area.
	This company lived in San Lorenzo, Santos Linguiça, and he ended up shooting two health inspectors and killing them because they wouldn't let him make this linguiça the way it's supposed to be made, and he got fed up and killed these poor guys.
	I feel sorry for him.
	And they threw him in the slammer, and then he died in there.
	So the sausage recipes lost.
	Paulo says, tell Adam to give John a break with his screw-ups with the money.
	Right.
	The screw-ups consist of things like not mentioning somebody's nickname.
	Eduardo Martinez, San Jose, California.
	You're getting a lot of action for the Daily Source Code.
	This guy's also calling you out for it.
	Well, the Daily Source Code, of course, is a part of our NoAgendaStream.com initiative, and we're planning on getting more shows and really building up something that over time I think could become very valuable, something you can point to.
	His donation, by the way, is $14 times $4 so that you, John Dvorak, myself...
	Christina and Mickey can get some of that gourmet mac and cheese in San Francisco.
	You kind of left Mimi and Eric out of the picture.
	Well, let them have cake.
	She doesn't even listen to the show.
	Yeah, she does sometimes.
	She and her buddy Dexter.
	But she's like, oh, Dad, you make me tired.
	You don't want to hear about it.
	Poor kids.
	Anyway, he says he can't be called a douchebag.
	We also have Bruce Klassen in Valencia, who has another long note.
	His note is actually pretty simple.
	What we've noticed is some kind of karma thing that seems to be working.
	When people donate to the show...
	During unemployment, they actually appear to get work pretty quickly.
	Yeah, no, this is not bogus.
	We're not making this up, and people keep giving us more example after example, and this is another one.
	Yeah, so Bruce says, I'm going to take this karma to task.
	He has an experiment.
	He has a...
	So he donated in January and landed a job after six months of unemployment.
	So this gig is about to end.
	He's worked for hire.
	So he's donating in hopes that the luck of a no-agenda donation will cause my employment to continue.
	He will report back when or if there is news.
	In the meantime, he's donating to the show $55.10, double nickels on the dime.
	Appreciate it.
	Matthew Fannin, Lexington, Kentucky, double nickels on the dime.
	Matthew Wilber in Rutherglen, Virginia.
	He's looking for a new job, so he's going to test the theory.
	Timothy White, Palsbo, Washington.
	By the way, if you're in Washington State, there's two really great little towns that you should visit.
	One is Palsbo.
	It's like a Norwegian town, and it's really pretty.
	And it's got the covered sidewalks.
	It's really a glamorous little town.
	And the other one is Port Townsend.
	Those are the two cool towns in the whole state.
	There's nothing really much else besides those two places.
	The interesting note I found today came from Heather, as we have Heather and Jeff on this back-and-forth donation thing.
	Yeah, Heather...
	Well, let me just mention a couple more of these 5510s.
	Robert Wichter, Tampa, Florida, Victoria, Shellhammer, Mertstown, Pennsylvania.
	Dude, all Americans.
	We didn't get many overseas except the Portuguese.
	What is it?
	Burniff?
	Burniff in Raleigh, North Carolina.
	Great place, by the way.
	Barry Toner, Liz Byrne, UK, $50.50.
	And Heather.
	Heather and her boyfriend, Jeff Glennon.
	Heather Bean and Jeff Glennon have been going back and forth using our show as a mechanism of communication.
	Yeah, which by the way, we're not the best marriage counselors in the world.
	Just saying.
	But it's getting to be a good little soap opera.
	I don't know.
	It could be bogus.
	But she says, I want to call out my...
	You've got to remember, she called him out as being a loser for not donating.
	He then donated and said he's going to be a knight.
	And then she now says, I want to call out my boyfriend, Jeff Glennon, as an asshole.
	Whoa, I don't have a jingle for that.
	Douchebag.
	For spending the money he should be saving for my engagement ring.
	She's spending on a no-agenda night's ring.
	Maybe he's going to give you the night's ring.
	Yeah, really?
	Wouldn't that be nice?
	Yeah.
	When are these things...
	I mean, I don't want to sound like a broken record, but they are actually...
	We're finalizing the design.
	We have about six vendors lined up.
	It is real, though, right?
	This is a real deal.
	Yeah, it's just a matter of finding the vendor that we want to use.
	Yeah.
	And Eric's working on it.
	I'm working on it.
	We're all working on it.
	The whole Dvorak family is working on it.
	I've also got the word out to get somebody...
	We're thinking of doing it in Welsh, you know, because it has a...
	Oh, instead of Latin, so hit people in the mouth and in the morning in Welsh.
	Yeah.
	Daniel Howers from Portland, Maine, and Cynthia Archibald from Tully, New York.
	And...
	And then, of course, Adam Miller with his second installment of his Lucky Numbers Nighthood, $333.33.
	He is also today's executive producer of No Agenda 187.
	Luke von der Helm is our associate executive producer, along with Ralph Naileson.
	And if you're done, John, then I'd like to do our Nighthoods podcast.
	Okay, well, hold on one second.
	First of all, one of our donors says, as a member of the U.S. intelligent community, you infuriate me because we tend to get the military stuff all wrong.
	However.
	But, it gets corrected.
	I don't know.
	What are we getting wrong?
	That people are wearing too many medals and chevrons on their uniforms?
	I'm not sure what she's talking about.
	But people like you are necessary to bring to light the things that a lot of us know are true but cannot say out loud.
	And a lot of military and intelligence personnel actually send us private messaging and clue us in on stuff, which is hugely important.
	There's stuff going on with this show, John.
	It is getting some traction.
	We just need more people.
	More people listening, and those people have to understand that we need money to do this.
	Yeah, because we're not doing this.
	We couldn't get sponsors if we wanted to, because they would just bail out at any given moment after we said something.
	And by the way, one of the biggest problems, John, is we make it look pretty easy.
	Oh, those guys just sit down and yap for two hours.
	We are constantly...
	And that's not that easy, by the way.
	That's also challenging, but all week long...
	After a long day, you know, I had to fly my plane to San Jose for sale so I can pay bills.
	Then I jumped on Southwest and I got in at 6.
	And then from 6 until midnight, when I said goodnight to you and you were still going on for an extra hour, I was doing nothing but prepping.
	And during the day, I'm always on my iPhone, saving stories, checking links, looking at...
	Yeah, I mean, the links alone are worth the price of admission.
	We can only do this show for as long as we are paid to do it by the listeners, and we need to get a lot more listeners.
	If you are one of the listeners that can...
	Help us every once in a while, but you obviously can't give us, you know, a million dollars.
	Get us some more listeners.
	I mean, that's as valuable as your donations.
	But these donations are used to pay bills.
	And we'd like to do this, you know, full-time.
	And we're not going to be able to do it unless we have a cash flow that can keep us going kind of in the way we're going now, you know, by working our asses off.
	Now, I've got one more message I want to get before you go to the night thing.
	A professor, university professor studying new media, gave us some money, wants us to plug something.
	It is Alan Middleton, and he's in Groveport, Ohio, at the Ohio University in Lancaster.
	He wants people that are listening to the show, if they would, he's doing a survey.
	He wants to do some Q.
	He wants to find out.
	I don't know what he will.
	We'll get a copy when he's done.
	GSPN.
	Go to www.
	I guess it'd be www.
	gspn.tv slash podcast survey.
	To complete an anonymous 15-minute academic survey on their podcast preferences.
	Of course, this is going to make us look good.
	Yeah, better.
	Which he's going to have to take into account, obviously.
	But go to gspn.tv slash podcast survey and help the professor out.
	We have a lot of professors that listen to this.
	Yeah, quite a few.
	And that's nice because I've never spoken to as many professors before in my life.
	Certainly not in school.
	So it's nice for me.
	And I would like to say that we have our groupie of the week, Noah.
	I'm sorry, you...
	What?
	You broke up.
	Oh, I was saying that we have another groupie, our groupie of the week with an associated groupie picture.
	We've got to get another groupie of the week.
	Well, that's two.
	Yay!
	And she sent an awesome shot, and that will be in the show notes.
	Noah, thank you very much.
	I highly appreciate it.
	They're beautiful.
	Do they have names?
	They have what?
	Do they have names?
	No, I don't think so.
	Ladies and gentlemen, time now for our knighthoods.
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	What is that off?
	I like that ending.
	Cool, huh?
	It sounds like some...
	Can you put an ending against like off-key on...
	Oh, John, watch out!
	Sorry.
	Slipped!
	Ouch!
	Yeah, okay.
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	Yeah, I'm looking at the spreadsheet, John.
	It's not a lot of $5 a month donations.
	Well, this spreadsheet, I think, well, the spreadsheet, oh, yeah, down at the bottom.
	Yeah, we need to get that...
	Yeah, we need to get more of those $5 a month donations.
	I'm going to add a $10 a month donation for people who are more generous.
	Or more capable.
	Let's not just say generous, but capable.
	Yeah, more capable.
	Or want to.
	I mean, a lot of people have taken that $2, $5 a month.
	I mean, people can do whatever they want.
	We did get a couple of offbeat donations this month.
	We got $4.53 from another, Lee Hebert, who...
	Doesn't want to be a douchebag, doesn't have a lot of money.
	He just emptied out his PayPal account, which we recommend.
	We recommend people empty out their PayPal account if it's lingering there.
	PayPal's just taking advantage of you.
	Just dump it, give it to us.
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	Yeah, or if you're breaking up with your girlfriend.
	And breaking up with your girlfriend.
	Those are the three.
	Or boyfriend.
	And I suppose at some point Heather and Jeff will both be giving us more money.
	Alright, I want to get back into some news here because this was something that I kind of dive-bombed when I tried to explain how huge this story was.
	And you, at the time, properly berated me for it.
	This is about the manipulation of the gold and also silver market, it turns out.
	Oh, here we go again.
	And Gordon Brown, who of course willingly participated as a shill, Gordon Brown being the Prime Minister of Gitmo Nation East, willingly participated in helping his buddies out in the financial sector by selling Britain's gold at an all-time low, subsequently quadrupled in price.
	So here's what happened just a few days ago.
	So there's a whistleblower in all this, John, a guy named Andrew McGuire, who has actually been exposing the details of the manipulation of gold and silver in the London commodities market.
	So he's a dead man.
	Well, here it comes.
	So he warned an investigator for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission in advance about a gold and silver market manipulation to be undertaken by traders for JPMorgan Chase in February.
	This was publicized by the GATA, that's the Association of Gold Traders.
	And they tried to off this guy in a traffic accident, T-boned the guy's car, huge chase in London, police helicopters trying to figure it all out.
	The guy is a complete dead man.
	I mean, he didn't die yet, and hopefully he's under some form of witness protection.
	But they totally tried to kill him just a few days ago because this story is huge.
	Absolutely huge.
	And I'm keeping my eye on it.
	Well, what do you think, you know, if you have, if you're that guy, what do you do to protect yourself?
	Besides not bringing it up at all, but would you, I mean, how do you, what do guys do, if you're like a whistleblower or you're a Here's what I would do.
	In fact, I'm not saying I haven't done it.
	I would make sure that I have...
	First of all, I'd make friends with the sysadmins of the world.
	And a lot of them listen to this show.
	And I would make sure I have a dead man's switch, meaning I have one or probably a number of servers that have a nice little zip file filled with all my information, all my documents, and if I don't check in every 12 or 24 hours, or even monthly for that matter, it doesn't matter, if I don't check in with this server or bevy of servers, it fires off email to everybody.
	It just spams the world With my documentation.
	Now, that's not to say that the authorities still won't try to, or the Ministry of Truth won't try to snow it under, but I think that's the best thing you could do.
	That's about the only thing you can do.
	Well, I think our no-agenda donors list will come in handy for that.
	Speaking of which, there is a...
	The Senate passed...
	A Senate panel, I should say, passed the Cybersecurity Act that has kill switch language in it.
	Yeah.
	No, this kill switch thing has been going on for a while.
	This is very controversial.
	This is, and there's a pretty good link in the show notes, including a PDF of the actual act, where the president, here it is, in the event of an immediate threat to strategic national interests involving compromised federal government or United States critical infrastructure information systems,
	the president can, A, declare a cybersecurity emergency, B. Implement the Collaborative Emergency Response and Restoration Plans developed under paragraph 1.
	So then you've got to go back to paragraph one.
	This is how it works.
	The president shall, in collaboration with owners and operators of United States critical infrastructure information systems, sector coordinating councils and relevant governmental agencies, regulatory entities and non-government governmental organizations.
	Wow.
	Develop and rehearse detailed response and restoration plans that clarify specific roles, responsibilities and authorities of government and private sector actors during cybersecurity.
	So I would say, essentially, that's Cisco.
	I think Cisco is the one you've got to watch in this, because they run a lot of the Nets infrastructure, and they're talking about this global skin, and they've got all this stuff, and they're a huge government contractor.
	I would say Cisco is the one that might have some kill switch built in that essentially turns it off.
	I would be a bit surprised if you couldn't send out some line of code, and every Cisco router would look at this when it comes through and say, what's this?
	And say, oh, I know what it is, and kill the router.
	Yeah, and sysadmins, by the way.
	There's no doubt in my mind.
	There's a kill switch on those.
	We have sysadmins and network admins who are a big part of our No Agenda militia slash listeners, producers.
	If you know anything, let us know.
	Total anonymity.
	In fact, if you really want to make sure you're anonymous, don't send any money.
	Just send us the information so we don't screw up your name on the list.
	Just send us the information.
	Send it anonymously.
	Now this plays into a speech by Oompa Loompa, Chief Oompa Loompa of the United States of Europe, Van Rompuy, who of course is the unelected yet fully acting President of the United States of Europe, who spoke in Brussels...
	And actually, it's a little long, John, but I just want to play this and walk through it with you, because when you hear this guy speak, it is like George Orwell wrote his speech, and it ties right into this cyber security and the kill switch.
	You want to have a little listen?
	Go.
	Okay, here it comes.
	This is Herman Van Roepoort.
	Eighty months ago, people on this side of the Atlantic were not happy with the collapse of the first Lehman Brothers either.
	We have a responsibility for issues that affect the other as well.
	So let's work together on financial and banking regulation.
	I should like to mention two other fronts of insecurity, climate change and cybercrime.
	Okay, so there it comes.
	So this guy is, of course, all about global governance.
	Oh yeah, global governance, global governance, global governance.
	Yes.
	So we have to work to do that on climate change, which by the way, it's still happening.
	There's nothing changed.
	There's no documentation, nothing to show.
	No, it's part of a very rigid agenda.
	Yeah, it's climate change and cybersecurity.
	This is the one to keep our eye on.
	In the mythical past...
	Mythical.
	He means mythical.
	Listen to what he's comparing it to.
	The famous empire of Atlantis was engulfed by the sea.
	Let's take this as a metaphor.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait, stop!
	I know, I knew you'd love it!
	It's beautiful!
	What?
	He's talking about Atlantis?
	Oh yeah, it was engulfed by the sea due to global warming.
	Oh, global warming.
	Oh, okay, never mind.
	Global warming, yeah, here we go.
	In the mythical past, the famous empire of Atlantis was engulfed by the sea.
	Let's take this as a metaphor for climate change.
	What?
	I mean, I'm speechless.
	I tell you, you're a crackpot.
	Planet from climate catastrophe and the resulting global insecurity is a daunting task.
	But in name of Atlantis, Europe and America should take up the challenge together.
	The European Union and the United States should lead the way in green technology.
	Together we can set the norms and standards, not only in climate politics, but also...
	Hear that one?
	What did he say, climate politics?
	Climate politics, yeah, oh yeah, this guy, this guy is, he's the true reptilian evil leader.
	Climate politics, my butt.
	Not only in climate politics, but also in the technology-related regulation.
	It is the best chance we have, so to the rest of the world, we'll follow suit.
	A transatlantic cooperation is needed on an industrial carbon market.
	Industrial carbon market?
	This is beautiful!
	Yeah, this is laying it all out.
	By the way, this is the Obama of Europe, and his constituency is, what, like 75 million more than the United States?
	It's huge.
	I think it's like 450, something like that.
	More than that.
	Okay, so it's 150 million more.
	It's huge.
	Global verification and compliance regime.
	Compliance?
	Shut up, slave!
	Compliance regime!
	...to announce that in today's European Council, all heads of state or government agreed we should work closely with the United States on climate issues.
	Our societies live by the grace of a free flow of goods, people and information.
	Networks are the arteries of the global economy.
	Here comes.
	Networks are the arteries of the global economy.
	They are vulnerable.
	Think of the internet and telecommunication, banking and money transfer systems, airports and energy grids.
	Cyberattacks against the nodes of modern life are no fantasy.
	They can happen and do happen every day.
	These changes are perspective on security.
	To quote a very valuable recent study on EU-US relations, The goal of ensuring territorial integrity must be complemented by a goal of securing the critical functions of our society.
	This guy creeps me out.
	Well, you know, this is interesting because in, I think it was at the Heritage Foundation, John Bolton gave another one of these speeches.
	And, you know, I never liked that guy, Bolton, he was the UN ambassador under Bush because he seemed like a jerk, especially with the reports of him.
	But I could be wrong.
	The guy turns out to be a very interesting public speaker.
	And I'll have it on the next show.
	I'll make some clips of some of the things he said.
	But he just believes that this European Union is a scam designed to...
	Take away American sovereignty in any way it can.
	And the global warming, and he doesn't say, he's not even a skeptic about global warming.
	He just says, if there's a problem, we can do it ourselves.
	We don't need to be doing these crazy treaties.
	They've been sneaking up on us.
	They're telling us about, they're actually taking precedent over American law.
	He's talking about the criminal court and the world criminal court and all the rest of it.
	And it just keeps coming at us trying to, and the liberals in this country are basically lockstep with this global, you know, global governance idea.
	So we don't, we essentially just, we didn't form this country, the United States of America, to be part of Europe.
	They specifically left Europe for a reason.
	And why do we want to get back in bed with them when all they do is, you know, they always results in some sort of a war.
	They're the ones who start all the wars when it comes down to and it's going to happen again.
	And it's just baffling to me.
	But I'll get to Bolton stuff.
	If you don't have anything else, I've got one clip that kind of applies to this.
	Sure, sure.
	I mean, and the whole clip, by the way, is, of course, is in the show notes.
	I think you should play that whole clip in its entirety on edit at the end of the show.
	Okay, that's a good idea.
	I shall do that.
	So, talking about climate change, I wish I had written down the guy's name, but there's another one of these black conservatives, there's a bunch of them, they get on the talk shows as kind of the token black conservative, but most of them are extremely erudite, and smarter than most of the talk show hosts, especially on MSNBC, where, for example, Chris Matthews is on with Ron Reagan, who is notoriously uninformed about everything.
	And this is an example of a casual conversation that went off the track.
	And this is what happens with liberals.
	And I'm always reminded of the story I was told about how liberals, I hate to use even the term liberal, but they're in liberals.
	They stay within their own groups and they all develop groupthink.
	And like somebody said, I'm always surprised that George Bush got elected.
	I don't know anyone who voted for him.
	This is a typical kind of thinking of a liberal because they're insular.
	And when somebody comes in with an...
	With a kind of an opinion that differs from their lockstep opinion that they're told to believe.
	They shout them down.
	This is Chris Matthews, Ron Reagan, and a black guy, sorry I don't have his name, who's very...
	He has to hold his own against them when he brings up the climate change issue.
	Here it goes.
	In the interest of this country, everybody knows the same thing, basically.
	There is a climate change problem.
	Anybody who reads the paper thinks knows.
	Somewhere down the line.
	Number two, the man has something to do with it.
	Number two.
	And number three, we've got to stop depending on Arab oil, or we're crazy.
	So you've got to do something about it, right?
	And is the president doing something?
	He is doing something.
	You say everyone who knows anything says that there's global climate change.
	I think there's serious scientific disputes of whether or not that is actually viable.
	But let me address your question.
	Do you really challenge it?
	Of course I really challenge it.
	I think you've had...
	We've seen what happened in East Anglia over in England where they discredited the scientific research of these people.
	I think that it is a gimmick.
	There are people that question evolution.
	That doesn't mean there isn't evolution.
	Oh, Chris, wait a second.
	So we're supposed to take scientists who have a fiduciary interest in this that could benefit them.
	Oh, fiduciary interest.
	Nice.
	Nice.
	Good word.
	This is party line.
	Oh, no, this isn't party line.
	This is actually, I've researched this.
	Why should we take hook, line, and sinker with what some of these environmentalists have said about global climate change?
	Why don't we have an honest debate?
	Why don't we have the conservative voices?
	Because the weather in Boston right now in the last X many years is the same as it used to be in Philadelphia.
	It's getting warmer.
	Warmer and warmer.
	Oh, and it was sure warm here on the East Coast.
	We had blizzards.
	It was one of the coldest winters on record.
	Now you're discrediting yourself, Ron.
	Come on.
	Actually, Ron Reagan, I'm actually making my point.
	It was one of the coldest winters we had.
	You're making a point, but it's one that discredits you.
	No, it doesn't discredit me.
	Ron Reagan, your thoughts.
	Well, listen, weather is not climate, so let's forget it.
	Climate change doesn't even have to be part of the...
	It isn't.
	It isn't, Ron, and you know it as well as I do.
	We're not talking about one year.
	We're talking about a trend line.
	Let's forget about climate change for the moment, because we don't even have to discuss climate change.
	We can discuss national security here.
	Everybody knows.
	Forget about climate change.
	Everybody knows the future is in solar and wind and renewable, sustainable energy sources.
	That's where we have to be going now.
	Oh, I take exception to that.
	Isn't it unbelievable?
	That's bullshit.
	How about nuclear?
	Well, actually, the guy, the Republican there, he mentions that, too.
	And then they jump on him for that.
	In fact, is the clip still...
	Yeah, I've got a half a minute left.
	Not to the past.
	We've got to be going to the 21st century, not the 19th.
	Now, Ron Reagan, here's where I agree with you.
	I agree with all those, but you need to add one more component to that.
	You need to add nuclear energy.
	France has over 80% of their domestic supply supplied by nuclear energy.
	How come the only thing you guys like about the French is nuclear energy?
	That's about it.
	You never say one good thing about the French.
	On any topic, you won't eat their French fries.
	You make fun of their...
	Freedom fries.
	See?
	Anyway, this is an example of being shouted down.
	Yep.
	For having any kind of thoughtful consideration whatsoever, you just get shouted down by these guys.
	And that's how this whole thing, the science is in, everybody agrees, Matthew says anyone who reads a newspaper agrees.
	In other words, the science is not going...
	The scientists don't only agree, but anyone who reads a newspaper also agrees.
	So everybody agrees except idiots.
	And the funny thing is they have these memes that they keep putting out.
	Arab oil, Arab oil.
	We don't even use it.
	Why don't they be honest about it and say it's Alberta oil?
	Most of the oil in the United States that we use is from Alberta, Canada and Venezuela.
	We have very little oil from Saudi Arabia.
	Very little.
	And then they throw this nasty little comment about, oh, well, if you don't believe in global oil, you don't believe in evolution either?
	Which is a ridiculous, specious jump leap of faith.
	It's a chicken shit thing to do.
	You know, Matthew should be ashamed of himself for even being on the air with this kind of crap.
	Indeed.
	And let me just lay one more on top of it.
	Puenta Arenas, Chile.
	Famed global warming activist James Schneider and a journalist friend were both found frozen to death on Saturday, about 90 miles from South Pole Station, by the pilot of a ski plane practicing emergency evacuation procedures.
	What?
	Yeah.
	So they'd been planning a trip to an ice sheet to film the devastation brought on by global warming, and they froze to death.
	It gets worse.
	So the pilot took a picture of two snowmobiles with cargo sleds, a tent, and a bright orange rope that had been laid out on the ice, forming the words, Help-Cold.
	So, I mean, you can't get more ironic than that.
	It's not only ironic, but, I mean, this, to me, just indicates the naivete of some of these scientists regarding anything, that they would go and put themselves into this sort of a situation.
	You don't go to the Antarctic, two guys on a couple of snowmobiles, and expect that this is, like, part of the whole problem.
	With a hoodie?
	I've been to Cleveland.
	Yeah.
	Now, the...
	By the way, Matthew's on that same show.
	He did something.
	This is a little aside.
	It's kind of a real news item.
	But apparently some research was done on what kind of sports fans Republicans are versus Democrats.
	And I thought this was really interesting.
	And he kind of glossed it over because once he saw the list, he just kind of shot through it.
	The Republicans, the main three sports that each group likes, you take Republicans and Democrats.
	Republicans, number one was golf, which, you know, is okay.
	Number two is college football.
	And number three, Republicans in general, NASCAR. And then he kind of scoffed at, well, you know, what do you expect?
	You know, even though golf and college football are reasonable.
	Do you have any idea what number one was for the Democrats?
	No.
	Oh, never mind.
	You're never guessing in a million years.
	Curling?
	Number one.
	By the way, most Democrats don't even like sports, from what I can tell, even though I used to be a Democrat.
	WNBA. Women's professional basketball is the number one sport that Democrats like.
	Number two is the regular NBA, the men.
	And number three is the World Wrestling Association.
	You know what I like?
	And I, of course, am a constitutionalist.
	I like women's field hockey.
	Women's field hockey is a hot sport because they've got those little skirts on that flap up and show their butt when they're running down the field.
	I don't think it's a bunch of horndogs watching WNBA. I think they're a bunch of pussy-whip males that their girlfriends are very domineering and they make them.
	And then you're taking that survey, you're putting WNBA on it.
	I mean, you see these guys in Berkeley.
	I don't want to go into this to any extreme because I start to sound like a kind of a douchebag.
	A hater.
	You've seen these guys in Berkeley.
	Anyone who lives in this area, you've seen it.
	Two women who are obviously partners and their man walking down the street.
	They're not holding hands, but they're yakking with each other, and they're obviously into each other.
	And the guy has got a baby.
	On a baby carrier in the front of one of the front ones, and he's trudging along behind the two of them.
	I have seen this so often in this area, and that's the WNBA people.
	I have a new hero I'd like to point out, John.
	Jason Matera.
	Who so far has only posted one YouTube video, but it was pointed out to me, and it is so outstanding.
	In this case, it has to do with the health care bill, and I do want to talk about a couple pharma things.
	He, I have to say, essentially hijacks Al Franken in the hallways.
	Yeah, you know, I saw this.
	I thought it was pretty lame, personally.
	Well, you know, the video, he misses a couple things, because what he does is he pulls some interesting information out of the health care bill, and he says, look, this language essentially means that $7 billion will be set aside for jungle gyms, and I have to agree with him there, and then there's a clause about time off for expressing breast milk.
	I.e., how much time women should have to breastfeed their children during working hours.
	Yeah, no, I thought the two points were well taken.
	I just thought the way he handled it with the ambush, I thought was poorly done.
	It was very unprofessional.
	And I don't think it proved anything, except Franken was trying to get to his office and he was being pestered by this character.
	I was not blown away by this particular clip.
	Well, the things I liked is, one, the douchebags hanging around the senator, and how the senator then says, hey, let me answer the guy.
	And, of course, the guy is interruptive.
	The guy doesn't let him say a thing.
	The guy is a douchebag.
	Yeah, that's the problem.
	Because he has all the right elements, doesn't quite pull it off, but the two things I just want to play briefly are the funny thing where Franken tells him to shut up, and then there's one other funny thing that I really like.
	Oh, he has a book out.
	Oh, okay.
	I get it.
	It's a little promo for his book at the beginning of the clip.
	Hey, Senator Franken, Jason Matero.
	Appreciate your remarks in there.
	You're awesome.
	Oh, thank you.
	I was wondering, which portions of the health care bill lower costs?
	Is it the provision giving $7 billion to fund jungle gyms, or the provision mandating that employers provide time off for breastfeeding?
	Uh, I... You should know.
	Give me the jungle gym.
	Right here.
	So, this is where the guy screws up, because he doesn't really explain the jungle gyms well, although the point is well made.
	The jungle gyms?
	Yeah.
	Is on 1184.
	Yeah, show it to me right now.
	Okay.
	1184.
	See, then he does the edit showing the bill, which is unfortunate for the reality of the clip.
	And it is to provide physical activity opportunities to promote healthy lifestyle.
	So why is that the job of the federal government?
	Why is that the job of the federal government?
	And to create an army of monkey bars?
	Go ahead, answer it.
	No, no, you have to.
	Go ahead, answer it.
	You have to shut up right now.
	Franken was pretty quick with the shut up on that.
	Yeah, well, I mean, I would be too.
	I mean, the guy's a chatterbox.
	He says, answer, answer.
	And then you start to answer.
	He says, answer, answer.
	I mean, this guy's a douchebag.
	I mean, this is a ridiculous promotion for his book.
	And yeah, okay, he made a couple good points too.
	Wait, let me just...
	I don't want to belabor it.
	I just want...
	The funniest thing that cracked me up is coming up now.
	So now they're walking up the stairs.
	He tells them to shut up.
	And listen to me.
	Go ahead.
	Instead of interrupting me every time I say something.
	I'm listening.
	So how is it the job of the federal government to provide infrastructure for a healthy lifestyle?
	And the breastfeeding position.
	Sir, excuse me.
	The breastfeeding?
	I just want to answer one question, please.
	And if you would just stop talking for a second.
	Senator Smalley, I'm listening.
	Go ahead.
	Senator Smalley.
	Come on.
	That was quite funny.
	That was funny.
	So, unfortunately, the guy has the right stuff, except he screws it up by being a...
	In fact, I will have to do it right now.
	Douchebag!
	Too bad.
	Too bad.
	He had a real opportunity there to catch Franken off guard, who clearly doesn't know about the Jungle Gyms.
	Well, I mean, you know, I don't think half the senators have read the bill.
	They still probably have people going through the text.
	So, I've got a couple.
	Yeah, I just want to thank two people.
	You have a lot of interesting clips, I think, here.
	Willem Tromp for sending me tons of links before every show.
	I appreciate it.
	I spend about an hour and a half on his email alone.
	And there is a website, which I'll put in the links, dutchnoagendameeting.com.
	As, apparently, the first meet-up of No Agenda listeners is being coordinated in Gitmo Nation lowlands.
	Yeah, that should be interesting.
	And you might be able to make that meeting.
	If they do it in September, yeah.
	Yeah, well, you've got to do these things when you do.
	September's a nice time to be there.
	Oh, and also, I want to congratulate NoAgendaForums.com on their first anniversary, which I think was last Thursday.
	Yeah, congratulations.
	We have a lot of independent things going on, which I think is cool.
	So, the Toyota bullcrap is continuing.
	Now, there's a story I saw on the news last night.
	This is about the RAV4, like their little puddle jumper, that apparently a couple of them have had transmissions problems, and the Toyota's actually gone out of their way to fix the transmissions, and in some cases, taken the transmissions out and given them all new transmissions, and one woman had two transmissions replaced, He's complaining about this.
	One of the guys that used to be on the Silicon Spin show was the guy who wrote the...
	For some reason, his name is eluding me, but he...
	He wrote the Lemon Laws.
	And he told me about all these different car companies and how they screw over the various users.
	And of all the companies, Toyota is definitely not in the category of screwing over buyers.
	But listen to this report and tell me it's not biased.
	Two years before Karen Milligan's incident.
	When I found out there was a service bulletin, I got even angrier.
	A Toyota spokesman told CBS 5 Investigates that some RAV4s had what they call a drivability issue with harsh shifting, and the company has worked with customers to correct any problems.
	Harsh shifting?
	There have been no reports of it.
	What is that, harsh shifting?
	That means it gets jerks when it goes from one gear to another.
	Or maybe it's hard to put it into gear?
	No, I think harsh shifting is exactly what I described.
	It's like a clutch issue.
	Yeah, but no, it's an automatic.
	Oh, boom!
	Okay, gotcha, gotcha.
	That's a mercury clutch problem.
	Got it.
	...injuries, and Toyota says it's not a safety issue, but the Milligan's couldn't disagree more.
	It was a safety issue for me at that moment, yes.
	Granted, the transmission going out is nothing compared to this unexplained acceleration issue, but it's still hazardous nonetheless.
	Especially since, late last year, their transmission had to be changed out again.
	This time, Toyota replaced it at no cost.
	But the Milligans believe their car should have been recalled.
	If they know that there's a flaw, they should take care of it.
	And they didn't take care of it.
	Now, we also checked with the government about this problem.
	The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told us it's aware of the issue, it's monitoring it, but so far has not opened an investigation.
	Anna Werner, CBS 5 Investigates.
	In other words, the story is bogus.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But let's get another jab into Toyota for their acceleration problem.
	And this one woman who says, I don't know why they didn't recall.
	What do you mean recall?
	You had your transmission swapped out.
	What does a car need to be recalled for?
	This sounds to me, and actually one of our producers who is a real producer at a television station, sent us a really nice overview of how this works at the local news level.
	This is totally some pre-packaged news report.
	That is just sent in and they put some woman on the street somewhere in front of a Toyota dealership and then they roll out the package.
	It's total set up.
	So there's no hounding Toyota.
	All right, so anyway, that's my, I just thought I'd throw that in to keep, because I don't think this is ending anytime soon.
	No.
	All right, so we have, so this week I want to do a series of clips from Dick Wolf's Law and Order Special Victims Unit.
	Now, I got a lot of tweets and emails about this one.
	This one actually, by the way, for a show that says all people are fictitious and da-da-da-da-da at the beginning, why are they mentioning O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh?
	This is about a guy, there's some nutcase in New York that's been killing girls because they're immigrants or something, or they're a child of immigrants, and it's allowed them to stay in the country, so he figures if he kills the girls, then they'd have to deport these people.
	It turns out, of course, the guy's been a douchebag all along, but meanwhile, he blames it on this talk show host, Garrison, I think is his name, who seems to be kind of a, I would say he's maybe a little bit of a Michael Savage, because the only reason I say that is because Michael Savage wasn't listed with all the rest of him in the laundry list.
	And he supposedly brainwashed the guy with his radio or TV show.
	Brainwashed the guy, and the only reason he did all these murders is because of this character.
	So we're going to play this five clips, and it kind of takes you along the lines of the story as it concludes.
	But the clips are specifically selected because there's elements of prop Propaganda, Dick Wolf propaganda that is foisted on the audience in a very interesting and subtle way.
	So we'll start with brainwash clip number one.
	Is there any reason to incarcerate him?
	No, but three counts of murder are.
	I'll remand the defendant.
	Parents of this city will sleep better tonight.
	Oh, well, you know what?
	They shouldn't because the real criminal is still at large.
	You're claiming he didn't do it?
	No.
	I'm just saying he wasn't responsible.
	He was brainwashed.
	Gordon Garrison made him do it?
	Is this a joke?
	Persistent viewing of the program Flashpoint convinced my client that undocumented immigrants pose a threat to national security.
	We better watch out, Your Honor.
	I hear listening to NPR will turn us all into zombies.
	Mock me, but hate speech from authority figures is the greatest danger to this country since McCarthyism, Your Honor.
	There are ample legal precedents for brainwashing defense.
	I'll allow it.
	Really?
	Is that true, do you think?
	Are there real, uh, is there jurisprudence for brainwashing?
	Uh, I would assume so.
	Huh.
	But whatever the case is, what we have here is a, there's actually a meme that shows up in here that I didn't even notice until I heard it.
	And as soon as I heard it, I said, oh my God, I just heard this on the radio a few minutes ago.
	And I heard it yesterday and I heard it the day before and I heard it.
	And when it comes along, I'll see if you can identify it.
	But this is essentially a show that is trying to, you know, besides being, you know, there's always the anti-gun control angle on these shows, or not anti-gun control, I mean gun control angle.
	And there's also a free speech should be limited.
	Oh yeah, this is the fairness doctrine, which is cropping up again.
	Fairness doctrine.
	This is all...
	Right.
	I didn't even think of that, but you're right.
	That's in play, too.
	So they have a bunch of points of information in play in this show, and they're all interestingly presented in a very dramatic way.
	Like I said, these are the guys who get paid the...
	The big box.
	The real money.
	The real money.
	These are the pros writing this stuff.
	And by the way, I love the...
	Oh, yeah, right.
	And listening to NPR, our national treasure, will make us all zombies.
	Well, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Ironically, it's true.
	Yes, it's true.
	The next clip?
	Are we going to the next one here?
	Yeah, next.
	Brainwashed?
	Thaggart is a bigoted loser trying to dodge a life sentence.
	Well, the jury see it that way.
	Well, that defense didn't work for Patty Hearst.
	She was a bit more sympathetic than Joe Thaggart.
	Princess Patty wouldn't have picked up a machine gun if the SLA hadn't screwed with her cerebellum.
	She would probably get off if she was tried today.
	But in 1976, no one had heard of Stockholm Syndrome or the Reverend Jim Jones.
	Jim Jones brainwashed his followers to drink the Kool-Aid.
	Thaggart has never even met Gordon Garrison.
	Not to mention millions of people have watched Flashpoint.
	They wouldn't hurt a fly.
	But Garrison's not on trial.
	All the jury can consider is whether Thacker was nuts.
	And we're sure he isn't.
	Come on, he knew exactly what he was doing.
	So does Carver.
	I was flipping through the channels last night.
	He was on every news show promoting himself.
	That's the point.
	Before the internet and the 24-hour news cycle, kooks could Xerox pamphlets.
	Now any crackpot can get on television and get millions of lemmings to jump off any cliff they tell them to.
	So hate speech has a wider reach.
	It hasn't caused the murder rate to spike.
	Yet, did you know that the Department of Homeland Security issued a report on the rise in right-wing extremism after Obama's election?
	Can we just leave the brother out of it much?
	All I'm saying is we've got to take these radical fringe groups seriously.
	It's a radical fringe group.
	Fractal.
	There's a huge fractal in there, which I really love.
	Well, it's like they're talking about the media brainwashing people while they're actually brainwashing people with the media.
	Isn't that great?
	That's awesome!
	That really works!
	Oh my god!
	Yeah, I know that is a fractal.
	There's a bunch of messages in there.
	I think most people that listen to our show can identify them.
	They also throw a piece of fact.
	Some writer had a conscience.
	He looked at Wikipedia, you mean.
	Well, no.
	He had a conscience to say that even though there's all this stuff going on supposedly, the murder rate hasn't spiked.
	But they slipped that in.
	The one detective says that, and then the black guy says yet, right afterwards.
	In other words, nothing's changed yet.
	We always use that word yet to.
	It's going to.
	It's happening.
	So anyway, so there's a bunch of stuff.
	That clip is just too rich with material to totally analyze it.
	We haven't gotten to the gems here.
	So I have, I don't see clip three on there.
	Can I just interrupt you, John, and just say, well done, my friend.
	I mean, you've, first of all, you sat through that drivel.
	Then you analyze it.
	Then you spliced it up.
	No wonder you were late this morning.
	This is like three hours worth of work.
	So, wait one second.
	Let me take one look on...
	I have a clip number three.
	You have a clip three?
	I don't see it.
	Yeah, I have a clip three.
	Oh, yeah, there it is.
	Brainwash three, right.
	Play that.
	Okay.
	I used to getting your cage rattled, huh?
	Score one for me.
	Stop, stop.
	I gotta set this up.
	They had the first hearing, and then the lawyer, who's the guy with the southern accent, who's actually, what's the actor, comedian, I can't remember his name, from New Orleans, with his original voice, I guess.
	He got shut down on something and, you know, wasn't winning.
	He missed on a motion or something, so now he's sitting outside sulking, and the cop comes by to harass him, which always happens, of course, in a legal situation.
	Of course, that's what cops do.
	Hey, slave, how you doing?
	Play?
	Yeah, hit it.
	I used to getting your cage rattled, huh?
	Score one for Ms.
	Cabin.
	But I haven't brought out the big guns yet.
	I don't get why you're defending this wacko.
	Faggot's a symptom, not the disease.
	That symptom killed three kids.
	Garrison, Limbaugh, Beck, O'Reilly, all of them, they're like a cancer spread in ignorance and hate.
	I mean, they've convinced folks that immigrants are the problem, not corporations that failed to pay a living wage or a broken health care system.
	Save the soapbox, Randy.
	The cameras aren't even running.
	I ain't doing this to the attention.
	I get enough of that already.
	Then why are you wasting your time on this loser?
	Oh, man.
	Another one.
	The cameras aren't even running.
	I love it.
	These guys are awesome.
	Yeah, the cameras aren't running.
	Well, then what are we watching?
	Yeah.
	That is mind control right there.
	Like, yeah, man, there's not even cameras, so it must really be true what he's saying.
	You know, it's like evil corporations, man.
	And he calls out O'Reilly back in Limbaugh.
	Oh, and what does he actually call him?
	He calls them, uh, we'll play that part again.
	I mean, he calls them, uh, Riley, all of them.
	They all like a cancer spreading ignorance and hate.
	I mean, they have conventions.
	There you go.
	A cancer spreading ignorance and hate.
	Wow.
	I think that's legal.
	I think they could sue.
	I think they should sue.
	Those three guys should get a lawyer and sue the Dick Wolf production company over that.
	That is totally slanderous.
	That's pretty heavy, man.
	I mean, that's like...
	And it's bogus, too.
	The thing that's bad about it is that...
	They haven't talked about immigration for over a year or two.
	I mean, that topic is left.
	No, no, no.
	I think you're incorrect here.
	I think it's about to pop up.
	This is a precursor to...
	There are people demonstrating outside Capitol Hill about immigration as recent as last week.
	This is popping up.
	I think this is timed.
	It's timed with some congressional hearing or something that's going on.
	And they're putting the mind control in early.
	Well, you might be right.
	And the thing that especially the liberals have done is they like to keep people from listening to those three guys in particular.
	Beck, of course, is kind of a crazy guy.
	Limbaugh is basically a deconstructionist, and he's spotty.
	He's not always good.
	He's a classic talk show guy.
	O'Reilly is actually the number one show on cable for a reason.
	It's an extremely well-written show.
	O'Reilly is kind of a goofball.
	I don't watch it all the time.
	I watch it enough, though, to know that this show is...
	He brought Stephen Colbert to make a kind of a daily mockery of the show because the show is so well-produced that you can actually...
	I'm actually stunned by the production of that show.
	It doesn't look like a slick show, but it's extremely slick.
	It is pretty slick.
	What's interesting is the chat room is having quite a debate about this, and people are actually saying, dude, this is fiction.
	It's not real.
	But this is the point.
	You have to understand that this is how it works.
	This is exactly how brain...
	If it's fiction, why do they name O'Reilly, Limbaugh?
	Yeah, the story is fiction, but they called out the real guys.
	Yeah, this is interesting.
	What's for?
	Do you have to set it up, or...?
	No, I don't think so.
	Single broadcast, wetbacks, camel jockers, you even refer to people from Canada as Mexicans with sweaters.
	I call them like I see them.
	That's why we love you, Gordon.
	Real Americans love Gordon Garrison.
	Real Americans think he's a fascist bitch.
	Quiet in my courtroom.
	Thank you, Your Honor.
	So you have the right to say anything you want to on the air.
	God bless the First Amendment.
	Ah, yeah, but free speech does have its limits.
	You can't yell fire in a crowded theater.
	You can if the building's burning.
	And make no mistake, this country is ablaze.
	What a gem!
	I love that.
	This is totally setting up...
	The Fairness Doctrine, which, for those of you who don't know, is the idea of equal airtime, which was dismissed.
	And I think right after the health care bill passed, I heard a lot of noise of people like, oh, boom, now I need to implement the Fairness Doctrine.
	You know what?
	If it gets Rachel Maddow off the air, I'm kind of...
	You're all for it.
	I'm all for it.
	Sorry.
	So the meme that I spotted in there, because I just heard it earlier, like a few hours earlier, and then I remember hearing it over and over again for the past few weeks.
	Wait, don't tell me, don't tell me.
	Is it in this last clip?
	Yeah, no, it's in the clip you just heard.
	Mexicans with sweaters?
	No, that's a good one, though.
	That's my favorite.
	Mexicans with sweaters, from now on.
	Canadians are Mexicans with sweaters.
	Camel jockeys, I heard that.
	I listen to right-wing talk radio, and no one that I know has ever suggested that Canadians are Mexicans with sweaters.
	It's fiction, John.
	It's not real.
	What's the meme?
	Fire in a crowded theater.
	I have been hearing that more often.
	You guys talk about free speech.
	There are limitations.
	You can't yell fire in a crowded theater.
	There are limitations.
	You can't yell fire in a crowded theater.
	There are limitations.
	You can't yell fire in a crowded theater.
	I keep hearing that over and over and over and over.
	Interesting.
	The roof!
	The roof!
	The roof is on fire!
	They want to abridge our free speech rights in this country, and it's got something to do with this internationalism, the global thing, that creep from Belgium, who knows?
	Because they don't have, you know, the same rights we have, and they want to take our rights away.
	It's just that simple.
	It's not that difficult to figure out.
	Shut up, slave!
	Now, here's the thing.
	This is the last clip.
	This is the prosecuting attorney going off on this character garrison, who is up on the stand, essentially...
	Blowing her own case up.
	And what's curious, I don't have another clip after this, but what's curious is after she blows up the case, because they find the guy not guilty, because she basically blows up the case here, and then they have a little meeting at the end where they discuss how we lose the case, and nobody ever says, you lost the case, you idiot, with this cross-examination.
	But that's never suggested in the post-mortem.
	It's just pretty funny.
	But anyway, this is the end of the whole thing.
	Mr.
	Garrison, have you ever met the defendant?
	No, I have not.
	Had him as a caller on your show?
	Signed an autograph for him?
	Received fan mail from him?
	No, no, and no.
	Then what do you think of the defense's contention that you brainwashed him?
	Hogwash!
	Pure and simple!
	Folks, I'm just a social thermometer, taking the temperature of the people.
	Rectally, ADA cabot.
	That's all right, Judge.
	Alex here doesn't have to agree with me.
	By the way, that's some pretty bad acting going on here.
	Oh, this is without exception bad acting.
	Just like Voltaire said, she may disapprove of what I say, but she'll defend to the death my right to say it.
	Did Voltaire say that?
	She points this out.
	And if you're going to misquote somebody, Voltaire, give me a break.
	Okay, at least I'm not nuts.
	Okay.
	That wasn't Voltaire.
	Oh, right.
	As usual, you're playing fast and loose with the truth.
	Wait here now, Ms.
	Cabin.
	Exactly whose side are you on?
	The truth.
	And the truth is your views compel me to do nothing more than reach for a barf bag.
	Mr.
	Carver thinks that you're a god to your followers, but all I see is an impotent man spewing hate to line his pockets.
	Watch your tone, sweetheart.
	Or what?
	You'll do what to me, Mr.
	Garrison?
	You are a powerless buffoon, an entertaining clown.
	Half the people who watch your show only do so to laugh at you.
	No one takes you seriously.
	You're going to let her talk to me that way?
	You've got to hell, bitch!
	She's telling a truth!
	Gordon Garrison is racking you, Matt!
	I want those people out!
	It's awful!
	Get the jury out of here!
	You're going to tell me that these people aren't brainwashed?
	One word from him, they're throwing punches!
	You are out of order, Mr.
	Carver!
	No, no, he's out of order, Your Honor!
	Garrison made this happen the same way he made my client killed.
	I can't wait to tune in next week.
	laughs My goodness.
	Well, there's another military helicopter.
	It is the worst piece of propagandistic crap I have seen on the show.
	I mean it was entertaining from the perspective that it was...
	There were moments of humor, but it was set up.
	It was anti-militia.
	I don't believe for a minute that even...
	This is hinting that the Tea Party people are like this.
	There's a lot of news about the Tea Party people over the last couple of weeks about they can't spell.
	There's a lot of memes you're trying to promote.
	They can't spell.
	Somebody pointed out, and I do have this clip, not today, but I'll bring it out on Sunday.
	One of the...
	Goldberg, actually, I think he was on O'Reilly, pointed out that the thing about the N-word being used 16 times at a Tea Party event and somebody shouting it to some poor black House of Representatives member...
	He said, you know, with everybody with all their pocket cameras and movie cameras and everything, and other places crawling with network people, nobody caught this on tape.
	Yeah, amazing.
	Nobody knew any evidence that had ever happened.
	You know, it's probably bogus.
	Who knows who's got, you know, the signage, who knows who's doing these signs, you know, that got all this weird stuff on them.
	This is purely, this is all, you know, Axelrod is from the old school of dirty politics where you, you know, there's an event going on.
	I would do this.
	You have a big event going on.
	We're going to do it tomorrow.
	There's a big event going on.
	So you go, you join up, and you bring your own signage, and the signs are all misspelled, and you look like an idiot, and you black out one of your teeth so you really look stupid.
	And if you get lucky and some reporter comes by to ask you something, you say the worst stuff you can, you just plant this kind of stuff.
	I mean, it doesn't take a genius to do this, and it's done commonly.
	I mean, Nixon used to do this stuff all the time.
	I mean, you just can't buy any of it.
	It's just really pathetic.
	And then the shows like this just make it worse.
	Basically telling people not to listen to the talk show guys.
	They're evil.
	And this kind of thing goes on.
	And all these radicals, the militias and all of this.
	I agree on that.
	You should not be...
	You know what?
	I get more email from people saying, I've stopped watching television, certainly television news.
	I'm not interested.
	I get enough from No Agenda, which, by the way, can bum me out, which is not the point of us doing this show.
	You shouldn't.
	You shouldn't watch it because...
	Get a good movie from time to time and turn it off because it's just mind control.
	This is 1984.
	You got the screen in the kitchen.
	You got the screen in the living room.
	And it's just mind controlling you.
	And the real news is not being reported.
	And we've got to wrap this up, John, because we are about to run long.
	I do have a couple of pertinent pieces of information.
	I would be remiss if I didn't get them out.
	You realize that President Obama put a lot of people in place right after the health care bill.
	Essentially, since there were no Senate confirmations on a lot of appointments that needed to be made, I guess there's some way that the President can say, okay, I knight thee.
	And he just puts people in charge of stuff without Senate confirmation?
	I didn't know this was possible, but it is.
	So, President Obama, in the recess, appointed Islam Siddiqi to be chief agricultural negotiator in the office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
	And what you need to know about this guy is that he is essentially a lobbyist for the pesticide industry.
	For Crop Life America, formerly known as National Agricultural Chemicals Association, which essentially lobbies to weaken the Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, because, you know, hey, who cares if you get sick from our shit?
	So he is now confirmed by the president as the agricultural negotiator for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
	Very nice.
	Very nice.
	Nice appointment.
	And then...
	We have another appointment.
	This is called Recess Confirmations.
	What is this guy's name?
	Harold Varmus is now the director of the National Cancer Institute.
	This is a nomination.
	I don't know if it's a confirmation or a nomination done last Wednesday by the White House.
	What's the National Cancer Institute got to do with anything?
	That's a government agency?
	Well, somehow the White House...
	I don't know.
	Let's look into that one.
	The President also gets to nominate or approve of the Director General of the Federal Reserve, which is not a government agency.
	So, you know, this stuff happens.
	So, this guy is very...
	This is actually fascinating, what's happening with this guy.
	In 1995, he was the Director of the National Institutes of Health.
	He struck the reasonable pricing clause, which essentially removed all caps from pricing on cancer drugs.
	So now this guy is the guy who removed the caps on the cancer drugs, and now he's in the National Cancer Institute, and he's going to be shepherding everybody and everything in.
	And this guy just shows up on the shadow puppet theater radar screen while everyone's on recess or whatever it is.
	Yep, this is just great.
	And there's like 13 more, which I have a lot of many shows.
	Let's go over those on the next show, but you know, this starts to get depressing.
	And, actually, there's one that kind of hits close to home.
	One of my aunts has been diagnosed with mouth cancer and esophageal cancer, which sucks.
	And we have someone else in our own community, John, you and I, who is also suffering from this.
	Turns out that women who take...
	I didn't know about this, but of course I started to research it once I got this sad news.
	Women who take the osteoporosis drug Fosamax for more than five years are apparently all en masse developing esophageal cancer.
	Oh yeah, that particular drug is very interesting if you read about it.
	It creates bone mass, but it does all kinds of weird things to your gastrointestinal system.
	And for one thing, you can't lay down or lie down if you take it because it just really does some weird stuff to you.
	And you have to drink a lot of water.
	It has to be taken in a very specific way.
	It's not a casual thing.
	And yeah, I've heard about this.
	I know that it's a problematic drug.
	And I was watching, I don't know, for some reason I wound up, I was in San Francisco this week and I was watching the early show on CBS to see what most of the slaves are being mind-controlled with.
	And all of a sudden there's this big push for Statons.
	Which, I guess, lower your cholesterol.
	Yeah, well, Lipitor, all these things are various synthetic statins.
	So now AstraZeneca, who makes Crestor, has approved, has received approval to market a statin, this Crestor, that people can take as a preventative measure.
	So you don't get cholesterol.
	And the FDA approved this stuff.
	They approve everything.
	This is outrageous.
	I'm like, what?
	You're not even sick?
	I don't know if taking a statin is a good idea anyway.
	You're not even sick?
	And then here's the latest vaccine, John, while I'm on it.
	Anti-obesity vaccine.
	I didn't know obesity was carried by a virus or a bacteria.
	There you go.
	It's a vaccine.
	And the study shows our vaccine slows weight gain.
	As a vaccine, what virus or bacteria does it trigger the immune system to attack?
	That's what vaccines do, right?
	Yeah.
	Or we redefine vaccines and nobody's noticed.
	No one's saying anything.
	Speaking of vaccines, this is in the show notes.
	You have to read through this.
	This is frightening to me and falls completely under the...
	This is from leprogress.fr.
	It's a fine French publication.
	And it's a Google-translated article for three weeks.
	A laboratory in Lyon.
	Has now been mixing, under their P4 maximum security laboratory conditions, H1N1 avian flu with H5N1. This is exactly what Baxter International did.
	You mean H1N1 swine flu with the bird flu?
	With the bird flu.
	This is exactly what Baxter International did.
	So to combine those two, one which spreads really fast, H1N1, and one which kills with no mercy, H5N1, are being mixed in a laboratory in France.
	And I'm like, why?
	Why?
	Why do you have to do...
	Oh, but don't worry, it's under P4, maximum security conditions.
	Exactly what Baxter International claims they were doing when they shipped out a mixture of this stuff.
	Yeah, they might kill 80% of the world's population, somebody.
	I don't know who, you know, that idiot from Belgium.
	Who I will play at the end of the show.
	And then, just to mention, I'm not going to go through it all, but there's a heading in the show notes, poppies, tons of reports of actual harvesting in Afghanistan.
	I find this hilarious.
	Actual troops taking harvested poppies and putting them on photos.
	Yeah, oh yeah.
	I think this is the point.
	Somebody's sitting around stoned, probably, saying, I wonder how far we can go with this before the public actually notices.
	Here, this one, some photos of the soldiers putting the stuff on the chopper over there, you know.
	In fact, this is from Boston.com.
	It even says...
	Wait a minute, I guess I... Let me just get to the link.
	It's called The Big Picture, and they have...
	Actually, Big Pictures, really high-resolution, beautiful pictures.
	And this is Afghanistan, March 2010.
	And you go to picture number 35.
	I just wanted to read the caption to you.
	And the picture, of course, is linked in the show notes at noagendashow.com.
	Hold on, I'm scrolling down to 35.
	Those are great photos, by the way.
	Oh, they're beautiful.
	They're beautiful.
	In this photo, taken on Friday, March 19, 2010, a farmer works in a poppy field in Marjah.
	This is where we had the big invasion, the big surge, Afghanistan.
	When U.S., Afghan, and NATO forces stormed Marjah in February, they were instructed to seize large opium stashes, but leave farmers' poppy fields alone.
	So they're admitting it.
	They seized the stash.
	They took it.
	Yeah, they took it.
	They took it.
	Are we just nuts?
	Are we just completely crazy?
	Are we the only ones seeing this stuff?
	This is outrageous.
	Everything is so outrageous.
	It's just amazing.
	This is one thing about an advanced society.
	The people running it at whatever level, they've somehow discovered that you can do anything because nobody either pays attention or you can just tell them, oh, we didn't do that.
	Oh, we're not doing that.
	Oh, that's silly.
	Oh, that's just conspiracy theory.
	I think it was Voltaire who said, John, the bigger the lie...
	The more apt people are to believe it.
	Voltaire.
	So, it's just like, it's astonishing.
	I mean, it's only the little two-bit governments where they have to shut up everybody.
	Let's kill all the newspaper editors.
	And, you know, if anybody says anything against the government, you kill them and you shoot them.
	And of course, the whole place goes to hell in a handbasket.
	Modern society, they've noticed you don't have to do it.
	These guys bringing out the truth, who cares?
	Let them say whatever they want.
	Whatever.
	Yeah.
	The funny thing is, maybe there are aliens.
	Maybe Ike is right and there's reptiles.
	Who knows?
	It doesn't matter.
	Anyway, there is hope.
	Hope comes in many different forms.
	There's a ton of interesting books at noagendabooks.com, which you may want to check out.
	We've discussed a couple of them.
	I wanted to mention that there was a federal judge on Monday who, thank goodness, struck down two patents by companies who were trying to patent human genes.
	So they actually will own intellectual property to your body.
	To your genes.
	To your genes.
	And I'm not talking about blue genes.
	So there is hope.
	That's very nice to see.
	And then a nice note from Brian from Philly.
	Hey, guys, I'm a regular listener to the show.
	A little surprise, you guys talked about the flash mobs we've been having here in Philly.
	I just want to give you a little more insight as to what's been going on with these kids because they are not just gathering in huge numbers and jumping up and down.
	That's all I saw.
	I'm all for freaking out authority figures and raising a little hell, but these kids are taking it too far.
	They gather by the thousands downtown, which, by the way, this was not reported, in a city hall tourist part of the city.
	Once they feel they outnumber everyone, they start assaulting police, including reports of a wheelchair-bound dude who was begging for his life as he was beaten.
	Well, I'm still all for...
	Civil disobedience, not for beating up people in wheelchairs, but taunting police.
	Yeah, I've got to say, it's going to come to that.
	They run on top of your car, hang from street signs, traffic lights, and they broke a window at Macy's.
	He does say...
	Well, you know, they should be reporting this more accurately then if this stuff is going on.
	I agree, though, that it's cool the mayor and police are freaked out, but it's not cool when you're harassing mothers walking down the street with their small children.
	Agreed.
	Well, I agree with that too, but the point is that the media has obviously been told, you know, if we report this, I know how this works, or if we report this and it's going to encourage it.
	Right.
	I don't know where that ever came from, but reporting stuff, you just report stuff.
	You don't make a sociological analysis as regarding the news and what's happening.
	Oh, I don't know, we can't report that because it's going to encourage it.
	That's bull.
	That's bull crap.
	Stole bullcrap.
	So then he does say at the end, thank you very much, though, for pointing out that our mayor, that's the guy who we heard on the video, Mike Nutter, which is a great name, sounds like Cleveland from The Family Guy.
	Totally.
	He does.
	Anyway, so I thought it would be nice to just end on a high note there.
	Yeah, anything.
	A family guy high note.
	So please consider us when you're next at the movies, which of course, you take your girlfriend, your boyfriend out, you spend 50 bucks on some high fructose corn syrup and some genetically modified popcorn, and then you watch a movie and you sit still with a hundred strangers in a dark room for an hour and a half.
	Consider giving that to us.
	I think we give you more entertainment.
	You may be more thirsty.
	Actually today we're a little longer than a Star Wars movie already, but your better entertainment dollar is better spent with us.
	Yes.
	So is your Starbucks dollar for that matter.
	So we'll end up the show with the full speech of Oompa Loompa Vram Rumpoy, the President of the United States of Europe, just so you can enjoy that.
	And we'll talk to you again on Sunday for the early service.
	So coming to you from the Hilltop Watchtower Command Center in the flight path of Black Hawk helicopters, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where the sun is shining, but I bet you it rains later, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Sunday morning, early service, meet us there at noagendastream.com, noagendashow.com, and in the morning for No Agenda.
	Eighteen months ago, people on this side of the Atlantic were not happy with the collapse of the first Lehman Brothers either.
	We have a responsibility for issues that affect the other as well.
	So let's work together on financial and banking regulation.
	I should like to mention two other fronts of insecurity, climate change and cybercrime.
	In the mythical past, the famous empire of Atlantis was engulfed by the sea.
	Let's take this as a metaphor for climate change.
	Saving the planet from climate catastrophe and the resulting global insecurity is a daunting task.
	But in name of Atlantis, Europe and America should take up the challenge together.
	The European Union and the United States should lead the way in green technology.
	Together we can set the norms and standards, not only in climate politics, but also in the technology-related regulation.
	It is the best chance we have so that the rest of the world will follow suit.
	A transatlantic cooperation is needed on an industrial carbon market and a global verification and compliance regime.
	I'm glad to announce that in the today's European Council, all heads of state or government agreed we should work closely with the United States on climate issues.
	Our societies live by the grace of a free flow of goods, people and information.
	Networks are the arteries of the global economy.
	They are vulnerable.
	Think of the internet and telecommunication, banking and money transfer systems, airports and energy grids.
	Cyberattacks against the nodes of modern life are no fantasy.
	They can happen and do happen every day.
	These changes are perspective on security.
	To quote a very valuable recent study on EU-US relations, The goal of ensuring territorial integrity must be complemented by a goal of securing the critical functions of our society.
	We must enhance our resilience against these threats, learn how to anticipate and deal with disruptions.
	Both the United States and Europe are so deeply embedded in global networks that we can only do this together.
	Our connectedness is at stake.
	I would propose to take up this task in the name of Atlantis.
	Not in the name of Atlantis, but in the name of Columbus, the great transatlantic connector.
	In all these areas, Europe and America can stand shoulder to shoulder, building upon the transatlantic past and upon our values and interests.
	That is the mission which we can make into our common story.
	Ladies and gentlemen, a final remark.
	We can only work together if we have respect for the political constraints under which our partner works.
	One example.
	Six weeks ago, the European Parliament rejected an EU-US agreement on the sharing of data, SWIFT, on the ground that civil liberties were not sufficiently protected.
	It came as a surprise to some in Washington.
	The parliamentary vote is a political reality, however.
	I sincerely hope that we can find a solution.
	With all the EU institutions involved, and I will work on that.
	However, this vote also made me think of the European experience with the Kyoto Protocol, which the US Congress never ratified.
	But then again, last Sunday showed a different mood in your Congress.
	I should like to congratulate President Obama on his historic successes of passing health care reform legislation.
	My point is...
	My point is, such votes, even if divisive, are exactly what we share.
	The most striking thing that Europe and America have in common is our pluralist democracy.
	Pluralist democracy means having a variety of standpoints competing on the political stage with always uncertain outcomes.
	Internally, neither in the Union nor in the United States, can we say that consensus is always achieved.
	In Washington, you often have bipartisan disagreements.
	In the European Union, one can add to those the divergences between the 27 member states.
	Therefore, we must not treat every disagreement as a crisis or a breakdown.
	They are rather a sign of the death of the transatlantic relationship.
	What unites us is more fundamental and more long-lasting.
	Once again, The only easy relationship is an empty relationship.
	Therefore, I should like to thank the organizers for bringing us all together.
	It was a very great pleasure and an honor to be with you, and I stay a little while to be with you this evening.
	Thank you.

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