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April 4, 2010 - No Agenda

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188: Easter Haiku and iPads For You

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	There'll be a porn vaccine.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's April 4th, 2010.
	Time for your Gimbo Nation Media Assassination Episode 188.
	This is No Agenda.
	Firing jingles from the iPad while fighting the global elite.
	And coming to you from the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center in Gimbo Nation West in the People's Republic of Salem, California.
	In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
	Big storms are brewing here in northern Silicon Valley, and there'll be a big storm are brewing on the show.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
	In the morning to you, sir.
	Missed my cue again.
	That's all right.
	I fumbled through mine.
	Hey, I finally got the jingles running on the iPad.
	Oh, good.
	Yeah, it really works well.
	You said iPad?
	Do you have an iPad?
	Yes, I do.
	Did you get in line and stand by Scoble and get in line and spend all night?
	Yay!
	You know what it was?
	It was actually very, very strange because I was kind of like planning on waiting a little while and seeing what was going to happen.
	I always like to see if devices are going to work or not.
	In the morning, it was actually our first anniversary yesterday, so we were planning on going to have lunch anyway.
	And I'm looking at the...
	Who's R? R, uh, Mickey and my...
	Well, you should be more specific.
	I'm sorry.
	Yes, lightning struck one year ago and one day now, exactly.
	And then you guys met afterwards.
	Go on, get going.
	Oh, wait a minute, you got a little, uh...
	Sorry.
	Is that a button you pushed on the iPad?
	Yeah.
	Huh.
	And so I'm watching the Twit Live, because you can't miss it.
	Everyone's tweeting about it.
	This is kind of what social media is these days.
	It's like, okay, iPad this, iPad that, blah, blah, blah.
	And then I turn on...
	How relevant.
	Yeah.
	Well, I do want to say something about it.
	I turn on the live Twit stream, and there's Scoble.
	Yeah.
	In line.
	And then I just Wozniak in another store in line.
	And I get strangely excited.
	I'm a 45-year-old man.
	That is terrible.
	I know.
	I'm like, okay, this is really feeling bad.
	What's up with this?
	And of course...
	I knew that they had done the whole velvet rope strategy.
	I knew there would be plenty of iPads.
	So I said, you know what, Mick?
	On our way to lunch, why don't we just drive by The Grove, which is this fabulous shopping center in Los Angeles.
	Fabulous.
	It's really fabulous.
	No, it's great.
	It's pretty awesome, actually.
	And if there's no line and we can walk right in, we'll go pick one up.
	So we go down there, and there's the velvet rope lines.
	Apparently there were lines in the morning.
	And there was like two people waiting for the non-reservation line.
	So I said, okay, you know, this is really against my principles, but there's two people, so we'll hop in line.
	It took about five minutes, and we went up and we got one.
	The thing that she pointed out, amidst all of the bull crap that we always talk about and all the negative stuff going on in the world, it is kind of nice to see a lot of people in a company, actually, that's doing very well, being happy about a product they make.
	I have to admit, there's something pretty magical about that.
	You know, the people who are managing the lines, all the way to the people who are selling them.
	And these aren't, like, highly paid employees.
	You know, they're just people working at the Apple Store, at the Grove.
	And everyone's, you know, kind of happy, and they're applauding their own product, and the company's very successful.
	And these days, I think you have to stop and say, wow, what are they putting in the water over there?
	Yeah, totally.
	Why are you being so negative?
	No, I'm not being negative.
	I'm agreeing with everything you say.
	You're being kind of snide.
	No.
	No, no.
	No, not at all.
	Hey, it's a great device.
	Everything I said is true.
	If it works for the show, it works for me.
	Yeah, everything I said is true.
	Everything I predicted is right.
	Whatever that means.
	Hold on a second.
	We're so on time with today's show, normally you don't hear my Mac farting and everything.
	It's like, this is all the sounds you normally hear during the pre-stream.
	Wow, we're on time.
	Happy Easter, John.
	Yeah, happy Easter to everybody out there that's crazy enough to be listening to our show on Easter.
	I suppose most people will be listening to it on their commutes next week.
	As most people do.
	Do you celebrate Easter?
	I mean, you'd be kind of like a non-religious type guy?
	No, we do an Easter egg hunt every Easter.
	You know, this is what I'm confused about.
	You know, I understand the whole egg thing, resurrection, you know, coming out of the egg.
	I get that.
	I never got that, but okay.
	But how did we get from egg to rolling them down hills, hiding them, and Easter bunnies?
	The bunnies lay the eggs.
	This is what Mickey said.
	I'm like, hello!
	Hello!
	The bunnies lay the egg and you can bite their head off because they're made of chocolate.
	Yep, there you have it.
	You got it in a nutshell.
	It's like, what is up with that?
	It was one of these holidays that came from religiosity that Hallmark didn't get a hold of soon enough to make things concise and meaningful.
	Hallmark wasn't around early enough.
	And so the thing went out of control.
	It really is out of control.
	But everyone seems to be celebrating this year for some reason.
	And if not religiously, they're getting together and having a family dinner.
	It's kind of interesting.
	Well, it's one of the first times it's actually been on a Sunday.
	Oh, this is a good point.
	It's always on a Sunday, you douche.
	It's the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring.
	Oh, is that what it is, actually?
	Yeah, it is.
	Because they always move it around.
	You know, it hit my birthday once.
	Wait a minute.
	So your birthday's got to be coming up?
	Yeah.
	Or did I miss it?
	No.
	No, it's coming up.
	But it hit my birthday once when I was a little kid.
	So when's your birthday?
	The 14th?
	5th.
	Really?
	Tomorrow?
	I think it's Tuesday.
	Oh, no.
	Is tomorrow the 5th?
	You are such a...
	You're an amazing man.
	Oh, yeah.
	Tomorrow is the 5th.
	Oh, my goodness.
	You wonder why everyone's hiding packages around?
	All kinds of gifts stacking up in the corner there?
	So, um...
	Anyway, the fifth falls on Sundays every four or five years.
	And then when it happens, I say, well, maybe I'll get another Easter.
	And no, they'll move it to Easter.
	It's never hit my birthday ever again.
	Just when I was a little kid, it did once.
	So I feel like that.
	Well, that's nice.
	What are you going to do for your birthday?
	I'm not sure.
	John, I drink a bottle of 89 Lafitte.
	Probably a bottle of 85 Salon Champagne.
	So is there a party that I was not invited to?
	Yeah, a family party that nobody's invited to.
	And do we want to talk about...
	Last time you came, all you did was grouse.
	No, I didn't come to your birthday.
	No, that wine was terrible.
	No, that was Thanksgiving.
	It wasn't terrible.
	You were setting it up like some great stuff, and it was basically vinegar.
	Well, it turned over the hill.
	Yeah.
	So is this a significant year for you?
	No, I'm not collecting Social Security if that's what you're angling for.
	So let's get to our executive producers.
	Yes, John.
	Who are the executive producers for No Agenda Episode 188?
	We actually have a whole bunch today.
	A couple of nights, I think, huh?
	Actually, three nights.
	Hey, now.
	Nice.
	Let's go over what we got.
	We got...
	By the way, Happy Birthday in Australia is already the fifth.
	Oh.
	Yes.
	You're always older if you live in Australia, and it's because of the sun.
	Yes, and the angle of the earth.
	And they have an ozone hole.
	Yeah.
	Okay, we got two executive producers...
	Who are also becoming knights.
	One is John Trainor.
	From Wilmington, Delaware.
	Who gave us $600.
	And then CB in Tokyo.
	I don't have him on my list.
	That's because he mailed a check-in, which went directly into the account.
	Ah, CB in Tokyo.
	That's the handle we're using?
	Yeah, so when he keeps using, so I don't want to use his name.
	If he wants us to use it, we can use it later.
	But anyway, CB in Tokyo.
	And he's also a knight.
	And then we have one, two, three associate executive producers, including Philip Evans from Modesto, who has a message of some sort.
	He wants geography lessons since we failed to immediately identify the Red Sea.
	Yeah, you know, I'm really sorry about my cock-up on the last show about Saudi Arabia.
	Being landlocked.
	Well, the way the story read, and I have to say the way Google presents maps, it is understandable at least.
	But still, if we have Trident submarines in the Red Sea, that's not uninteresting.
	Or the Gulf, actually the Persian Gulf is even more uninteresting, because that's right, that butts up against Iran.
	Yes.
	And they never said which of the two.
	No, they just said Saudi Arabia, like the thing shot out of the desert.
	Yeah, okay.
	Well, you know, it's a mistake you can make once in a while.
	Anyway, that's Philip Evans Modesto, and he's looking for...
	I don't know what he's looking for.
	He's written as a copy of War and Peace.
	Yeah, he has.
	Let me see.
	He has...
	Yeah, it is War and Peace.
	In fact, I should load that on the iPad in the iBookstore and read the entire thing at my leisure.
	He's working on a background personal project using a T1 OMAP 3 device.
	Oh, Texas Instrument TI. Oh, I see what he's doing.
	Yeah, he's getting streaming in his car set up.
	Oh, good.
	That's the future of our show.
	Exactly.
	He believes in our vision of noagendastream.com.
	And we thank you for your support as associate executive producer.
	And then we also have Sam Leung.
	Leung or Long, depends on how you pronounce it.
	I think it would be Leung, wouldn't it?
	L-U-N-G. Yeah, Sam Leung.
	And he's in Toronto.
	And he gave us 23333.
	And he's calling himself out as a douchebag for...
	Douchebag!
	And not checking his PayPal more regularly.
	It turns out that my so-called recurring donations, I guess he's going to be a knight or a subscriber, hasn't been going through since December.
	If you're doing a subscription-based donation to the show, I encourage you to verify the payments.
	By the way, we do too because people get canceled left and right and say, why did you cancel me?
	Then they send us an email.
	Why did you cancel me for my subscription?
	I'm saying, we didn't cancel, you canceled.
	No, I didn't cancel.
	That's what she said.
	That's what PayPal screwed up.
	They do that a lot.
	And then Randy Asher.
	Really?
	What?
	Oh my god.
	So he's mentioned that it's probably a good idea to brown nose when making requests.
	I also got the hint about Send Cash Not Clothes.
	He's one of our artists, so I have to say.
	He donated $200 and signed up for the $300 a month.
	Oh my goodness.
	And he's going to donate 30% of all profits made at Zazzle.
	He has a Zazzle account.
	Which, of course, would be 30% of five bucks every three months.
	Yay!
	I'm not laughing at it.
	Every little bit helps.
	I'm not laughing.
	And we have a Dutch, is this an associate exec?
	Associate exec.
	With Randy, I just want to mention one thing.
	He will want us to mention his noagendastuff.com, which is where he's going to get his money for, you know, he's an artist.
	He's probably just got stuff there that's cool.
	Hold on.
	NoagendaStuff.com.
	By the way, all of these cool links, all these No Agenda-based domain names, they're always to be found in the links that rock, which is at the top of all the show notes at NoAgendaShow.com.
	You might want to check that out from time to time, because it does change.
	There's new stuff in there all the time, like the...
	What is the new one I promised we'd promote?
	The...
	No Agenda Book Club?
	No, NoAgendaMeeting.com, I think.
	Oh, the meeting, right.
	The No Agenda meeting in Amsterdam.
	Big meeting.
	Big European meeting.
	The NA20. Yeah, exactly.
	The NA20. And I've been waiting for this one for our final associate executive producer.
	Wasn't that Randy Asher?
	No, Alex.
	We have Alex on the list from Springfield.
	On my list, I don't have an Alex.
	Oh, Alex Benderhengst.
	He's an executive producer.
	Oh, did I miss him?
	Oh, sorry, Alex.
	We'd like you to repeat his name again, please.
	Could you please do the pronunciation?
	Alex Vonderhengst.
	Yeah, Vonderhengst.
	Vonderhengst.
	It's of the stallion, is what that translates to.
	Okay.
	We have another pronunciation challenge coming up later in the show.
	Yeah, no doubt.
	So, I would like to thank our executive producers, John Trainor, CB in Tokyo.
	They are underwriting this particular episode of No Agenda.
	And, of course, right alongside of them, one line lower on the credits, is Philip Evans, Sam Leung, Leung, Leung.
	You know, it could be pronounced Long or Lang, I'm not sure.
	I think I will try Lang.
	Randy Asher and Alex von der Hengst, for all of you, you know what you need to do?
	Put on your resume and go out and apply the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	New world.
	Order. Order.
	This is what this is.
	Throw out that iPad now.
	I'll get over it.
	Throw it out.
	I'll get over it.
	Hey, thank you very much.
	Indeed, put that on your resume and we'll vouch for you and know that you have actually done a very Hollywood thing.
	You have produced an actual episode of a real show with real dudes.
	That's a big deal.
	And you did mention CB in Tokyo, didn't you?
	Yes, I did.
	Executive producer for today.
	Okay.
	And we'll do our nighthoods later, obviously.
	Always exciting on a Sunday.
	Well, John, in the morning to you, it has been quite a couple days once again.
	Well, what do you see that's interesting?
	Well, when it comes to media assassination, there's a couple of things.
	There was a fantastic article sent out on the Reuters Wire, actually listed on the Reuters website, and it's about the President Obama trip to Afghanistan.
	Now remember, I asserted almost immediately, and I think you agreed, that this had to be some cover for something.
	Something else.
	And I believe that he secretly went to China.
	Now, when you read this account, which is kind of like, almost like a blog accounting from one of the reporters, so it's very interesting where he says, well, you know, it all started out with a phone call from Reuters News Pictures' Washington editor in charge, which, by the way, how big is that guy's business card?
	Jim Borg.
	Informing Thursday night there was a secret presidential trip leaving on Saturday to an undisclosed destination.
	So if you run down this article, it's fantastic because it almost plays exactly into what we were talking about.
	Everything had to be kept secret.
	They were on the plane.
	Did not see the president the entire time they were on the plane.
	Then they had to wait on the ground, were not allowed to photograph the President coming off the plane, but then all of a sudden he came off and they got like 30 seconds to photograph him, so that was probably either A, the other Obama, or the President had probably already gone to China at that point in the other Air Force One.
	But he actually provides a nice timeline, and there's plenty of time to make a little trip to China with the backup Air Force One.
	It was very secretive.
	They had very little access.
	Let me get this straight.
	Okay, so now I'm getting the picture.
	In other words, we're taking a look at two Air Force Ones.
	One of them lands in Afghanistan.
	Nobody gets to see Obama actually on the plane.
	They get to see some guy walking off the plane that looks like Obama.
	Who then runs to the helicopter.
	Who runs to a helicopter and he takes off.
	And then you're asserting that the other Air Force One landed in China for some sort of a meeting.
	Yeah, oh yeah, landed for a meeting, and then, so of course, they had to wait for the other Air Force One to come back, and for the President to land in a helicopter before he could basically pretend to walk out of Air Force One that they were all on, where they never saw him.
	And they had no access to their...
	Did they see him on the way back?
	No.
	No.
	No, and it's all in here, but it's in a very kind of casual kind of way.
	And do they mention that this is unusual, the way this was handled?
	Do they ever get to see him or chat with him on one of these trips?
	Well, the thing that is interesting, there's a couple of really good pictures.
	When he meets with, there was a welcoming ceremony with Karzai.
	Now, Karzai, of course, has his cape on, his superhero cape, and his hat made of lamb fetus skin, which is true.
	And the president has a suit and tie on, but it's completely, and this is what really, I think, confirms my thinking.
	It's completely dusted where he, I guess he had the seatbelt from a helicopter.
	But, I mean, like, really dirty, and you can literally see the belt over his shoulder.
	You mean he had a dirty shoulder belt, shoulder harness type?
	Yeah, very dirty.
	And it was dirty, and it got him all grimy?
	Yeah, because he probably wasn't flying in one of the presidential helicopters.
	It was probably a military helicopter.
	And, I don't know, it just tells me that he was around a lot of sand.
	But even the reporter's like, wow, that's interesting.
	And then later he threw on a leather jacket when he went to meet the troops.
	The whole thing is just, it's filled with holes of hours and hours of time.
	Then there was all kinds of problems accessing the internet for the press corps to upload their pictures, and the FTP wasn't working.
	Well, here's an interesting thing that ByteLaw just sent me right now.
	Article dated March 29th, Obama summoned to China as global war fears grow.
	Yeah.
	Swordship Fowl is reported to her Western subscribers.
	This is like some obscure publication.
	WhatDoesItMean.com, which I actually donate to because sometimes they come up with some good stuff.
	I like them.
	Yeah, the whole thing, sure, okay, there was a, yeah.
	Well, also, you know, Timothy Geithner is now delaying the report on China manipulating currency prices.
	Oh, you know, I think we should, because of course Obama was in China, it's like, it's in here, Obama!
	You have no report on this!
	Don't do that!
	Is that your imitation of a Chinese person?
	Yeah, what do you think?
	Pretty good, huh?
	Yeah, just the way, in fact, it sounds like the good waiter I just saw the other day at the Chinese restaurant.
	In the morning!
	Anyway, so I enjoyed that very much, and if you read the whole story, it's in the show notes.
	You'll see where hours and hours of time was left open.
	And for what?
	You know, for like a handshake?
	What was up with that?
	Yeah, no, it's bogus.
	Of course it's bogus.
	I had a little time to read through the broadband plan for America.
	Oh, you did?
	Yeah.
	Well, I found out that the FCC is basically recommending that the government spend...
	As much money as possible, and if possible, equal to what they've spent on our national treasures, NPR and PBS, on a digital public media Because, of course, you know, all this stuff out there on the internet, you know, there's too much bullshit, it's not true, so we have to have the Ministry of Truth come in.
	We need a, quote, system of digital public media, or more accurately, cooperative systems of public media that can work with intention to deploy broadband content to forge connected communities.
	The function of a public media system would be to use the power of the Internet to give a voice to things that have not survived the rigors of the media marketplace, where the demands of customers drive content creation.
	It would also serve as a curator, focusing on what information to highlight, and as a connector of media producers who have not been able to find a broad enough audience to make it to the marketplace.
	So there you go.
	They're coming into our space.
	Yeah, I'm telling you, I've said this before, I think our show's at risk.
	The federal government has invested well over $10 billion in the public broadcast system.
	States have invested billions more.
	There's now an opportunity to leverage that public investment in public service broadcasting to create public service broadband.
	This is it.
	You're right.
	We need to get that mesh network up pretty soon.
	Yeah, well, I think we'll manage it, but it's going to unfortunately keep us from growing to the size we really need to be at.
	To have any influence, but that's okay.
	At least we'll have saved a few.
	Yeah.
	Well, I think we are catching...
	Even Will, the gay hairdresser, was here yesterday.
	It's like, you know, I hear people talking about this no agenda thing.
	And he goes to places like Slammers, okay?
	Yeah.
	Which, you really don't want to know what happens there.
	And by the way, I'm like, Will, please stop telling me.
	Right next to the other bar, the White Swallow.
	Yeah, those kinds of places.
	How about you, John?
	I don't know.
	I slept in and had some cognac last night.
	Not much going on here.
	I did pick up a few clips, though.
	Okay.
	I still haven't put together my educational clips, and I'm not going to run them today because they'd be too boring.
	But there was one interesting, at least we might as well start with some humor.
	One of the local writers was busted here in San Francisco.
	A guy I actually know him.
	When I was at the San Francisco Examiner, he was the...
	He's a nature writer.
	He's the outdoorsman writer.
	And he looks like Grizzly Adams.
	And he doesn't look like he's aged today.
	And you'll figure out why when you listen to this story.
	But this is one of the few stories he got.
	Apparently, Tom Stanestra, he was growing pot.
	And they got busted.
	For personal use or for commerce?
	Well, he had 60 plans or 50, 30 plans.
	Yeah, that's commerce.
	That's minor commerce.
	But you have to listen to the story, and where he lives is kind of the punchline to the story, but you want to run it.
	A San Francisco Chronicle writer is free on bail after investigators say they found a marijuana growing operation on his property.
	The Siskiyou County Sheriff's Department says...
	I love how 30 Plants is now a marijuana growing operation.
	Yeah.
	That's nice.
	Deputies arrested Tom Steenstra and his wife last week.
	They say they found 60 pot plants and more than 11 pounds of processed marijuana in his barn located in the town of Weed.
	No charges have been filed.
	What do you expect?
	It's like, if you're a fed and you're going to go look for a marijuana growing operation, I think the town of Weed would be a good place to start.
	That's amazing.
	Weed, which is somewhere north of Redding in this valley.
	I think I'm going to move there.
	It's a great little town, but meanwhile, I just thought that was hilarious.
	That is good.
	Growing pot in the town of weed.
	Hey, 11 pounds is not for personal use, though, dude.
	No, 60 plants in 11 pounds.
	That's not for personal use.
	This is the kind of crap they're growing nowadays.
	Wait a minute, you know this guy?
	Is he in the slammer?
	Is he going to jail?
	I don't know.
	They never reported on it.
	I have no idea.
	Can you pop him a note?
	I don't think he's been actually put in jail yet.
	Oh, he must be white.
	Of course.
	Yeah, that's exactly it.
	If you're white, you don't go to jail if you're white.
	No, you just give the cops a couple of poundage and you're good to go.
	Yeah, no, if he was a black guy, he'd be in jail right now and they'd be beating him.
	Yeah.
	Waterboarding.
	Just a practice.
	All right, that's it for me.
	I'm out of here.
	I'm done.
	All right, have a happy Easter, John.
	Great.
	Yeah, it was a good show.
	There was something really disturbing, which I can't really play the clip because it wouldn't make any sense because there's no audio.
	And I know you saw it as well, John, two times going to a commercial break right after a Letterman segment on CBS. Yeah, I have to put this on the blog.
	Yeah, I have it in the show notes, and it'll be on NoAgendaTV.com.
	Twice, two separate occasions.
	I think it's two separate occasions.
	Yeah, no, they are.
	I looked at both clips.
	They're two separate times.
	All of a sudden, and I'd say middle of the screen about, well, big, right?
	Yeah, across the screen in big letters.
	It says Haiti.
	Yeah, Haiti, and I think it's only for one frame.
	No, it's more than that.
	It seems like half a second, so it's probably eight or nine frames.
	No, I don't think so, because he slowed it down, the guy who caught this.
	And then he showed it in slow-mo, so it was seriously there for a long time.
	But I think in real time it was one frame.
	It's really weird.
	It was two times, two Letterman shows.
	They go to a break.
	They're two different shows.
	And just before they hit the commercial, there's this big Haiti across the screen.
	And I don't know.
	I have no idea what they're trying to do.
	What is it?
	Trying to maintain Haiti in our mind?
	I don't know.
	Or get attention?
	Here's the thing that gets me more than anything else.
	Who's making the decision to run this stuff?
	At first I thought it was maybe just a slate or something.
	If a Haiti commercial or a Clinton Bush thing would have shown up after it.
	Shysters show up and take advantage of people's goodwill and generosity.
	Then I would have understood it, but it wasn't.
	It was like a local news promo.
	And it doesn't look anything like a slate.
	No, it doesn't.
	Slates for people out there.
	You might want to explain what they are.
	Well, you'll see this from time to time.
	Yeah, every once in a while they drop it in by mistake.
	Yeah, it basically gives you the title of the clip that's coming up, the producer, who owns it, all kinds of pertinent...
	It used to happen a lot more when they were actually using tapes and now in digital you barely see it which is why it's hard to believe this is a mistake because you queue everything up in digital and it's just like, whoa!
	And what was it for?
	It was totally weird.
	Related to that I was just saying it was yellow on a black background It was like the weirdest thing And, of course, we know right now they are in the middle of the $11.4 billion plan for Haiti, of which Bill Clinton is the special envoy, UN envoy.
	So they're planning to build their tax-free haven, their casinos, their love shacks.
	I'm not sure it's going to be fantastic.
	Well, yeah, the problem is the rainy season is about to start.
	It starts...
	Well, yeah, that'll give the opportunity for more Haitians to die.
	And then if Clinton's lucky, they'll have a hurricane blow through there and kill more of them, and then they'll have everything the way they want it.
	They won't even have to bulldoze.
	The bodies will just be whisked away.
	Because this is, they're literally hundreds of thousands of people, not living in tents, but living under sheets.
	Sheets and ropes.
	So let me recount for you.
	We've had millions, millions of dollars and euros around the world have been collected.
	We all felt really good with all the live shows.
	No, let's help the people for Haiti.
	Everybody hurts.
	All this crap.
	None of the money has gone to getting these people the basic necessities of tents.
	In fact, Bill Clinton, and I'm not even going to play it because I'm just going to get angry, with a stone face, not stoned, but stone face, sits there and says, oh yeah, we bought 60,000 tents.
	Bull crap.
	There's not a single tent there.
	These people are living underneath sheets.
	And they're just perishing.
	You're right.
	I think they're just waiting.
	Oh, let's have the rainy season come in.
	They've got 20,000 troops still there who are slowly going to pull back because, oh yeah, our work is done here.
	And now Rene Preval is saying, we need a UN Red Helmet Humanitarian Rapid Reaction Force.
	Which could swing into action within hours of a natural disaster.
	So they're planning the natural disaster.
	Because the same earthquake machine can make a hurricane machine.
	I don't know about that.
	Oh, I do.
	I do.
	And I'll tell you why.
	You go look at all of the aerial photographs from 9-11.
	No, no, no.
	Let me finish.
	I'll put it in the show notes once again.
	You will see there was a huge hurricane right off the coast of New York, which no one reported on, and it disappeared magically after the buildings fell.
	Forget about that.
	Just a little side note.
	However, the point being, all of this money, not a single frickin' tent for these people.
	That's all they're asking for.
	I mean, give them one of those formaldehyde trailers from Katrina.
	Do something.
	They're getting nothing.
	So now there's this organization, I saw this on the KTLA morning show, because I like to see happy news about puppies and stuff like that.
	And it's called AhomeInHaiti.org.
	And I love this organization.
	They're not taking your money.
	That's what I like the most about them.
	They've got their guy, Bobby Duvall.
	It's actually a bunch of show business people.
	He's in Atlanta.
	And on their website, ahomeinhaiti.org, they give you Amazon.com links to buy tents.
	So you buy an actual tent from Amazon, and you put in the shipping address in Atlanta, and then Bobby Duvall actually takes it to Haiti and hands it out to people.
	This is how bad it's gotten, is that we have to have actors...
	Jump in and do this.
	And the thing that pissed me off is one of these actresses was on KTLA, and she's talking about this.
	And of course, good plug, good promotion, and they're doing a lot of social media stuff, so the word is getting out.
	And then one of the anchors actually asks an intelligent question.
	He says, wow, that's kind of weird.
	We raised all this money.
	How come there's no tents?
	And she copped out and said, oh, don't get me started.
	Oh, don't get me started.
	Don't get me started.
	I was like, yes, start!
	What are you talking about?
	There's the perfect opportunity to say that shysters have shown up and taken all your money.
	And they've given it to all these fringe NGO groups.
	And they're all putting it into stocks and bonds with Goldman Sachs.
	And they're just letting the people of Haiti starve and wither away.
	And now they're going to let the flash floods come.
	And then the hurricanes will be generated.
	And all the evidence is gone.
	I've seen Curry's happy holiday.
	You have your own theme now?
	Yeah.
	That stinks.
	Hey, man.
	People are upset that I still have to use yours.
	Okay, so, yeah, no, they're...
	It's bad, and you know what?
	Well, hey, at least it's equal opportunity.
	We did the same thing to the people in New Orleans, so...
	Yeah, that's true.
	Oh, wait, they were also brown.
	Right, there you go.
	Well, in the Ninth Ward, they were.
	It's still untouched.
	I'm going to New Orleans next month, and I expect to...
	Drive around the 9th Ward.
	If we have some listeners that want to have a meet-up or something, maybe we can get a few people together and go around.
	You know what?
	That sounds like a fun idea.
	What day are you going?
	You know, that's a good question.
	I'd have to look at it at the beginning of the month.
	It's March, April, May.
	It's around May 9th or something like that.
	I'll have to get the date.
	Oh, I wouldn't mind dropping by, if I can.
	But, go around the Ninth Ward?
	Just hanging out with you and some of our militia.
	Oh, yeah, that'd probably be a good thing to do.
	Okay, so, uh...
	There wasn't any...
	Was there any really good distracting news this week?
	No.
	That would seem to be a slowdown.
	No, I don't think there was.
	Um...
	Yeah, what was a minor one, which, there were no blow-ups or anything.
	I did kind of like the story that got a lot of, well, the iPad, of course, was the, I think the guys are like all kicking back going, alright, Steve's on the case now, we don't have to worry about anything, carry on, business as usual.
	Ah.
	In fact, I think they probably have a deal with Steve Jobs.
	Steve's like, hey, I don't give a crap what you guys do, but you are not.
	I repeat, you are not going to do any distractions while I'm launching my shit here.
	I'll take care of it.
	I got it covered.
	There was the announcement from the Federal Aviation Administration that Who said, hey, we think that it's okay for pilots with mild to moderate depression to be allowed to fly while taking antidepressants.
	Yeah.
	Let me tell you something.
	Not a good idea.
	I don't understand.
	Who was running that thing over there?
	I don't know.
	That doesn't sound good to me, especially if you just listen to one of these commercials.
	I mean, you're not even supposed to take...
	I know commercial outfits, they will not allow their pilots to take cold medicine.
	Nothing.
	Right.
	You really don't want that because it just slows down your shit.
	And this is new policy.
	FAA Chief Randy Babbitt.
	Oh, that should tell you enough right there.
	He says it will actually improve airline safety.
	The concern we have today is that people who are either self-medicating or not seeking a diagnosis...
	You know what this is about?
	This is about having the pilots who have been sneaking antidepressants coming forward and firing them.
	Yep.
	Because there's too many pilots.
	You know, I didn't actually touch on this.
	The pilot, the captain who landed the British Airways 777 that came in from China, that the throttle broke.
	Or they couldn't throttle up upon arrival like 500 feet before they actually wound up landing short.
	Remember that?
	Vaguely.
	Oh, come on, man.
	You remember that.
	It was like the huge 777.
	And everyone survived.
	One person got a broken leg, but they landed in front of the runway.
	You know, the undercarriage dug in and everything.
	But it was because of the fuel flow and it was real iffy as to what had happened.
	And it never really came out with a report as to what was going on with the 777.
	It was a couple of years ago.
	And we talked about it.
	Ad nauseum.
	Is that back in the news?
	Yeah, well, barely, because this guy, the pilot, is now on welfare.
	Yeah, because he was told to shut up, slave.
	He was told to not talk to the media, because of course there was a huge problem with the Boeing aircraft.
	There was some structural problem, I'm sure.
	It still really hasn't been resolved as to what exactly happened.
	And then British Airways told other people who were doing their training, and they do training every single day, oh yeah, he choked.
	They basically told everyone, oh yeah, it was a pilot error.
	The guy choked.
	And then he got totally shunned.
	How do you get to the point of being a 777 pilot and being a choke artist?
	That doesn't make any sense logically at all.
	It doesn't make sense.
	And what they're saying is because what he did is he handed controls over to the first officer and said, here, you fly the plane.
	I'm going to see if I can restart the, you know, get the fuel flowing.
	And you basically do need to, you know, it's like, You're at 500 feet.
	You're about to land.
	Oh, you know, he gave up.
	He choked.
	Actually, I have to say, our national treasure, I think it was NPR, did an interview.
	No, I'm sorry, it wasn't.
	It was BBC. What am I thinking?
	Which, of course, there's all kinds of political reasons there for the BBC to do such a huge story about the guy.
	But it was, in a way, kind of buried.
	It's crazy.
	The guy's on welfare now.
	He got kicked out.
	He's got no job.
	And he's being blamed for this.
	Yeah, he'll never get work.
	They even said he never called in a Mayday call.
	That's what they were telling employees internally, where the tapes clearly, you can hear them calling in the Mayday.
	Railroad job.
	Total.
	Total.
	It's the Airbus-Boeing fight that continues.
	It's got something to do with it.
	So, have you ever heard of Awakening squads?
	No, but I should be a member.
	Well, play the Awakening Squad's clip.
	This news headquarters.
	Hi, everyone.
	I'm Jamie Colby.
	Right now, the hunt is on for those responsible for a horrifying attack in Iraq.
	Authorities are saying gunmen dressed in Iraqi military uniforms raided homes near Baghdad, handcuffing and then shooting 25 people execution style.
	Five of the victims were women.
	Most of the dead members of the so-called Awakening Councils, they're the Sunni fighters who helped change the course of the war by turning against Al-Qaeda.
	Okay, so let me just say that I don't think I should be a member of that.
	I thought it was some other kind of awakening.
	Is this the thing that's rumored that the awakening squads speak perfect English and carry American weapons?
	I guess it's awakening councils, according to this.
	That's what I was reading about.
	I've never heard of these people.
	And she just runs it off as matter of fact.
	I mean, maybe she just missed it.
	I mean, it's possible.
	You can't remember everything, but you'd think that if these were the people that changed the course of Iraqi, you know, the future of Iraq, we'd know more.
	Awakening, which is a sounding thing, by the way.
	I think the media has completely given up on reporting on these wars.
	It's too expensive to send people over.
	I mean, do you even hear about casualties anymore?
	Well, yeah, once in a while.
	But very rarely.
	It's not on a daily basis.
	No, but you'll see the report, like, more servicemen and women killed this month than ever since the beginning of the war.
	You're just not hearing it.
	I think they've given it up.
	So the woman who's reporting on the Awakening Councils is named Jamie, and she has to do the report on Jihad Jamie, another phony baloney woman terrorist who looks like a bimbo.
	She looks more like an old stripper.
	With a long head.
	Play this thing, because I think it's just funny that Jamie is reporting on Jihad Jamie.
	And new developments in the so-called Jihad Jane case.
	Authorities filing terrorism charges against another American, Jamie Paulin Ramirez, a.k.a.
	Jihad Jamie, accusing her of plotting to attend a terror camp.
	She was detained in Ireland last month as authorities investigated an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist.
	I mean, it's almost like The Onion wrote that story.
	Well, here's the line that got me.
	She was plotting to attend.
	A terrorist camp.
	Let's listen again.
	How do you plot to attend one?
	You either attend one or you don't.
	I don't know.
	I'm going to plot to attend one.
	Let me listen to that again.
	...accusing her of plotting to attend a terror camp.
	She was detained in Ireland last month as authorities investigated an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist.
	And I'm Jamie Colby.
	Join me at 1 p.m.
	Eastern for America's News Headquarters.
	Now back to Forbes on Fox.
	Yeah.
	So they busted this woman for, wait, how do you plot?
	This is like, well, I think I'm going to go to, like I said, I'm plotting to go to New Orleans in May.
	Ah, you're an enemy combatant.
	What is plotting?
	Does it mean she ordered an airline ticket?
	You know what I think it was?
	I think she went to a website.
	A honeypot website.
	Ooh.
	And she asked for some information, or maybe she's doing a, you know, she looks more like a journalist than she looks like a jihad Jamie.
	And I think she just went to a website, and I think there's honeypots all over the place, and she went in there, and if she didn't have a good excuse for the, you know, a good reason why, they just throw you in the slammer now.
	LaRose apparently spent long hours online in recent years while caring for her boyfriend's elderly father in a small eastern Pennsylvania town.
	Spending long hours online is evidently plotting.
	Yeah, plotting.
	Plotting.
	She's got no money.
	She's plotting.
	And they arrest her, defame her, and show her a picture.
	I mean, it's unbelievable what's going on.
	It's inexcusable.
	Is it against the law to plot?
	How do you even...
	This is like one of those phony baloney crimes.
	It's like plotting to...
	Who's to say that anybody can't be pulled down off the street if there's ever been online?
	And they go over their history and they...
	Oh, it looks like you're plotting to attend a terrorist camp.
	And all you've really gone to is Maxim and Playboy and who knows what.
	Well, that's what the terrorists did before 9-11.
	They were hanging out in strip bars.
	I just got slipped a mickey.
	Distracting news, the note says, Mistress of Tiger Woods all posed for Vanity Fair magazine.
	Yeah, we missed that one.
	Oh no!
	Yes, oh yeah, all the mistresses posed all together for Vanity Fair magazine.
	Yeah, well, whoever's behind this publicity stunt.
	Well, it's all about the golf season kicking off.
	Doesn't it start tomorrow?
	Well, the Masters, I think.
	Yeah, the Masters is tomorrow.
	Is it April 5th or is it the 15th?
	I have no idea.
	I don't care.
	I don't care.
	One for SI reflux.
	What's happening?
	Two for diabetes.
	What's happening?
	That's you.
	That's you and that iPad.
	No, it's not me and the iPad.
	Just playing random clips.
	That's some website.
	No, no, no.
	This is me and the iPad.
	In the morning.
	Yeah, maybe it was just a slow news day.
	I mean, we did...
	In fact, it was a slow news day because the planned distraction got canceled.
	I was really bummed about it because I was all ready.
	After you teased me with it on Thursday, Saudi Arabia said that they weren't going to behead the Lebanese sorcerer.
	Oh, yeah, the Lebanese sorcerer.
	I was ready for like film at 11.
	I'm like, come on, let's see him chop this guy's head off for guessing something right.
	And they cancelled it.
	Eric just sent us a note saying, apparently we can expect this for the bullcrap news of the week.
	Apparently one of Jesse James' skanks might be pregnant.
	Oh, poor Sandra Bullock.
	Yeah, you know, I'm starting to change my thinking on all this.
	I think it is Sandra Bullock's fault, and it is Elin Woods' fault.
	Women always say, oh, if we ran the world...
	Well, women used to run the world.
	And this is back in ancient times.
	And men were basically doing two things.
	We were working for them, and we were screwing them.
	And that was our job.
	And that's why we can still produce and reproduce well into our 70s.
	We need a jingle for your take on history.
	This is historical fact, John.
	Look at Cleopatra.
	But even way before that, women were running the show.
	And then, of course, men got really strong.
	They want protection.
	They let us take over.
	They let us take over.
	But men need certain things.
	We need to at least have the illusion of hookers and blow.
	You need to keep our fantasies going.
	And I think these women forget.
	There's all kinds of money involved, and everything's great, and we're all doing stuff, and they think that the men are still just going to go, okay.
	But when the blood leaves our head to our penis, that's it.
	We can't think anymore.
	So you've got to be at least teasing us.
	You've got to be more loose-structured, yeah.
	Yeah, you've got to be like, hey, maybe I'll bring my girlfriend's over.
	The show aren't going to be too offended.
	No, but I think women who listen to this show, all 15 of them, I think they might agree to a certain point.
	Well, maybe.
	I hope so.
	Otherwise, we're down 15.
	Which is a lot.
	We're minus 15.
	Yeah, and they all donate.
	Yeah, that's the problem.
	We'll see.
	Women, I'd love to hear what you think about this.
	Well, we haven't heard any more from Heather and the boyfriend.
	And we don't have any groupies this week either.
	Hmm, disappointing.
	No, I think your groupie's going to peak out at two.
	That's it?
	It's actually three if you think about it.
	Oh, I just got a boob shot.
	Yeah, we have a third groupie.
	So I was listening to Sarkozy's speech at Columbia.
	Sarkozy shows up to have a bunch of meetings.
	He goes to Columbia and tells us Americans that we have to...
	This keeps bringing up a clip that we played once before.
	I'm going to play it again.
	This idea that the Europeans essentially want to take over the place.
	Instead of doing it the old-fashioned way by attacking us.
	With guns.
	With guns.
	And then finding that we resist that.
	They're now just trying to sucker us.
	They figure they can outwit us because they're so much smarter than we are.
	So where is Sarkozy now when he's doing this speech?
	He's at Columbia University giving this talk.
	You can listen to Sarkozy 1, which will lead to the next one.
	These are a little lengthy, because they're being translated by a woman who seems to be doing a rather good job of it.
	Now, did Sarkozy have his MK Ultra Slave with him?
	I didn't see.
	No, I don't think so.
	I think Merkel was still back doing something else.
	No, no, I'm talking about Merkel.
	I'm talking about Carla Bruni, man, as well.
	Maybe, but she wasn't on the stage, you know, flashing or anything.
	All right, here we go.
	...what we in the Eurozone would be capable or not of doing.
	That is today's world.
	That is why when the decision was taken not to bail out Lehman Brothers, we would quite like to have been sounded out at the time and not simply told about it after the event.
	That is what solidarity and interdependence means.
	A last question perhaps?
	Wait a minute.
	He's sitting there going like, hey you bastards, you're taking down your economy and not telling us about it?
	This is bad?
	No, the whole thing is ridiculous.
	You know, the funny thing is Bolton's speech, which contrasts with this guy, he makes an interesting point that, I think it was Bolton, but he makes an interesting point that if there is an EU and you've got this crazy Belgian guy who's the president, kind of the Obama of the United States of Europe, does that make Sarkozy like the governor of Massachusetts?
	Oh, just a quick side note.
	So you're talking about Hermann von Rompuy.
	Yes, he is the Obama of Gitmo Nation, Europe, the United States of Europe.
	He is about to release a book of poems.
	Oh, we don't need these poems.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	April 15th, his book of poems.
	By the way, some people call him Haiku Hermann.
	Which I think we need to adopt.
	Haiku Hermann, the President of the United States of Europe.
	Would you like an example of one of his haikus?
	Oh, hit it.
	Three waves roll into port together.
	The trio is home.
	What?
	Mickey's falling off her chair.
	That's his haiku, man.
	I know what haiku is, but that's hi-bad.
	Ha ha ha!
	In the morning!
	Three waves roll into port together.
	The trio is home.
	Notice.
	Maybe he was talking about...
	It's code!
	It's code, man!
	Listen, it's the magic number three.
	It's about the third wave of the tsunami.
	It's about hookers and blow with the trio.
	It's total code.
	I thought it was about the female members of the Navy are called waves.
	Nah...
	It's all code, magic numbers, and the guy is a troll.
	Well, the guy is a troll.
	Haiku Hermon.
	All right, let's go back to our Napoleon friend, Sarkozy.
	Sarkozy.
	Hello, Mr.
	President.
	Hello, Mr.
	Professor.
	Did you have those in school, John?
	Your French lessons?
	Some people in the chat don't remember that one.
	You made the point that in the 21st century, there needs to be a greater level of economic cooperation...
	between all the countries in the world, not just the countries that are on the Security Council, but that places such as Japan and Latin America don't have any real spots there and that their voices are not being heard.
	So what Sarkozy's going to propose, and by the way, he keeps making this threat that when the French take over the presidency of the...
	EU, of the Council of Starfleet Command.
	Of the 20.
	He...
	What they want to do, it seems to me, is they want to water down the Security Council so there's so many members on there that we don't have as much of an influence.
	This is all just aimed at screwing us.
	Everything he says.
	And then they ask him about who would be members of the Security Council from South America.
	And he says, well, they should pick it themselves.
	And then he tells which they should pick.
	He says Brazil, for example, should be on, but they can pick whatever they want.
	But you wouldn't leave Brazil out, would you?
	Anyway, play it.
	You made the argument that in the case of Japan, they lost the war.
	It could also be said that Africa and Latin America are not being listened to for the simple reason that in recent history they were colonies.
	If the developing world is to have its voice heard in Japan...
	Talk about a journalist with an agenda, by the way.
	Jesus.
	Get beyond it, man.
	Get to your question.
	Oh, this new cooperation.
	What sort of framework do you envision for that becoming the case?
	Well, for me, it's a simple system.
	Every region of the world must have two to three representatives on the UN Security Council on a permanent basis.
	Oh, this is the Trilateral Commission idea.
	This is the whole plan.
	We have these regions, United States of North America, United States of Europe, United States of Caribbean, United States of Asia, and then we all go up there and sit in the big tower and we call all the shots.
	That's what that is.
	And every region of the world should be able to determine freely the basis on which they choose their two or three representatives.
	There again, the world doesn't need uniformity.
	Let me take the example of Latin America.
	Should it be Brazil?
	Should it be Argentina?
	Should they elect their representatives?
	Oh, that would be wrong.
	To a permanent seat?
	It's up to them to decide.
	We, the international community, should say, look, what we want as permanent members...
	Of the Security Council.
	One or two people representing Latin America, choose them as you will.
	It can be via elections, it can be on a rotating basis, it can be a huge country like Brazil.
	I mean, how can you imagine running the affairs of the world without the Brazilian giant sitting at the table?
	For the African countries, there are some 50 African countries.
	Stand by, Africa.
	You're about to get screwed.
	Bend over.
	Should the representative be South Africa, which alone represents 40% of African GDP or the African economy, or a giant country such as Nigeria that has more than 100 million inhabitants, it's up to them to decide and determine it.
	It is not up to us.
	And my aim, my ambition is to fast-track this one when France is in the presidency of the G20 and the G8. Ah, there it is.
	When we're in control, we're all going to screw you.
	Then it's all over.
	It's unbelievable.
	You can go to the next clip, which is Sarkozy pushing world governance.
	Which I also had, which also is a little, it's long, but it's...
	No, it's fascinating because, you know, the thing that I like the most is that you don't actually know what the guy is saying.
	He's got some broad along for the ride, and she's translating it.
	And let me just, these translators, I've always worried about this.
	You know, Tony, the guy who drives me to the airport when I'm in San Francisco, who drives like a beat-up town car, he's one of these translators for diplomats.
	Yeah.
	And it's just like a dude, you know?
	He's like...
	This woman seemed a little more adept than most because it seemed to be flowing better than some of those changes that, you know, the verbs and nouns constantly.
	But here he goes on.
	This speech lasted forever, so I had to find some good areas of it.
	But this one is where he starts to push the Glover government.
	Ah, yeah, governance.
	This one is basically this.
	Screw you, United States.
	Screw your dollar.
	It's bogus.
	And screw the fact that you're not, like, doing what we say you should do.
	Here we go.
	I simply add a last point here.
	Which will be something that the academics might wish to mull over, which is that I'm calling for the establishment of a new international world monetary system.
	We cannot go...
	Oh, nice.
	He's calling for it.
	Oh, do you hear that, John?
	Yeah, he's calling for it.
	Continue as we are.
	But my dear friends of the United States of America, the dollar is no longer the world's single currency.
	It is a very important currency.
	But it is not the only currency.
	The yuan.
	Who's in the audience of this thing?
	Who's sitting there listening to this jabroni?
	You know, it's at Columbia University, so I'm assuming it's a bunch of professors, a lot of journalists.
	I don't know what the point of it is.
	And I have no idea who's in the audience, but they're all nodding their heads a lot.
	Chinese currency is an important currency.
	Part of your savings is in Chinese hands.
	So we have to come up with, we have to design a new international monetary order and decide together on how to handle...
	Yeah, I've been reading that one.
	It's kind of the new meme.
	It's the monetary world order.
	It's like, oh, it has to be monetary, which of course is more dangerous than calling for global governance.
	That's exactly what happened in Europe, is they made one currency, one euro, and then everyone's like, oh, good, we don't have to change our money.
	And before you know it, it's like, what?
	Genetically modified crops?
	What?
	Who approved that?
	Who's this guy?
	The funny thing is, Europe was so adamant about genetically modified crops, and the next thing you know...
	They're legal!
	They're not legal, they're eating them up!
	They're in the can!
	...and manage interest rates and how to regulate a new international, world international monetary order.
	That is a fascinating discussion which I will push forward when we're in the presidency of the G20 and something which I will be talking about with President Obama.
	You see, new world governance, a new...
	There was actually a fantastic photo, and I'll have to look it up, as Sarkozy and Obama are running to a press conference in the White House.
	I guess they had to go from one room to the other, and they're running, and they look like they're poised like superheroes.
	And they're both running together there.
	Their steps are bouncing.
	You have to see it.
	see it, I'll put it in the show notes.
	A monetary system, a new system to regulate commodity prices and a means and new ways of regulating the market economy.
	I can't listen to it anymore, John.
	No, you've got to get this.
	You've got to keep listening.
	And free trade, that is what matters.
	That is going to shape the world in which you are going to be living.
	And that you will not build and design by simply reading the books that lay out the theories of the 19th century, but by coming up with the ideas that we need for the 21st century.
	Don't read books!
	Read Herrmann's haikus!
	Don't read any economic books!
	Haikus will save us!
	In all of this is that today, my dear friends, ladies and gentlemen, we have, the world is our oyster.
	We can reinvent anything if we have the imagination and the cooperation that we need between Europe and the United States of America.
	Thank you for your attention.
	Yeah, we are the world.
	Meanwhile, the guy can't keep his own country in check.
	French workers are threatening to blow up a factory in Sotimatex.
	That's the name of the factory.
	They make car rugs.
	We can blow it up.
	I love the French workers.
	Yeah, they have petrol bombs near a huge gas tank.
	And they're saying, look, if you don't give us better wages...
	And better layoff compensation.
	We're blowing this fucker sky high.
	Of course, no one buys French cars anymore.
	And there's a huge unemployment rate higher than the United States in France.
	Yeah, I know.
	But Sarkozy's going to be a big shot when he takes over the G20. Now, just give me this one clip of Bolton explaining global governance, which I think segues nicely with what Sarkozy said.
	Herman Van Rompuy, the former Prime Minister of Belgium, said in his inaugural address...
	Why doesn't he just say the President of the United States of Europe?
	Why does it have to be former Prime Minister of Belgium?
	I don't know.
	That's frightening.
	Yvonne Rompuy, the former Prime Minister of Belgium, said in his inaugural address, which I'm sure you've all read, right?
	In his inaugural address in November of last year, he described 2009.
	That's...
	I just got to stop there for a second.
	Did you hear that, what he just did?
	He said, in his inaugural address, which I'm sure y'all read, right?
	You stupid idiots!
	You didn't read anything!
	And everyone's like...
	That's Bolton's weakness.
	In his inaugural address in November of last year, he described 2009...
	And I'm quoting, as the first year of global governance with the establishment of the G20 in the middle of the financial crisis.
	Yeah, we actually talked about this on Thursday's show.
	This is what they're going to do.
	It'll all be managed by the G20. It's not going to be the United Nations, but the G20 is the new Starfleet command.
	The climate conference in Copenhagen is another step toward the global management of our planet.
	Close quote.
	So this is the attitude, the approach of many people who favor moving toward global governance.
	And so I think we're entitled to ask, one year into the Obama administration, what is the President's view of American sovereignty?
	How does he view...
	And I think we can see already that the President has, President Obama, has a very different view of American sovereignty than the long line of presidents, certainly since Franklin Roosevelt.
	In some respects, he harks back to Woodrow Wilson in his devotion to multilateralism as a process and as an outcome.
	Right.
	Multilateralism as in trilateral.
	Well, that's just three laterals.
	Well, the tri is multi.
	It's more than one.
	Whatever.
	But anyway, the point is that they're setting us up to screw us.
	So this is the type of analysis that we try to bring you on every single show.
	It takes a lot of time to put this together.
	And there was an interesting discussion thread at NoAgendaForums.com about us calling out our national treasure, the NPR as well as PBS. And I just want to set something straight.
	Both of those organizations do have some outstanding programming, no doubt about it.
	However, when you understand how they are funded, how they actually make money, you have to think about what they're not reporting on, not the things that they are reporting on.
	Let's just listen one more time to the clip of the president of NPR and about their funding, or rather the decline in their funding and what they actually call it.
	Okay, moving on to money.
	How are NPR's corporate underwriting revenues holding up in the recession?
	And what about foundation grants?
	Two different stories.
	Underwriting is down.
	It's down for everybody.
	I mean, this is the area that is most down for us, is in sponsorship, underwriting, advertising, call it whatever you want.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	Call it whatever you want because it is pure advertising.
	And although I enjoy watching Bill Moyer's Happy News Journal, I don't see a lot of news stories about General Electric, Monsanto, or Archer Daniel Midland's company who sponsor slash underwrite or advertise whatever you want to call it on those shows.
	And this is exactly the problem.
	It used to be from fine, upstanding citizens like you and from foundations.
	Now, on this show, we don't know how to get foundation grants.
	I wouldn't know how to do it.
	We've asked many times if someone can help us out.
	No one stood up and said, Oh, yeah, I know how to do that.
	You know, I drive by the Getty every day.
	The likelihood of getting a foundation grant for this show is zero.
	Yeah.
	They would take it because they need a big...
	Uh-oh.
	Oh, come back to me, John.
	I have misreads about foundations.
	On the next show we do on Thursday, I'll have some kind of negative foundation information involving the school system, which is...
	I'm trying to deconstruct a huge speech that was given by this woman who wrote...
	This fantastic book, her name is Diane Ravitch, and she wrote The Death and Life of the American School System.
	She's an ex, kind of an ex, I think she was the Reagan administration, the education department, and now apparently she's given up on all the conservatives because they don't, they get their heads up their butts about education, and she's given up on all of their, I mean, she's an amazing speech.
	Unfortunately, it's over an hour, and I have to take a few choice clips, but she blasts the Gates Foundation for screwing up the education structure in the United States.
	And we'll get to that next week.
	This is the kind of stuff you really can't do with foundations that you've been sponsoring.
	We need public support.
	In other words, people who listen to this show have to say, look, is this two hours worth as much as me going to a movie and watching...
	A movie I might not end up liking, which I have to pay for in advance.
	Yeah, and you've got to buy $40 worth of popcorn, and you sit in a dark room that's smelly, and you're forced to watch it in 3D with strangers.
	I mean, come on.
	Come on.
	So, what's it worth to you?
	So, this is why we ask for money.
	We do spend, you know...
	Ten minutes may be a show at the most, right?
	And, you know, we don't interrupt the show necessarily, the flow of the show to do this, which is another advantage, which I, the reason I don't like advertising at all because of the interruption factor and the fact that it's corrupting.
	So, you know, just think about it.
	Well, the corrupting part is really the main point is just how it works.
	You just can't go around doing a lot of stories when you can't bite the hand that feeds you.
	Yes, it's rude.
	And both John and I have been...
	It is bad manners.
	And both John and I have been in mainstream media long enough.
	And I think, honestly, John, if we really wanted to just be broadcasting, I'm sure we could get some menial gig anywhere we wanted for some kind of...
	We could probably get a job at Fox or someplace...
	We could probably get a deal with like...
	Perhaps making more money than we make doing the show, but it would suck.
	Yeah, and hell yeah.
	It was like, oh, sorry, John, that was a really interesting thought, but let's break away for an important commercial.
	Well, not only that, but the other problem with these big media outlets people should realize is that they're run by, like somebody said, the friendly penguins.
	These suits, you don't have any leeway.
	You can't really do your own show.
	I mean, you can't sit there like, we developed a show...
	You know, basically from the seat of our pants over time to what it is with all the jingles and all the other crazy stuff.
	And there's no way that we could do this in a structured environment because people are going to say, nah, you know, we did a focus group and they don't like the in the morning.
	What's that mean anyway?
	What is that?
	In the morning!
	Yeah, we don't like that.
	It's really, by the way, it's annoying.
	And when you say the call letters, go WNBC. That's our argument.
	So let's thank some people that have donated.
	I also want to bring up something from one of our donors from last week who had a couple of websites he wanted plugged, and I'll plug them because they have to do with stuff that we talk about.
	Hempvideo.com.
	Ooh!
	Hempvideo.com and theridleyreport.com.
	R-I-D-L-E-Y report.com, one word.
	Um...
	I haven't looked at the Ridley Report, so I don't, you know, just check it out for yourself.
	Now this week we've got, besides our executive producers, we have Zach Helensky from Fargo, North Dakota, who also wrote a shorter version of War and Peace, but he's unemployed, beginning to graduate studies in ceramic art, by the way.
	We'll be looking out for that.
	And he expects to get a job.
	He says he does rely heavily on the show notes to spread the good word in an attempt to open the eyes of his family and friends.
	It is a very good tool and we put a lot of time and effort and spend a lot of attention on the show notes because these are usually stories from big media outlets that people say, oh, that was in Reuters?
	Oh, it must be Troop.
	And we can show you the conflicting reports and it's all kind of nicely organized.
	So it's a good tool to use and we appreciate your $99.99 donation.
	Jason Williams in Pittsburgh, California, $100.
	And he's actually donating for himself and Paul Neriman.
	And they're going to do a night program.
	And also, if Eric's listening, check and see where Randy Asher's from, because I find it peculiar that on this list that we have Randy Asher listed as in Pittsburgh, California, and Jason Williams right under him as in Pittsburgh.
	I suspect there's something with the database there.
	And if Eric can also...
	I don't think Randy's in Pittsburgh.
	If Eric can also resend the note, there was some other person...
	Oh, here it is.
	Firas Altibani?
	Oh, he's on the list here.
	No, $52.10.
	He's from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
	He's sitting on top of that Trident sub there in the desert.
	And I think we missed his donation in the past.
	He gave the extra dollar to get our attention.
	Now you'll mention me.
	Thank you, Firas Altibani.
	It's nice to have people checking in from the sand.
	Highly appreciated.
	We got a couple of foreign donations.
	I like that.
	It's good to see the foreigners back on.
	Yeah, it helps.
	Matthew Chang, Los Angeles, 6666.
	And he donated back on 3-3 and got a job interview the next day.
	You know, we're not making these stories up, by the way.
	People, you know, because we keep pushing this, but they keep telling us that this is going on.
	And if you've donated and haven't gotten a job, please let us know.
	I'd like to chart this out.
	We're doing charts of stuff on the show now to see over time if some of these trends are actually working or not.
	Let us know if you have donated in hopes of getting a gig and it hasn't worked, because I have yet to receive a single one of those.
	All I get is, I donated next day, boom, interview.
	Donated next day, boom, got a raise.
	Donated next day, boom, got work.
	It's a karma thing.
	Henry Cunningham in Hamilton, Ohio, who is a student apparently at Cincinnati State.
	He actually calls our shows semi-weekly lectures.
	Isn't that kind of lectures?
	He says he finds them more educational, enlightening, and far cheaper than the crap served to me fresh from the assembly line here at Cincinnati State.
	I love it.
	It says, I hear that contributing to Adam's prostitute and cocaine habits increases your chances of employment in the morning.
	Wait a minute.
	Since when does it become Adam's hookerism blow?
	What is all that about?
	Come on.
	Mark Curnow in Acton, Australia.
	55-55.
	Lawrence Donovan, Chicago, Illinois, 55-10.
	Ryan Lee, Ashland, Kentucky, 55-10.
	Alan Asaf in Bristol, Virginia, and it's pronounced Alan Usoff.
	So I got that wrong.
	I followed you, too, since the 80s when John was the world's greatest columnist in Mac.
	Anyway, it was Mac user, by the way, not Mac world.
	And you might as well read the whole note.
	And when Adam was the coolest VJ on MTV. Yes.
	Thank you.
	So, of course, we mentioned Firas.
	Or Firas.
	Altabani.
	Yes.
	Inridia.
	And, John, we have...
	It's your birthday, birthday.
	Oh, no, I'll change it.
	Happy birthday, birthday.
	Eric Beeson, Bristol, Tennessee.
	Hold on, hold on.
	You're walking on it.
	You're walking on it.
	You're stepping on it, man.
	No, there you go.
	It's new.
	It's fresh.
	I get it.
	It's all right.
	All right, yeah.
	Eric Beeson donated $50 to the show to his friend, John Hoyboer.
	A little joke there.
	Oh, he's a douchebag.
	Just kidding.
	He says, John Hoyboer, happy birthday on behalf of your friend, Eric Beeson.
	Okay, about Rudolph, oh brother, Leuchner, 50 bucks.
	No, I'm sorry, it's 33 bucks.
	Stephen Costello, that's what I'm looking for.
	Hayward's Heath West Sussex, 50 bucks, and that's it.
	We did have one more that showed up somewhere from some town that's almost impossible to pronounce.
	And I'll get to that next Thursday after I look at it.
	My favorite donation was from Nate Friedman from California, who sent us six cents.
	Yes.
	Here's the grand total of my PayPal account.
	I've not donated yet because PayPalSucks.com.
	My budget is quite tight right now, but as soon as I can, I'm going to get my knighthood.
	Hold on to one of those rings for me.
	Speaking of which, John, how are we doing on the design?
	We didn't make any progress in the last four days.
	Okay, you got the whole family there, though, right?
	So this is a Dvorak family effort, I believe.
	Yeah.
	So PayPalSucks.com, coincidentally...
	It's run by the guy who runs the sysop for Dvorak Uncensored blog, Mark Purkel.
	He hates PayPal.
	Yeah, they do kind of blow, but it's kind of working.
	It's a mechanism that works.
	And I got a note here, we need to read Henry Cunningham...
	We just read that one.
	Eric's not on the ball.
	He's a little off.
	Stop feeding those kids cognac, man.
	That's no good for it.
	Hey, let's take a look at our knighthoods for today, John.
	Who was our first knight?
	Well, we can go with...
	We can start with CB in Tokyo.
	Okay, Unsheath.
	You ready?
	C.B. in Tokyo!
	Kneel before us as we now knight the Sir C.B. in Tokyo!
	Our next knight charm?
	John Trainor.
	Sir John Trainor.
	Okay, we have a couple of Sir Johns.
	Sir John Trainor, kneel before us, bow thine head.
	Do you take the oath to help all damsels in distress and to hit all adversaries in the mouth?
	Then we hereby knight the Sir John Trainor.
	Please join the knights at the No Agenda Roundtable.
	Enjoy our hookers and blow.
	And we have more, don't we?
	Yes, Alex Vanderhankst.
	Oh my goodness, from Springfield, Tennessee.
	Alex Vanderhankst, come on over.
	Neil?
	Ooh, John, your sword is shiny today.
	Alex Vanderhankst, we hear by Knight B, Sir Alex of the Knights of the Noagenda Roundtable.
	You too shall enjoy our hookers and blow with a ring forthcoming.
	And, uh, Randy?
	I'm sorry.
	Randy?
	Who's next?
	I wanted to say one more thing about van der Hengst.
	He lived in Holland for ten years and he wants me to say on the air the town name, which I'll attempt to do because he thinks I'm going to botch it horribly.
	And it's spelled W-A-D-D-I-N-X-V-E-E-N. I would assume you know how to pronounce it.
	Yes.
	I would guess it to be Waddingjveen.
	John, turn your head over here.
	One more time.
	Vadingsfein.
	How far off was I? Not bad.
	Vadingsfein.
	Vadingsfein.
	Okay.
	And do we have another night?
	I don't think it was butchered.
	Is Randy a night today?
	I thought we made Randy a night last show.
	Randy Asher?
	Now I don't know.
	No, I think Randy's going to have to do one more artwork and then he'll be a night.
	Okay.
	So these are our Knights of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	To reach knighthood status, a number of things have to take place.
	First, your total donations must equal $1,000, or if you do three payments of $333.33, we kick in the extra penny.
	You will be receiving a hit-em-in-the-mouth-in-the-morning seal-net ring.
	For the Knights of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	And there are some responsibilities that come along with the knighthood, which consists of helping people in general, helping damsels in distress, hitting foes in the mouth, and being ready to help us when they come for us.
	Because you know, it ain't going to take long.
	You've got to give us a break.
	For sure.
	Please support our show.
	We've given you all the reasons why.
	It's noagendashow.com, but to go directly to the sponsorship and support links, dvorak.org slash NA. Or if you want to become a sustaining producer and receive credit on that site, noagendastream.com, it is dvorak.org slash NAS. And the backup site is channeldvorak.com slash NA. Yes.
	If you can't get to the Dvorak site.
	It was a pretty interesting PR idea from one of our listeners.
	Oh, by the way, if you're a producer, associate, executive producer, or executive producer, or a PR associate, then please consider putting that in your email signature.
	That seems to be a big one these days.
	People will actually write down.
	Yeah, I always get a kick.
	I get the mail and the, oh, one of our producers.
	Exactly.
	I'm producer of, and the show number they're producer of.
	You should actually put a link to that as well in your email signature.
	One of our listeners said, you know, here's a great PR idea.
	You know, we all have a pencil, and we all have to take a dump.
	So, whenever you're in a public...
	You're in a public bathroom.
	Yeah, write noagendashow.com on the wall.
	If you don't have a sticker, you can use.
	Yeah.
	Oh, the stickers are good.
	There's lots of great stickers out there.
	Yeah, we're going to have to put up a site.
	Somebody should get us No Agenda stickers.
	Ooh, we do need that, don't we?
	.com and just post these things and people can print them themselves.
	Ah, um...
	The law of the land meme cropping up in two different forms.
	Here's a classic.
	You want to hear this one?
	The law of the land meme crept over into the sports world under some new rule in the NFL. They called it the law of the land.
	What?
	I'm telling you, I cracked up.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah, well, that new regulation is now the law of the land.
	It's a football rule.
	Well, so, you know, my whole thinking behind this is that whenever it comes to a constitutional or a law that might conflict with the Constitution, then it's immediately called law of the land.
	It's been used for the Federal Reserve Act and now for the Health Care Act.
	But also, Lyndon Johnson used it in the 60s when putting Medicare and Medicaid into place.
	He said, this is now the law of the land, which I thought was very interesting, since that was also, at the time, I would presume that was deemed as perhaps unconstitutional.
	But then here's this congressman from Illinois.
	I hate to interrupt, but since we just got, there is a noagendastickers.com site already.
	Oh, good, good, good, good.
	So this is Phil Hare.
	He is a Democratic congressman from Illinois.
	He's being grilled by a number of constituents about the constitutionality of health care.
	And I don't really even care to get into that.
	We've discussed it ad nauseum.
	But it is very interesting when he gives his take on that.
	I'm trying to finish the point.
	And the point is that for me, when a little boy...
	Yes, I know.
	This is important stuff.
	These are people's lives.
	It's people's children.
	It's when you take your child to the hospital and you think it's really bad and your heart is bumping and bumping and bumping and bumping while you're waiting for the doctor to tell you what it is.
	And then the doctor comes out and says it's going to be okay except you don't have insurance and you're stuck with a $10,000 or $15,000 bill and your heart starts bumping you.
	What am I going to do?
	I talked to a woman that does bankruptcy.
	She's a good friend of mine that's an attorney.
	Monday before I left, I said to her...
	This is happening with the economy.
	Well, look, we've got to turn this...
	We're going to lose more doctors.
	We're going to lose 60% of the state.
	I don't worry about the Constitution on this, to be honest.
	I don't worry about the Constitution.
	Yeah, who worries about the Constitution?
	Why worry about that?
	By the way, how often does somebody take the kid to the doctor to a hospital or whatever, and the doctor says, the kid's okay, and then you're stuck with a $15,000 bill?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Kids, okay, here's the bill.
	You know, and I'm still waiting.
	You know, we're seeing pundits, we're seeing politicians.
	Could I please see one of the 32 million people who are happy?
	Could you please just show me a hundred of them?
	Just show me a little group of people who are going, yay, I got healthcare!
	There's nobody!
	No one's getting anything.
	I don't understand.
	How come we can't show these people?
	Show me someone who's going to be happy that they'll get it in 2014.
	Just show me one.
	One!
	They don't show it to me because it's not there.
	And the president, meanwhile, he's walking around.
	He's going everywhere.
	He's selling the bill.
	And I do have a soundbite of it, but it's 17 minutes long.
	You know, he's got to cut down his...
	Yeah, a woman asked him at the rally, I think in Pennsylvania or Portland, Portland probably, you know, so this is going to raise our taxes, right?
	And he goes into this 17-minute answer, doesn't answer the question about, you know, all kinds of non-sequiturs.
	He just doesn't answer the question.
	And the thing that bothers me the most is this incessant, oh, it's going to lower our deficit by $1 trillion in two decades.
	Because he made the mistake of saying in one decade, but the Congressional Budget Office, I think that's who determined it, right?
	CBO? They said, it's possible it could lower it in the second decade, but we don't project past 10 years.
	So he's taking quite a bit of liberty.
	With this lower by a trillion dollars in two decades.
	And in two decades, if we're alive...
	Yeah, we're not being run by the French.
	Next week, it could be as early as next week.
	We could start to see our new taxes on carbon emissions because, of course, you know, climate gate didn't really exist.
	There was no covering up of decline in temperatures.
	No, no.
	Let's just keep pushing through.
	As if nothing has happened.
	It looks like the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, will declare as early as next week.
	Of course, they've already officially declared carbon dioxide as a dangerous global warming gas.
	Get rid of your plants.
	Cut down the trees.
	They're emitting poison.
	And they will be given the fiat, the go-ahead, if you will, to start imposing taxes on carbon.
	Which will be billed as a pollution tax.
	They're trying to get rid of the cap and trade and all those memes that didn't work that have got a bad rap.
	So be on the lookout for news about pollution.
	How come when we had like real air pollution in this country and we still do in some areas there was never a tax like this?
	Real pollution, I'm not talking about carbon dioxide, which is a natural product that's part of nature.
	It comes and goes.
	You breathe it out when you breathe it out, and the plants breathe it in.
	Why was there never a tax on real pollution when we had real pollution problems?
	Because we didn't have $23 trillion of debt that we can't pay back.
	I mean, I think in four or five years, our entire...
	The entire taxes raised, so like a trillion bucks, whatever it is we raise in taxes annually, will go to paying interest.
	We've got the worst credit card deal in history.
	It'll just be interest.
	We'll never be able to pay it down.
	So, you know, something's got to give.
	And so we need the money.
	I have a quick one from our department known as Shadow Puppet Theater.
	There's a big race on in California for the next governor of California, Meg Whitman, who I don't think you like, John.
	I don't dislike Meg Whitman.
	Oh, you will.
	You will when I'm done with this.
	Did you know that she was on the board of directors for Goldman Sachs in 2001 and 2002?
	Yeah, I did know that.
	And that she actually was fined $3 million for spinning, which is not sitting on the bike riding real fast without moving anywhere, but that is a trick.
	You can do it in IPO.com.
	Where you're given shares as an insider before the public can get it, and then you basically sell them at the offering.
	It's an illegal practice, and she was fined $3 million.
	She hasn't got a chance of winning this thing.
	I mean, I've had all these people say, I just tell you right now, Jerry Brown's going to win this election.
	There's no doubt in my mind.
	Is he a good guy?
	He's a dingbat.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	So we're screwed.
	Doesn't California have...
	I don't necessarily believe that's true.
	He's been in the government so long and he's so old that he doesn't have any reason to worry about his future or anything else.
	And he'll probably actually fix things.
	Because he knows where all the bodies are buried.
	He knows everybody who knows anyone.
	He works with all the most corrupt people in the Democratic Party.
	They'll be on board with him.
	And he can just fix things.
	Yeah.
	I'm telling you, I just have this sense of it.
	I would like you to take...
	You've got nothing to lose.
	The most dangerous kind of Democrat.
	I'd like you to take a look at this picture.
	These satellite images.
	I'm Skyping it to you right now.
	Because as you know, I'm all over HAARP and turning on the earthquake machines.
	There's been a set of amazing patterns on radar over Australia, known as Gitmo Nation down under.
	This is somebody...
	This is an April Fool's game.
	No, it's not.
	They've been reporting this for several weeks now.
	This started back in January.
	And the Bureau of, what do they call it down there?
	No, let me read people the subheads.
	Mysterious shapes appear on radar.
	Bureau of Meteorology say it's interference, which is what it looks like.
	Well, yes, of course it's interference from HAARP. And conspiracy theorists are buzzing, and here we got one now with us, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Look.
	He's buzzing.
	Yeah, I am.
	Yes, of course it's interference, but radar interference doesn't necessarily look like ninja stars.
	It's like a ninja star.
	Can somebody who's making these patterns use the No Agenda logo?
	That's what we need.
	Now we got something.
	Hey, Harf guys, could you please project the No Agenda bat signal over Australia when you're trying to cause earthquakes in Japan?
	Because that's what they're doing.
	It's described as the ring of fire.
	Which is a bizarre red star over Broom, January 22nd, sinister spiral burst over Melbourne.
	This is weird.
	You have to admit, it's not like your typical radar disturbance.
	Well, if it's not an April Fool's gag...
	It's not.
	The Bureau of Meteorology is...
	People should link to this.
	Adam, I'm sure, is going to highlight this in the show notes.
	Yes, in bold.
	And by the way, people, you should subscribe to the show notes because eventually we're going to put them on a newsletter and it'll be the easiest way to get them.
	So...
	And there's a subscription box at the bottom of the curry.com site.
	And I think on the No Agenda Show, do you have it on there too?
	Yeah, oh yeah.
	Noagendashow.com.
	The only place I can't do it is at noagenda.mevia.com because they won't accept the JavaScript or whatever.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	I did kind of like what's going on in Google Deutschland, Gitmo Deutschland.
	Google Deutsch.
	Well, it's a story about Google.
	We can only hope.
	Well, I like what the Germans are doing.
	I have to say, when it comes to the United States of Europe, I love what the French are doing.
	They're like, hey, we're going to blow up the factory.
	We need some more of that over here.
	Like, we're going to blow up the factory if you don't give us what we want.
	And in Germany, and I have to say, I don't like these Google cars.
	I don't like Google Street View.
	I see no benefit to it.
	I don't see, you know, I don't use it.
	Do you use it, John?
	Is it really incredibly handy for some reason?
	Well, you know where it comes in handy, and it's happened a couple of times.
	And when you're using it, there's all, you know, Google is actually thinking in more long term that, With more long-term strategy than I think a lot of people want to give them credit for it.
	And with the Google, those little cars that drive around.
	So I'm using the Google Nexus One.
	I punch in for turn-by-turn instructions to go to somebody's place.
	And I punch in their address and I drive and drive and drive.
	It says, you have arrived at your destination and you look on your phone and there's a picture of the person's house.
	Okay, so I don't use that.
	So if you're looking at it, many times, and I'm saying this is valuable because many times, especially nowadays, there's not enough guys painting the addresses on the curbs anymore.
	The mailbox, people don't have a light on their address.
	You don't know which house it is.
	You have to kind of figure it out.
	There's 36, there's 38, there's 42.
	That must be 39 here.
	You have to guess.
	You could just say, yes, I see some benefit to it.
	We get the idea.
	Do you think my long-winded explanation is a good one?
	No.
	The Germans, however, remember these groups, what are they called?
	Oh yeah, the Nazis and the Stasi secret police.
	And they remember, you know, like, privacy is kind of an important thing, and so they're not too hot on these Google cars driving around with cameras, and so they're basically sabotaging them.
	How are they sabotaging them?
	An employee found the note under the windscreen saying, please do not drive away, you have a puncture.
	And they had punctured the tires of the Google vehicle.
	I saw one of these driving on the road the other day here in California.
	It's just like, what?
	Just because it's Google doesn't mean I'm going to like it.
	And we've got all these...
	The Europeans are more likely to object to this, and I don't blame them.
	Yeah, because they're right, because they have some history.
	Yeah.
	Actually, I do have some good news in that regard.
	But first, you've probably seen Napolitano on some of the news shows now talking about the enhanced security measures that will be put into place at U.S. airports.
	So, of course, we're talking about the naked body scanners.
	That's one.
	And now they're also going to do lots of secondary checks.
	They're going to be looking at you, profiling you, basically, saying, hey, I think we need to talk to you.
	Um...
	Let me see.
	What was the other?
	There was one...
	Oh!
	Oh!
	And this was pretty interesting.
	So you have this CNN article about the full...
	And so there's like, oh, these full-body scanners, you know, they're really good.
	Look at what we found!
	And they show you five pictures.
	They show you a little bag of crack, a little bag of Coke...
	A bag of weed, a bag of probably ecstasy pills, and a pouch with five joints.
	Hello?
	That's my business!
	Now they're getting drugs?
	This gear is not supposed to be used for anything other than spot terrorism and their weapons and the rest of it.
	They out and out said this a jillion times that we're not looking for your drugs, we're not looking for this, we're not looking for contraband, we're not looking for your notes, we're not looking, you know, to go...
	This is bogus then.
	Yeah, but this is what they're doing.
	They're showing the actual pictures proudly of, oh look, we've got all your drugs.
	Because that's what the scanners are really for, to throw you in jail.
	And the TSA has no rights to do that, do they?
	No.
	They're specifically told not to do that.
	Well, they're now being specifically told to do that.
	And we got a note from- No, you know the way it works.
	They're told not to do it, and they do the scan, and then they look at it and say, doesn't that look suspicious?
	And then they go, call the cops, and they tell somebody else, the local police that happen to be in the airport, too, if you haven't noticed.
	And, you know, there's a bunch of cops roaming around, and they just grab you as you come up the escalator, just on suspicion.
	And it's funny because back in the day when I was smoking weed, you know, I'd carry all the time, not internationally.
	Oh, I've done that as well.
	But I'd carry all the time.
	And people would say, oh, man, what are you doing?
	I said, no, they're not looking for drugs.
	They're looking for guns and explosives.
	And there would never be a problem, ever.
	But now, these body scanners, which by the way, although it's a CNN report, they've now requested documents under Freedom of Information Act, and we already knew this, of course.
	The actual tender for these body scanners says it must be able to store images, even though we keep getting told, oh, we'll never store images.
	That's bull.
	Yeah, there'd be a book out with everybody's, you know, a bunch of images of, you know, weird fat-looking guys and guys with, you know, big schwances and hot women with, you know...
	Well, I have a theory.
	You know, these things are actually called 3D imaging.
	Right?
	They're called 3D imaging scanners?
	Yeah, they are.
	Wouldn't it be interesting if you have all of these 3D images of people, you can basically go and create movies.
	If you have all this data, you can create movies with real people.
	I think it's going to be mostly used to do statistical analysis of the public at large.
	You're all fat.
	You're all fat.
	Trevor, one of our listener producers, sent in a note.
	I'm traveling a lot lately and noticing the new uniforms and shiny gold badges on the Mag and Bag Stormtroopers.
	I like that.
	Mag and Bag Stormtroopers.
	And instead of these badges saying TSA exclusively, many of them now read CAS. So I asked one of the Stormtroopers what CAS is versus TSA. I recognize the woman.
	She used to be a red coat security person.
	She said TSA has subcontracted the CAS company to do the work of the TSA. So CSS is Covenant Services Worldwide, and it's actually Covenant Aviation Security.
	And from their website at covenantsecurity.com, exclusively dedicated to the aviation community to provide total security solutions in the protection of our nation's airways and travelers.
	We provide quality services including airport screening, individualized products and services, and multifaceted integrated project designs and installations.
	So, for a Department of Homeland Security...
	Which is huge.
	They just built a two billion dollar complex.
	They've got hundreds of thousands of people working for them.
	We still have to contract out this work?
	You know, there was a...
	We talked about this a few months ago when we had a C-SPAN report, and they said they had something like 200,000 contractors.
	It's unbelievable!
	Yeah.
	And you look at the website, and by the way, they're at SFO... Is there a base?
	San Francisco.
	Of course, there's no information.
	Mission first.
	Customers always.
	TM. This is part of the government program.
	Sorry.
	Is this part of the government program to outsource anything where there's liability issues?
	Oh, here we go.
	Let's see.
	Robert L. Cole is the CEO. He possesses more than 26 years of extensive experience.
	Is it in his pocket?
	Let's see.
	Oh, he's from Chicago.
	Okay.
	The President, Gerald R. L. Berry.
	Let's see where he's from.
	This is where you've got to look at, people.
	You've got to look at where these people are coming from.
	So he was with the FAA. Okay, he's a total insider.
	He holds a Department of Defense secret clearance.
	Ooh, that's nice.
	These are all like Gitmo dudes, man.
	This is amazing.
	Thomas Long, Executive Vice President.
	He is actually in charge of the CAS. That's the airport security.
	Let's see what he's been doing.
	Oh, yes.
	These guys are a division of Blackwater.
	Well, they are essentially a type of Blackwater.
	It's unbelievable that we're sourcing all this stuff out to these people.
	So we're outsourcing TSA jobs, people who wear badges, which means they're basically mall cops if they're not working for the government.
	This is what happened in San Francisco.
	They've outsourced all the parking meter stuff to them.
	Some dipshit company.
	And they just hand out tickets.
	Those meter maids work for the city and they hand out the tickets and all that stuff's collected by a third party.
	And you can't protest.
	You can get a wrongful ticket.
	The courts won't deal with it because we got nothing to do with it.
	This is abrogating responsibility.
	The government is doing this over and over and over again.
	And when they talk about all this money going to the government workers, it's actually going to these contractors.
	And the workers are actually getting screwed, I'm sure, compared to if they actually worked for the government.
	And then the government doesn't worry about liability if one of them goes crazy and starts shooting up the place.
	Oh yeah.
	It's easy that way.
	Can't sue the government.
	Oh, they're contractors.
	Oh, they're terrible people.
	We fired them.
	Of course, they never fire them.
	So just on Popegate, because we have to, this is an unbelievable video.
	So this is ongoing about the cover-up that the Pope covered up, that he knew that this priest was being reinstated.
	What the hell?
	Freaking rollover pop-up crap.
	What?
	Should make clips.
	Yeah, well, right.
	So first of all, the U.S. bishops have very quietly reinstated the accused priests in our own U.S.-based scandal.
	They've just been reinstated.
	There's amazing accounts of Vatican officials saying, hey, you need to respect the uniform that is our cloth.
	But this blew me away.
	This is, I think, on Larry King Live.
	So on the show, we have Sinead O'Connor.
	You remember Sinead O'Connor was the beautiful, bald singer who did Nothing Compares to You, which was a Prince song, was number one all over the world.
	And then she kind of just freaked out.
	She went crazy.
	Yeah, she grew her hair back, and now she looks like a Hausfrau.
	So she's on Skype.
	Then we've got...
	Who's this guy?
	Bill Donahue.
	Have you ever heard of him?
	No.
	So he defends the church wherever he can.
	So the show is clear, right?
	We've got Sinead O'Connor.
	She's in Ireland where the most recent pedophilia scandal has taken place.
	And she's like, whoa, you know, she's obviously crazy.
	And she's the one that ripped a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live.
	You remember that?
	Yeah.
	She was on to this way back when.
	I'm talking like 90s, maybe even 80s.
	So I want you to listen...
	About how this Bill Donahue defends pedophilia.
	It's quite amazing.
	Bill Donahue, is it going to get better before it gets worse?
	Oh, it's already gotten better.
	The timeline of the damage was the mid-60s to the mid-80s.
	But Ratzinger's taken a number of important steps.
	It's harder for practicing homosexuals to get into the priesthood, and that's a very good thing.
	It's harder.
	Not impossible.
	It's just harder.
	There's more hoops to jump through.
	But it's not impossible.
	Like Father said before, we've only had six cases of allegations in the last year or so.
	I'm very encouraged about the future.
	I just hope that the other religions and the public schools will look at the Catholic Church today as a model of excellence because we have a lot to teach them.
	Sinead, are you optimistic?
	I feel that maybe we might have got some work tonight in this idea that, let's say, for argument's sake, there was no cover-up, despite what the reports say.
	If that's true, then the Pope and the Vatican and Catholicism have been brought into disrepute by those Members of the clergy over the decades who did not go to the police.
	And so accidentally, unwittingly, another crime is actually being committed by the Vatican, which is that they have not reported these people.
	They're harboring criminals by accident then.
	These people have covered up crimes of child abuse.
	By the way, I love how calm she's doing this.
	This is really good, and she's trying to be not pissed off, and she's really explaining it clearly.
	Very good with the stuff she's doing here, but the outrage is about to come.
	...covered up the cover-up.
	They brought Catholicism into disrepute.
	If that's true, then they should be totaled in the morning by the Vatican.
	Every one of them who covered up, go to the police and turn yourselves in for persecution.
	Well said, Thomas.
	Bill is good, but you cannot link homosexuality to a pedophilia crisis in the Catholic Church.
	It's not a pedophilia.
	Most of the victims are post-pubescent.
	You've got to get your facts straight.
	I'm sorry.
	If I'm the only one who's going to deal with facts tonight, then that'll be it.
	The vast majority of the victims are post-pubescent.
	That's not pedophilia, buddy.
	That's homosexuality.
	So, he's saying this was homosexuality, not pedophilia, because the vast majority of these children were post-pubescent.
	It means, what, they're 11?
	Well, Sinead O'Connor should be on our show, John, because she asked this very question.
	Bill, I don't think, as a person of faith, that you really know what you're talking about when it comes to a victim and a survivor.
	It's the John Jay study of criminal justice.
	It's not my opinion.
	Take a look at the social science data.
	I never said that most homosexuals are that way.
	No, you just said that they've cut down homosexuals.
	Sinead, go ahead, quickly.
	Can I just ask very quickly with that gentleman, I'm sorry I don't know your name sir, I'm not quite sure what post pubescent means, would you mind explaining that to me?
	Explain what?
	What does post-pubescent mean?
	Post-pubescent.
	Post-pubescent means beyond puberty, okay?
	In other words, you're an adolescent, and that's what homosexuals do, and most of the molesters have been homosexuals in the Catholic Church.
	So the boys deserve it because they're post-pubescent.
	Now, if you want to take that conclusion, I think that's scourless.
	I never said that.
	Why would you say that about homosexuals?
	Sorry, Larry.
	Yeah.
	Larry, what age does somebody become, you know, post-pubescent in America as a matter of interest?
	What is the age?
	Larry?
	I don't know.
	Let's ask Bill.
	He seems to be already a post-pubescent.
	Okay, I'll tell you what, folks.
	12, 13 years of age.
	Look, all I'm saying is 12, 13.
	Hey, that's all cool, man.
	They're just gay.
	Unbelievable.
	The guy's outrageous!
	This guy's been on a bunch of different shows.
	Shade O'Connor actually has her hands in her hair and is tearing it out now on screen.
	This is like, what?
	This is like, the guy's unbelievable!
	You know, that character has been on almost all the talk shows as an apologist for the church.
	He's the hitman.
	Where's he coming from?
	He's come out there and he makes, but it's terrible.
	He doesn't even, he's like blowing it.
	It's, beyond blowing it, it's just, it's unbelievable.
	And now, and you watch this come out, the Boy Scouts of America, I mean the jokes have been around for a hundred years, but the Boy Scouts of America are sitting on something they call the perversion files.
	There apparently are 20,000 pages of documented testimony and evidence about fiddling going on in the Boy Scouts of America.
	Which, by the way, is a group that Obama supports wholly because they're all being trained to take away your guns.
	It's unbelievable.
	This thing is blowing wide open.
	It goes to the upper echelons of the elite.
	Yeah, and that's why it's never going to blow wide open by your own theory.
	Yeah, you're probably right.
	But people do need to be aware of it.
	Yeah, awareness is a good thing.
	Hey, your printer is spying on you potentially, John.
	This was an interesting piece of tech news that I don't think is well documented, but we have a lot of sysadmins and network admins and programmers and engineers out there.
	I'm going to put this link in the show notes.
	I don't know if you heard about this.
	Early last year was discovered that a webcam attached to your computer could be activated remotely.
	Of course, we know that.
	But did you know your printer can spy on you?
	A computer technician, name withheld by request, which I don't know.
	This didn't run on April 1st now, did it?
	No.
	No.
	Let me see if I can find when it was...
	Oh.
	Happy April Fool's Day.
	Ta-da!
	I saved your butt.
	Thank you.
	They just put that up, apparently.
	I'd look for the April Fool's joke.
	Thank you.
	Oh, I appreciate that.
	So, as we wrap up...
	Wait, let me tell you, there is hope.
	Let me do a good news story, then.
	There is a good news story.
	Judge Von Walker...
	Who was hearing the case, which is known as Al-Haramain v.
	Bush, as ruled for the plaintiffs and against the U.S. government on a motion for summary judgment, which essentially means the government has no case.
	This was the warrantless wiretap.
	So at least one judge has said, you had no warrant, you had no right to do this, this was illegal, and he wants to throw the case out.
	And I'm happy about that, although I'm sure this is going to be just a small drop in the bucket.
	But it's always hopeful when you see stuff like this.
	It's like, okay, that's nice.
	I'm happy to see that.
	Yeah, I think it's good.
	So, after we're done signing off, I want to play John Bolton's little diatribe on sovereignty.
	Part of his speech that he gave to the Heritage Foundation.
	Oh, here it is.
	On Sovereignty.
	Okay, yeah.
	On Sovereignty II. And then we're talking about charter schools and the rest of it next week.
	If you want to play a kind of a teaser, you can play the NAEP education clip, which is part of the talk.
	It was an interview actually on C-SPAN with Diane Ravitch.
	And there's two pieces of information in this little clip that are quite interesting and something we're going to have to discuss.
	This is going to be a little lengthy discussion when we do it on the next show, but people need to be aware of what's going on.
	And let me just put it this way.
	No Child Left Behind is screwing us all.
	So what does NAEP stand for?
	The National, it's explained in the clip.
	Very briefly, tell people who are watching what NAEP is.
	You used to be on the board that governed this, and it's a test that sometimes is called the nation's report card.
	Just explain what it is and why.
	It's a federal testing program.
	It's called the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
	It's known as NAEP. It's often referred to as the gold standard of testing because it does not have stakes.
	It's given to samples, to scientific samples of kids throughout the United States and also state by state.
	The NAEP test is given in reading and math every other year, and it's also given on a less frequent basis, but it's also offered in U.S. history, will be offered in world history, and science is tested, writing is tested, civics is tested.
	So there are all of these different subjects that are part of NAEP, but it's only reading and math that's tested every other year.
	It's expensive, but it gives us a very good snapshot of how we're doing, what progress we're making.
	And progress has been slow.
	I mean, oddly enough, the biggest progress that's been made in reading and math was made before the adoption of No Child Left Behind and not since.
	That's interesting.
	And what was it that was done to get those results?
	Well, I think there was an emphasis on improving without penalties.
	And I think that information itself is a valuable spur to improvement.
	But I think we may have reached a kind of a bottoming out point with all of this beating up on people.
	And that's why I think we've seen so little progress because We don't really have...
	I mean, to make progress, for instance, in reading, you need a lot of general knowledge.
	And there's no emphasis on general knowledge.
	There's just emphasis on reading skills.
	And so we have many children who are trained to take the state test, and they're trained like parrots or they're trained like seals.
	They can take the state test.
	They actually get fairly good scores on the state test.
	But then when NAEP tests the same children, they haven't taken test preparation for NAEP because it doesn't exist.
	And they do poorly.
	We've seen no improvement in reading.
	Up to this point, and for 8th graders, from 1998 to 2007, it's been flat.
	You know, what do you take away from this clip?
	Well, this is just part of a lot of clips, if you want to listen to the entire speech, which is too long.
	But she's basically saying that these programs that are...
	I mean, everybody senses this anyway, that the kids aren't learning anything anymore.
	They're being taught how to take the test because the state tests that they have now that they forced on people, because if you don't improve – and Obama said this – if the schools don't improve, they don't do a better job on the test, the next thing you know, the teachers are going to be fired and they're going to move everybody to a charter school.
	Right, yeah, which is a commercial school, right?
	That's what we're going to talk about on the next show.
	She has a long explanation about the history of charter schools, and it's quite interesting, and it's very educational.
	But what you come away with this whole thing that she's talking about in the book, which is called The Death and Life of the American School System, and it has the subtitle of something like, How Testing is Killing Us.
	She says that, she has a number of theses, but the one, this thing where we're not teaching people things anymore, we're just teaching them how to take a test.
	And if you talk to kids nowadays, they say all the emphasis, school's no fun, it's always about taking this test.
	Well, it's all about performance, and the same with your credit score.
	It's all about, you know, the test and the performance, and you have to comply, and, you know, the...
	The typical numbers game that seems to be played.
	I agree, no one's teaching anyone anything anymore.
	So we'll talk about that.
	Take the test!
	And I will say, if you saw the meme email that came in titled T-Bonics, did you see that?
	No, I missed that one.
	Oh, it's pretty hilarious.
	Here's the link.
	It's a Flickr album collection.
	147 pictures of signage seen at Tea Party protests.
	Oh, yeah.
	You know, this is...
	It's pretty funny.
	I'm sure it's hilarious, but the fact is I still think half of the really dumb signs are put up by Axelrod.
	Yes, I agree.
	We don't have any...
	No proof that this is actual.
	We have no proof about any of this stuff.
	I could go out there with a sign at an Obama rally if they don't throw me out and have something stupid to say.
	I mean, this is meaningless.
	That's why it's a meme, John.
	That's why it's a meme.
	Yeah, it's a total meme.
	They talk about it constantly.
	Oh, these idiots.
	Even one of my bloggers posted a bunch of this garbage, which is like, unless you actually talk to the person, find out who they are, you know, I mean, you don't know anything about these signs.
	Then you're actually just acting as a part of the wheel, and you're just propagating more of it.
	Just a couple quick hits here.
	In the BarackObama.com website store, now available for $25, health reform, BFD. As in big fucking deal.
	Yeah.
	Which, you know, I wouldn't pay any attention to this other than that it's at the official BarackObama.com store.
	It's like, okay.
	That's weird.
	Yeah, that's more than weird.
	Then one that'll get your goat.
	This is from the Wall Street Journal.
	PepsiCo, who of course make a lot more than just Coke.
	They own Frito-Lay.
	And so they now are experimenting with a secret new designer salt whose crystals are shaped in size in a way that reduces the amount of sodium consumers ingest.
	However, it's so special that they're not telling us what the ingredients are, and they're testing it.
	It will reduce the salt intake of consumers of such products as Frito-Lay's sour cream and onion by an average of 25%.
	This is that whole salt vibe of the government.
	This is the nanny state at work.
	Can't we determine how much salt we want to eat?
	Why does the government have to regulate it?
	There's something screwy going on with salt.
	We'll have to ask Comrade Axel over there in the UK to look into the salt commodity prices.
	I'm sure, just like sugar, something weird is going on.
	Now that PepsiCo has some special secret formula, is there going to be another chemical that's going to be put into our food instead of salt?
	Some salt additive.
	Goldman Sachs, moving right along as we wind up the show.
	Commodities may witness violent price spikes in the coming months slash years.
	Well, there you go, from the guys who manipulate the prices for you.
	Yeah, they would know.
	Gee, thanks.
	Although they lie a lot.
	They're the ones who said oil was going to go to 200 just before it collapsed.
	So many times Goldman Sachs tells you one thing while something else is going on.
	So keep your eye on it.
	Let's put it this way.
	I wouldn't put my money on their press release.
	And, as Horowitz and I noted on the last time we did the DHM plug show, that commodities have actually tanked.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	The National Review has an interesting article based on some reports that the Witherspoon Institute released called The Social Costs of Pornography.
	I don't know anything about the Witherspoon Institute.
	But this, of course, is a huge problem.
	It's an addiction.
	It's killing us.
	Porn, bad.
	It's killing us?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah, it's killing us.
	Are they texting porn while driving?
	Is that the problem?
	You know, the conclusion is that we really have to get serious about pornography.
	That's the conclusion here.
	Yeah, but we need some more laws.
	That way it's easier to...
	You won't have to plant kiddie porn on people's computers to throw them in jail, just any porn.
	And by the way, nudity is now porn, so that's one of the problems.
	Well, I would like to know a little bit more about the addictive qualities of pornography, because this, of course, does tie into Tiger Woods and Jesse James, the Sandra Bullock thing.
	All these guys say, oh, I'm addicted to porn.
	Actually, they're not saying it.
	The news media is reporting that they're addicted to porn.
	Yeah, they're addicted to sex, too.
	Addicted to sex, right.
	And how does one become addicted to sex?
	How does that work?
	I guess they like it.
	I don't know.
	It makes no sense.
	It's the biggest bogus thing ever.
	I mean, everybody technically is addicted to sex.
	It's the way the human population increases.
	But the...
	Addicted to porn.
	Everything has to be an addiction.
	I think this is part of the virology thing.
	So in other words, a vaccine.
	Exactly.
	Porn vaccine.
	Keep it away from me!
	I mentioned this on Daily Source Code.
	I'm sorry.
	After the show's over, everybody should go get the unexpurgated DVD of Clockwork Orange.
	Ooh, yeah.
	Ooh, good one.
	You know, this is worrying to me.
	I'm seeing this crop up everywhere.
	You know, this sex addiction, the internet is making sex addicts.
	It's weird, you know?
	Maybe they are coming out with some kind of vaccine against sex addiction.
	And by the way, is it such a bad thing?
	Is it like horrible if you're addicted to sex?
	I mean, I don't think you're hurting any, you might hurt your own family and you might, you know, your own personal community, but it's not like, you know, it's not actually killing people, is it?
	I don't know.
	Eric suggests Roundup Ready porn.
	No, no.
	Roundup Ready porn.
	Now, what we all know is that the internet is, of course, actually made for porn.
	Finally, I get to teach a whole lesson all by myself!
	And I'm gonna teach something relevant, something modern.
	The internet!
	The internet is really, really great.
	You know that song?
	Yeah.
	I love that song.
	I need to hear the chorus, and then we'll get out of here.
	It's like I'm surfing at the speed of light.
	And here we go.
	The internet is for porn.
	The internet is for porn.
	What are you doing?
	Why you think the Mets was born?
	Porn, porn.
	Nice.
	Of course, we learned from our neighbors that the Hilltop Watchtower was used many times by Vivid Entertainment.
	Oh, really?
	Yes.
	So now there's a big search going on of Daily Source Code listeners.
	Don't eat anything off the floor.
	Daily Source Code listeners.
	Hey, come on over, John.
	Have a dip in our pool.
	I just got to mention this last one because it's kind of in the same vibe.
	No firm evidence exists that body piercing indicates mental illness.
	However, doctors should consider screening patients with body piercings for high-risk behaviors and psychiatric symptoms such as suicidal thoughts, say researchers who reviewed 23 published studies.
	And here it comes.
	This is your money at work.
	The analysis found that the reported prevalence of body piercing ranged from 6.8% to 14% in the general population.
	4.3 to 51% amongst teenagers and young adults.
	Females were more likely than males to have body piercing, which was associated with a wide range of potentially harmful behaviors such as alcohol abuse, smoking, drug use, high-risk sex, Russian roulette, and problem gambling.
	Russian roulette?
	Russian roulette!
	Russian roulette!
	What is that?
	What is that all about?
	This is what I mean, man.
	People have way too much time on their hands to do surveys.
	So if you're a body piercer, keep all guns at bay.
	My daughter has piercings.
	I don't see her walking around playing Russian roulette or gambling.
	Dad, can I borrow the revolver?
	And a bullet?
	Just one.
	That's all I need, is just one.
	At least she's not asking for a Glock with one bullet.
	That's the wrong kind of Russian roulette.
	Russian roulette with an automatic.
	So, don't forget everybody, we're going to be playing that John Bolton clip after the show ends, so stay tuned.
	Yes, and we appreciate your support.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. And for the No Agenda stream, that's for the future.
	As you're helping us build that, Dvorak.org slash NAS. We appreciate your support.
	And not only that, but we actually need it to pay bills.
	Coming to you from the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center where I'm going to take a dip in the pool.
	It's gooey.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	If I were you, I'd get a black light and some bleach while I was doing that.
	And I'm here in northern Silicon Valley where there's less of that sort of thing necessary.
	And there's a storm coming.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll talk to you again on Thursday for the early service right here on No Agenda.
	Sovereignty is a critically important issue for Americans.
	It's something we feel instinctively lies in all American citizens.
	You know, the concept derives originally from monarchies in Europe.
	The kings and queens were the sovereigns, and to many people it seems abstract.
	It doesn't have the immediacy that it does to Americans.
	But we understand that in America, as the Constitution itself says, it's we the people who are sovereign.
	So when you hear academics or people from the international left or some of our friends in Europe say, you know, the world is very complex now and these national sovereignties get in the way of solving global problems, we need to We need to pool sovereignty or we need to share sovereignty.
	What they're really saying is you need to give up control over the American government and you need to share it with other people.
	Now, since most Americans don't believe we have enough control over the federal government, the idea of pooling or sharing some of the sovereignty we have is naturally...
	But this is part of a larger struggle that's been going on for quite some time, a struggle that, frankly, most Americans don't even know is happening.
	And I characterize it as a struggle between globalists, people who think that all problems move in the direction of greater international discussion and resolution, versus Americanists.

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