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April 29, 2010 - No Agenda

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195: Kidnapping The Truth

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	Have you noticed a decrease in your enjoyment of life?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Especially since I started doing this show.
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Dvorak.
	It's April 29th, 2010.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 195.
	This is No Agenda.
	Protecting the nation from Crypto-Caucas-Gotney and coming to you from the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center and Gimo Nation West in the People's Republic of Southern California.
	In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
	And there's a fungus among us.
	I'm in Northern Silicon Valley.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	You sound great.
	Yeah, well, until you code it at 32 bits or whatever.
	It's 16 per channel.
	16 bits.
	I wonder, can we just do 64 bits, kilobits, and see if people care?
	I do 96 with the Horowitz thing.
	It sounds great.
	Well, of course, but how long does that show?
	An hour.
	Well, there you go.
	So we're two hours, so that's why I do half.
	Make a sense, no?
	No.
	No, makes no sense.
	Makes no sense.
	John, I just want to call it right now before we get to our executive producers for today's episode.
	I am predicting a Cinderella story.
	Miraculous comeback.
	Bret Michaels will heal just in time for the final live episodes of Celebrity Apprentice.
	Ha ha ha.
	Ha ha ha.
	Hey, why don't you hit the real news button while you're at it?
	I gotta tell you, I actually did some research.
	And now, back to real news.
	So, it wasn't until Donald Trump started appearing...
	You were actually starting the show with this story?
	Yes.
	Because it's perfect.
	I'm like, Donald Trump went on...
	It must have been the Today Show, obviously.
	You go, oh man, but the show's okay.
	We've never had this in the history of the show.
	And then I look at the ratings, right?
	The ratings dropped.
	First week dropped 19%.
	Second week dropped 25% as Undercover Boss hammers it.
	What?
	The Cleveland show beats Celebrity Apprentice.
	Ha ha!
	Whoa.
	Yeah, seriously.
	And then there's a story about Celebrity Apprentice.
	Did ratings spike for Bret Michaels?
	And then I'm reading his website, and it's like, well, you know, we can't talk about what's really wrong.
	The media's just taking it and running with it.
	I'm like, okay.
	The guy has...
	Hyponatremia.
	Whatever?
	What is that?
	Oh, I'm glad you asked the doctor.
	Hyponatremia is a condition in which the sodium levels of the body become abnormally low.
	Oh, that also gets the salt meme in.
	Of course!
	Of course!
	It's so beautiful.
	Sodium is an electrolyte in the body and helps regulate water levels.
	Let's add to the general population's knowledge about sodium.
	Salt, yeah.
	I was just like, what?
	What?
	What?
	It just goes one after another.
	Yeah, you're right.
	I didn't even think about it.
	Because I didn't either care about this show, I don't care about Bret Michaels.
	I haven't seen any episodes of the thing.
	I think I tuned it in to see Blagojevich.
	So I didn't notice any of this stuff, but I think there are people that watch this show, and maybe you should inform.
	Did I use the word scam?
	Oh my goodness.
	Well, let me just say that I do care about Bret Michaels.
	I know the guy.
	He's actually very, very nice.
	He's a sweetheart, actually.
	And he's been a diabetic all his life.
	And that sucks.
	So all kinds of little stuff can really throw the guy for a loop.
	I do not watch Celebrity Apprentice.
	I watch the opening episode because, besides him being on Cindy Lauper's on, who I also know and also like very much...
	By the way, she's a kook.
	She may be a kook, but if you actually go back and analyze her material and some of the stuff she did, she's actually an extremely talented artist.
	And she's highly intelligent, but she's kooky.
	Yeah, she seems bright.
	Yeah, she's kooky, and that's why I like her so much.
	So anyway, I predict Cinderella's story, Bret Michaels, to be healed just in time for the final live episode.
	Yeah, it's a good television bit.
	I would have done it.
	Of course!
	Of course, the Donald man.
	The ratings are dying, you know, you gotta do something.
	Yep, there you go.
	So, John, who can we thank, if anyone, as our executive producer for this episode?
	We have two executive producers.
	Oh, we do have two.
	Nice.
	We don't have any associates this week.
	And actually, we could have made one of them an associate, but I've decided it's too big of a donation to make an associate.
	So, we've got Liam Duffield, who's in Queensland, Australia.
	Australia, down under again.
	Nice.
	Who's decided to...
	He's been paying us on an installment plan to become a knight, but now he just threw all in $833.73.
	Wow.
	So he's one of the executive producers.
	And the other one is Bill Hertha.
	In Thornhill, Ontario, Canada.
	Where are the Americans?
	Well, I know why Liam's in because we did a big thing about the bogus vaccinations that is killing children down under on the last show.
	So I'm sure he's happy we're propagating some of the...
	Bogus activity taking place.
	For Bill, I've got a good story about Canada.
	Well, before we do that, he wants to mention he's donating to his brother Eric.
	This is actually a complicated story.
	My brother Eric, who donated earlier this year, doesn't report me as a douchebag.
	Wait a minute.
	So do I play the jingle or not?
	I think, uh...
	No!
	Oh!
	Oh, too late.
	Damn!
	That's the latency, Bill.
	It had nothing to do with me.
	He says...
	Right.
	Anyway, okay.
	So anyway, Eric apparently was, you know, he was fearful.
	So he gave us $400 to stave off the threat.
	The douchebagness.
	There's a lot of douchebag action this week again.
	This is going to wear off, I know, but I haven't been able to figure out how or when.
	It's funny because I'm really sick of the jingle.
	But I get lots of people like, hey man, that douchebag thing is great.
	No, people want it for, you gotta, we have to post it someplace.
	We have to post it, right?
	Yeah.
	For the ringtones.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, don't we have NoAgendaJingles.com?
	Yeah, I think we do.
	I'll get it up there.
	Yeah, let's put a bunch of these good ringtones.
	I think Douchebag's a great ringtone, if you think about it.
	Yeah.
	Douchebag!
	I'll make it my custom ringtone for when you're calling me, John.
	Douchebag!
	Oh, that must be John calling.
	Yeah.
	So we have a couple other interesting sites which fall under PR associations.
	No official associate as of this week.
	We haven't had one in a while.
	We need one of those really big...
	Big slam promotions, yeah.
	Like an article or a call into a national show, radio or television.
	Billboards are great, of course.
	Side of a bus?
	Side of a bus.
	By the way, you gave me some stickers yesterday.
	And, of course, we have No Agenda...
	Well, we don't have it, but our producers have made NoAgendaStickers.com.
	And I stuck them everywhere, John.
	I didn't give you that many, but...
	Well, you gave me six of them, and I posted them in many airport locations.
	Oh, you put it in the San Francisco or the L.A. airport?
	Burbank and Oakland.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah.
	Great.
	So, I just wanted to...
	For some reason, the link didn't make it into the links that rock portion of the show notes.
	The No Agenda Book Club, noagendabookclub.com.
	Also brand new, the No Agenda Floormat.
	It's rather a long URL, so I've put that at the top of the link.
	Yes, but there's a format available and the proceeds go to the show.
	I'm going to get one and put it in my Lexus.
	I'll get one and I'll put it in my 99 Range Rover.
	Yeah, the Range Rover.
	It'll look good.
	Now, we also have something I haven't looked at.
	It just came in today, but noagendatravel.com.
	Oh.
	No, I haven't seen that.
	Is that an existing site?
	It just came up.
	Don't know.
	It's from a guy in Melbourne, Australia, and he's going to do something with it.
	I think it's a site.
	And this is what...
	What's kind of cool about the way we run the show...
	Open source.
	It's completely open source.
	We don't claim any copyrights on anything.
	Noagendatravel.com exists, but it's empty.
	Okay.
	So that's forthcoming.
	There's a couple more.
	Noagendasearch.com is also in the making.
	There's nothing there yet.
	Which, by the way, I think that's going to be very cool.
	The Noagenda Search.
	That could be, yeah.
	And then there's also a brand new product on the market.
	InTheMorningTea.
	Yes, I saw that.
	That hits you in the mouth.
	I've been looking forward to trying it.
	Apparently it's been out for a while.
	I didn't know that until I started getting emails from people.
	Hey, I found this interesting tea called In the Morning Tea.
	It hits you in the mouth.
	Although not officially sanctioned since we haven't tried it yet.
	Right, I'm waiting for a bag or two.
	Where's my bag, man?
	And then some tea also.
	I need my bag.
	So anyway, we would like to thank our executive producers for this episode.
	Episode 195, Liam Duffield and Bill Hertha.
	Both of you are completely responsible and are underwriting this program.
	We highly appreciate it.
	You can put it into your email signature.
	You can make a patch, put it on your jacket, or just put it on your resume.
	Put it in the back of a chair.
	Yeah.
	Those Hollywood director chairs.
	Yeah.
	No, we appreciate it.
	It is a real credit.
	You can take that to the bank, as they would say.
	And, of course, we want you to go out and please propagate our formula, which is quite simple.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	And not just that, but say it with me now.
	New World Order.
	All together.
	Shut up, slave.
	Right.
	So, I was like, is he still there?
	So, I get up and I get, you know, I'm trying to get the show, I got a bunch of clips and, you know, mostly about the Arizona situation, which we can get to anytime you feel like it.
	You have some stuff you want to get out of the way.
	Oh, yeah, I definitely have some stuff.
	But I did get, first I got the, I don't know if we mentioned his name before, I'm not going to mention it again.
	But one of our Army listeners writes in and gives us crap For our consistent dislike of Petraeus and that stupid uniform he wears.
	Not that the army uniform is stupid, I don't want to say that.
	But he wears this thing covered with chrome, like some sort of a generalissimo, I'll say it and I'll say it again, from South America.
	Yeah.
	It does look like that.
	And of course, the constant pressure we get back, and we actually both are huge supporters of our service men and women, but neither here nor there.
	We get a lot of crap about, you know, this is...
	This is the badges.
	This is the stuff the guy's been through that's important.
	It's really the only thing you have in the military is all of your medals.
	But it just looks kooky.
	It looks stupid.
	Now, so here we go.
	Well, John and Adam, I've been away training and I just caught up on the show.
	I was listening to No Agenda 183 and heard you mention my comments regarding the wear and appearance of the U.S. Army's Class A uniform.
	I just wanted to follow up with both of you a couple of issues.
	First, I know you You appreciate the service of the military, blah, blah, blah.
	The only problem I have is you guys joking about General Petraeus' uniform is that you think he just wears it to appease himself.
	If you read AR670-1, then you'll know that if awards, badges, tabs, ranks are listed in his officer record brief ORB or official military personnel file OMPF, then he's required to wear it on the uniform.
	Okay, so I go and look up 671-1 newest version 2005.
	It says the same thing it's always said.
	Generals are exempt.
	In fact, generals, and I asserted this before, but I didn't have the exact documentation I do now, can wear whatever they want.
	They can design their own uniforms.
	Which is clearly what he's done.
	So Petraeus is appeasing himself.
	He likes wearing that stuff all over him to make himself look like a generalissimo from South America.
	I do not want any more emails from people trying to mislead me.
	I'm seriously irked about this mail.
	Trying to mislead me by throwing, oh, here's 670-1, read it, you know.
	I am not taking any more email from this guy.
	As far as I was concerned...
	He was concerned that he was going to be a pet peeve of the day, and in fact he is, for being a douchebag.
	Oh no, I can't keep up with you.
	Douchebag!
	You know...
	It's just dumb, you know?
	So, first of all, I'm in total agreement with you.
	But if he would just tone it down, I mean, if he can design his own uniform, think about how cool he could be.
	He could be kind of like, you know, downplay it a little bit.
	Wear some Armani or something, man.
	Even one-star generals, apparently, according to 670-1, can design their own uniforms.
	They can wear whatever they want.
	There you go.
	We're done with it.
	It's under the paragraph applicability, by the way, if you actually want to read these things.
	I'd say we're done with it.
	We're done with it, dammit.
	There's only one thing I want to play before you get into Arizona Uber Alice.
	Which I'm glad you did because I'm so sick of this being on the news and I only have one little show note so I'm glad you have some stuff and we're going to deconstruct that.
	I have way too much stuff.
	No, that's good because people need to know what this is really about and where it's coming from.
	Gitmo Nation East elections in full swing.
	You've probably heard about this by now.
	Classic.
	Gordon Brown out meeting constituents.
	And he's wearing a lav microphone.
	And it's pretty amazing that...
	That people would let him fall into this trap, so you almost have to think it's done on purpose.
	In fact, I'm thinking this is the Howard Dean scream for Gordon Brown, because they've got to get the guy out of the way to let Cameron or the new Wonderboy, Nate Clegg, take over that portion of Gitmo Nation.
	So he's out meeting with constituents.
	This woman comes up, and she's bitching at him.
	She's like, Hey, listen, Gordon, the government used to be about healthcare, about education, and keeping people safe.
	And this is crap.
	That's basically what she's saying.
	And she's going on and on and on and on.
	And then she starts to walk away.
	Gordon Brown starts...
	And this is basically a set-up press thing on the street, right?
	Have you seen this, John?
	Have you seen the clip at all?
	Nope.
	Missed it.
	Oh, good.
	And she starts walking away and he starts sucking up to her.
	It's like, well, tell me about your grandchildren.
	And she's like, yeah, whatever.
	And then she walks off.
	He gets into the car with his lav microphone on, which is still on.
	And he starts bitching out the whole situation.
	Like, oh man, who got that woman in there?
	Well, I have a clip for you.
	You have to kind of listen closely at the end, because as the car is driving off, the wireless mic starts to cut out a little bit.
	I'll do some translation where necessary.
	So first here is Gordon wrapping up this rather bad PR moment.
	Health and helping people.
	That's what I'm about.
	That's what I'm about.
	It's been very good to meet you.
	And you're wearing the right colour today.
	How many grandchildren do you have?
	Two.
	What names are they?
	They've just come back from Australia where they've been stuck for ten days.
	They've got through now.
	We've been trying to get people back quickly.
	But are they going to go to university?
	That's the plan.
	I hope so.
	They're only 12 and 10.
	Oh, they're only 12 and 10.
	But they're doing well at school.
	Yeah, very good.
	A good family.
	Good to see you.
	Good family.
	Good family.
	The education system in Rochelle, I will congratulate it.
	Good, good.
	And it's very nice to see you.
	Take care.
	The education system.
	Thanks, Gordon.
	He's walking off to his car.
	Thanks.
	Take care.
	Thanks very much.
	Good to see you all.
	Good to see you.
	Thanks very much.
	Into the car.
	That was a disaster, he says He's like, we should have never talked about woman Whose idea was that?
	Whose idea was that?
	Is it Susan?
	I don't know.
	Susan, you're fired, that's for sure.
	Ridiculous.
	Ridiculous.
	They will do it.
	What a disaster.
	So, um, there's a number of...
	Nah, I'm not that impressed.
	No, this is a big flap in the UK. Is it?
	Because he's...
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	He called her a bigoted woman.
	Oh, I didn't hear that.
	Yeah, it's hard to tell.
	It doesn't really work.
	Bigoted woman.
	The bigoted woman shows up, he says.
	So there's a link in the show notes with the video with subtitles so you can...
	Because, you know, he's also speaking that funny accent.
	Yeah, I understand a word he says.
	But this is the big snafu.
	And I'm telling you, I think this is orchestrated.
	They have to get the guy out of the way with one fell swoop because it's time to hand over the baton.
	You know, you can mic people up like that and just leave the damn thing running.
	You'll get something.
	The interesting thing, though, here's what I don't understand.
	So there's a million cameras, right?
	The BBC breaks the story, yet it seems to be everyone has the same audio.
	But he's only wearing one lav microphone.
	So who had the audio?
	This was Sky News.
	It was a pool.
	It wasn't a pool.
	Well, it had to be.
	Somebody had to have the audio and pool it with the rest of them.
	So why would they...
	It's weird.
	It's weird.
	It's like one guy had the audio, but there were at least 15 cameras there.
	It was an on-location thing.
	It wasn't like a set-up pool.
	They were pooling.
	I mean, that's the only thing that explains it.
	You mean, in other words, sharing.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Which is common, and common in most, you know, modern societies.
	I mean, if you remember, people out there, you still see evidence of it in Africa, where there's the guys up there speaking, there's a thousand microphones in front of them.
	You know, we stopped doing that in the, what, the 80s, the early 80s or late 70s?
	When the pool became like, you know, since we got one good mic, you know, why don't we just share it?
	Oh, okay.
	But the crazy thing is, is she's...
	You know, you have to see the whole thing to really put it into context, but she's bitching at him about, you know, where are all these Eastern Europeans coming from?
	She's like, we've got a million people running into our country, and then Borden Brown's like, well, we've got a million people leaving the country, and so he's calling her bigoted, which is basically calling the whole country bigoted, because that's the conversation they have.
	I lived in Gitmo Nation East.
	They don't want them.
	They don't want them at all.
	They're just like, get them out.
	So, I'm telling you, this is a Dean scream moment.
	This is to discredit him, get him out quick.
	But he didn't have a chance anyway, did he?
	Cameron and that other guy.
	It's going to be Cameron.
	Let me just tell you right now.
	Hey, I'm the one who said that.
	You're the one who suggested Clegg.
	No, not at all.
	I said Nick Clegg is now the sweetheart, but he's a CIA spook.
	He's a spook.
	Not a CIA. MI5, MI6. I didn't suggest.
	I'm just saying that everyone...
	Oh, no.
	Cameron said it was a winner.
	You know, we have two Brits in the offices over at Mevio.
	Yeah, and they're like, oh, he's the Susan Boyle of politics.
	Yeah.
	It's like he's a douchebag.
	Clegg is a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	They're all douchebags.
	Cameron's the worst.
	Cameron is bad, but he's obviously on the fast track.
	I mean, you can see that from here.
	I don't know what they're thinking in England.
	Oh, he was set up.
	He's always been the one that...
	He's always been the heir apparent.
	You know, it doesn't matter.
	That whole thing is rigged.
	Yeah, it's all the same people running the show, and they've got the game show going on now with the debates.
	It's funny.
	It's just entertainment.
	It's entertainment, people.
	See it as such.
	Talking about crappy accents, let's play...
	Okay.
	Right on.
	Let's laugh about foreigners.
	Yes, well, here's the beauty.
	Okay.
	Here's clip.
	On the clip's number one file, there's a how much can you take of Stefan?
	And let me set this up.
	On CNBC World, which I like to watch because I think they have much better and faster-paced analysis of what's going on in the stock market.
	They have, this show I think, I'm pretty sure it's produced by the British, and they have this French correspondent, who I'm absolutely certain they only put on the air because he's such a, he's, you can't understand a word he says, and his accent is so thick, it's ridiculous.
	And where's he from?
	Where's Stefan from?
	From Paris, I believe.
	Oh, I've seen him.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And he always stands kind of like in the busy financial district.
	Yeah, he's in some busy section of town.
	On the corner.
	His reports are actually quite good if you can figure out what he's saying.
	But he's reporting here on the EADS strike, which apparently took place.
	Of course, nobody reports on any French strikes in the United States.
	EADS makes Airbus.
	Airbus.
	Nobody reports on French strikes in the United States because that's all that we report on.
	And because they're so effective, and we might think of that ourselves.
	So here we go with a clip called, How Much Can You Take of Stéphane?
	Let's get to Stéphane Padraxy, who has the latest from Paris.
	Stéphane.
	Absolutely, Anna.
	All the banks are trading lower.
	It's not yet the earnings season for the French banks.
	They're reporting next week for the first of them, BNP Paribas and Societe Generale.
	So for the time being...
	It's because it's like Societe Generale and Paribas.
	Looks like we're a bit negative on the sector.
	We are negative also at the opening on Carrefour on the back of consumer sentiment which in France dropped to minus 37 in April and that was a bad surprise because the average forecast was a small increase compared to March and that of course is a bad signal for consumer related stock like Carrefour.
	Carrefour makes a large part of its business still on its French domestic market.
	We've got EADS, second day of strike for the French factories of Airbus.
	Unions are asking for 3.5% pay rise and started yesterday a rotating strike.
	They started to impact yesterday the production of the Airbus 330 and 340.
	Today they will impact the production of the Airbus 320 and tomorrow some parts of productions for the Airbus 380.
	Decision to go on strike followed a demonstration of 10,000 workers on Friday, and unions already warned that, should the management refuse to negotiate, they would continue some social action next week.
	For the time being, EDS is down 0.7%.
	Well, you know, I have to kind of take the opposing side here, you damn yank.
	Just because you've never heard of Carrefour and don't know what Société Générale and Paris, what they are...
	That's what throws you off.
	The other stuff is pretty easy to understand.
	I can follow them.
	10,000 people.
	They want 3.5% wage increase.
	It's the Airbus 330, 340.
	What more information do you need?
	Bad surprise.
	Social action.
	Bad surprise.
	They will take the social action.
	Here's the social action we have in the United States.
	So in France, they're really smart.
	They go out and they hit people in the mouth.
	Literally.
	They burn your car.
	No, my favorite thing is the wine wars that have been going on.
	I've been following it on and off again.
	They were bringing these wines in to blend with the French wines.
	And so in certain areas of France, these wines were coming in from Portugal or Spain or whatever.
	So they would hijack these big trucks and then they'd dump the wine down the drain.
	Yeah, it's real social unrest.
	And what we do in the United States, let's see, May 22nd is Everybody Draw Muhammad Day!
	Ooh, we're so radical.
	This is an actual...
	What?
	Yeah.
	It's like a Facebook thing.
	No, wait a minute.
	That's got to be a put-on because you can't draw Muhammad.
	Well, it's everybody...
	That's got to be some sort of that.
	Now, I think you're missing this one.
	I don't think so.
	Because drawing Muhammad is like the greatest evil that the Muslim can do.
	Well, that's why this is coming from a Seattle cartoonist.
	Yeah, this is a protest.
	Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
	Oh, that's our version of a protest.
	That's our version of a protest.
	The best one, though.
	The best one.
	See, we can draw a picture of him.
	I can't believe we missed this one.
	Uh-oh.
	I don't think we...
	It was so stupid we didn't even talk about the...
	I think we did, maybe.
	The cleric in Iran who said, because women are dressed promiscuously...
	Oh, yeah, that one.
	We didn't miss it.
	We ignored it.
	No, but that's...
	No, no, no, no, no.
	You're missing the point.
	We missed Boobquake Day on Facebook, where women around the United States, that was on Monday, promised and did, looking at the Facebook page, show as much cleavage and boobage as possible to try and create an earthquake.
	And, of course, it was probably the quietest day ever on the geological stars.
	Yes, because it was all this momentum that was just offsetting the actual tectonic plate movement.
	No, man.
	The guys have got it backwards.
	The guys at the Switch were just like, douchebags.
	Don't touch anything.
	Don't fire it off right now.
	Well, we're on that topic.
	The Ashgate thing, Ashmageddon.
	Mm-hmm.
	Apparently, did you see the latest stories?
	There was no ash over England.
	Of course, we were right at the beginning.
	We were saying it's bullshit.
	You had contacted people over there, and they said, I'm looking out here.
	There's nothing.
	The sky is blue and clear as a bell.
	Beautiful day to fly.
	Right, which is, of course, it probably was.
	Now, it turns out that it was.
	Now, that brings to mind, and I normally don't bring my own wife's crackpot theories to play.
	Is...
	But she brought this up.
	She said, what do you think if the whole thing, the whole Ashgate thing was used as a subtle, not so subtle ruse to keep people from going to the Polish funeral, including Obama.
	Everybody canceled.
	Obama could have snuck in around the back door.
	He could have flown south and around.
	The guys from Germany could have come.
	They could have driven.
	They could have driven or taken the train.
	Everybody didn't take it because something was up.
	In so far as there was a coup d'etat plot, or they're going to kill all the world's leaders, or there was some who-knows-what danger.
	You know, it's not a good idea to go flying around over there, or even being there.
	You tend to get killed.
	I think that's a fine...
	Well, you know what it is?
	A lot of people use this for different reasons, and I'm still holding steadfast to the theory that it's just the same people who made the computer models for global warming.
	We know that when 9-11 struck and aviation was stopped for three days, temperatures rose remarkably in the United States, so maybe they used it to spike their numbers.
	But the never let a good crisis go to waste thing continues with all this aviation disaster, John, with the train memes.
	And it's kind of a long...
	Yeah, we're all over that.
	Well, I have a little more information for you if you're interested.
	Yeah, I'm all over the train memes.
	So first of all, let's talk about how bad aviation is.
	Because aviation is clearly being put in a bad light whenever possible to promote taking the train.
	And it's in the psyche.
	I was in the car yesterday on my way to Oakland in the cab, and I heard a commercial for Siemens International.
	I tried to find the commercial.
	Siemens, of course, makes trains.
	They're making high-speed trains for China even.
	And the commercial went something like this, you know, you can get from Los Angeles to San Francisco in two hours and 40 minutes, Siemens International, high speed rail.
	I'm like, yeah, in 2025, if you're lucky, what are they doing with commercials running for that now?
	You know, and clearly it's mind controlling people to think about trains, trains good, trains, trains, trains.
	By the way, did I mention before, maybe I did, that it takes 24 hours to get from San Francisco to Seattle on a train?
	Yes, you did mention that.
	24 hours.
	Well, if they had hookers on board, it would be okay.
	So, here's just a quick rundown of bullshit aviation stories.
	One, radiation exposure while flying.
	I'm not even going to get into these.
	These are so stupid.
	This is the oldest story ever.
	Yeah, so that one's cropping up again.
	I'm going to tell you, there's a reason why.
	Oh, wait.
	I heard one myself the other day.
	They were talking about...
	Yeah, it was a sports talk show.
	They were talking about the bad air in the airplane.
	Oh, yeah.
	Bad air in the airplane.
	Radiation.
	Then, yesterday, Wall Street...
	Sorry.
	Wall Street Journal.
	Investigators cite several issues in Hudson crash.
	Now, this irked me because Andy Pastor, who lives in Los Angeles, but actually he's been an anti-aviation guy.
	He's been pulling apart Boeing in the past.
	Whenever there's something...
	Fishy going on with aviation.
	He's always on it.
	He's been around for a long time.
	And so I'm reading this.
	And this is about the Hudson crash between the sightseeing helicopter and a Piper aircraft.
	And so the article says, Repeated safety violations by air traffic controllers led to the fatal mid-air collision between a sightseeing helicopter and a small private plane over the Hudson River in August, according to documents released Wednesday by federal investigators.
	And then, second paragraph, the National Transportation Safety Board information paints the most detailed picture yet of how a series of lapses by a number of controllers, including distractions caused by personal business, preceded the high-profile crash that killed nine people.
	So I'm like, wow!
	Especially if it's done in that voice.
	Yeah!
	That's how Andy talks.
	So I go over to the NTSB website, and it specifically says, because they release a docket, and the docket is, we've done this before, it's very extensive, they have interviews with...
	Oh, that's interesting.
	The website down?
	The NTSB is down.
	That's cool.
	More proof.
	Yeah, they have interviews with, you know, everybody involved, you know, people on the ground, but, you know, people who run the helicopter, people who run the maintenance for the helicopter.
	And it specifically states, this is, you know, just factual information, no conclusions drawn whatsoever, and And it's really not clear.
	In fact, it's a very unfortunate accident.
	If anything, it's a very busy corridor, and it was just bad timing.
	Shit happens.
	This is a place in the Hudson River where...
	General Aviation has to look out for each other.
	They were aware.
	They were warned.
	Bad shit happens.
	But this phone call had nothing to do with what went down, but it's completely being positioned as, oh, the air traffic controller was on a personal call, and then he couldn't warn them.
	And I read through all the documents yesterday when I was pretending to look busy from EVO. And...
	And it's just not true.
	What this Andy Pastor is writing is not true.
	I'm sorry, it's not true.
	You can interpret this in many different ways.
	It's an unfortunate accident.
	But it's not because an air traffic controller was on the phone with somebody, which, by the way, happens all the time.
	Yeah.
	So that irks me.
	And I put up a bunch of information in the show notes about that.
	Then we get the passenger on an airliner who claimed he had dynamite!
	Right.
	And so this was on its way from Paris to Atlanta.
	Yeah, some guy loaded up with Ambien, apparently.
	Yeah, and I'm just reading the stories on this.
	And so there were air marshals on board, and they put his laptop in the back of the plane and put pillows around it.
	Just in case.
	Pillows, yeah, okay.
	That's going to help.
	So this is making a lot of sense.
	And now I'm like, okay, how is this being propagated?
	And who is behind the big push for rail?
	And then I find it, John.
	Uh-oh.
	We have the U.S. High Speed Rail Association.
	And this is a very interesting outfit.
	These are the guys that want to get us on board, pun intended, with the trains.
	And I find the article I'm looking for, who, because of course it's always the PR agencies who feed information to people like Andy there from the Wall Street Journal, because, you know, there's no actual news reporting.
	They just take PR reports, like, oh!
	You know, people think that we're kidding when we say this, but I can assure you someone who's been in all aspects of that part of the media.
	You're a journalist!
	They, the PR people, took over the country probably in the 80s.
	And what they do is they send out press reports, which of course are disguised as news, And people just copy that and say, oh, this is interesting.
	Well, this is a good report.
	Hey, you know, the guy was on the phone.
	Airlines bad.
	Flying bad.
	Bad.
	So who did they hire, John?
	Which company do you think is the agency of record for the U.S. High Speed Rail Association?
	Well, I mean, I don't know.
	It could be any one of the big PR companies like Hill and Knowlton.
	That?
	Bingo!
	Oh, well, they're the best.
	Hill& Knowlton, people have to know, Hill& Knowlton, they used to be known as the crisis company.
	You got people dying of cancer from your cigarettes, Hill& Knowlton will fix it for you.
	Hill& Knowlton is the company that brought that woman, remember during the Kuwaiti War, the Gulf War I? They represent it.
	I have the list.
	Can I just give you the list of their clients?
	Sure.
	Hill and Knowlton, representing the Copenhagen Climate Council.
	Big Tobacco, of course.
	This is all about the cancer.
	Desert Storm.
	Hill and Knowlton went to work for the government of Kuwait, organizing PR in support of the war in Iraq.
	This is the...
	Remember the woman who testified about all these horrible things happening to her?
	Yeah, the incubators.
	They're pulling kids out of incubators and killing them.
	Yeah.
	The public eats it up.
	In 2000, they had $15 million in government PR contracts.
	They also represent the International Monetary Fund.
	These guys are amazing!
	Yeah, you find the people who, you know, one of the things, I've said this before on the show, and I want to keep repeating myself all show this time, but, you know, it's very easy to deconstruct what's going on.
	You read a book like Confessions of an Economic Hitman, and then you go and do research on the reviews of the book and find the people who slammed it.
	And you'll find either people that are in the CIA or they're working for Hill and Knowlton or whatever.
	And I'm not saying that somebody can't have a reasonable criticism of that book, but you can see if you find the person, they're critical of the book, and they start looking at their other material, you just see a pattern of like, holy mackerel, this person, who are they really working for?
	Well, they're working for the Ministry of Truth, obviously.
	And by the way, not everybody falls in that category, but it's very easy to see it when you do a back check on all the material they've written.
	Hill and Knowlton is an outstanding organization when it comes to propaganda.
	They are, without a doubt, the best.
	They largely invented modern public relations.
	Yeah, and you can't even...
	They're so good, you can't track them.
	There's no way...
	There's no way to...
	I mean, we would have to be lucky.
	Someone in our audience, one of our producers, would have to run across one of their PR... I mean, they don't just do PR releases.
	They don't go to PR Newswire or something like that.
	Yeah, no, they get women to testify in front of Congress somehow.
	These guys are amazing.
	So...
	Trains are it, baby.
	Forget about it.
	So the Killin' Knowlton is behind the high-speed rail.
	Yes, the high-speed rail.
	We're screwed then.
	Yes, the high-speed rail.
	You should look at the website for the High-Speed Rail Association.
	It's unbelievable.
	Hold on, let me give you the website address.
	It is USHSR.com.
	And right on the front page, High Speed Rail is coming to Hollywood!
	I mean...
	Get on board for High Speed Rail!
	Join the movement to bring High Speed Rail to America!
	And it's, you know, they're turning this thing Hollywood.
	You watch, we'll have Hollywood people going out on high-speed trains.
	It's just unbelievable.
	Oh, yeah, we'll have all the stupid celebrities who just, okay, oh, is there an event I can go to and have my picture taken?
	Where's the goodie bag?
	Is there a red carpet?
	Where's the red carpet?
	You watch, you watch.
	High-speed rail coming to Hollywood.
	Yeah, in 2030.
	Get on board now!
	We'll be dead of an overdose by then.
	So here's Congressman John Micah, High Speed Rail.
	I guess he's a stooge.
	Congresswoman Corrine Brown, another dummy.
	Oh, this is great.
	We could play one of these clips to see if it's any good, but it's...
	Well, play Corrine Brown.
	She looks like she's just a stooge.
	Hold on a second.
	Corrine Brown.
	Oh, she does.
	And it looks like the outfit she's wearing...
	What is she wearing, a jogging uniform?
	It was in the goodie bag.
	That's...
	Right, then we gotta forget about the goodie back.
	All right, here we go.
	Ooh, they've got, ooh, USHSR. Congressman Kareem Brown, chairwoman, subcommittee on railroads, pipelines, and hazardous materials.
	Okay.
	We're here with the Honorable Corrine Brown in her district, and she is, of course, the chairperson of the rail subcommittee of the prestigious Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
	Prestigious?
	Tell us how you feel about high-speed rail finally coming to your state of...
	By the way, this is done in front of a sign that says U.S. High-Speed Rail Association.
	This is a PR. This is a video press release.
	Yeah, there's an X by her feet.
	Stand here.
	Hi.
	I am so excited.
	You know, I was here coming to the conference.
	It should have taken me maybe an hour and 15 minutes.
	It took three hours.
	That's why we need high-speed rail.
	There's no question.
	Yeah, so you can do 24 hours to Seattle.
	We need to be able to move people, goods, and services.
	And I am so pleased with you.
	That's the talking point.
	Move people, goods, and services.
	Obama administration, Vice President Biden, who rode the train for 30 years, over 3,000 rides, understand the importance of rail.
	I mean, keep in mind now, just a couple of years ago, I was dealing with a zero-out budget.
	Now we've been plussed up.
	We've got $8 billion.
	We've got additional monies in the upcoming...
	We've been plussed up.
	I like that.
	So it's an opportunity for Florida and the rest of the country to move forward.
	Fifty years ago, we made a commitment to highway, and that was great.
	But now we need to figure out how our competitors are already there.
	We're talking to people all over the world, and they're moving their people, and we're behind.
	We're always behind.
	This is a new meme, by the way.
	We're behind on broadband.
	We're behind on this.
	My favorite one is, oh, we're so far behind on cell phone technology.
	Remember that one from 10 years ago?
	Yeah, we're behind, baby.
	Meanwhile, the iPhone comes out.
	Now we're suddenly ahead, so we're not talking about it anymore.
	Yeah, no, we're behind other people.
	How will it impact the everyday citizen of Florida?
	Oh, it'll be beautiful!
	It'll be broke.
	It'll be broke paying for that shit, baby.
	As I just said, can you imagine being able to get on a train and go from Orlando to Miami 200 miles, 1 hour and 15 minutes?
	It will change not only the complex of the country, but people can live and work anywhere.
	Oh, isn't that what we do with aviation?
	One hour and 15 minutes, 200 miles, that means the thing is chugging along at 180?
	Yeah, it's slow.
	Slow?
	High-speed rail, man, it's faster than that.
	We are going to have a series of listening and talking to the people in Florida about where we want to go with high-speed, but it's not just high-speed.
	It's how we're going to do intermodal, how we're going to work together, whether it's rail, high-speed.
	Intermodal?
	Is that world rail?
	It's got something to do with deliveries of products.
	Commuter rail.
	How are we going to pull it together so we can move our state forward?
	Oh, thank you.
	Here's your check.
	Play the other guy, too, since we don't want to just have the one crazy old black lady.
	This is John Micah, the crazy old white dude.
	And who is he, John?
	Sorry, the train went through my head.
	He's the Ranking Member Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
	This is from the same conference in front of the same sign.
	The Ranking Member, John Michael.
	Thank you.
	He just handed him a check.
	I saw it.
	He gave it to him.
	Thank you so much for being with us.
	Thank you for the generous introductions.
	I'm so pleased to be with the High Speed Rail Association here.
	If you're from out of town, welcome.
	And this is just a commercial outfit.
	You know, this is a bunch of people who make trains and rail, and they have an association, and all these guys are down there.
	You're from in town, and you've heard me before.
	I apologize.
	And, Charlie, thank you again for your leadership.
	Oh, shut up.
	He's boring.
	No, he's typical.
	Let's see.
	Let's see if there's something for me.
	Just got back from Washington last night.
	Pleased to be here.
	And boy, am I arms tired.
	It's cold up there.
	Especially for Republicans, as I've told folks, but it's good to be home and see the sunshine.
	Okay, we're done with him.
	There's nothing.
	There's nothing.
	He's just boring.
	He took his check.
	He's like, I got the check.
	I don't have to say anything.
	I'm done.
	My work is done.
	So anyway, we jest, of course.
	But it's good to know how this system works.
	And this is Hill and Knowlton at work.
	These guys are amazing.
	Amazing.
	When you see their name, you're in trouble.
	You're not going to win.
	It's Ogilvy and Mather who are the agency of record for Siemens Transportation.
	Oh, there you go.
	The other big boys.
	Yeah, these guys are awesome.
	So they're the biggest people in the world, in the business, who have completely hijacked news.
	Right.
	They can sell refrigerators to Eskimos kind of thing.
	Sand to camels, as it were.
	I mean, it's just unbelievable.
	So the public has no chance.
	I mean, we can come out here and moan and groan about it on our little show.
	But the fact of the matter is...
	You don't speak so highly of the show!
	It's a little show.
	In terms of compared to the kind of impact that Hill and Knowlton has, our impact is 1% typically.
	I mean, yeah, everyone listens and says, oh, this is terrible, but you can't turn the tide on Hill and Knowlton.
	No, it's impossible.
	It's impossible.
	It's just...
	So we're screwed.
	We're screwed with this stupid high-speed rail that the United States is not.
	We're not geographically equipped for high-speed rail.
	It's inconvenient.
	It works great in Germany.
	It works great in a country like Holland.
	Holland is the size.
	I don't think there's Rhode Island.
	I mean, Holland is a small...
	It's smaller than Rhode Island.
	I can walk from one end of Holland to the other.
	It would take me a couple of days, but I could do it.
	And you would look great.
	I'd lose some weight.
	But it's not like, you know, this is nothing.
	I mean, you know, each country is a country, but most of our states are bigger than most countries in Europe, and that's where the rail works well.
	The cities are all right next to each other, you know, within like five or ten miles, and they're big, and they have older...
	Well, the thing is, it's going to cost a crap load of money.
	And it's going to be misdiagnosed.
	I mean, this San Francisco to L.A. thing isn't going to cost, what do they say, $3 billion to $6 billion, something like that.
	It's going to cost $60 billion.
	More.
	I think more.
	Probably.
	They won't get it to work right.
	There's that damn mountain in between.
	Well, they're going to go around the mountain.
	And besides that, it's not even going to be that fast.
	You've got to go from San Francisco out to the valley where Highway 5 is.
	It's going to go via San Diego.
	I have the plans here.
	No, it goes to L.A., then San Diego.
	Yeah, L.A., San Diego, San Francisco.
	Yeah, but it doesn't go straight to San Francisco.
	It goes through a gap.
	It actually goes to Sacramento.
	Yeah, but do you think this is good as an economy booster?
	God, no.
	Because?
	Unless you think putting down rail is a big deal.
	Well, that's how it's being sold, saying this is really good because it'll put people to work on the railroad, on the chain gang.
	Well, that's, yeah, it'll do that to some extent for sure.
	But, you know, it's like, you know, that was like in 1860 when they had to bring all these Chinese in to do it because who wants to do that work?
	Nobody.
	But we may be doing it soon enough, John.
	If your nations don't perk up, we'll be working on the chain gang.
	So we do have...
	We might as well mention some donations that we got this week.
	Oh, crap.
	Are we already there?
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	That went fast.
	Yeah, it was funny.
	You subconsciously segued to it.
	Nice.
	We haven't even gotten to the Arizona stories.
	We'll get back to those.
	Let me open up our little thing here and thank some people.
	We do have some discussion.
	People calling each other douchebags, which I think is...
	I don't know how we got that started, but I feel bad about it.
	Thanks for the great show, says Sean Aruble.
	R-W-R-U-B-E-L, Ruble, I guess, in Marietta, Georgia.
	Home of Lockheed, Marietta.
	Nice little town I've been there, actually.
	Great show, listening since December.
	He's a student.
	He gave us $75.
	He's a student.
	and really doesn't have any extra money, but it's my birthday on Thursday the 29th.
	That's right, everybody.
	We're giving a shout-out to Sean Rubel!
	Happy birthday, my friend.
	It's your birthday, yeah.
	Happy birthday, Sean.
	Ken...
	Ken Duesling gave a 6543.
	He's in Stittsville, Ontario, and he wanted to call out his sister-in-law, Lily Snively, if that is indeed her real name, as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	She's been listening to the show for many months.
	She says the No Agenda show is what gets her through the long nights as a shift ER nurse in Simcoe, Ontario.
	Time to make a donation, sister.
	Ha ha ha ha!
	Okay.
	And then, Ken Dusling, who did two nickels on the dime, again, another donation, he says, by the way, I have it on good authority that my father, Ken, will be donating to this Thursday's show, which...
	Oh, he did.
	Okay.
	This is Kevin Dusling.
	This is the kind of thing that's going on.
	So, Kevin donated...
	Saying that his dad, Ken, who just donated, he says he'll be donating to the show and will be calling out my aunt as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	In order to defend her honor, I'm doing the same.
	I call out Ken as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	We're not vigorously pursuing his...
	This reminds me of Heather and her boyfriend who got into a beef on our show.
	This is actually more like a family game.
	It's like Scrabble.
	It's like Clue.
	You can all sit down and call each other douchebags through the show.
	We're going to put an end to it, by the way.
	By the way...
	I think we did break up Heather and her boyfriend because...
	We haven't heard from them.
	I haven't heard from him.
	Anyway, so Kevin's calling out Ken, who is calling out his sister, and Kevin's defending the sister.
	I don't know.
	You're forgetting the most important part of the message here.
	A shout-out to my fiancée, Emily.
	Mr.
	Curry's velvet voice warms her very soul.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	That didn't come through on my printout.
	Uh-huh.
	Right.
	Well, maybe I'll talk like you do now.
	Yeah, maybe.
	David Groff, 6180, a Fibonacci number.
	He's in Cincinnati, Ohio.
	Brian Reynolds, a Little Egg Harbor in New Jersey, two nickels on the dime.
	Also, apparently...
	Almost killed himself when you play the Aussie crazy train clip.
	During the pre-stream.
	He's driving.
	I guess he couldn't.
	It was loud.
	It was loud.
	Clint Strocker of Russellville.
	Is it Strockner?
	Strockner.
	Russellville, Arkansas.
	Graduated from college.
	Looking for some...
	To join the Karma Club.
	Brett Pinter, 5333 from Southland, Michigan.
	He also sent an email.
	I'm going to have to go look it up and read it later in the show.
	There's a new website I'd like to mention, noagendakarma.com.
	Christopher, by the way, and we haven't put any entries in there because I don't want to be paraphrasing or copying emails without permission, so...
	If you have a story about how no agenda gave you some good karma, here's another example from Christopher.
	Thanks for your service and for airing my support, or my tip on Merck invading university newspapers with vaccine PSAs.
	At the time I had just lost my job about a week and a half later.
	After I contributed to the show I got a job which is much better than my old one!
	Thanks for the karma, guys.
	And it turns out that a lot of people who donate to the show, amounts don't seem to really matter.
	Although you might want to always try and tip the scales in your favor.
	People seem to get work from this.
	So if you have a story, negative or positive, we're really trying to track this so far.
	I don't think we have any stories where someone donated and did not get an upgrade or a gig.
	Post it at noagendacarma.com.
	Yeah, go to NoGenTheKarma.com and then we can maybe, we can document some of this stuff because I don't want to just say that this happens when people are saying it's happening all the time and so, you know, I'm not going to, we don't want to make, we want to have proof because these guys are just full of crap.
	Yeah, we don't want to be like PBS. David Lee gave us 50 bucks saying he likes to listen to Adam because he makes me feel sane by comparison.
	Yeah.
	Douchebag!
	Anyway, we've got OKC defensive tactics, Charles Newberry, Barry Wilson, Coffs Harbor, Australia.
	And by the way, the Charles Newberry, Tawanda, Pennsylvania, is in honor of Heinrich Moltke.
	I'm getting a lot of that.
	DUI-help.com, David Lee, Christopher Garlock, who I think we talked about, and Jeffrey, who I'll never pronounce his name, L-E-E-N-T-J-E-S, from Helvert, something or other, slew.
	Okay, it's time for an official no-agenda Dutch pronunciation moment.
	Jeffrey Langez, Say it with me now.
	Leinches.
	Leinches.
	Very good.
	And he's from Hellifoodslaus.
	We don't laugh at names here, John.
	Hellifoodslaus.
	Hellifoodslaus.
	It doesn't say that.
	What?
	It does.
	It doesn't say that.
	It says...
	Hellifoodslaus.
	That's how you pronounce it.
	It's a beautiful sounding thing, but I know what the problem is.
	These are spellings that are not...
	Is this the Dutch spelling, actually?
	John, let me think.
	It's another language!
	Of course it's a spelling.
	Have you ever tried to pronounce Russian in Russian spelling?
	Oh, that's strange.
	It's not an American spelling.
	What's that in English?
	So let's go over a couple more.
	Two nickels on the dime, people.
	That came out of our mailing.
	And we do have a bunch of people that are getting in on the Deuce Club, which we should talk about in a second.
	Why don't you do the double wrinkles on the dime first, then we'll do the Deuce Club.
	Yeah, Kevin Alcock, Daniel Rudolph.
	Kyle Froese, F-R-O-E-S-E. And he also wants to call out Jeremy Meyer, his fellow co-worker and a faithful listener, as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	That's been done.
	Dan DiRinzo, who...
	He gave us money because our audio quality didn't fade last week for the first time ever.
	You know what?
	This actually is because of your support that the show is sounding better.
	Mark Jasper, who also apparently from the bum mentioned in the show, I guess somebody called him a bum or something, I don't know.
	No, it doesn't count.
	And, well, yeah, it's not the same as a douchebag.
	And, whoops, I was reading this off the PayPal thing and they just signed me out.
	Let me sign myself back in.
	All right.
	Now, I think we also have knighthoods.
	Do you just want to do those on Sunday?
	Yeah.
	No, no, we only have the one knighthood that I know of, unless, did we not do...
	I'm getting...
	I see the note from Eric, the shill, says, two knighthoods.
	And it doesn't say who.
	Where are the knighthoods on the spreadsheet?
	Oh, by the way, the last guy on the two nickels on the dime is Thomas Gillier.
	So, Thomas, thanks.
	So, while you're looking up the knighthoods, I want to thank everybody, and it's a nice list.
	That's probably...
	I don't know.
	It's hard to tell because they come in at different times.
	Well, could it be Joseph Willis?
	Did we give him a knighthood from last week?
	Okay, well, what we're going to have to do...
	Because, unfortunately, what happened is Eric's power is down, so we can't ask him.
	But we have to do Liam.
	Liam Duffield is...
	Is a night today.
	We should give it to him.
	We can give Joseph his on Sunday.
	Okay.
	John, are you ready to unsheathe?
	Yep.
	You have a large unit there.
	Yep.
	Let me grab mine.
	Liam Duffield, please come before us as you have supported the No Agenda show in excess of $1,000, which...
	Gives you the official title of a knighthood.
	You are hereby deemed Sir Liam Duffield, Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	Please join the table in our hookers and blow.
	Or pancakes, whichever one you choose.
	Now, if Willis is indeed a knight today, he will be...
	Then we'll do him on Sunday.
	And he'll be a black knight.
	Ooh, yes.
	Right.
	So he has that advantage.
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	The guy at the SEC could have used the proxy.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Hey, you know, it's interesting.
	Where are those people?
	We're still waiting for the SEC pointmeisters to show up.
	Now, I do have another story, John.
	I opened the show by talking about the fungus.
	Ooh, there's a fungus among us.
	Yes, killing people in the Northwest.
	It's the Cryptococcus gaudi fungus.
	John gaudi fungus.
	There is, by the way, a cure, or I should say treatment for this fungus, which basically infects your lungs and kills you.
	Very similar to valley fever that happens in California, which is a fungus.
	It's interesting that this can only be treated with...
	It's almost like chemotherapy.
	You have to be on an IV drip for 14 days.
	There's some Japanese outfit that makes some kind of treatment for it.
	But still, you're pretty much going to die.
	And it's already killed over 23 people.
	So there's a theory about where this is coming from.
	And I found that...
	Crazy, but I found it not beyond the realm of belief.
	Refreshingly crazy.
	So, refreshingly so.
	You know what Operation Paperclip is, John?
	No, I never heard of it.
	Really?
	Yeah, really.
	Wow!
	Okay, Operation Paperclip was the program that the OSS, that's the precursor to the CSI. The CIA, you mean?
	CSI. What's the difference?
	The CIA. They brought all of the Nazi scientists into the United States, kind of in the turmoil right after the Second World War.
	And this is how they got a whole bunch of guys in, and we started our weapons programs, because the Germans were pretty advanced with rocketry and, of course, nuclear...
	Bombage, etc.
	So Operation Paperclip, which is declassified, it's well known.
	So they brought all these guys into the United States, but a couple of them were pretty much too hot to handle.
	And so they sent them down to Chile.
	You know, there's reports of Argentina, but Chile is interesting because there was a guy who worked very closely with Joseph Mengele.
	Who of course was the horrible doctor who was experimenting on children and making kids kill their brothers and sisters and doing sex change operations.
	All kinds of crazy ass shit.
	This guy's name was Paul Schaefer.
	He actually reportedly just died last week.
	But they sent him to Chile.
	And they put him into this kind of cultish colony, like a compound called Colonia Dignidad.
	I'm sure you've never heard of this either.
	Nope.
	So there's a very interesting wiki page on Colonia Dignidad.
	This is about 300 people living there.
	They've got two airstrips, restaurant, their own power station.
	There's barbed-wired fences around the whole thing.
	It's a protected compound.
	And even Simon Wiesenthal...
	Hey, there's Nazis in there.
	We need to open up this thing and find out who's there.
	He even thought that Joseph Mengele himself might be in this colony.
	And a couple of people have escaped over the years.
	It's crazy.
	This Paul Schaefer, who was in the Luftwaffe, he's been running the place.
	He's been sexually abusing boys.
	Just all kinds of really nasty stuff.
	They found huge arms caches.
	Near the compound.
	So it's really bad news.
	And all things point to clearly some kind of setup.
	And if you follow the reports, then this guy was either too high up or too dangerous to just bring into Operation Paperclip and bring into the United States.
	But he, of course, always wanted to propagate...
	Some of the Nazi ideas and probably killing people.
	Alright, get to the point.
	So he has a daughter, Rebecca.
	Rebecca Schaefer.
	And she just happens to be one of the world's leading researchers of Cryptococcus Gotti.
	Oh really?
	Oh really?
	Huh.
	And so the thinking is that either she or supporters of her father, he adopted her.
	There's even some reports that she might have been the actual biological daughter of Mengele.
	That they released a weapons-grade version of Crypto Caucus Gotti during the Vancouver Olympics.
	Of course, Olympics having a couple of great things about it.
	First of all, a lot of Nazi symbolism, including the rings, which were never there until Hitler held the Berlin Games.
	Is that right?
	Yes.
	Oh, that's well known.
	The rings were Nazi symbolism.
	The rings were never there before.
	And of course, there's people from all over the world there, so it's a perfect place to drop some shit.
	Now, it doesn't spread fast, but it kills extremely effectively.
	And that's where you have to be looking out.
	I found it interesting that Rebecca is one of the leading researchers on, of all things, Cryptococcus gaudi.
	That's amazing.
	I'll give you a 10.
	You win on that one.
	Well, at the end, we're all going to lose, if I'm right.
	Yeah, well, obviously.
	Well, that's not good.
	I haven't had that reported anywhere.
	Yeah.
	Good connection.
	All right.
	I'm sure that's another cheery thing for our listening audience.
	It's okay.
	You can call me.
	You can call me.
	No problem.
	So let's lighten things up a little bit.
	I got a couple clips.
	Do you have something funny?
	I have a clip from your absolute favorite entertainer.
	Yes.
	Oh, let me guess.
	Is it the comedian known as Rachel Maddow?
	Stink.
	Oh no!
	Stink!
	Oh, I love stink.
	So, stink.
	Apparently there's this clip going around where sting is, or stink as Adam likes to call him.
	And you'll find it on the clips too, by the way, at the bottom.
	Yeah, I got it.
	He goes, he's like he's stoned or something, talking about, you know, the things that need to change in this world, about global warming, all the rest of it.
	And then he kind of associates himself with the Tea Party movement for some unknown reason.
	And then makes the claim that what we really need is not only big government, but just huge, bigger government.
	And I don't get it.
	This whole thing is just nuts to listen to it.
	People who care about clean water and fresh air for their children to breathe, food that doesn't kill you, a better planet, a safer planet.
	And it is a Tea Party movement.
	People are here to really tell big government that we want big government to make big decisions about the most important problems we face.
	And also to pressure our corporations to behave properly as consumers.
	We're here to, we're asking for big government.
	You know, screw this guy.
	Asking for me, you missed the end of it.
	Let me hear it again.
	Screw this guy.
	Let me hear what he says at the end.
	This guy pisses me off.
	As consumers, we're asking for big government.
	What?
	Basically.
	We're asking for big government.
	We're asking for big government, basically.
	Which is the Tea Party movement.
	Okay, stink.
	So after he did message in a bottle, it pretty much went downhill from there.
	Then he started putting plates in his lip with his buddies from the Amazon.
	This guy's a pretentious cock.
	Just a pretentious cock.
	He is nothing more than that.
	How do you really feel?
	He takes two million dollars for a gig from, you know, evil warlords, puts it in his pocket, and then he's going, oh, save the rainforest, and Trudy and I have tantric sex for hours, and we want big government!
	You're a cock, Stink.
	You're a cock is all you are.
	All right, all right.
	So, uh...
	Okay, so the Arizona action is where all the news, all the right and left wing, everybody is discussing.
	I have a lot of clips to back up what I'm going to say, but let me just kind of summarize a couple of points that I've noticed that are interesting to me.
	One is that both sides of the argument, the left wing and the right wing, seem to be talking around each other and they're all missing the real point of the Arizona law that's been passed to stiffen the borders a little bit and the fact that they're asking for 3,000 National Guards to help guard the place.
	Yeah, bring the military in.
	Always a good idea.
	The fact of the matter is, is there is a crime wave in Arizona, and there's one aspect of this that neither side, they mention it every once in a while they get a guest on that talks about it, but they don't ever really talk about it.
	And that is, and let's go over, let me just bring out some information that people should know.
	The kidnapping capital of the world is Mexico City.
	Mexico City, it's like dangerous to be in Mexico City unless you want to get kidnapped.
	Yeah, Mickey went there on vacation once, and she had two full-time bodyguards, even when she went to the bathroom.
	Right, because she could get kidnapped.
	The other place you run into that's a kidnapping nightmare is Sao Paulo, Brazil, and also Rio de Janeiro.
	In fact, they always tell you, oh, you're off by yourself in Sao Paulo.
	You know, this is dangerous.
	You should have somebody with you at all times.
	This corner is where they kidnap people.
	I mean, it's amazing.
	And there's all kinds of weird crime in Brazil.
	But those are like really major kidnapping areas.
	The last time I was in Brazil, we're driving along on some back row, downtown Sao Paulo, and there's a car dealership with some Portuguese word I never heard of.
	I can't think of what it was.
	And I said, what does that mean?
	And they said, oh, that's a car dealership that only sells armored cars.
	So you can buy a Mercedes, you can buy a Hummer, you can buy all these cars that are just...
	I wouldn't know.
	So anyway, so this place only sells cars for the rich because the rich can't drive.
	You can't drive a Mercedes in Brazil and not worry about getting kidnapped.
	Let's get back to Arizona.
	Let me finish.
	I'm wrapping.
	I'm going back to Arizona.
	Mexico City, when I was there the last time, said, oh, there's no Mercedes-Benz.
	People can't drive a nice car.
	They drive Volkswagens and beat up old junkers because they can't risk being spotted as someone who could be kidnapped for ransom.
	Now, here's what neither one of these sides want to talk about.
	Phoenix, Arizona right now is number two in the world to Mexico City.
	Forget about Brazil with 30 million people in Sao Paulo.
	Doesn't hold a candle to Phoenix, Arizona.
	Number one in the country.
	Number two in the world for kidnappings at the rate of 400 a year.
	Neither side wants to talk about it.
	This is what the problem really is.
	People aren't safe in Arizona anymore.
	And if you have that many kidnappings, and if you listen to all the memes and say, well, you know, we're worried about, let's, you know, San Francisco douchebag mayor over here says, we're going to stop doing business with Arizona.
	Good.
	Keep people out of Arizona.
	You're doing them a favor.
	But his thing is, it's going to hurt the tourist trade.
	What's going to hurt the tourist trade is if tourists figure this out.
	So the right-wingers have not said anything about it because, oh, God, we might hurt the tourist trade, so let's not say anything about the kidnappings, murders, and rapes.
	And so the left-wingers don't want to say anything about, oh, it's going to demean the Mexican people, you know, because essentially it's, you know, the gangs are coming up here, MS-13s, and, you know, they're talking, well, they can line up for their citizenship.
	They don't want to be citizens.
	Right.
	This has basically become a Wild West mess.
	It's extremely dangerous in Arizona.
	I would stay out of the state.
	How did this happen, John?
	How did this...
	Lacks law enforcement, and I hate to say it, but the liberals, who, oh no, we can't do profiling for heaven's sake.
	Oh yes, I know, he's got tattoos all over him that say MS-13, but you can't, he's not doing anything, he's just standing there.
	So what difference does it make?
	We can't profile him because he's covered with tattoos.
	Right.
	Here, go to the clips to play a couple of these things.
	Obama on Arizona.
	Here's Obama's solution.
	Let's put them in line and make them citizens.
	Remember this.
	They don't want to be citizens.
	They want to kidnap you.
	They want to kidnap you.
	Play Obama.
	Make them register.
	Make them pay a fine.
	Make them learn English.
	Make them...
	Make them take responsibility for the fact that they broke the law.
	You make them get in the back of the line.
	But you also say, okay, if you do it the right way, then you have a chance to become an American citizen.
	And if we have that kind of comprehensive approach, then we can once again be a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.
	Now, I've been pushing for this.
	I want it to happen.
	The only way it's going to happen...
	That's good.
	You kill it.
	I don't understand.
	Is this guy an idiot?
	Yes, but why don't...
	Why isn't anyone just saying, hey, we've got a kidnapping problem over here?
	Kidnapping, they're number one in the country for...
	It's going to be the murder capital in no time.
	Why don't they say it, Josh?
	Home invasions and identity theft.
	Why don't they just say it?
	Because they can't.
	The one side, the left-wingers, can't say it because, oh, it's going to hurt someone's feelings.
	And the right-wingers can't say it because, oh, God, the tourist trade is going to dry up and people aren't going to go to all those great resorts outside of Phoenix.
	So they're all mum on this.
	This is the problem with mainstream media and why people need to support our show because we just see right through.
	Anybody can see through this crap.
	Once you start doing their research, go out there, anyone listening to this show, go to Google and look up Phoenix kidnapping and you'll find out that Phoenix is number two in the entire world.
	For kidnapping.
	Not to interrupt your excellent rant here, John, but there's a clip that I have from our favorite Thom, Thom Hartman, who interviewed Greg Pallast.
	And Greg Pallast, who's actually an excellent documentarian from the UK, he says that this is about suppressing voters.
	Yeah, right.
	Seventy percent of the Arizonans, by the way, support this law.
	The law was fashioned after the federal law, almost identical to the federal law that's not being enforced.
	So when they get sued, and they're going to be sued by the Civil Liberties Union, the people are going to say, well, how come the feds?
	Did you want you to sue the feds?
	It's really their law, which also is not being discussed at all.
	It's all about racial profiling.
	Wow, this is a typical conundrum.
	John, you should run for governor of Arizona.
	No, the governor of Arizona is all over this.
	She has done the right thing.
	I know, but she should say what's going on.
	She does.
	They say it there.
	They talk about it in Arizona, but the national media will not pick it up.
	Where's the clip?
	Where's the clip?
	Where is she saying this?
	I don't have a clip of her saying it, but I have a lot of other clips where people don't say it.
	The reason I can't get the clip is because they won't play these clips in the United States except as local.
	What, is Hill and Knowlton representing Arizona?
	No, the rapists.
	What?
	They're representing the rapists.
	They got no time for Arizona.
	Here's Limbaugh, who's bitches about Arizona a little bit.
	San Francisco says that they are going to boycott Arizona.
	And I'm sure the people of Arizona are happy as hell about that.
	In fact, if I were the people of Arizona, I'd capture the illegals and send them to San Francisco.
	Sanctuary City, hey, you like them so much, here, glad to send them your way.
	He doesn't talk about it either.
	No.
	You think he would.
	Now, we have McCain, who kind of talks about it, but he beats around the bush.
	And if you listen to McCain in this clip, talking about the problem in his state, and by the way, he was for open borders, basically, and only recently changed his tune.
	You just listen to me go, we should be thankful that this guy wasn't elected president.
	He needs some testosterone.
	Arizona's immigration law is sparking controversy among lawmakers and citizens alike.
	According to USA Today, a handful of organizations are calling for businesses to boycott the state, which has hotel operators and other executives worried about the economic losses they may suffer.
	Now, meanwhile, the mayhem caused by the law continues.
	Now, you can see in this picture that protesters are comparing it to the measures imposed by Nazi Germany.
	And others are going even further.
	And that is calling on citizens to burn the city of Phoenix.
	Joining me now is somebody who has a close connection to the state of Arizona, Senator John McCain.
	Senator, a lot of this language is becoming very, very troubling.
	You see what you hear and you see what you hear what's being said.
	You see what is happening.
	What is your reaction?
	Well, I regret it.
	People are free to express their views, but the fact is the Arizona legislature and governor acted for one reason, and that is because the federal government did not act and carry out its responsibilities to secure our borders.
	Our southern border in Arizona is broken, Sean.
	I'd like to give you two numbers.
	One is that last year, 241,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended crossing the Tucson.
	Isn't this guy the maverick?
	Can't he just come out and say it?
	The Republican Party doesn't like him anyway.
	This is baffling to me listening to this.
	He sounds like a wimp.
	More?
	Yeah, play the red.
	...sector border.
	You do the math that it's one out of three or one out of five that they apprehend versus those that get away.
	That's about a million people who crossed our border illegally.
	One other number, 1.3 million pounds of marijuana were intercepted.
	Well, now he has my attention.
	In the Tucson sector, again, the Mexican drug cartels are well-armed, they're well-equipped, and they're very well-organized, and the violence on the border continues to go up, and every state and every citizen has the right to have its border secured and live in the condition...
	Okay, stop, stop, stop.
	Okay, I can't take it anymore.
	He goes on and he talks about the southern part of the state only, not mentioning Phoenix.
	You know, I say, well, it's the southern part of the state because there's all this violence down there because there's just shootouts going on constantly.
	I mean, the place is completely out of control.
	This guy is like on drugs or something.
	I have no idea what the deal is.
	And it's just the whole thing is ridiculous.
	Now, let me get a couple more out of the way and then I'll be done with this topic.
	But at least I want people out there to know that...
	What it's really about.
	What it's really about, and what the citizens there know what it's about.
	This, I think, this will be off the Clips One collection.
	One guy did come out, the guy who wrote the author of the Arizona Bill, which is under the heading author of the Arizona Bill, who actually brings up some of the most important parts of this.
	He doesn't talk about MS-13 or anything like that, but he does defend himself or...
	You should explain briefly what MS-13 is.
	I don't have the clip, but I could get it.
	Apparently there's some evidence that they're being financed by Hamas and Hezbollah because they'll take any money they can get.
	And they're an extremely violent gang.
	They're all over the country.
	They are responsible for most of the meth.
	In California and elsewhere.
	And it's a very powerful gang.
	And they're apparently taking over Arizona and that's one of the things they're trying to deal with.
	But, you know, meanwhile the Republicans and the Democrats and the conservatives and the liberals are missing the point.
	They're just attacking each other.
	The Congressman also said he wants President Obama to fight the new law.
	Arizona State Senator Russell Pierce joins us live.
	State Senator Pierce sponsored the controversial bill.
	Good evening, sir.
	And what provoked or prompted you to sponsor this bill in the first place?
	The rule of law, Grant.
	I mean, the stories they tell, the outrageous fabrications and myths are just, it's unbelievable.
	In this bill, we mirrored federal law.
	It's illegal to enter or remain in this country in violation of federal law.
	We have simply mirrored that.
	Nobody's erased the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments.
	In fact, we put profiling as an illegal The issue in the bill.
	We codified it.
	We made sure people can't racial profile.
	These are the most outrageous stories in the world.
	What we've done in this bill, very simply, is, and I've watched over the years, it gets more and more violent.
	You know, number two in the world in kidnappings.
	to become the home invasion, carjacking, identity theft of the nation.
	I've been to Officer Earthley, who was murdered at his funeral, Officer Atkins, Officer Martin, Officer Eagle.
	Rob Krentz was just murdered on the border.
	I just had a hearing from the ranchers down on the border, a half-a-day hearing at the Senate.
	Their fences are cut.
	Their cattle is slaughtered.
	Their dogs are killed.
	Their houses and windows and doors are boarded.
	They're fearful.
	They pray for daylight because they hear noises.
	They're scared to come outside.
	Enough is enough.
	We're a nation of laws.
	This doesn't change anything.
	All I've done is very simple.
	I like that.
	Alright, so let me just recap, John.
	This guy just said it.
	It's pandemonium in Arizona.
	It's out of control.
	We need to do something about it.
	But the media, particularly cable news, and all the way to Rush Limbaugh, are A, too stupid to Google Arizona.
	Arizona problem is what you can Google.
	Arizona kidnapping.
	Look that one up.
	I've been doing that during the clip.
	And they need someone to come down there and kick some ass.
	They need to declare martial law.
	I bet no one's even read the bill who's reporting on it.
	And of course I haven't either, but I'm going to.
	And it makes total sense.
	But we've gotten into this pussification of the nation where it's like, oh, it's unfair.
	But it sounds like there's some bad crap going on in Arizona.
	They need help.
	Yeah, they should declare martial law.
	Then you can deal with your racial profiling that way.
	70% of the population of Arizona, there's only one guy, there's one congressman that's down on the border area that supports the open borders and the Mexicans coming over and raping.
	Now, or kidnapping and raping.
	They usually go hand in hand.
	It's...
	Now, here's the one.
	I don't want to keep playing these things, but I'm going to play one more because this is an example.
	This was a good clip, by the way, because he actually said it right there.
	He said, enough is enough.
	I like that.
	Yeah, that's what he said.
	Well, he wrote the bill.
	All right.
	But nobody wants to know.
	He's a racist pig.
	So here's, on the second group of clips, the one meme while discussing AZ. Now, you're going to hear a...
	We haven't talked about this meme.
	But you're going to hear it at the end of this guy.
	This is a typical right-wing or conservative.
	You know, kind of pussyfooting around the issue in Arizona.
	And then slipping the meme in.
	It only did it for a point of propaganda.
	By the way, this meme, I find extremely annoying.
	I don't disagree with the concept.
	But it keeps cropping up in the conversation.
	It's an obvious talking point amongst the conservatives.
	I just keep a lookout for it.
	...to reverse the law that was just signed by the governor the other day.
	I'm wondering if we'd look at the map of Congressman Grijalva's congressional district, if we haven't already ceded that component of Arizona to Mexico, judging by the voice that comes out of him, he's advocating for Mexico rather than the United States and against the rule of law, which is one of the central pillars of American exceptionalism.
	The rule of law?
	American exceptionalism.
	It's hard to say.
	American exceptionalism.
	Let me hear it again.
	Against the rule of law, which is one of the central pillars of American exceptionalism.
	What is American exceptionalism?
	Well, you're not listening to enough of these shows.
	By the way, I don't see how a pillar of law has got anything to do with American exceptionalism.
	Does that mean we're great?
	Yeah.
	We're awesome?
	America!
	Fuck yeah!
	Time to take on the motherfucking world!
	Yeah, America!
	Okay, okay.
	So, don't go into singing, whatever you...
	Wait, I thought I had that clip somewhere.
	I love that.
	So, American exceptionalism came up as a meme during the Obama initial campaign.
	It's never really gotten a strong hold, but it keeps...
	And Obama actually poo-pooed it.
	I had a clip we never played at one point where he kind of goes, well, American exceptionalism...
	Somebody asked him in a press conference...
	Do you believe in American exceptionalism?
	And he says, well, of course I do.
	But I think you could ask anyone from any country if they believe in Belgian exceptionalism or United Kingdom exceptionalism.
	Belgium has exceptional muscles.
	So he basically marginalized the idea, but the conservatives keep bringing it up.
	And the thing they're trying to promote is the idea that Obama thinks we're a bunch of boneheads in the U.S. He's not really an American.
	He doesn't believe an American exceptionalism.
	He doesn't believe we can go kick everybody's ass!
	Even though he's probably doing it more than anyone.
	He's kicking everyone's ass.
	Killing people everywhere.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, so this little meme crops up.
	I find it extremely annoying.
	Yeah.
	Because whether it's American exceptionalism, what does that mean?
	It's a meaningless term that is like, okay, yeah, okay, we're different.
	There's no doubt about that.
	And maybe superior in a lot of cultural ways.
	And maybe inferior in a lot of cultural ways.
	But it's beside the point.
	We're just different and we have a culture of our own of sorts and then we should just defend that.
	I mean, there's a lot of things that we're not number one at.
	Bringing you online streaming exceptionalism.
	This is the Noah Janna Show.
	I think we should do that.
	That's a good one.
	But anyway, I think being honest about being number two...
	Hey, we're number two in kidnappings!
	We can do better!
	We can be exceptional!
	We can turn Phoenix into Mexico City.
	So...
	Anyway, we'll get into that debate some other time.
	That is excellent, John.
	I really appreciate that, and it bogues me out, although I'm glad that there are shows like our little program here that at least are telling people what it's really about, and that clip from the guy who wrote the bill is so incredibly telling.
	If only someone would latch on to that.
	But no, we all have to be on board with the program about discrimination, and it's the brown people.
	Bullcrap!
	We got some bad seeds down there, and if we really are exceptional, we'll go down there and kick their ass!
	Well, the pillars of law.
	Yeah!
	So anyway, so there's just a bunch of blowhards all over the place about this topic, and I find it, and I can't get away from it, because I watch a lot of these shows, they see what they're discussing, and that's all they're discussing, and they're all skirting the issue.
	No, they're skirting the issue.
	They don't even know the issue!
	I think it's some, well...
	Rachel Maddow doesn't know the issue, smug little bitch.
	So, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that.
	I just get worked up because I watched her on a whole program about racial.
	I'm like, what?
	Yeah, and you can assume, if you ask Rachel Maddow, Joy Behar, Oberman, and all the rest of them about what is this Arizona thing, they say, well, it's about racial profiling because they hate Mexicans.
	You know, that's basically it.
	Meanwhile, people are being murdered.
	It's just a moment of intimidation.
	Intimidated.
	It's the number two kidnapping capital of the entire world.
	We're talking Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro taking a backseat to Phoenix?
	Are you kidding me?
	Alright, on a lighter note, time for some humor.
	I guess a lot of humorous stuff.
	I got some humor, too.
	So, you know that the President of the United States said he could not, although a lot of it's leaked out, he could not really reveal the contents of the ACTA agreement.
	This is the international intellectual property agreement that our global government is putting in place because of the national security.
	And of course we laugh at that, but here it is in the Wall Street Journal.
	As officials have just netted the largest seizure ever of counterfeit goods...
	$240 million in total of fake Rolex watches, coach handbags, Nike shoes, pirated DVDs, fake pharmaceutical products.
	This was a 30-city sweep, and they took in a quarter of a billion dollars worth of fake goods.
	So how does this apply to, and of course this is exactly what this bill is for, but here it is, and I did not know this.
	In the past, terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mr.
	Morton, Hezbollah has tried to use the sale of counterfeit goods as a way to finance terrorism.
	So these guys who are selling fake Rolexes are financing terrorism.
	It's just as lucrative for criminals to deal in coach handbags as other illicit goods.
	And by the way, a coach handbag?
	No one wants a fake coach handbag.
	That's not a real brand.
	Who wants a coach handbag in the first place?
	No, exactly.
	Now...
	Inside information about the energy markets.
	A lot of interesting things happening with Gitmo Nation Red, is my new term for Russia.
	Of course, we all saw the outrage in Ukraine, which we've talked about extensively on this show for a number of reasons, particularly about the political fight going on between Yushchenko and Shikashenko.
	I'm paraphrasing the names.
	One side is pro-America, pro-NATO. The other side, pro-Russia.
	So the pro-Russia guy...
	He basically won.
	And he says, you know what?
	We should let those Russians have our port in the Black Sea.
	And everyone goes nuts.
	Yeah, this was not a good thing to do.
	They're throwing eggs in Parliament.
	They're beating each other.
	It looked like one of those Japanese videos.
	No, actually Taiwan.
	Oh, Taiwan.
	Sorry.
	And it was amazing.
	I'm like, wow.
	So they're really, really angry.
	So, you know, what is going on here?
	And then I want to get into...
	Into the energy cabal that is on its way is Poland, of course.
	We were big friends of Ukraine and Poland wanted those ships out of the port there.
	So they took out the Polish president.
	That was the easy one.
	Then they overturn this closing of the Russian base.
	So the Russians are going to be there.
	And what do they get in return?
	A 30% discount on their gas, which comes from Gazprom.
	Yeah, that's a good deal.
	It's a great deal, but this is the new currency.
	So here we go.
	There was a secret meeting in Europe, and I have meeting notes from this meeting.
	It includes, this is the International Cabal, the Moscow International Oil Club, MIOC, Midland Energy Company, Halliburton Oil, Gunvor, ARA, German Wintershall, British Petroleum, British Gas, Total, Statoil, and Gas de France is also getting on board with this.
	So the idea is they're putting together kind of an IMF, if you will, of primarily natural gas.
	And the Russians, which have now expanded, and you know about the pipeline.
	We talked about this extensively.
	The pipeline bypassing Poland, going straight from Russia, straight from Gazprom into Germany, from Germany moved into Rotterdam.
	The Netherlands.
	They're going to hold people hostage, which is exactly what was predicted for Europe.
	They're going to hold Europe mainly hostage.
	Oh, you want some gas?
	Well, you've got to play along.
	So they are going to be the new Uber lords by holding everybody's natural gas.
	And if you play along with the program, like let us have some ships in your port, we'll give you a discount.
	We'll give you a break.
	So apparently...
	Oh, by the way, one other thing, and this is from the meeting notes, let me read verbatim.
	So they have to manipulate, it's all about money, of course, they have to manipulate the price of natural gas.
	And we just had a natural disaster off the coast of Louisiana.
	Is that correct?
	The oil rig?
	Yeah, oil rig disappeared.
	Disappeared.
	I'm going to tell you that that is a part of this cabal who are going to be blowing stuff up And just getting rid of it to jack up the price.
	And in this meeting, it was said in regards to a certain Caribbean offshore oil terminal, quote, if it need to be we can arrange for this implementation, the main factor is the cleanup cost is less than expected, so it's time to jump on it now.
	So these guys have done the numbers, and if you create a natural disaster and you have to clean it up, It's profitable because the price of energy goes up high enough for them to make more money.
	And what they're going to be doing is they're going to be shipping all of this Russian gas oil, the raw material, into Rotterdam and other places in Northwestern Europe.
	Going to put it onto big barges and float them around.
	Until it's time to be sold on the spot market.
	So from this meeting, we get the following, and you could bet on it, I guess.
	I wouldn't, but they're going to have a stable price.
	But then in about nine months, boom, they're doing the same thing we saw last year.
	You're going to see four or five dollars a gallon gas prices, but this is going to be natural gas, which is what is necessary for people to heat their homes.
	It's a huge resource.
	They're going to blow up the price.
	It's going to go sky high in about nine months from now.
	Okay, make a note on the clip.
	I think you're right.
	Natural gas, everyone thinks it's artificially depressed anyway, so when it does go up...
	No one's going to bitch about it because I swear to you that over the last two years I've been talking to Horowitz enough, that's for sure, everybody says in the markets, in the commodity business, they say, oh, you know, natural gas is sure cheap.
	It doesn't seem to want to move up.
	It's way too cheap.
	It's cheaper than it should be.
	And so when it goes up to something double, let's say, nobody's going to blink their eyes because, oh, finally it got to the price where it belongs.
	So something screwy about the natural gas situation.
	And I would say be on the lookout for some kind of rigging disaster.
	And whoever, by the way, and whoever invests in this because of what we just said.
	Send us some dough.
	We need some money on the deal.
	We need a piece of the action.
	So be on the lookout for a Caribbean offshore oil terminal disaster.
	If that happens, you should be sending us your life savings.
	Or something.
	I've been working on this story for six weeks with one of our producers who's on the inside, who of course I can't name.
	I really have to protect him.
	Or her.
	And this is the kind of stuff when you get to a certain level with this type of program, you get real inside information.
	And I'm really happy this is happening because now you see how it works.
	Now you see how it's all put together and they do not care.
	They will burn an oil rig.
	They will blow it up just for their own personal financial benefit.
	And we're not talking about, you know, peanuts here.
	People would never do that.
	Well, I think for a billion dollars, some people might.
	Oh, it's going to be more than a billion.
	I want to play a little clip that kind of changes the topic unless you want to stay on this.
	No, I'm done.
	You know, last week, people wrote in about that divorce commentary that was done by Jack Cashill, who was the author of Popes and Bankers, that we ran at the end of the last week's show.
	He also made a very interesting, another remark, which is a lot shorter, so we could play it during the show, that we didn't run last week, but I want to run it this week.
	It's on the Clips 2 segment, and it's on the word Social Security.
	Cashill had something very interesting to say about the Social Security system.
	Would you comment on the unfunded obligations of Social Security and Medicare?
	You know, it's odd.
	I had lunch yesterday with a guy who works for Social Security.
	He said, ah, it's overrated.
	He said, it's overestimated.
	And I said, what do you mean?
	He goes, we can guarantee that until the year 2030, you'll be able to at least get 76 cents back on your dollar.
	I said, I don't think that was part of my contract.
	76 cents back on the dollar?
	That's where we're heading.
	That's what will happen.
	That'll be the compromise.
	There's not enough money, but they've already figured that out, right?
	This is the first time I'd heard that, and it intrigued me, because we thought all along, this is another Roosevelt idea, Social Security, that we would have whatever we put in, we'd have it, but we're not.
	So don't count on it.
	Count on three quarters of it, though.
	I'm screwed.
	I'm actually getting into the system before the real screw job takes place.
	It's my wife who's screwed.
	My wife always says, you know, you baby boomers, you're going to take the whole system with you.
	You're going to get the airplane discount and then they're going to start ratcheting up the age when the airlines say, hey, we're giving away too many discounts to these old farts.
	You know, let's change it to 70.
	Then they'll change it to 75 and then they'll drop it.
	That's what you get for marrying a young chick.
	Yeah.
	So another one I've got here on the list.
	There was an interesting piece of propaganda that was run on the 60-minute show this last Sunday.
	Oh, the vaccine stuff.
	Sorry?
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	That was something else.
	No.
	What do you have?
	The incredible Adderall clip.
	But let me give you some background on this.
	And my deconstruction of what I thought was going on.
	First of all, they're promoting the use of prescription drugs, which we've talked about before.
	Well, they do that all the time.
	As opposed to old-fashioned.
	When I was a kid, the students who would like to get juiced up before finals or had to get a paper, they would find Benzedrine or they'd get some.
	They were prescription too, but they were all illegal.
	I mean, Dexedrine, these kinds of straight-up amphetamines.
	But now, of course, it turns out that the kids in this generation or their...
	They're using Adderall and Ritalin to concentrate more and do their studies.
	And so this interesting play came up on 60 Minutes, and they're basically promoting, believe me, this is a promotion of Adderall.
	Because all these kids seem so normal, and they're all on it.
	And, you know, they are normal.
	But they also slipped in, which cracked me up.
	Out of the blue, they slipped in a commercial, essentially, for Provigil, which we've talked about on this show before, and made it seem like the most sensible thing, because the Air Force encourages its pilots to be wasted on Provigil.
	And after we play the part about Provigil, if you want to play more of this clip, you can.
	It's a long clip.
	The weirdest thing I've ever seen on 60 Minutes.
	And if I ever felt that I needed it, I would, you know, go and get help for that.
	I mean, I've never felt like I need Adderall's.
	What do you guys think?
	Do you think that kids will be able to just stop cold turkey after they get that diploma?
	I think that's yet to be seen.
	I think we're kind of the first guinea pig generation that's grown up with this.
	Brandon Adams started taking Adderall in college.
	Now 31, he teaches economics at Harvard.
	A lot of attention has been given to undergraduates taking these drugs, but what about people like professors?
	I think it's extremely common.
	It's extremely common in all of the professions from what I've seen.
	He admits he recently finished writing a book with the help of Adderall.
	There I would probably average twice a week.
	So you'd take one in the morning when you really had to focus on writing and you'd be able to have a very productive day?
	Yes.
	Adams says other drugs are also being used as neuro-enhancers.
	One he's tried is Provigil, first developed to treat the symptoms of the rare sleep disorder narcolepsy.
	People found that it was helpful as a stimulant for working in law offices and in academics and stuff like this.
	So I would say it's in the past five to ten years that it's become popular as a performance enhancer.
	Last year alone, there were more than two million ProVigil prescriptions filled, some for truck drivers on long hauls and doctors working around the clock.
	The Air Force has even approved ProVigil for fighter pilots on extended combat missions.
	And as scientists continue to better understand how the mind works, it's likely we'll soon see new, more potent drugs that can be used to boost your brain power.
	What do you think of the notion of, in the future, these kinds of drugs being perfectly acceptable and, in fact, encouraged so that we can maximize our potential in terms of our intelligence?
	Break me well.
	That's a big moral question, I think, about how you want to alter your mind, and that's kind of what Adderall is, I guess.
	It's how do you feel about it morally, and I think our general consensus is most people are okay with it.
	All right, so let's take a couple of little things in here that took place.
	First of all, the classic, this drug, how does this drug, you know, let's do a follow-up story that's not really a follow-up story.
	Here's someone who used Adderall.
	He got through college with it, and now he is a Harvard professor who writes books.
	Yes.
	So this is like positive reinforcement.
	Positive reinforcement.
	Whoa, I can be a Harvard professor too!
	Positive reinforcement for using Adderall.
	Then they brought in the ProVigil commercial, which I thought was kind of odd, but then I realized there's something else going on with ProVigil, and I can assure you that there will be, in two years, there will be an article or stories on 60 Minutes, and there's obviously some drug company behind this, some public relations agency behind pushing this crap.
	Hill and Knowlton, perhaps.
	There will be stories about ProVigil disasters, fighter pilots that did this, and it turns out they were on ProVigil.
	ProVigil's patent expires in two years.
	Oh, so they've got to push it now.
	They've got to pump it out there now.
	Still good.
	They apparently are already messing with the molecule, and they're going to make another version of it in two years.
	They have it.
	The new version is called NuVigil.
	Okay.
	And if you go to thewakeupsquad.com, yeah, yeah, go to it right now.
	You may actually, John, suffer from SWD, shift work disorder.
	Well, that's funny, because I actually did shift work for two years, and it turns out that you don't get, it's not really a disorder, but what you get is you are essentially immune to jet lag for the rest of your life.
	Well, listen to this.
	Some professions that may put workers at risk for SWD, which is a new one to look out for, security guard, con shares, foreign markets trader, Wall Street's on this shit, IT network administrator, hello, sysadmins, power plant worker, production supervisor, ooh, my power plant worker, production supervisor, ooh, my favorite, radio DJ, firefighter, doorman, dispatcher, registered nurse, chef, accountant, night auditor, IT support manager, customer service representative, overnight package handler, TV producer, factory worker,
	overnight package handler, TV producer, factory worker, So, although they don't promote it specifically on the wakeupsquad.com, NuVagil...
	And they've got a great picture of what looks like a Southwest Airlines employee with his little light beacons up there, and he's smiling, and underneath it says, Rediscover Wakefulness!
	It is unbelievable the drugs they are pushing on you.
	Hey, you know what?
	Let's go back to heroin!
	It's better!
	This stuff is...
	And then it's like narcolepsy, improving wakefulness, and narcolepsy, and then...
	Oh, okay.
	We're not going to be able to do this today, but we're going to research this operation.
	We're going to see who has the URLs.
	I mean, what the deal is.
	Who's behind it?
	It's going to be one of the drug companies.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's not taking much to figure this out.
	But anyway, so what they're going to do is they're going to promote ProVigil as much as they can for the short term to get as much money out of it.
	ProVigil is expensive.
	It's a dollar a pill.
	They can make a lot of money.
	With two million prescriptions, they'd probably prescribe 30.
	I mean, you're talking about probably close to a billion dollars.
	Then they're going to kill it because once it goes generic, nobody can use it because it won't be any good anymore.
	And so then they'll have this new vigil, and that's just the whole thing.
	This was a propaganda piece that was extremely well-structured, and I watched it with just shaking my head the whole time.
	And, you know, Adderall's good.
	Go get a prescription for that if your doctor will do that.
	And then, so then I run into this other one, which, by the way, this is going to be another big trend.
	And this one, they're just sneaking up on us.
	This is nothing that's really overt, but...
	Go to the clip.
	I think I've got to go back and see if it's a clip.
	Drug ad prelude?
	No.
	Yeah, drug ad prelude.
	Listen to this clip.
	Millions of men 45 and older just don't feel like they used to.
	Are you one of them?
	Remember when you had more energy for 18 holes with your buddies?
	More passion for the one you love?
	More fun with your family and friends?
	Could be an easily treatable condition called low T. Come on, stop living in the shadows.
	You've got a life to live.
	So don't blame it on aging.
	Go to isitlowt.com to find out more.
	Okay, I didn't look it up, but I'm going to say low testosterone.
	Yeah.
	And may I just shift right into all listed under vaccines.
	There's a study.
	Here you go.
	Scientists have discovered, this is from a German news source, that when they inject men, With oxytocin, which is a female hormone.
	It's the same hormone that is released when women are breastfeeding or divorcing breast milk.
	Men become nice.
	We had to use that.
	Men become nice.
	Look how nice!
	That must be what McCain's on!
	Listen to this.
	So they gave the test group some oxytoxin, and then they showed the subjects a series of emotionally charged pictures, such as a weeping child, a girl hugging a cat, and a man grieving.
	The men then had to say to what extent they identified with the people in the pictures, and guess what?
	They were really identifying with the...
	Oh, the little kitty speaking up!
	If I can then just continue to say that there is a new pill.
	It costs 25 pounds, but it'll be well worth it, John.
	It's called Prilogy, and it will end premature ejaculation.
	Take it one to three hours before sex.
	It can increase your staying power threefold.
	That's terrible.
	So let's go back to the T thing here.
	The testosterone has been...
	Low T. People need to know this.
	All the older guys need to listen to this.
	testosterone has been synthesized and they sell it.
	You can buy it.
	You can get a prescription from your doctor.
	You can find some with hormone replacement therapy theories and you can get, you can buy this stuff.
	Generally speaking, the insurance companies won't cover it, but it's like extremely expensive.
	I mean, we're talking about those, those provincial pills are, you know, 10 bucks a pop or no to 10 bucks a pop.
	Provisual is not, did I say a dollar?
	You said a dollar, but you meant 10 bucks, right?
	Ten dollars a pill from the drug companies.
	I mean, this is the same as...
	To me, this is the same as the guy on the street.
	Yeah, of course.
	The gyp.
	But anyway, so the testosterone stuff is really expensive.
	I mean, we're talking...
	You're not going to...
	It's $500 for, you know...
	It's unbelievable.
	Hold on a second.
	They're going to push the crap out of this.
	Is it lowtea.com is the website you want to go to?
	You recognize me?
	Yes.
	I'm a shadow of who you used to be before low testosterone or low tea started slowing you down.
	Take a look around to learn about the medical condition known as low tea.
	It's a medical condition.
	And hey, I'm happy you're here.
	Okay.
	There's a whole bunch of guys.
	I'm telling you, I'm predicting this right now.
	John, we can take the quiz to see if you have low T. I probably do.
	I want to take the quiz with you.
	Do you have a decrease in libido?
	The libido.
	No, libido.
	In libido, for sure, whatever it is.
	Yes, okay.
	Do you have a lack of energy?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Do you have a decrease in strength or endurance?
	Yes.
	You get older, you get weak.
	Have you lost height?
	What?
	No, not yet.
	Have you lost height?
	The guy's a midget.
	Have you noticed a decrease in your enjoyment of life?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Especially since I started doing this show.
	Next.
	Are you sad and or grumpy?
	Yes.
	All the time.
	Are your erections less strong?
	Well, I'm not going to say, but no.
	Okay.
	Have you noticed a recent deterioration in your ability to play sports?
	Yeah.
	Are you falling asleep after dinner?
	My 30 foot jumper.
	I can't hit it anymore.
	Are you falling asleep after dinner?
	I try to.
	Has there been a recent deterioration in your work performance?
	I'll answer that, yes.
	Finish.
	Consider getting tested for low T. If you answered yes to questions one or seven, at least three of the other questions are symptoms.
	I answered yes to almost all of them.
	So I'm going to get this stuff and I'm going to get pumped up on ROIDs now.
	And I have a button to print your results, John.
	I'm printing them for you.
	I need to get ROIDs.
	You need low-T medicine.
	I do.
	I'm going to get it.
	I'm shrinking.
	I'm shrinking.
	Anyway, besides the silly quiz, here's what I'm predicting.
	Because of the baby boomers being who they are, there's going to be a run on this, and you're going to end up with a bunch of 60-year-old men and older.
	Jacked up.
	You're fucking jacked up.
	By the way, this is an anabolic steroid.
	It's a steroid.
	Yeah, of course it is.
	So you're going to have a bunch of roided up older guys roaming around.
	It's going to be hilarious.
	Oh, wow.
	I'm going to get me some of that, man.
	I'll be bouncing off the wall.
	I love it.
	All right, so we've got to wrap up the show.
	A couple of things that we did.
	There's stuff I really have to keep for Sunday's show.
	Alright.
	So here's the things we're going to talk about because we were, of course, right about our presidents being drugged.
	Laura Bush says she thinks they were drugged.
	I have my friend...
	Oh, I didn't get that one.
	Oh, you didn't hear that?
	No, Laura Bush thought that she and the president were drugged?
	Yeah, in Germany when they were at some delegation.
	Oh, yeah, it's awesome.
	Yeah, it's in her memoirs.
	Oh, cool.
	Yeah, so we'll talk about that.
	We'll see if we can get some clips.
	My friend Michelle Harper, the nightclub owner, Gitmo Nation East, on like a Sunday morning, he built an annex to his house, and they said it was one meter too wide.
	They came in, they tore it down while he was in his house.
	And it was a big news story in Gitmo Nation East.
	Then, of course, we have the secret global strike glider that was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, which they lost.
	Yeah, we need to talk about that.
	So I'm doing that.
	Confirmation and affirmation on something you alerted our listeners to, the CSI effect of how shows like CSI are tainting the jury pool.
	There's now some scientific tests that have been done and confirmed this.
	And then there's a lot of ClimateGate stuff that we definitely have to learn.
	Yeah, I have a bunch of that too.
	We're just out of time, John.
	If we could do this full time, we could do more.
	We could probably do this show 24-7.
	Well, we could do it every day almost.
	The material writes itself.
	It does.
	If people look for it.
	Hill and Knowlton writes it for us.
	Yeah, all we have to do is read what they're doing.
	Talk about trend.
	You want to spot trends?
	See what Hill and Knowlton's up to.
	Yeah.
	So we'll do all of that on Sunday.
	Also, there's just so much stuff.
	It just doesn't stop.
	And the Goldman thing.
	If you want to be entertained, watch the congressional hearings.
	That is theater, my friends.
	That is theater.
	I'm reading as much information as I can about the financial reform bill, which of course is a huge bailout.
	Goldman Sachs are sending their guys there and they're all laughing because when this bill gets passed, they will be trillionaires.
	And with that, I'm Adam Curry coming to you from the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center in Southern California, known as the People's Republic.
	In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
	And in the morning up here in northern Silicon Valley where it's sunny again and it was raining the other day.
	I don't know what's going on.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We will talk to you for early morning service on Sunday right here on No Agenda.

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