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	I'm amazed at what's happening!
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's May 2nd, 2010.
	Time for your Gimo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 196.
	This is No Agenda.
	On the lookout for mini-sub torpedo missions from the Hilltop Watchtower, Crock-Pot Command Center, and Gimo Nation West in the People's Republic of Southern California.
	In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where the sun is shining and the birds are tweeting, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	On Buzzkill!
	In the morning!
	Really, the birds use Twitter out there, huh?
	They do.
	Okay.
	In the morning to you, my friend.
	And in the morning to everybody listening.
	Yeah.
	Well, not everybody's listening because it's so uncharacteristic of us to start early.
	Four minutes early!
	No, no.
	We usually don't roll until 9.15.
	Well, we're supposed to start at 9.
	Oh.
	I think we need a meeting.
	Yeah, you keep saying that.
	I don't know what this meeting meme is all about.
	What is a meeting anyway?
	A meeting is where a whole bunch of people sit around and try to impress the other people.
	Oh.
	With what they're doing for the common good.
	Why don't they just let their work speak for itself?
	Before we really jump into our show here, John, I would like people to remember that on this very program, we were the first ones to say Michael Jackson was murdered.
	Wait a minute.
	Let's back up a minute.
	We did.
	You're right.
	Of course, we do that.
	We told you so is a thing we like to do.
	Well, we can't really play the jingle just yet.
	But let's take it a step further.
	We not only did it on the show, but you actually did it on national television.
	Yes, on MSNBC, and all 14 people saw it.
	Right, and they hung up on you.
	And they hung up on me and never called me back.
	Even though I have since then sent a couple emails to the producer saying, Gee, you remember when you hung up on me and it was ridiculous that I said that no one's looking into this as a murder case?
	So, of course, now I live in the heart of a real news land, and so there's no way to avoid the news about the ongoing court case with Dr.
	Conrad Murray.
	This case actually starts in June, and he has now said, no, I'm not going to cop a plea bargain.
	Michael Jackson killed himself!
	Damn it!
	He killed himself.
	Seriously, that's what he's saying.
	And now, the big news!
	What happens?
	A very well-known, respected entertainment lawyer, Peter Lopez...
	Who was more like a business lawyer, certainly in the music business.
	You know, a lawyer isn't just a guy that goes and sues people, but he puts deals together for you.
	He's more like a deal maker.
	The guy who actually worked a lot with Michael Jackson in 2006, 2007, helped him set up the comeback concerts at Wembley Arena, etc., Found dead.
	Shot to the head.
	Oh, I didn't know this.
	Oh, yes.
	Oh, and everywhere is like apparent suicide on his front lawn.
	On his front lawn, John.
	It's like, how obvious is this?
	Yeah, if you're going to do it, do it on the front lawn.
	On the front lawn.
	And it's like, and of course, there's no actual reporting.
	You can't get the real story because everyone copy and paste.
	And of course, you know, Google becomes completely useless and Yeah, it does.
	It's amazing how that works.
	Oh, yeah.
	I mean, once AP or Reuters gets it out there and says, oh, apparent suicide, of course, there's no note.
	He does it on his front lawn.
	The guy's one of the most successful lawyers in the business.
	He's loved by everyone.
	And he's married to Catherine Bach, who is, of course, Daisy Duke from the Dukes of Hazzard.
	The guy's got nothing to complain about, okay?
	Nothing wrong.
	Oh, so he was just murdered for some reason.
	Of course.
	He knew too much.
	He knows where the bodies are buried.
	He knows what's going on.
	This music and entertainment business is a huge scam.
	It's a crime family.
	Wow.
	And the guy knew too much.
	Apparently.
	Yeah.
	I'm like, I couldn't believe it.
	I just couldn't believe it.
	I'm like, oh my God.
	So, I mean, too bad we don't have the, you know, we have so many clips, it's unfortunate that we can't, like, have them at the ready.
	But I'd still like to replay that clip of, was it Janet Jackson or one of those?
	Oh, no, Latoya Jackson.
	Latoya.
	Both Latoya, no, both Latoya and Joe, his dad have come out and said, look, you know, he was killed.
	No, no, but Latoya, before he was killed, told an anecdote about how Michael says, hey, if I ever end up dead, it's because of whatever, you know, because they're after the...
	I don't think that was before...
	I think that was after Michael was killed, but she said that Michael said that to him.
	I can probably...
	Don't worry about it.
	But what was it she said?
	She said that if anything happens to me, it's because they're after the...
	After my catalog, yeah.
	The catalog.
	He owns the Beatles.
	He had the biggest catalog in the business.
	He owns the Beatles.
	And the dispute is still ongoing.
	There was some flimsy...
	There's a whole bunch of links in the show notes at NoAgendaShow.com.
	We don't have to dwell on it because it's like, alright, the world is not going to change because of this, but please just be aware of this.
	This is total murder.
	And we're laughing.
	Of course we're laughing.
	It's horrible.
	This is like schadenfreude.
	You've got to laugh about this stuff.
	Yeah, it is actually amusing at some level.
	So what is on the agenda for today's agenda?
	Well, first, we need to talk about our executive producer, if we have one, or producers.
	We have a few.
	Oh, really?
	Producers?
	Yeah, we got a bunch, actually.
	This is happy news.
	Yeah, you know, the thing is, I want to mention to everybody out there, please become an executive producer on a weekly basis, because it makes Adam happy, and the show actually gets a lot better.
	Funny how that works.
	Yeah, duh.
	So let's start with...
	Sir R. Daniels was now a knight.
	He's given himself a knighthood.
	Well, we can't call him a sir yet.
	We'll have to knight him later on.
	Oh, right.
	Okay, now he's just R. Daniels, and he'll be a knight later today for giving us a...
	And he just threw in $1,000.
	Actually, he threw in $1,300.
	Whoa.
	He said, you know, he felt like a douchebag until he gave us the money.
	Douchebag!
	And then it was over.
	And now he's not anymore.
	He's been de-douched.
	Huh?
	You ready for it?
	You ready for it?
	You've been de-douched.
	I think that's a very expensive jingle to get someone to play for you.
	Well, you get $1,000 and you're an executive producer and you get dedouched on the spot.
	Yes, indeed.
	Also, executive producing is another guy completing his knighthood, Jake Kelly, Charlotte, North Carolina, $550.
	And to...
	Round it off, because we generally give an executive producer title to anyone who gives $333.33.
	Times three.
	Well, also $333.33 generally.
	Jason Wrinkle in Stephenville, Texas.
	So those are our executive producers.
	And we have two associate executive producers on top of that.
	Wow, it's a big show, John.
	No, I take that just one because the other one is, again, Sir R. Daniels, who gave us the $300.
	But we have Jared Forrester.
	Regina rhymes with Saskatchewan, Canada.
	$211.
	I want to thank him.
	Hey, that's what they say there.
	I know, I know.
	You know, someone sent me a note the other day, because these credits, of course, are no laughing matter.
	They are actual credits.
	This is a real show.
	I mean, you can put this on your resume.
	You can put it on your business card if you want.
	You can.
	Someone is trying to...
	They've submitted their executive producer credit to the IMDB database.
	I don't see that being a problem.
	Is it only for films or can you be in other things as well?
	Well, you know, generally speaking, IMDB, Internet Movie Database.
	Yeah, but I've seen other...
	I have too, but usually you have to have a movie credit on top of it.
	If you have no movie credits, I don't think you're going to get it listed.
	Well, are you in there?
	I don't have any movie credits.
	I've been trying to get a bit part for the last five years and nobody will hire me.
	That's not what I asked.
	I said, are you on IMDB? No, I don't think so.
	Well, if you are, then anyone can get on there.
	No, I'm not.
	Oh, all right.
	Well, thank you very much, Jared Forrester.
	For being our associate executive producer.
	And of course, R. Daniels, Jake Kelly, and Jason Rinkle.
	You guys are the executive producers of No Agenda Show, episode one, nine, or six.
	And what you need to do is go out there and propagate our formula.
	It's definitely simple.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	All right, get ready now.
	New world order.
	Everybody stay with me now.
	Shut up.
	Leave.
	So I want to get to something that we forgot last time.
	I want to mention it right off the top.
	Can I just mention some PR associates before you jump into that?
	Oh, we have some?
	Well, some associate moves.
	I kind of like to do that at the top of the show.
	It'll be real quick.
	Oh.
	Okay.
	We have a suggestion from Kyle Goiver who says, hey, there's only 263 reviews in iTunes on the podcast.
	That would definitely help if you guys do some reviews, obviously positive ones.
	This is true.
	Because people do look for that.
	I appreciate it.
	We have some new sites, vetsfornoagenda.com, which is kind of starting out.
	I'm not quite sure what it's going to be.
	We have noagendatravel.com, and we have noagendasearch.com, which actually you worked on over the weekend, John.
	Yeah, I was back and forth with the guy.
	And it looks like it's going to be interesting.
	But the funny thing is he's turned up all these no-agenda-related sites.
	And we're getting quite a few people that are just doing stuff on their own.
	I mean, one of the things...
	We'll talk about when we do our third show for the Deuce Club and some of the things that we're thinking about and how some of this works.
	Because I was...
	Over at the Medio offices with Dolby, and he's, you know, talking, you guys should do this, you should do that.
	I said, no, you know, we're letting people do this, and we're just, we don't want to, you know, we don't want to do the book club personally.
	We want somebody else to do it.
	No, that's actual work.
	And you know what?
	Those individual people are going to do the best job they can do to promote their site and their SEO. And we help them.
	Yeah, and why should we do it?
	We're good at doing one thing.
	Right.
	This is it.
	We can only do this.
	Alright, I'm sorry.
	You wanted to get into something that we hadn't talked about.
	Our wiki page has been ruined by a guy named Churba, who I can't figure out who this is, but he went in there and took out all the backstory about the No Agenda show.
	He took out the references.
	Yeah, he took out the references to the family guy, how he came up with our basic model, and just basically ripped the thing to shreds and simplified it so it's useless.
	I mean, before, people could, if they've never heard the show, they could go to the wiki page and they can catch up to what our thesis or our theory or our model is for how we do the show, why we do it the way we do it.
	And this guy, Cherba, goes in there and just tears all this stuff out saying, you know, I can just imagine who this guy is.
	We have so many cis-op types out there.
	Yeah, get on this.
	We want them to go back and fix the page.
	Well, a couple of interesting things I'm looking at now.
	There is, all of a sudden, a whole paragraph about the Dvorak interlude.
	Hmm.
	And may I say, courtesy of the chat room, you are indeed on IMDB, which means anybody can get on it.
	Since I haven't got my role in a movie.
	So there you go.
	Where's my movie role?
	I can stand behind a counter and go, yes sir.
	Them prophylactics look like fun.
	Hey man, this blows.
	They really screwed up our page.
	I hate that.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, no, this guy really ruined the page, this Churba person.
	Yeah, but we can't go in and change it ourselves, John.
	That's a no-no.
	Yeah, I know.
	But anyway, you can look at the discussion.
	If you click on the different tabs, you can see who did this, who wrecked the page.
	And I don't know why they did it.
	I mean, they obviously just don't like us, or some guy was just a jerk.
	I have no idea.
	But people have to go in there and fix this page, especially the backstory, which is important.
	And I don't see why it wouldn't be on there.
	You know, a lot of wiki pages have been attacked by guys like this Churba character.
	And it takes a lot of the charm of the page.
	This guy actually does more of this?
	I don't know.
	I couldn't find out what else he did, but yeah, I think he's one of those guys.
	He goes in and he's some guy with nothing but time on his hands to wreck pages and kind of missed the point of the whole thing.
	Of course, now it's an opinion piece.
	It's not the actual backstory.
	It's an example of this, although this may not be in there.
	I haven't read it entirely.
	I think it's because we're against global warming.
	Well, duh.
	The science is in!
	The whole Wikipedia thing is a huge shill for global warming.
	Oh, okay.
	There you go.
	Yes, indeed.
	And we bitch about it constantly, about man-made human global warming constantly, because we're idiots, apparently.
	Yes.
	Denialists.
	We're denialists, and so this guy came in there and wrecked the page.
	I would like to get this straightened out, so I'm making a plea to our computer guys to fix it.
	Last night was the Washington Correspondents' Dinner.
	Oh, yes.
	Did you see it?
	I saw Jay Leno bomb.
	I mean, this guy was...
	This was the biggest...
	By the way, you can go to my Dvorak.org blog and you have Obama's stand-up routine.
	Which was outstanding!
	He killed, he killed.
	Leno, did you get to see Leno?
	I saw, well the whole thing is on whitehouse.gov and there's a couple of interesting things they did there, but here's what I think happened, John.
	So first of all, I believe, you know, we know that Jeffrey Immelt is Obama's buddy there, and he's the advisor to the President.
	Immelt, of course, the chairman of GE, who owns NBC, who owns Jay Leno.
	I'm thinking here's how the meeting goes.
	All right, we'll get Jay in.
	We'll have our best writers write your stuff, Mr.
	President, and then we'll give Jay all the crap so you'll look really good.
	Yeah.
	And Obama, he, I mean, on the one hand it's very funny, but on the other hand, it's kind of sinister when you see a guy cracking birther jokes when in fact, you know, we still have questions.
	And it was sinister in a way.
	But man, funny.
	Very funny.
	He's got the timing and everything.
	And what was surprising when I was...
	I'm still more typical of people who try to be funny.
	I was more amused by Leno's bombing.
	Bombing, yeah.
	I want to mention a couple of things about his bombing.
	Besides the fact that he had no way of getting out of it, which is not common for a professional comic.
	If you're bombing, you usually can save it.
	Yeah, just yell the N-word really loud.
	He didn't do anything to save his material.
	And he was reading his jokes off of a sheet of paper and showing old clips from his show.
	Which actually, the White House version of it doesn't show his clips.
	They did show Obama's clips, which was funny because Obama showed the CNN clip of Rick Sanchez talking about volcanoes not being in cold places.
	Yeah.
	Which, you know, is like, alright, someone's on the ball there.
	But yeah, it was just, it was like, wow.
	Anyway, it's in the show notes at noagendershow.com if you haven't found it by now.
	You can take a look at it.
	We could play the whole thing, but it's just funny.
	End of, it's just funny.
	But not funny as in, oh my gosh.
	It's just funny.
	So, yeah.
	Now, we had a bunch of things from last week.
	We wanted to talk about Bret Michaels' ratings and salt.
	Well, we already kind of discussed that, I think.
	What, ratings and salt?
	Ratings and salt?
	Yeah, but we did that at the top of the show.
	What show?
	This show.
	The show on Thursday.
	Where were you?
	No, this is at the end of the Thursday show.
	You said, hey, we've got to talk about Bret Michaels.
	We didn't talk about it today.
	No, we talked about Bret Michaels at the beginning of the last show.
	No.
	Oh, my God.
	Yes, it was the first thing we talked about.
	Well, why is it on my list of things to talk about on Sunday?
	I don't know.
	Your list is bogus.
	It's a list I have.
	I have two checklists.
	You're not maintaining my checklist when we go flying, that's for sure.
	I thought you didn't like checklists.
	Yeah, I do.
	You don't even remember what we talked about on the last show.
	I don't.
	Do you have low T? I have low T, man.
	I gotta get pumped up on roids.
	Oh my god.
	Alright, let me...
	Oh jeez.
	Now you've thrown me for a loop.
	Yeah.
	Alright, I'll just launch into my main...
	I got two main stories today.
	And the big one, of course, is now there's multiple theories about the oil rig that blew up off the Gulf Coast.
	And what was interesting, what caught my attention, President Obama was actually awarding the Teacher of the Year Award in the Rose Garden when he interrupted the proceedings to actually talk about What had happened, and I just found what he said to be very interesting.
	Let's have a quick little listen.
	Welcome to the White House.
	Welcome to the Rose Garden.
	This is an extraordinary occasion, a beautiful day, appropriately so.
	So I hate to intrude on it, but before we begin, I do want to speak briefly to the American people about the recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
	I've been receiving frequent briefings from members of my cabinet and White House staff, including an update last night on the additional breach and another update this morning.
	And while BP is ultimately responsible for funding the cost of response and cleanup operations...
	Which, by the way, is not true.
	They own the field.
	They don't own the actual rig.
	We'll get into that in a second.
	That's by an outfit called Transocean.
	My administration will continue to use every single available resource at our disposal, including potentially the Department of Defense, to address the incident.
	Earlier today, DHS Secretary Napolitano announced that this incident is of national significance, and the Department of Interior has announced that they will be sending SWAT teams to the Gulf to inspect all platforms and rigs.
	All right.
	So I thought that was interesting.
	Why are they sending a SWAT team?
	Well, because they clearly...
	Special weapons and tactics?
	Yes, clearly there's something amiss, John.
	So there's two things.
	First of all, the...
	National significance is a very specific word and is used, let's see, I have it here, in I think 2004, they set up the national response document or, you know, the...
	I'm looking for it here.
	There's a certain set of protocols in the event of some form of, you know, terrible event.
	And they all kind of evolve around being attacked.
	And so when Napolitano says national significance, that's basically code for, okay, something messed up is happening and we're being attacked, send in the SWAT team.
	And so they did indeed send SWAT. And I've never heard of this happening.
	They didn't send SWAT when the Exxon Valdez broke up.
	Not that I know of, at least.
	No, of course not.
	Okay, so there's a couple of things that are very interesting.
	So one, and this is the theory...
	Now, let me go back to my theory, which comes from insiders...
	We know that there's meetings going on with all the large oil companies, and they want to inflate the price of oil, and they basically see that it's cheaper to cause a natural disaster to stop oil...
	Drilling and to lose oil, which of course is exactly what happened and now no more contracts are being given out and everything's being stopped and everyone's like, stop, we can't drill anymore and we're making jokes from drill baby drill to spill baby spill and kill baby spill and all of that.
	These oil companies know that they're going to make far more money on the price of oil skyrocketing, which it is, It's on the huge uptick.
	They're going to make a lot more money as opposed to what it's going to cost to clean up.
	And this is from meeting notes.
	Well, not only that, but I'm sure that the company that owns the rig, and you can be certain that BP did a contract that had a liability clause in it.
	So anything that happened would not...
	Oh, it's not on them.
	Yeah, it's not on them.
	It's very common in contracts to have one of these disclaimers where you take all the responsibility for problems.
	And they can just...
	I don't know.
	I have to look this up.
	I'll look it up.
	But it might be just as easy for them to just go bankrupt and nobody picks up the tab.
	Well, this is what's interesting.
	And I'll just stay on this theory, then I'll get to the kind of crazier one, which is not even that crazy.
	So on the very day...
	And this was April 20th when this happened.
	On the very day that this disaster takes place, and this rig was made by an outfit called Transocean Limited...
	And it's very hard to get a lot of information on these types of companies.
	But here I am looking at a press release.
	Zug, Switzerland.
	Remember now, these meetings that we spoke of?
	Zug.
	Taking place in Zug.
	And Zug is a tax haven.
	It's where a lot of people live whose last names end in ink.
	And LLC and LTD. On the very day that this disaster happens, and this happened at, I believe, around 10 a.m.
	Would that be Central Time?
	Anyway, it doesn't matter.
	On this very day, this company, Transocean, went public on the Swiss Exchange.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	Yeah, what we would say is...
	Coincidence?
	I think not!
	So the share price, you know, goes up to like $100,000.
	The markets close after this disaster.
	Think tanks.
	No, that would be a nice play.
	Of course!
	So I've been trying to find put options and trying to look at people shorting the stock.
	You've got to think that that was a part of it.
	Yeah, why not?
	It's just too coincidental.
	Yeah, let's take it to the distinct public and then run it up and then just dump the thing and let them go broke.
	On the very same day.
	That's pretty good.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, the indemnification clause, that's the word I was looking for.
	Yeah, BP is not picking up a nickel of this thing.
	It's a scandal.
	No, not at all.
	But here's the theory that you will hear.
	This is going to go mainstream and it's going to be ridiculed, of course.
	Transocean is largely funded by South Korea.
	Hmm.
	And...
	The reports are that the, let's see, here it is.
	So there's a lot of backstory to this and where they launched it from, but the report is that a two-man North Korean submarine went on a suicide mission And basically, I guess they call it flying underwater, flew right into this deep water oil platform and blew it up to get back at South Korea for a number of reasons.
	And there's Gazprom again.
	Gazprom just signed a deal to bypass...
	North Korea to bring, and these guys are good at that, Gazprom being the Russian gas company, to supply South Korea with Russian gas.
	And of course, if you know the map and you look at Google Earth, you'll see that North Korea borders on the eastern tip there of Russia.
	So they're essentially going through undersea pipelines, going straight to South Korea.
	And the report is that this is North Korea saying, hey, we're still at war with you guys.
	Watch this.
	And apparently this two-man sub was launched from a vessel that came off of Cuba on April 18th.
	And there's some reports here of people tracking this Empresa.
	Mambisa hasta la Habana.
	Oh, that's the port it came out of.
	Well, you know, we do have an insider in the business that's on one of these platforms, and I asked him specifically to see what the gossip was around, because eventually the gossip amongst these workers that work on these platforms is going to reveal something.
	Something, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Did you get anything back yet?
	Not yet.
	Okay.
	So what I'm thinking is, first of all, even I, the crackpot of all crackpots, am much more inclined to believe the story that the big oil companies say, we don't give a crap.
	We'll clean it up.
	Who gives a crap about some birds?
	We're going to make billions of dollars.
	And look at the price of oil.
	Taken up.
	Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop.
	It's beautiful.
	Well, you know, it does put a crimp in the drill baby drill thing.
	And there's nothing but increased ridicule of Sarah Palin since this happened.
	And in fact, back to the Leno thing at the media meeting at the White House dinner, or the dinner for the media, Leno was just ragging on Palin, I guess he's never going to get her on the show, in a very kind of mean-spirited way that was getting zero laughs.
	Oh yeah, oh yeah.
	So that probably is going to put a crimp into the...
	I mean, it's very rare that anything...
	I mean, these platforms have been out there all over the world.
	There's hundreds of them.
	And they've never had this sort of a problem.
	Now, this is a pretty big one.
	I was watching, I actually have some clips when we get to trains later on.
	I was watching the Bill Maher show.
	You know, I like some S&M on a Friday night.
	I like to be hurt.
	And I lost my train of thought.
	Bill Maher, trains.
	You were going to talk about trains.
	No, I didn't want to talk about it.
	You're low-T, dude.
	I'm total low-T, man.
	You need to be pumped up on roids.
	I need some help, dude.
	Oh, yeah, no, I remember what it was.
	Um...
	So everyone's bitching about, oh, well, this is what we get with offshore drilling, blah, blah, blah.
	There are hundreds and hundreds of these platforms.
	Well, it was the guy from the New York Times, Ross, what's his name, Dolphin, whatever, good guy, actually from the New York Times.
	He said, well, look, it's either going to be platforms or it's going to be tankers.
	Either way, you can't have it both ways.
	So, you know, you have just as much chance of another Exxon Valdez taking place, which was a tanker that broke up.
	It should do as one of these accidents.
	Shit does happen.
	Yeah, but the funny thing is it doesn't happen that often.
	No, not at all.
	Not at all.
	But, you know, just the timing of everything and, you know...
	Anyway, so I'm still holding fast to what my insider says, that something in the Caribbean will happen next.
	There was another...
	Rig that overturned in Louisiana, although apparently it didn't have any oil in it.
	Maybe just some oil to keep the generators running.
	But it overturned.
	That was a mobile inland drilling unit.
	Of course, you know, it's like when you buy a 10-speed bike, then all of a sudden you see 10-speed bikes everywhere.
	So, you know, that's the way the news works.
	So, it's not unthinkable that, you know, because Gazprom is a part of the big cabal that Gazprom said, hey, you know what, we're just going to tell these guys over in North Korea to go, you know, get pissed off at the South Koreans.
	We'll goad them a little bit.
	They'll blow it up.
	Don't worry.
	It's taken care of.
	And the timing was interesting.
	May Day, Earth Day, just all of this stuff.
	At the same time, we've got the nuclear stance that we're taking.
	There's stuff going on that we know nothing about.
	It's not being reported on, of course, by mainstream media.
	No, it's pathetic.
	Yeah, but we are keeping our eyes on it.
	When you have the president saying, I'm sending in SWAT teams, you've got to go like, hmm...
	Somebody should have grilled him on that.
	SWAT team, that's important.
	You don't send in a SWAT team unless there's something going on.
	Why bother asking questions when you can just read the press release?
	Alright, so what's your other story?
	No, no, you do some.
	I got clips.
	Well, I got some clips too.
	Really?
	You got clips this week?
	Yeah, I actually edited them.
	Wow.
	You want my clips?
	No.
	Here's one.
	Okay, I'll give it.
	It's not a clip.
	But we have mentioned many times, and that's why I read the magazine, or you can call it a magazine.
	The National Enquirer is, of course, well known to have ties to the CIA. And we know that there's a big war between the administration and the CIA. We've talked about that many times on this show.
	And they're usually, when it comes to political gossip, they're pretty much spot on, I would have to say.
	Oh, yeah.
	What was the John Edwards?
	They had everything on that guy.
	Nobody had that.
	Yeah.
	Well, they had it, and they were right.
	So the big one this week, and you can't avoid it when you're at the supermarket...
	Obama cheating scandal, shocking new reports.
	I've been wondering, yeah, I wanted to talk about that a little bit too.
	Obviously, this is some, and the girl, by the way, is kind of pretty.
	Yeah, Vera Baker.
	Yeah, Vera Baker, you can look her up, you can look up Vera Baker and hit images on Google and you can see her.
	And, you know, she looks like the type that would be a home wrecker.
	That's so unfair.
	That's so unfair.
	If his schlong is hanging out of his pants, she's not the home wrecker.
	I don't know.
	So, it is unfair.
	You're right.
	It's unfair and sexist.
	Totally.
	Yeah.
	That's our show.
	We're unfair and sexist, basically.
	So, what do you think?
	What's the deal?
	You think it's just the CIA decided to blow this up?
	Well, I think the CIA decided to blow it up.
	It doesn't do any good after the election.
	It's just embarrassing.
	I don't know where it's going to go.
	It doesn't go anywhere.
	I think it's one of those warning things.
	You know what?
	You say it doesn't mean anything.
	Okay, just to be really sexist and racist at the same time?
	Dude, you don't want your black wife pissed at you, okay?
	Okay.
	Because you cheated.
	Don't you think she's been pissed at him for years?
	I don't know.
	She just looks pissed.
	I don't know.
	And don't you think she already would know about this?
	Well, I think just like Hillary, there's a whole other agenda set for her.
	She just has to sit out a couple years in the White House, and then she'll be Secretary of State or something like that.
	Or who knows what, whatever the case is.
	I don't believe for a minute that this is news in that family.
	And she may have been brooding on it for a long time.
	I mean, she's always looked like the angry wife to me.
	Well, maybe just her demeanor.
	I don't know.
	And, of course, the question is, who did Vera Baker actually have?
	And, by the way, don't forget that he stuck her with this childhood obesity thing, which you could just see her.
	She's like, are you saying my ass is fat?
	Is that what you're saying, Barack?
	That's basically what it is, right?
	It's like, hey baby, hey baby, hey baby.
	Guess what you've got?
	You've got a new assignment.
	Yeah, you can't be talking about fat children if your ass is too big.
	That is ultimate though, isn't it?
	Yeah, totally.
	That's really bad when you think about it.
	Um...
	I do like to pay attention to that stuff because...
	Well, we'll see where it's going, but obviously it's a salvo.
	I consider the piece in the Inquirer, I don't think it's going to go anywhere, but I consider it a salvo.
	Like, we know what's going on, we can do more if you don't do something or other.
	We don't know the backstory, so it's just like, all we can do is look at the surface of these things and figure out if something else is going on.
	That's what I'm thinking.
	Right.
	Well, meanwhile, of course, we've pretty much forgotten about the Fort Hood massacre.
	Yeah, right.
	Whatever happened to that guy?
	Yeah.
	Hassan.
	Major Nadal M. Hassan.
	So, once again, the Obama administration has defied a congressional subpoena for the Fort Hood documents.
	Aha!
	Um...
	Because there's two stories.
	One is the lone crazy gunman story, which everyone always seems to go, okay, I believe that.
	There's lots of crazy people.
	And then, of course, there's the, probably what actually happened is that a whole bunch of guys went nuts, shot everything up because they didn't want to be returned to Iraq or Afghanistan.
	The long and the short of it is, the Obama administration refuses to release the reports, the interviews, testimony to Congress.
	Wait a minute, this is the transparent government.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, that's disgusting.
	No, they just...
	Here it is.
	The Pentagon...
	After days of negotiations, the Pentagon and Justice Department informed the Senate Committee they would not comply with congressional subpoenas to share investigative records from the November 5th shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, which killed 13 people.
	The agency said that divulging the material could jeopardize their prosecution of Major Nadal M. Hassan, the accused gunman.
	The Pentagon did budge in other areas, however, saying it had agreed to give the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs access to Hassan's personnel file.
	Woo!
	Gee, thanks.
	So they're just holding back on it.
	And that's suspicious, to say the least.
	And I don't understand why, unless they've got something to hide.
	Yeah, there's something screwy about this whole deal.
	No, we have nobody on the inside on that one to help us out.
	And how come...
	No, we don't.
	And how come Rachel Maddow's not all over that?
	Well, it doesn't reflect well on the president.
	So, I have a couple of clips that are kind of interesting.
	I don't know if you watched 30 Rock.
	I have watched it many times.
	I have not watched it recently.
	I think the show is brilliant.
	The show is brilliant, but now they're pushing the censors to an extreme, and they're getting the damnedest things through, almost as though they're so bored, because the show has never had ratings.
	It's award-winning.
	It wins award after award.
	Yeah, and a lot of insiders watch it.
	Yeah, but the big joke is no one watches it.
	Well, that's NBC's problem because they're a messed up network.
	But the fact of the matter is the show is brilliant and it's extremely humorous in very perverse ways.
	But so I got this, I had like a jaw-dropping moment when I got this particular clip thinking, what, did anybody go over this script?
	Was this ad-libbed?
	I can't believe they even let this, censors let this bit go through, play it.
	Hey!
	Jenna!
	So nice to meet Paul!
	Interesting guy!
	How much do you know about him?
	Well, I lost a toe ring in him, so I say a lot.
	No, I mean, what he does!
	They probably didn't understand it.
	Unbelievable.
	I'm listening to that.
	What?
	They're doing anything they can to get ratings.
	How bad is it when you have something like that in your script and no one talks about it?
	Nobody talks about it.
	Nobody cares.
	Nobody notices.
	They say, what can we do?
	I don't know.
	Let's get more weird.
	Yeah.
	That show, of course, is well known for also pushing the agenda.
	They put global warming stuff in there.
	They're definitely on board with the propaganda.
	Well, it's Hollywood.
	Yeah.
	You're in, I mean, the whole thing's out of Hollywood.
	Yeah.
	So we got some climate change clips in it we've been sitting on.
	Wow.
	Yeah, do we?
	Let's play my climate change one and two and see what it says.
	I can't remember.
	These have been in the rundown for weeks on end.
	Check it out.
	The ice caps are melting.
	The polar bears are dying.
	What is this from?
	Do you know now?
	I can't remember.
	A recent study...
	It's not Bret Michaels by any chance, is it?
	No.
	...by Yale and George Mason Universities found that 56% of Americans don't trust public figures like Al Gore and Sarah Palin on climate change as much as they do the local weather forecaster.
	And your seven-day forecast will show those showers...
	And the climate change scientists?
	They're scientists.
	They freely admit they haven't always been effective spokespeople for their cause.
	I plead guilty.
	I don't think we've done the best job that we could have done.
	Penn State's Michael Mann is one of the scientists who last year had his emails hacked and quoted worldwide by climate change skeptics as...
	Yeah.
	So this was a...
	Now I'm remembering.
	This was either on Nightline or something on PBS, and they were showing the difference between the climatologists and the weather guys, the...
	It was a very interesting debate because the meteorologists made a lot more sense than these other guys who were just all in.
	I don't know.
	Climate change too.
	There's no serious debate within the scientific community about the reality of human-caused climate change.
	No debate.
	No, of course there's no debate.
	It's funny because they're on a show where they're debating.
	Part of your job is to convince all of us, isn't it?
	I don't see my job as convincing anybody of anything.
	No, you just have to believe what I say.
	I went to school, damn it!
	I see my job as a scientist of making sure that the public discourse is informed by an accurate understanding of the science.
	And that may be one reason the doubting meteorologists have had such a huge opening to convince the public otherwise.
	But then again, you know, I'm a ditch-digging meteorologist, just a bachelor of science.
	This is the biggest forecast of them all, and the stakes are much higher.
	Now, I think, unfortunately, I don't have the notes on this anymore, but I did a lot of research, and we'll probably bring it up in a future show.
	But in the 70s, and you can look this stuff up, the science was in, and all the climatologists then, of course, were predicting global cooling, except for one guy who apparently has been with global warming the whole time, and there's another guy who's been global cooling to this day the whole time.
	But for the most part, and it was always climatologists that were convinced that we're going to have global cooling.
	It's going to be the worst thing ever.
	And there were huge articles in Time Magazine and Newsweek and And it was the same, and you'd hear the pitch was exactly the same.
	Yeah, same script.
	Exact same script.
	Yep.
	I don't know.
	Well, so...
	This is why our Wikipedia page has been ruined by this Churba character.
	C-H-U-R-B-A. So the global warming...
	Whether true or not, there's a lot of the people who are claiming that this is horrible and happening and it's all because of us are the same people who stand to make a lot of money.
	And we've talked about this many times on the show.
	We've shamed Al Gore for his business dealings.
	And I'm happy to see Investor's Business Daily, which I would say is a reasonably well-regarded thing.
	No, absolutely.
	In fact, Horowitz is a huge fan of that publication, especially the weekend edition, I guess.
	Okay, so here it is, titled The $10 Trillion Climate Fraud, and it outlines exactly what we have mentioned on this show.
	In fact, I should probably do a little...
	We told you...
	So it starts right off.
	Well, senators from a froth over Goldman Sachs and derivatives, a climate trading scheme being run out of the Chicago Climate Exchange would make Bernie Madoff blush, and its trail leads to the White House.
	This is exactly what we told you.
	Wow, I just did something really weird.
	I tried to use my finger on the screen of my Mac to scroll the page.
	Whoa, that was strange.
	Thinking it was an iPad.
	Okay.
	Lost in the recent headlines is Al Gore's appearance Monday in Denver at the annual meeting of Council of Foundations, an association of the nation's philanthropic leaders.
	And he said, time's running out!
	We have to get our act together!
	You have a unique role in getting our act together!
	And it goes right on to say how...
	Do you find it, by the way, do you find it odd that despite all the climate gate and the scandals and the arguments that are legitimate by lots of scientists, and I mean, there's just an amazing number of heavy hitters that have thought this thing is something bogus about it and they want to talk about it more and they're not convinced, that this is just as though they're...
	As though nothing happened.
	Nothing has happened.
	We're marching, marching, marching in the same direction.
	Oh, yeah.
	Do you find it odd?
	I mean, it's almost like a little kid covering his ears and going, I can't hear you, you know, kind of thing.
	It almost reminds me of that extreme.
	Yeah, but John, when you have Bret Michaels possibly not appearing on the final live episodes of Celebrity Apprentice, how can you even be bothered with any of this?
	So, just going back to this gore thing, and I love that Investor's Business Daily, a very serious publication, and yeah, you're right, let's see if anyone jumps on this.
	Of course they won't, because the whole thing is a scam and everybody wants in on it.
	Um...
	He set up the Chicago Climate Exchange, which was this guy named Sandor.
	I mean, we went through all of this stuff, who, by the way, is the guy that claims that the climate trading of carbon credits could be a $10 trillion market, which is why everyone's shutting up about it.
	They're like, hey, how can I get in?
	But what you need to know is that the Chicago Climate Exchange was set up with grant money from the Joyce Foundation, and on the board of the Joyce Foundation was Barack Obama.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, and we talked about this on the show.
	Oh, so he's all in.
	Of course he's all in.
	So everybody's in on the scam, and...
	It's a form of taxation.
	Well, the cap-and-trade will be, but then another thing that wasn't reported...
	And the cap-and-trade keeps marching forward.
	How can that happen?
	Yeah, well, they've changed it to remove pollution.
	But then on Friday, and I'm sure you didn't see this reported...
	Atlanta-based CME Group has agreed to pay $604 million for Climate Exchange PLC. This is a London-based operator of the Chicago Climate Exchange and Chicago Climate Futures Exchange.
	$604 million.
	The combination of climate exchange's emission markets and ICE's futures and OTC energy markets is an important and logical strategic combination.
	So what they've done is they've seen that the heat is on, right?
	They've seen, oh my god, shit, man, the heat is on and all this, and everyone's looking into Gore's investments, and yes, there's a number of ex-Goldman guys who have built this trading company, so now they're going to hide it in another group.
	And they've just folded it in.
	And it's going to be harder to track.
	We won't be able to point to evil Al because he'll be on the outside of it all.
	And this gets no play.
	Not a small deal, by the way.
	More than half a billion dollars for something that doesn't even work yet.
	Yeah, that's pretty amazingly expensive.
	Just based upon future possible revenues.
	And this is the trading desk.
	This is like a computer.
	It's like a PC. It's like a big-ass computer that they paid a lot of money for.
	But you're right, and maybe I should just get into the Bill Maher show briefly.
	It'll take me into trains.
	Um...
	But when you hear this propaganda and everyone agreeing on this show, and let me just tell you who's on the show.
	Chris Matthews, of course, from CNN's Hardball.
	Ross Douthat from the New York Times, who actually made the most sense on the show.
	And then Laura Tyson.
	And she's the one that scared me the most.
	She is, I guess she's now on the President's Council of Economic Advisors.
	I don't know.
	She's been on many presidential economic advisory boards.
	Of course, I should point out she's also on the board of directors of AT&T, Eastman Kodak, and she is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
	She's one of these Pelosi kind of like women.
	So she's the scary one because her job is actually to inform the president of economic conditions, make economic choices, and to communicate that to the world.
	And here they are on the Bill Maher show, and this will eventually lead into trains, which is very funny, but it's all about global warming and how we have to go green.
	What is it going to take for America to understand that even if we don't believe in global warming, the rest of the world does?
	Stop right there.
	That's pretty crazy stuff to say that.
	The rest of the world doesn't believe that.
	Yeah, no, they don't at all.
	It's bogus.
	I mean, they turned it back in Australia.
	They won't subscribe to it in India.
	Definitely doesn't buy it.
	And China doesn't buy it.
	Who is he kidding, this guy?
	You know, this guy is an unbelievable stooge.
	Yeah, by the way, Hardball is, I think, MSNBC. I'm sorry, I stand corrected.
	Thank you, Tyrone.
	Yes, here we go.
	And they're making money off of green technology.
	They're making money off of green technology.
	They're making money off of green technology.
	They're not.
	And the only guy who's saying it smartly is this Ross guy.
	Some people are, but here's...
	I believe in global warming.
	I'm not sure I always believe in green jobs, though.
	I mean, if you look, there's a reason that, there are many reasons that we use oil, but one of the reasons we use oil is that it's still cheaper than the alternatives, and it may be that you're right.
	It's cheaper than the alternatives.
	I can't quite hear what she says.
	I think she says, I think she says, cheaper than the alternatives!
	Cheaper than the alternatives.
	That's what I think she says.
	Cheaper than the alternatives.
	And it may be that you're right.
	It's cheaper than the alternatives.
	She's a mumbler.
	Oh, she's frightening.
	She's really scary.
	Really scary.
	We should be taxing it.
	But the problem you get into with green energy, green jobs, and so on, is that you have to sit around and try and pick winners.
	You have to say, we're going to invest in this, and we're going to invest in this, and so on, and the next.
	You know, I mean, one of the things that's happened, one of the many difficulties that the Spanish economy has run into recently is that they had a green jobs bubble.
	It was basically like our housing bubble.
	I love that this guy is saying this.
	This is the New York Times guy who you wouldn't expect to make so much sense.
	But he's absolutely, it wasn't the only problem, of course, in Spain, but he's absolutely right.
	No, no, Spain was all in on this deal and they went bankrupt doing it.
	We were subsidizing, you know, McMansions in the suburbs, and they were subsidizing.
	What?
	She keeps mumbling.
	I know, I know.
	It's really hard, but I tried to separate some of the stuff she's saying, because at a certain point, they're all talking.
	She just keeps talking and talking, like, you know, like, it's like, shut up, slave, I'm talking.
	People usually stop talking when I talk in Washington.
	And she just keeps talking, just like, ugh, shut up.
	...housing bubble, except we were subsidizing, you know, McMansions in the suburbs, and they were subsidizing green energy, and people threw a ton of money into it, and the profits never showed up, and, you know, I mean, Spain has other problems as well, but the thing to keep in mind is just, and this is why the case...
	It is the future.
	Unfortunately, the guy is not media savvy, and then he doesn't round off his point, and then he loses it, and then everyone jumps all over him, which is like...
	Yeah, what's his name?
	Marr jumps in there and kills his point.
	Of course, because Marr just got a new deal for 30 episodes and he's going to propagate.
	It's like Heroin and the Godfather.
	It's the future.
	I love that analogy.
	It's like heroin and the godfather.
	It may kill us all, but hey, who cares, right?
	It's making money.
	And it's just...
	It is the future.
	It's like heroin and the godfather.
	It's the future.
	Come on.
	It's what the mob is going to be making money.
	It's what the mob is going to be saying.
	You know, you know, the trouble with you guys...
	No, listen, listen, Chris!
	No, listen, Chris!
	You're not getting anywhere with this.
	You're not getting anywhere with this.
	The way you're looking at these little boutique industries, like, look, this kind of...
	Chris Matthews I gotta call him out.
	Hold on.
	Douchebag!
	Listen to what he...
	He goes off, John.
	He's just like, uh...
	Like, you got it all wrong!
	You're wrong!
	You're wrong!
	Which is what they learn at MSNBC. You're wrong!
	You're wrong!
	So far behind.
	Europe, you go to Europe, you get on a train.
	It goes 365 miles an hour.
	Here it is!
	Ah, here we go.
	It's called the TJV. It is fantastic.
	You know, they got the channel.
	They're doing all this stuff with fast transit.
	The channel is not fast, okay?
	The channel goes underwater, and the investors in the channel lost their shirts.
	They lost billions.
	Yeah.
	It's the hugest money-losing scheme ever, and it's not cheap to travel on the channel.
	You can get an easy jet for $50, fly almost anywhere in continental Europe, and the channel, which, by the way, drops you off in France, you've still got to drive five hours to get anywhere outside of France.
	They don't take you to Paris.
	No, of course not.
	It's expensive!
	Yeah, it's really expensive.
	It's like 210 bucks or something to take the thing.
	Yeah, and they're still losing money.
	Yeah, good deal.
	We got, what, Amtrak?
	That's a green job.
	I do it on Pat Mahoney.
	Remember him?
	Fast transit across the United States.
	Be in Chicago in a day.
	Across the country in a couple days.
	In a day?
	Did you hear that?
	It gets better.
	Just don't even comment.
	It just gets better.
	Be in Chicago in a day.
	Yay!
	I can poop to Burbank Airport and be there in a couple hours.
	Yeah.
	In a day.
	Yes, fast!
	Be up and down between New York and Florida on fast, silent trains.
	People would love them.
	They would jump in those trains.
	That's green jobs.
	Green jobs.
	Amtrak can't even turn a profit on the northeast corridor.
	See, the Ross guy's getting shut out, but he's saying, look, Amtrak can't even turn a profit on the northeast corridor.
	Which is true.
	Amtrak is...
	And that is the place...
	If you're going to make money in the train business, and the only place it's practical is in the Northeast Corridor because it's very competitive.
	And if you can't make money there, what are you going to do with a shot to Chicago that takes a day?
	Amtrak can't turn a profit because it sucks.
	That's what he's saying.
	No, no, no.
	That's bull crap.
	The Acela is one of the greatest trains in the world.
	It's run by the government.
	I mean, you need to have a strong public sector and stop this idea that free enterprise is going to do everything.
	No, but we do have a strong government, but we already have a heavily subsidized rail industry.
	Where is that?
	Where is it?
	It's called Amtrak.
	Joe Biden has been, I mean, a lot of people have been pushing.
	Look, the fact is you need to, everywhere else in the world knows that the way to get around is fast, you know, no frictionless, fast-moving trains.
	This is the meme, John.
	Like, we're behind.
	Everybody else in the world knows it.
	We're stupid.
	We have to jump on the bandwagon.
	How on the one hand do they go on about the strong public sector, a.k.a.
	Amtrak, and then ridicule Amtrak in the same kind of dialogue?
	Does this make any sense to anybody?
	No, it's just mind control.
	To get you, and boy, wait until I play you the President clip about...
	I might as well just go straight into the whole trains thing.
	This is great, though.
	It doesn't stop.
	Put it in perspective, you know this.
	China is spending $300 billion on high-speed rail.
	Right.
	Yes.
	That's a government infrastructure project.
	Yeah, they work for a dollar an hour!
	Laura Tyson, economist.
	We're trying to get one.
	We're trying to get one.
	The typical wage in China is $25 a week, which is below a dollar an hour.
	We're trying to get one.
	I agree, we're trying to get one.
	That's the truth.
	And we don't have government, we don't have state funds to do it, and we don't have federal funds.
	Now, listen to what she's saying, because her message is going to come up in a minute.
	She's saying, we don't have the government funds, we don't have the state funds, we don't have the money.
	Oh, the Civil War.
	While we're fighting across the country, a lot of the guys would like to start it up again, I've noticed.
	In the middle of the Civil War...
	This is another meme, by the way.
	In the middle of the Civil War, we built a railroad.
	This is another meme you've got to look out for.
	We've done it before.
	Lincoln did it.
	Yeah, I've got a meme for us later, too.
	Don't think Texas?
	No, I... Anyway, we built the interstate railroad system.
	We built the cross-country trains.
	We had an interstate land-grant college of scientific farming.
	We did all that in the middle of the Civil War.
	We can do a lot of big things in a public sector way.
	Do you ride the...
	Chicken attitude.
	Chris, do you ride the Ocelo?
	I love it.
	I need to point out something that isn't on the list tonight, but it should be on the list, because another thing happened this week.
	We had the first meeting of the...
	Now listen to this.
	So this woman is actually, she has the president's ear.
	Okay, she's the one that tells the president what we need to do for the economy.
	Deficit Reduction Commission.
	And the U.S. has a huge deficit and debt problem.
	And I want to warn everybody here, it's very dangerous.
	It's a warning.
	John, take heed when women like this talk.
	It's a warning.
	But really, think about this.
	Building massive infrastructure, which was part of the way the U.S. became a major economic power, we're not going to have the funds to do it.
	We're going to say, oh, we need to actually cut the deficit.
	We need to cut the debt.
	All right, so Bill Maher goes in the whole thing saying like, well, we got $787 billion.
	How come I'm not getting any trains for that?
	And she gives the answer.
	She gives the answer as to how we're going to build this high-speed rail.
	And it is the most un-American, horrible thing I've ever heard in my life.
	So tax, baby, tax, maybe, is what we should do with the oil company.
	I certainly...
	Unless everyone applauding.
	Yay for taxes!
	Yay!
	Why does anybody applaud for taxes?
	But I don't think...
	I think there's another tax here which is very important.
	One can tax baby tax the oil companies.
	Okay, let's not do that because they're our friends.
	But I think that to solve America's environmental problems, to move America to alternative energy, to move America to efficiency in buildings...
	To have everybody in this audience and everybody who's listening be more efficient in the use of energy, we have to consider taxing it.
	We have to raise the price.
	The price of oil and oil products in the United States, as you know, is a fraction of what it is.
	That's not entirely true.
	Yes, a fraction, but half is not, you know, she makes it sound like it's one-eighteenth of a percent of the cost of gas anywhere else.
	It is in other countries that don't have the environment to build solar or wind the way we do.
	What is that?
	Other countries don't have the environment to build solar and wind the way we do.
	What is she talking about?
	They do it because the price of oil is so high.
	And it's artificial.
	And the tax is a great source of revenue.
	So I would say add that in as another price.
	And BP, this is the company that owned that oil rig, it was kind of good news and bad news for them this week.
	Bad news, their rig exploded.
	Good news.
	Their profit for the first quarter was double last year, $6 billion.
	And oil last year was $41 a barrel.
	Now it's $84.
	And part of the reason it's going to go up again is because of this exploding rig.
	So it's kind of a win-win for them, as opposed to, say, a pelican.
	So he does the setup, and she gets the hammer at home.
	But if you want to slow down demand for their product and therefore slow down the price increase in the price of their gallons of oil they sell, you have to slow down demand by giving users a price incentive not to use it.
	A price incentive not to use it.
	In other words, make it really expensive.
	That's interesting.
	Yeah, a price incentive.
	I think that's called a disincentive.
	Or a reverse incentive.
	That's bullcrap.
	This woman is horrible.
	Well, she's running a lot of the show.
	This is what you gotta know.
	I didn't know about this.
	You got me on this one.
	Well, and I know where this comes from.
	Because on April 17th, there was a press conference in Washington.
	Ray LaHood, who is our transportation secretary...
	I just love that name, LaHood.
	Sounds like a hood, doesn't he?
	LaHood.
	You leaving?
	Ray LaHood, Joe Biden, and President Obama.
	Very small, not really picked up by a lot of people.
	But it did happen.
	It was for press only.
	And of course, I spent a lot of my time on the weekend watching C-SPAN. I got a couple of clips from it that I'll just go to quickly.
	First, here's a piece of Ray LaHood's introduction.
	This year, as we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, it is fitting that we recapture that ambitious, can-do spirit.
	There's the meme.
	Once again, Civil War.
	We built it then, we can do it again.
	And it's fitting, in an era of highways and airport congestion, that we once again make passenger rail an important part of our national transportation strategy.
	All around the country, people are asking for more rail service.
	Ridership on Amtrak?
	No, they're not.
	No, of course not.
	He's just making it up.
	Where are the people protesting?
	We want trains!
	We want trains!
	It's crazy, isn't it?
	Commuter rail and subways is on the rise.
	And across Europe and Asia, people enjoy the comfort and convenience of high-speed trade travel.
	That's why it's so important for us to jumpstart a new era in American train travel.
	Okay, so people are enjoying that.
	Yeah, they also enjoy the strikes.
	And then Joe Biden, who of course is, thank you darling, who is Mr.
	Train, he has to set up the president.
	This is how it works.
	It's like two opening acts this guy has.
	Listen to how Biden gets in on the act and who he's actually thanking for setting all this up.
	Many people deserve credit for this.
	The great congressional leaders have been introduced today.
	Many of you, if I started going...
	Through the audience, the people I've known been working in the vision of this, we'd be here all day, Mr.
	President.
	But there are so many critical aspects to this, so many supporters in state capitals among the cities, among the governors.
	But on behalf of those of us who've been waiting for this day for decades, Mr.
	Mr. President, I want to pay particular thanks to three people.
	And the first is Secretary LaHood for his leadership and vision.
	He jumped right into this job and he didn't miss a step, didn't miss a beat, was ready to go from day one.
	Now, of course, we know why Joe Biden was actually chosen as vice president.
	He was chosen to push this agenda.
	He is Mr.
	Train.
	This is the whole reason the guy is in the job, is to push this train thing.
	Yeah, sorry.
	Okay, well, I want to bring up something after we're all done with this, because I think the train thing is they're selling it for one purpose and going to use it for another.
	I mean, it's so obvious.
	Okay, well, you hold on to that.
	I'll finish up real quick.
	I just want you to hear who Biden props as the guy who really pushed this agenda.
	I want to thank Rahm Emanuel.
	Not only as smart as a devil, not only as a former congressman, I believe, Mr.
	President, it was Rahm's tenacious, tenacious persistence that led to getting this High Spade Rail Funding the Recovery Act.
	It was at your direction, but I'm not sure it would have been able to have been done.
	All right, so he's propping Rahm Emanuel.
	Rahm Emanuel, as you know, doesn't do anything without some kind of agenda.
	Part of that agenda is, of course, that Chicago is going to be a huge hub for the high-speed rail.
	At least that's the way it's planned.
	In the show notes at NoAgendaShow.com, you can find tons of links and drawings.
	This whole thing has been laid out.
	We just kind of didn't see it.
	But now listen to what the president says.
	The clip is a little long, so I'll cut it off after the pertinent point.
	I believe that...
	Air transportation is purposely being made extremely unattractive for this very reason of pushing this whole train agenda.
	And listen to the quip the president makes about it.
	Today our aging system of highways and byways, air routes and rail lines is hindering that growth.
	Our highways are clogged with traffic, costing us $80 billion a year in lost productivity and wasted fuel.
	Our airports are choked with increased loads.
	Some of you flew down here and you know what that was about.
	No, what was that about?
	What was it about?
	By the way, you'd be here tomorrow if you took the train.
	Yeah, what was that about?
	What was it about?
	What, because we have to stand at the stupid TSA security checkpoint?
	Yeah, that's a pain in the ass.
	But no, it's not all that bad.
	I get from Los Angeles to San Francisco, the city, door to door in under three hours.
	With the plane.
	It's not that bad.
	And it's cheap.
	It's 59 bucks.
	But what is that about, Mr.
	President?
	When people do that, it's like, oh, that irks me.
	You know what that's about.
	I don't have to tell you.
	Shut up, slave.
	Write that I'm correct.
	By the way, what is an aging airway?
	He said that.
	It's bullshit.
	It's bullshit.
	It's an airplane in the air.
	It's not aging at all.
	What's aging?
	I'll tell you what's aging about it because they remember the new system that's supposed to be put in place that, oh, there's all kinds of computer errors.
	We can't figure it out.
	They lost a satellite for the new Waze GPS navigation system.
	This is a setup.
	It's a total setup.
	Aging airway system.
	It's not aging.
	It works fine.
	It works perfectly okay.
	Oh yeah, but we have accidents and stuff happens and it's really bad.
	But it gets worse.
	We have very few accidents.
	30,000 flights a day.
	It gets worse, John.
	We're at the mercy of fluctuating gas prices all too often.
	And by the way, trains don't run for free.
	They run on nothing.
	Yeah.
	I wish they ran on magnets alone, but it's not true.
	They run on electricity, which has to be generated somewhere, somehow.
	We pump too many greenhouse gases into the air.
	What we need, then, is a smart transportation system equal to the needs of the 21st century.
	A system that reduces travel times and increases mobility.
	A system that reduces congestion and boosts productivity.
	A system that reduces destructive emissions and creates jobs.
	How do you reduce destructive emissions?
	Again, trains don't run for free.
	And, by the way, how does this reduce time?
	I get to Chicago from San Francisco in four hours.
	Yeah, no, it's going to take you a day.
	And within, you know, another half hour of this downtown.
	How does taking a train...
	Oh, no, wait, he's going to tell you, John.
	Shut up, slave!
	He's going to tell you.
	Talking about is a vision for high-speed rail in America.
	Imagine boarding a train in the center of a city.
	No racing to an airport and across the terminal.
	No delays.
	No sitting on the tarmac.
	No lost luggage.
	No taking off your shoes.
	There it is!
	You bastard!
	No taking off your shoes.
	Oh, so we're not going to have TSA checkpoints on the train?
	Terrorists won't be attacking trains?
	Lies.
	Total lies.
	I just...
	And how do you have...
	They're going to make you check luggage anyway.
	But listen to how the stupid media laughs at this joke, which is not funny.
	It's not funny.
	We're not going to have shoe bombers on trains if everybody's on the train?
	Don't you see that this is actually splitting open the entire security theater that is the airports?
	It's being done on purpose.
	No lost luggage.
	No taking off your shoes.
	Idiot laughter Imagine whisking through towns at speeds over 100 miles an hour.
	Wow.
	Hey, I was going to Chicago as a little kid on a train and we would do 100 miles an hour.
	I like going 500 miles an hour.
	Sorry, that's my speed.
	It takes forever.
	It took three days to get to Chicago.
	Now it's going to take one whole day.
	That's crap.
	Nobody wants this.
	Why don't they put their money in the supersonic transports?
	That would be a better idea.
	Okay, here's what's really going on.
	This is all bull.
	This is all theater.
	There is no hope.
	Let's be realistic, ladies and gentlemen.
	There is no hope for passenger service to Chicago to ever be more than just kind of a casual vacation kind of thing.
	It's not going to be done for business.
	Nobody can afford the time.
	It's not possible.
	Nobody's going to take a train from San Francisco to New York ever.
	I don't care how fast it goes.
	The fact of the matter is they want to just throw some money into this system so they can have faster transport of goods.
	Warren Buffett didn't buy Burlington Northern.
	For the purposes of putting people on trains.
	This is a ruse.
	It's to make it seem as though we need support for this.
	We need support because people are going to get on the train.
	Nobody's getting on the train.
	This is so we can screw the Teamsters, get trucks off the road, and move...
	With more efficiency, because if you can get a, one day for shipping a big container full of crap to Chicago from San Francisco, it takes a day to get there on a high-speed train, that's faster than a truck's going to get there.
	There's a lot of money to be made moving goods from here to there.
	There's never going to be transportation for people.
	It's a ruse, it's bogus, it's bullcrap.
	Oh, I think we can play it.
	John C. DeVore acts pet peeve of day.
	Well, thank you, John.
	Thank you for wrapping that up perfectly well.
	And so the big money that they've invested in this, $8 billion from the stimulus package, an additional $5 billion over the next five years, which is pretty much enough to pay the architects to make the drawing.
	That's about it.
	It's not enough.
	It's going to be a lot of money spent on this thing, but it's not for people.
	But they're going to sell it.
	They've got to sell it to us because it's going to cost a lot of money.
	They're going to charge us taxes on our gasoline because of this dipshit woman and all the rest of these people.
	And all the people clapping for taxes.
	Oh, we're not taxed enough.
	Let's get taxed more.
	And it's all going to be for high-speed rail as though it was for us, but it's not.
	It's for Warren Buffett and all the big investors who want to...
	Screw the Teamsters, essentially, and get trucks off the road and move goods faster.
	There's no people on these trains.
	I'm going to show my salute by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda in the morning.
	So let's go over some of the people that donated this week.
	Yeah, here comes the real scam.
	Which is what?
	No.
	No.
	We're not getting enough money.
	That's the real thing.
	I'm like, man, these guys gave $8 billion.
	I will hand deliver the MP3 file to every listener for $8 billion.
	Yeah, we get a few hundred bucks.
	Montgomery Santos in Buffalo, New York, 112-14 has a few things to say.
	You can read it over if you think there's something good in there.
	Matthew Carey, $111.11 from Eastwood, South Australia.
	Thank you very much for South Australia.
	We got...
	$33.30, 333 times 3, 99.90 from Paola Valencia de Sousa.
	De Sousa?
	In Zurich, where all the real money is.
	Zurich, Switzerland.
	Let's see.
	He wants to say that Karsten...
	Wish me luck and tell, Karsten, he is a douche.
	He says a douche, but I think he meant douche.
	Douche, okay.
	James Chapko, Crown Point, Indiana, $60.
	Sebastian de Stichter.
	Okay, you got the name pretty good.
	Sebastian de Stichter.
	Okay.
	Try it again.
	Sebastian de Sticper in Delft.
	Zuid-Holland.
	Yeah.
	And they make good, apparently they make good, they still make pots there.
	Good pottery.
	Pottery.
	Pottery.
	Your knowledge of the world is stunning.
	That is.
	And Spongberg Enterprises.
	And he wants a happy birthday to Andrea Garnier.
	I did that on...
	You did it?
	I did it on Daily Source Code.
	Yeah, he had a whole bit, man.
	And I played a song and everything.
	But she's got a great name.
	Garnier.
	The sexiest woman in Canada.
	Yay!
	Gil Freund, New Haven, Connecticut, 55-10.
	Two nickels on the dime.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	He's noticing some memes out there.
	Has he got anything interesting?
	I don't know.
	Did Sebastian say something?
	No, I'm sorry.
	John Nagelli in Washington, crossing Pennsylvania.
	I think it might be Nagelli.
	Nagela, yeah, definitely.
	Definitely Nagela, definitely.
	Ryan Pell's Deming, New Mexico, two nickels on the dime.
	Deb and Carter Hutchins, Mooresville, Indiana.
	And Andre Peters.
	And I have to go to the, because we have a promotion going on in the Deuce Club.
	Some of these two nickels on the dimes have floated into the other thing.
	And I'll mention those names later.
	In fact, I'll look it up now as we give our two knighthoods out.
	Wait, wait.
	I think we have another birthday that I think you kind of glossed over.
	I think we do have to do that one.
	Yeah, this is the Ryan Peltz.
	He says, happy birthday to Forrest Gumpy Kirchner.
	And he donated double nickels on the dime for that.
	Man, the Beatles.
	We should be paying Michael Jackson some money.
	Send him a dollar.
	Yeah.
	So we have two knights, so I think we should knight them.
	Okay.
	Wow.
	All right.
	Who do we have?
	Well, we got...
	Hold on a second.
	Yeah, I got it.
	I'm ready.
	We have...
	Sir R. Daniels.
	Oh, this is...
	Yeah, he went straight into a knighthood.
	He sent 9 times 50 is 450.
	A lot of money.
	No, that was Jake Kelly.
	Shit.
	I'm confused.
	All right.
	R. Daniels.
	Do we need to talk about R. Daniels or go straight into his nighting?
	Well, he also sent in some money on behalf of John Lee's birthday, so I guess we have to do a birthday thing.
	Let's night him first.
	Yeah, okay.
	Draw your sword, John.
	Okay.
	R. Daniels, kneel before us!
	As we now proudly knight thee, Sir R. Daniels, Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	Please join us over here for some hook or some blow at our trading desk.
	And our second knight?
	Tonight is Sir, or Jake Kelly.
	Jake Kelly, right.
	Now, he's been on a plan.
	He's, uh...
	Oh, he's the one who's got John Lee's birthday.
	He's the one, that's right.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Jake Kelly, kneel before us.
	John, you better get the big sword for that one.
	Oh, Jesus.
	He's kind of a big guy.
	Jake Kelly, we hereby proudly pronounce the Sir Jake Kelly, Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	Both of you, join us here at the table, which is filling up, and the rings are coming.
	And the last of our Double Nickels on the Dime folks is Kevin Elcock, Christian Burgess.
	And we do have a lot of people that are going to be mentioned on our third show for Two Nickels on the Dime.
	Thomas Reed, I want to mention him.
	And finally, Daniel Rudolph.
	I said Kevin Elcock, didn't I? Yes, you did.
	That's interesting.
	So how about those rings, John?
	Yeah, they're getting...
	Oh, by the way, we have...
	Here's the deal.
	I finally got an artist.
	We're going to force him to do it because he is perfect for this.
	And that's Neil Dixon.
	Oh, he is perfect for this.
	Oh my God, what a great idea.
	Did you talk to him about it?
	Well, we were out shopping for something he had to bring back to London or England.
	He lives in Cornwall now.
	And he didn't have enough money.
	So I picked up the tab and said, look, here's the deal.
	You have to do these rings.
	And so he agreed to it.
	So he's on the hook.
	Good.
	The guy is an amazing artist.
	I think it's neildixon.net.
	Oh yeah, the guy is fantastic.
	He's just absolutely amazing.
	He's just amazing.
	Yeah, he's totally amazing.
	His pen and ink stuff is just outrageous.
	And he also has kind of a perverse style that is just, wow.
	Anyway, so yeah, he's going to be the guy.
	So we're on that.
	That should be done shortly, and then we can get these rings done.
	We do have to mention Sir Birch.
	Oh, for his pins.
	The pins.
	He gave us some pins that his son did that will be distributed to Black Knights.
	I'm going to give them to all the Knights.
	I'm not sure yet.
	That are quite nice to wear on the suit jacket.
	And as with U.S. generals, Knights of the No Agenda Roundtable are permitted to create their own uniform.
	And you can hang all kinds of crap off of it.
	Anything you want to do.
	Yes.
	Mostly buttons from trade shows.
	That's what we encourage.
	So did we give a birthday shout-out to John Lee?
	Boy, sorry.
	It's your birthday, birthday.
	I don't know what you mean.
	Happy birthday, John Lee!
	It's your birthday.
	That's how you do it radio style, baby.
	It works.
	That's how we roll.
	So go to Dvorak.org slash NA to donate.
	Those of you...
	By the way, people who donated to the stream actually got their money's worth after the...
	FUBAR Friday edition of Daily Source Code, which also goes out live on the stream.
	We broke the stream.
	Not quite sure how it happened, but the whole thing just like it fizzled out.
	And the sysadmins were at it for three hours trying to get the thing back up.
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	So these sustaining producers are hereby thanked once again for keeping the stream up on the air at dvorak.org slash NAS. And don't forget that we're doing a special show in celebration of our 200th episode.
	This program, the first episode, started November 26, 2007.
	I've been listening to the back archives, trying to find a couple of different pieces that we will be discussing on The Deuce, which is, I guess it'll be 200.5.
	Is that kind of the episode that it'll be, John?
	Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
	So it'll be for donors only.
	Yeah.
	And I want to remind people that we're going to send out a code or a site that you can go to listen to this thing, this special episode.
	But, you know, typically when I send out a mailing to the people who have donated or the people on the mailing list, only about half the people open their mail.
	So make sure to open the mail when it says code.
	I'm going to probably be coming from no agenda code or something like that.
	So I don't know.
	And we thank everybody, in particular people who are on the $5 a month or under $50 who do that pretty much so they won't be mentioned.
	A lot of them do $49.99 because they just want to be anonymous donors.
	Those donations are really appreciated.
	Eric did a chart for us.
	And I think the chart...
	Hold on, I have it here.
	Um...
	Let me look at it.
	The sustaining monthly donations by, where is it?
	Here it is, subscription.
	By 2018, we will be able to live on the donations alone, on the monthly donations.
	2018?
	We're almost there.
	But we do want to do more, and so we're putting your money where our mouth is.
	We're bringing you an extra third show.
	We'd love to do a lot more, and there is so much to do every single day.
	I mean, just think about if we actually had the time.
	Now, John, you have to leave on time today, because you're working somewhere.
	You're actually trying to pay some bills in another way?
	Yeah, I'm going to New Orleans.
	New Orleans, right?
	New Orleans, yeah.
	So I did some extra work.
	And I read two things.
	One, I read the entire Arizona bill.
	I don't know if we want to get into that, but I did put the text of it in the show notes at NoAgendaShow.com.
	Perhaps more importantly, I took the time to read the Wall Street Reform Bill, which is proposed by Chris Dodd.
	The full text of that, and this of course is just a draft.
	Now, remember, I'm the guy that read the Lisbon Treaty, so I actually kind of enjoy this.
	And I love reading the summaries and then going into all the individual bits.
	Let me just summarize it for you.
	The Federal Reserve gets all the power.
	That's essentially what this bill is.
	And now I understand why people are against it.
	Because the Federal Reserve, despite its name, is not a government agency.
	Otherwise, it would be called the Federal Reserve Agency or the Federal Reserve Division.
	But it is actually a commercial bunch of banks that And they don't even talk about the Federal Reserve throughout this entire document.
	They keep talking about the Board of Governors.
	The Board of Governors are, of course, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.
	They will be providing oversight for all the banks.
	So, in essence, and I just got to say it, I literally see, well, I'll say it in a second, they get all control over all banks, which is exactly what they want, because they're running the show.
	Yeah, central banks, that's what they do.
	Yeah, it's bankers in the Federal Reserve.
	So, it's like, here it is!
	Go ahead, take control of everything you now control.
	This is the business plot finally coming to fruition.
	Now, when I take that and I add in all this train stuff, I want to say, please, even though many of you are skeptics, and I'm looking at you, John C. Dvorak, pick up a copy of...
	By Ayn Rand.
	That story is unfolding before our very eyes.
	With the tagger transcontinental, with the banker takeover, with all of the shills in government.
	And maybe they're using it as a playbook.
	Yeah, it is.
	It's a complete playbook.
	Complete.
	You can predict what's going to happen next.
	Your voice went up an octave.
	Interesting.
	Because I'm like amazed.
	I'm amazed at what's happening.
	So we had a couple of stories that are kind of creeping around.
	By the way, do you remember the...
	I didn't have it.
	I was going to make a clip.
	Remember the old Apple ad...
	With Ellen Feiss, the stoner girl that went on about how she used a Macintosh now because her PC ate her paper and that kind of thing.
	It's a very famous ad.
	Dingbat chick.
	No, I don't remember that.
	Okay, well then I'm going to hold.
	I have to get this clip for...
	For the next show.
	I'll do it next time.
	I'll do this next time.
	I won't do it now.
	Well, I have the ad here if you want to play it real quick.
	Yeah, play it.
	Would that help?
	Hold on a second.
	Of course.
	That's the Internet's baby.
	I was writing paper on the PC and it was like, and then like half of my paper was gone.
	Thank you.
	And I was like...
	It devoured my paper.
	It was a really good paper.
	And then I had to write it again and I had to do it fast.
	It wasn't as good.
	It's kind of...
	a bummer.
	This was part of the Switch campaign.
	I'm Ellen Feist and I'm a student.
	Yeah, and this was one of the funniest ads.
	So that model for ads, I have a, there's a natural gas ad out there that's being floating around the country that uses the same model of a dingbat who's going to tell us about green.
	She doesn't know anything apparently.
	And I just, first thing when I heard this ad, I said, this is a clone of the Ellen Feist ad.
	I was just reading, in the next 20 years, we'll need like 420 gigawatts of new power to keep up with this country's demand.
	Giga what?
	I don't know what that is.
	It sounds like a lot.
	I just want it to be cleaner energy.
	That was my giga eureka.
	America's new natural gas.
	Cleaner, smarter energy.
	And soon to be really expensive.
	Yeah, that's our theory.
	Yeah.
	Soon to be extremely expensive.
	But she doesn't know what a gigawatt is, which is not, you know, it's just a, you know.
	It's insulting.
	This is insulting.
	You know, I got a 19-year-old kid.
	She's not like this.
	She's not stupid.
	You've got a 15-year-old.
	She's not stupid.
	That's not how they actually tell.
	Well, yeah, there you go.
	That's right.
	That's exactly what our...
	You know what?
	I thought first that our schools weren't teaching kids anything, but I was wrong.
	They are teaching our kids exactly the values they need.
	How to cheat.
	Cheat on your test.
	If you don't cheat on your test, your teacher will help you cheat.
	Because that's all you need in this life.
	You just need to cheat and be part of a scam.
	Yeah, he's right.
	Yeah, that's what we're all doing.
	We're actually teaching our kids the right thing.
	You have some skills.
	You need to know how to cheat.
	That's pretty insulting.
	Yeah, I thought you'd get a kick out of it.
	So, I also had a...
	I found a new meme that's cropping up everywhere.
	Oh, boy.
	There's more?
	We haven't had enough?
	I don't know.
	I know, these things are ridiculous.
	The latest one is Teddy Roosevelt.
	They keep making reference to Teddy Roosevelt.
	Everybody has a new book out on Teddy Roosevelt.
	All the economic books are coming out.
	They're talking about Teddy Roosevelt.
	Teddy Roosevelt, specifically about the fact that he formed the Progressive Party, which is also known as the Bull Moose.
	Wait a minute, wasn't Teddy Roosevelt the guy who almost got kicked out because of the business plot?
	No, no, no.
	He was always a legit guy.
	But he was one of our more famous presidents.
	He's the one who gave the national...
	He was a Republican.
	He started the National Park System.
	He threw the central bankers.
	He attacked the banks.
	Oh, that's why it's cropping up, because we've got to use him.
	Yeah, that's why it's cropping up.
	And then he ran twice, and he wanted to run a third time, and the Republicans said, you know, we're trying to keep this third-time bullfrap...
	We don't want to do it, so they wouldn't let him run.
	We like the magic number, Teddy, but no, we're not going to do it.
	He ran as an independent, split the party, and Woodrow Wilson got in, and the rest is history.
	But I got a bunch of these.
	This keeps cropping up.
	Here's a guy who wrote a book, an MIT professor, wrote a book called 13 Judges, which tells everybody how they should fix the economy, but he brings it up.
	To have come into its own in recent elections.
	Both Barack Obama and John McCain channeled TR in 2008.
	In fact, I described Barack Obama in the last chapter of my book as the apotheosis of progressive democracy.
	I confess I'm not exactly sure what that means, but it's...
	We could talk about it, but it seemed to make sense.
	Okay, so I spotted the meme.
	TR. Yeah.
	By the way, this guy wasn't the professor.
	This is another guy.
	What is apotheosis?
	I don't know.
	I never bothered to look it up because apparently it doesn't mean that much to him.
	Why should I care?
	Refers to the exaltation of a subject to divine level.
	The term has meanings in theology where it refers to a belief and in art where it refers to a genre.
	Yeah, I don't think the sentence makes sense.
	No.
	I mean, how is Obama the apotheosis of Roosevelt?
	I'm not getting it.
	Okay, whatever.
	Play TR spot one.
	There's another guy.
	Constitutional system.
	In particular, each candidate tried to grapple with the challenge of the trusts, with the emergence of corporations, the concentration of economic power which posed fundamental challenges to the foundations of the decentralized republic of the 19th century.
	Now, that the 1912 election registered and inspired fundamental changes in American politics suggests the importance of the Progressive Party.
	Okay, never mind.
	That's a wrong clip.
	Forget it.
	Try playing Roosevelt Book.
	That's the one I just played.
	Oh, that's okay.
	That's not the guy I'm looking for.
	I'm looking for TR Spot 1.
	That's the one I'm playing now.
	I played Roosevelt Book a minute ago, and this is TR Spot 1.
	Okay, play it.
	Sorry.
	Constitutional system.
	In particular, each candidate...
	What?
	No.
	I... Hold on.
	Here's Roosevelt's book, which I just played.
	To have come into its own in recent elections.
	All right.
	Forget it.
	I got the wrong guy here.
	Never mind.
	Crap.
	Well, I get the idea.
	TR is the new meme, and they're using Teddy Roosevelt to push through this Wall Street reform.
	Yep.
	But you're going to hear a lot of TR references over the next few months.
	But just so you know, the Wall Street reform is a handover.
	Complete handover.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's a scam, like everything else.
	We just call it No Agenda, Big Scam.
	Let's talk about vaccines for a second, just give you a quick rundown of some amazing things.
	Well, before you do that, you might as well play My Vaccine.
	Oh, yeah, you have that.
	I think we actually have to do this.
	No Agenda, it's fun.
	Is that the one you meant?
	No, I meant the backwards cheerleader.
	Well, that's also a part of the swine flu thing, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	They're hard to counteract.
	You know, conspiracy theories tend to be popular.
	I wish we were popular.
	If we were popular, then we'd be doing this full time.
	It's hard to undo that kind of damage.
	I spoke recently at a high school near here.
	What is this?
	Is this a news report?
	Yeah, there's a news report.
	You know, if you haven't noticed, and there's a couple of things that came out recently.
	I mean, I guess in Australia they were taking bad shots.
	Yeah, I got some of that.
	Shooting people with that.
	But it's like their last-ditch effort to get rid of this damn vaccine, which is, you know, they're just clogging up.
	You know, they bought all this stuff and they've got to rationalize it.
	And so they're doing everything they can to, like, you know, the flu season, middle of the summer, they'll be telling us to take this thing.
	There were about 200 people in the audience, and I asked them how many had gotten the influenza vaccine, and about half raised their hands.
	Of the half that didn't raise their hands, they said they didn't get it because on YouTube, they saw a Redskins cheerleader say that she had gotten the vaccine and had a so-called dystonic reaction.
	She's the beautiful cheerleader whose heartbreaking story is shocking the nation.
	This clip of Redskins cheerleader Desiree Jennings went viral on the web after a local Fox News station broke the story.
	I love the voice.
	Oh my God, that's awesome.
	That's the guy, that's the voiceover guy for Frontline.
	Oh no, he's got the best voice in the business right now.
	It sounds so like you're fucking crazy if you believe this is real.
	This is really stupid.
	Conspiracy theorists have planted this.
	She reported a bizarre neurological reaction to a flu vaccine that caused her to be able only to walk backwards.
	Her story's been viewed and shared almost two and a half million times.
	Everybody can run just fine.
	It's only when she stops...
	You see, that's where the spasm started.
	Now, you can walk backwards, though.
	The students who sat in that room were much more likely to believe something they had seen on YouTube from a Washington Redskins cheerleader than they would have believed something that they would have heard from the staff.
	Okay, you can stop it.
	All right, I got it.
	Okay, there are a couple of things here we have to note.
	One, why are the students so skeptical that they would believe a YouTube clip above...
	What the experts are telling them.
	And really, because these people don't even know what a gigawatt is.
	So these stupid students need to shut up and believe us.
	Exactly.
	And the other thing that's interesting is that the math doesn't work out here.
	The guy who says he asked the students who got the shot and only half of them put their hands up, meaning 50 percent of the students didn't take the shot.
	And he attributed that to the fact that they all apparently watched this clip of the girl who was walking backwards, which is on the blog.
	It's all over the place.
	But if you look at the absolute numbers of two and a half million people seeing this clip, that for half the students, you'd have to have like half the country had had to see this.
	I mean, how does half of this this sample?
	Does that mean 150 million people saw this clip?
	I don't think so.
	No, no.
	So, in other words, his premise is totally bogus.
	Well, the reason why this is happening is because there's another deal, another scam with the insurance and medical companies and governments worldwide.
	It's a big one.
	It's the vaccine scam.
	I have a couple more examples of that.
	Vaccines have now been transformed into not even something that stops a virus, but it's just a shot that will stop you from getting sick on something.
	And I think that's, John, why they're not propagating the swine flu vaccine anymore.
	If we listen to this clip as broadcast on WGN in Chicago, which was sent to us by one of our producers, they are, in fact, they're saying you need to listen to warnings about vaccinations and take your vaccines, which, by the way, will have no co-pay according to the new health care bill.
	They will be covered 100% by the insurance companies.
	Here's the clip, which is really meant to scare you into taking vaccines.
	Meet Lisa.
	I hit H1N1. I almost died.
	I remember going to the doctor and when he measured my oxygen level, my blood was very low.
	So he had told me I needed to go straight to the emergency room.
	They said I was still conscious, but I don't remember.
	They put me in a coma.
	I was obviously on ventilator.
	All my muscle was gone.
	I mean my legs were as big as my arms.
	It affects people in different ways, and it just happened to affect me differently.
	And at the time, there were a lot of cases in the ICU along with me.
	You know, you're kind of thinking I could have just had a vaccine and not spent all that time in the hospital.
	Why take a chance?
	Why take a chance and not get it?
	Protect yourself from H1N1. It's not too late to vaccinate.
	For more information on the H1N1 virus, visit the website ready.illinois.gov.
	This message brought to you by the Illinois Department of Public Health and your local health department.
	Right, so it's not too late to vaccinate is the meme.
	And here's a couple of examples from news in the past three days.
	In Gitmo Nation East, the British National Health Service has begun bribing teenage girls between the ages of 16 and 18 to get Gardasil vaccines, now handing out shopping vouchers worth about $70.
	So go shop and then just take this little vaccine.
	It's not a problem.
	Which, of course, everyone else is paying for, like $350 a pop.
	The best one, though, is the FDA. And I love it when the FDA, which is supposed to be people who understand medicine, actually say they have approved a vaccine, the first vaccine to treat, which, of course, is already a conflict in definition, to treat prostate cancer or any cancer.
	Provenge.
	It costs $93,000, but it will prolong your life if you have prostate cancer.
	It can give you about four extra months to live, and let's face it, who wouldn't want to spend a hundred grand to live four more months?
	And I love the statistics.
	After three years of testing, 32% of men given Provenge were alive compared to 23% who were given a placebo.
	How does that work?
	This never ends.
	But they've approved it as a vaccine.
	Not a vaccine then.
	They're saying the vaccine treats prostate cancer.
	This is another one.
	We've changed the language again.
	This is all newspeak.
	It's ridiculous.
	Meanwhile, in Gitmo Nation Down Under, we've had a couple of deaths and a number of kids severely ill from the swine flu.
	These are the under five kids.
	Yeah, they're mixing the swine flu vaccine in with the regular flu vaccine, and it's making people sick and killing them.
	This is CSL Limited.
	A couple of producers pointed out to me, and I did get some information on CSL.
	Let me see if I have the report here somewhere.
	It was very funny.
	They actually said right there on their website, we've checked, we've tested everything, and no problem whatsoever.
	We can continue giving it to kids under five.
	Don't look over here.
	Nothing to see here.
	Ooh, look at that.
	Terrible.
	Yeah.
	Almost 65,000 children age five and younger in Western Australia received free flu vaccination.
	So this is only happening in Western Australia.
	Made by CSL and Sanofi Adventists as part of a trial that reduced hospitalizations by 88%, they now say.
	You don't have to worry.
	Don't worry about your kid dying.
	Unless, of course, you listen to the clip of the girl whose legs were as big as her arms...
	So, yeah, it's all going to be about vaccines.
	And the whole vernacular, when the FDA is actually saying a vaccine treats something or a vaccine can stop you from smoking, it's not a vaccine.
	It doesn't make sense because vaccines create antibodies.
	It's an injection.
	What's smoking got to do with antibodies?
	It's an injection is what it is.
	They're giving you a shot of something.
	Yeah, they're giving you a shot of poison.
	So...
	Poison.
	Nice.
	That's what it is.
	I think you're right.
	It's poison.
	It's just poison, honey.
	Here, take a shot.
	Yeah.
	So, yes, I do have to leave shortly.
	But we have a couple of...
	People said to us, or to me mostly, Oh, you know, you guys, you finished the show up and it's depressing.
	Because this show is mostly depressing.
	Then you should let me do one more before I do that.
	I have a couple of humorous clips.
	Okay.
	Let me give you one more story and then we'll wind it up on a happy note, John.
	Of course.
	Although I think watch Donations Tank.
	Watch them tank.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. Please support my theory that some happy note is a good idea.
	We'll track this.
	When we end on a happy note, I guarantee you it's going to tank.
	This is beautiful.
	Oh, by the way, don't forget, this Wednesday, and I'm sending a mailing, I'm reminding people, is double nickels on the dime day.
	That's right.
	Once every hundred years.
	Is that true?
	Yeah.
	You got 5510.
	That's 5510.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	I want you to go to nuval.com, John.
	N-U-V-A-L. November Uniform Victor Alpha Lima dot com.
	This is something new.
	New?
	Give me again.
	Give it new.
	November Uniform Victor Alpha Lima.
	Nuval.
	And this is being promoted by our new Gitmo guy, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, the current Monsanto shill, this is a new brand that we have to be on the lookout for.
	Nuval is a whole new system that will help you learn to eat healthy.
	Oh, you mean eat the toxic genetically modified food that has built-in pesticides?
	So instead of spraying yourself with some poison that you kill bugs with, you actually get to eat it.
	A food system for dummies, says NuVal visionary Dr.
	David Katz.
	Featured on BigThink.com.
	Visiting a Des Moines Hy-Vee supermarket, which I'm sure is real quality, Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack talked about the need to steer consumers to better quality food and how NuVal can help educate consumers on better food choices.
	I just got to play it for you.
	You will use NuVal because you need to eat Watch this thing being propagated.
	I don't know if they've hired Hill and Knowlton yet, but you watch the president.
	It's going to happen.
	You can already see it happening.
	The president's going to say, you know, this is really good.
	Kids in school need to learn.
	And look, I can see Cheez-It here.
	If you're talking about a nutrition system, Cheez-It should not be anywhere on the website.
	The whole thing.
	Yeah, we're going to track this.
	This is bad.
	This is really, really bad.
	And it's a commercial entity.
	And who are the partners of the supermarkets?
	It's like, look at this tray of food.
	The tray of food looks disgusting.
	And it looks like something you're going to see in school.
	Missouri's school district to grade its own food options.
	There it is, starting this fall.
	Here it is.
	Starting this fall, all the district's high and middle schools will grade all foods offered in their cafeterias and vending machines using the Nuval nutritional scoring system.
	Yeah, this is some...
	See, if we end the show right here, donations through the roof.
	But no...
	Go ahead, John.
	Let's wrap it up with some things funny.
	All right, well, let's get a couple of things.
	So there was a commercial for the Kentucky Derby I recorded, and they're talking about all these different acts that are playing there, and there's a group called the Rascals Land, or there's some kind of a rock group called Rascal Something, but it's not what...
	It's not the Young Rascals.
	No, no, this is a rascal something.
	Unfortunately, I didn't write it down.
	But it's not what she says it is when she announces this.
	And I'd like to see if you can figure out what she does say.
	First, she lists a bunch of women, and then I don't know what was on her mind.
	But she calls this group.
	I think she gave them the wrong name.
	Okay.
	Your Kentucky Derby party begins Saturday, 4 Eastern.
	The Today Show's Natalie Morales hits the red carpet with Diane Lane, Ashley Simpson, Rebecca Romijn, Rascal Flatts, and others join the bash at Churchill Downs.
	Saturday, 4 Eastern, only on NBC. I didn't get it.
	Rascal what?
	Your Kentucky Derby party begins Saturday, 4 Eastern.
	The Today Show's Natalie Morales hits the red carpet with Diane Lane, Ashley Simpson, Rebecca Romijn, Rascal Fletch, and others.
	Rascal Suds.
	Surely you've heard of them.
	It's a new Jay-Z joint.
	Alright, well...
	That's depressing.
	Okay, then we have the humor of the day, which I think is a...
	No, no, I have the absolute humor of the day clip.
	I'm going to beat you.
	I'm going to top you.
	I got the biggest kick out of this is kind of a commentary on society.
	Monk, the ADD, or no, he's the obsessive compulsive guy, who's discovered that this woman was, you know, she's...
	Trying out to be an American citizen and he comes to this conclusion.
	And I just thought this was a beautiful little line.
	Listen to this.
	Jealous bitch.
	She couldn't stand the thought of him having a life.
	If she's miserable, everybody else has to be miserable.
	She tried to kill him before.
	Six months ago.
	But there wasn't enough evidence to indict her.
	If you knew who didn't, why didn't you go to the police?
	She was afraid.
	You're not a citizen yet, but you're about to take your naturalization test.
	She was afraid to draw attention to herself.
	How did you know that?
	That pamphlet in your bag.
	You're studying the U.S. Constitution.
	Something no citizen would ever do.
	Good luck, by the way.
	That's actually pretty funny.
	I thought so.
	Okay, so let me save you the embarrassment, John.
	The name of the group is Rascal Flats, okay?
	And they are a country band.
	And here's their cover of Life is a Highway.
	So just so people don't think we're total boneheads.
	We are boneheads.
	Okay.
	No, I'm sorry, John.
	Although funny, it does not compare to this clip.
	Don't tell me I lost it.
	Ah, great.
	Oh, crap.
	I win.
	No, wait a minute.
	No, no, no.
	You don't win.
	Hold on.
	I got it.
	Oh, crap.
	This was the best one ever.
	Say something.
	I'm confused now.
	I'm flummoxed.
	Oh, that's what you got on the blog.
	That might be of interest to people.
	I'm flummoxed.
	No, no, no.
	Do animals have a right to privacy?
	I got it.
	Okay.
	I don't need your help anymore.
	This will wind up the show.
	This is Rosanna Scotto on Good Day New York, and they're talking about, of all things, milk.
	And different types of milk, and what should they call these types of milk?
	Have a listen.
	Should milk that's not from a cow be called milk?
	What do you think?
	Yeah, sure.
	Mother's milk is not from a cow, and we call it milk.
	Dr.
	Sumner-Karig.
	They're talking about things like the soy milk, you know, the rice milk.
	Why not?
	Yeah, what else are we going to call it?
	Soy juice?
	You can't do that.
	Soy-jism.
	Rosetta.
	There you go.
	I had that clip and I thought better than to play it.
	You should have because I think that's the clip of the week.
	It's definitely the clip of something.
	Soy Jism.
	Give me a break.
	What's on her mind?
	Oh, well...
	There you go.
	What's on our mind for playing it?
	You played it.
	Good blog post you might want to check out.
	Do animals have a right to privacy?
	Apparently some professor believes, of course he's in East Anglia, says that documentary producers are ignoring the fact that animals try to hide from humans, which implies they do not consent to being filmed.
	Yes, and the one thing we didn't get to, which I'm tracking as we've passed the Arizona immigration bill, there's another little publicized bill that passed, making it illegal to intentionally create human-animal hybrids.
	And so apparently there's a problem in Arizona with people creating animal-human hybrids, and the kicker is 12 people voted against it.
	Let's find out who they are.
	Coming to you from the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center in Gitmo Nation, West Southern California.
	Yay, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where the sun is shining and the dogs are barking, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll talk again on Thursday.

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