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There's wood in there.
You're eating wood.
Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Sunday, July 11th, 2010.
Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 216.
This is no agenda.
On the eve of the destruction of the entire planet, thanks to the oil cabal, and coming to you from the Hilltop Watchtower, Crackpot Command Center, and Gitmo Nation West, in the People's Republic of Southern California.
In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
Okay.
In the morning to you.
It was code.
Yeah, no kidding.
Hey, John, how are you?
All right.
In the morning.
It's foggy and miserable up here again.
But, you know, we've got our genuine...
People should know this.
When you come out to California, Northern California in particular, it's foggy during July.
It's very cold.
But what we have, which makes it even worse, when we have a classic...
A weather pattern.
It's cold in the morning, and then about 1 o'clock it burns off, and then it gets really hot, so you wear a sweater, then you're sweating, and then by the time you take the sweater to figure it out, you know, about 4 o'clock it starts getting windy.
It's just weird.
So allow me to say, in the morning, to all listeners on noagendastream.com and all ships at sea, as well as the Human Resources listening live, you are welcome to No Agenda, episode 216.
It's called June Gloom up here.
That's what we call it here.
It's July.
I know.
But we still have it here, June Gloom.
I can't help it.
It's just what it is.
It's annoying.
So, well, it's a good thing, because I remember when I was a kid...
There was a couple of years in the early 70s, I think it was 72 or maybe 73, one of the two, where the marine layer never showed up because there was something amiss.
And so we had this basically a big high sitting in the middle of the valley, but it wasn't sucking.
What happens is it gets so hot in the middle of California that the air rises really fast and it sucks.
The wind through the Golden Gate Bridge and then it forms a fog.
It's the marine layer.
It's just caused by the heat in Central Valley.
Oh boy.
Are we going to lose you this early on in the game, John?
Oh, that's great.
Hello?
Day after day after day.
Sorry?
Oh, nothing.
Just keep going.
I completely lost you for a second there.
It's starting early now.
Oh, well, maybe somebody doesn't like the weather report.
But anyway, it's miserable, so it's a good thing we have that situation.
I think it's because the evil elites don't want us to be taking credit for being right about the outcome of the World Cup.
Ah.
So we want to get to that right away.
We might as well, because the game's going to be underway halfway through our show.
Now, what time does the game start?
I think it starts at, like, it's on ABC now.
I was looking on, because Mickey, of course, is all dressed in orange.
I think it begins at 2 o'clock Eastern.
Right, 11, 12.
It should be 11 o'clock our time.
Just as we're wrapping the show up, the boring game begins.
The game starts.
Because it's on ABC. I was looking for ESPN coverage, and it turns out that ABC is broadcasting this.
Well, ABC and ESPN are owned by the same company, and when the big game comes up, boom, they move it to the network.
There was some huge fracas in Gitmo Nation lowlands about...
So they've already been fighting over the rights for the celebration?
And, yeah, the television writes for the celebration.
This is what the conversation has been.
Hey, by the way, they haven't had a government for over a month, but the real conversation is, who gets to broadcast the celebration of Orange, of our boys who are going to win?
And the Dutch Football Association sold the rights to a commercial broadcaster, whereas, of course, traditionally this always goes to the state media.
So, huge fracas.
Oh, wait, wait.
They've never won before.
How can traditionally it go to the state media?
No, I mean, all coverage is...
You know, football rights...
This is what it's all about.
It's all about the television rights.
And the state media always puts, you know...
Tens, maybe, I don't know, hundreds of millions.
God knows how much they put into covering games and programming around soccer.
The national teams and, of course, the World Cup team as well.
But now the commercial broadcaster, SBS, has acquired the rights to the celebration and everyone's like...
It was a bidding war, basically.
It's all about money.
That's why it's fixed, and that's why, I hate to say it, Spain will win today.
Well, the octopus says Spain will win.
I know.
Now, you had a pretty interesting theory about this, because we were going back and forth over email.
John and I try not to speak with each other in between shows.
For good reasons.
Lots of good reasons, but also it keeps the show fresh.
And you had a pretty interesting take on the octopus choosing Spain over the Netherlands.
Yeah, this is a far out theory that should be relegated to you or your side of the aisle, but being slightly crackpot.
Octopus and a lot of these other cellophopods or whatever they're called.
Oh, nice.
That is the $2 word of the day, cellophopod.
They tend to have a very...
They either are attracted to or repulsed by very minute amounts of electricity.
And I've seen tests...
There's some special where they showed the octopus and how it would gravitate towards something.
And I think a lot of animals have this...
They believe that perhaps they can predict earthquakes because of the piezoelectric effect of the earth when it's starting to crack.
Right.
And move.
It gives off a little charge and then animals act peculiar.
But anyway, I think that they have these two little containers and one of them is either charged or the other one's not charged or something's going on.
It's rigged is what you're saying.
It's rigged.
It's rigged, right.
And so the octopus goes into the safe box or the box he feels comfortable with, which may be actually an attractant, whatever.
And this is because the international gambling syndicates need to find some way of getting the word out to, you know, who to bet on in these matches.
Right.
So, are they telegraphing the actual winner?
Is that the deal?
Yeah, that's what I'm guessing because every single time the octopus has made the right choice.
Which is the rigged game.
Now, the classic, the out for me in case Spain doesn't win, which I think you're right, is a foregone conclusion at this point.
Should we just reiterate?
Because we have a lot of new listeners coming on board for some reason.
I don't know, it's just like our numbers, whatever they are, seem to be going up.
Let's just reiterate that, first of all, from a quasi-pseudo-patriotic standpoint, I'd love for the Dutch to win because I grew up there and I want everyone to be happy.
But as we've looked back throughout history, it appears quite coincidental that many countries who were on the verge of the populist rioting And huge economic distress have magically won the World Cup right at the very moment.
And if we look at the landscape, Germany is doing quite fine.
The Netherlands, of course, they are part of, actual part of the elite New World Order with the Dutch Royal House of Orange.
And even though they don't have a government right now, and this is a great distraction for them, even if they lose, they'll be talking about it long enough for whatever needs to be done to be done.
But Spain is actually on the verge of economic collapse and therefore, without any knowledge of the game of football, I barely understand offsides.
Nobody does.
No, actually, I do kind of understand it.
It must be Spain, because they're already starting to riot, and they need this boost for their morale.
Yeah.
And so the games are rigged.
I mean, this is...
You know, I'm still...
Fascinated by the time that Tony Stewart, the NASCAR racer, claimed that NASCAR was rigged.
And then he pointed out a whole bunch of coincident winners, people that won for various political reasons.
And of course they told him to shut up and he's never mentioned it again since.
And then there's a lot of NFL players, Bubba Smith being the most vocal, who still believes that the Super Bowl, that Joe Namath won, was rigged.
Fixed, as he puts it.
There was an interesting...
These things go on.
Interesting note that I got from producer Mark in North Carolina, and I do remember reading about this, but I kind of glossed over it.
Robert Enke was the German international goalkeeper who was supposed to play in all of these big international competitions.
He committed suicide late last year by throwing himself in front of a train.
Interestingly, there was no...
It's kind of a terrible way to kill yourself.
No witnesses, no security cameras.
So the question is, was he perhaps suicided, or did he not want to actually throw the game?
And was he so distraught that he figured...
Yeah, I mean, the goalies are the obvious.
And now we, by the way, have no proof of any of this.
I want to make that clear.
No.
None of it.
This is supposition.
Wouldn't it be funny if we were right?
We are right.
Well, there's lots of...
There are other people who say they have evidence.
We've played clips of guys claiming that the Asian mafia is involved in this rigging of the game.
Oh, that would make sense, yeah.
But anyway, let's go back to how they're going to win.
Now, you have this theory, and I have a theory, you have a theory.
Now, my thinking was, and I'm, by the way, leaning toward your theory, but I'm sticking with mine.
Well, you're sticking with the Netherlands?
No, no.
The theory that how they're going to win, which is they're going to get spanked like 4-0.
Oh, right.
And I think it's going to go into overtime and then into penalty kicks and the Dutch will choke.
Right, which is the classic thing they always do, which is the perfect model.
If you're going to do it, do it the same way it's always been done.
Use the fractal.
Go with the fractal, Luke.
Anyway, so you're predicting, and you also mentioned the fact that that's the easiest way to rig a game.
Yes, of course.
With penalty kicks, yeah, of course it's the easiest way.
Yeah.
So my thinking, which is to spank the Netherlands for not having a government by really trouncing them forward to zip, would send a stronger message insofar as the politics are concerned.
But whatever the case is, I think we've talked enough about soccer, and people will watch the game themselves, and then afterwards they're going to say, wow, wow, those guys are right.
Start getting your PayPal payments ready.
Wow.
Yeah, it's going to wake a lot of people up, that's for sure.
Do we have any producers for this program, John?
Has anyone supported us?
Sorry?
We have one that could have been a producer last week, but his donation came in a little late.
But we have three executive producers and two associate executive producers.
One of them could have been mentioned a week or two ago because he came in as a wire transfer.
And that's Daniel Rudolph in Dresden.
Deutschland.
Deutschland.
And he came...
You don't really know what the amount...
The amount that came in after it was translated from Euros to...
And it took $10 out for the wire transfers came in as $406.66.
Wow.
Thank you.
Or $0.86, I'm sorry.
Daniel, thank you so much.
So Daniel's at the top of the list.
And we have Constantine Erratic...
Racketine.
He's been donating a couple times.
Yeah.
Yes, he just donated again.
Now he's a knight.
Oh, yay!
He's the first one, I think, that did 333.33.
We had to throw the penny in, I think.
Yes, we throw in the extra penny.
He did it three weeks in a row, three shows in a row.
Yeah, he was aggressive.
Thanks, John and Adam, for your show.
I've tried listening to similar podcasts, but they all like to kind of deliver you to put out.
This show made me open my eyes.
Sputting the latest memes made me care about news again.
Well, I don't know who that is.
Okay.
I'm listening.
I hum the jingles.
This does happen.
People sit and watch the news, and just these jingles start jumping into their heads.
By the way, Eric the Shill says that Daniel Rudolph will also be knighted today.
Looks like he's donated previously, so he's now up.
Yeah, that's great.
All right, good.
One of my...
I'm glad Eric's on top of it.
Yes.
Apparently not.
Of course, I couldn't get to the database.
One of my hobbies is now pointing these memes out to other people.
It blows their minds.
It's amazing!
Like showing them the secret behind a complex magic trick.
I believe in value for value and hope that my knighthood donation helps.
Yeah.
Then last week we did read his note, which is Matthew Greensmith of Melbourne.
Australia.
Victoria, Australia, who also tossed in 33333, and last week he got his de-douching of Simon.
Then our associate executive producers, Pac-3 Computers, Cuba, Missouri, $256, and Sander Hawksbergen.
Hey!
He's back.
Of Zandam.
Zandam.
Zandam.
There you go.
Hi guys, you keep going on.
To keep you going on, whoops.
To keep you going on, please promote the noagendatv.com.
Yeah, noagendatv.com is cool because all of the links that we put in the show notes that have video attached to it show up on noagendatv.com.
It is very cool.
Yeah, it's like a little TV network.
It's fun.
It's very fun.
All right, so that's our boys for the week, and we really appreciate them contributing.
We also want to thank everybody else who donated whatever amount.
And we'll have a few more mentioned at the break.
Yeah, and it is actually, particularly for a summer broadcast, where traditionally all revenues are low.
This is fantastic.
So we profusely thank Daniel Rudolph, Constantine Rakatine, Matthew Greensmith as our executive producers, and our associate executive producers, Pac-3 Computer, and Sander Huxberg from Zandam.
Everybody else out there, well, you kind of know what you have to do.
You need to go out and propagate the formula.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Hell yeah!
Let's do it all together now.
Can you say it with me, please?
Shut up, please.
That also is something people hear in their minds continuously.
The dead duck?
No.
Not the duck.
Oh yes, the shut up slaves.
The shut up slaves.
Oh yeah.
People are putting it in their email a lot.
Uh huh.
That's nice.
I like it.
That's exactly what it is.
It makes me feel powerful.
So the most emailed article of the day.
Of the week, actually, I should say.
And I already know your response to it, and so I did a little bit of extra work.
Hold on a second.
Hey, darling.
And he's off now to wish his...
I'm like, what do I... Is the TV on?
Mickey's, like, already celebrating the Dutch win with all her friends on the phone.
It's funny to read all the Dutch tweets everywhere.
It's like, you know, we're getting our victory barbecue ready.
They're using the power of the secret, which is that book that we touched on.
Oh, that book.
That's horrible.
They're using the power of positive attraction.
You can't win from them.
So, the number one most emailed...
And tweeted, I might add.
And tweeted, is this Doomsday article, which, now, I think the one that everyone's sending around is from Helium.com.
I have no idea what Helium.com is.
Yeah, it's full of hot air.
Yeah.
And the gist of this article is, and whenever it starts off with ominous reports, you know, it's like warning, warning.
Ominous reports are leaking past the BP Gulf salvage operation news blackout that the disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico may be about to reach biblical proportions.
You want to just summarize this, John, and then I can tell you where this comes from.
Okay, this is written.
Well, you can tell where it comes from.
I can tell you a couple of things about this guy, too.
This guy who's...
Terrence Ayn?
Yeah, he's posted a bunch of bogus things, including a billboard that's so obviously photoshopped it's ridiculous.
Oh, he did that billboard?
Yeah.
Oh.
He's got his copyright notice at the bottom.
Ha!
Okay.
Yeah, that's also in the show.
And he says it was a billboard spot at some place, but you can just take a look at it and see if it was done with Photoshop.
Totally.
This guy has this theory that all the kill-offs that have ever happened that has always been attributed to meteorites and asteroids of the dinosaurs and everything else is due to these belching methane bubbles that show up every so often in the Earth's crust and pour out and then poison the atmosphere for years to come and killing everything in this path and only to be reconstructed, you know, the oxygen layer reconstructed after a period of time.
And then he's got quotes from various people that talk about how this is going on now.
We're all doomed.
And that the crack in the floor of the ocean bed created by the deep water horizon in the Gulf of Mexico is actually going to rip open and...
And a big bubble of methane is going to come out and kill everybody in the earth.
Is that technically possible?
Could a big bubble of methane kill us all?
Seems unlikely.
Is it technically possible?
Is it technically possible is my question.
I don't think there's that much methane down there.
I mean, there's methane in this mix, but no, I don't think so.
It's bullcrap.
So I found out where this...
Here's an associative thing.
You talked about associative neurolinguistic programming.
I think he stumbled onto something.
I don't think he did it on purpose.
I think he stumbled onto something because we're...
We've already been pre-programmed to accept the fact, even though it's bogus as anything, that cow farts which contain methane are causing global warming.
And cows should all be killed because of it.
So we have it in the back of our minds that something's bad about methane.
Wasn't it a cow fart that started the Great Fire of San Francisco?
I've read that everywhere.
Wasn't it a cow fart in someone's barn?
Yeah, some kid lightened it.
There was a lantern and then the cow fart blew in this bull crap.
Okay, so I've discovered the genesis of this, what's this guy's name?
Who's this jabroni?
What's his name?
Terrence Aim or whatever.
Terrence Aim.
I've discovered the, there's a document floating out there.
It's called Operation Deep Sleep.
You're going to love this, John.
So first of all, today there is a solar eclipse.
Did you know that?
Yeah, you have to go to the Easter Islands.
We were thinking of going, but then I couldn't do the show, so I decided we wouldn't go.
Well, you would have been joined by a lot of fun people, because, of course, all the Illuminati are there.
They are all praying to the gods on Easter Island for the solar eclipse.
So the plan is, and this is a PDF, this is why, I love it, it's better when it's a PDF, because that feels so official.
It has more impact.
It does.
The plan is to...
Now, let me get through it, okay?
I'm not saying that I'm believing in this, but this is the PDF that is circulating.
The plan is to deploy HAARP to heat the water molecules above the Gulf, raising a low-pressure air pocket in the stratosphere.
The low pressure will then be a sign that will be the impetus that will cause a quake.
Intended to target the seabed right under the Deepwater Horizon spill.
Now at the same time, a West Australian deep-earth sonar test will be deployed.
This will cause a great quake there, similar to what took place in Haiti.
So these two events will take place at the same time.
This will be about 4 a.m.
our time in Gitmo Nation West.
The quake will split the floor, releasing 100,000 pounds per square inch pressure, causing massive effervescence, which I thought only worked for, like, soft drinks, and cavitations of the seawater.
The enormous amount of gas venting into the sea will raise to the surface over an area estimated to be 30 miles wide, creating a gas cloud that will rise into the atmosphere where the gas will combine with the air, the oxygen gas mix will be ignited by the burn-off Causing a gigantic blast resulting in a shockwave of unimaginable velocity.
It's not over yet.
This is better than a James Bond.
I gotta write this stuff down.
I should be a script writer.
I'll send you the PDF. You don't need to write it down.
So actually, here it is.
The time to occur between the late evening of the 11th and early morning of the 12th.
Target detonation time, 4.17 a.m.
This, of course, is planned to occur when most people are asleep in the region.
4.17 a.m.
has already gone by.
No, no.
Our time.
On the 12th, actually.
It's between 11 and 12.
So it's tomorrow.
Yes.
Doomsday is tomorrow.
Doomsday is tomorrow.
That's the name of our show.
Doomsday is tomorrow.
Hey, that is a James Bond title.
Doomsday is tomorrow.
So Operation Deep Sleep.
Here we go.
It's aimed at creating this gas explosion that, of course, will appear to have been an act of God.
So all the Bible prophecies have been manipulated to be, you know, the work of angels, all that stuff, right?
So that all comes in.
Yeah, and I read about the methane in the Bible.
But here it comes.
Now, I'm not making this up.
I'm just reading it.
Prior to the detonation, chemtrails will be dumped over the target areas during the morning of the 12th.
Aircraft will fly over the cities and towns to spray chemtrails to disable the sleeping masses.
Not to cause death, but to disable the people so they'll be awake yet helpless and unable to move and escape from the burning homes that are demolished or still standing.
All United Nations vehicles will have either been abandoned or pulled back along the armed forces, Militia will then come in after the carnage will be deployed to gather the dead and take the bodies into the FEMA coffins via trains where they will be shipped intact to FEMA camps and, of course, the crematoriums.
This is...
It's good, isn't it?
What is this you're reading?
It's called Operation Deep Sleep.
It is the plan that is going to be started tonight.
Okay, well, we'll wait in anticipation.
Hey, John, it was nice working with you.
It was well.
The show was good while it lasted.
So that's why the Illuminati are on Easter Island, where they don't get to worry about this.
And they won't get blown up on Easter Island.
They're going to be safe there.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Seems like a foolproof scheme.
It would be funny if the one time I actually laughed at this, it happened.
Yeah, it would be hilarious.
That would be poetic.
It would be poetic.
Let me just emphasize.
I wonder if this guy, when he wrote this crap up, was going, I wonder how much thicker I can make this.
I mean, he got everything in there.
He got Harp in there.
He got Chemtrails in there.
He got Illuminati.
He didn't have zero-point energy.
Oh, man, that would have been perfect.
Yeah.
But of course, that's all true.
And of course, the bodies eventually, if you read the article in the Daily Mail, they want to now take people and soak them in lie solutions so they dissolve instead of being buried.
Remember that?
Well, this is Belgium, actually.
Yes, Belgium.
They say, well, you've got too many people in the cemeteries.
We can't keep stacking them up on top of each other.
Let's just put them in acid and dissolve them into an icky goo and dump them in the ocean.
This is like the only, the final right we are supposed to have as people is, you know, you're supposed to get a decent burial.
And now just like, throw them in the tank and get rid of them.
It's terrible.
I mean, I want to be burned on a stack like an Indian burning, and I want people to smoke me.
Yeah, that would be cruel on a boat.
Yeah, but you're not allowed to do that.
You're not allowed to burn somebody.
It's against the law.
Oh, so it creates too much carbon emissions.
I'm no better than a cow.
There's too much CO2. So, yeah, people can look this up, but it's been floating around.
It's in the show notes.
Well, this apparently is being seriously discussed in Belgium.
Yeah, those Belgians are nuts.
Why don't they just put everybody in French fry oil?
Nigel Farage is back.
He's speaking of Belgium.
And he's on a rampage.
He was at the European Union.
And, of course, Belgium is about to assume the presidency of the Starfleet Command of the European Union.
Because, of course, we have the president, who was already Belgian, Haiku Hermann.
But then the actual presidency is handed over.
I think it's every six months now.
I don't know how that worked out.
That won't last.
Well, you want to hear what he had to say about it?
Because it was pretty classic Nigel Farage.
Yeah, of course.
Are you kidding?
You should actually watch it, because you see all these other jabronis shaking their heads, going like, oh my God, here he goes.
On behalf of the FD group, that's Nigel Farage.
Thank you, President.
Morning.
Well, you couldn't really invent what's going on here this morning, could you?
The Belgian presidency takes over its six months term and everybody pretends that it's business as usual.
Well, I was somewhat vilified a few months ago for pointing out that Belgium wasn't really a proper nation.
But I think the electors of Belgium have rather proved the point.
A separatist party is now the biggest party in Belgium and we have before us A caretaker, Prime Minister, but we all turn a blind eye and pretend that it's business as usual.
It simply isn't.
You have no legitimacy here, Monsieur Le Terme.
And what an extraordinary irony that a country, that a country that's on the verge of breaking into two, is telling 26 other Member States for the next six months what they should be doing.
But perhaps worse than that, of course, is your own sheer hypocrisy in this matter.
Standing up this morning, being the good Belgium, let's just remember that you yourself, as Belgian Prime Minister, didn't even know your own national anthem.
You famously said, back in 2006, that it was only beer and football that held the country together.
But now I suppose, with the trappings of power, that's all been forgotten.
But really everybody in this chamber is in denial because Belgium is a huge embarrassment to you.
It is a prototype.
It is a model for the entire European Union and it's on the verge of breaking up.
Yet none of you can admit it.
What is going on today inside this chamber frankly is beyond satire.
I would not have thought, I would not have thought that there should be a Belgian presidency of the Union and wouldn't it be fun If at the end of the six-month presidency, at the end of the six-month presidency, there still wasn't a government in Belgium.
I hope you're all very proud.
Oh, that guy's great.
You know, somebody's behind this guy, because for one thing, he wouldn't be there making these assertions.
I mean, it's a humiliation to the EU, but somebody in Great Britain, in the UK, or the Queen, or MI6, or somebody, has put this guy up to this, or they know he's a natural.
But it's almost like it's being encouraged.
So first of all, these aren't assertions.
It's true.
Belgium still doesn't have a government.
An assertion doesn't mean it's not true.
Okay, so Belgium still doesn't have a government.
And I think he's right when he says that Belgium is the model for the entire European Union.
It's a fractal.
Yeah, precisely.
And it's held together by beer and football.
It makes so much sense.
It's a total fractal.
Even the beer and football party has actually nailed it.
Yeah, well, you know, he's hated in the UK. This is the crazy thing.
Yeah, I know, but obviously somebody's put him up to this.
Well, maybe his conscience, John.
It's a thought.
I mean, he's kind of like a David Icke type guy.
It's not like he's being recalled.
Let's put it that way.
No, no, no, no.
The Queen isn't upset by this.
Well, the Queen, ah, no, no.
But see, in the UK, he's...
Vilified is a crackpot, more or less.
Well, that's because, I believe, it's largely because the globalists, the leftists, the people that want the world government, they own the media, they run things, the rich guys are the Murdochs of the world.
They...
Make him look like a clown and vilify him, but I think the public must get the biggest...
I mean, I can't imagine...
No, no, no.
No one sees this, man.
No one wants...
Well, if they did, they'd get the biggest kick out of it.
Come on.
But the point is, no one is broadcasting...
We're the only ones broadcasting this.
You know who should broadcast this is Jon Stewart.
That's who the guy should be working for.
That would make sense.
Yeah, Jon Stewart would just right up his alley.
I don't know.
Yeah, well, it is a shame if he's not getting the right...
If you don't have the right angle on him.
Well, I think it's hilarious, and I love the game, but you really need to see this video, and it will be on NoAgendaTV.com, because you see these elitists who are sitting there, and they're literally, like, holding their hands up, shaking their heads, like, what?
What?
In disbelief that he has the audacity to stand up there and say this.
Grrrr!
Yeah, it's pretty funny.
And all we get here is West Wing Week.
Have you been following?
No, I have refused to follow it.
Oh.
That's pretty good.
Although, they don't have the...
They made it a little less hokey.
Now it's just kind of like a daily journal.
But it still has...
Anyway.
Backstage footage and stuff of the president.
And how busy he is.
Because he's now on this tour.
The Don't Worry You're Fucked Tour, America.
Yeah.
He's going everywhere, telling everyone he's creating millions of jobs and it's going to be great.
He hasn't created any jobs.
Economy's in the toilet.
Most people now think that we are in a depression.
Smart money, anyway.
What do you think?
Oh, absolutely.
It's part of the cycle.
I mean, we have to be.
I think we're going to see what the stock market, which we'll discuss in the months ahead, it's going to keep looking good.
It's going to get everyone all jacked up, and then they pull the rug out from under.
It's going to drop a little bit.
It's going to very slowly ratchet down to 2013, where you actually really do hit bottom.
And Rahm Emanuel, did you watch that thing that he was on the...
No, it was Mickey's party, so I didn't have time to...
You never recorded it?
No, tell me what happened.
You have clips from it?
Oh, great.
I'm so happy.
I have the clip.
It's a long clip.
We're going to have to interrupt it a few times.
He is the most arrogant prick.
He was on PBS NewsHour?
Yeah, with Jim Lehrer, and he basically insulted Lehrer two or three times.
And at one point, because Lehrer kept trying to get him to answer a question he refused to answer, which is that, does Obama actually do any work?
No.
Because apparently, you know, remember Harry Truman and the buck stops here?
Yes.
Which Obama is using?
Obama's using the same line.
He's saying the buck stops with me.
No, you listen to Rahm Emanuel, the buck doesn't stop with Obama.
It's everybody else.
Play the Rahm Emanuel clip now.
We might as well get into it.
I'm Emmanuel, welcome.
Thanks, sir.
Was the decision on the spy swap the President's?
Well, first of all, what the President does appreciate is the work of the law enforcement community as well as the intelligence community for their hard work in this case.
It was not the decision of the President.
So, first of all, he's a mumbler, and he talks a little bit like, leave it to beaver.
Remember leave it to beaver?
Yes.
But he has a real low muffle, like he's talking through a sleeping bag.
He talks like Leave it to Beaver.
He's very mumbly.
And he never answers the questions, by the way.
Ever.
Now, first of all, the President's very appreciative of all the work the Secret Service does.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
And Lehrer gets pissed at him, I'm sure of it.
And then he also has these inappropriate smiles.
Oh, yes.
Well, we know what that means.
Yeah, it means he's full of shit.
Yes, correct.
But you say something, and then he smiles.
He has a big smile out of the blue for no apparent reason, and then he goes back into his little pitch, but anyway, back to it.
Right now, he's saying...
Sorry?
No, I'm just saying, he won't answer.
He's not answering the question.
You just listen to the way he doesn't answer the question.
Why is he on the show?
What was the setup, by the way?
Was it just like, we got Rahm?
He said yes?
Yeah, we got Rahm, and they gave him like 15 minutes.
In this case, it was not the decision of the president.
It was a decision, obviously, of the law enforcement community and the intelligence community.
But he does appreciate what they did in making America safer and the hard work that they did to get this done.
Let me rephrase it then.
Did the president sign off on this?
The president was briefed about it.
Briefed about it.
He said it was okay with him.
He understood that, you know, these type of things are done by the law enforcement community and the intelligence community.
He was briefed about it, given the information about it, but the actions were taken by the law enforcement community.
Why does he hedge around like that?
Is that because he doesn't want his guy to be blamed for something?
Every question that Lair asks, none of it goes back to Obama.
There's no the buck stops here with Obama.
Obama's got nothing to do with anything.
Every question he asks, Emmanuel, did Obama sign off of this?
He talks about Holder.
When Holder sues Arizona, was it Obama's idea?
No, it wasn't.
Obama's got nothing to do with anything.
He can throw anybody under the bus because this is what it looks like to me.
Obama's setting himself up as a guy who's got nothing to do with anything, and if anything bad goes on, it's not his fault.
This is not a butt-stops-here guy.
You can also read it another way.
The way I'm reading this is Rahm Emanuel runs the show, and he's like, no, no, no.
That doesn't come across.
I've got it all covered.
That doesn't come across at all.
The CIA General Counsel, that this was an arrangement designed to benefit the United States of America.
Wouldn't the President be involved in making that kind of decision?
I think for what's important, there'll be a lot of analysis afterwards.
Sure, sure.
For the purpose here, the President was fully informed of what was...
Oh, oh!
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Did you just hear what he said?
Yeah.
For the purpose here, like for this interview, Jim.
Shut up, slave.
For the purpose here, just so you know?
This is the beginning of his insults.
Wait until he says, which is little in about a minute, he says...
Don't spoil the movie, please.
I think for what's important, there'll be a lot of analysis afterwards.
Sure.
For the purpose here, the president was fully informed of what was going on along the way.
I can't believe that.
It's like, for the purpose here, Jim?
And Jim's like, sure, sure, sure.
Shut up, slave.
Shut up, shut up, shut up.
For the purpose here.
But why is it a good thing you spend years following these ten people, catch them, disclose who they are, arrest them, and then turn them loose?
Well, A, they pled guilty.
Okay.
B, they're deported.
C, we also, as you know, there's four people now coming back to the United States, or coming to the United States, not back.
Do you agree with Mr.
Smith that this is a good thing for the United States of America?
I think there's no doubt it's a good thing.
Who's Mr.
Smith?
I don't recall, but let me go over something he just said.
He says, we have four people coming back to the United States.
I mean, not back.
In other words, there were four spies.
Four spies, yeah.
But he said the way he backs off on the coming back.
He blew it.
He blew it.
I mean...
He totally blew it.
Wow.
Smith was the prosecutor or some guy in the Justice Department or somebody in the CIA, somebody who did the deal, I guess.
This is outstanding.
Oh, now I'm pissed I didn't see the whole thing.
It gets worse.
Because we've uncovered individuals here, although they didn't plead to being spies, so clearly caught in the business of spying.
Because they were passing off money while brushing past each other.
Sends a clear signal to not only Russia, but other countries that will tempt us, but we're on to them.
Was the president aware that this spy ring existed before it was revealed publicly and these people were arrested?
I think, Jim, it's important.
There will be a lot of postscripts on this.
Okay.
And I think that what you should take away from this, obviously, the president was informed appropriately.
No.
In other words, I'm writing the book, Jim.
Shut up.
You can read it all in the book in 20 years when it all comes out.
Not now, Jim.
Jim, not now.
I mean, that's what he's saying, right?
He's saying that, yeah, but he's also saying that apparently the president wasn't informed.
He was briefed.
He was briefed.
He was like, appropriately.
Yes, appropriately.
Which means he didn't know anything.
Whatever we thought I should tell him is what he knows, Jim.
For the purposes of this, for right now, for this interview, Jim, remember what we talked about beforehand?
Shut up, Jim.
Now stick to the questions on your paper.
What you should take away from this, obviously, the President was informed appropriately, known what was going on, and they made the decision to go forward on this action.
There'll be a lot of writing about it, but I think at this time, let me just say the cautionary note, the less said the better.
On a cautionary note!
In other words, Jim, you're skating on thin ice, my friend.
Cautionary note here.
No, wait.
You've got to back it up a little bit because it says the less said the better.
The less said the better.
Then the inappropriate smile shows up.
Oh, that's too bad we don't have that on video right now.
And then he says another line that just reiterates.
Listen.
Oh, fantastic.
Go forward on this action.
There'll be a lot of writing about it, but I think at this time, let me just say the cautionary note, the less said the better.
Okay.
Or how about, as I always like to say, less is more.
Less is more.
Yes, sir.
Whatever you say, sir.
Yes.
President's decision for the Justice Department to sue the state of Arizona about its immigration law yesterday.
The Justice Department made that decision themselves.
Obviously, the president was briefed, as was other departments.
But did the president think...
I mean, here again, the reason this is an issue, obviously, because a lot came up about when Attorney General Holder made the decision, the original decision, to try some of the 8-9-11 terrorists in New York.
I asked...
The Attorney General, in fact, did you clear this with the President?
He said, well, I informed the President.
Well, the President doesn't tell you what cases to take and how to file them and what positions.
Obviously, the President was briefed.
There are other agencies and departments that have equities in this.
They were also briefed.
But the ultimate decision is the decision of the Attorney General and Justice Department.
So the President should not be held accountable for finding this lawsuit?
Well, no.
It's obviously his administration, his Attorney General, Justice Department.
But in a sense, does he say to the Attorney General, you have to go do this?
That's not the way the cases are filed.
That's not how it's done.
I think the right way to see it, and to give a perspective to your viewers, is he was briefed on this.
The ultimate decision on how to file it, where to file it, what was the premise of it, is one done by the Justice Department.
Let me go ahead one other way, okay?
I think you're going to get a similar answer.
Give it a shot.
Let's see if we can get it.
All right, let's see.
Wow.
This is your...
Wait, I need to...
This is your...
Our national treasure!
Yeah, they're really good, aren't they?
If I get the right answer this way...
Okay, alright, let's see if you get the right answer.
Let's say the Attorney General...
I feel like I'm dealing with my children on their homework.
Oh my goodness!
Can you imagine?
To Jim Lehrer, I think it feels like I'm dealing with my children on their homework.
Yeah, that's what he said.
But this is a recurring theme.
Robert Gibbs said that as well, if you'll recall.
We played a clip maybe a couple months ago where he also equated a journalist to one of his kids doing homework.
This is a general theme where these elitist bastards actually think we're all just children and need to shut up and need to play along.
And if you want the right answer, you need to ask the right question.
Wow!
I've got to back that up just a second to hear that again.
The right answer?
Okay, alright, let's see if you can get the right answer.
Let's say the Attorney General...
I feel like I'm dealing with my children on their homework.
Let's say the Attorney General comes to the President and says, I think we should sue the state of Arizona on this immigration law.
The President could very easily have said, forget it, I don't want you to do that, right?
That's a hypothetical.
It is, right.
And the good news is, I'm not a lawyer.
And so I think the way to see this is, is the President's been clear about, and I think the most important thing is to take away, That on this case, he does not believe 50 states, we should have 50 separate immigration laws.
That's where the President's view is.
And let's walk back since you're mostly trying to get it at the President.
He believes that we do not need 50 separate immigration policies, one per state.
He understands the frustration.
Unbelievable.
So he said, he uses the word takeaway a lot.
In other words, he's like, you know, the takeaway is what you should be remembering.
Exactly.
Shut up.
And he won't answer the question that Obama could say, hey, I don't want you doing that.
Just go do something else with your time.
Emmanuel won't even admit to that.
In other words, Obama does nothing.
The proper way to answer the question, if you want to skirt the issue, is to say, constitutionally, yes.
Or anything.
He could say.
I mean, he said a million things.
He doesn't say, well, that's a hypothetical, and I'm not a lawyer.
Well, that's a bullcrap answer.
This guy is bad news.
He's a douchebag.
In my opinion, if this is the way it's going to go, where nobody takes responsibility, this is why nobody gets fired from anything.
Right.
Because nobody's responsible.
It's just a bunch of finger pointers.
I mean, there's no buck.
Where's the buck stops here guy that you mentioned earlier?
That's just unbelievable.
It's unbelievable.
It went on and on, but it was the same thing.
Larry got nowhere.
He was getting mad.
But the fact that he didn't call the guy out for calling him a child.
They had that uncomfortable chuckling laugh moment together.
Geez, Louise.
I mean, what you do in that situation, if you're really interviewing and you don't care anymore, because you're not going to get anything from this guy, you've got nothing.
This interview total is nothing.
You'd say, did I re-invite you on the show so you can just insult me?
No, but see, that would be overstepping the boundary, because Lair knows, man.
He knows what his position is.
Forget about it.
There's no way he's going to do that.
Jim Lair, he just got a ton of money for his show, in fact.
Wasn't it for the McLaren News Hour?
Well, that's what it used to be.
It's called News Hour.
Right, but now they're going to do...
But they got, like, millions of dollars from the government from some fund so they can do more reporting and shorter reports.
In fact, it's probably the government that booked Rahm.
Yes, well, it's called Don't Bite the Hand That Feeds You.
That's exactly what it is.
And meanwhile, Rahm Emanuel is probably Israeli Mossad.
I can't believe that guy.
I don't know if he thinks he's a star or what.
But he should be off the air.
He doesn't present himself very well.
He's snooty.
He's got that inappropriate smile.
He's condescending.
He's patronizing.
He acts like a prick, which he's known to be.
Who's putting him on TV? I would say Gibbs has got to be behind this.
Gibbs should be fired.
Bill Gibbs, Axelrod, the whole cabal is in there.
But it's brazen is what it is, John.
It's brazen.
It's just to go on and just...
And I would say that...
That, uh, that, uh, McLare, what's his name?
McLare.
McLare, yeah, that he has, he is considered one of America's great journalists at this moment in time.
Correctly or incorrectly.
Or Lair, it's not McLare.
McDonald's, whatever.
Jim Lair.
Jim Lair.
Sorry.
Yeah.
That he's considered a great journalist.
And to go on and insult him like this in that manner is just telling all the press, shut up.
Just shut up.
Yeah, and the press puts up with it.
I mean, they love Obama so much, the media, that they can't...
Bring themselves to see the facts of the matter here, which is that they're being bullied to an extreme.
It's funny, you know, we were talking about Haiti on Thursday where Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, came right out and said, no, we haven't sent any money yet because, you know, Bill hasn't sent the check.
That's essentially, and I'm not exaggerating when I kind of paraphrase him like that, So what shows up in the New York Times, who of course, I guess this is heating up and they've got the memo.
In Haiti, the displaced are left clinging to the edge.
And this is a five pages, five web pages report about...
The government being slow and thinking, you know, it's a weird country and the people don't want to do this and they don't want to go back to their old homes.
They're afraid to be in places where another earthquake might strike, blah, blah, blah.
Five pages.
And on the very, very, very last page is a little note about...
The 5.3...
And it's 9.9, but the New York Times apparently only has 5.3 billion that was promised.
And the reason why it hasn't flown...
Hasn't been flowing into Haiti is because it took the...
Haiti's Prime Minister...
A couple months to pick his 26 Haitian and international members and the search for an executive director is still underway.
I mean, the New York Times can't even get a quote like the one that we had from Ban Ki-moon saying basically Bill Clinton has his big ass on the money and he's not giving it up.
And they'll write five pages of bullshit blaming everybody except the people who were supposed to send the money.
So this just shows you how the media has been hijacked.
It's a complete hijack.
It's ridiculous.
And let me see who wrote this article.
Actually, I think I tried to look...
Because I do that, too.
I like trying to look up the journalists and see what else they've written.
Yeah, I always do that.
Debra Sontag.
Somebody wrote some global warming thing, and I checked it.
It's all they ever write about.
Same thing.
Right.
Let's see.
Debra Sontag.
Oh, she's on the Haiti...
She only writes about Haiti.
I swear to God, this is her...
She's the Haiti girl.
Yeah, you just click on her name, right?
In Haiti, displaced to left, cling to the edge.
Haiti orphans have little but one another.
Sexual assaults add to miseries of Haiti's ruins.
World briefing, the America's Haiti's reconstruction panel meets.
Haiti, ex-director of prison taken into custody.
Panel on Haitian prison deaths.
Escape attempt.
So the New York Times...
She's the propaganda minister for Haiti.
Yes, the minister of truth.
Apparently, the New York Times has one person whose entire beat is Haiti.
Tent City Golf Club dramatizes Haiti.
She's only written about Haiti all her life.
She's a Haiti expert.
Let me go back.
This is interesting.
Let me go back in time.
She might go back for years in Haiti.
This can't be possible.
I'm sure she did something else.
Oh, wait a minute.
Before Haiti, she was on the museum beat.
And at the Metropolitan Museum, they opened a new King Tut exhibit.
Hey, you're going to Haiti.
But I have no qualifications for Haiti.
I'm an art historian.
No, Haiti.
It's Haiti, bitch.
Shut up now and write something.
Oh my goodness.
What she could have written about...
Apparently, the Canadian commander...
I didn't know the Canadians were there.
But yeah, I guess they got...
By the way, let's just remember that we have discovered that this was all about oil.
There are these islands right off the coast of Haiti, which are Haitian, and they've now been sold.
The entire island has been sold to a huge petroleum processing refinery, and they've been trying to get that land for years, and they were, quote, growing impatient.
So here's the Canadian press.
The most senior-ranking Canadian military officer in Haiti has been relieved of command and is the subject of an internal investigation.
Yeah, he's sleeping around, apparently.
Yeah, Colonel Bernard Ouellette, who doubles as the Chief of Staff to the United Nations mission.
Hello?
Hello, Chief of Staff to the UN mission.
Is facing several allegations, including he was involved in an inappropriate relationship.
Of course, they won't tell us what or why.
Cefcom.
Good reporting.
Yeah, yeah, Cefcom.
That must be Canadian Economic Forces Command or something.
The economic forces are at work.
Wow, he's a UN commander!
The chief of staff...
Well, that's not entirely true.
Chief of staff...
This is a kind of...
Talent we can expect when they have the one world government run by the UN. Yeah, oh yeah.
Let's shut this thing down while we can.
I'd like to know what the...
Wow, that's funny.
There's a clip that I would like to play at the end of the show, which is Obama's foreign policy advisor.
Do you remember who that is?
No.
It's a big new Brzezinski.
Oh, yeah, right.
Yes, Brzezinski.
Brzezinski.
Number one globalist in the world.
So somehow, this meeting at the Council on Foreign Relations, which you would call a drinking club, Got out.
And it's a very small meeting.
It's a dinner meeting.
And he's standing up there at a little lectern.
And he goes into this whole thing.
And essentially what he's saying is, well, what's really different now is that the world is politically awake.
So it's making it really tough to have a one-world government.
That's exactly what he's saying.
Really?
Yeah.
Well, that's good news.
Yeah, it is good news.
It is very good news.
Not for him and not for the globalists, but he goes into it.
It's even hard for America to be the global leader because people are politically, he literally says, politically awake.
Which I think is nice.
So we'll play that at the end.
You know, the funny thing is that I have always this sneaking suspicion that these globalists, these international globalists and the guys like him, essentially they've already known, and let me just reinterpret what you just said he's going to say.
They've known for years that it's not possible to ever get to a global government, but they can keep soaking the rich for more and more money because it's the rich who need to cough up the dough for these movements, right?
Because they're the ones who are protecting their wealth.
The idea is that you have a global government so you don't have to worry about war, so people don't steal your stuff.
Now, if you come out and say, oh, now it's getting harder than ever, I think they can put the bite on them.
We need more money to do this.
So it's basically all these globalists are just scammers scamming off the rich.
Yeah.
I like that.
Well, that could be.
Well, you know what?
It's a good scam.
It's a good scam.
It's a great scam.
They're getting it from the oil cabal.
Wow, great scam indeed.
So by making this point that he makes, he's actually saying, we need more.
You guys aren't coughing up enough.
Which, you know, is similar to our plea.
Well, a couple people sent me, as we get into that, a couple people sent me an interesting article about Dexter Ford.
And Dexter Ford was, yes, was at this point, a...
A veteran journalist for Motorcyclist, which is a...
Oh, yeah, this is a good...
Yeah, I got this, too.
Yeah, it's...
I think it's the number two motorcycle magazine in the country.
And he wrote a story...
I think he wrote it for the...
New York Times.
Right, for the New York Times, where he blew open this apparently unknown fact.
See, all the motorcycle helmet guys...
The manufacturers created their own standard of what a good helmet is and how impacts are distributed to your head.
If your head doesn't get crushed like a melon.
And they created their own standards organization.
And so this guy wrote an article for the New York Times, Dexter Ford, and he said, you know, actually, it sucks.
It's less safe than the old standard.
And the advertisers, who are, well, guess who, the same motorcycle helmet manufacturers, got so pissed off that they got the guy fired!
But not from the New York Times!
No, from Motorcyclist Magazine!
Yeah, he didn't write the article for Motorcyclists.
This is the, by the way, I want to mention to people out there, this is why we do this show as a listener supported.
This is the long arm of the advertiser.
I've come close to this.
If you were writing for some magazine that you're associated with, but maybe you're a freelancer and you do a lot of other work on the outside...
And you go out and do what this guy did, which is slam, essentially, the organization that created this motorcycle standard.
Curiously, it wasn't a negative piece, necessarily, because he promoted the new standard, but it was beside the point because these motorcycle helmet guys...
on the market to the suckers out there, and they didn't like the fact that he's making this point in the other publication.
So he's strong-armed, and there's emails to prove this, he's strong-armed the editors and publishers of Motorcycle Magazine to get rid of him.
Yep.
And he's out.
He's fired.
And this is exactly why we cannot do this show with advertisers.
And boy, we could make a killing.
Motorcycle Magazine, according to this article, only has 235,000 subscribers.
And they've got staff.
They've got people getting people coffee.
Yeah, right.
We don't have anybody getting this coffee.
Oh, you have somebody getting you coffee.
Yeah, I get two cups of show.
So anyway, let me play something that's another kind of a point here about advertisers.
I have an Obermann clip.
Now, this is an actual entire block.
An entire block, which lasts about 45 seconds, of Olbermann's show.
It comes out of a commercial.
Olbermann comes out, and he does tease after tease after tease after tease, and then it goes back to another block of commercials.
And most of Olbermann's show, if anybody listens to it, all you get are teasers.
He teases.
It's worse than the extra, which at least there's some information in the teasers.
But his teasers are just blatant nothing.
They're just hot air.
And this is what you have to put up with, with a show, especially a cable show, or what our show would become, if we were on cable or anything.
This is what we would sound like, essentially.
That's what you're saying.
Okay, here we go.
Still working on the tape she has released, but it appears to be authentic.
And in it, she has apparently switched mascots.
Pit bulls in, Mama Grizzlies replacing them.
How many feet can this candidate fit into just the one mouth?
More on abortion in the event of incest.
Quote, two wrongs don't make a right.
And the $20 billion BP escrow for those in the Gulf?
A slush fund.
And she dies it is a slush fund.
School's back in session for all you lonesome Rhodes scholars.
We respond to back you by launching debunk you.
And wait till you see his greatest blooper ever.
And how many groups are there left for Mel Gibson to insult Jews, blacks, next?
Ahead on countdown.
We'll be here.
And then we get a nice little Charlie and the Chocolate Factory AT&T commercial.
Yeah, and of course it's useless.
And you know what?
I hate those so much.
Sometimes I'll even catch myself...
I'm watching HLN, I think, does this a lot.
And Mickey and I will actually be yelling across the house, Oh, it's coming up next!
It's coming up next!
And they'll be like, another block.
And it's like, oh, and then they tease it again.
They tease it for three blocks!
Or more.
I've seen Obermann tease something for the entire show, and then at the end there's a piece of crap.
It's actually called, in the media business, we call it the art of the tease.
Right?
Right.
Yes, the art of the tease, but it's annoying because it's overdone.
It's like poop art.
It's irksome.
It is.
So anyway, let us thank some of the people who made this program possible just by donating money to us.
And it's a great way to – it's a great model for what we're doing.
Of course, it's not great enough.
It's the only model.
It's not great enough, but we had some good executive producers today.
It was great.
Today was a good day.
Maldon, Massachusetts, Sean Zinsmeister gave us $60.
It says, hey, John, I wanted to see if you would mention the new startup tech company I'm working at with, Boston.
Iamhungry.com.
It's a location-based application for the iPhone and Facebook users to find Boston restaurant deals on the go.
I've seen a lot of these, by the way.
A lot of these apps.
There's going to be thousands of them.
But only one guy gives us a contribution.
Hell yeah.
Sean.
Ambit Design, Columbia City, Indiana, 5555, preparing for a person number five in our family.
He's going to have a baby.
Hence the 5555...
Have two biological children and opted to adopt our third, a little girl from Ethiopia.
We're trying to raise money for the adoption and would like listeners to go to cafepress.com slash orthorexia.
That's some great orthorexia t-shirts.
Wait, I've got to check that out.
cafepress.com slash orthorexia.
Thanks for opening my eyes to orthorexia.
My family is seeking treatment.
Orthorexia.
I gotta check it out.
I might want to recycle some of that donated money.
Oh, that's funny.
Matthew Van Meter from Raleigh, North Carolina.
Beautiful little city, $55.
Great show, guys.
Need some karma for my brother's app slash comic crappy cat, crappy cat.
Oh, no, crappy cat.
Crappy cat's a webcomic available at the iPhone app store, Android, coming soon.
I'll take a look at it.
The webpage is crappycat.com.
Ha!
That's funny by itself.
I have a few ideas.
Put these links in the show notes.
What to do with it, but we'll consider suggestions as well.
I might actually do this on the Big App Show.
Crappy Cat.
That's funny.
I like it.
Matthias Merkert in Deutschland has not donated for a long time, but now I need good karma for a new relationship.
Hmm.
What does that mean?
I don't know.
What kind of relationship is that if you need karma for it?
Got me.
Robert Alter, of course, is a knighthood layaway.
So is Lisa Lang.
And then, finally, Jonathan Dahlrimple.
Love the show.
Keep it up.
Been listening for about a year.
Delighted to finally be able to donate.
Could I please get a shout-out to my iPhone app development freelancing gig?
Float right at floatright.co.uk.
Let me go kill this phone call.
Yeah, you do that.
You kill that phone call.
Meanwhile, I'll fire up.
Well, I gotta tell you, there's nothing better than being born on the exact same day when the world comes to an end.
But despite that, a very happy birthday to Jay DeBorak, who celebrates today.
Happy birthday from Uncle Adam, Aunt Mickey, and Papa John.
It's your birthday.
And Jay's 16, Sweet 16, today.
That's right.
Yeah, is it going to be on MTV on that Sweet 16 show?
God, I hope not.
We're taking her out to RN74 with a friend.
Oh, that's a great restaurant.
I haven't been there yet.
It's noisy.
It's a little noisy.
See if you can sit in the back near the window.
They have kind of like a, I call it the Hollywood booth, if you can sit back there.
That's really good.
But the food is good.
Yeah, that's what I've been told.
Yeah, last time we were there with the wrong company, so it just didn't kind of feel right.
But it's a nice place.
It's very hip and swinging.
Yeah, it's hip.
It's a hip joint.
Extremely, yeah.
Speaking of hip, could you please unsheathe that from yours?
Here it comes.
Nice.
Yeah.
Well, hold on.
This is mine here.
Sometimes it's a little tough.
All right.
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Please step up and enjoy some hookers and blows.
And we've got one more, John.
We need the other sword for this.
Look at this.
Whoa.
That's quite a unit you've got there.
Constantine Racketine, another unicum.
Having donated $333.33, three episodes in a row, we kick in the extra penny and congratulate you with your knighthood, now officially known as Sir Constantine, Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable.
Sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you, Sir Constantine.
Okay.
So if you rack up donations of $1,000 or more, you become a Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable, and I guess Tuesday you'll have all the designs done, John, for the rings?
Yeah, I will.
Tuesday's the target date.
Target date.
Nice.
Nice.
I had to put a new machine online.
Finally, by the way, I have an old Vista machine that I had to read.
It craps out, by the way, these machines.
If you're going to install Vista from scratch, Anybody out there who has a copy like the original Vista or one of the old ones?
First install Vista and then don't do anything at all except go online and get the SP1 and install that right away and then don't do anything And go online again and install SP2 without doing anything and get all three of those things working together so it's finally running as Vista SP2 without all these patches in between, which will screw you, by the way.
And this machine becomes very stable.
Hey, that's great, John.
Thanks.
I really appreciate that information.
Yeah, well, you don't care, but there's plenty of people out there that listen to me for this sort of advice.
Well, but that's a different show.
I will say I'm extremely...
It's not.
I don't have a show for it.
You got Tech 5, Top 5, 5, 5 in a row, Tic-Tac-Toe, whatever it's called.
Tech Hippie.
Do it on that.
Okay.
Tech Hippie's perfect.
I am very jealous of the Chinese.
Because they get all the cool UFOs.
Did you see this Zhaosan Airport?
They closed the airport after a UFO was detected?
Yeah, because the UFOs apparently landed and the guys came off and they introduced themselves and they bought some Chinese food and took off.
They wanted it in those containers.
They wanted some fortune cookies.
Well, no one has debunked it any differently.
They can't figure it out.
And the pictures, you're going to tell me these are photoshopped as well?
These are all photoshopped pictures, John?
They closed down the airport.
They closed it!
I don't know.
It's in China.
The Russians have been talking.
Look, if you start reading the Russian reports, there's serious reports.
Reading them?
I write them.
What are you talking about?
I write them.
What are you talking about?
There's reports in Russia of the Greys roaming around town, talking to the mayor, having lunch.
John, they roam around all cities across the world, and they are among us.
The thing is, we are so used to not watching each other and looking at each other.
Remember when we used to...
You actually remember this.
You'd walk by on the street, you'd smile at someone, you'd say hi.
Remember that?
Remember those days?
Mm-mm.
I remember them.
I don't.
I do.
I've never done that.
You've never...
Well, of course not.
You would get off my sidewalk.
Get off the sidewalk, kid!
We used to tip our hat, but if you really...
You used to tip your hat?
Yes, I used to.
I still have my hat.
I have worn plenty of hats in my life.
And I've smoked a pipe, too.
And the grays are amongst us.
Absolutely.
The tall blondes are amongst us.
You just don't notice them.
And the tall blondes are the beautiful ones.
And you can tell because their eyes are a little further apart than they should be.
Those are people from Iceland.
Yeah?
No, well, yes.
Whatever.
They're amongst us, for sure.
The chat room says Steve Jobs is a gray.
Ha ha ha.
Starting to look like one.
Steve Jobs is a great...
Pretty funny.
Okay, Gitmo Nation time.
From the Demon Drink Files.
It's great because we have all these little categories in the show notes and people actually use the category names.
So Pennsylvania has introduced the first ever wine vending machine...
And have you heard about this, John?
No, I should have heard about it.
This should have been blogged on Dvorak.org.
So, customers swipe their driver's license, look into a camera, and blow into a breathalyzer in order to purchase a bottle of wine.
There you go.
What kind of crappy wine are you going to get at this thing?
Well, it's in cartons.
Oh, God.
It's Pronto, fine wine, good spirits.
But the fact that you have to swipe your driver's license, look into a camera, and blow into a breathalyzer is just going a bit too far.
And there's this great picture of a dude in shorts with sandals on and a baseball cap going, oh, okay.
I'll just blow into the breathalyzer.
Fucking slaves.
Excuse me.
Excuse my trash.
We have another one.
I mean, the situation in San Diego at that park now where you can't even go into the park unless you give your fingerprints.
Fingerprint, yeah.
The skate park, right?
Yeah, yeah.
The kids have to actually do a digital fingerprint scan.
Yeah.
Well, there's a couple more under the demon drink that I just wanted to touch on.
We have CNBC, who of course are quite on board with the program, say that Lindsay Lohan's violation of her probation, the reason why her scram bracelet, now in the popular vocabulary, the kids all know it.
They all know what a scram bracelet is.
When Chelsea Handler talks about it on Chelsea Lately...
Then you know that this is popular.
No, you can popularize stuff, whether it's a meme or a product or anything else, by going to the pop icons.
Right.
I mean, what do you think these guys, you know, kids wear their pants down around their ankles or their, remember that era where the underwear was showing up up the back or the certain kinds of tattoos like the, you know, the one in the lower back.
Or tongue piercings.
And piercings and all the rest of it.
It's all done through Pop Icons.
And Pop Icon does it, and then you can get a lot more.
You can get further.
Like if Lindsay Lohan said, you know what, I'm sorry I'm going to jail, but at least I'll be able to listen to No Agenda this weekend.
That would be good.
Yeah, we'd be in.
We'd be in the pocket, baby.
And if she said, I'm donating, that would be even better.
Kumbuka.
Is it kombucha?
Is that how you pronounce it?
That kombucha?
Kombucha, yeah.
That's fermented tea.
Oh, it's a fermented whatever it is.
It's not good.
Well, so apparently she's a big fan of the kombucha, and she drinks a lot of it, and because it's fermented, apparently this organic raw kombucha, which is from Whole Foods...
Is that her excuse?
Yeah, which is from Whole Foods, is the reason why her scram bracelet went off.
Well, serves you right, then.
But, you know, this just means that that's going to get outlawed along with mouthwash, vanilla extract.
I mean, all this stuff is going to disappear from the stores.
Do you know that these days I'm putting salt on top of my coffee just because I can?
Mmm, I love salty coffee.
Have you ever tried that?
You make a nice espresso and you just put a little dash of salt on top?
No, I've never tried that.
I do salt buttermilk once in a while.
Yeah, and people don't realize it.
This is quite an interesting taste.
I think we should promote it.
I grind a little bit of sea salt.
Is it mostly, it would only work with an espresso?
Yeah, no, you don't want to put it on a cappuccino.
No, only on an espresso.
Espresso, no sugar, and just grind, just a couple grinds of sea salt on top.
And it gives you a nice little kind of weird kick, and it's still legal.
That's why I'm doing it.
Yeah, well, it won't be for long.
No, that's why I'm doing it now.
They'll have cameras in your place, and they'll have the word that you're doing this.
They'll have it focus on the machine.
Yeah.
And you'll have the RFID on the salt thing.
So if you have a MEMS in it, so it weighs on a salt.
So if the volume of the salt goes down, you're going to have to put lead weights or something to offset the salt you use.
Yeah.
Dateline, Austin, Texas.
The state system for battling drunken driving is in disarray.
Lawmakers and local officials lamented Thursday.
As heavy-handed punishment laws overwhelm the courts, thwart treatment, and do little to prevent alcoholics from returning to the streets.
So what do we do about it, John?
Shoot them?
Close.
Security, sobriety, checkpoints.
We're now going to be publicizing checkpoints, heightening public awareness, because checkpoints work.
Yeah, we have checkpoints all over California now, too.
This is basically a Nazi Germany, let's face it.
Yeah.
Ausweis Bitter, have you been drinking?
And who's in the article?
Bill Lewis of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
By the way, I'm totally against drunk driving.
This is not about drunk driving.
No, it's not.
This is about removing alcohol from the entire system.
Predominantly mine.
Which I'm finding to be quite a problem.
Gitmo Nation, man.
Are we off the alcohol kick?
No, one more.
Last one.
DryJuly.com, because it's spreading, this is from Gitmo Nation Down Under.
Dryjuly.com It's a neo-prohibitionism.
It's unbelievable that people put up with this crap.
Luckily the kids aren't putting up with it.
I was watching Deutsche Welle.
They had this show on the school system.
It was terrible.
And you know how we call our kids at a certain age the millennials?
Yeah.
You know, it's the kids born between 77 and 90, something like that.
Jay, basically.
Jay and also JC. But anyway, the millennials are what we call...
You know what they're called in Germany?
Schweinhunden?
Not quite.
They're called the fun generation.
Oh, yes, of course.
And they just show, they were talking about the fun generation, which is these kids, recent graduates from college and, you know, kids in high school.
And they were just showing them drinking all the time.
They're just, they're like drinking like crazy.
So, I mean, so, you know, this whole thing offsets.
There is a need for some sort of social lubricants and other things that are provided by the biblical product, alcohol.
And it's a natural product.
It just makes itself.
It makes it in tea, even.
No, I buy this fresh apple juice from these women in the Sierra foothills.
Yeah, and if you let that sit for a week, it's alcohol.
Yeah, you let it sit for a week, it starts to...
You keep it sealed, and that way you get a nice bite to it, because it starts to carbonate, and it's delicious.
I mean, how could you not like it?
So anyway, so the fun generation may save us all.
Well, may I just point out that both your daughter and my daughter are of the fun generation, and JC as well.
However, they're not bumbling, drunken, stoned idiots.
No.
Okay, so...
In fact, my daughter won't even taste anything.
I know.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah, Christina doesn't drink.
Well, she's underage, of course, but it's beside the point.
Yeah, but Christina lives in London, and she doesn't even drink.
She'll have maybe one breezer.
Yeah, well, if they were Germans, they'd be drunk by now.
No, no, no.
Are you kidding me?
I look at her friends in the UK, and I just want to cry.
Anyway, Drew Carey's on board for Dry July, and he's right atop of the website here.
You should check it out, John.
It's a very hip site.
Oh, you hate your job?
Why did you say?
There's a support group for that.
It's called Everybody, and they meet at the bar.
Drew Carey.
And so they've got this pledge to be for sobriety for a month.
And so I'm looking at this thing.
I'm like, who's in charge of this?
So, of course, I do a lookup.
And it's run by the Forsythes.
I'm like, the Forsythes?
Who are the Forsythes?
And the Forsythes is, I'm going to it right now, is an Australian accountancy firm.
And the Forsyth Group does accounting, assurance and risk, financial planning, forensic accounting.
And I don't understand the connection.
And then they have this little media release here.
Forsyth agrees to be pro bono auditors for Dry July to help make a difference to the lives of cancer patients at the Calvary Mater Hospital.
I'm like, now I'm really confused.
It's like, what is this?
What is this?
Did someone just have a meeting and say, we've got to do something?
We've just got to do something?
Or maybe they need a tax write-off?
It's no focus, no direction, and they're the accountants for the money that's being donated to these sobriety groups?
I don't get it.
It's weird.
Well, somebody's going to have to track this down, then, if you can't find it.
Well, it's Gitmo Nation down under.
Who, by the way, defeated the internet filter.
Ah, yes.
Yeah, which, go Aussies.
Hey, good job, guys.
Yeah, the government has shelved the web filter because they couldn't quite figure out what the definition of RC was.
And RC is...
What is that?
Radio-controlled.
Yes, exactly.
Radio-controlled porn.
They couldn't figure out what radio-controlled porn actually was.
I'm looking for the actual definition now.
But they couldn't classify what RC would be.
There was all kinds of disagreements.
Okay, so if you have small breasts, is that child porn?
We've gone through all of this stuff on the show.
Yeah.
The small breasts thing was ridiculous.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, and remember the whole thing about the vaginal operations women were having just to be able to be in a magazine because a natural-looking vagina is classified as porn, yet if you have one that's all snipped and cut and tucked in, then that's okay.
We're out of our minds.
Just out of our minds, I tell you.
Well, a change of topics.
Please, get me off the vagina.
The letter came in last week, Wednesday.
Something I found out is from, let's see, David of Oregon.
I received a phone call last week.
The pre-recorded voice said I had bought a Marie Callender's cheesy chicken and rice frozen entree and that it was recalled.
Oh, right.
Yeah, this was great.
A couple of days later, while filling a prescription at my local pharmacy, the bottom of my receipt printed a warning that I should not eat the same frozen meal that it knew I'd purchased.
Yeah, because it was recalled, except he was buying something at the same store.
Was it the same store?
No, no.
It was at a pharmacy.
Maybe it was the pharmacy in the store.
That's what I thought.
No, I don't think so.
Otherwise, he wouldn't be so upset.
The only way the CDC, ConAgra, or Kroger, it was just a store, could have tracked me and my phone numbers from my Fred Meyer, that's another store, reward shopping card, by the way, which I believe shopping cards are used to track you.
Oh yeah, well duh!
These, I know, and not like that, but it's all going to end up with your insurance company and they're going to say, this guy buys too much weird, you know, fatty food, or this guy buys too much booze, or this guy does this or this guy does that based on your shopping habits.
Anyway, so the question that concerns this guy is who and where is my personal information being sent to?
The CDC? Are they tracking what I eat, my sodium intake?
If so, where is this database and how long do they need to hold this info?
I was never offered any opt-in, opt-out choice for this notification.
Granted, this may be a simple courtesy provided by...
I disagree.
I think when you sign up for the loyalty program and you just sign that piece of paper or whatever, that's when you're signing it away.
People don't read that shit.
That's why it's so easy.
I'm sure that there's some fine print on the little loyalty card form.
Oh, it's really easy.
Just sign up.
You're at the cash register.
People are behind you.
It's like, eh, shit, I'll just sign whatever.
That's where it was.
Oh, I'm sure it's in there.
We should look it up, and you should go get one of those loyalty forms again and check it there.
Yeah, go back to your Kroger.
And let's find out if there must be some organization that's listed in the fine print.
That would be very interesting to know.
Now, you said something pretty interesting there, John, about the loyalty cards eventually, and I totally agree, being used for your insurance, for your health insurance.
Related story, the Michigan High Court has now approved the use of credit scores for insurance.
Right.
Well, this is a problem.
It's a huge problem.
I have no credit score.
Credit scores are being used by employers, this human resources people, to determine whether you're hireable or not.
I don't have a credit score.
Well, you're screwed.
You're not going to get work ever.
You better hope the donations come in.
I'm telling you.
We have to beg for money.
We didn't even tell people they can go to NoAgendaShow.com or Dvorak.org slash NA or ChannelDvorak.com slash NA to donate to this show.
And thank you all, you monthly subscribers.
We highly appreciate that as well.
Yeah, we need more monthly subscriptions.
And look for the $30 one.
And by the way, I want to talk about that for a second.
I've gotten two notes this week where guys who had their monthly subscription cancelled by PayPal, they said, did you cancel me?
They're asking me.
I'm saying no.
Usually it's because you change your credit card number or one payment doesn't go through and you get dropped immediately.
Please, if you're a subscriber, check to see if you're still a subscriber.
Generally, you'll get a note saying you're not anymore.
But we don't take anybody off that list.
I see the chat room saying that insurance companies have been doing this for 15 years.
I disagree.
I disagree.
I mean, I went to that lizard place, the gecko, the Geico.
Oh, I thought you were talking about that bar you're hanging out in.
And I got a good car insurance from them.
Medical insurance would be a different deal, though.
But that's...
I can't get credit.
Every week, I get it from Southwest Airlines.
And just for the hell of it, right?
I just try and send it back.
At some point, you're not going to be able to get on the airline.
I'm telling you.
And I get denied every single time.
They will not give me a credit card.
I can't get a...
Not that I want one, but I couldn't get a car financing anything.
I don't need it.
I don't want it.
I'm happy to live within my means.
You can get a debit card from the...
I have a debit card, and I'm happy with it.
Yeah.
But I will bet you...
Want to take a bet?
If I call up our bank and I say I want a credit card, I bet you I can't get one.
Give it a shot.
I'll bet you I cannot get one.
Well, the problem is our bank no longer does really, you know, in the olden days, the banks are responsible.
They actually had their own programs and they compete with each other.
Now it's all cleared through, you know, there's these big clearinghouses that do all of it.
It's not even your bank anymore for credit.
And the credit rating companies are huge commercial companies.
They make money off of screwing you.
No, there's a whole problem going on with this sort of thing.
People are going to get sick of it.
But the problem is you can't get rid of it.
You have to legislate.
The government's getting involved.
The government has to get involved because these guys will ride roughshod over you the way they're doing.
And you're a perfect example.
You're not a credit risk.
No.
But I am because I don't want credit.
Cash.
John, you and I are on cash.
Unfortunately, we have to deal with a digital money economy.
That's really sad, but cash.
I like it.
I just like it.
It works for me.
No, cash is best.
Cash is king.
So from the Orthorexics Anonymous, I have a new one now.
Orthorexics Anonymous.
Wendy's is introducing a new line of salads, and this is from the press release.
The salads will include real ingredients.
Yeah.
What?
Yeah.
As opposed to wood chips that they normally use?
I know.
Real ingredients, they say.
This is going to be their marketing.
I love it.
Our belief is, says, who's this guy?
Real ingredients are better.
CEO Roland Smith, who I think was in tears for fears, he says, our belief is even though it's tougher and takes longer, it's worth it.
We want a breakfast where people go, wow, here are real cracked eggs.
What is in there now?
What?
Please tell me what is in there now.
The salad line is part of Wendy's effort to target people who care about ingredients and what they ate.
The orthorexics, clearly.
The company teamed up with salad dressing maker Marzetti's to create new flavors such as avocado ranch and pomegranate vinaigrette.
Pomegranate.
Yeah, that's the one.
Pomegranate.
I can't even pronounce it.
It's using multiple types of greens beyond iceberg lettuce, such as spinach, red and green chard, and red and green romaine.
Wendy's signature chili...
Chard in the salad?
Chard.
Oh, please.
Chard.
Chard.
Breakfast will feature real ingredients, too, such as applewood smoked bacon and fresh eggs.
Caldwell declined to say what would be on the breakfast menu.
Now, that, of course, is a secret.
But CEO Roland Smith, formerly of Tears for Fears, said earlier this year the company expects breakfast items to be grilled egg sandwiches, oatmeal bars, roasted potatoes, and fresh fruit.
And real ingredients.
That's cool.
I'm so happy they're on the orthorexic tip with the rest of us.
Ugh.
So, you know, somebody sent me a thing some time ago that apparently the wood pulp industry, as an option, there's a wood product that comes out of...
The wood pulp industry, and it's essentially a fiber-like material, but I think it's in the form of some liquid, some goo.
Apparently these hamburger places, all of them, use this stuff extensively in both their bread and in the meat.
You're not going to see any of the big chains saying 100% beef.
No, because there's wood in there.
There's wood in there.
You're eating wood.
I even had, you know, Mickey wasn't born here, and so the whole concept of Hamburger Helper was quite interesting to her.
That really freaked her out, too.
And we're so used to it, right?
We used to have hamburgers made when we didn't have any money, right?
Of Hamburger Helper.
It was just Hamburger Helper.
Hamburger Helper Hamburger.
And now I could have had some wood chips in there.
Well, it's good for you.
It's good fiber.
Yeah, that's a good...
It's a source of natural fiber.
They could market it that way.
Hey, man, you got some clips.
Let's play some of your clips.
Okay, so we got a couple of clips.
There's something that's been getting to me, which is there seems to be some sort of a weird...
And this is...
I've only seen...
I've seen a little bit with the right-wing talk show, guys, but it's showing up a lot with the left-wingers, which is a...
A weird incredulity where they're not making logical sense to me as I watch this stuff.
And the biggest deal is this Sharon Engel who is running against Harry Reid.
And they are slamming this woman.
This is in Nevada, right?
In Nevada.
Nevada.
Nevada.
So they're slamming this woman relentlessly.
I mean, Obermann and Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow, they're just, for the most innocuous thing, she'll say something like, well, I don't know, I think that's a bad thing.
Oh my God, she says it was a bad thing?
I can't believe this woman.
And I want to play a couple of clips, and then I want to follow that up with another clip of a protester in New Orleans who can't make any logical sense when she speaks.
And this was taken from C-SPAN, but I want you to listen to this kind of hysteria.
Over the Sharon Engel woman.
I've got two clips.
Is she a Democrat?
No, she's a Republican running against Harry Reid.
Can I just say that I saw Obama stumping for Harry Reid in Nevada?
Okay, well here's the clip with Obama.
This is the slush fund clip.
Sharon Engel says, well, you know, they set up a slush fund for BP. Not the Katrina, but the oil guys.
Yeah, BP. For BP, and the entire left-wing talk show people go ballistic over the term slush fund.
I don't even think it was interesting that she said it in the first place, but let's play the slush fund Sharon Engel clip.
Doing that to a private company, and I think you named it clearly as a slush fund.
Well, shortly thereafter, Sharon Engel did a 180, releasing a statement that reads in part, quote, having had some time to think about it, the caller and I shouldn't have used the term slush fund.
That was incorrect.
Then President Obama said this about Sharon Engel.
Let's listen to the President.
She called the compensation we're providing a slush fund.
Now, a few hours later, her campaign puts out a memo saying, well, she didn't mean that.
They said there was some, quote, confusion.
And I'm sure she meant slush fund in the nicest possible way.
Karen Finney's an MSNBC political analyst and John Ralston covers...
You know, just...
Wow.
Because what was interesting about that Obama stump speech in Nevada, and I watched the whole thing thinking I could pull something from it, was actually Harry Reid.
Yeah, he's laughing like an idiot back there.
But who introed the president...
I didn't hear that.
Oh my god.
And he's just up there lying.
One lie after another about how great this administration...
You know, he's got Obama's schlong so far in his throat.
He's like, oh, and we've done this, and we've done that.
And it's like, what?
You're lying.
We've done none of that.
Slush fund according to Wikipedia...
A colloquial term which has come to mean an auxiliary monetary account or a reserve fund.
However, the term has special meaning within the context of corrupt political dealings by governments, large corporations, or other bodies and individuals.
Now, she is, I believe, factually correct, as we discussed on Thursday.
It's a huge tax write-off for BP to create this fund and write it off all $20 billion in one year, even though they're only putting $7 billion into it, therefore creating a tax break.
So she's...
Technically correct.
She probably is, and I don't get why they were so upset.
Because...
She called it a slush one.
She changed her mind.
She changed her mind.
Why are they so freaked about this?
Because this was the president's solution to punish BP... By taking their money, like $20 billion, they make that in a day.
They don't give a crap about $20 billion.
Whoop-de-doo.
So let's go on to clip number two, where she just makes an offhanded comment, and these guys go ballistic about the comment, which was, I heard it as an innocuous nothing.
Really?
Well, let's take it.
Here's Sharon Angle on Harry Reid.
Let's listen to Harry, and then we'll go to Karen.
He doesn't want to talk about the economy.
He wants to talk about anything else, and he's been reading his Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals playbook.
You know, isolate that Sharon Angle marginalizer and then demonizer, and he has been doing that to me, and what we need to do is say, you know, Harry, it's not going to do you any good to hit the girl.
Start talking about the issues.
I think she's doing a good job of marginalizing herself.
Saul Alinsky?
It's ridiculous.
Come on.
As a woman, I have to say, and having worked for women politicians, it's pretty offensive that she would pull out the girl card.
How old is she?
I have no idea.
When do you stop being a girl?
Just a question mark.
Can you still pull that number?
Look, you can call yourself a girl at any point.
I think it's derogatory to use the term for a grown-up woman anyway.
Using the girl card or saying, I'm a woman, he's playing too rough.
Politics is a rough game.
Oh, man.
What is wrong with these people?
The girl card.
Don't play the girl card.
She just made a casual remark.
You know, it was kind of cute, actually.
And they go on that she's like a racist, a pig.
The girl card.
She's marginalizing herself.
And after she said the thing, it comes right back to Chris Matthews who goes, ugh.
Yeah.
He makes the sound.
And I'm not seeing what the big deal is.
She just made some comment on some radio talk show and they're deconstructing it as though Lincoln's Gettysburg is dressed and they're all over her.
Let me take a stab at it.
First of all, Harry Reid is the leader.
He's the head guy.
He's the main man.
He's in a great town.
Everyone loves Vegas.
I'm sure there's a lot of people who are supporting him who are quite interesting.
But really, the oil cabal, which is BP, and everyone's in their pocket, this has to be covered up, the whole thing.
And it's not even a fund, it's an escrow, but I think the term slush fund suffices.
And it was supposed to be like, the President came out, he did this whole song and dance, and he even called it a fund, incorrectly, even though it's an escrow account.
And it's really a huge benefit for BP, and everybody else who's in BP's pocket, including the President, who received the most donations of all politicians from BP, they just want everyone to shut up about it.
So I think if she would go on about anything else...
It would be okay, but because she goes after BP, it's a big problem, and phone calls are made, and like, hey, we need to shut her up.
We need to shut her up now, because people are politically awake, our grand leader, Brzezinski says.
They're not stupid.
They know that people can figure this stuff out.
They know about our show.
If you, for one second, don't think that Rahm Emanuel doesn't at least know about our show, you're crazy.
These people know what's going on.
So what I'm seeing is this disconnect, just a logical disconnect of what is being presented and how it's being interpreted that is fascinating me.
And it got even more interesting with this.
I got these two clips from this woman who can't speak.
She speaks in non sequiturs.
And I want you to listen to this.
It's a long clip.
This is a two-parter.
It's her in front of a rally in New Orleans.
Where did this air?
This was aired over the weekend and this is going on right now.
This is on C-SPAN. And they go out and float around and they just get people.
So she's giving her little pitch to the audience of about 20 people at the most holding signs.
And then she explains who she is and then they go back to her giving her pitch again.
And the second half of it, I want you to, I have to set up the second half because it's like, this is why I connected these two clips, the ones with Chris Matthews and this woman, because it's very weird the way she presents this information, but start playing protester clip first clip.
All right.
Brexit 9527A was the first dispersant they used on this event.
Two, three weeks, they can't recall.
They stopped using 9527A. They started using 9500.
Here are several reasons why we, the people, need to demand stop the dispersants now!
Stop the dispersants now!
My name is Kimberly Wolfe.
I'm a resident of New Orleans.
This is my home.
I'm not leaving it.
I was an environmental scientist.
I am educated.
I have been tracking these dispersants since the beginning of this.
And that's what I'm here for.
I was a vendor at the French market, but the business is dead there, so now all of my energies go into this oil war, especially concerning the dispersants.
According to the CDC, I have a direct quote.
Dispersant use can impact on wildlife and humans.
According to the CDC, if you are exposed to dispersants for a long time or several times, they can cause central nervous system effects, sleepiness, damage to your blood, kidney or liver, and a metallic taste in your mouth.
Ooh, I'm excited!
Ooh!
Ooh!
Woo!
Stop the dispersants now!
I'm sure to BP, BP is doing all that BP can do.
But this is not where BP lives.
This is where we live.
It should be up to us how this cleanup is handled.
It should be up to the environmental scientists and the private sector to get in here with all the skimmers that have been offered, with all the new technologies.
We're going to make mistakes in this war anyway.
Might as well at least make them for the right reasons instead of protecting how many gallons BP is going to have to be fined for.
Alright, so this is a disturbing clip in my mind.
Well, yes.
Do you want to go to the next clip before I respond?
No, I want to discuss this clip first because the next clip just becomes ridiculous.
You can respond after I'm done with this discussion.
Then we can go to the next clip which will give you different ideas.
I don't get how you get the logical jump from reading the list of ailments you can get to saying, ooh, I'm so excited, ooh, we're so excited.
I'm not getting what prompted that response to her reading this list of things that can happen to you.
Well, I think it was meant in a cynical manner, John.
Yeah, it was meant in a cynical, sarcastic manner, but there's a lot of different ways to...
But that particular response, ooh, I'm excited?
You know, it was like...
It was weird.
Unfortunately, people who actually understand what is going on and what is taking place right now in the Gulf is the Coast Guard is flying at night and spraying dispersants.
At night.
Yeah, no, I appreciate the fact that she doesn't like the disperses.
Right, but these people, they're not great public speakers.
And then the final reaction that we should be running these, you know, that she's going to manage the cleanup by herself, apparently, her and her environmentalist friends who actually work at the French market.
I guess they sell, I don't know what she does there that's got anything to do with anything.
But the whole thing is beyond ludicrous.
No, hold on a second.
I've got to push back on this.
These are people who are very, very frustrated.
They're seeing thousands of people becoming ill who are in the area or, God forbid, you actually work on the oil cleanup.
Even BP's doctor is saying conservatively 1,500 people have been taken ill and in the hospital from whatever toxic fumes, which I presume a lot of it has to do with the dispersants.
The fact that these dispersants are actually only used to make this oil sink because if it floated to the surface, then we'd really see what the extent of this is.
I'm not arguing about any of that.
She's just not a great public speaker.
But she's frustrated.
She doesn't know how to communicate her message.
She's a biologist.
You're telling me that the entire area and all these people that are against this, they can't come up with somebody who can think logically and make a presentation?
No, no, no, no.
Correct, because people are very afraid and they're being threatened when they try and go against it.
You can't even talk about the BP slush funding and get marginalized.
No, I think there is no one out there.
I saw CNN with Jimmy Buffett walking on the beach.
Anderson Vanderbilt.
Walking on the beach with Jimmy Buffet.
And Jimmy Buffet, you know, he wants to say something.
People are afraid.
People are afraid.
The people who can really communicate.
If we're going to go with your theory, it goes like this.
Let's find somebody who's clinically insane.
This is like setting up the debate.
I get to set up the debate between you and your competitor.
I'm in charge of the debate.
I want you to win.
So I put you up as the left winger or right winger, and then I put somebody on the other side who's completely nuts.
What you need, yes, correct.
So let's listen to the last turning point.
Wait, you're going to let me respond?
Well, no, you're just going to agree with me.
Not entirely.
What I'm taking issue with is you're calling this woman crazy and it's weird, and it's just a frustrated lady who is a biologist and doesn't know how to communicate, and there's no Hollywood star going to go down there and is going to say, hey, we're getting really screwed.
You're not going to see Leonardo DiCaprio going down there.
You're not going to see anyone go, because that's what you need.
You need some star power.
You need Justin Bieber.
You need someone like that to go down, but these people won't do it because their handlers won't allow them to do it.
And even if they did, there would be no media coverage.
This was on C-SPAN, for Christ's sakes!
No one can fight this.
You cannot fight.
I'd love to do it.
I'll go down.
They'll be laughing at me the second I open my mouth.
Big hair MTV dude.
Shut up, crackpot.
You need someone with integrity.
Let's shove the big app plug in.
Yeah, pretty good.
So, okay, well...
I'm not going to argue the point that they've got nothing.
They've got nothing!
There is nothing in nobody.
But it's so pathetic that they would put people that are just...
Why would they put her on?
They shouldn't even cover this.
Who is they?
Who is they?
C-SPAN. Because the C-SPAN is CNN for the elites.
So the elites can sit there and grope themselves and laugh and say, ha ha ha, look at those fools.
They've got some idiot who can't even talk.
Ha ha ha.
That's what it's for.
That's what it's for.
What's your next clip?
The next clip is her completely befuddled in a way that just seems to me to sound a lot like Chris Matthews.
We need to wake up, and we need to force every entity that has any input into this.
We need to demand that our resources get put into something positive, because this is a nightmare.
We're writing history, and if we're going to write history, we darn well better write some good in there, too.
So this has to be a turning point.
Again, the issue is, it's just like me in a way.
Did you notice the crows in the background?
Walk, walk, walk.
Those were actually vultures circling around the future dead bodies.
I think it's very obvious to me.
That these people don't have Hill and Knowlton.
You know, there's no one there who's going to go hire a big PR agency to do this properly.
That's the only way to fight this is through a media war.
And if you've got CNN, you've got MSNBC, you've got NBC, everyone is basically on board with...
Let's just cover the new cap that we're putting on.
And even the media is like, oh, we can't go near it because it's a $40,000 fine if we overstep our boundaries.
But who is going to report on this except for people like us?
There's a couple of small Internet shows, which, granted, were not even that small by Internet standards, but in the broad scheme of things, were nothing.
So these people are frustrated and they do the classic mistake and they go too far.
Their emotions are out there.
You need a statesman, someone who...
You need the right guy to stand up.
Like Charlie Sheen did for 9-11.
And what happened to Charlie Sheen?
Immediately.
They throw the guy in jail for drinking, for beating his wife.
They're constantly after the guy.
Constantly.
See, you can't win.
You just can't win.
And these are just frustrated people.
I feel for her.
I really do.
And I wish we could help them out.
But other than exposing this, there's not much more that we can do.
But they need Lady Gaga.
Well, on a lighter note...
She should go there with that telephone on her head.
I think we might as well just change the subject and play Ozzy.
Now, Ozzy actually would be a good one.
Well, take a good look.
That was Ozzy Osbourne.
He may be paranoid.
Somehow, though, he's alive.
And scientists say they...
Hold on a second.
How come I only got one channel here?
Uh, you may only have one channel.
Ah, that's...
Hold on.
That sounds fine coming across.
Sounds quite annoying, actually.
Well, there's nothing you can do about it.
Okay.
Well, take a good look.
That was Ozzy Osbourne.
He may be paranoid.
Somehow, though, he's alive.
And scientists say they want to know why.
I think Ozzy wants to know, too.
DNA researchers in St.
Louis say they are part of a team that is devoted to figuring out why Ozzy Osbourne is not dead.
Years of drug and alcohol abuse frying his brain, they believe.
But unlike scores of other rock stars, stardom has not yet taken down the aging prince of darkness.
An expert states the study could help determine the relationship between DNA, the environment, and Ozzy.
And on that note...
Wait a minute.
What was that?
This is like big news.
You haven't been following it.
Yeah, they're amazed he's still alive.
Duh.
That's what rock and roll does for you, man.
The devil keeps him alive.
The Lord below.
We all know that.
Um...
I have a clip from the National Treasure.
Ooh, let me play the...
You know, they've changed the NewsHour.
A National Treasure!
Besides the NewsHour having Rahm Emanuel on for way too long, they now have a little section where they just wrap off a bunch of news items as though it was like a network show, which I found an interesting thing.
But they put this thing on here.
You know the guy who's taking over the Iraq War?
This Mattis?
No, he's the new...
He's the new...
They moved...
McChrystal.
They fired Crystal.
They moved Petraeus over to the other war, and then they had to put somebody in his place.
And I think that Gates must be looking at Wisconsin and going, don't we have anybody that isn't kind of nutty?
That's Secretary of Defense Gates.
Yes, and...
And so they play this little clip, and I actually forgot about this little item, but Mattis is the guy who kind of put his foot in his mouth earlier, and they discuss it a little bit.
And Gates talks about, well, you know, these things aren't going to happen anymore.
Okay, here we go.
Mattis has been tapped to take over the U.S. Central Command.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced it today.
Mattis would replace General David Petraeus, who left to become the top commander in Afghanistan.
That's after General Stanley McChrystal was fired for criticizing administration leaders in Rolling Stone magazine.
Mattis was criticized in 2005 for saying, quote, it's fun to shoot some people.
But Gates played down that incident today.
That was five years ago.
Appropriate action was taken at the time.
I think that the subsequent five years have demonstrated that the lesson was learned.
Obviously, in the wake of the Rolling Stone interview, we discussed this kind of thing.
He's trained.
He's a new man.
He's a new man.
He doesn't believe it's fun to shoot people.
I love, though, that I think that Rolling Stone, John Wenner called up and said, Hey, we did this whole deal for you guys, but we need a little promotion here.
So could you please not just say A Magazine, but make sure you say Rolling Stone Magazine.
Have you noticed that?
Now they're all saying Rolling Stone instead of just A Magazine.
Yeah, good catch.
Yeah, oh no, he's like, John Wenner, he's a businessman.
He's like, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Hey, we made a deal, remember?
You've got to mention the name of the magazine.
We're not just a magazine.
We're Rolling Stone!
Yeah, Matt is a good guy.
He's changed.
He's okay now.
He doesn't just like killing people.
It was appropriately dealt with.
Basically, they took him and said, Shut up.
And then five years later, he hasn't said anything, and this is fine.
He's a changed man.
It's okay.
It's all good now.
It's fun to shoot people.
Hey, speaking of fun, we had...
Most real generals aren't for, you know, they're against war, they're thoughtful, they're not like...
No, it's fun to shoot people.
It's fun to shoot people.
Come on, John, you know that it's fun.
So we had the cop, the BART cop, who shot and I think murdered in cold blood this guy.
I saw the video.
At the BART station in Oakland.
So they tried him in Los Angeles.
Because, of course, they didn't want any Rodney King-type stuff happening in Oakland.
But I guess there were kind of some riots happening in Oakland.
There was not a lot of reporting here in Los Angeles, of course.
Oh, yeah, no, the place was a mess.
The memo went out, like, shh, don't talk about what's going on in Oakland.
We don't want that shit over here.
But they gave him second-degree manslaughter, which is like, you killed him, but, wow, you really didn't mean it.
Yeah.
Or something like that.
And I'm appalled.
I'm really appalled at that.
That just seems wrong.
Yeah, it won't last that long in prison.
Right.
Well, he's going to be at the country club prison.
I don't think he's going to go to the real slammer, is he?
I don't know.
They haven't decided.
I don't think so.
Yeah, there was a bunch of riots, and a bunch of people got arrested, and they burned a couple cars and smashed a lot of windows.
Of course, the joke of it is the first thing that they busted up, they busted into the footlocker.
Yeah.
And stole all the shoes.
We need to get some shoes while we're at it.
It's almost like a stereotype joke.
It's a horrible joke is what it is.
Well, it doesn't matter because we were all way too preoccupied with the media distraction of the week.
Didn't we have a jingle for that somewhere?
Didn't we have a media distraction of the week?
I can't find it.
LeBron James.
And I am amazed at...
And I've only read the story.
I'm amazed that you bring this story into this show.
Well, the reason why I'm bringing it up is because I only read it this morning because I heard so many people talking about it.
I'm like, what is this?
And, you know, it's about LeBron James who is in Cleveland, I guess, and he's going to Miami and he's going to make $100 million because there's no income tax there.
He'll make more than he would have, whatever.
I'm like, isn't it amazing how the millennials, I would say, Worship!
Worship, guys!
No.
What, no?
The millennials, they're not even interested in basketball or generally in sports.
It's a big problem for the sport ownerships.
No, it's not the millennials.
It's guys my age.
Okay.
It's your age.
Yeah, alright.
Well, regardless of that, that's actually good news that the millennials aren't interested.
But it's just amazing that, didn't we used to worship people who did something?
It's all about the money.
Yeah, it's about the money, it's about this rigged sport.
I'm sure basketball is rigged too.
There's too much money in it for it not to be.
Well, the way basketball is rigged is by point shaving, which is a very interesting technique.
In other words, for one thing, it won't piss off the homers.
Essentially, the way the Vegas spread goes is a team is going to win by X number of points.
And so if you can let the game deteriorate, say you're the better team and you're predicted to win by 10 points, and if you win by 8...
Then you end up...
Then you lose the bet.
Right.
Right.
Okay, I gotcha.
Hmm.
Well, there were a couple of just really wacky distractions going on.
Here's one for...
I do have one for the millennials.
So we had LeBron James, and this, of course, all falls under the...
Don't look over here!
Nothing to see here!
And a little bit of real news as well.
So CBS really had to come up with something to occupy our kids, John.
And they came up with this little ditty.
Fans are stinking their teeth into all things vampire.
But it may have spawned a troubling new trend among teens.
Ow!
Biting.
Ow!
Some are even vamping for the camera, then posting the clips on YouTube.
That's insane.
I don't like that.
That's weird.
It's a little strange.
Yeah?
Strange.
Fifteen-year-old Paola Hernandez thought so too when she was propositioned in the seventh grade.
There was this guy, he said, um, so will you be willing to give your blood for me?
And I said no.
While the Dallas 10th grader refused, she says couples at her school are drawing blood to pledge their love and devotion.
It's a way to belong to somebody and mark their territory.
And it's not just couples.
Friends are also leaving their mark, according to parenting blogger Vanessa Van Pitten.
Listen to this woman.
She's great.
This really concerns me because it has to do with possession.
We're talking about something that's about ownership, possessing your friend.
Experts say it's not surprising to see this kind of behavior from teens who just can't seem to quench their thirst for vampires.
You said something?
I didn't say anything.
Oh.
Okay, so that's the report.
This is the early show, by the way.
This is what a lot of people watch.
Kids are biting each other.
Of course, this is all because of the Twilight movies.
I'm going to take a bite out of another teen trend is our Dr.
Jennifer Ashton.
Jen, good morning to you.
There has got to be a better way to express love and devotion than biting...
That's right.
You would think so.
And this is kind of the modern-day version of the hickey.
But we have to remember, any time there's a break in the skin, especially when you're talking about the human mouth, it's loaded with bacteria.
That can be an entry for that bacteria to get into the skin.
What do you expect?
The kids can send naked pictures to each other.
They get deemed as sex offenders.
You know, you can't do anything.
They might as well just go bite each other in the neck.
And, of course, the biggest distraction was Mel Gibson, which...
I gotta tell you, I think Mel Gibson's pretty funny.
There's only two ways I can see the Mel Gibson story.
One way is he's actually a patriot, and all the things he says is true, or at least he believes all the things he says is true.
It depends on what clip you listen to.
I mean, he's irked at his wife, girlfriend, whatever she is, mom of his daughter.
Notice how that is continuously the mother of his child.
It's not like his girlfriend.
It was the mother of his child.
Well, I don't know what she is because they never explain it.
They just say that.
And I don't even know who this woman is.
He's apparently annoyed with her for some reason because I guess she's a tramp.
And I don't know.
I couldn't follow the whole thing.
I just said Mel Gibson is nuts.
Well, and she recorded his phone conversation.
Yeah, which tells you something right there.
Yeah, tells you something about her.
But, you know, in 1995 or 1996, Gibson did a Playboy interview.
Actually, I put that link in the show notes at NoAgendaShow.com, where he talks about the New World Order and the Illuminati...
And he's been doing this for a long time.
Yeah, well, his movie conspiracy theory came out right after that.
Of course it did.
Well, of course, he would, I mean, whether he believes any of this or not, he would obviously do the promotional interview and then do the movie.
I mean, come on.
But the movie was good.
Yeah, it was a great movie.
Yeah, it was fun.
So it's either that or...
Well, maybe he's got a movie coming out.
Well, William Morris dropped him.
He's no longer a client.
That doesn't mean anything.
No.
This could all be a publicity stunt for all we know.
I think the guy's just a rough and tough Australian.
He just doesn't take no shit.
He just says it the way it is, whatever he wants.
I don't know, man.
I'm on the fence about Mel.
Or maybe someone calls him up and says, Mel, dude.
Uh, look, Lindsay's in frickin' jail.
We can't use her.
We need you to do something.
Can you just do something?
We need a little distraction here, Mel.
Can you just, like, slap your girlfriend around or something?
Just do something for us, man.
We need a little bit of help here.
Ah, just love it.
So that was all your media distraction.
Naomi Campbell will indeed testify at the war crimes trial about receiving the blood diamond.
So that is now confirmed, and you heard it here first on No Agenda.
And I just had a couple more things I didn't want to overlook.
The IMF, the International Monetary Fund, I guess the economic hitmen are in now, is telling the United States we need tough cuts and tax increases.
Do they have anything on us?
Did we take any money from them recently?
From the IMF? No, I don't know why.
The IMF should be sponsoring this show.
Yeah.
However, in New Jersey, now New Jersey, of course, they're probably in the same disarray as California, only it's a smaller state.
Not much, I might add.
The economic hitmen are really in there.
They're privatizing everything.
Motor vehicle inspection, the turnpike toll booths.
They're just going to privatize everything.
So that's a complete economic...
If you have never read the book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, this is what the United States is good at overseas.
Now we're doing it in our own states, which just blows me away.
Facebook, and this is a throwback to our producer Matt, who heard about the sell-all...
The Department of Homeland Security was touting as the next big thing on your cell phone.
It'll be able to detect a biological warfare attack.
And so he did some research, and he says it turns out that the...
The CIA Venture Capital Fund, which we talked about a bit on this show, In-Q-Tel, that they actually have invested in a number of companies that were all developing this technology to sense chemical and biological agents, and now all of a sudden, oh, look, now we all have to have these things in our cell phones.
Wow, talk about a fix.
You have to put a link to that website because it's interesting to see who's involved with that venture capital company.
In-Q-Tel?
Yeah, and by the way, there's also a report that came out regarding Facebook since you brought it up.
Well, thank you.
It's exactly where I was going because they also invested in Facebook.
Yeah, well, for good reason.
But the Facebook story I want to talk about is the fact that now they've determined that it seems that women in particular are actually addicted to Facebook.
And I can confirm that because both my wife and daughter are on Facebook way too much.
Yeah, Mickey's on it too.
Way too much.
Facebook is now going to recognize faces to help tag photos.
Hello?
You think that's some technology there?
Yeah, that's what I want.
I want facial recognition.
There could be a reason that Facebook never goes public because if you actually looked into the...
It may not be a company that...
It may be shady.
You think?
Yeah.
You don't actually think that Zuckerberg jabroni runs anything, do you?
That kid can't run a mile, let alone run a company like that.
There's no way.
There's no way.
So I got a new book I want for the book club to put on.
Nice.
Fun book.
Mm-hmm.
It's called Without Conscience, The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us.
Oh, let me guess.
By Dr.
Robert D. Hare, H-A-R-E. Very good read for anyone who's in the workplace.
He also did a book called Snakes with Ties, which is a book that talks about psychopaths in the workplace.
And what is a psychopath?
Would that be a denialist?
No, a psychopath is someone with no conscience.
No, I'm just asking if the book calls out...
A denialist would not be a...
Well, no, I don't think a denialist is.
Depends on your vantage point, I guess.
It could be a psychopath, but generally probably not.
It's probably the people that coined the term are probably the psychopaths to keep us off the track.
And I also have one last clip, which I want to put in, which is great moments in acting.
And I was talking again about the protester that was illogical and the Chris Matthews that was illogical.
And I think it comes from this new meme of illogic.
I think it comes from porn movies.
This is a clip from...
Wait a minute, you have my attention.
This is a great moments in acting clip from a Skinamax film called The Hills Have Thighs.
I'm Tanya, and you've been marooned here by a tribe which has roamed these mountains for more than seven decades.
A tribe?
Yes.
They're strong, silent, and desire only one thing.
And what's that?
The men.
No, what do you mean?
I'll explain later.
Right now you must come with me to my dwelling before the sun sets, as they come after you in the darkness.
As for your ladies, they may not be as fortunate.
Ben, don't listen to her.
She's like a fruitcake.
What else are we going to do?
I mean, cell phones are useless out here.
If there's even a kernel to the truth on what she's saying, we need to follow her.
We have no food, no drinks, and more importantly, no gun.
I don't trust her.
How far to your place?
It's just there, over their eyes.
No, come.
We must go quickly.
There isn't much time.
It's almost like minutes.
I'm not going to speak for all of you, but I'm all for it.
You might be.
Mayor?
Fine.
I'd rather do that than stay here.
Okay, good.
I see we go.
Lady?
Let us see your place.
Yeah, I could probably get you a bit part in that if you want.
God!
I mean...
I can get you a bit part.
She wants you to go to her dwelling.
Who writes this dwelling?
So it's not just the acting, it's the writing as well.
Nice.
All right, what we didn't get to today was Trains Good, Planes Bad.
I'll just play the jingle just to indoctrinate everybody one more time.
All aboard!
Trains Good, Planes Bad!
Woo-hoo!
There's plenty to come on that front, including a study out of the University of California at Berkeley that shows that all the models they're using to sell this bogus train in California may all be wrong.
Well, not only that, but Governor Rendell, who is the governor, I think, of Pennsylvania, is now actually, I guess he's shooting his mouth off.
He's saying, hey, the real thing we need here, we need freight trains.
And everyone's talking, even Schwarzenegger.
Who's jumping the gun.
Yeah, Schwarzenegger and Bloomberg both also said, yeah, and this was at the Building America's Future Coalition.
Yeah, we need freight trains.
Yeah, freight trains.
So they all are jumping the gun.
But I would like everyone to do is go to the newsstand.
And don't buy it, but just pick it up and browse if you don't mind.
Browse the latest Time magazine.
Now Time magazine we know early on was in on the entire military-industrial complex.
They're completely in their shills.
And Michael Grunewald, who in fact was married on a train, he's a train fetish, writes this article.
Which has Hill and Knowlton all over it, about how great it was.
He took a train, and yeah, it took him 10 hours for a drive that normally takes 4 hours, but with a high-speed train, that's going to be so awesome.
We'll be zipping around like they do in Europe and Asia, and I was able to get on Wi-Fi, and I didn't have to deal with the stupid automobiles, and it just makes you want to puke!
Oh, well, let's back that up with another pounding.
This last week, and today, there will be a remake on PBS, the National Treasure, of Murder on the Orient Express.
And all through the entire week this week, there was David Suchet taking an Orient Express ride on a two-hour special running on PBS just about every night.
Yeah.
From all the way from London all the way down to Prague on this train.
And you wanted to go on the train ride when you were done.
It is so good.
But we all know it's for freight trains.
Look at that link from Governor Rendell because that's what it's really about.
It's not about transporting you unless you have become freight.
And that's just a small step from human resource, I might add.
Well, some people may be afraid.
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We can use your help over the next few days.
And the game, I guess, has begun, so we're going to go take a look and see how our theories pan out.
Remember, John thinks it'll be a spanking.
I think it'll be a sudden death and penalties after overtime.
Right.
But I don't think that's it.
I think both are good ideas.
Yes.
Either way, we're pretty sure Spain should win because that's the program.
And that's what the octopus says.
And after the closing credits, we'll play this six-minute clip of Zbigniew Brzezinski, who is afraid of the politically awakened public, which is ruining all our plans.
Coming to you from Gitmo Nation West in the Hilltop Watchtower, Crackpot Command Center, in the People's Republic of Southern California.
In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where the sun's not out yet, but it will be eventually, I'm John C. Dvorak.
We'll talk to you again on Thursday, right here on No Agenda.
Let me begin by making just a thumbnail definition of the geopolitical context in which we all find ourselves, including America.
And in my perspective, that geopolitical context is very much defined by two new global realities.
The first is that global political leadership By which I mean the role of certain leading powers in the world has now become much more diversified unlike what it was until relatively recently.
Relatively recently still, the world was dominated by the Atlantic world.
As it had been for many centuries.
It no longer is.
Today the rise of the Far East has created a new but much more differentiated global leadership.
One which in a nutshell involves, if one can hazard, an arbitrary list of the primary players in the world scene, the United States, clearly.
Maybe next to it, but maybe the European Union.
I say maybe because it is not yet a political entity.
Certainly, increasingly so, and visibly so, China.
Russia, mainly in one respect only, because it is a nuclear power co-equal to the United States, but otherwise very deficient in all of the major indices of what constitutes global power.
All right.
Behind Russia, perhaps individually, but to a much lesser extent, Germany, France, Great Britain, Japan, certainly, although it does not have a politically assertive posture, India is rising.
And then in the background of that, we have the new entity of G20, a much more diversified global leadership, lacking internal unity with many of its members in bilateral antagonisms.
That makes the context much more complicated.
The other major change in international affairs is that for the first time in all of human history, Mankind is politically awakened.
That's a total new reality.
Total new reality.
It has not been so for most of human history until the last 100 years.
And in the course of the last 100 years, the whole world has become politically awakened.
And no matter where you go, politics is a matter of social engagement.
And most people know what is generally going on, generally going on in the world and are consciously aware of global iniquities, inequalities, lack of respect, exploitation.
Mankind is now politically awakened and stirring.
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