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July 18, 2010 - No Agenda

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	This was pathetic!
	This is No Agenda.
	Providing the best legal high on the interwebs.
	And coming to you from the Hilltop, Watchtower, Crackpot Command Center, and Gitmo Nation West.
	Here in the People's Republic of Southern California.
	In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
	And the show, by the way, is still in beta.
	I'm in Northern Silicon Valley.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Hey, hey, in the morning to you, John.
	And in the morning to you and everyone listening and all the ships at sea.
	And all human resources.
	Hope you're ready and charged up because the government needs you for power generation.
	Oh, yeah, there's a battery story floating around.
	Yeah, of course, we'll get to that.
	How you doing, John?
	Once again, we have succeeded in not speaking with each other since the last show, and I'm really enjoying it.
	Yeah?
	Yeah, it's good.
	It's really good.
	It's mutual.
	It's not that I don't love you, it's just I love you more when I haven't spoken to you in a while.
	I know, it's Mickey and I that have been keeping in contact.
	Is that true?
	I've got all the girls here.
	Confirmation on that.
	So, to start it right off, John, just before we get to anything, I think we should all get into the mood here.
	On the show.
	And of course, there was that crazy story about eye dosing that we talked about on Thursday.
	Yeah, and as a result, we got a slew of mail.
	A ton of mail.
	People, well, no!
	It works, and they have examples of where it goes back in history, and this is nothing new, and it was sold at the Sharper Image or something.
	Well, I remember the Sharper Image glasses and earphones, which cost like $350, and I was like, I'm not going to buy that.
	That looks stupid.
	And I guess it's part of its binaural recording, which I don't really understand the technology behind binaural.
	Is it just a way of phasing the two channels, or how does that work?
	I don't know.
	Come on, John, you're supposed to know everything.
	I don't know that.
	I mean, something wacky about it is all I can tell you.
	So I got an email, one of the many emails.
	I think this one, shoot, of course I can't remember who it was from.
	There is an iPhone app for that.
	No.
	Yes, so I have hooked up my iPhone.
	Is that the one that spins and looks like a disc spinning, like they're going to hypnotize you?
	Do you have that on your iPhone?
	Yeah, yeah, I got that one.
	No, this is actually a binaural audio only.
	Let me find it here for a second.
	And what is it called again?
	It's called iDoser.
	There you go.
	This apparently is the one, John.
	And what's great about it, the app itself costs $4.99.
	It's too high.
	Well, it gets better than that because, well, first of all, this is iDoser.com.
	Binaural Brainwave Doses.
	And you have to hear, idose.com makes no medical, psychological, physical, or otherwise claims to the effects of these binaural-based stimulated experiences.
	I accept.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Now, so they've got a couple of...
	They've got a couple of preset binaural thingies in here that come with the app, like Reset, Brain Plus, Anti-Sad, Confidence, Inspire, Sleeping Angel.
	Sounds like a meditation.
	It sounds like something you find in one of those local newspapers that gives all these courses and howling and things like that.
	Right, but then what's interesting, they have what's called in-app purchases, which is something new Apple has done.
	Now we're talking.
	Yeah, yeah.
	In-app purchase.
	Oh, man, everything's blowing up here.
	And so here's the ones you can buy, and you tell me when to stop.
	Lucid Dream, Astral Projection, Out of Body, Divinorium, first love, orgasm, adrenaline, cactus buttons, green, absinthe, poppies.
	You're supposed to say stop.
	Oh, stop.
	Poppies.
	Let me read the description here.
	It's a 15-minute program.
	It's The Joy Plant, a naturally occurring...
	i can't even read this analgesic analgesic harvested as a latex harvested as a latex from ripe papaver somiferum that causes euphoria euphoria followed by a sense of well-being and a calm drowsiness or sedation breathing slows time reverses or stops the world is a haze i'm like that sounds good This is basically heroin.
	This is heroin.
	So, do you mind if we all get stoned for a second and we'll do a massive experiment here and see if it really works?
	I would welcome it.
	Okay.
	Alright, so if you're listening to this on speakers, turn down...
	Caution, caution, caution.
	Yeah, caution.
	You may never be the same.
	We're going to fire up the program here.
	And let me turn up the volume.
	Hmm...
	You don't have your headphones on, do you?
	Hey man, don't mess up my experience.
	Oh, you're not hearing it.
	Right, hold on.
	That's probably messing up everybody's experience.
	He got cut into a jar.
	Be quiet.
	Man. .
	That's it?
	Shit, man.
	I'm wasted, dude.
	I have to say, if you turn it up really loud in the headphones, it does affect your head, that's for sure.
	But I don't know if it's doing anything for me.
	Let's just listen one more second here.
	Sounds like somebody taking a...
	Alright.
	At first it sounds like somebody taking their wet finger around a rim of a glass.
	Hey, I do feel kind of a little queasy.
	Oh, notice.
	Stopping a dose that is playing is not recommended.
	You will not have processed the full sequence or achieved full effects.
	Do you still want to stop playing the dose?
	I think we should, John.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I can't stop it, man.
	I can't stop it, man.
	It's too good.
	Five bucks.
	It'll probably make about $20 million.
	No, wait.
	The poppies was an additional $399.
	Oh, you had to pay extra?
	Yeah, for the poppy sound.
	Yeah, of course.
	You don't just get poppies for free, dude.
	I don't know.
	Actually, that high...
	So it's $4.99 plus the $3.99 for the in-app purchase is only $1 less than an actual dose of heroin.
	In Salt Lake City, $10 is the current going price for a bump of heroin.
	So, I don't know, man.
	I think we should go for the real deal.
	Yeah, but you can use this more than once.
	You can't reuse the heroin.
	Right.
	Okay, so if that affected anyone, let us know.
	Well, since people want wine and food reporting...
	There you go.
	Wasn't that it?
	I got to mention something.
	Yeah, that was it.
	Yousef's Hummus.
	Okay.
	It's not bad.
	Yousef's Hummus?
	Where do you get it?
	Costco?
	I don't know.
	You know, I have it in the refrigerator and I don't know where I bought it.
	Which says something.
	But anyway, the people out there who like hummus probably have discovered...
	I mean, if they've ever had real hummus made by an old lady in the basement in a Middle Eastern restaurant in the Middle East.
	Yes.
	Real hummus made fresh daily.
	Yeah.
	Know that you can't get good hummus in this country.
	No.
	But there's stuff that approaches it, and the one I always liked the most was Sabra, which is a national brand.
	But Sabra, they refuse to use olive oil in their hummus.
	They use soybean oil, and it bugs me, but they have the texture and everything down.
	So this Yousef uses olive oil.
	So that's your tip of the day.
	Oh, thank you very much.
	Eric DeShiel says he got hard from our little experiment there, so it did something.
	I'll let that one pass.
	Do we have any executive producers?
	No, we have no executive producers for the first time in six months.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	People either didn't like last week's show or they found it boring.
	We get the feedback.
	The feedback we get from our shows is the donations we receive in the week that follows.
	Obviously, we did something wrong.
	We got nothing.
	But hold on, I'm opening up the spreadsheet.
	We don't have anything?
	Don't we have any donations?
	No, we have some minor donations, but the executive producers began at $200.
	We have nothing above $100.
	And that's only a couple of donations from some regulars.
	Wow.
	So who do we put on the credits for executive producer?
	We're going to credit ourselves.
	We're the executive producers.
	Wow.
	That's not okay, John.
	No, I know.
	So we have to deconstruct last week's show.
	But a lot of people like last week's show.
	I got a lot of emails from people saying I like last week's show.
	You must have encouraged them not to donate then.
	I don't know why.
	Holy crap.
	So last week's show, the way I see it, I mean, people can talk all they want about liking something or not liking it.
	We liked it.
	We had a good time.
	We entertained ourselves.
	But you have to go with results.
	Results is result-oriented, and it's got nothing.
	Okay.
	Well, crap.
	I hope you got something good for this week, then.
	No.
	Screw it.
	Here's one for you.
	I do believe that we had a little touching of the button of the earthquake machine.
	Now, we've had a lot of quakes in the past couple weeks around the globe, and I've...
	Yeah, what bothers me is that this is an earthquake in another area where there shouldn't be an earthquake.
	Yeah, which was basically the Washington, D.C. area.
	And it's interesting because it's not, you know, in some of these areas, we get these, you know, because people are drilling for, or doing the cracking, the earth cracking, so they can get natural gas out of the earth, and they're screwing everything up and creating these minor earthquakes, but...
	I don't know of anybody that's doing that in the Virginia, D.C., Maryland area.
	Yeah, the center was Rockville, Maryland, and I used to live there.
	Rockville, Maryland is where a lot of spooks live.
	I used to live there.
	Now, here's what I found interesting.
	First of all, the president was about to do his BP well-capping announcement.
	That morning at 9am, along with the announcement, because, man, we had our show on Thursday.
	I was telling everyone that it looks like by Friday they were going to ram through this financial reform bill, Consumer Protection Act, which, of course, only empowers the Federal Reserve, the private banks, to take hold of the economy.
	And they did it that day.
	Like, I hadn't even uploaded the show and the bill had already passed.
	Like, oh, we're done.
	We want the Friday off or whatever.
	So the president was also going to hit the lawn to talk about that.
	And you'd almost think that it was like a little warning.
	Like, hey, make sure you do it right, Barack.
	And then when the president was asked at the press conference, Mr.
	President, first question, Mr.
	President, did you feel the earthquake?
	No, I did not.
	Like, oh, really?
	He says he didn't feel it.
	Maybe he didn't.
	There's a lot of earthquakes you don't feel.
	Yeah.
	Maybe he doesn't know what an earthquake feels like.
	There's a possibility it's from Illinois after all.
	Yeah.
	So, anyway, I just found a lot of coincidences in the entire occurrence.
	And, you know, I'm not always saying that earthquakes are made by the machine, but we know they exist.
	We know the Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, testified that they exist and that he was afraid of them and we needed to be able to combat them.
	And, well, there you go.
	Yeah, you've documented it.
	Yeah, so 3.6 magnitude, which is very small because they also changed the scale from the Richter scale to some other scale.
	We don't know what the heck it is.
	Yeah, so we don't even know what it means.
	We don't even know what that means.
	3.6 might have been a 1 on the Richter scale.
	It could have been a 10 for all we know.
	We really don't know.
	Someone suggests we should make Mel Gibson the executive producer.
	Ha!
	Which is funny, you know, our meme kind of, or I would say my meme of, in a way, defending Mel Gibson is kind of catching on.
	I'm not the only one.
	Now some mainstream media is also saying, hey, you know, give the guy a break.
	Hold on a second.
	Yeah, but none of it amounts to a hill of beans unless someone got him the word.
	Yeah, what we really want is we want him to admit that he was on Chantix and that's why he was so outraged and insane.
	Everything points to a clear case of it.
	Yep.
	So there's an interesting situation developing around Oakland in particular.
	Somebody pointed out the possibility exists that there's been a decrease in crime all over the place.
	The analysis on some level is, and you're seeing this in a lot of the big city urban areas, and it's not because of the policing or anything else, because in Oakland they're laying off 80 cops and they're actually lessening the policing.
	In fact, from what I understand, they're saying in Oakland that we can't afford the police force, so we're not really going to go after all crimes, but we will continue to write tickets.
	Tickets, no problem.
	It's easy money, easy money.
	And they still have the owner's parking laws and the rest of it.
	By the way, you know, San Francisco is the worst city in the world.
	I've said this a number of times, and you would agree with me.
	For parking, yeah.
	So they have these parking...
	Now, everybody in the country, for some unknown reason, has taken out parking meters, and they're putting in these electronic systems.
	Yeah, the ones with the scanner, so they know exactly how long you've been there.
	That's the extreme case, and that's in San Francisco.
	In San Francisco, they not only put in a system that you have to go to this corner or this kiosk, and the way it works in San Francisco, your parking spot has a number.
	You go to a kiosk, and you punch in...
	The number of your spot, and then you throw money into this machine, and then the machine also has a sensor on it, so if you go back and feed the meter, because they don't want you staying around for more than two hours.
	I mean, the original reason for parking meters was to keep the traffic...
	Keep it flowing, right?
	Keep it moving.
	Keep it moving.
	And it never became...
	The idea was never that it would become an income source until some bean counter said, you know, we can make money with these meters.
	And so more recently in San Francisco, for example, you get three minutes for a quarter.
	So if you had to load up, if you wanted to stay an hour or a couple hours, you'd be throwing quarters in like crazy, and by the time you get the last quarter and you've already used up the first three minutes, Right.
	Okay, we know about your peeve.
	What's the point?
	Okay, so the other thing is, so they've decided, the problem is if these meters fill up with quarters, you know, they just clog up, so now they've got these cards you use, and they don't want you using money at all, so then they took the damn things out completely, and they've got these kiosks, and unfortunately in San Francisco, they use a really crappy LCD screen, so if the sun hits it, you can't read the damned LCD to know what the hell you're doing.
	And then, of course, kids come by now with a spray can.
	And scratch it or mess it up so you can't see it.
	Or they spray it or whatever.
	In Oakland...
	Those damn kids.
	In Oakland and Berkeley, they use a system where you put your money and then you get a little shit.
	A little receipt comes out that you put on your dashboard.
	Right.
	Tells you what time you can leave.
	Right.
	Anyway, but in San Francisco, they've got these sensors embedded into that.
	How many millions of dollars is this costing the city?
	And if you take a look at some of these areas where they've installed this stuff, there's nobody parking there anyway.
	Right, John.
	You hate it.
	I get it.
	What's the point?
	Oh, I don't know.
	I lost my...
	You were going to say something about Oakland, and then you're on parking meters.
	So it appears as if crime is down.
	In fact, in San Francisco, crime is down, too, and everyone's kind of baffled by it.
	Play the clip, One Less Homicide.
	Oh, hold on, I wasn't quite prepared for that.
	One less homicide coming up for you, sir.
	Meantime, San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon says a community policing strategy has led to a drop in crime.
	The strategy is called zone enforcement.
	That's where officers are deployed to neighborhoods where there's been an increase in crime.
	In the first six months of this year, there was a 10% drop in violent crime compared to the same period last year.
	Property crimes dropped 12%, and there was one less homicide.
	You know, there's no zone enforcement in Oakland and their numbers are way down too.
	Everybody's numbers are down and now people are thinking that what you normally have like gang violence and now it seems as if everybody is like getting ready to riot.
	It's the calm before the storm.
	I disagree.
	I think that they've now successfully put enough fluoride in the water.
	The aspartame that's in everything today probably has something to do with it.
	I think we're just dumbed down.
	I think we're just lethargic.
	My prediction within the next 12 months is there's going to be some massive riots.
	If they don't happen, then you can throw that comment of yours back at me.
	There's going to be some massive rioting going on in the big cities.
	Big riots.
	All cities?
	No, just the ones that have issues.
	Okay, all cities.
	Yeah, all cities except Seattle.
	Except Seattle.
	There's no one in Seattle.
	You go to Seattle and you walk around, like, where is everybody?
	There's no one on the street.
	I don't get Seattle.
	Okay, well, that's a good one.
	We'll look at that.
	I personally, I really believe that people are just completely dumbed down, mainly because of the additives to the water.
	That's the whole point, is keep the populace quiet.
	Yeah, they can buy all they want.
	Hmm.
	Riots.
	Riots, my friend.
	Okay.
	And you're going to be right in the middle of it.
	No, I have no problem.
	I'm up at the top of the hill, and I'll be shooting everybody away.
	I'll be boiling oil and dropping it on them.
	It's great being up here in the hilltop watchtower.
	Yeah, well, I'm sure you have a nice view.
	A really weird story in the Telegraph, John.
	Headline, Mystery Trader Buys All of Europe's Cocoa.
	Yeah, I read that too.
	I'm skeptical.
	Do you think that's maybe just a planted story to jack the price up?
	It sounds like it.
	It would sure jack the price up, wouldn't it?
	I haven't checked the price, but the purchase, it says, was enough to move the entire...
	Well, there you go.
	Entire global cocoa market sending...
	Now, I'm sorry.
	Here it says, sending the price to the highest level since 77, triggering rumors and intrigue in the city.
	It's unclear which person or group of traders was behind the deal, but it's the single largest cocoa trade for 14 years.
	That's big.
	And this is the actual physical beans sitting in warehouses in the Netherlands, Hamburg, London.
	Yeah, London.
	Liverpool.
	It's a total value 658.
	About a billion dollars.
	But they don't know who is it.
	Yeah, I think it's got to be just this, I don't know, who is this person?
	You think someone would be able to reveal that?
	This is what I don't understand.
	How come they can't track this?
	Where's the transparency of the market?
	I mean, these are open trades.
	Can't you just go and check the tape?
	Well, most people, with a Bloomberg terminal, you can usually find out everything.
	Well, how come no one ever seems to be able to track this stuff?
	It's the same thing when...
	This is bad reporting.
	I think if I was on that beat, I would have already had the guy's name.
	Somebody knows who it is.
	And all you have to do is ask around.
	Yeah, that's...
	Well, that's the mystery and intrigue in the city line, I guess.
	Like, somebody knows.
	Yeah.
	So along those lines, here's a fantastic report to...
	Producer Matt sent this in.
	I guess he subscribes to some financial newsletter.
	And there was a huge...
	This is just fantastic.
	It's from Agora, I think is the name of this report.
	So, of course, we had Goldman Sachs, who were sued by the SEC, a civil suit, which was settled...
	For, what is it, like half a billion dollars?
	$550 million?
	But listen to the timing and listen to what happened.
	So in this report it says, in five minutes on April 19th, in the wake of the SEC's civil complaint against Goldman Sachs, people holding put options on Goldman Sachs made about 140,000% return, and they've got charts to back this up.
	Now, as it turns out, the number of puts for Goldman Sachs in April was extremely high.
	170.
	We're talking like 10 times the volume.
	As if someone might have known that the civil suit was coming.
	And then, on Friday, options expiration Friday, I might add, which is a big deal in the options market, Actually, it was 20 times the normal amount of puts.
	SEC announced Goldman was settling the case for $550 million, and there were 150 Goldman call options.
	Another huge volume, way off the scale of anything that's ever been there.
	And of course, Goldman ticked up immediately.
	So the scam is so apparent that everybody knew, A, the SEC was going to file suit, and then they knew it in advance, so they bought all these put options, which is basically a gamble against the stock going down, which it did significantly.
	And then on the expiration date of the options, when they knew that Goldman was going to settle, everyone bought call options.
	We're in the wrong game, John!
	You're actually surprised by this?
	Oh, I'm surprised no one else is reporting it.
	That's what I'm surprised by.
	I mean, come on.
	Isn't it so obvious?
	And the SEC, they leaked it.
	They're the ones that know.
	Yeah, well, the SEC, let's face it, we've talked about this to extreme.
	They're incompetent or corrupt or both.
	And I'm not sexist or anything, but all these women who are running the show at the SEC and the FDIC, they're jackasses.
	And they've really messed it up, and there's no good.
	And there seems to be a lot of women in these positions.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I don't know what to tell you.
	It's not good.
	Tell me this.
	Batman.
	Tell me this, Batman.
	So it's happened.
	It's through the Federal Reserve Empowerment Act.
	All that has to happen now is I guess the president has to sign it, so that'll probably happen Monday.
	So they're sharpening up the pens.
	He always has to use 20 of them, so everyone gets a little piece of history there.
	By the way, that has got to be the biggest joke.
	What is the point of this show where the president grabs a pen and signs B? Not even.
	It's one circle of the B. Yeah, right.
	One little notch or something on his signature.
	And so everyone gets a call.
	Oh, that's the pen.
	This is bogus.
	He didn't sign anything with these pens.
	Well, you actually see him signing.
	He's making marks.
	If he took and signed his name with a pen and gave that pen to somebody, then I think they would have some historical interest.
	Interest, by the way, not value.
	But to do this one pen after another game, it's like show business.
	It's bullcrap.
	Sorry.
	It's okay.
	So, this has passed, and I didn't expect it until Friday, as I said earlier.
	And then on Friday I'm watching C-SPAN, which is what we do so you don't have to.
	And there's three new governors coming on to the Federal Reserve Board, who were nominated back in March, I guess.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, and of course, if you read the, and I did, if you read this bill, which is supposed to protect consumers, but what it really does is every paragraph, it's, oh, the Board of Governors will determine, the Board of Governors will set up, the Board of Governors will oversee, and the Board of Governors is bankers, typically, who sit on the Federal Reserve Board, which is a private organization.
	Well, I guess they got the last laugh on Ron Paul.
	Oh, my God.
	So here's who's coming in.
	Peter Diamond is...
	What does that name ring a bell?
	No, I think...
	I thought Diamond Diamond, but that would be Jamie Diamond, and this is Peter Diamond.
	So he will be...
	So these are nominations, and they have to be confirmed by the Senate.
	Big deal.
	Another show to go through.
	It's not even on C-SPAN 1, it's on C-SPAN 2.
	That's how unimportant it seems to be.
	But these are like Supreme Court justices.
	It's a 14-year nomination.
	And three are being changed right after this legislation has been rammed through.
	So Peter Diamond, oh, according to this article, high quality by any standards, an MIT economist, several important economic theorems to his name.
	He will prove to be very useful in a crisis, John, if only for his ability to figure out the best course of action because he is an expert in behavioral economics.
	I don't like the sound of that.
	Behavioral economics.
	Monetary policy from him is unknown.
	Then we have Sarah Raskin, a regulatory specialist, currently Maryland's Commissioner of Financial Regulation.
	We'll have to see how good Maryland's doing.
	Monetarily, she is something of an unknown quantity, though the odds are she would tend towards the soft money wing.
	On the Fed and what that is, I'll tell you in a second.
	And then the third is Janet Yellen.
	This is the hearing that I actually watched.
	President currently of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, which I might point out is, again, it's part of the Federal Reserve Banking System.
	The bankers!
	They're bankers overseeing bankers.
	A little conflict there, maybe?
	With 30 years as a monetary economist, three years as a Fed governor in the 90s, six years at the San Francisco Federal Reserve, She's unquestionably qualified.
	She's married to George Akerlof, who's a Nobel Prize winning economist.
	Bottom line is, they are all for inflation.
	All three of them.
	They all feel that inflation has to go.
	We have to jack stuff up.
	Yeah, I think there's...
	I think there's a good argument for that, personally.
	How much inflation do you think we're going to have?
	Because they basically control the inflation, right?
	They can raise interest rates, they can print money.
	The long-term thing is, you know, if you can really crank up inflation, then you can pay off all your debts with cheap money.
	I mean, that's one of the things.
	That's why the Chinese don't want to see any sort of inflation.
	But, you know, we're in the throes of a depression.
	We are in a depression, I would say, just not recognized as such.
	Anyway, so we're in a depression, and to get inflation during a depression is pretty difficult without, you know, you can have issues.
	I mean, in Germany, of course, in the 30s, they had...
	The Weimar Republic.
	They had a ridiculous hyperinflation and it was out of control whereby people were having to carry around wheelbarrows full of money to pay for things like a loaf of bread.
	Which is kind of the way it is in Zimbabwe now.
	Zimbabwe's got hyperinflation and Brazil has had hyperinflation in the past.
	And how about Japan?
	I don't know of any hyperinflation in Japan in its history to the level that we're talking about, which is really...
	You know, in Brazil, the hyperinflation was...
	Your money was worth less by the afternoon.
	When I went there the first time, it was during this era, and I was told to keep all my money in dollars and only...
	Cash the dollars in to buy something at the very last minute.
	Okay.
	But inflation basically hurts us.
	Everything gets more expensive, but we don't necessarily immediately get higher wages.
	Yeah, that's one of the things that's a typical effect.
	What happens is you get a bunch of labor contracts that come into play during a hyperinflation era where you essentially ratcheted automatically.
	So you do get higher wages.
	It's always going to trail, though.
	You would think.
	Yeah.
	But the point is that it's not a situation you want.
	But what they would like, I think, is not that anyway.
	I mean, that would be ludicrous.
	But what they'd like is...
	By the way, talking about the Zimbabwe, we haven't gotten any trillion, ten trillion.
	We stopped getting the sample bills.
	I still have a hundred billion, I think.
	No, you have a trillion.
	A trillion, right.
	Something like that.
	I have the same bill.
	I think we lost our listener that was getting this.
	Exactly.
	He's dead now.
	He died of hunger.
	He died of hunger.
	So they would like to get it to crank up a little bit because it's...
	Well, essentially...
	Because we've got the interest rates down at the bottom of the scale, so there's no control.
	If we go into a deflation thing, there's nothing...
	You know, there's...
	I don't know.
	You don't know.
	It's easier to control if you get some sort of controlled inflation around 3-4%.
	It would be nice.
	They think.
	So a couple of things changed in this bill at the very last minute, which was not aired on C-SPAN, I might add.
	They had these committee meetings and, oh, here's the bill, all right, let's sign it quick before anyone can read it.
	Remember we were supposed to put bills on the internet for three days?
	Whatever happened to that?
	Oh, that was just another political lie.
	So in the bill, they've decided, yep, we've got to tackle the derivatives issue.
	Because as the President himself said, we have him on record.
	We played it on the show.
	The total derivatives market, which of course is a huge pile of fake, is $600 trillion.
	It's probably more.
	It's probably a quadrillion, but let's just say $600 trillion is the real number.
	They're going to start curbing this stuff and they want to change it.
	All this talk about we have to make it over the counter so it's trackable with an exchange.
	Well, they're going to do that.
	Do you know when, John?
	2050.
	No, 2022.
	You were close enough.
	2022.
	12 years from now.
	It's like, yeah, everybody who's there now, they don't give a crap.
	I didn't know this.
	This is very funny.
	Yeah, it's like, yeah, we'll do it in 2022.
	Yeah, yeah, we got to do issues with this derivative stuff.
	We got to do something about it.
	Yeah, okay, we'll do something about it.
	We'll do it in 2022.
	Let me look at my actuary tables.
	I'll be dead two years by then.
	Let me see where...
	Yeah, I'll have time in 12 years from now when I'm in Paraguay, rich, So, this is just funny.
	You know what gets me?
	I don't know why.
	Every time anyone brings it up, they skirt the issue.
	Why didn't they just reinstitute Glass-Steagall?
	That's the situation.
	Another thing they could have done.
	Yeah, they didn't do that either.
	They could have done.
	That would have been easy to do in this.
	Here's where it used to be.
	Clinton repealed it, by the way.
	Got rid of it.
	Let's put it back in play.
	And if you listen to the president's speech, it's all about, oh, you know, these horrible companies who are gouging the consumer with fine print you can't read and credit card fees.
	Yeah, I remember that.
	And meanwhile, it's...
	The majority of the bill is all about protection for the banks.
	And what's going to happen is they're going to squeeze out the little banks, the little small community banks.
	They're going to get hosed because the bankers are now in charge.
	Is it really true that 60% of our GDP is banking?
	Is financial services?
	That's pretty pathetic.
	Yeah.
	So we're doomed.
	Yeah, I think so.
	I don't understand it, but that's just the way.
	I mean, these guys, I think it's almost like people are just a sinking ship, and so people are looking for the lifeboats and creating these phony baloney bills to protect themselves.
	I mean, this is the same kind of thing.
	I mean, this all began, in my opinion, with Sarbanes-Oxley, which showed that you could do this.
	I mean, Sarbanes-Oxley was a bill which is partially responsible for ruining the economy.
	It's a bill that does nothing more than protect.
	It's a protection bill.
	It protects public accountancy.
	Certified public accountants are now, they can just do whatever they want because they're protected because of Sarbanes-Oxley because they got their tit in the ring during the Enron and MCI and all these other crazy things.
	Yeah, because they were approving all of their financial statements and they were basically lying.
	Yeah, and so they got blamed, and a number of firms got busted and shut down, and Arthur Anderson is gone.
	So they said, what are we going to do?
	We can't have this happen again.
	So they came up with this crazy law, which protects them.
	It's all it does.
	And it puts the burden on the company, mainly the CEO and the board.
	Right.
	So they basically have to be your own accountant, and then you have to give these people money to sign something at the end of the day.
	They don't have to do any work anymore.
	It's ridiculous.
	So I know what we're doing wrong.
	We shouldn't be telling people that the financial meltdown is going to happen.
	That's why they're not sending us any money to support the show.
	They're holding on to it.
	Like, screw that.
	This is my last dollar.
	And there was a great article in Bloomberg, which I actually missed.
	It's from two weeks ago.
	Remember the United Nations came out with a report that said that a lot of the money from the banking industry came from drug money?
	And that actually that's what helped stop the complete financial meltdown?
	Well, by the way, this is an alert for the No Agenda Book Club people.
	If you ever get the chance to watch this, I have a copy for you, or I may have given you a copy, of a documentary called Cocaine Cowboys.
	It runs every so often on the independent networks.
	And Cocaine Cowboys actually brings this to light even more than anything you're going to possibly say because all the banks in Florida apparently were funded as money laundering operations in the 70s and much of the 80s because of drugs.
	So Bloomberg Markets Magazine in its August 2010 issue reports How Wachovia and Bank of America laundered drug money, hundreds of millions of dollars for Mexican cocaine trade.
	Yeah.
	And, you know, I'm like, you know, it's like I sent $3,300 to my European PayPal account and it got frozen because of, you know, and now the SWIFT regulations and, you know, the little guy can't send anything anywhere because you're tracked and you're...
	God knows, you know, your phone is tapped.
	Oh, I might be sending money to terrorist organizations.
	And now the United States can see all of the financial transaction records of the European Union.
	That got signed into law.
	Which, by the way, kills me.
	It's hilarious.
	How did the Europeans put up with that?
	They don't give a crap.
	They're not there for the people.
	The people don't even know this, John.
	They don't even know this.
	Meanwhile...
	Wachovia admitted it did not do enough to spot illicit funds in handling $378 billion of Mexican currency exchange houses between 2004 and 2007.
	Yeah, we've got to do a better job.
	Yeah.
	Gee, I can't believe we missed that.
	I can't believe we missed that half a trillion dollars.
	And Bloomberg is reporting on this.
	The banks are whitewashing, laundering drug money!
	Huh?
	Oh, who knew?
	I've talked to our vice presidents about it, and now they're paying for attention.
	Yeah, we're going to change all that.
	We're going to fix it.
	It won't be happening anymore.
	We're going to follow the rules.
	Bank of America takes its anti-money laundering responsibilities very seriously, says Shirley Norton.
	Spokeshole for Bank of America.
	You know, can't someone go to jail?
	If someone went to jail, I'd at least feel a little bit better about it.
	No.
	Nah, that's not going to happen.
	No, if it was the small banks in South Florida, even then, I don't think...
	If you saw that documentary, I don't know of anybody...
	Cocaine Cowboys?
	They'll fight you, Cocaine Cowboys.
	Great, great, great documentary.
	Well, I remember, because back in...
	This must have been 80s?
	70s?
	I think this is the late 70s, mid-80s, something like that.
	Because I remember Doc McGee, who was...
	He's now manager for Gene Simmons, which is kind of sad.
	He's on that Family Jewels reality show.
	But he, at the time, was one of the biggest managers in rock and roll.
	He was managing Motley Crue and Bon Jovi and maybe even Ozzy Osbourne.
	And he got caught smuggling 5,000 pounds of marijuana into Florida on his Learjet, which is like, I don't know what type Learjet it was, but that must have been heavy.
	And so he didn't go to jail, but instead the judge said, well, I'll let you go, but as a part of your get-out-of-jail-free ticket, you have to do a number of anti-drug, anti-alcohol concerts.
	I thought you were going to say he has to do reality TV. Well, no, this is 1988.
	And that's how I wound up in Russia, actually, because they had the Moscow Music Peace Festival.
	Which he organized.
	And this is before the wall came down.
	And so we went on a plane from Newark, New Jersey with those, you know, like Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne.
	We stopped in Germany to pick up the Scorpions.
	And then we did this show.
	It was like 10 days at Lennon Stadium in Moscow.
	But the funniest thing was this plane, which was a chartered plane, you know, like a, I don't know, it was like a DC something, like a cigar tube, really long and very uncomfortable, particularly for that flight.
	Everyone was hammered.
	This was the anti-drug, anti-alcohol.
	Ozzy Osbourne, I will never rid myself of him standing in the aisle because the laboratory was occupied.
	And he's going, Sharon!
	Sharon, there's someone in the loo!
	And Sharon, by the way, was this fat little pudgy English chick with bad complexion.
	And Ozzy couldn't get in the bathroom and he peed himself right there, right in the aisle.
	You know, like a six-year-old with a huge stain in the front of his pants.
	It was just unbelievable.
	And that was the get-out-of-drug-free ticket that Doc McGee put together and everyone was hammered the whole way through.
	And then Bon Jovi's doctor on the way back was handing out Halcyon to everybody.
	It'll help you sleep.
	I'm like, oh, that'll help me sleep.
	I was messed up for two weeks.
	I was suicidal almost.
	So anyway, the point is, end users of drugs are stupid because the real game is up at the top there.
	Yep.
	Right there, where the poppies are grown and protected by the agricultural division of our armed forces.
	Yeah, of course, we can moan and groan about this until hell freezes over.
	It doesn't make a bit of difference, and obviously nobody thought much of our show last week.
	What can I say?
	I got an interesting one.
	Sorry, go ahead.
	I picked up on, apparently they're running out of material on Meet the Press.
	So they played an old Meet the Press show from 1953.
	Did you notice the format of those early shows was very different where you had two desks and you had a desk on one side and that was the press and then you'd have a desk on the other side of the studio and that was the person who was meeting the press.
	Yeah, and they were getting grilled.
	Yeah, and it was cool, and now it's like, hey, let's have a little powwow.
	We'll have a little roundtable discussion.
	Yeah, I know.
	They never call anybody on anything.
	I mean, I remember the time that Cheney was on some years ago, denying this and that.
	He said, well, you said no, I didn't.
	I never said that.
	Oh, okay, whatever.
	And then they went off to the next topic.
	And then, of course, Jon Stewart shows Cheney, you know, a clip of Cheney saying exactly that, whatever it was, and then showing him denying ever saying it, which is actual real...
	Yeah, real reporting there.
	Real reporting as opposed to this kind of thing.
	So, um...
	You got a clip for this?
	Yeah, I do.
	It's Elizabeth Bentley.
	She was a...
	Elizabeth Bentley turned herself into the FBI. Let me give you a little background.
	She was a Soviet spy.
	We didn't know that there was such a thing, apparently, the way she tells the story.
	As Soviet spies?
	As Soviet spies.
	And during World War II, they were in this country, and it turns out that she...
	She turned herself in in 1945 to become a government spy for the FBI or maybe even a double agent.
	Nobody really knows.
	But whatever the case was, she implicated something like 150 federal employees who are all working for Stalin.
	Ha, ha, ha.
	And a large part of the House on American Activities stuff and a lot of other things were all catch-up, because once it turned out that she was right, that there was all these spies in the government, everybody panicked, and then you had McCarthy hearings and all the rest of it, and everybody got paranoid and thought there was a communist under every bed, and it was a large part due to this woman.
	Anyway, what's interesting, if you look her up on Wikipedia, they mention that she turned herself into the FBI, and apparently the FBI at the time was in conflict with the OSS, which is the precursor to the CIA, because she had identified numerous people in OSS that were Soviet spies.
	They were very deeply embedded in our intelligence agency.
	Fascinating.
	And so the FBI wanted to take over all intelligence gathering.
	They didn't want there to be a CIA. They wanted to do it because they said, you can't trust anybody.
	It sounds so much like this is a bunch of grown-up children who just were still playing Green Army men, doesn't it?
	Well, you can play the Elizabeth Bentley thing.
	It's actually kind of interesting from a historical perspective.
	This is from 1953 on Meet the Press.
	Our guest on Meet the Press, ladies and gentlemen, is Miss Elizabeth Bentley, former Soviet spy.
	Can you explain how you got away with so much for so long and how others got away with it so long?
	Were you fellows so clever or were we so dumb?
	Well, I would say it was a combination of the two.
	For one thing, Russia was considered our ally and presumably the intelligence people were concentrating on the Germans.
	For another thing, I don't think Americans in general knew too much about communist espionage methods.
	They simply didn't expect that sort of thing.
	And for another thing, the Communists worked very hard and took a lot of precautions to keep these things secret.
	When you went to the FBI in 1945, you said cold, I believe.
	What was your reception?
	Were they surprised to see you?
	Were they credulous?
	Were they incredulous?
	Did they doubt your word?
	Or did they accept you as a bonafide spy?
	Well, at first I couldn't tell whether they believed or disbelieved because they were extremely courteous but noncommittal.
	But later, I was told about a month, I think, after I told them my story, one of them told me that they had been checking frantically and that they were amazed at the accuracy of it.
	Did they indicate they'd had no knowledge of your work before?
	Was it all brand new to them, do you think?
	Well, now, they wouldn't have been likely to tell me that.
	You could tell by the expression on their face, couldn't you?
	No, because the FBI are good trained intelligence agents and they keep poker faces.
	Three years after her defection Bentley, who became known as the Red Spy Queen, testified before Congress and gave evidence of widespread Soviet espionage in the United States during World War II. The Russian spies sent home this week appear to have uncovered little of value during their time in the U.S. And we'll be right back.
	That's so funny.
	I want to be introduced that way as well.
	I am Adam Curry, former Soviet spy.
	That's great.
	Didn't you hear the beginning of the report?
	Our guest on Meet the Press, ladies and gentlemen, is Miss Elizabeth Bentley, former Soviet spy.
	Yeah, Mr.
	Adam Curry, former Soviet spy.
	I'm going to get business cards made.
	That's nice.
	So, of course, they had no guests.
	Everyone's off in the Hamptons or at Camp David.
	And so they just pulled out.
	Oh, this will relate.
	Yeah, they do a little database search.
	Spy, spy, spy, spy.
	There's a bunch of services, apparently, that have cropped up recently, which are being used by Rachel Maddow and Olbermann and Stewart.
	Yeah, they have all the old archives.
	People have finally cataloged these things.
	The old archives of video.
	Because video is difficult to catalog because it's video.
	You can't do a word search.
	So people have had to document these things to an extreme and now they have keyword searches and you can get clips from the mid-50s right to the present.
	And so you can put together some pretty funny things if you just want to get clips from guys saying stupid stuff.
	So here's a relatable story about the whole spy thing.
	The Weekly Standard is coming out on Monday with a series, a damning series, I tell you, about the intelligence community's expansive use of contractors since 9-11.
	Yeah.
	This is a story that's been developing for the past year or so.
	And so, of course, I think the number one thing that you might not want to do if you want to have a real tight intelligence community is use contractors.
	It doesn't seem like a really good policy.
	I know.
	It's just to save money and to do less 1099.
	It's not to save money.
	It's to waste money on jabroni friends.
	The rationale is to save money.
	Yeah, right.
	If somebody asks you why you're doing it, you say, well, it saves money.
	Well, everyone knows it doesn't save money.
	Everyone knows it's just to funnel money to your buddies.
	Everyone sets up a little consultancy.
	That's all these guys who are appearing on CNN and Fox and, you know, they're all...
	Former CIA, this guy, former CIA. Yeah, intelligence consultants.
	Yeah.
	One big joke.
	It really is a big joke.
	And we still...
	And that's why these spy movies, you know, we've got...
	Of course, we have Angelina Jolie coming out with Salt.
	Which is, I have to say, that is still kind of the best timing with the whole Russian spy story.
	And that movie is not necessarily a slam dunk, so maybe she needed a little bit of promotion there.
	Yeah, she probably did.
	And by the way, we were trying to find out if maybe a James Bond movie was coming out, and it turns out that the latest James Bond movie was cancelled.
	However, there will be a new James Bond video game.
	The actors are doing all the voices, etc.
	So the Russian spy story helps.
	Well, there's also going to be another Jason Bourne movie.
	Of course.
	The script's been written and approved, apparently, and the same guy who wrote the other Bourne movies.
	Who curiously did the Michael Clayton movie.
	Anyway, this guy's got the fourth movie out, and that'll probably pick up the slack, because it's a spy.
	But he's like a consultant, if you think about it.
	Yeah, totally.
	Totally.
	Maybe sets up shop.
	Maybe the fourth Bourne movie actually sets up shop as an accountancy.
	Yeah.
	So as we start to move into the end of this first hour, Columbia President Lee Bollinger is joining, as this article states, the drumbeat of those proposing to fix the news.
	And on July 14th, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Bollinger says, hey, you know, we really need to do it now.
	And you can just watch out for this, because we're going to have a media czar in Washington very, very soon.
	I'm not sure who it's going to be.
	And it would be funny if it was Rupert Murdoch, because that would only solidify my assertion that the Democrats run Fox.
	It's funny, but he wouldn't take the job.
	So he envisions the future of American journalism as a mixed system.
	Part public, part private.
	Because, you know, what is the quote here?
	Trusting the market alone to provide all the news coverage we need would mean venturing into the unknown.
	A risky proposition with a vital public institution hanging in the balance.
	This is the biggest crock I've ever heard.
	What?
	This is double talk, double speak.
	Well, of course it is, but this is the guy, it's the Columbia University, this is a professor, trusting the market alone to provide all the news coverage we need.
	Yeah, well, Columbia's done everything they can to screw up journalism in this country, and I suppose, why would they stop now?
	But isn't that the, isn't the Columbia School of Journalism the...
	Yes, the number one school of journalism in the country.
	So, you watch.
	We will have a media czar.
	Obama will create this position.
	And we're going to have the absolute ministry of truth.
	It's really happening.
	And we're still kind of laughing about it.
	Double speak, 1984, Orwellian...
	But it's actually happening.
	And, well, yes, you predict riots, but everyone's just sitting there aspartamed and fluorided into submission.
	Yeah, like aspartamed.
	Aspartamed and fluoridated into submission.
	And I was like, oh, yeah, whatever.
	Media czar.
	Yeah, that's good.
	So if...
	Without the aspartame, that's the way they're going to react.
	You know, there was a report about aspartame.
	Where was it?
	This was really crazy.
	You know, this whole aspartame.
	If you don't know the history, you can hunt around for it.
	But aspartame essentially...
	I think the company was a part of Monsanto before it spun out.
	I'm not sure of that.
	Yeah, I believe it was.
	But then Donald Rumsfeld was the CEO of the company that made aspartame.
	They were rejected by the FDA three or four times.
	They tried to get aspartame approved.
	And then when Bush came in, Bush Sr., and appointed...
	Rumsfeld into his cabinet, all of a sudden, oh, aspartame's approved.
	Yeah, Monsanto in 1984 bought G.D. Surly and the aspartame business became a separate Monsanto subsidy.
	You're right.
	The NutriSweet company.
	So let me just...
	Monsanto!
	Sold it to J.W. Childs in the year 2000.
	So the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition concluded that pregnant women who drink a liter...
	have a 78% increased risk of giving birth prematurely before the 37th week of pregnancy.
	78%! - That's ridiculous.
	This stuff should be taken off the market for that reason alone.
	Pregnant women who drink just one glass of light products daily have a 38% increased risk of premature birth.
	There's also all kinds of other studies about lowering testosterone in men, which would explain why you and I are so gay, John.
	Hello!
	Hello!
	Hey, you cracked up the room here.
	But this shit is in everything.
	Otherwise I sound like a soprano.
	But this shit is in everything.
	Yeah, no, it's got to go.
	It's really, really, and this is just one study, but this seems like a pretty serious one.
	So here it is.
	It was approved in 1974 in the EU in 1994.
	And they keep doing these studies, and everyone knows it's bad, but it's just like, shut up, slave.
	Just eat your aspartame.
	Drink water.
	Yeah, but drink, fluoridate yourself.
	Oh, hold on, we're talking about what we have.
	My best part of waking up is fluoride in my cup.
	So anyway, yeah, okay, we're all doomed.
	If you want the real truth, as far as we can tell, and we certainly are no real journalists, but we do help a lot of people pick apart what's going on in the news.
	We help you see things differently.
	Before we go into our pitch, I might as well play an advertisement segue that cracked up the family when we saw it.
	This is essentially, there's a new show on MSNBC, or new, it's been on for a while.
	It's actually quite fascinating.
	There's two shows that are running on CNBC or MSNBC on the off hours.
	One of them is American Greed, which is an outstanding thing to watch.
	Yeah, that's on MSNBC, I think.
	American Greed.
	I think that's on CNBC. Oh, okay.
	But whatever.
	It's the same company.
	And the other one is Lockup.
	Lockup.
	Oh yes, I've seen that one as well, yeah.
	But anyway, here's a segue of some crazy women, and the segue ends the lock-up thing and goes into a Lipitor commercial, but it's just too funny the way they juxtapose the outro to the intro.
	Well, a lot of people don't like cops, especially inmates.
	Since I've been here, I found out two of my friends who died of heroin overdose.
	An inmate on Maricopa's female chain gang gets a wake-up call.
	A few years ago, I got a wake-up call.
	A heart attack at 57.
	This is no coincidence, by the way.
	They got a wake-up call.
	I got a wake-up call.
	You got a wake-up call.
	I got a wake-up call.
	This is no coincidence.
	And the funny thing is, you're there with your family.
	Was this when you were up north?
	No, it was just a couple days ago.
	Everybody's here.
	But what's so nice about it is, when the whole family listens to No Agenda, Then you can all kind of have these little private moments and laugh when this stuff happens.
	And it does bring your family closer together.
	Well, in a cynical way.
	Yeah, but still, we're uniters, John.
	We are uniters.
	We bring people closer together.
	So, yeah, you're going to get your media czar, and your ministry of truth will tell you what's right and what's wrong, and you'll get a wake-up call, all right.
	Yeah, I got a wake-up call.
	You'll get a wake-up call.
	You're going to get a wake-up call.
	And we'd appreciate it if you supported this show, hopefully to a higher level than we received for today.
	Yeah, it was a terrible week, and I wish people would realize that they have to step up their game a little bit.
	We did get some people that donated, contributed.
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	But that eventually will be what sustains us, but I don't think we got any new...
	Now, what are we doing?
	We had a couple of initiatives.
	We're going to do the, yeah, we're going to do, I got talking to some coders.
	We've got to go on a drive, man.
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	It's the serial number that's the hang-up guy.
	I want everyone to have their own numbered boarding pass.
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	Right.
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	Okay, we do like four or five zones.
	I like that.
	That's great.
	That's the future.
	Do it yourself.
	And will we be selling beverages on board, John?
	No!
	Get to starve to death while you're on this thing.
	Bring your own...
	No, not even water.
	Screw it.
	Bring your own crap.
	Actually, maybe we even have that stand-up thing they keep talking about.
	You know, the seats where you're standing room only seats, which, by the way, is bogus, but...
	You can hold on to a strap.
	Around your neck.
	But it is an official boarding pass.
	They will be numbered.
	So in the event that...
	And let's face it.
	If the tall blondes or the grays are going to contact anybody for an escape, it's going to be me.
	Yep.
	And we know that for sure.
	And so I'll say, okay.
	It's me, but I've got a thousand of my buddies, and they've all got a boarding card.
	And they'll be, okay, okay, that is good.
	Former Soviet spy curry, that is good.
	Dvorak.org slash NA and probably have that link for the 3333 open tomorrow or tonight.
	And then we'll send a mailing out to remind people.
	So there's this company, John, called Weather Modification, Inc.
	Yeah, I saw this site, too.
	Well, I just want to ask you a question.
	So there was a storm a week ago, no, last Monday, that pounded Calgary with hail-sized golf balls, which would have been even worse if this...
	Hail-sized golf balls?
	Hail the size of golf balls.
	That would suck if there were golf balls.
	Hey man, stop putting golf balls in the clouds.
	Golf ball size hail.
	Which would have been worse, I guess, soft balls and or basketballs or perhaps large melons.
	If this company, Weather Modification Inc., had not been seeding the clouds at 20,000 feet.
	And I'm not going to play the video because it's kind of boring and it's almost like a little PR thing for the company.
	So besides the obvious question is, I guess the taxpayers up there in Gitmo Nation, Great White North, pay for this.
	They are spraying a substance known as silver iodide.
	Yeah, that's the common cloud seeding mechanism.
	It's been going on.
	I remember when that started when I was a little kid.
	I remember that.
	Okay.
	And I just did a Wikipedia, which of course is the Bible.
	And safety.
	Under the guidelines of the Clean Water Act, and I believe that hail is made of water, By the EPA, silver iodide is considered a hazardous substance, a priority pollutant, and a toxic pollutant.
	Chronic ingestion of iodides may produce iodism, which may be manifested by skin rash, running nose, headache, irritation of the mucous membranes, weakness, amnesia, loss of weight, general depression...
	General depression, chronic inhalation, or ingestion may cause argyria?
	I don't know.
	Characterized by blue-gray discoloration of the eye, skin, and mucous membranes.
	That's from the silver.
	It just seems to me, John, that if this silver iodide is considered a hazardous substance by the EPA... And it's being put into clouds and it is then hailing on us.
	I mean, is that crazy to think that maybe that's not good?
	Well, I think that's why it's not done much in the United States anymore.
	I didn't know that they would...
	Says you.
	But okay.
	So, but I guess in Canada, they find it.
	I don't know.
	I have no idea.
	I'd have to look into it.
	Maybe I should email the CEO of the cloud company, whatever that thing was called, Weather Modification.
	Weather Modification, Inc.
	Let's email the CEO and ask him, what's the deal?
	And let him tell us, and then we'll report back.
	Well, and also I'd like to know if it's happening in the United States.
	He probably would know.
	I would like the EPA to respond if this is okay, seeing as they say that it's a hazardous substance, a priority pollutant.
	Yeah, I'm sure there's something to do with the parts per million or something like that.
	And that it can cause general depression, which, of course, is completely offset by Pristique, I might add.
	Hey, by the...
	yeah.
	Okay, let's follow.
	Chemtrails.
	What?
	Oh, brother.
	Yeah.
	Why don't you play the...
	Here's the ad, by the way.
	I keep referring to it, but I don't think we've ever played this Lipitor ad.
	I think I've referred to it a couple of times.
	It's the one where the dad, the hapless dad, which is a theme in some of these commercials...
	No, this is the one where the kid says...
	You should have listened, Dad.
	You should have listened.
	John, we did this two weeks ago.
	No, the two weeks ago one was not the Lipitor ad.
	It was the other one.
	Dude, you know, you've had too much silver iodide, man.
	You look at the clip list and you won't see Lipitor ad two weeks ago.
	You'll see that other company I referred to the Lipitor ad at the time.
	Okay, let's listen to it.
	Let's listen to it.
	See if we recall it.
	A few years ago, I got a wake-up call.
	A heart attack at 57.
	That was a rough time.
	My doctor told me I should have been doing more for my high cholesterol.
	You should have listened.
	You're right.
	Now I'm eating healthier.
	And I trust my heart to Lipitor.
	When diet and exercise are not enough, adding Lipitor may help.
	Lipitor is FDA-approved to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in patients who have heart disease or risk factors for heart disease.
	Lipitor is backed by over 18 years of research.
	Lipitor is not for everyone, including people with liver problems and women who are nursing, pregnant, or may become pregnant.
	You need simple blood tests to check for liver problems.
	Tell your doctor if you are taking other medications or if you have any muscle pain or weakness.
	This may be a sign of a rare but serious side effect.
	My dad learned the hard way, but you may be able to do something.
	Have a heart-to-heart with your doctor about your risk and about Lipitor.
	My dad learned the hard way.
	Shall I tell you something?
	They are hijacking the wake-up call.
	That's what they're doing here.
	So the wake-up call, of course, we're the wake-up call.
	No agenda is the wake-up call.
	Program similar to this.
	Even Coast to Coast AM is like a wake-up call.
	And they're hijacking it.
	It's like, hey man, people are waking up to like the evil ways of the world.
	Let's give them a wake-up call with Lipitor.
	Yeah, wake-up call.
	Wake-up call.
	This is good.
	Yeah, wake-up call.
	But it's not about that.
	Uh-uh.
	It's about your blood pressure.
	Lipitor.
	Your wake-up call.
	To hijack.
	It's possible.
	That's what advertising is all about.
	I mean, that's take memes and propagate them and use them for your own benefit.
	I'm talking about memes.
	I got another clip here that's kind of off the wall.
	I was watching C-SPAN. Oh, should we just play?
	We haven't actually done that.
	Here we go.
	It's what we do so you don't have to.
	C-spin.
	I think that jingle's actually off key.
	It is.
	It is off-key.
	Let me hear that again.
	Here it comes.
	It's a little flat.
	Who did that?
	I don't know.
	Our producers do all this stuff, man.
	I love them for it.
	I don't give a crap if it's off-key.
	It's great.
	So this guy wrote the book Racing While Black.
	Leonard T. Miller was on a...
	It was the Harlem Book Festival.
	It was all these black...
	So you spanned three.
	Actually, this was on C-SPAN 2 because I don't get C-SPAN 3.
	Oh, okay.
	But whatever the case was, he came on and he made this comment about diversity that...
	And this is...
	Remember, this audience is all probably pretty much mostly black people.
	And a few...
	A couple of Arabs were there, but I didn't know what the point of that was.
	But when he made this comment, I didn't really expect him to get, not a lot, but he got a smattering of applause and some sort of other stuff, which indicates to me that the whole concept of diversity may not be rubbing the black community in the right way.
	But listen to this complaint that he has.
	Publishers, which sometimes could take years to find a publisher if you're unknown to get your first book published.
	Well, stop for a second.
	That, by the way, is a California black accent.
	Okay.
	For people who don't want to know where that voice is.
	Northern California, perhaps, not Southern California.
	It's a real California black accent.
	Anyway, go ahead.
	Okay.
	And also, just to tailor on the other gentleman's question of channeling anger and your question, our books, we wanted to tell our stories because auto racing, African-American auto racing is reinvented every seven years.
	You'll have phony African-American team owners come into the sport, not only NASCAR, but IndyCar racing and a lot of different sports, and they'll omit other efforts that happened before them.
	And I'm not talking about 50 years.
	And African-American racing history goes back to 1910.
	They'll omit history that happened last week.
	So if you don't tell your story and get it out there around the world, and I've had interviews in China.
	Are you sure this isn't Urkel?
	That's what he sounds like.
	Sounds like Urkel.
	...around the world, and I've had interviews in China.
	I've been on Chinese radio recently.
	I did a book signing in China.
	I get questions and book sales into Europe.
	The phony African-American team owners and efforts and all this diversity crap, our story will be wiped off.
	The map.
	So you have to persevere.
	I didn't go to school to be an English major to write books.
	I had a story to tell.
	Now let me see if I understand this.
	So he's saying that the history of black...
	Racing, automobile racing, is being written out or is not being reported in the history books.
	Yeah, he says it's been written off, and that's why he says it keeps getting reinvented, and the next guy comes along claims, and now I'm the first this and I'm the first that.
	And you run into this with black history a lot where somebody has been doing this in the 1920s or the 1910s, and they just get marginalized because everything has to be taking place now.
	And he kind of implies that maybe this has something to do with the white promotion of the so-called diversity, which is a modern concept that wants to take credit for everything.
	So all progress is a direct result of diversity and all the rest.
	He calls it diversity crap and gets a round of applause from this black audience.
	I mean, wait, this is a little sociology I'm unaware of.
	I can't wait for the book on basketball where Larry Bird is written out.
	Because you know, who knows Larry Bird?
	We've forgotten about him.
	It's black, white, red, yellow.
	Who gives a crap?
	But anyway, the point is that there is an underlying, there's another subtle sociology.
	How about women in racing?
	We're going to say that's...
	Well, there's always been women in racing, too.
	That's the curious thing about it.
	Yeah, but meanwhile...
	Meanwhile...
	Danica Patrick's the first.
	Danica Patrick's not the first.
	She is.
	No, I don't think she was the first.
	She's the first ever.
	Hey, that Freidelity card, the loyalty card that I got freaked out about on Thursday's show, this is the program in Belgium, which is starting up, that enables the use of your federal ID card, your registration, which includes biometrics, It has a chip on it, and I'm sure it has RFID qualities as well, maybe unpublished.
	You can use that in almost any, or in many stores, and I'm sure ultimately all stores, as a loyalty card.
	It really turns out to be true.
	Yeah, in fact, I got a memo, I don't know if you were, you may not have been copied on this, from the CEO. Oh, no, no, no, you talked of Freidelity?
	Yeah, and he apparently listens to the show.
	Ha ha!
	And he was very high on this idea.
	Hey, wait a minute.
	Why doesn't the guy send us some money?
	Well, I'm waiting for money from him, but the other thing is I think I'm going to get some cards from him.
	Oh, God.
	I think we need a couple of these cards.
	Yeah, yeah.
	As long as mine says, Adam Curry, former Soviet spy, then I'm fine with it.
	No, but I was amazed.
	And I have to say, you know what the thing that really threw me off as I was looking at their website, Fridelity.be, is the English translation had some glaring grammatical errors in it.
	And that's why I thought, this has got to be phony.
	Right, which is what you find in special stuff coming out of China.
	Yeah, in hoaxes.
	In Nigeria.
	Nigeria is a good example.
	So first of all, the CEO of Freidelity, check your English because you have some glaring errors on the English version of your page.
	And I might point out that I made a mistake.
	I said, why is this in German?
	Because it has three languages, English, Dutch, and German.
	Yeah, I guess you got called on that one.
	German is actually an official language of Belgium.
	Yeah, who knew?
	And I've lived there.
	Well, I lived in one part of it, but I've heard plenty of French.
	I've heard plenty of Dutch or Flemish.
	I've never heard anyone speak German to me in Belgium.
	But it's an official language.
	Maybe that's a throwback to the Second World War or something.
	I don't know.
	It's weird.
	So along the United Nations of Europe, Gitmo Nation Supreme there, some reporting coming from the lowlands that the European Union member states are all breaking the law on their retention of data.
	And of course, you know, there's always these laws like, oh, yeah, we'll only keep it for 24 months or a year or whatever.
	And of course, there's no one who actually checks and, you know, everyone to the laws written and goes, oh, okay, ho-hum, let me have another aspartame gum and I feel fine and who cares.
	And they've done some research, the, you know, privacy crackpots out there.
	And it turns out that some countries have kept data up to 10 years, even though there's a maximum on any retention of data of 24 months.
	And they just keep, oh, whatever.
	Yeah, we'll look into it.
	We'll fix it.
	Ten years retention of your data.
	That place is Gitmo supreme, man.
	It's just unbelievable.
	Maybe the population will rise up and burn down the computer centers.
	No, I don't...
	I got a short picture of that.
	So we got a lot of email as well, and it makes so much sense.
	Boy, how could we have missed this one?
	So, of course, after...
	And you remember the frenzy, the media storm about Toyotas with accelerators sticking and people dying and Prius and the Lexus...
	It was something to do with some...
	Financial.
	We thought it was financial related to Japan.
	Or political.
	Yeah, but Japan had just said, oh, we're not going to buy here.
	We thought it was about the bonds.
	Buy the T-bills, exactly.
	And boy, did we miss it.
	Because, of course, the Prime Minister resigned.
	The Prime Minister of Japan resigned over the base in Okinawa, where, by the way, there was an earthquake as well during that whole fracas.
	Yeah.
	That's probably the earthquake guys.
	Listen to our show.
	They said, geez, these idiots don't even get it.
	Let's put a little earthquake over there, then Adam for sure will spot that we're reminding them.
	Hello, Adam.
	In fact, they're doing it just for our benefit.
	Yeah.
	Actually, they're sitting there with their earbuds and their iPods.
	Listen to Crackpot and Buzz.
	Yeah, man, I heard that.
	You know...
	Hey, look over here.
	These guys are idiots, these two guys.
	What do we have to do?
	Turn it up to five!
	So, the new Prime Minister comes in, and he makes a deal with Obama about the Okinawa Islands.
	So, about the airbase there.
	He makes a deal, which is sketchy at best, but we're definitely not leaving.
	It hasn't really been published what exactly is happening.
	And the Okinawa inhabitants hate the U.S. airbase.
	There's been all kinds of shenanigans going on, and just bad vibe all around up there, over there, over yonder.
	So it's all taken care of, and then all of a sudden, the government, I might add, the government, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, says, oh, driver error.
	I know, I love this.
	Out of the blue, after all this rigmarole, all this bullcrap, these chase scenes, and these cops, and these car-to-control cars, and all this, oh, hand-wringing, they do this deal, and the next thing you know, they just say, oh, we're wrong all along, we're sorry, bye, go away.
	And what is the term?
	The error is between steering wheel and seat belt.
	I think that's the term they use in the auto industry.
	Meaning the driver.
	And literally, and it's just like, and they just publish the report, and the news media goes, oh, okay.
	All right.
	Guess it's true.
	Hmm.
	Let me have another aspartame.
	I feel much better now.
	Ah.
	Yeah.
	It just passed right over.
	Fine.
	Unbelievable.
	But that, I think, you almost can't deny that that is exactly what happened.
	I mean, it's as clear as the earthquakes they set off to get our attention.
	Yeah.
	We'll be, by the way, earthquake guys, we'll be paying more close attention to these weird earthquakes.
	So I guess there was one in Washington, D.C., like you mentioned earlier in the show, that must be telling us something.
	I don't know what, though.
	We've got to think about it.
	Things are screwed up in Washington.
	Okay.
	Stop the presses.
	Yeah, really.
	Flip the button somewhere where I have to think about it.
	It was a funny observation one of our producers made.
	New York Magazine has an article on Bertie Madoff's life in prison.
	Bertie Madoff, of course...
	Of the Madoff-Ponzi scheme.
	And John, you and I pretty much, you know, he had to go to the infirmary and, you know, we're thinking, this guy is already in Paraguay.
	Yeah, he's been swapped out.
	He's already been swapped out.
	So here's two things that are very interesting.
	By the way, the guy that's in there now will get cancer very shortly.
	Well, check this out.
	So the title of the headline is, Bertie Madoff, free at last.
	Yeah, I saw that.
	And the subtitle, in prison, he doesn't have to hide his lack of conscience.
	In fact, he's a hero for it.
	But then there's a picture of him on a cot in jail with the door open.
	Yeah, I know, with the hairdo.
	But the caption says, this and the following image are photo illustrations.
	Any resemblance to Bernie Madoff is not coincidental.
	So this is not even Bernie Madoff.
	Yeah, isn't that a weird...
	Where was that?
	Where did that run?
	I forgot.
	New York Magazine.
	Oh, it was in New York Magazine, right, with these photos of this Bernie Madoff look-alike.
	But it literally says, this and the following image are photo illustrations.
	Any resemblance to Bernie Madoff is not coincidental.
	So it's not even the guy!
	The whole thing is...
	It's just mind-boggling.
	I mean, are they just trying to shove it in my face and laugh at me now?
	Apparently, yeah.
	Oh.
	It's just unbelievable.
	Why couldn't they get a real picture of Bernie Madoff?
	Well, they wouldn't get the lighting.
	It wouldn't be right.
	Yeah, okay.
	Nice.
	They can't leave him in the cell with Bernie because Bernie may go berserk and kill him.
	Who knows?
	After watching that lockup, show anything's possible.
	The Ministry of Truth has really been blowing it out.
	It's out of control.
	Yes.
	So talking about sitting around with the family where you have, you know, everyone's enlightened to some extent and they catch stuff.
	You got your wake-up call, man.
	My wife caught this one.
	Bret Michaels.
	Who we've already discussed on this show to an extreme, who is now trying to become the third judge on the American Idol show, and he's promoting himself.
	He was on Joy Behar, and he slips up and starts talking about, if I was going to win The Apprentice, if I'm going to win...
	I mean, if I was going to be in the finals, he had...
	Wait a minute, wait a minute.
	I'm confused now.
	Is this before?
	No, this is after.
	So this is after he already won Celebrity Apprentice.
	Yeah, and Behar's having a nice chat with him, and he's trying to, and he even says, I have to phrase this correctly, because apparently he's not the brightest guy in the world, and he keeps flubbing up.
	Okay, let me just, let me recall, because we do have new audience members.
	And this was just one of those crazy calls, almost like me calling Spain the winner of the World Cup three weeks before it happened, when people weren't even thinking of Spain.
	Bret Michaels had this brain aneurysm, all this stuff was horribly wrong, and I immediately, like the same day or the next day on the show, said, watch this Cinderella story, He's coming back, and he'll win Celebrity Apprentice.
	And the reason I knew it is because Trump was on the morning show, or the early show, I think, CBS, or whatever, maybe it was ABC, whatever network it airs on.
	And he was so cavalier, and like, oh yeah, I hope he pulls through, but Brett's a strong guy.
	He would never have done that if it was really a situation that was really, really life-threatening.
	And Trump, I mean, Trump is no idiot.
	He plays his cards very well.
	And to know that the...
	That the ratings were slipping dramatically of Apprentice.
	In fact, they were beat out by, what's the Family Guy spinoff show?
	The Cleveland show.
	Which is the worst thing possible.
	So it was being beaten by the Cleveland show, and so it was easy to call, because if you know how media works, it's obvious.
	The fix is completely in.
	So we presume that that was a fix, and lo and behold, Cinderella recovery, even Holly Robinson, who was doing so great and had raised more money, even she said, I'll let him win.
	I mean, it was so obvious.
	Like, okay, he's going to win.
	Perfect.
	Beautiful.
	Now, I have two clips here.
	Which one are I supposed to play?
	Well, the first one is the Bret Michaels on Trump, where he slips up, and he makes mention.
	He kind of expresses himself in a funny way, because first he starts talking about how he has to be careful what he says and how he says it.
	Then he talks about winning, and then he says, I mean, if I can get into the finals.
	So he says, if I'm going to win, if I'm going to win, oh, I mean, if I'm going to get in the finals.
	And Mimi immediately says, there he is.
	There's the whole slip-up.
	The fix is in.
	I think you saw that I come from Pittsburgh.
	I come from a very blue-collar family.
	You work real hard.
	There's no self-pity and you get it done.
	And when I got a chance to do the show, and I want to watch how I wore this, not that there's any time to get a brain hemorrhage is a good time, but getting sick couldn't have come at a worse time in my life.
	And this is why.
	Because I already knew I'd been in New York and fought so hard to get to the finale of Apprentice.
	But obviously there's a break before you get to the We weren't sure if you'd get there.
	We were talking about it all the time.
	And I was pretty sure I wasn't going to get there, but I was determined that if I won, if I won or not win, if I knew that I was going to be in the final two, I was going to do everything I could to get back after I got sick.
	And then I already knew I was doing American Idol and I knew I was doing a tour.
	In fact, I was in the tour when it happened.
	And that's the thing for me.
	There's a song by Tim McGraw, a friend of mine wrote.
	It's called Live Like You're Dying.
	That's right.
	That's the way I live my life.
	I cannot...
	I've played shows.
	I broke my finger in the morning, played...
	In the morning.
	He said in the morning.
	He said in the morning.
	I'll take that clip.
	So he also said something else, and he says, I already knew.
	Did you hear that early on?
	Yeah, yeah, of course, because he already knew.
	Okay, and then if I was going to win, if I was going to win, I mean, if I was going to get in the finals.
	The finals, right.
	But Behar's even trying to help him out.
	She's even saying, you mean the finals, Brett.
	The finals, Brett.
	I mean, it was...
	This was pathetic.
	And Brent, I like the guy.
	I met him several times, hung out.
	He's a sweet boy.
	He really is a sweet boy.
	Absolutely sweet guy.
	But, yeah, not the brightest lamp in the chandelier.
	He essentially told it.
	He basically confirmed your belief from the get-go.
	But it was like he was going to do this.
	He can't seem to...
	He's obviously given scripts, and he tries to follow them as best he can.
	So his next script is to be the next judge on American Idol.
	And so he's got a pitch that he has, which I believe the Joy Behar show is used by some of these people to practice.
	Right, it's like the farm team.
	Yeah, you go on there, you practice your pitch, you see how it goes over, because they know her audience is a very specific type of audience that they can measure.
	And so he goes on, and so he's working on his pitch to rationalize being chosen, because I think he may have already been chosen, but to rationalize being chosen as the next judge on American Idol, which you already mentioned on the Trump clip.
	But here's his pitch, if you want to hear it in advance.
	Here's the thing.
	Simon, let me say this.
	Simon Cowell, what happened was that night, no one had talked to me at all about being a judge on American Radio.
	The night you were there, yeah.
	The night I was there.
	We got done.
	It was a great, you know, I felt like it was a great performance.
	We cut the song in half because I wasn't quite all there yet.
	But the performance was great.
	The audience, it was the only standing ovation they got in the night, which was killer.
	And what happened was Simon Cowell made a really nice comment after the show.
	He just said Brett would be a great replacement.
	He's lived it.
	He's lived this life.
	Yeah.
	What, he's lived Simon Cowell's life of hookers and blow?
	It makes no sense.
	And listen, I think the biggest mistake that American Idol can make, whether they choose me or not, Simon Cowell's an original.
	Brutally honest, but an original.
	He made that show great.
	He did, and I don't know if he can survive without him.
	And I'm telling you, I feel that they will not survive without him if they try to replace him with someone that's a knockoff of Simon Cowell.
	I think if they put someone on that show...
	Do you want to do it?
	I would love to do it.
	You would?
	I would really bring it to the table.
	Well, you're saying it here, so maybe...
	Yeah, I'm saying it.
	I would love to do it.
	I passionately love music.
	And watching people perform...
	See, Joy slips a little thing in there.
	She says, you're saying it here.
	Now, she's going to use that because, of course, she knows exactly what's going on because everything is all set up behind the scenes.
	And she's just saying that so that she can then later go back and say, he said it here first on the Joy Behar show.
	That's her payoff right there.
	I love music.
	And watching people perform and play, I can say...
	What would you say to somebody like that Hung kid?
	What was that kid's name?
	Bill Hung?
	The one that was kind of a joke, right?
	Yeah, the kind of a joke.
	Here's the thing.
	I would say exactly what they say.
	Say, dude, that is f***.
	That is...
	That's f***ing hilarious, bro.
	No.
	I would say, dude, I would say that is f***.
	Gee, I guess the show's not live as I thought it was, huh?
	Hmm, that's crazy.
	I would say, but let me just say this, to add to that, I'd say, here's the downside, right?
	The downside is that it's a novelty act, and it's a one-trick pony, and that he's wasting a lot of talented people's time.
	That's what I would say.
	I'd say, good luck, have fun, but you're wasting some people without some talent.
	Okay.
	We're going to have more with Brad.
	Oh, all right.
	So, first of all, for people who are saying, why are they talking about Brad Nycombe?
	You need to understand it's not about Bret Michaels.
	It's about how the media works and how everything is...
	If they're doing this with Bret Michaels...
	By the way, American Idol is a tremendous moneymaker.
	This is just unbelievable money that is being made with this and just shows you how it works, how it is all set up, set up in advance.
	I love your theory there, John, about the Joy Behar show being the testing ground, which, of course, means I have to watch it more often.
	Sorry.
	Oh, jeez.
	But, yeah.
	No, okay.
	So, good.
	I think you've called it.
	Bret Michaels to be the new judge of American Idol would make a lot of sense.
	He's a singer, and he's lived the life, and he's not a direct replacement.
	Yeah, it's great.
	Yeah, no, the pitch was good.
	I liked it.
	I mean, the pitch was obvious.
	You don't want to knock off, you know, what, you know, he's like, it's a setup for, you know, of course, he has to go and perfect this pitch a little bit more and go on maybe the Today Show or something else.
	Yeah, he's not quite ready for the big times yet.
	Yeah, but he'll have it done and then bingo, you know, they'll choose him and that'll be the end of it.
	Now, of course, you know, if they realize that maybe he's going to not be any good or he's, you know, going to fumble like he seems to be doing a little bit.
	It's all right.
	The show is all hacked up until he gets to the live finals.
	Yeah, it is all hacked up.
	And that's a good example, by the way.
	Good call on the bleep because you can't bleep a live show like that.
	And they don't put TV on a delay.
	It's just not doable.
	And by the way, the FCC has ruled that incidental F-bombs are okay now.
	Yeah.
	So that's alright.
	He can say it.
	I was listening to the guy on another C-SPAN show or one of these shows where the guy was discussing it.
	It was the lawyer...
	I can't remember what show it was, but it was the lawyer for Fox who brought the suit.
	And he says that even to this day, even though all these lawsuits about the $350,000 fine and all the rest of it, still never applied to anything between 11 p.m.
	and 6 a.m.
	He claims that to this day, and it's always been the case, that you can drop an F-bomb at 11.30 on the Today Show or the Tonight Show.
	But he says they choose not to do it, and they will bleep it because they don't want to offend anybody.
	But it was still, you know, he says all those things you see on Letterman.
	Letterman's cussing constantly now on the show, and they honk a horn.
	Hartwell in the chat room just picked up on something that you and I both missed in that clip.
	Brett says, wasting talented people's time.
	Yeah, no, I heard that, but I don't know.
	I didn't know what to comment on, but what was the...
	Well, who are the talented people on that show?
	The contestants?
	The staff?
	The judges?
	Who are the talented people on that?
	You're wasting talented people's time.
	Get off my show, you slave.
	Hey, by the way, by the way, John, what the hell?
	We didn't propagate today.
	I feel bad.
	I gotta do this for a minute.
	Hold on.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	I can't believe that we actually forgot to do that.
	We didn't have any executive producers.
	Oh, that's why.
	But we can still sing it all together now.
	And stop wasting talented people's time.
	I think we should take that clip out and use it.
	Stop wasting talented people's time.
	Stop wasting talented people's time, man.
	Hey, I got producer John from Gitmo Nation East, and he will go only as producer John.
	He's also a non-douchebag.
	He's been de-douched.
	Remember there was a couple of suppressed reports about the...
	You okay?
	No.
	Nothing a little bit of fluoride won't fix.
	There's been a lot of suppressed reports about tasers.
	And he dug up a report that had been removed from the Ministry of Homeland in Gitmo East about...
	Actually, this is a study that was done in Los Angeles on taser use.
	Because now they're also talking about shotgun tasers.
	This is the latest thing.
	Have you heard about these?
	They shoot out of distance.
	Yeah, but long distance.
	So it's not just like a handgun, it's a shotgun with a scope.
	So it can get you from a real long distance.
	I don't know if it goes with wires or how it works.
	No, they tend to have these little wires.
	Yeah, well, on the short range ones.
	So, and he dug up this study, and I think maybe I'll have to post the whole PDF. And he found it through archive.org, I think, somehow he's able to, because it was removed for some obvious reasons.
	So this study was done at the King Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles.
	92% of all patients who've been shot with a taser stated they had total amnesia about the event.
	92%.
	And I think that is, I mean, if you get shot with a gun, like a bullet, you tend to remember it.
	In fact, they have some counter-studies on that in this same document.
	But if you're shot with a taser, 92% of the people cannot remember the event, could not remember being subjected to the taser.
	And the report believes that this may reflect indirect consequences of the peripheral actions of the taser discharge on the central nervous system.
	And I'm thinking, taser not so good.
	Well, it's good if you're a policeman and doesn't want to be, you know, you don't want somebody testifying against you under some circumstance.
	Yeah, because you forgot.
	I mean, right now, I mean, there's a good article.
	You can go to Dvorak.org slash blog and look up Maryland, I guess.
	But they're on the front page right now about the, you know, some kid's driving along in his car or in his motorcycle and he's got a camera mounted on his head.
	movie of this idiot cop coming out with his gun pulled to give him a speeding ticket.
	And he posted on YouTube.
	And now he's up to now, according to Maryland law, it's like a wiretapping.
	And he's going to get 16 years in jail.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Jesus.
	Who's going to protest for this kid?
	Who's going to help this kid get out of jail?
	Well, you know, the funny thing is the ACLU has not picked up the ball on any of this, you can't take that picture, bull crap.
	And it's becoming a problem.
	I mean, these cops are, you know, if you got, the cops can take movies of you walking down the street.
	There's no reason you can't take a movie of a cop walking down the street.
	I don't think, I don't see why it should be illegal.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	But anyway, so this kind of thing, the taser, I think, is if the cops get, you know, some of these cops get, with the words on the street that it gives you amnesia, they'll just taser you, then shoot you.
	Yeah.
	I didn't play that clip last week.
	It was the G20, and there was, I don't know if you saw that clip, the woman blowing bubbles at the police.
	No, I didn't see that clip.
	Actually, let me just grab that.
	Let me just play that for you.
	So she's standing right in front of a couple of these cops who are protecting the elites in their elite conference, talking about how they're going to fuck us all.
	And by the way, some taxpayers are paying for those cops to be working overtime.
	Yeah, a billion dollars.
	But listen to...
	Taxpayers should be in full revolt over this sort of thing.
	Yeah, but they're Canadian.
	So she's blowing bubbles, and I want you to listen to this cop's attitude.
	And there is actually one guy who kind of stands up for a second and then says something and walks away swiftly.
	We gotta get in and you gotta get out.
	Yeah, he definitely got in and out real quick.
	Hold on.
	This is from The Real News, which actually is pretty good.
	So here she is blowing bubbles.
	And there's actually a female cop who's standing on, and who's kind of cute, by the way.
	And she's looking at her, and she's actually smiling, but then this cop next to her just goes off.
	It is a mystery.
	No, I have nothing to hide.
	If the bubble touches me, I'm going to be arrested for assault.
	Do you understand?
	Bubbles.
	Yes, that's right.
	It's a deliberate act on your behalf.
	I'm going to arrest you.
	Okay.
	Do you understand me?
	I understand.
	Right.
	You're going to be in handcuffs.
	Alright?
	You either knock it off with the bubble, you touch me with that bubble, and you're going into custody.
	Right?
	I'm putting it away.
	Right.
	Thank you.
	But I would also like to know...
	You want to bait the police.
	You throw that on me or that other officer, and it gets in her eyes.
	It's a detergent.
	You'll be going into custody.
	I understand that.
	Do we understand each other?
	I do.
	I would appreciate it.
	And put it away.
	I am hearing that.
	That's a story.
	Right.
	I really appreciate it.
	The discussion's over.
	Put it away, slave with those bubbles.
	Discussion's over, do you understand me?
	If a bubble touches me, that's assault.
	It's a detergent.
	God, what an asshole.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And he doesn't sound Canadian.
	He sounds like a...
	He's probably some cop that was, you know, running out of the department in, you know, Macon, Georgia.
	Yeah.
	Or someplace where he used to beat people and then moving up to Canada.
	He's working there.
	I mean, he doesn't sound like a normal person.
	No.
	But you have to also see his face, man.
	It's just like, I'm going to kick your ass with your bubbles, bitch.
	Those bubbles, it's an assault.
	So this big, tough cop, big, tough cop.
	A bubble is assault to him.
	Big, tough guy.
	That's right.
	That bubble, if it touches the other officer, it's a detergent.
	You're going to be in handcuffs.
	Discussion is over, slave.
	Do you understand?
	So, the human resource story of the day.
	This gives people a lot of respect for the police.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	He can't just stand there and just, you know, do his job.
	He has to be a...
	Yeah, remember when in the 60s, John, you would put daisies in the muzzles of the riot cops' rifles?
	Yeah.
	I'm sure you did that.
	I'm sure you did that.
	Actually, we got a couple reports from people who were saying, hey, man, the cops are, like, stealing from us.
	They arrest us.
	They throw us in jail, and then all our money's gone.
	Yeah, we got a couple of emails, and one of them in particular was going on about...
	I forgot where this was.
	I should have printed it out.
	But anyway, apparently everyone who gets arrested or brought in, they steal their money.
	Yeah, no, I actually have it here.
	Jacksonville, Florida is what Captain Scott sent in.
	And he said, he has this long-winded story, but he was falsely accused of something.
	But the whole point is, he and other people are finding that they get arrested, the cops take their stuff, and then they don't get their cash back.
	Anyway, it doesn't matter.
	Good cops and bad cops.
	Always.
	DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, the people who actually invented the internet.
	Of course, Al Gore says that he did it.
	The oversex poodle.
	Have come up with a way, they believe, to suck power from the human being.
	It's just a great story.
	So these little censors...
	This is not news.
	No, but it's not...
	We've heard about this years ago.
	It's not news, but it's Smithsonian, you know, so it's a little more serious.
	And I think they're just setting us up.
	I mean, this is The Matrix.
	Yeah.
	Our bodies generate heat, but also vibrations.
	When we move, it's kinetic energy, and both forms can be converted into electricity.
	And now MIT says, yeah, we're working on this.
	We are working our way to harvest adequate amounts of power from the human body and then efficiently direct it to the device that needs it, which would be your scram bracelet, I guess.
	Harvest.
	I just love the word harvest.
	Harvest is good.
	Yeah, that's just they associate you with the matrix.
	By the way, you mentioned Al Gore and I have to bring up a pet peeve of mine.
	Ooh!
	Do you want to...
	Why don't we do the jingle up front then?
	You know, Al Gore said he invented the internet and I saw him say it.
	So I'm just curious as to why Snopes...
	Of all things, which is a debunking operation, claims that this is false.
	And let me just even read from Snopes.
	The claim is Vice President Al Gore claimed that he invented the Internet status.
	False!
	And then it goes on to explain that he never said he invented the Internet.
	Here's what he said, and this is an exact quote, but at the same time, what does it mean?
	During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
	That's the quote that Snopes itself uses.
	People just kind of generalize and say, well, Al Gore claims he invented the Internet.
	That's what he's claiming.
	He took the initiative in creating.
	What does creating the Internet mean if it doesn't mean invent?
	And so why is Scopes, or Snopes, I'm sorry, I said Scopes.
	Snopes, this is the kind of, you know, you go Snopes.com, you can find it.
	This is where you look up hoaxes.
	Because most of the hoaxes are outlined in Snopes.
	But for some reason, they take Al Gore's side in this bullcrap, and I'd like to know why.
	This is one of the many reasons why, just like Wikipedia, I don't take Snopes.
	You know, people, you even send me Snopes from time to time and say, this is not true, Curry!
	Chemtrails don't exist!
	Look, Snopes debunked it!
	I never said that Snopes leaked the chemtrails!
	Maybe not.
	I don't know.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me see.
	You won't find it.
	I don't think I've ever sent you a Snopes.
	Yes, you have.
	And in fact, I was alarmed.
	Oh, that's because you thought you'd won a million dollars from some guy in Nigeria.
	In fact, I was alarmed when you sent him.
	I'm like, wow, John actually takes Snopes as like religion?
	Like this is the real deal?
	Snopes, generally speaking, catches hoaxes pretty well.
	Here, here, here, John C. Dvorak.
	Well, it only took, this is sent on June 19, 2009.
	Well, it only took one quick search to find that these are bogus, and then you send a Snopes link to some pictures.
	Yes, there you go.
	So you're taking Snopes as religion.
	Okay, fine.
	You made your point.
	Snopes is dubious, but it seems to me that actually quoting Gore saying he's created the internet and then saying status false, to me, is just an indictment of Snopes.
	Well, yes.
	You are correct, sir.
	Alright, so let me back up my claim about fixing of soccer matches with a fine article.
	After celebrating Spain's World Cup win, the international soccer world faces a major scandal.
	Authorities in Germany say an investigation into game fixing now involves 270 matches and may involve referees and players in at least nine countries.
	Investigative journalist Declan Hill wrote the groundbreaking book, The Fix, Soccer and Organized Crime.
	Declan, welcome.
	How typically does organized crime behind the scenes influence what happens to what we see on the field?
	Unfortunately, more than most people realize, and what the Germans have uncovered and confirmed is what I talk about in the book.
	It's that the Asian gambling market, which is this enormous industry, absolutely gigantic, is really coming both into Europe and into North America.
	Because of the size of the gambling market there, it's corrupted most of the Asian sports league, and now it's starting to corrupt these leagues around the world.
	Just beginning to tackle it now.
	And what's the potential effect for someone who watches sporting events?
	Nothing!
	Because we're stupid slaves and we're aspartame!
	It's extraordinary.
	I mean, it's absolutely extraordinary.
	We'll start with Asia and then we can talk about Europe.
	But in China, I was recently on a documentary, and part of the documentary was an interview with the Chinese Premier Hu Jintao.
	And he's talking about their league being a national disgrace.
	There was the sports official in China and also in Malaysia and Singapore talking about 70% of their games being fixed.
	Seven, zero percent.
	So it's more normal in some of these leagues for a fan to see a fixed match than it is to see them being played in a normal match.
	Now, European sports aren't like that, but gradually the same guys that have been fixing and corrupting all these leagues in Asia are coming to Europe.
	They're actually starting to arrive in North America, and they're making alliances with local criminals.
	It's really the globalization of corruption, and it's a big, big problem.
	Sherman Investigators...
	Yeah, I could listen to that guy all day long.
	I love it.
	So the Germans have come out 270 matches?
	They have people in jail right now.
	Wow.
	There's people in jail waiting indictments.
	I see someone else, Dan, sent me a whole list of things that I'll have to put them all in the show notes.
	Newsnight report, they claim the lesser known team games may have been fixed.
	The example in the report was Nigeria.
	They've warned FIFA about potential fixes in the game because of how Nigeria beat Argentina, but then went on to lose against Greece.
	They also say some of the behavior on the pitch to get people sent off on behalf of Nigeria, the random headbutt, and then of course the red card.
	But of course FIFA says, no, that can't be right!
	We're all cool!
	So, do you think we're crazy?
	One thing we're not is soccer fanatics.
	That's for sure.
	But, yeah, it just shows.
	Do you think the Roman games were fixed when they threw those Christians down to the lions?
	Oh, absolutely.
	That they said, hey, alright, listen.
	There had to be some highly entertaining Christians.
	They didn't want to get killed.
	They would dope up the animals.
	Yeah, there had to be, right?
	I mean, they had to.
	I mean, why not?
	It's got to be rigged.
	Those kinds of things are always rigged.
	Meanwhile, Gitmo Nation Lowlands is so horny on getting the World Cup 2018 to the Netherlands.
	Listen to what they're doing.
	This, by the way, of course, is the country that, oh, what are we now?
	Oh, we're six weeks into it, still no government.
	Because the Queen hasn't been able to figure out who's going to run the Ministry of Justice to keep the pedophiles in there.
	They have no...
	They don't need a government, apparently.
	No one gives a crap.
	It's not on the front page of the paper anymore.
	So, of course, they have a decommissioned cabinet.
	The cabinet fell, oh my gosh, this is now four months ago, I think, over extending the stay in Afghanistan.
	Of course, no change in the stay in Afghanistan for the Dutch troops while this is taking place.
	They're still just hanging out there, getting killed.
	Don't hear about that.
	A couple kids killed, a couple British kids killed.
	Five in 24 hours recently.
	So FIFA, the International Football Federation Association of Assholes, will have complete tax-free reign if they come to the Netherlands in 2018.
	Oh, what a scam.
	So, no VAT, which is currently at 18%.
	Wow.
	Hotel rooms normally cost 250 euros.
	FIFA will only have to pay 200 euros.
	But even when filling up their cars with petrol...
	Or doing some grocery shopping, they would be completely free of paying the 18% VAT on everything.
	So they'd have a little card or something to get their VAT back?
	I guess, yeah.
	I don't know if they'd get it.
	I don't know how it would work.
	I think we should try to get one of these cards.
	You know they're going to go on the black market, right?
	Another one.
	Yeah, let's get one of those cards.
	Yeah, we'll have a whole bunch.
	I'm just blown away.
	That'll be the time to go visit Holland.
	Yeah, for sure.
	Just blown away, though.
	Blown away by it all.
	Well, the VAT is coming to the United States of America, so get used to it.
	Yeah.
	You've got a couple clips left, John.
	Do you have anything positive to report?
	No, these are just a high note.
	We don't need to run them today.
	We can run them next time.
	We could do a little bit of...
	How we could, well actually we could just to do that, just cause it's funny.
	All aboard, trains good, planes bad.
	Woohoo!
	Like theme.
	Sorry?
	No, you love that theme.
	I do.
	You'll be singing it all day now.
	Yep, I will.
	Woohoo!
	And when you sing that, I'm gonna, okay, when you hear that jingle, you will donate.
	We need to get some...
	Binaural eye doser stuff.
	No, it's Jeff Smith to do a...
	Have it in the background, some sort of subliminal message.
	Yeah, you will donate.
	Donate to the show.
	So after two people were asked to fill the shoes of the head of Transportation Security Administration, the TSA, two of them said, I don't think so.
	This jabroni, John Pistoli, Took the job.
	Scary looking dude.
	He is the new TSA chief.
	And he says, protecting riders on mass transit systems from terrorist attacks will be as a higher priority as ensuring safe air travel.
	Well, we'll be taking our shoes off.
	No, the President promised we wouldn't have to do that, remember?
	That's what he said.
	Yeah, he said it.
	He said it, and we're going to throw it back in his face when we're going through full body scanners to get on the train.
	In his first interview since taking over the TSA, former FBI Deputy Director John Pistoli told USA Today that some terrorists consider subway and rail cars an easier target.
	Because he has conference media, conference call.
	Hey, hey, Abdullah.
	What do you think is an easy target?
	Ah, rail cars.
	Yes, subway.
	Much easier.
	Given the list of threats on subways and rails over the last six years...
	Oh, by the way, ever hear of 7-7 when they blew up buses and subways in England?
	Wasn't that enough warning if you're really serious about it?
	You dick!
	We know that some terrorist groups see rail and subways as being more vulnerable because there's not the type of screening you find in aviation.
	From my perspective, that is an equally important threat area.
	So, yes, get ready to take off your shoes before boarding your train.
	Getting on the subway in New York City.
	Can you imagine?
	And the train.
	This is not going to fly.
	So Hill and Knowlton, that's K-N-O-W-L-T-O-N, a lot of people don't catch the name, Hill, as you'd expect it to be spelled, and Knowlton, who are the most sophisticated, largest PR agency in the world.
	Bar none, I think.
	Who have all these consultants.
	They're definitely the top three.
	Former politicians, you know, policy makers.
	And this is how the world works, and this is how news works, and this is how policy is...
	A lot of modern public relations actually was invented by this company.
	Right.
	France, or should I say France, stops construction of new motorways.
	Ugh.
	Favoring the roads is no longer up-to-date.
	French policymakers say, oh yes, because we need high-speed terrain.
	That's what's going on.
	The Germans, by the way, are not on this tip.
	The Germans are not buying it.
	And also, the German trains, there's all kinds of things.
	Yeah, the German trains are cracking down.
	Siemens, by the way, makes those trains in Germany, and the French have it done by this other company, and the French ones work, and the Siemens ones are always having issues.
	Yeah, and the Germans are just not having any of it.
	Yeah, because they've already seen the results of the idea.
	I think Hill and Knowlton just doesn't have a good office there.
	That probably, yeah, exactly.
	In fact, this is a good argument.
	In fact, the Hill and Knowlton people, because they're going to end up listening to this anyway, should send us some money.
	Yeah, thank you, because we have a jingle for you.
	Because we just gave them a tip that's worth a lot of money, which is to do better work in Germany.
	Get into Berlin.
	Yeah, there's lots of tax incentives in Berlin, too.
	There's now cabt.org.
	The Coalition Against Bigger Trucks.
	Yeah, I know.
	This is another reason to...
	Because, of course, all these trains are not really about transporting your human resource ass.
	It's about transporting goods to you.
	All right?
	Freight trains.
	And so there's a...
	I wonder who is this?
	Well, you know, I'm way for these guys because we're not talking about bigger trucks as in bigger.
	We're talking about triples.
	These guys drive around the freeway.
	It's illegal in California, by the way.
	I don't think you can carry a double in California and get away with it.
	You have your regular giant rig with a big truck, and then you have attached to your truck a trailer Hooked on by a bar with another truck, essentially, behind it.
	And so you go down the road and you're carrying these two loads, and if you got into a tangle or something, it would be a huge mess, and it's been a huge mess.
	And then there's a thing called a triple, where they're carrying, it's a truck carrying a truck carrying a truck.
	There's three of these things.
	It's like a train on the road.
	Coalition Against Bigger Trucks, LLC, registered in Alexandria, Virginia.
	Ooh.
	Gee, why does that not surprise me?
	It's kind of funny, though.
	They had this whole animation where they show a Boeing 747, and then they show a truck, and so they're basically equating these long trucks to airplanes.
	And, of course, we know planes are bad.
	Planes are really bad for you.
	Yeah, you might as well make that equation right there.
	As documented by the Los Angeles Chronicle, who have another beautiful piece titled, The Fear of Flying.
	And it tells you why you're afraid to fly.
	Thanks.
	Thanks for reminding me.
	Yeah, that piece was...
	Totally useless.
	Somebody sent that around saying, is this like a hit piece?
	It was not even qualifies it.
	It's just a piece of crap is what it is.
	A throwaway.
	And then Transportation for America reports American Conservative magazine rails against the machine promoting alternatives to the automobile.
	Groovy.
	Groovy.
	You know, I don't understand the point.
	This does bother me a little bit because there's got to be either that or it's just somebody came up with the idea and they said form of marketing to try to sell us on high-speed rail for passenger service.
	Why don't they just be honest about it and say, look, it's cheaper and more efficient to have move freight on rail.
	They've tried these commercials a couple of times.
	I guess nobody pays attention to them.
	They discuss how many pounds you can move per mile at what cost.
	And rail service for freight is extremely inexpensive, especially when you have a lot of stuff.
	And you make these big trains.
	And if they were just honest, there's this idea of trying to sell the public on...
	And in fact, to the point where the French will stop building roads is ridiculous because we're not going to, especially in the United States, we're a car-oriented society ever since the interstate highway system was put together.
	We drive cars.
	Where you live, you can't even survive without a car.
	On Thursday's show, I said, I need a car.
	I need money to buy a car.
	That's what I need.
	Your support for.
	And apparently nobody thought he needed a car.
	And everyone went, screw Curry!
	Screw Curry, we're not giving him any car.
	He's just going to go buy a car with it.
	Yeah, this is no good.
	No, I mean...
	This is no good.
	He's got to stay home and work.
	LeBron James can shave points and game fix and he'll make $100 million.
	But Curry, no, he can't have a car.
	No way.
	No.
	That would be bad.
	So anyway, so they...
	I don't, you know, they're not going to get people out of their cars.
	They have tried to do this, the bicycle lanes in Berkeley and all the rest of this.
	And, you know, people that, I don't know about you, but everybody I know that's made a habit out of really riding a bike seriously, a pedal bike seriously, always gets hit.
	And when they're like, you know, 50, 60 years old, they've got a crutch and they've got a broken hip.
	It never heals right because they got run over while they're driving their bicycle.
	Well, it's entertainment.
	So the point is that they're so healthy during that little era.
	We're not getting out of our cars anytime soon.
	And we're not getting off of foreign oil anytime soon.
	Look around.
	Every piece of plastic, every petrochemical product you have in your home, stop believing the lies.
	Yeah, what are we going to do?
	Have our computer monitors made out of wood?
	Yeah.
	Hey, you still have one of those.
	I do.
	Yeah.
	Alright, so that's it for our...
	Let me just do the jingle one more time, just so it embeds and burns into your brain.
	All aboard!
	Trains good, planes bad.
	You will donate.
	Okay.
	I think we've done for today, John.
	Okay, we are.
	I've got nothing left.
	I just wanted to say that on the heels of the mothership appearing over the Chinese airport...
	The giant fluorescent bulb in the sky.
	There's a report of a rain of luminous beams appearing in the sky, and there's a great picture, which I'm sure you'll say is photoshopped.
	It's photoshopped.
	But of course, that's because they tried to nuke the thing out of existence.
	Maybe it was a moon-based shot.
	Not too sure.
	But it's okay because very soon you'll be able to purchase a ticket for the boarding pass for the mothership when it surfaces here in the United States.
	And we'll all get out of here.
	Everything will be fine.
	So, on that note...
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	And from northern Silicon Valley where I spy for no one, I'm John C. Dvorak.
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