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Dec. 23, 2010 - No Agenda
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263: Don't Ask, Don't Yell
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Children of the future will have no snow.
Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Thursday, December 23rd, 2010.
Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 263.
This is No Agenda.
Leading Al-Qaeda of the Inland Empire from the Hilltop Watchtower, Crackpot Command Center.
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In the morning, I am Adam Curry.
And where it rains, it pours, but it's stopped.
No more gully washers, just a chicken soaker.
It's Blue Skies here in northern Silicon Valley.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
In the morning to you, John.
And he's on fire.
That was good.
In the morning.
In the morning to you, and in the morning to all ships at sea.
And to all boots on the ground, wings in the skies, hams on the air, human resources all charged up and ready to go in the chat room with noagendachat.net, and to all gays in the military.
How you doing?
Which, by the way, is all, you know, you'd see, you can tell, you know, I mean, not to say that you can't watch the, go to free speech TV and watch the gay news, because they out people on that show.
Right.
It's actually quite entertaining in that regard.
Right.
Because they're, you know, they out people.
But you don't have, they out themselves on these talk shows because, you know, what's the gays in the military, I don't think was a big story this week.
Well, so I tell you something, huge story.
In LA? No, no, no.
Huge story because of the lie.
Uh-huh.
I see.
I knew I'd get you.
I knew I'd get you.
What lie?
The biggest lie in the world about this bill.
What were you led to understand about this bill, John?
That it just repealed a simple bill.
This is what I understand.
And again, because I never thought it was a big story, I never looked into it, I never thought there was some conspiracy afoot.
But my thing was, it just repealed, don't ask, don't tell, and you can say whatever you want.
Oh, really?
And that's what you think it does?
You think it repeals, don't ask, don't tell?
That's what Rachel Maddow told me, and she should know.
Oh, right, she should know.
Well, first of all...
Okay, so I took the time.
This is what happened to me.
I woke up at four this morning.
I went, you know...
Oh, this is this morning.
Yeah.
You're telling me that this morning is when you fell into the pit.
As a bi-curious man...
As a bi-curious man, I figured it might be smart to just go and read this don't ask, don't tell, repeal bill.
Like, that's not a crazy thing to do, is it?
Well, I never thought to do it.
I just felt that if I could ever trust, ever, Rachel Maddow.
Oh, no, no.
I have Rachel Maddow clip for you.
And all of these are very, very short.
But we must first listen to how it was propagated to us, and then I will tell you what is in the bill, which, by the way, repeals nothing.
Not a single thing.
The word repeal is not in the bill.
Now, let me play the opening act of this grand ceremony by our president, by Vice President Joe Biden, who loves to warm up for the president.
By repealing, don't ask, don't tell today.
Okay, remember, and I will read the text to you in a bit, nothing has been repealed whatsoever that the word repeal is not in the bill.
We take a big step toward fostering justice, fairness and consideration.
And that real cooperation President Eisenhower spoke of.
Oh yes.
This fulfills an important campaign promise the President and I made.
So the President promised to repeal this, right?
Does he sound drunk to you?
Totally.
And many here on this stage, Maid, and many of you have fought for for a long time.
Repealing a policy that actually weakens our national security, diminished our ability to have military...
It's funny, Rick is in national security.
And our ability to be...
So then Obama comes out and he lies a little bit more.
So this morning, I am proud to sign a law that will bring an end to Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Okay, so remember these words.
He is proud to sign a law that will bring an end to Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
That sounds like he's removing the Don't Ask, Don't Tell bill, law, correct?
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, he's lying.
Wait, first we all gotta go, woo!
It is a law.
It is a law.
What?
What?
This law I'm about to sign will strengthen our national security.
Ha ha ha!
Okay, maybe I should just read you the law now, because it's not as much fun if you haven't read the actual bill.
So here is the actual text of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
And by the way, I got interested in this because the president twittered that he was excited about signing this bill.
You know, the president twitters.
That's bullcrap.
We know he doesn't Twitter.
No, he does too, Twitter, because he has a verified account.
So you know it's him.
He is absolutely Twittering.
It's Gibbs.
But literally, it's like, I'm excited about signing this bill.
Actually, you know, the funny thing is, before you go on, I don't want to make this a shaggy dog story, but let me just mention that, you know, Sarah Austin, who does the Pop 17 out of the officer at Mevio?
Yeah.
Her sister...
Who's like just still in college as far as I know.
She is Hillary Clinton's blogger.
Oh, really?
Twitterer.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
It's quite interesting.
She was in the office the other day to shoot something.
I was helping her get some school project done, so she left her State Department stuff.
Really?
Cool.
Folders and binders.
That's how WikiLeaks got started, John.
You're on your way.
That's great.
All right, so I have the bill now in front of me.
This is S4023. And it's not a hard bill to read, actually.
And it has a short title.
And it is to provide for the repeal.
Not to repeal.
To provide for the repeal of the Department of Defense policy concerning homosexuality in the armed forces known as Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Please, words matter.
To provide for the repeal.
This is not the repeal.
And here it is.
The effective date.
The amendments made by subsection F shall take effect 60 days after the date on which the last of the following occurs.
So, the way you have to read this, you always have to read it backwards, because this is what these guys do.
And I learned this by reading the Lisbon Treaty.
This is how you get fleeced, okay?
Okay.
So the last of the following has to occur, then it's 60 days, and then this law goes into effect, which will then repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
So what has to happen?
Well, the President has to transmit to the Congressional Defense Committees written certification, not just a note, not just a memo, written certification signed by the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
Stating the following, okay, this is before anything comes into play, that the implementation of necessary policies is consistent with the standards of military readiness, military effectiveness, unit cohesion, and recruiting and retention of the armed forces.
Are you still following me, John?
Yeah.
So these three guys, President, Secretary of Defense, Channel Joint Chiefs of Staff, have to certify.
This is not just, oh, I think it's okay.
No, it's certification.
And I don't think I have to tell you how long it can take to certify anything.
Only when all of the, including unit cohesion.
Studies have to be done.
Including unit cohesion.
Whatever that means.
Right, and the fact of the matter is the Marines are against this thing, so that this could become a stumbling point.
This will take years before the certification in.
And in fact, this bill not only does not say repeal, it says, literally, I'm reading it here, no immediate effect on current policy, Section 654 of Title 10 United States Code, shall remain in effect until such time that all of the requirements and the certifications required by subsection shall remain in effect until such time that all of the requirements and If these requirements and certifications are not met, Section 654 of Title 10 U.S. States Code shall remain in effect.
So the president is lying here.
He did not sign a bill to repeal anything.
Anything!
He signed a bill for certification to take place, and then once all of that is done, and then 60 days, there's no trial periods, no nothing, it's still don't ask, don't tell.
Big-ass lie.
But the way it's presented to you, and this is what's important because we assassinate the media, the way it's presented to you as if the president, he's our hero!
It's a campaign promise, he's repealing it, it's gone forever!
It's not.
You know, the problem with this is that this is like a small, seemingly, at least a lot of people don't, you know, it's not a big deal one way or the other, but the fact that you actually looked it up and found the whole thing to be bogus just is depressing.
And I'll tell you why.
It's because it makes you wonder, you know, is every bill and every statement, is every single thing presented to us by the media and the president in conjunction, is that, is everything like, I mean, can we look up anything in finance to be the case?
I know we can with the Food Modernization Act, which again, you know, Rachel was all over as the world's greatest thing.
But, you know, the fact of the matter is what is the point of even watching these shows Again, Rachel Maddow is openly gay.
Let me play Rachel Maddow's response then, since you've brought her up five times.
Because, of course, you have to look at what the media does.
How does the media propagate this?
Actually...
I'd like to do two pieces, John.
It's really important that we just follow this.
First of all, I'll do Rachel Maddow, then we can get on to some other reporting.
This is what her response was to the non-repeal of don't ask, don't tell.
And this is not little nitpicking like I saw someone post in the chat room.
This really matters.
Nothing has been repealed, yet it's just like you text your $10 to Haiti.
Oh, okay, everyone's saved now.
I can turn around and move on with my life.
And again, as a bi-curious man, I'm outraged that I... Here's Rachel Maddow.
One of my favorite people in Washington, a veteran NBC News producer who I will not name because it will embarrass her, but who has seen it all and who is therefore amazed by nothing.
Today she told us that she has never seen another day like today in Washington and all the time she has been there.
If I were President Obama, I would have called the press conference today to cap a day that began with him officially signing the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
After two long years of legislative maneuvering, Mr.
Obama completed that signing statement.
So she said officially repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
She clearly did not read the bill leaning forward, MSNBC. And by the way, what is the deal with her and this huge audience all of a sudden?
I don't know.
Did she get the back story?
I couldn't get the back story.
I don't know.
It's the live show.
I don't know.
It's stupid.
So here's how ABC, the Compromise News Organization, I would like to remind you that the president of ABC News, his sister, is a very high-level personal advisor to President Obama.
So ABC News is compromised.
Here's their reports.
The legal ban on gays serving openly in the military is a thing of the past.
It's a thing of the past, John.
It's all over.
Apparently not.
If you read the bill, it's not a thing in the past.
It's still in play.
Is that not a big lie right there?
I mean, it's just not true.
I think it's not.
You know, I think to lie, you have to actually have some knowledge.
Well, let's listen to this.
A good day for America, as he repealed the military's don't ask, don't tell policy.
What's all this editorializing?
It's a good day for America.
Well, that's what the president said in his speech.
It's a good day for America because I'm about to sign something that means nothing.
It's a good day for America because I get to bullcrap you one more time.
Yeehaw!
PC7's political reporter Mark Matthews is here with reaction from a Bay Area resident who was at the president's side as he signed this historic piece of legislation.
Zoe Dunning calling it a dream come true.
She stood beside the president and beamed as he repealed the policy that Dunning has been fighting against for more than a decade.
So, just listen to this.
Not only...
Are these guys being fleeced?
But apparently there was a retired naval commander who has been fighting Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
I saw this guy.
He broke into tears.
No, no, no.
This is a woman.
Oh, okay.
And she was standing next to the president when he signed it, and he's fleeced her.
She didn't even read the bill.
I mean, I swear to God, listen.
A hero's welcome for the president today as he fulfilled a major campaign promise.
I am...
I am just overwhelmed.
This is a very good day.
And I want to thank all of you.
The stammering is a giveaway.
That's interesting.
That may be a tell.
Especially the people on this stage.
Now, stand by.
Listen to this.
When he signed the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, he motioned for retired Navy commander and San Francisco resident Zoe Dunning to stand next to him.
It was surreal.
It was amazing to think that I was just, you know...
Three feet away from the president as he signed a bill repealing a law that I've been fighting for 18 years.
He didn't sign a bill!
It's not a repeal!
This is what drives me nuts.
I think you've made your point.
Okay.
Now, the stammering is an interesting tell, by the way.
I didn't notice that.
They had a guy on local TV who was the same thing, a little group of people, and they had this guy.
And I swear to God, he broke into tears, which is the latest.
Yeah, they have the picture of him crying.
But this is what makes me so angry, because people are so used to it.
Oh, well, it's repealed.
War is over.
Yay!
You know, the people aren't just so used to...
It's like the Iraq war.
We're out of there.
Right.
So used to just believing whatever the news puts in front of them.
I do have to play this one 30-second clip of the president because he essentially set up the research that has to be done, these years of research in order to certify that repealing...
This is just a bill that says we're going to see if it'll be okay to go and repeal it.
So he kind of had to set that up, right?
You know, it's like, hey, well, we all know it's going to be okay, right?
You know, no one's going to be against this.
In fact, he's got some proof for you.
Fighters said during the Pentagon's review, this was one of my favorites.
It echoes the experience of Lloyd Corwin decades earlier.
We have a gay guy in the unit.
He's big, he's mean, he kills lots of bad guys.
No one cared that he was gay.
And I think that sums up perfectly.
That's right.
That's right.
Because when you're in the military, all you do is you kill bad guys.
That's all you do.
That's right.
We talked to these guys in the military.
My son, both of them actually are in touch with different guys that are in the military in one way or another.
And one of them, apparently, he's a Marine.
All he does is string our cable.
Do all kinds of stuff.
And what happened to peacekeeping?
What happened to working with local officials and installing...
No, no.
We kill bad guys, therefore it doesn't matter if you're gay, straight...
Yeah, we're just a bunch of butchers.
Is that what he's saying?
And by the way, transgendered people, regarding any bill, shut up and sit down and pee, because you ain't getting nothing.
You're not included in any of this.
It's unbelievable that every...
Now, you go on the street, and you do a poll, and you say, Hey, Daniel, don't ask, don't tell.
Everyone's going to say, Yeah, you know, the president, he repealed that.
It's all over.
It's done.
Yay!
Yay!
And nothing could be further from the truth.
And I'm, quite frankly, Rachel Maddow up front, I am appalled that the gay and lesbian community is not up in arms.
They should be outraged by this, by the lie that this has been repealed.
It's a complete political tactic.
They're all Democrats.
And if Obama says it, it must be true.
They do no research.
They're ideologues.
Rachel Maddow is the worst.
I mean, she came on and did that thing with Jon Stewart, and he almost told her this, and she still won't listen.
She's a terrible person.
So the only thing I will say for our president, the guy can sell it.
Definitely sell it.
No, listen to this one, and then we'll go straight into thanking some people who helped support our show.
So he does this 20-minute...
Lie about, oh, I'm going to repeal it, and it's great, and he does some history, and then he's talking about, so now he has to wind it up, right?
And the guy is amazing.
So he goes from stammering and stuttering into his speech, which he clearly rehearsed, and listened, bless you, darling, and listened to how he brings it home as he's ready to sign this bill that means absolutely nothing.
And she whispered in my ear, get, don't ask, don't tell done.
And I said to her...
Listen to this.
Listen to him go.
I promise you I will.
You can learn something from this.
For we are not a nation that says, don't ask, don't tell.
We are a nation that says, out of many, we are one.
We are a nation that welcomes the service of every patriot.
We are a nation that believes that all men and women are created equal.
Those are the ideals that generations have fought for.
Those are the ideals that we uphold today.
and now it is my honor to sign this bill into law.
Woo-hoo!
I had a dream!
Unbelievable.
That guy can talk, man.
He can do it.
Which will bring me to a point right after we thank our executive producers for today's show, which are manifold.
Mainly because I got a clip that's a very interesting contrast to all that.
Right on.
But first we've got a...
And by the way, today we did a mailing, so we have a lot of people to thank because we've got a...
And it's the end of the year, you know?
And it's the end of the year, so we're going to have a lot of people to thank.
There's going to be a Letters to the Editor show.
If people want to fast-forward or whatever they do, they should actually listen to this because most of this material that people send us is quite funny.
But let's start with thanking a few of our people, including Baron von Pelsmacher, who...
Gave us $1,111.11 and becomes the first and founding member of the 1111 Club, which will close after 1111.
I thought it was the 5x1.
No, this is not the 5x1.
That's the $111.11.
Ooh, okay.
This is the knighthood.
The 11-11 knighthood.
Oh, this is the big one.
This is the...
This is the big one.
And this is only going to be open for a while because after 11-11-11...
It's over.
Then we can't do it anymore until we're dead.
That night, order of that knighthood is over.
So for people who care about these sorts of things, and we do, because we think everyone should be a knight.
Anyway, so Baron Palsmacher, who's our primary patron, will be the founder of that group.
So if he wants to have a meeting, you know, he's going to have to pay attention.
Greg Birch.
Sir Greg Birch from Port Angeles, Washington gave us $300.
He's working on another night.
I've got a letter from him.
I'll read it at the halfway point.
Let's make sure we do it because he had the 150-150 split up.
So let's make sure we do that.
Yeah, it's a little complicated.
Gordon Walton, Austin, Texas, 264.
He's a member of the 264, which is next week.
Thanks.
This is actually an interesting trick because now we're going to have to mention him next week.
That's right.
That's right.
That's how it works.
Keep up the great work.
You have the world's greatest show.
Gordon, I'm sorry, Alan Bowes.
These are all executive producers still, right?
These are all executive producers.
Pelsmarker's got a standalone and then everyone else is an executive producer.
But then we have members of the 263 Club.
We've got 123456.
Starting with Alan Bowes, Langley, British Columbia.
Merry Christmas, John Hamm.
Have a great New Year.
This should triple whammy, associate executive producer show, plus club, plus knighthood.
He's adding them all up.
That's right.
Do your own accounting, people.
Stephen Wilkinson, Mount Laurel, New Jersey.
Long-time listener, $5 a month subscriber.
Usually $5 a month is all I can afford.
I'm glad I'm able to get something substantial in before the end of the year.
You guys are the best.
I love the show and tell everyone I know to check it out.
He tells everybody.
So I hope everybody does that.
Keep up the amazing work, he says.
John Cozumano in White Plains, Maryland, $263.
Alex Kroki.
I think it's Kroki or Kroak.
It's got to be Kroki.
I would say Kroki, yeah.
Yeah.
New York City.
Dear John and Adam, December 24th is my 39th birthday.
We'll give them a shout-out at the halfway point.
Every one of my friends tend to forget in the holiday rush.
This is a problem with having your birthday on Christmas or around Christmas.
My sister's birthday is January 1st.
It's terrible.
I feel sorry for people who have their birthdays on a holiday because they get screwed.
I mean, depending on what screwed is.
Maybe they do get screwed.
That could be good.
I am probably the first to donate from the sunny beaches of...
San Teodoro, Sardinia.
San Teodoro.
He's not in New York, he's in Italy.
Yes.
He's back in the old country.
Place for perfect vacations.
Clear Blue Water by Sandy Beaches.
What is he, working for them?
I don't know.
Tell Eric for the noagendanations.com to note it.
It's got apparently hot chicks, he says.
Now, a photographer in New York City, look at my website, www.alexk.com.
I would love to take some pictures of you, John and Adam, in the morning and give your artists new cover materials for the show.
We can do that.
That's a good idea.
When I'm in New York, I'll be there.
That offer's good anytime.
Love the show.
I've been listening from episode one.
Wow.
Interesting.
Wow.
Keep it the wonderful job of entertaining and informing me.
I'm working on all my friends to get on board.
Buono Natale.
Buono 2011.
Alex Kroke.
Kroke.
I don't know.
Kroke.
Was that an Italian name?
K-R-O-K-E. Oh, wow.
He's got some hot chicks on his website.
Noel.
First thing you do.
Noel Plomant.
Plomant.
In Picnic Point, New South Wales, Australia.
Hi guys, I've listened to the past few shows and I think the show is awesome!
Keep up the great work.
Could I please get a de-douching?
Absolutely.
You've been de-douched.
Also, can you send out a douchebag to Greg Dawes of New South Wales?
He got me listening to the show, but he's never actually donated it.
Oh, I hate it when that happens.
Well, you know, at least they did something.
Jonathan Jackson, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Great little town.
263.
I've been a douchebag long enough.
Please take this donation as a thank you for all your hard work.
Merry Christmas.
Oh, that's so nice.
We're getting a lot of that of people saying, you know what?
I like the show so much, I'm finally going to hop on the bandwagon.
That's awesome.
Yeah, he's a first-time donor, too.
Shea O'Brien.
If that's not an Irish name, I don't know what is.
Ventura, California, 263.
Hello, John and Adam.
Call me a Scrooge, but I decided to opt out of the whole holiday present buying bullcrap this year.
Still don't have a lot of free cash, but I'd rather spend it here for a worthy service than on some ugly sweaters that no one will ever wear.
Second time donating them.
Looking to start a new project this year, 2012 Wall Calendar.
Would love some karma to kick things off in the right direction.
We'd be happy to help you out with that.
You've got karma.
And then we've got a 222 donation from John Turad of Pasadena, California.
They'll make him an associate executive producer.
Nevin Brooks, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 220.
Been listening since episode one, and we'll try to catch up to John's idea of $1 per hour, even at that rate.
Your cheap dates!
And I appreciate every episode.
We are.
We're so cheap.
All right.
And then Anonymous from Columbia, South Carolina.
Please treat it as an anonymous donor.
Oh, I shouldn't have said his name, Anonymous.
Second donation out of five.
Work my way tonight.
This is the guy who's going to be, or girl, who's going to be, I can't tell, who's going...
Anonymous Knight.
Anonymous Knight.
Adam Williams...
Erith Kent.
Erith?
How is that pronounced?
E-R-I-T-H? Kent?
Erith?
Erith Kent?
I don't know.
Something like that.
Erith Kent.
$200.
And that's our guys who gave us...
You can thank them for today's show.
Wow.
Holy moly.
What a great lineup.
We really appreciate it.
That's a lineup of the best.
So...
Headed by, of course, the great Baron von Pelsmacher.
Baron von Pelsmacher.
Quick PR mentions.
One to my sister, Willow, in Italy.
I received her Christmas card.
She makes cards and she prints them up and she sends them out every year.
And I'm looking at this card.
It's got a picture of her family.
She lives in Italy.
Happy New Year in Italian, whatever the hell that is.
And I look at the bottom of the card and it says, in the morning.
She's printed in the morning on her card.
I was like, what?
And I check with him and say, yeah, that was my private little joke.
See if anyone would pick up on it.
Well, I think that's a great PR move, although a small audience is highly appreciated.
And then this initiative, which I think is great, from David Murkowski in North Carolina along with Brian Ferris.
They've created HamInTheMorning.com.
If you're interested in propagating the formula over the airwaves of Gitmo Nation with FCC guidelines, of course, there are plenty of links on this site to some of the resources he's using to prepare for his technician exam in two weeks.
So become a ham operator in the morning.
Go to haminthemorning.com, which I find to be...
That's a good one.
I should mention the people who want to get their technician's license.
If you've been around the computer scene at all, you're halfway there.
So we will thank this episode's executive producer, stand-alone Baron von Pelsmockers, Baron of the Barony of Belgium.
Actually, wait, hold on a second, Adam.
I think we're going to, since we're going to be calling where these Baronies are going to be, I think we're going to rename Belgium to Pelsmockers.
We need a meeting about that.
I think it's a good name for a country.
But I do think he gets Flanders and Walloon.
Oh, absolutely.
He gets both.
He gets both.
He can deal with all the crap himself.
Sir Greg Birch, Gordon Walton, Alan Bowes, Stephen Wilkinson, John Cosimano, Alex Crokey, Noel Plomerit, Jonathan Jackson, Shea O'Brien, and our associate executive producers, John Tirada, Nivenbrooks.
Ann Anonymous and Adam Williams, thank you all so much for making this program possible.
It's really a great Christmas gift and it helps us enormously since we have no other way of making money at all.
And everyone else out there, please help us propagate the formula.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
New world order.
All right, everybody say it loud and proud now.
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And, of course, you can go to Dvorak.org to support the program.
We'll be talking more and thanking some more people later on.
Also, of course, thanks to all of our monthly subscribers who do $5 a month, $30 a month, $33 a month.
Everyone, thank you so much.
Hey!
Wow.
Hello?
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, sometimes I don't know if you're still there.
I leave every once in a while.
Yes.
So we have the real story this week seems to me to be that all of a sudden, you pointed it out originally, the sudden emergence of the homegrown terrorist threat as a meme.
And once again, I'd like to point out, and I'm going to leave this one up to you, but you call for them if you want them.
It seemed like ABC News is the new compromised outlet, and therefore they're piling it on.
First we had Holder go on to the...
On to Good Morning America.
And I think that's what we're probably going to discuss first.
So I have that audio if you're interested.
And then we had the three...
The top brass of Department of Homeland Security, which is Clapper, Napolitano, and...
I forget the third guy's name.
They went on ABC with Diane Sawyer.
And actually the talking points...
Are exactly the same.
Did you catch all the talking points or how do you want to handle this?
Well, there's a couple of things that happened.
One, we do have, we can start with some clips as background.
I want to deconstruct the article that showed up on abcnews.go.com.
They know the article was based upon literally that interview.
Yeah, but that's why I want to deconstruct it, because it's got slanted language that people need to be able to understand when they read through these things so they can spot.
I mean, I got this thing so marked up, it's ridiculous.
But...
Well, tell me how you want to run it.
Whatever you want.
I've got all the tips.
Well, let's start with, let's see how far you can get with the clip.
And I'm saying that meaning how far can you get because this is a long...
Katie Couric, like you did yesterday, the day before, they ran on CBS News.
They ran, because you said a lot is ABC-oriented because they're compromised, but CBS is too.
And so they ran a special on the homegrown terrorism.
In fact, I think I have a short clip.
I see the six-minute clip.
I see that one.
Well, that's the one that you have to dig through.
Oh, you have nine seconds here.
Is that what it is?
Yeah, play that.
Okay.
Of legislative victories.
America under attack from within will put the growing threat of domestic terror in focus.
Okay, so that's the teaser for a six minute.
By the way, you have to remember that.
Six minutes is unbelievable.
This is a half hour national news show and there's only 20 minutes of news.
It's 10 minutes of advertising because everything, that's the ratio.
This is 30% of the show.
30% of the show is dedicated to this topic.
And then all the news coverage was like this piece from ABC, which I'll deconstruct.
We're going to have a link to the show notes.
Uh...
Let me just go over this and read a few.
Can I just give you the talking points that I garnered?
Okay, so the talking points, and I took this both from the...
And they are talking points, by the way.
Oh, totally talking points, because in both interviews they did the same thing.
So first of all, bad news, be afraid.
Shut up, slaves.
You're going to die.
That is the overarching message.
Then the question is, well, you know, it wasn't just luck that we caught these other guys.
It wasn't luck.
Everyone's saying, no, no, it wasn't luck.
We are actually, we're doing the work.
Homegrown terror, homeland.
Homegrown terror, homeland.
Homeland, homegrown.
Homeland, hometown.
Homeland, homegrown.
Videos online.
Videos online.
Lots of videos.
Everyone can see these videos.
Videos, videos, videos.
Bad.
We're being radicalized.
Videos online.
And then, al-Awlaki.
Is he bigger or equal to Osama Bin Laden?
Who's more important?
Who's number one, who's number two, who's number three, who's number four?
Who's on the list?
Al-Awlaki, Al-Awlaki, Al-Awlaki is the guy who's doing it.
He is the bad guy.
These are the talking...
And, of course, everyone forgets him.
Who's an American from Phoenix or someplace.
Yeah, and had lunch at the Pentagon after 9-11.
They had him.
They had him.
They had him in their claws.
I mean, the guy works for us in some ways.
They had him in their clutches.
The guy's obviously an agent.
Duh!
When you...
Look...
Oh, I hate to blow his cover.
Woo!
Yeah, really.
So those are the talking points.
But the funniest thing is the consistent hammering that al-Awlaki, however you pronounce his name, is now equal to or more dangerous than Osama bin Laden, which I think is probably they have to do because you never know when a WikiLeak may come out confirming that Osama bin Laden is dead.
So we had to have him do that.
I think that's where they're afraid there's something in these memos.
I mean, and it's not just in the memo.
Someone will just make it up and say it's a WikiLeak and everyone will believe it.
It doesn't matter.
I mean, everyone believes we just repeal don't ask, don't tell.
I mean, how stupid are we?
So it's going to be, oh, WikiLeak said Osama bin Laden is dead.
Well, it's okay because we got this other guy and he's more dangerous than Osama bin Laden.
Okay, so I'm just looking over this.
This thing is a sheet of paper.
Let me read you some paragraphs on what they're doing to you here.
First of all, one of the key earmarks of a propaganda piece or a hit piece against somebody is a headline that does not match the content of the article in ways that are designed to put you in a certain mindset.
And the headline on this one is by Jack Clority and Pierre Thomas.
It took two people to write this.
It's like 350 words.
By the way, Pierre Thomas...
I looked him up.
This guy is an amazing, amazing journalist, John.
He has been at the forefront of everything.
He broke the news in Oklahoma City.
He broke the news on Waco.
Throughout his entire 25-year career, he has been breaking the news about anything and everything Homeland Security related.
The guy is amazing.
Okay, so he's in the pocket of somebody that calls him.
Totally.
Totally.
So the title of the article is Attorney General's Blunt Warning on Terror Attacks.
In here, there's no blunt warning.
Well, he says, I'll have bad news.
No, here's what it says in the article.
Because we have to compare what it says in the headline.
So the headline is to get your mind thinking a certain way.
So this reminds me, I don't know if you've ever been to, a lot of people go to these seminars, but one of my all-time favorite seminar, Gimmicks.
Because there's guys that like to go up in the audience and trick you.
They put up a wall of words and say, how many R's do you see in there?
And then you make a count.
You're always wrong.
You've seen these presentations.
Yeah, I'm always wrong.
My favorite ones are they get half the audience to look at a picture of a rabbit.
And half the audience will look at a picture of something else, and then they show you this combined weird picture, and they ask you what's in it, and the people who have already seen the picture of the rabbit all say there's a rabbit in it, and the people who have seen the old lady, who saw a picture of an old lady, all see the old lady in this mixed up picture.
Because, in other words, you've been predisposed, and that's the point he tries to make.
So you're predisposed by the headline immediately, and so you're predisposed by a bogus headline in this article.
Because this article is only about Holder trying to make the theory that they only have to be successful once, and that's what's kind of at the beginning of the article.
But he uses the word, for example, Attorney General Holder had an urgent message from America.
In other words, it was urgent.
So this is like to get you keyed up.
So you have to urgent.
Oh, this is important.
Well, he is confident that the United States will continue to thwart attacks.
In other words, attacks, plural.
They're attacking us as we speak.
As I'm reading this.
Incoming.
The terrorists only have to be...
Successful once.
Basically, there's a contradiction which confuses you.
You're already set for the worst.
You're confused by this crazy, contradictory paragraph which says, don't worry about we're thwarting the attacks, but they only have to be...
If you're thwarting them, what has that got to do with them being successful once?
And why do they only have to be successful once?
What is that going to do?
What does that prove?
It is total mind-messing right in the first paragraph.
You're already confused.
Exactly.
The first paragraph is confusing.
And then we go to the second paragraph, which is one sentence.
And while it is not certain, which means, of course, you use the word not certain.
Which means you don't actually process the word not.
You think it is certain.
That's the way your brain works, right?
The way your brain works.
So what it's really saying is, he says, well, while it is not certain, we will be hit.
We're going to be hit.
We're going to be hit.
We're going to be hit, because that's the way this is worded.
It's worded so your brain just, we're going to be hit, we're going to be hit.
He told ABC News, quote, have to be prepared for potentially bad news.
Why?
Quote again, second next graph, I'm trying to do this interview to make people aware of the fact that the threat is real, the threat is different, the threat is constant.
Now this is the use of three items in a row.
When you do that, then you remember it, right?
Threat, threat, threat.
And the idea is, which is the trinity, by the way, and it's three, which is one of the reasons we have $3.33 a monthly donation.
It's just the magic number.
It's how it works.
It's the Illuminati's code.
You could do two, and you could do four, and you can do five, but three is the one that really makes the point if you're writing to get people to pay attention.
And then he goes, then the next graph, in a rare and wide-ranging interview, I'm not actually sure whether you use a wide-ranging interview.
Yeah, we talked about his kids doing homework at the very end.
The attorney general disclosed, and here's a word that's a key word.
If you ever see this word, beware.
Chilling.
Chilling.
New details.
Not old details, by the way.
We've talked about this.
Yeah, when you say chilling, then that is a total...
It's a key word.
It's usually left a lot to emphasize.
You'll find Noam Chomsky and people like that will use that word to get your attention.
And then he does the thing.
He says, details about evolving threat of homegrown terror and touched upon topics ranging from WikiLeaks to the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
So now we are doing an association thing with WikiLeaks.
We're talking about terrorism, terrorism, terrorism.
Let's throw the word WikiLeaks in there so maybe some people's brains will associate the two.
Nasty.
And this is all Pierre Thomas, and I have a link to his biography in the show notes.
Total spook on the inside.
What is uppermost on his mind, however, in other words, whoa, wait a minute, we're not even getting to the gist of it yet.
Oh, my goodness.
However, is the alarming rise in the number of Americans who are more than willing to attack and kill their fellow citizens.
Okay, let's take a look at this.
Now, if this is a use of adjectives to give people the wrong impression, I'm going to rewrite this.
And here's the way I would write if I was being an objective journalist.
What was on his mind, not uppermost, what does that mean?
What was on his mind, however, is the questionable rise of Americans who are supposedly willing to attack and kill their fellow citizens.
I could write that.
And it would be just as valid as the alarming rise.
I'm saying supposed or questionable rise.
What is an alarming rise?
Where is these numbers?
It's alarming.
The whole point is to have you pooping in your pants.
Quote, it's one of those things that keep me up at night, Holder said.
You don't worry about this even two years ago about individuals, about Americans to the extent that we do now, and that is of great concern.
Really?
What changed?
Oh, wait a minute.
Now, see, that's what happens.
The first thing I thought of when I read that quote was, what changed?
Now, here's an interesting trick where you bring in the word, because I think anyone would assume what changed.
What changed?
Something must have changed.
Because now we're thinking about, you know, our own people.
It's the homeland, hometown, homegrown.
So instead of saying what changed sociologically, the next quote is beautiful.
It says, the threat has changed, using the word changed, from simply worrying about foreigners coming here to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens raised here, born here, and who, for whatever reason...
Wow.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Why?
Wherefore?
There's no explanation for any of this.
And by the way, I'm going to just point this out before I finish this little deconstruction.
People can complain all they want about Bush being a bonehead and crazy and trying to put fear into the into the mind of the public.
He didn't turn the nation against itself.
This is terrible what these guys are doing.
They are turning people, Americans, against Americans.
This has been done before, though, hasn't it?
Yeah, in Nazi Germany.
Nazi Germany, in Russia?
Russia.
It's been done in Russia.
The last 24 months, Holder said, 126 people have been indicted on terrorist-related charges.
50 of those people are American citizens.
No details.
No.
No details.
What are the details of these 50 people?
No idea.
And what is terrorism?
They've redefined it so much that if you have a pipe bomb because you're an angry student at the administration of the school, you're a terrorist.
So this has not got anything to do with the dangers of terrorism, international terrorism, as it were.
He goes on and on.
He says, this is a graph that is just blathering.
He says, Holder says many of these converts to Al-Qaeda.
What?
What?
How did they become converts to Al-Qaeda?
Well, I am a member of the Al-Qaeda of the Inland Empire.
You know, we have Al-Qaeda everywhere now.
Have something in common.
A link to the radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
An American citizen himself.
Yes.
Let me ask you a question.
Is there a difference between if you're radicalized by Anwar al-Awlaki to blow something up or if you're radicalized by months and months of FBI agents telling you that if you call this number you're going to blow up a bomb?
I mean, is there any difference?
Isn't it the same thing?
That's the AQ USA, apparently, those guys.
Yeah, but it's the FBI who's taking these kids and radicalizing them.
Have you seen this kid that the FBI radicalized?
Yeah.
And you look at him, and by the way, there are missing pieces of the puzzle.
They didn't release one thing or another because all they show is that, yeah, you don't have to do it if you don't want to.
You don't have to do it if you don't want to.
And then, you know, you don't know that another guy didn't call saying, hey, if you don't do it, man, you know, we're going to kill you.
Let me just help with this next sentence.
Authorities suspect Al-Waqi helped mastermind last year's Christmas Day underwear bombing plot in Detroit.
May I remind you that in congressional hearings, which we've played on this show, he was allowed on the plane because they wanted to follow him.
Do you remember that?
Yeah, and we also, they let him bypass security, so the security bull crap is all, you know, ridiculous.
They put him on the plane, they were following him, and they were filming, people were filming the whole thing like it was a reality TV show.
Most of this information has now been repressed.
It was a reality TV show.
They took everybody off the plane, and they debriefed everyone, and then they all disappeared and went their separate ways.
The whole thing was sketchy, to say the least.
Continue with your deconstruction.
Well, that's the end of it, actually.
Oh, really?
Okay.
Yeah, well, I mean, you know, mastermind is a hot word as though you had something to do with anything.
Well, so here's the one.
He would be on the same list with bin Laden.
He's up there.
I don't know whether he's one, two, three, four.
I don't know.
He's certainly on the list of people who worry me the most.
So there's a consistent comparison to bin Laden, which they need to do.
Yeah, they got it because bin Laden's not producing.
But did you see the mistake that Clapper made on ABC News?
No.
Oh, this was quite funny.
So, it's him and Lucy Napolitano and who was the third guy?
Craparola.
I'll find it for you.
No clip?
Yeah, I got a clip for you.
In fact, I'll play the clip.
So it's a setup with the compromised ABC News, obviously.
And then Diane Sawyer, who of course is not complicit, she's like, well, hold on a second.
Let me play the clip and you'll...
Something froze here.
Hold on a second.
Oh, I hate it when this happens.
It's not just a Mac thing, by the way.
It's a flash.
Anyway, back to the deconstruction.
I just want to mention to people that it all, you know, the whole thing is to put your mind in a certain state and then just pound you with crap.
We turn now to this anxious season about security in America.
Yesterday, we had the news of 12 terror arrests in London.
So this was the key part about these.
Oh, yeah.
I did see this, yeah.
Yeah, and the guy's like, what?
Huh, what?
What terror?
It wasn't on his list of to-do lists.
Well, this is interesting, because how this was spun is very funny.
Today, word of a suspicious device on a subway in Rome, but it was a false alarm.
However, right here in America, one year ago, we experienced the near-miss of the Christmas Day bomber, and then after that, the near-miss of the Times Square bomber.
Near-miss!
So we sat down yesterday with the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, Chief Counterterrorism Advisor John Brennan, and Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano.
And we started by asking her, what is the threat right now?
Well, I would say that there is a lot of chatter.
Chatter.
John, there's chatter.
There's chatter on those interwebs.
We got some chatter.
Did she say cheddar or chatter?
It could be chatter.
In the intel world, increasing right now over the holidays?
Well, that references the holidays.
Oh, yeah, we got some chatter.
This always makes me laugh.
So here's the chat.
You can just imagine.
Hello, it's the Al-Qaeda Inland Empire.
Hello, Al-Qaeda in Berkeley Empire.
I'm chattering.
Holidays, holidays, holidays.
Hello.
So, we have a whole program of things we have put in place for the holidays.
But no concrete indication.
Yeah, we got an eggnog party, all kinds of stuff.
We're all set up and ready for it.
Of a planned attack.
Nothing that is specific and credible in that sense.
So we wondered, in the years since Abd al-Muttalib, despite his own father's warning slipped through the system, what has changed?
Are you saying this could never happen again because of what's been done in this past year?
What we have done in this past year, I would say would pick him up.
We would prevent him from getting on that plane.
The funny thing is, they let him go on the plane.
Yeah, it's bogus.
By the way, she'd talk to her teeth there if you didn't notice.
Yes, she did.
We would have picked him up at this point.
Amsterdam to Detroit.
Amsterdam to Detroit.
We remember, Mr.
Fennin, you're coming out and saying...
I told the president today, I let him down.
Will you ever have to say that again?
Actually, it was Brennan.
Brennan was the guy who, in congressional testimony, said people of interest and the crotch bomber was a person of interest and they actually let him get on the plane.
He said that in the testimony.
Well, I certainly work every day to try to avoid having to deal with a situation like that where someone is able to get here into the United States and a plane.
We've adorned the track record, though, in terms of stopping attacks, preventing them from happening.
People sometimes point to luck, you know.
There's the luck meme.
Oh, it's not just luck, it's actual skill.
You know, we've got to push the luck meme because it is luck.
And the only people who have stopped any of these attacks has been the general public.
Other people, other people, exactly.
Operative, wasn't able to carry out the attack.
Well, it's because we've been able to degrade their capabilities, prevent them from training appropriately, so they lack a lot...
And by the way, I love during these pieces where you see a bunch of guys in the desert, they always cut to some B-roll of a couple of dudes running around with towels in the desert with an RPG on their shoulder.
Because, you know, that's the sophisticated Al-Qaeda is running around in the desert.
The skills and sophisticated...
Training on the monkey bars.
That's my other favorite.
Yeah, I got a kick out of this use of the sophisticated.
They're sophisticated.
They live in caves.
Yeah, sophisticated.
And they're stealing weapons from people that are dead.
This is their sophistication.
Precisely because we are keeping this constant pressure on them.
You really think with the Christmas Day bomber and with the Times Square bomber as close as they were with that level of explosives available to them?
What do you mean, level of explosives?
The guy didn't have enough to burn his nutsack.
The other guy didn't have anything at all.
It was just smoking.
What is she talking about?
That's not true.
She's nuts.
She's not true.
That was because we had just degraded their capability?
Neither one of those types were successful.
I'm not saying that, you know, we're not concerned about the ability to penetrate our defenses, like Abdul Muttalab, in terms of getting on that plane.
But for every Abdul Muttalab caught, are other homegrown terrorists being formed?
Homegrown?
We looked online at all the recruitment videos from the latter...
Wait, wait, hold on a second, stop!
This is a good one.
How do you make this leap, this logical leap of faith?
For every Abdul-Muttallab caught, is there a homegrown terror?
I mean, I don't see the connection every time you catch some screwball that comes in from Nigeria.
A new guy pops up in America.
It pops up.
Somehow that equates to homegrown terrorism?
It's like whack-a-mole.
What is wrong with this woman?
It's like whack-a-mole.
That's what it is.
What do you mean what's wrong with this woman?
She's ABC News!
Please!
We're not concerned about the ability to penetrate our defenses, like Abdu Muttalab, in terms of getting on that plane.
But for every Abdu Muttalab caught, are other homegrown terrorists being formed?
You see, she had to get to the homegrown part.
How do you get to that?
Where is this logic?
For every guy caught, does that result in a homegrown chair?
It's called a Segway, John.
It's so off the mark that it's ludicrous.
I know, but she has to get to this.
For every Ford that crashes into a telephone pole, does a new Honda motorcycle get built?
I don't see the connection.
No, of course you don't, but the whole point is we have to hammer into your head that the terror is homegrown and it could be your neighbor or the shoppers at Walmart.
Yeah, so another one is ABC is also encouraging Americans to turn against Americans.
Yes.
This needs investigation.
This is the worst situation I've ever seen in this country.
Wow, coming from you, that's a lot.
I'm telling you, this is having Americans turn against their own people.
And I guess this equates to the way it was getting in the 50s with the Communists under every bed.
But this is worse because this is more vague.
I mean, were you ever a member of the Communist Party?
There was actually something you could join.
This is just any old guy with a beard.
Hey, that's not true.
We can join Al-Qaeda.
I'm starting my own fraction here.
Where's the card?
Let's listen to some more.
So now we've made the segue to homegrown terror.
Now we've got to punch it in your face.
We looked online at all the recruitment videos from the...
Recruitment videos.
It's not recruitment videos.
It's recruitment videos.
I can't even, it's so stupid I can't even get into it.
Medical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, not to mention Osama bin Laden.
What can you do about this?
On the assumption that some of these 11,181 viewers are people who actually...
By the way, I love that.
So maybe the video had 11,000 views and she immediately turns it into 11,000 viewers.
Like, oh, oh, there's 11,000 of these crazy guys out there, homegrown terrorists.
Intend to hurt people.
Hurt people.
We collectively, as men and outreach programs, are in dialogue with the Muslim community.
And that is going to be a source of advice, counsel, and wisdom, as well as...
Alright, now we get into who's more dangerous, and then we'll wrap it up.
As you look at these two photos...
And literally, the two pictures now flying on screen.
Osama Bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki.
Anwar al-Awlaki.
Osama Bin Laden.
Who's the most dangerous?
I don't think you need to pick.
I think they're both dangerous and they are both the center.
What?
What does she know?
What does Napolitano know about anything?
She's the governor of New Mexico.
Well, they have to do this because if there's a WikiLeak that comes out, that Bin Laden's dead.
Then they've got to have another guy who's equally as important.
That's why it's a trick.
Yeah, I think you're right.
It's a trick.
They don't know that this has not been discussed in those...
In fact, they may know that it has.
I think they know something.
I think they're very worried because it's very unclear who was leaking WikiLeaks.
And at this point, we're so stupid and so complicit that anyone can just come out and say, well, there was a cable that was released and no one would go looking for it.
People don't even read the bills that they've been waiting 18 years to sign.
Yeah, you are actually...
Pointed this out.
You've been trying to find some stuff on the WikiLeaks database.
I found some stuff, but it's pretty hit and miss.
It's very, very difficult because the 250,000 aren't there.
The Guardian has it.
They say, but there's only like 1,000 or so that are released on the database.
Anyway, let's just wrap this up with equally as dangerous.
Continuing effort to commit terrorist acts and kill innocent people.
But we wondered, how did they stay in control with so much information coming...
Now, this is the funny part.
Here's where she rolls out the London thing and the guy totally blows it.
...in every day.
For instance...
The afternoon of our interview, the day's news had been filled with the terror arrest, 12 people in London just that morning.
But when we asked the Director of Intelligence...
How serious is it?
Any implication that it was coming here?
Any of the things that they have seen were coming here?
London?
What?
London?
So the guy doesn't know what happened in London.
And what's funny...
Which was a bogus.
It wasn't even, you know, anything.
It wasn't on their list of things to do.
Well, so I'm fast-forwarding to the end of the report because it was really embarrassing.
And then Brannon pipes up and says, you know, London, the 12 guys, you know.
And then Clapper goes, oh, oh, yeah.
What?
Yeah, yeah.
Clapper.
You should see it.
He's too busy drinking three martinis at lunch.
So here's how Diane Sawyer wraps up the report.
Today his office issued a statement saying, my question was ambiguous and that the director's knowledge of the threat streams in Europe code is profound and multidimensional.
It's profound and multidimensional.
It was all over the news that day, and so her question was ambiguous.
But his knowledge is profound and multidimensional, but then later that day...
Was he an outer space alien?
Later that day, Brannon makes a statement saying the guy actually didn't know.
He didn't.
No, but...
But first, they send a statement.
His office puts out a statement and says the question was ambiguous and his knowledge is quite broad and multidimensional.
He knows everything.
I see everything.
I know everything.
I am the National Director of Intelligence.
I see it all.
I hear all the chatter.
But then Brannon says, no, he didn't know.
On Monday, there were 12 individuals in the UK who were arrested on a suspected terrorist plot.
I was wondering if you could tell us anything more that we know about that, or anything about their intention.
And also, if the problem of intelligence sharing has been solved, if you could explain why...
Director of National Intelligence, Clapper, did not know at 345 on Monday about those arrests in that interview with Diane Sawyer that you and Secretary Napolitano did, how that's possible that hours later he had not been told about that.
I would be pleased to address that question, Jake.
I mean, today, as you know, that he didn't...
Let me address your...
I'm sorry, I should have clipped that shorter.
This is still a stupid...
I'll be pleased to address it because we're trying to get rid of that guy.
A takedown of the individuals in Britain to work with them closely to find out whether or not there's any nexus here to the homeland.
Homeland!
This bothers me, this use of homeland, which of course is what the Nazis used, hinterland.
Fatherland, too.
Fatherland.
No, but it was hinterland.
Hinterland is what they really used.
Does anyone not...
I mean...
You know, I grew up in Europe during a time where a lot of people were still kind of getting over the whole Nazi-killing Jew and other people type thing, particularly in Amsterdam, and people wanting their bicycle back and all that kind of stuff.
And words like the hinterland, it still hits me like, wow, that's a Nazi thing.
And here we are using Homeland.
I'm waiting for the day when you start traveling overseas and you come back through customs and they say, welcome back to the Homeland.
I bet you they already say that, actually.
No.
Well, okay.
Can about their motivations, intentions, and where their operational planning was going.
Anyway, forget it.
I'm bored.
All right, we're done.
But anyway, he comes out and says, well, it was on a need-to-know basis.
And he was doing much more important stuff.
He didn't even know about them than people in London.
Yeah, he was having lunch.
Come on.
He doesn't do anything.
It's a bullcrap job.
You just get paid money and that's the end of it.
So I'll do that after the...
I also looked into the START treaty, but I'll do that after the break.
Yeah, I got a bunch of clips.
I'll tell you, before I go to the break, at least I have to lighten things up.
I do have one joke which is going to run out of steam here if we miss Christmas.
It's the Letterman Christmas joke.
And then we'll thank some of our people who helped us do the show.
I don't know what happens, but you get one of these stories almost like once a week now, a story like this.
In Wisconsin, there's a mailman delivering his mail, going door-to-door.
It's wintertime.
The mailman, United States mailman, door-to-door delivering mail.
He's naked.
He's naked.
I mean, we've all heard of junk mail, but this is...
This is stupid.
Wow.
Okay.
Gee, 30 seconds of my life will never be returned.
Yeah, yeah.
Gee, I've never heard that line before.
Yeah.
So let's thank some people.
Let's.
Are you there?
Yeah, let's.
Okay, well, let's start by...
These are...
By the way, we did send out a mailing, so we have a lot of people to thank, and so people can...
But we do have a lot of good notes.
People send us notes usually when they do, except for Stephen Years from Fresno, California, $133.33.
Nice, simple donation.
No comment.
Ciro Piccirillo.
Piccirillo.
What do you think?
Piccirillo?
Piccirillo.
P-I-C-C-I-R-I. Piccirillo.
Piccirillo.
Yeah, Piccirillo.
Is an art in North Carolina where I'm sure they...
And by the way, we had a special 5x1 where you can donate $111.11 and we have a bunch of people who are just going to name them one after another who did that with their comments.
But these are people that follow this commentary with $111.11.
Douchebag call out to West White Cell.
Douchebag!
Matt Janie.
Oh, we have to do every single one?
Douchebag!
And John Killigan.
Douchebag!
I guess it's Kilgallen.
My three co-workers who are now regular listeners and have yet to give a penny.
Oh!
Douchebag!
There we go.
We got a quadruple douchebag.
Yes, we do.
Michael Stadjuhar.
An Apo Arab Emirates appears, I think.
Yeah, it looks like it, doesn't it?
Yeah, I love this show.
Oh, APO is probably, wait a minute, he's probably a soldier over there that's an APO, I don't know.
It could be an APO box number for the military, but he's in the Arab Emirates, whatever the case is.
He's probably living it up in Dubai.
Love the show.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Yes, thank you.
John Schweitzer, Evansville, Indiana.
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Give Eric a special attaboy.
Some plum pudding or maybe some electricity.
After all, he did save the day.
Give him some electricity.
Simon Reed, New York City.
Happy Christmas from the human resource number one, two, and he's got his number.
Yes, well, that's very good.
Keep up the good work.
You need to have your number.
Keith Keelholz.
Keelholz.
Keelholz.
K-E-I-L-H-O-L-T. Kyle Holtz?
Kyle Holtz, maybe?
Could be Kyle Holtz.
Kyle Holtz.
Or Holtz.
Hamilton, Ohio.
Hey guys, thanks for making good on the last batch of coins.
I received mine recently and all is well.
Here's the part.
$111.11 of making up some of the gap.
Be sure to tell the boners to do their part as well.
These are the boners, not donors meme.
Your show is the best out there.
And DB ratio needs to improve.
Really?
Really?
Yeah, it does.
It does?
Yeah, it does.
Really?
Theater Hoseman, Sacramento, California.
I got some birthday money from my mom and she told me to spend it on whatever I wish.
Instead of a skateboard.
There is no better value for value than the No Agenda show in DSC. My birthday was yesterday, 1222.
Also, John, please take me up on the offer to buy you a dinner when you visit the train museum in Sacramento.
By the way, I'm going to go up to the train museum on a train, and then I'm going to document the train experience.
And we're going to have a Sacramento meetup.
We're going to do it, but I'm not going to stick around for dinner.
And we're going to give Theodore a shout-out for his birthday.
John, just so you know, the next one isn't anonymous.
It is.
Yeah.
In Sandringham, Victoria, Australia.
Hi, John and Adam.
Long-time listener, first-time donor.
An ex-boner.
An ex-boner.
Thanks for a great breakdown of fiction called news.
I saw the five-by-one offer.
How could I refuse?
Merry Christmas and happy birthday.
I can do a dose of karma.
Yeah, well, we can give that to you, my friend.
I'll deduce him, too.
You've been deduced.
A dedouching and a karma.
You've got karma.
Wow, it's a double shot.
And if people want to be anonymous, put it at the beginning, not the end of your note.
Gregory Davies, Lawton, Oklahoma, $104.
Hey, John and Adam, this is Greg Davies.
I've been a long-time listener.
Actually, this is his first donation of the show and thoroughly enjoyed.
I'm donating a dollar for each episode in 2010, $2 per week at 52 weeks a year.
That's a good deal, $104.
We encourage everybody to do that.
I know it's not much, but I wanted to show my support for the outstanding work you guys do.
I'd like to get a shout-out for my good friend, a musician called Corey Kohler, pronounced Kaylee.
Pronounce Kaler.
Kaler.
Corey Kaler, who got me started on your show.
That's nice.
You can check his music out at PlanetCorey.com.
Love to send him some karma to get some more people to check his tunes out.
You've got karma.
Guys like you exposing the mainstream media for the testicle slurpers they are.
And here I am trying to get through a whole show without going off color.
Well, you know, testicle's not really off color.
Well, testicle slurper is kind of on the border.
Tony Drew's.
Moline, Illinois.
$101.01.
Binary.
Merry Christmas to you, John and Adam.
Another small step toward knighthood.
Binary.
101.
Nice.
Pretty cute.
Ben Dotson.
Bixby, Oklahoma, got his 1010 coins and donated $100 after that.
Robert Evans, Capitola, surfer capital of the world, or one of them, or nearby California.
A hundred dollars.
Hold on a second.
Are you doing well?
My thing scrolled.
Matt Tinker, Marysville, Tennessee.
A hundred dollars.
John Adam, my wife woke up this morning, or in the morning, it should say, after a rough night, tossing and turning.
She dreamed she was surrounded by the Red Guard and couldn't get away.
I immediately thought of year one, and see something, say something.
I showed her the commercials, and she flipped out.
It's like the Hitler Youth!
She has a hard time with some of the language of the children.
Wait a minute.
No, no, no.
This is why I'm trying to be a good boy.
She has a hard time with some of the language on the show, partially because my two-year-old is also listening.
Well, we don't recommend two-year-olds listen.
And by the way, I don't know if the two-year-olds are going to get much out of it.
So here's $100 to encourage.
Maybe, you know, you have to start early.
Here's $100 to encourage you guys to clean it up a little so I can get her to listen more.
God bless.
Happy marriage.
All right, let me play something for her then.
That's one mother I'd like to.
Maybe clean it up.
Anonymous from Knoxville, Tennessee.
A hundred dollars.
Long time listener.
Needs a de-douching.
For Anonymous.
You've been de-douched.
You got a double de-douche.
Some of you just douched.
It's been almost three weeks of non-smoking and I'm still trembling, so...
Michael Kearns.
Well, give him another dedouching.
You've been dedouched.
You basically just brought them back to neutral.
Michael Kearns, Platte City, Missouri.
99.99.
Adam, could you say Mike and Mindy Niner, Niner, Niner, Niner, whatever.
Mike and Mindy Niner.
Mike and Mindy Niner, Niner, Niner, Niner!
I'm donating.
He says, thanks for showing me how to deconstruct.
Could you throw out some extra karma for all the producers this year who keep the show going?
Of course we can.
You've got karma.
People complain about this segment of the show.
I time it.
It's only five or six minutes.
John Stevens, Laguna Woods, California.
I hope you didn't get struck by the flooding.
$82.
My 82nd birthday?
Wow!
Wait a minute.
Karma!
Hello!
Hello!
You've got karma.
He's on the list for the birthdays.
Wow!
He needs karma to shoot his age in golf.
Now that's a good one.
That's quite a feat.
That's awesome.
He may be one of our most senior listeners.
An 82 at 82 would be a heck of a golf game.
If you do it, John, let us know.
Oh, no!
So I need a thorough cleansing.
Thanks for helping make 2010 tolerable.
All right, take off your clothes.
Here it comes.
You've been de-douched.
You are now cleansed, my friend, completely.
Start checking out zerohedge.com.
I'm not affiliated, and I think you'll appreciate their viewpoints, which has something to do with the stock market, I'm assuming.
Yeah, kind of.
Gardening.
Simon Boyd.
Perth.
Wow.
I've always wanted to visit Perth.
Perth is on the other side of the whole continent.
I've been to Perth.
I've been to Perth.
Yeah, you have been to Perth, and I'm jealous.
It's very green in Perth.
It is beautiful.
I just think of it as a desert town.
No, no, no, no, no.
But I took the...
The Desert Railroad, that 24-hour train ride.
Yeah, that must have been a treat.
I think it's from Melbourne to Perth.
Melbourne.
Melbourne.
The Trans-Pacific line, I think it's called.
And you literally go through the desert and then you wake up the next morning and it's like, Perth, oh!
It's like green and sappy.
Nice.
Nice there.
We should go.
I'd love to go.
Here's 6824.
I like the number, but it's also to cover my lost coin.
Didn't know you guys would have to pay, assuming the price covered postal insurance.
I would like to call out Treebee as a douchebag.
Douchebag!
Treebee.
For not donating and thinking pure water will conduct electricity.
Shill!
Okay.
That's good.
He also has a website here.
Wow.
Let's move along, man.
In the morning, Boyd, Gitmo down under.
Okay, anyway.
We're almost done.
Jason Fenwick, Arlington, Virginia, sending you some karma for the news.
He's sending us some karma.
Oh, thank you.
Arlington, where I was born, by the way.
Arlington Hospital.
I didn't know that.
This is to honor my first antibody scanner convert.
A co-worker was happily herded into one and dropped dead.
No.
You know what?
Their safety benefits.
Using some talking points, I had them converted with a couple of swift hits in the mouth.
By the end of the conversation, they were worried for their own safety.
These are the talking points we sent out.
I hope people open their email once in a while and they'll find them in there.
You can use them for stuff like this.
He gave us 6543.
6543.
Andrew Prowse, Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
Merry Christmas.
Happy New Year.
Thank you.
They put up with me a lot to his families.
Our families put up a lot with us.
Now they love us.
It's appreciated.
Cancel Mobile Me sent you half.
Oh, thank you.
That's so nice.
Appreciate that.
Feep?
This is a Netherlands name.
Feepe.
Wow.
I haven't heard that either, but Feepe, or it would be...
Yeah, Peep.
In Rosendahl.
Hmm.
$60.
Great show.
Curious how you butcher my name.
Thank you very much.
Well, we've tried.
I don't know.
Peep.
Here's one to butcher.
Floris.
Floris Dopp.
I think this is a joke, actually.
Floris Fidel de Dopp.
Oh, okay.
I think it's a joke.
Fiedel Deidop.
Floris Fiedel Deidop.
In Holland.
It could really be his name, Fiedel Deidop.
Yeah, sure.
Fiedel Deidop.
It's a donation from Floris Jan Maurits Fiedel Deidop.
Floris Jan Maurits Fiedel Deidop.
Say it, John.
Say it, say it, say it, say it.
I can barely say it.
Floris Jan Maurits Fiedel Deidop.
Floris Jan Maurits Fiedel Deidop.
You're from?
From Pumarin.
Pumarin.
Very good.
I'm a donor, not a boner, or am I supposed to donate on 10-10-10, but unexpected cancer operation.
My father took priority.
PayPal.
Good for you.
Spending my money on no agenda instead of a dinner with the family.
I don't feel too good to know about this.
But thank you very much.
Chris Scooter, Kiwi Chris.
Kiwi Chris, yeah.
Kiwi Chris in Kiwiville, New Zealand.
Kiwiville?
Wellington.
Oh, Wellington.
I'm sorry.
How can I not donate on Christmas?
You both promised us great entertainment this year and opened my eyes to how much that is going on in the world.
Sometimes there was more international topics.
He wishes for more international topics.
We'll deliver more this coming year.
I got some right here for you.
I guarantee it.
Mm-hmm.
Brad McConaughey, Cincinnati, Ohio, $50.09.
Happy from Ham Radio Slave, Brad McConaughey.
N8QQ in Cincinnati, Ohio, have donated $50.09 because $50.09 megahertz is the 6-meter Morse code calling frequency.
I could actually use a little karma for 2011.
$50.09.
You've got karma.
And then we have...
Keith Gibson, Chris Johnson, John Lake, Alan Martin, Bradley Serbo, all donating $50 with Robert Sloan, who gives us a happy holidays, and Jesse Cruz, a first-time donor.
Thanks for the shows.
And please tell my friend...
Jeez, I'm losing it.
My friend Patrick...
What is it?
Patrick?
Yeah, Patrick got me hooked on the show to stop playing that Skinner box of a game called World of Warcraft.
Yeah, please.
Yeah, please.
Sad.
Gere Asklin in Norway.
Does the belch necessary?
It popped out, sorry.
Joaquin Muantanbueno in Paterna, Spain.
Gerald Friedlansky in Quebec.
And by the way, Joaquin in Spain...
Says that PayPal lost his subscription again.
Anyway, I want to mention what our friend in Norway said, which is Merry Christmas to all listeners, especially Adam, John, Eric, and other loved ones.
Thanks for providing an excellent service.
I'd like to call out Asklack and Magnus as ignominious douchebags.
Douchebag!
Donate, slaves!
I'd also love some karma if my meager donation allows for it.
I'm embarking on a new business venture in 2010 regarding the name Gear.
Gear is how most people named Gear on this planet wish it was pronounced.
Having suffered the consequences of being given this name and ending up with a fair amount of English-speaking friends and on the inner tubes who gladly beats this particular horse to death time after time, I see no reason why I should suffer alone any longer.
I add an annoyance of my middle name, Helge, certainly doesn't make the English pronunciation any less entertaining.
So my very last words in the letter shall reveal the true spoken form.
Brace thyselves.
Best Yuletide wishes.
Gayer, hell-gay.
Gay or hell gay?
Oh my god, that is bad.
That really is bad.
Gay or hell gay is his name, I guess.
Guess what?
No repeal for you.
Okay?
No repeal.
My goodness.
Yes.
Well, thank you so much to everybody who has supported us.
This was a great Christmas gift.
I feel the Yuletide spirit is amongst the producers and the non-boners.
Would you not say, John?
Oh, absolutely.
I mean, it's non-boners or winners.
No, it's really, really nice.
I appreciate that, of course.
And let's make good on some birthdays here for a moment.
It's your birthday, birthday!
Singing helps, apparently.
I know what you've got!
Alex Kroke turns 39 tomorrow, so we congratulate him.
And Theodore Hossman, he celebrated his birthday on the 22nd.
And John Stevens turns 82 today, trying to shoot his age in golf.
We congratulate all of you for the birthdays from all of your buddies here at the No Agenda Show.
By the way, I've got a lot of notes people think I should continue to sing.
It's actually soothing to them.
Yeah, right.
They love it very much.
It's true.
They really do.
We have two nights, I think.
Can you just pull out your sword there for a second, big boy?
Hold on, hold on.
There you go.
All right, step forward, Alan Bowes, please.
Alan?
We would like to have you kneel, human resource, as you have reached the pinnacle of giving level here on the No Agenda Show, and we thereby knight thee Sir Alan Bowes.
You are now a knight of the No Agenda Roundtable.
Another one, John.
We have Greg Stone who becomes a black knight today.
Let's hit him as well as he kneels before us.
Greg, you are now the black knight of the No Agenda Roundtable.
Please, both of you, head on over to our roundtable and enjoy all the good stuff we've laid out for you for Christmas.
And I want to do Pelsmockers, I think.
Indeed.
Yes.
You need a bigger sword for him.
There you go.
Wait a minute.
Hold on.
Oh, you're getting it.
It's heavier.
Yeah, got it.
Sir Baron Stephen Van Pelsmackers, Baron of the Walloons and the Flemish, better known as the country formerly known as Belgium.
Wow, you've come in with the 11-11 donation giving level.
Thank you so much.
You are now uber-super-baron Sir Stephen Van Pelsmackers.
I'm just going to hit you again just because I love you so much.
Now, you also have to read Greg Birch's note, which I can't find.
Oh, geez.
Really?
Well, it came in.
When I do a search on Birch, it came in under something else.
Well, I can find it real quick.
I mean, I wasn't quite ready for that.
I thought you'd be prepared.
Well, I wasn't prepared.
When I look at my search page, it's not there.
I'm just going, what the heck?
Okay, so I'm going into my email, and all I have to do for is search for $150, and it's now going into the SQL database.
And it is bringing up the emails, and here it is.
That's how fast it looks through everything.
What is this you're using?
That's that mail steward thing I got.
Okay, please divide the props for this donation into two parts.
It was a pretty quick search, wasn't it, huh?
Were you impressed?
I am stunned.
$150 for Eric the Shill and all his hard work sorting out data and keeping people happy.
That's kind of like a hooker price, isn't it?
Keeps people happy.
Here's $150, honey.
And $150 for my son, Michael Birch, towards his eventual knighthood as a Christmas present.
Karma, please, for his career in design.
You've got karma.
Wow!
Okay, so that was a very long donation segment, but everyone came in at the last minute, and we highly appreciate it.
Of course, to everyone under the $50 comfort level, and a lot of you, or most of you do that, to remain anonymous, to be sure that you remain anonymous, we highly appreciate what you do.
Everyone on the $33.33, on the night layaways, on the lucky $30, on the $5 a month, even if you've given us $1, really thank you so much, because you make this program possible.
And we've had a tough month, and I think this definitely makes up for it.
It's great.
It's great.
Doesn't mean you can slack off next week.
You're a slave driver?
Screw you.
Yes, I am.
I am.
So go to Dvorak.org slash NA or channel Dvorak.com slash NA or just go to our NoAgendaShow.com website and from there you can find the donation page link.
Yeah, Dvorak.org slash NA. Can't go wrong.
Quick little bit of international news.
I promised international news.
Belarus is in an uproar, John.
Belarus.
Yeah, of course, this won't be covered by anybody.
That's why I want to say it, because after the Russians successfully killed the entire political spectrum of Poland, literally killed everyone, you'll remember this.
Yeah, we have to remember that Russian, everybody, all of the, right.
The science is in.
The Russians killed all of the Polish government.
It's like half the government was on this plane.
Oh, sorry, crash.
Oh, bad weather.
Oh, yeah.
It's how it goes.
At a Russian Air Force base.
So if that wasn't enough, now they've got to take over...
What's in between Poland and Russia is Belarus.
It's the country right in between Poland and Russia.
They must have said, we're toast once that Polish plane crashed.
Well, you know, the Polish people are going like, what?
Wait a minute, this is no good.
This is really, really bad.
So they had elections and...
This is the Lukashenko.
Got 80% of the votes cast, which means there was a 90% turnout.
Right.
And I'm getting news from some of our producers that people are being taken out of hospitals and disappeared.
It's like it's pandemonium and you'll get zero reporting on it here.
Except for this one little thing in the New York Times.
After Belarus vote, riot police attack protesters.
They're like disappearing people, left and right.
And it's a geopolitical thing.
And it also has to do with the START treaty, which we can get into.
Actually, I did the work on the START treaty.
You want to hear what I came up with?
Yeah, sure.
There's a couple things.
So I read the START treaty, which, by the way, I guess it passed in the Senate.
Does that mean it's law yet?
Or do we have to go through the House still?
No, the Senate is the last stop, isn't it?
I think the Senate is the end point for the treaties.
Okay, so I guess we're too late then.
And you can have a link to the START treaty.
But I was reading through this, and I'm trying to figure out what exactly is it?
Why is everyone so excited?
Yeah, it's weird.
They made a big stink about, oh, you can't change the language, the Russians won't let you, and all this other crap.
So I read through the thing.
I couldn't get into it.
Well...
I got into it and I pulled a couple things that I thought were rather interesting.
So, it seems to me that this is not about how many thousand intercontinental ballistic missiles you can have, because that's really what it's being propagated as.
Oh, you know, we're reducing arms.
I think this is actually more about who can produce what and who can sell to whom.
Oh, that makes sense.
It's so specific.
Yeah, that would make sense.
Because there is, you know, these international arms dealers, and the biggest ones are the U.S. and Russia.
And Israel, I think, is number three.
I'm not sure.
And, of course, that's the reason we crack down on any Indians.
Exactly.
Some poor guy out there trying to move some Remingtons, you know.
He's an international arms dealer.
Throw him in jail.
It's a trade agreement between, the way I read it, it's a trade agreement between the US and the Soviet Union, or Russia, as to who's going to sell what to whom and how much.
And so it's like, oh yeah, you know, a missile is not a missile if it hasn't been put in the silo yet.
So that doesn't count.
So you can produce all kinds of stuff.
Here it is.
for the purposes of ensuring verification of compliance with provisions of this treaty, each party undertakes that you have to disclose where your missiles are and what you've got going on.
However, the obligation not to use concealment measures includes the obligation not to use them at test ranges, includes measures that result in the concealment of ICBMs, SLBMs, and ICBM launchers, or the association.
However, the obligation not to use concealment measures shall not apply to cover or concealment practices at bases that use environmental shelters for strategic offensives.
So there's all these...
What it means is if they hide a rocket in an environmental shelter, you don't have to count it.
It's crazy.
But here's the one that I like the most.
So they're talking about where these things are stored.
And whether you count them or not.
Non-deployed ICBMs and non-deployed SLBMs only at, as appropriate, this is where you can store them, submarine bases, IBM or SLBM loading facilities, maintenance facilities, repair facilities, storage facilities, conversion or elimination facilities, test ranges, and here's my favorite, space launch facilities.
Ha!
Ha!
Really?
We have silos in space?
I wouldn't be surprised.
Thank you.
I told you we had moon bases.
These guys have got all kinds of...
Is that the same as a moon base?
A space launch facility?
Excuse me, that's not the International Space Station, so there's got to be some other thing up there that can shoot off an ICBM. There's got to be a significant thing that we're not told about if you say right there, space launch facilities.
I'm sorry.
That's like very specific language.
It's okay.
You can have them at space launch facilities.
Where is it?
Couldn't that be a moon base?
You know, SLBM means space launch ballistic missile.
Right.
But actually what it really means is submarine sea launch ballistic missile.
But apparently it also means in a subtext way.
And since they don't say it specifically unless it's in the definitions of the bill.
But they're saying here specifically...
That you can deploy at space launch facilities.
Okay, well they got a couple satellites loaded to the gills with weaponry.
How big are these satellites?
Apparently they're bigger than you'd want.
But a space launch facility doesn't mean it's a satellite.
It can be a planet.
Or a moon.
A planet.
A moon.
They got Mars just loaded to the gills.
It takes a little while before you get the missile here.
Hey, you know, a week later...
You say tomato, I say tomato.
When I read space launch facility, I'm thinking moon base.
Just saying.
And that's our international news for this week, ladies and gentlemen.
So please take it from me.
The START Treaty is nothing but a weapons pact for who produces for what.
It goes right down to the model and the make of what the Americans make and what the Russians make and how much they can have and how much you can have in production.
It's a total price-fixing.
It's price-fixing for arms sales.
Because it's not just about missiles, it's about a specific type of aircraft.
Yeah, well, somebody's got to fix prices.
I mean, this is the big business in this country.
Just so you know, that's why they do it, and that's why it passes.
Because everyone's on board with the military-industrial complex.
So I got a clip here to change gears.
Because I was just, I ran into this guy and said, who is this idiot?
This skinny guy, he's like an old black man and his eyebrows are all turned in the way so that the middle of the eyebrow is up and the sides toward the ears are down so it's like that funny look where you're like, oh don't hurt me kind of look, you know what I'm saying?
Okay.
And I'm looking and I said, who is this guy?
And I realized this is the guy, and I've never seen him before.
He was on C-SPAN. He's in charge of the committee.
He's a congressman in charge of the committee that's going to handle, as if he knows anything about the internets, he's going to handle the no...
The no-follow list legislation.
Oh, this is the advertising...
Yeah, whatever.
Don't track me.
Don't track me, bro.
So I just want you to play a little bit of the clip.
This is Bobby Rush, who is the only man in history who's ever beaten Barack Obama in an election and was...
And if you read the Vanity Fair pieces and all the stuff, I remember, oh, they talked about Bobby Rush.
Bobby Rush's guy, you know, the favorite son from Illinois, and Obama tried to screw him, but Bobby beat him back.
In what?
In what?
Obama ran for Congress or something before, or some local...
Oh, I thought...
I don't remember, but Bobby Rush beat him.
He's the only guy who's ever beaten Obama.
And I'm watching this guy saying, why is this guy elected in the first place?
It just makes you wonder.
But this is the great Bobby Rush who beat Obama.
And you can just play as much as you can stand.
This House Energy and Commerce hearing is 2 hours and 15 minutes.
Good morning to all who have gathered here.
Okay, I'm done.
Come on, give people a chance here.
It's only getting good at the beginning.
Just kidding.
Convene this hearing of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection.
So the hearing is now called to order, and we will begin with opening statements.
I've seen this guy, I think he was in one of those oil roundtables, and people actually put up with it.
They actually sit there and go like, oh God, alright, whatever.
You can't understand a word he's saying.
You can't play the whole thing, but I swear to God, he says opening statements about 20 times.
He says, and then when they give the opening statements, they'll come and then there'll be 2 o'clock and they'll give the opening statements after the opening statements.
He's whacked.
It's like the guys on drugs.
Play a little more than you can.
Announcements by the chair.
There are possibly five votes that are currently occurring on the floor.
You know, if I ever pass away, he can fill in.
He can fill in my slot on the show.
It'll be a ten-hour show.
And we will have the opening statements from the chair and from the ranking member.
And those opening statements, we will recess.
All right.
I can't listen to it.
It's funny though.
He just keeps saying opening statements.
But it's funny when you watch the video on C-SPAN, which we do so you don't have to.
It's funny because you see everyone just like, oh man, is he ever going to get done with this?
Is he ever going to finish?
He never gets done.
And then he does a timetable when this is going to happen, when that's going to happen.
It's unbelievable.
So this is the great Bobby Rush who beat Obama in the debate, clearly.
Obama fell over from boredom.
Obama shot himself in the debate.
He fell over from boredom.
He walked.
He left.
I have a little theory I want to run by you.
It pulls four stories into one.
It's like a connect the dots thing, but I wanted to see if you think it holds any legs.
And it holds any legs?
Yeah, in the air.
Spread eagle.
Yeah, I got you.
If it has legs.
So, now, did I see you or did blog or post, I hear people talking about RFID chips in the money?
That could have been one of our blog posts.
Somebody's found that there's little RFID chips in the 20.
So this is essentially exactly what I think you and I discussed three years ago almost when I discovered, well I didn't discover, it was discovered that the Euronotes all have some form of RFID or at least some kind of circuitry that fries in the microwave.
Yeah.
And so now this is cropping up.
By the way, just to stop you for a second.
Well, you might say this in a minute, maybe I'm cutting you short, but if there's some sort of metal thing at all in these things, it doesn't have to be RFID, it'll do this in the microwave.
I agree.
I haven't seen anyone pull one of these chips and show it or actually talk to the chip with an RFID reader.
So I think this is a bogus assertion with all the bills.
But anyway, go ahead.
Well, yeah, but there was a slash dot link, and this is to popside.com.
Early this month, it came to light that the new high-tech U.S. $100 bill was so difficult to counterfeit that even the U.S. Mint couldn't properly master the production process, causing printing problems that eventually led to the Treasury Department to quarantine $110 billion new currency.
And so the story goes on to say that the problem might have been with the tiny organic circuitry, which is being printed directly onto bills, which has been successfully done with Swiss francs, Japanese yen, and euros.
and And so the general, again, this is just a theory.
So I don't know for sure.
I don't think anyone has come out and said, yes, it's RFID. But let's not put it past anybody because it's not that hard to print a little RFID into the money, right?
Would you agree?
It could be done.
Okay, it could be done.
Pointless, but go ahead.
So the next point is this net neutrality thing that the FCC voted on, which we didn't need any.
Everything's working fine.
We didn't even need any rules.
John, you and I are not going to have a debate about what net neutrality is or isn't.
But one thing's for sure, the United States government, unelected portions of it, are now saying we can regulate the Internet.
Right?
We can agree on that.
Right.
So the whole thing is about regulating the internet, no matter what the regulation is.
Now enter...
Oh, wait.
Now we also have to go back to our friend Vivek Kundra.
What was Vivek Kundra pushing a couple months ago?
IPv6.
This is his big thing.
We have to go to IPv6.
IPv6.
The government's already going to IPv6.
Now, so you know, IPv6, which is Internet Protocol Version 6, which is, I guess they skipped 5 because we're on 4 right now, will enable us to have infinitely more IP addresses.
I'm speaking in layman's terms.
Pretty much.
Yeah, you have trillions, I think.
Trillions.
So then I get a link from one of our producers showing me what the integration is between IPv6 and RFID. Okay.
Because what happens, and the way IPv6 is set up, again, paraphrasing, I'm not a technician, engineer, but I can read.
The whole idea is that every RFID circuit will essentially have its own unique IP address on the internet if and when IPv6 is implemented.
Ergo, if a bill, a piece of money, let's say there's an RFID embedded in it, when it comes out of the cash machine, it is already tracked by its unique IP address on the internet by the machine.
Then you're holding on to it.
That, of course, could be tracked through your cell phone or a million different ways.
But let's say you hand that out to the cashier in a shop.
They're going to put it in their till.
Because it has the RFID in it, it can automatically be seen if it's a valid bill or not.
And because you don't have to have a database, it has its own unique IP address on the Internet, so it's a known bill.
If you put all of this together with the fact that IPv6 now can be mandated by the FCC, certainly in the United States, we have the RFID in our money, you could actually have a cashless society with cash.
And your bill could be rendered invalid.
How about that?
So you could pay with your 20.
It's like, I'm sorry, but you haven't paid your taxes, so your money is no good.
I like it.
That's a good theory.
It's pretty crazy.
It's totally crackpot.
But there's a lot of stuff going on.
Now let's wait.
Let me give you...
I'm going to back you up a little bit.
Okay.
So I go to England.
This is a few years back.
And I've always got a cache of foreign currency around.
So when I get off an airplane, I don't have to immediately run to some scammy currency conversion operation.
I go to a bank later.
Or I go to an ATM machine.
Okay.
So I always have a few bucks with me, and so this is the, I forgot how many years ago this was, but I go in, there's a regular British pound, and I take it to the, and I sort of buy a sandwich or something at the airport as I'm leaving, and the guy says, this bill's no good.
You can't use this, this is no good.
I said, what?
And then he points out to me, and anyone can look at their pound notes, and they can see there's a little...
Oh, it was an old pound?
Yeah, it was a pound that doesn't...
It looks like a new pound.
It looks exactly the same, except for one thing.
It doesn't say ER on it, or EU, one of the two.
ER, ER. Yeah, it says ER. It's stamped on there, and that means it's a euro-qualified pound note or something.
In other words, it's part of the monetary system.
The old note, which looks exactly the same...
They won't take it.
And so I said, what am I doing?
You can take it to a bank, and they'll take it and give you the regular pound notes.
And I'm thinking, this is stupid.
Why doesn't just anybody take it?
It doesn't make any sense.
Your money's no good with us, literally.
Yeah, the money's no good for us.
Yeah, exactly.
So I went to the bank, I cashed the stuff in, and I'm still shaking my head over the whole thing.
And this would be the same kind of thing.
It's like they get the bill, it looks like a regular bill.
Sorry, sir, your money's no good.
This bill has been deactivated.
But think about it.
We keep talking about the cashless society and it makes so much sense.
They're trying to push us towards using credit cards and plastic money and digits all the time.
Why not make every single bill uniquely identifiable and just say this bill is no longer valid.
You're done.
It's over.
Well, it seems to me to go to Vegas and come to launder your money.
Yeah, but it'll still be tracked everywhere.
Yeah, but I don't know how much tracking they can do.
Say you're gambling and you put a $100 bill down on the crap table and they give you $100 in chips.
Yeah, but you put it down, and right there, the IP address is...
Yeah, okay, yeah, they're reading it, and then they give you another one.
I don't know.
I mean, it seems like a lot of work to track my $100.
I don't think it's necessarily to track.
I think it's to able and disable.
That's what I... Yeah, well, that's fine, but I still think you can get around.
These systems are...
They can't even...
I mean, they can't even get anything straight.
But you know what?
Knowing Vivek Kundra, I'm sure someone sold him a great idea.
You mentioned it.
I'm glad Vivek Kundra is the guy running it, because it's like...
Because it'll never work.
It'll never work.
So one other scam I need to point out today because a lot of people emailed me this.
Of course, also two years ago when I was looking at all of the annual reports for all of the big pharmaceutical companies, it was very clear from their PowerPoints that they show to investors that vaccine is where it's at.
Vaccines is the new pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for all of the Pharmaceutical companies and, of course, the government and World Health Organization are complicit by pushing stuff like the unnecessary...
Well, I just want to read one more step because, of course, from the minute...
I think it's Merck.
Yeah, Merck.
from the minute merck came out with the uh...
h_p_v_ virus uh...
the human poplinovirus vaccine for girls and women which really only protects you against three of the possible fourteen types of cervical cancer and is proven to actually not be all that great and not work however they are they've done an amazing job marketing this trying to give it away for free uh...
giving you shopping coupons at the mall as long as you take the shot Doctors are pushing this on all kinds of patients.
And a lot of people have run into health problems after taking this.
Then, of course, they said, well, it's not just for girls.
We've got it approved for boys because boys can get cervical cancer, apparently.
And now Gardasil is the same stuff.
Now it has been approved as a vaccine for anal cancer.
And I just want to congratulate them.
I thought it was approved first for warts and nobody bought it for that.
Yeah, it's for genital warts, cervical cancer, vaginal cancer, then it was warts for boys, and now it's for anal cancer.
And this is not prostate cancer, it's anal cancer.
How do you get anal cancer?
I don't know.
You probably get it by taking that vaccine.
That's what I'm thinking.
It's just unbelievable.
It's unbelievable how they're pushing this stuff and getting it approved for anything.
It wasn't even tested long enough for its original purpose.
Yeah, and apparently some people have had all kinds of reactions to it.
Girls have gone into seizures.
Many have died.
With many, I mean more than five that I know of, that I've read about.
I think that's many.
And it just keeps on going.
Just keep on shoving it out there.
And now it's good for anal cancer.
Well, you know what?
I don't want anal cancer, so I might as well get this shot.
What do you think, John?
Sounds bad.
Anal cancer.
Better get this shot.
Yeah, I think you should go get this shot.
I got a puff promotional piece about getting your shots.
And it's actually geared towards your age group.
You may want to listen up.
Go ahead, play it!
Flu shot yet?
You're not alone.
Last year, a third of people over the age of 18 did not receive a flu shot.
In fact, every year adults don't get a handful of life-saving vaccinations that you may not even know about.
A handful of life-saving vaccinations you may not even know about.
I was all swollen and my face was all swollen and, I mean, it was painful.
Ann Power had shingles.
Oh, shingles vaccine.
John, have you been vaccinated against shingles?
I had the chicken pox when I was a kid, so screw it.
Lurks in the body after chicken pox and erupts, sometimes decades later.
After her ophthalmologist recommended the shingles vaccine, her internist administered it.
I don't think it's known enough.
How many doctors does this woman have?
Well, listen up how many shots you're supposed to have as an adult.
Only 10% of adults age 60 and up who should get the shingles vaccine have received it.
And the CDC says not nearly enough adults get other vaccines that protect them and their loved ones against serious diseases.
We'll have to be aware that these vaccines are out there.
Flu, pneumonia vaccine, hepatitis vaccines, shingles vaccine, pertussis vaccine.
Listen to all these great vaccines we can get, John.
This is fantastic.
This is a boondoggle for us.
I think we get the point.
So I go to my doctor some years ago when the hepatitis vaccine comes out.
This is the doctor that says people are getting too many vaccines.
And by the way, I don't know if you noticed, there was a couple of articles recently that have been suppressed about how getting too many vaccines may be actually compromising the immune system.
Yeah, duh.
Well, that makes sense.
But anyway, so I said, what's this about the hepatitis vaccine?
He says, what, are you going to be handling blood products?
Right.
Apparently, this hepatitis vaccine is just a big, it's for people working in clinics that are just constantly around blood products.
Well, if you're getting all these shots, you're around blood products, you might as well get the hepatitis vaccine while you're at it, because you're around blood.
This is no good.
Anyways, bad, bad situation.
By the way, another suppressed story is the one about all these veterans that have chained themselves to the White House.
Yeah, I haven't seen that show up anywhere.
It showed up on the Dvorak Uncensored blog.
Yeah.
But it's a completely suppressed story.
And meanwhile, like we point out in the last show, I had the clip of the four guys who lost their limbs and talked about how great the war is.
Yeah.
And then meanwhile, we got 300 vets...
Handcuffed to the White House fence and nobody's covering it.
Yeah.
Well, they're all too busy reading the WikiLeaks.
No, they're all too busy selling vaccines.
I ran across...
It was actually sent to me, I think, by Robert Leather in Gitmo Nation East.
and it falls under the heading of...
So in 2000, there was a big article in the Independent that...
And it's great when you have the internet and stuff kind of hangs around.
And this article in The Independent had scientists from the CRU, the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia.
Oh, yeah.
You remember them.
The key to success.
Yes.
These are the guys who actually sexed up the data.
Yeah.
And this is from March 20, 2000.
Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past, is the headline.
Britain's winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change.
Snow is starting to disappear from our lives.
And it literally says, children...
David Parker at the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction and Research in Berkshire...
It says, ultimately, British children could only have virtual experience of snow via the internet.
They might wander at polar scenes or eventually feel the virtual cold because snow is a thing of the past.
Alright, douchebags.
This was in 2000 from the climate change guys?
Yeah, 2000.
It's all over.
Children of the future will have no snow.
They have not had this much snow in history.
I know.
Everything is closed.
Terrible.
They shut down the Eurostar.
Train's good, plane's bad.
They couldn't run the train.
This is the third...
The airports are shut down.
Everything's shut down.
The third year in a row.
Yeah, the third year in a row of massive...
This year is unbelievable, apparently.
It is.
It's out of control.
But children just aren't going to know what snow is.
That's what your climate biodiversity friends were saying in 2000.
How you doing now, baby?
But of course, there's an answer for this.
And this answer is because of the diverted jet stream.
Oh, yeah.
Which I told you.
I told you the jet stream was being diverted because of the Stargate in the Gulf of Aden.
And now, they're not saying that, of course.
But that's why it's snowing.
Of course, not because I wouldn't say that.
Go ahead.
It's now snowing in Australia.
But they're saying, oh, well, the jet stream was diverted.
That's why.
It's nothing to see here.
Don't worry.
You're still going to die of heat.
So, talking about that kind of thing, not discussing, well, that's totally crackpot, the thing in the Gulf of Aden.
Sure.
But it's not crackpot, you know, when you have Randy Quaid at the top of the news, you know, with his Star Whackers, and then you have a shot last night or the night before.
It was the night before.
Whatever the case was, it was this week.
Of the Nightline show, which has been revamped to be kind of like an entertainment show.
Oh, I haven't seen that yet.
You mean like ABC's Nightline?
Yeah.
Oh, of course.
It's the compromised ABC News Network.
Yeah, so they had Keith Ledger's ex-wife on.
Whoa.
Who Randy Quaid said was whacked.
Randy Quaid says that Keith Ledger was whacked.
They had her on, and they never once brought this topic up.
It was just to promote her new movie.
Oh, really?
Really?
We're one of these hard-ass journalist types, you know, quote-unquote, asking her questions, but it's always just about the movie.
But they did ask about Keith and how her life with him was.
How are you coping?
Exactly.
How are you coping?
And then the two women, it was a woman interviewing, got into this like, you know, they're exchanging quotes, life-changing quotes, you know, that make you feel better.
And they went back and forth with that and I was going, I should have clipped that off.
In fact, maybe I just don't, I think I erased it, hell with it.
I do have a couple of interesting clips before we wrap.
How about the no labels?
We've got to go a little bit longer, just like 10 minutes.
Although we're good on time.
That's a no labels thing.
I learned about no labels and who's behind it.
I'm curious what you have.
Yeah, no labels is a...
There's this thing called no labels.
It looks like a no agenda sticker, actually.
No labels is not left, not right, forward is their motto.
And they have a lot of little buzz phrases.
They produced a fancy movie.
They had a big event in New York, I think it was last week, at Columbia, of all places.
And the No Labels people, when you start looking into their background, especially, I mean, they named it.
Well, let's play the opening here.
I've got the No Labels.
They'll announce the people.
And then this woman comes out, Nancy Jacobson.
And what's interesting about her is...
You can't see this on the audio, but just take my word for it.
And this is the no labels clip.
As she's talking, she's talking about body language.
I don't think she has Parkinson's.
I looked her up.
She's 46.
She doesn't shake her head normally.
But when she's talking, she's shaking her head in a no motion left and right.
Well, that's why they chose her for no labels.
No.
Whatever she said.
She said, we're going to be completely independent.
And then she shakes her head.
Are you sure it's not like a tick or something?
That's what I kept thinking.
But then when she stopped talking or when she talked about something else, it didn't happen.
It was only happening during the...
But that's like a Tourette's thing because I have like the yes thing.
My tick is yes.
Okay, well, it's possible.
It does look a little bit like a tick, but it was amusing because the bigger the assertion, the more the head went back and forth, no.
It was just a PR nightmare.
Well, that's the funny part.
She's like a PR person.
And what's her name?
Nancy Jacobson, and we'll talk about her in a second.
But play this clip here, introducing the conference, and you get an idea.
is attempting to bring people from different political persuasions together to reach agreement on policy issues.
We'll hear from New York Times columnist David Brooks, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and former Virginia Congressman Tom Davis.
Columbia University in New York hosts this event.
It's about an hour, 20 minutes.
Please welcome No Labels Foundation.
Wow.
Is that your clip or is that my system screwing up again?
That's you.
My clip's clean.
Hold on a second.
I think I have a way to fix this really quickly.
I think I figured it out.
And although I did all kinds of stuff on the computer to make sure this didn't happen, guess what?
That's what computers do.
Hold on.
Preferences.
It only happens when we're playing your clip, you'll notice.
Well, I can code it.
I can send you WAV files.
Crap.
Wait.
Nancy Jacobson.
Well, no.
It's unlistenable.
It may only be that one second.
Hold on a second.
It's just unlistenable.
What one second?
What do you mean?
No, I say maybe that was just that we just caught just a second of some...
No, no, no.
Bill Galston.
No, it's sucking.
Yeah, yeah, you're right.
It sounds bad.
Crap.
Hold on.
Sorry.
Well, let me talk about the background while you're fixing it.
Talk about it while I fix it.
Okay, so I'm watching.
This is No Labels Conference, and this woman, Nancy Jacobson, is shaking her head saying one thing or another.
She comes out first, and there's two other people.
And another guy comes out with gray hair, and another guy.
And then the head honcho, the guy that really appears to be the main guy behind it, is this guy, Mark McKinnon.
Now, Nancy Jacobson is...
Ex-Clinton.
Very closely associated with the Clinton campaign.
Also with the Hillary campaign.
She's a Clintonian.
Her husband is...
Mark Penn, the CEO of Burson Marsteller.
What's that?
That's one of the biggest PR agencies in the world.
Okay, okay, yeah, makes sense.
Check.
And so they're hooked up, and he was the personal PR guy for Clinton, Tony Blair, and Bill Gates, among others.
He was the chief strategist for the Hillary Clinton 2008 campaign.
Uh-huh.
Now, this is supposed to be, of course, this group is supposed to be, oh, bipartisan, not left, not right, bullcrap.
Everybody's a left-winger, and then the guy who comes out who purports to be the right-winger, because he worked for the Bush administration, but he's a Democrat, or if you read his Time magazine biography, he's a fellow Democrat, they call him.
Mark McKinnon, who apparently made friends with Bush somewhere along the line, and according to Carl Rovis, because Bush supposedly liked his cool image.
So I'm watching this guy in his cool image.
So everybody comes out in suits and ties.
They're pretty formal.
This guy comes out in a leather car coat.
You know, that's like a bomber jacket.
It's kind of beat up, that beat up leather that's so cool.
And then a long scarf, a gray scarf that drapes over his neck and hangs on both sides.
It's kind of like a little like he's a priest.
So I'm seeing this guy, and he's just such one of those guys.
You see him all over the place.
They're totally full of themselves.
It's like Jimmy Wales.
Yeah, well, Wales doesn't dress so much like this.
This guy obviously has a uniform that makes him cool.
So he wears the leather and the scarf.
So I'm thinking, well, maybe it's just this one-time thing, even though he's completely out of place with everybody else there.
But then he shows up on Meet the Press.
And he's wearing this stupid scarf outfit again on Meet the Press, defending himself because apparently he was attacked by Frank Rich of the New York Times.
Oh, I got attacked!
And so he's got this clip, and if you get this other thing fixed, we can listen to a little bit of that.
But then if you hear the Mark McKinnon on Frank Rich clip, you go, wow, this guy, I mean, obviously he's not a math genius.
Do you want to play that?
I think I just got everything fixed here.
Mark McKinnon on Frank.
No, no.
Actually, okay, let's play the Mark McKinnon on...
Now, Mark McKinnon, he's on there.
He's the only guy that's not in a suit and tie.
He's just dressed in his outfit with a scarf on.
Again, hey, buddy, you're inside.
You're in a studio.
You don't need a scarf.
But okay, play.
Because they think it's magical thinking when Cory Booker works with Governor Christie working together for solutions.
They don't want that because it doesn't help their ratings, it doesn't help their profits.
Frank Rich attacked us in the New York Times today saying that we only had three black speakers.
Well, he obviously didn't watch the event or was doing sloppy research because we had three prominent featured African-American speakers including Mayor Booker who spoke about all the things that he's doing as mayor there.
So it's been a tremendous response we're getting from the middle of America who think that we need to work together like the Vice President said.
Did you hear the math here?
No.
Go back.
You're trying to fix something.
Yeah, just lay it out for me.
Go back.
He says, you've got to hear this again because the math.
Let me just tell you what it is.
You can play it again just so everyone can hear it.
Frank Rich says there were not enough African Americans.
There were no minorities there, actually.
It was just a bunch of, you know, old white Democrats.
He said, Frank Rich says there were only three.
And he says, well, let's see, Frank Rich has never, never saw the event because we had three black Americans.
Oh yeah, no, I did.
But it was three prominent black Americans.
Yeah, yeah, only three.
We had three, but it was still three.
So he clearly wasn't part of the whole show.
We had three.
Yeah, no, I did catch that.
I saw that somewhere else.
Maybe I saw it live.
I'm trying to think.
You may have seen it on C-SPAN. Well, I followed the money.
And one of the key backers of this No Labels group is James Tisch.
Do you know who that is?
Yeah, he's from the Tisch family.
Yes, of the billionaire Tisch family who runs CBS. Right, CBS. And he's also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Well, that would make sense.
So, when you've got money coming in from CFR and from CBS, please.
Yeah, and you've got to stop.
Just stop with me, okay?
So, here's another thing that you should note.
People should note this.
I think this is like a totally interesting scam.
They're a 501c4.
Yeah, no, I noticed that.
That is not a 5013c or whatever.
That's something different.
No, it's always c before the last number.
So a 501c3 is a non-profit, you know, educational, whatever you want to be, and it's a business.
If you send money to a 501c3, it's tax-deductible.
501c4 is not tax-deductible.
A, they can do political ads, and they are essentially lobbyists.
Yeah.
So why be anything but it wants you to become a limited liability partnership?
This is only used 501c4 as a scam because you associate it with 501c3.
Right.
Yeah, it's a total scam.
And you know who the money is behind it all?
Rothschild.
What do you mean Rothschild?
Yeah.
Behind the 501C4? No, financing this whole no-label scam.
Oh, that wouldn't surprise me.
Yeah.
No, I mean, I can tell you exactly.
You have From.
Is it From, I think?
I got to look it up now.
I'm going to find it here.
Anyway, there's even a link in the show notes.
You can find it.
The money is literally being siphoned through Rothschild.
So the point is, is that, well, the, you know...
Well, that's Tisch, I'm sorry.
Tisch?
Yeah.
Well, you said Rothschild.
No, Tisch is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, which, of course, is directly related to the Royal Institute of International Affairs, which is the think tank policymaking arm of the Rothschilds.
There you go.
Any time the Rothschilds come up, they only think of their wineries.
So the point is that this is a phony baloney operation run by a bunch of pros.
I mean, I only looked up two of them and they were pros.
And with sketchy backgrounds in terms of so-called neutrality, they're Democrats.
It's a Democrat front, you know, designed so somewhere down the road they can say, well, we tried to do this and we had everybody come together.
I mean, you can see this coming down Broadway.
We had everybody from both sides of the aisle come together and we came up with policies that would work for the Americans because we want to move forward, not left or right.
But the Republicans stopped us.
They said no.
Well, their timing is off because there's too much going on.
The wrong time of year is a failed launch.
Whoever that PR guy is, he sucks.
He was brought in to launch it and it's failed.
It's already failed as far as I'm concerned.
It was probably a debate with his wife.
You know, he may have been...
You don't know that he didn't say, you know, this is not a good time to do this.
I think I'd put this off to the spring.
No, no, no.
She shakes her head again.
No, no, no.
I don't believe you.
We should do it now.
Because one of the things, if you listen to her speech, now that you mention that...
She makes it very clear in there, saying, everybody said this wouldn't work, and she starts to excoriate the everybody that is not in the room.
I don't know who she's talking about.
Maybe this is aimed right at her husband, because the event was fairly well attended.
Okay, moving on, I need to open a new segment on the show, if you don't mind.
Are we done with no labels?
Yeah, we might as well be.
I think we should just do a WikiLeaks prediction corner.
I think it's worth it.
First of all, I do want to mention...
Do we have a jingle?
No, but this is the way I set it up.
So if I say, you know, we have like a WikiLeaks jingle, someone will come up with something genius like Jeff Smith.
So first of all, we just have to stop and laugh for a second at the CIA-created WikiLeaks task force.
Yeah, everybody made a joke out of it.
Ha ha ha, WTF, get it?
On the news that WikiLeaks would be releasing some information about a bank, rumored to be Bank of America, large bank stocks have soared since he said that.
I don't know what that's about.
Yeah, it's annoying.
It's very annoying.
Maybe someone's got some big puts or something.
I don't know.
Something's up.
I put it on the DH Unplugged show as a short.
Bank of America specifically based on this.
And it goes up.
It goes up like 20%.
You lost money on the deal.
I did hear John Young...
John Young is one of the original WikiLeaks founders, and he now runs Cryptome.org.
And I guess they had a falling out, he and Julian Assange.
Isn't Cryptome or Cryptome or whatever it's called?
I think it's Cryptome.
Well, it could be Cryptome.
You spell it with an E, but I think it's Cryptome.
Well, whatever it is, that's been around for a while, though.
This is falling out.
But they fell out very early on when Julian was looking for $5 million.
And then what John did is he published the whole email thread when Assange was going after the $5 million.
They have a beef personality conflict.
Big personality conflict.
But he said something very interesting.
He said, there is a lot of stuff coming out, and everything will now be a WikiLeak.
Of course, there's tons of information that's around, so it's like a secure, it's a theater now, and it doesn't even matter where it comes from.
Anything that is just called a WikiLeak or a something wiki, a wikifoo, or a something leak, the general public will take it as truth.
But there's a lot of stuff that's going to come out.
And he said something in an interview that I heard, which I found to be amazing.
He said, look for real news to come out.
And he mentioned a bunch of things, like political stuff.
And then he said, the Clinton Foundation.
And I go, wow!
You know, why would he say that?
And then, of course, when you think about it, how the initial dumping...
You didn't really say, why would he say that?
You've been hounding these guys since day one of the show.
I can't wait.
I'm going to start it myself.
But wouldn't it be great if they actually had some real cool dirt on the Clinton Foundation beyond the stupid reports that I pour through?
Wouldn't that be awesome?
Yeah, that'd be great.
It's coming.
And just to stay on the WikiLeaks, this comes from a website from Australia, I believe, the Damien Zone.
Apparently, Julian Assange used to impersonate Gene Harlow in a transvestite or drag queen show.
In Australia.
And there's pictures of him.
As Gene Harlow.
And we don't know these aren't photoshopped.
No, of course we don't know.
We don't know anything.
All we know is this is time to like slam this guy's got nothing to do with WikiLeaks, but it's funny.
It's fun to do.
It's fun to do.
Yeah, the headline is, Julian Assange was a drag queen.
But I love it when he gets all pissed off about people leaking reports about him.
That's when he gets all angry.
Oh, they're trying to make him out to be a hypocrite.
Of course.
Of course.
I like it.
It's very well done.
It's exactly how it works.
This is good what intelligence agencies can do.
It's fantastic.
It really is.
We are in for a lot of fun in 2011.
You can't beat it.
It's going to be fantastic.
Another great piece of PR, actually, was this report that came out about the Aaron Brockovich chemical found in 31 U.S. cities.
And I haven't been able to figure out the angle on this.
This is chromium, which is now...
Yeah, chromium-6, actually.
Chromium-6, yeah, which is being...
So I put all of the links...
In the show notes about the EWG, the Environmental Working Group, a non-profit who gets lots of government grants and grants from the Johnson family.
So there's got to be an angle here.
I'm just really feeling it.
Yeah, you might be right.
I've noticed this too.
They've had two or three specials about this one.
Well, their report literally, here the executive summary, so they don't just say chromium-6.
Now, it's chromium-6, the Aaron Brockovich chemical is widespread in U.S. tap water.
So I think they might be working for someone who is setting up to sue someone because, you know, there's...
I mean, literally, this is the executive summary of their report.
Yeah, it could be working for Brita water filters.
Who knows?
Tap water from 31 of 35 U.S. cities tested contains hexavalent chromium or chromium-6, the carcinogenic Aaron Brockovich chemical, according to laboratory tests commissioned by Environmental Working Group.
So you know that these guys are working for...
There's an angle somewhere.
And I'm thinking maybe it's someone who's setting up a class action lawsuit.
That's about as far as I got.
But if you look at their...
Yeah, no, it'll resolve shortly.
It will have to.
But, you know, they're funding...
It's way too high in the news mix right now.
They've got...
It's not resolved.
Let's see.
The Johnson Family Foundation.
The Merck Fund.
There's lots of pharmaceuticals in here.
Maybe they came up with some sort of a...
An antidote or something that...
It's got to be...
Well, the only other thing I could think of is maybe it's a red herring to distract from the stuff that's really bothering us, which is aluminum and barium.
Well, now that you have drug companies involved, what really should be bothering people is the amount of actual drugs...
It cannot be taken out of the water because people flush stuff down the toilet.
It gets into the water system.
It goes out, you know, it goes into the bays or it goes here or it goes there or people are throwing.
I mean, there's literally a tonnage of drugs that get flushed out to sea.
I mean, it's like, you know, I'm surprised these fish aren't all roided up, you know.
Quick follow-up.
I mean, that's just so much, John.
I just want to get through the follow-up stuff.
BI Incorporated has been acquired.
BI, known as the Behavioral...
What was it called?
Behavioral...
It's the Gitmo Nation Jewelry People.
The people who make the...
Oh, the guys who make the band, the little monitors.
Well, little monitors.
They do the remote alcohol detection system.
Yeah, we know who they are.
Go.
They do the parolee stuff.
They were acquired by GEO, G-E-O, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange for $415 million.
It's a steal.
I think it's a steal too, actually.
I mean, compared to what these Silicon Valley companies pay for each other, that's a deal.
What's the name of the company that bought them?
GEO. The symbol is G-E-O. And a very interesting company.
They actually run correctional facilities.
They are a jail company, so it totally fits with what they do because now this is just an extension of jail where you will be in jail in your home.
Interesting group, this GEO group.
Their board of directors has former correctional department shills.
I mean, everybody on there is a good investment.
Geo looks like a great investment, actually.
I think they're going to grow quite big.
Financing brought to you by Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, SunTrust, J.P. Morgan.
They all provided $425 million of committed financing for the all-cash transaction.
Good job, guys.
Yeah, good work.
Good work.
Good work.
Smart move.
But that's just a step.
Gio is going to be bought.
I already know the company.
Who's going to buy them?
Really?
Yeah, that'll be the deal.
So Gio...
So that'll be a buyout candidate.
So it's a double good investment.
It's a double whammy.
I'm not...
By the way, this show is not...
It's not an investment.
It's a different show.
It's not an investment.
I'm just saying out of the blue, maybe it's something good.
I have a couple of things to catch up on you want.
The GEO Group is a world leader in delivery of correctional detention, residential treatment services around the world.
United States, Australia, South Africa, United Kingdom.
They're your new buddies.
Give them Gitmo.
I have a question for you.
Say you lost $40,000.
On the street?
No, you were on a cab.
I'm the cabbie.
And you left $40,000 in my cab.
There's a huge hypothetical here.
So I got the $40,000.
I said, hey buddy, you left $40,000 in my cab.
What would be the finder's fee you'd give me for giving you the money back as opposed to just stuffing it under my bed?
If you gave it back to me, what would I give you?
Yeah, what would you give me as a finder's fee?
I'd give you 10%.
I'll give you four grand.
You give me four grand, okay.
Now, so some kids in the Bay Area found $40,000, and the punchline is what they got back from the Bank of America, who apparently was robbed of this money.
Play the clip, kids find $40,000.
If anybody's been searching for a large sum of money, because it didn't belong to us, then we can't keep money that doesn't belong to us.
After talking it over, they found a Santa Clara County Sheriff's Deputy and turned over the money.
Tonight, Bank America awarded them with a check for $200.
Good job, guys.
Here's a hundred each.
Wow.
No, there were four kids.
Oh, 50 each.
It's even better.
They must be so angry.
What a jib.
Totally.
And it was cash?
Yeah.
Oh, man.
Stupid kids.
That'll teach you.
Well, I mean, the Bank of America is discouraging people from giving the money back, obviously, because 200 bucks doesn't cut it.
Speaking of Bank of America, Gitmo Nation Lowlands is now passing a law.
You cannot incite a bank run.
It will be illegal in the Gitmo Nation states of the Netherlands Lowlands to actually say, hey, you should go get your money from the bank.
It'll be against the law.
It's illegal to tell people to get their money out of the bank?
No, you can't say it.
You can't say it.
What is that, thought crime?
What's the deal?
Yeah, you're not allowed to come out and say in public, go get your money from the bank.
In public.
But you can whisper to your friend.
Well, let me look.
So you can get a max of four years in jail and a 19,000 euro fine.
Let me see if there's any...
It doesn't say specifically.
I think it's more like you just can't go on the internet or you can't go on television and say you should go get your money out of the bank.
That will be an actual crime.
That's pretty cool, huh?
Yeah, that sounds like something that we should implement here in this country while you're spying on your neighbor.
If you have time left over.
So talking about time left over, I've got one thing here that needs to be played, the other stuff we can move.
But I've got the thing, the BS clip of the week.
This was on the Rachel Maddow show, live and in concert.
You know, stand-up comics.
She doesn't ask anything about this when it happens.
But see if you can tell me where the BS is in this clip of the week.
To gather intelligence, especially when it's so much intelligence that it's hard to decipher.
The overall intelligence budget has doubled since 9-11.
And I've been thinking, I wanted to talk to you about this today because of the 9-11 first responders health care bill passing.
It took us nearly 10 years to get that done.
But it took us no time at all to double the intelligence budget.
And the question is whether we will ever know we've got our money's worth.
Whether we're getting anything that's worth paying for with that doubling of that budget.
Well, a lot of the money has gone to probably useful things, hard equipment, things in New York City, for example, vehicles that can sniff out radioactive devices.
I've been in these vehicles in New York City, and they are powerful enough to detect someone who has had a medical test and has swallowed a radioisotope in their system on a cruise ship passing New York City.
Wow.
Wait a minute.
And I'm worried about money?
They're detecting if I have a radioisotope, if I'm chipped.
Wait a minute, let's go over this again.
Oh my god.
So you took a little radiation pill or a shot or whatever so you can have yourself checked out on one of these devices for liver cancer or whatever you use it for.
Right.
Or just a small amount.
And you're on a cruise ship.
Yes, I'm passing New York, the island of Manhattan.
And you're passing by the island of New York on a cruise ship and this device can spot you.
Yeah.
Bullcrap.
It can hone in.
It is so powerful.
That's right.
Be very afraid, slaves.
We got you nailed.
And she goes, oh, wow, really?
Oh, that's amazing.
Oh, that's great.
I should talk between my teeth now.
I'm going to do a little more work on this.
There are devices that can spot radioactivity from a distance, and a lot of satellites have these things installed.
But this little particular anecdote seems a bit much.
Yeah, yeah.
Wow.
Well, there's been a lot of Homeland Security noise, of course, and, you know, particularly all these, primarily CNN reports that say, oh, you know, everyone's happy now with the scanners, you know, it's...
We hate taking off our shoes more than pat-downs.
But what is really coming, and you can take it from me, is that they're going to go for a big, huge budget to get more TSA brown shirts in.
That is just so clear everywhere.
Big article.
Horrible screener job gets worse.
Oh, they're so sad.
They don't make enough money.
Everyone's crying.
They need more break time.
Yeah, and one of the things you hear, in fact, I heard it from Huckabee, who's getting a lot of airtime because they're trying to run him.
But Huckabee, and this is a meme, you'll hear it over and over again, and it goes like this.
Oh, you know, but at the same time, yeah, this is bad that they're doing this, but at the same time, you've got to feel sorry for those TSA people having to do all this, and they're so underpaid.
They always throw in the fact that they're not paid enough.
Yeah, they're underpaid.
Exactly.
So the idea is you just pay them more.
Pay him more.
Give him a badge.
Give him a gun.
I think the gun's coming to you.
The gun is next.
Gun is next.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And we have, like, that's the little homeland.
There's your homeland security group to transportation.
They're actually all part of DHS. So, is this a moment to depart while we're all, like, really happy and positive about everything?
I'm looking at my list.
I don't see...
Well, there's the Oprah thing, which I can do any time, but I found the Oprah giving...
By the way, she looks like she's insane now.
I don't know if you've noticed this, but Oprah...
We had a clip of her the other day.
She's crying out of the blue about the helicopter.
Yeah, we already did that one.
And she was crying.
Yeah, I know.
She was crying about not being a lesbian.
I don't know what...
She actually looks like a maniac when she's giving away stuff, which I think, by the way, is patronizing and I think is something sick about it.
It's like being the king of your little fiefdom and you throw coins or chicken feet at the peasants.
They all scramble around, they scream and they yell and they think you're the greatest thing in the world.
It's like beads at Mardi Gras.
Well, you can play the Oprah Gifts, the second clip, which is Oprah Rap Gifts.
Okay, let's listen to it.
Rap, yes.
These are a few of my favorite things.
She's the host of the highest rated talk show in American history.
And every year around the holidays, she airs an episode in which she gives away some of her favorite things.
But this year, one episode wasn't enough.
The 300 audience members for the first episode of Oprah's Ultimate Favorite Things received a free 52-inch 3D television, a diamond watch, a seven-day Royal Caribbean cruise with round-trip flight included, plus 20 other gifts.
Those present for the second episode received a free iPad, diamond earrings, a 2012 Volkswagen Beetle, and 17 other gifts.
Wow.
All we do is a de-douching.
We're like lightweights.
But it's like something about it is kind of...
In fact, I guess Bill Maher came out against this idea that she's over the top.
And they actually played this other clip, which I have, the Oprah giveaway to the rally.
She gave away...
And you have to see Oprah because she goes crazy.
She's yelling and screaming.
And the audience is going nuts.
I mean, it's almost like a cult.
She gave away tickets with a round-trip ticket and a hotel room to the Colbert...
John Stewart rally.
Rally for Douchebags, yeah.
Yeah, Rally for Douchebags.
And they were playing this on the Stewart show.
Colbert looked like he was not happy with the whole thing, even though he made some mention.
But this is just an idea of the mania.
You can play the Oprah giveaway to rally clip.
You're going to the rally!
You're going to the rally!
You're going to the rally, everybody!
It sounds like developers, developers, developers!
You know, she is the ultimate slave driver.
Yeah, isn't that ironic?
Yeah, isn't it ironic indeed?
This is all the slaves and, you know, these are usually poor-ish Slaves.
Just slaves.
Human resources.
Not even useful human resources.
And all they want is to get something from Oprah.
Yeah.
It's the slave driver.
And if you watch the videos of this, it's just like, wow.
People go berserk.
Yeah, it's pretty sad.
It's pretty sad.
So while everyone's...
At least she's giving something away and so what, I guess.
Right.
And then, did you hear about this Hal Turner guy?
In New Jersey?
What about him?
They call him the internet shock jock?
No.
Yeah.
I'd never heard of this guy.
And it says, North Bergen, New Jersey.
I live near North Bergen.
North Bergen internet shock jock Hal Turner sentenced to 33 months in prison.
For what?
For threatening three Chicago federal judges.
Apparently he said on his show that they should die.
And I'm thinking, whoa.
Sounds like freedom of speech to me.
Well, here it is.
The case stemmed from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in 2009.
Three judges upheld a district court decision dismissing lawsuits that challenged...
That's not the one I'm looking for.
Well, I mean, the problem with threatening judges is one thing, but it depends on how it was...
Was he threatening them?
No.
He was just saying he maybe had an opinion.
But of course, you have to say, if you're going to fool around with this kind of shock jock kind of thing and you're going to start telling people they should be dead, I don't think judges who end up hearing these cases, there's kind of a fraternity, if you know what I'm saying.
He said, these judges must die.
That's apparently what got him in trouble.
Yeah, well, I think it's a First Amendment thing.
He could say that if he wants, but it's probably not a wise thing to do.
It was an idiotic thing to do because of judges.
You know, judges are, you know, it's a tough job.
I mean, you get threats.
You don't need this aggravation.
Screw that.
That's probably what they were saying.
Hey, we don't need this aggravation from this guy.
Yeah, get ready.
Put him in jail.
Put these other guys up.
We already have enough crap going on with crazy people that come before us.
We don't need this.
I think it's a First Amendment thing, but at the same time, I think it's ill-advised to take that tact.
Okay, stuff that's in the show notes that we just didn't have time for today.
The draft recommendations for public-private cooperation to counter the dissemination of illegal content within the European Union, i.e.
the European Union Internet Censorship Law.
Have a look at that.
Very, very fun.
You're going to love what the terrorism clauses, which basically allows you to just be shut down for anything.
Which reminds me, when we talked to a clip earlier, you saw the same thing, and I saw the reports.
When we talked about the terrorism, homegrown terrorism, they kept showing these recruiting videos.
No, they can't shut down the recruiting videos.
Why don't they just call up Google and say, hey boys, here's the 11,000 clips that we've found because CBS knows we have 11,000.
We know what they are.
Here's the URLs.
Shut these down now.
Yeah, remove them.
Yeah, they removed something I did once because there was nothing.
I mean, it's like they can remove the stuff at the drop of a hat.
Yeah, they remove it if you put in two bars of prints.
Yeah.
A little bit of Al-Qaeda from the Inland Empire.
Just leave that in there.
I know.
I know, I know, I know.
Alright, we didn't get to a lot of stuff actually.
It was just too much.
The world is spinning out of control.
However, the good news is that we will be back here on Sunday.
And Sunday is, what is it, 26th John?
Is that officially the second day of Christmas?
My true love gave to me.
Yeah.
So we're not taking a break during the holidays.
In fact, right after that show, I will be driving with my daughter and my fiancé to Big Bear.
Your fiancé?
Yes, my fiancé.
Your daughter and your fiancé?
Oh, your daughter with your...
Okay.
Yes.
I thought you meant that you were going to marry your daughter.
No, that would be creepy.
Needless to say.
I'm going to be, by the way, in Las Vegas for the CES show.
Oh, really?
You're going?
Wow, that's a big deal.
Yeah, I figure I have to go once every five years.
You know, the Adult Video Awards is at the same time.
Yeah, I usually go to those, too.
And you know that Bobby Eden's going to be there.
Yeah, well, I should meet her.
So anyway, on that Thursday, I'm going.
Maybe I think it might be a good idea to have a Las Vegas meet-up.
Well, hold on.
You can't do a meet-up without me.
I'll fly out.
Well, if you want to fly out, that's fine.
But I want to do the show at some secure location where I don't have to worry about the hotel internets during a period of time when there's a bunch of geeks on the hog and the band.
Right, right.
So you're looking for a...
I'm looking for an audience and a place to do the show.
You're looking for a halfway house?
Yeah, a halfway house.
Okay.
And what day is this?
What day is...
Get the calendar open here.
That will be January what?
It will be January 6th that we need to do this.
Why don't I just come out?
What's it going to do for...
It's going to ruin the show.
Well, I don't want you to...
It's not really a meet-up.
It's an audience for the show.
I just need a place to do the show.
You're going to do the show with an audience?
Well, no, if we want.
No, I don't want you to do that.
I mean, either we both go and we say hi to people and we do a meet and greet.
But you can't do your half of the show like Rachel Maddow with a live audience.
You can't do that.
That's not acceptable.
Okay, well, fine.
But I still need a place to do the show just in case.
The hotel connection is no good.
In Amsterdam, I wasn't there.
You had this huge audience, a bunch of naked women.
You know what?
I didn't have an audience.
I didn't do the show from there.
Well, this is just I'm trying to do two things at once.
Well, don't.
It's not a good idea.
You can do the show and you can do a meet and greet, but you can't do a meet and greet and a show at the same time.
Okay, we'll do the show separately.
Why don't we have a meeting about this?
Oh, meetings.
I'm not going to do the meeting.
I refuse.
I'm going to play a song for you.
Actually, it's the sixth.
I'm going to play a song for you.
It's the last clip, John.
Hey, we'll talk to you on Sunday.
I come to you from Gitmo Nation West.
I am the leader of the Al-Qaeda in the Empire.
My name is Adam Curry.
And he is going to get in trouble for saying that.
I hope so.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
I lost you.
What happened?
I don't know.
I just lost you.
I'm up here in northern Silicon Valley, and I'm the leader of nothing.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
Oh!
We'll talk to you again on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
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