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	Raw milk, it'll kill ya!
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, February 3rd, 2011.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 275.
	This is no agenda.
	Preparing for a day of rage from the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center here in Gitmo Nation West in the People's Republic of Southern California.
	I am Adam Curry in the morning.
	And from northern Silicon Valley where I have a green screen on the radio to make it seem as though I'm in Egypt, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	I like that.
	That's a good one.
	I'm in Egypt, Adam.
	Yes, I can tell, John.
	You need some fighting sounds behind you.
	Oh, I just got hit in the head ten times.
	And a guy walked right up to me, looked at me, and then punched me right in the face.
	Hey, in the morning to you, John.
	In the morning to you, in the morning to all the ships at sea and boots on the ground.
	Wings in the skies, foots in the oceans, checks in the mails, bakers in the kitchens, dungs in the pit, astronauts manning the moon and Mars base stations, anyone napping for humanity, hams on the air and human resources everywhere, especially those in the chat room with us this morning, knowaginastream.com, all charged up and ready to go exactly the way your government loves all charged up and ready to go exactly the way your Because we need you powered.
	I think the nap for humanity thing is going to catch on.
	You know, someone, one of our producers, actually I have it here on email, I should give him props, John Cartwright said, I think you guys missed an awesome opportunity to brand this initiative Nap and Trade.
	I saw that, but I think a pun like that...
	Oh, come on.
	That's awesome.
	I think it's great.
	I wasn't as impressed, and I'll tell you why.
	Really?
	Well, for one thing, it's been overused with crap and trade, cap and tax, and all these people have taken variations of that.
	And so I think it's cliched already.
	The second thing is I don't think you can get the kind of traction with a pun.
	That you can with a legitimate nap for humanity type of a moniker.
	I just don't think...
	No, I agree.
	Give me an example of a pun that has any traction.
	It doesn't matter because we already cut the jingles.
	Nap for humanity.
	So it doesn't matter.
	We're already there.
	I'm not just saying it.
	It's the only reason I'm rationalizing why I said we're already there.
	Play it again.
	Oh, okay.
	Nap for humanity.
	It's got a nice somnambulistic quality to it.
	It makes you want to take a nap.
	It does.
	I'm like, quiet already.
	I'm falling asleep.
	And I'm waiting for the iNap app.
	The iNap.
	There's a...
	Well, you're right.
	There should be an app that you start it when you take the nap, and then it starts counting your carbon credits.
	Yeah.
	It should be a running carbon credit, and then when you wake up, you...
	You can feel good about yourself.
	You pop it, and you go, wow.
	Yeah, and it'll tweet.
	It'll tweet.
	I just created 10 carbon credits with Nap for Humanity.
	I Nap for Humanity.
	10 carbon credits.
	And it'll post something to your wall on Facebook.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Somebody out there can design this iNAP app and it'll be done.
	Now, the thing is, has anyone done the calculation?
	Do we have the math on this?
	Does it matter?
	Yes, I think we should be legit.
	Okay, well, someone can do that.
	We need the...
	So, how many carbon credit...
	Well, I was just looking at the...
	I have it somewhere here.
	I have the current pricing, because they're reopening the exchanges in Europe.
	Oh.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, they got past that whole scam thing pretty quickly, I might add.
	Oh, it doesn't take much.
	No.
	Let me see.
	National carbon registries will open within days.
	Let me give you the current price per metric ton.
	This is coming direct from Bloomberg.
	So then we just have to figure out how many metric tons a human resource exudes on a daily basis.
	How many...
	Well, I'm sure it's not tons...
	Well, if we can do the sleeping versus waking, then we can calculate the nap.
	And what we're going to do for our carbon crisis is we're going to have people pledge to nap.
	Okay, one, here we go, future delivery, so, I love this, EU futures for delivery in December 2011.
	So, carbon still to be delivered.
	When I opened my pie hole in 2011, we're not affected by the registry suspension.
	Lost as much as 1% to, here it is, 14.58 euros a metric tonne.
	14 euros a ton.
	So it's about 14.50 a ton of carbon.
	Yeah.
	So, you just got to figure out how much carbon does a human resource exude.
	Now, you have to take into account that you may be passing wind while you sleep, so you have to deduct that from the...
	Yeah, but you'll be passing wind anyway.
	Yeah, but I think you pass wind in your sleep.
	Yeah, but you pass wind anyway.
	I mean, you can't stop yourself from passing wind, so that's not a variable.
	We have to take it into account.
	We have to have all the parameters.
	We don't have to take it into account.
	If we want to be accurate...
	No, because it's going to happen whether you're napping or not napping, so it doesn't make any difference.
	You're completely wrong on the farting.
	I'm sorry.
	Let me give you a little PR jiggle here.
	You know our buddy Maynard, down under, in Australia?
	He's on the real Australian radio station there?
	Yeah, our pal.
	On ABC. So he took the whole vodka eyeballing thing to a whole new level and got an expert.
	Yeah.
	And interviewed an expert about vodka balling.
	And gave us some props.
	That's just a little intro music, I guess.
	I've investigated some pretty stupid things in my time, but one of the most stupid things that's come to my notice recently from overseas podcasts, Adam Curry has covered it extensively.
	By the way, notice, I'm the stupid one.
	When there's stupid in the sentence, John C. Dvorak doesn't come up.
	Kind of interesting.
	Is the big vodka eyeball shot fiasco.
	This is where people...
	Usually young people are doing vodka shots into their eye.
	Who would do that?
	I don't know.
	I've seen pretty stupid people doing it.
	So I've come to an eye optometrist here, Ian Emsley.
	Hi Ian, how are you?
	Good, thanks very much.
	How are you?
	Drinking vodka can be dangerous enough without pouring it into your eye.
	Oh, exactly, yeah.
	It's 40% alcohol, as you know.
	Vodka's been used as disinfectant.
	What are you going to do, pour disinfectant into your eye?
	I can't believe that the actual airwaves in Australia are polluted with the bull crap we come up with on this show.
	I'm still thinking it is bull crap.
	That's the problem, except for the fact your daughter confirmed it, although I'm skeptical still.
	No, she wouldn't.
	She has no reason to BS me.
	People are actually, of course, if you listen to the whole thing, it's about three minutes.
	Well, what is the conclusion?
	Can we play the whole thing?
	I'm interested in hearing what the guy says.
	If this is indeed a real ophthalmologist.
	I'll play it up to the conclusion.
	I mean, it's a very, very stupid thing to do.
	Now, the idea is that it actually gets you drunk faster because there's blood vessels in your eyes that can absorb the vodka faster than it can through your stomach.
	For a man who is a drinker, be an adoptometrist, what's your professional opinion on this idea?
	Ah, totally false.
	I mean, there might be some very, very minimal absorption, but it'd be incredibly tiny compared to what the stomach and especially the small intestine can do.
	So there you go.
	There's the conclusion.
	So it's bullcrap.
	Well, no, it's bullcrap that it gets you drunk, but it's not bullcrap that the kids are doing it.
	You know, it's typical of these kids.
	I mean, I don't want to, you know, do a blanket thing, but the kids out there listening to the show know this, that they're susceptible, they're subject, they're suggestion.
	Yes.
	You know, they say, oh, y'all, I'm so drunk.
	I mean, it reminds me of these people I've run into all the time.
	I'm so wasted, man.
	I'm wasted.
	Hey, man, hey, dude, that's been water.
	I'm wasted.
	That can't be, man.
	Oh, really?
	Water?
	Oh, never mind.
	I'm also wasted.
	Anyway.
	Hey, guess what?
	What?
	Egypt.
	No.
	There's something going on in Egypt?
	Yeah.
	You're probably trying to deconstruct this.
	Last week I think we kind of had some of it deconstructed to some extent.
	People complimented us for making them laugh.
	But have you come up with anything?
	Because I've got another whole direction.
	Well yes, I have come up with one thing which actually starts off by giving you an extra point for today's program.
	And that is a carryover point from the last show.
	Where you called the script, with Jordan being next, and of course we now know that since the last program, the royal family has taken all kinds of measures.
	But if anyone would be in on the script, it would be Henry Kissinger.
	No.
	Because, of course, he's one of the elitists.
	Is he still alive?
	Oh, yeah.
	He's one of the elitists of the world.
	So there's a couple things, and the big payoff comes at the end of this clip when he was on Bloomberg.
	Yeah, you're very close.
	And the first thing that happened that I thought was really interesting is we have the shill showed up.
	El Baraday is the guy's name.
	And if you want to know what he's all about, first of all, the minute I saw Anderson Cooper interviewing the guy in what looked like someone's backyard barbecue pit, I'm like, okay.
	This was pre-taped in, like, New Jersey.
	And the guy's like, yeah, so this guy is a total shill.
	He's...
	I think he's formerly from the International Atomic Energy Board, something like that.
	But more importantly, he is...
	I'm just pulling it up here and then I'll play the clip for you.
	He's on the International Crisis Group Board, which is a complete elitist Gitmo Nation society.
	And, you know, George Soros and all these guys are on the board.
	So this guy is...
	Crisis boards.
	Another drinking club.
	Yeah.
	Hey, man, before I do the shot in my eye, why don't you go run Egypt?
	So Kissinger talks about him and then he really blew me away with the confirmation that this entire thing is a script.
	By the way, this girl, if you take a look at the video linked in the show notes, noagendashow.com, she was standing like a hooker on the street corner, like completely like sexed up and it was really weird and uncomfortable to watch and he was on the phone of course.
	But it's just like, what's she doing on the street?
	It was a full...
	Is that the kind of money they're paying at Bloomberg?
	This woman has to work two jobs?
	Yes.
	...and whether or not, you know, he's become sort of the person or the face of this opposition movement.
	What do you know about him and how much influence is he going to have in a new government?
	I know Al Faraday.
	He is an intelligent, civilized man.
	Who has lived in exile, who has lived in Egypt.
	So to me he looks like a sort of transitional figure that emerges.
	So very important.
	This is focused!
	This isn't even Kissinger!
	This is somebody doing a goof on the guy!
	I'm telling you, I've heard Kissinger a million times.
	I know that crazy, gravelly voice of his.
	That's not him.
	Okay, well, let's listen to the real Kissinger.
	At the real Kissinger.
	And so first he says, I know him.
	This is transitory.
	He's just there temporarily.
	At the beginning of a revolution, and that will, having performed his function of bringing about a transition, will disappear from the scene.
	This is great.
	So after he performs his function of transition, he'll disappear from the scene.
	He'll just kind of...
	Yeah, in one way or another.
	Uh-huh.
	So you believe he's going to be a temporary figure?
	I think almost certainly it will be a temporary figure.
	Because it's the way the script is written.
	I shall tell you more in a moment.
	In order to govern, you'll have to represent some social forces.
	And I don't know what forces inside Egypt.
	El Paraty represents...
	But that isn't, that's not a useless function.
	No, but indeed, no, it is not, certainly not, and you can see his influence this time around.
	What does she know?
	No, no, certainly.
	I don't even think she can even understand what he's saying.
	She's just saying, no, no, no, whatever, and she's looking like a hooker.
	However, some have talked about the vice president right now, Omar Suleiman, as perhaps emerging as a stronger leader in Egypt.
	What do you know about him?
	Well, he is the head of intelligence, and he is supposed to be highly intelligent and...
	Well, hope so.
	Now listen, because he's going to make a mistake here, he's going to cover it up, and then he's going to hammer it home.
	Quite sophisticated, and he's been, I think, the liaison to at least some of our relationships in Egypt.
	He's doing a vodka eyeball shot right now.
	He's like, hold on.
	Hold on.
	I have to do a vodka ball.
	Hey, by the way, you look pretty hot, sweet snooks.
	Is he a friend of the U.S., Dr.
	Kissinger?
	When things reach this point, you can't classify things easily as friend of the United States or not.
	He is, yes, up to now he has been very cooperative.
	Here we have ways of making him cooperate.
	With the United States.
	But what will happen now is that once the transition has been completed.
	Okay, listen very closely now.
	Once the transition has been...
	He knows exactly what's going on.
	He's telling you the script right here, right now, and you won't believe what he's about to say.
	All the political forces are going to begin maneuvering for space and for appealing to a sort of in Kuwait public.
	The military are one force.
	The Muslim Brotherhood is another huge force.
	There are other forces that have not been whatever you can say about Mubarak.
	You hear that?
	There are other forces that have not been and then he stops himself.
	They've not been, hmm, what?
	Activated, Henry?
	Kept the situation moderate, so you don't know what radical force is.
	Okay, get ready for it.
	This is a country emerge now that have been underground.
	We are going to go through a period of great uncertainty and of a lot of maneuvering once the lid is off.
	Right now, everybody's focused on the removal of Mubarak.
	That is only the first scene of the first act of a drama that has to be played out.
	The first scene of the first act of the drama that has to be played out, of which I have the script right here in front of me.
	Yeah, that sounds about right.
	It's an admission right there.
	To me, that's an admission.
	Well, when you get older, you can't think, right?
	You start messing up.
	Yeah, well, it's definitely scripted.
	Whatever the case is, before we go on, I've got some stuff I just want to tell people so they can look for these little tidbits, too, along with the whole thing being something.
	So, by the way, Suleiman was on this morning.
	Speaking for the government already.
	Yeah, and I heard the translation.
	They had a woman doing his voice, which I find highly annoying.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And he was...
	It's all, you know, these guys all work for...
	For us.
	Anyway, let's thank a few executive producers before we get into the meat of the show so we can at least get this out of the way.
	We have no 275 club members.
	Which is quite a shame, I think.
	Yeah, such a good number.
	Yeah, I think that people missed an opportunity, but okay.
	Yeah, I think so too.
	So I can scrap that one right off the show notes, okay?
	Daniel Strack, Sir R. Daniels, actually.
	Colts Next, New Jersey, 32220, will be our executive producer.
	Does he round out a second knighthood with that, I think?
	I have a feeling he does.
	I think there's a separate letter about that.
	It's possible.
	But you don't know?
	Well, I don't have it in front of me.
	I mean, I'll look it up at the halfway point and we'll find out.
	But he's got no note attached.
	Okay.
	Ashley, Mr.
	Ashley Hogg.
	I like that there's a Mr.
	in there.
	Because Ashley is a, you know, except in the UK. I think it's more popular as a male name in the UK. And Ashley will be an associate executive producer?
	Yeah, and he's in Leamington Spa in Warwickshire.
	Warwickshire.
	Warwickshire.
	Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.
	United States of Gitmo East.
	222.22.
	Please accept this donation to $222 as a way of de-douching myself.
	You've been de-douched.
	Having listened to the show right from the get-go, which I didn't know is a term they'd use in England...
	But never donated.
	I'm also thinking of taking up one of the monthly plans, but can't decide what to go for yet.
	Go for the $11.11.
	No, go for the $11.11.
	It's a good one.
	$11.11 is a great plan to be here.
	I think it's a great plan.
	Thanks for the hugely entertaining show and also for massively increasing my stress levels.
	Well, we shouldn't be doing that.
	By making me think more about the sinister goings-on, it's supposed to relax you.
	Yeah, that saddens me a bit because the whole idea is that you can look at all of this and just go, oh, it's okay, I understand it.
	Yeah, you're above it.
	You become meta.
	This is like what the show does.
	It makes you so you don't get stressed out by the news because you see the scripts unfolding, you see the bull crap, you become highly amused by what's going on.
	Yes, it's entertaining.
	It's relaxing.
	He says that what saddens him more is how difficult it is to get friends and family to do the same.
	Well, that's your problem.
	Forget about it.
	That's what I say on this show, to preach to the converted.
	Preach to the choir, because you're not going to turn anybody around getting them to listen to this show.
	I guess most people really are just happy to keep going blindly screwed over by the elites, eh?
	If you could also give me a tiny mention of my iPhone app, Pocket Mini Golf 2, that would be the greatest.
	Pocket Mini Golf 2.
	I'll review it on the Big App Show.
	All right.
	That'll be a little extra zing for him.
	And then also, associate executive producer is Joost.
	Not even close.
	Joost.
	Joost.
	Joost Schipperhain.
	Schipperhain.
	Yes.
	Say it properly.
	Joost Schipperhain.
	Joost Schipperhain.
	Your phone is ringing.
	$222.
	Thank you, Joost.
	Even just to mock my pronunciation of the odd Dutch name.
	There is no other reason to donate to this show than to do exactly that.
	Well, at least from the lowlands.
	Okay.
	Oh, that's it?
	Those are our two?
	Ah, okay.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. That's how you donate.
	That's how you become an executive producer or associate executive producer.
	Of course, we'll be talking and thanking some more people later on halfway through the show.
	And I guess the 276 Club membership is now open.
	275 closed.
	No one in it and no possibility for joining ever again.
	Right.
	Which is a shame, so that'll be a little blemish on our record.
	We're not starting over from zero, that's for sure.
	We do want to thank Sir Daniels for being the executive producer of episode 275, and Ashley Hogg and Yost Schipperhang for being associate executive producers.
	Everyone else out there, you know what you have to do.
	You've got to go out and propagate our formula.
	It is extremely simple.
	Here it is.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	New world border.
	Shut up, slave. - I do just want to briefly mention, napforhumanity.com is being built by Thijs Brouwers.
	And Gitmo Nation Lowlands.
	He could probably use a little bit of help on some of the editorial, some of the grammar and spelling, so anyone should get in touch with him.
	I think he's probably in the chat room as well.
	He's a great artist, and he's doing some crazy stuff for napforhumanity.com.
	Noagendastickers.com, still alive and well.
	Check that out.
	Some great stickers to be found there, to be stuck on anything you can find.
	And what is this?
	I bought a new domain today, noagendaresearchinstitute.com.
	This is from Gus.
	Right now it's forwarding to NoAgendaShow.com.
	I plan to make it into a full-on think tank and maybe score some government grants I can share with you guys.
	Right.
	He says, thanks for cleaning up the show.
	I sent a check in the mail so those douchebags at PayPal don't get a cut for my donation, but we'll talk about that later, correct?
	Yes, and I want to mention one thing for people out there.
	If you have an orphan domain name that happens to have just sitting there doing nothing, forward it to noagendashow.com.
	There's no reason for the things...
	I mean, a lot of people put Parker sites up, which actually don't work much anymore, so you can't really make any money.
	But if you have an orphan domain, and I have a few myself, just keep it online, you know...
	And forward it to noagendashow.com.
	And I think you should just do that with all your orphan domains.
	They may show up in a search engine one of these days.
	Somebody clicks on it, boom.
	They get to the show and they wonder why.
	You know what I like so much is we have such enormous Google juice.
	You know, Glenn Beck came out and said, the truth has no agenda, which of course was linked to and tweeted and everyone's talking about it.
	But if you go to Google and you type in just no agenda, the first page, we own it.
	We own it.
	Completely outright.
	Which is great.
	Now before you get into the inevitable about Egypt, let me just say that I am very pleased I'm happy and delighted to see the slaves of Egypt revolting.
	I love it.
	I think it is a completely organic, real revolution, revolt that's going on.
	Spurred on or not is irrelevant.
	Revolutions take place.
	You don't need a social network for a revolution to happen.
	So I do love it.
	I think it's great, and I wish...
	Slaves around the world would follow the example, which of course won't happen, and unfortunately they're all going to get duped and scammed into something else.
	But I do really appreciate what's happening, and I think it's a beautiful thing to see.
	It is.
	I really mean it.
	My breath is taken away.
	I think it was co-opted two or three days ago, and the whole thing now is just going right onto the script, and that's the end of it.
	The minute Anderson Cooper shows up, you know it's over.
	Okay.
	And in fact, I still have...
	A suspicion that CNN started this whole thing just to get Piers Morgan some ratings.
	I'm not convinced otherwise.
	Well, it hasn't helped.
	No.
	But I have to say, I've been watching a lot of CNN. They've had cameras on the square, which, you know...
	Which is, by the way, it's Liberation Square.
	It's Tahiri.
	It's a little too...
	Yeah.
	You know, it's Tahiri Square, which loosely translated could be seen as Liberation Square, but from the get-go, Liberation Square, Liberation Square.
	Yes, everybody.
	Live from Liberation Square.
	Well, I think this whole thing is aimed at Obama.
	And they've decided that, look, we've gone far enough with this cap-and-trade nonsense and the alternative energy nonsense and all the rest of it.
	We have to get back to drilling oil out of our own country.
	So let's turn up the heat a little bit and create all kinds of situations which may restrict oil flow around the world.
	And we have to get back to drilling in the Gulf Coast mainly.
	I mean, they've allowed people that were already there to continue pumping, but there's no new oil rigs from the way it sounds.
	They're moving them offshore.
	No, everything's been closed down.
	And so we've had it.
	And so the giveaway to me is that let's bring out the heavy guns.
	And the kicker is, and I want to play a couple clips, one of them is oil part one.
	And you have to ask the question, and I'm going to ask you this.
	You're in broadcasting.
	You've been working around.
	You're not an idiot.
	Oh, hold on a second, John.
	Hold on.
	Let me just...
	A little tighter.
	Ask Adam.
	Ask Adam.
	Will he know or will he won't?
	I don't know, but here we go.
	Ask Adam.
	Ask Adam.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Go ahead.
	Ask.
	So, a short version of that.
	Don't play it.
	So, anyway.
	So, now, you've been in broadcasting.
	Now, if all hell's breaking loose in some area, right?
	Don't you want to be on the air?
	Yeah.
	You're going to be like the guy reporting it.
	You're either going to be flown out there and you're going to be reporting or you're going to be in the studio.
	They had Rachel Maddow was on like all night on MSNBC. Yeah, she's a real broadcaster.
	She's like, hello, it's Rachel Maddow here at MSNBC. She was all over the place.
	She was at the anchor desk covering the story.
	So the question is, when do you take one of the most popular people on broadcasting and you move them out?
	Where is Glenn Beck?
	Why is Glenn Beck off during this episode?
	And why do they put in on the Glenn Beck show a stooge Who does nothing more but bring in his pals to talk about the situation in Egypt.
	All about the oil.
	Play oil part one and we'll get a little taste of this.
	And ask yourself again, where's Glenn Beck?
	Why was he taking it off?
	Prices at the pump, the grocery store, the mall, and your home will skyrocket.
	With me now, John Hoffmeister.
	He's the former head of Shell Oil.
	And Steve Moore is a senior economic writer at the Wall Street Journal.
	Hoffmeister, I'm going to start with you, my friend.
	You've been it.
	You've been the CEO of Shell.
	You know how important that Middle Eastern, those two choke points, the Suez Canal and the Strait of Hormuz.
	You tell us.
	Tell our viewer how important that area is.
	And, by the way, how important keeping flow of oil through there is.
	We've known for decades how vulnerable we are, Eric, to these choke points.
	And there have been all kinds of scenarios and games played out in terms of what might happen.
	We use as a world 85 million barrels a day.
	The United States uses 20 million barrels a day.
	Every day.
	10,000 gallons a second.
	And we're shutting down drilling in our own Gulf of Mexico?
	This is absurd.
	It is absurd that a nation that has so much demand...
	John, what if we were to choke off one of those two...
	The Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormones.
	By the way, on the other side of Saudi Arabia, on that choke point, lies Iran.
	If Iran were to get a crazy idea and close that port, or close that shipping lane, what would happen to the price of oil and gas?
	It would only take a matter of hours before we would see significant movement Days before we could see the price of oil go up 50% or even double.
	Because the amount of oil coming out would have an immediate impact.
	So you're saying $200 a barrel?
	You're saying $200 a barrel?
	It could easily get to $200.
	It's interesting.
	I've heard this $200 a barrel number mentioned everywhere.
	That is the new meme, is the $200 a barrel of oil.
	Now, you know, this Shell guy, if you listen to him, especially the first part, he sounds like he's reading this.
	I mean, this little interview is so scripted, it's almost embarrassing.
	I mean, the guy is not performing well.
	He's also waving his arms around.
	Like a street hooker.
	But yeah, here's what people are looking out for.
	You're going to hear the $200 meme.
	You're also going to hear the 85 million barrels a day.
	Although I have to say, I don't have the clip, but they kept running the similar meme on CNN, only they kept using the number 86.
	But anyways, you're going to keep hearing that.
	Well, 86 is divisible by 3, so that's a better number.
	86 is divisible by 3?
	I don't know.
	What universe?
	I'm just talking crap.
	Anyway, so 85 is the number.
	You're going to hear that, and you're also going to hear occasionally the 20 million barrels a day that we use.
	But these are the numbers.
	You don't hear these numbers normally.
	We haven't heard these numbers thrown or bandied about.
	But I heard these numbers on three different shows.
	All within the same few hours.
	And so this is obviously out there to make people aware of the fact that how much oil is being used.
	Anyway, you finish this little clip and you can hear these guys ranting about how everything is going up in price.
	The barrel, if after several days there's no sign of a let-up in the crunch point.
	Okay, Steve, if I have Steve Moore, I hope I have him.
	There we go, Steve.
	Okay, since you saw the pictures in Egypt, you see the protesters in the street.
	Since we started seeing those last Thursday or Friday when it escalated, the price of gasoline, not at the pump, not the AAA number that everyone reads, the price of gasoline on the wholesale level has jumped 13 cents a gallon.
	What does that mean to American consumers?
	Well, Eric, first of all, that's nothing.
	I mean, 13 cents is a lot, but if these projections are right that John is talking about, we're looking at the price of gasoline.
	I just filled up yesterday.
	I think I paid something around $3.59 a gallon, which is a lot.
	But we could see the price of gasoline, if we move to $150 or $200 a barrel of oil, we could be looking at $5 a gallon to fill up.
	Okay, let me just ask you a question, John.
	So what you're saying is that the riots have been co-opted by anti-Obamacists To, for once and for all, abolish the whole idea.
	Just basically to get us back on track and really getting us off of foreign oil, which would actually mean we'd have to screw Canada.
	No, we will actually keep getting our oil from Canada.
	Right, but this was not started to do that.
	It's been co-opted.
	Well...
	I'm sorry?
	Welp.
	Welp?
	I'm not totally convinced of that.
	Because I do believe...
	Yeah, I know you believe it, but the way I see it, and I have to say that everyone was called a little bit off guard with the Egypt thing, but I think I still believe the Tunisian thing was instigated.
	Yes, I'm with you on that.
	And that triggered the Egyptian thing, and this triggered other things around the Mideast.
	Now, it may not...
	I mean, I would agree with...
	I think some of your, some people that have discussed this with us, that, you know, you can't really think that far out ahead and this bull crap that, you know, yeah, right, because it doesn't make a lot of sense.
	I mean, we know for a fact, we can say for a fact that it's been co-opted.
	Whether it's been planned from the get-go is another issue, which is what you're debating me about.
	Now, there's a funny thing, by the way, in that little short series done on AMC called Rubicon.
	It was just about this topic, exactly.
	Mm-hmm.
	It was about a choke point that was being killed off.
	Well, anyway, I want to just get back to where I think the theme is here, which is get our domestic drilling back up.
	And if you play the second clip, which is where's our oil domestic drilling, you'll hear this shell guy again reading.
	It sounds like he's reading from a script.
	He's memorized it.
	He's a very poor actor.
	Well, he's a CEO. That's what these guys do.
	They're supposed to just read annual reports to share.
	Yeah, and he's an ex-CEO, but he could, I think he should take it, be honest about it.
	I don't want to just do the little aside here.
	Look, if you're a CEO and you're going to be playing these sorts of games with the public, take some acting classes.
	I mean, does it hurt?
	You could take drama in college.
	John, he is the former CEO. And I'm just saying.
	He was probably a politician.
	There's time still.
	There's still time.
	There are courses, especially, you know, New York, you can go take, you know, get the actor's workshop, whatever.
	But anyway, go on.
	We saw price increases for everything from copper to wheat to Wheaties on the grocery store shelf.
	So this is a potentially inflationary effect.
	I think John makes a very important point.
	Why is it that we are not developing our own oil and natural gas resources?
	I mean, this is another one of those times to wonder how it's in our economic or national security sense not to be developing our own oil.
	So, John, let me throw this at you.
	July 14th of 2008, the highest price oil ever traded, $147.25.
	Two days later, President Bush removed the moratorium on offshore drilling.
	That was the top.
	Within six months, oil went to $33 a barrel.
	Not that we were grabbing that much oil out of the ground immediately, but the thought of being able to drill more, what would that do to the price of oil?
	Would it matter if people were fist-pumping in the street in Cairo?
	Oil is a psychological price as well as a material price.
	And it's the expectation of the future which drives the price.
	If the U.S. said we're going back to 10 million barrels a day of production, where we were in the 1970s, all the oil markets would be calmed down immediately, overnight.
	Now, we wouldn't get 10 million barrels for a number of years, but it's just the psychology of knowing that the U.S. will start taking better care of its own demand so it doesn't put so much pressure on global demand.
	There's a lot of countries out there who don't have oil, and they need for the U.S. to be producing its own oil.
	Steve, there's a great case study in this.
	Every business school teacher, I've said this before, every business school professor in America should say, the case for drilling is this.
	Since the protesting in the streets, since you saw the Molotov cocktails, the bombs, the rocks being thrown, the price of oil is shot up, skyrocketing, gasoline is skyrocketing.
	But natural gas is going down.
	Now there's a reason for that, Steve.
	Why is that?
	Well, first of all, because the Russian pipeline has just been opened up.
	Well, actually, they're going to go into it.
	So what is your point?
	What is your point?
	It doesn't seem like it behooves the oil cabal for the price of oil to go down.
	They want it up.
	No, that's the traders who want it to go up.
	The actual oil companies, they have no interest in this sort of speculation.
	What they would like is control of local wells in the United States so they just become these little money machines because it's better than buying it.
	And they're the ones who have to buy it at these prices to sell it at the pumps.
	Say you're one of the local Unical or one of the companies in the United States and you're buying oil.
	You have to buy it at those prices of these ridiculous $150 things and the public starts to relinquish demand.
	Demand starts to fall off and when the price comes down, you get screwed.
	Oil companies can really take it in the shorts when these prices run up to $200 and then crash to $33.
	Especially when demand goes to nothing.
	So you have no demand for cheap oil.
	I mean, it becomes a real loser.
	They don't like this.
	It's the stock market speculators that like this up and down action.
	The oil companies don't.
	They just like the cash cow pumping, pumping, pumping.
	Right.
	And they love it when they can control it domestically.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	I'm with you.
	I'm with you.
	Now, so...
	Let me counter that, not countering your argument, but if we've got the people against Obama saying, alright, enough of this stupid stuff, we've got to tap our own oil, which, by the way, I think is a grand idea, then on the other side, we have to combat that
	and of course there's only one thing we can do to combat fossil fuels and that is so there's been plenty of I don't know if it's chemtrailing or if it was harp or whatever but we have like the way What do people think when they listen to our show?
	We've got so many jingles now, it's ludicrous.
	It was one of the worst, it is one of the worst storms in history now.
	I love this storm.
	Did you see the picture of Chicago?
	It's fantastic.
	It's beautiful.
	It looks great.
	Lakeshore Avenue, the cars are all stopped dead.
	People have to walk home.
	It's great.
	You know what?
	When I was a kid, we had storms like this.
	When I was a kid, I'm not even that old.
	I'm digging it.
	I'm like, yeah, climate change.
	Of course climate change is real.
	However, when you listen to...
	And this is from...
	I think this is from MSNBC or CNBC. I think it's MSNBC. They had this woman on.
	And she is from an outfit...
	I just got to find this.
	I think it's Concerned Scientists.
	Yeah.
	Which is, when you see something like that, I'm like, okay, this is perfect.
	This is really, this is one for me.
	And it's the Union of Concerned Scientists.
	And this is Brenda Eckwurzel, who looks like a concerned scientist.
	And just listen to what she's saying about these storms and the reason for it, John.
	Now, we all know the freezer theory.
	This is the Arctic freezer theory, but she takes it one step further.
	And remember, this is a scientist's Well, another winter storm is bearing down on areas already dealing with last week's snow that left nearly two feet of snow in some parts.
	And along with the winter weather, this storm could be followed by more intense cold, giving no chance for last week's snow to melt and no break at all for the winter weary.
	So why are we getting so much snow?
	Joining me now from Washington, D.C. is climate scientist Brenda Ekwurzel with the Union of Concerned Scientists.
	By the way, whenever you have a scientist in Washington, D.C., red alert, red alert, red alert.
	And with another good morning to you, the name of your group, the Union of Concerned Scientists, why the name and how much in terms of what's happening right now reflects the reason for your name?
	Oh, please.
	Why the name?
	Well, because...
	That name is old, for one thing.
	It's not a new organization.
	And two, what kind of a dumbass question is that?
	Well, let's listen to the dumbass answer.
	One thing we're concerned about is what's really going on with these winter storms.
	What's going on is that we are burning a lot of coal and oil, and that is leading to extra carbon in our atmosphere, dropping extra heat.
	That's the funniest thing I've ever heard.
	And this has somehow changed from last year?
	I mean, what is she saying?
	But no, we're going into a spiral, John.
	Because it's so cold, we're burning even more.
	We're putting more carbon in the air.
	We're going to kill everybody!
	And that's turbocharging our...
	It's turbocharging, baby!
	Woo, yeah!
	It's turbocharged!
	What network was this on?
	MSNBC. Turbocharging climate change.
	Weather patterns.
	What this means is that during summer and springtime, where it rains, it's falling much heavier than it did decades ago.
	So now it's not just the temperature, it's the actual precipitation.
	But she makes it even crazier.
	And during the winter, we're recording even heavier snowstorms.
	What this means is that climate change is creating a new normal and officials need to...
	This is a good one.
	A new normal.
	I like it.
	Pay attention to new normal.
	Prepare their communities to create safer communities for this future condition.
	You know, Brenda, I'm going to have my director put up the graphic that will show the snow totals and how disproportionate they are this winter.
	But, you know, when you make an argument of climate change and global warming and the like, you know, it's really hard to see how the warming is bringing all this snow.
	Now, listen to this.
	This is really good.
	So this one, I mean, I was like, wow.
	Because, of course, you have to go back and remember we had Al Gore's movie, the scariest movie you'll ever see, global warming, global warming, the earth is heating up, global warming, global warming, global warming, oh, climate change, climate change, climate change.
	But why are we getting all this extra snow?
	This is the answer.
	I mean, can you put that together in a logical explanation?
	Yes.
	Please, Union of Concerned Scientists, we need a logical explanation so the slaves can understand the scam.
	Sure.
	Well, what we know is that we've had record ocean temperatures.
	They're warming up.
	This creates a lot of moisture sources.
	We also have, with climate change, we have shifting jet stream, and we've sort of blown open the planet's freezer door.
	Wait, wait, it gets better.
	We've blown open the planet's freezer door.
	If only I had known the freezer was up in the north, I would have put me some cow in there.
	And the Arctic blasts are coming down, combining with this moist Gulf of Mexico moisture, and you create this terrible combination which dumps a lot of snow.
	And ironically...
	Now, ironically, this is where she goes off the rails.
	She keeps saying ironically.
	This past summer, we had record third lowest sea ice extent, which led to a cascading set of conditions and the shifting jet stream and this more moist from the warmer oceans that lead to this terrible combination of very treacherous snowstorms this season.
	Oh, indeed, treacherous.
	I mean, they've been fatal, as you know, in many places.
	Brenda, I'm curious, can you make the leap between an extreme winter like this to expectations of an extreme summer in terms of heat?
	Ironically, with climate change...
	Ironically?
	How many times does she say this?
	Well, you have to say, this is the new talking point.
	You have to say ironically, because, of course, it's hard for people to understand.
	Like, if it's warmer, why am I freezing my ass off?
	Well, ironically.
	But listen to how she explains it.
	We see that the warmers are rising much faster than the summer.
	So our temperatures are increasing faster during the winter season than during the summer season.
	And so that creates a situation when you have more moist conditions that's still below freezing, you can create very heavy snowfall.
	Okay, so what she's saying...
	Is because it's actually warmer, we get the precipitation, i.e.
	rain, but because it's actually warmer, it turns into snow.
	It's still below freezing.
	If you have very extreme cold, cold, cold conditions, you tend to have a little bit less precipitation in the form of snow.
	So ironically, we get a little more snow.
	Ironically.
	Well, okay.
	There you have it.
	Brenda, thank you so much for waiting.
	I appreciate that.
	I get it.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's warming up so much that we end up getting snow that we wouldn't have gotten because it would have been too cold.
	Yeah, okay, right.
	So anyway, I'm on the water.
	Yes.
	I mean, I can look, I can turn my head and I can see the bay and San Francisco Bay, which is a body of water hooked to the Pacific Ocean.
	And the Pacific Ocean rises, this water body rises too.
	And there's like a little shoreline down here that I can see from here.
	Yeah.
	You're on the floodline, man.
	You're going to die.
	It hasn't gone up an inch or a millimeter.
	I mean, actually, right now there's tides out and it's a bunch of mud.
	But anyway, this is bull crap.
	But this is what's being passed off as science.
	And by the way, if these guys are so good at this, how come they all predicted it was going to be a drought?
	And Australia is a perfect example of that.
	And the British predicted because these same people predicted it was going to be no snow in England ever again.
	And we were going to never see snow anywhere.
	Now all of a sudden it's causing snow.
	Well, why do they change their story every five minutes?
	And why do people buy into this?
	Because there's like a moving target, what they're saying.
	Well...
	The science is in!
	Science!
	Yeah, well, so...
	My talking point...
	Yes, climate change is real.
	Of course it is.
	Climate change is all the time.
	It's just we have no control over it.
	And it's certainly not because we're burning more fires.
	Yes, the Molotov cocktails in Egypt are responsible for more carbon in the air.
	So it's really actually, this is really counterproductive and they're actually creating higher oil prices.
	This is how the reasoning goes from the concerned scientists.
	And by the way, the Punxsutawney Phil...
	Did we have Groundhog Day?
	Did I miss it?
	Somebody shot the poor thing.
	No, he did not.
	Yeah, they had it, but apparently they've changed PR agencies.
	Oh.
	And so it's not getting the publicity.
	It's not getting the play.
	No, I have a report here.
	MSNBC, Punxsutawney Phil sees no shadow, predicts early spring.
	Yeah.
	Even this guy, even the groundhog is working for the Union of Concerned Scientists.
	The Union of Concerned Scientists, if I'm not mistaken, I could be wrong, and I've been wrong in the past, you start off as they were worried about issues of nuclear war, essentially.
	And they may have been involved in the population control thing, too.
	By the way, I want to point out to everybody, if you ever notice, of course, my theory, again, I would fall back on it.
	People say that we don't harp on this, which is that we may be entering a new ice age.
	Yes.
	Which was predicted in the 70s by people who, by the way, stick by these early predictions.
	If you look into the history of the ice age predictions, there was a whole group of people, these same climatologists, they're all predicting an ice age.
	And then a bunch of them split off because they were getting no traction and they predicted global warming.
	A good group of them have stuck with their old prediction that we have an ice age coming up.
	And the ice age is more dangerous and it's more likely to kill off a good portion of the global population.
	And coincidentally, the people that are into global warming are also into that 500 million.
	We shouldn't have so many people on the planet.
	They're the same people.
	So the likelihood of them setting us up to have a new ice age to kill us, I think, is more valid than any argument that they have.
	Yeah, I saw you posted that same video that I had watched on Dvorak.org slash blog of the former housing secretary for Bush.
	Oh yeah, her.
	Really good.
	People should watch that.
	It's an hour and I wanted to get some clips.
	I tried to get some clips too, but you really have to watch it.
	In fact, I watched it twice just to understand exactly what she was saying.
	Yeah, she's definitely in our camp.
	We're pretty screwed though.
	Well, she may be, you know, I mean, she basically expressed a worst-case scenario for everything.
	Right.
	So we would be screwed if all that came to pass, but our show may save the day.
	Anyways, back to the other thing that people should be aware of, at least for a while, on that oil business.
	And by the way, again, where's Glenn Beck?
	I just want to play a little bit of this.
	There was a thing, I caught it on CNBC World, and it was Jim Rogers, who's a very famous stock trader.
	Didn't he move to Singapore or something?
	He got out, right?
	I think Singapore.
	Whatever the case, he's very famous, and he has been long commodities, and he's been saying, and of course the commodities thing is built into this oil thing, which they talked about in that other clip.
	But Rogers has one other little observation that's right at the beginning of this clip, so he wanted to play the whole thing, where he makes an interesting point about farmers and the fact that we're running out of them.
	And it's something I've never considered before, but play the Jim Rogers clip for a second, see if we can get to that point.
	When I was in Davos, Jim, and Syngenta is a company that makes crop protection, chemicals, pesticides, fertilizers, and his line on this was that farmers are responding, that in 12-18 months' time we're not likely to see any crisis in the supplies of soft commodities into the market.
	Isn't that an indication that perhaps we should be a little wary about chasing the agricultural food price rises that we've seen?
	Well, I hope he's right, but he's not right, because inventories of foodstuffs around the world are the lowest in many years, or near the lowest in many years.
	Jeff, the average age of farmers in one major agriculture state in the U.S. is 58 years old.
	In 10 years, those guys are going to be 68 years old.
	We have shorted...
	In parts of Japan, they have no farmers.
	I mean, this is not just the farmers responding.
	Of course, farmers are going to respond.
	But we're going to have more problems in the weather.
	We always have anyway.
	We have huge shortages of inventories.
	We have shortages of farmers.
	I would like to think that's the case, but this historically cannot be.
	Jeff, it takes seven years for a coffee tree to mature.
	Orange trees, palm trees, you don't just snap your fingers and suddenly have some more palm oil.
	All this takes time.
	Jim, isn't there a risk, though, that what we're seeing in these commodity prices, given that they all seem to be correlated, is a response not to demand, but to the QE, to the printing of money, to financial speculation?
	Yeah, that's what everyone's saying.
	Everyone's saying it's because of that.
	Demand-led inflation in commodity prices, is it?
	Well, Jeff, I'm sorry to disagree with you, but first of all, QE2 is part of it.
	Whenever governments have printed money throughout history, people put their money into real assets, whether it's rice or silver or natural gas, people protect themselves.
	People don't just sit there and say, oh, give me some more paper money that's being debased.
	That's part of the problem right now.
	But the more serious problem is, you say it's not demand.
	Go to India.
	Go to China.
	See how people are changing their lives and how they're using more.
	But it's also supply, Jeff.
	Commodities are based on supply and demand.
	You could have demand go down, but the supply goes down more, you're going to have a bull market.
	This is simple stuff, and it's happening right now.
	Well, this, of course, Plays right into the whole Monsanto conversation.
	Oh yeah, the Monsanto conversation is part of this.
	And of course they're Terminator seeds, which are the worst things in the world because you can't, you know, what happens when the company goes out of business.
	This is like people who buy software for some flaky software company and they got you locked up.
	So you have to keep calling home to run the software and then the company goes out of business, they calls home, the company's not there anymore, the software stops working.
	This is essentially what Monsanto's dreamed up with its seeds, the same kind of scheme, which is extremely dangerous and people should reject it.
	I was going to say that in Iran...
	Of course, Iraq, which we've taken away.
	Actually, I've got a link in the show notes about this.
	Farmers are having to give up farming because who was in there?
	Monsanto.
	And it's the same thing.
	All their seeds are in there.
	The farmers can't plant their own seeds.
	And now they have to import rice from America.
	Yeah.
	It's a complete takeover.
	And there was another...
	These guys...
	This is the true evil that we have to look out for.
	Shadow puppet theater.
	We talked about this, but Michael Taylor, former Monsanto executive, is now running the FDA. Actually, Deputy Commissioner for Foods at the FDA. This is the guy who helped write the rules for bovine growth hormone, which of course is now in our food system.
	He was actually a lobbyist for Monsanto, and now he's in the FDA, who of course, based upon the executive order that the President handed out on the 18th of January, can write their own regulations.
	They can do whatever they want.
	They can just say whatever they want.
	Now we're allowed to have percolate Poisoning in our water, but only a certain amount.
	I would suggest people out there Google the following search term.
	Let me do it with you right now.
	I'm going to Google it.
	Well, I could do it now, too.
	Okay.
	Because I haven't done it for a while.
	Let's Google.
	Let's Google.
	Farmers in India suicide.
	Yeah, you can do that for almost any, except for America.
	Well, eventually it'll happen here, but apparently in India there's an epidemic of farmers committing suicide, and a lot of it has to do with Monsanto and other seed companies.
	They're not the only ones that do this, by the way.
	And it's because they're not allowed to do their own...
	I mean, farming is a traditional practice in some areas, and they do things a certain way, and they can't...
	Their rapeseed usage, for example, they were forced to...
	They used to do it by hand.
	It's a very known little anecdotal thing.
	The Indians used to make their own rapeseed, you know, kind of one off for local use.
	And it was a fairly healthy product.
	But rapeseed is a very dangerous oil, as a matter of fact.
	But apparently if it's super fresh and you just make it, it's okay.
	But when you start buying the commercial stuff that they started selling them cheaper, because the problem with most people in the world is they'll buy cheap rather than buy quality.
	And it's a real problem.
	I mean, it's like the situation with eggs.
	When my wife finishes her book on eggs, which she's wrapping up.
	Yeah, she actually does the books, right?
	She actually...
	She does.
	She finishes stuff sometimes.
	But anyway, this book's taking forever.
	But the point is, the stuff we're finding out about the egg business is like, wow.
	Wow.
	And again, it's because people want to buy 18 eggs at Costco for 99 cents instead of paying 3 bucks.
	I mean, for a good egg.
	This was a line from Food Inc., which I really love, which I saw recently.
	Someone will sit there and complain about the price of eggs.
	While they're drinking a $3 can of Coca-Cola.
	Yeah, or water.
	Vitamin water.
	Yeah, vitamin water.
	Or one of those commercial, you know, P. Diddy's water, you know, whatever.
	No, P. Diddy has vodka.
	He didn't have water.
	Well, some of these, a couple of these rappers have got hip-hop artists.
	Hip-hoppers, thank you.
	The hip-hoppers.
	Have water.
	And they sell it.
	And people will pay a fortune for this.
	Yeah, that's a great, hey, you know, we should be doing that.
	We need to get in on that water scan, man.
	What are you talking about?
	I did want to wrap up the Monsanto thing with a little ditty from Down Under.
	There was a girl who was dying from aspartame poisoning, which they call, what do they call it in Australia?
	Aspartame, or something like that.
	Aspartame?
	I don't know.
	I pronounce it ten different ways.
	Anyways, it was kind of an interesting report.
	Which starts off with music.
	For Abigail Cormack, it was a compulsive habit, but something she'll never do again.
	This, by the way, almost happened to my daughter.
	You get hooked on the chewing gum with aspartame, and it's addictive, and you can't stop.
	The 25-year-old was addicted to chewing gum between four and eight packets a day until it made her violently ill.
	I basically just started getting really bad muscle cramps, tingling in my arms, couldn't sleep.
	I had a few other symptoms like headaches and a few other things.
	Doctors put it down to over-exercising, but along the way she thought she was having a heart attack and was even tested for multiple sclerosis.
	So she turned to the internet.
	I looked at the back of the chewing gum packet and saw what was in it and googled the ingredients and sure enough aspartame came up.
	Aspartame?
	Up came all my symptoms, every single one of them.
	So she stopped chewing and her symptoms quickly cleared up.
	Aspartame's a chemical ingredient of artificial sweeteners used in thousands of products.
	Her own doctor told 3News she thinks aspartame may well have been to blame but that more research is needed.
	Yeah, no, no, it gets better because they get an expert and the expert, of course, says, no, no, this is a perfect...
	The pharmacologist, though, is skeptical, putting Cormac symptoms down to an allergic reaction.
	For the vast majority of people who chew one piece of gum or a packet of gum in a day or what have you, it's highly unlikely to cause any problem for them.
	And our food regulatory body is standing by its use.
	We watch constantly what's going on internationally and aspartame has been recently reviewed in Europe for safety and has come up with a clean bill of health.
	It's also been permitted in most other countries as a non-nutrient sweetness.
	All the other countries are doing it, it's great!
	What are you worrying about?
	I'm confident that the way it's used in the food supply is safe.
	The makers of the gum that Cormac used to compulsively chew says it's confident that there's no health risk.
	Wrigley's point out that aspartame is the most tested food additive in history.
	This is the funny thing.
	The most tested foods thing in history.
	Additive.
	Yeah, but it got rejected.
	Does that make sense?
	It kept getting rejected over and over and over again until Donald Rumsfeld, who worked at the...
	It used to be a Monsanto.
	It was bought by Monsanto, wasn't it?
	Or it used to be a part of Monsanto?
	I don't know about that.
	I think Dow or somebody else.
	I don't think it was Monsanto.
	No, no, no.
	It became a Monsanto product, or it was a Monsanto product.
	It doesn't matter.
	It kept getting rejected until Rumsfeld came into the first Bush cabinet, and then all of a sudden it got approved.
	This is crazy.
	By the way, Donald Rumsfeld is going to be honored At the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, as Defender of the Constitution Award.
	What?
	Taking it as a foreign entanglement?
	Phony baloney wars?
	Defender of...
	You should be throwing pies at the guy.
	You know what?
	Shoe!
	Throw your shoe...
	Throw shoes at him.
	Shoes, yes.
	These conservatives behind this should be ashamed of themselves.
	Ashamed of themselves.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	And by the way, I love the shoe meme cropping up in Egypt again.
	People holding up their shoe.
	The only thing better would be if it had a foot in it.
	I think the shoe thing, it kind of went away after that one guy threw a shoe at Bush.
	It needs to come back.
	We need to start throwing shoes.
	In America.
	Okay?
	In America.
	This will show your true brotherhood with your slaves around the world.
	Throw your shoe at your politicians.
	I'm inciting violence here, by the way.
	Well, I don't think he's throwing his violence.
	It's like Bush.
	He could duck and bob and weave.
	He never got hit by a shoe.
	I'm just saying.
	Shoes are good.
	Throwing shoes.
	And we could have the shoe revolution.
	The Nike revolution.
	That could be coming.
	Anyway, I just thought that was pretty unbelievable.
	Yeah, well, I think we need a new jingle.
	Oh.
	And I've heard the wording.
	It has to be...
	You know, the thing about the jingle, like, for example, play the Noagenda, Dvorak.org slash N-A jingle.
	Dvorak.org slash N-A. Yeah, it grows on you, and you'll be singing it.
	You'll be singing it.
	That way people can remember where the website is so they can donate.
	And it does become catchy, but this one, I think, should be experts on the payroll.
	Yeah.
	That's not catchy.
	It will be catchy if Jeff does it.
	He can make experts on the payroll very catchy, I guarantee it.
	Jeff has done a couple of jingles for us, which I love him for doing that.
	So he did this awesome new effect for when we have something important to say.
	But this one I like a lot as well.
	If you see something, say something.
	Which I think Department of Homeland Security could actually use.
	They're probably jealous.
	It would be perfect for them.
	Hi, I'm Lucy Napolitano.
	Yeah, actually, you're right.
	It's actually the wrong side on this one.
	Jeff, you went too far.
	You went too far, my friend.
	That's funny.
	Should we thank a couple people while we're here at the halfway mark?
	Yeah, I think we should.
	First of all, I want to thank some people who sent in some checks.
	Ah, good.
	I'm glad you remembered.
	I'll do this about once a month.
	So if you send a check in, don't expect to get a call out right away because they don't go to the box that much.
	Donald Silva in Iwa Beach, Hawaii, $60.
	He hates PayPal, so he's sending a check.
	By the way, if you go to Dvorak.org slash NA, there is the address on there you can send if you feel like sending checks rather than going through PayPal.
	No agenda is a good show.
	There's a nice balance between you and Adam.
	It's almost like the odd couple.
	Yeah, whatever.
	There's always something interesting and we, the listener, are learning to keep our minds sharp and open.
	Exactly.
	Chris Ruddy, our old friend, $100.23.
	Thank you, Chris.
	Eric Lyons, $55.10.
	He has a note, which is attached to my stapled thing here, and it says, I wanted to send a letter along with my check.
	Thank you, Adam and Eric, for everything you do for the listeners.
	I wish I could donate more.
	I'm a recent college graduate, not making a lot of money.
	Luckily, I have a job, and the reason why is because I gained some karma from donating to the show.
	Oh, well, that's good.
	I had a $5 a month subscription, but PayPal's a douche and kept messing with it.
	A douche.
	I'd like to ask for some karma for my family, since my dad recently passed away, and also for some myself, applying to law school.
	And so he needs two karma hits.
	Okay.
	Well, can we do one in one go and make it a super karma?
	Go.
	Okay.
	You've got karma.
	Sweet.
	He does something at CaptivationMedia.com you might want to check out.
	Okay.
	Um...
	By the way, there's a letter here.
	Let me get the rest of these done.
	Radio Ray in Chicago also donated $100.
	And I also want to apologize to John Jones, who's been complaining to me about my mocking the fact that his name is John Jones.
	I think I did my classic, If That Is Indeed Your Real Name.
	And he apparently has been looking for work and he needs a karma.
	This is a make good, so give him a karma.
	Okay, here we go.
	Coming at you right there, buddy.
	You've got karma.
	Sweet.
	Little did I know that I'm going to read this letter from Ernie, Human Resource Ernie.
	A few months ago, I emptied out my PayPal account hoping for some job-related karmas.
	I hated the job I was in at the time, and I was looking for a new one.
	Not very long afterwards, I was laid off of that job, which was quite scary, but one way to find a new job, I guess.
	Little did I know, karma was working its mysterious ways.
	Only a few days later, I found a new job as a contractor, which has since turned into a full-time job.
	In the new year.
	And I actually like this job.
	Now, regarding this karma thing, because people are always wondering about it, it's something that the human resources create themselves.
	The more it happens, the more people donate to the show, support the show, and request karma, the more I believe in it.
	Well, it's an interesting phenomenon.
	We don't guarantee results.
	No, we don't.
	But it's really interesting the way it happens.
	Just let me do a quick one from Skyler.
	He says, I want to ask for some karma for myself, but I'd really like it if you gave yourself and John some karma as well.
	And so I'd like us to just stand back for a second, John, and accept some karma.
	I think we deserve a little bit.
	You've got karma.
	His girlfriend of two years just broke up with him, so he needed a little extra karma there.
	Alright, well let's thank a few other people.
	Bill Clanton in San Antonio, Texas.
	John and Adam have been listening for 16 shows now and decided to put in a dollar per the number of the show for me.
	So the first one was one, the second one was two and so on until number 16, $16 for the last one.
	It's like the guy doing the push-ups for Oregon University or University of Oregon.
	Now I will start over at $1 for this show.
	I'm a criminal defense attorney in San Antonio and was inspired to donate after your mention of the cars with alcohol monitors built in.
	I wrote a book about DWI called Texas DWI Facts.
	It's a free download at TexasDWIFacts.com.
	You should check that out.
	TexasDWIFacts.com.
	Everyone who drinks or drives needs to read it.
	And for those who drink and drive at the same time, you might want to read it too.
	Yeah, but not while driving.
	It's a self-published first edition.
	I welcome feedback.
	Of course, please give me the obligatory Carmen de-douching.
	Yeah, we're going to do a double shot here.
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	So, Bill says that silence is golden and handcuffs are silver.
	Keith Edwards, I'm not sure quite what that means, but whatever.
	Keith Edwards, Gilbert, Arizona, $111.11, along with Mr.
	Snakes.
	Pay snakes, pay snakes from Amsterdam.
	Gitmo Nation, weed pass.
	Yeah, $111.11.
	He's working his way to a 1-1-1-1-1, I believe, knighthood.
	Yeah, cool.
	Salvatore Barrera in Montreal, Quebec.
	IMO, in the morning, over.
	John and Adam, I'm sending you $80.16 USD, the original cost of the 2 No Agenda Challenge coins, ordered back in August.
	I finally received them thanks to you and Eric.
	I also purchased the domain name ecomachination.com.
	I think it's supposed to be...
	Okay, so he came up with an alternative to General Electric's Ecomagination.com.
	Yeah, this is Echomachination.com.
	I like it.
	And he's redirected it to the No Agenda show, and I encourage everyone to redirect any site you have that you're not using to our show.
	Lastly, can you give Sarah a little more karma?
	She wrote to you a while back about an arts grant that the Harper government was trying to tax her on.
	She's fighting it.
	You're not supposed to be taxed on grants.
	But she's not getting out of the woods yet.
	Tell everyone not to follow me on Twitter.
	It's not worth it.
	At Salvation.
	Of course...
	You've got karma.
	Of course, she's using the mechanism to tell someone not to do something.
	Do not follow at salvation.
	Yes.
	James Brusco, Bayshore, New York.
	Hi again from your Long Island listener.
	After giving speech at my job in December, congratulating on all of my fellow devs, then embarking on a month-long trip to India to learn more about the love of my life.
	Oh, eat, love, pray.
	I came back in January to find that I cannot work at my job anymore, partially due to said speech.
	Oh, boy.
	Partially due to the direction the company is going in.
	So now I've got some free time and some free savings.
	I figure now would be a good time to donate to those who have given me much to listen to while I develop my new business.
	Kudos, guys.
	Still capturing the live streams every week, the donation, which is useful.
	Yes.
	The donation amounts based on my loves, ASCII initials, in case you were wondering, $71.78 from...
	James Briscoe.
	Interesting story.
	Lai Chow, Daily City, California, local.
	In the morning, Adam and John, today is my birthday.
	She will give her a birthday call in a second.
	As Adam mentioned on the show, my adding age and birth year equals 111.
	Adam, can you explain that again?
	Yes.
	So you take the last two digits of your birth year.
	Mine would be 64.
	You add that to...
	The age you will become this year, and of course we can't do this too long because people are going to start stopping having birthdays, so I will be turning 47.
	If that equals 111, extra karma if you donate to the show.
	There you go.
	Recently, I was shocked to learn that now if we need to buy cough syrup, I need to let the store sweep my ID or driver's license into the cash register.
	It happened to me at Target stores.
	I asked if it was a law.
	The cashier said yes.
	I was coughing so badly I didn't complain, but I went online to do some research that people are complaining about the practice.
	I don't know.
	It's because the kids are making crystal meth out of cough syrup.
	It's not a law, by the way.
	It's not a law.
	$55.55.
	Well, that's good.
	Nathaniel Hills, Plano, Texas, $55.25.
	Nathaniel sent a little note here.
	Hi, Adam.
	Just shot John and Eric a quick donation.
	Considering the turmoil in Egypt, real or manufactured, doesn't matter because I'd like to announce that as of yesterday, I've officially called dibs on being Pharaoh.
	I'd like to offer...
	To donate my dibs to the Next No Agenda donor who donates 66 or 66666, whatever you see fit, as long as it's twice as good as 33.
	On another note, I'd like to denounce the following people to you.
	Brian G. in Houston and Chris S. in Boulder.
	You are denounced.
	We need a jingle for a denouncement.
	We need a denouncement.
	Instead of douchebag, we go to denounce.
	Okay.
	David Nicholson, St.
	Giles, Buckinghamshire.
	Buckinghamshire.
	Buckinghamshire.
	He thought that your daily source code, 857 and NOAGENDA271, was so awesome, he had to donate.
	Sorry for the delay.
	$55.10.
	Thomas Gillier in Kent Bridge, Ontario.
	Currently employing our two-month winter migration to Gitmo Nation sunblock.
	I'd like to call out my lovely wife of 32 years, Martha, who's been a loyal listener and claims she'd get a kick out of being tagged a douchebag.
	All right.
	Douchebag!
	Take that!
	Take that.
	Take that, Martha.
	Take that, Martha.
	James of Free Hollow Books, Summerfield, North Carolina.
	He sold a couple more of his Hollow Books.
	By the way, these books are fantastic.
	On behalf of Kevin Woods from Auburn, New Hampshire, for buying two No Agenda Hollow Books, de-douche him.
	Please, here's his note.
	A monthly subscriber, Joey.
	Oh, sorry.
	You've been de-douched.
	Premature de-douching.
	It's okay, it's de-douched.
	He's a no-agenda militia member, a computer security researcher.
	As a proud 1%er, I challenge the 99%ers to stop being douchebags and contribute to the cause.
	$51.50.
	Skylar Visconti.
	Oh, there's Skylar.
	Yeah, we gave him some extra karma.
	It's a male.
	And then Christopher Lawton and Gary Brunzel from Dartmouth and Kenosha.
	So help us out for the next show.
	Try to join.
	We've got Club 276 coming up.
	Dvorak.org slash any channel.
	Dvorak.com slash NA to give us some contributions and help.
	And as always, we appreciate the monthly supporters of the show.
	$5 a month, $11.11 a month.
	Of course, the Lucky 33, the $30.
	All of that is highly appreciated.
	You're really keeping the show going.
	I spent 18 hours.
	Yeah, I'm And by the way, I think people should take a look at that dollar an hour, which is you pay a dollar.
	I mean, this show is well worth a dollar an hour.
	I mean, if you're driving, if you're in the car, I mean, this is the kind of thing that, it's about right, dollar an hour subscription, which is a great way to keep us going.
	Yeah.
	And, you know, we're doing something.
	Yeah, we're doing some work.
	Yeah, we're doing actual work.
	Dvorak.org slash nak.
	It's your birthday, birthday!
	On No Agenda!
	So, turning 28 today, we say congratulations to Lai Chow, who supported us, and we highly appreciate that.
	So, Lai, happy birthday from your buddies here at the No Agenda show.
	It's your birthday, yeah!
	Well, very happy to see not one but two synchronized videos of an actual UFO descending upon the Temple Mount in Israel.
	I'm sure you've seen that, John.
	No, I haven't.
	Oh my goodness, it's beautiful.
	There's this clearly extraterrestrial craft and there's two separate videos that have been put together from two separate vantage points.
	Yeah?
	How'd they get both the videos?
	I'm sorry?
	How did they get both the videos?
	Was it the same guy?
	No, no.
	Two separate people uploaded to YouTube and then people have put these two side by side.
	So let me get this straight.
	So above the Temple Mount, which is not really a high area.
	It's pretty low.
	Right.
	But right there in the middle.
	This is basically the middle of Jerusalem.
	Yes.
	A light comes...
	A flying saucer comes down and two people...
	Only two people take a shot of it, and everybody else looks up and goes, hey, that's interesting, it looks like a flying saucer.
	By the way, dude, how much do you want for that blanket?
	I mean, what are you telling me?
	So, when you see this video, you will be astounded.
	And this light comes down, it zips down, it hovers for about 15 seconds, and then shoots up right back up into the sky.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	That would be like an optical illusion.
	An optical...
	It's at night, by the way.
	An optical illusion of what?
	You non-believer, you're a denier.
	You're a denialist, you.
	Okay, I'll look at this.
	The science is in!
	You have a link in the show notes I can watch this video?
	Yes, I have a link in the show notes.
	I'll blog it if it's good.
	If it's entertaining, I'll blog it.
	It's not just entertaining.
	I have a feeling this could be the real deal.
	I'm really liking it.
	Oh, actually, I have something for you, John.
	Here we go.
	John, if you were Chuck Schumer and you were a senior member of the Govermente, In the United States of Gitmo.
	Chuck Schumer, one of the guys who supports the idea of creating a super, kind of a secret police, that guy?
	Yeah, that guy.
	That guy.
	Who's been around.
	Who was, by the way, the mentor of Anthony Weiner.
	Oh yeah, absolutely.
	Douchebag Weiner.
	Jon Stewart's ex-roommate.
	Just to connect all the dots for you.
	And if you were talking about the three branches of government...
	In the United States of Gitmo.
	Yeah.
	Executive, the judicial, and the legislative.
	Gee, he sees it differently.
	You could risk the credit markets really losing some confidence in the United States Treasury, and that could create a deeper recession than we had over the last several years, God forbid, even a depression.
	So I would urge my Republican colleagues No matter how strongly they feel.
	You know, we have three branches of government.
	We have a House, we have a Senate, we have a President, and all three of us are going to have to come together and give some.
	But it is playing with fire to risk the shutting.
	Isn't that great?
	Yeah.
	And I bet he believes it, too.
	Hey, we're two of the three branches of government, you stupid slave.
	Shut up.
	That's very funny.
	I mean, how can you make that mistake?
	Well, the same mistake he made when he says that we could have a depression.
	The hell do you think we're in?
	Yeah, really.
	Douche.
	This is a depression.
	Douche.
	So, talking about depressions and this sort of thing, I think, you know, I don't know how many billionaires we have listening to our show.
	I believe probably none.
	Because they're too busy counting their money.
	But there is an interesting...
	It has been brought up by the right-wingers, especially people like Rush Limbaugh, who is actually close to being a billionaire himself.
	By the way, his producers listen.
	You know how many mainstream media shows listen to No Agenda for ideas?
	Yeah, they're looking for a lot.
	A lot, yeah.
	Yeah, I know.
	Thanks for the money, boys.
	Yeah.
	Douches.
	You know, one of these days we may not be doing the show because of guys like you not coughing up.
	No service for you!
	That's right.
	Then where are you going to get your material?
	So there's definitely, you know, Limbaugh harps on a kind of a war of the classes, a class of warfare, and how Obama's like, you know, part of it.
	He's trying to attack the rich, soak the rich, as the rich would put it.
	But I got the biggest kick out of this story last night on Law& Order SVU. And I think that this kind of...
	Play the billionaire clip that I have here.
	And this is kind of, I think, where this is headed.
	And I'm just going to warn everybody out there.
	You're going to have your head on a stick if you don't do something about public relations for your cause, whatever it might be.
	Jamais!
	Je veux juste retrouver chez moi!
	Je veux même amour!
	Sorry.
	It appears she does not want to pursue this matter.
	But we have a billionaire pervert flying in underage girls for sex, so trust me, we will be pursuing the matter.
	This is based on reality.
	It's that douchebag in Florida who got off.
	Yeah, pun intended.
	The guy was flying in from all over the world.
	He was flying in underage girls.
	This is nothing new.
	This happens all the time.
	Well, it hasn't been on popular television forever.
	So let me just make all the billionaires out to be perverts and see where that leads when people have to decide who gets taxed.
	By the way, they're going after, talking about these little class warfare things.
	Fox, which has taken the side of the oil companies, obviously, or where's Glenn Beck?
	Who cares?
	I don't care where Glenn Beck is.
	No, I'm just saying that you don't take a guy like that off the air unless you bring in a hitman to do a special message.
	That's what I'm just saying.
	I don't care about Glenn Beck either.
	Now, but let's take a look at this other thing they're doing.
	They're attacking, finally, somebody's attacking General Electric, who's been attacking them for years, at Fox, because General Electric pays, apparently, most corporations in this country pay between 30 and 36% corporate tax.
	General Electric's tax is 3%.
	Which means the company would essentially be out of business if they were paying the full ticket.
	And this is going to start cropping up in the news a lot because they're actually going after General Electric, especially after Obama brought them.
	Well, now that they no longer have a media arm, they can.
	General Electric doesn't have television to fight back anymore, so now they're an easy target.
	I know, that's why I think this is going to start.
	They wouldn't start because there's a gentleman's agreement, you know this, amongst the networks.
	Yeah, you don't mess with the other network, exactly.
	Yeah, you don't do, for example, you don't go after the Walt Disney Corporation for deaths at the amusement park.
	You don't go after General Electric for faulty jet engines.
	You don't do anything that hurts one of the other companies.
	No, no, you've got to be in the brotherhood.
	You've got to play along with the game.
	They'll go after you.
	I mean, you can do that.
	General Electric's getting out of this.
	They're going to be a target now.
	You watch.
	Okay.
	That's a prediction?
	Would you please write that in the book?
	Prediction book.
	A little prediction.
	Speaking of tax, by the way, a nice little note there from Gitmo Nation East.
	Let me just see which douchebag said this.
	But it looks like tax rates...
	Who said this?
	Andrew Tyree.
	Who is this guy?
	I'm not sure who he is.
	Thank you, darling.
	One.
	Oh, it looks like the governor of the Bank of England is saying this, Mervyn King, a couple other people coming out saying tax rates for the middle class, that's the moderately high earners, in Gitmo Nation East could go up to 83%.
	What?
	Yeah, it's happened before, by the way.
	83%?
	Yeah, income tax.
	This is not new.
	Say I made $100,000 in England.
	Yeah.
	So I would pay $80,000 in taxes and I have $20,000 to live on?
	Yeah.
	This has happened before, I think, in the...
	That's bullcrap.
	I can't believe this is possible.
	John, in 1972, when we moved to Gitmo Nation Lowlands, income tax was 75%.
	This is very possible.
	You should study your history, boy!
	This happened in 1979 in England.
	This is how it works with the boom and the bust cycle in, at best, moderately socialist countries.
	It's just, you know, now everyone's like used to having the iPod and the iPhone and, you know, your internet and all this.
	And, you know, we got a nice car and we got lots of costs.
	And now it's like, what?
	What?
	I got to get rid of all that?
	Yeah, this is how it works.
	I remember my parents, I remember it so well.
	This is when the dollar was eight guilders.
	Which would be the equivalent of 4 euros.
	Of course, now that's completely reversed.
	I remember my parents were like, wow, this place is crazy.
	75% income tax.
	But you get free health care.
	I like that.
	That's a good laugh.
	Put that at the beginning of the show.
	You got free health care.
	Hey, but we do have bad news.
	Heroin is running out in England.
	No!
	Well, we've got to crank it up.
	What's the next crop?
	We used to follow the crop cycle in Afghanistan.
	Well, there's a little problem going on.
	I think there's one coming up in two months.
	Well, remember now that the heroin was getting really cheap.
	And, of course, you know, we're part of the reason we're in Poppistan.
	Afghanistan is to actually protect the poppies and help the heroin be moved out because a large portion of the economy of the United States runs on illegal drugs, so we've got to make sure it keeps running.
	But the Brits are jacking up the price.
	Well, we've spoken to farmers in Helmand, which is the main poppy-growing province in the south of Afghanistan, and they tell us that their poppy fields have been absolutely devastated By a mysterious white powder.
	Hmm.
	Mysterious white powder, you say?
	Which has also hit their wheat fields and their fruit trees.
	Okay.
	Yeah, this is that stuff that was some sort of mildew or a fungus.
	I forget what it is.
	No one cares about the wheat.
	The poppies.
	...harming their chicken and their livestock.
	Fuck the chickens.
	Sorry.
	Sorry, that slipped out.
	I didn't mean to do that.
	I'll bleep that out.
	...use the Afghan authorities and NATO of trying to poison their poppy fields.
	They're saying it!
	Hey, those guys are poisoning our poppy fields.
	Yeah, because we've got to do something about the price, bitches.
	Don't you understand?
	Now, those claims, of course, aren't entirely without foundation.
	Because it has been the policy of the government and their foreign allies in the past to try to eradicate these poppy fields.
	Bull crap.
	Bull crap.
	Protecting the poppy fields.
	The profits of the opium trade support the Taliban insurgency, which is...
	At its strongest in the south of the country, in Helmand and Kandahar, which are the main poppy growing areas.
	And also, interestingly, about a decade ago, we know that the UN and British scientists were trying to develop a fungus which would destroy the opium poppies grown here in Athens.
	Afghanistan.
	I think not.
	But government officials, the UN, and Western officials we've spoken to here in...
	Yeah, yeah, whatever.
	Shut up.
	All right, so the price of your heroin is about to go up, which would have been good news for the producer of Loose Change 9-11.
	Did you hear about that?
	No, tell me.
	Yeah, what's his name, Rowe?
	Let me see.
	Corey Rowe.
	Was arrested and charged with the sale of heroin.
	It's like, how else do you think movies get financed, douchebag?
	What else is new?
	I just don't try not to get caught.
	No, that's unfortunate that that happened.
	Pretty funny, though.
	WikiLeaks the movie is coming, John.
	What kind of a movie would this be?
	Well, now that Julian Assange is nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize...
	You know, it makes a lot of sense.
	Yeah, well, I guess.
	Yeah, I guess that's got to be the new connection.
	Get your Nobel Peace Prize if you do a movie like Al Gore did.
	And that's the key.
	That's the key to success.
	Biography about WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange has been optioned as a movie.
	It's called The Most Dangerous Man in the World.
	So we can look forward to that.
	He was on 60 Minutes being interviewed.
	Yeah.
	It was a snooze.
	Yeah, it was.
	I didn't see it on TV. I watched...
	I think I got through segment one online and part of segment two.
	Oh, you beat me.
	Yeah, it's just like, what?
	Who cares?
	Really?
	It's just...
	I can't believe...
	Don't people see it already?
	Now, I say we both have a clip about salt.
	Yeah, I got my salt clip, which is just a general salt clip that's starting to show up again.
	It seems to have been taken out of the picture a few months ago because they were ridiculing it.
	And now they're bringing it back into the public consciousness for some reason.
	Well, it's because the FDA just released their guidelines.
	Right, and so it became a news item.
	Right.
	You can play, mine is a basic news statement with a little commentary, including a stupid, I got a, like the woman who's doing this, I can't remember, Jessica Geary, I think is her name, she's a local news reader, and she makes some dumb comment at the end about, just you can play the whole clip and you'll hear this thing at the end, it's like, what?
	Well, hold the salt.
	That's what the federal government is saying now.
	Part of its revamped edition of the federal dietary guidelines.
	And new this year, those with high blood pressure, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, African Americans of all ages, and everyone over age 51 should limit their salt intake to just 1,500 milligrams a day.
	That's going to require a lot of label reading and lots of practice getting those taste buds prepared.
	Your sense of taste develops with time, and by diminishing a little bit at a time...
	Hold on, stop.
	Doesn't this woman, this is a woman who's the expert on the payroll, doesn't this woman sound like big nurse and one flew over the cuckoo's nest?
	Yes, she does.
	I'm sure it's not entirely coincidental.
	We'll get used to it pretty quickly.
	It's going to be a little tough, though, because the average American consumes 3,400 milligrams of sodium a day.
	With two-thirds of adults overweight or obese, these guidelines are aimed at helping them lose that excess weight and get healthy and lose some of that excess water weight.
	Shut up.
	Wait a minute, you missed the end of it.
	No, I heard it.
	You should lose some of the excess water weight.
	What has that got to do with anything?
	Nothing.
	Nothing.
	The whole thing is bogus.
	Totally.
	I love me some salt.
	Hey, what happened?
	Hold on a second.
	Let me ask you a question.
	Yeah.
	Not an Ask Adam.
	No, I'm not playing.
	Mainly because I don't think we have time to listen to that clip.
	We got tons of jingles.
	If you want an Ask Adam jingle, then just say it.
	No, no, no.
	I don't want to listen.
	So the point, wasn't there a research report that we read on the show that came out?
	It was just a short news item and then they just dropped it completely, which the scientists conclusively proved that the salt thing is bullcrap?
	Yeah.
	Didn't we even read the thing?
	It was like a solid report that said it's all bullcrap.
	Yeah, but this is all part of Codex Alimentarius, the harmonization with the food rulers around the world.
	Right.
	Now, let me just say, I love me some salt.
	I put salt on the coffee before the water goes on to the coffee grind.
	I have shredded wheat in the morning, and I put a little bit of salt on that.
	I love me some salt, and I'm not going to die early.
	And by the way, I've stopped smoking now for almost two months, which is another reason I'm not going to die early, at least not from that.
	Now, the clip I have on Salt is a complete racial clip, which really blew me away just listening to it.
	So the news reporter, who is African-American, she's not black, she's more brown, and she gets this doots- This woman, from some website, she's the expert in this clip, some website, which is like the healthyrottentomato.com or something, and she also writes for Huffington Post.
	And she's a total doots.
	And, well, listen to the clip and tell me if this is not the most wrong discussion you've ever heard and how she...
	Well, just listen to it.
	All African Americans and anyone suffering from hypertension, diabetes, or chronic kidney disease are being urged to reduce daily salt intake to about half a teaspoon.
	Did you know that?
	That they're targeting African Americans?
	All African Americans.
	All African Americans.
	The other clip had the same thing.
	For everyone else, the government continues.
	For all other non-black people, this is horrible.
	Is this what our government is saying now?
	There's an actual difference between black and white?
	To recommend about a teaspoon a day or about one-third less than the average person usually consumes.
	And joining me now is Daria, excuse me, Pino, health writer for the Huffington Post and the creator of the Health Conscious website, summertomato.com.
	I think we should have a health-conscious website, John.
	SummerTomato.com Thanks so much, Daria, for joining me.
	So we kind of knew this was coming, and we've been hearing about the possible dietary restrictions, but I've got to ask you, the people that they've zeroed in on, first, African Americans, all African Americans, why is this group being focused in so much on?
	I think it's a problem, you know, the health issues and hypertension and blood pressure are a problem in that community and they just want to address more specifics.
	She's an idiot!
	I know, you have to see her though.
	You'd bang her in a heartbeat.
	It's not thehealthytomato.com.
	I think it's a problem with the community.
	So what they're saying is poor people.
	Why don't they just come out and say it?
	Black people are poor.
	It's the most disgusting thing I've ever heard.
	It really bothered me.
	I thought it was based on some genetics information.
	Bull crap.
	Bull crap.
	That's what I thought it was based on, but you might be right.
	Yeah, it's because poor people eat crap.
	Because that's the only thing you can afford in this country, is Taco Bell, which...
	I love reading about the meat in the Taco Bell.
	Oh, they love the meat in the Taco Bell.
	Because it's filled up with silicon dioxide.
	And Taco Bell has actually responded to this, because, of course, if you Google silicon dioxide, it's sand.
	Yeah.
	And Taco Bell actually has on the website, we don't put sand in our food.
	Silicon dioxide is a very important part of your diet.
	It's naturally occurring.
	It's always naturally occurring.
	It's a very important part of your diet.
	Silicon dioxide.
	They're putting sand in your food, people.
	It's great.
	And the Centers for Disease Control, you'll love this.
	They've come out now with their full statement on raw milk, John.
	And you need to watch it, my friend.
	Reading directly from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Raw...
	Wait, wait, are you talking about the, until really for most of the existence of mankind, raw milk was drunk regularly by everybody?
	Are you talking about that raw milk?
	Yes.
	Stuff that's been for millennia that people just, milk that comes straight out of the cow and you drink it?
	Developing a healthy lifestyle is a process with many decisions and steps.
	One step you might be thinking about is adding raw milk to your diet, stupid slave.
	Raw milk is milk that has not been pasteurized to kill harmful germs.
	Germs include bacteria, viruses, parasites.
	It's important to understand the risks of drinking raw milk, especially because you may be hearing claims about the supposed benefits of raw milk.
	Supposed benefits.
	Lies!
	Lies!
	I love you, darling.
	Where are you going?
	Hold on a second, John.
	You're out?
	Meetings.
	All right.
	I love you.
	Hey, pick up some raw milk, will you?
	It'll be healthy for you.
	You can't get good raw milk down there.
	Don't buy any.
	The risk of getting sick from drinking raw milk is greater for infants, young children, and the elderly.
	Raw milk.
	It'll kill you.
	We can totally do this.
	It's like...
	The dangers of raw milks on Next Geraldo.
	There you go.
	Yeah.
	So anyway, so that's your Ministry of Truth at work telling you to shut up.
	Well, they've been after the raw milk guys for a while.
	Because the fact of the matter is they have a cleaner operation and it's all about cleanliness.
	And the other guys, I mean, this is like the radiated food thing.
	I keep telling people, you know...
	It kills everything.
	Yeah, it kills everything and makes the meat safer.
	But then it just gives the guys a license to serve dog shit in the meat because it's basically been sterilized.
	Sand.
	Or sand.
	I think I'm going to try cooking some meat tonight and just throw some sand in there.
	See if I can come up with the taste of the Taco Bell.
	It's unbelievable.
	It really is unbelievable.
	Let them do whatever they want.
	Now let me move over to my other favorite topic, which is vaccines.
	This actually was pointed out to me.
	It's a game called...
	What is this game called?
	It's a new game called Homefront.
	This is one of these crazy games all the kids are playing.
	John...
	Never heard of it.
	I think this is a trailer, I think, from it.
	And you've got a timeline.
	And you fast-forward to the timeline.
	February 2nd, 2023.
	Unfortunately, today's show is on the 3rd of February.
	Otherwise, it would have been even better.
	But listen to what happens when you fast-forward in the new game, Homefront.
	This is a television set you're seeing.
	This is a governmental emergency broadcast for February 2nd, 2023.
	This is not a drill.
	I repeat, this is not a drill.
	There is currently a national flu epidemic in progress in all 50 states of America.
	It may be called the Knoxville cough, two-day flu, the sickness, Asian cough, death flu, or other names.
	No matter what it is called, this is the same viral flu outbreak.
	Your government is working on developing a vaccine, but at this time your safest precaution is to stay indoors with your family.
	Avoid contact with strangers.
	Avoid congregating in large groups and avoid public meeting areas.
	Stay away from all grocery stores, churches, and public transportation.
	Hospitals in your area are currently overloaded with flu cases and cannot accept any more.
	If you are sick, stay at home, take bed rest, and drink fluids.
	Do not attempt to seek help.
	Dusk to dawn curfews are in effect for the following cities in your area.
	Albany, Elizabeth, Jersey City, Newark, New York, and White Plains.
	This message repeats in 30 minutes.
	What is this?
	This is from a game?
	Yeah, it's mind-controlling the little human resources.
	Get ready for it.
	Wow, that's sick.
	Sickening, isn't it?
	Meanwhile, we're actually with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, who've donated $1.6 billion to the following cause, which is the Gavi Alliance, G-A-V-I. I'll link in the show notes, noagendershow.com.
	They're killing little black kids in Africa.
	By injecting them with unnecessary bogus vaccines.
	Welcome to the Langata Health Center in Nairobi.
	Very busy today because all these moms have brought their infants in to be immunized against pneumonia, which is the number one cause of child mortality.
	Children under five throughout the world.
	Now, pneumonia is not a virus.
	It's just not.
	There's a viral pneumonia.
	But most vaccines are bacterial oriented anyway.
	Pneumonia, as far as I understand, is caused by pneumococcus.
	Exactly.
	So you're telling me that there's a vaccine against that?
	Yeah, well there's a vaccine.
	Vaccines tend to be against stuff like that.
	Well, how come you don't take it?
	Well, I'm not worried about getting pneumonia.
	Why not?
	I'm over-vaccinated.
	I can get through pneumonia with the antibiotics after the fact.
	I don't buy this.
	To me, this is like they're shooting these kids up.
	Well, what I don't buy is the stats.
	I don't believe that most kids...
	Of course not.
	...die from pneumonia.
	They die from starvation.
	They die from all kinds of things.
	Yeah, war.
	Yeah, pneumonia seems to be low on the list.
	I don't know.
	How do you catch pneumonia in Africa?
	It's not that cold.
	That's the other thing.
	That's true.
	Pneumonia tends to be in cold weather.
	Seven million deaths a year.
	Seven million?
	And the new vaccine, the pneumococcal vaccine, will protect against the main cause of pneumonia and against meningitis.
	I think they're giving them pneumonia.
	Well, that's a possibility.
	I mean, you have to remember, and Gates, of course, has said...
	Eugenicist.
	The guy kills people.
	These are the same people that claim that the world needs 500 million.
	The population should be 500 million, no more, no less.
	And we've got what?
	We're pushing how many billion?
	We're pushing six, seven billion.
	Seven?
	Yeah.
	So we have to kill over 5 billion people somehow.
	Well, Africa seems like a good place to start.
	Africa is a good place to start because we don't have to watch it.
	Well, they're also going to immunize them against the deadly diarrhea virus.
	Is there a virus that causes diarrhea?
	There's a million things that cause diarrhea.
	Right, but there's a vaccine against it.
	There's a diarrhea vaccine, apparently.
	That doesn't make any sense.
	Well, listen to the report.
	Some blood poisoning.
	It's the same jab these children will get, the children in the UK, Europe.
	Oh, the children in the UK and Europe will get the same vaccine.
	Oh, nice.
	The United States will get.
	Now, it comes on the day that, say, the children...
	By the way, any organization that's called Save the Children, you know that's doublespeak.
	Save the Children.
	What?
	It's like all those bills they introduced in Congress, the Internet Improvement Act.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Campaign, no child born to die.
	And with me to discuss that is Catherine Fitzgibbon from Save the Children.
	Catherine, tell me what your main message is.
	I think Save the Children is trying to highlight the fact that far too many children under five are dying every single day and many of them are dying from a really basic disease such as pneumonia.
	This simple intervention is going to make a huge difference only if the vaccines are purchased and get out through the children that need them.
	I think about 19 countries, poorer countries, are going to get this pneumococcal vaccine but there are more who could have it if the money was there.
	Absolutely.
	We estimate there's a funding gap of about £500 million at the moment for vaccines worldwide.
	Not just the pneumonia vaccine, but all the other vaccines that these children are regularly getting at the moment.
	And if that hole is not filled, governments are making a tacit acceptance that children are born to die, and they will die from basic diseases without those vaccines.
	There's a big meeting in June you're gearing up for where world leaders will gather and you're going to put that message over pretty strongly, I imagine.
	Yes, definitely.
	We need to buy the vaccines, but on top of that we need to get the vaccines out there and we need to invest in health services and health systems that mean that vaccines get to every child that needs them.
	Catherine Fitzgibbon, thanks very much indeed.
	Well, it's reckoned that if this vaccine and another new vaccine against diarrhoea...
	There you go.
	Another new vaccine against diarrhea.
	Meanwhile, in Finland, now confirmed, H1N1 swine flu vaccine causing narcolepsy in children.
	Confirmed.
	It's confirmed.
	It's confirmed by who?
	The panel.
	What panel?
	I'll bring it up right now.
	The National Narcolepsy Panel's interim report suggests that the pandemic's vaccination increases the risk of narcolepsy nearly tenfold.
	It says children aged 4 to 19 were at 9 to 10 times greater risk of contracting narcolepsy within 8 months of the inoculation, compared with those who did not get the vaccination.
	Really?
	Well, this is like suppressed news.
	I don't see this on the 6 o'clock.
	Well, because Anderson Cooper got punched in the face.
	Anderson Cooper, punched in the face.
	52 Finnish children were given the vaccine last winter, subsequently came down with narcolepsy, which can be a debilitating lifelong condition.
	Yeah, this is all over the Gitmo Nation Scandinavia news.
	They're all talking about it.
	It's big news in Finland.
	Unbelievable.
	It's not unbelievable.
	It's totally believable.
	No, it's not.
	Like every show we do, it's always something like this.
	And it's always suppressed.
	Well, of course.
	When you have a beautiful man like Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper hitting the head.
	Don't touch the face!
	When you have a beautiful man like Anderson Cooper getting punched in the face, the world must stop.
	Who cares about anything else?
	You know, they played that punch in the face.
	By the way, the clip is lame.
	Yeah, because you don't see him getting punched in the face.
	If he was actually punched in the face, it would be cool.
	Yeah, you don't see nothing.
	You just see these guys.
	You see the ground and their feet run.
	And you hear someone else.
	Oh, they're pummeling me.
	They're pummeling me.
	I don't know what to do.
	You hear someone else actually say, Oh, man, Anderson, you just got punched in the face ten times.
	Please.
	Disgusting.
	Well, something's up with this.
	I'm amazed you didn't know about that.
	Well, it's funny because you sent me a link and that actually got me tracking vaccines again.
	You sent me a link.
	It was a pretty good link.
	What was it, John?
	I sent you a couple of links this week.
	Yeah.
	Notice I didn't respond because I'm like, oh, if I respond, then we'll never talk about it.
	No, which is the way to go.
	Yeah, although now I've...
	Oh, here it is.
	Swine flu vaccine is depopulation.
	That's the link you sent me.
	I was like, wow, John, crackpot.
	That's why I sent it to you because it's right up your alley.
	But it was written by someone who was also in the Bush administration.
	It seems like a lot of people who were in the Bush administration who are now a little bit older are now coming out and saying all this crazy stuff.
	But this person actually says, you know, swine flu, in short, an epidemic can be used to offset the inflation of capital with increasing deflation of the value of income of labor and continual demand destruction.
	It's a great deal of time and money spent on something that will not help a real economy that disinformation and control opportunities are profound.
	The whole idea is that even the idea...
	So we have to bring it back to 500 million people.
	That's what the eugenicists believe.
	And I'm pretty sure Bill Gates believes that.
	And look, did the guy really make great software?
	He said that once in a speech.
	I think we had a clip of it.
	Bill was talking.
	He was vague.
	He was talking about population control.
	We have too many people.
	Well, yeah.
	Yeah.
	He had the equation where the human factor was zero, so we have to bring that back.
	The only way to lower deaths is by killing people.
	Some weird equation he had.
	Yeah, that's right.
	It was something crazy, some convoluted thought.
	It was a TED Talk.
	We need to kill everybody so we can live.
	Yeah, exactly.
	We are some offbeat.
	I don't know how you get to that kind of thinking.
	Just the idea...
	Even if the vaccine doesn't kill you, it may just put you to sleep.
	That's so funny.
	It gives you narcolepsy.
	Narcolepsy is a dangerous thing to have.
	Especially if you're driving.
	Yeah, no, because you can just fall asleep instantly.
	I mean, I fall asleep when I'm driving once so well, but it's like 2 in the morning, maybe.
	And you wake up, right?
	Hopefully.
	Well, so far.
	Yeah.
	But people, yeah, you can, right in the middle of the day, you can be doing something, and you just fall, just nod off, boom, instantly.
	It's not like you need to take a 3 o'clock nap.
	This is not that.
	No, no.
	Anyway, so the point of this article is that even if the vaccine doesn't kill you, or the diarrhea vaccine, apparently there's a diarrhea vaccine on the way, which everyone's going to get.
	Oh, your kid has diarrhea?
	Well, have the vaccine.
	Your kid will never have diarrhea again.
	What a crock that is.
	Diarrhea is your body responding to something wrong.
	It's really important to have diarrhea.
	Yeah, it's trying to eliminate something.
	But no, we'll have a vaccine against it.
	Just the idea that there is a virus that can be deadly puts enough stress on people and on a grand scale eliminates human resources because you die earlier because just of the stress of it all.
	Yeah, stress.
	Yeah, it's bad.
	You think?
	So, well, when you're done with this depressing news, I got some real news we can move to.
	No, I think we should totally get into that.
	And now, back to real news.
	John C. Dvorak's real news.
	So, I've run into this interesting phenomenon.
	I think now it's a trend.
	So, I've never seen the show before, but I watched a little bit of it, and I was just a jaw-dropper.
	Because I watched it, it's called Live to Dance.
	Yeah.
	It's up against American Idol, but instead of singing, it's dancing.
	Because there's a lot of dancing shows on.
	And this is where What's-Her-Name ended up, the girl that was fired from American Idol.
	She's now a judge over here.
	I can't remember her name.
	But her chat room knows.
	Who cares?
	All right, get on with your real news.
	She's the ex-cheerleader from UCLA. Anyway, so it's crying, and I think that...
	John Boehner's part of this problem, but it's all over the place.
	And first, play the LTD girl crying clip, which is the beginning of a clip before this group does its dance.
	This is the last time we're going to be dancing together.
	Oh wait, stop, stop, stop, stop.
	Start it over again, but I want everyone to pick up on the fact that this is a scripted cry, and she blows her line.
	This is the last time we're going to be dancing together.
	I can't imagine my life without dance or without these people.
	I'm going to miss you guys a lot.
	We are one dance away from winning, and it just has to be the dance of our lives.
	What did she blow?
	I couldn't hear what she blew.
	I can't believe I'm going to not be able to dance.
	I mean, dance with you.
	Oh, because she knew she was going to lose.
	Well, no.
	Besides doing that, there's going to be their last dance anyway.
	But no, she said, I can't believe my life will be...
	I won't have dance in my life.
	And then she changed it to, I mean, I won't have these people in my life.
	But it was obviously scripted.
	But it was a fake cry.
	It sounded like a little...
	Like, what is it?
	Eight-year-olds do that?
	You know, they fake cry.
	I want to go on the ride.
	You know, that kind of thing.
	So this crying thing was like...
	So they went out and they danced.
	And so I've got this...
	This Judge No.
	1 clip.
	And this is the kind of show this is, just to give you an idea what the judge acts like.
	Travis, how did Twitch do tonight?
	Ah, that was awesome!
	I mean, that's quality.
	That is the way to start the finals of Live to Dance.
	This is not real news.
	This is junk.
	This is the shows.
	People can go back to the early shows of No Agenda and Adam loved this stuff.
	So I got a call from CNN yesterday.
	And they're like, yeah, I want to interview.
	I'm like, okay, we want to interview.
	And I'm already thinking, if they want to come out to the house and talk to me and interview me about something, I'm just saying no, because I know how it goes.
	You spend five hours, and there's like three seconds of you with voiceover.
	I'm not going to do that.
	So the producer calls up.
	And I think he's actually a fan from the old MTV days.
	And they're doing a piece about MTV doing a nerd culture programming.
	I'm like, huh?
	Exactly.
	I'm like, what?
	It's like, yeah, so as MTV, have they always been interested in technology and nerd culture?
	I said, have you ever Googled me, douchebag?
	Have you ever seen that I registered MTV.com and they were like getting AOL keywords?
	Are you kidding me?
	Well, I read up about you.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	And then it just went on and on.
	So at MTV, were they open to new programming ideas?
	I said, no.
	No, never.
	So everything that was great at MTV happened by accident.
	The only thing they were smart about was not playing music videos or they would be off the air.
	So that was actually the smartest thing they ever did from a business perspective.
	It's just like, I can't believe that someone in Atlanta is getting paid to do this.
	What?
	Are you doing a show about nerd culture?
	Yeah, so what is the difference between a nerd and a geek?
	And I was dumbfounded.
	I'm like, you know, maybe you should ask my 20-year-old daughter.
	The difference between a nerd and a geek?
	I don't know what the difference is between a nerd and a geek.
	And he's recording this.
	And we just recorded this.
	This is the idiocy.
	By the way, when you think about it, we have more people listening to this show on a monthly basis, cumulative, than people that watch Piers Morgan.
	Oh yeah, I'm sure of that.
	It's over.
	By the way, these industries are dying.
	They will die.
	The music industry finally croaked as Citibank took back EMI. That was also not reported.
	Under-reported at best, not reported at all.
	So EMI has been repoed by the bank.
	Literally took it back.
	Because there is no business.
	It's over.
	And mainstream is over.
	It's just kind of running on its own gas.
	Well, it's like the Queen Mary.
	I mean, you know, this ship, it's a big ship.
	It's going to keep, until it plows into the pier and it comes ashore, you know, it's still going to keep moving.
	And you know what's going to happen?
	There's going to be tons of advertisers and everyone's going to try and get on the bandwagon.
	Oh, the number of advertisers on an hour on cable now makes the cable...
	You can't watch it.
	Yeah, I know.
	You don't have a DVR, you're screwed.
	And of course everyone's got a DVR. We're not watching the commercials.
	Who cares?
	Yeah, once in a while there's a funny one, I have to admit.
	It's rare.
	It's very rare.
	Yeah, very rare.
	I did watch the final of Bridalplasty.
	Oh, and you're giving me crap for watching Live to Dance.
	But there's something cool about women competing for complete facelifts and nose jobs for their dream wedding.
	And by the way, the line, I should have actually gotten a clip, the line was, so the girl who loses in the final, well, you know, you're still going to have your wedding, but it won't be perfect.
	Wow.
	It's really bad.
	That's terrible.
	Yeah, it really is.
	That show is as bad as that little, what is it called, Tots and Tiaras?
	Oh my god.
	That has perverted that show.
	That is really, really sick.
	I mean, you watch it.
	I actually can't watch it.
	I've never watched it.
	No, no.
	As a father, it hurts.
	You're like, oh my God.
	It's painful to watch the show because, for one thing, the moms are just, something's wrong with them.
	And the little girls are like, something's wrong with them, too, because they've been trained to think this is good.
	Yeah, and the parents always say the same thing.
	Well, as long as she's still enjoying it, she can do it.
	They always say the same thing.
	Something like that, yeah.
	And I think The Soup.
	The Soup is a good show.
	I watch The Soup.
	Because the soup makes fun of all...
	And the soup always shows these shows that I have no idea.
	I know.
	Where are these shows airing?
	Huh?
	They're all on Bravo, I guess.
	I have no idea.
	And they showed a clip of Tots and Tiaras.
	And the kid...
	And so the mom, again, is going like...
	Well, as long as she's having fun, he can do it.
	And then you see the kid literally fall over from exhaustion.
	Just topples over.
	Coom-coom.
	So I watch, I watch, I finally, because I think this is an example.
	I mean, we, to people listening to us, we have the same, we're as susceptible, only we think we're not.
	We're as susceptible to some sort of really good scam, a good promotion that gets us to watch something.
	Happens all the time.
	It happens all the time because you can't, well, I don't know, maybe.
	Maybe they're not trying to scam me into watching a piece of crap.
	And then you go like, oh, brother, I can't believe I actually set my alarm for this.
	So I watched the first episode of Skin.
	Yeah, which was a great show.
	The British version was really good, actually.
	Well, this show is terrible.
	And let me just say, here's what the deal was.
	Oh, MTV executives may be thrown in jail for pedophilia.
	They admitted it.
	There's a million news stories about how this is the worst thing ever.
	It's got to be the worst show.
	It's a disgusting exploitation of teenage girls.
	Yeah, see, I didn't fall for that one.
	It is bullcrap.
	It's like the worst show ever.
	Yeah, it is.
	It's like college.
	Like, okay, that's what college is like.
	So what?
	Yeah, really?
	So what?
	So, I do have one little, not real news, but a news thing that's developing that we should be following, which is the fact that an American, play the American diplomat arrested.
	This is the beginning of the story.
	I have two clips.
	I have an American diplomat arrested, and this is a story that's kind of bubbling under the surface.
	And then there's a follow-up story where they're going to go after the Pakistanis for keeping this guy in jail.
	In Pakistan, a U.S. official attached to the American embassy remained in custody in the shooting deaths of two Pakistanis in Lahore.
	15,000 people protested there on Sunday, waving flags and chanting demands that the man remain in custody.
	The U.S. embassy said he acted in self-defense and has diplomatic immunity.
	The Pakistani government was unswayed and said it would leave the final decision to its courts.
	All right, so what is this about?
	Well, I'm not sure, but I'll tell you.
	First, I want to play the counter to it, which is the second clip.
	Pakistan.
	Supporters rallying outside of prison in the northern part of the country to support the confessed killer of a Pakistani governor, his bodyguard at the time.
	The suspect says he killed the governor because of his criticism of Pakistani laws, which mandate the death sentence for insulting Islam.
	So we have the contrasting stories.
	We have a guy who's protected by diplomatic immunity who they've grabbed.
	And they're keeping him against all...
	You know, all the agreements and treaties and everything else.
	So you normally can't do that.
	Normally you don't.
	And meanwhile, all the crazy Pakistanis are protesting that they would even think of letting this guy go.
	They want to string him up right there.
	Meanwhile, the same Pakistani maniacs are protesting the fact that they wanted to arrest some guy who killed the boss because he insulted Islam.
	I mean, this is to make out Pakistan look like a bunch of...
	Crazies.
	Yeah, crazy idiots that we need to bomb.
	So that's the underlying subtext of all these stories.
	So I started looking on the Pakistani papers to see why the heck they arrested this guy in the first place.
	And it is a screwball story.
	The guy was in the middle of nowhere someplace.
	He's obviously a spook, and he assassinated somebody on a motorcycle in another vehicle to rescue him because he was being surrounded by the locals.
	Came in on an SUV and ran over the other motorcyclist who apparently was involved in this.
	There's two guys on motorcycles and this guy.
	And it's a screwy story, and the whole thing doesn't make a lot of sense unless it's some sort of an operation that went bad.
	And so the Pakistanis are, you know, they arrested the guy.
	But none of this is getting the play, John, because, you know, we've got Anderson Cooper.
	No, I know.
	I think it's a disappointment to people who want to get the Pakistani thing up again, because now I think there's a lot of battling stories going on.
	And the stories, of course, completely whitewashed, like the Finland thing about...
	Narcolepsy.
	Narcolepsy, which is not getting any play.
	I mean, it's just been, you know, it's buried.
	Anderson Cooper hit ten times in the head.
	Film at 11.
	But anyway, this is a story that may crop up again.
	I mean, the guy's arrested.
	They're keeping him.
	So they can bring this back up after this other stuff boils over.
	But we'll see.
	But I just want to make everyone aware of this story in the background.
	I have one from a category we haven't talked about much recently.
	All aboard, trains good, trains bad.
	This coming from Gitmo Nation Lowlands, where they will soon be throwing wooden shoes at their political leaders as part of the wooden shoe revolution.
	So, something that's been a big joke in the Netherlands for the past, oh gosh, I want to say 15 years, is the high-speed rail they installed.
	The French, by the way, call the Netherlands Le Station du Nord, which is the northern train stop, because that's the way the French are arrogant.
	It's like, oh, those people in Holland, yeah, they're just the train stop in the north.
	So they created this high-speed rail which rips right down through the country.
	They removed houses, towns, all kinds of stuff.
	It runs parallel to the...
	When did this go into play?
	This has been gone for 15 years.
	The high-speed rail in Gitmo Nation Lowlands, big joke, billions and billions of euros, billions of euros.
	And now Reuters reports, the Dutch high-speed train operator could face eventual bankruptcy unless steps are taken to boost its viability.
	After little more than a year of full services, Infrastructure Minister Melanie Schultz, who by the way is a crook, proven crook, like in court proven crook, Parliament debated the fate of services on Tuesday after Schultz von Hagen wrote in a letter to members that Train Operator High Speed Alliance, HSA, faced a serious deficit.
	So what are we going to do?
	Well, I think given the situation, action on my part is necessary, she said.
	Adding that operational profits at HSA are substantially lower than those in VIGs due to fewer domestic passengers than originally projected.
	Yeah, because people don't want to take your stupid train.
	Where does it go from and to?
	It goes all the way down to France.
	Well, most people, when you're in Holland, you're in Amsterdam, let's say.
	I could see maybe taking a high-speed rail to Rotterdam for business reasons, but you take a regular fast train, they're all over the place, to Cologne, and then you jump on the French high-speed train and you get to Paris pretty quickly.
	Why would you take this train?
	It doesn't sound like it's going in the right direction.
	Well, no one's taking the train because they don't care.
	They don't want to go anywhere.
	So you're telling me, hold on a second, all the people, wait a minute, let me get this straight.
	You're telling me that in Europe, where rail traffic use is maxed out, I mean, this is the place where trains make sense, as opposed to the United States, for example, where trains make no sense, except maybe between Boston and New York.
	But generally speaking, they make nothing but sense.
	In Europe, you're telling me that a high-speed line can't even break even?
	Some of HSA's trains travel with only 15% of their seats occupied.
	Huh.
	Well, then how's it supposed to work in this country?
	It won't, of course.
	But this was a huge scam.
	Given the situation, where is it?
	Here it is.
	To ensure continuity of service for the travelers, the HSA will operate the trains at the expense of the state.
	Hey, Human Resources and Gitmo Nation Lowlands.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	How you feel now?
	Hello, suckers.
	And this is the government everybody wanted, right?
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	Oh, yeah.
	This is the government that Geert Wilders, the guy who should have been governing, he's officially in the opposition position.
	But the ruling party struck an agreement and they would operate all kind of together in this Dutch polder model, as they call it, and they'd accept all the terms.
	And meanwhile, you're paying for stupid rail that no one's using.
	Your coffee shops are closing.
	You have to get a weed pass to buy some weed.
	So no one's coming to Amsterdam anymore because you can't buy weed.
	Hello?
	Why else do you think the Brits come over there for your weed?
	So your tourism is going to go away.
	Yeah, and tourism is going to be hit hard because you're right.
	There's a lot of Brits in particular just go to Amsterdam and they spend a lot of money and they go to those bar places, those coffee shops.
	Many of them are pretty elaborate.
	And yeah, it's good for the local economy.
	It doesn't do anybody any harm.
	I mean, people are walking around stoned.
	So what?
	They're walking around.
	They can't drive in the town anyway.
	No, it's groovy.
	Anyway.
	Well, that's good.
	I think we wrapped up a...
	Important, important information there.
	Message implying match fixing found on several sumo wrestler cell phones.
	I know you follow the sumos.
	Oh, yeah, I do, actually.
	But fixed sumo wrestling matches are nothing new.
	They're a tradition.
	Yeah, it's the way it's supposed to be.
	Alright, so we'll keep a close eye and see which news reporter gets hit in the head today.
	Punched in the face.
	Punched in the face, that's right.
	Not one, not two, but ten times.
	I didn't even do my magic numbers.
	Geez.
	I can't believe I didn't do the magic numbers.
	Well, do them while they're running this whole thing.
	Just do one.
	Do the best one.
	The best one is one you sent me.
	Hold on, where is it?
	I can't find my magic numbers.
	Oh, here it is.
	33 simple sex tips to turn her on.
	Oh, yeah.
	We have to go over this in the next show because some of these are just...
	And the funny thing is the comments that people left are even funnier than these idiotic sex tips from Men's Health, which has got to be one of the worst magazines ever.
	Yep.
	33 simple sex tips to turn her on.
	You know it's good when it's 33.
	Yeah.
	So we'll discuss that on Sunday when we'll have another show.
	Coming to you from Hipmo Nation West here, the People's Republic of Southern California, where it's nice and sunny.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I have the radio green screen working.
	And by the way, go to Dvorak.org slash NA. I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll talk to you again on Sunday for early morning service right here on No Agenda.

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