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	The Twitter thing doesn't work.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, February 20th, 2011.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 280.
	This is no agenda.
	Doing my part to out-hustle the rest of the slaves here from the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center in Gitmo Nation West in the People's Republic of Southern California in the morning.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Gitmo Nation, Castanet soon to be renamed, I'm John C. Devorak.
	I love your energy.
	That's what I can do.
	Because I've been running around all day.
	I got pickpocketed and lost my passport.
	Oh, no!
	Wait a minute.
	Are you going to be able to get back?
	Not tomorrow.
	Seriously?
	I have to stay here.
	No.
	Because our State Department...
	Yeah.
	This is good.
	I'm getting lots of material.
	Wait a minute.
	Wait a minute.
	Ho, ho, ho, ho.
	This is thanks to you because we have to do the show on time every day.
	Okay.
	Hold on a second.
	I take this day off.
	Now I'm here stuck.
	Hold on a second.
	Back it up for a moment.
	You got pickpocketed?
	What was the whore's name?
	It was an old woman, as I recall.
	Right.
	It's pretty funny.
	Well, how did it happen?
	Give me this.
	It was on the subway.
	Oh my god.
	I didn't realize it.
	It was slick.
	But just beside the point.
	No, no, no.
	We'll get to that in a second.
	Human resources need to know.
	I've been pickpocketed.
	Well, I got pickpocketed in Reno once.
	What was the distraction?
	Not this old hag?
	Yes, this old woman.
	She was trying to get off and then she decided to get back on and she bumps into me.
	That's the only time I got bumped because there's always a bump involved.
	Of course it is, yeah.
	But she was just an annoying old lady.
	It makes you go through your brain and you go, oh, it's an annoying old lady.
	You never think it's a pickpocket working.
	So she bumped you and that was it?
	You had it in your inside pocket, inside your sports coat?
	No, it was in her front pocket.
	I think she had it accomplished.
	I'm not sure because I can't imagine how she could have possibly done it.
	John, it's crazy because I imagine you to be a fanny pack kind of guy.
	No, no.
	I imagine you to be one of those guys who has like a leather necklace with his passport in a document carrier around your neck.
	Yeah, you really think that?
	Yes, I have those visualizations.
	Really?
	You think I'd carry a fanny pack?
	Well, you know what?
	You'd have your passport now, wouldn't you?
	Normally, I wouldn't be carrying my passport around, but they want you to carry it around a lot.
	So anyway, no, normally, actually, I would keep it in a zippered pocket, and for some reason, it wasn't in there.
	It was in my front pocket, which is usually pretty safe.
	But anyway, so I got picked by.
	So I ended up losing a passport and a...
	I got two credit cards, which we just canceled and fixed.
	I'll probably get an American Express replacement.
	Probably tomorrow, because American Express works on Mondays in a country that has no holiday this coming Monday, as opposed to our State Department, which seems to close its embassy around the world.
	For President's Day.
	They've got to take advantage of the car sales.
	For President's Day.
	And then the kicker, actually I got a lot of good stories.
	First of all, so I have to change my flight.
	So Delta Airlines, if you try calling them on any number anywhere in the world, and my favorite one is you call their 800 number using international calling on a regular phone, and it calls and they get this message at the beginning saying...
	This 1-800 number is not valid, and the country you're calling from, you will be charged at international rates if you do not want this hang-up.
	Right.
	So then the Delta thing comes on.
	So I don't hang up.
	It comes on and says, oh, just because of the bad weather, we've had to staff a lot more people, and so we're behind.
	Please shut up, slave, and wait for someone to take your call, essentially.
	No.
	Oh.
	Click.
	Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
	So I tried it again, same thing.
	They just hang up on you.
	So I can't ask them about this thing that's on the website about possibly getting out tomorrow because there's some process.
	You can do it without a passport.
	Yeah, good luck.
	Hi, they said I could come into the country without a passport.
	Yeah, step aside, son.
	Let me send you this link to this page, and let's just go over this.
	In fact, there's a couple of interesting things here.
	Am I this interested?
	Yeah.
	I'd like the human interest side of the story more.
	Let's get back to the old hag.
	This is part of it.
	The old lady, I mean, I never, what can I say?
	Usually it's a hooker who comes up to you and goes, oh, I love you, and she hugs you, and that's when it happens.
	I wouldn't know that.
	By the way, this is the story of the old lady, everybody.
	It's the story.
	If it was a hooker, it would have been a better story.
	I would have used it.
	Okay.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	Okay, I just want you to read something.
	I know this may be tedious.
	Yeah, somewhat, but okay, I feel your pain.
	But I don't have clips.
	Yeah, I got clips.
	I did overtime for you.
	By the way, there are some really interesting...
	I have been following stuff, so it's kind of interesting internationally.
	Hold on.
	I think this is it.
	Okay, once we get past this, I can harp on this later.
	Okay.
	Go to that website page.
	Hold on.
	Ah, yes.
	Lost and stolen U.S. passports abroad.
	What should you do?
	If you're a citizen and your passport is lost or stolen, contact your embassy or consulate.
	Okay, stop, stop, stop.
	Go down, down, down, down, almost to the bottom, where it says, of course, are fees going to be charged?
	Oh, yes.
	Of course.
	Can the U.S., the last question.
	Yes, can the U.S. embassy issue a replacement passport over a weekend or a holiday?
	Yes.
	Now go to paragraph two and start reading.
	If you are scheduled to travel directly to the United States, the duty officer may be able to assist in issuing a transportation letter to the airline and alerting U.S. Customs and Immigration to the fact that you will be attempting to enter the United States without a passport.
	Now duty officers must focus primary attention on life or death emergencies.
	No, that's the kicker.
	If you don't have a life or death emergency, they're not going to care.
	No, that's not the answer they give you.
	Yes, it is.
	It is the answer they give you.
	No, that's not the answer.
	What do you mean it is?
	I've talked to them.
	How do you know?
	I've asked them about this letter of transport.
	And they tell me it's bullshit.
	We wrote that in 1999.
	No, no, they say that and they don't even know it exists.
	They say, this woman, that's the duty officer here in Madrid.
	And by the way, I called Washington, D.C., too.
	And they said, oh, well, let's look into it.
	And they transferred me to somebody else, the foreign duty officer.
	He says, oh, okay, well, let's look into it.
	And then he says, I'm transferring you to the Madrid duty officer and hangs up on me.
	It's like the same woman again.
	She says, oh, you again.
	So, no, I talked to her, and she's there with her husband, apparently, who also works at the embassy, and I don't know what they're doing.
	They've got a little cottage industry going on there.
	You watch.
	This is going to cost you $800, I guarantee you.
	Yeah, right.
	This is another good reason not to do the show every week on time.
	Anyway, the...
	So she says that she's never heard of this policy.
	I said, it's right on the website.
	You can read it.
	She says, it must be an old website.
	Yeah, I told you.
	It's an $18 million website.
	I said, it's not an old website.
	It's brand new.
	In fact, the old website's still around.
	It tells you to go to this new website.
	It's one of the new $8 million websites.
	And so she says, no, no, this must be before 9-11.
	I never heard of this.
	And she said, I'm talking to my husband.
	He's never heard of such a thing.
	So what's going on?
	This is our government at work getting paid all this money, living it up in Madrid, doing dinner parties.
	And I'm like, you know, reading from their own website and they're telling me it's bullshit.
	There you go.
	There you go.
	There's gambling going on there, huh?
	Really?
	Our government's messed up.
	Well, good night everybody.
	We had a fantastic show once again.
	Unbelievable.
	I'm really sorry for you.
	I guess the upgrade is out of the question now as well.
	What upgrade?
	Well, you're not going to be using...
	They're not going to accept your miles if you miss your original flight.
	I'm on the same ticket.
	I get the same upgrade.
	Yeah, right.
	You'll see.
	You'll see.
	All right.
	So when are you coming back, honey?
	When do we have to go for you?
	Well, it depends.
	I'm supposed to be coming back tomorrow.
	I mean, originally.
	And then it will be Tuesday now.
	Alert the office.
	Grummit, you're listening?
	So it'll be Tuesday...
	That's assuming I get in and out of the consulate before like 10 o'clock so I can jump on a cab to get to the airport for my 11.30 flight.
	I'm assuming I'm not going to have to wait days on end, although it's possible I won't get back until Wednesday.
	Ah, yes, I will.
	I'm so sorry about that, man.
	That sucks.
	I know how it feels.
	It totally sucks.
	What's really interesting is the fact that the service is so poor.
	I mean, American Express is going to get me a new card.
	You know what's next?
	We're going to have video of you walking around looking really dazed with your shoes off, and then you'll be found in a dumpster.
	This is just the beginning.
	First we remember, if you see that, something bad has happened.
	It's bullcrap, whatever you read.
	Something has happened.
	First, he lost his identity.
	He thought he was some writer from San Francisco.
	Oh, come here, sir.
	You're clearly disturbed.
	Ha!
	Don't wear a cravat, whatever you do.
	That's not a good idea right now, okay?
	Oh my goodness.
	Oh wow.
	Alright, well, in the morning then...
	Do you have anything to top that?
	No, I think that's toppers.
	A pretty boring life here compared to your life of international intrigue.
	But I will say, in the morning to all citizens stranded abroad, all ships at sea, boots on the grounds, wings in the skies, foots in the oceans, checks in the mails, bakers in the kitchens, dungs in the pits, astronauts manning the moon and Mars, base stations, anybody out there napping for humanity, hams on the air, and human resources everywhere around Gitmo Nation, particularly those in the chat room.
	Ladies and gentlemen, see you again next week.
	Right.
	We appreciate everyone being in the chat room at NoAgendaStream.com, all charged up and ready to go.
	So, wow.
	I don't think I can top that, really.
	There has been a lot of really interesting stuff going on stateside while you've been over there.
	What would be kind of interesting to know, and I'm sure you've paid attention to it, is there any type of coverage of the global revolts?
	I'm sorry.
	I mean, of course.
	Global revolts!
	There's nothing but coverage of these revolts.
	In fact, there's so much, it's revolting.
	It's like that's all they're covering.
	And the funny thing is, I got it from one of the contacts we have over here, Garcia, who's one of the No Agenda listeners who I was taking around with in a mobile.
	Can I just say, I was talking with Mickey yesterday.
	We were outside before the hell of rain erupted.
	And it's a really nice feeling to know that no matter where I am in Gitmo Nation, I know one tweet that We'll get me whatever I need.
	And by the way, you should take advantage of that.
	Now, if you need something, then it's just one tweet and you got it, right?
	I mean, we've got producers everywhere.
	It's absolutely the case.
	So, except I can't get a passport with one tweet.
	No.
	Oh, here's another.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	So, Delta...
	Who won't answer the phone.
	And then I can't get the Madrid phone to work.
	They have a number you call and say, oh, this is Delta Airlines.
	And you speak English or Spanish and you push English.
	This is the wrong number now.
	Here's a new number.
	And the other number just hangs up on you.
	But it tells you to go to the website before it hangs up, or you can go to Twitter and use Delta Assist.
	Ooh, right.
	I'm sure that works well.
	Well, let's see.
	We're four hours and counting.
	I sent a note to Delta that says nothing.
	Zip.
	I mean, these other people that get on Twitter, like the Comcast people, they're back to you in less than 15 minutes, almost always.
	Yeah.
	But your service isn't restored within 15 minutes, so what's the difference?
	No, but at least you feel good about the fact that they're paying attention.
	I mean, these Delta guys, they're just out to lunch.
	Even though I do have to say the elite business class is a lot better than it used to be.
	So although I'm still, you know, this is typical.
	It doesn't surprise me, let's put it that way.
	I can't either get a hold of them to change my flight or I can't, the Twitter thing doesn't work.
	So they're phony Twitterers.
	I mean, if you're going to, This is like people say, here's your email address, and they never use email.
	I think this still goes on.
	Alright, so you're clearly annoyed.
	Oh yeah, which is good for the show.
	Yeah.
	So here in Hollywood, there's only two things on the news, of course.
	One is the global uprising, riots everywhere, including Madison, Wisconsin.
	Which is quite interesting.
	You've been able to follow that?
	At the college?
	At the university?
	Well, it's not at the university.
	It's at the Senate.
	Like, everyone has stopped working.
	Yeah.
	Because, well, so, I think it was pretty well known when they brought in the, you know, the Republicans were voted in.
	And they said, well, you know, no more collective bargaining for state employees, which of course includes teachers and everything.
	And so all the teachers said, oh yeah, well, then we're not going to work anymore.
	Yeah, this is the actual problem with having state workers in unions.
	Right, so they're trying to bust up the unions, which I find, you know, the whole thing is just really interesting to watch, probably more so because if you watch television, you don't actually see the mass of people that are there.
	It's really, it's quite big.
	I mean, it's like Tahrir Square.
	It's pretty big.
	But on television, you just see like some people with some signs and stuff hanging around.
	I don't think it's really being portrayed properly.
	But the other important thing is Oscars, John.
	That's who gives a crap about anything else.
	And producer Robert Searles caught something.
	He says, hey, I think Obama's stuttering is actually promotion for the king's speech.
	Which I thought was pretty good.
	Get some sympathy for the stuttering going there.
	Because, of course, it's either that or the social network.
	So, yeah, I'm like, okay, that works for me.
	I admire that.
	Maybe there's code.
	It could be code.
	Who knows?
	He's certainly been doing more of it.
	More stuttering than usual.
	More stuttering.
	In fact...
	He's stammering.
	Before we get into it...
	And he repeats his words.
	He repeats his words a lot now.
	He's saying the same thing again and again.
	Yeah, that's exactly like the King's Speech.
	You haven't seen it yet, I don't think, but it's exactly like it.
	So I... Of course, as I do every single weekend, I go to our whitehouse.gov, $18 million website, and I watch two things.
	I watch the West Wing Week, that is the reality show that they put together there at the White House on Final Cut Pro.
	Nice little job.
	And, of course, I watch our president's address.
	This week, he's on location, John.
	He's on location.
	Actually, he sounds like he could be working for...
	He's like a news guy on location.
	Who's on location?
	The president.
	He's on location.
	Yeah, he's doing...
	Isn't he the location?
	Well, he's on location, and let's hear where he is and what he's doing.
	I'm speaking to you from just outside Portland, Oregon, where I'm visiting Intel, a company that helped pioneer the digital age.
	I just came from a tour of an assembly line where highly skilled technicians are building microprocessors that run everything from desktop computers to smartphones.
	Now, why is he at this Intel facility, John?
	Now, of course, you remember he was...
	Well, the last time he was on location was at General Electric, and what was he there for, really?
	He was there to nominate.
	Oh, yeah, to pull somebody out of the company to work for him.
	Yeah, you mean Jeffrey Immelt?
	You mean like the big guy?
	The big kahuna?
	Yeah, so now he's at Intel.
	He wouldn't try to do the same thing again with another CEO. Well, Obama has named Intel's Ottolini to his advisory panel on the economy.
	Yeah, there you go.
	So now we have two shadows in the puppet theater.
	We have Immelt and Ottolini, who are going to control everything, and this is total collusion of big business and government, and it's, as far as I'm concerned...
	Yeah, it's the definition of fascism, is what it is.
	Yeah, it's a collusion between the government and these companies.
	But then the Presidente in West Wing Week, of course I love this show, they could totally get this on Bravo.
	I don't understand why they don't.
	He, of course, has to talk about our winning the future strategy.
	So what does the President do?
	He goes to talk to a bunch of 8th graders to explain this.
	And first you'll hear he endears them a little bit.
	And then he is in a classroom And it's a really pathetic look, because when you see these speeches, you only see the president, he's got two dudes with him, I forget who's with him, and you see the flags behind him, and you see the chalkboard.
	But on the West Wing week, you kind of get the behind-the-scenes footage, and it's like an empty, you know, they moved all the kids out.
	Shut up, slave, move your desk out.
	And it's just a classroom.
	It's kind of pathetic.
	It doesn't have a lot of the stature that you see from the speech when it's televised.
	But he says something really, really interesting.
	And I want you to hear this.
	So first, a little setup there in the classroom.
	And then listen to how we're going to win the future and his message to the children of Gitmo Nation.
	President Obama traveled to Maryland, where he unveiled his budget at Parkville Middle School and Center of Technology, where students focus on science, technology, engineering, and math, to show how investments in education are essential to ensuring every American is equipped to out-compete workers around the world.
	Stop, stop, stop.
	Who is this announcer?
	This guy's style of speaking is like, what is that?
	They don't have a credit on who does the voiceover, but it's the same guy every week.
	He's grown on me.
	It's alright.
	I'm used to it.
	I'm a fan of the show.
	It's a good show.
	The West Wing Week.
	West Wing Week featuring Barack Obama.
	Well, excuse me.
	I didn't mean to insult you.
	The President was then joined by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and OMB Director Jack Lew.
	Now, listen carefully to how we are going to outwit all of these...
	How are we going to outwit China?
	John, what do you think the answer is?
	Do you have a strategy for this?
	I don't.
	These investments are an essential part of the budget my administration is sending to Congress.
	Because I'm convinced that if we outbuild and outinnovate and outeducate...
	As well as out-hustle the rest of the world.
	Kids, we've got to out-hustle them.
	That's the way to do it.
	What is that?
	What is...
	We've got to out-hustle them.
	What is the definition of hustle?
	Isn't that like scam?
	Yeah, like where I lost my passport.
	You've got to hustle.
	We've got to pickpocket those people.
	Listen to that again.
	It just blows me away.
	These investments are an essential part of the budget my administration is sending to Congress.
	Because I'm convinced that if we out-build and out-innovate and out-educate...
	Out-build, out-innovate, out-educate.
	Ah, come on, you can do another one.
	As well as out-hustle the rest of the world, the jobs and industries of our time will take root.
	Come on, kids.
	Let's hustle.
	Who's got some dice?
	We've got to out-hustle them.
	I love that show.
	There you go.
	There's a giant flea market talking about out hustling.
	So there's a couple of things going on over here that are interesting.
	It's not getting covered much.
	And by the way, there's nothing, lots of coverage of these riots, mainly focusing on Baran and what's the other one?
	Jordan, Syria?
	No, no, Libya.
	So Libya, all hell's breaking loose, but the Libyans are basically shooting everybody.
	Yeah, like 100 people they killed.
	At least.
	And so that's going to make things worse, and so that's probably going to fall.
	And then Bahrain, which is a fairly modern country...
	Well, Bahrain is like Berkeley.
	It's really small.
	I don't know if it's going to fall.
	You know what?
	It might fall after the Formula One race.
	No one's going to stand for that.
	They need the Formula One.
	The funny thing about the Bahrainian thing is that when you see the protesters, they're all these extreme Muslims that are covered in black.
	In the Middle East, they put women in these.
	It's not Burke as it's called something else, but it's a completely black outfit.
	And in many cases, their eyes are covered.
	They're just like a big black ghost.
	And this is interesting because the temperature there gets to like 140.
	And so the people want to just be roasting in these things.
	And these are the people protesting.
	I'm looking and saying, oh, this place is going to go fundamentalist.
	There's no question about it.
	It's going to be interesting to see that happen.
	But the Libyan thing is going to fall apart.
	And of course, there's some rioting going on in Yemen.
	So I'm talking to Garcia here in Spain.
	And he says that...
	And we actually were roaming around parts of downtown.
	And there was a big protest that was going on.
	I don't know.
	It was probably about 300 or 400 people with signage.
	And I started noticing this on other protests too.
	And I had never seen it in the States.
	Which is everybody in the protest group has got a whistle.
	You'd love this, by the way, because I know how much you enjoy me whistling stuff.
	Yeah.
	They all have these police whistles, and they're all blowing them constantly, and it is really annoying.
	Yeah, that's kind of the point of a protest.
	It's supposed to be annoying.
	But this is like beyond normal annoyance.
	I mean, it is just annoying.
	Well, that's a good plan.
	I like that.
	We should all be whistling.
	When I first heard it, which was coming, I was like walking around, not too close to it.
	I said, well, what's this?
	It sounds like, remember, I referenced this to different people.
	And Night of the Triffids?
	No, sorry.
	Nobody gets this joke.
	Well, in the movie, there's this weird sound, which is almost the exact same sound that these people are making with these whistles.
	So I'm watching some of the protests on TV and some other areas, and you see the whistles in their mouths.
	So this is like a big thing that hasn't been picked up on in the U.S. yet.
	But I think there's money to be made for you people out there looking for a good investment in a police whistle company.
	Because I think this could catch on.
	Because I don't think slide whistles are going to work.
	Because you can just put the whistle in your mouth.
	You don't have to hold it or anything.
	Right.
	And they just...
	These whistles.
	Anyway, they were bitching about this group in front of City Hall.
	Or the Congress or something.
	I don't know.
	They were complaining about...
	It seems as though they were screwed on the housing thing, too.
	And these are a bunch of housing protesters.
	Well, yeah, you're in Spain, dude.
	This is the next country to go.
	Portugal is already preparing the bailout for Portugal.
	Spain is on the way.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, Spain is going to go.
	And, in fact, you can see it everywhere.
	I'll give you a couple local stories.
	First of all, Garcia says that a big, giant, you know, Middle Eastern-type protest is scheduled for all of Spain on the 30th.
	So that'll be hashtag 30 or something.
	Something's going to happen on the 30th.
	It'll be interesting to see if it's covered in the States.
	He says that the unemployment rate amongst the kids in a lot of these countries, Spain mainly...
	Oh, 25%.
	I guarantee it.
	40.
	Oh, my God.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, well, this is the big disillusion.
	This is what's happening in Gitmo Nation East as well, is that all these kids went to school, right?
	And they study, and then they come out of school.
	It's like, okay, go work in the chip shop.
	They're like, well, hold on a second.
	And now it's like, of course, they're trying to raise these tuition fees.
	So it's just become a nation of slaves for the kids.
	They're totally disillusioned.
	And this is, well, that's why they all have to learn how to hustle here.
	At least our president is speaking truth to power.
	Just learn how to hustle, kids.
	Hustle.
	Don't get an education.
	You've got to hustle people.
	That's how it works.
	So apparently the Chinese have moved into most of Europe already and basically taken over all the markets like they did in Africa.
	And so he's complaining that the Spanish don't make it.
	They've got one car company.
	They don't make anything anymore.
	So I go to this.
	There's this giant flea market that runs on Sunday.
	Huge.
	This thing is monstrous.
	And it's kind of like the French.
	Yeah, everyone's selling their stuff to pay the rent.
	Well, there's a lot of people selling their stuff to pay their rent.
	That's true.
	But there's a lot of these other products.
	There's stuff for sale of all sorts, clothing, bags, all these other things.
	And I guess there's some EU law.
	You really can't sell anything.
	The country of origin is listed.
	So all these handmade goods from Spain are, guess where they're made?
	China.
	Yeah.
	There was more Chinese goods in this place than I've ever seen in one location.
	I mean, it was worse than anything I've seen in the USA. Everything was made.
	Everything was made.
	And it was cheap, though.
	I mean, the deals.
	There were deals.
	Yeah, of course there's deals.
	The Chinese are giving it away.
	All right, let's thank so many people, John.
	There's a lot of good coverage of the G20. We'll talk about that.
	Yeah, let's thank some people before we get too far gone here.
	Do we have an exec?
	Yeah, we got a couple.
	We got two executive producers.
	That are on the 280 Club.
	Oh, nice.
	I want to thank people who do this, by the way.
	It's $280 donation.
	The next club will be the 281 Club.
	And I'm going to have to move this.
	Give me a break here.
	Carl Heidel in Madison, Mississippi.
	And Andrew Blackburn in Mount Zion, Illinois.
	Actually, Carl added 89 cents.
	He's got some rationale.
	I've got another gimmick for donations, at least for Gitmo non-US. What's that?
	Hold on a second.
	I don't understand what this...
	My little thing at the bottom has popped up and it won't go back.
	Which is making it impossible for me to scroll or...
	That's weird.
	Maybe I can help.
	No, I figured out.
	Yeah, February 3rd, Eric was paging me to cause a thing to pop up.
	I've got another gimmick for getting one nation in the U.S. I'm using my state-county FIPS for the donation amount.
	FIPS? What is that?
	What's a state-county FIPS? I don't know.
	Fiscal identity...
	Something or other?
	FIPS? No idea.
	F-I-P-S? FIPS? I have no idea.
	Is it F-I-P-S? Yes.
	FIPS? FIPS. What else would it be?
	I don't know.
	Once you all get up to the show 560, someone from Wyoming can send you 560XX amount.
	I have both challenge coins and appreciate y'all's efforts to get the coins.
	It brings out hope to be a night one day since I'm a proud 12th generation German-American federal information processing standards.
	That's what Eric says.
	Right.
	He would know.
	I think Eric is a Fed, actually.
	He might be.
	The jury's still out on that.
	No.
	Okay, anyway, so those are our two executive producers.
	We've got one, two associate executive producers.
	Our pal Schnorrestein.
	Oh, Schnorrestein, right.
	Schnorrestein in Norway.
	He's practically at the North Pole, actually.
	Yeah, he's our North Pole guy.
	We've got Santa Claus, basically.
	Hi, John and Adam.
	My birthday is on the 21st of February, 2102, so here's a donation of $210.02, which hopefully will also get me a knighthood.
	I think we're on the knighthood for him.
	He's on the knighthood list today.
	Do that later.
	And David Burniff, who's in Raleigh, North Carolina, $201.99.
	I haven't donated in a while, and I wanted to show my support for all the great work you guys do.
	Also, I'd like to request some karma for a new business since I'm starting.
	Oh, we're paying that right now.
	Absolutely.
	You've got karma.
	There you go.
	And so that'll wrap it for this week's producers, executive producers, and associate executive producers.
	If anybody else wants to donate and get into the next club, which is the 281 Club, we would appreciate it.
	I would particularly appreciate it so I can get out of town here.
	Devorak.org slash NA. A couple of PR associates.
	Sorry?
	But also go to channeldevorak.com if you have to, dot slash NA. We don't have a jingle for that.
	I'd like to thank a couple of people for some PR initiatives.
	Greg Wilcox has forwarded DownloadTheTruth.com to NoAgendaShow.com.
	Good job there, Greg.
	Sir Kelly Spongberg, note for Sunday's show, I bought three No Agenda URLs, redirecting them now to NoAgendaShow.com.
	Only Canadians can buy.ca domains, so I'll keep them safe as part of my Barony of Alberta.
	Eric, take note of that.
	Adam will also be proud.
	I did it all for my iPhone.
	Yeah, I'm really proud of that.
	So, yeah, right.
	Noagenda.ca, NoagendaCanada.com, and NoagendaCanada.ca.
	All forwarding now to NoagendaShow.com.
	Fantastic.
	Terrence Smith, like you to know, I am forwarding the following domains to NoagendaShow.com.
	HatedbyMillions.com.
	What is that?
	Yeah.
	And Amerikant with triple K. I'm not sure, Terrence.
	Dave Funk has forwarded tsadouchedme.com.
	That's a good one.
	John Tucker says, hey, just so you know, goldtungsten.com now points to noagendashow.com.
	Betio Menendez, legopros.com is now forwarded to noagendashow.com.
	I think that's good for some SEO. I kind of appreciate that.
	Ministryofaspartame.com, now also pointing to our show site, noagendashow.com.
	Actually, we talked about the bullshitfilter.com that Paul has set up.
	He actually suggests an idea, if any of the human resources out there would like to put it together, where if you would actually use that as a...
	If you do bullshitfilter.com and then slash question mark and then another URL... That it would actually replace words.
	So if it was a story about Janet Napolitano, it would say Lucy Napolitano, stuff like that.
	Which I think is kind of funny if someone wants to do that.
	That could be done.
	That's doable.
	I think it could be really fun to do that as a no-agenda project.
	Then we have, this link is in the show notes, some beautiful Gitmo Nation hoodies.
	And these things are, it's a Gitmo Nation hoodie.
	And the link is, it's on shirtmagic.com where you can buy these.
	It's really nice.
	On the front, it has, you know, Big Letterman style letters, 33.
	No, I'm sorry, that's the, oh, you can choose from two.
	One is the back...
	You know, like a Letterman sweater on the back.
	It's got your big number.
	So the number is 33.
	The name is Doug.
	We just have everyone walking around in Doug33 hoodies.
	And then there's another one, which is a Gitmo Nation hoodie.
	They're both beautiful.
	Thank you very much.
	Appreciate that.
	And ComicStripBlogger, our friend, has put together a new site for the network, now also listed in the links that rock.
	NoAgendaApps.com, as there is a growing number of apps to access the program, along with the NoAgendaStream.com stream.
	So some good stuff today in the PR Associate Department.
	We highly appreciate it.
	And, of course, our executive producers and the only two members of the 280 Club, and you can put that on your resume, Carl Hadel and Andrew Blackburn.
	Thank you for being the executive producers of No Agenda Show, Episode 280.
	The door is closed on that.
	The next club that is available for donations and support at your giving level of $281 is the 281 Club.
	That will be the next episode.
	And, of course, our associate executive producers, soon to be knighted, Sir Snortestane and David Burnett.
	We appreciate your support.
	It's the only way we keep this show going.
	We've chosen for no other commercial entities, and we are truly listener support, unlike the phonies over there at, what do you call it, NPR, your national treasure, and PBS. Now, of course, the rest of the human resources, you've got a job to do, which is propagate the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out...
	We hit people in the mouth.
	New World.
	New World.
	Order.
	Say it with me now, everybody.
	Shut up.
	Slay me.
	So the big...
	Yeah, go ahead.
	No, go ahead.
	The big news over here is actually kind of the rebound news from what's going on in New York.
	And there's specials about it.
	There's shows.
	The BBC did one.
	The French TV's got something on it.
	Is this about the Germans buying the stock exchange?
	No.
	Guess again.
	This is more important than that, apparently, to these Europeans.
	Well, then it has to have something to do with...
	Oh, wait.
	It must be that ecstasy is not dangerous for your brain.
	No, that's interesting.
	That was a big report today.
	Everybody I know that uses that stuff to access as a dinghy.
	Okay, well, I'll tell you what it is.
	Apparently, New York is either considering or has banned outdoor smoking in front of buildings.
	No, no, this happened three weeks ago.
	They've banned smoking in parks, smoking on the beaches, smoking everywhere.
	The Europeans have seen the writing on the wall.
	They're not going.
	We're not going to go there.
	Well, they know that everything that's happened over here with smoking has resulted in it happening over there.
	Or over here.
	Right.
	And so they're worried sick.
	That they're not going to be able to smoke outside in...
	They're not going to be able to smoke at all.
	They're worried sick.
	And so they're having all these debates about it.
	So I was watching this one that just cracked me up.
	It was a Finnish and a Latvian.
	And they're talking about the idea of banning tobacco, growing tobacco.
	And I think it was the Finnish guy was complaining about the fact that the EU subsidizes tobacco farmers.
	Meanwhile, they're banning people from smoking.
	How does that make any sense?
	Yeah.
	Now, we've got a lot of slaves in Africa who love to smoke, and we're making the Chinese smoke themselves to death.
	It's funny, because I've had this issue in the show notes two weeks in a row, and I didn't want to bring it up, you know, mainly being an ex-smoker and all, like, well, get into that.
	But what's worse in New York, and this is the article that caught my eye, is that companies are now, there is a policy of not hiring smokers.
	And this is, of course, completely discriminatory.
	I know, but apparently New York's made it legal.
	That is an issue here, too.
	Yes.
	So you can say, hey, are you a smoker?
	And if you say no, and they catch you smoking, you can get fired.
	And people have been fired for this already.
	Which is like, wow, that's pretty nuts.
	And they could not hire you if you're a smoker, too.
	Yeah.
	So they say, yeah, I'm a smoker.
	Well, you're not getting this job, then punk.
	Now, I'll tell you why this is bad, because it's smoking today.
	What is it tomorrow?
	No, that's your argument.
	But the funny thing is the Europeans never bring that up.
	That's not what they're saying.
	They're just worried it's going to happen.
	It's hilarious.
	I mean, the other thing, watching the news over here is just almost a stitch because of the kind of preoccupation.
	The British have a thing going on right now, I guess, with the EU that's not being covered.
	Are you familiar with what's going on with the Human Rights Commission?
	That the EU threw out with a judgment against the EU over some human rights violations.
	It's got the EU completely bent out of shape.
	There's one guy who says, we're quitting.
	We're going to get out of the EU if this is going to continue.
	You guys keep picking on us.
	The only thing I know is that there was a guy in, and this is very consistent by the way, with the Lisbon Treaty, and I have it actually in the show notes today on the United States of Europe.
	A homeless man in Belfast has now been in jail for a week.
	Because, you know, and if you'll recall, John, way back when I was reading the protocols of the Lisbon Treaty, and you can get picked up and thrown in jail if you are a migrant or a vagrant, if you're homeless, or if you have some kind of communicable disease.
	You know, so basically all of these things are now coming to roost as a guy who was homeless has been thrown in jail.
	Like, just shut up.
	You got no home?
	Go to jail.
	Yeah, that doesn't surprise me.
	Well, there was this big special on the count.
	There's other kind of organizations within the EU Parliament.
	Like, are you familiar with the Council of Europe?
	Yeah.
	And the Committee of Ministers?
	Yeah, the Council of Europe are the guys that we talked about on the last show who put together that Budapest Cybercrime Convention.
	Yeah, that we're going to get screwed by.
	Anyway, out of the Council of Europe comes the European Court of Human Rights, and they blasted the British as a serious human rights violation because the British do not let their prisoners vote.
	Okay.
	They've been reprimanded.
	The British say, we don't care what you think.
	We don't let our prisoners vote.
	We've never let our prisoners vote.
	We're not going to start now because it's a human rights violation when there's other things going on that are worse in other countries.
	And so now there's a big debate going on, and they had this show that was a special, another hour of this, and including apparently the British are getting condemned for expediting prisoners when they're not supposed to send them to foreign countries under some circumstances.
	But the big defender of all these practices, and she comes up, she's a woman from Holland.
	Oh, yes, I know.
	She's kind of hot, too, isn't she?
	What's her name again?
	She's kind of pretty.
	But she says, oh, you know, we've made these decisions to join forces and we have to, you know, she basically says the sovereignty thing, you have to give a little, you know, it's better to, she's just basically all in.
	What this all comes down to is exactly what everyone was afraid of, is we'd have this big European-Lisbon treaty, all of these rules, and they all said, no, no, no, but this is just guidelines.
	You can put your own sovereign rules in place.
	And of course, no one does.
	No, because we've got to be kumbaya, we've got to play together, play nice, so we all kind of have to do it, which is also why we have genetically modified food coming into Europe.
	It's just one big scam.
	You know, two things came out, John, here.
	In quick succession.
	Yesterday, the movie-slash-documentary, the excellent movie, I recommend everyone get it, Inside Job, hit the BitTorrent Networks.
	It's now out on DVD. It played in theaters, actually tried to catch it here in Los Angeles.
	I do want to support this guy.
	I think this guy actually should make his next one with a Kickstarter project or something.
	And it's funny because you watch this and it's like, oh, well, this is exactly what no agenda has been telling me for three years.
	It's exactly how the scam worked.
	He doesn't go into a lot of things.
	And luckily, just at the end where I'm like, all right, is this all going to be like Bush was bad, you know, Clinton a little bit bad?
	And then luckily, luckily it comes out the last 15 minutes.
	Well, you know, nothing has changed with the Obama administration.
	It's narrated by Matt Damon.
	And...
	It's very informative.
	At the same time, this comes out with an article by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone.
	Matt Taibbi, why this guy is still alive is astounding to me.
	He works for the CIA. Well, it could be.
	Or military intelligence.
	I mean, whoever.
	Well, he certainly doesn't work for the bankers.
	Oh, his banker stuff is great.
	Yeah, this is his banker stuff.
	Let me just read you the first...
	He's also the guy, as you recall, that got McChrystal fired.
	Oh, yeah.
	So he's on the inside.
	So someone...
	You're right.
	He definitely is protected for writing this stuff.
	And someone's pissed off at the bankers, and it should be all of us.
	but here's the opening paragraphs.
	Over drinks at a bar on a dreary snowy night in Washington this past month, a former Senate investigator laughed as he polished off his beer.
	Everything's fucked up and nobody goes to jail, he said.
	That's your whole story right there.
	Hell, you don't even have to write the rest of it.
	Just write that.
	And so this comes out, which is highly recommended to read, as well as the movie.
	And when you see the, and you're so right, it's the military, industrial, academic complex.
	Forget it.
	We're screwed.
	There is no way out.
	Even at the end of this movie with a shot of the Statue of Liberty and Matt Damon saying, well, you know, it'll take quite a while and we'll have to work very hard to turn all this back.
	All these crooks are stealing from us and pushing our slaves into horrible circumstances, but it's worth trying.
	I saw that movie and was like, no, it's not.
	I'm just going to put my head up my ass and go to sleep.
	Forget about it.
	It's laughable.
	It is laughable how we are...
	Everything that's happening is directly relatable back to a relatively small group of people who are doing this.
	And they get off scot-free.
	Stealing all the money.
	It's one big cabal.
	Well, they don't just steal the money.
	The slaves have to pay.
	We're paying them.
	Even in Madison, you see a human resource running around with a sign saying, hey, why should we pay you back, Goldman Sachs?
	Because that's essentially where all the money goes.
	We need a revolt.
	It's just, unfortunately...
	You see, it's going to happen some other places, but it won't happen in the U.S. We get the Oscars coming up.
	Not only that, but Charlie Sheen, you know, he's got the new season of Two and a Half Men.
	It's doing great.
	Yeah, we can't miss that.
	We've got to go home and see the Kardashians.
	But I do have a clip I'd like, two clips I'd like to play for you, briefly.
	Because while you were over there getting pickpocketed, or maybe we should say...
	Hot pockets!
	You were hot pocketed.
	I'm over here doing what we normally do together.
	What we do is you don't have to...
	So, they have like a congressional hearing, and this is mainly about the budget, and it's the military budget, which is almost $700 billion, of which a lot of it is health care.
	Health care in the past 10 years for our military personnel went from a paltry $12 billion to $30 billion.
	And of course that's not just because of the rising cost of health care.
	That's because our boys and girls are getting shot up.
	We're getting, you know, being torn apart, and that costs money to go and put them back together again.
	Poor human resources.
	But Gates brings out the whole, he brings in everybody.
	He's got Panetta there, he's got Clapper, who, you know, Clapper...
	This is the guy who didn't know there was something going on in England when he was talking to Diane Sawyer.
	Yeah, hilarious.
	And he was a professor, and something happened to him, because you look at pictures of him on his wiki page when he was an officer.
	I think he was a lieutenant general.
	And he looks sharp, right?
	Now he just looks like a disheveled professor.
	No, they probably drugged him.
	I'm telling you.
	Probably.
	And on C-SPAN it's so beautiful because you see the before and the after the actual hearing.
	And here's how it goes.
	Before everyone's like, you know, of course Joe Lieberman's up there and everyone comes by and they're all talking and hanging out and then they do this, you know, Really extreme grilling of questions for two hours.
	And then at the end, everyone walks up and they're hugging each other and they're going to high-five and, hey, good job, great show, yeah.
	It's like, we really put the show on for the slaves, didn't we?
	It's annoying.
	So anyway, then they start talking about Anwar al-Awlaki, the guy who was invited as a guest speaker at the Pentagon and now is the number one most wanted guy in the world above Osama bin Laden.
	Yeah, he bumped Osama.
	Yeah, he's the number...
	Number one with a bullet!
	Anwar al-Awlaki bumping Osama bin Laden this week on the chart.
	I'm Casey Kasem.
	How are you doing, everybody?
	Hey, by the way, what happened to Shadow Stevens?
	Anyway.
	And so, of course, it's like, well, you know, if we catch either of these guys, you know, and if we catch Osama or Anwar al-Awlaki, where are we going to put them, John?
	Where are we going to put these guys?
	County Jail?
	I don't know.
	No, man.
	Lockup?
	The obvious answer is Gitmo.
	Now, I'd like to take you back and remind you that on January 22nd, 2009, our president, his very first executive order, an executive order, which as far as I know, it's like when the president says, here's my executive order, like the curfew, or we're confiscating your gold, or no more whatever...
	Then that's the law, right?
	Isn't an executive order kind of like, I order you, I command you?
	Essentially, it turns out to be, although I think a lot of these things are unconstitutional, nobody wants to fight it.
	Well, here's what happened, just as a quick refresher, January 22, 2009.
	I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that.
	I've said repeatedly that America doesn't torture, and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture.
	Those are part and parcel of an effort to regain...
	America's moral stature in the world.
	That's right.
	And that was on 60 Minutes.
	And, of course, he signed this with great bravado.
	He signed the executive order, which actually would be kind of fun to listen to that here.
	This first executive order that we are signing by the authority vested in me as president by the Constitution of the Laws of the United States of America...
	in order to affect the appropriate disposition of individuals currently detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo and promptly to close The detention facility at Guantanamo, consistent with national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and the interests of justice, I hereby order.
	And we then provide the process whereby Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.
	Alright, one year from now.
	That would have been a year ago.
	What was the date?
	This was signed January 22, 2009.
	We are now past January 22, 2011, and it is still open.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	That doesn't add up.
	It seems like two years have passed.
	Yeah.
	Which means one year past the deadline.
	Yes.
	I don't get it.
	Well...
	I mean, it sounds like he didn't do what he said.
	Yeah, yeah.
	How can the executive order is that?
	How can you, like, defy an executive order?
	Well...
	This is how you do it.
	If we are able to capture a high-value target...
	A high-value target, John.
	That would be Benny or Ali.
	...in an area where we may not currently be engaged in a conflict, a direct conflict.
	Where are we going to put these individuals if the President still goes forward to attempt to close Guantanamo?
	I think the honest answer to that question is we don't know.
	If we capture them outside of the areas where...
	Where we are at war and are not covered by the existing war authorizations.
	One possibility is for such a person to be put in the custody of their home government.
	Another possibility is that we bring them to the United States.
	After all, we've brought a variety of terrorists to the United States and put them on trial in Article III courts here over the years.
	Let me remind you, Robert Gates has no more dog in the hunt.
	He's leaving, right?
	So he doesn't give a crap.
	He's not going to have to follow through on anything anyway.
	So, bring it on home, Bobby.
	But it will be a challenge.
	Would that cause you to make a different recommendation to the President on closing Guantanamo, given the challenges it presents?
	Well, I think we're in the position, frankly, that the prospects for closing Guantanamo, as best I can tell, are very, very low, given very broad opposition to doing that here in the Congress.
	Oh, by the way, that's your elected representatives, he's saying.
	Hey, it's not my fault.
	Congress doesn't want to close it.
	I've never heard this.
	I've never heard that all these congressmen want to keep going.
	Oh, you have to keep it going.
	I mean, actually, Obama got elected.
	That's one of the points that got him votes.
	Yeah.
	I mean, see, what was his main thing?
	First, he could get us out of Iraq really fast.
	Hold on a second.
	I got somebody pounding on my door.
	Oh, my God.
	Here it comes.
	Oh, no.
	Don't open the door, John.
	You know better than that.
	This is not a smart thing to do.
	Hello?
	Are you still there?
	That was ill-timed.
	What was that?
	Room service?
	It was a...
	Somebody dropping off water.
	It was someone coming in, hey!
	Turn down your speakers!
	You noisy kids!
	It was, anyway, back to the...
	Right, so there you go.
	It's not going to happen.
	So if we can defy that executive order, I guess we can defy any executive order, right?
	It doesn't make any difference as far as I'm concerned.
	Well, it seems to me that he made two major promises.
	One was going to get out of Iraq immediately, and we're still there as far as I can tell.
	Yes.
	And the other was close to Guantanamo, and as far as I can tell, he didn't do that either.
	So what promises did he make to get all these people all work to do a lather?
	Change.
	Oh, change.
	Change.
	Change.
	So a couple other things.
	There's a lot of Gitmo stuff going on.
	Remember I mentioned on Thursday about this Hillary Clinton speech?
	The internet freedom speech where she talks about the Budapest convention.
	So I've been thinking about that.
	And I've concluded that it was a message.
	It was code.
	And the code is, we're going to start implementing this and using it at will.
	And then, lo and behold, COICA crops up again.
	And COICA is the copyright intellectual property something law.
	Let me give you the exact definition.
	COICA. They tried to pass this a year or so ago.
	Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act.
	And they tried to do this in September.
	They tried to ram this through.
	It didn't happen.
	And I think that Clinton bringing this up in her speech is code for, look out, here I come.
	And of course, regulating copyright is by definition a form of regulating speech.
	So I think we need to be very, very careful and very alert as to what our legislators are doing under the radar, as it were, as we're not looking.
	Because this is not good.
	And there was a little kerfuffle that took place at this speech, and it's funny because I watched the version, you won't remember this, but the version of the speech that is on the DOS Department of State website was only one channel, it was right channel only, which is annoying.
	I'm like, why is that?
	And it turns out there was a guy in the audience, and he stood up, and he was angry.
	He didn't say anything.
	He turned around, and I think he had a sweatshirt on that said, Veterans for Freedom, or something like that.
	And they, so he didn't say anything, but he just stood up in the aisle, and he turned around with his back to the Secretary of State.
	Now, there's one thing you don't do, is you don't turn your back on the elitist.
	No, you don't.
	And so what do they do to this guy?
	They jump him.
	They jump him and they tackle him to the ground.
	They handcuff him.
	He's bleeding.
	And they rough him up and they pull him out.
	And CNN actually had this caught entirely on video with good audio.
	And I went back and I listened to the Department of State.
	You can hear really faintly.
	Of course, it's on the other channel.
	That's why they turned that channel down.
	This is what you missed in the Ministry of Truth version.
	This is the version caught on CNN, never to be re-aired.
	Millions worldwide answered in real time, you are not alone and we are with you.
	Then the government pulled the plug.
	Cell phone service was cut off, TV satellite signals were jammed, and internet access was blocked for nearly the entire country.
	So this is America.
	This is America!
	Who are you?
	And this was a small room, too, and she just keeps on going like nothing's happening.
	The sweatshirt said Veterans for Peace, actually.
	And the guy was a former CIA guy.
	So, yeah, I mean, it's nutty, man.
	It's completely nutty.
	And she doesn't acknowledge it.
	She just keeps on going like the MKUltra whore that she is.
	Well, the one word at a time, you can do that.
	Just, wow.
	Just completely, like, we are in Gitmo and people have silent protests.
	And, you know, I mean, whatever you do, please, ladies and gentlemen, don't look over there.
	No, no, no, there's nothing.
	Go look over at the people with burkas on and stuff like that.
	That's where it's all happening.
	Oh, yeah.
	Don't look over here.
	Nothing to see here.
	So the guy, he wasn't yelling or anything until they started grabbing him, right?
	Yeah, he just stood up.
	Or he wouldn't sit down, I think, is the big problem.
	Everyone had to sit down, and he just turned around and had Veterans for Peace on his jacket.
	And they tackled, they just grabbed him and threw him to the ground, and the guy was bleeding, and...
	I think they might have broken his nose, but he was also a former CIA guy.
	This is what kills me.
	Wow.
	I know.
	I know.
	Wow.
	Exactly.
	At a speech where she's literally saying, and then the government pulled the plug.
	We're pulling the plug every single day here.
	Oh, well.
	Well, we're going to get used to it because you can turn on the internet with a worm or something like that and be witnessing a TV show.
	Well, that was the other big thing, of course, is Obama had that dinner, and that was Thursday.
	We had the show on Thursday, and then Thursday evening Obama had dinner with the elites there in Silicon Valley at John Doerr's house.
	What a joke.
	John Doerr, who, of course, was also on the president's economic team, a huge, huge donor, Kleiner Perkins, and then he had...
	Yeah, no, he wants to get a...
	He wants an ambassadorship.
	Yeah, it's a known fact in the Valley that he wants an ambassadorship to some place.
	A good one, not one of the bullcrap ones.
	But there's two kinds of ambassadors.
	There's the ones that are these prestige jobs like England, France, these European ones where you get to do a lot of partying.
	China is one of them, which was George Bush's assignment when he was George HW. And then there's all these other little countries all over the world, and those are all professional diplomats and professional foreign service people, most of them connected to some intelligence agency or another, and they're different.
	That's a different group, and they just go from ambassadorship to an ambassadorship from one country to another.
	No, but this is like the woman who Hillary Clinton just expelled from Luxembourg.
	She collected a whole bunch of money, and she got in.
	She was an Obama bundler, and she just partied.
	What else are you going to do in Luxembourg?
	Yeah, and I don't know if it's...
	Probably the same here in Madrid where I can't get out.
	Since you won't be doing this week in tech, let me ask you this question.
	Of course, there's two things, everyone.
	Obviously to note that Mark Zuckerberg was sitting to the right of the president.
	Steve Jobs, a photograph from behind, looking thin and rather frail.
	It was a little speculation.
	Sitting to the left.
	And Larry Ellison, by the way, a little unnoticed.
	His gaze at the president during their toast is priceless.
	It's so like, you know, like macho man Larry Ellison.
	But, of course, everyone is like, you know, no Microsoft representative.
	Why is that?
	What is your take on that from a technology perspective?
	Baldwin was not there.
	Gates was not there.
	They could have had a number of luminaries from Microsoft.
	What's going on?
	I would think, just from the top of my head, because I know that they supported Obama, and even though they're kind of semi-neutral, I'm surprised.
	I think Ellison was a Republican, but I'm not sure.
	Whatever the case is, I believe that the idea amongst the Microsoft people would be that we don't do that kind of thing, because Obama's just going to come and visit us.
	Oh, right.
	Well, that's a good point.
	Bill Gates is probably like, I don't think so.
	Did you have your shots yet, Barack?
	It wouldn't be, it would be beneath gates to be at that event and Ballmer would probably, he'd think the same thing.
	Right.
	Wow, so the true...
	We'll do a special, you know, there'd be like totally up in Redmond and it wouldn't be any Silicon Valley.
	Wow.
	They don't see themselves as a Silicon Valley company either.
	That's true, but also just like, screw it, you know, you want to hang out with me?
	You've got to come to me, bitch.
	Wow.
	That's a very good assessment.
	You're probably right.
	Gates feels way above Obama.
	As do many of these elitists.
	Well, actually, there's some evidence that Gates feels that way.
	And I have an authority of somebody who had dinner with him, who actually is a friend that hangs out with him in certain situations.
	And I was told the story, and he was with Melinda, that they were talking about who's more powerful.
	This was when he was at Microsoft, the President of the United States or Bill Gates.
	And Bill, at the table, said, me...
	And Melinda, supposedly, there's a story, who knows, but I believe it to be true.
	It came from a great source.
	Melinda gave him the old knee, you know, the old bang with her foot to tell him to shut up.
	Ixnay on the Illuminati, eh, Bill?
	Ixnay on the Ove Grey.
	Wow.
	That doesn't mean that Bill wouldn't go to certain kinds of events with other people.
	He's not that kind of guy.
	I mean, he's pretty normal in some regards.
	I mean, if it was like a big event to celebrate some famous engineer or something, they were going to give him awards.
	Right, but that's different.
	I mean, he's not going to get anywhere near that pleb Zuckerberg.
	Yeah, he's not a true reptile.
	Zuckerberg's not a reptile.
	If Zuckerberg is sitting next to Obama, a lot of people aren't showing up.
	It's like, what?
	He's not a reptile.
	Why is he sitting there?
	Fuck you, I'm not coming.
	Oh yeah, hey, you know what?
	Why don't you shape change for a second there?
	Shift, shift there, Zuckerberg.
	See, you can't do that.
	Wow.
	Yeah, that's pretty funny.
	Okay, I take that as a very valid analysis.
	That's frightening, but I guess that's just the way it is.
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	I'm actually surprised Ellison was there.
	I think he probably was forced to be there by some PR person or something.
	I'm not sure.
	Hey, remember, speaking of El Presidente, remember Waka Flocka Flame?
	No.
	I shouldn't remember it, but why am I forgetting it?
	Waka Flocka Flame is the hip-hop guy who did the take-off on Obama, the hip-hop video.
	Like, yeah, I'm the main homie, I'm your pimp.
	I played that for the show once.
	I don't remember it.
	I didn't play it.
	Oh, I don't have it handy.
	No, no, it wasn't so much a lead-in as it was that he got shot at.
	He got shot at.
	He's a rat.
	Hip-hop guys get shot at all the time.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	But this particular hip-hop guy had a pretty strong political message saying, screw the president.
	He's nothing but a big, long-legged mac daddy.
	That was essentially his message.
	And he's got a strong message because people care about this guy.
	He's popular.
	Let me see...
	It was Baraka Flocka Flame, because he's known as Waka Flocka Flame.
	Here's Baraka Flocka Flame.
	I think I have a YouTube video I can play for you for a second.
	You can hear it.
	I'm sure we played on the show or before the show.
	Hold on a second.
	Here we go.
	What is this crap?
	Here we go.
	And he looks just like Barack Obama in the video, too, by the way.
	Completely dressed up like him.
	He's got the limos and he's driving to the hood.
	Here he is, everybody.
	It's called Head of the State.
	Head of the motherfucking state, nigga!
	I brought you change, nigga.
	What the fuck you thinking, nigga?
	I won't die.
	I'm the shit that's what Michelle said.
	Secret service, but I got my own.
	See, Hillary, that's my motherfucking nigga.
	Hillary's my motherfucking nigger.
	Hillary's my motherfucking nigger.
	I think you played a pre-show.
	It might have been a pre-show.
	Yeah, I think so.
	But, you know, it was like, they didn't catch anybody.
	The police tried to pursue the perps, but they got away.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Nothing like rude hip-hop.
	I'd say that's...
	Well, you've got to be careful, man.
	You've got to be careful.
	Because, of course, he's a hip-hopper, of course, to get shot at.
	Yeah, particularly when you have a politically loaded message.
	Be careful.
	Yeah, probably not a good idea.
	And while we're on the two to the head, John Wheeler's widow has now come out.
	John Wheeler being the guy who was disheveled and got off, you know, the guy from MITRE. Oh, right, right, right.
	You with me?
	Yeah, no, I just never give his name.
	Yeah.
	So his widow comes out and says, I guarantee you it was a hit.
	And everyone's trying to discredit her now.
	Like, oh, you know, she shouldn't be saying this.
	Why is she saying this?
	She's like, you know, there's all kinds of weird...
	Interesting, John.
	All kinds of weird credit card charges are showing up on her credit card.
	Round-trip tickets from New York to Madrid.
	Interesting.
	I'd be very careful if I were you.
	I'm trying to get out.
	Yeah.
	So she's come out and said this was definitely, definitely a hit.
	And she's been doing interviews about it.
	Slate wrote this up, actually.
	And she's very worried.
	The police only just went into hit over.
	What was her husband up to?
	Well, we've kind of figured it out, but we don't know.
	Yeah, no, we don't actually know what he knew or the reason that he had to die.
	But for his wife or widow to come out and say he was hit is pretty heavy, I think.
	I fear for her.
	Well, we'll see.
	It'll be a car accident.
	Yes.
	Her car will damage her radiator in the garage and the car will explode.
	That could happen.
	It happens all the time.
	It happens all the time.
	Let's thank a couple people for supporting our show, John.
	That's not a lot this week, again.
	We're on the seesaw once again.
	It's obvious that maybe people are spending their money on food.
	Eh, maybe.
	I don't think so.
	If they are, they should cut back.
	Okay, let's go with John Atwood in Cotter, Arkansas.
	$119.88.
	And let me just do a quick thing here to clear something.
	And move over this so I can read John Edwards' little message.
	I got my XM radio bill, which I seldom listen to since I prefer to download Podcast Smart Guy, and put him on a thumb drive and listen to him while I'm driving.
	So here's what...
	They were going to charge me for another year of news, sports, and talk jam-packed with commercials.
	Why did they have commercials?
	I thought XM was supposed to be commercial-free.
	That's why you had a subscription.
	Funny you mention that, because what's the guy who runs the show there?
	Howard Stern.
	No, no, no, no.
	He's a well-known guy.
	Can't remember.
	Anyway, so they were down.
	Their numbers were down, their financial numbers.
	And the guy has the gall to say, well, you know, at least people know that with us, because they're making all these comparisons, with us at least they know that they're paying to not hear commercials.
	I'm like, what a lie!
	What a lie!
	Yeah, it just says it right there in the investor conference call.
	Well, you know, yeah, it's down and people are cutting back here and there, it's the economy, but people value our service because they know that they're paying to not get commercials.
	But meanwhile, the thing is jam-packed with commercials.
	It's just not true.
	No, we don't have any commercials on our show.
	Joshua Stoyer in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
	75 bucks.
	In the morning, John Adam listened to the show since episode one, way back in 2007.
	Haven't missed one yet.
	Yes, I've been a douchebag for not donating until now.
	You know, eventually they come around.
	But here's $75 to help you out.
	I could really use some gold.
	When they need karma, they come around.
	That'll get me out of the hell hole I work at.
	I'm on a hunt for a new job.
	Luck with that and need all the help I can get.
	Some extra for you.
	You've got karma.
	Jeffrey Vanden in Calgary, Alberta, $71.94.
	Hey, guys.
	It's review time soon so I could use some karma, another one, in hopes of a merit increase.
	And by the way, karma's been working for some people, according to them.
	I'm doing the number of my 10-10-10, number 218 coin, X times 33 cents.
	Keep your stick on the ice.
	That's where it belongs.
	You've got karma.
	I think Mickey said that to me the other day.
	Hey, put that thing on ice.
	Keep your stick on the ice.
	Paul Elvis in Toronto, Ontario.
	We've got a number of Canadians today.
	Well, that's because we have noagenda.ca now.
	People are finding us.
	In fact, there's another third one I should mention first, which is Joe Cool Design, Princeton, Ontario, Canada, $111.11, with no particular comment.
	And here's Paul Elvis at Toronto, Ontario, and he's got no comment either, which is showing that the Canadians are speaking with their money.
	Alexis Richardson, Chanet, Kansas.
	Double niggas on the dime.
	He says, my name is Alexis.
	It looks like Alexis, sorry.
	And I want to wish Clint Strachner, pronounced Strazner...
	A happy 23rd birthday.
	It's the way it looks.
	He's the one who got me started listening to No Agenda.
	We've been together for over two years.
	I decided on double nickels on the dime because it's a number that seems to be disappearing among your donations.
	And it was the most popular when I started listening.
	Call me nostalgic.
	So I think I would say that Alexis is a female listener.
	And you said he.
	But I think if Alexis is thanking Clint...
	I would say he's a she.
	I only use the word he in reference to Clint.
	Right.
	Sure.
	Okay.
	Then I don't have to replay the tape, do I? No, you don't.
	Believe me.
	David Dietrich in Round Rock, Texas.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Aaron Zempel.
	Good job.
	Anonymous.
	Sorry.
	I wish I would just blank that box out.
	Munnith, Michigan.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	And he says, I'm logging on to my...
	Oh, this is funny.
	I'm logging on to my husband's PayPal account to donate in honor of all the other female listeners to the show.
	No one didn't want to be called out.
	Call out any douche-ats who aren't donating.
	Love them.
	Or love Aaron from Alternate Acres.
	P.S. Adam, I'd love to hear you...
	P.S. Adam, I love to hear you sing over the jingles.
	See, immediately you go mocking the few female listeners we have.
	I won't even say what else you've done wrong here.
	And it's Erin from Alternative Acres.
	Erin, thank you very much.
	And let me deduce you and hit you with some karma at the same time.
	You've got karma.
	And I wasn't giving her a bad time.
	She obviously has some sort of crush on you.
	Yeah, well, it's not hard to understand.
	Mark Hudak in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia.
	Another Canadian.
	This is Canada Day.
	Originally, I was one of the few who purchased the 10-10-10 coin.
	It was over the 100 or so coins I was limited to.
	Eric had emailed me and told me this and asked what I should like done.
	I told him not to worry about it.
	I figured the two of you are getting screwed up somehow in a little bit.
	Well, you know what?
	That's a guarantee.
	We're getting screwed somehow all the time.
	To my surprise, the coin was on my desk at workday.
	I must say, the coin really does look wonderful.
	Here's a $55 donation for being three.
	I am including Eric, stand-up guys.
	Three stand-up guys.
	Keep up with the great show.
	Oh, thank you.
	That's very sweet.
	You didn't have to do that, obviously.
	And that was...
	I have to scroll down.
	That was Mark.
	Mark, and now there's Elizabeth here.
	Here we go.
	Wappinger Falls.
	Well, here we go, but she's not saying anything about your singing.
	$52.18.
	Wow, that's a long note.
	Let's see what we've got here.
	My other half and I are avid listeners.
	We both donated previously.
	I am part of the.05%, that is, female and a donator.
	Hooray!
	I am currently a $5 subscription member.
	I'll upgrade soon, but this donation comes with a prediction.
	Turn two pairs of eyes in the shadows you see.
	I am not a boot on the ground nor a ham in the air yet, but I live in a town overflowing with completely distracted slaves and cringe from the shadows.
	She's got some links, too, that she sent us.
	It seems earlier today in Poughkeepsie, New York, a man and his wife had a domestic dispute in front of their child while waiting to board a train in the middle of the afternoon.
	The dispute is cited to have ended with the man pulling out a gun while on the train platform shooting and killing his wife as events unfolded.
	Events unfolded.
	The police officer was killed.
	And she goes on to predict, essentially, that if anybody thinks that the TSA is not going to get involved with this kind of train, right?
	I've actually got her note.
	I'll put that in the show notes so you can read it.
	It's an interesting reading about Poughkeepsie in general, which is kind of an interesting place, so we don't have to go through the whole note.
	But thank you very much, Elizabeth.
	That's very kind of you, and it's nice to see more of our listeners of the female persuasion donating to the show, even if you are hacking into your husband's PayPal account, Aaron.
	We encourage that for all our female listeners.
	That's a very good idea.
	You know what?
	The guy won't even notice.
	I think he should give us $52.18, and we've got a couple of our regulars.
	Actually, there's a new guy.
	No, it's a regular.
	Bradley Serbu in Florida, $50.
	George Vanderhorst, $50.
	And then we have, coming up last on the list, but not least, Chris Galen.
	No, come on.
	Do it right.
	Chris Gheilin.
	No, that's wrong.
	Healin.
	Healin.
	Chris Healin.
	Dear John, in episode 279, you said, I hated you.
	I do not.
	I do not at all.
	I'm a big fan of yours.
	I've been for ages.
	I just want to help you out for your next visit to Belgium.
	I just need some french fries when I go there.
	Please come soon as we might not exist much longer.
	That's a possibility.
	So here's lesson two of Dutch 101.
	That's very good.
	That's very good.
	Very, very good.
	What did I say?
	You don't want to know.
	Well, hopefully we need Dutch donors here.
	The main thing that this note says to me, and this is a message to Eric the Shill, we really need to get on our baronies and start cutting up Gitmo Nation, because he's right.
	Gitmo Nation Sprouts is now on record the longest country in the civilized world without a government.
	And I would call that a problem.
	You know, they had a contest on Twitter, of all places.
	Baron von Pelsmacher sent this to me.
	Come up with the best song for the current state of the government in Belgium.
	And people were tweeting their answers.
	I have a couple of them here.
	We have...
	Hold on.
	Stupid Safari.
	Uh...
	U2, With or Without Gov.
	We have Just Can't Get No Gov from Depeche Mode.
	This is a No Gov song from Public Image Limited.
	No Gov, No Cry from Bob Marley.
	Smells Like No Gov, Nirvana.
	No Gov, Bloody No Gov, U2. No Gov Today, Herman's Hermits.
	They're creative there in Belgium.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	So that wraps up, unfortunately, that wraps up the giving levels that you've supported us with this week.
	Not as good as we'd hoped it to be, but we know that you're doing the best that you can, and everything you can do and more is obviously appreciated.
	Dvorak.org slash NA Or channeldvorak.com.
	We do not take commercials, nor will we ever.
	We'd rather just not do the show, because it interrupts, and we wouldn't be able to talk about the things we talk about on this program, and we're not corrupted like every other media, including your public media, which is probably the most corrupt and the worst.
	So please consider supporting the show in any form you can.
	We've got our 281 Club open.
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	$11.11 a month program.
	And so we can continue to bring you this programming and the type of insight that you will get nowhere else.
	And at least we call it out.
	Or as Anderson Cooper would say, keeping him honest.
	We're keeping them honest.
	Keeping them honest.
	He's got an email, by the way, from, before we go to the birthday and knighthood, from Alexander Ohmhoff, one of our listeners in the chat room, and he says there's proof, he's got proof from Google, that such a thing as a travel document or transportation letter, when a permanent resident of the United States for some reason is without documents.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Why don't you print that out and take that to passport control, see how you do.
	Yeah.
	And make sure you've got a hotel room for the next show, because we're going to need it.
	I'm going to sing along.
	It's a birthday, birthday!
	On no agenda!
	There you go.
	So, quick birthdays.
	Alexis Richardson says happy birthday to Clint Strassner.
	Happy 23rd birthday today, and we'd also like to congratulate our...
	Our new knight will be knighting momentarily.
	His birthday is tomorrow up there in the North Pole in Santa Claus Land.
	Snotterstain, happy birthday from your buddies at No Agenda.
	And let's get out of...
	Hey, get your stick off the ice for a second, John.
	We need it here.
	I have to bring the small one.
	It's such a pain with the TSA. Snotterstain, step forward, my friend, there with your...
	Bearskin Boots, as he's up, uh, way up north.
	Uh, he's been, uh, diligently supporting the show.
	His giving levels have been, uh, tallied up and now sufficient to, uh, become a Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	So, Snorristain, hereby, I knight thee.
	Sir, Snorristain, Knights of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	And, uh, come on over and have some hookers and blow here at the Knight Table.
	And he had a little note with his knighthood.
	He said, hey, for a request...
	Oh, first he said, I was in my cabin today.
	You know, he takes the snowmobile and the rifles as he speeds on up.
	He's always sending me beautiful pictures from up the North Pole.
	He says, two sets of polar bear tracks around.
	Exciting weekend ahead.
	Haven't heard from him since, by the way.
	And along with my knighthood, it would be very nice to hear our national anthem again.
	It has been a while, and I agree.
	And, well, when a knight calls out for requests like that, how can we refuse?
	Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for your Gitmo Nation national anthem.
	You may sing along if you so wish.
	In the morning, Gitmo Nation, we are all charged up to beat.
	Human resources and service in all lands and all ships at sea.
	From the east to west, down under to the lowlands and beyond.
	We are happy and distracted slaves.
	Hear our Yithmo Nation song.
	And let me do this for us here.
	So you're out there.
	And now, back to Real News.
	Only one reason for doing this story, I can do the voice.
	Larry King claims Pierce Morgan was oversold to the U.S. I told you.
	I told you.
	You nailed that one.
	Good prediction.
	They oversold him.
	I don't want to be horrible about him.
	I think he's a fine broadcaster.
	You told the BBC this, by the way.
	He's a fine broadcaster.
	I think they might have been better off starting quietly.
	They oversold him a bit.
	What?
	I think they pushed Larry out.
	He's certainly not bad.
	He's certainly an acceptable host.
	He asks good questions.
	Maybe he interrupts a little too much at times.
	I think he may have been oversold.
	They'll be asking for me back any minute now.
	I think they pushed Larry out.
	Of course they did.
	They wanted to get a whole lot of Brits on TV. We need a Brit.
	Quick few magic numbers which are worth mentioning.
	Boy, we've had...
	Okay, go on.
	Yeah, just a couple.
	It won't hurt you.
	The trade gap has widened in December.
	It swells to 33%.
	Oh, there's a little message there.
	The trade gap.
	Yeah.
	Trade gap or just the world trade gap?
	The trade gap with China or what?
	Well, I can check this out.
	I guess it's the trade.
	Is it just in and outgoing trade gap?
	Is that what it is?
	I guess.
	That must be it, yeah.
	Hold on.
	I'm opening up the article now.
	It's getting worse.
	Yeah, it swelled 33%.
	U.S. trade deficit widened in December to its highest level in four months, the government said on Friday in a report that also showed the annual trade gap expanded nearly 33% as 2010 imports from China hit record levels.
	So, of course, China's in there, but a little message there.
	33%, whoo!
	And there's been a couple of reports which I didn't get to.
	This is the 33 miners.
	You'll recall that on the very day that the mothership was supposed to appear, they had this saying, now we've got to watch all these miners.
	So there was two very funny things.
	Did you know that in that so-called live broadcast, they actually had a whole bunch of pre-recorded video that was rolling?
	This has now come out.
	One of the women who was there wrote a book about this, and she said something went wrong with the Pegasus, another fine New World Order naming convention there.
	The Pegasus pod broke.
	And they didn't want to screw it up because this was supposed to be the big glorious moment, the 33 Chileans coming out of the mine.
	So they re-ran tape during the live broadcast.
	Remember it took a long time?
	They basically just...
	They lied to us.
	Really?
	So it's like one of those big parades where they just go around the block and get back in line and walk past the stands?
	Or like the moon landing.
	Your choice.
	But there was another little problem.
	They had marijuana and porn down there.
	They had to clean it all up before they brought them up.
	They were sitting down there.
	They had weed and porn.
	No wonder they were like, hey, I don't want to go out, man.
	It's good down here.
	It's going to be bright.
	It's going to be really bright.
	Oh, wow.
	So the thing malfunctioned when the public was, with the news media surrounding this event, the thing, you're telling me this.
	The media is giving us a live broadcast of this rescue and the thing malfunctions but they decide for whatever reason not to show us that and just fake it.
	Correct.
	What was the point of this?
	Well, the point was, A, probably ratings to keep you watching.
	Well, I think, don't you think you'd want to watch more if the thing was busted?
	I think that they were actually worried that it wouldn't happen, that something would go wrong.
	So they were going to go through with the whole thing and bring up all 33, which is the same guy coming up and down and up and down on a loop and pretend they're all up when there's 29 of them or whatever back in the bottom.
	What were they going to do if the thing never worked right?
	Well, obviously, I think it was probably planned for it all to work right.
	So basically, it was a big staged show.
	Yeah.
	Well, exactly.
	I told you why it was a staged show, but yeah, it was a staged show.
	Yeah, let me find the...
	Well, that is kind of real news.
	It was a, you know...
	But, you know, play the real news thing again.
	Okay.
	And now, back to real news.
	So I have to ask you this.
	Since you have visited with the Queen...
	Wait a minute.
	Okay.
	Oh, that one was not the best.
	It sounded like an alien was saying, ask Adam.
	So, uh...
	Did you get invited to the wedding?
	Yeah.
	I haven't been to the mailbox in two days, so maybe it's there.
	No, of course not!
	So I'm looking, I'm watching, there's a big bunch of BBCs all over this, of course.
	It's important.
	So there are going to be 1,900 guests, right?
	Yeah.
	If you maybe didn't know this because you're not following it closely enough.
	The wedding we're talking about is, what's his name, and Kate Middleton.
	Bonnie, Prince, Charlie, or Harry, or Jim.
	I don't know, who's the guy that's...
	Jim.
	It's Jim.
	Jim and Kate.
	Prince Jim.
	His Royal Highness.
	Ladies and gentlemen.
	Wait a minute.
	Ladies and gentlemen, His Royal Highness Prince Jim of Wales.
	Okay.
	So, apparently, so they...
	So there's going to be certain members of parliament and the royal family and heads of state from a bunch of different people, which is going to total...
	This is the way it's breaking down.
	900 people are coming from the royal family, Prince Jim's pals, I guess it's drinking buddies.
	Yeah.
	And a bunch of heads of state and a few lords and a couple of members of, I guess, the House of Commons.
	But Obama isn't invited, as far as I know.
	Probably not, but that's 900.
	And then the other 1,000?
	Kate Middleton's friends.
	Oh, hell yeah.
	That's the way it breaks down.
	Yeah.
	Her girls.
	Absolutely.
	Huh.
	How many people have a thousand friends?
	It doesn't make any sense to me.
	I have a thousand friends on Facebook.
	Maybe that is all her Facebook friends.
	Maybe that's who's coming.
	You should have friended her then.
	Maybe she posted an event on Facebook.
	So why is anybody interested in this?
	Duh.
	Duh!
	The distraction of the week on the agenda.
	Don't throw your shoes!
	Did you know that there's riots going on in, you know, these same kind of, you know, universal riots going on in Russia right now?
	Yes, I do.
	In fact, Gorbachev, what did he say?
	I have it here under, what color is your revolution?
	I think it was Gorbachev said, yeah, Gorbachev warns of Egypt-style Russian revolt.
	Why?
	I mean, these things seem, by the way, as far as I'm concerned, every time I see one, they all look like this.
	They look like cookie-cutter revolts.
	I mean, obviously, I don't know who, you know, if it's our people or somebody behind them.
	Well, let's not forget that you said it exactly right.
	They look like cookie-cutter revolts.
	They are being portrayed by our media as cookie-cutter revolts.
	I think that is...
	What you need to look at is how they're being shown on television.
	You're not actually there.
	You're not actually boots on the ground.
	I'm getting very different reports from people who are boots on the ground than from what's being shown on television.
	So, you know, what you're seeing may not be the...
	Big surprise there.
	Well, I'm sure it's not.
	Big surprise.
	We have to assume that.
	I mean, you sat there and waited for 33 Chilean minors to come out and you were watching a rerun.
	So, what do you know?
	Yeah, no, you have to make the assumption that something's fake, something's phony, something's bogus going on.
	You know what I think?
	I think that what is really happening, everywhere except Gitmo Nation United States, because we do have, I mean, let's face it, Rod Stewart just had a new baby.
	I mean, gotta go home and watch E! News.
	How old is that guy?
	Yeah, really.
	He doesn't have a stick on the ice.
	I think everywhere around the world people are revolting because they're sick and tired of this crap.
	They are literally sick, literally tired, they're malnourished, they're overworked, and they're tired of their elites running the show, and they're waking up, and they're figuring it out, and they're taken to the streets, and they're pissed off.
	In Britain, I mean, it's happening everywhere.
	After the news came out that Barclays, after posting multi-billion pound profits, only paid $113 million in taxes, the uppity slaves at Gitmo Nation East went, oh really?
	And they just blocked all the Barclays banks.
	They just said, we're having a sit-in.
	Screw you!
	You're not going to do any business here.
	Are you out of your mind?
	Of course that doesn't get any play.
	We can't have it look like there's an actual revolt here.
	Oh, man.
	I'm telling you, it's happening everywhere.
	Yeah, it's Gorbachev who said he's ashamed the way Russia is run today, warned that the Kremlin could face an Egypt-style uprising.
	Oh, you mean an Egypt-style uprising.
	Lambasted the Kremlin for eroding the free media elections.
	You know, people are not entirely stupid.
	Really, John.
	I mean, you know, they just aren't.
	But I think that they are being portrayed as pretty stupid on television.
	And, of course, the only thing we can talk about here is about the CBS news reporter who was sexually assaulted.
	That's the whole conversation.
	That's the only thing that's important.
	And, of course, you can't go against that because you get emails like, Hey, man, if that was your wife or your daughter, you wouldn't talk that way.
	You're missing the point.
	You're totally missing the point.
	So we're being duped.
	You and I are being duped.
	Oh, no, we always assume that.
	Just turn off the TV, because what you're seeing is not reality.
	You're not seeing the real story.
	And the world is in revolt.
	I really think it is.
	And they're getting ready here.
	They've got the FEMA camps ready.
	The U.S. Army has just said, hey, we want permission to use machine gun rubber bullets for crowd control.
	Machine gun rubber bullets is great.
	Yeah.
	Why bother with a single shot, man?
	That's a pain in the ass.
	Just mow them down.
	Mow them down.
	Most of those rubber bullets are actually steel bullets coated with rubber.
	You can get killed by one of those things, blinded for sure.
	U.S. Army is planning to field rubber bullets for machine guns.
	Military officials claim the ammunition will allow them to more effectively quell violent protests without loss of human life.
	Yeah.
	It's funny!
	This is just funny.
	It is funny.
	I advise people to stay away from these protests.
	We can't, and I can't, and don't listen to what John says.
	We have to have violent protests or nothing will ever change.
	That's what Matt Damon said in that movie.
	Matt's going to be there with us.
	I think we've agreed on that earlier in the show, so you've changed your mind already.
	A lot of people wanted us to talk.
	It's a little complicated, but there's two things going on with the state of spy nation America.
	One is this H.B. Gary company.
	And apparently a whole slew of emails of theirs was released on the internet.
	And it shows how they've been infiltrating social networks, have been breaking into people's computers, trying to bring down anyone doing anything, essentially.
	It's the counterintelligence.
	And you should read these articles.
	I've posted links to them in the show notes.
	Nothing new here, by the way.
	But, you know, gee, I haven't heard CNN talk about it.
	Interestingly enough, they've got online persona management services.
	Which companies sell to them.
	So what they do is they get like 50 different profiles on Facebook and one guy can manage 50 different profiles and basically manipulate a social network crowd into doing something or going somewhere.
	So, yeah, really.
	We didn't expect that.
	Yeah, it's just a shocker.
	Anyone would dream that one up.
	But I'll be watching C-SPAN today, so I'll have a...
	Wait a minute, maybe it's Thursday, not today.
	When was this posted?
	17th?
	Maybe it's already out there.
	I've got to find this.
	The FBI, in particular General Counsel Valerie Caproni of the Caproni crime family...
	Is calling...
	They say, we've got a problem, this going dark problem.
	I.e., you know, people like Adam Curry and people who listen to No Agenda sending PGP encrypted emails back and forth.
	This is a real problem.
	And they want every single device manufacturer...
	Look, if you want to have encryption, that's fine.
	As long as you can hand it to us in plain text is literally the quote from her.
	They want back doors and everything.
	Skype, everything has to have a back door so the FBI can get in.
	And you know what?
	They're going to push this through.
	It's going to happen.
	It will happen.
	Well, this has been going on since the 90s.
	And it hasn't happened yet.
	Yeah.
	But Lucy's in charge now, my friend.
	There's a new sheriff in town.
	So...
	And there's more and more digital inspections now at customs, and it'll be interesting to see you come back without your passport, where they copy your hard drive.
	And this is legal, of course.
	We've been through this.
	We've discussed this on the show.
	Completely legal.
	But it's now almost standard operating procedure to just copy your drive.
	Just in case, you know, just to protect you from terrorists.
	Yeah, it's protecting me.
	So we'll have to see what happens when you come back.
	Yeah, that'll be kind of interesting because it's going to be with a different document.
	I also have the...
	There's also going to be a hassle because the...
	I'm sure passport control on the Spanish side is going to have something to say.
	Yeah, I know exactly what they're going to say.
	Yeah.
	No service for you!
	No service for you!
	Let's make these guys suffer another day or two.
	So that'll be a hassle.
	Well, I was going to say, I have two, since I knew that you weren't going to have clips, I have two longer clips that I thought were interesting to listen to, and it might be just fun to change the format a little bit and just, like three minutes each, two separate topics, and just listen to them, both propaganda, but different propaganda than we're used to.
	Well, are you going to set it up?
	Yeah, so the first one, you know, as I was talking last week on the show about this Budapest cybercrime convention and Hillary Clinton's internet freedom, I got a very thoughtful note from one of our two listeners in Gitmo Nation's Stinky Cheese from Tristan.
	And he says, you know, it's so interesting.
	I was listening to you guys talk about that, and I came to the realization that this is already so in place in France.
	You can't say anything about Muslims.
	Your website gets taken down.
	People get arrested for this stuff.
	And I've just kind of become used to it.
	And he says, you kind of jarred me awake by reminding me.
	And this is really a huge problem, but it's going really unreported in France because you can't say anything.
	You can't say, hey, these Muslims are a problem and they're scaring me.
	This is against the Budapest Convention, where this is the Council of Europe, so this was enacted in 2005, is when it was ratified in Gitmo Nation, United States of Europe.
	And he said, you know, it really, it happens before you know it, and he says, you know, you've got to warn people about this.
	And I get this video...
	I think it's a Christian broadcasting company.
	I think we've showed a video of this guy before.
	But this one goes a little bit further.
	It's documentary style.
	They interview a number of French intellectuals.
	Now, I have no idea who they are.
	I don't know the validity of these guys or not.
	But the story tells a story.
	Of France, which I don't...
	You don't think of this when you think of France.
	I think you and I both know two things.
	One, there's been a huge European multicultural push.
	I know this from my own experience in the Netherlands, where it has failed.
	And you go to Gitmo Nation Lowlands, and it's hushed undertones.
	Everyone's like, well, yeah, the Moroccans, that's a little bit of a problem.
	But you can't really talk about it, because then you're chiat builders and then you're a racist.
	But in France, it's been ongoing for many, many years, and we've seen some of the riots coming out of the neighborhoods that are predominantly Muslim.
	But I wanted to play this little piece, and is that okay with you?
	We just listen to it and then discuss it afterwards?
	Play and discuss.
	In a northern district of Paris, a brave shopkeeper named Marie Nege Sardin guards her little newsstand like a military fort.
	Remember, this is propaganda, okay?
	It's religious propaganda, but I think there are some factoids in here that are interesting, and I won't interrupt.
	As a white woman, she is a minority in this mostly Arab-speaking Muslim area.
	She's been the victim of dozens of crimes.
	She's been raped, robbed, and had acid thrown at her.
	She says it's a campaign to get her to leave, but Nez, the daughter of a French soldier, calls her little shop a piece of French soil inside occupied territory, and she says she will not leave.
	I can't bear to tell my future grandchildren that I have done nothing to preserve our French values.
	So staying here is marking our territory.
	German Chancellor Angela Merkel now admits that multiculturalism has failed.
	British Prime Minister David Cameron has said it too.
	And they were talking specifically about immigrants from the Muslim world.
	The left's multicultural dream in Europe was to give Islam a special place in society with no requirement to assimilate.
	Multiculturalism has encouraged Muslim radicalism and Sharia law.
	It's leading to a new tribalism, with groups organizing along religious and ethnic lines.
	In cities across Europe, only the police stand in the way of open street warfare between groups in Paris, in Sweden, in Denmark, and in Britain.
	France has some 751 no-go zones.
	The French government labels them sensitive urban zones.
	But what they are is dangerous to whites and non-Muslims who enter.
	French intellectual Guy Millier.
	It means that it's part of the country where the police don't go, the firemen don't go, and even doctors and ambulances don't go.
	Accepted they had no other choice.
	And it's like that because these parts of the country are in the hands of drug traffickers, gangs and imams.
	And that's led to the formation of groups who oppose Islam and want to protect the white native French.
	The leader of one of those groups, Philip Bardone of Bloc Identitaire, told me they're training their members in hand-to-hand combat.
	He sees a dark future.
	Now our government, our politics are leading us to war.
	Vardone complains that the white majority is treated like a minority by the government, marginalized politically and victimized by immigrant crime.
	So there is in one hand the political speech saying, okay, everything is okay.
	Oh, it's so good to feel the difference, to live together.
	It's communion.
	It's perfect.
	And on the other hand, you got the truth of what people are feeling.
	They are feeling like if they were themselves foreigners in their own country.
	France has made some high-profile moves against Islamization, such as outlawing the veil.
	But in Marseille, we saw Muslim women wearing full burqas in front of French police officers, who did nothing.
	And we saw Muslims blocking the streets illegally for Friday prayers.
	Marseille is France's second city, and today it's one-quarter Muslim.
	But there are parts of Marseille, like this area, that are almost completely Muslim.
	Some of the no-go zones function as microstates and are governed by or under the influence of Islamic Sharia law.
	French journalist and author Alexandre Delval.
	Yes, we see our society is splitting and dividing between those who are Muslims, those who are blacks, and those who are white.
	I asked Delval where he thinks the situation is headed.
	It's very simple to know it.
	It's a civil war.
	It will not be a real civil war like in Spain during Franco, you know, in those years.
	No, it will be a kind of local civil wars.
	I think one day it will be so unbearable, this situation, that the state will be obliged to send the army.
	There are today in Europe many victims of multiculturalism like Marie-Neige Sardin.
	People without political voices.
	People afraid to leave their homes.
	Marie told us she could not just surrender.
	Do we want our daughters to wear veils in the future?
	Do we want them to live under Sharia law?
	Do we want stoning to be practiced?
	No, it is not possible.
	I want to be the symbol of no, the symbol of stop.
	Dale Hurts.
	So, we have no agenda on this show, and this is obvious propaganda, but you can't ignore some of the facts that are being told here, which I think is just interesting, John.
	Yeah, well, the one fact is that woman should move.
	Yes, she should consider moving.
	That's a good point.
	Because I agree.
	In fact, I was going to make one of my predictions on this show that because of all the event that's supposed to happen in Spain at the 30th of February, I think it's France that's going to have some, you know, once these riots go from place to place to place, kind of like riot time, I think the French are going to have some, you know, they've done it before.
	They've already had a couple of practice rounds.
	With these suburb riots outside of Paris and these Muslims that have got carried away, burning the place down.
	I think that's going to happen again.
	There's more now.
	And it's going to be...
	I think one commentator was correct.
	I think they're going to bring the army in and they're going to start to take care of some of these people in some way, shape, or form.
	And that woman will be in the middle of it.
	She's going to get killed.
	Right.
	Well, these types of messages, propaganda or not, are coming out of more countries.
	This is what Geert Wilders is saying about Gitmo Nation lowlands.
	And a large percentage of the population voted for him.
	Whether you think he's good or not, people voted for him for his basic message.
	And he's now, of course, being sued for hate speech against the...
	The religion of Islam, I think.
	I'm not sure of the exact details.
	Yeah, something like that.
	This is definitely doing something wrong.
	Well, I think this has gotten kind of out of control because of the...
	I think, as Cameron and I guess Merkel both said, this multi-culti thing...
	It has been kind of backfiring, and I think it backfires in the United States on some level, because the United States was never multicultural.
	It was supposed to be a big melting pot, even though it never fully was, but at least that was the goal.
	And there are lots of cultures that came over, the Polish, the Italians, the Irish, who everybody hated them.
	But they did what they could to absorb themselves into the society as a whole.
	They wouldn't let their kids speak Italian.
	They had to speak English all the time.
	Now you're bilingual in California with everybody speaking Mexican.
	I have to go learn Spanish if I want to get by in California.
	And you're right in the middle of it.
	Oh, no.
	We have the same.
	We have the same.
	Luckily, Mickey speaks Spanish.
	I don't speak a word.
	But I'm good at deciphering.
	I can hear pretty well.
	So you can boss the housekeeper around then, right?
	No, I don't boss the housekeeper.
	She's really sweet.
	She's sweet.
	Aha!
	You do have a Mexican housekeeper.
	Yes, I do.
	I didn't know that.
	Yes, I do.
	Well, of course.
	Yeah, what are you going to do?
	But anyway, it'll shake out.
	The real thing that's going to happen, I'm convinced of him being here in Spain, it's very obvious because there's all this unemployment.
	And everybody, by the way...
	Whenever I joke about it with any Brit or any Spanish guy, either one, I say the same thing, and it's so obvious to me, and they say, yep, you're right, which is that Spain, and I assume the same with Portugal, has soaked the EU... For all the money they could get to fix the place up, and I'm telling you, the place is fixed up.
	I mean, it's fantastic.
	They got new roads, this, they got new that.
	I went out to Toledo, which is a town, historic capital of Spain, the 10th century, 11th century, I guess.
	And Garcia was with me, a couple people from Twit, and showing us around.
	And we needed to get back.
	And so he said, you want to go faster?
	There's a toll road that they built with EU money.
	I swear to God, this toll road is 80 kilometers long.
	Yeah, it's beautiful.
	I know.
	You've been on it?
	Yep.
	The toll road on the way back to Spain...
	It's four-lane, beautiful, absolutely top drawer.
	There was not, except at the very end, there was not one car on our side in front of us or behind us for 80 kilometers, which is about 60 miles.
	60 miles, we were the only car on the road.
	On the other side, coming our way, three cars went by.
	Garcia says, well, you know, nobody wants to take this road because you have to pay and nobody's got any money.
	So they won't pay the five bucks, and it turns out that the road was built knowing this was going to happen, but the government guaranteed a certain profit no matter if anybody took the road or not.
	And locally, apparently, some guy got a ticket by some police guy on this giant road, on this toll road, for doing like 160 or something like that.
	Kilometers to an hour.
	And he went and fought it in court.
	He says the reason for the speeding laws is to protect other people.
	There's a bunch of reasons for public safety.
	He says there's nobody on this road.
	Who am I hurting by going 160?
	And the judge...
	I gave it to him.
	Yeah, you're right.
	So there's no cops on this thing either anymore because it was the point.
	I just want to make a point to the chat room.
	I don't have like a full-time housekeeper, okay?
	A lady and her daughter come in on Fridays and they vacuum and clean stuff.
	It's not like, hey, our donations go to Adam's Slaves.
	Yeah, please.
	Yeah.
	And yes, she is here illegally.
	Yes, I'm sure she's an illegal, because I remember, because Mickey was like, no, I don't want to give these people...
	The fact of the matter is, it's all you can afford.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Good point.
	Mickey said, you please bring your passport, I just want to make a copy, know who I'm dealing with, even though it was recommended by our landlady, you know, the porn queen.
	I'm in great shape here, everybody.
	Yeah, I'm renting from a pornographer.
	I'm renting a house known as the Vivid Entertainment Set, and I've got an illegal cleaning my house once a week.
	Yeah, I'm living up the high life here.
	Anyway, so she came in.
	Yeah, I don't have a passport.
	Alright.
	We pay in cash, okay?
	I don't give her blankets or water.
	I just give her my cash.
	Jesus.
	You know, so I was talking to Mimi the other day and she was telling me about how Missouri...
	Missouri apparently has all these...
	Illegal immigrant laws that are extremely onerous, like ten times more than what Arizona was doing, and it's gotten zero publicity, and it was actually in play when Arizona was making a big fuss, and she was saying, I don't understand why everyone makes a big fuss about Arizona.
	Nobody said crap about Missouri, and I said, because there's no drugs running through Missouri.
	They have to keep the drug routes open, and they have to keep Arizona to calm down.
	I am blown away by our producers today, John.
	This is like some crazy thing to have someone come in and clean your house once a week.
	Is that like an elitist thing now?
	Am I now an elite?
	No, it's actually pretty common, especially in California.
	I mean, really?
	Wow.
	Unbelievable.
	No, it's just a chat room.
	It is not just a chat room.
	Last time I went out of the chat room, I got kicked out.
	Yeah, really.
	Man, it's like, you got kicked out by Eric.
	That was even funnier.
	It's not him.
	Kick him out.
	Ha ha ha.
	Alright, I've got another piece of propaganda I'd like to share with you.
	That was very well done as propaganda, it's very obvious.
	Yeah, very well done as a piece of propaganda.
	But, you know, there's probably a couple of tidbits.
	You're right.
	I mean, you can get tidbits out of these things, as long as you know what you're dealing with.
	So this other bit of tidbit comes from a guy who made no secret of the fact that he's from the Salt Institute.
	And he comes out, and this is at the press club.
	And he comes out and he does this speech.
	He's a scientist.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	Science!
	And he says, you know, these national dietary guidelines that have been put out there and, of course, being propagated by the First Lady, he says it's actually, it will have an exact opposite result.
	It will make people more obese.
	It will cause more diabetes.
	And this is a shorter clip, a minute 17.
	Now remember, this is propaganda.
	The guy is from the Salt Institute and he goes into a lot of, you know, this has nothing to do with the fact that I'm from the Salt Institute.
	But if you go to the Salt Institute's website, they do have all the links to the research and the documents.
	And I thought it was very interesting because, of course, the whole idea is we need to lower our blood pressure, if you want to lower it, less salt.
	And you'll be much healthier for it.
	That is the entire push from the current administration.
	And he says, you know what, it's discriminatory because for some people it actually has exactly the opposite effect.
	And I'll let him explain exactly how all this works.
	But what you haven't been told...
	Is that although 30% of the population will drop their blood pressure 2 to 6 millimeters, 20% of the population, by reducing salt by two-thirds, will increase their blood pressure by 2 to 6 millimeters.
	Because our response to salt and salt reduction is heterogeneous.
	Now, and the rest of the 50% of the population won't sow any effect at all.
	So, in fact, have the dietary guidelines become an instrument of discriminatory policy, where one portion of the population will apparently benefit to some extent, even if it's very small, while another portion of the population is made to suffer?
	I mean, this is a conundrum that has never been discussed in the dietary guidelines, and the evidence is there.
	By the way, I want to say something, that this paper is up on the Salt Institute website, and I think it will probably be on the Western Press.
	Now, do you think that's true, that for some people it actually, he says that sodium is heterogeneous?
	I didn't quite understand the terminology there.
	Well, I mean, there has been some studies recently that show that the sodium thing is overblown.
	We talked about it on this show a couple of times, and we discussed the studies and there's a link somewhere.
	Yeah.
	First of all, I want to say, you know, there's the oil industry, there's the Soul Institute, there's the soybean people.
	Everybody, you know, has their little group that does research that's kind of biased toward, you know, promoting what they sell.
	But it doesn't mean they're wrong.
	And then everyone will say, well, the oil companies, you know, Global Warming, their studies are just trying to screw us because they want to sell more oil.
	They don't care about the public.
	It's not necessarily the case.
	I mean, some of these guys actually have more money to do better studies.
	And yeah, some of the drug companies may quash the studies when they come out weird.
	And there's that.
	But the fact of the matter is you can't go 100% against somebody that's promoting their business.
	Because what are they supposed to do?
	Just shut up?
	Yeah, slave.
	So they have to say something, especially when they honestly believe that, and I think these people are sincere, and I suspect this guy is.
	Yeah, it makes sense to me.
	That doesn't make sense.
	So this is a two-parter.
	So that was kind of the scientific part.
	But then he starts to throw some common sense out there.
	I'm like, wow, this is very interesting.
	Listen to this.
	Base my concerns on the peer-reviewed evidence.
	Of course, it's like climbing the gate here.
	Peer-reviewed!
	Yeah, okay, whatever.
	But listen to his theory.
	That the Salt Institute did not support or write, but is out there in the scientific literature, and that has been ignored by the dietary guidelines.
	For instance, a recent report came out of Harvard Medical School.
	Let me see if I can get that one out.
	Of Harvard Medical School linking reduced salt intakes to an increase in insulin resistance.
	The condition that's a precursor to type 2 diabetes.
	The title of the paper doesn't really mean words.
	Low salt diets increase insulin resistance in healthy subjects.
	Healthy people were placed on a low salt diet, And developed insulin resistance within seven days of going on that low-salt diet.
	The other half of the group, which was placed on a regular salt diet, also healthy, did not develop any negative consequences.
	Seven days is just about an immediate response.
	So there's another piece of this, which I don't have, where he says that this is a big problem when old people go into an old folks' home They immediately reduce their salt intake, because that does all kinds of stuff to your bones, and this is why you have so many hip and ankle and other fractures at retirement homes, is because they immediately go to a low-sodium diet.
	Now, now listen to his logic, which I thought was very interesting.
	...going on a low-salt diet.
	Now, wouldn't you think that such dramatic clinical evidence coming from such an authoritative source would be seriously considered in making recommendations to the American public?
	And it wasn't.
	According to the latest evidence, the recommended reduction in salt intake may very well promote an epidemic of diabetes to accompany the epidemic that we now have of obesity.
	And speaking of the obesity epidemic, the reduced salt guidelines will worsen, not improve the ongoing obesity crisis.
	Now, this may sound counterintuitive to a number of people, but please let me explain.
	People will consume more calories just to satisfy their innate salt appetite.
	We have decades of animal feeding experience as a foundation for this statement.
	And a great deal of salt, as a matter of fact, as much salt goes into the animal feeding world as goes into consumer salt.
	Well, what we do there is, in fact, we add salt to certain feeds to make sure that animals don't consume too much of them.
	And if we want them to eat more feed, what we do is remove the salt.
	So, aside from salt, we have many, many other examples that we could look at.
	When light beer was produced, people drank more, of course.
	When we cut the sugar out of soft drinks, people swilled a great deal more of the low-calib beverages.
	When we cut the fat out of foods, people gorged themselves on low-fat, no-fat foods to the extent of ushering in the current obesity epidemic.
	Wow, so that makes sense to me.
	If you want to really kill people, take the salt out and they'll just eat themselves as much as they can because they have a craving for it.
	Well, that's kind of interesting because, one, I always thought that the fast food hamburgers had too much salt, but I could be wrong.
	But last night I was floating around the downtown squares of Old Madrid and I went and had dinner at a tapas place.
	And the first thing they always ask you if you want some of their Iberian ham, which is just dynamite.
	So you get a big plate of this ham and there's one appetizer there.
	I kind of ate a bunch of the ham, which is extremely salty.
	And then I had, like, part of the appetizer, and before I could even want to order anything else, I was full.
	Right.
	I mean, I just felt like I didn't want to eat anymore.
	I was thinking, geez, I thought I was really hungry when I came in here, but I'm not hungry now.
	And I think it was the ham was so salty that it was like, you know, just...
	I think there was something to that idea, because I've noticed this before, you eat something that's salty, and it's just like you kind of, like, don't really want to eat anything.
	Well, I find it highly interesting that no wonder Walmart is on board.
	They're like, yeah, let's do this.
	Let's make it taste like crap.
	Everyone will think, oh, this is really good for me.
	But because it tastes like crap, because there's less salt, people will be craving for more salt and they'll eat more Walgreens products or Walmart.
	To me, I'm like, wow, what a perfect scam.
	What a perfect setup.
	Well, it could be also the body will crave X amount of salt, so it'll keep eating until it gets that much salt, and if there's half as much, you'll eat twice as much.
	Right, but that's exactly what the guy's saying, and I guess he's saying, you know, when we went to light beer, people drank more beer because it was so light.
	Well, I've seen that happen.
	You know, we did low-sugar, low-carb drinks.
	Everyone started drinking more of it.
	I don't think these companies love that.
	Do they know this?
	I mean, it's possible they actually know this in pushing this agenda.
	I think it's highly possible, and I was just like, wow, that's an eye-opener.
	But we'll need some...
	I like it.
	Yeah, I like it, too.
	We'll get some insiders.
	It makes sense at some level, at some screwball level.
	And, you know, I don't think it explains everything, but it's actually quite interesting.
	So I've had an ongoing encrypted email exchange with an insider at one of the climate calculation centers, data centers.
	He's a programmer, engineer, and he runs the models.
	And some of these climate change models, and he's actually working on some of the models for IPCC-5 for the new proof that we're all going to die because we're not napping for humanity.
	And hold on, this is actually under the...
	Got to open up the section properly.
	So this is, you can imagine, this has been a phenomenally interesting email exchange.
	Of course, I can't mention him, and he's sending me encrypted emails.
	I'm encrypting back, because the guy could lose his job very, very quickly.
	Let me lead in to this with a clip from Dr.
	John Holdren, who is our El Presidente's senior advisor on all things science.
	Hiya!
	And, of course, how upset he is with how poorly we're doing on combating climate change.
	With respect to the issue of climate change, we didn't get as much done in the first two years as the president had hoped, as I had hoped, as his other advisors in the energy and environment domain would have wished.
	And what we didn't get above all is we didn't get the comprehensive energy and climate change legislation that the President had hoped for, which we wanted to include a price on greenhouse gas emissions.
	We wanted to see a cap-and-trade We didn't get it.
	And I think that's a setback.
	The president thinks it's a setback.
	He continues to talk about his goals for reducing United States greenhouse gas emissions by 17% below the 2005 levels in 2020 and by 83% in 2050.
	But we're having to figure out how to...
	Did you hear that?
	83% by 2050?
	I thought that was only crazy Europe that had that.
	It's ridiculous.
	It's impossible.
	The first part of that trajectory, without having a price on greenhouse gas emissions, seemed very unlikely that we would get legislation of that sort out of the current Congress.
	And so in the meantime, what we're doing is we're investing in clean energy technology.
	We're using the authorities that we already have under statute, including the authority that the Environmental Protection Administration has to regulate greenhouse gases.
	Are you concerned or even irritated by the upcoming congressional hearings which will question the very science of climate change?
	Well, the Congress has made very clear, or members of Congress have made clear, that they intend to hold hearings on climate change science.
	I look forward to those hearings.
	By the way, you hear that?
	They're going to have hearings on climate change science.
	This is a little interesting tidbit there.
	...opportunity to put the facts, the science, out there.
	I think any objective look...
	At what science has to say about climate change.
	Science!
	Ought to be sufficient to persuade reasonable people that the climate is...
	Reasonable people.
	...changing in unusual ways, that humans are responsible for a substantial part of that change, and that those changes are already doing harm and will do more unless and until we start to reduce our emissions.
	So I bring this up, John, because I looked into Holdren's background.
	And as I'm going back and forth with our no agenda leaker, which I think he just, our leaker's where it depends, but it's a different kind of leaking.
	And it turns out this guy doesn't believe in peak oil, this Holdren guy.
	In fact, he's come out as a staunch opponent of peak oil.
	That's interesting.
	Well, it is interesting for a number of reasons.
	So I go back and forth with our friend, and two things come up.
	Number one, they program all these climate models in Fortran, which is kind of funny.
	It's like a step below COBOL. And guess what's going to happen next year when their new computers are supposed to come in?
	Guess what's going to be in there?
	What?
	IBM Watson, of course.
	See, this is how the propaganda works.
	First, you show that this thing can't be wrong.
	This thing is awesome.
	It wins Jeopardy.
	It's fantastic.
	You've got to love IBM Watson.
	It has a personality.
	It talks to you.
	It's fantastic.
	And now it's going to actually come out and say, I have predicted that climate change is real.
	You must be careful, humans.
	We must reduce all greenhouse gas emissions by 83% by 2050.
	Final Jeopardy answer is, I guarantee you this is going to happen.
	Watson will be on television talking to us about climate change because no one believes the politicians but Watson.
	I mean, how can you argue with a Jeopardy winner?
	Let's be honest.
	So, IBM is up for the contracts for the new climate change computers.
	That's number one.
	And I have a tip.
	I have a tip for everybody.
	If you are in a conversation, we should put this in one of our emails, John, if you agree with it.
	If you, and I verified this with our insider, peak oil, of course, is perpendicular to greenhouse gas emission reductions.
	And I think that most people who believe in man-made climate change, the climate is changing, no doubt about it, but we've got the sun exploding, all kinds of stuff happening right now.
	But if you are in a conversation with someone, there's a 95% chance they also believe in peak oil.
	So this is how you trap them.
	You say, oh, you believe that we're responsible for all this climate change?
	Yes.
	You believe in peak oil?
	Yes.
	Well, then we don't have to worry, do we?
	Because we'll just run out of oil and then we'll have no problem.
	That's a good one.
	Seriously!
	No, I like it.
	It's a good talking point.
	And this is why Holdren is against it, because he knows, and they're always really quiet about it.
	You never hear people yelling, hooting, and hollering about peak oil.
	Because it's a logical inconsistency that he's spotted.
	Exactly, exactly.
	So he has to say, oh God, what are we going to do about this one?
	Yeah, but isn't it beautiful?
	You just say, hey, you believe, and I guarantee you people who believe in man-made global warming.
	No, no, you're right.
	Because it's the same mentality.
	Yep.
	The mentality is that everything we do is screwed up because we're humans and we're, you know, wrecking the place because we're just bad people.
	We're burning up fossil fuels.
	So you just say, you know what, we don't, and then problem solved.
	Peak oil?
	We'll run out of oil.
	Hey, we may have to walk unless we figure out battery technology, but we won't have to worry about greenhouse gas emissions because we won't have anything to burn, now will we?
	And watch people go, because it freezes your brain.
	And this Holdren, he's against it.
	Of course he is.
	He's a little late.
	That's funny because it's not going to work because there's no way that you can all of a sudden change gears amongst the climate change crowd, the warmest.
	You can't all of a sudden pull the plug on their very strong belief about peak oil.
	Exactly.
	Yeah, that's a good one.
	That's the winner for the show.
	As it comes to man-made global warming, which means because of our cars and all the oil we're burning, evil oil, evil oil, because of that, we're all going to die.
	So we have to reduce that.
	Well, with peak oil, great!
	Problem solved!
	It may suck because we won't have anything to drive, but we're not going to die from greenhouse gas global warming.
	We're not going to get flooded.
	It's all going to end.
	We're over the peak.
	That was in the 70s.
	But my final clip is...
	That's a good one.
	Yeah.
	I mentioned this to you.
	I said, well, we should do another...
	Talking points memo.
	Talking points.
	I said, let's do one on climate change.
	Although we didn't have that point to make.
	It's probably better I didn't do it.
	But it's kind of old news.
	No, but this is good.
	This is good.
	So...
	Let me just throw one out there.
	I haven't done anything really nutty today, so...
	Persistent Contracts.
	So many of the persistent jet contrails alarmists such as myself have been tracking this outfit called Evergreen Aviation.
	We've talked about it on the show before.
	It is a strong belief that these guys have all the contracts for these persistent jet contrails which seem to hang around a lot longer than normal vapor trail.
	And leave it to the idiots.
	They need to hire Hill& Knowlton.
	No, what they do is they get Final Cut Pro.
	They put together their own little industrial promo talking about how great they are.
	And listen to what they say in their own promotional material.
	You will love this.
	This is their new 747.
	Innovation has been Evergreen's hallmark.
	Evergreen's goal is to conduct air tanker operations at night while fires are most vulnerable.
	By utilizing the 747's advanced avionics, new night imaging technology, and the supertanker's state-of-the-art delivery system, allowing for higher drop altitudes.
	So they've got high drop altitudes at night, 747, this is their new, they're hyping this up, this is to show their military buddies.
	This landmark achievement is on the horizon.
	Yet the evergreen supertanker can do even more.
	Oh, what could it do?
	It's capable of responding on a moment's notice to various homeland security and environmental concerns.
	John, I'm so glad they're around.
	Homeland security and environmental concerns.
	Let's see.
	Able to carry chemical neutralizers.
	The evergreen supertanker is large enough to neutralize a chemical or biological attack on a major population center.
	So if they can do that, they can certainly do other things with it, I think.
	Or a military battlefield.
	Weather modification.
	Weather modification.
	There we go, everybody.
	And ocean fertilization are also viable missions within the capability of the supertanker.
	All right.
	There you go.
	Weather modification.
	If they're not doing it already, they're certainly selling that capability.
	Well, there you have it.
	That's the flooding in Pakistan.
	Chemtrails!
	All right.
	Well, that's kind of it for me.
	That's pretty good.
	You got anything else, boy?
	Let's see, look at my little book here.
	I did have my little book with me.
	Let's see, we got...
	I already got that.
	Berlin Film Festival wasn't covered very well.
	The winner of the Golden Bear went to the Iranians.
	Oh, really?
	Was Angelina Jolie there in the audience?
	No wonder it didn't get covered.
	I've never even heard of this film festival.
	No.
	And then there's a really good show I think we should consider the state should have.
	On Euronews, you've probably seen this.
	I've seen it before and I've always forgotten about it.
	On Euronews, they have a show called No Comment TV. Have you ever watched that?
	Yeah, where they just have raw video.
	Raw video.
	Yeah, and they don't say anything.
	Yeah, I love that.
	It's a great show.
	It's boring.
	It's boring.
	It's totally boring.
	But we'd watch it.
	We'd watch it all the time.
	Like, oh, man, did you see that?
	That was awesome.
	And then finally, you know, the funny thing about the coverage over here is they really, they actually not only go to the G20, I thought it was like locked so you couldn't see it or something.
	I thought it was like a Bilderberg meeting.
	But they got speeches and they have the people talking and you'd see all these different representatives from the different countries.
	And apparently everybody in the G20 is bent out of shape about China.
	Completely.
	But the Chinese basically told everyone to screw themselves, and they all said, you know, okay, we won't do much, but, you know, we still are concerned.
	And those Chinese are getting uppity, too.
	I guess they're trying to put the Jasmine Revolution into play, and now there's all this big propagandistic noise here.
	The Chinese search engines are blocking the word Jasmine so that they can't organize and cause a revolt.
	Yeah, that's probably true.
	But then they get it pretty locked down.
	And that's about it.
	Well, I do have one programming note before we go.
	So next Saturday, I'm sorry, yeah, next Saturday, we're going to have a telethon on the show, on the stream, noagendastream.com, and that will be Rhino the Bearded and Yellow Jacket are doing a telethon to raise the final funds needed for Rhino and that will be Rhino the Bearded and Yellow Jacket are doing a telethon
	This is so that we can continue with the excellent No Agenda shots he needs his school books paid for, and there'll be a rerun of that after the show on Sunday, so I want to make sure everyone tunes in for that.
	We'll probably even fire off the bat signal so that you...
	Are alerted to the telethon starting, so that should be fun.
	And hopefully you'll be back stateside, John.
	They'd love to have you do a call-in, and I promised I would ask you.
	Oh yeah, no problem.
	You heard it here first.
	So, um...
	Hold on.
	We've got a little house out here in the suburbs and...
	Settling in.
	Well, it'd be good to have you back stateside to have a little better connection.
	And I miss your clips.
	Even the...
	You know, I need like a shot of Hawaii Five-0 or something, man.
	I'll load up.
	Good.
	All right.
	Well, sorry about all your problems.
	If there's anything I can do from here or if any of our No Agenda producers, Boots on the Ground, can help you.
	Just send out a bat signal and let us know, okay?
	We'll be listening.
	Coming to you from Gitmo Nation West in the People's Republic of Southern California.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Gitmo Nation pickpocket, see the new name, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll talk to you again on Thursday right here on No Agenda.

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