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	Nuclear bomb kills 9 million in Pakistan, but there's good news!
	Hey, global warming is over everybody!
	Give me a denial!
	The science is in!
	Science!
	And of course they'd be blamed on the Taliban.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, February 27th, 2011, time for Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, episode 282.
	This is No Agenda.
	Not just reading the news from Twitter here at the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center and Get My Nation West, the People's Republic of Southern California.
	No, no, we're in the morning.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, and remember, red sky in the morning, sailors take warning.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	And in the morning to you.
	And in the morning to all the sailors at sea, at sea, with the red sky and all.
	Oh, was that what it was?
	I remember that.
	Red sky at morning, sailors take warning, red skies at night, sailors delight.
	Yeah.
	That's how it goes.
	Well, good morning.
	We had a red sky this morning, but I don't see any reason for taking warning, but we'll see.
	In the morning, indeed, to all the 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.
	Anyone napping for humanity, hams on the air, the human resources, throwing shoes and boots everywhere, especially those in the chat room at noagendastream.com, where we had our streamtacular yesterday, John.
	And the guys tried to get a hold of you like a million times.
	Oh, you know...
	I was here all day too.
	That was ridiculous.
	Yeah, well they emailed you a couple times.
	I never got any email.
	You don't get no spam either.
	Oh, I feel bad now.
	Yeah, you should feel bad.
	Even Doug showed up.
	Doug did an interview.
	Doug did?
	Doug, yeah.
	It was amazing.
	Yeah, Rhino the Bearded and Yellow Jacket.
	Raising funds for the No Agenda Shots.
	He's almost, I think he's got, I don't know, a little bit to go for his Kickstarter to be funded.
	And then he can continue to make the shots.
	It's good.
	And today's a repeat after the show.
	Just a programming note here.
	So, yeah, again, no news.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, that's the end of the show, ladies and gentlemen.
	You know, it's like...
	You know, I had a...
	Are we getting a little sick of this bull crap in the Middle East?
	Well, I had a little minor epiphany.
	And it came from...
	I was listening to our National Treasure.
	I've gotten into the habit of that.
	You know, I've been driving in the car a lot this past week.
	And we have, what is it, KKOQ or whatever, which is filled with commercials.
	I mean, underwriting.
	And On the Media was on, and they talked to this jabroni, who's been around in internet space.
	I think you've probably heard of him.
	His name is, I think it's Andy Carvin.
	Probably heard of this guy.
	No.
	So Andy Carvin is new at NPR, and his job, apparently, is to read tweets coming from Libya and report it as news.
	When did this begin?
	This started, I think, with CNN. Yeah, exactly.
	During the elections.
	But now, everything that he retweets is now being reported as news.
	Do you want to hear a little bit of this interview with him about how this is put together?
	Because I did a little bit of research, and I've been following his tweets.
	And, you know, it's like, oh, shocking, people being shot, people being killed.
	And I go to look, and it's like some Arabic website, and they show some guys who've been blowed up, you know, dead bodies in a hospital somewhere.
	Of course, they don't understand Arabic.
	But it's not like they've been shot.
	These people have been blown to bits.
	And I have not heard anything about being blown to bits.
	I've heard about being shot.
	I just don't see it.
	I'm not seeing the evidence of this.
	I am seeing people with cell phones and the internet.
	Hey, bit.ly is still up, so I presume the internet is still working.
	We haven't had any serious reports of the internet being turned off.
	I'm just not seeing all the mayhem.
	I'm hearing the reports and I'm seeing the crowds, but I'm not seeing the hundreds of thousands of dead bodies.
	Are you?
	No, and with everybody with a camera, and my assertion, by the way, while everybody goes on and on about how the social networks are creating all this chaos, I'm of the opinion that it's actually camera phones that are the threat to these societies.
	Right, right.
	Because everyone's now got a movie camera on them.
	But they're not showing it.
	I know.
	That's what I'm saying.
	I agree with you.
	I mean, they have shown a number of clips, but it's always just people scrambling around or large groups gathered or people running around.
	And can some of these guys hold the cameras still for a second?
	Right.
	I mean, I have seen so many movies where...
	Where the guy, I guess, turns on the movie mode and he just waves the camera around.
	Yeah, and you hear shooting, you don't see anyone.
	I mean, I'm all ready to believe it, but I'm not going to believe it because Andy Carvin says so because he read a Twitter about it.
	Just listen to this for a second, and it'll take about a minute and a half before you get to the meat of it, but it's disturbing that this is being passed off as news.
	The significance of social media in...
	Already I'm like, oh God.
	First words of the report.
	The significance of social media!
	The recent uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, compared to the role of Al Jazeera, for instance, has been hotly debated.
	What nobody disputes is their extraordinary success in getting news on the ground...
	Yeah, no, we're debating that right here.
	That's not like nobody...
	Nobody debates it.
	Nobody debates it.
	There's no debate whatsoever.
	To the outside world often.
	Yeah, it's science is in.
	Yeah, indeed.
	Within seconds.
	Some Twitter feeds have been ongoing timelines, often with audio and video links, in popular struggles against entrenched regimes.
	None has been more illuminating than that of senior strategists for NPR's...
	Notice he's not a reporter, he's a strategist, which is a clue.
	...social media desk, Andy Carvin, who for two months has been tirelessly, almost obsessively serving as a conduit in and out of Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, and for the past week, Libya.
	Now why do we need a conduit at all, is my question.
	It's just, let's continue.
	In so doing, he has embraced some conventions of reporting and defied others.
	He's a defier!
	He's a denier!
	...media play havoc not only with tyrannies, but with the journalistic status quo.
	It began with a few tweets about unrest in Tunisia.
	Sometime right around the week of Christmas, I started...
	Noticing conversations on Twitter with the hashtag Sidi Bouzid, which is the name of a town in Central Tunisia.
	No, I've actually traveled fairly extensively in Tunisia and have a lot of contacts in the blogging community there.
	CIA? What?
	CIA? Yeah, exactly.
	I started paying attention to what they were talking about.
	He sounds like a spook, too, doesn't he?
	Doesn't he sound like it?
	Totally.
	I didn't realize that there were protests forming in different parts of the country.
	As each day passed, I started seeing more people using the Sidi Bouzid tag.
	It grew and grew and grew, and since I knew some of these people and had met them before, I started essentially reporting on them.
	Ultimately, President Ben Ali left the country.
	And I recall that day a Tunisian blogger sent out a tweet that said, Okay, Arab world, tag, you're it.
	Oh, that revolution for sure!
	Tag, you're it!
	Oh, bitches!
	The thing I knew, I was tweeting on and off 14, 15, 16 hours a day.
	He's such a hero.
	And it's been going on seven days a week ever since because these revolutions keep happening.
	More like hashtag, you're it.
	Yeah, it is more like hashtag, you're it, absolutely.
	While your Twitter account was significant in Tunisia and Egypt, it has become all the more so in Libya.
	Much of what we know is coming via tweets, many of them harvested and retweeted.
	Listen to this.
	Much of what we know is coming from tweets, many harvested and retweeted by you.
	I'm curious what your role is.
	My role at NPR in general is somewhat hard to describe because the type of work I do has never existed in a newsroom's org chart before.
	On the one hand, I work closely with reporters to teach them how to use social media for news gathering and reporting purposes.
	I also occasionally report mostly online and through the All Tech Considered blog and a few other platforms.
	And then I also work on broader strategy of how we use online communities to strengthen the relationship we have with our public and further our journalism.
	So I exist somewhere between the digital business side of the company and the newsroom side.
	I mean, this is disturbing to me, John.
	What was this on?
	Was this on NPR? Yeah.
	Yeah, it's on the media.
	So they're sitting around talking about themselves?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	And about how this is the new journalism is reading tweets.
	I mean, if you look at the guy's tweet stream, which I'm happy to bring up.
	By the way, he worked for the Benton Foundation.
	Uh-oh.
	Do you know them?
	The Benzen Foundation, never heard of it.
	Okay.
	Let's wait.
	I'm going to look it up.
	Yeah, you should look that up.
	So here's his, uh, more messages.
	I'm reading his tweet stream.
	Hold tight and be patient.
	God is with you, and you will be free soon.
	We are all behind you.
	This is the stuff he's retweeting.
	Uh...
	Why would you retweet that?
	It's banal.
	Why would you retweet that?
	Why would you?
	I wouldn't retweet.
	If we are truly to be free, we must remember the example of Sidi Omar al-Mukhtar and treat our enemies with humanity and justice.
	This is not journalism.
	I keep looking, it's like, alright, where is it?
	Oh, getting reports from the ground that Gaddafi loyalists from Sirta heading towards Mishrata tonight could be ugly.
	He's retweeting someone called Libyan's Revolt.
	I'm just not buying it.
	It's lame.
	Well, it's not...
	It's not journalism.
	It's not reporting.
	You don't even know what the sources are.
	We have enough trouble in this country with the lousy sourcing or the anonymous source.
	This goes beyond an anonymous source.
	This is a person you don't even get to look at.
	This could be anybody.
	This could be the...
	I mean, it could be somebody not even in Libya.
	It probably isn't.
	It's some guy working out of an office in Washington, D.C. It's ridiculous that any of this stuff would be taken seriously, let alone reported on and let alone bragged about as a great idea.
	Yeah, this is what people have failed to...
	We kind of went through our curve of, oh, it's the real Justin Bieber.
	Oh, it's the real Dvorak, for that matter.
	We went to the fake Steve Jobs.
	So now it's kind of established.
	We have the verified accounts and all that stuff.
	So now, when someone on Twitter says, then they're automatically the guy.
	It's like, this is the easiest ground for disinformation ever.
	Ever.
	And it's okay, because that's a part of what it is.
	But for NPR to be using this as the only source they have?
	No.
	I'm sorry.
	And bragging about it.
	And bragging about it.
	And so I was talking to Ms.
	Mickey, and I said, you know, you really need to see the movie Wag the Dog with Dustin Hoffman.
	And she'd never heard of it.
	I said, oh, she's going to love this.
	You know, I can't get this thing.
	I can't.
	It's not on Netflix.
	Have they disappeared this movie because it's too close to home?
	It's not on Netflix?
	No.
	It's not on Netflix.
	It's an old movie.
	Why not?
	I don't know.
	I couldn't find it.
	Maybe I wasn't looking right, but I couldn't find it.
	That's odd.
	Everybody needs to see Wag the Dog.
	It's fantastic.
	And it could be happening to us right now.
	All I'm saying is, I hear reports, reports, reports, reports, and I'll just take this from NPR, because I haven't caught CNN saying that they're getting it from Twitter.
	They're probably getting it from NPR's Twitter.
	But I'm not seeing the video.
	And yet we can get video of almost anything.
	Seeing is believing.
	Yeah, you're skeptical, and rightly so, and this is making it worse.
	By the way, the Benton Foundation works to ensure that media and telecommunications serve the public interest and enhance our democracy.
	Yeah.
	Woo!
	Charles Benton runs it.
	Right.
	I'll look him up while you're going on and on.
	Well, you know, so the guy's done a lot of stuff, but he also was an active blogger and is a field correspondent for Rocket Boom.
	Rocket Boom?
	Yeah, that's what his wiki page says.
	All right.
	Anyway, in 2006, Andy Carvin became a staff member at National Public Radio as their senior product manager for online communities.
	He is now senior strategist at NPR's social media desk.
	Since his arrival at NPR, he's been working to develop a new online strategy for the organization, including citizen journalism, social networking, and user-generated content.
	Okay, fine.
	Anyway, link in the show notes at noagenesshow.com or shutupslaves.com and you can read the transcript, listen to the actual interview.
	It's about eight minutes, but take it from me if you listen to the whole thing.
	NPR is passing on this so-called news from Andy Carvin as the truth.
	And it just isn't.
	I'm not saying it is, but it certainly is not guaranteed to be the truth.
	It's just he's retweeting people.
	I'm kind of more interested in, like, real journalists making reports, including the one I have a clip of here, which is the Qaddafi report, which I think summarizes pretty much what's going on.
	In the address Qaddafi claimed al-Qaeda is behind the revolt, Osama bin Laden is slipping Libyan's hallucinogenic pills in coffee with milk, and that the pills are distributed in mosques with help from the United States.
	A U.S. official today described Qaddafi as, quote, nuts.
	Yeah, this is what it is.
	We're going to go into Libya.
	We're going to go into Libya.
	I mean, all the oil companies are already there.
	You know, BP lent their jet so that, you know, a hundred people could leave.
	No, just take our jet, no problem.
	I mean, you know, the SAS special services went to evacuate British subjects, subjects of slaves of the queen.
	Well, you know, I have a clip on that, too, which I found disturbing.
	I got it off the BBC. It was an American getting on a British...
	They brought a destroyer or some large, you know, Navy ship to pick up the British citizens.
	The Americans did nothing.
	They brought some...
	They sent in some little party boat...
	A catamaran party boat.
	It was a catamaran and they couldn't get it to leave the dock because the weather was...
	It literally was a catamaran.
	It had like a kegger.
	Yeah, basically.
	And they put a bunch of Americans on it.
	Meanwhile, this American, I've got a clip here, Americans Saved by the Brits clip, which none of the American news outlets, this came off the BBC, mentioned that this happened, which is the British ship came in and grabbed all the people.
	A whole heap of stores and extra personnel have been down here, which I think is a pretty fast response.
	There are British, but also other nationalities here as well.
	As they come on board, there's a surge of relief.
	Good to be on board.
	You have no...
	We're coming from a war zone to get on a pretty ship as an American.
	I never thought that I'd look...
	I never thought I'd look at a Union Jack and say, wow, really good to see the Union Jack.
	In a few hours' time, they'll be in Malta.
	For most of them, it can't come soon enough.
	John Line, BBC News, Benghazi, Eastern Libya.
	Yeah, Malta.
	Party town, by the way.
	Malta.
	Yeah, party town.
	They're going to have a good time.
	So anyway, I'm watching this.
	Americans being rescued by the Brits while the Americans can't rescue their own people.
	At the same time, Rachel Maddow has a...
	She's complaining about this for some reason.
	They have a press conference on C-SPAN. I'm watching that.
	And it's all these guys from the State Department that say, oh, we had ships, you know, it couldn't take off, and they were making all these apologies for the fact that we didn't really care.
	Yeah, we sent a catamaran.
	We sent a boy to do a man's job.
	So they sent the catamaran.
	But this kind of all, at the same time, everyone's all worked up about this, myself included, it kind of plays into your theory that the action wasn't so dangerous that anything needed to be done more than the catamaran.
	Precisely.
	But I do believe, looking at the moves that the President is making, calling the Brits and the French and the Germans, I think we're going in.
	And we're going in because, as you pointed out on the last program, it's more than just 2% of the world's oil now in Libya.
	We've certainly seen Tony Blair in the tent, hugging and kissing in the backseat with Qaddafi, We know that Obama has been hugging Qaddafi.
	Donald Trump gave the guy a place to pitch his tent in the backyard.
	These elites don't do that for nothing.
	They do it because the guy's got tons of dough, tons of oil, and the ergo dough.
	And they want it.
	And so now that the world is kind of...
	It never let a good crisis go to waste.
	This is what's taking place before very eyes.
	I saw John McCain this morning on Meet the Press.
	And our guy...
	Well, his name is David Gregory.
	You call him Bob Gregory.
	So Bob asks McCain, he says, this is what Richard Gates, Secretary of Defense, said.
	And of course, Gates says, no more dog in the hunt.
	And he says, hey, if any future Secretary of Defense says we should go into either Asia, North Africa, or the Middle East, he's crazy.
	And McCain says, oh, you know, of course, I respect him.
	He's been a great Secretary of Defense.
	He's, you know, all his years of service.
	But I'm so sorry.
	You know, we'll just see what needs to happen.
	I think we're going in and we're just going to steal all of this country's resources.
	It's what we do.
	If it lowers prices at the pump, I'm all for it.
	And by the way, John McCain...
	You're right.
	Exactly the opposite.
	Well, that was funny, by the way.
	So Austin Goolsbee...
	My buddy, my debate winner, he has trophies in the art of debate.
	He, of course, is the chairman of El Presidente's Economic Council of Advisors.
	He was on the Jon Stewart Show.
	Did you see this episode?
	Yeah, I did.
	I saw that, and I don't think Stewart likes him.
	Well, first of all, the Jon Stewart Show is going to die.
	Because, of course, Jon Stewart probably is an extreme Republican conservative.
	But now he can't help himself but to now play all the jokes on the status quo, which is still the Obama administration.
	There's no more Bush to kick around.
	There'll be some Republican stuff to do.
	But he makes these jokes in the audience.
	It's flatlining.
	People don't think it's funny.
	Yeah, when he makes a real, real funny joke, but when he really pulls one out, it's like, well, there's like...
	Four 30-second clips, and then I'll get to the gas price thing, which I thought was really astounding, because he did like a little no agenda thing there, and it got glossed over, of course.
	So first of all, Goolsbee comes on, and he keeps doing the winning the future, winning the future, winning the future, and of course, Stewart's having none of this, which was very funny.
	But listen to what Goolsby says as to, you know, why they talk this way, why they are using the winning the future meme, and what is it, John?
	It's outbuild, outeducate, and outhustle, or something like that, whatever the president said.
	Yeah, something like that.
	All right, listen to this.
	We're here, we're back.
	The president, he went to Cleveland.
	Yeah.
	In Cleveland?
	Startup America?
	No, no, stop writing that.
	He looks like a turd, by the way, this ghoulsy.
	Hey, John, don't write anything down.
	Don't make any jokes.
	Remember, you're on our side.
	We're going to grow our way out of this.
	Is that how we win the future?
	When did this win the future thing?
	I'm going to tell you how to win the future.
	Let me ask you a question before you tell me.
	Okay.
	How far behind are we in the future?
	I like that.
	How badly do we trail the future right now?
	And how do we stop the future?
	Somebody said, what happens if we lose the future?
	We're not losing the future.
	Because I think the future happens no matter what we do.
	Well, here's what I'm going to say.
	The Economist.
	If you go back and look at the research, they have documented what leads to growth.
	If you ask, what are the components of growth?
	It's human capital, physical capital, and innovation productivity.
	That sounds to me like slaves and a little bit of technology.
	That's what I heard.
	Human capital, right?
	Human resources.
	Physical capital, slaves working.
	And some technology thrown.
	Factories.
	Factories.
	Well, I just call it technology.
	Now, listen to this.
	This is amazing.
	They weren't as into that.
	They translate that to out-educate the message people.
	There you go.
	He says, who was into that?
	The message people.
	I heard that.
	That's funny.
	I didn't catch it.
	The message people.
	So they didn't like the truth, which is slaves and factories, so they came up with some fuzzy language.
	Out-educate.
	Out-innovate, out-build the rest of the world.
	Okay, so it still makes sense that we're going to win the future.
	Will we kick the future's ass?
	That was funny.
	So then here it comes.
	So now he's talking about the cuts that are being proposed.
	And one of them is to cut the subsidies for heating oil for poor people so they don't freeze in the coming global warming bonanza.
	And so this is Stuart's setup.
	Please don't use that phrase again.
	Two questions.
	The first is, so if stimulus is the thing that got us out of this recession, and we still need to stimulate the economy to generate jobs then why has the administration in some respects Backed away from stimulus spending and said, well, actually, stimulus spending did it there, but now we actually have to address the deficit because you're right.
	And the second part of that question is, I mean, it feels like there are some draconian cuts in here.
	I mean, the home heating oil subsidy program for low-income families, that feels like we are not fundamentally changing our economy to win the future.
	We're trying to kill poor people so that the future doesn't know them, Lord.
	Exactly!
	So Stuart's on to it, and then he throws out this zinger which completely messes with Goolsby's head.
	A bunch of these cuts, they pain me if you look at them and the president, nobody feels good about cutting anything.
	Hold on a second.
	Stop.
	You can start that clip over.
	Sorry.
	I'm listening to him stammer and stutter and fumble and bubble.
	I thought he was like some debate guy.
	No.
	Yeah, when it's rigged...
	When it's rigged, he's a debate guy.
	Oh, no.
	He was completely...
	He was on his back foot, not expecting this at all.
	And this is Stuart's Achilles heel.
	Because Stuart, of course, is extremely smart.
	And he's, well listen to what he throws at the guy and it like totally blows the whole lie.
	A program called the LIHE program.
	Right.
	It was raised dramatically in 2008 because the price of oil was $140 a barrel.
	Right.
	And so it went up a substantial amount.
	Now this would cut it.
	It would cut it because we've got to get our budget within our means, but it cuts it back to a level that is more proportional to what the program was before it went up because of the oil price.
	But oil prices right now for home heating oil are higher than that spike.
	They're even higher than they were in 2008.
	They're not higher than the $140.
	No, no, no, not the barrel, but the home heating oil index is higher.
	It's 3.6 instead of 3.4.
	I'm impressed and I love this conversation.
	Can I tell you something?
	I love it.
	I'm actually reading that off your forehead.
	So this is great.
	So Goolsby is sitting there telling the lie about this particular cut, which is, well, you know, oil was much more expensive then, and then Stewart comes back and says, yeah, but it's actually the oil eating oil.
	It's about the heating oil, you asshole.
	Yeah, it's actually more expensive right now.
	And Goolsby, it's too bad you can't see it, he's like...
	So, this is an economist.
	This is the guy who's the chair of the Economic Advisors.
	Let me give you the entire list, John.
	We have the, published just this past week, the Advisory Council on Jobs and the Economy, which of course is part of the President's Economic Advisors Ever-Growing Council.
	Are you ready for this Shadow Puppet Theater?
	Hold on, let me just give you these.
	Shadow Puppet Theater!
	On this panel, Steve Case, co-founder of AOL. Kenneth Chenault, CEO of American Express.
	John Doerr, partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield& Buyers and excellent host for the dinner.
	Roger Ferguson, CEO of pension fund TIAA-CREF. Mark Gallaghi, co-founder and managing principal of Centerbridge Partners.
	Lou Hay, CEO of Nextra Energy.
	Gary Kelly, CEO of Southwest Airlines.
	Ellen Coleman, CEO of DuPont.
	A.G. Lafley, special partner, private equity company, Clayton Dublier and Rice.
	Monica Lozano, CEO of Imprimedia, publisher of CEO and CEO of its Spanish-language newspaper, La Opinion.
	Darlene Miller, CEO of Permac Industries.
	Paul Ottolini, CEO of Intel Corp.
	This is corporatism.
	I'm not done.
	I'm not done.
	Wait a minute.
	You mean you're not done, so now you're going to tell us about the famous academics?
	Yes, yes.
	Here are the academics.
	Antonio Perez, CEO of Eastman.
	Eastman Kodak Company.
	Penny Pritzker, CEO of Pritzker Realty Group.
	Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast Group.
	Remember, we've got to have that Ministry of Truth broadcast and everything to us.
	Matt Rose, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
	Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer at Facebook.
	Richard Trumka, President of AFL-CIO. Oh, I'm sorry.
	Laura Tyson, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
	There she is.
	Founder.
	That's the academic.
	This is corporatism.
	I think she came from industry, by the way.
	It says...
	It could be.
	Former White House economist.
	She seems to be the only real economist on there.
	I don't think guys like Steve Case and Eastman Kodak...
	Yeah, those guys really caught the wave, didn't they?
	They really caught that digital wave, Antonio Perez.
	So my point is, this is corporatism, and there is another word for it.
	It's called fascism.
	There is a definition of fascism that does not include the boots and the guns.
	No, actually fascism, and people should look this up, by the way, in the 20s when fascism actually appeared, it was considered, it was an intellectual, mostly done by the liberal class, it was an intellectual movement that was trying to restructure the concept of the way government operates.
	Right, and we do that by winning the future.
	And that became very slowly, it turned out to be a form of corporatism, which is the government industrial complex, to put it in a kind of Eisenhower-like way, that is where the corporations run everything.
	And it's obvious that that's what's going on.
	It's what's happening on NPR. It's what's happening on the regular news media.
	I was watching Katie Couric.
	You poor man.
	I got a drug clip.
	And I realize that every advertisement on the network news is drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs.
	What kind of coverage do you think we're going to have about Monsanto, about drug companies, about anything else on these network news outlets when all their advertisers are drug companies?
	Pipes might leak, compromise what I like to do.
	I take care with Vesecare because I have better places to visit than just the bathroom.
	Once Daily Vesicare can help control your bladder muscle and is proven to treat overactive bladder with symptoms of frequent urges and leaks day and night.
	If you have certain stomach or glaucoma problems or trouble emptying your bladder, do not take Vesicare.
	Vesicare may cause allergic reactions that may be serious.
	If you experience swelling of the face, lips, throat or tongue, stop taking Vesicare and get emergency help.
	Tell your doctor right away if you have severe abdominal pain or become constipated for three or more days.
	Vesecare may cause blurred vision, so use caution while driving or doing unsafe tasks.
	Common side effects are dry mouth, constipation, and indigestion.
	You have better things to join than always a line for the bathroom.
	It doesn't stop!
	So pipe up and ask your doctor today about taking care with Vesecare.
	Did she say hype up?
	Yeah.
	Hype up?
	That's what it sounded like.
	Wait a minute, let me hear that again.
	Hype up as in like hypodermic needle?
	Hype up?
	Take Invesicare and get emergency help.
	Tell your doctor right away if you have severe abdominal pain or become constipated for three or four days.
	Invesicare may cause blurred vision, so use caution while driving or doing unsafe tasks.
	Common side effects are dry mouth, constipation, and indigestion.
	You have better things to join than always a line for the bathroom.
	So pipe up and ask your doctor to...
	Oh, pipe up.
	Smoke your crackpot.
	It's subliminal somehow.
	Pipe up.
	Speak out.
	Don't be afraid that you have leaky bladder.
	Hey, if you're my head and tongue is swollen, you can't...
	And you're supposed to call it...
	I can't...
	I mean, who's going to take these things?
	This is not done.
	What happens for the next minute?
	Is it disclaimer?
	Is there more disclaimer?
	No, this isn't good enough.
	Well, let me hear.
	This is crazy.
	Okay, team.
	After age 40...
	Oh, no, that's going to kill that.
	That's the difference.
	That's another ad.
	Sorry.
	I got an ad here.
	That's all you need.
	The media is so compromised now by the government and the corporations, the intelligence agencies.
	It's unbelievable we get any news at all.
	Yeah, really.
	In fact, we don't.
	That's the point.
	If you have a leaky bladder, stop standing in line at the bathroom.
	Just have one of our tasty no agenda.
	It'll clear you right up.
	Should.
	Let's thank some executive producers who helped produce the show in our rants.
	Yep.
	While we still can.
	Yeah, while we're still allowed.
	Our days are numbered.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, we've got an executive producer and a number of associate executive producers.
	Okay, good.
	Unfortunately, these notes are so long, it actually fills my screen.
	We have two members of the 282 Club and a...
	An executive producer, stand-alone Tom Darry, whose birthday it is.
	John and Adam, I did the math.
	$393.11.
	Here's $111.11 for my birthday karma on March 2nd.
	As a gift to me, I've added a 282 to become a member of the 282 Club, so I'll include him in that.
	Keep up the good work, sir.
	Tom Darry, executive producer, No Agenda 197, and Knight.
	He's our Navy guy in Japan.
	Oh, nice.
	Did he ask for some karma there?
	Yes, he did.
	You deserve some extra karma right here.
	Karma for you.
	You've got karma.
	Right.
	Thank you, Tom.
	So, Kristen Grant...
	Mr.
	Kristen Grant, who's on his way to becoming Sir Kristen Grant, who got in, by the way, he got in at the last minute of the 282 Club, and normally we kind of cut it off at midnight for people who want to donate, because we have to develop the spreadsheet.
	We don't like doing it at the last second.
	But since he was 282, I figured we'd put him in.
	In the morning, John and Adam, love, love, love, love, love your show.
	This is my 100th anniversary show, which is interesting.
	I wanted to mark the occasion by becoming a donor.
	Please break down the amount as follows.
	$100 for the show as I've consumed.
	$69 for the new promotion.
	See below.
	And the rest is a tip for good service.
	Somehow it comes to 282.
	Not quite the value for value.
	But it's what I can afford right now.
	We all need some karma as we go.
	Why am I congested?
	Whooping cough.
	You haven't had your Walgreens vaccine.
	I haven't had my vaccine.
	You haven't had your vaccine.
	We all need karma as we go through these massive earth changes.
	May it help you in the ways you need help.
	Give them a karma shout out.
	Absolutely.
	Thank you so much.
	You've got karma.
	He also has a new promotion, the Soisant Neuf.
	Oh, what's this?
	I'd like Adam to make a special sexy call-out whenever anyone donates $69.
	In Adam's sexiest voice, he could call out something like, looks like so-and-so, would like some hot Soisant Neuf action.
	Okay, yeah, so we'll try it out on Kristen Grant here.
	Hold on a second.
	I need a sound effect for that.
	I don't think I have it.
	I got the perfect sound effect for you to do this.
	Okay, all right.
	Oh, looks like Kristen Grant wants some sexy swath of nerve action.
	I don't know.
	I don't know if it's going to catch on.
	Well, we'll see.
	It's a ringtone, that's for sure.
	Definitely a ringtone.
	Dave Retterer in Evergreen, Colorado.
	Dear John and Adam, I wanted to say that I've been enjoying palm frites for about 25 years now, and they're really good if they're cooked well done crispy.
	I personally don't go heavy on the mayonnaise.
	Can you guys set one thing straight?
	I would like to hold a mock douchebag court.
	On last Thursday's show, I and my other brother-in-law, Kurt, were de-douched by our brother-in-law, Aaron Newberry.
	This is all fine and dandy.
	By the way, this is getting complicated.
	But I was the first out of the three to donate.
	I don't know if you recall the deuce, and on the show you went on for like 15 minutes reading name after name after name.
	As I recall, my name was the second to the last.
	Oh, I remember that.
	I was going through the show and didn't hear my name called out on show 200 or 200.5.
	You did, however, send me a link to the show.
	Hold on a second.
	Now, this is serious business, John.
	When people douchebag people unjustly, I think we do need to have some form of court.
	This is a serious issue.
	You can't just douchebag someone if they're not.
	There's a douchebag issue here with people who are being called out.
	As douchebags, but they're not.
	And they're not douchebags, and then they're being called out.
	Oh yeah, we have to do something about this.
	This is terrible.
	This is horrible.
	We need to have a court, and it shall be in The Hague.
	So why don't you de-douche him at least?
	Absolutely.
	You've been de-douched.
	Apparently he gets called out by his various relatives and semi-relatives on and on and off again.
	They say, hey, douchebag!
	Hey, good to see you.
	I haven't seen you in weeks.
	The 282 Club.
	Wow.
	Well, that sucks.
	Alright, man.
	Well, de-douche Dave Rudder and welcome to the 282 Club.
	One of the few members.
	And now we've got...
	Stephen Vanderhoff from Belhaven, North Carolina, having listened to your show just over a year and love every second of it, blah, blah, blah, as a good slave should.
	You're a producer, not a slave.
	People who actually listen to the show, we only mock the fact that you're slaves because, in fact, you've been freed.
	My friend Sean introduced me to it and thought I would enjoy it.
	I love it.
	It's a great program for me as a daily 40-minute commute to work to Salmonella-infested egg farm.
	There's your insider.
	There's your WikiLeak for the day.
	Throughout the time, I've encountered numerous coincidences.
	Yeah, really.
	Coincidence?
	I think not!
	My friend Sean told me in a college biology class there was a slideshow that had the word biodiversity on it.
	I was bored.
	I was floored another time when I was pumping gas and it stopped at 33-33.
	I dared not pump more.
	Cam trails over a college football game.
	You know, we don't try to make you crazy.
	No.
	I went and tried out the Sarah Palin experiment, say her name, and the instant reaction is one of disgust.
	It worked every time.
	The final coincidence was episode 273, the 111 number.
	I will be turning 24 in April.
	I was born in 87.
	I knew that was enough and enough was enough.
	I decided to become the 2% of your donating audience and would like to call out Sean as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	And by the way, it's 1%, not 2%.
	Yes, exactly.
	Make that correct.
	And so he donated 222.22.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	No, I'm sorry.
	No, no, that's upstart.
	He donated 270.270.
	Yeah.
	And he's on his way.
	He loves his Dutch heritage, by the way, and feels it would do much better for donations to set the show apart from others.
	That are stealing your barrenhood idea.
	I don't know if anyone's really stealing our ideas that one or two people try.
	Okay, sorry.
	Anyway, finally, Upstart Ventures of Windsor, Victoria, Australia.
	Hi, guys.
	Rudy and Sam here from Upstart.
	We both worked out that we are 111s and we are both about to apply for an apartment to rent together.
	The number of the apartment happens to be 1111.
	We can't think of a better reason to donate than that.
	So can we please have a karma hit?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	A big one for you.
	1111 times two.
	We've got karma.
	As Rudy needs to move from his super negative current dwellings to a lovely and peaceful environment, and Sam needs a place to stay whenever he takes a break from touring the world with Crowded House.
	Hey now, hey now, don't dream it's over.
	These guys are great.
	I know them.
	Well, I used to know them back in like the 80s.
	Cool guys.
	We also just upped our $5 monthly subscription to 1111, and we continue up our donations and keep our only source of news alive.
	In fact, the way I'm seeing it, it is your only source of news.
	This is it.
	I mean, as pathetic as it is, and when we started doing this show, I never took that aspect of it as seriously as I'm taking it.
	As I did.
	As you did.
	But I keep looking around and I keep seeing this basic corruption in the media.
	It's completely compromised.
	You can't get anything.
	That analysis stinks.
	Well, don't forget, it's a survivalist thing, John.
	It's just survivalist.
	There is no market for news.
	This is what I discovered.
	There's no market for news, so you've got to sell other stuff.
	And so, can we please, and by the way, they want to give Max a big douchebag for not donating.
	Douchebag!
	Okay, that's our executive producers.
	Wow, what a great list.
	Now, we do have some mail that came into the box, which I'll read out.
	Anyone who sent anything in directly to the box, the post office box, I'll be reading those donations on the Thursday show.
	And a couple of PR. Now, I've been reading a lot about Google's reset of how they're doing search results.
	Actually, they've come out and said, well, if your website is poor, of low-grade quality, we're going to demote you in the rankings.
	Go ahead.
	Yeah, Google is now completely confident.
	Next will be, if you use tables, we're not going to index you.
	It'll be something like that.
	They just keep on going.
	So this is trying to combat the content.
	Why does the physical presentation have anything to do with search results?
	I want to find out about holes dug in the earth in the middle of nowhere Australia.
	What difference does it make if it's all text?
	John, I have friends in the advertising business, who I won't mention in this context.
	I can see them cringing right now.
	But everyone knows Google has a bunch of dials, and they swivel the knobs, and the revenue goes up.
	Google is a big, huge, money-making scam machine.
	They push down everything else and they only promote what makes money for them and throw in a little bit of trinkets for good measure.
	And if you don't play along, if you don't buy AdSense ads, then your organic rankings sink.
	It's just a fact.
	It's proven over and over again, but they're too big.
	Even just saying this could probably get me sued by Google.
	Not that there's much to get here.
	Move along.
	So anyway, we have to be careful, and I think we're going to have to call a stop to the domain name registration.
	We currently own the whole first page for No Agenda, if you Google that.
	And I'm very worried it's going to go away.
	That is one way they could hurt us.
	So I want to call a stop to it.
	Let me say a couple of things.
	About that.
	One, I don't know what else is going to replace us on the first...
	Actually, it's the first four pages, if you want to be honest about it.
	I know.
	But they can do it.
	They've demoted JCPenney to page 25.
	I mean, they have no qualms about it.
	They could do it just to mess with us, just because someone on the Economic Advisory Council says, Hey, those no-agenda guys are a pain in the ass.
	Turn them down.
	Secondly, I don't know that we get that much business from Google.
	To be honest about it.
	A lot.
	No, we do.
	What, people listen?
	They're surfing the internet and then they type in no agenda for some reason.
	Oh, there's a show.
	Let me listen to it.
	I'm going to be a fan.
	Okay, well, a lot of our traffic comes from Google.
	I think in many instances people just type no agenda into their browser bar, which of course defaults to Google and it takes them to our page.
	So yeah, we get business from Google.
	There's no doubt about it.
	There's no doubt about it.
	It's just, we do.
	Okay, point.
	I understand your point.
	And I haven't seen it.
	Don't you want to do what you normally would do, which is you keep doing what you're doing until something happens?
	Okay, all right, all right.
	Then let's keep going.
	Let's keep going until it happens.
	And then we can bitch about it.
	We'll have something to talk about.
	I think that's even better.
	I agree.
	What have we done wrong?
	You've convinced me.
	You've convinced me.
	Okay.
	No, no, we have a good story because you've convinced me.
	If you're not allowed to have multiple domains, and we have quite a few pointing to our little domain, then we could certainly raise a stink.
	I like it.
	So let me give you some other domain names that have been registered on our behalf and are pointing to NoAgendaShow.com.
	Angel DeBias from Gitmo Nation Pickpockets.
	Which is España.
	Has registered noagenda.es.
	Thank you so much.
	Now, by the way, that actually should make sense to Google.
	Let's talk about them.
	I don't give a crap about them.
	Michael Mayatico.
	Has registered NoAgendaMedia.com.
	Forwarded that to NoAgendaShow.com.
	Highly appreciated.
	Don Bean came up with a great one.
	DNAspray.us, which I like.
	DNAsprayus.
	This is good.
	That's a good one.
	That's actually a good domain.
	It's a very good domain.
	Gitmo Nation Cheesecake, a.k.a.
	Pennsylvania.
	That's where we find producer Craig, produced from episode 250.
	He is...
	See, he's registered pbscircus.com, pbscircus.org, proudamericanstories.com, wingnutsalad.com.
	I'm one of my favorites.
	And my favorite...
	My favorite one I registered recently because Keith Olbermann is now posting at fucknewschannel.com.
	We have fuckandfriends, F-O-K, fuckandfriends.com, pointing to No Agenda Show.
	Another good one comes from Works, W-W-O-R-X, pronounced as Works, there you go.
	Noadsjusttruth.com.
	Also very nice.
	And on the heels of our conversation on the last program, Kevin Wood has registered Intelligentainment.com Yeah, it's real snazzy.
	It's going to catch fire.
	It'll catch on.
	It'll catch fire.
	Intelligentainment.
	Well, it gets better.
	Christopher Mader, dedoucheme.com, which is great.
	Hoochiecoochieville.com, thank you very much, Craig, for forwarding that to noagendashow.com.
	And then we have a number of edutainment domains.
	Educatainment.co and educatainment.ca are forwarding to noagendashow.com.
	You could have saved your money on that one, I think.
	And then we have intelligatainment.com from Matt Coghlan from the Cannabis Agenda podcast, who clearly was stoned when he registered that one.
	We really appreciate it.
	And it's a good test.
	It certainly is not hurting our rankings now, and we'll see what it does in the future.
	Well, we got another one, according to Eric Kamen.
	Lohad.com has registered WagTheDug.com.
	Wag the Doug.
	What would we do without you, producers?
	You guys are awesome.
	Especially our executive producer for today, Tom Darry, or Darry, as it were, who is also a member of the 282 Club, along with Kristen Grant and Dave Retterer, and they are also associate executive producers.
	And associate executive producer, Stefan Funderhaaf, thank you all so very much for your support of the show.
	It's the only way we keep it going.
	Everybody else out there, you've got a mission.
	It is propagating our formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	View.
	World.
	Order.
	Say it with me, everybody, now.
	Shut up, slaves.com.
	And don't forget to thank Upstart Ventures, too.
	They're also on that list.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Upstart is an associate?
	Yeah.
	Oh, jeez.
	I'm so sorry.
	That's okay.
	They got mentioned right now, and they won't be writing a nasty note.
	Ventures.
	Yep.
	Got it.
	Okay.
	It's on the list.
	Yeah, I have to make sure it gets in the show notes because it's so complicated to go back and correct everything.
	Whew!
	Okay.
	Most emailed clip of the week right off the bat?
	Even you emailed it to me.
	I did?
	Louis C.K. on the Opie and Anthony show.
	Oh yeah, Louis C.K. is going on and on with his crazy...
	Louis C.K. is considered right now by most professional comedians to be like the ultimate...
	The comedian's comedian.
	He's the comedian's comedian du jour.
	Yeah.
	I've liked this guy.
	I tried to hire him from Evio.
	And you know what he said?
	He said, why would I do that?
	Okay.
	But this was like in 2006 or something.
	It's like, because he was doing a podcast, which he still does.
	Like, dude, you'd be perfect for the network.
	He's like, yeah, what are you going to pay me?
	I'm like, 500 bucks.
	He's like, come back when you got 50,000.
	Okay.
	But he's right.
	I agree.
	Do you want to set it up?
	Yeah, apparently Rumsfeld, as we had on the last show, we had a couple clips of him.
	He's been on the road the way Bush was because apparently he's got a book out, the tell-all or some horse crap book where he just apologizes for what he did.
	So he's had to go from talk show to talk show to talk show like the dog and pony show because that's what you sign on for.
	A million dollar advance.
	And apparently they just book you on everything, and so they booked him on Opie and Jonathan, whatever his name is.
	Opie and Jonathan.
	Where is our No Agenda Bullshit translator?
	This is great.
	The Opie and Jonathan Show.
	The Opie and Jonathan Show, which is kind of a zoo.
	in style.
	Hey, everybody.
	In the morning, yeah, in the morning.
	Perfect.
	That's exactly what they sound like if done right.
	And so they're on there, and Louis C.K. apparently is on there with them as the third guy in the studio.
	And he just gives Rumsfeld a bad time, and of course Rumsfeld...
	You know, I guess he's as good-natured about it as he could be.
	And it was kind of funny.
	And there's still those people out there that think, you know, Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney are actually lizards.
	I mean, literally, there's people that think they're lizards from outer space.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Who eat human flesh.
	It's absolutely true.
	We know this for a fact.
	I don't know if anybody's ever asked you directly, sir, but are you a lizard?
	I don't think I'm a lizard.
	Can you just please give that a straight answer?
	Are you a lizard person?
	Louie's a little left-leaning, sir.
	No, I'm not.
	I'm not.
	Let him answer, are you a lizard?
	Here's the short answer.
	I'm in New York City.
	I love that he says, here's the short answer.
	The short answer is no.
	But he doesn't give the short answer.
	I walk down the street.
	People walk up, shake hands, stop me.
	They want an autograph.
	I want to get a photograph with me.
	Go to eat last night at dinner, and Joyce and I were sitting there in the little Italian restaurant.
	And a man came up and said he'd like to buy my dinner.
	He might be a lizard.
	And it turns out I paid for my dinner.
	The next thing I know, the waiter comes back and said, the man insisted to pay for your dinner, and here's your canceled receipt for me.
	See, there's plenty of people that...
	You didn't answer the question.
	He's not going to dignify...
	I think you're hanging around with the wrong people.
	He's not going to dignify an answer to, are you a lizard?
	So he did not answer.
	No.
	It was kind of funny.
	Yeah, it was okay.
	Definitely everybody was passing the clip.
	The clip I thought was better than that, which is the one I have on here.
	Is this from the Donnie and Marie show?
	Is that what we're going to listen to next?
	No, I wish.
	This is the one that says Description.
	This was played on a Tosh, whatever it is.
	Tosh 2.0?
	Yeah, this is one of those shows where they just have, you know, internet clips.
	And this one, if taken out a contest text, is quite funny.
	It's a woman describing how to make a kind of a spout on a pottery thing.
	But if you just play it, it's actually quite funny to listen to, and you'll see why.
	Get your hand very wet.
	Get this very wet.
	And then you're going to start gently pinching and pulling.
	This is a very slow process.
	You want to do it gradually.
	You want to do it from all angles.
	Keep it really wet.
	Keep it lubricated.
	If you get any friction, you might accidentally pull a piece off.
	Inevitably, that will happen to you your first time.
	Anyway, thank you for that humor there.
	Yes.
	It's quite nice.
	So, a couple other...
	Actually, a couple other Shadow Puppet Theater entries, which I thought were quite interesting.
	Little Timmy Geithner's brother gets a gig.
	Oh?
	Yes.
	Nice.
	Timmy's brother, David, he is now going to be an executive at Time, Inc.
	How convenient.
	Yes.
	Yes, he will have company-wide responsibilities over there at Time, Inc.
	That's great.
	Somebody's got to be.
	I guess they lost one of their other go-to government guys.
	Probably somebody quit that needed to go someplace else.
	Oh, well, yeah.
	Well, time has always kind of been on the inside.
	Yeah.
	George Soros, who, of course, is...
	His investment fund gets a lot of advantage from the green energy push that our government is handing out.
	And so they released a press release that Soros is hiring Kathy Zoe.
	I don't know if it's Z-O-I. I don't know if it's Zoe or Zoe.
	Zwa!
	Kathy Zwa!
	Kathy Zwa!
	To run his new fund, his new green fund.
	Interestingly enough, Kathy Zwa was Barack Obama's undersecretary for energy and assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy.
	No, she'll have this.
	There's your connection.
	Government.
	Duh!
	It's a revolving door.
	She comes right out of the government and goes right to work for a fund.
	I thought Obama was going to put something where if you worked for the administration, you'd have to wait two years before you could do something like that.
	But they weren't going to have any lobbyists or industry representatives, nobody from Monsanto.
	So my wife said, you know, Monsanto.
	Sorry.
	You triggered the jingle.
	You know, Monsanto has apparently come up with, they've created some, you know, now some of their things are causing miscarriages in animals.
	They've created some new proteins, I guess, that never existed in nature and are essentially toxic.
	No, people are sending letters to Tom Vilsack about that, saying, dude, this is like, it's a pathogen they've never seen before, ever.
	So they don't know what it is.
	And Monsanto fed cows, I guess, have this.
	Right?
	Yeah, which means it's in the food chain, which means when you eat this beef, you know, then you're going to get it, whatever it is.
	And, you know, nobody seems to be too concerned about it at Monsanto because what difference does it make?
	You know, the population would be 500 million anyway, so you might as well kill the public.
	Hoping to get approval in the United States to sell the first genetically engineered fish is the FDA's preliminary analysis says good to go.
	As long as it's grown in the Canadian Atlantic.
	Keep it up there.
	Keep it up there.
	Keep it away from us.
	Keep it with the Canadians.
	And so now there's a courtroom battle about mandatory labeling of genetically enhanced foods.
	This is the new normal.
	Not genetically modified.
	It's genetically enhanced foods.
	You know, I love the fact that they can come up with these new terms, new ways of putting things, so it makes it more acceptable to the idiots in the public.
	Oh, it's enhanced.
	It's enhanced, yes.
	It's enhanced.
	Hey, we have some genetically enhanced...
	So, of course, people would like this to be labeled.
	You know, if you're going to genetically enhance anything for me, then could you just please label it?
	Well, the food companies are saying that violates our First Amendment right to free speech.
	That's their defense, and they're going to get away with it.
	Well, Monsanto put a couple of journalists out of business, a couple of the last journalists who were doing a TV report years and years ago when they were trying to promote that bovine.
	Oh, I remember that.
	There's a video about that, from the Fox News in New York or something.
	Yeah, a couple of Fox guys.
	Fox didn't stand up for the reporters and knuckled on me.
	It was actually one of the most pathetic indictments of the news media ever.
	And Fox, the great, fair and balanced operation.
	Well, to be honest, it was a local Fox affiliate.
	It was a local Fox affiliate, but it was still Fox.
	They besmirched their names.
	They didn't see them kicked out of the family, as it were.
	Right.
	And it was because these guys were talking about the way they were marketing this stuff.
	And this was during an era where Monsanto was suing any states or anybody who was putting, does not contain BST, does not contain BST on the bottles for the same reason.
	And California never went for it, and so it was always on the labels.
	Over time, though, the product was so...
	It was so distrusted.
	They don't even use it anymore.
	If you read on a bottle of milk that it says does not contain BST, that's because almost no milk anymore.
	It's now become a pro-marketing tactic to say that.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Now it's just bull crap that they put it on there.
	In fact, I think they have to put it on because people still think that this product is marketed.
	It's gone.
	Monsanto gave up on it.
	More interesting in this sort of news, Science Daily reports this, which is, I don't know if you ran into this story, about the superweeds.
	Yeah, I think I smoked some of that.
	Which is bound to happen if you think about it.
	Let me just read the first graph of this article which came out about a month ago.
	They pop up in farm fields across 22 states.
	They've been called the single largest threat to production of agriculture that farmers have ever seen.
	These are super weeds, undesirable plants that can tolerate multiple herbicides including glyphosate, which is Roundup.
	Roundup ready.
	It also costs time and money because the only real solution is for farmers to plow them out of the field before they suffocate corn, soybeans, and cotton.
	This is, of course, a fractal of what happens with the misuse of antibiotics, and you get these superbugs.
	Now you use this crap on the fields, this crazy Roundup product, and now you get these weeds that Roundup won't kill and nothing will kill.
	Wow.
	I mean, this is all thanks to this operation and the fact that the Department of Agriculture...
	Run by...
	Who was it run by?
	A guy from Monsanto, I believe.
	Yeah, who was it run by back in the day?
	It's a Rumsfeld company.
	Yeah, it's a Rumsfeld company.
	The lizard man.
	Lizard.
	So anyway, the fact that nobody has any real oversight, we end up with all these problems that are worse than anything else, and of course this new thing with this deadly pathogen that's going to be in the soil that the cows...
	It's basically, it's again a Roundup-related thing.
	There's also a good movie on Roundup.
	I don't know why they haven't just put a stop to this before they kill us all.
	Because the Oscars are on.
	I don't care about dying.
	The Oscars?
	I don't care.
	I don't give a crap if I die.
	The Oscars are on.
	There's a Kim Kardashian lookalike in the Old Navy commercial.
	Oh, I heard that.
	We've got some problems here.
	Oh, my God.
	I have an Oscar clip.
	Why don't you play it under Real News Oscar blather.
	Hold on a second.
	And now, back to Real News.
	Here we stand right there with me at the Oscars on Sunday.
	You are an Independent Spirit Award winner.
	You've been nominated for so many awards in your amazing...
	Is Independent Spirit, is that a black award?
	I have no idea.
	That's usually these fuzzy names.
	So you know the pressure firsthand of walking and working that carpet, but Cheryl Lee, you get to be there as a voyeur this year.
	Now you call the Oscars the American Coronation.
	What do you mean by that?
	I mean that, my God, every year we get to crown a new king and queen of cinema.
	The court gets to dress up fabulously, and we have bigger hair than Amadeus.
	This is a night that is fabulous, and I got invited to it.
	Who has a crown when you got the big hair?
	Is that your family laughing in the background?
	It sounded like it.
	Well, this is very interesting because actually one of our CIA operatives, don't mention it, John, because we do have people on the inside there too.
	We are real WikiLeakers.
	We just kind of, we don't want to call ourselves that.
	We want to be crackpot and buzzkill.
	I was attended to this article in Newsweek, which is in the new issue of Newsweek.
	I think it's a cover story about George Clooney.
	And it's fantastic, because of course he's there in Sudan.
	Apparently he's completely forgotten about Haiti, because his work is done there.
	Everything's all safe, everything's all good, we're rocking and rolling, and we're groovy in Haiti.
	So he's on to Sudan.
	I guess he just has to wait for something to happen before he can move to his next target.
	Key, key, key line in this.
	Celebrity statesmen function like freelance diplomats adopting issue experts and studying policy.
	This is indeed what is happening.
	And I predict that on the heels, if not during this Oscar ceremony, we are going to see more and more co-opted and compromised celebrities who will be propagating the agenda Under the MKUltra program, probably, which I can't imagine what else Clooney is on.
	The same insider has been telling us that, you know, Clooney can't be a 100% agency guy because the agency frowns on drug use.
	However, the banging a whole lot of chicks, that actually gets you promoted within the CIA. So, how do we know that Clooney was a heavy drug user?
	He said he drank the bong water.
	Whoop-dee-doo!
	Isn't that drugs?
	He said that sometimes?
	Yeah.
	No, he said, oh, I did a whole bunch of drugs, and he says, I drank the bong water.
	Oh, wow, George.
	You know, that's not...
	Hey, Clinton smoked dope.
	Oh, I'm sorry, he didn't inhale.
	But neither did George.
	He just drank the bong water.
	Huh.
	But very interesting.
	Remember all of this crazy Ides of March stuff that's happening?
	You know, that we're all going to die and we're going to have this asteroid that's going to crash into the earth, etc.
	And we were looking for the movie promotion?
	Yeah.
	Oh!
	is this.
	This is from TMZ, by the way.
	George Clooney in Cincinnati on the set of his new movie, just goofing around.
	He's talking to people, playing with a little bouncy ball and crushing a man's head with his bare hands.
	No, he's just kidding.
	Let's hear about the movie.
	It's called Idols of March.
	Ides of March.
	Whatever.
	Clooney's in it.
	Title don't matter.
	Point is, it's about a guy running for president.
	So it's Ides of March, title of the movie.
	It's actually Ides of March.
	And in it, of course, Clooney is running for president.
	And, of course, TMZ did a survey.
	70% of Americans think he would be a great president, which he would be.
	And I'm still not ruling it out.
	But it doesn't matter because this whole idea of celebrity statesmen is a big idea.
	And I think that they're all over it and onto it big time.
	I think it's been happening for a while, certainly in the hip-hop community.
	Some say, oh, Illuminati controlled, blah, blah, blah.
	But this is really what it is.
	And these celebrities are being co-opted to move agendas because the ugly people...
	That's what politics is, show business for ugly people.
	They just don't appeal to the mass audience.
	The kids don't want to hear from them.
	They don't care.
	You know, Obama's okay.
	He's pretty.
	But, you know, he's kind of losing credibility.
	Yeah, well, you know, this has been shown time and time again.
	You watch, like, when Leno does his thing called jaywalking, one of the things, besides showing that the public in general is pretty stupid, or ignorant, let's say, The one thing it does point out, although he doesn't emphasize this, but it's very obvious if you watch enough of these things.
	He goes out and he'll show a picture of John McCain and asks who it is.
	I don't know.
	During the election, I don't know who that is.
	And then they show a picture of any celebrity whatsoever.
	They know who they are, who they're married to, what they're doing, what the latest is.
	It's unbelievable.
	Well, it's not unbelievable.
	It is unbelievable.
	To me, it's unbelievable.
	Yeah, but you're from a different generation.
	As am I, by the way.
	So that's why I can say it's not unbelievable.
	But if I was in the hot bird seat, if I was calling the shots, if I was stroking the white pussy, I'd be like, yeah, let's get some more celebrities in there.
	This is the way to do it.
	And all you have to do is promise them fame, fortune, a spot on The Tonight Show.
	Retirement.
	Come on, some good money.
	Success, success, just success.
	Now, another very disturbing thing happened, and we have not gotten to this, and I've been sitting on some analysis from our producer Eric in Portland, who used to live in Lahore.
	I didn't just call you a whore.
	Pakistan.
	Of course, there's this issue with Ray Davis, Raymond Davis, who killed two ISI agents, Oh yeah, which I brought up when it first broke, because I was looking at the Pakistani media, and they were covering it.
	Well, so there's a lot going on with this, and essentially what happened is, January 27th, Raymond Davis kills and shoots two Pakistanis in Lahore.
	A third one gets killed after being hit by a diplomatic vehicle coming to Davis' aid.
	By the way, traffic in Lahore is crazy.
	You can get killed without being hunted down.
	It's nuts there.
	So this Raymond Davis says, ah, these guys are trying to rob me, so I shot him in self-defense.
	So then all of a sudden, so first we get the State Department, P.J. Crowley's spokeshole, who comes up later in a New York Times article, which is important, denies knowing anyone.
	We don't know any of Raymond Davis.
	I've never heard of the guy.
	Then later he turns around and says, yeah, I think he did shoot them.
	Oh, you know, actually he's a contractor, because of course they need to give him diplomatic immunity.
	Yeah, yeah, no, he's a contractor, but he's not a diplomat, because diplomats aren't allowed to carry guns under Pakistani law.
	So there's something going on here, because they call in the big guns in February, John Kerry.
	Who, by the way, is the chairman of U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, met with the Pakistan president, Zardari.
	He also sponsored the Keri Lugar bill, of course, which provides $7 billion in aid to Pakistan.
	So this was not just some little dude who just did something.
	Obviously, this guy needs to be saved, whatever's going on.
	You didn't get deep enough into the story to find out what the nexus is.
	Well, here's what I have.
	What I have is the New York Times...
	Withheld information as requested by the State Department, specifically the same P.J. Crowley, who contacted Executive Editor Bill Keller and said, I do not want you to print the fact that this guy is CIA. And the New York Times sat on this for two weeks.
	And they still haven't actually said it.
	They're just saying might be, could be...
	This is your media.
	The government calls up and says, don't tell anyone he's CIA. He could get killed!
	They already know he's CIA, so that's bull crap.
	They don't want the American public to find out that something screwy is going on.
	I'll tell you what it is, supposedly.
	Yeah, they gave the guy, he was giving a nuclear bomb.
	Yeah, he was giving a nuclear bomb to an Al-Qaeda operative for a false flag event to take place someplace in the Middle East.
	Right, that was going to be my zinger, but I guess you had it too.
	Where'd you get it from?
	I got it from some Pakistani sources.
	But those guys don't even donate to the show.
	They're cheap like the Indians.
	So here's the New York Times.
	They are.
	They're not as cheap as the Indians.
	So the Indians are the cheapest in the world, from what I can tell.
	Right.
	When it comes to donating.
	Yeah, they don't donate because they're not charitable.
	They believe in reincarnation, so they figure if we don't get the money, we don't deserve it.
	So here's your New York Times.
	It was a brutally hard call that for some damaged the time standing, but to have handled it otherwise would have been simply reckless.
	It's a no-win situation.
	One that reflects the limits of responsible journalism in the theater of secret war.
	Wow!
	Wow!
	It's the double, double, double beat of the week.
	The double, double, double beat of the week.
	So you can't trust anybody on anything.
	And I heard the same thing.
	I heard he was smuggling a nuclear bomb to some terrorists for a false flag event.
	And I guarantee you Biden's going to Pakistan next because the Pakistanis are pissed.
	Well, yeah, because the two guys he shot were both ISI agents that were on to this because they're very well connected to the Al-Qaeda guys.
	No, the Al-Qaeda.
	Al-Qaeda.
	We just call him Al-Qaeda.
	Yeah, the Al-Qaeda.
	And so they were following the guy.
	He got, he saw them, he got wind of them and he killed them.
	Yeah.
	He basically assassinated the two guys.
	Yeah.
	That's the way the story plays.
	Well, I think they're all, they might be a little pissed off about the whole nuclear thing in the suitcase.
	I mean, you think, it could be kind of angry.
	Hey, what are you guys trying to pull here?
	Well, besides the fact that we keep killing people with our drones, by the way, the best place is during a wedding.
	You may get some collateral damage, but at least you get all the dudes you want.
	We, you and I, John, and everyone who's listening to this program in these United States of Gitmo Nation, we are responsible for killing people with drones.
	And it gets a throwaway line every time.
	Oh yeah, we killed some terrorists from a drone.
	Killed some terrorists from a drone.
	We think.
	Yeah, it was a wedding, but who cares?
	Some terrorists from a drone.
	Hey, make a chick.
	Woohoo!
	Love that.
	What a life I got.
	So anyway, this is very, very bad, and it's going completely unreported.
	I mean, they're really not talking about it.
	That's the bad part about it.
	Again, with our compromised media, we get things – the American public is so unaware, which makes it very easy to manipulate the public.
	So let's say that this thing – the guy never shot this ISI guy.
	They never got wind of it.
	He actually pulled this off, which he obviously didn't because he's not good.
	Apparently not as competent as you thought he was.
	And they did a false flag event, which would have been some nuke going off somewhere in Afghanistan, Pakistan, someplace for some reason.
	It would have caused all kinds of interesting problems.
	Yeah, like World War III. It could be World War III. It certainly could be.
	Do you think besides some people being dead?
	All kinds of bad things could happen.
	Horrible crap.
	And it would all be manipulated because it was all a phony deal.
	That false flag, which is, you know, the worst kind of thing to do.
	And just to manipulate the public, I mean, that's what, you know, I hate to use the term Hitler, you know, managed to do.
	There it is.
	It's done all the time.
	And it's always used to get, oh, these terrible people, we got to go to war, sign my son up, send him.
	But, you know, the New York Times does report on very important things.
	As reported by Ashley Parker on Friday.
	The White House made...
	I gotta do a...
	Breaking news!
	The White House made history Friday by announcing the appointment of Jeremy Bernard as the first male and openly gay social secretary.
	Jeremy shares our vision for the White House as the People's House, one that celebrates our history and culture in dynamic and inclusive ways, President Obama said in an email statement, i.e., he's gay!
	We look forward to Jeremy continuing to showcase America's arts and culture to our nation and the world through the many events at the White House.
	I mean, could you get any more stereotypical?
	I mean, this is so...
	It's like, oh, who are we going to have to replace?
	Remember, because, of course, the social secretary left to go to...
	Didn't she go to, like, a PR company?
	Hill and Knowlton, I think, right?
	She left to go and do excellent work there.
	Like, who could we get?
	Well, you know, the gays are really pissed off about don't tell being fake.
	What could we do?
	I know.
	Let's bring in some queen who can run the arts and culture.
	You know, those gays, they know how to do it.
	This is really what it sounds like.
	It's stereotyping.
	It's actually insultingly stereotypical.
	It's insulting to a bi-curious male.
	This is incredibly insulting.
	Adam Curry, bi-curious male.
	Anyway, so...
	I know you like that when I do that.
	I'm working on myself.
	I know there's some material here.
	There's a shtick I can get into.
	There's a joke in there somewhere.
	I just can't find it.
	I'm hurt by the fact that I can't come up with anything funny as a retort.
	Since we're talking about presidents and things like that, I ran into something interesting on a 60-minute show that I ran last Sunday.
	Scott Brown, and I just want to do this before we go on to our thank yous, but Scott Brown, the guy who's the Massachusetts senator who took Kennedy's place...
	He came out with a tell-all book called Against All Odds or something like that.
	And it's apparently talks about, he talks about like having gone through, his parents went through seven, or his mom went through seven marriages and divorces.
	They say this at the beginning.
	At the end, it sounds like there was only four.
	He was beaten and he was abused.
	He was molested as a child by some camp counselor.
	It's all this information that goes on and on and on.
	It's dreadful, horrible stuff.
	And it goes on, and then I start seeing it, and it's done by Leslie Stahl, who's always got her mouth agape, going, really?
	Really?
	Oh, that's terrible.
	That's terrible.
	And, I mean, she's the worst interviewer.
	For one thing, she's a sucker.
	Anybody says anything, she never asks a question.
	She never follows up.
	She never digs deeper.
	She's terribly shallow.
	Anyway, it goes on and I started to realize, I said to myself, at some point, because I'm kind of aware, because I've known so many of these people, and most people have, but I'm always very annoyed by them, the pathological liar.
	Yes, those irritate me as well.
	Pathological liars, for one thing, because the really good ones will find some way to trick you into getting into a mindset where you start believing they're bullcrap stories, and then they'll never let you know that it's all bullcrap until you figure it out, and then you realize that they're a pathological liar, and they just lie about everything.
	I started getting the sense that this guy, and he's got dead eyes, by the way, which is the bad sign, that this guy, he's the guy who showed up as a male model in Cosmo and all the rest of it, He was a male model, too.
	But he...
	I was listening and listening, and then there was kind of a tell.
	And as soon as he did this tell, I went, oh, my God, this is great.
	She's telling him...
	She's going over the...
	She's finalizing the story, and she's going over the aspects of the book that, you know, make his life less private or whatever.
	And just listen to his response, and tell me if you could spot the tell...
	That he lets it be known that he's full of crap and kind of gives it away that he's a pathological liar.
	Play the clip.
	And Ariana, two years younger, is studying veterinary medicine.
	In his book, Brown laments the loss of his family's privacy since he became a senator.
	But now, with this book, don't you think it's going to be twice as much?
	Really?
	See, I don't think that.
	But it's awfully intimate.
	It's like going on Oprah.
	And spilling it all out there.
	It's who I am.
	I can't hide from who I am.
	It's what happened.
	We didn't have to tell it.
	Yeah, but...
	And it's like half-truth.
	I like to just get it out there.
	And I want to just make a special thanks to my mom and dad for kind of putting up with me.
	Mom, Dad.
	Brown says writing his book helped him reconcile with his parents, Judith and Bruce.
	That's them he's kissing on election night.
	His anger is behind him, he says.
	Did he say half-truths?
	Yeah.
	He said half-truths.
	It's half-truths.
	Yeah, that's what he said right in the middle.
	He laid it blurred out.
	He kind of glossed it over and continued talking, but out of the blue, he says half-truths.
	Can we just listen to that again for people who didn't hear?
	Because I heard it.
	I laughed immediately.
	...mence the loss of his family's privacy since he became a senator.
	But now, with this book...
	Listen to this.
	Half-truths.
	I mean, he said it's just filled with half-truths.
	Isn't that what he said?
	Yeah.
	You think it's going to be twice as much?
	Really?
	See, I don't think that.
	But it's awfully intimate.
	It's like going on Oprah and spilling it all out there.
	It's who I am.
	I can't hide from who I am.
	It's what happened.
	Well, you didn't have to tell it.
	Yeah, but...
	And it's like half-truths.
	I don't...
	Wow.
	Okay.
	Liar.
	Gee, someone in government who's a liar.
	Oh, wow, John.
	Unbelievable.
	Congratulations.
	What a find.
	Great job.
	Wow.
	Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.
	I'm here all the week.
	Wow.
	This is...
	Woo, boy.
	Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
	So they put a whole segment together about this guy.
	They're like they're pushing him for some higher office.
	But I'm telling you, the story doesn't ring true.
	It sounds like all bull crap.
	And then he says it himself, which is typical of a...
	You know, the pathological liar will...
	We'll give you the clue.
	If you decide not to pick up on it, then you're really a sucker.
	I'm actually more attuned to this after having been pickpocketed by gypsies in Spain.
	Gypsy?
	You don't know it was a gypsy.
	Oh, it was.
	It was an old woman.
	And I'm still not convinced it wasn't a hooker.
	Well, it would be more interesting.
	I wouldn't be telling this tale.
	No, you wouldn't.
	Even Mickey went, right.
	Right.
	Old woman on the subway.
	Right.
	Right.
	Okay.
	It was probably a seven-foot tranny.
	Uh-huh.
	Hey, by the way, before we get into thanking the rest of our supporters of this show, great news.
	President Barack Obama, and funny enough, I did not see this on CNN or Fox or CBS or NBC. He has signed a three-month extension of the Patriot Act, three key surveillance provisions.
	Number one, extending...
	Yes, very good.
	Very good.
	Number one.
	Provision number one.
	Oh, we should do a top ten list.
	Provision number one allows law enforcement officials to set roving wiretaps to monitor multiple communication devices.
	Very good.
	Number two allows a special court to be asked for access to business and library records that could be relevant to a terrorist threat.
	Yes, very good.
	Library.
	Don't be confused by the word library, by the way.
	A library could be a database.
	It's to trick you to think, well, I don't even have a library card.
	It could be Google searches.
	That's a library, exactly.
	And the third provision gives the FBI court-approved rights for surveillance of non-American, quote, lone wolf suspects.
	Those not known to be tied to specific terrorist groups.
	Now this is...
	This, John, I think this is the thing.
	I don't believe that was in the original Patriot Act.
	No, he probably added it.
	Well, we didn't have lone wolves in 2001.
	We didn't have lone wolves until the last couple of years.
	You're right.
	So let me just reread this to you.
	A third provision, and this is, of course, it's Associated Press, so take it for what it's worth.
	A third provision, which is even listed separately.
	It talks about two extended rights provisions.
	A third provision gives the FBI court-approved rights...
	For surveillance of non-American lone wolf suspects, those not known to be tied to specific terrorist groups.
	Now, what is non-American?
	They're not saying...
	What does that mean?
	It doesn't mean you're not a citizen.
	What is non-American?
	I don't know.
	Probably means of...
	I have no idea.
	I'm a lone wolf!
	I'm going to call myself...
	Hey, I'm Adam Curry.
	I'm a lone wolf.
	I'll get business cards.
	I'm a lone wolf.
	You're a lone wolf.
	Yeah, you're a lone wolf in a way.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on your agenda in the morning.
	So we want to start out with C. Chase McCarthy.
	Sir C. Chase McCarthy.
	Tampa, Florida.
	$125.
	Shine on you crazy diamonds.
	Best to you both, Sir Chase.
	Crazy diamonds, eh?
	Yeah, that's what we are.
	Not lone wolves.
	We're crazy diamonds.
	John Atwood in Cotter, Arkansas.
	$119.88.
	No explanation.
	It might be in an email.
	I don't have it.
	Michael Levin, a new donor from Brooklyn, New York.
	Hi, guys.
	Need some karma for my wife.
	She was not only born on 1111, but her age plus years, and she was born totals to 111 in 2011.
	You've got karma.
	It's amazing.
	So they donate $111.11.
	And Adam, can you explain that mechanism?
	Yes, it's very simple.
	It's just a karma thing as far as I'm concerned.
	But if you take the last two digits of the year you were born in, I was born in 1964, so you take 64 and you add that to the year you become this year, so I'll be 47 this year.
	Well, wait a minute.
	That equals 111.
	In my case, so if that's the same for you...
	So if it equals $111, then you're obligated to donate $111.11 to the show.
	Yeah, and if you do that, I'll still give you a soissons neuf.
	Shane O'Hare in Wasilla, Alaska, which is...
	Wasilla, that's what's-her-name's place, isn't it?
	Yeah, from Angela Payland.
	Angela Palin.
	Hello from Gitmo Nation.
	I can see Russia.
	My birthday was on Monday the 21st.
	I turned 22 and was born in 89.
	So I had to donate $111 to the show.
	Keep it up.
	I need a douchebag call out for my friends Bryant Wickle, Justin Stade, and Robert Jeffries and Brennan Blue.
	They all listen and don't see anything.
	They all listen and don't even do the $5 donation.
	Thanks, guys.
	And Adam, I have an RV for sale for your countrywide trip.
	It's interesting because Shane sent in a secondary note.
	That I received.
	I forgot to mention my girlfriend hates your executive blowjob noise.
	So if you can, for my girlfriend, when you read my donation, please make the wonderful executive sound for us.
	And I had to think about that for a second.
	Oh, and then I remembered.
	I know what it is.
	I think that's the sound he meant.
	So there you go.
	By the way, somebody sent us a note, and I lost a note, I guess.
	And it's somebody else...
	I need to put it in your red book.
	...whose wife hates the biodiversity thing to an extreme, and he wants us to play it for her.
	Oh, sure.
	Biodiversity!
	How can you not like that?
	I don't know.
	And the funny thing is, I don't understand why these guys, and the women too, are always doing things to annoy their mate and using us as the middlemen.
	I need a new one.
	By curiosity, hey!
	Jordy Ramirez, Sir Jordy as a matter of fact, in Cancun, what a life, Mexico.
	Hi John and Adam, just a small donation on behalf of my brother-in-law, Jordy Kiri Loizaga, to get his started on knighthood, I guess.
	I need to get some karma for the rest of the family since we need it.
	Thanks for everything.
	Cheers from Cancun.
	Alright, for the family then.
	Here we go.
	You've got karma.
	People need to punctuate their notes better.
	James...
	LePan Jr.
	in Mesa, Arizona.
	Hey, John and I, I just introduced a new agenda a week ago by my former boss, now co-worker.
	Look, he just gave us $111 to listen to one show.
	I'm now in the process of listening to all the back episodes on my pod device.
	It's refreshing to hear someone voice my own disgruntlement at being a resource.
	I do not believe in karma at all.
	However, I've always dreamed of being a knight, so here's a down payment on my road to knighthood.
	A lot of people have always wanted to be a knight, myself included.
	Hey, and I read a note that Eric has the rings ready now.
	Or it's an order?
	He's ready to order the rings.
	It's going to take about a month.
	We hope to be shipping the rings to all the nights in April.
	If you haven't heard from Eric about your ring size, get your size in or you're going to get a 7.
	You know what?
	I'm very excited about this.
	I mean, we're going to have a ring.
	Do we get like a special ring?
	Well, maybe we can get some made out of black or something for the Black Knights and us.
	I don't know.
	I'm very excited about this.
	And I think that this is really, you know, we have so many awesome knights out there who've been supporting the show, not just with their giving levels, but with information, with resources, with shelter.
	It's amazing.
	This is more of a community than it is a show.
	No kidding.
	No kidding.
	But isn't that exactly what the world is going to become?
	Isn't it exactly what people want?
	They want to be in control of their products and services.
	And I think that's what's happening here.
	The human resources are driving the show in the direction that we are...
	We're not even really taking it.
	I have no agenda.
	Neither do you.
	We have no agenda.
	They just give us the agenda.
	Scott Bulin is an example.
	Monroe, Michigan, $111.11.
	David C. Pugh, $69.69 North Canton, Ohio.
	$69.69!
	I could use some karma for a better job.
	$69.69 pour le travail.
	You've got karma.
	Zachary Thurston, Bountiful Utah, donating for a birthday call-off from me.
	My birthday is March 2nd, turning 20.
	For my friend Daniel Spencer, who is also turning 20 on March 1st, I'd also have to call Daniel out as a douchebag.
	Oh, no.
	Douchebag!
	For listening for over a year and never donating.
	Yeah, hate that.
	James Fenwick of Washington, D.C. Also a birthday, right?
	Yep, he's in the morning.
	My birthday today, also got a one-year anniversary for listening, no agenda.
	Can I get some karma for my ongoing job hunt?
	I'm a CIS admin and need some less douchey work.
	All right, yeah, we love the CIS admins.
	Here you go, my friend.
	You've got karma.
	We do love the CIS admins.
	Brett Corbett, a new donor from Brisbane, Queensland.
	Please de-douche me, long-time listener, first-time donor.
	You've been de-douched.
	People who listen to the show for the first time really must be going like, what the hell is wrong with these guys?
	What?
	What?
	And by the way, just a reminder to newer listeners, we never invented this douching thing.
	This is a listener, what would you call it, initiative.
	Yeah, they start calling each other douchebags.
	Yeah, what are we supposed to do?
	Philip Gambling in Belair, Texas.
	Hi, John and Adam.
	Give them my Sirius Satellite Radio subscription.
	I advise everyone to do that.
	Yes, give that up.
	And only listen to podcasts during my daily commute.
	I don't always agree with all the crackpot theories, but I do value the regular dose of skepticism and media assassination and entertainment.
	It's why we call ourselves...
	Enter assassins.
	I receive...
	Wait, it's assassertainment.
	Sassetane.
	He needs a de-douching.
	Sassetane.
	You've been de-douched.
	Joe Esposito.
	Joe the Dish Slave.
	Hey, Joe.
	Joe's the one that sent us the mugs, by the way.
	Stockton Cow that you have.
	Yeah.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	He's a...
	He's glad to hear that he likes the Doug mug you sent along.
	I hope John will get one when he can.
	Please give a mention to my podcast, The Ozone Nightmare, and send some karma for his mom.
	Absolutely.
	Hey mom, here it comes.
	You've got karma.
	Snorris Stain in Norway survived the weekend at the cottage, but due to global cooling, there are still plenty of bears around, and he lived through it.
	Sir Snorris, Sir Snorris.
	Our North Pole producer.
	Yes, amazing.
	David Lee, Williamsburg, Virginia.
	George Vanderhorst, $50.51 from David Lee, Barry Wilson, Sir Barry actually, in New South Wales, $50.00, Peter Totes, Sugar Land, Texas, $50.00, Joshua Dale, Sir Joshua in San Francisco, $50.00.
	And our friend Chris Gielin says, Very good, John.
	Actually, and I'm sure you can translate it, too.
	It says number one in the morning, something or other, like No Agenda.
	No.
	So, one more donation, I will be a knight of the No Agenda roundtable.
	Oh, cool.
	Craig Jones.
	That's the next one.
	I'm sorry.
	Craig Jones, Danville, Pennsylvania.
	And the next one, of course, is Beneath the Number.
	So we don't have to worry about it.
	And then we have some that came in on the transom, which I'll read on the Thursday show.
	Oh, really?
	You teased it early.
	Well, yeah, except for one, which we did have last week, which is Wes Wagner in Fairbanks, Alaska, who we read prematurely at $111.11 last week, but it's his birthday today.
	Oh, well, who was that?
	Wes Wagner.
	Wes Wagner, okay.
	Cross him off with Nick.
	So, thank you all very much.
	Your giving levels are nice and beautiful to read that people are not only donating a larger amount but getting on one of our programs, our 11.11, our $5 month.
	The 11.11 is a way to go.
	It's good numbers, good karma, as is our Lucky 30, our $33 boarding ship pass.
	And, of course, don't forget the 69 is available to everybody.
	I'd love to 69 you.
	We're going to see if that promotion works.
	But it's really important to also look at a monthly because long-term that will sustain us.
	But it's been a couple of years now and they're not sustaining.
	I'm not going to complain.
	It's actually people like to give the bigger amount so they can get talked about, I guess.
	Right, but that's a little egotistical.
	You have to do both.
	It's really important because otherwise it's whatever.
	Yeah, the $11 a month one I like.
	I like that too.
	I think it's good.
	And of course we have no ads.
	And I think...
	What we've shown today is we have more analysis.
	We certainly go deeper and bring stories to light that are at best underreported in the mainstream media.
	If reported at all.
	If reported at all.
	And the way you can help us is by going to this website.
	Of course, that is embedded in your mind.
	Whenever you drive by a stop sign, you're going to hear...
	It's horrible I did that, but it's going to happen.
	And I got caught thinking of that the other day.
	But it's going to happen under a stoplight now.
	You're going to look at a stop sign.
	So you're basically neuro-linguistically programming.
	Yes, it's called an anchor.
	So you'll see a stop sign and you will hear...
	Until you give.
	That's right, and then it goes away.
	So, noagendanation.com is another place to look, and also the noagendashow.com.
	You have links to the various places where you can help us.
	yes indeed alright couple birthday shout out to Wes Wagner, Tom Darry, who was our executive producer today, his birthday on March 2nd.
	Shane O'Hare turned 22 on the 21st of February.
	Zachary Thurston turns 20 on March 2nd.
	And Jason Fenwick, his birthday was on the 24th.
	Happy birthday to all of you from No Agenda Show, your friends Adam and John.
	So, why don't we take a little breather and listen to...
	Now, we slam the mainstream media a lot.
	I have to say, CBS News did a very, very decent job, although of course it's really flying under the radar, about this Project Gunrunner.
	Now, do you know what I'm referring to, John?
	Are you talking about the guns going across the border and then they came back to shoot our own people?
	Yes, that is indeed Project Gunrunner.
	Which looks a lot like the murder of this agent, by the way, looks a little false flag-ish.
	Oh, it looks like a shut up, like, oh, this guy was going to blow the whistle, maybe, or something.
	There's something fishy about it.
	Yeah, so if you haven't heard about this, a quick executive summary is apparently, of course, we only know what we can research.
	And I've got a couple of producers who are really all over this and are very angry that this is not, because this is a huge scandal.
	The Department of Homeland Security were smuggling guns to be smuggled into Mexico in order to jack up the request for funding of their operation.
	Now that may be just one of the many reasons.
	And this has really been breaking in the news because this border agent, Agent Terry, I believe, you know, it's like, it's completely, it's like, there's no news.
	It's over, no one's talking about it, shut up.
	His family has actually come out in some local news sources and saying, oh yeah, we got a really concerned call and then we haven't heard anything after that, you know?
	I'm sorry, Terry was December 15th.
	I don't know if that's the...
	Is that the one?
	I may be incorrect.
	There's like so many of these guys getting killed.
	But the fact is, killed with a gun from America.
	And CBS actually did a very good piece on this.
	It's five minutes.
	I suggest we take a breather, John, and just listen to this because it's chock full of really good resourced information.
	Some sources...
	Anonymous sources, but they're actually on the program talking about it.
	And it's unbelievable, particularly as the president is trying to bring in a guy into the ATF who may be involved in this, in this whole scandal.
	And it's just being suppressed.
	I'm sure the New York Times got a call.
	Hey, it's really important you don't talk about this.
	Lives are at stake and we really don't want you reporting on it.
	Just stay on.
	This is P.J. Crowley.
	P.J. Crowley, please don't talk about this.
	December 14th, 2010.
	The place, a dangerous smuggling route in Arizona, not far from the border.
	A special tactical border squad was on patrol when gunfire broke out and Agent Brian Terry, shown here in a training exercise, was killed.
	Kent is Brian's brother.
	He was my only brother.
	I was the only brother I had, and I'm lost.
	The assault rifles found at the murder, similar to these, were traced back to a U.S. gun shop.
	Where they came from and how they got there is a scandal so large, some insiders say it surpasses the shootout at Ruby Ridge and the deadly siege at Waco.
	To understand why, it helps to know something about Project Gunrunner, run by ATF, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
	Project Gunrunner deployed new teams of agents to the southwest border.
	The idea?
	To stop the flow of weapons from the US to Mexico's drug cartels.
	But in practice, sources tell CBS News, ATF's actions had the opposite result.
	They allegedly facilitated the delivery of thousands of guns into criminal hands.
	We wanted to ask ATF officials about the case, but they wouldn't agree to an interview.
	We were able to speak to six veteran ATF agents and executives involved.
	They don't want to be quoted by name for fear of retaliation.
	These are their allegations.
	In late 2009, ATF was alerted to suspicious buys at seven gun shops in the Phoenix area.
	Suspicious because the buyers paid cash, sometimes brought in paper bags, and they purchased classic weapons of choice used by Mexican drug traffickers, semi-automatic versions of military-type rifles and pistols.
	Sources tell CBS News several gun shops wanted to stop the questionable sales, but ATF encouraged them to continue.
	Jaime Avila was one of the suspicious buyers.
	ATF put him in its suspect database in January 2010.
	For the next year, ATF watched as Avila and other suspects bought huge quantities of weapons, supposedly for personal use.
	They included 575 AK-47 type semi-automatic rifles.
	ATF managers allegedly made a controversial decision.
	Allow most of the weapons on the streets.
	The idea was to get intelligence and see where they ended up.
	Insiders say it's a dangerous tactic called letting the guns walk.
	One agent called the strategy insane.
	Another said, we were fully aware the guns would probably be moved across the border to drug cartels where they could be used to kill.
	On the phone, one Project Gunrunner source who didn't want to be identified told us just how many guns flooded the black market under ATF's watchful eye.
	The numbers are over 2,500 on that case, by the way.
	That's how many guns were sold, including some .50 calibers that they let walk.
	.50 caliber weapons are fearsome.
	gunshot For months, ATF agents followed 50 caliber Barrett rifles and other guns, believe headed for the Mexican border, but were ordered to let them go.
	One distraught agent was often overheard on ATF radios, begging and pleading to be allowed to intercept transports.
	The answer?
	Negative.
	Stand down.
	CBS News has been told at least 11 ATF agents and senior managers voiced fierce opposition to the strategy.
	It got ugly, says one.
	There was screaming and yelling, says another.
	A third warned, this is crazy.
	Somebody is going to get killed.
	Sure enough, the weapons soon began surfacing at crime scenes in Mexico, dozens of them, sources say, including shootouts with government officials.
	One agent argued with a superior, asking, are you prepared to go to the funeral of a federal officer killed with one of these guns?
	Another says, every time there was a shooting near the border, we would all hold our breath, hoping it wasn't one of our guns.
	Then, Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was murdered.
	These are the serial numbers on the two assault rifles found at the scene.
	They match two rifles ATF watch Hyania Villa by in Phoenix nearly a year before.
	Officials won't answer whether the bullet that killed Terry came from one of those rifles, but the nightmare had come true.
	Walked guns turned up at a federal agent's murder.
	You feel like s***.
	You feel for the parents, one ATF veteran told us.
	Hours after Terry was gunned down, ATF finally arrested Avila.
	They've since indicted 34 suspected gunrunners in the same group, but the indictment makes no mention of Terry's murder, and no one is charged in his death.
	He'd want him to tell the truth, and that's one thing my brother didn't like was a liar.
	And that's what he didn't want.
	He didn't want the truth.
	In a letter, the Justice Department says the ATF has never knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons to suspected gunrunners.
	There you go.
	Well, it's either a renegade operation, which seems unlikely, or I think the original theory that it's an attempt to get some action down there so they can get some more money to spend.
	I think that's what it is.
	Or the whole thing is bull crap.
	Well, I mean, there's plenty of guns going down there already.
	Why do they have to cede more guns?
	I mean, I think it's pretty well documented that most of the guns are coming from all these gun shows, and there's been special after special after special about the guns flying through Texas from gun shows.
	So do you think this is a cover for something else happening?
	Yeah, that's the only thing I can assume because that element itself doesn't make sense.
	There's plenty of guns down there.
	There's plenty of opportunities to shoot back.
	We saw this special where they're destroying the guns in Mexico for some unknown reason because they could be using them for law enforcement, but they're not.
	I mean, the whole situation down there is fishy.
	We've got guns being destroyed.
	We've got guns coming out of Texas.
	We've got guns flying every which way.
	There's border skirmishes now and again.
	There's a missing piece to this puzzle.
	Is it just ultimately to stop sale of guns in America?
	I mean, that's another thing it could be.
	That could be, because that seems to be a trigger.
	In fact, who's that new guy they brought up that they got rid of, that there's some ridiculous anti-gun nut from Chicago?
	Yeah, from Chicago.
	That's the guy they don't want to put on the stand because he knows about this.
	He knows about this, and he's crazy, apparently.
	Oh, okay, wait a minute.
	This is a good theory.
	I like where you're going.
	Although it's all messed up, this theory is being thrown out there to stop this anti-gun guy from getting into a position to actually take away more guns.
	That could be.
	That could be the disinfo.
	Very interesting.
	Because when I saw this CBS report, I'm like, wow, I thought this was like a big report that no one was...
	And now all of a sudden they've got like witness, secret witness, you know, sources, and they're talking with vocoders and all this.
	Like, wow, really?
	CBS? I mean, how can our compromised news media actually be reporting properly?
	This makes sense.
	This could be the gun lobby throwing this out there.
	And yeah, I'm sure it happens, but it's not like that huge a deal.
	Interesting.
	Yeah, well, that's the way I mean.
	No, no, I like that.
	There's a missing piece to the puzzle, and overall, from a meta perspective, looking at the whole story, the big story, it doesn't make any sense.
	And there is this issue with this guy that they do not want working in the government because he is completely crazy.
	So this kind of leads into another story reported by Matt Taibbi.
	Yeah, this is another, yeah, yeah.
	And this also, I'm not quite sure what to make of this.
	Do I have a clip?
	I may have a clip.
	I have a clip, too.
	You have PSYOPs USA, and I have PSYOPs General.
	I don't know what the difference is.
	Well, you play mine and then play yours.
	This is about this.
	Thanks.
	Now we turn to a startling allegation about the U.S. military in Afghanistan.
	A reporter for Rolling Stone, the same reporter...
	We had the same clip, by the way.
	Almost identical length.
	Oh, sorry.
	If mine is 221, you have like 233.
	I like the pad.
	Yeah, it's good.
	...profile of General Stanley McChrystal, led to the four-star general's resignation, has a new story out.
	In this one, an American general is accused by one of his own officers of using military psychological tactics, known in the trade as PSYOPs, on U.S. senators to get funding for the war.
	Our Pentagon correspondent Jim Mikliszewski has our report.
	The explosive charge in an article for Rolling Stone claims the U.S. Army illegally ordered soldiers in psychological operations to manipulate American senators into providing more support for the Afghanistan war.
	It's amazing.
	So many news reports these days have the same shooting sound effects.
	All I hear is just...
	You took away the coffee pot to go make some, remember?
	Are you coming here to get it from me?
	No.
	Caldwell in charge...
	What?
	No, the production meeting here, sorry.
	...training Afghan troops was seeking more money and American soldiers.
	So, soldiers in information operations were reportedly told to target lawmakers with a propaganda campaign filled with favorable news on the training and the war to win their votes.
	But using psychological operations against any Americans is illegal under any circumstances.
	Wow!
	I didn't know that.
	Is it truly illegal to use psychological?
	That was news to me, too.
	Really?
	So then we should shut down CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox News?
	Shut them all down.
	It's illegal.
	I think it's illegal for our own government to do it, is what they're saying.
	Yeah, that's what I... CBS, yeah, I see what you're saying.
	Hello, hello.
	I mean, wait a minute.
	New York Times gets a call from P.G. Crowley saying, don't report this.
	Is that not psychological psyops?
	I mean, it's a reverse.
	Well, it's just a matter of opinion, but anyway.
	Michael Holmes of the Army National Guard told NBC News he refused to follow the order.
	Because we weren't going to do it.
	We just flat out threw a line in the sand and said, we're not going to do this.
	This is illegal flatly.
	The information campaign was reportedly aimed at the Senate leaders in military affairs.
	Senators John McCain, Carl Levin, and Jack Reed.
	Even Joint Chiefs Chairman, Admiral Mike Mullen.
	What was the intent?
	Were there any regulations violated?
	If there was, there has to be suitable punishment for violations.
	But when Holmes objected, he was shocked by the response from one commander.
	He screamed at me.
	Literally, he screamed at me in front of witnesses and said, If I tell you to do it, it's not illegal anymore.
	It was just crazy.
	It was surreal.
	Intelligence experts agree.
	Because you've got people trained in propaganda whose job it is to bamboozle the enemy apparently attempting to bamboozle senators.
	Hey, this is great news, John.
	We don't have to kill al-Qaeda.
	We just got to bamboozle them.
	I think we have been bamboozling them.
	Let's bamboozle them.
	Pentagon officials say it's not clear they're...
	We've got to out-hustle and out-bamboozle everybody.
	...was ever any intent to manipulate anyone.
	But to make sure, General David Petraeus has ordered a three-star general to conduct a full investigation.
	Woo-hoo!
	Jimmy Kleshefsky, NBC News.
	So, woo, that means a lot to me.
	I mean, what, four stars weren't available?
	It's not such a big deal, apparently.
	Two-star would have done it.
	So this is Matt Taibbi, and he has an agenda, and I like it.
	I like a lot of it.
	Yeah, we've talked about this before and tried to deconstruct where he's coming from, and I think the last time we discussed him when he went after McChrystal, and of course then Laura Logan went after him, and then of course they beat the crap out of Laura Logan recently, so she won't say anything this time.
	Wait a minute.
	I almost forgot.
	Is Laura Logan the one who got sexually assaulted?
	Well, now the sexual assault has been dropped from the story.
	No, no, no.
	It was sexually assaulted.
	Everyone said, rape, rape, rape, rape.
	It was sexually assaulted.
	Now I guess she got pinched in the ass and slapped around.
	Yeah, and her top was taken off.
	Well, at least, hey, my brothers.
	She was slapped around, but she's the one who went after Taibbi on a bunch of network news stations saying he's not qualified, he's an idiot.
	And meanwhile, he seems to be working for either, we thought, maybe the Pentagon because of the nature of the way he's taking these stories on.
	And she was making a lot of noise about it because she had her inside thing and now she had the shit beat out of her.
	And so we can assume that she won't be talking again.
	I think she learned her lesson.
	And by the way, don't send me nasty emails about this.
	Like, oh man, don't downplay it.
	Hey, no one was crying when Anderson Cooper got bopped in the head ten times.
	No one was like, oh, that's horrible.
	Now all of a sudden it's like, we have to be all sexist about it?
	Yeah, totally.
	And I'm not a big fan.
	I've had questions about this woman anyway, but in terms of her, she's a showboater.
	The whole story could be bogus for all we know because she's been, she's just one of those, you know, she's, I don't know.
	I don't want to get into it.
	But the fact is, she went after Ta'abi and I thought it was unfair.
	And now Ta'abi's got this story.
	And I'm thinking that this is another piece of the puzzle to get us out of Afghanistan somehow.
	Could be.
	And get us into Pakistan.
	Well, I don't even know if that's what we want to do.
	All I know is that they've been doing these, they've been trying to slam the Afghanistan operation because it's a waste of time and money.
	And it's been the Pentagon that seems to know better to get, you know, there's some battle going on between these various governments.
	I'm still thinking CIA is involved.
	I'm still thinking CIA is probably feeding Taibbi.
	Because they really want to run the show.
	Let's discredit everything the army does.
	Yeah, well, see, here's what I have.
	Here's where I have a problem with that, and I think I had a problem with the first time you thought that, because your premise is that the CIA is funding a lot of its operations with the poppy money in Afghanistan, and so they're taking that money and distributing it all over the place.
	And they need us to be in Afghanistan.
	This is my theory.
	The Pentagon says, we don't want to be there anymore.
	We're getting people killed.
	You guys can find some other way to get this funding.
	We want to get out.
	So the battle is between the CIA and the Pentagon to get out or stay in or get out or stay in.
	And Taibbi seems to be on the get out side, which doesn't seem to be on a CIA path.
	Well, no, I disagree.
	CIA... They have discretionary funds.
	I don't think the CIA wants the government out.
	They want to have the soldiers protecting those poppy fields.
	Right.
	Now you have a good point.
	Maybe there's a third party in here that we don't know about.
	There could be a third party.
	You know, I finally saw Salt last night on DVD. Oh, Salt.
	I want to see it.
	Is it any good?
	Well, what's interesting, remember it came out at the same time as, what is it, Anna Chapman, the hot Russian spy, who was in a sleeper cell?
	The entire movie is exactly that.
	It's about her?
	It's exactly about a sleeper cell, you know, it's like the AKs.
	The whole thing was rigged.
	Total promotion.
	And her payoff, of course, she gets, you know, like, the government job and the lingerie line.
	Really?
	So it's just about the Russian spy?
	Totally.
	Totally.
	Angelina Jolie is a Russian...
	It turns out to be a defective...
	The movie was a flop.
	It didn't work.
	It was miscast.
	But the minute I saw Gary Sinise in there, I'm like, well, he did it.
	Of course, he's the guy that's the real evil guy.
	It was so obvious.
	This whole movie was miscast.
	And not to be sexist, but you put Angelina Jolie in a movie, I got to see at least one kissing scene.
	There's no love scene, no shower scene.
	No wonder.
	I mean, that's just a fact of life.
	Angelina Jolie, she's a beautiful woman.
	You've got to portray some of that sexiness, not just having her kick guys' ass all the time.
	And it's not all that sexy.
	It was miscast.
	You know, the story's like, meh, meh.
	You know, it's like, okay, I knew 10 minutes in, it's like, oh, Gary Sinise is going to wind up being the evil guy.
	Otherwise, why would they put him in there?
	Miscast.
	Dumb.
	Dumb movie.
	And that was your Oscar wrap-up, everybody.
	Hey!
	We can't get nominated for anything.
	I got one more.
	It's a long clip, but I got one more real news item if we can shift gears.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	We loves us some real news.
	And now, back to real news.
	Big scandal.
	Big scandal breaking.
	Lady Gaga.
	Our man on the street, John C. Dvorak, has the latest about Lady Gaga.
	John!
	Lady Gaga was seen with a little boy.
	In an odd situation, play the clip.
	Well, there is even more big news breaking today, including the brand new Lady Gaga photo shoot revealed today, and it's got a lot of people in an uproar.
	Lady Gaga did this shoot for a new ad for a t-shirt line, and as you're about to see, Gaga is in one erotic pose after another.
	All of a sudden, after these erotic poses, you see her holding hands there with that small boy.
	Let's roll back.
	Hey everybody, it's Pino Bear!
	Lady Pino Bear!
	Woo!
	Pino, Pino, Pino, Pino Bear!
	John, what am I listening to?
	Wait, wait, did they cut?
	I would have cut this out, but I just...
	This is horrible.
	No, go back, go back.
	And there's some things here that we're not showing you, but there were these risque poses, and then as you see, she's holding hands with the boy.
	I gotta believe that the kid wasn't present when Gaga was touching herself in a way that would have been inappropriate for a kid to be present.
	Let me bring in Kay Fox.
	Kay is a New York radio host with the Hot 97.
	Hot 97 at the radio.
	Hot 97!
	Morning show here in New York City.
	But Kate, whether or not this boy was in the room, do you think it was wrong of Gaga to include him in obviously a risque photoshoot, a risque commercial?
	Well, I wouldn't necessarily have my child if I did have a child in front of Gaga or her concert.
	Of course I don't have no child.
	So I think it was wrong in some ways.
	But if you think that photoshoot was very risque...
	Let me see her concert at HBO. Actually, we went to the concert at Madison Square Garden, and this is nothing compared to what she actually does on stage.
	Right.
	It's a promotion for HBO, for her show on HBO. It's a big plug for HBO. Lady Gaga with Pino Bear, now on HBO. Woo!
	Unbelievable.
	It goes on and on and on.
	I'm glad you do this because this is easier for people to understand.
	This is the poor man's version of what happens in politics.
	What happens actually in all types of psyops.
	Which is what we're under.
	We're under psychological warfare all the time.
	It'll make this big controversy about Lady Gaga posing sexy in front of a small boy.
	Unlike the commercials you see on television.
	And then it's like it's to promote an HBO special.
	It's hilarious.
	It's unbelievable is what it is.
	Wow.
	Yeah, good one.
	I just got the biggest kick.
	I'm watching this.
	I'm watching it.
	That was a Gaga thing.
	Let me check it out.
	And then she says, if you think that was bad, wait until you see her on HBO special.
	Woo!
	Woo!
	All right, let's do a little bit of...
	Here's the stories we're tracking.
	You can find it all in the show notes at NoAgendaShow.com.
	Thanks again to the producers who are on our No Agenda News Network system.
	Going to be opening this up soon to all producers, but first the test group will go for a couple more weeks, and we now have a site.
	I don't have a snappy domain name for it.
	I need that.
	Right now it's CurrysCloud.com slash N-A-N-N, No Agenda News Network.
	It's just kind of a test, but it's working out pretty well.
	It's a continuous flow of stories, a river, if you will.
	Just continuous of all this type of stuff, which also shows up on the show and in the show notes.
	It'll help us and help yourself by, hey, this is what's tracking.
	Let me see if I can find something.
	Because, of course, we ultimately have the ecosystem that our national treasure could only hope to have.
	And they fraudulently receive endowments Billions of dollars.
	Billions of dollars.
	When really, A, you don't really need it, and B, well, John and I could use it, but it doesn't matter because it works, and I'm very proud of it, and we are changing something in the world in our small little way.
	The United States of Europe says passengers and polluters will pay for all the green taxes.
	Oops, I mean, what do you call them?
	Credits.
	Credits.
	Carbon.
	Carbon credits.
	Funds will be raised from diversified public and private sources and wider application of, quote, user pays.
	This is a new one.
	User pays.
	What's that?
	It's a user pay.
	This is such double speed.
	Oh, you mean a fee?
	No, no, it's a user pay.
	Yeah, it's a tax.
	A fee?
	No, no, no.
	User pay.
	User pay.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, that's okay then.
	Nitrogen pollution is now the latest greenhouse gas.
	Yes, nitrogen pollution causes profound environmental impacts.
	Including Smug, Acid Rain, Forest Dieback.
	Wow.
	Yeah, Forest Dieback.
	Shut up, Slave.
	It's forest dieback, coastal dead zones, biodiversity loss, stratospheric ozone depletion, and increased greenhouse gases.
	We must be talking about nitrogen trioxide or something like that.
	It also affects human health, including respiratory disease, and an increased risk for birth defects, which I think would be a great reason to keep it.
	Kill more slaves.
	So we get to the 500 million.
	But there's a tool, actually, to calculate your nitrogen footprint.
	We have a nitrogen footprint?
	Yes.
	A nitrogen footprint.
	Where did you get this?
	You were reading a hoax.
	No, it's the International Nitrogen Initiative.
	It's got hoax written all over it.
	No!
	Go to...
	Well, let's take a look at it.
	iNitrogen.org.
	Okay?
	iNitrogen.org.
	And let me see overview.
	Let me see who's behind this.
	Purpose, history, strategy, sponsors.
	Who's sponsoring this?
	Someone's got scope.
	Something I would do.
	Oh, VROM, the Dutch Ministry for Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment.
	Interesting.
	International Geosphere, Biosphere Program, the IGBP. This is an awfully elaborate hoax.
	Yeah, and Scope, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment.
	Oh, management.
	Let's look at management.
	Who's in the management of this thing?
	I'm still saying hoax.
	No, I don't think so, man.
	You can't just put up these names.
	International Nitrogenism has a core office, a steering committee.
	Oh, boy.
	No, you have to have a steering committee.
	Someone has to drive the car.
	A scientific advisory committee and associated consultants.
	We could become that.
	A SAC. It says scientific associated consultant.
	Hey, I'm a SAC with the nitrogen initiative.
	Six regional offices, core offices located at University of Virginia.
	Jim Galloway runs the day-to-day operations of the INI. This is a real deal, man.
	This is not a joke.
	It sounds like an intelligence agency.
	The nitrogen paradox.
	Nitrogen, one of the five major chemical elements that are necessary for life.
	That's why we have to outlaw it.
	Well, nitrogen is the most abundant of these.
	More than 99% of it occurs as molecular nitrogen, or N2. Well, listen...
	Before I even read this, I know how this works.
	Because this is why it's called carbon credit.
	Carbon sounds dark and dirty and nasty.
	And that works.
	We've got to get rid of carbon.
	Nitrogen.
	Nitrogen bomb.
	That's why they use it.
	People are stupid.
	Nitrogen.
	Yeah, I don't think nitrogen is good.
	It can be made into a bomb, right?
	We should get rid of that.
	Breaking the triple bond holding two nitrogen...
	Environmental Protection Ecosystem Services Research Program seeks an individual...
	This is your dumb...
	Woman who runs the EPA to contribute to the one who wears too much makeup and is glib to an ongoing multi-year effort to characterize N-related ecosystem services and human impacts on these services within the U.S. What the hell does that mean?
	It doesn't mean anything.
	It's gobbledygook.
	It's just taking money.
	Play the doublespeak thing again.
	Jeez, this is terrible.
	Yeah, well, unfortunately.
	It's the double, double, double, double speak of the week.
	The double, double, double, double speak of the week.
	Yeah, it's bad.
	Unbelievable.
	Anyway, go on.
	Anyway, so nitrogen is, of course, yeah.
	Now, the ClimateGate investigation has cleared all U.S. scientists, just so you know.
	Oh, yeah.
	Science is in.
	Oh, yeah, absolutely.
	This is according to the compromised Huffington Post.
	A new investigation into the ClimateGate controversy has exonerated U.S. scientists of any wrongdoing.
	What are they accused of?
	I'm sorry?
	Exonerated them from what?
	Of any wrongdoing.
	What wrongdoing?
	There was no wrongdoing.
	They were just lying through their teeth and they're part of an overall scheme to rape the public coffers with the phony baloney carbon credit.
	There's no wrongdoing.
	Well, why don't you take that attitude and go, goodbye, darling.
	I love you so much.
	Will you marry me one day when I'm divorced?
	And use the night ring.
	When I'm divorced, will you marry me?
	What?
	And can I give you a night ring as the ring?
	Uh, no.
	I got a denied on that.
	Okay.
	Thanks, honey.
	Enjoy.
	Bye.
	Look out for Oscar traffic.
	It's lethal.
	Okay.
	The probe...
	So that attitude, Mr.
	DeVore, should be taken straight to Senator James Inhofe of the Commerce Department...
	who asked the Commerce Department's Inspector General to conduct this probe...
	And this is, of course, part of the CR, the Climate Research Unit, emails.
	And we're all clear.
	We're all clear.
	Our scientists are good.
	Are scientists good?
	European scientists, I don't know.
	So they're clear.
	I just want you to know.
	Now, now, that's nothing, John.
	Scientists such as...
	I've got to do...
	The science is in!
	Matthew Waldor, scientists such as Matthew Waldor in this report, who was an infectious disease expert from Harvard University, are saying, because of global warming, we will see more cholera outbreaks.
	Luckily, there's no...
	Let's pick a disease that's in the news and let's just use that.
	It's great.
	These guys are so great.
	What should we use?
	What should we use?
	Well, let's do a Google search and see what's trending on Twitter.
	Cholera in Haiti.
	Okay, let's use that.
	Cholera.
	You just incorporate cholera somehow.
	And luckily there's a vaccine on the way.
	No, there is a vaccine.
	What am I saying?
	There's a vaccine.
	And it's very expensive.
	It's been around forever and apparently it's extremely painful.
	I've asked that because when I travel once in a while, you go to some areas where you're actually required to have a vaccine.
	So I had a yellow fever vaccine, which was supposed to be bad.
	But I said, that kind of hurts.
	I've had a cholera vaccine.
	You'll be sore for a month.
	When I was stupid and a slave and I went to Iraq, they gave me that too.
	Who knows what they injected me with?
	Yellow fever?
	Yeah, yellow fever.
	Yeah.
	I got like three injections.
	I don't remember what it was.
	You don't want to get yellow fever.
	Probably better get the injection.
	Yeah.
	No.
	It was a requirement.
	They wouldn't let me go.
	I think they shot me up with nanoparticles.
	What are you laughing about?
	I believe they probably did.
	Knowing you.
	We got Curry on the radar.
	Oh, he's still up there in the Hollywood Hills.
	I don't worry.
	I don't worry.
	That silly little internet thing.
	We'll just discredit him as a crackpot.
	It's a crackpot.
	They already tried to mess me up with tax invasion and all that stuff.
	They've tried to get me for so long.
	Well, that's because you're...
	I got a big mouth.
	Troublemaker.
	Yeah, troublemaker.
	But once I got off the mainstream media troublemaking bandwagon, they don't care about...
	Yeah, once you go underground with these shows like the one we do here, No Agenda, which we hope that people support.
	Yeah, they don't care.
	To put a plug in, they just think it's a bunch of nutcases that listen to us anyway.
	But NASA is actually saying that nuclear warfare could reverse global warming.
	Yeah, I saw that one too.
	I wasn't going to go into that because it just seemed like, oh brother.
	Well, I couldn't help it because a lot of people are like, wow, this is kind of interesting.
	Yeah, it sounds to me like a setup for the, well...
	For triggering a nuke.
	Here's the good news.
	Here's the good news.
	We're really sorry for the people of Pakistan.
	But here's the good news.
	Nuclear bomb kills 9 million in Pakistan.
	But there's good news.
	Hey, global warming is over, everybody!
	The science is in!
	Science!
	And, of course, they'd be blamed on the Taliban.
	Al-Qaeda.
	Al-Qaeda.
	It was an interesting Facebook page that was pointed out to me.
	You know me and Facebook.
	Not friends.
	But this Facebook has a page of the dead slash jailed slash missing scientists and individuals affiliated with the BP oil disaster.
	Oh, we got a Deadpool.
	Yes, we do.
	And you and I have discussed, I think, pretty much every single story.
	Let's just run down the list for a second, because it's kind of interesting.
	February 17, 2011, LSU scientist Gregory Stone died 54, unknown illness.
	January 26, 2011, Anthony Tremonte, 31, Mississippi Department of Marine Resources officer from Ocean Springs, arrested on child porn charge.
	Oh, that's a classic.
	That's a classic.
	Hey, by the way, and I want people to watch, there's a lot of good TV on, there's a lot of crappy TV on, but the show, I think it's called Chicago Code.
	Am I getting the title right?
	Yeah, no, I think that's it.
	Yeah, Chicago Code.
	Yeah.
	It's about corruption in Chicago, about this one guy in particular, and they do a whole episode on setting some guy up with some phony baloney child porn.
	They found it in his garage, and it's the easiest thing in the world to do to somebody.
	Right.
	Dr.
	Thomas B. Manton, former president and CEO of the International Oil Spill Control Corporation, imprisonment and subsequently murdered while jailed.
	That's January 19th.
	December 31st, 2010.
	John P. Wheeler III, of course, former Pentagon official, presidential aide, and a defense consultant and expert on chemical and biological weapons, was beaten to death in assault.
	Of course, a body discovered in Wilmington Landfill.
	James Patrick Black, November 23rd.
	Incident commander for BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill response team died near Destin, Florida in a small plane crash.
	We reported on that.
	That was barely reported at all.
	Yeah.
	I think it's Chitra Chanhan.
	I think she's Indian.
	33 years old.
	Code.
	Worked in the USF Center for Biological Defense and Global Health Infectious Disease Research.
	Found dead in an apparent suicide by cyanide at a Temple Terrace hotel.
	She leaves behind a husband and young child.
	Sure.
	November 2010, Dr.
	Jeffrey Gardner, Lakeland, Florida.
	Swan expert who ran into legal trouble over an expired prescription license has closed his practice investigating unexplained bird deaths, dug deaths, near Sarasota.
	Abruptly and immediately closed his practice and apparently his investigation to the deaths of swans suspected to be impacted by the BP oil disaster.
	No one has heard or spoken with him since.
	Ted Stevens, of course, of Alaska, longest serving Republican senator in history, died at 86 of the de Havilland DHC3 otter crash up in Alaska.
	Stevens was the recipient of a whistleblower's communications relative to the BP oil disaster blowout preventer and a conspiracy of secrecy to hide the facts from the public.
	Matthew Simmons, 67, body found in his hot tub.
	Remember that?
	He pulled the cover over himself and committed suicide in the hot tub.
	Yeah.
	He was...
	Yeah, we covered a lot of these, but we never put them together like this.
	And then scientist Joseph Morrissey, 46, cell biologist, college professor, a native Floridian who chose to return to South Florida after studying at elitist universities, was fatally shot during what police say was a home invasion robbery.
	There you go.
	So that's a nice little list.
	But that's a big list.
	But you have to wonder now, what is the cover-up?
	I mean, why are they killing all these guys?
	Let's assume 70.
	I mean, you can say, well, it's just a coincidence because you take any group of people, a bunch of them die.
	But this is a little bit too much.
	So we have to assume that something's up.
	So if something's up, what?
	Yeah.
	Well, one of them knows they're dead now, so I guess we'll never find out.
	The hot tub guy was the most disturbing to me.
	That really, that pissed me off.
	I'm not liking dying in the hot tub.
	Yeah, you go in there, maybe, they're just, you know, a bunch of big goons come in, tell you to stay in the hot tub, and then they put the lid on, and then they just wait till you dash.
	They sit on it.
	Hey, man, get off...
	From the...
	Whoops!
	How could that happen?
	Oh, you say that because you have a hot tub.
	Yeah, with a lid.
	I don't know what to tell you.
	Kick a gun in the hot tub.
	Shoot holes up.
	Shoot up.
	Shoot up.
	After Jeopardy, IBM moved supercomputer onto medical research.
	There it is.
	As we kind of predicted, IBM and Nuance, a speech recognition product vendor, have announced a five-year research agreement to explore ways for the healthcare industry to tap into the capabilities of IBM's Watson supercomputer.
	Along with the Columbia University Medical Center.
	So, what's next, of course, I guarantee you, I guarantee you, is IBM Watson's supercomputer is going to get the climate research contract, and you literally will hear, I am Watson.
	Climate change is real.
	The science is in.
	I guarantee you.
	And people are like, oh, man, that computer went on Jeopardy, man.
	It's the truth.
	I think that's in the Red Book.
	Yeah.
	Quick trip around Gitmo Nation.
	No, it's not.
	Let me write it in there.
	I've got to write it in the book.
	Gitmo Nation lowlands.
	The government says they will determine this year whether to bring in the electronic ID card for all the human resources, or would you just call them slaves?
	They're also bringing back military from Afghanistan.
	And the Department of Defense thinks it's a good idea to use these military personnel on the streets of Gitmo Nation Lowlands.
	What?
	Yeah, we've got to put them on the streets.
	They'll be useful.
	I know.
	It's lovely.
	And drones now flying above the city of Nijmegen.
	There's a border there, actually, with, I think, Gitmo Nation Deutschland.
	And the Ministry of Defense is testing drones, so enjoy that, you slaves over there.
	Gitmo Nation reindeer, Finnish government, requesting spyware powers so that they can install rootkits and spyware and track people without a warrant, and it looks like they're going to get it.
	Gitmo Nation Brown Cheese, Denmark.
	Minister there is calling for free sterilization for addicts if you're addicted to alcohol.
	We should cut your nuts off, but particularly women.
	That's a good one.
	Because addicts tend to have deformed children, apparently.
	Do they now?
	Yeah, that's what they say over there.
	Gitmo Nation Sprouts.
	Wow!
	There's an excess of 400 ankle bracelets with GPS trackers.
	What a waste of money, they're saying over there.
	My God, we have 400 Gitmo Nation jewelry bracelets, and we haven't used them!
	So it's a big scandal.
	Gitmo Nation Great White North.
	U.S. drones will be patrolling the Quebec border, everybody.
	So if you're out of line, we're just going to put a Hellfire missile up your anal cavity.
	Wait a minute.
	You mean they're patrolling the border between Quebec and Ontario?
	This is the crazy thing.
	Thank you for picking that up.
	This is a French article.
	So I'm reading the Google translation.
	U.S. drones to the Quebec border...
	Canadian federal government closes the border post between Quebec and the United States.
	Oh, there is a border with Quebec and the United States.
	There is?
	I don't know of the one.
	That's interesting.
	U.S. authorities go into overdrive and use of sophisticated drones to spy on the border.
	The authorization process is worrying lots of people.
	Man, no crap.
	Is there a border between the U.S. and Quebec?
	I'm looking.
	There must be some.
	Yeah, I guess there is.
	There is a little bit, right?
	Yeah, around Maine and I guess upstate New York.
	So it looks like we're going to be flying drones up there.
	Hey, welcome to Drone Nation, everybody.
	We're no better than the lowlands.
	This is horrible.
	This is crazy.
	Meanwhile, Greece is selling off more of Greece.
	Yeah.
	They are drawing up a list of state assets they will sell off, which of course will be beautiful islands for sale to the elites.
	That's going to be great.
	Get yourself an island on the cheap.
	And what we're all looking forward to is the advisor who will soon be named who will be drawing up this list of state property assets, which will be sold to reduce debt according to the finance minister of Gitmo Nation, Suvlaki.
	Government planned privatization sales, which is code for selling your islands to elitist pricks.
	Probably worth 15 billion euros.
	With another 50 billion euros by 2015.
	This is groovy.
	This is how it works.
	We've got the banks throwing your country into tremendous debt.
	I mean, seriously, this is Goldman Sachs.
	This is J.P. Morgan.
	This is a good maneuver.
	I mean, it's admirable.
	Yeah, and then when your government steals the money and then they can't pay it back, they sell off your islands.
	What's good for the banks is good for the country.
	Yes.
	Woo-hoo!
	What's good for the banks is good for the country.
	And I had one more.
	There is quite a storm brewing in Gitmo Nation, Deutschland.
	And the Germans, they're not taking this crap.
	People are protesting and holding up their shoes!
	Yes!
	There's a shoe revolution going on in Gitmo Nation, Deutschland.
	The minister of...
	Oh, I forget which minister he is.
	Guttenberg.
	So it turns out he plagiarized his PhD.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's hilarious.
	It turns out there's a lot of...
	I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry I did that.
	They don't just fire the guy.
	They don't run him out of town.
	No.
	Why do that?
	And...
	And so the human resources of Gitmo Nation Deutschland are peed off!
	Like, well, this is no good.
	And it's young kids and they're holding up their shoes.
	I don't know if they're throwing them yet, but they should.
	I really believe this is the way to go.
	It's so insulting.
	It's just a beautiful thing.
	So, please throw your shoes, kids.
	And, wow, I think with that I have just about depleted all the things we needed to talk about.
	Well, there's one little element.
	I do want to make a correction.
	Somebody sent in a note saying it's Liev Schreiber, not Gary Sinise in the movie Salt.
	Really?
	I thought it was Gary Sinise.
	Well, that's what he says.
	Really?
	And it doesn't show up on the IMDB. He looks like Gary Sinise.
	I don't know.
	Does he?
	And do we have any 33, 33, 33 things?
	Oh, yes.
	No, of course.
	How silly can I be?
	We have some good 33s.
	Um...
	There's one somebody sent us a clip from a...
	CSI, yeah.
	CSI, and the guy walks into a room and has 3333 on the door number.
	I don't know what the point of it is, but that's what they did.
	But then you also see it in the reflection.
	Yeah.
	It means something.
	We don't know.
	We don't know, by the way.
	We're going to talk about, for new listeners, we have this thing about the code 3333 specifically.
	But we don't know what this means.
	We just think it's a sign or a code to indicate something was accomplished.
	We don't know.
	It's all good.
	Railways net revenue, and this is not railways in general.
	This is Indian railways, grows 33% with our net revenue.
	This, of course, is under the trains good, planes bad moniker.
	And I do have one clip regarding that after we play the jingle.
	Hello, jingle.
	All aboard, trains good, planes bad.
	This is from Bloomberg Television.
	If there's anything more boring than C-SPAN, it's Bloomberg Television.
	Yet we watch it so you don't have to.
	It's part of our job here.
	Part of what your support goes towards is the time it takes.
	And it's hard because it has a very small window of video and the rest is like all kinds of distracting banners and streamers and tickers.
	It's a mind meld.
	This is our Secretary of Transportacion, Ray LaHood, who of course is a gangster.
	Otherwise your name isn't LaHood.
	And he's responding to Florida.
	There were two other states who were rejecting this high-speed rail money that Presidente Obama has made available.
	Now, there's nothing really super revealing in here, but it is kind of nice to hear the real story.
	And the two things I'd like to point out are, one...
	He says this is...
	Nowhere does he say this will be great for moving the slaves around.
	He says this is a jobs bill.
	This is to get people to work.
	This is just great for the economy.
	This is about getting people to work.
	He's not actually saying this will be a profitable venture and people will like to take trains.
	Well, he does actually say Americans want to have the trains run on time.
	Where have I heard that before?
	Yes.
	Tell me.
	Mussolini!
	Thank you.
	Mussolini.
	Exactly.
	And the other thing he says is he says that...
	Do you realize this is the first show we mentioned both Mussolini and Hitler?
	Yeah, it's good.
	We're getting really good.
	I thought that it was $8 billion that the president made available.
	But now, LaHood is talking about $11 billion.
	I thought it was $52 billion.
	I don't know.
	It's confusing.
	I don't know what money is...
	And of course, it's money that doesn't actually exist.
	I thought it was $52 billion.
	I don't know.
	But do you want to listen to LaHood?
	Sure.
	It's kind of interesting to hear him.
	He's basically saying...
	Baloney.
	These guys are stupid.
	Well, you'll laugh when you hear what he says.
	The high-speed rail.
	We talked to Governor Scott of Florida who turned down a federal grant because he said it would bilk the taxpayers of Florida.
	There are always cost overruns.
	They never make money.
	It could cost anywhere from two to four to three billion dollars for the state of Florida.
	I don't know of another person in Florida that agrees with that.
	I don't know of another economist, another person that's looked at the plans in Florida.
	A lot of smart people have put these plans together.
	There would have been no financial liability or responsibility to the taxpayers of Florida.
	John, there's not another person anywhere.
	Not one single person.
	Only that guy.
	It's only the governor of Florida.
	And, of course, smart people put this together.
	Who are you, you stupid slave?
	Others were going to assume responsibility for the direction of high-speed rail.
	What does that mean?
	Others were going to assume the responsibility.
	What others?
	What does that mean?
	The others from Lost.
	It's the others.
	It's the others, you know.
	The others with the submarines.
	This guy's terrible.
	I don't know of anybody else except for the governor who thinks that this would be a bad deal.
	What?
	No, he doesn't know anybody.
	Ray LaHood, the Secretary of Transportation.
	What about the guy in Wisconsin?
	No, he doesn't know anybody.
	The Minnesota guy.
	I don't know anybody.
	Anybody at all.
	Two billion dollars.
	What?
	He doesn't know one person.
	He's never heard of such a thing.
	He doesn't go to cocktail parties, apparently.
	To begin high-speed rail, people have been working on it for 20 years.
	It would have put an enormous number of Floridians to work.
	It would have helped people that are unemployed.
	It would have helped the economy.
	So, he's the Lone Ranger on this.
	Have you tried to persuade him?
	The Lone Ranger.
	Wow.
	Interesting little meme there.
	I have tried to persuade him.
	And unsuccessfully.
	Correct.
	Yeah.
	Two other governors have turned down these grants, too.
	I mean, is this a trend?
	Well, wait a minute.
	That can't be, because he's never heard of another guy who did this.
	In Florida.
	He also said, if you parse the last time he said it, he doesn't know anybody.
	He didn't say just in Florida.
	But go on.
	It's not a trend.
	35 states have accepted the money.
	It's trending.
	He didn't say it right.
	It's not a trend.
	It's trending.
	Yeah, he's got to use a new jargon.
	Five places in America that have accepted over $11 billion to jumpstart Very good programs to get America into the high-speed rail business.
	And you know, critics say there's only, I think, two places in the world, France and Japan, where they've ever made any money, and that's because gasoline prices are so high there, so therefore it's never going to be a profitable enterprise here in America.
	We think that people will ride the trains, will be given good service, and...
	We think that this is what Americans want.
	Americans want to get into the high-speed rail opportunity.
	They want to have trains that they can ride, that give good service, that are on time, and that they can afford.
	Sir, the trains will be on time.
	The trains will be on time for you.
	Hello, we know you want it.
	So in Spain, they push through this bullcrap, and then there's all these lines, some of these high-speed rails, they're pretty trains, but they go 20 miles an hour on average, and they have to still go on some old tracks, so it slows them way down, and they have to go up hills, so they slow way down.
	And I was told that there's apparently some parcel of a track where they build a 20-mile-long high-speed rail, but it doesn't have a town on either end.
	This is government psyops at work, ladies and gentlemen.
	You know what?
	All we need next, here's what's going to happen.
	This Atlas Shrug movie is going to come out, and the girl who plays Dagny, Dagny Taggart, who's hot, of course, she's going to be promoting it everywhere, and everyone's going to associate high-speed rail with hot.
	Ooh, I want it, baby.
	I want to get on that train.
	I want to ride the train with you, Dagny.
	That's what...
	The president and this administration, President O'Biden, he said it!
	He said President O'Biden!
	It's hilarious!
	You should go get Mary Sarah Palin!
	It's Janet Palin.
	Listen!
	...
	will be given good service and we think that this is what Americans want.
	Americans want to get in to the high-speed rail opportunity.
	They want to have trains that they can ride, that give good service, that are on time, and that they can afford.
	That's what...
	The President and this administration, President Obama's vision is...
	President O'Biden for high-speed rail.
	In a very partisan, polarized town, Mr.
	Secretary, one of the things that does cut across partisan lines are the need for better infrastructure in America.
	The Chamber of Commerce, Labor, the truckers all say, hey, I don't think we ought to have more infrastructure, but we're willing to pay for it.
	Why not?
	Why not have a higher gasoline tax?
	Given what's happened in the Middle East, it would be energy.
	You can make an argument from an energy standpoint.
	Are we trying to ruin our lives?
	What is wrong with these people?
	He's saying you've got an argument because of turmoil in the Middle East.
	You can just say, oh, it's more expensive.
	He's actually saying this.
	Can you believe it?
	Bloomberg, okay?
	The compromised Bloomberg from the elitist prick, Mayor Bloomberg.
	What's his name?
	Pete Bloomberg?
	Pete Bloomberg.
	And more funds for infrastructure.
	Because there's 9% unemployment, because we're in a very tough economy, the president believes this is not the time to say to...
	People that are out of work that can ill afford a gallon of gasoline, let alone an additional tax, now's not the time.
	So that's off the table until unemployment gets down.
	It's off the table until the economy looks a lot brighter.
	Who is this journalist bullcrapper?
	I love that it's off the table until the economy is better.
	Then we'll come and slide, and we'll whip you again.
	We'll whip you.
	Who is this guy that's doing the interview?
	Well, it's his friend.
	You'll hear it at the end.
	It's like, oh, good to see you.
	Always a pleasure.
	Oh, yeah, I love you.
	We'll see you at cocktails.
	Bye.
	And how much do you think you'll get a Congress on questions like infrastructure and high-speed rail?
	Pretty austere.
	Now, look, transportation is very bipartisan.
	There are no Republican or Democratic bridges.
	There are no Republican or Democratic roads.
	If there's anything that's bipartisan in Washington, it's transportation.
	Because members of Congress know this will put their friends and neighbors and constituents to work.
	This is a jobs bill.
	When this bill is passed, People know that Americans are going to go to work building roads, building bridges, building transit systems, building high-speed rail.
	What?
	Yeah, then what do you do?
	Well, then you throw your shoe!
	We got nothing better.
	We won't have any money.
	Build some Laurel Bridges so I can go to my non-existent job.
	Jobs bill for America.
	That's why it's so bipartisan.
	You served in Congress for, what, decade and a half with John Boehner?
	Have you talked to him about this?
	I've talked to him about a number of things, and I've talked a lot more to John Micah, the chairman of the Transportation Committee of the House, Barbara Boxer, the chairman of the committee in the Senate, and other senators about this.
	And we're going to work with Congress.
	To get a bill to put America to work building infrastructure and building good transportation systems.
	Final question on airlines.
	I know it doesn't say transportation systems for the slaves.
	It's for the goods to bring to the slaves.
	From China.
	China.
	That's what we want.
	I suppose a three-hour time limit of waiting on tarmacs for domestic flights.
	It seems to have worked.
	Are you going to extend it to international flights, too, in America?
	Well, we're looking at it.
	We know that it works.
	We know that our three-hour tarmac delay for the last two months of last year, absolutely no delays.
	No delays.
	I don't know a single person who's had a single delay anywhere.
	Not a single delay.
	This is working.
	It's working.
	Our policy is working.
	We're winning the future.
	We are winning the future.
	Zero.
	We are winning.
	It's zero.
	Zero.
	The trains will run on time.
	We are winning the future, John.
	Our enforcement did work, and we're looking at international flights also.
	Well, good.
	Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, former congressman from Peoria, I want to tell you how much I enjoyed being with you today.
	Hey, those hookers we had last night were great.
	Unbelievable.
	So, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, an overview, a bi-weekly overview of your compromised media and how they commit psychological, illegal, I might add, illegal apparently in America, psychological warfare on its citizens.
	And I just need to play this for a second.
	Why?
	Why?
	Well, I felt like it.
	I haven't played it in a while.
	That's the only reason why.
	Wow, I'm depleted.
	I'm a depleted human resource, John.
	Yeah, well, that's been the case for some years.
	No, please.
	I'm depleted because I get up at 5.30 for this show.
	I always do.
	Thursdays and Sundays.
	But I enjoy it and I'm really happy and I love seeing everyone in the chat room all the time.
	A reminder that we have the replay of the Streamtacular starting at 2.30 Gitmo Nation West time today with Rhino the Bearded and Yellow Jacket.
	Help the guys out.
	If they go over the pledge, Rhino's portion goes to the show, which is great.
	It's not just to get Rhino's education, tuition fees paid so we can continue to do the excellent no-agenda shots.
	It's also to help Yellow get out of the ghetto, which apparently he's in.
	And it's just beautiful to see a guy from Mississippi teaming up with a guy from Canada doing this for the show, and it's highly appreciated.
	So, I am the Lone Wolf, known as Adam Curry.
	I'm here in Get My Nation West, and I'll talk to you again in the morning.
	You're the Lone Wolf now?
	Yeah.
	You could have warned me.
	I could have come up with something.
	I'm White Dog.
	What?
	White Dog?
	I'm White Dog here in northern Silicon Valley.
	See you then.
	We'll talk to you on Thursday right here on No Agenda.

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