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	Apparently they brought some hot Ukrainians with him.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, March 3rd, 2011, time for Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, episode 283.
	This is no agenda.
	Watching C-SPAN instead of Charlie Sheen's tweets here at the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center, Gitmo Nation West, People's Republic of Southern California in the morning.
	I am the lone wolf known as Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I'm watching Charlie Sheen's tweets rather than C-SPAN, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	I say that three times fast.
	I can't say it one time fast.
	Apparently.
	In the morning to you, John.
	In the morning to you and in the morning to all ships at sea.
	Yes.
	I'm not going to do them today.
	I don't feel like it.
	I'm tired.
	You know, we went to bed at 10 and I was working all day yesterday, literally from early in the morning to the minute we went to bed.
	And I shouldn't have done that because I was working on the No Agenda News Network.
	So I'm like, that's perfect, Mickey.
	That's exactly the look with some pearls.
	And so I'm working on programming stuff, and then I'm in bed, and then I fall asleep, and at like 2 o'clock, I was really warm, and I woke up, and I could not get back to bed.
	I'm like, got out, went back to bed, laid there.
	You know, with like an hour and a half, you're like...
	Insomnia!
	Yeah, totally.
	It's just too much.
	I just see lines of code running in my head, and I'm already a great programmer.
	Yeah, kind of pathetic.
	You know what I'm saying?
	So, I'm like, I just saw in my little opening spiel I had Sunday, March 3rd.
	That's just how awesome I am today.
	Anyway, I hope people appreciate the work we're putting into it.
	Today's Thursday, yes.
	Yeah, I know.
	I said it properly.
	But it's going to be...
	Yeah.
	You only made one mistake ever, I think, in the opening.
	Yeah.
	That we actually left in the recording.
	We've done it all the time.
	What are you talking about?
	So, um...
	Hey, how about that Libya, huh?
	You know, I'm getting sick of this Libya story.
	We do have some Libya wrap-ups to do on this show.
	I want to also...
	I do have...
	I hate to tell you this in advance, but I will.
	I'll warn you.
	I have three Charlie Sheen clips.
	No, no.
	I mean, I can handle the Bieber.
	I mean, I do want to talk about Charlie Sheen, but you have actual clips?
	That's rough.
	Yeah.
	I'll tell you why.
	Because I got one clip that proves he's insane because he's on Piers Morgan and he says Piers Morgan's great.
	Well, I'm sorry.
	That's not winning right there.
	So we got that clip.
	And then I got a clip of kind of a medley.
	We'll get to it later.
	We can't do real noise at the beginning of the show.
	Somebody talking about bipolar and some elements of it.
	Educational.
	So there's a ton of news about Libya.
	And here's what I did after our previous show.
	Thank you everybody for emailing me links to Wag the Dog.
	Which, by the way, John, that movie is from 1997.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's one of the all-time great films.
	So what is that, 24 years old?
	Yeah.
	Am I saying that correctly?
	No.
	14 years old.
	No, it's 13.
	13, 14 years old.
	14.
	And so people said, oh, it's on Netflix, not on streaming, but you can order it.
	But it's also on iTunes.
	You can rent it on iTunes.
	And you download it for an hour, and then you rent it for 24 hours.
	It's stupid.
	Anyway, so we watched it in bed, and I had forgotten...
	How much is really in there?
	I mean, we're talking suitcase nukes, sleeper cells, the whole thing is in there.
	Every meme known to man.
	And every single one that I've been watching, literally, on CNN since the last show.
	I'm like, this is so obvious.
	Except in 1997, they didn't have iPhones.
	Robert De Niro, who plays kind of the fix-it guy who makes everything happen for the president and kills people if necessary, he has a Palm Pilot.
	That's his level of technology.
	That's how old the movie is.
	And everyone has the StarTAC Motorola phones.
	Right.
	Cell phones.
	And...
	But it just was not lost on me that this is exactly the same thing, except now we have, of course, Twitter and Facebook.
	And to help in the dissemination of disinformation, particularly towards people here in America who are buying this crap and are fully going to support a military invasion of Libya.
	It's painfully obvious.
	And Herr Hillary was in front of the Foreign Relations Committee.
	In a two and a half hour, it's supposed to be like a question and answer session.
	Yeah, I couldn't watch it.
	I watched the whole thing.
	Thank God someone did.
	Yeah, I watched the whole thing.
	Are there any nuggets in there?
	Yeah, there are some nuggets.
	I would assume there would be.
	But of course, the whole thing is a setup because you've got John Kerry, who's the chair.
	And he does like 10 minutes opening speech.
	I'm not going to play all 10 of it.
	But right in the beginning, he just sets the tone.
	And it's all complimentary up until, you know, like the last 15 minutes and they let some, you know, unimportant person ask a question or something.
	They're almost just grandstanding.
	So it's real.
	The whole thing is supposed to be about the budget.
	And Hillary Clinton's Department of State needs $57 billion to Which is a cutback, I might add.
	$57 billion for, as she says herself, and that's actually one of these clips, the number of employees in the State Department would not even fill up a U.S. aircraft carrier.
	So it's like only a couple thousand people, but still they managed to spend $57 billion.
	And, of course, it's by giving money to foreign dictators who then turn around and, you know, and do weird stuff to us.
	You know, it's funny.
	We have all these anti-bribery laws that you can't do this.
	You can't give foreign people money if you're a corporate president or a corporate salesman or anything.
	And then people get thrown into jail for that.
	Yet our whole MO as a government is to essentially bribe.
	Yeah.
	Dictators.
	Dictators.
	Yeah.
	I don't know what else you'd call it, isn't it?
	I mean, they end up with the money in their pockets.
	Isn't that a bribe?
	Yeah, well, of course, it's all under the guise of, well, it's for humanitarian aid or whatever.
	And by the way, turns out the EU has sold, Britain in particular, has sold the most weapons to Libya.
	It's like 100,000 small handguns and all kinds of stuff like that.
	Anyway, so here's Kerry opening up.
	And it's just Hillary by herself in the horseshoe semicircle there.
	And he kind of sets the tone right off the bat.
	Good morning.
	This hearing will come to order.
	Madam Secretary, it's wonderful to welcome you here today.
	I know you're freshly back from a quick trip.
	And we appreciate enormously all of your efforts on our behalf.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Stroke, stroke.
	Get to it, Kerry.
	I can't think of a more relevant moment in many ways for you to appear before the committee, so we're happy to have you here.
	Let me just say up front that we have joined with our allies, and we've heard loudly and clearly from you, Madam Secretary, that Colonel Qaddafi must go.
	He has lost all legitimacy and I think it's important to be clear that we can't be halfway about that goal.
	The people of Libya are not asking for foreign troops on the ground.
	They are committed to doing what is necessary.
	However...
	But they do need the tools to...
	Tools!
	There it is!
	It's one minute into it!
	We've already got tools coming, John.
	Open up the tool shed.
	...the slaughter of innocents on Libyan streets.
	Slaughter of innocents.
	And I believe that the global community cannot be on the sidelines while airplanes are allowed to bomb and strafe.
	So, I was watching these airplanes bombing and strafing.
	And it makes no sense to play the clips from CNN because literally, well, we were here with our camera crew and then a Libyan fighter came over to drop bombs on this whole city and it was like three huts in the distance.
	I'm like, okay, that's not a city.
	And then they came back again and said, well, where's the video?
	Where's the video of this?
	They don't have any video.
	They show a hole in the ground, which is an edit.
	I can see Dustin Hoffman directing this.
	It's all B-roll.
	Totally!
	And then they show a couple guys with some smoke out of some huts, and they show an explosion in a complete empty desert.
	Well, the Libyan bombers, the fighter pilots, suck, because they can't aim, apparently.
	They're shooting into sand.
	Like, alright, so there's no video of this.
	There is no video of dead people who were slaughtered innocents by the thousands, but there's plenty of video.
	It's just that they always cut away.
	I was watching one of the news networks covering this, and they said, oh, here we are in a hospital, and they showed two guys that were mangled.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's the same video that I've seen.
	They make it sound like there's hundreds and hundreds of them, and there's these two guys, and they kept showing, and then they kind of looped it.
	I heard on NPR, our national treasure, well, we have the exact count, 417.
	I was waiting for a magic number there.
	If there's 417 dead, there's got to be thousands, it's a factor of 10, injured.
	There's got to be thousands of people that could be limping around bleeding.
	And it may be, but they're not showing it yet.
	Everybody's there.
	All the news networks, everyone's got that little stand-up position.
	We've got the guy from the BBC News Tonight.
	We've got Christiana Ampour.
	Everyone's in.
	Everyone's...
	Full free access, yet we don't have any video of all these people.
	It's a total information war.
	Now, just one more second of Carrie, and then I'll get into Clinton, because she said some really interesting things.
	A no-fly zone is not a long-term proposition, assuming the outcome is what all desire.
	And I believe we ought to be ready to implement it as necessary.
	Yeah, so he's saying it's not all we desire, but if we need to, we'll implement it.
	He's saying we'll go in, we'll kick ass, that we're going to go take over and we're going to help all of our oil elites get exactly what they want.
	So, then Clinton, you know, she has to kind of cover up this whole Libya thing, which we'll get back to in a second.
	And she's saying, well, you know, we need to get more money.
	How are we going to do that?
	Well, I'm so genius.
	I'm so genius.
	I'm going to tear down the walls between the Ministry of Defense and the State Department so we can share our budgets.
	What?
	Yeah, yeah.
	It was unbelievable.
	I'm like, what?
	She's now going to have access to defense budget?
	And what's she going to do with this money?
	Oh, fantastic things, John.
	Second, even as our civilians help bring today's wars to a close...
	By the way, it's all about our civilians.
	This is her...
	Okay, see you in a bit, Donna.
	Her staff is the civilians, and the civilians are doing all the work.
	Civilians.
	They are working to prevent tomorrows.
	This budget devotes over $4 billion in sustaining a strong U.S. presence in political places where our security and interests are at stake.
	Okay.
	Oh, hold on.
	Yeah, there's a little...
	...development and humanitarian assistance in the midst of the headquarters for Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula.
	Okay.
	Which I thought was funny.
	What?
	Because she's reading everything.
	She's in the midst of the headquarters of Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula.
	Peninsula.
	Which she corrects, but she looks down, she realizes, I didn't say that right, did I? Peninsula, that doesn't sound right.
	What was on that bumper sticker again?
	Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula, Peninsula.
	No, that's not right.
	Peninsula.
	No, Peninsula.
	It focuses on those same goals in Somalia.
	It has helped the northern and southern Sudanese chart a peaceful future, and we need to stay on that.
	That's right.
	We'll stay right on that.
	We got George Clooney, Eye in the Sky.
	This is all coming down to Clooneyland.
	The guy's been in position.
	He's been waiting for this to happen.
	We've got Egypt.
	We've got Libya.
	We've got Tunisia.
	I want to do an aside on this.
	I'm more than a little amused about the Somalian situation because, first of all, the pirates.
	Pirates are back.
	The pirates captured those two Christian evangelists and killed them.
	Yes.
	But nobody says anything.
	The public goes, I don't know.
	They guys are on a yacht.
	I mean, give me a break.
	And so now they've captured it.
	Finally, for the first time, they've captured a bunch of kids.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Trying to get the American public worked up.
	And the American public goes, well, you know, they shouldn't have been there.
	Yeah.
	So it's like they're not getting any Somalia action by the Americans.
	Yeah.
	It's got to be driving them crazy.
	What are we going to do next?
	What do we have to do to get Somali in action going on?
	We have a boat full of babies and puppies.
	Maybe we'll have to have Clooney go on a weekend excursion or something.
	Get napped.
	It helps Haiti rebuild.
	That's my favorite!
	It helps Haiti rebuild.
	What, your hotel, Hillary?
	Please.
	And it proposes a new global security contingency fund.
	Oh, that sounds like a slush.
	Global contingency security fund.
	That would pool resources and expertise with the Defense Department.
	We are trying to tear down the walls and the bureaucratic jurisdictional obstacles that too often prevent the United States government from being as efficient as it can be by bringing all of our government assets together.
	That was a little Reagan-esque thing there.
	Tear down that wall, Mr.
	Gorbachev!
	I need some of that money on the other side.
	So, um...
	Okay.
	And this is the one that got some ink on the interwebs.
	For those of you that think Al Jazeera is awesome, and it's great news, and that it's not funded and driven by British intelligence, you should think this.
	When Hillary Clinton says they're doing a great job, You know that there's something very, very wrong.
	Something's up.
	Now listen to this, because, of course, they only got the first part of the story.
	Even the people in the conspiratorial circles didn't really listen to the whole thing, because, of course, people are lazy, and I sat there and watched all of this crap.
	I'm hopeful you can bring us good news about more aggressive policies, hoping with the BBG and others.
	Well, Senator, I want to thank you for the report that you did on the Broadcasting Board of Governors and all of the problems that it has experienced.
	Listen to this.
	I agree with you.
	Walter Isaacson is an excellent choice.
	The board is a very invigorated group of Republicans and Democrats.
	They understand.
	We are engaged in an information war.
	Right.
	Now, this is very important.
	Information war.
	Okay.
	You know, during the Cold War, we did a great job in getting America's message out.
	We did a great job of scaring Americans.
	Well, it turns out that there was nothing going on.
	Russia had nothing but gray buses with curtains and tubes coming out of it.
	Great job.
	You scared the American people, but okay.
	After the Berlin Wall fell, we said, okay, fine, enough of that.
	You know, we've done it.
	We're done.
	And unfortunately...
	That's the way I recall it.
	Yeah.
	Well, enough of that.
	Nothing to see here.
	Enough of that now.
	She's getting so cavalier in her communication that she's starting to trip up.
	Listen, you'll hear it.
	We are paying a big price for it.
	And our private media cannot fill that gap.
	In fact...
	Yeah.
	Whoa.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	How does that work?
	They can't fill that gap.
	You know why?
	Because they suck.
	Now listen.
	Our private media, particularly cultural programming, often works at counter purposes to what we truly are as Americans and what our values are.
	I remember having an Afghan general.
	Yeah, I know.
	This is great stuff.
	She's so cavalier.
	She's like, I don't know.
	What does she want?
	Her own radio network?
	I don't know.
	She does, actually.
	Back that up a little bit.
	I want to hear this.
	I want to take this in.
	Yeah, no, it gets better.
	John, it gets better.
	And our private media cannot fill that gap.
	In fact, our private media, particularly cultural programming, often works at counter-purposes to what we truly are as Americans and what our values are.
	Now, how do you read that, Obi-Wan Kenobi?
	I... Well, that's a good question.
	Well, for one thing, it's obviously that the cultural aspects that are being transmitted mostly through the...
	What's wrong?
	The Kardashians is great.
	What's her problem?
	Oh, that's what...
	You know what?
	She must be talking about...
	You don't even have to say...
	Let me take in the whole thing before I kind of see what...
	You've got to hear everything, otherwise you'll be astounded what you're about to hear.
	I remember having an Afghan general tell me that the only thing he thought about Americans is that all the men wrestled and the women walked around in bikinis, because the only TV he ever saw was Baywatch and Worldwide Wrestling.
	This was in the 1980s, Hillary.
	If you're going to talk crap, then you should at least say they all think the chicks look like the Kardashians and they all pull each other's hair out like on Real Housewives.
	And the dudes are all Jack Bauer.
	Those are references to Jerry Springer and Skin.
	So, we are in an information war, and we are losing that war.
	I'll be very blunt in my assessment.
	Al Jazeera is winning.
	Hey!
	S. Charlie Sheen is winning.
	We're in deep trouble.
	Al Jazeera's winning what?
	They're winning the information war.
	Now, there's a little...
	I have to say, C-SPAN's video, because I didn't watch it live, C-SPAN's video player sucks balls, and it will just stop for no reason.
	So there's a little stop in here of about a second or two.
	I didn't have time to edit it out, so ignore that.
	But what she's saying is vitally important as to what the State Department is doing to pollute the news stream.
	The Chinese have opened up a global English language and multi-language television network.
	The Russians have opened up an English language network.
	I've seen it in a few countries.
	Yeah, we watch it on the internet all the time, Hillary.
	I've actually seen it.
	She's talking about RT? Yes, what else is she talking about?
	That must be what she's talking about, but everybody's saying, where's he been?
	This is typical.
	This is like when, what's his name?
	The guy with the Secretary of Defense during, you know, oh man, I can't remember.
	Come on.
	I keep seeing his name.
	I keep seeing his face.
	Ted.
	Who?
	Ted.
	I'm just making it up.
	Ted.
	Ted was Rumsfeld.
	Ted Rumsfeld was saying that he never heard of Building 7.
	Right.
	These people don't get out.
	No.
	Or they're just MKUltrad or they're just lying.
	Is that possible?
	Is that one of your options?
	No, I honestly don't believe it because it's too much of a weird lie.
	I mean, if you're going to lie, you lie about stuff like, oh, we found...
	All right, now, skip all that.
	So if you want to be winning in the information war, what would you do?
	Well, it seems to me you'd put on an English station.
	No, be hipper than that, John.
	Hipper.
	Music?
	No.
	Nudity?
	I have no idea.
	Interwebs, man.
	You've got to get some kids on the interwebs.
	No, the what?
	Yeah, listen.
	And it's quite instructive.
	We are cutting back.
	The BBC is cutting back.
	So here's what we are trying to do.
	You know, in the State Department, we have pushed very hard on new media.
	Yeah!
	New media!
	That's it!
	That's what we do.
	No, but we're not doing what Hillary's doing.
	She's got a whole army.
	Listen.
	Here's that little break.
	I'm sorry.
	Here we go.
	You could have cut that out.
	So we have an Arabic Twitter feed.
	We have a Farsi Twitter feed.
	I have this group of young, you know, techno experts who are out there engaging on websites and we're putting all of our...
	You talked over it.
	Listen to what the techno kids are doing.
	Twitter feed.
	I have this group of young, you know...
	Techno experts.
	And she's waving her hands like, you know, like two hands in the air going like, techno experts.
	You know, the left and right push.
	Yeah.
	Like she's pushing imaginary pedals of her techno gadgetry or something?
	I don't know.
	Techno experts.
	Techno experts who are out there.
	Maybe she means techno music.
	Maybe she thinks it's like that hip beat music.
	You know, that drum and bass.
	So we have an Arabic Twitter feed.
	You, an Arabic Twitter feed.
	I have a Farsi Twitter feed.
	I have this group of young, you know, techno experts who are out there engaging on websites and we're putting all of our young Arabic speaking diplomats out so that they are talking about our values.
	Now, what that means is she's got a little army of techno experts and they're sitting out there and they're tweeting disinformation.
	Yeah.
	And they're getting paid.
	They've got that H.B. Gary multiple personality account software, right?
	What's the name of that company?
	The CEO just resigned?
	Mm-hmm.
	So they've got all that stuff.
	Hold on, let me just get you the name of it.
	Yeah, H.B. Gary.
	So they're managing 10, 20, maybe 50 profiles at a time.
	And they're just doing stuff in Arabic.
	Because they speak Arabic.
	They speak Farsi.
	They Twitter it.
	They've got a Twitter feed.
	And this is it.
	This is where all the news is coming from.
	It's coming directly from the State Department.
	Walter is working hard with his board to try to transform the broadcasting efforts because most people still get their news from TV and radio.
	In what century, Hillary?
	Please.
	We're pushing online.
	We can't forget TV and radio.
	And so I would look very much toward your cooperation to try to figure out how we get back in the game on this because I hate ceding what we are most expert in to anybody else.
	That's right.
	The most expert in, what, sending out bull crap?
	Is that what she said?
	I think that's exactly the message.
	We're the experts at bull crap, and I'm not going to let anybody else out bull crap.
	When it comes to bull crapping and hustling, as the president said, we hustle better than anybody else.
	So, techno-experts.
	Be very wary of techno-experts.
	I think I need a t-shirt.
	I'm a techno-expert.
	So, what is this all about?
	So, in other words, they're creating another ministry of propaganda.
	A ministry of truth, absolutely.
	Which is going to send out a bunch of bullcrap tweets.
	They're already doing it.
	This is what NPR is picking up.
	Like, oh, oh, something's happening here.
	Oh, CNN. And all of them.
	Oh, the Twitter feed is wrapping up.
	Yeah, that's Arabic letters.
	Must be important.
	We found one.
	Now that you mention, we got one called Libyan News.
	Somebody sent us some links to like, oh, something's going on.
	And I go look at the Twitter feed.
	It's called Libyan News Today or something like that.
	I'd have to go look at it.
	Yeah.
	And it's got like eight followers.
	It obviously was just put up the other day and it's making all kinds of claims about one thing or another.
	It's obviously bull crap.
	Yeah.
	But I never thought it was from our own State Department.
	I thought it was just some other propaganda.
	It is from the State Department, and she just said it.
	Yeah.
	Because I'm sure it's not identified as, Hi, I'm Bob.
	I'm from the State Department.
	I'm from the techno expert team.
	Have you seen that Twitter profile anywhere?
	Not yet.
	No.
	No, of course not.
	That's what I'd use.
	I'd love to have those credentials.
	I'm a techno expert, and I'm tweeting for you.
	Alright, so what is this all about?
	Here's where she gets cavalier and just lays it on the line.
	And this, of course, is truly what is happening in Libya.
	Before you go there, before we forget some of the things she said, I want to mention that it is the programming she's complaining about.
	The Kardashians, the big breasts on Baywatch.
	Baywatch is not on anymore, John.
	They still have reruns overseas.
	And so the point is that those things are what...
	Do benefit us by corrupting these governments that are like, oh, I've got to wear a veil, you've got to do this.
	No, you don't!
	They need to send Kim Kardashian over.
	War over.
	In like three seconds.
	Yeah, that's what I think.
	They got it all wrong.
	Why don't they have us running the show?
	And by the way, it is a little show.
	Alright, so now she gets all loose and she's talking.
	Because now she's off script.
	And she just lays it out.
	Remember...
	They evacuated 30,000 Chinese.
	Everyone's going in and getting their people out.
	We've got 30,000 Chinese because they've got a big refinery in Libya.
	They evacuated them.
	We get the Brits out.
	We've got to get some Americans out.
	But it's really...
	It's the Chinese.
	But what is really the problem?
	What is really going on?
	Why are we doing all this?
	Why are our tax dollars going to kill brown people in deserts everywhere?
	Well, it's painfully obvious, Madam Secretary.
	We had a small amount of $21 million that we were going to spread across many of these island countries.
	Obviously, that would not be possible.
	And we are in a competition for influence with China.
	Let's put aside the moral, humanitarian, do-good side of what we believe in.
	Let's just put it all aside.
	Put aside all the morals.
	In other words, that's the cover story.
	That's the cover story.
	It's all about being in competition with China.
	Oh, really, Hillary?
	Do tell.
	Let's just talk straight RealPolitik.
	RealPolitik.
	Ah, she's French.
	Competition with China.
	Take Papua New Guinea.
	Huge energy find to go to one of Senator Luger's very strong points.
	ExxonMobil is producing it.
	China is in there every day, in every way, trying to figure out how it's going to come in behind us, come in under us.
	They're supporting the dictatorial regime that unfortunately is now in charge of Fiji.
	Yeah, right.
	And of course, we support our own dictatorial regimes like Libya.
	So we brought this up initially when we discussed Libya the first time, which is that the Chinese have something to do with this.
	And we pointed out the fact that Libya started doing deals with the Chinese, so we had to go in there with our economic hitmen and take care of them.
	Because the one storyline that I forgot to bring up over and over, show after show, is the fact that during the fracas taking place in Libya, there was a Chinese oil refinery that was built and attacked Libya.
	Kind of in the background.
	Nobody covered the story.
	No one cares.
	It's Chinese.
	We're in competition with them.
	Some newsletters covered it, but why are they attacking and trying to blow up the Chinese refinery?
	It's got nothing to do with overturning the government.
	It's all part of this.
	Right, because the Libyans aren't doing it.
	The jackals are in from the economic hitmen, and they're the ones doing it.
	Yeah.
	They're the ones that are in it.
	When Gaddafi says it's al-Qaeda, he's not lying.
	It is CIA-based al-Qaeda from the Arabian Peninsula.
	Peninsula.
	The Arabian Peninsula.
	And they're just blowing stuff up.
	It's like classic.
	John, you've been around.
	Is this not the classic way?
	We've all read the Confessions of an Economic Hitman.
	This is a classic.
	No, it's a total classic.
	It's beautiful, actually.
	And fun to watch.
	It's a good show.
	It's not bad.
	We can actually put on the credits.
	No actual humans were harmed during the filming of this show.
	And the fallout is quite interesting as we're starting to witness.
	Finish up what you're doing and I'll mention some stuff going on.
	Because apparently the sons have all left town in the G5. Of course.
	Well, here we go.
	They have brought all of the leaders of these small Pacific nations to Beijing, wine them and dine them.
	Oh, we don't do that.
	We never have anyone to do that.
	We wouldn't wine and dine anyone, would we?
	That would be wrong.
	I mean, if anybody thinks that our retreating on these issues is somehow going to be irrelevant to the maintenance of our leadership in a world where we are competing with China, where we are competing with Iran.
	Oh, really?
	That's why we're so angry and aggressive towards them, because we're competing with them.
	John, did you know that we're competing with Iran?
	Actually, I did.
	So did I, but that's not the way it's brought to the stupid human resources in the United States of Gitmo.
	That is a mistaken notion.
	So, I would strongly support this on humanitarian, moral, values-based grounds.
	We do the right thing, we get credit for it.
	Credit!
	Oh, for extra credit, go and kill somebody.
	I also look at this from a strategic perspective, and it is essential.
	Okay, so I got one last clip because, of course, we're pulling all the stops out.
	We've even got who said the quote, Charlie Sheen or Qaddafi.
	We've got everything.
	It's a perfect setup.
	Charlie Sheen, God bless the man, he's being pulled into this and being misused.
	But we have to hedge all of our bets.
	Because, you know, we do have to get this guy out because we've got...
	You know, we can't let this crisis go to waste.
	Everything is rocking and rolling.
	We're blowing up the Chinese because we're in competition with them.
	We're getting those guys out.
	The Chinese went like...
	And they went, shit, let's get out.
	Let's get out of town.
	And so they hightailed it out.
	So now how do we...
	Go into the final act of removing Qaddafi.
	Well, very easily, of course.
	I want to congratulate you for your statement yesterday that the United States is considering seeking the prosecution of Omar Qaddafi for the 1988 10 Emerald Street bombing.
	Yeah, this kills me.
	This is great!
	I just went, wow, this is like, let's bring back...
	I mean, this is unbelievable to me how well they did this.
	Oh, well.
	It was poor, actually.
	It's in poor taste.
	Yeah, it's in poor taste.
	They bring it in out of the blue.
	Matt Lauer's got some families from the Lockerbie bombing on his show.
	Oh, yeah.
	And the whole thing is just, like, staged to an extreme.
	So let's listen to our representatives of our nation as to how they're setting this up.
	That killed 189 Americans, including 33 of my fellow New Jerseyans.
	And that comes on the heels of the reports by the ex-Justice Minister of Libya that Qaddafi personally ordered the attack.
	Yeah, so this was the disinformation they threw out there.
	Because, of course, we know that this was a CIA drug smuggling operation.
	We know so much about Lockerbie.
	But it's so long ago, you know, it's like we don't even care about 9-11 anymore.
	You know, it's like, yeah, Lockerbie, yeah, David, Libya, yeah, whatever.
	Now, she's so arrogant, she says something unbelievable here.
	And so, I hope you'll give us, as this moves along, a sense of how we're going to verify this information.
	I hope we get access to the Justice Minister soon.
	Yeah, we've got to get access to him.
	Because when he says it's true, well, let's go get him.
	I mean, you know that.
	The guy's going to stand there, he's going to have his hand on the Koran, and his other hand on the Bible, and he's going to say, yeah, dude, I saw Gaddafi.
	He picked up the phone, and he said, bring it down.
	Make it happen.
	Bring it down.
	I need to be winning.
	And what time frame we might expect a decision on whether we will seek to prosecute Gaddafi for that heinous crime.
	And also, I want to urge you to consider, you know, that I and other of my colleagues on this committee issued a report on the release of the convicted Pan Am 103 bomber, Al McGrahi, which was released, we believe, from a Scottish person on false pretenses.
	Yeah, let's not forget that little issue where BP needed to do a little deal there with Libya.
	And so they gave this guy back.
	And we know it was about the oil.
	They gave the guy back under false pretense.
	The guy's still around.
	He only had like weeks to live.
	And they're like, hey, I'm free.
	I'm out.
	You know, it was a CIA hit job.
	I want to urge you to consider requesting of any potential new Libyan government that may come out as a result of what is going on in Libya.
	We should get one of those guys with the hats and the capes like in Afghanistan.
	We should get one of those guys to be the new government.
	That always looks good.
	It's a little premature to say that, but I want to put it on your radar screen.
	I hope that if there is a new Libyan government, when we engage with that...
	Hold on a second.
	Someone in the chat room says, I missed the code.
	Was it 33 fellow New Jerseyans?
	Was it 33?
	Did I miss that?
	Apparently.
	It was a number.
	I thought it was 36.
	Yeah, maybe I... Maybe it was 33.
	Maybe it wouldn't surprise me.
	...government that we will consider asking for the extradition of Al McGrahee to finish serving his sentence instead of sitting in the lap of luxury.
	Now, listen to what she says.
	Well, first, Senator, thank you for your...
	Wait a minute.
	Lap of luxury?
	Yeah.
	The guy's living in a...
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Continuing focus on this terrible crime.
	I represented New York and of course many...
	What?
	Did you hear what she's saying?
	Did she represent New York during the Pan Am bombing?
	No.
	Of course not.
	During the Pan Am bombing?
	She was in Arkansas.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Now listen to it again.
	She's so...
	This woman is so arrogant.
	For your...
	Continuing focus on this...
	Of course, he said, you know, my fellow New Jersey...
	You've got to, like, bring it home.
	You've got to bring it home to the people on the streets.
	Terrible crime.
	I represented New York, and of course...
	I represented New York!
	What?
	Many of the victims were from Syracuse University.
	I represented New York.
	She's trying to get away with it.
	Of course, I represented New York, and many of them were from Syracuse University.
	Whatever.
	Whatever.
	Horrible, horrible woman.
	Check that, John.
	See if she was a senator.
	I don't think she was a senator then.
	No, no, no.
	She was in college.
	It was in 1988.
	Right.
	Well...
	Clinton wasn't even president yet.
	No, but she was senator of New York.
	No, he was the governor of Arkansas.
	And she was senator of New York.
	She wasn't, yeah, right.
	She had techno experts.
	She was like the first lady of Arkansas in 1988, and she probably never even been to New York.
	Evil woman.
	Like you, many times with family members.
	And it is just a heartbreaking experience.
	Yeah, like you care.
	Like the hit list of body count around the Clintons.
	Seventy people are dead.
	All two shots of the head, gun in the left hand.
	Oops, killed myself.
	and justice must be served.
	So what we are doing is reaching out, based on these recent reports, to the FBI and the Justice Department, which have the jurisdiction over any continuing prosecution, to ask that they immediately try to take whatever actions are possible. to ask that they immediately try to take whatever actions
	I was given a letter yesterday by two of the family members in the House hearing, which outlines a number of ways that we could proceed, and I have sent that over to Justice and the FBI.
	I don't think it's only Gaddafi.
	I think that there may be others as well who are involved in some way.
	And like you, I would like the families to have whatever information they can finally get and then whatever legal action we can take.
	So, I just sat with my mouth open.
	Link in the show notes, of course, NoAgendaShow.com and our excellent new No Agenda News System.
	If you see the opening statement by Kerry, he covers everything in the first 10 minutes.
	It's like, we're going to get this guy for that, the no-fly zone, nice idea, but we have to go in, we've got to kick ass, we're America.
	And let's not forget that her husband, Bill Clinton, pardoned Mark Rich Who is the founder and one of the richest men in the world for dealing in oil illegally when they had our hostages with Iran.
	And they let him go.
	He got pardoned.
	That's Clinton's only pardon when he left office.
	Mark Rich went to Zug, Switzerland.
	He had a bunch of them, but that was his worst.
	Okay.
	He went to Zouk, Switzerland, and he started Glencore, which is about to go public.
	Everything is coming together.
	It's the perfect storm.
	They're all going to get so wealthy, so incredibly rich.
	And you have to look at what Glencore does and what they own.
	The article I sent you the other day, John, the biggest company you've never heard of.
	Completely under the radar.
	They're about to go public on the London Stock Exchange.
	As oil is ticking up, it's not going to go down until the IPO. It's a beautiful setup, and she's in the game.
	They've got stock.
	You know they've got stock.
	They're in on it.
	How would you not be?
	You're an idiot if you don't.
	I need an antacid.
	I'm disgusted by this woman.
	Here's the thing that's kind of interesting that's not being played up very much, which is she and most of the people who are saying, well, we've got to do something, we've got to take some legal action against Gaddafi because we discovered this new information because this guy's admitted that he heard Gaddafi give the order and all the rest of it, is they keep pushing this on the world court.
	Have you noticed this?
	No, I haven't heard this yet.
	Yeah, they want to do that.
	The world court take care of him and arrest the guy.
	Oh, well, perfect.
	With the Kosovo guy.
	But meanwhile, I thought we were like, we think the world court sucks because if we let the world court do anything or give him some sort of...
	No, we don't recognize it.
	We don't recognize it because...
	We don't recognize it.
	If we give it credence, that means guys like Ted Rumsfeld and the rest of these guys.
	Are going to get arrested if they go to Europe.
	I mean, Bush, you know, is very fearful.
	Charlie Bush, he's going to go to jail if we recognize it.
	As for war crimes.
	Guy can't even travel to other countries because they'll arrest him.
	Yeah, the only good news for him is that he doesn't like to travel anyway.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But Rumsfeld does.
	Rumsfeld likes to get around.
	Ted likes to rock and roll.
	Anyway, so this whole thing...
	It stinks.
	It really does.
	And it's so obvious to anyone who has their eyes open what is going on.
	And false flag in Gitmo Nation lowlands that I have to identify.
	So apparently a Lynx helicopter crew went in and they took off from a Royal Majesty's ship, Tromp.
	Now, I've been on this ship.
	So it's parked right offshore there.
	It's floating around.
	This is a frigate, and it has a goal catcher on it.
	And I got a tour of this thing.
	I was on this actual ship, and they got one helicopter on it, but it's got a goal catcher, which is one of those things where, like, 550 rockets, and it goes...
	And it turns around really, really fast and locates the target and blows stuff up.
	It can blow something up 200 miles away.
	Pinpoint position.
	It's amazing.
	It's made by technical experts.
	And so they let the links go up to go and rescue two guys.
	And so the reports are, well, you know, so the two people are safe in the embassy, but they've got two of the crew members.
	And I'm getting reports from, because, of course, I know these guys.
	I know the helicopter pilots.
	I know the people on the ship.
	I'm getting all kinds of reports saying, this is bull crap.
	It's not true.
	Because we at least have a team of five on the chopper.
	We've got two people to assist.
	We've got one medic.
	These are set missions when we go and rescue someone behind lines.
	They're lying.
	It's not true.
	The number of people just doesn't make sense.
	You don't operate these missions with only two crew.
	So it's a false flag.
	And I think that probably we're going to have to come to the aid.
	This will be one.
	I don't think it's a real good one.
	It's like, oh, well, our NATO partners, they're being harassed there.
	We've got to go in and kick some ass!
	I'm going to kick some living ass!
	So, yeah, it's just my blood pressure.
	This makes me so angry just because it's so painfully obvious what is being done here.
	Yeah, but you know.
	Yeah, I know.
	I know.
	On the other hand, it's just a bunch of brown people and some sand.
	I know.
	Why do I worry?
	I got the Kardashians.
	They're still watching Baywatch.
	Losers.
	We got the Charlie Sheen.
	Losers.
	We got Charlie Sheen and we got Kardashians.
	They're still watching Baywatch and wrestling when it was WWF. They're a bunch of losers.
	They deserve it.
	Let's thank some people.
	Let's thank a few.
	We didn't get much of a response from the last show, so I have to assume we didn't do the show well enough.
	We didn't do a good show.
	Because we only have a few donors.
	And we only have one executive producer and one associate executive producer.
	We might as well name them off.
	Executive producer and member of the 283 Club is Don Bean.
	He's come back.
	He's back for more.
	Yeah, and he's back with a birthday coming up, too.
	In the morning, Gitmo Nation, I'm joining the exclusive 283 Club, of which he's an exclusive member.
	In the name of my son, Brandon, on his 28th birthday, Friday, March 4th, we'll be driving up to the 101 to San Francisco on that day, listening to the No Agenda episode, this one in particular.
	So it'd be cool to hear the slaves give a birthday shout-out to Brandon.
	I'm also hoping for some karma to come his way.
	He's been unemployed since October.
	Yeah, unemployed, but now you're winning!
	You've got karma.
	He, of course, registered DNAspray.us.
	Yes, a good one.
	Some of these might be useful for actual initiatives.
	Well, you know, whoever owns NoAgendaNews.com, I haven't seen it come through yet, but he saw what I'm doing with the No Agenda News Network.
	He said, oh, dude, here it is, NoAgendaNews.com.
	I'll assign it over to you right now.
	It's beautiful.
	Yeah, it's great.
	I love it.
	Thank you.
	In other words, we have our own people parking sites all over the place.
	That's right.
	And then associate executive producer will be John Dunn from Arvada, Colorado.
	Several months since I've donated, he's gave us $250 and decided to go the check route to keep the fees out of the pockets of evil PayPal.
	John Dunn, you say?
	John, J-O-H-N, Dunn, UNN. Oh, he sent the check, right?
	That's why he's not on the list.
	I've been listening for less than a year, but your show is of great value to me, and it's changed the way I listen to the media.
	It has actually made most mainstream media unbearable to stomach.
	Yeah, that's what we'll do for you, my friend.
	Don't worry about it.
	We're trying to make you sick.
	Glad you listened to that crap so I don't have to.
	Hope this contribution helps things going.
	Keep up the good work.
	It's like, no agenda.
	We're just like X-LAC's.
	We'll make you sick.
	So I want to thank our executive producer and associate executive producer for this week's show, 283.
	That's it?
	Yeah, that's it.
	That's all we got.
	So we have Don Bean and John Dunn.
	Don Bean and John Dunn.
	Wow.
	All monosyllabic.
	Yes.
	So, a quick little mention here.
	We have Scott, who did One Day in Gitmo Nation.
	He says, I'd like to nominate a very kind gentleman.
	Scott's from the UK, as you can tell.
	Called Carl Ranson from Christchurch.
	New Zealand, a.k.a.
	Gitmo Nation, a whole lot of shaking going on.
	For a PR mention on the Next No Agenda, he did some great work to produce a Kindle version of One Day in Gitmo Nation for me, which is now on sale just in time for World Book Day, which is today, apparently, John.
	World Book Day.
	Oh, is it now?
	Yeah, I guess so.
	Oh, really?
	So, you can add a link in the show notes, of course, amzn.to slash Gitmo Kindle.
	Very, very nice.
	Now, John and I have a little talk about this.
	What I'm seeing is, first of all, there's almost no time to thank everybody for all the domains they're forwarding, but it's also...
	Honestly, it's kind of a cheap way to get a mention at the top of the show, and it's not really fair to people who are really sending us cash.
	And the list is just so long.
	The domains are great, and it's highly appreciated.
	So if you want to find out who...
	It's in the show notes, but we have to kind of...
	Yeah, we'll list them in the show notes.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So we have anti-governmentpatriot.com, now forwarding to noagendashow.com.
	We have, this is a good one, breaking news.
	So breaking any.ws, i.e.
	breaking news, which is for...
	What's W-A-S? I don't know what country that's from.
	You keep reading, I'll go look it up.
	Um, hold on a second, I have to move some stuff around here.
	We've got sheeppudding.com.
	Apparently there's also now a.42 top-level domain, so we have no agenda...
	Western Samoa.
	There you go.
	We have noagenda.42.com.
	.42?
	Yeah, how awesome is that?
	I've never heard of that.
	Yeah, apparently that's a top-level domain, 42.
	Check it out.
	GitmoNationEast and GitmoNationWest.com, also forwarding to NoAgendaShow.com.
	1-800-ShutUpSlave.com is now forwarding to our show site.
	I like that.
	The.42 is an experimental numeric TLD. It launches without ICANN approval, so it's probably going to get killed.
	Well, it's okay.
	YouLearnStuff.com.
	Very nice.
	We have...
	That's a good one.
	Yeah, it's very nice.
	We have one of our Polish listeners has given us NoAgenda.pl.
	Nice.
	We need everyone from some countries to do that for us.
	Yeah, that would be perfect.
	And then a couple of final mentions here.
	One more mention of NoAgendaDice.com as...
	Only two weeks left to purchase the Green St.
	Patrick's Day edition of No Agenda Dice.
	Doors close on the Emerald Bones at midnight on March 17, 2011.
	And that'll be the end of the Green Dice, so if you want to get in on that, thank you very much, Chris.
	That's an awesome initiative.
	We like it.
	And I do want to mention Paul Alves.
	I think that's how you pronounce his name.
	Now, Paul has done...
	Remember we talked about the No Agenda Bullshit Filter?
	Yeah.
	It's been going on for a while.
	Well, I misread what he was doing.
	Who knows who started it and who's finishing it, but it's a plug-in for Firefox.
	So it's not just a site you go to.
	You load the plug-in.
	And any webpage you go to, and there's a dictionary which we can add phrases to, and he's updating it.
	So if there's an article about Donald Rumsfeld, it'll show up as Ted Rumsfeld.
	If there's an article that mentions a gentler Napolitano, it'll say Lucy Napolitano.
	So it's correcting the errors.
	Yes, it's exact.
	The Royal Wedding, of course, is Prince Jim of Wales.
	So it's a great initiative.
	I'm very proud of that, and everyone should contribute to that.
	And I want to thank, personally, everyone who contributed to Rhino, the Bearded One's Kickstarter project.
	It has been completed.
	He funded his goal, partially in thanks, of course, to the Streamtacular event last Saturday and Sunday.
	Rhino the Beard, of course, does the No Agenda Shots.
	They air every single hour on the hour here at noagendastream.com.
	Looks like Mr.
	Oil kicked in at the very last minute.
	Actually, it goes on until this afternoon, but he's already reached his $3,333 goal to pay for his tuition and books so that he can continue to make the excellent new agenda shots.
	I think that's a really good investment, and I highly appreciate everyone who did that.
	It's all good.
	Maybe that's why we didn't get any money.
	Maybe it all went to Rhino and his books.
	Nah, it's just a slow week.
	Okay.
	We'll pick up the pace with this show.
	And, of course, we want to thank our associate executive producer, John Dunn, and our executive producer and the singular member of the 283 Club.
	The doors close on that.
	You can't get in anymore if you want to be a club member.
	284's doors are now open.
	Donate that exact show number amount, and you'll become a member and listed at the top.
	Yeah.
	And a special call-out.
	Special call-out.
	And these are real credits.
	You can put them in your signature, on your letterhead, on your business card, your IMDB profile, and unlike the phonies in Hollywood, we'll actually vouch for you.
	You can just call us up and we'll say, yeah, it's an executive producer.
	Everyone else, propagate the formula.
	The formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Everybody say it loud to Proud.
	Shut up, space.
	So where do they go to help us with these executive producerships?
	Oh, I almost forgot to mention that.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. If you see a stop sign, you'll hear the jingle.
	Can't help it.
	It just happens every single time.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. You can also go to NoagendaNation slash NA or NoagendaNation.com slash NA or slash donate or the NoagendaShow.com.
	There's a link.
	Wonderful.
	So please help us for the next Sunday event.
	Wonderful, wonderful.
	So, I think we've pretty much covered Libya.
	I think you've beaten it to death.
	I hear Syria might be next.
	No.
	Syria's got no oil.
	Oh, well...
	Oh, by the way, reminder, Oil's Crude Show, coming up after today's No Agenda, right after the show.
	Mr.
	Oil's Crude Show.
	If you want all the dirt on the oil cabal from the insiders, it's on the stream.
	And I think it's a podcast as well.
	So, just to wrap up a couple of things on this Libya thing.
	Apparently, of course, we got access to some Russian websites with some guys' feet on the ground.
	They're saying that the action was pretty minor.
	There wasn't much going on.
	But we also have access to a Venezuelan news site that's kind of an underground site.
	I think it runs out of Spain, actually.
	That says that all the Qaddafi kids, except for that one guy, Shemp, Is he the one that had the hot singers, Mariah Carey and everyone performing?
	I don't know.
	All I know is that all the kids have jumped in a G5 and they're in Venezuela.
	They went through Ghana and then they didn't want to stay there so they went to Venezuela where they were welcomed by the Venezuelans and of course there was a big to-do at the UN. Over the fact that Libya was kicked out of the civil rights.
	They have some sub-segment of the civil rights.
	There's some group, and Libya was one of the members of this committee.
	Actually, play the clip I have here on that.
	Which one is this, John?
	It's the UN clips.
	I'm going to look at the clips.
	There's too many clips, unfortunately.
	Libya kicked off committee.
	Makes total sense.
	Let's rock it.
	To the UN, Susan Rice.
	Praise the move.
	This is the first time that either the Human Rights Council or its predecessor, the Human Rights Commission, have suspended any member state for gross violations of human rights.
	And we think this is an important step forward in enhancing the credibility of the Human Rights Council, whose credibility on these issues has often quite legitimately been called into question.
	The Venezuelan government has voiced criticism of Libya's expulsion but did not vote to block it.
	Venezuelan envoy Jorge Valero accused the U.S. of seeking a pretext for military intervention.
	So once in a while we get actual news from the Democracy Now!
	show, because I was looking for the alternative explanation for why the Charlie Sheen thing is going on.
	You might as well play the Venezuela rants in the United Nations, because it's kind of amusing.
	And they also signaled the Libyans that they could send their kids to Venezuela.
	Venezuela llama a rechazar esa movilización guerrerista.
	Venezuela calls for the rejection of warmongering mobilization of the U.S. Air Force and Navy in the Mediterranean Sea.
	Those who promote the use of military force against Libya do not seek to defend human rights, but rather, as always, to establish a protectorate and pillage the most important sources of oil and energy in the Middle Eastern region.
	Right.
	Yeah, you know, they're a bunch of creeps, but they get it right.
	It's amazing.
	It really is amazing.
	Who cares?
	And meanwhile, of course, Venezuela is a crap hole, and these guys are going to be moving there, so it'll be kind of interesting.
	Apparently, they brought some hot Ukrainians with them.
	These guys, I mean, what a life.
	And all paid for by us.
	That's what gets me.
	Now, here's the thing that kind of gets me, too.
	They say, the Swiss say, well, we're going to freeze all the bank accounts.
	What?
	Under what pretense?
	Well, it's even worse, you know, that President Obama signed an executive order on the 20...
	I have it here, actually, because I was quite amazed.
	Because, of course, you know, who manages all of this money?
	It was on the 25th of February.
	Executive order.
	Libya.
	That's the name of the executive order.
	Blocking property and prohibiting certain transactions related to Libya.
	And it literally says that no person, no company, no one representing a company, no nothing, including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citibank, etc., can do anything with any money from Libya, from a person from Libya, from the central bank from Libya, anything.
	You know that all that money's here.
	You know it is.
	So what, are they just stealing it from the banks now?
	I mean, I found this to be very weird.
	Yeah, I find the whole thing, even with the Swiss, weird.
	I mean, so all hell breaks loose in the country.
	The guy's got, like, say, a few billion dollars in the Swiss bank account, and the Swiss decide to freeze the account.
	Let me ask you a question.
	Under what pretense?
	I mean, I don't think this guy should be stealing money from his people, but what gives the Swiss the right to freeze the guy's bank account?
	I'll tell you.
	What's in Switzerland?
	Zug.
	And what is in Zouk?
	Glencore, all the oil companies.
	Here's what I think happened.
	I think this is a deal gone bad.
	I think someone paid for something really big, probably an oil company or like a Glencore, and Gaddafi said, I'm going to have another toke.
	And they said, oh yeah?
	Bitch, let me show you how this works.
	We're taking your money, and we're going to go kick you out.
	This sounds like a deal gone bad or something happening here.
	Switzerland, it's fishy.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, what do we know?
	We don't know much.
	We don't know nothing.
	We don't know nothing, so nobody bother us.
	We don't know nothing.
	All we do is deconstruct.
	Well, I do have reports that Libya's billions, $30 billion of assets of Muammar Gaddafi, his family, and the Libyan government are in private equity firms including Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and the Carlyle Group, which would make sense.
	That's just the intel I'm receiving from my boots on the ground and foots in the oceans.
	Okay, so...
	Right.
	I'm done.
	I'm bored of it.
	They've got to get some groovy visuals going, or people aren't going to care anymore.
	Ukrainian nurses, put them on the air.
	Yeah, that would be good.
	But you know what I'm saying?
	It's like they have 24 hours to show some really compelling video, or people aren't going to care anymore, and they'll lose...
	That's why the hedge is the Pan Am bombing.
	They've got to keep it going somehow.
	We're into...
	People have short attention spans, man.
	By the way, nicely timed after the Oscars.
	Yeah, which reminds me, we needed to talk a little bit about the Oscars.
	We promised we would.
	We can do that after our break, or we can do it now, or we can do something and play a little minor clip as a segue.
	Do you want to do a little bit of...
	I have another Stammering Democrat.
	Oh, no.
	I'm sorry.
	I was doing real news.
	No, no.
	Stop.
	Kill.
	Okay.
	Killed.
	So, you know, I've been following Stammering Democrats.
	Which includes our president.
	A president and Tavis Smiley.
	And now I've got Eleanor Norton.
	Norton?
	She's the representative of D.C. And she does a stammering thing in here that I have to promise everybody out there that I did not edit this.
	It's actually kind of astonishing.
	Sorry, let me pull that back.
	Well, you would have to fight people at the well in order to quell the stampede of people saying you have violated a fundamental right of law.
	And what does that say?
	Is that when someone's lying that they do that?
	I think it's...
	I think they've...
	I don't know.
	I'm just documenting it.
	I'm finding it peculiar.
	That's interesting.
	And it's not normal stammering because most people, if they're going to start to stammer, or in this case stutter, they usually stop themselves if they're professional and they're people in the public.
	Gain composure.
	She went like ballistic with this thing.
	But let's hear it one more time.
	That was kind of fascinating.
	Well, you would have to fight people at the well.
	In order to quell the stampede of people saying you have violated a fundamental right.
	I did not edit that.
	So, I don't know.
	Like I said, I'm documenting these.
	I'll have a medley, eventually.
	You should auto-tune it.
	Auto-tune it.
	That'll be cool.
	Yeah, maybe.
	That'll be cool.
	So, okay.
	Very nice.
	Just a little aside.
	Again, I don't know what it means.
	Hey, can I just...
	I had this discussion with Miss Mickey last night about Charlie Sheen.
	I think we just need to address it for a second.
	So...
	I think this is a classic Hollywood Whackers story in progress happening before our very eyes.
	Because the model is exactly the same as used for Michael Jackson.
	And I have a tie-in here.
	So first of all, the guy's got to be crazy.
	Let me step back.
	This whole thing stems from a business dispute.
	Chuck Lorre, who has those crazy credit cards at the end, the vanity card, with all this text and you have to freeze frame it, but if you go to chucklorre.com or chucklorreproductions or whatever it is, you can actually read them.
	So, I guess he was in some kind of business dispute with Charlie Sheen, who of course has been the way he is forever.
	I mean, the guy's always hanging out with hookers and blow and whatever.
	He seems to do good work.
	I don't know what he's doing in his personal life.
	Who knows?
	We really don't know.
	Because it's just all...
	It's TMZ. It's Entertainment Tonight.
	It's extra.
	We don't know what's really happening.
	But it seems to do good work.
	And the show, Two and a Half Men, is of course in mega, mega syndication.
	I'm surprised that Hillary Clinton didn't say that that's what these foreign leaders see, is Two and a Half Men.
	Charlie Sheen, very funny.
	Because it's in all over the world.
	It's hundreds of millions of dollars.
	And Charlie Sheen is not just getting residuals from SAG on this.
	He has a piece of the international distribution.
	I don't have paperwork for fact, but there's no way you can be doing the show this long with this success without owning a lot more of it.
	And there's spin-offs from it.
	So he's still delivering good work as far as I know.
	And then Chuck Lorre starts to put up all kinds of things like Charlie Sheen has no soul.
	He's dead on the inside.
	So he's taunting him.
	And then Charlie Sheen, whatever, he's got his normal stuff going on.
	And then he starts hammering out and lashing out at Chuck Lorre.
	So there's a business dispute between these two.
	Not dissimilar to Michael Jackson, or any artist for that matter, and a record company.
	Which in this case was Sony.
	So, we've got this dispute going on, and of course, it's propagated beautifully.
	Charlie Sheen, he's crazy, he's a nutjob, everyone's calling him a wacko, you know, wacko jacko, wino sheeno, it's the same thing.
	They take his kids away, because he's unfit, he's got a restraining order, total shades of Michael Jackson, you know, except he was a pedophile.
	And the next step is he's going to overdose and he's going to die because he's worth more dead than he is alive.
	And let me give you the connection.
	What television broadcast company owns two and a half men?
	CBS. Owned by Sony.
	This is their model.
	CBS isn't owned by Sony.
	What are you talking about?
	Of course it is.
	No, it's not.
	Of course it is.
	No, it's not.
	Yes, it is.
	No.
	Who's it owned by then?
	It's not owned by Sony.
	Yes, it is.
	It's owned by Viacom, if I'm not mistaken.
	It's owned by Sony.
	No.
	Oh, shit.
	There goes my whole theory.
	What's his name?
	The old man.
	Oh, you mean Sandy Redstone.
	Sandy Redstone.
	It used to be owned by Sony.
	No, they never used to be owned by Sony.
	It's a great theory.
	I like the way you walked it down the aisle, and then boom, it was the wrong sex.
	It turned out the bride was a dude.
	Bride was a dude.
	I'm sorry.
	Well, anyway, I still think this is a Hollywood whack.
	I really do.
	I think you may be on to something, but you're going to have to go a little bit.
	I've got to go deeper.
	Ah, shoot.
	You're right.
	Sandy Redstone.
	You're right.
	You can play the real news thing now.
	Okay, here we go.
	And now, back to real news.
	At least I'm not always right.
	There's finally somebody.
	I have to give credit to Stepan Pupilis for bringing on a doctor.
	He brought on a doctor who discussed about the, and as soon as he came out with this, he said, oh yeah, this is bipolar.
	Sheen apparently, the guy's made one comment, he says, you know, there's a lot of bipolars out there.
	In fact, by the way, for the No Agenda Book Club, make sure to put on the book club, hold on a second, what do I do with it?
	There's two books by Robert D. Hare, and one of them is Without Conscience, The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us.
	I've mentioned this on the show before.
	And his other book, Snakes in Suits.
	That's the sequel to Snakes on the Plane.
	Kind of.
	So, the bipolar disorder, he says something interesting.
	He says 60% of bipolars are kind of on drugs in one store or another, and they're essentially self-dosing their problem.
	And he says that sometimes when they go completely clean, it just releases the worst part of bipolarism.
	I just got to bring in Miss Mickey again.
	She says, I know people who look exactly like this right after they quit coke.
	So this is exactly what it is.
	This is the behavior.
	This is the everything.
	And she's no doctor.
	Yeah, well, I'm going to play these backwards now because I think that the guy was interesting, but play the bipolar lecture.
	And he also uses an interesting term I've never heard before, but I like it because it describes the situation called pressured speech, where you're blabbing real fast.
	We know people who do that.
	Oh, yeah.
	Here we go.
	But play the bipolar lecture.
	It's quite interesting.
	Now let's get more on all this with senior health and medical editor Dr.
	Richard Besser.
	He's been back with us this morning.
	Christina Wanzelak, an addiction specialist and the founder of Full Circle Intervention.
	And Rich, let's begin with you.
	You said yesterday when you first saw this, you sent me an email and said if you saw someone...
	Acting out.
	The way the Charlie Sheen is acting out, you would recommend immediately they have to go see a psychiatrist.
	What stands out there?
	Well, you know, George, there are two types of bipolar disorder, also called manic depressive illness.
	One where you're mainly seeing depressive symptoms with occasional mania, but what you're seeing here is a full-fledged manic episode.
	And with that mania, you see delusions of grandeur.
	You know, talking about having tiger blood, having a brain and a heart that can handle all of these drugs.
	You see pressured speech.
	So he's talking very quickly.
	He's jumping topics.
	He's saying things that don't make sense.
	And then one of the hallmarks of manic depressive illness is his lack of judgment in all aspects of his life.
	And that's what makes it so hard to deal with his illness.
	But he asked the question in the interview, if this is manic bipolar, how come I'm not crashing?
	Well, you know, 90% of people will have those crashes, but not everybody.
	And it may be that he's had those, and some of that has been masked with drugs.
	Drugs can offset some of those symptoms.
	And what can trigger these bouts of mania?
	Well, you know, we know there's a big genetic component to bipolar disorder, but triggers is not all that much known.
	60% of people who have bipolar disorder will have substance abuse.
	And one thing you'll sometimes see is that as those drugs go away, as they come off those drugs, it will unmask those manic symptoms.
	And that may be what you're seeing here.
	New Theory, MKUltra.
	So, could be.
	So anyway, so as soon as this went on, I said, okay, well that's kind of, at least for me, it kind of explains everything.
	It doesn't explain the media's preoccupation, the fact that they're just giddy over the fact they get cheap material, while other things in the world more important are going on.
	No kidding.
	And I believe, by the way, the big cover-up, you can have your theory, I can have mine, but I think the story that everyone wants to cover up, they don't want to talk about, is the Iraqi riots.
	Well, there's that.
	I mean, there's a lot of stuff.
	It's beautiful.
	There's a lot of Greek riots, but Iraq's going through some real turmoil right now.
	We're going to get to that after the break.
	But also, let's face it.
	The economics just work.
	Charlie Sheen comes to you Yeah, it's expensive.
	Normally expensive.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And huge ratings.
	And otherwise, you've got to go to Iraq, you've got to buy some B-roll from somebody, you've got to set up the green screen, the whole production crew.
	It's cheap material.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's cheap for us, too.
	So let me play the Sheen bipolar medley.
	I think it kind of shows all the things the doctor said, this pressured speech, and the rest of it is kind of wrapped up.
	But unedited outbursts...
	Man, I was banging seven-gram rocks and finishing them because that's how I roll.
	I have one speed, I have one gear.
	Go!
	...like that have people questioning his mental health.
	Some are saying that you're bipolar.
	Wow.
	And then what?
	What's the cure?
	Medicine?
	Make me like them?
	Not gonna happen.
	I'm bi- See, before he says it, so I'm down with that.
	I mean, I agree with a lot of things he says, I have to admit.
	I went here and I went there.
	Now what?
	If I'm bipolar, aren't there moments where a guy like crashes and is like in the corner like, oh my god, it's all my mom's fault?
	Shut up.
	Shut up.
	Stop.
	Move forward.
	You know, feed your child.
	Get back to your job.
	Recently, his father, actor Martin Sheen, said his son's addiction is a disease.
	He has no right to do that, and that's judgment, and I have no interest in that.
	I don't care if he's my dad or the guy down the street or someone that like fell out of the sky.
	No interest in that.
	I don't care if he's my dad.
	Back off with your judgment.
	Is he trying to help you?
	I don't even take it that far to consider that because it's judgment and it's executed.
	Come in with judgment, you're executed.
	I don't care what you have to say.
	What was interesting though is that this all stemmed from an hour-long telephone appearance on the Alex Jones show.
	And Alex Jones immediately went and pimped this for himself.
	On every single show, he was on everywhere, including Joy Behar.
	Like, what?
	And some people see, there's a lot more things important.
	Charlie's my friend, blah, blah, blah, whatever.
	So now I'm convinced Alex Jones is disinformation.
	I think there's some element of that.
	You might as well play the last clip, which is the one that proves to me that he's crazy because he says that Piers Morgan is a genius.
	I'd be speaking for them, but it would have been nice if there was some measure of support from anybody, anybody at this point.
	That's all right, man.
	Every great movement begins with one man, and I guess that's me.
	You're the kind of Che Guevara of Hollywood at the moment.
	I'll take it.
	I'll take it.
	Nice.
	Charlie, it's been a pleasure.
	Likewise.
	It's been fascinating.
	And I hope if you do get it sorted.
	You're fabulous.
	Thank you.
	You're awesome.
	I hope you come back on when it gets resolved and talk about it.
	Absolutely.
	After I go on.
	Because I kind of feel that TV needs you.
	Yes, it does.
	You know?
	You're one of life's great characters.
	Oh, thank you.
	Thank you, good sir.
	And you've admitted you've fallen by the wayside a little bit.
	Sure.
	But everyone's entitled to a second go, I reckon.
	There you go.
	So I wish you good luck with it.
	Thank you, sir.
	It's a pleasure.
	Thank you very much.
	Keep winning.
	Keep winning.
	Well, anyway, I like Charlie Sheen.
	He's not winning.
	I hate to mention this to anybody.
	I like Charlie Sheen.
	I think a lot of the stuff he's done, he's done some interesting stuff against the New World Order, which I appreciate and like.
	Yeah, no, I think, I agree, and by the way, I think you and him have the same birthday.
	Same birthday.
	I'm one year older than he is.
	I look a hell of a lot younger, I'll tell you that.
	Well, I'd like to know why nobody has asked this question, because every time I see him, he's had a nose job, but it looks like his nose, since the nose job, has been broken, severely broken.
	It is twisted and bent way over to the right.
	Maybe it was the Hollywood slut squad that, you know, Lindsay's getting no more play.
	You know, she can't create a diversion anymore.
	It's like, Lindsay, go and steal something, like a necklace.
	And she steals the necklace, like, eh, whatever.
	Nice dress.
	You know, everyone's crazy about the dress.
	Then they try a couple others.
	Hey, we got that MKUltra, what's that wacko, that whack job?
	Who's the guy we got under control with the chip in his head, the designer?
	John Galliano!
	Yeah, that's the one.
	Make him say something against the Jews.
	That didn't really play.
	No one cares.
	Nobody knows who he is.
	But Charlie Sheen, now you're talking.
	So maybe they needed to help the diversion.
	Well, I still like to know why his nose looks all busted up.
	Well, because they roughed him up.
	Like, you gotta go do this.
	He must have roughed him up.
	You gotta go do this, man.
	Otherwise, you're gonna kick your ass.
	You're gonna OD in a very unfortunate way.
	The Galliano thing didn't get anywhere.
	Nothing.
	He didn't get any legs.
	He was drunk in a bar, moaning and groaning.
	He looked like just a...
	He's a dick!
	He's a total dick.
	And have you ever seen his clothes?
	Please.
	It's like someone threw up on a t-shirt.
	I'm like, nice.
	Thanks.
	So, yeah.
	It's fashion.
	And I guess Paris Hilton gave up on the whole scheme.
	Oh, Paris Hilton?
	Oh, I thought you meant Perez.
	Yeah, Paris Hilton.
	Okay, John, that's enough.
	Okay, well then close it.
	Yes, let's do that.
	And now, back to real news.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	That's funny, that's not really a close.
	I don't have a close.
	If you want to change topics, I got one.
	Go for it.
	Play the Taco Bell commercial.
	I knew it was coming somehow.
	There's been a lot of talk about our seasoned beef.
	But here's the truth.
	Here's the real deal.
	Our seasoned beef is 88% premium ground beef and 12% signature recipe.
	If you want to see it...
	When I was making mud pies, I also called it my signature recipe.
	12% signature recipe, i.e.
	plastic shavings.
	That signature recipe?
	Just go to TacoBell.com.
	It's right there.
	But if you want to know what it tastes like, come to Taco Bell and get a Crunchwrap Supreme for only 88 cents.
	Tell them I sent you.
	88 cents this week only.
	I'm going to get one myself.
	People want to talk?
	Let them talk about that.
	Yeah, let him talk about it.
	We're winning.
	We're Taco Bell.
	Win, win, win.
	Did you check it out?
	Yeah, yeah.
	I'm on the page now.
	You go to TacoBell.com.
	Over on the right, there's a thing you can click on.
	It gets to beef quality.
	And it has things like, what are those other ingredients?
	Are beef truths?
	And by the way, the beef truths is done in a propagandistic way.
	It says, let me just read you the sentence.
	We stand behind the quality of our new season beef 100%.
	Which makes it sound like 100%.
	No, we stand behind it 100%.
	So then another one says, our seasoned beef recipe is made with 88% premium beef and 12% signature recipe.
	And you click on this, it says find out about our signature recipe, and you click on it, and you go on to page number two.
	What are these other ingredients?
	They have some pretty weird names.
	Well, they do have weird names.
	Perfect.
	Perfect for tongue twisters, but these ingredients are completely safe and approved by the FDA. They're common ingredients also found in food items at your grocery store, like aspartame and fluoride.
	Each ingredient helps make our seasoned beef taste great.
	Many of them are items you might use at home, such as salt, peppers, and spices.
	Ingredients like oats and sodium phosphates.
	Hey, John, next time you're over here, I'll say, Hey, John, can you pass the sodium phosphates?
	I use those at home.
	So what is it?
	They also have a, let's see which one it is.
	It's the one about, is there sand in the taco meat?
	I heard a rumor there's sand in your taco meat.
	This is completely false.
	Oh my god!
	Whoa, hold on a second.
	I got the Taco Bell.
	You got the Taco Bell.
	The truth is, what has been referred to as sand is silicon dioxide.
	Better known as sand.
	It's a safe, common food ingredient often used in spices, seasoning, and many restaurant and packaged foods is used to prevent dry ingredients from sticking together.
	Anyway, it goes on and on.
	I was right.
	My signature recipe is sand.
	There you go.
	I have a commercial.
	We've talked about it a lot, but I don't think we've actually played the corn sugar ad.
	Did we ever play that?
	No, we haven't.
	And we haven't played it.
	So, corn sugar is the rebranding of, and a lot of people who listen to the show know this, but it's important to bring it up from time to time, is the rebranding of high-fructose corn syrup, which was invented to give to cattle to make them fat quick.
	Am I saying that correctly, John?
	You're a scientist.
	Yes.
	I don't know.
	You douchebag.
	Sorry.
	I was pretty confused by everything I've been hearing about high fructose corn syrup.
	So, I did a little research and learned from experts whether it's corn sugar or cane sugar.
	Your body can't tell the difference.
	Oh, bullcrap.
	The body can't tell the difference.
	Bullcrap.
	It does a body good.
	So you kind of missed the payoff there, which is sugar is sugar.
	I want to hear that again.
	Sugar is sugar.
	Sugar is sugar.
	That's the meme.
	We discussed this from the get-go when they first came up with this corn sugar.
	And we know that what's going to happen is they're going to eventually go to Congress or the FDA and say, why do we have to put corn sugar when it's the same thing?
	Why can't we just drop the corn?
	And now, instead of saying high fructose corn syrup on the bottle of Coke, it's going to say sugar.
	Yeah.
	It's going to say sugar.
	This is a scam from the get-go to bamboozle the public, and if it actually happens, which it will as we predict, it's going to be a sad day in the history of the FDA, which is already pretty checkered as far as I'm concerned.
	It's become ridiculous.
	Well, then we have the EPA. And the EPA, of course, they received from the President of the United States kind of a carte blanche to speak in the native tongue of Hillary Clinton.
	What was her politique?
	Politique reale.
	So carte blanche for the politique reale.
	To kind of make up any rules they want.
	Basically to fine people.
	To put people out of business.
	And Ted Poe, who is...
	I think he's a Democrat or Republican?
	I don't know.
	You keep talking.
	He did some grandstanding, but I thought it was pretty funny.
	And it turns out the EPA now wants to regulate dust.
	I'm like, what?
	Dust?
	And he lays it down for us.
	The Environmental Protection Agency has apparently run out of things to regulate and tax, so they are considering new guidelines for regulating particulate matter emissions.
	What is that, John?
	More commonly known to you and me as dust.
	Now, I know what you are thinking.
	This just cannot be true.
	What kind of crazy scheme is this?
	Well, the EPA dust police would specifically regulate farm dust.
	Farmers would be required to have dust collectors on their harvesters, planters, combines, and haying equipment.
	Well, particular, by the way, began as something to be regulated when it was coming out of smokestacks.
	And so they had to put scrubbers on and other things to keep the smokestack emissions from throwing out a bunch of carbon dust, usually like black soot is what it rounded to.
	And that was reasonable.
	And it actually works, right?
	So when you look at a smokestack...
	Yeah, but the fact is a guy's plowing his field, he can't expect...
	Oh, no, no, it gets worse, John.
	It's not just about plowing the field.
	I mean, I could even kind of get into it, but still, you know, like, wow, all right, dust.
	No, no, it goes much further, according to Ted Poe.
	Who's a Republican, by the way?
	It's a crackdown on dust created from driving a pickup truck down a dirt or gravel road.
	I'm not making this up.
	The federal government is considering farm dust regulations that are caused from driving on a dirt road.
	This is genius.
	So I thought, well, maybe this is just some backdoor attempt to rid America of our majestic four-wheel drive pickups that liberals loathe so much and find some way to force these battery-operated toy cars...
	These battery-operated toy cars, which I gotta say, Ted, I'm agreeing with you, on the rest of us.
	But the new proposals don't just apply to dust created from driving.
	No, they are fair and they are balanced in their overreaching authority.
	Farmers and ranchers are going to have to somehow limit the dust created by livestock on their property as well.
	So, say Bessie the cow kicks up too much dust running over to your pickup truck at feeding time.
	The EPA is going to fine you for Bessie's misconduct.
	You need to move your cattle to another pasture during the daytime?
	Well, don't do it on a dry day because they may kick up too much dust.
	The dust police solution is to manage dusty dirt roads with water, or get this, pave them with asphalt.
	It's great.
	It's great.
	I think that's a beautiful thing.
	It's like we just need to put more farmers out of business.
	Yeah.
	That's fantastic.
	So, on the other side of the aisle, we've got a guy who I think is a total douchebag, Michael Moore.
	Who is rich, by the way.
	Very rich.
	Wealthy guy.
	Michael Moore, the filmmaker?
	Yes.
	Wealthy guy.
	He's made some good coin off of his movies.
	And he's on Grit TV. And you can't say stuff anywhere, Michael Moore.
	We're following you.
	We're hunting you down.
	And listen to his idea of how we're going to fix all that.
	For a guy who does movies about how the world works, he's very misled, misguided, and plain wrong.
	Have a listen to this.
	To me, the solution is quite simple.
	First of all, we're not broke.
	This country is not broke.
	The state of Wisconsin is not broke.
	There's a ton of cash in this country.
	Trillions of dollars of it.
	But it's a finite amount.
	There is only so much cash.
	What?
	Has he ever heard of quantitative easing?
	Printing money?
	No, there's only so much cash.
	We just need cash.
	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
	Just send your cash.
	What's happened is that we've allowed a vast majority of that cash to be concentrated in the hands of just a few people.
	And they're not circulating that cash.
	If you don't believe that, go try and get a loan right now.
	They're sitting on the money.
	They're using it for their own stuff.
	They're putting it someplace else.
	They have no interest in helping you.
	With your life.
	With that money.
	We've allowed them to take that.
	That's not theirs.
	That's a national resource.
	That's ours.
	We all have this.
	We all benefit from this.
	No kidding.
	Listen to what he says.
	It's like 20 seconds.
	Listen to the end.
	That's our money.
	It's our money.
	We suffer as a result of not having it.
	And I think that we need to go back to taxing these people at the proper rates.
	We need to see these jobs as something that we own, that we collectively own as Americans.
	And you just can't steal our jobs and take them someplace else.
	What is he talking about?
	He's talking about collectivism.
	Yes, exactly.
	Well, you know, he's always been of that ilk.
	Yeah.
	But the president is also confused, John.
	No.
	Yeah, so he had the governors.
	Now, remember...
	We're loaded into the gills with clips today.
	Yeah, I can't help it.
	So, I'm running out after this, though.
	So...
	We have this, remember there's like the council of governors that the president set up?
	And of course this is the whole idea is when we get martial law he's going to make these council of governors implement it and they've got all kinds of little special powers and stuff and who knows what the hell is going on but it's suspect.
	In my mind.
	So he's got them all at the White House.
	They're all hanging out, partying.
	And make some half-handed promise.
	Like, 2014, that's when you can secede as a state if you want to invoke your 10th Amendment rights and not take Obamacare.
	But not until then.
	It's kind of like a compromise.
	But he said something in regards to the...
	I presume what's happening in Wisconsin, and I guess they also fired all the teachers in Rhode Island, about a state's workers' rights.
	Apparently, their pension fund is a right.
	That can't be correct.
	It's not a right.
	It's not a right.
	It's a negotiated situation.
	It's not a right.
	Well, listen to what the president said.
	I also know that many of you are making decisions regarding your public workforces.
	And I know how difficult that can be.
	I recently froze the salaries of federal employees for two years.
	It wasn't something that I wanted to do, but I did it because of the very tough fiscal situation that we're in.
	So I believe that everybody should be prepared to give up something in order to solve our budget challenges.
	And I think most public servants agree with that.
	Democrats and Republicans agree with that.
	In fact, many public employees in your respective states have already agreed to cuts.
	But let me also say this.
	I don't think it does anybody any good when public employees are denigrated or vilified or their rights are infringed upon.
	Huh.
	Their rights are infringed upon.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	We don't know what he's talking about.
	I do have a clip that's interesting because he uses public workers or whatever.
	Because there's been a bunch of surveys saying, you know, the public is against the governor and they're...
	You know, these CBS, Pew surveys, there's a whole bunch of them.
	And just a slew of them.
	And I, by the way, people always say, well, I've never been called.
	I have been called a couple of times for Gallup once and some other survey company.
	Yeah, well, you still have a rotary dial.
	I do.
	Yeah, I know you do.
	And the thing is, is that I notice the use of weird language to give you, to make you say the wrong thing.
	Right, to reel you in, sure, sure.
	Play the Frank Luntz clip.
	Frank Luntz is a guy who studies this and he has a new book out.
	No agenda.
	Book club might put it on the list called Win.
	I guess you get a lot of publicity from Charlie Sheen.
	Coincidence?
	I think not!
	But play the lunch clip.
	It's kind of interesting.
	Let's stick on this subject, though, and your use of language and how important it is.
	The president also waded a little bit further into the situation out in Wisconsin and told governors not to vilify public workers.
	Now, a New York Times CBS News poll shows that 60% of Americans oppose states' efforts to weaken the collective bargaining rights for union workers.
	I know you were in Madison, Wisconsin last week.
	What words are key to the message being received out there?
	And by the way, I have the scars from Madison.
	To prove it, yeah.
	You used the phrase public workers.
	If you call them public workers, a majority of Americans respect them.
	If you call them government workers, a majority of Americans don't.
	How about the phrase collective bargaining rights?
	You saw 61%, but if it is instead called the right of people to join or not to join a union, then the whole side flips.
	Right.
	Right.
	Well, we have a jingle for that, actually.
	Because words do matter.
	So I thought that fit in there with your little clip.
	Totally.
	Let's do some non-clip news, John.
	I mean, I have a list that's a mile long of stuff that is just unbelievable.
	We finally are seeing some slave revolt in Gitmo Nation East, which I'm very proud of, and of course no one has really connected it to what is actually going on.
	Criminals knocked out a large part of the Vodafone mobile phone network yesterday after stealing vital equipment.
	Now what happened is someone took a van and crashed it into a telephone exchange and ripped the stuff out of there and took the whole network down for like 18 hours or whatever.
	And duh!
	What is that?
	I'm sorry.
	Fucking webpages with stuff playing.
	And not getting a lot of play, but of course Vodafone, as we've demonstrated on this show, is totally part of the system.
	They've been pretty evil in Egypt and other places, just turning off the network.
	And I'm sure they hand over all kinds of data, gladly, to the authorities.
	Good job, everybody.
	Good job.
	I like it.
	I like that you've just ripped them off the air.
	That's exactly what we've got to do.
	Very good.
	Gitmo Nation Deutschland.
	I guess they were holding up shoes.
	Human Resources there.
	And Guttenberg has resigned.
	The guy who had plagiarized his thesis as a doctor and he quit because the people were having none of it.
	This is good.
	Of course, that's severely underreported.
	You can always expect that.
	And I would like to say, under the heading meme alert, in the opinion pages, David Brooks, who Brooks has got to be an agency guy.
	What do you think?
	Yeah, I never thought about it, but could be.
	I hear some people I know talk about them a lot.
	Title, The New Normal.
	We're going to be a lot of deficit cutting over the next several years.
	The country's future greatness will be shaped by whether we cut wisely or stupidly, so we should probably come up with a few sensible principles to guide us as we cut.
	Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is The New Normal, the austerity principle, as predicted on this show.
	It's the meme.
	It's just the new normal.
	Get used to it.
	Shut up, slave.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	And then we have...
	Anything else before we get to the donations?
	Yeah, I do have something else.
	So, I'm very confused because, of course, the science is in.
	Big reports.
	I guess they had to cover their tracks here.
	What caused the colossal snowfalls that buried much of the USA this winter?
	Oh, yeah, I saw that story.
	Setting snow records in New York and Chicago, one group of scientists blames global warming.
	Counterintuitive though it may be, heavy snowstorms are not inconsistent with the warming planet, says Jeff Masters, director of meteorology for the Weather Underground, a private weather service.
	Well, we know what they're about now, don't we?
	So So, wait a minute.
	Hold on a second.
	Stop the presses.
	Yeah, it's not...
	Weather is not climate.
	I know.
	Exactly.
	This, by the way, is another little good one you can use, because now they're saying, well, this weather is because of the climate, but they can't have it both ways.
	Because if you say, well, it's like really cold, no, no, but we're still, the climate is heating up, and they say, you know, weather is not climate.
	But now it's like weather is climate.
	I'm very, very confused.
	But then we get to...
	I think they made a mistake.
	Oh, yeah.
	You think?
	No, yeah, I think they walked into this one.
	Yep.
	They should have just shut up about it and kept their old theory, because since the weather does fluctuate, they could just ride out these storms and say, well, that's just, you know, weather's not climate, weather's not climate.
	They should have stayed with that.
	But now they're trying to rationalize everything, and they're getting themselves into a heap of trouble.
	And then we have the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, the NOAA, and I don't know what happened here, But they reported they have a climate scene investigator unit.
	Yes, CSI, believe it or not.
	And they said, well, there's no evidence of any global warming connection to the snowstorms.
	Instead, they say natural weather patterns were most likely entirely responsible for the snowstorms.
	So I think that the NOAA got a call and said, look, these guys are messing it up.
	You know, everyone's on board and, you know, these are not approved statements from Weather Underground.
	They're just like, you know, just trying to get in the news to promote their iPhone app or the iPad 2 app.
	And we've got to, like, nip that in the bud because people are going to start saying, hey, wait a minute, you can't have it both ways.
	Like those two douchebags, Curry and Dvorak.
	So you've got to stop them.
	So I think the NOAA is now tasked with saying, no, no, no, this is, you know, because of course at the end of the report they say, well, global warming is real, but what we're seeing now is just because of, you know, just like natural weather patterns.
	Yeah, slapping them.
	Yeah.
	So it's kind of weird.
	And...
	Something that astounded me from the technology press was this Gmail deletion issue.
	The outage.
	Well, it wasn't an outage, John.
	People's accounts got deactivated and deleted.
	Yeah, this is a typical cloud thing.
	And by the way, I was going to mention this, but before the show began, you heard the phone ring.
	I went over there and there was a recorded message from Verizon saying that the Verizon One...
	The website for the Verizon One phone, I don't even know that I have one, maybe I do, or had one, is the website is going to be deactivated, and they're going to take down all the photos, everything you've been storing, if you're one of these users, is going to be gone, so you better go download it while you can, otherwise you're going to lose everything.
	Do I cost too much money?
	This is why I don't like the cloud.
	I don't know why people just don't see it.
	It's a temporary place to put stuff and it's dangerous if you want to rely on it.
	Well, what I wondered is why was there not one person, at least one person saying, gee, maybe this was a hack.
	Maybe someone broke in and was messing around in their email system.
	Why does no one question this?
	Why does Google get a free pass on this stuff?
	Because they're Google.
	They're the good guys.
	No, but seriously, I'm like, wow, this is pretty serious.
	And then what?
	They said they were restoring 150,000 Gmail accounts from tape backup?
	Please.
	Do you know how many tapes that would take?
	They haven't managed to do it yet.
	I mean, it's going to take a while.
	It would be a tape length of four miles, someone calculated.
	Four miles of tape backups.
	These backup systems are robotic, so it's not impossible.
	I'm just not buying it.
	It doesn't even matter if I buy it or not.
	I'm astounded that all these so-called techno-journalists are like, oh, yeah, yeah.
	Because it didn't happen to them, right?
	That's why.
	And Google says, oh, it only happened to 0.12%, and everyone just buys it.
	You're stupid.
	I hate them all.
	You too.
	Where's your column?
	Where's your column about this?
	You should question this.
	I was covering.
	I have been on it.
	You should question this.
	I'm telling you.
	I'm going to show myself all by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	We do have a few people to thank for this episode today.
	Not a lot.
	Episode 280-something.
	283.
	And let's do that.
	Kenneth Kyle Holtz of Hamilton, Ohio.
	No need to make a special mention on the show.
	Just know that episode 282 was awesome.
	You guys do great work.
	It didn't show up in the donations that it was so awesome.
	I take that personally, by the way.
	I guess we didn't do a good job.
	1989.
	I always assumed that.
	Didn't we even put Bieber or Gaga in the show title?
	Yeah, I guess that wasn't the key.
	Ringo from Amherstburg, Ontario.
	Needs some karma.
	It's contract renewal time at work.
	Hope this helps.
	$113.30.
	You need a medical advisor for the show as your coverage on medical topics sucks.
	Some right, Shantix, most drugs.
	Some wrong, vaccines, except to smoke it.
	Oh, right.
	We got Danny, the med student, who pesters us all the time.
	Yeah, we got enough people pestering us.
	We got enough people pestering us.
	We just have our own ideas about it, okay?
	But anyway, here's your karma, my friend.
	Deserved.
	You've got karma.
	And also karma is needed for Chasen, I guess it's Chasen Rosdilsky, Saskatoon.
	By the way, Saskatoon is the Paris of Canada.
	Yeah, you better get used to that name because he's Sir Chasen today.
	He's now Sir Chasen.
	Let me give him a little karma there.
	You've got karma.
	We're going to be knighting him in a minute.
	And just a quick karma note from Rudy from Upstart Ventures.
	Dudes, thanks for the karma shot.
	Just wanted to let you know it worked.
	We, Sam and I, got the place with three days and move in tomorrow.
	So the karma worked for him.
	And then we have...
	Come on, you can do it.
	You know, it just says P-Snakes here.
	It's Pate Sneakers.
	Pate.
	Pate Snake.
	Well, he said you could pronounce it snakes.
	He sent me an email specifically saying you can pronounce it snakes.
	Yeah, it's Pate.
	Pate Snakes.
	Yeah.
	$111.11.
	J. Gauthier, Flint, Michigan.
	As a regular $5 month subscriber, I felt necessary to finally donate a little bit more and receive a de-douching.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	Let's give you that for a second.
	You've been de-douched.
	And he wanted some karma.
	He could have given him a double hit.
	I can do a broken hit.
	You've got karma.
	And especially you guys are being my sole actual source of real news.
	Yeah, well, we are.
	It's true.
	I don't see anybody else doing this.
	I extend to you my most heartfelt thank you, and please never quit the good fight.
	I'm donating $111 now due to the obligatory birthday formula, and I'll bet...
	And you bet I'll be part of the 333 Club for the ultimate karma.
	Also, I may get a plug for my podcast, the Zero Podcast.
	ZeroPodcast.com is pretty much the poster child of what John describes as being a bad idea to drink and broadcast.
	I've always wanted to do a show where everyone was drunk on the show.
	I think that'd be great.
	It's cool if the audience is drunk.
	That's when it really works.
	And he has a few other little notes here.
	Can you explain, Adam, what the 111 model is for people to donate, how that works, the birthday formula?
	Yeah.
	So you take the last two digits of the year you were born in.
	I was born in 1964.
	That's one year before Charlie Sheen.
	So technically, I am winning.
	And I'll always be winning compared to him because I'm from 64.
	Yeah.
	And you add to that the number, the age that you turned in this year, so I'll be 47, and if that equals 111, well, that's extra bonus karma for you, and you should try and donate some version of the 1111.
	Right, exactly.
	Keith Edwards, Gilbert, Arizona, $111.11.
	Sir John Smith, I'm very sorry, St.
	Petersburg, Florida, this should be enough for a second knighthood, and I want to knight the guy who introduced me to both Ron Paul and No Agenda.
	Can this knighthood go to, I guess we need another knight here.
	Wait a minute, this sucks.
	Okay, who are we knighting?
	Well, he wants Alan Asaf.
	Of Georgia to be knighted.
	And I would assume Eric can do the math for us right quick and make sure we do have enough there for a second knighthood.
	Well, just put Alan Asaf on the list.
	Okay.
	Justin Bach, B-A-C-Q-U-E, Lafayette, Louisiana, I'm sure it's pronounced in some Cajun way, $77.77.
	John Adam, donating $77.7777, because I was born on the Ides of Martha at 717, weighing 7 pounds, 7 ounces.
	Also, wagthedog.com made me laugh harder than I have in a long time, still laughing about that one.
	Really?
	It's wagthedog.com.
	Oh, Wag the Doug.
	Wag the Doug dot com points to no agenda show.
	David C. Pugh, North Canton, Ohio.
	Love the show.
	Could use some karma for a better job.
	Alright, we'll hand that to you.
	You've got karma.
	69.69 from him.
	He's got something on his mind.
	Mike Poluski in Madison, Wisconsin.
	John and I am listening to No Agenda for a little more than a year.
	Now I figure it's time to donate.
	I truly like the value model that the show operates on.
	I'm donating because I find great value in your show.
	And you should.
	And I hope other people do too.
	There's a good contingent of No Agenda listeners among my friends.
	And none of them have donated yet.
	So in an attempt to get them to donate, I would like to call...
	Don New and Kenneth out as douchebags.
	Oh, no.
	Douchebags.
	Thanks for putting on a great show.
	Keep up the good work, and it's certainly appreciated.
	Justin Cohen, Grand Valley, Ontario, Canada.
	I was just called out by Jeff Juniper as a massive douchebag after I turned him on to the show, and now I need some serious dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	However, I want to call out Richard Henderson, fellow No Agenda listener and ham operator as a douchebag for listening and not donating.
	Oh, no.
	Thanks for the good work from the Canadian ham radio contingent.
	Be a donor, not a boner.
	5665.
	Daniel Hutner, Double Nickels on the Dime from Murfrees, California.
	You guys have it right.
	The listener support idea because working for the man sucks.
	That's what we say.
	And Chris Giechelen, Sir Chris, Not bad. Not bad.
	By the way, if it's okay with you, I prefer Rent Boys and Cabernet over Hookers and Blow.
	So he has a knighthood coming.
	Well, actually, so he gave us the accounting there, and he is on the list, and he came up with $999.99.
	You know what that means?
	We kick in the extra penny.
	Yeah, we are big spenders.
	That's right.
	So we'll be knighting Chris Heelen in just a minute.
	Christopher Lawton in Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
	Greg Brunsel in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
	$50 each.
	And Marquis Moore in Sacramento.
	$50.
	Can't hit my full message here.
	Please check the email.
	I checked, and maybe it went to you, but it didn't go to me.
	I did not receive an email.
	We'll read your email later, Marquis.
	It looks like Eric left.
	Robert Durden.
	Robert Durden.
	I wonder if it's related to Tyler from Hoboken, New Jersey.
	We have a couple extra ones that came in over the mail, including $117.11 from Chris Pusateri in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.
	Represents my second niner, niner, niner, niner payment since I started listening.
	Niner, niner, niner, niner for you!
	First time he wanted to be anonymous, but then John decided to Butcher my name.
	Okay, well, I'm going to butcher his name again.
	Great stuff.
	He's looking for a new job.
	He needs some karma.
	Okay, we'll hand that out to him.
	You've got karma.
	He's the one who...
	Whose wife hates the Biodiversite jingle.
	Oh, should we?
	Well, we already played it.
	Yeah.
	Well, it's a great jingle.
	Adam and John, I stopped listening to KQED slash NPR after discovering you guys.
	I get my real news from No Agenda.
	And this is Alan Bean in Oakland.
	And what's nice is, you know, Miki has a new intern, a 21-year-old, and she's like, well, you know, I don't have cable yet.
	She just moved to L.A. I don't have cable yet, so I don't have any television.
	She said, you don't need it.
	She said, I've got an internet, and I've been following kind of Libya.
	And she says, you know, it's kind of weird.
	It doesn't feel right.
	You know, I'm like, okay, I've got to go real easy with the 21-year-old.
	And she says, but, you know, I saw Zeitgeist, and I'm like, oh, beautiful.
	Beautiful.
	She says, man, this whole financial crisis, they really just brought that on us, didn't they?
	And this kid is amazing.
	I'm like, okay, Fabienne, you're now my best, my BFF forever.
	And she's like, you know, I can't watch the news.
	I have a feeling that it's just not real news.
	So we've got star children who are awake, and if you've got kids...
	We have a few.
	Yeah, turn them on to the show.
	We're trying to keep the show clean for that very purpose.
	So Alan Bean in Oakland says he'll keep giving us money if we keep...
	Exposing the BS. Can't be a douchebag any longer.
	I've been a listener from the beginning.
	I look forward to every show.
	I never donate it, especially if you guys are one of your five female listeners.
	This is Carolyn Kleifgen.
	K-L-E-I-F-G-E-N. She was watching a TV show and a young man walking through the drugstore said to his companion, Hey, look, a douchebag is a real thing.
	Duh!
	Really?
	55-55.
	Don't say.
	It's a real thing.
	It's an actual object.
	Well, those No Agenda guys, man, they're good.
	They're everywhere.
	And finally, AK Rice Dad asked if we can put Caldwell Idaho on the map at noagendanation.com.
	And that's it for this week's donors.
	Okay.
	All right, so we congratulate Brandon Bean, whose dad Don says happy birthday and...
	He turns 28 on March 4th.
	4th?
	4th.
	On March 4th.
	And Jay Gauthier celebrating a birthday.
	Happy birthday from your friends here at the No Agenda Show from Adam and John.
	I think we got a...
	Can you get it out?
	Yeah, hold on.
	Yeah, you got the big one today, huh?
	Yep.
	I got to get mine here.
	All right, Chasen Radzilski, step forward, my friend.
	Oh, you know what?
	Chris Heelan, would you please step forward as well?
	And Alan Asaf.
	The three of you have reached your giving level of $1,000.
	Some of you had needed an extra penny, which we've kicked in gladly.
	So we hereby pronounce thee, Sir Chasen, Sir Chris, and Sir Alan, Knights of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	Please, have it.
	One more, because we've got three.
	And one more, just for good measure.
	We have Hookers and Blow and Rent Boys and Cabernet, as requested by Chris here.
	Thank you so much.
	We highly appreciate it.
	And, of course, the rings are real, and they are on their way, so probably Eric has already contacted you about ring size, because that is now part of our panel.
	Yes, please respond to that email about ring size or you're going to get some standard size and it probably could fit on some finger.
	By the way, I do have the note from Marquis Moore because it's interesting.
	I'm going to have to read it.
	I've been listening to the show for a few months.
	It was up to Xanny.
	To make up for the time I didn't donate, I want to make the following offer.
	I have a small IT consulting and support business providing residential and small business services in Sacramento, California.
	Make a link.
	It's called VYB Technical Solutions, which is vybtechnicalsolutions.com.
	For the month of March, I'll offer a 20% service discount to all No Agenda listeners.
	50% of those proceeds will be donated back to the No Agenda show at the end of the month.
	Wow, nice.
	I like it.
	That's fantastic.
	Thank you so much.
	Listeners will need to mention the No Agenda show to receive the discount.
	I love that.
	That is great.
	That's awesome.
	Indeed.
	Oh, man.
	And we do have one last special karma for Matthew Wittering, who's apparently going on a date with some hottie Friday night, which is tomorrow.
	You've got karma.
	It's pretty sad when people come to us to get laid, isn't it?
	It's apparently really horny for this girl and he needs all the help he can get.
	That's really sad.
	Do you think we can help with it?
	I mean, that's bad, man.
	Don't you have any friends?
	This is no good.
	This is no good.
	So, when you're driving along and you see that...
	You see that stop sign?
	Dvorak.org slash NA. You're going to think, I want to be a donor, not a boner.
	Whatever your giving level is, we've got a number of programs.
	Go to Dvorak.org slash NA. Support this show.
	It's funny because we still get emails from people saying, oh, you know, I've done the math and it'll work great.
	If you do, you know, do it by subscription.
	No, it's not how it works.
	1% of the listeners...
	To this program actually supports us.
	And it's not enough.
	It really isn't.
	Man, there's no idea of the news network.
	I'm putting a lot of time into it.
	I'm on autopilot for the big app show, which is kind of like my hedge.
	I don't think it's making no money.
	It's fun to do.
	I thought the big app show had all kinds of potential.
	There's no market in apps.
	It's like news.
	You know, it's like, people definitely want to get free apps, and they love me showing it, and thank you very much, and I have a couple of people, and I tried a little bit of the model of value for value, but, you know, it's like, you know, 100 bucks a month.
	It's like, you know, I do an app every day for iPhone and every day for Android.
	I'm going to try something else, but I don't have time to really expand anything because this news network, which is gitmonewsnetwork.com, but there's all kinds of sites now pointing to it.
	You can find it pretty easily.
	It's really great.
	I mean, it's a continuous flow, 24-7, because people are putting stories and links into it from all across Gitmo Nation.
	It's great.
	I mean, you just check into that.
	It's like, wow.
	And we're going to have all kinds of cool features, and everyone can contribute, and so I'm really building that out.
	Don't forget, we've got knowledge into stream.com.
	We're doing a lot of work.
	We really are.
	I think we have a full-service operation here.
	That's pretty amazing how much work we do.
	Now, I want to mention that people that do art for us are artists in residence.
	There's a bunch of them.
	We have a slew of regulars that do art covers.
	Great work.
	They all do great work.
	I want to mention to you guys, first of all, to not put the show number on there because we can use some of the stuff as evergreens.
	And two, make the type size...
	It's readable if you shrink the art down to 450 by 450.
	Because we've had a number of pieces that are really good, but when you shrink the cover down to 450, you can't read it.
	So we've had to bump those.
	And I want to just make it clear to our artists, we have a lot of artists that listen to our show.
	Talented artists.
	Very talented.
	We have some of the best cover art every single show that any show has ever produced on the internet.
	I want to give a shout-out to...
	Should we just tell people one more time where they can go to support the show?
	Dvorak.org slash NA. You notice we've got the NBC xylophone in there?
	Yeah.
	That's nice.
	Sir Jeff Smith, man.
	Rockin' it.
	A shout-out to the Human Resources and Gitmo Nation, Great White North, Toronto specifically.
	They awoke this past week to a note, a mandatory note, for their smart water meters.
	Oh.
	Oh, yeah.
	And I've chopped up their commercial with the beginning and then kind of the payoff, so you can hear what, if you didn't know already, this is what you got up there, and of course it's coming everywhere, and listen to this.
	Hello?
	I think I recorded it.
	The City of Toronto is rolling out a mandatory automated water meter program that will replace or install water meters for all customers with more efficient and accurate automated meters.
	The meters and the installation are free.
	Appointment smaller will turn off the water.
	The lines are drained of any remaining water and a new water meter is installed.
	All water meters will transmit consumption data via a transmitter, eliminating the need for city staff to enter your home in the future to obtain your water meter reading.
	The transmitter wire is attached to the water meter and the transmitter box is placed in a location that will ensure the best possible signal transmission.
	The transmitter is programmed by your installer and will only send consumption data and a serial number to the city.
	No personal homeowner information is transmitted.
	Homeowners.
	Except, of course, they have the serial number and know exactly which house it is.
	This is a pretty amazing thing.
	450 megahertz is what it broadcasts on.
	It's got a mile range made by Alclara.
	Who knows what's in this box?
	And by the way, they show the placement.
	It goes on the wrong side of the main shutoff valve.
	Are you with me, John?
	It goes on the right, so it's going on the side.
	They can shut it off.
	So they install a new shutoff valve, and then they attach the smart meter to it.
	But the shut-off valve is this humongous thing.
	They've got to cut a big hole in your wall, and they show all this in the video.
	And this is two-way.
	If you look at the website, I've got it linked in the show notes, at shutupslaves.com.
	If you look at Alclara, it's two-way communication.
	They can transmit back to shut off your water remotely.
	They don't even have to enter your home to shut off your water.
	We have the automatic outside for power.
	You have that?
	You have a smart meter?
	Yeah.
	Are you kidding me?
	They just put it in one day.
	Without asking?
	Well, it's outside.
	I mean, it's not inside the house.
	Wow.
	Well, that's pretty amazing.
	All the numbers go way up.
	There's some scam.
	This is a scam.
	Yeah.
	Well, it's control grid is what it is.
	They can shut you off remotely.
	They don't have to show up.
	Oh, you didn't pay?
	Click.
	I better get a generator.
	You better pay your bill.
	Let's see.
	Get My Nation Lowlands.
	Pretty interesting.
	That's really where it's all closing down on them.
	I feel bad.
	The Internal Revenue Service of the Lowlands is now receiving all information, profiles, salary information, details directly from the banks if you have a mortgage.
	So if you have a mortgage now, the banks have to give all of their personal information about you to the IRS. Yeah.
	Yeah, that's very nice.
	And this one kind of threw me off.
	So what would you say is...
	If you're...
	Anyone who goes to Holland, Amsterdam in particular, what do you see on the street?
	What is the number one thing you see?
	Bicycles.
	Bicycles, exactly.
	So there's a new law.
	If...
	And this is in Os, which is, of course, just the first town that they're doing it in.
	If you park your bicycle illegally, you can be fined up to €3,800 and a jail sentence of maximum three months.
	What?
	What does that mean?
	If they catch you parking your bicycle in a non-approved bicycle parking spot...
	You mean, in other words, you're bicycling around, you go to the side of the road, there's a store, you just leave the bike there, you run inside and buy a Pepsi, get back on your bike, get thrown in jail?
	Well, it's particularly for around the train station, woo-woo.
	I guess they got tired of, you know, because they got bicycle racks where you can park your bike.
	You might have to pay for it.
	By the way, if anyone's ever seen one of these bicycle racks by the train station, the thing is the size of a football field.
	Yeah, it's huge.
	It's huge.
	But if you don't park it in the designated parking spot and they catch you, stupid slave, 3,800 euro maximum fine, which of course they'll hand out gladly, And or, no, or, I'm sorry, three months in the slammer.
	You're better off just buying the bicycle and ditching it.
	Yeah, and not showing up.
	In your new bike.
	Yeah, and not showing up.
	That's not my bike.
	I don't want that bike.
	Not at all.
	European Union, United States of Europe, this is very interesting, they're now lobbying.
	Remember the way the deal was with this Lisbon Treaty, is it was supposed to be, you know, every country can have their own laws, and it's just guidelines, and of course, and all of a sudden we got this unelected Haiku Herman, who's the president of the United States of Europe.
	Looks like they're setting up A law that the Starfleet Command can actually determine what the minimum wage will be Europe-wide so that they can harmonize this.
	This is a great elitist word.
	Harmonize it so that someone in Greece who, of course, might be earning too much from their government job can be lowered down to the standard.
	But it will be a standard across all of Europe.
	And this is a real big problem.
	Because what's happening...
	There's a great video that I have in the show notes in London.
	So you have like the Marriott Hotel.
	And they have the staff there who clean the rooms.
	They're essentially Polish women who come over looking for a gig.
	And they get paid by an agency.
	And they're literally making 6 pounds and 15 pence an hour in London.
	And it's not like a full-time job.
	You know, it's flexible hours.
	And it's so sad to see this.
	I mean, people have no work in England.
	They're out of work.
	The work that is there is taken by immigrants from other parts of Europe, which, of course, is made legal.
	And the minimum wage is going to be pushed down.
	It's already being pushed down.
	And the Marriott is not in any violation because they just contract a separate agency.
	So they say, oh yeah, here's X amount per year to clean the place.
	You and the agency, you take care of all the problems.
	And it's so sad to see.
	I mean, it's a real crisis and it's just, oh, screw it.
	It's nothing like what we do here with the Mexicans.
	We just let them come in and be illegal.
	But no, I think it's really dire and I think it's going to get a hell of a lot worse.
	Well, there's another thing that's not being covered.
	So I at least have to play the clip on Iraq riots unreported because I still think the Charlie Sheen thing was basically, besides being cheap material, was a cover-up for the fact that there are major riots.
	And they show a lot of clips on this, by the way.
	You can't see it on the show, of course.
	And we're talking about makes the Egypt riots.
	And by the way, the town square has the exact same name.
	It makes the, in Baghdad, it makes the Egypt riots look ridiculously tame, and this is going on all over Iraq.
	Nobody is talking about it in the main media.
	I had to pull it down from the left-wing show, Democracy Now, Democracy Now, the War and Peace Report, democracynow.org, you know, I'm Amy Goodman.
	Hello, I'm Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, War and Peace Report, with John C. Dvorak.
	So anyway, this is a report that pretty much summarizes it.
	Well, the U.S. has sharply criticized Libya for brutally cracking down on protesters.
	It's remained noticeably silent on the recent attacks against Iraqi dissidents.
	On Friday, tens of thousands of protesters participated in Iraq's largest protest in years.
	They demanded an end to corruption, shortages of jobs, food, power, and water.
	We're the kids.
	We are free young men, and we do not belong to a certain ideological movement, but we ask for simple legitimate demands that include the right of an education and the right of a decent life.
	We are educated youths.
	There are a number of college students among us.
	The government has stolen our dreams.
	We are young men without dreams.
	Although the protests were largely peaceful, authorities fired water cannons, sound bombs, live bullets to disperse the crowds as Iraqi army helicopters buzzed overhead.
	Officials estimated 29 Iraqis were killed, including a 14-year-old boy.
	Deaths were recorded in at least eight places across Iraq, including Fallujah, Mosul, and Tikrit.
	Then on Sunday, U.S.-backed Iraqi security forces detained about 300 people, including prominent journalists, artists, and lawyers, who'd taken part in the rallies.
	Four journalists who were later released said the soldiers from an army intelligence unit handcuffed, blindfolded, beat, and threatened them with execution.
	They were held in a room where hundreds of people sat on the floor with black hoods over their heads.
	Many were groaning, their shirts bloodied.
	The crackdown comes on the heels of Human Rights Watch report that singled out the targeting of journalists as a significant and ongoing problem in Iraq.
	In addition to journalists, women and detainees are suffering from increased human rights violations.
	We turn now to Ra'ed Gerard, an Iraqi-American blogger, political analyst.
	He's joining us It was a blogger.
	I ended it there because the guy's on a Skype connection.
	You can't understand who he is.
	He's a blogger.
	You can't yet.
	He's a blogger.
	But they had some good footage.
	It could have been all B-roll from someplace else.
	But it was pretty interesting.
	And I don't see anybody...
	Except the left-wing media covering it at all.
	It's amazing.
	It's actually, you know, this and the Greek riots, which even the left-wing media doesn't cover, is just suppressed.
	So, didn't we, like, go in there and kick out Saddam Hussein to make everything great?
	Yeah, apparently we did a crappy job.
	We did a crappy job.
	And, you know, you can blame Ted Rumsfeld for the whole thing.
	Round the horn to Gitmo Nation East.
	I guess they're working on their police state grid.
	There's a whole bunch of articles about how you're being watched over there.
	And this, of course, is the beta test for what we get everywhere else.
	And we've discussed this on the show many times.
	Apparently, in the United Kingdom, there is one camera for every 32 people.
	No, they've got to up the ante on that one.
	Well, they're planning on it.
	I would hope.
	I'm glad you asked.
	Here it is.
	Unmanned spy drones and facial recognition cameras should soon be the norm, reports.
	All right.
	You know, I'm now a licensed driver in the great state of California, the People's Republic of.
	So I had to do my test.
	Was it Wednesday?
	Oh, yeah.
	Did you park?
	Tuesday.
	I'd like to know if you could use one of those automatic parking cars, which Ford and Lexus make.
	I didn't even have to do that.
	I just had to pull over to the curb and then back up like 10 feet.
	You didn't make you park?
	No parking.
	How did that change?
	When I was a kid, I had to learn how to park.
	It's also where you don't have to drive a stick.
	I took Mickey's urban assault vehicle.
	So in other words, every bonehead in the world that can't park is out there driving around.
	Here's the funniest thing.
	There's a couple things of note.
	So one is, man, these people are arrogant dicks.
	They've got wraparound sunglasses.
	Because you sit there in line for an hour and you watch one by one.
	And they all do the same thing.
	Because they've got to check the car.
	Tap on the brakes.
	Left-hand signal.
	Right-hand signal.
	Honk the horn.
	Show me your hand signals.
	Tell me what they mean.
	This was a trick question.
	But of course, I knew it was coming because I'd watched this happen.
	You have to show...
	People don't even use their directional signals anymore in California.
	They just turn wherever they want to go.
	But on the test, you have to show, this is left, this is right, this is stop.
	Like, okay...
	And then they're all like too cool with their wraparound sunglasses.
	And I was nervous.
	I haven't been this nervous since I took my flight test.
	I swear to God, I'm like, oh man, I hope I pass this.
	And you drive around and there's a trick.
	And I almost got nailed by the trick question with the trick on the route.
	So you come around this corner and it's 25 if there's kids, but it's 35.
	And then right after that, there's one of those digital signs that says your current speed is...
	And I'm like, I got really confused, because I saw a kid out of the corner of my eye.
	And I'm like, and I see, and I start to slow down, and I see on the speedometer it says 27, and then the thing flashes and says, you're doing 35.
	And I say, oh really?
	I say, oh really?
	I'm going 27.
	And then she says, yeah, well you're slowing down traffic, you should be going 35, because this is dangerous, you're slowing down, and that's not a kid.
	It's a teenager.
	I'm like, he had a backpack on.
	He looked like a kid.
	Anyway, so I pass.
	Irrelevant.
	But again, they've got L1. When you get your picture taken, it's not a camera.
	It's an L1 identity solution.
	That's the thing that's a big thing.
	And they've got to set it all up.
	And you stand in front of the special screen.
	And they're taking your biometric face recognition profile.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	L1. Look on the website.
	Look at what it is.
	Make a grimace.
	Take your glasses off, all kinds of stuff.
	L1 Identity Solutions.
	Yeah, thanks, guys.
	Another part of our military-industrial complex.
	I was like, wow.
	Meanwhile, very happy to report that cocaine dealers are using Britain as an international hub, according to the UN drug study.
	The same guys who were right about saying all the Wall Street money came from drugs.
	They had another UN report that was just like, oh well, we know that.
	We're not going to do anything with it.
	Drug traffickers have turned Britain into a major European cocaine hub.
	Vast quantities of coke.
	Are being smuggled into the country to feed domestic demand and export to Europe, warned the United Nations.
	Its experts found cocaine was increasingly the drug of choice for nightclub goers who were turning away from ecstasy.
	European hub.
	Shipments of cocaine are increasingly being brought to UK before being shipped to Europe.
	Blah, blah, blah, blah.
	There you go.
	So it's no longer ecstasy, John.
	We're out.
	We've got to get on that coke wagon.
	It's about time.
	Yeah, see, once again, Charlie Sheen's winning.
	He does.
	He knows exactly how to do it.
	You know, while you're on the topic of drugs, I have a commercial.
	Oh my goodness.
	You mean legal drugs?
	The good stuff?
	Yeah, the stuff that'll kill you.
	Yeah, okay.
	What do we have?
	This one kills you also.
	This is a variation on another one we did before where if you have TB, you shouldn't be taking this drug.
	Hey, if you've got TB... Tuberculosis?
	You should be in the hospital.
	Yeah.
	Play the Embraal commercial.
	With rheumatoid arthritis, it seems like your life is split in two.
	There's the life you live and the life you want to live.
	Fortunately, there's Imbril.
	Imbril can help relieve pain, stiffness, fatigue, and stop joint damage.
	Because Imbril suppresses your immune system, it may lower your ability to fight infections.
	Yeah, so you can take up that swine flu when we release it.
	Serious, sometimes fatal events, including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma, and other cancers, and nervous system and blood disorders have occurred.
	Before starting embryo, your doctor should test you for tuberculosis.
	Ask your doctor if you live or have lived in an area where certain fungal infections are common.
	Don't start Embryol if you have an infection like the flu.
	Tell your doctor if you're prone to infections, have cuts or sores, have had hepatitis B, have been treated for heart failure, or if while on Embryol you experience persistent fever, bruising, bleeding, or paleness.
	Ask your rheumatologist if Embryol is right for you and help bridge the gap between the life you live and the life you want.
	Wow.
	Yeah, ask you if it's right for you.
	It's not!
	Is this right for me?
	Well, do you want to die?
	Then it's completely right for you.
	It's the worst.
	While we're on the You've Got Pharma Under the vaccines heading in the show notes.
	So they're still trying to ram through the HPV. They've got CBS News, the compromised CBS News, who, of course, run nothing but commercials for pharma.
	You know, have all these, oh, you know, it's amazing, this guy, he had HPV, he had cancer of the throat.
	You know, before he was married, he had multiple sex partners.
	The guy's like 65, you know, it's like sad people.
	So now his wife is like, what were you doing?
	The rent boys, the cabernet.
	The whole thing is disgusting to see it.
	And here come the reports just in time.
	Swine flu and bird flu may team up to create a super virus, reports say.
	May team up like they're in the NFL or something.
	Yeah, well, these guys are working on that.
	They're trying to make it happen.
	They can't do it yet.
	Well, interesting...
	But you've been warned.
	Well, interestingly, as a part of this same series of reports, I think this is Reuters, because, of course, that is the true ministry of truth, H1N1 swine flu virus is compatible...
	With a bird flu virus that is endemic in poultry in Asia, and they can produce hybrid viruses packed with great killing power.
	This is from a news organization.
	Oh no, I'm sorry.
	Greater killing power.
	Not just great.
	Greater killing power.
	Oh, I love this.
	Hold on a second.
	It's got greater killing power.
	Chinese research is warning us about this past Monday.
	Scientists have actually made 127 hybrid viruses by mixing genes of the H1N1 and the Avian H9N2 virus in a laboratory, and eight of the hybrids turned out to be more virulent.
	Then either parents went tested in mice.
	So they're making it!
	They're literally making it!
	All that has to happen...
	Oh, I'm sorry, man.
	I dropped this vial.
	I'm so sorry.
	And of course, what happened, completely underreported, which we covered extensively on the show, when Baxter...
	Baxter International actually had this mistake happen.
	They also were mixing up swine flu with bird flu.
	It almost got put into a vaccine.
	In fact, it did get put into a vaccine.
	Luckily, before it was dispensed to human resources, someone tested it on mice.
	They all died and were able to stop that.
	Completely not reported at all.
	But now Baxter International has received the approval of the European Repeat Mutual Recognition Procedure By the Agency for Health and Food Safety for their pre-flu cell seasonal influenza vaccine.
	So walk away from this, people.
	Because these guys are mixing it up too.
	They're all mixing up these things and they make...
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I made a mistake.
	I put the swine flu into your bird flu and then we shot you up with it.
	It's just complete outrage.
	A, that they continue to indoctrinate us with this stuff.
	B, that they're mixing this stuff up in labs.
	Like 127 different doses.
	Let's see if this one works.
	How else are you going to make money in that business?
	Well, it's not by private money, that's for sure.
	The Dutch government is selling off their vaccine facility.
	Yeah, because the laws have changed.
	Dutch government has put the manufacturing activities and capacity of the Netherlands Vaccine Institute in Bilthoven up for sale following a decision to cease, quote, the production of vaccines under public ownership.
	There's like no money in it.
	Ah, get rid of it.
	It's over.
	Gravy train's over, everybody.
	So, do you want to say anything about the Academy Awards that we went through all the trouble of watching?
	No, I don't.
	All aboard, trains good, planes bad.
	I'd rather talk about trains and planes for a second.
	Well, I do want to say one thing.
	Karen Sorkin is just a jerk.
	Good.
	Okay, noted.
	How about...
	Douchebag!
	That's better, I'm sorry.
	Yeah.
	Berkshire Hathaway, 2010 annual highlights.
	This is Warren Buffett's company.
	He does his annual report and everyone goes to Omaha to hear the Oracle of Omaha speak.
	So they have the highlights.
	Let me just find the first page here.
	I have the whole PDF in the show notes.
	Warren Buffett makes tons of dough.
	I mean, he's really, really good.
	He's always on the inside.
	Remember, he put in $5 billion into Goldman Sachs when they needed it, and of course that came back to, what, tenfold maybe?
	Yeah, something like that.
	He made so much money on that.
	Um...
	So here it is, top of the list to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
	So per share book value of our stock increased 13%, very good.
	Book value has grown at a rate of 20.2% compound annual.
	That's pretty good returns in a recession.
	The highlight of 2010 was our acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe, a purchase that's working out even better than I expected.
	It now appears that owning this railroad will increase Berkshire's normal earning power by nearly 40% pre-tax and by well over 30% after tax.
	Making this purchase increased our share count by 6% and used $22 billion of cash.
	Since we've quickly replenished the cash, the economics of this transaction have turned out very well.
	There you go.
	Hot rail is the deal.
	And it's only going to get better for them.
	Because everyone's on that gravy train.
	Yeah.
	Well, it's not that we haven't talked about this to excess.
	Yeah, but it's nice to point it out.
	It's nice to point it out.
	No, it's nice that he pointed out that we were on to this.
	Right.
	And so, you know that high-speed rail they want to put between London and Birmingham?
	Why?
	Why?
	Funny enough, it will be a Y-shaped route that will run westwards to Manchester and east to Leeds before continuing on to Scotland.
	They think it will be done in 2026.
	Total cost?
	£32 billion.
	$40 billion for a...
	What a waste of money.
	That's great.
	I'll throw a couple of magic numbers at you, John.
	Magic numbers for those of you that are new to the program.
	We've determined that the number 33 is often used as code to communicate through open channels to let everyone know that the mission is accomplished, everything is A-OK, and sometimes it's just weird as we pick them up.
	Of course, everyone noticed that the iPad 2 is 33% thinner than its predecessor.
	It means it's probably got a back door in it.
	Oh yeah.
	33% of the Department of Homeland Security's $57 billion budget sought for immigration.
	You want to decode that one?
	I can't get it.
	I don't have it.
	I don't know what that could be.
	Karachi.
	Sind police, during the last 24 hours, have arrested 333 people accused, including three notorious robbers, each with half a million rand, because rand.
	Head money and recovered illegal weapons and drugs from their possession.
	Government operation.
	Total government sting operation.
	When you have the 333 and three notorious robbers, that's a double whammy.
	But my favorite, my all-time favorite has to be World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein locks New York City into a $33 million annual option for lease.
	Does it get any more disgusting when they just throw it in her face?
	I mean, that just hurts.
	It's like, please.
	Yeah, the guy who's like, uh...
	The guy who bought the World Trade Center and chured the crap out of it just before it came down.
	And got double the money.
	Made it out on the collapse.
	And made double the money on it.
	Yeah, he doubled his money.
	Doubled his money.
	Yeah, it's unbelievable.
	I guess that's about it.
	I got only one other thing I've been looking at.
	I'm always fascinated by the George Clooney thing, especially since we got the notes saying he's probably not a full-time whatever.
	I'm trying to predate when Clooney first started to appear on the scene as kind of doing a lot of spy stories and being a stooge.
	I think it dates back to the movie he did in 2002.
	Which, by the way, should be on the list of movies to watch.
	It's quite entertaining.
	It's the movie about Chuck Barris, the guy who used to be the head of the Gong Show, who wrote a book in 1984 claiming that he was a hitman for the CIA called Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
	Oh, I don't recall this.
	It was turned into a movie in 2002 by Clooney, who played...
	I can't remember if he played Barris, or I think he played the CIA guy.
	And...
	It's very entertaining.
	And at that point, it's possible that Barris wasn't.
	Who knows?
	He could actually have been a CIA guy.
	But he was a hitman.
	He wasn't just a CIA guy.
	Right.
	He was a hitman for the CIA. And apparently while he was doing the gong show and the dating game and some of these other TV shows, he had to go off to Europe or some other place to give a speech and kill somebody.
	And this is how Clooney first got kind of into the scene.
	Well, I think the predictions to me are very clear.
	George has been positioned way ahead of time in Sudan.
	The timing is impeccable with his Newsweek article.
	He's got the Ides of March movie coming out, which has been heavily promoted by crackpot theories running around.
	And now we're all going to die on the 15th of March, which is the Ides of March.
	And, of course, we see the...
	The riots slowly coming down towards his area.
	And lest us not forget that, of course, Libya has oil.
	But Sudan has the refineries in the north and has the oil in the south.
	The election results haven't actually been ratified, have they?
	I don't know.
	It's a good question because I know the election was to split the country in half.
	Right.
	With Khartoum being kind of the dividing line.
	And our side would have been the south side, which has all the wells.
	Right.
	I don't know what to do.
	It's actually been kind of suppressed.
	We should be looking into it.
	Well, stand by because it's all going to happen and George Clooney is going to be on top of it and he'll be communicating all the messages that we want to hear.
	And let's see what they do.
	This is, of course, what we do on the show.
	We bring you the real news.
	We bring you news that helps you understand what is happening.
	And you'll laugh.
	You will actually chuckle as you see the next move in this information war, as Hillary Clinton pointed out herself.
	Remember, she's got her techno experts on the case.
	Blogging.
	Tweeting in Farsi.
	Let's see what the next move is, because they've got to come up with something spectacular.
	I think the...
	The Pan Am bombing thing is a long shot.
	It'll take too much time.
	They're trying to hurry that up.
	I don't think enough people will remember.
	It's difficult.
	So they've got to have some kind of really horrible thing.
	It could be these so-called Dutch hostages, which we have from Inside Information.
	It doesn't sound right.
	The number of team members is off.
	And, of course, everyone has their warships right off the ground.
	Right off the coast.
	So it's just we're waiting for the, I would say, false flag event that'll trigger it all and we'll go in and we have some...
	Is there a statue of Qaddafi they can pull down?
	Is there something like that that can show that it's over?
	Don't know.
	I'm sure there's got to be something.
	Yeah, there's got to be something symbolic.
	He's got to flee the country.
	I don't think he's going to flee.
	He's going to go down in flames.
	Maybe he's old enough that he doesn't care.
	He can go down in flames and hope he's a martyr, but he won't be.
	Meanwhile, his kids have all flown the coop, except for Shemp.
	I think he's the one that's stuck around.
	Shemp was always a weird one.
	By the way, we're not saying Qaddafi's a good guy, but his BFFs turned on him, essentially.
	They were just waiting.
	This goes to show.
	It's because he gets in bed with China, and that's what happens.
	He screwed up.
	Big mistake.
	You know, we're in competition with China.
	We're in competition with Iran.
	Make no mistake, you heard it here first.
	You might not hear that on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, CBS. And you heard it from Hillary Clinton.
	It wasn't even us.
	As we say, straight from the horse's mouth.
	Woo-hoo!
	I was waiting for that one.
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