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	If I eat a ho-banon, I might die of radiation.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, March 13, 2011.
	Time for Gitmo Nation Media assassination episode 286.
	This is no agenda.
	Being a confused slave, thanks to daylight savings, just like the elites want me to be here, high atop the hilltop watchtower crackpot command center, Gitmo Nation West, the People's Republic of Southern California.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where daylight savings, Hey, but the iPhone worked.
	That's the good news.
	Uh, it's actually really eight.
	Yeah, right.
	It is.
	You know, I hate this so much.
	And you know that somewhere someone's got a scam running and that hour of time that we lost, they're making money off of.
	I still don't know how they do it.
	But every single time this happens...
	We stole that hour from those stupid slaves!
	We got it!
	In the morning to you, John.
	In the morning to you and in the morning to all ships at sea.
	Yes, the rocking ships at sea here and there in Gitmo Nation.
	And the feet washing up on shore.
	Well, I gotta tell you, I'm so happy...
	As a television executive here in the United States, I was getting so bored of putting together the shots of Libya that we really needed something different.
	Yeah, and by the way, when people listen to this show...
	That's the first thing I thought, by the way, is, yeah, ratings!
	Well, I mean, you know, the fact of the matter is, you, based on...
	I want to mention to people out there who listen to this show, or maybe just started listening to it, that we...
	We kind of base our world view on a fractal system that makes it easy to deconstruct what is going to happen.
	So we're very predictive, and Adam is a specialist in a couple of these things, and he looks for certain indicators, and he sees them, and he just makes a prediction, which was that there was going to be a Japan earthquake.
	A huge earthquake.
	A huge one.
	And you did this, was it on Thursday or last Sunday?
	No, Thursday.
	Thursday.
	Okay, so the day before.
	Nice it had been a little earlier, but you wouldn't have known because the fractal information wasn't available, which was the fact that they were amassing a test or whatever it was that they seemed to do in front of all these things.
	Now, I find it hard to believe that the prediction is there.
	It's valid.
	You can play it from the old show.
	It's not as though we're making this up as we go along.
	Well, we're making some stuff up as we go along.
	What are you talking about?
	Speak for yourself.
	But the prediction happened.
	You said it.
	And that's the way it goes.
	And I find it hard to believe, though, that there was an earthquake machine involved in this one.
	This was like the 23 quake.
	Which you remember well.
	I do.
	Which killed 150,000 people.
	It was a nasty one, to say the least.
	And this is a good mess.
	Yeah.
	No, well, first of all, let me just give a little bit of karma to all in Gitmo Nation.
	You've got karma.
	And I don't want to make light of any of this because, yeah, it absolutely is horrible.
	However, John, I must correct you on your assertion there.
	This, of course, was 100% earthquake machine, and I will give you my rationale for that.
	And by the way, there have been earthquakes in Japan a lot.
	Of course, it's a very rocky region, and I have not said earthquake machine.
	First of all, I want to remind, and there are people who are new to the show, the concept of an earthquake machine is not a crazy thought.
	As we've documented on this program before, Secretary of Defense Cohen in the early 80s in congressional testimony actually said there are countries who have this, they have weather modification, earthquake machines, they can set off volcanoes, this is very dangerous and basically we need to get in on the game too.
	Am I correct, John?
	Have we documented that fairly enough for everybody?
	There's also a mention of it in the UN report.
	Yeah, of course.
	So let's just take into account that it actually exists and the way it works, the way I've come to understand it, is through the HARP array, H-A-A-R-P. Nobody else thinks this but you, by the way.
	Okay.
	So that's only me.
	Only me, by the way.
	Don't Google it because you might find other people who are only me.
	Well, okay, then you stole it from someone else.
	Yeah, right.
	Well, yeah, nothing is new under the sun.
	So the way it works is they bounce off huge amounts of energy off of the ionosphere.
	It bounces back down, and it starts to depress things, and you can trigger stuff, and you can play the Earth's crust like a harp.
	Now, why do I immediately sense this?
	Because this was, once again, just like Haiti.
	Which, in my mind, was also an earthquake machine, was a very shallow earthquake, 15 feet deep.
	That's almost nothing.
	So, you know, this is a hallmark, a characteristic of the earthquake machine.
	Now, of course, you would say, John, to what end?
	Why?
	Why would we do this?
	It makes no sense.
	Well, I'm glad you asked.
	And I'd say it just like that.
	Yeah.
	Okay, so you have to go back in history, and it's very difficult with Google.
	It's almost impossible, because when you want to look at anything, Japan now, of course, the first 18 pages are all earthquake, tsunami and earthquake.
	You can do it once you understand how to do a Julian's date search on Google.
	Correct.
	So you have to go back a month, one month ago, when the IMF, the International Monetary Fund, came out and said, Japan, we are warning you.
	Your debt is not sustainable.
	You have to prioritize planning for fiscal rehabilitation.
	And you've got to do it now.
	Now, you know, Mickey lived in Japan for five years.
	The Japanese, they never say yes.
	They certainly never say no.
	They'll say, maybe.
	Maybe.
	So, of course, they've got a whole new political party in there and there's a lot of stuff going on.
	They go, maybe.
	They don't, of course, because what the IMF is really saying and the World Bank is, excuse me, you need to take our money.
	And this is exactly what's happening in Europe.
	This is exactly what happened to Greece and to Ireland.
	It's going to happen in Spain.
	The IMF, which is just bankers, they come in.
	They say, hey, take our money and then we'll go and buy a pure island.
	And you take it or we'll screw you.
	And of course, in Europe, everyone's taking the money.
	So they say this to Japan.
	Japan says, nah, nah, maybe.
	I don't think so.
	Maybe.
	But of course, they take one more step and they have standards and pours, the ratings agency known from the S&P 500, downgrade the entire country.
	So it's knocked down a peg.
	You should take our money.
	No, I don't know.
	Now, what is the problem here?
	Japan has huge amounts of paper.
	American paper, European paper as well.
	The bonds.
	And I think they're number two behind China.
	So the only way they can get out of the financial crisis they're in is to inflate their money.
	And of course the bankers don't want that because if they start inflating their money, then all of their paper starts to become worth less.
	The same for American paper and European bond paper.
	So they're really upset about Japan not getting on board with the program.
	Would you believe, John, that the president of the IMF was in Japan the afternoon after the quake?
	He was in Tokyo with a public message, you can take our money now!
	Fine.
	Okay, there's a couple problems with your theory.
	First of all, as far as I know, the quake was 20 miles deep.
	Oh, I... Not 15 feet.
	A. B... Over the last, I don't know what you've been listening to, but I've been trying to follow the financial stuff as close as I can.
	And everybody, including the Japanese, have been trying to inflate their money because it's become a huge burden on the Japanese economy.
	Their money is way too expensive.
	It's just screwing.
	There's an export economy.
	They can't go on like that.
	But that's exactly what I'm saying.
	They have done everything they can to dump their money.
	And why would you want to destroy...
	Hold on.
	Why would you want to destroy their economy since they're holding so much of our paper that they're going to dump our paper to get some cash to fix up their situation?
	Yeah, they can borrow some money from the IMF. None of this makes any sense whatsoever.
	It's a beautiful place to own.
	I don't understand why you don't see the sense of this.
	I really don't see that.
	This is all about control.
	This is all about the IMF and the World Bank who want control, who want complete control over everyone's economy, and Japan would not play ball with them.
	Does that not make any sense?
	They kept saying no.
	We're not going to do that.
	We're going to do it our own way.
	I don't see where that doesn't make sense.
	Okay, so you're not going to play ball, so let's just destroy the economy and ruin it for everybody?
	This is costing us a lot of money.
	This is the lousiest way to go about it.
	The IMF doesn't care about America.
	They don't care about Russia.
	They don't care about Europe.
	They don't care about Japan.
	They care about having it all.
	They don't care about the economy.
	They just want to own everything and be in control.
	And if you are the lender to Japan, because they're going to take money from the World Bank and IMF, they're going to have to take it now.
	How else are they going to pay for all of this?
	It's all about control, John.
	These guys have enough money.
	It's not the money they need.
	Don't make me laugh.
	It's about control.
	Controlling it.
	Why else would you have the audacity to kill people with an earthquake machine?
	For the same reason.
	Control.
	You don't want to be on board with the program here.
	That's the way I see it.
	The IMF runs HAARP. Well, I'm not saying that this was...
	HAARP is the U.S. system.
	I'm not saying that this was a U.S. initiative.
	In fact, it probably was not.
	I don't know where, although HAARP, of course, was completely silent a week before the earthquake, and it starts cranking up two days before, just like in Christchurch, although I'm not convinced that was earthquake machine material outside of the brand new oil they found down there.
	And this is, it's all about control.
	I see it completely within the realm of all possibility.
	Well, I know you would.
	Yes.
	And so, moving on though, never let a good crisis go to waste.
	Wow!
	Within seconds, everybody from Lady Gaga to the Red Cross to Microsoft is like, let's send some money!
	Yeah, buy my product and I'll send a piece of that money to the people.
	They don't need our money!
	Here's how it works.
	They do need our blankets and our water.
	John, here's how it works.
	If you lent me $100...
	And all of a sudden you're in some kind of problem and you need help.
	I'm not going to say, oh, here's some money to go buy it.
	I'll say, I'll tell you what, I'll come over, I'll help you out.
	Why don't you just chop off 50 bucks off of the bill?
	That's how we should be helping them.
	Just take a little bit off of that deficit, that money that we borrowed from you.
	That money that these people are generating, as we know, isn't going to them anyway.
	I'm just saying, I'm so against all of this.
	It's like we are the worst country in the world.
	Everybody's like, oh, buy this product, retweet me, and I'll send money to the Red Cross immediately.
	And oh, did I mention?
	Were there enough magic numbers in this to convince you?
	Red Cross text messaging 30333.
	We have the waves were 33 feet high.
	And don't forget the earthquake took place at 311 on 311.11.
	And if you take 11.09.01 and count that with 10.03.11 is 21.12.12, which of course is the day the earth will disappear.
	And, uh, you might also want to note September 11th was World Trade Center, Haiti's quake, January 11th, Japan's quake, March 11th.
	Come on.
	Hmm.
	Hmm.
	The 11th thing, that's slightly bothersome.
	It's a new one.
	I got more to track.
	It's an 11th thing.
	Yeah, the 11th thing is a problem.
	I mean, that is the, uh, if you want, if, and we recommend this, by the way, the, uh, show Rubicon.
	They stumbled onto a couple of these deals.
	And, of course, again, you don't know why or who or what the message is or why they're doing it, but it seems awfully weird that you have these events happen on the same...
	It's their favorite number.
	It's all good karma for them.
	They know it.
	It's like, oh, certain days are better than others.
	That's the signal.
	Well, I think 33 is the signal.
	The 11 is just a really nice number.
	They like it for some reason.
	The elites behind us.
	Some of our listeners like it with their 55...
	So everyone's taking advantage of this, and I have to say, in these United States of Gitmo Nation, we're just absolutely, absolutely the lowest of the low.
	I mean, I'm just waiting for the Justin Bieber benefit concert.
	You know, that's coming.
	And I guess the volcano erupted in southwestern Japan this morning.
	That, I'm sure, was pretty much a follow-on.
	Well, it would, it's not, I mean, this is the, that's Japan has a lot of quakes and they have a volcano.
	And a couple of them.
	And, uh, yeah.
	So, so here's one thing that's, that's bothered.
	Besides, you know, the fact that this is messed up, I'm really sorry for the human resources there.
	Whenever there's an aviation incident, I have to come on the show and bitch about how stupid the analysis is of what they're saying.
	You don't have to.
	Yeah, I do.
	It's what I do.
	We might as well not do a show.
	So I come on and I have to set everyone straight.
	Now, I don't know...
	Much about nuclear energy.
	But I'm pretty sure Bill Nye, the science guy, doesn't know how a modern reactor works either.
	Who was on CNN all day yesterday talking about the horrible meltdown and the radiation and we're all going to die.
	And the winds will blow and the radiation is coming towards the west coast.
	We're all going to die.
	So they don't have enough pictures anymore.
	We've already seen all the water and everything.
	So now it's, here's how the reactor works.
	Let's go to the white board.
	Let me show you this.
	Okay, people.
	I don't know nothing about reactors, but I do know people who know stuff about reactors.
	One of our producers who's been contributing since the beginning of the show is Atomic Rod Adams.
	Remember him?
	Yeah.
	He told us about the backyard nukes and everything.
	So, this is not like China Syndrome, people.
	This is not like the movie where you get a meltdown and it's like Chernobyl and everyone's going to die.
	No, this is not how it works.
	When these rods melt, they melt down, and they will melt.
	I'm sure that that's happening in some of these reactors.
	It hasn't started yet.
	But if it does, they melt down, immediately start cooling.
	They go through maybe five-eighths of an inch.
	Of the steel that houses them.
	It doesn't get out.
	There's a bunch of lead around there that essentially entombs itself.
	Thank you.
	That's exactly it.
	But the problem is, as some people have pointed out, that...
	You end up with this big, entombed...
	Well, yeah.
	You can't move it.
	It's too heavy.
	No, it's a pain in the ass.
	Maybe you can put a hill on top of it.
	It's totally a pain in the ass.
	I agree with you, but you could turn it into a school or something.
	Play the up.
	So I'm watching Geraldo and he has his doctor on who's going to tell us some of the issues that will take place.
	And I cut out most of Geraldo who keeps interrupting the guy and unfortunately when he's talking about the importance of taking iodine and Geraldo just steps all over him.
	And now the good news clip?
	Let never let the guy finish.
	But this guy is such a pill that I was just laughing by the time he was done because this is it in a nutshell.
	So first of all, you want to get away as quickly as you possibly can.
	Huge!
	How many miles?
	We want to get...
	Hundreds!
	It's a 20-mile zone right now.
	And the reason is that, you know, the smoke you see looks so scary.
	It's actually just vapor.
	It's a pressure release.
	A little bit of radiation, not thought to be particularly dangerous.
	The only other thing you can do is that they will give you iodine.
	So that blocks your thyroid.
	Like you put on cuts?
	That kind of...
	Sometimes we put it in water in third world countries.
	Exactly right.
	So they're going to be giving iodine tablets out, especially to the kids throughout the area, anybody that's been exposed.
	Of course, the real risk for those people who've been in the control room around there, they will die within a month.
	How much in the control room of the nuclear reactor?
	They've been exposed to large amounts of radiation.
	It's terrible to the whole GI system, to the blood system.
	And if they've had very high toxic levels, there's nothing you can do.
	Within a month, they're gone.
	You know, I was out at the last tsunami for you, and every night we had these enormous aftershocks, and people would go screaming out into the street.
	But, you know, the other thing we haven't talked about is the real health risks here.
	There's a lot of people, you know, who have this aspirational sort of pneumonia because they've almost drowned, and then the cuts that they get, foul-smelling cuts because of the terrible bacteria, many of them resistant to multiple different antibiotics, protozoa in them, amoeba in them.
	So a lot of public health consequences, and a water supply that's been contaminated or likely to be contaminated with wastewater.
	We're all going to die!
	We're all going to die!
	That summarized everything.
	We're all going to die.
	But this is really horrible because these jabronis on the news networks, they've got nothing better to talk about except scare people to keep you occupied and keep you watching.
	We'll have more terror right after these messages.
	And it's like, no.
	This is not Chernobyl.
	This is not Three Mile Island.
	These are modern nuclear reactors.
	And yeah, they may be busted.
	They may not work anymore.
	You may sit with a hunk of building that you can't do much with.
	But it's not going to kill people.
	It's just not.
	But every single expert...
	I mean, literally, Bill Nye the science guy was on with Don Lemon.
	If you can get a worse combination of experts on television, then I'd be amazed.
	So here's the one little factoid that seems to be left out of this scenario.
	Who built these reactors?
	General Electric.
	Where did you hear that?
	I have the article here.
	In fact, in 2002 there was a big scandal about these reactors because they had outsourced the checks, what do you call it?
	You know, the maintenance checks and everything, they'd outsource that to a subsidiary of General Electric, and they'd falsified reports.
	So, you know, there's all kinds of shenanigans going on.
	Sure.
	Did you hear anybody on any of the networks say General Electric only one time?
	I only heard it once.
	Ah, gee, let me think.
	I think it was G.E. Hitachi.
	So it's a consortium.
	G.E.H. I only heard it once it was on NBC because they had to.
	They had to.
	Yeah, of course.
	But everyone benefits, except for the poor human resources who got drowned.
	Everyone, you know, GE will build new, because they're going to build new reactors.
	They have to.
	There's no other way.
	But if they do, in the meantime, the oil industry benefits.
	Ka-ching!
	That's nice, yeah, because they've got to keep the generators going, got to power everything up for everybody.
	Everybody benefits from this.
	But just to see the...
	Except the people.
	Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
	Except for the human resources.
	They get screwed.
	But, you know, just to see all this mongering, and immediately all these...
	And Japan wasn't even asking for money.
	I'm like, you know, we just need some helicopters.
	We need some helicopter pilots.
	You know, it's like, oh, we'll send money to Red Cross to the rescue.
	Please.
	And you heard about Microsoft with their retweet challenge.
	No, I didn't hear this.
	Oh, yeah.
	Bing said, if you retweet this, we'll donate up to $100,000 to help the victims of Japan's earthquake.
	Hold on a second.
	Yeah, I know.
	Oh, they just give them $100,000.
	Yeah.
	Because it's a marketing opportunity.
	Why do you have to jump through hoops to get somebody to give them money?
	Because it's a marketing opportunity.
	Yeah, it's bull crap.
	Lady Gaga makes...
	Unconscionable.
	Yes, thank you.
	Lady Gaga came out immediately with self-designed $5 wristbands.
	You know, it's like these Livestrong things.
	Yeah, she designed it.
	Okay?
	Okay.
	It's a piece of rubber.
	A piece of rubber for $5 to help the poor slaves in Japan.
	By the way, that bracelet's made in China.
	Could the insult be any bigger?
	Alright, I don't think we need to cover this yet.
	No, I mean, more will come.
	But I truly do feel horrible.
	You know, Miss Mickey was in the Christmas Day tsunami.
	The really big one.
	Oh, yeah?
	Oh, yeah.
	So for her, it was a little wacky to see this, you know?
	And she was just on the other side of the river, and so she was very, very lucky.
	There's a couple of things that we could do, a couple of, you know, kind of off, not off-topic, but kind of interesting little things that you noticed while watching the tsunami especially, which was the most, if you want to say, entertaining aspect of this.
	It's amazing how well the Japanese make cars.
	They all float.
	Yeah, I did notice that.
	They're all floating all over the place.
	I mean, it's like, wow!
	It's like, I mean, if this was an American thing happening, they'd all be sunk to the bottom.
	There wouldn't be any cars floating around.
	They're floating.
	They're upside down.
	They're bobbing and weaving.
	They look like, you know, they look like basketballs.
	The other thing was, can these guys keep their office a little less cluttered?
	Have you noticed these office shots?
	You're horrible.
	It's like, holy crap, how did you get any work done?
	Clean that shit up, Willie.
	Clean that up a little bit.
	It's like they're piled on top of the monitors.
	There's piles and piles of papers and disc boxes.
	I think you'd actually be amazed if you looked at any office anywhere.
	I mean, what do you think if we had that in America?
	I've been in offices around the world.
	Our cubicles would collapse in seconds.
	Sorry?
	Our cubicles would collapse in seconds.
	Our cubicle culture.
	I mean, do they ever, I mean, it's almost everything, if you ever go see the movie, I think it's The Bank Dick with W.C. Fields, where he's got this huge pile of papers, you know, all over the place, and he finds things, ah, yes, and he can just kind of stick his hand in there and kind of guess the date.
	That's my filing system.
	No, this was, I've never seen anything quite like it.
	Even President Obama took advantage of the situation to send a very clear message.
	And let me just stress that if people are told to evacuate, do as you are told.
	Do as you're told.
	Slave, shut up!
	Do what you're told.
	Do as you're told.
	I got the biggest kick out of here and now.
	I was like, okay, alright, I'm sorry.
	Oh my goodness.
	So yeah, so that was...
	Now this of course covered up a couple of...
	Should we thank some producers before we...
	Because we're already into the show here.
	I think we should...
	Yeah, let's get some producers.
	We've got three producers for this show.
	One executive producer, a couple associate, and one member of the 286 Club.
	Maybe he sent a note in.
	I don't know.
	I didn't see it.
	But Mark Myers in Abbeville, South Carolina is a member of the 286 Club without comment.
	Our executive producer is Sir Josh Feldman, soon to be.
	Or he'll be Sir later in the show.
	Boston, Massachusetts.
	This one's for calling the horrible Japan earthquake in that last show.
	You got the wrong side of the ocean, but you said a big one was coming.
	Any other predictions to make?
	Perhaps ones where we can make some money?
	Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
	I know.
	I suck.
	We need to pick a couple of companies.
	Where else can I get the news deconstructed this well?
	Use the donation.
	Double the show number.
	Oh, he's a member.
	We'll make him a member of the 286 Club times two.
	Oh, I just got it.
	I'm sorry.
	Remind me.
	I just got a message.
	All right.
	So he'll be a member of the 286 Club times two.
	So we have three members of the 286 Club.
	Josh Feldman and Mark Myers.
	With this donation I enter knighthood and would like to be known as Sir Frizz at the round table.
	Apparently it refers to his haircut.
	Continue to do great work Frizz in Boston.
	Sir Frizz.
	Sir Frizz.
	And an associate executive.
	We'll make them all executive producers, including Mark.
	William Pfeffer.
	Actually, Mark is a new contributor.
	So they're all going to be executives, not associates?
	Yeah, because Josh is a double member of the 286 Club, so we can make it just the way we can feel like this.
	Yeah, no, right on.
	I'm with you.
	Right on, right on, my man.
	Corvallis, Montana.
	William Pfeffer.
	Dear John and Adam, I love the show, but stop listening about six months ago because I couldn't live with myself.
	I could not live with myself.
	Oh, no.
	After stealing the show for as long as I did, please accept my payment at $2.22.22 as a back payment for past shows.
	I can't wait to start listening again, even though you two fight like an old married couple.
	That's not true.
	We're like a new married couple.
	Yes, freshly married.
	And really, that's part of the charm.
	I've picked up on the message you two are laying down.
	My routers are broadcasting no agenda, and I'm telling people in the choir, which is what you want to do, please de-douche me and send me some karmic love my way.
	Yeah.
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	A double shot.
	A double shot.
	That's a rare double.
	I'm starting a new business.
	We'll be going up against some big boys in the shipping industry.
	Huh?
	FedEx, UPS. I need all the positive vibes I can get.
	Here's an Enlightenment Billy P. Willow Mountain Enterprises.
	Yeehaw!
	We've got to close our executive producer's presentation.
	Oh, that's awesome.
	We really appreciate that, of course.
	Of course, that's the only way this program is funded and stays on the air.
	We use the money to pay bills.
	Nothing else.
	Otherwise, we've got to get a job.
	So, highly appreciate that.
	So, a couple of PR initiatives.
	We haven't had any really good, you know, massive things.
	People are doing a lot of domain name forwards, which are appreciated.
	Some pretty fun ones this week.
	Hangontoyourhead.com, which I think kind of works.
	This one is a beautiful chemtrail.us.
	Then we have noagendacables.com.
	And I think the absolute winner of the week is TedRumsfeld.com.
	Oh, that is a good one.
	Now points to NoAgendaShow.com, and we highly appreciate that.
	One other mention, this just came in from one of our producers who gives me inside info, of course.
	One of the most important reasons that the earthquake, the tsunami struck the nuclear plant is that This was their 40th year time to be decommissioned just in time to cash in on the insurance so that that can go straight back into GE Hitachi to build some new ones.
	It's also a nice little extra benefit.
	So we don't have that kind of benefit here.
	We need to get an insurance scam going.
	Actually, this is very nice, but that's about it.
	I don't think our donation segment will be rather short today.
	Yeah, no, we didn't get a very good response from the last show.
	Even though you predicted the earthquake.
	And everyone's like, oh, you predicted it, you called it.
	But I'm not going to send you any money.
	No, we're going to send it to Japan.
	So thank you, Mark Myers.
	Sir Priz Josh Feldman, soon to be Sir, he's not officially knighted, of course.
	William Pfeffer, not only executive producers, but also the only three members of the 286 Club.
	It's a completely exclusive club, as you know.
	It's now closed.
	You could no longer become a member.
	But yeah, the door is now open for the 287 Club.
	Donate that amount to the show.
	And before you play our little ditty, I want to mention that we're going to put a new thing up on the Dvorak.org slash NA and all the other donation sites, including NoAgendaNation.com and NoAgendaShow.com, to solicit $300 for the show 300, which is coming up shortly.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, that's right.
	It's only, what, 14 shows?
	And what we're going to do, we're going to have a double hit.
	So if you donate $300 for show 300 when this shows up, then this will probably be posted later today.
	And then we'll send out a mailing to remind people.
	You will get an executive producer for that show when the 300 comes in, and for show 300, we'll have a special presentation and name off everybody who will also be executive producers of show 300, so you kind of get a double credit.
	So what are we going to do?
	We do a separate show where we thank everybody?
	Well, the show 300, when we do our executive producer, we're going to roll out the names, but if they have comments or anything else...
	It sounds like you haven't had a meaning about this.
	No, no, I'm telling you, I'm just trying to explain it.
	If you give me, you know, if you give us, or donate, or decide to join, I don't know what to call it.
	Advertising, I don't know what to call it.
	If your giving level is up there.
	It's like next week we get $300 from XYZ. Right.
	They get credit for being executive producer of show 280.
	Oh, they get credit for the show, but then you still get additional credit on show 300.
	Right, so this is a double credit, and this is good for your IMDB if you want to, like, pad it without having to, like, you know, go broke.
	All right, everybody, you know how to do it.
	Of course, we do need all of the other human resources out there to go and propagate the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	New world border.
	Shut up.
	Slaves!
	Actually, speaking of shut up slaves, John, there's really good news.
	Some slaves finally shut up.
	The price of a slave has actually collapsed to an historic low over the last 200 years.
	This is good news!
	Did you see this report?
	Back it up.
	What did he say?
	The price of slaves has collapsed to a historic low.
	Back in the early 1800s, a slave actually cost...
	I love this report.
	The way people say slave, it's hilarious.
	You've got to listen to this.
	$40,000.
	Now, that's adjusted to today's prices.
	And according to Kevin Bales, he's an expert on modern slavery.
	Hey, how come they didn't call us?
	We're the experts on modern slavery.
	The price for a slave today, however, is just $90.
	What a bargain!
	What?
	Just $90 for a slave!
	Well, that's a steal.
	I'm telling you, I think I should get me, too.
	Bales says the reason for this price collapse is simply one of supply of enslavable people.
	Is this an April Fool's report?
	What is this?
	No, it's totally serious.
	There's too much supply of slaves.
	Basically, there's been a massive population boom in many countries, particularly in the developing world.
	And because of that, slaves are now just a disposable commodity.
	I'm joking in my slave spit.
	They're like styrofoam cups.
	They're very cheap.
	You can buy them very cheaply.
	You use them once.
	You crumple them up.
	You throw them away.
	What are they talking about?
	Slaves are like styrofoam cups.
	I haven't seen any slave market around here.
	Are you kidding me?
	It's actually...
	Listen!
	You have no idea what you're talking about.
	Slaves are everywhere.
	Injured.
	They get sick.
	What's the point of paying for medicine?
	Just let them die because it's cheaper to buy a new slave or acquire a new slave than it is to treat the ones you've got.
	A harsh but realistic sentiment.
	There are people being treated like a commodity.
	But you know, estimates as to the number of slaves in the world do vary anywhere from 10 to 30 million people.
	Still, any way you cut it, it's a number that's just too high.
	As for where it happens, the U.N. says more than half of all forced labor is right here in Asia.
	56%.
	About 1.4 million people.
	In Latin America, that's...
	Coming in at about 10%, 250,000 people.
	Africa, about the same percentage there.
	Africa and the Middle East coming in about 9.2%.
	Sub-Saharan Africa also coming in just a little bit lower at 5.2% or about 130,000 people.
	Now, the industries that they're involved in, well, they include prostitution and manufacturing industries.
	You know, we might expect slaves to be working in, but there's also slavery in mainstream industries that we wouldn't actually expect, like food processing and even health care.
	Health care.
	There's slavery in health care.
	This needs to look...
	You know, I have a friend of mine...
	This is a UN report, and many people emailed me the report.
	It came out like a week and a half ago, and we didn't get to it because, you know, we only have two shows a week.
	Well, that's because we're getting distracted by some of these other things, mainly Iraq.
	But then...
	Or Libya now, I'm sorry.
	Yeah, but then I was so happy to see...
	See this report come out because it's just the matter-of-fact way in which this guy is saying it's hilarious.
	Yeah, it'd be better presented on Fox where they'd have some humor.
	So a friend of mine, who I want to remind the No Agenda Book Club to put this book on the list, which is called The Far Hood, F-A-R-H-U-D, 2010.
	It came out in 2010.
	And this guy is Edwin Black.
	Oh yeah, we've played clips of him before.
	Yeah, interesting guy.
	Yeah, well he, I've known him for a long time, and he actually did a, he's an investigative reporter of the highest caliber.
	And he did a bunch, he was telling me once over at lunch about areas in the world where slavery is going on, and a lot of island communities, and there's actual slave markets.
	Yeah.
	And the whole thing.
	Yeah, it's called the job market in the U.S. Well, that's the same, yeah, but monster.com.
	Right, that's the real slave market, true.
	Craigslist.
	That's good.
	Good catch.
	Where'd you get that?
	I think it was CNN, actually.
	You finally devolved into CNN. Yeah.
	It's entertaining.
	It's entertaining.
	This time on C-SPAN. C-SPAN. Over the weekend, they have a lot of these...
	They're not necessarily spooks, but they either work for a...
	They either work for contractors, the people that do all these reports.
	It's interesting to listen to these perspectives because this is stuff that I guess I don't think anybody's listening and it's not important or whatever.
	But there's a lot of interesting perspectives from guys.
	For example, let me get this guy's name.
	I actually do it while you're doing that.
	I actually do it differently.
	I'll read a quote somewhere, something that comes in on noagendanewsnetwork.com, and then I'll go looking for the C-SPAN clip on the C-SPAN library.
	Because what I like about that is you can search through the transcript.
	And sometimes it's pretty poor because they essentially transcribe it after a couple weeks, but they use the closed captioning.
	So you can search on that, and then you can get to some really good stuff.
	Because I did watch another two hours of Hillary Clinton, which was a total waste.
	There was nothing there.
	Nothing good.
	Nothing bad, nothing good.
	Well, you know, I go with the serendipity approach because I know there's stuff, so I'll just sit there and listen and listen and try to listen and try to pay attention.
	And just as an aside, I did an experiment figuring, well, you know, I'll bet you I can find some gold pretty much anywhere.
	I'll bet you you did.
	So I decided as an exercise, just out of the blue, and believe me, it only took me five minutes to get this clip, I decided to watch a soap opera, All My Children.
	On C-SPAN? No.
	This is an aside.
	Oh, a little...
	This is showing you my way of working.
	Extracurricular project.
	So I decided I'm going to watch a soap opera because I know there's going to be some current events.
	There's going to be something in there that's going to be a reflection of trying to send a message to the poor, hapless housewives that are stuck at home.
	And I'm thinking, what could it be?
	what possibly current kind of a happening in kind of thing could you find if you listen to All My Children and this is what I came up with.
	Caleb, I got your message.
	I just don't have a lot of time.
	You never do.
	Actually, I'm glad you called me because it's something I wanted to run by you.
	I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about Cortland Electronics.
	And I think it's time that we bring our company into the 21st century.
	I think the answer is in new media.
	Yeah.
	No media.
	Yeah, of course.
	I know that you haven't gone for a long time, but surely you know, of course you know, that people are doing everything on the Internet now.
	They're shopping and they're reading and booking travel plans and watching TV. I think we need to update our website immediately.
	New graphics, new content.
	Make Cortland Electronics much more accessible to the general public, not just the techies.
	So what do you think?
	That's what you wanted to talk to me about.
	What is this?
	A repeat from 1982?
	What is this?
	Sounds like a meeting.
	Who wrote this?
	Yeah.
	Hey, what a grand idea.
	We need to update our website.
	We need to go to new media.
	Oh my God.
	And the housewives, they got iPhone apps, man.
	The housewives are going like, what the hell is this?
	What is this?
	This is completely stupid.
	So I got it.
	I was highly amused.
	Oh my goodness.
	There was one.
	I have a little gotcha that I just wanted to throw out there because I thought it was quite hilarious.
	So this killed me.
	Of course this has been completely overshadowed but remember never let a good crisis go to waste.
	So our friend Mr.
	Clapper The Director of National Intelligence.
	This is the same guy who...
	Mr.
	Foot in his mouth.
	Yeah, who on...
	In a Diane Sawyer interview, when she said, So, how about them terrorists in London today?
	He went, What?
	What?
	What?
	What are you talking about?
	Oh.
	Oh, that.
	So, now, Clapper, by the way, is not a CIA guy.
	This is very, his background.
	It's pretty obvious.
	No, precisely.
	He's not a CIA guy.
	So, he comes out and he says, well, Gaddafi's going to pull through.
	He's going to make it.
	This is in, and by the way, this was not on C-SPAN. Also, not on the website.
	Could not find it anywhere.
	Yeah, we talked about this already.
	I know, but...
	Actually, we didn't talk about it, John.
	We didn't talk about it.
	It happened and we didn't get to...
	It doesn't matter.
	You posted it on your blog.
	That's why you think we talked about it.
	However, this is what's interesting.
	So, immediately, guys come out and say, We need to fire this guy!
	He's horrible!
	He's not on board with the program!
	And then...
	And then this little presidential memorandum comes out.
	Two days ago.
	Right in the middle of all this horrible tsunami stuff.
	And it is the memorandum as written by President Barack Obama.
	A succession for the Director of National Intelligence.
	Should he die?
	Should he become incapacitated?
	Yeah.
	And, of course, it goes down the list.
	In order, you get the deputy director.
	And all these guys, I looked them up.
	I got all the links in the show notes.
	They're all CIA guys.
	Every single person.
	After the deputy director of national intelligence, next in line is the National Counterterrorism Center director.
	And then the deputy of the DIA. So they put this out.
	The guy puts his foot in his mouth again.
	This is his third strike, of course.
	His fourth, actually.
	By the way, you should mention that he's given the...
	Of course, he took it seriously.
	He's telling the truth!
	But he was told to do this.
	He was told to tell it like it is no matter what.
	And by the way, I want to remind anybody out there who's listening to this show, who works in a company or a large corporation, if you're ever given that mandate, oh, you can say whatever you want to the boss, my door's wide open.
	Yeah, right.
	Don't believe it!
	No, it doesn't work that way.
	But it's just so funny that March 8th, Presidential Memorandum, the designation of officers of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to act as Director of National Intelligence.
	It's a little warning.
	A shot over the bow.
	A shot.
	It's a setup.
	During any period when it's the DNI and the Principal Deputy Director have died, it's like died, resigned, or otherwise become unable to perform.
	That's nice.
	How about resigned or died?
	No, died is first.
	Have died.
	It's like, if I were Clapper, I would take a long vacation.
	And don't get in the hot tub.
	It could be bad for your health.
	Yeah, the hot tub's a bad idea.
	So there's my prediction.
	You can put money on it.
	I could take that to the bank.
	Clapper is getting died.
	You're actually predicting he's going to get killed?
	No, he's going to resign.
	He's going to resign.
	He can't take it anymore.
	Of course not.
	He's not allowed to.
	But then for them to put this out, like, oh, just so you know, when the guy goes, here's who's next.
	And, of course, the guy who's next is that young guy.
	What's his name?
	Michael Leitner.
	He's the guy that's next.
	He's a form of spook.
	If they wait long enough, they can put Eric Schmidt in there.
	Oh, wow.
	There you go.
	Wow, the spot just opened up, didn't it?
	Yeah.
	Interesting.
	I like that one.
	We're still waiting to see where he winds up.
	Well, he's at Commerce now, but that won't last.
	He's not at Commerce.
	He didn't get nominated.
	Yeah, he did.
	No, he didn't.
	I thought he did.
	Candidate.
	Candidate.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, he'll be in.
	No.
	Well, maybe they'll move him over to this.
	I think this would be good for him.
	Well, we were going to make him this, but now we're going to make him that, because this guy can't take it anymore, because he's actually telling the truth, telling it like it is.
	Yeah, are you crazy?
	Hey, hey, are you out of your mind?
	Telling people the truth.
	That's not good.
	So anyway, back to my...
	So I ran into some interesting, spookish information that was floating around C-SPAN by these guys.
	They all write books that nobody reads except agencies.
	Except other agents.
	But just to give you a little taste of...
	Apparently the head of the CIA said there's 50 al-Qaeda and there was this very interesting debate going on.
	But here, just play slamming the CIA so you can get kind of a taste of how these guys operate when they're in public.
	Today.
	How it will turn out, no one knows.
	There are a lot of very dangerous possibilities.
	I'll just make one comment about 50 al-Qaeda.
	With all due respect to the Director of Central Intelligence, I've been engaged in the business of counting insurgents and terrorists for some 35 years.
	Was it like sheep?
	One terrorist, two terrorists, three terrorists?
	We don't have a clue.
	And anyone who says they know how many there are is either bluffing or something worse.
	Al-Qaeda is a lot more complex problem than 50 individuals.
	And I wish that the United States government would get out of the business of body counts.
	We learned in Vietnam that's not very helpful.
	And get into the business of thinking about our enemy in a more flexible way.
	Flexible?
	What does that mean?
	I don't know.
	Flexible way.
	I have no idea, but this is a guy named Bruce Rydell.
	Former spook?
	Well, it's hard to say, but he did a book called Deadly Embrace about the Afghan war or something.
	Anyway, he had a couple interesting things that I think are worth playing.
	Spins out of control.
	Taliban concept is a friend.
	Which one do you want?
	China and Pakistan.
	This is really interesting.
	Okay, here we go.
	And they have their own strategic imperatives.
	The Chinese actually have a lot more influence in Pakistan than the U.S. does.
	They take our money, but the influence is really coming from China.
	They call them the all-weather friends.
	That's right.
	What, the all-weather friends?
	Yeah, and the guy has immediately agreed.
	Apparently the Chinese...
	That's right.
	He said, that's right.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	They're all-weather friends.
	And he explains it.
	Now, I didn't know any of this.
	And China has, does look at the U.S. as a quasi-adversary and they look at India as a quasi-adversary.
	And I'm wondering whether they have a vested interest in actually creating some instability or encouragement.
	Like just today's New York Times has a story that they funded and gave the technology for a nuclear reactor to make bombs.
	Wow.
	Just now.
	The Chinese did that.
	Yeah.
	Can you know that?
	No, I thought we gave them all that stuff.
	Apparently the Chinese are right to this day selling new plants to make bombs.
	Right on.
	In this world of non-proliferation and all this other stuff, they're encouraging the Pakistanis to build nuclear bomb material.
	We know that Hillary Clinton said China is our competitor.
	Yeah, this is it.
	What's your take on the Iranian and Chinese?
	Do you discuss it in the book or is it focused on...
	Briefly, You characterize China quite rightly.
	From Pakistan's perspective, they're the all-weather friend.
	If we're the fair-weather friend, they are taller than the Himalayas and deeper than the Indian Ocean.
	In practice, while they've given Pakistan a lot of weapons and nuclear reactors and the design for its bomb, in every clutch situation the Chinese haven't done anything more than we have.
	China's Short answer is China is in a quasi-rivalry with us and with India, but it's also in a relationship with us and India which is an economic cornucopia.
	A corneacopia or a cornucopia?
	Well, apparently cornea.
	Corneacopia.
	It's on your eye.
	And China is trying to figure out how to balance all of this together.
	So for me, the high road here is to try to get the Chinese to row with us in this.
	They don't want a jihadist state in Pakistan.
	They don't want to see the Indian economy suffer a devastating blow because they're investing in the Indian economy now.
	Tricky, hard to do, but something that we can do.
	Iran is a more difficult partner.
	The short version is in Afghanistan since 2001, Iran has largely been a supporter of what we want to do because they hate the Taliban.
	The trick here is to somehow...
	segue off their relatively positive pursuits in Afghanistan from so many other things where we have very serious disagreements with them.
	That's a very tricky diplomatic problem to pursue.
	My God, John, that's so incredibly boring.
	It is.
	It's boring but interesting.
	No, it's very interesting, but how can you sit through all that?
	It wasn't easy.
	Oh, my goodness.
	But anyway, we did know already that Iran was...
	This is why I want to bet on this, by the way, because I knew this, that the Iranians and us were in bed regarding the relationship to the Taliban.
	And we didn't want to talk about it, even though there was a lot of threats.
	So we're going to bomb Iran, we're going to do this, we're going to do that.
	And that was never going to happen because they're actually allies with us in this Afghani war.
	And by the way, Goldman Sachs and Citibank, they've all got big buildings there.
	They've got banks there.
	We also had a clip maybe a few months ago where there was an Iranian intelligence guy going on about how it was incredibly stupid the way we were going about making friends with the Taliban.
	They didn't like that at all, and it stems from the fact that they hate the Taliban in every way, shape, and form.
	Now, as a kind of – I don't want to bore people totally stiff with this Middle Eastern analysis, but to go to another guy, which kind of relates to the Iranian situation, this guy James Robin from the – he's an international relations professor at the National Defense University. this guy James Robin from the – he's an international Does he have a funny accent?
	Because that makes it good.
	No, he doesn't.
	But he definitely wrote a book on kind of reanalyzing the Vietnam War.
	This is how really wonkish some of these guys are.
	But he made an interesting commentary on, and I think this is coming right out of, I think the intelligence agencies are all on board with this particular commentary on 4chan, which is down on the list there, odd commentary on 4chan, which I thought was really interesting that he would say this.
	Does everyone know what 4chan is?
	Yeah, 4chan is one of these groups that I think they're either part of or stem from or associated with it.
	You're doing it all wrong.
	4chan.com is essentially a huge message board which doesn't store anything and everything goes.
	So you can't do a takedown request because by the time you put the request in, whatever's up there is gone.
	It is an amazing source for porn, but I think what you're going to say is that this could possibly also be a meeting place for a lot of the so-called anonymous groups.
	Exactly.
	Hi, Dr.
	Robbins.
	I'm really interested in a contemporary sense.
	Hold on a second.
	Stop, stop, stop.
	Just as a little background, this is a talk on the Vietnam War.
	Now, why this particular question and answer took place is kind of beyond me, but I think it was just to send a message throughout whatever community listens to this crap.
	I'm really interested in a contemporary sense about your comments regarding 4chan, the hacker network's attack on the Iranian nuclear program.
	So that's already like such a misnomer, but okay.
	And kind of the feedback of that from a private internet association and affecting a nation in that way.
	Well, the Stuxnet and the attack on the Iranian nuclear program, it's fantastic.
	It's great.
	I mean, these people are geniuses, whoever did it.
	You know, how did they get it inserted into the network?
	Doesn't everyone know this was Israeli intelligence and the Americans who did this?
	They don't know this still?
	They're saying that 4chan kitties did this?
	I'm just playing the clip.
	I'm just saying script kitties did this, please.
	It's a screwy clip.
	How'd they do the whole thing?
	I was reading about it, and it's just amazing.
	And it's a great example of a way to use tools other than force to try to reach the conclusions that you want.
	I mean, there are a lot of war games dealing with how could Israel bomb the Iranian nuclear program like they did in Iraq or in Syria and somehow knock it out that way, but they're deeply underground and they might just slow them down.
	Would they destroy it?
	But here they figured out, whoever did it, you know, figured out a way to get inside their system and just completely mess them up.
	So, okay, so that was an interesting clip.
	Now, I don't want to keep going on, but I'm going to play one more.
	One more.
	And this one here is just to give some people some insight into the fact that we have to get out of Afghanistan, but the fact that when we get out, nothing's going to change.
	And I just want to play this one clip again from this other guy, from this Bruce Rydell character, on the Taliban concept as friend, and then I won't bore us any longer.
	The Pakistani government in the 1990s did not create the Afghan Taliban, but they were the midwife to its creation.
	The Pakistani army believes to this day that the Afghan Taliban is an asset for them, that sooner or later the Americans are going to leave Afghanistan, And there will be a struggle for influence there.
	And their biggest asset is the Afghan Taliban.
	Up until a year or so ago, they believed victory was in sight.
	They were going to win in Afghanistan.
	We were going to pull out.
	Hold on to your asset if you think they're about to win.
	But over the course of the last decade, the Afghan Taliban has also given birth to a mini-me, the Pakistani Taliban, which targets the government of Pakistan.
	So the Pakistani military has an extraordinarily difficult job of trying to parse the difference.
	They are still convinced...
	The best way to deal with this is to fight those who are your enemy and use those who are your asset for the future.
	The United States, in a very American way, of course says, do more.
	You've got to take the entire thing down.
	Pakistanis look at us and say, you're hopelessly naive.
	First of all, you won't be here when push comes to shove.
	We'll be on our own.
	Secondly, we need these people.
	We want to continue to have relationships with them.
	Well, I'm glad I got up an hour early for that.
	Fair-weather friends.
	Yes.
	Well, if you don't...
	I mean, we can just do real news from now on if you don't want me to find these kinds of insights.
	No, it's very interesting.
	They're just not dynamic speakers.
	That's why I wished I'd like the Pakistani guy.
	These guys are terrible.
	I mean, they're not...
	They're not only not dynamic speakers...
	And by the way, here's another book people should put on the book club list.
	How to Read...
	I'm sorry, not how to read.
	You can't read the title.
	That's a good book, too.
	I don't have it here.
	It's How to Speak and How to Listen by Adler.
	Actually, I have to say, these are the types of things that you will never, ever hear anywhere.
	And, of course, this is all on the news.
	You don't have to.
	This is what your giving levels are all about, people.
	Is that John and I, in this case, John sat through a lot to get these little bits and these nuggets of information.
	Because you never get any of this.
	And all we get is like, That's kind of our news here.
	In fact, it goes like this.
	It's kind of how it sounds on television.
	You know, you might as well prepare people for the fact that, you know, this fair-weather friend...
	China.
	China.
	Or they're the good...
	What was the name of them again?
	China.
	China is our all-weather friend.
	All-weather friend and fair-weather friends.
	I mean, we just got to know this so we don't get stunned or shocked when O'Reilly gets all worked up about the fact that we're leaving Afghanistan and the Taliban took it over again.
	Of course, the Iranians will be pissed at us.
	That'll cause another problem.
	You know, this whole thing is a mess.
	So I spent some time watching the competition in the New Media Wars, according to that horrible woman, Hillary Clinton, who used to be wife of and now runs the show.
	Oh, you're talking about Al Jazeera.
	No, actually Russia Today.
	Wow, the worst.
	Russia Today.
	That is the worst thing on the air.
	Well...
	There was a little gem there brought on this guy.
	I gotta stop you.
	What?
	Did you know that Tom Hartman moved his show to Russia today?
	Thom?
	Really?
	Thom?
	Thom.
	Well, Max Keiser's on there too.
	A lot of people are on that.
	But it's like Alex Jones, you know?
	It's like, I don't listen for him, I listen for the guests.
	So they had Anthony Wild on, who has, he has like the Wild Beast or some kind of publication.
	But he actually put into words something that I've been kind of tracking regarding the Revolution 2.0!
	Revolution 2.0!
	In fact, I should probably play this first.
	Wild Gonim, the Google executive who...
	Who supposedly is the leader of...
	Mad guy.
	Yeah, so in the midst of all...
	So they have a TED Cairo conference.
	It's a TEDx, which means it's one of these things you basically license and you can do it.
	So TED Cairo...
	Explain what TED is to people who don't know.
	Oh, geez, everyone who listens to the show knows what TED is.
	Technology, entertainment, design.
	Oh, I thought it was Ted Rumsfeld.
	Yes, no.
	It's where all the elites go to hang out and play with each other and fiddle with each other's private parts.
	And so he was coming in via satellite from Ted...
	Well, maybe it was just a video from TEDx, and they played this at TED. Just listen to it, and then I'll get into what this Anthony Wilde said.
	This is Revolution 2.0.
	Yay!
	Yay!
	No one was a hero.
	No one was a hero.
	Because everyone was a hero.
	Everyone have done something.
	We all use Wikipedia.
	We all use Wikipedia.
	If you think of the concept of Wikipedia where everyone is collaborating content, and at the end of the day, you've built...
	The largest encyclopedia in the world.
	From just an idea that sounded crazy, you have the largest encyclopedia in the world.
	Crazy, I tell you.
	And in the Egyptian revolution, the revolution 2.0, everyone have contributed something, small or big, they contributed something, to bring us one of the most inspiring stories in the history of mankind.
	Of all mankind!
	Of all mankind never before seen.
	Okay, so where does this propaganda come from?
	Because clearly this guy is an asset of something.
	Oh, yeah.
	And so I've been tracking this Alliance of Youth Movement.
	Now, the Alliance of Youth Movement...
	Is actually, they had a conference last year.
	And the reason why, here's how I stumbled upon this.
	I started seeing these signs with the fist.
	You know what I'm talking about?
	Kind of the square fist.
	And I'm like, I've seen this before.
	So why are these fist showing up in North Africa?
	And this is actually the symbol of the Alliance of Youth Movement.
	And then I stumble across this guy, Anthony Wilde, who says the following about the Alliance of Youth movement and the uprising, sorry, the uprisings in North Africa.
	...there in Zurich.
	Well, we hear a lot about the anti-Gaddafi forces, but we actually know next to nothing about who they are.
	What do you make of them?
	Who do you think are their leaders?
	Well, the leaders, there's quite a bit of speculation as to actually who is pulling the strings of what's happening in Libya.
	For example, the UK Telegraph recently ran a piece which talked a fair amount about the Alliance for Youth Movements, which is an effort that was formed in the United States by Jared Cohen, who was a former top advisor to both Condoleezza Rice as well as Hillary Clinton.
	In the State Department and he, along with the support of the State Department, formed the Alliance for Youth Movements and their affiliated website called Movements.org.
	What's important about this is that that organization has its stated mission, along with several multinational corporations who sponsor the organization, Its mission is to provide a conduit, a training, so to speak, platform for instruction of how to organize and prepare for, let's say, electronic-driven protests or communications revolutions like the ones we're seeing driven in Libya today.
	And there is a heavy footprint involved in both the sands of Tunisia as well as Egypt and now in Libya.
	With this organization.
	So there's a direct tie-in to the U.S. State Department here.
	As a matter of fact, in 2009, Hillary Clinton gave the keynote address speech in Mexico City for this organization.
	So that would be an example of a foreign organization that seems to have some leadership influence on the ground in Libya.
	So, perfect, right?
	Where did you get that clip?
	Russia Today!
	Oh, okay.
	Oh, the Russians would come.
	Yeah, okay.
	The Russians are blowing the lid off of it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But then I figured, of course they are.
	We're in competition with them.
	Hillary Clinton said so.
	So then, of course, I go to their website, and this is the pre-message that Hillary Clinton put on their site before she went to do the keynote.
	And it sounds like she's on Coke.
	She's reading this off a prompter, and she's like not taking her time.
	She's speeding through it like a...
	Oh, she's not doing the one word at a time thing?
	No, she's like a total Coke head.
	Listen to what she says, though.
	I want to congratulate all of you who have come to Mexico City in person and online.
	Now, this is sped up.
	No, no, no.
	No, it's not.
	I watched it three times.
	It's a video.
	It's not sped up.
	She is just on coke.
	She keeps the...
	There's no pauses in the words.
	We are the vanguard of a rising generation of citizen activists who are using the latest technological tools to catalyze change, build movements, and transform lives.
	And I hope this conference provides an opportunity for you to learn from each other and discover the tools and techniques that will open new doors for activism and empowerment when you return home.
	All over the world, young people like you are driving progress.
	In Colombia, two young college graduates fed up with violence in their country used Facebook to organize 14 million people into the largest anti-terrorism demonstrations in history.
	In Iran, we saw young people using Twitter and YouTube to communicate with each other and the world.
	So these guys have bought into the social crap, right?
	Oh yeah, totally.
	And I notice the movements.org site is all in Facebook blue.
	Yeah.
	A crackdown designed to keep them silent.
	And in India, a 14-year-old high school student from Mumbai used social networking to link together half a million people who sought solidarity and support in the aftermath of the November 2008 terrorist attacks.
	You've all traveled unique paths to get here today.
	You come from different cultures and countries and speak different languages.
	But you all share a common commitment to engaging with the world, to using every tool at your disposal to bring people together to solve problems.
	And that makes you the kind of leaders we need.
	As we work to meet the challenges and seize the opportunities of the 21st century.
	Governments can't do it alone.
	Citizens, organizations, businesses, universities, everyone with a stake in our shared future must take responsibility for shaping it.
	That's what we call 21st century statecraft.
	So thank you for being on the front lines of progress and I can't wait to see what all of you do next.
	We'll do some lines.
	More official meddling by our government.
	Now, just an aside, I have an aside clip that kind of relates to this.
	Again, it's that guy from the National Defense University making this interesting little commentary out of the blue.
	And the clip is called Spins Out of Control.
	Almost as if there's, you know, we do believe on this show that there's interagency rife, you know, kind of battling going on between the CIA, the government, the military intelligence and all the rest of it.
	And this little clip, the way he says it, it's almost as though it's going to happen kind of a thing when I heard it.
	And it relates to what they're trying to pull off over here in the State Department.
	Yeah.
	Nice way to clip off the mic.
	Thank you.
	The turmoil seems to be worldwide, not just the Middle East.
	We have North Korea, etc.
	What sort of responsibility do you put on the current administration for the world seeming to be in an upheaval?
	Oh, um...
	I don't know if I could blame the current administration for everything that's going on.
	Of course, some of the current administration want to take credit for it, that they somehow had inspired people for hope and change in the Middle East or something like that.
	We'll see what the outcome is of all of this.
	If it turns profoundly negative, it'll be interesting if they keep taking credit for it.
	Yeah.
	Once it spins out of control.
	Once it spins out of control.
	Yeah, not like if, no, once, because it's coming.
	Well, this is very interesting, John.
	Thank you.
	That actually does tie in very nicely because we had a pretty good conversation on Thursday about how all of this is coming together.
	Of course, it behooves everybody who listens to the show to pull up Google Earth once in a while and take a look at the positions of these countries.
	If you look at Egypt, underneath that is Libya.
	And then underneath that we have George Clooney's territory, which is Sudan.
	And George Clooney, he's right on cue.
	First shocking pictures of burned villages in Sudan.
	He's got them.
	He's bringing them tears.
	This is why I know America didn't set off the tsunami in Japan, because they got their own thing.
	They want this pipeline to go from north all the way to southern Africa.
	So the project Enough would like the actor George Clooney to the atrocities against civilian population.
	Sudan, first shocking pictures have been presented by George Clooney from the Satellite Sentinel Project.
	And it's like some really unclear picture there showing...
	It's like you can't see anything but some arrows.
	Well, just before you jump in.
	So, off-air, because we always forget when we talk about something off-air.
	We know that Matt...
	Ben Affleck is in the Congo.
	Right.
	And we were talking about who would be in Uganda or Kenya because we need a celebrity.
	Right.
	Let me give a little more background on this.
	We've decided, and we're going to do this now, we're going to do this live.
	A live prediction.
	We already did it.
	Yeah.
	But the fact that I want to add a couple more dimensions to this.
	We've decided or decided or concluded, again, based on, you know, this kind of general things that we keep seeing over and over again.
	It's all about oil.
	Right.
	Whoever they are are now using celebrities as frontmen for movements because the public, especially the American public, is so stupid that unless it's like George Clooney telling us to do something, we don't do anything.
	That's a great way to set it up, John.
	It's also because we don't buy the Weapons of Mass Destruction gig anymore.
	We already fell for that one.
	And by the way, over the weekend, or maybe it was on Friday, the Biography Channel Had a running series of biographies right in a row.
	I've never seen this before.
	And it would include, I think I missed one of them, which I believe was Ben Affleck.
	Of all the Ocean's Eleven guys?
	Well, they had no.
	Yeah, well, kind of.
	Yeah, actually.
	They had Ben Affleck, then they had Matt Damon, then they had George Clooney, then they had Brad Pitt, and then they finished it with Cameron Diaz.
	Interesting.
	We can't leave out of this.
	No, no, no.
	You need a guy with muscles.
	No, I agree.
	I'm arguing.
	I'm just saying.
	She can show up.
	And I do have one clip from the Matt Damon biography which drops a few names in there even though it's not the one we finally concluded.
	But it's interesting to listen to this short clip from this Matt Damon biography of what's going on to get people kind of jacked up about these people representing the government.
	But Matt knows there's more to life than being a handsome actor.
	He is involved in several charities, including Not on Our Watch, an aid organization he co-founded with Ocean's co-stars George Clooney, Don Cheadle, and Brad Pitt.
	Their goal is to focus attention on social crimes committed in Darfur in Africa.
	Don, Brad, Matt and I have all in the last year been in that region and around there.
	It's something that has been an important part of a lot of us on this panel's lives for the last few years.
	Given our individual interest in what was going on there, it seemed like we'd be remiss if we didn't try to redirect some of those resources towards something that is a life and death struggle.
	Anyway.
	So after the show on Thursday, after we brought this up again, I remember Newsweek Magazine, George Clooney is literally in there.
	It's like the new celebrity ambassadors because people don't buy it anymore from A, ugly people.
	We don't buy anything from ugly people.
	And the only good-looking people we got is Obama.
	He's too busy doing other stuff.
	He can't be everywhere, even though there's two of them.
	So we need some of these celebrities, and we need the right kind of guy who's set up that way.
	And we went through a whole list.
	We're like, Harrison Ford, no, he's shot.
	They tried him, and he's dumb.
	Doesn't work, doesn't work.
	Bono, no way.
	Bono has no credibility.
	People don't like him anymore.
	And then I hit upon it, because we need...
	Someone who has the Africa connection, particularly the southern region, and it's so obvious, it's Leonardo DiCaprio.
	It's so obvious.
	Yeah, he has to be brought into the club.
	Now, I don't see that he's...
	Does he work with these guys?
	Because they seem to be...
	Well, he's in kind of that group, you know.
	He's elevated.
	He gets on stage.
	We have to say, we also eliminated people.
	We should mention them.
	We eliminated Johnny Depp.
	Yeah, too stinky.
	Well, he's just, you know, he's not...
	He doesn't count.
	You can't count on the guy.
	No, he won't do it.
	We thought about Robert Downey Jr., but he's...
	Too much in, you know, too much luggage.
	Too much baggage.
	Too much baggage.
	Too much in the backpack.
	Yeah.
	And we've tried some other people, and we eliminated them, and the guy who really comes to the fore is DiCaprio.
	Yeah, and he also was hanging out with Putin not too long ago.
	And he was right.
	How does a guy who's an actor get a meeting with Putin?
	Yeah, well, it's like Clooney.
	Clooney's hanging out with the president.
	Oh, speaking of such, very, very interesting.
	You know, I watch WWW every single week.
	You know what that stands for, don't you?
	Know what?
	The West Wing Week!
	Oh, yes, right.
	The continuing soap opera brought to you by the White House blog people.
	And so who's our president hanging out with?
	He's hanging out with Melinda Gates.
	She's on the plane.
	You know, they're traveling around.
	Oh, yeah.
	Bill did a speech recently, which I have the entire thing recorded.
	Uh-huh.
	And he says in there that he was jealous because Melinda got a ride on Air Force One before he did.
	Right.
	Well, you know what?
	It's because he didn't show up at that Silicon Valley meeting.
	And the president's like, oh, yeah?
	Oh, yeah?
	You nerd?
	I was going to take your wife.
	Ha-ha!
	Watch this.
	I'll take her for a ride.
	I got a sweet ride.
	I got a sweet ride.
	So, the elitist...
	Horrible Gillard from Gitmo Nation Down Under.
	Yes, I actually had a couple of clips.
	Talk about boring.
	Well, so everyone's up in arms because she literally said in her campaigning speeches and debates, no carbon taxes.
	And I have the clip, if you want it.
	It's not that interesting.
	She says, there will be no carbon tax.
	And now she's saying, hey, let's price carbon.
	And everyone's freaking out.
	Like, you said no!
	And then she actually has the audacity to say, well, if you didn't understand that I meant we would have carbon taxes, then there's something wrong with your ears.
	I mean, this is literally, it's so blatant.
	So incredibly blatant.
	That woman is frightening you, right?
	Frightening, yeah.
	So she comes to visit the President to talk about, you know, no doubt.
	You know, I'm expecting a forked tongue to come out of her mouth.
	She's a total reptilian.
	So she comes to the White House, and they go on the road.
	And there's so many things going on in this clip.
	The title of the episode is 15 Second Law Class.
	Like, these guys are so nuts.
	And so they're going to visit a couple of schools, and the first thing that happens is...
	By the way, she mentioned this.
	I don't know, did you watch her give her joint speech?
	Yes, of course I did.
	Is she speaking English?
	Prime Minister Gillard quizzed the kids on their knowledge of Australian geography, and the kids tested both leaders' knowledge of American history.
	Okay, so they're in the classroom, and they have all the presidents on the wall.
	And the kid says, how many of the presidents can you pick out?
	Because, of course, this is what the kids get taught in school.
	You know, these are our leaders, and here's who this was, who this was.
	And what do you think our brilliant president comes up with?
	That's Lincoln.
	laughter I'm not.
	And that's Washington.
	And that's it.
	He does Lincoln and Washington.
	Really?
	The only two anyone...
	I could do all of them.
	I'm sure you could.
	It's the only two that are on the test to become a citizen is Lincoln and it's like ha ha ha.
	Yeah, that's a good one.
	O'Reilly should steal that from me.
	But then they go, now this is very interesting, so what was our president supposedly as an academic?
	He was a professor of constitutional law.
	Exactly.
	So, luckily, he goes to visit a class of scholars studying to be lawyers, and he pulls it out.
	He says, well, you know, I was a professor of constitutional law!
	And listen to how they've edited his proof that he was a constitutional law professor.
	March 8th, President Obama was joined by Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Gates Foundation, and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on a visit to Tech Boston Academy in Boston, Massachusetts.
	It's a biotech class where they're learning about college, really college biology.
	The president visited some classrooms and spoke to students and faculty about the shared responsibility that government, businesses, philanthropists, and communities have to promote innovative education strategies that will prepare American students to compete in a 21st century economy.
	The president also fell back on his old role as a teacher of constitutional law.
	Remember, we don't know...
	Can this guy talk any faster?
	No, he's great.
	He's auditioning for the voiceover for the Kardashians.
	So, now we don't know what the president actually said, but this is how they edited it.
	The president also fell back on his old role as a teacher of constitutional law.
	Any particular case?
	I used to teach constitutional law, so I know a little something about this.
	Yes, sir.
	Okay, and why don't you state the case?
	What was the court's conclusion?
	What was the rationale?
	What would they say?
	What was the reason?
	Do you agree with that?
	Um, yeah, I do.
	See?
	Wow.
	That's law school class right there.
	What?
	Did you hear that, what they did?
	Are you kidding me?
	What did the court say?
	You didn't edit that?
	No.
	This is how it's edited in the show, in his little show.
	It's terrible.
	So, what was the case?
	What did the court say?
	That's good.
	You got it.
	Listen again.
	What did they say?
	What was the reason?
	Do you agree with that?
	Um, yeah, I do.
	See?
	Wow.
	That's law school class right there.
	Wow.
	You've got to watch this show, man.
	I'm telling you, they can sell that to Turner.
	Lifetime.
	Anytime.
	Okay.
	I've got a repetitive clip I'd like to play right now.
	Perfect time.
	Play Woman Happy About Everybody.
	It's just unbelievable.
	We are all so excited and so thankful for everybody.
	And like I say, thank you for everybody that has participated in this because it couldn't have been done without everybody.
	I'm going to show myself gold by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	We're so happy, John.
	Rolling right along.
	So happy.
	It's wonderful.
	It's great.
	Everybody, everybody, everybody.
	We have a few everybodies who donated this week.
	I want to thank them.
	Call them out for their help.
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	You might want to pronounce that in Kale Deutschland.
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	Please, $131.31.
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	Okay, I'm sorry.
	You've got karma.
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	I guess the guy pulled it back.
	He wanted to do some improvements or something, so I'm waiting for a message when it's available.
	We'll be looking for it.
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	Wait a minute.
	She says that?
	That's cool.
	Yeah.
	Chick listener.
	Stallings, North Carolina.
	Well, there's North Carolina women.
	They're down to earth.
	Hell yeah.
	And she's a first-time donor.
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	Dodd Vickers, another first-time donor from Monroe, Georgia.
	Hi, John and Adam.
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	In fact, I was inspired to start my own podcast in 2005 by Adam's Daily Source Code, the D&D Show, and by Twit and John's participation in that show, 300-plus episodes and 1.2 million downloads later, all on Mevio, I might add.
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	You've been de-douched.
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	I've been working to put together a photo portfolio to support a PR producer cred.
	That's a good idea because when you're...
	Now, Deb won't know this, but when guys are like peeing, you know, it's like all you do is...
	You've got nothing else to do.
	Yeah, it's like...
	Because you don't want to look left or right because that would be like...
	You know, that's not good stall etiquette.
	Yeah.
	And so, you know, you just pretend to look ahead.
	And if you've got something to read, it's like groovy.
	You know, in Schiphol Airport, we've talked about this, they have a little fly, a bug that is actually in the enamel of the urinal, and that's kind of your aiming point.
	And if you aim at the fly, then it doesn't splatter, and it's like the apex.
	It's the sweet spot.
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	Why do they say urinal?
	You're asking me?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Hey.
	Why do they say urinal?
	Anyway, Deb and Dodd both gave $111.11.
	Andrew Wright, TotnessDevon, UK. Hi, guys.
	Karma, me up.
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	Alright.
	I'll karma you up, buddy.
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	As an over-educated, under-appreciated educator, I need some karma.
	I'm donating 6666 to taunt the number of the beast versus your karma.
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	Also known for the WITM Doug Mug.
	Oh, the one you have and I haven't got, okay.
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	And I also always want to get our full value for our dollar from your show.
	So I thank you and keep up the good work.
	I also sent Adam an email showing some artwork I created for you guys.
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	He needs some karma too.
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	A lot of karma today.
	Today is Karma Sunday.
	Karma.
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	Ed Hidden in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania.
	$50 long overdue.
	I don't deserve a dedouching, but would love to get some karma for my wife's business, hiddenhelper.com.
	All right.
	Wow, it is karma day.
	We've got to lay back, otherwise it may not be good anymore, you know?
	It's going to wear it out.
	Yeah.
	Elizabeth McCarthy, Huntington Station, New York.
	Another chick listening.
	This is a belated birthday gift for her husband, Francis James Woods III, a.k.a.
	Jimmy.
	40th birthday was February 28th, and he is an avid listener and a great fan of both of you.
	I'm forced to listen to him.
	I'm forced to listen to you every night as we fall asleep.
	Oh, no, this is not good.
	They're headed for separation at best.
	Well, I mean, you're going to be hearing us in your sleep.
	It's like brainwashing.
	Let's do this.
	Elizabeth.
	You are getting sleepy.
	You feel like you're in warm bathwater.
	And you want to give to us...
	She's programmed now.
	She used to immediately put on my earplugs and in a pillow over my head, block out your voices as I would try to fall asleep.
	But you guys have grown on me now, and I listen to you also.
	Then she falls asleep, apparently.
	Yeah.
	Actually, the clips I had earlier are perfect for you.
	We're so sexually stimulating.
	Anyway, she thanks us in advance.
	That's $50.
	George Scanlon in Carpentersville, Illinois, $50.
	Sir George Vanderhorst, $50.
	Which completes his knighthood, by the way.
	Yes, and he'll be now Sir George.
	Yeah, Black Knight.
	And then our no-agenda groupie, HDM Vanderhorst.
	What is this?
	I don't know.
	HDM Terhorst?
	No city.
	N.A. Groupie, I need some karma.
	My temp job at Greenpeace has ended.
	Don't get a permanent position.
	Lost to a former P.A. of the Prime Minister's office.
	Blair, need a new job and a place to be in Amsterdam.
	I also give him a karma.
	I know who this is.
	It's a her.
	It's a her.
	Yeah, and she was on the inside at Greenpeace.
	She was very excited about it to help save the gay whales and all that stuff.
	But you know what?
	You're an NA producer.
	You're just not like the elite.
	That's why.
	You get the personal assistant of Blair.
	You can't win against that.
	And this is how Greenpeace operates, of course.
	And Greenpeace, oh yeah, we'll just get that guy's assistant in.
	Anyway, she deserves a little bit of karma and a place to live in Amsterdam.
	You've got karma.
	So that'll wrap it up for today's helpers.
	Helpers?
	Producers?
	They're helping us.
	Helpers?
	What is that?
	They're producers, dude.
	They're producers.
	Dude!
	Dude, they're producers.
	And we appreciate it.
	The giving levels are a little off.
	And quite frankly, I'm surprised.
	Because I think we did a...
	Well, you know what?
	We're just wrong.
	The numbers do not lie.
	This is not like a rating system.
	But if people aren't supporting us, then we're not doing something right.
	So, John, we'll have a meeting after the show.
	We'll see if we can figure out what we're doing wrong.
	I've got the solution on this show.
	More Bieber?
	Well, you know, we had the teaser for Bieber.
	On the last show.
	Yeah.
	And we never played the Bieber clip.
	Oh, that's...
	That's probably what cost us.
	Let me...
	That's what cost us...
	Well, wait a minute.
	I don't want to take any risks.
	I have a...
	What was the name of the clip from last week's show?
	We had a Bieber clip?
	No, it was a teaser.
	I got it.
	I uploaded it again.
	HLN teaser?
	That was the teaser, yeah.
	Yeah, but what was the clip?
	Well, you didn't give me the clip.
	The clip is on here.
	It's...
	Where is it?
	I don't see a Bieber clip.
	Late in show.
	It's the big story late in show clip.
	Oh, okay.
	Here we go, everybody.
	And now to the biggest star showdown to hit Hollywood in ages.
	I'm talking lesbians versus Justin Bieber.
	There's an angry revolt brewing among some lesbian fans of the pop singer, or Bibians as they're called, over his new haircut.
	The site Lesbians Who Look Like Justin Bieber features pictures sent in by women who resemble the teen pop star.
	Now the site's creator says there is big, big backlash today against Bieber's new look.
	Danielle Owens-Reed is the founder of Lesbians Who Look Like Justin Bieber.
	She joins me from Boston for a Showbiz Newsmaker interview.
	Am I talking to Danielle or am I talking to Justin Bieber?
	It's Danielle.
	Hi, Danielle.
	Thanks for joining us.
	Hey, I want to say flat out, I like his new haircut.
	I like pussy.
	Why are the Bibians, as you call them, not responding to or copying the new hairdo?
	Here's the thing.
	We're never going to not love Justin Bieber, but it's kind of like a silent treatment anger, you know?
	It's like, I'm not going to cut my hair just because you do.
	This is my hair.
	I still look the way that you looked a couple of years ago, and I'm going to go with it.
	Yeah, now his haircut kind of looks like Ellen DeGeneres.
	It's safe to say, Ellen likes the do.
	Bieber's a young guy.
	You know, she's also a lesbian, you know?
	17.
	He's going to have a lot of different hairstyles.
	Danielle, the question for your site is, do you think that you and your Beebians are going to have to change your locks along with Bieber to really stay true fans?
	Well, honestly, I think it's probably like a generational thing, you know?
	Like, his hair now is getting more like Ellen.
	So we can get some of the lesbians who look like Ellen.
	And as he gets older, it's kind of like that one blog, Old Men Who Look Like Lesbians.
	It's like there are always going to be people who relate that I can put up.
	I have never heard of these blogs, but now I know.
	Nah, this is what gets in the dough.
	Yeah, it's Beavers versus Bieber.
	So you gotta have the...
	Wait, I gotta play the jingle for a second.
	And now, back to real music.
	So here's the laugh.
	This is the general dumb chick on television laugh.
	Ha ha ha ha ha!
	Wait, Mickey can do it better.
	Mickey, come here!
	Ha ha ha ha ha!
	It's like Holly, the Kardashians.
	Pay attention now.
	Ha ha ha ha!
	Ha ha ha ha!
	Oh shit, Mickey!
	Mickey!
	She'll be in a second.
	She has a 30 second delay.
	That's the laugh.
	That is the ha ha ha ha!
	Every dumb chick on television laughs.
	I don't care if you're a lesbian or not.
	That's how they all laugh.
	It's horrendous.
	So anyway, so that's what...
	So that brings in the big dough, right.
	Personally, I think that programming your mind works a little better.
	Come here.
	Come here.
	Do it.
	You can do it really well.
	Do it.
	Yeah, that's good.
	Wow.
	Alright, happy birthday to James Jimmy Woods.
	He turned 40 on the 28th.
	That's from your lovely wife, Elizabeth McCarthy.
	Happy birthday from her and from your buddies here at the No Agenda Show.
	And then we might as well do this one too, John.
	I'm sorry, did I cut you?
	Ouch!
	You have a Neosporin?
	I need a Neosporin!
	Some iodine for your cuts!
	Call Geraldo!
	Josh Feldman and George Vanderhorst, please step forward!
	You soon will be the recipients of the official hit-em-in-the-mouth, ipsal-ortem-in-the-mouth, a in-the-morning sealant ring as a Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable.
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	We highly appreciate it.
	This is the only way the show stays on the air.
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	Join our beavers and beavers.
	And quickly play Woman Happy About Everybody one more time.
	Oh, I should have that one on cue, shouldn't I? This should be standby, ready to go.
	It's just unbelievable.
	We are all so excited and so thankful for everybody.
	And like I say, thank you for everybody that has participated in this because it couldn't have been done without everybody.
	What is that from?
	It came out over the weekend.
	This is, I guess, the mom of some lost...
	Apparently, there's a couple of people lost in the mountains.
	They were, what do you call it, snowmobiling, and they were gone for three days, and then they found them.
	And so then they put the mic on her, you know, trying to get the crying mom.
	And she comes out with this, and I just said, this is too good.
	This is generic.
	Yeah.
	Oh boy.
	So now that we're all nice and uplifted, let me bring you down again.
	As I was watching Fox Business News, the Fox Business News channel, which apparently I'm the only guy watching the Fox Business News channel.
	There's a couple others.
	They have about 40, 50 people.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, I'm in good company.
	So they've got a former Goldman Sachs guy on, and you'll like him, John.
	Do you know Charles Nenner?
	From Nenner Nenner?
	Nenner Nenner.
	He's a cyclist, as in cycles.
	Oh, one of my...
	Yeah, one of your dudes.
	And he has a theory, and I wanted to check and see if you buy into his theory.
	He's talking about the markets, and so he's a former Goldman guy, so you'd think he's kind of on the inside, although I don't know what happens if you're a former Goldman guy.
	And he says, well, the Dow Jones is going down to 5,000.
	This is how bad the crash is going to be.
	And the reason, well, he's about to tell you what the reason is.
	Five decades.
	But what do you think...
	All right, I'm not so sure people would buy your totally bearish dropping to 5,000.
	But the question that I think they might have is, what would trigger it?
	Would it be an oil shock?
	Would it be inflation, an interest rate spike, or what?
	Last time I was on this only network that it is, it was from London.
	And...
	They kind of finish it depressed, so I don't want to depress you, but I also do war and peace cycles.
	And it shows that we're going to have a major war starting the end of 2012-2013.
	And I think that's going to do it.
	A major war cycle, end of 2012-2013.
	That will do it.
	That's going to do it, he says.
	Well, when you follow cycles, you follow all the cycles.
	And my war cycle actually is 2020.
	And that's when you have the major war.
	I mean, you might have some skirmishes, but I'm not seeing that.
	Okay, well then we're safe.
	I do believe he's right about the Dow going to 5,000.
	Really?
	Well, there's something we can invest in.
	That would be in 2013.
	We can invest in that.
	What do we buy, ETFs or something like that?
	You can buy some ETF shorts.
	I mean, they have ETFs that are basically shorts and there's double ETFs and triples.
	I don't like the triples.
	They're a little risky.
	The doubles are risky enough.
	I like the triplets.
	But anyway.
	Nice.
	Yeah, it's just something to think about.
	Hmm.
	Okay.
	So, by the way, I do have one last Middle East thing if you want to bring it in.
	Yeah, sure.
	Obama press conference.
	There's a little piece of information in here I thought was kind of interesting.
	Once you hear the piece that I think is interesting, you can cut that clip because the rest of it is just blather.
	Let's see if I trip over it.
	There's been a careful consideration not to take sides, let the people in those countries make this decision.
	But in this case, it does seem we have taken sides.
	So what's the red line?
	Well, first of all, let's take a look at what we've already done.
	Now, what is this from?
	Is this the questions after the press?
	This is a question-and-answer press conference that took place just, I think, on Friday.
	Oh, right.
	He's sitting down for this, right?
	No, no.
	He's standing at the podium.
	Oh, okay.
	All right.
	My first priority, obviously, was getting out American citizens and embassy personnel out of Libya.
	We got that done.
	The very next day, we had already instituted the largest financial seizure of assets in our history.
	And...
	Whoa.
	That's it.
	You've got to nail it.
	Wow.
	The largest in history?
	In history?
	What?
	So it's true then, the 70 billion or whatever.
	The largest...
	Wow.
	Play it again.
	It's just like when Susie said this, it's like I'm surprised you didn't get a gasp from the audience.
	Wow.
	Some of these other uprisings, there's been a careful consideration not to take sides, let the living...
	Sorry, I rebounded a little too far.
	Well, first of all, let's take a look at what we've already done.
	My first priority, obviously, was getting out American citizens and embassy personnel out of Libya, and we got that done.
	The very next day...
	We had already instituted the largest financial seizure of assets in our history.
	It's just unbelievable.
	We are all so excited and so thankful for everybody.
	And like I say, thank you for everybody that has participated in this because it couldn't have been done without everybody.
	That's Hillary Clinton jumping in there.
	She sounds very just remotely like Hillary Clinton.
	You've got to slip that in on a Clinton speech.
	Thanking Barack there for participating.
	So that, I mean, I was floored when I heard that, A, we already complained about this on the show, is that what right does Switzerland have to freeze all of his money in Switzerland?
	But meanwhile, what right do we have to grab all these assets and Did they declare war on the United States?
	I mean, what exactly?
	What prompts this?
	Can they do this at any time they want?
	Well, it was a presidential executive order, was it not?
	Well, I would assume so.
	But can you just do that?
	Can the president such a dictator now that he can just like all of a sudden...
	Dude, the president can take you, American citizen, and kill you if he calls you a terrorist.
	So what are you talking about?
	Yeah, I think he can take your money too.
	Like, hey, you're a terrorist?
	I can kill you.
	So they took the biggest amount from anybody ever.
	And what was the rationale for that?
	Uh, it's cool to have someone else's money?
	Yeah.
	Well, that's it.
	You got it.
	Nailed it.
	How hard can it be?
	I'm still reading the periodic review of individuals detained at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station.
	Poo-suant.
	It's still there, idiots.
	Poo-suant.
	No, Poo-suant.
	Poo-suant.
	Well, let me just see.
	It was...
	I'm looking at it now.
	It was...
	When was this?
	It was...
	Was it February when he did this?
	I don't know.
	I can't remember.
	I'm looking at the page.
	It's worth it.
	Yeah, it's an executive order.
	Libya.
	Here we go.
	February 25, 2011.
	So executive order is not like a memorandum.
	That's not like a memo.
	That's like the whole deal.
	I find Colonel Muammar Gaddafi with a Q. His government and close associates have taken extreme measures against the people of Libya, including by using weapons of war, mercenaries, and wanton violence.
	What's wanton violence?
	What?
	Wanton.
	Wanton.
	Oh, wanton.
	That was like a dish.
	Yeah, it sounds like soup.
	What's wanton?
	Wanton.
	You know, just out of control crazy.
	Okay.
	Against unarmed civilians.
	I further find that there's a serious risk that Libya's state assets will be misappropriated by Gaddafi, members of his government, members of his family, or close associates if those assets are not protected.
	The foregoing circumstances, the prolonged attacks, and the increased numbers of Libyans seeking refuge in other countries, which is not true.
	It's not Libyans.
	It's like people who were their slaves and they're running away, have caused a deterioration in the security of Libya and poses a serious risk to its stability.
	thereby constituting an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat Interesting, huh?
	I didn't know that.
	It's a national emergency.
	I didn't hear that on CNN, did you?
	I didn't hear that anywhere.
	All property and interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that...
	Are, or hereafter come within possession or control of any United States person, including any overseas branch, of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, and otherwise dealt in.
	Holy crap.
	How come there wasn't a front page headline in the New York Times saying, National Emergency Declared?
	Yeah, all your base belong to us is what this is.
	And then there's a whole bunch of stuff about, basically, we're taking it all.
	But this would also mean that any bank, the assets are frozen.
	I wonder how they do that technically, how they actually do it.
	Do they just send a note, or do they block it in the computer?
	How does that work?
	We should find out.
	We have a couple of Goldman guys that listen to the show.
	Well, the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, great.
	Hillary and Timmy.
	It's hereby authorized to determine that circumstances no longer warrant the blocking of the property, interest in person, blood, and the annex to order to take necessary action to give...
	So basically, it's Timmy and Hillary who are in charge of it.
	So they get to take the money and they get to shell it out to whoever they think it's appropriate to.
	Unbelievable!
	Yeah, nobody picks up on this.
	Hey, it's a national emergency.
	It's a national emergency nobody mentioned.
	It's a national emergency!
	Threat!
	Terror!
	Libya!
	Wanton!
	This is the word of the day.
	Wanton violence in Libya!
	Have you ever heard anyone use that word, wanton?
	Yeah.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	I've never heard it.
	Wanton.
	You heard it now.
	Yeah.
	You heard it here first.
	Wanton is the word of the day in Libya!
	So you know why everything's blue on Facebook?
	Is this going to be a bad...
	Oh, really?
	He only really sees blue.
	I'll give you a little hot pocket action for that.
	It's true.
	It's a fact.
	He's colorblind.
	Let me see.
	I did have a couple other things here that I should...
	Well, we should probably talk about the naked body scanners going back for testing.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, this is good.
	This is a good one.
	We've gotten probably more emails on this than anything.
	Yeah, it is the most emailed of the day.
	Why don't you run it down for us?
	Well, apparently what's happened, somebody looked at the reports that this TSA has been filing about because they have to check these x-ray machines, which kind of surprises me that they're doing anything.
	And some people did the calculation.
	The calculations on the amount of radiation is off.
	It's wrong.
	It's like a thousand times what they say, right?
	It's way off.
	It's like the math is bad.
	The reports are sketchy.
	The whole thing's a mess.
	And so somebody, I forgot who it was, that said, hey, you guys got to get these reports in order.
	And so the TSA says, oh, it's just a bookkeeping error.
	Everything's fine.
	Yes, it is.
	They literally said that, didn't they?
	Bookkeeping error.
	Sorry.
	They're going to go back and test them again.
	These things are out of control.
	They're probably irradiating the TSA people.
	Well, that's why they're not using them.
	I mean, this is totally...
	Don't look over here.
	Nothing to see here.
	Ooh, look at that.
	Just a rounding error.
	That's probably why they're not using them because I've flown quite a bit recently and every time I go to the airport I'm always going through the magnetometer and the other thing they're sitting there.
	They maybe run somebody through it once in a while but it's rare.
	I don't know.
	Yeah.
	Also, the TSA is about to unionize.
	Did you know that?
	It's about time.
	Yeah.
	Although I don't think they'll have collective bargaining rights.
	No, not the federal guys won't allow that, but at least they'll be able to wear the radiation tags and realize that they've been killing themselves in this job.
	It was ten times.
	It wasn't a thousand times.
	Ten times?
	Something like that?
	Well, ten times seems like a lot.
	Yeah.
	When you have reports like we had on the show where we clip people saying, well, it's like using a cell phone.
	Well, actually, I had from last week, let me just bring up, I think I have it, last week's show, one of the clips, I had one of the executives from the company that makes them.
	And he was on, I don't know, some, it wasn't NPR, it was like The Economist or something, they have some kind of web radio show.
	And he was saying something like, you want to hear this for a second, I might as well do this.
	Andreas Kotowski, I'll have to fast forward a little bit through the opening intro, on The Economist.
	So he's talking about how safe these things are.
	The following podcast is sponsored by Oppenheimer Fund.
	It's a podcast.
	Shuttle fast forward.
	As a success to work.
	Shut up.
	We're very successful for the last 40 years, but now that terrorists have apparently chosen to take explosives in underwear and in shoes, there needs to be a procedure to prevent that from happening.
	Otherwise, it will happen again.
	The Economist.
	All right, so now he's going to talk about how safe they are, which is just hilarious what he uses as comparison.
	This is The Economist.
	Should you be worried about the new full-body scanners, also known as nude scanners, that are currently appearing in airports around the world?
	Do they increase security but at the cost of privacy?
	Is airport scanning just a charade to...
	Or is it wanton?
	...reassure passengers?
	And what will the checkpoint of the future look like?
	To find out more, we spoke to Andreas Katowski, Chief Technology Officer of Rapiscan, one of the world's largest manufacturers of scanning equipment.
	We started by asking him to tell us what kinds of machines the company makes.
	Rapiscan Systems is one of the biggest scanner manufacturers in the world, and we are effectively exclusively dedicated to checkpoint security screening.
	Okay, now the kind of scanner that's in the news a lot at the moment are the so-called nude scanners.
	These are the full-body scanners that are appearing at some airports, particularly in the United States, and I believe 500 of them have been ordered from Rapperscanner, which about half have already been deployed.
	Is that right?
	Yes, I think that's right.
	And you're not operating them, obviously, but does this idea that they're called nude scanners, does that bother you?
	Well, I think the name bothers me, and the idea is not...
	It's not our brand, dude.
	We don't want to be known as nude.
	It's not our brand.
	Gingerbread, maybe, but not nude.
	To produce nude pictures, the aim is to image threats and weapons.
	Ah, image threats!
	And that's what their purpose is.
	The two main objections that have been raised against them are the privacy objection and the safety objection.
	Perhaps we should start with the privacy one.
	Do you have a sort of policy or best practices that go with using your scanner, or do you leave that up to the security agency or the airport?
	Well, typically, since we deal with government agencies, they determine how the scanners are used.
	But in most cases, there are numerous privacy features of the machine.
	One is the fact that these are x-ray images.
	And if you saw an x-ray image, you could not identify that person in a room later unless they were the smallest person.
	Unless they had huge breasts!
	Yeah!
	He says the largest or the smallest.
	It just needs a brass or wang person in the room.
	The second thing is most airports have strict operational safeguards, and typically the image reviewers are in a separate room.
	They cannot see the passengers.
	They cannot record the images, and typically...
	Yeah, bull!
	Yeah, well, we know that's a lie.
	...to have cell phones or other cameras that they could take images with them.
	Moving on to the safety question.
	So your nude scanner, if you'll forgive the expression, is...
	I do like this guy.
	Your nude scanner.
	Backscatter X-ray.
	There's another sort, isn't there, that uses millimeter wave radiation, and some people think that sort is safer because X-rays are ionizing radiation and so on.
	What's your position on the safety of these scanners?
	We think these scanners are demonstrated.
	We think, by the way.
	Yeah, we think.
	We think is what he said.
	We think.
	Ionizing radiation has been with every living being since the dawn of time.
	As a matter of fact, we ourselves are radioactive.
	Check myself in, buddy.
	Here comes the don't cuddle up to someone's butt concept.
	Sleep in the same bed as another human being, you actually increase your x-ray exposure.
	Bullshit!
	Wait, there's more.
	It gets better.
	About as much every day as a secure scan.
	You have a chart on your website that shows these various levels of radiation exposure, and one of the bars on the chart has a banana next to it.
	What's going on there?
	A banana.
	Hello, John.
	A banana.
	How much radiation is in a banana?
	John?
	Oh, I don't know.
	Probably...
	Not much.
	I think...
	You think a banana is probably more radioactive than one of our scanners.
	What do you think, John?
	I think this wanton man should tell us.
	Well, bananas are fairly radioactive as far as food goes because...
	Nothing's glowing in the dark.
	What's wrong with my banana?
	...contain potassium.
	All potassium has some radioactive components in it.
	So you need potassium to live, but it does have ionizing radiation associated with it.
	So one banana is roughly equivalent to one of these scans?
	It's, well, a quarter of a banana is roughly equivalent to one of these scans.
	Oh, right.
	That's a banana.
	The kicker.
	So, a quarter of a banana...
	That's fantastic.
	That is the clip of the day.
	A quarter of a banana is equal to one times two on a naked body scanner.
	That makes sense.
	If I eat a whole banana, I might die of radiation.
	Fuck me.
	Sorry.
	Didn't mean to do that.
	Just slipped out.
	It's the Tourette's.
	Unbelievable.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's good, huh?
	Oh, yeah.
	That's the clip of the day.
	I had it last week.
	It's just we didn't get to it.
	It's an evergreen.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Oh my goodness.
	I needed that.
	I needed a real belly laugh.
	Who do these people think they are?
	Yeah.
	The nerve of these guys.
	It's pretty outrageous, isn't it?
	And by the way, breaking news.
	PJ Crowley's spokeshole for Hillary Clinton has resigned.
	Oh, I wonder why.
	Well, the thesis is, CNN says, pressure from White House officials.
	I don't know.
	Maybe it's over...
	He said something weird about Bradley Manning.
	He said...
	The treatment of private first class Bradley Manning is ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid.
	Yeah, that's not always a good thing to say.
	You're not supposed to make your boss look bad, dude.
	That's like not the way to do it.
	Yeah, that's probably what did it.
	Yeah.
	That was a good call.
	Yeah, so that's breaking news.
	And I do have some pretty outrageous stuff, actually.
	You know Annalie Newitz?
	You know her, don't you?
	Yeah, she used to come on Silicon Spin every so often.
	I like her as a journalist, and she's a nice girl.
	She did the very first interview about podcasting with me.
	Oh, that's what it is.
	What do you mean, that's what it is?
	No, I respect her as a journalist, obviously.
	She's fantastic.
	She comes out with a...
	Apparently, hyper-evolved vampires are now attacking large animals and sheep in Mexico, draining them of their blood, leaving huge bite marks behind.
	Yeah, that's a journalist for you.
	Yeah.
	I'm down with it.
	Attacks from hyper-evolved vampires on the rise in Mexico is her report.
	I'm down with that.
	I think that's totally possible.
	Okay, so while all this is taking place, of course, we must lessen we forget.
	I want to mention one thing.
	I tweeted about this, but I have it in the show notes.
	There's a documentary called Lifting the Veil.
	John, if we put together a no-agenda clip show in video, this would be it.
	And this goes back, you know, several years.
	And every single thing, I'm like, oh my God, I remember we played that.
	Oh, gee.
	Wow, I've forgotten about that one.
	And it goes all the way back to Glass-Steagall and the Clinton shills and then how Obama got elected and all of the shills he's got in office.
	It's a fabulous, fabulous piece of work.
	It's riveting.
	About an hour and a half lifting the veil.
	You have to see this.
	I recommend it highly.
	You can watch it online.
	Who produced it?
	I don't remember.
	Is it an Adam Curtis art thing?
	Let me see.
	Adam Curtis is my absolute favorite documentarian.
	Let me find out here.
	I got the link here.
	It's...
	Lifting the Veil.
	There's all kinds of...
	It doesn't say.
	I'd probably have to go all the way into it at the end.
	But you have to watch it.
	It's this website, Metanoia.
	Metanoia?
	Yeah, Metanoia.
	Metanoiafilms.org.
	Oh, we'll probably have here about.
	Let me see.
	Anyway, take a look at it.
	You will enjoy it.
	I'm forcing Mickey to watch it.
	But she's always like, you don't have to force me.
	I want to watch.
	It's great.
	Now, what was I going to say?
	I had something I wanted to...
	Oh, yes.
	So, lest we forget that President Obama basically opened up with another one of his presidential notes there.
	All right, everybody, you go make your own rules.
	FDA, EPA, you now have the power.
	By the power of Greystoke, I now allow you to make rules and regulations.
	So, of course, this is the setup to the Clean Air Act.
	And this is, what's her name, Lisa Jackson?
	This horrible, arrogant woman.
	The most arrogant person in government.
	Yeah, we've discussed her many times.
	So there's a bill in the House to stop the EPA from doing this, which I think is appropriate because regulations can't just come from Lisa Jackson who dreams it up.
	It should be congressional.
	It should go through the Senate.
	If you're going to make a law, which I'm sure this would be basically the precursor to cap-and-trade and global warming and we're all going to die.
	And so, of course, this is immediately deemed a Republican bill, and they're horrible, and the Republicans want us all to die from global warming.
	And so we get, is it Senator Markey?
	Marky?
	Yeah, there's a Marky.
	Yeah, Marky.
	He must be a Democrat, I'm sure.
	He's from Massachusetts.
	Massachusetts, right.
	So he comes out with a statement, and the video is actually funnier because there's some woman behind him who probably wrote the statement, and she's smirking and smiling like, yeah, that was good, wasn't it?
	That was really good.
	Listen to what he...
	This is a total...
	He's saying that what the Republicans are trying to do is anti-science.
	They're trying to do away with science altogether.
	We hate science as Republicans.
	Science!
	The science is in.
	Science!
	I rise in opposition to a bill that repeals the scientific finding that pollution is harming our people and our planet.
	However, I won't rise physically because I'm worried that the Republicans will overturn the law of gravity, sending us floating around the room.
	Oh, my God.
	And this woman is sitting behind him like, that was good, wasn't it?
	I wrote that.
	It gets better.
	I won't call for the sunlight of additional hearings for fear that Republicans might excommunicate the finding that the earth revolves around the sun.
	How cute am I with my writing?
	Instead, we will embody Newton's third law of motion and be an equal and opposing force against this attack on science and on laws that will reduce America's importation of foreign oil.
	Boy, talk about a leap of faith.
	...will live in the House while simultaneously being dead in the Senate.
	It will be a legislative Schrodinger's cat killed by the quantum mechanics of the...
	Let him finish.
	...the legislative process.
	Arbitrary rejection of scientific fact will not cause...
	Scientific fact!
	Everyone agrees, John!
	Scientific fact!
	...to rise from our seats today.
	But with this bill, pollution levels will rise.
	Oil imports will rise.
	Temperatures will rise.
	And with that, I yield back the balance of my time.
	That is, unless a rejection of Einstein's special theory of relativity is somewhere in the chair's amendment pile.
	No, please.
	Yeah.
	The showboating jerk-off.
	You've got to see the video to see that...
	The smirking assistant in the back.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Hey, so I did a little bit of research.
	Now, you were talking...
	We've been tracking these wireless smart meters that are being installed everywhere.
	And by the way, apparently Pacific Gas and Electric...
	It's proposing a way for customers to opt out.
	Yeah, that's what they say.
	Well, of course, you're screwed because you already have one.
	Well, I can just say, hey, you never gave me the chance to opt out.
	Now, you mentioned a number.
	I just want to check this.
	Did you say that you were paying $1,000 a month for electricity?
	Yeah.
	You're crazy.
	That's not possible.
	And that's double.
	Yeah, it's just way too high.
	But it's only since they put these meters in.
	My wife says, well, you know, what you did was you used some at the peak hour.
	You left the lights on.
	Basically, you left the lights on.
	So I could read.
	No, but I'm telling you, you're getting ripped off, and you've got to jump on this right away, man.
	Yeah, I'm working on it.
	This is not okay, because this is now happening everywhere, this outsourcing, so now they've essentially put a third party.
	It's the same thing that's going on with the parking meters in San Francisco now.
	Yeah, but this is electricity, man.
	This is not okay.
	I mean, I checked.
	No, I'm just saying the outsourcing is this.
	This is going on with everything.
	These governments, they pay themselves big salaries and then they figure that, well, hell, we can get all this tax money.
	Let's just job out all this.
	We don't even, you know, we're not even going to collect them.
	We let somebody else do all the work.
	We'll just take the profits.
	And that's the problem, is that the collection is also done by these companies with their wireless smart meters.
	And we always knew that this was going to be some kind of control thing with the smart grid, but I had no idea.
	I had no idea that they were outsourcing the collection to these companies, who of course get a piece of the action of everything they collect.
	Yeah, so they want to collect more.
	But I checked it, so our electricity is $300 a month.
	And I have the studio on all the time.
	On warm days, we do have air conditioning, which I do keep in check because you leave that thing on, you can just hear the meter whirring away in the corner.
	But $300 a month for two people in a modest home, what do we have, like 1,700 square feet?
	It's not big at all.
	That's too high.
	It probably is, but it's California, right?
	So then you had 500, and now it's just gone to 1,000?
	Dude, you're being ripped off.
	There's something very wrong.
	Why are you telling me what I already know?
	Now let me tell you what else I discovered.
	I was wrong about the water.
	This was freaking me out.
	I thought we were paying much more for water.
	We get a bill for every two months.
	The bill came to $175 a month, which is very low.
	For water?
	Yeah, for water.
	Maybe down there.
	Up here we've got water all over the place.
	It shouldn't be that high.
	But check this out.
	I pay $200 for sewer.
	So I'm like, wait a minute.
	I pay $175 for the water coming out, but I pay $200 for it going down the drain?
	No, you're crapping in it.
	No, no.
	You know what it is?
	You pay for rainwater.
	And they literally have on the bill, we had 14 rain days times whatever, so they're charging me for rain.
	That's a scam!
	You think?
	They're charging me for rain.
	I don't get it.
	I'm paying more for water going down the drain from the sky, apparently, and then it's coming out of the tap.
	Help me understand.
	It's a typical California scam.
	The state is just crawling with these things.
	And, you know, the water guys in particular down in Southern California, there was a big kind of a scandal.
	They were making hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
	They're just, you know, the public works guys just sitting in their desk.
	A couple of them, I think one of them was making $400,000 or something like that.
	And then they went on full retirement, like, you know, after 20 years.
	Yeah.
	Full salary.
	Yeah, who?
	You wonder why the state's broke.
	Rockin' and rollin', everybody.
	We're just having a good old time.
	I give them credit for being sharp operators.
	It doesn't do me any good.
	Alright, we'll stay on top of that.
	I want to know what happens.
	We're working on it.
	I'm concerned.
	So I do have one final thing to talk about.
	Oh, good.
	We have some time.
	So this woman came on C-SPAN during the book thing, and she's name is Kay Heimowitz.
	And she did a book called Manning Up, How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men Into Boys.
	Eh, pussies!
	And she has a bunch of interesting...
	She made an interesting point.
	She talked about, for example, the show Seinfeld with the characters that are on Seinfeld.
	And remember the show, like George, Elaine, Kramer, Jerry.
	And then you have the French or Rachel Ross.
	These are people that she calls pre-adults.
	They didn't really exist before.
	You never had shows like this in the past.
	And Big Bang Theory is probably the best example of this, even though she didn't mention it.
	About these men who refuse to, you know, they're men boys who refuse to be, the average age of a married guy in 1970 was 21.
	Now it's pushing into the 30s.
	You have kind of immature older males that are in their early 30s.
	Yeah, we're pussies.
	Yeah, well, play the clip.
	I have a clip here that she makes a few commentaries, and it's kind of interesting to discuss.
	It's called The End of the Mail.
	And all you have to do is look around and you can see this happening.
	I concluded that guys, generally speaking, will just fall back into doing nothing if given the opportunity.
	I think that's a big part of this.
	Clear and important social role.
	Today, provider husbands and fathers are optional.
	With reproductive technology, if women so choose, they can simply buy sperm and forget about the man who delivered it.
	Yeah, which I think is a very good thing.
	My God.
	Meanwhile, young men have seen fathers and uncles discarded by wives, cast out of their home, and separated from their children.
	No wonder they look around the culture, shrug, and do their own thing.
	And here's my final reason for the appearance of the child man.
	We've seen a general cultural ambivalence, and that's at best, about men.
	By the 1990s, the entire culture, as we just saw, became a you-go-girl cheering section.
	It would be nice to say that Americans love both their boys and girls equally, but there was reason for men to suspect otherwise.
	You may notice, some of you may have heard this expression, girls rule boys.
	This was a very popular little phrase that went on on girls' backpacks and lunchboxes and so on and so forth.
	The other one says, not all men are annoying, some are dead.
	Not even funny.
	So advertisers and screenwriters at the same time were giving us a long line of low IQ television dads.
	We had Homer Simpson and Ray Romano, Tim Allen, and the drumbeat from the popular culture said men are dumb, they're unfeeling, they're incompetent, and women don't really need them.
	At the same time, the qualities of character that men had needed to play their traditional role, fortitude, courage, confidence, fidelity, were becoming obsolete and even a little embarrassing.
	Feminists have a new term out that's gained some traction.
	The term is mansplaining.
	It's a combination of man and explaining.
	And according to the Urban Dictionary, a popular source of trendy terms, mansplain is what men do in order to quote, dominate the conversation and to make statements that are not based on facts, assuming that people will believe and agree with him because he is a male.
	So, once again, this attack on the idea of the authoritative male.
	And so men decided they better cool down the masculine personality.
	They adopted youthful playfulness and hesitancy.
	That is a fascinating clip.
	First of all, she needs to get laid really hard.
	That's for sure.
	So I think there's a couple things going on here.
	You still with me, John?
	Yeah.
	So first of all, I believe that if you think about the whole concept of the elites wanting only 500 million people, there's a couple of ways to kill us pretty quickly, like wars and tsunamis and stuff like that.
	But over time, it's much better just to stop us from having children.
	And I've been noticing a couple of things.
	So first of all, I think it's now pretty well documented that BPA, or bifenol A, which is in plastic bottles, contains estrogen.
	So the men literally are...
	Becoming more effeminate because of all kinds of chemicals that are in our environment.
	And there's some scientific evidence of that.
	And don't forget soybean oil, which is promoted as healthy and organic, is an estrogen analog.
	Right.
	And look what's happening.
	I'm almost 47 and I should be a manly man.
	I'm a bicurious male.
	Perfect example.
	Perfect example.
	Now, add to that.
	Have you seen these commercials?
	I've clipped it many times, but it doesn't work.
	You can't do it in audio.
	And it's these commercials where you see the woman has a kid And it's like, do you really want another child?
	And the kid's ruining the house, making a mess in the kitchen, drawing on the walls.
	You've seen these, right?
	Then there's another one where the woman is walking through a department store and she's looking at baby carriages so she doesn't have any kids.
	And this is the one that not only keeps you from getting pregnant, but you don't even have to have any periods anymore.
	Yeah, you only have it four times a year.
	Of course, you may have periodic spotting and blood spouting out of you from time to time.
	But I think it is an overall eugenicist push from a different direction because it has to come from multiple directions just to stop us from having kids.
	And it's a great way to do it is just make the men more feminine, which I think is true.
	And, of course, in popular culture, just like we've got the federales now being the winners in all the cop shows, no longer are the local guys are dumb, and now the FBI and the CIA are the smart guys, which is completely 180 degrees from what it used to be.
	Now we have all these shows where men are doofuses and children.
	Two and a half men.
	Charlie Sheen kind of epitomizes this character and he's very entertaining.
	But the show, what was the name of it?
	Big Bang Theory.
	Yeah.
	I think is the app, which is the top show, the top comedy on right now, is the worst case scenario example.
	You've got to have all effeminate men that are total wimps and there's a cute blonde next door that, you know, is kind of like...
	Yeah, because they can't have sex with anybody, apparently.
	And they're led by the most wonkish weirdo who happens to be, you know, who's an actor who plays this very effeminate character.
	And he's hilarious.
	All the best lines are written for him.
	And it's just a very negative sitcom in terms of culture.
	Very negative.
	Well, you know what's good about this, John?
	That's all the more chicks left for us, my friend.
	That's the good news about it.
	He's like, yeah.
	There's one outside now knocking at the door.
	Just send us your sperm.
	Send cash.
	Blankets.
	Just send us your sperm.
	So should we do a third show on Tuesday this week?
	Do you want to do show zero?
	No, that could be an idea.
	We can do a show zero maybe.
	It'll be fun.
	To see how it goes?
	It's a possibility.
	All right.
	All right, coming to you from Gitmo Nation West here in the People's Republic of Southern California, I am the effeminate, bicurious male known as Adam Curry.
	And I want to remind people that we will have our $300 for show 300.
	We have show 300 coming up.
	We'd love to get everybody involved with that so we can make it through the rest of the year.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, I'm signing off as White Dog.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll talk to you again on Thursday right here on your favorite program, the best news show in the world.
	We call it no agenda.
	Dvorak.org slash N.A.
	It's just unbelievable.
	We are all so excited and so thankful for everybody.

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