It's time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 2, Niner 4.
This is No Agenda.
Fighting the war, maungering women from the Hilltop Watchtower, Crackpot Command Center, in the People's Republic of Southern California.
In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'll bet that the connection is come and go, I'm John C. Dvorak.
Why you gotta invite the boogeyman in, man?
Don't do that.
It's already broke up twice on the call.
Don't bring in the boogeyman.
We don't need him.
Hey, in the morning there, Johnny Boy.
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We're coming your way, bitches.
Just so you know, we're America.
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Nice to see you all in the morning for your early morning service.
So the big news, of course, John.
The big, big, big, big, big, big news.
Well, we have a budget.
That's the real big news.
No, that's not the big news.
What are you talking about?
Do you actually live with your feet on the street, my friend?
I don't think so.
Is something to do with Justin Bieber?
No.
No.
The big news, and I'll have you know that Miss Mickey took me walking yesterday.
She took me for a walk.
She took you for a walk?
Does she have a leash on you?
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
She took me for a walk at Runyon Canyon, which is kind of this famous walking path.
Named after Damon Runyon.
Could be.
Was he famous?
Yeah.
What did he do?
He wrote Remyon-esque stories.
Oh, his brother wrote Rubenesque stories.
So we're in Runyon Canyon, and what's nice about this is all of Los Angeles that is health conscious, that and of course other men being walked and single dads with their children on the weekends, go walking in Runyon Canyon.
And what I like is we don't really speak to each other when we're walking, mainly because I'm out of breath, because it's a pretty steep incline.
But you hear all these conversations walking past you.
And the number one topic of conversation, John, the news.
And this is why I can say I have my boots on the ground.
Well, you probably nailed it.
What is it?
Pia got kicked off of American Idol.
This is the news.
Who?
Pia.
Who's Pia?
Pia.
Well, she was a contender.
Pia Zadora?
Yeah.
She was a contender for the...
And everyone's upset.
Steven Tyler, Randy Jackson, J.Lo all upset that Pia got kicked off.
This is impossible.
How could this be?
Of course, she has a record contract now, but details.
Wait a minute.
Those are the judges that you're complaining.
Why would they complain there?
Why was she kicked off?
Because the audience voted her off.
Oh, the audience voted her.
Yeah, yeah.
No, they don't get to vote, the judges.
You see, this is American Idol, if you follow it.
I don't care anymore.
How many...
I mean, all it shows to me is that there's a million people in this country that apparently can sing very well and cannot make a living doing it.
Yeah, well, she got a record contract, though.
That's why she left.
Yeah, some of the better ones always do.
Yeah, but I was...
Having a record contract doesn't mean you're a success.
No.
But I was very happy for the news channels and the nightly news because they needed the ratings.
And so the budget showdown was exactly what they wanted and was perfect for them.
The Budget Showdown was the worst piece of theater I've seen for years.
Yeah, but they used all the promos, and they had all the guys on the satellite trucks everywhere, and they had the little news leakages, and it was the best they could do.
They needed that, though.
They really needed it.
They even preempted.
Piers got preempted.
Well, that's a plus.
That would boost the ratings right there.
Yeah, it got preempted.
But Wolf had to say, Wolf Blitzer in for Piers Morgan.
That must hurt him, right?
He's like, I've got to say this crap.
I'm Wolf Blitzer, dammit.
I was in the first Gulf War.
What are you talking about?
Bobbing and weaving.
So, yeah.
Now, of course, as predicted over a week ago on this program, now the real conversation starts, which is about raising the debt limit.
This is what all the Sunday talk shows are talking about, because that's really what this was all about.
It's not about Planned Parenthood.
Please.
In fact, a couple of things about these debates I want to just at least put...
I like to know how dumb they think the public is.
Oh, wait a minute.
They're right.
Except for the people listening to this show.
They're pretty dumb, John.
So it goes like this.
So they have the big Planned Parenthood debate, which is bullcrap.
I mean, it's bullcrap on so many levels.
It's like, one, why are we funding Planned Parenthood in the first place?
And if we are funding them, so what do they do with the money?
It has to be, they say, well, the Republicans say, well, they're giving them money for public-funded abortions.
And the Democrats say, no, it's a million dollars a day, by the way.
Which contrasts nicely with the $180 million a day we spend in Afghanistan.
We can't take a nickel away from that.
Yes.
But let's go back to that.
The Democrats say, no, the million dollars a day goes to Planned Parenthood specifically not for abortions.
How do you do that kind of bookkeeping?
So it's bullcrap.
And then the other bullcrap thing is all the EPA. The Democrats say, oh, the Republicans want to go back to the days of air pollution.
But the whole EPA debate is only about the carbon credit tax bullcrap, which the EPA is trying to employ.
And the Republicans don't want to see it.
But the Democrats now call carbon credit, the whole carbon credit scam, clean air and air pollution.
Clean air.
The air is clean.
How can you be...
John, how can you be against clean air?
You just can't be that horrible a person.
But then when we go meta and take a look at the whole...
at the perspective from a distance, these are like minor debates over niggling amounts of money when we have the entire military budget untouched.
And this thing has skyrocketed since the days of Reagan.
In fact, I believe that the...
The national debt in the week that they talked about this $25 or $30 billion that the whole thing was about cutting in this theater, the national debt actually went up by $50 billion in that week.
Because of the delay, it went up more.
It's ridiculous.
It's total, total theater.
Total theater.
And then the one last aspect of this is the...
I actually have a clip.
Let's see where it is.
What you got?
I got the clip about...
I have to look at the clips.
But it's the one that refers to the budget that's in your list.
Let's see.
I got too many.
Carbon as air pollution?
No.
Actually, why don't you play that one anyway?
Okay.
Let's have a listen.
What is the Democratic argument and the Republican argument in each case?
The Democratic argument is that if the Republicans wouldn't keep insisting on introducing ideology in the form of abortion restrictions and clean air regulations, then, you know, this wouldn't even really be a problem.
But, you know, the Republican position is, look, we had an election in November.
It showed that people want huge cuts in government spending.
The Democrats are refusing to go along with that, and that's the problem.
And, again, the Democrats say it's the Republicans who are being reckless and want to slash government in all kinds of terrible ways.
Okay, that's just an example of NPR's, or actually not NPR, but NewsHour.
PBS is slanting it kind of toward the Democrats in a very subtle way by bringing in the air pollution thing when we're really talking about carbon tax.
I just wanted to point that out.
But here's the one I was looking for.
It says, well, what it says is, no shut down blather.
That's not quite what it says.
No wonder I glossed over it, trying to keep the show clean.
The deal means hundreds of thousands of government employees will get their checks.
This military wife won't have to fight creditors while her husband's fighting the war.
I have two kids who have medical conditions and appointments to go to.
I have to go to Duke with them and there's just so many things.
It was a relief of knowing that I don't have to make a ton of phone calls to financing companies.
Washington's annual cherry blossom parade didn't have to shut down or scale down.
And thousands of tourists in town to see the monuments and museums got an unexpected civics lesson.
Yeah.
So, okay, let's get this straight.
By the way, I want to remind everybody out there that 15 years ago, and I think just a year or two before that, the government had shut down completely.
It's happened several times in the history.
Yeah, it happens all the time.
Yeah, it happens.
So it's not a big deal.
But, okay, why would they have to shut down a parade in Washington State, the Cherry Blossom Festival, because of a government shutdown?
I mean, what's the connection?
Just to make you aware of it.
Just to piss you off.
Why can't people, they're showing these people, taking pictures of the Washington Monument?
The government shuts down so you can't take photos anymore?
I mean, this is bull crap.
Duh.
That's why we exist, John, to bring people the real news that's being covered up while this charade is taking place.
It's unbelievable.
And they play it on the news like it's, oh, people can now go back to Washington and take photos.
Yeah, but I'm telling you, this was all about ratings for the news organizations.
It was funny, of course, there's nothing on the Sunday talk shows.
I get to see like half an hour while I'm having my pancakes, which I have once a week.
And I like the guy because I've had dinner with him.
He's an okay guy.
But whenever Tim Shriver is on Meet the Press, they've got nothing.
It's literally like, we have no guests.
Who can we call?
It's the warning shot.
Yeah, Tim Shriver.
Oh, and then we've also got, what's his name?
The Mad Money guy.
What's his name?
Kramer?
Yeah, Kramer.
What's he doing on there?
They had no guests or someone canceled or whatever.
So I'm like, okay, well.
But, you know, it's like...
You know that there's just absolutely nothing going on.
Nothing.
There's just nothing.
I think they're all on a break right now.
They're already ramping up for the next thing.
Well, we've got the pathetic story of the week here in Oakland.
Yeah, you live in Oaktown, John?
No, but I mean, Oakland's right next to us, and so I can say that, you know, we have a pathetic story here in Oakland, and I think my reference point's okay.
I think it's legal to make the comment in such a way.
Right.
All right.
Play this free healthcare in Oakland thing, so tell me if you think this is kind of weird.
The Oakland Coliseum parking lot waiting for a chance to see a doctor for free.
The free clinic is hosted by Tennessee-based Remote Area Healthcare.
The group organizes medical, dental, and vision professionals to provide services for free.
People began lining up last night for a chance to get free glasses, major dental care, and other essential medical services.
I got out here about 9.30, 10 o'clock, and I've been out here all morning, standing in line, and I think it's worth it.
The clinic will run for three more days.
People are advised to get to the Coliseum at midnight to make sure they can get that appointment.
Vouchers are then handed out about 3.30 in the morning for the day's screenings, which start at 5.30 a.m.
So was this that organization that does this for free?
Yeah, it's an organization that does it up in the Appalachian Hills.
But they do this in like third world countries, right?
Yes.
Well, that's Oakland for you.
I found it to be disturbing.
Well, we had this before.
They were at the L.A. Coliseum they had one of these days.
And I remember us discussing it on the show.
And we found it disturbing then too.
Well, it's still disturbing.
Yeah, it's terribly disturbing.
Hey, but there's great news, John.
I'm so happy.
Remember I had a minor meltdown about a week and a half ago when we went to war against Libya and I deemed that pretty much unconstitutional since no approval was sought from Congress and it didn't seem like it fit under the War Powers Act since there was no imminent threat against the United States.
Well, my fears have been allayed.
Allayed?
Yeah, is that the right term?
Allayed?
I don't know, but how?
Well, I've come across a memo from...
Ooh, a memo!
Oh yeah, a memo.
A presidential memo.
From Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Krass.
Let me just say that name again.
Caroline D. Krass.
Because her mama should be so proud of her.
And she's a lawyer.
Go figure.
And she sent a memo about the constitutionality of this war in Libya.
And it's 13 pages.
And, of course, you know me.
I went through it all.
It's doable, but it references a whole bunch of other documents, as usual, so I spent some time on it.
You know how, John, you've been in court, and I know you've been an expert witness, but I've actually been in court, and I've had other parties who were against me.
Have you ever been arrested?
No, I've never been arrested.
Somebody wanted to know.
I know, I know.
And if I had, that's where we would have met, in jail.
But if you've ever been in court and you hear the opposing attorney speak, I have to say, several times that this happened to me, I'll sit there and go like, well, yeah, if you put it that way, it sounds like I'm a dick.
They can really make it sound good, right?
They're good at this.
So, Principal Deputy...
Sorry?
To what they do.
Yeah.
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Krass, who is either on the way for a promotion or will soon be found in a dumpster.
The President has had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force in Libya because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest.
See, what she does is she references Article 2 of the Constitution, which states the President bears the, quote, vast share of responsibility for the conduct of our foreign relations and independent authority in the areas of foreign policy and national security.
So what they do is they folded Article 1 into the War Powers Act and said it's legal.
So there you have it.
The science is in and it's legal.
Now, the funny thing about this memo, date it was sent, April 1st, 2011.
I thought that was just beautiful.
That is good.
Yeah.
So we're all set.
We're all good.
It's legal and power to them.
Well, I think...
That's what they've been going on since the Vietnam War or the Korean War.
In fact, the document references that exactly.
Now, that also means we're not at war.
No, no, no.
Technically, we're not.
So they can't do a lot of, you know, war stuff in the country itself, like, you know, force people to save aluminum foil or...
Or pantyhose.
Pantyhose.
You can't wear pantyhose.
We need the nylon for parachutes.
So you can't...
You can't treat the citizenry as if we're at war, so you can't start censoring things and doing stuff like that.
Well, I don't know, because they're not really calling it under the War Powers Act.
This is something new.
This is like, hey, we just got to go and do it.
And later on in the show, I spent two hours and 44 minutes I wanted to find out who Susan Rice really is, since we talk about this woman all the time.
She's the ambassador to the United Nations.
Well, I have a new woman to hate in my life, by the way.
It's her.
What an elitist bitch.
And she's basically, she was at a congressional hearing.
And there's some weird stuff going on.
We'll get to it later, because some of the clips, there's a couple clips.
I want your opinion on it.
There's something weird going on there.
But she essentially was there to ask for $3.54 billion to fund the United Nations, our part, our little contribution there.
She was where?
I missed that.
Oh, a congressional hearing.
Oh, okay.
Congressional hearing.
But more important, and this is not work that I've done, but I figured I'd play a little bit of just the pertinent piece of this clip at the beginning of the show, and then I'd like to play the whole thing as a show closing clip, so it's a double shot of the good stuff.
And this is Max Keiser, who I think we both like, in general.
He has some funny stuff.
But actually, it's not Max.
It's his researcher.
What's her name?
Shelley?
Shelby?
Something or other.
And, yeah?
We have a point of conflict.
We do?
Yeah.
What's the point of conflict?
Well, I had an end-of-show clip I wanted to play, which I think has got to be funnier.
Which is...
But let me hear what this is, and then maybe I'll just relent.
Well, she does...
I mean, I could have just explained it, but it's cool how she does it.
Of course, we talked about the $378 billion that Wachovia Bank laundered from Mexican drug cartels.
And, of course, Wachovia Bank is now Wells Fargo.
And she connects two dots here, which are absolutely astounding and worth listening to.
Absolutely.
A big U.S. bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs.
So this is the Guardian News, and they've done a deep investigation into the story that we've covered before, which is Wachovia Bank.
And they were found to have laundered $378 billion, or 30% of Mexico's GDP in this time, of drug money.
The cocaine.
Of cocaine, yes.
$378 billion.
$378 billion laundered through Acovia, which of course now is owned by Warren Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway.
And of course, he's never talked about that either.
And it's a huge part of the Mexican GDP. And the bank paid a fine.
Well, it's $378 billion in money laundering through the Casas de Cambio.
And they paid a $110 million fine, or less than 2% of one year's profit.
I've got to interrupt.
The Casas de Cambio, I think isn't that just where you go change your money?
The Casas de Cambio?
Isn't that just like the exchange place where you go and take your dollars and turn them into pesos or vice versa?
Well, I think that's what it is.
Well, you look that up while we continue, because this is really good.
...office from Wachovia.
Wachovia is now owned by Wells Fargo.
Warren Buffett owns 6.5% of it.
But from this article, there's a very interesting point that I want to note that relates to this whole financial catastrophe.
First of all, Wachovia started really getting involved in these Casa de Cambio.
In 2004, just when the violence really started getting extreme in the Mexican drug wars.
In April and May of 2007, three years later, Wachovia, as a result of increasing interest and pressure from the U.S. Attorney General's office, It began to close its relationship with some of the Casas de Cambio.
And then in July of 2007, all of Wachovia's remaining 10 Mexican Casa de Cambio clients operating through London suddenly stopped.
July 2007.
What happened in August of 2007?
The world credit crunch.
So there you go.
So they go on to further extrapolate that once the Mexican drug cartel said, you know what, screw it.
We're not going to launder our money through you anymore.
That was the only liquid assets that were coming into the banks.
And then right after that, Wachovia and all these other banks started borrowing money from the Federal Reserve because there was no money.
It's all drug money.
The whole thing is drug money.
Everything.
Legalize drugs!
No, because then the whole thing melts down.
It's already melted down.
Now that it's melted down, legalize drugs and we don't want to deal with this anymore.
No, because then the...
Oh, okay.
Alright.
And then you and I will stop doing this show and go into growing.
Now is the time you want to go into growing.
I bet you we'd be really good.
You know, now that I think about it, why don't we just do that?
We would be really good together.
Growing?
Yeah.
I think we've got enough organicness in us.
We could grow some really good stuff, man.
That's probably true.
Be better than what we're doing here.
Oh, is it that bad?
I was here and I can't listen to PBS anymore, our national treasure.
No, we're ruined for everybody, hopefully.
Yeah.
And listen to it in your district, if you're in the United States of Gitmo Nation.
And please tell me, are they now breaking four times an hour for...
I'm telling you, they're breaking four times an hour for sponsored messages.
What's up with this?
This is commercial radio, and it's just as bad.
And we've got your carbonite code right here.
Use the code PBS. It's disgusting.
It's a blast.
I mean, not only are they liars because they are a commercial organization, but now they're acting like one with these breaks.
PBS, okay, it's your ministry of truth.
I consider, by the way, we model ourselves and our way of asking for funding.
A little bit on the way, PBS does a little bit on the way churches do it, but we do it, honestly, we don't take anything but donor money.
PBS, I have to say, is probably the most adept organization at getting money from every which way.
NBC can't do this.
PBS literally has commercials.
They have underwriters, which are advertisers.
They have government money coming in.
Why?
And then they still beg for money from the public.
It's as though you're watching NCIS, and the next thing you know, they take a commercial.
We're taking a pledge break on CBS, and then they stop the show and beg you for money.
We'll give you a free disc of NCIS for $150 for your pledge.
Now, I just want to say one thing to people who say PBS is not commercial.
It is, and I will tell you why.
Because at the end of the day, you, the audience, are their product towards their sponsors.
That is what commercial media is about.
On this show, we're not selling you.
You are not the product that we're passing off to somebody else at all.
The show is the product.
That is the difference between commercial and non-commercial.
Well, I think these people have their nerve, but because they're so, they research this so well, I have to assume that those four breaks that you're hearing now have been researched.
And I think the meeting would go like this.
The guys are sitting around going, what do you think we're going to do?
We need more money.
Well, we only got $2 billion coming, and then we need more.
Well, let's do some, we can do these carbonite ads.
Okay, we'll study it.
See if the public will put up with it.
If the public just puts up with it, let's just do it.
And they put up with it.
Nobody says it.
People defend them.
That is exactly how the guy sounded in the meeting.
And here's the sales weasel.
We got no more inventory, boss.
We got no more inventory.
We need more inventory.
We're all sold out of inventory, boss.
Boss, we need some more inventory.
What are we going to do?
We need some inventory.
I can sell this stuff all the time.
We need some inventory.
The guy has a hair lip?
Totally.
All these sales guys do it on radio.
Yeah, they're all ex-DJs.
Radio sales guys.
They're all ex-DJs who get kicked off the air and like, I'm in sales now.
And they come up with those great wacky promotions.
That's why radio promotions are so wack, because they've got ex-DJs with hair lips who are selling it.
Nothing against hair lips, by the way.
So, let's thank our two executive producers for this show.
We ran up a little short.
Although, actually, I think...
You know, let's put it off.
Why don't you play a long clip?
What?
We've got to do it now, boy.
Well, no, because there's one...
I just realized I have another executive producer, I believe, stuck in the drawer...
Downstairs who sent in a check and needs credit.
Well, can we do them on the next show then?
It'll be okay.
I don't want to stop the show.
Okay, okay.
I wouldn't be stopping the show.
Take a break?
Hey, let's take a break, everybody.
Let's take a break for a commercial announcement.
Let's thank who we have and who we know we have.
We've got Bruce Kaufman, Tempe, Arizona, $333.33.
He's donated $333.33 to become a member of the 300 Club, plus $333.33 to finish his knighthood.
Nice.
So we'll be knighting him today.
He sold some silver today, so I have a little extra cash.
Originally bought 200 ounces for $9.
Today sold 67 of the ounces for $40.
$40, yeah.
Probably continue to go up, but I figured I'd hedge it a little, of course.
That's really nice.
Now you're playing with house money.
Plus, I need the cash to finish out the semester.
He's a law school student.
He has no income.
This is my point.
Here's a student.
He studies what's going on.
He makes money.
He's with house money.
You're absolutely right.
He makes money because he believes in what's truly valuable, and he's giving to something valuable.
I'm just going to give him a little special extra detail.
You've been deep douche.
He's a student, everybody.
He also wants us to play the Gitmo National Anthem.
We'll play after, I think, our next Black Knight, who donated $300 to become a member of the 300 Club.
And I want to invite people to the 300 Club.
We only have a few shows left.
And this is a big deal.
This is our 300th show.
And I mean, so we're not here, you know, we're not here on a passing fancy.
No, no.
In Black Knight Eridudarian in Tabuco Canyon, California.
Hi, guys.
Here's my donation to join the 300 Club.
You guys are the best show on the Internet, which is absolutely the case.
Maybe, he says, it's tied with another thing about HDTV and home theater that he really enjoys.
Anyway, I hope you can send some karma his daughter's way.
She's studying biomedical engineering.
UC Riverside promised that she will use her degree in a way that is approved by no agenda.
The major is kicking her butt, and she can use all the karma she can get to keep up the good work.
Beep.
You've got karma.
Absolutely.
You know, and it warms my heart to hear what our knights and dames are doing with their kids.
It really does.
And I hear it the other way around, too.
I think I have a note later on in the donation segment.
You know, another young kid says, Hey, I turned my mom onto your show.
And she's pissed off that it's not every day.
Which I kind of like.
Yeah, you would.
So we need to play the National Anthem.
Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for your Gitmo Nation National Anthem.
I think I'm going to sing along.
In the morning, Gitmo Nation, we are all charged up to beat.
Human resources and servants in all lands and all ships and sea.
From the east to west, down under to the lowlands and beyond.
We are happy and distracted slaves.
Hear our Gitmo Nation song.
That's right, everybody.
We are happy and distractive slaves.
There you go.
All right.
A couple PR mentions.
Two domain name forwards, which are nice.
33.me, which I think is a good one, considering my obsession with the 33 coded messages in the media.
And Carmenization.com, which I think is something we actually mention on the show.
And before you know it, there's a domain name that's registered.
And I want to thank all of the producers who are working diligently at the No Agenda News Network, noagendanewsnetwork.com.
We could use a couple different domain name forwards for that as well.
And if you want to be a contributing producer, and this means work, this is not a donation thing.
This is actual work to noagendanewsnetwork.com.
Just shoot me an email, adamatkurry.com, and let me know.
Put No Agenda News Network in the title there.
And it's growing.
It's good.
I mean, you can look at this thing 24 hours a day and there's something on there.
And it's all the kind of news we use.
It's like real news.
And there's some real news on there, too.
Which is how I found out about American Idol.
And, if you'd like to support the show, we highly appreciate it.
We're not going to stop for any breaks.
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It's to go out and propagate our formula.
Our formula is this.
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Speaking of Shut Up Slave, there was this amazing article that just shows you how bad it's gotten.
Kane County, which is, where is that?
That's probably like Georgia or something.
There's now a new law in Kane County.
I'll tell you where Kane County is in a second.
You have to pay $40 per year for a dog-walking license if you want to walk your dog.
What?
Yeah.
No, no, this is for professional dog walkers.
No, no, no.
This is obviously for people who are running a business where they're, you know, the guy with the 40 dogs and walking down the street.
No, no, no.
No, no, no, no.
No, it's not.
Officials announced plans Thursday to charge Kane County residents $40 per dog per year for a permit to walk dogs in any of the three off-leash dog park facilities in the preserves.
Now, here's the kicker.
Wait, hold on a second.
Let me...
A dog park or off-leash is not the same as walking your dog.
It's like letting your dog run around and have some fun.
That's not walking a dog.
Walking a dog is putting the dog on a leash walking down the street.
I just reported, John.
Don't shoot the messenger here.
I think that you're getting this wrong.
There's no county, no public officials are this stupid to do something like you're describing.
I'm not believing it.
Well, let me ask you who's really stupid.
Because the deal is...
That if you purchase such a license, such a $40 per dog per year license, you as dog owner have to wear a tag around your neck while you're walking the dog.
Check the date on this.
April 1st, that's my guess.
Really?
No.
No, April 7th.
You sure that 7th's not a 1?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
Is that a line through the middle?
No, no.
I've gotten this from several people.
This is real.
And you have to wear it around your neck.
Hey, slave, wear this tag.
I love it.
This can't be true.
Why wouldn't it be true?
It's so insane.
They should have a bunch of pitchforks and burning things and burn down City Hall.
What is the public point?
Is this one of those things?
Let's see what these guys will put up with.
Well, they're putting up with it, believe me.
Where is this again?
It's from the Daily Herald, Kane County.
I don't know where Kane County is.
Kane County.
Let me see.
This is great.
I got a little picture of the person walking a dog with a tag around their neck.
That's funny.
I'm an official dog walker.
I have a dog tag on me.
I got my tag with your tag on.
Honey, I'm going to go walk the dog.
Oh, honey, take your tag.
Take your tag around your neck.
Put your tag on.
Some dog haters.
Yeah, definitely.
I don't know where...
It doesn't say.
I don't know what this...
Who's the mayor?
Michael Vick?
I would give you a little...
Hot pockets!
Big picture, local focus.
I don't know where this...
That's funny.
I can't seem to find...
Someone in the chat room would dig it up.
Illinois.
Illinois.
Yeah, well, there you go.
I just thought that was groovy.
That's classic.
This is where we're going.
This is where we're headed.
And I think, why stop there?
If you want to have your kid on a leash in the airport, you've got to wear a tag.
Yeah, well, too late now.
My kids have grown up.
Yeah, but you.
But we still have plenty of other slaves we can dupe into this stupid practice.
Good idea at a busy airport.
No, not about the leash thing.
That's funny.
But to have a tag on.
This is the reverse world.
In my day, kids, the dog had a tag.
That's the way I remember it.
But oh no.
No, these days you have to wear the tag.
Unbelievable.
So we celebrated an anniversary.
Okay.
Not you and I, unfortunately.
Well, we've got one coming up.
It's the 300th show.
We'd like to get more members of the 300 Club, please.
We only have about, I don't know, 20?
And these all will be executive producers for the 300 Club?
Yes, and they're executive producers, like for the show, they give the 300, and then again, twice, double.
You get two credits on your bio.
It's a double shot here.
I know what Jim never bought.
Yeah, no, it was the one-year anniversary of the two-to-the-head action by the Russians as they killed all of Poland's government.
Remember that?
You just went dead.
No offense.
Oh.
But you gave the two-to-the-head and then you dropped about 5, 10 dBs.
Sorry.
This is the one-year anniversary of the Smolensk accident.
Oh, the Smolensk, yeah.
Yeah, that killed all of Poland, basically.
95 or 96 people, the president, his wife, all the whole bunch of government officials.
It was like so nice and clean, so tidy.
And then Russia Today, of course, their great ministry of truth propaganda.
And by the way, they're trying the Fox thing now with hot chicks, hot Russian chicks, but they're not really.
And they can't...
They're doing it all wrong because they're speaking English, these Russian chicks, but they're not doing it like in a sexy spy voice.
They're doing it like in bad English, which is a shame.
They've got to get their act together.
Hey, get your act together.
We can teach you how to do this Russia today.
Look, the cheeks are hot is good.
Hot is fine, but they should be blonde, generally, because that's a show business look.
Then you don't want a bunch of dummies.
The mistake everybody makes is they don't realize that most of these Fox women have multiple degrees.
They tend to be lawyers.
They have a couple of doctors of jurisprudence.
They're not dumb.
And they're trained media people.
And the fact of the matter is, if you go to a law school, When you look across the student body, you'll find that there's probably about five or six beautiful women in there that are getting law degrees.
You find them, ask them if they want to be in show business.
Exactly!
And the next thing you know, they're on Fox.
I mean, they're more than just a dumb-talking head.
Right.
Well, so Russia today hasn't figured that out yet.
And they get, like, the brunettes, and they put thigh-high boots on them with jeans, which is hot.
I mean, no doubt about it.
But then they just don't have the...
They don't talk right.
You know, they have to talk like...
And they should have names like Natasha.
Yeah, no, it should all be these Russian spies.
And they should be flirtatious.
Yes, they're not.
You look at the camera and you kind of flirt with an invisible audience.
John, you and I could do this.
We have trained many, many, many talents.
We have trained many women on how to do it.
We could double your ratings overnight.
Hire us now.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill for all your news training.
That's right.
And we'll do everything.
We'll do the hair, the makeup, the clothes, everything.
We can bring in some superstars, some superstar makeup people, and then you bring in some interns and you have the superstar makeup people do the job and the interns can pick it up because you can't keep paying these people for it.
Hey, hey, hey!
Stop giving away the company secrets!
Anyways...
I'm forming the LLC later today.
Okay, so...
But they are, of course, propagandizing this in the most disgusting way.
There was, however, a twist of irony.
It was this new catastrophe that healed many of the wounds of the past.
This symbolic hug was just the beginning.
A year of unprecedented joint work to find the cause of the crash.
So, before he continues, now you get a bunch of experts who are saying, bullcrap, this was murder, only they don't say it exactly that way.
But what she's saying is exactly what they wanted.
Well, you know, it's like we killed all the Polish government, but the whole idea was so we could get closer together, so we could become more friendly.
And it's been a success.
My experience with the Russian investigators has been very good.
They're a very high-quality organization.
There is no question about it.
What guy got paid to say that?
What does it mean?
It's just like a generic comment.
You can say that about anyone.
The commander, the captain of the Polish aircraft is to blame for this tragedy.
Sure.
The facts, though, were hard to take for some.
The investigation was beginning to take on political overtones with attempts in Poland to push the blame onto Russia.
This report is a joke for Poland, exploiting the submissive attitude of the government of Donald Tusk.
This guy, by the way, he was the opposition, and he didn't take the flight.
He's like, oh, I got the sniffles or something, and he didn't get on the plane.
When you see him talking here, his eyes are all shifty, like, oh, crap, I know these people know what happened here.
He's completely shifty-looking.
My claim, my accusation, and I would personally ask that question to the air traffic controller, why they were not so hard to press the crew...
The transcript of the pilot's last words show...
By the way, transcript, key word.
There were multiple warnings from the Russian air traffic controllers not to land in Thick Fork and to head to a reserve airfield.
They couldn't forbid the plane from landing because that would have been against international aviation law.
Poland disputes Russia's findings and is holding its own investigation.
Diplomacy and politics should not hamper the investigation of facts.
For us, facts are the most important.
History suggests Russia and Poland may take their time to settle their differences, especially against the background of a tragedy.
But such a high price was paid for the recent reconciliation that even skeptics realize it would be a shame for it to be tainted once again by division and scapegoating.
What is this music?
This is a bad piece of propaganda.
The Russians have got to come to the 21st century.
Yeah, really.
This is terrible.
This is so transparently crummy.
Yeah, and meant to indoctrinate and propagate.
Yeah, it probably would have worked in 1933.
Well, and this is my whole point.
We can fix this.
We can fix the whole channel.
We could fix the channel quick.
I agree.
So anyway, of course, my thesis, my...
What's the word I'm looking for?
Assertion.
Assertion.
Assertion is better.
Assertion is these poor people were killed.
And the ones that didn't die in the crash were shot in the head in the woods.
There's video of it.
Yeah.
Just like, oh, there's a guy...
Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing?
You're still alive.
No, we're going to kill you.
So, anyway, so the pipeline is now running nicely in front of Poland, which was the whole point.
All about the pipeline that the Polish president, who was against everything, the IMF against the Euro.
Yeah, well, you know, it's like economic hitmen.
That's the Russian version of the economic hitmen.
They have them, too.
Maybe we got the idea from them for all we know.
They've got to dress it up a little, though.
Let's get it together, people.
Get it together.
Yeah, they're doing it.
Yeah, right.
We do a much better job.
Ah, there's hope.
We have the United Nations on our side.
Oh, stop with the United Nations.
Okay, let's do this now.
I have a couple questions about the United Nations.
Because there's something going on that is really weird.
So you've got this congressional panel and Susan Rice, who is my age...
Who is, you know, she's got her glasses on the point of her nose.
She's wearing the red outfit.
She's wearing a pince-nez.
Oh, really?
It's just like, and of course, the minute the good stuff happened, I'm watching this, it's two hours and 44 minutes.
About an hour and 54 minutes into it, the sound craps out.
Yeah, really.
And this is just when everyone's getting really pissed off.
Incidents?
I think not!
Oh, I'm so sorry.
The sound is off and they couldn't hear each other.
It's like someone literally...
Pull the plug!
It's getting hot in here!
Pull the plug!
Anyway, so she's in there to ask for $3.5 billion of financing, of which $1.9 billion is towards peacekeeping missions, peacekeeping, i.e.
war shit, war, to go and buy some tanks and stuff, and painted blue.
So they do these opening statements, and first you have Representative Gerald Connolly, And he sets the stage.
This is before we get into question and answer session with the elitist, warmongering woman known as Susan Rice.
My age.
You're an embarrassment, Susan Rice.
And so here's what he says about the United Nations.
Roll up your sleeves and make it better.
That's the answer.
And thirdly, the idea that the UN is part of some global conspiracy.
To create a global government is rehashed.
Right-wing claptrap we've been hearing for over 60 years ain't true and also unworthy of a great power to even express.
Okay, I got it.
Claptrap.
Shut up, slave.
It's not global government.
And you should have seen all these guys.
Who is that guy?
Gerald Connolly.
He's a congressman from somewhere.
And you see all these other guys on the panel like high-fiving him.
Literally, John.
Like, that was a good one.
You told him, didn't you?
It's crazy.
Now, so...
So then we have Representative Sherman, and in his opening statement, which I'll forego, he basically says, by the way, the way you're calculating this budget, this is bullcrap, because you're only doing the cost of the tank, not the cost of the people running the tank.
And he went into it, so it was really more like $8 billion that she needs, but it's a whole lie.
He says, you're not accounting properly, and in fact, you're breaking all rules of general accounting principles because you're only counting the hardware and not the people it takes to fly them, the people to support them.
We know it costs a million dollars per soldier.
To support them.
This is a big lie.
But then the whole thing starts to go crazy.
And then I understand now all of a sudden what this whole hearing is really about.
It's not about the money.
It's about something else.
And I need to ask you some questions about that because you might have some historical insight.
I'll ask you to respond for the record to the accounting issue I brought up in my opening statement.
I hope that the administration will use full cost accounting, which is the legitimate system of accounting, and live with the political disadvantage of truthfully telling the American people how expensive it is for us to provide military assets to these UNN authorized activities.
Peacekeeping missions.
Because then you'll gain for our country the diplomatic advantage of telling the world.
The enormous burden that the American taxpayer absorbs in order to make available to such actions as Libya our unique military capacity.
As to Libya, an issue has arisen as to what does the President have the power to do in the absence of a statutory authorization passed by both houses of Congress.
Now, you know, that's actually not interesting, because, of course, she says, oh, it's written in the Constitution.
But all of a sudden, he brings up this constant meme, which is, and I'll just quote it, and then I'll play the clip from Ross Latinen.
Latinen?
Latinen?
What's his name?
I don't know.
He was the guy who was high-fiving the other guy's old, crumply-up-looking guy.
It's all about they're so angry that the United Nations uses Israel, our partner, as a punching bag.
And the whole thing is, and they're outraged.
Like, we're not going to give you any money.
And this, of course, is the whole blow-up happened when the audio coincidentally quit.
We're not going to give you any money if you don't stop all this punching.
Israel's a punching bag.
And here's an example of that.
Since the UN continues to be used to propagate anti-Israel bias, it's important for the United States to show leadership and stand publicly and unequivocally with the Jewish state.
So accordingly, I respectfully request this of you.
Will you take this opportunity to publicly pledge that the U.S. will join Canada and Israel in not participating in In the upcoming Durban 3 hate fest.
By the way, I love how she says that.
Durban 3 hate fest.
Yeah.
Because, of course, what happens in Durban is when all of the UN countries get together and they talk about human rights.
Yeah, they talk about, they bitch about Israel.
I say, well, Israel's like throwing depleted uranium on people.
And it's like, oh, it's...
But she immediately...
She's the chairwoman of the hearing.
You see, it calls it, you know, it's the hate fest.
Yeah.
And that the US will withhold funding from it.
Secondly, that the U.S. will push for the U.N. General Assembly to repudiate the Goldstone Report, just as it revoked the old Zionism is Racism Resolution in 91.
I don't remember that one.
But, yeah, so this is the Goldstone Report, which we talked about, and here's what happened.
The Goldstone Report was Professor Goldstone, and he said, well, you know what?
It was pretty bad there that everything that happened...
During the recent...
When was that?
Like a year ago?
Two years ago?
When Israel went in and kicked everybody's ass?
Yeah, I don't know.
They had phosphor bombs that burned civilians.
Yeah, that's when they had their rockets on one side and the phosphors on the other.
And this was like a UN report and everyone was like, well, there you go.
This is not okay.
He retracted the report in an op-ed in the New York Times.
He said...
Yeah, I know.
This has been going on over the last few days.
This is a big deal.
Yeah, he's like, oh, you know, maybe I didn't quite see it right.
Yeah, like maybe someone held a gun to your head, dude, and said, you better pull that back, Goldstone.
This is not going to happen.
And so he's done that, but it's not enough.
Or is the U.S. going to push for a correction in the record to accurately reflect...
The retraction of Judge Goldstone on his report.
And lastly, and if that resolution or statement or anything else is brought to the UN that would recognize a Palestinian state or upgrade the status of the Palestinian observer mission, that the U.S. will do everything it can to oppose and stop such measures and will veto them at the Security Council before they get to the General Assembly.
This is what's so amazing to me.
On the one hand, we have President Obama saying, we need a two-state solution.
You know, we can all play kumbaya.
I mean, gosh, this has been going back to Carter.
How long has this been going on?
Camp David talks.
Kumbaya, Malor.
Since World War II, actually.
Right.
We're all going to hold hands.
It's going to be great.
But actually, what everyone is saying is, it'll never happen.
It's not going to happen.
And we're going to veto it through the Security Council, in which we have veto power.
It's like, okay.
Got your message.
But then let's not waste any more time on it.
Let's just say we're not going to let it happen and move on and not pay three and a half billion dollars for the privilege.
It's crazy.
And what is the deal then, John?
Is the UN, are we part of the UN? Are we like the ass-kicking UN that goes in and saves people by killing others in Libya?
Or is there some kind of anger thing going on because they're anti-Semitic?
I'm really confused.
Yeah, you and me both.
Well, I thought you could give me some historical insight.
How silly of me.
Yes, well, you're crazy.
Anyway, there is one little coded message that I think is good.
Let me get it.
Attention.
Attention.
What?
I was just going to say, the UN is just basically kind of a quasi-money laundering operation, and it's useless.
Yeah.
But they've really been out of shape about this.
Everyone's like, Israel's a punching bag for the UN. Israel's a punching bag for the UN. Anyway, so here's Susan Rice with a message for George Clooney.
In post-Sudan, the UN is in the process.
Nice little oops, Freudian slip there.
Post-Sudan.
I mean, oops!
I didn't mean post-Sudan.
I meant post-referendum in Sudan.
In post-Sudan, the UN is in the process of assessing and talking to southern authorities about what would be the optimal follow-on configuration for a UN mission.
We expect there to be one, but we want it to...
Its composition will depend in part on how far the two parties get in negotiating some of the remaining issues.
Right.
So, war in Sudan on the way.
It's happening.
Clooney, stay right where you are.
It's coming.
It's coming up.
And you can do your benefit.
It's on its way.
We got it.
She just said it there.
Mission coming.
Yeah.
That's what it sounds like to me.
Yeah.
Mission coming.
Of course.
Well, the pipeline's got to go through there, man.
The pipeline.
So, we know the mission's going to be there to protect the peace.
The peace.
This is a UN pipeline mission.
I mean, peace mission.
It's totally for the pipeline, just like Kosovo.
Are we crazy?
No, we probably are.
No, there's more to it than that.
Anyway, Susan Rice is a horrible human being.
She scares me.
She's the one largely responsible, at least has been revealed in many documents, that between her and Powers, whatever her first name is, I can't remember.
Stephanie.
Power is the woman.
Cast sunscreen.
Sunscreen.
Sunscreen's wife.
Cast sunscreen's wife.
You know, the no agenda BS filter is doing all that.
Thank you.
Cast sunscreen.
It's hard to read all of a sudden.
You read, like, the unelected United Nations.
They're like, what is that in that doc?
Oh, it's the BS filter.
The thing never ceases to amaze.
Cast sunscreen.
Right.
Well, Cass Sunscreen's wife has a lot to do with the Libya deal.
Yeah, let's be a little more vigilant in the chat room and kick those people out.
Yeah, anyone who shows up as the real Dvorak, kick that guy off.
Because you know what that is.
Get me chillin' here, chillin' here.
That's right.
New jingles every day.
What was that one?
Shill Alert?
Yeah, Shill Alert.
He could use that in the show more often.
Actually, it was brand new.
We have one from They Might Be Giants.
Yeah?
Yeah, this is from an actual song from them.
Call connected to the NSA. Complete transmission to the NSA. Suspending your rights for the duration of the permanent war.
I love these guys.
Your call's connected through the NSA. Suspending your rights for the duration of the permanent war.
Those guys are funny.
He's got a vamp going, too.
Okay.
Yeah.
So, let's see what else we got.
Well, I got tons of stuff.
Are you kidding me?
The world is on fire, John.
It's on fire.
I have a thing.
I just said something on your clip.
It's just a sound effect that you can add to your collection of these kind of...
It's just a little thing you can use.
Oh, nice.
I don't think you like that one.
Yeah, I do like it.
We just need to play that from time to time, just as we're talking, like they do on Fox.
Yeah, like we're talking away, yak, yak, yak.
Right, exactly.
Just got to keep that going.
It keeps people awake.
Yeah, whoa, whoa, they wake up.
There's something important happening here.
So let's play with Joe.
So Canada's having a big, you know, we lost a couple Canadian listeners over the last few days.
Really?
Yeah, one tweeted me saying, you suck, I hate your show now.
Why?
What did we do?
You never say, you can't tell with Twitter because they don't have enough time to express themselves.
Oh, I ran out of characters, sorry.
But what do we suck?
So I clicked on him and I found he's a Canadian guy and so I said, oh, of course then I immediately banned him and This is a policy, John.
When people say you suck, you just block them?
Is that what you do?
Oh, yeah.
No, because I don't use Twitter for that kind of thing.
I use my email.
You block them there, too.
You block everything and everybody.
I don't need it.
I already know I suck.
So it's redundant.
So I checked a guy out.
He's from Canada.
So I decided to...
I noticed that C-SPAN, sometimes on Saturday night...
Yeah, they have the Canadian House of Lords or whatever.
They'll play the National, which is the Canadian National News.
I don't understand why somebody on cable or on the Dish Network or on any of these guys don't have a station that just plays the CBC. Because the CBC's got some great programming.
Great shows, yeah.
Well, it's because they all make fun of us up there.
That's why.
Well, they make fun of themselves, too.
Probably even more so.
But the fact is, the Nationals are pretty good news broadcasters.
So there was a couple of interesting things.
They're having a big election.
They're trying to reestablish a government up there.
Yeah, you think?
I thought, even though it's a little typical Canadian, they're a little chatty about this, but play the social media stuff that I picked up on.
Start with the vote mob surprise rally.
There's two buzzwords in here and actually a trend of what's going on.
It all started on Monday when Guelph University students showed up outside a Tory event.
They weren't allowed inside with their message directed to all politicians and to their fellow students.
The message to young people is to get out there and vote.
Like the last event, today's was organized on Facebook in a couple of days.
285 say they're participating.
A meeting place set up and it was off to the rallies.
The idea of a vote mob or surprise rally is new but seems to be gaining momentum.
Okay.
Vote mob.
So we have a vote mob.
Right.
Haven't heard that before.
Have you heard that?
No.
No, it's new.
It's new.
Vote mob, surprise rally.
And so there's a...
Later in one of the other shows that are going on and on, somebody brings up some very interesting aspects of social media that I thought was actually...
I thought it meant something and it was...
In this, the clip, social media screwing things up.
This is a roundtable.
If you give a big policy speech, if you're a politician, and no one covers it because it's deemed to be either too complex or too boring to interest the audience, then it doesn't take very long before you stop giving big, complicated policy speeches.
And so we are in a vicious kind of cycle right now where the population's appetite for certain things is dictating and structuring our political class's behavior, and the political class's behavior is driving further cynicism among the population.
I, in part, blame the social media, to tell you the truth, because I think there was always a danger, and it's happening now.
The media that covers the politicians, the politicians who are covered, and the junkies, all get this sense of...
Did she say the junkies?
She means social media junkies.
Oh, alright.
The politicians, the politicians who are covered and the junkies all get this sense of engagement from the very instant gratification of Twitter or Facebook and etc.
And it's an illusion.
It's a bubble versus what is happening on the ground.
And so while they think there's a lot of engagement because this is happening really quickly, they are talking amongst themselves.
And I think people are dropping off because of it rather than becoming more engaged because of the social media.
I think there's an interesting point there that Chantal's making is that the immediacy of social media, the immediacy of media, the acceleration of the debate, one effect of that is it greatly enlarges, at least in our own minds, the significance of incredibly trivial moment-to-moment events.
And I think that's what Chantal's saying.
I certainly agree.
I absolutely agree with this woman.
She's completely right.
And the only thing she forgot to mention is when we change our Twitter icon to green, we all feel we're participating in something good.
Exactly.
And it's just a complete circle jerk.
She's absolutely right.
She's from the French-Canadian side, I think.
I would think, yeah.
No, absolutely, and this is rampant.
This is exactly what the whole NPR Andy Carvin thing is about.
It's a big circle jerk, and it's useless.
It gives people a drug thinking that you're participating by yelling amongst a crowd of ten, and it means nothing.
It helps you get it out of your system, which is probably not good.
I think just getting it out of your...
This is like the crazy old man at home who sits there yelling at the television set thinking that it's accomplishing something.
Enough about me.
Stop.
Of course I do this too.
This guy is an idiot!
Get him off the air!
By the way, this is not a good thing when you live with people.
You need to calm down on that.
For those of you who find yourself in this position, you probably just want to go to the Twitters and just say, this guy's an idiot for no reason whatsoever.
Just do it.
It'll make you feel better, and then your relationship will last longer.
This is a very dangerous precedent.
Sitting there, shaking your fist at the television set.
Or that panel in a modern society.
No, but she makes a very valid point.
You know, I saw this.
Here you go.
So, yesterday, disaster struck Gitmo Nation Lowlands.
Did you hear about, you must have heard about this.
No.
Lone Wolf, gunman, goes into a shopping center with a machine gun, starts shooting apparently two clips, two full clip rounds.
I didn't know machine guns were legal in Holland.
Hold on, hold on.
I'll get to all the good stuff.
Killing a minimum of five could be more, wounding several others, four severely wounded, so the death count will rise.
And this is completely, apparently a 24-year-old kid who, and by the way, when you're 24, you're a kid, okay?
You're like a moron, okay?
A 24-year-old, these are the same kids like the moron who doesn't want noodles to tell them how to cook the noodles, all right?
Yeah.
And he was a member of a gun club, of course.
But what happens is, because I immediately took to the Twitters...
Do you think you need the of course in there?
Well, I'll tell you why you need the of course in there.
Okay, go on, go on.
So I took to the Twitters immediately to see what people were doing.
And they were doing exactly this.
They were all venting their frustration, which means absolutely nothing.
You know, if you really want to change something, slaves of Gitmo Nation Lowlands, you've got to get out on the street and change something, and not be yelling at your TV, and not be yelling at your Twitters, because that does nothing.
Now, let me say something about what happened, because of course this has never happened in the Netherlands.
This is like Columbine!
This is like America!
Why is this happening here?!
Well, since no one has given you an explanation, and since none will be given, because this is a known pattern, I will give you one explanation.
I'm not saying it's the explanation, but one.
It was time.
It was your time to have this type of an event.
These are MKUltrad slaves, and they get turned on, and then they...
Perfectly set up.
Of course, we might as well grab some gun stuff in there as well.
How could he have been a member of a gun club?
Didn't they check in?
We need psychological research on everybody.
The police state is about to clamp down on you, and you will get no explanation.
They're not allowed to read the so-called note, the suicide note, the note he left for his mom, the note he left about all the bombs he was going to place everywhere.
It's just one explanation.
I'd love to hear another one.
But this has happened around the world where we get young people just coolly walking in with submachine guns, machine guns, shooting everybody up for no reason.
Give me another reason.
I'm happy to believe it.
But I think it was your time.
False flag.
They're bringing it.
Now the curtain drops on Gitmo Nation lowlands.
It's been dropping.
Yeah, well, it probably is false flag.
You know, there's a lot of these things.
And you're right.
Oh, that's why they had to have the gun club.
Of course!
Yeah, it's part of the script.
Yes.
Thank you.
24-year-old schmuck.
And by the way, his name?
Tristan.
Hello?
Tristan.
Is this thing on?
Is this thing on?
Who was the Columbine shooter?
I don't know.
I think that was also a Tristan, wasn't it?
I don't know.
Maybe.
I don't remember the Columbine guys.
Let's call Michael Moore.
Well, look it up.
I'm going to look it up now.
You can't be just throwing stuff out.
By the way, I got the quote of the day from Eric the Shill.
Yeah.
Which is, quote, I updated my Facebook status in protest.
Great.
It was.
It was Tristan.
Tristan and...
Who's the other guy?
Wait, you're telling me that the guy's name's the same, so you have a subconscious callback to call him by?
Sure, sure.
It's not a Dutch name, I don't think, Tristan.
It doesn't strike me as Dutch.
I'm just saying.
I'm just saying.
It's one explanation, okay?
I'm happy to hear another one.
Happy to.
But, no, this is not good.
Update this.
I'm protesting gun clubs.
I'm updating my Facebook status now.
That'll show you.
Change your Facebook status to an anti-gun club.
Tristan Matthews, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
And, you know, hello.
This is how that stuff works.
This is how that stuff works, man.
So it's just one.
I'm not saying it's the, and of course it's a tragedy.
My mom used to live near there.
She could have been shopping there easily.
Yeah.
Well, no, she couldn't.
She's not with us anymore.
But I'm just saying.
It'd be hard for her.
I'm just saying.
She probably would have gone to total.
Tristan is a Celtic baby name.
Not very Dutch.
Coincidence?
I think not.
So I'm watching CNBC. And of course, what's oil now, John?
Like the Brent stuff, that's like 110?
Nobody does.
You went to regular oil, which is about 107, I think, still.
I'll look at it.
I'll look at it while you just go on, and I'll check it out.
You check that.
So we got some of the sweet stuff, that's like 120.
But I think the crude, I think it's the Brent, is like one, I think it's around 110.
Now, so there's a little morning show, CNBC, you know, I've got to watch this stuff from time to time.
Basic crude oil is 113.
More than you said, 113.
I was wrong!
Now remember, we've been promised 200 oil is what we've been promised.
Yeah, which is bullcrap.
That's never going to happen.
Okay.
And gold's not going higher either.
I never said that.
Yes, you did.
You said they're going to manipulate it down.
They are, but not right this minute.
Okay, right.
And pigs will fly out of my ass one day.
One day.
That's always a possibility with you.
It could happen at any moment, but one day it will take place.
Now listen to what he says about this.
This is very interesting.
They're closing over $110 WTI. Do you hear that?
That's so cool.
We just have to have more of it.
Where is it headed next?
Let's analyze this.
Oil trader David Greenberg joins us on the Fast Line.
David, in terms of demand destruction, the key here is, you know, when you hit 110, when Brent hits over 120, at what point, what's the magic number here where oil is too high?
Well, I think we really see it in the gas prices now.
People are filling up at four and a quarter on the East Coast.
Go out west, go to Hawaii, you're going to see even higher numbers.
And I think we're at the point now where, I mean, the speculators have just taken control of this market and it's just out of control.
Hey David, it's Joe.
I mean, really drill down on that.
You've got electronic trading basically driving the price of oil right now.
It's above $110.
How much do you really believe of the move is attributed to speculation and is there anything that can be done about it?
Well, Joe, you and I go back a few Gulf Wars ago.
Yep.
And throughout all the Gulf Wars and through all the instances that we were through, when the floor was open, you never saw a spike like this.
Nope.
And basically what's happening, if you go back in time, you really have to think about how electronic trading happened, why, and for the real reasons why it happened with oil.
What's happening now is that with the amount of money that is in this market, the market's too small to handle it.
So it's very easy for any fund that needs a position to go one way or another to slam it with the algorithms.
And that's what's moving this market right now.
I kind of like that.
It makes nothing but sense to me.
Yeah, it makes sense to me too.
It's just a whole bunch of electronic trading going on and the market is only a certain size so anyone can influence it now.
And guess what?
It's probably not going to be in our favor.
Well, it will be when it turns around because the speculators go both ways.
They're not bulls.
They'll run it up as high as they can, and then when they see the moment where it's opportunity knocking, they'll pull the rug out from under it and speculate their way down where they can make money even twice as fast.
It goes down twice as fast as it goes up.
Right.
And so it's not in our favor or out of our favor.
We're just pawns.
They have to put up with this bull crap.
Right.
But I'll give you one guarantee.
If it goes down to like $80, which it probably should be more like $50.
Let's say it's going down, well, the dollar is weak.
So let's say $60 or $70.
If it goes down to about that price, somehow I don't think the pump is going to go below $4.
I mean, I think we've kind of got that covered now.
It's like, heh heh.
Yeah, I think we'll see $3, $3.01 guess before...
The end of the year?
I don't know about the end of the year.
You can't be so vague, man.
This is like the pig flying out of my butt.
In 18 months, we'll be back to $3.20.
18 months.
As we say in Holland, we done life.
What does that mean?
Whoever lives then.
It's not like I'm predicting something about 25 years.
May 21st is when we're all going to die.
We have continuing growth.
I thought that was 2012.
No, man.
This is the...
God, you should...
I walk...
I don't...
Hey, wait a minute.
Why don't we use this as a plea for getting...
A donation drive.
Yeah, because look, what good is your money going to do you?
Alright, so here's the deal.
Okay, so we've got hundreds of people now crowding the streets of Los Angeles.
Mickey went downtown LA. She's starting to get into her passion, which I'm so happy about.
Shopping?
Shopping?
No!
No!
With what?
I looked at some rings yesterday.
I said, that's great.
He said, there were a couple of options.
He said, no, there weren't.
Zero options.
And anyway, so she likes to photograph architecture.
And I think she's pretty good at it.
In fact, I think she's damn good at it.
There's not a lot of people who do it well.
And so downtown L.A. is actually quite beautiful.
Of course, it's falling apart, but it's old school and it's not fake.
And it's nice buildings.
And there's just tons of guys.
I said, you've got to take some pictures of these guys for me.
They're all walking with sandwich boards.
You know, the end is nigh.
And it's May 21st.
Get some shots of that.
I need those pictures.
I think it's May 21st, and this is what they're all saying.
May 21st is when the world ends.
It's Judgment Day, actually.
Let's consult the Book of Knowledge for a moment to find out exactly what this is about.
May 21st is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
Blah, blah, blah.
Alright, where's the death part?
Geez Louise, the book of knowledge doesn't do very good.
Judgment, Huffington Post.
Okay, it's the other book of knowledge.
Huffington Post should have the information about the end of the world.
Don't you think Ariana would have it?
Yeah, I would think.
Uh...
We'll mark the second coming of Christ, or at least that's what some Christian groups believe.
I thought it was Judgment Day.
I thought that's when we're all supposed to die.
Well, I guess not.
Maybe it'd be better to Google it.
The Book of Knowledge may not have this information.
The Book of Knowledge is not up to speed on this.
No, it's apparently Judgment Day...
The leader of the...
Well, anyway, everyone's walking around.
Judgment Day.
But I guess when he...
I think we all have to die before he comes or something like that?
The rapture.
The rapture?
Yeah, that means all the believers go up to heaven.
Literally, they get pulled up from an alien spaceship, sucking them straight up.
Oh, is this when we have to have the purple shoes and tracksuits on?
And the rest of the people sit around and they have to go through the tribulations.
I got it wrong.
The tribulations are something else.
But everyone else has to be hanging around and they have to deal with the Antichrist.
And they had a lot of fistfights and things like that.
So then perhaps we should say if we don't all...
We can go two ways.
Either if we don't all die on the 22nd, you should be anteing up.
Because apparently we helped save the world by enlightening a portion.
Well, it's a double whammy.
Or if you just think it's all going to end, just send us your cash now.
I think that would be a good idea.
And I want to remind people what we do on this show because we're going to take a break in a second to talk about it.
But I thought a very interesting thing happened this last week or so.
I didn't realize that one of the reasons Glenn Beck is being thrown off Fox is because a bunch of presser groups got together, organized by who knows who, to get his advertisers to pull out because he still has huge ratings.
So I've got this clip here, and I want to play it, which is Sharpton.
This came on the Edge show on MSNBC, and Edge Schwartz is just a real hateful person.
Yeah, he's a douche.
He's a total douche, hateful person, but the information was on here that I thought was interesting, and people out there listening to this show, supporting our show, should pay careful attention to it.
This is yet another reason...
We refuse to deal, even deal with the idea of turning our audience into a product and selling it to advertisers.
Play that.
And of course the economics of all of this never really worked out.
A bunch of advertisers fell off.
A bunch of lists got put together.
People didn't want anything to do with Fox or his program when it came to advertising.
Joining me now is Reverend Al Sharpton, President of the National Action Network.
Reverend, good to have you with us tonight.
Good to be with you.
What is happening here?
Is it the economics?
Is it beyond the point of diminishing returns?
Is this a mission accomplished?
How do you view Beck's departure?
I think all of the above.
I think it's a mission accomplished.
He was there to say the most absurd and outrageous things.
What they didn't count on is the effective use of some groups in terms of going after his advertisers.
And there you have got a show myself ruled by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda in the morning.
So that's exactly it.
That's why we can't even have advertisers, because A, you would be the product who are listening, and B, the show gets stopped.
If that's the true reason, it certainly happened in the past.
I think the whole thing is more of a theater.
I don't think it was ever put there to be there forever.
But if it's not the true reason, it is a reason, and it's a reason that people are looking.
It's giving advertisers the feeling that they can do this.
And I think advertisers do this all the time, by the way.
Of course they do!
Why do you think they advertise on NPR to influence the programming?
Duh!
Hey, look at your email.
Look at your email.
Mickey just...
I forwarded you.
Mickey just emailed a picture.
This is great.
These guys got it down.
So there's this cool-looking dude.
You want me to look at the Mickey email?
No, it's from me.
I just forwarded.
Maybe it's a woman.
I think it's a woman.
It's a woman?
Yeah.
With a...
She's got the...
Mickey, tweet that, will you?
Tweet that picture, man.
It's too funny.
This is a picture of a woman carrying a sign, the end is near, judgment day, 100% biblical, May 21st, 61 days, and then she's got it, she's listening to an iPod.
Yeah, but I love the 100% biblical.
I like the 100% biblical, but it's the iPod thing that gets me.
That really does it.
That really does it.
Yeah, it's fantastic.
No, we're all going to die.
So before we do, let's blow some cash on hookers and blow.
Well, actually, we have bills to pay, so we'll probably do that instead.
Daniel Hutner, Murphy's, California, $166.21.
Did the math and damn it.
Adam's right.
Here's $111 for my birthday.
I had on Friday another $55 to get me closer to nighthood.
Thanks for giving Governor Ventura a little publicity on Thursdays.
Closer to the truth than just a little crackpot.
Okay.
I agree with that, whatever that means.
Alan Boulderoff in Parahills, West South Australia.
Call me, AJ, from 13 Hill, South Australia.
Okay, AJ, sorry.
Gitmo Nation Hyper Bowl, blah, blah, blah.
He's got a link we have to put in.
Please, I figured this was the time to get a de-douching.
Okay, Doug.
You've been de-douched.
I've been listening for about a year now, and you guys just reinforce what I've always suspected.
Wife and I are expecting our fourth child any day now, and karma would be a good thing, too.
Keep up the good work.
Well, I could have done a double shot.
You should have asked me.
It's alright.
We can hit two buttons.
Not a problem.
Dame Astrid, our friend from Tokyo.
Happy birthday, Sir Mark.
Amazing.
You're driving energy.
Slow down once in a while so people can actually follow you.
He's probably a fast walker.
My wife complains I'm that way.
Wait a minute.
Not just your wife.
Oh yeah, this guy, people have to imagine a guy who is 6'8", which is Curry, and he walks like an old black man.
Hey, wait a minute, that was totally racist!
What are you talking about, old black man?
Now there's a certain style.
He walks like an old Chinese woman.
Yeah, but Mickey does the same thing.
You guys are like hustlers.
I'm like, dude, John, slow down.
You're like, you know, it's like if you don't get somewhere, like, you're going to keel over before you get there?
You're not going to make it?
I figure I got that much time left.
I reminded somebody once said, what are you charging up San Juan Hill?
Yeah, it's exactly like, it's amazing.
So amazing how the birthdays add up to $111.
I always knew you guys were geniuses.
Geniuses!
And she also donated another $111.
I love our Knights and Dames.
Belated happy birthday to John, wishing you will stay 59 at heart forever.
Fellow Aries Dame.
Oh, that's good.
It makes sense.
She's an Aries.
That's right.
I met both of them.
Yeah, you went out and had...
I had dinner with them.
Had dinner with them and thought they were charmers.
They are phenomenal people.
Well, these two people, and people can look them up.
Yeah, they're like no slouches.
They're very famous architects.
I guess we can't discuss some of the stuff that's confidential, but they've got some contracts for some big buildings.
Tyler...
Never mind.
Yeah, no, they're world famous.
And they live in Gitmo Nation shaky ground.
And they want us to change it to Gitmo Nation natto, which is fermented soybeans.
Since everybody stays away from fish right now.
Right.
I'll eat the fish.
I'm not afraid.
Tyler Brigham.
Brigham, Tyler.
Yeah.
San Luis Obispo.
Here's $100 for Adam messing up the message of my domain forward.
I was proclaiming the merits of adding slash donate to all domain forwards and gave shutupslaves.com slash donate as an example.
This is actually not a bad idea.
It's a great idea.
It was my mistake.
I thought that he had set that up.
He was just saying, no, this is great that it's done and everyone should do it.
Yeah, I think that's probably true.
Of course, shutupslaves.com slash donate.
Or.na slash na.
Yeah, or seanhannity.com slash na.
Or barackobama2011.com slash na.
We are the kings of domain names here.
We're going to get called on.
We're going down.
We're going to get so soon.
James Pierce.
You know, this is a...
Yes, you're being served for stealing Sean Hannity's audience.
And we'll be like, dude, you can have him back here.
We don't want him.
We don't want your audience.
James Pierce, Copperas Cove.
Copperas or Copperas Cove, Texas.
99.99.
Hey, John and Adam, once again, I love your show and can't get enough.
You bring to light many of the most horrible things going on in the world.
Thank you very much.
And make me laugh about it.
Okay, well, that's good.
We laughed at disaster.
Yeah, we do.
If there's, like, disaster around, you want us.
We're the Molarian Curly of disaster.
That's what we are.
So, uh...
We laugh in the face of disaster.
He needs a shot at karma.
No problem.
You've got karma.
Okay, Mehran Mozaffari.
M-O-Z-A-F-F-A-R-I. Mozaffari.
Yeah, that's what I said.
Mehran Mozaffari, New South Wales.
Now talk about his wife, his even better name.
Yeah, he's going on.
He wants to thank us for one of the greatest podcasts in the world.
No, no, no, excuse me.
The greatest podcast in the world.
The long-time listeners, first-time callers, it would be great to make you, if you could de-douche us.
I also wanted to ask Adam to say happy birthday, we're going to do that.
Cepeda, which is her birthday, same as mine, April 5th.
John, happy birthday to you as well.
Hope this will be a surprise for her.
Blah, blah, blah.
You've been de-douched.
Especially the blah, blah, blah part.
I'm very good at that.
Punch that, yeah.
Mike Pelletier in North Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
Requesting a de-douching and some karma.
Give him a double.
Lost my job.
You've been de-douched.
You've got karma.
That was tight.
That was tight.
I sold my original PC motherboard at 48K on eBay, so here's a 5150.
That's interesting.
I wonder what you got on eBay for it.
I have an original IBM PC. Well, I'd say that's dinner.
I doubt it.
I have the original screen, too, the green screen monster.
Then we have a few $50 donors, including Andrew Sawyer in Vancouver, B.C., David Millbrook in Aberdeenshire, U.K., George Vanderhorst, Tristan Lennon from Wagga Wagga.
And Tristan Wilson.
A lot of Tristans.
And we had Tristans in the news today.
That's a very interesting coincidence.
I want to thank all those people.
And I think we had one...
Do we have something...
A note from Eric?
Because I did get an email.
No, that was the...
Well, I have the Make Good birthday, which we have for Mehrhan Mazafari's lovely wife.
We have that one.
Okay, that's the one.
I got a couple other things.
But most importantly, the show is the product.
It is what we do for you.
It is what we do.
Okay?
And I appreciate you for supporting the show.
All of you, even our $5 a month donors.
Well, especially, actually, because keeping on that is a big deal.
You have to maintain it because PayPal cancels your stuff all the time.
The $11.11.
Of course, remember, we've got the 300 Club, the big show coming up.
Just three, what is it?
No, five shows from now, right?
Yeah, five shows from now.
We need some more members of the various clubs that celebrate the specific show.
We're on show 294.
294.
294.
And then 295 Club will be next week, so you can join that or the 300 Club.
Or both.
And I'm pretty sure that there aren't many...
Radio shows, television shows or podcasts that pay no attention to any holidays whatsoever.
April 24th of course will be Easter.
John, what will we be doing?
This show.
This show.
It'll be a Sunday and it doesn't matter.
We do this show.
I think once or twice we have had to move it to an evening or whatever.
We move it around a little bit sometimes.
Rarely.
Rarely.
And I think this upcoming Christmas, I'm warning everybody nine months in advance, I'm going to probably insist that we do the clip show that I've been working on for nine months.
I'm up to an hour and ten minutes.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Which is just clips that are strung together in a very funny way.
All the clips that we use on the show.
Really?
I think it's more entertaining than the show, to be honest.
It's really funny.
Don't give away the secrets, man.
What secret?
It's taking me forever.
I couldn't do a show like this much.
It's impossible.
It's like once a year if I'm lucky.
I'm looking forward to it.
Anyway, because the last Christmas, basically nobody listened, and it was something of a bomb, I think.
And thank you.
Yeah, it was.
Thank you, everybody, who's in the chat room today.
And on the stream, it looks like we have a new record, 823 people listening live, which makes me feel good about doing this live.
Your support at any giving level.
Of course, $1,000 or more gets you a knighthood, and you can always become an executive producer or associate executive producer.
And we will be doing a knighting in just a moment.
There's one thing to remember.
Sure.
And I'm reliably informed, kids all across Gitmo Nation are annoying their parents to no end by walking around going, These are kids that are like two, three years old who hear that jingle and they can't get it out of their head.
Well, play it again.
Dvorak.org slash N-A That's right.
Hello kids, it's your Uncle Adam here.
Dvorak.org slash N-A Alright, Daniel Hutner celebrates a celebrated birthday on April 8th.
Happy birthday from the No Agenda show.
And of course, Dame Astrid wishes Sir Mark Dytham a very happy birthday.
And those two have an incredible...
I'll just have to call it a love affair, even though they might disagree with me.
It's very beautiful to see that.
And James Pierce celebrating a birthday, and of course, a make-good, sorry we missed it, Mehrhan Mazzafari, wishes his lovely wife Sepidia a very happy birthday she celebrated on April 5th.
How can we forget that date the same day as my podcast partner, John C. Dvorak?
Oh, uh, Blade Time, John.
New one.
Look, check it out.
Whoa!
Shiny!
Be careful where you chunk that thing, eh?
Brian Kaufman, step forward, please.
Brian, now that you have reached the giving level of $1,000 or more, we are very proud to welcome you to an exclusive club which is ever-growing and soon will all be sporting the rings of knowledge.
That's right.
You, sir, are now a knight.
We hereby pronounce the Sir Brian Kaufman, Knight of the Noah Gunder Roundtable.
Hookers and blows.
Chardonnay and Renboys over here have a seat at the table, sir.
You are now in a very exclusive club.
Let me see that thing again, man.
Wow, that's beautiful.
Yeah, look at this.
Look at the stone on it.
I don't...
There.
Yes.
Let me put it back.
Okay.
So, uh...
Uh...
Wait a minute.
Theater of the Mind.
Noagendashow.com.
There's a link there.
Also, noagendanation.com slash NA or slash donate.
There's a link there.
And also, I think you're still one at channeldivorec.com slash NA. Hey, big up to Gitmo Nation.
What's Iceland?
What is the Gitmo Nation Volcano?
That's what it is.
Glacier.
How about Glacier?
No, the BS filter has it as volcano.
So big up to the people of Gitmo Nation Volcano, who yesterday had a referendum vote.
Now, if you'll recall, they had the whole country melted down because Iceland Banksy Or something like that.
Had lent all this, had the savings accounts for citizens of Gitmo Nation East, the United Kingdom, and Gitmo Nation Lowlands, which of course was a total scam.
And people had these internet savings accounts with really high interest.
Yeah, like, you know, hello, if it's too good to be true, it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
So the bank fell apart.
And then what the international bankster said is, well, listen, slaves, they're in Iceland.
You're going to have to pay it back.
You'll have to have austerity measures and all kinds of things.
You'll have to pay it back.
And they went, we don't think so.
And so then, you know, they brought in some new shills of the government and everyone's too afraid to sign off on it because they know if anyone in government would say, all right, let the human resources work for 30 years to pay it back, they would get killed.
So they were too chicken shit to do it.
Excuse the language.
So they held a referendum.
And big ups to the human resources there.
They voted no.
Like, no, we're not going to pay that back.
Screw you.
And now, of course, everyone's freaking out.
Because the governments of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom already paid back the money to the people who invested, which I don't understand.
This is like getting, you know, to me, this is like those scams that took place some years back during the modem era, where you would call up a website, because that's the way you did it directly, and it would be a scam, and it would redirect a call to Romania, which is a per minute call of $100 a minute.
You get a huge bill for $30,000 and then the phone company says, hey, there's nothing we can do about it.
International tariffs.
It's an agreement.
We can't do anything about it.
So you're basically, they're all part and parcel of a scam to take your money.
And it's like, you know, when it's bull crap, the whole thing was illegal.
It's unconscionable that they would still try to, well, let's see if we can jerk them around some more.
I'm glad they did that.
Right.
Well, of course, you will recall that when this thing first came down, what was the first thing that Gitmo Nation East, Gordon Brown at the time, what did he say?
You remember?
As I recall, he said they were terrorists.
Don't you remember that?
Yeah, he said they're terrorists and therefore they have to be locked out of everything.
You can't do trade with them.
I'm invoking the terrorism law.
That's the first thing he did.
He called Iceland a terrorist state.
That was his way of kicking their ass temporarily.
This is the problem that we have with this whole terrorism crap.
Terror.
It's terrorism.
Squirrel!
Terrorism.
Yeah.
So it could just happen again.
By the way, Eric DeShill suggests, and I think this is a good name, which would be Gitmo Nation Puffin.
Yeah.
Puffin?
Yeah, but if you go to Iceland, I don't know if you've ever been there, but all they eat is puffin.
They have puffin burgers, and they have roast puffin, and there's puffin steaks.
Alright, let's have a referendum, shall we?
Fried puffin.
What is puffin?
Puffin is the cutest.
Look it up in the book of knowledge.
Puffin is the cutest bird in the world.
But it's like the pigeon of Iceland.
I'm not going to eat a puffin.
It's beautiful.
It's a beautiful bird.
No, I don't want to eat no puffin.
But they grab him and they choke him.
They choke him.
And then they choke the puffin.
And then they grind it in the meat.
Hey, these guys are terrorists.
Wait a minute.
Can't you just, like, kill the puffin humanely?
You have to choke him?
Well, I don't know.
Hey, John.
After the show, I'm going to go choke the puffin.
Yeah, go choke the puffin.
Go choke the puffin on your own time.
That's it.
Gitmo Nation, choke the puffin.
Change the BS filter.
We have a new name.
Alright, but of course, this will be very interesting to see what happens.
Because, you know, it's like, now we have Jankeiste Jacher, who was the Minister of Finance in the Netherlands, who I know, who used to be the Secretary of Finance.
The guy is a Microsoft IT guy.
He's a total douche.
And he's like, one of these typical, isn't it worse?
He's an IT sales guy.
And he's now the Minister of Finance.
He's been totally assimilated.
Oh, I'll do whatever I have to do.
You know these guys who sell for Oracle or something, you know?
Yeah, they're good sales guys.
Yeah, right.
They sold themselves into the government.
Yeah, exactly.
We're going to have to go do something about that.
I don't know what we're going to do.
So meanwhile, of course...
Is that the way he talks?
Totally.
I don't know what we're going to do.
We've got to go figure something out.
Give my nation Brussels sprouts.
Now, known for a number of things.
One of their many accomplishments in Belgium is they now hold the Guinness World Record for longest period of time without a government, which is just great.
And these guys should be celebrating.
Has it made a difference?
Well, it's about to make a difference, according to the IMF. Oh, the IMF is cracking down.
The IMF is cracking down.
Here's a report.
The country that holds the world record for not having a government, Belgium, has just received a fresh warning from the International Monetary Fund.
In a newly released report, the IMF warns that the 10-month post-election stalemate threatens Belgium's economy because it hampers policymaking.
Belgium has a huge sovereign debt, 94% of the country's GDP. The IMF says...
Yeah, I know.
I was like, really?
What?
94%?
Well, they make nothing in Brussels.
Well, french fries.
Yeah, they make nothing.
So we're about to hear from this really, really cute girl.
She sounds like Doug.
No, no, this isn't her.
This is the report now.
We're hearing from a really cute girl.
The interim government cannot take sufficient measures to tackle the problem.
Because it has limited powers.
Local experts agree this is a problem.
And if we don't have a government right now, we also face the risk of being downgraded by Sanders and Pauls that have said in December that if we don't have a government by June, they will cut down our weighting from AA plus to AA. So, in case you understand it.
Standards and Poor's?
Yeah, so the irony is she has like double C's.
And she's talking about double A. And I was just like, ugh.
The whole thing was just meant to entice me, I'm sure.
Oh yeah, you don't, yeah, that's all done on purpose.
She's really, really cute.
And she goes from AA Plus to double A. And I'm looking at her C's.
I'm like, ugh.
So yeah, so Standards and Poor's, which is a commercial ratings agency, is going to screw them.
Yeah, well, so?
No, I'm just saying.
It sounds like they're already screwed if they have that kind of debt ratio.
Yeah, that's pretty bad.
Pretty bad?
It's unbelievable.
It's up there with bad.
It's up there with pretty damn bad.
So I have a thing for our No Agenda movie club, whatever it is.
There's a film, or it's actually a documentary, it's actually quite interesting, called Bigger, Faster, Stronger.
Which is a movie that documents the use of steroids by athletes and also by the public in general in the United States and the fact that it was made illegal by George H.W. Bush.
And it never was before and apparently this is not as harmful as they'd like you to believe.
And apparently every athlete in the world is on it.
But I was watching this thing and there was a clip that I pulled from it.
Which is that if you want drugs clip, which I just thought had a punchline.
This is like a clip about this guy who's doing the documentary.
But it has a punchline that I just thought was hilarious.
I was always against steroids.
And when I found out that all my heroes used them, I'd like to say it didn't bother me.
But it really did.
I can't imagine how my mom would feel if she found out that both of my brothers are on steroids right now.
My older brother started using steroids when he went to play Division I football at the University of Cincinnati.
When I got to Cincinnati, I mean, the practices were so grueling.
I mean, much more than what I expected.
Coaches would say, you've got to get bigger, you've got to get stronger, you've got to get faster.
Was it intimidating?
No, different than I thought it was going to be.
He called me from Cincinnati and asked me for money for steroids.
And I said, what do you need that for?
He says, because I can't compete here.
So I'm like, well, I don't know what that is.
It sounds like drugs.
He goes, it is drugs.
And I said, well, I'm not going to send you money for drugs.
If you want drugs, go get a job.
So anyway, I just think that should be a motto.
If you're on drugs, go get a job?
Yeah.
But this whole thing is kind of interesting, but it reminds me of when I used to be a factory worker during my college days.
And I realize at this point, and I think this is true, even though I believe the two of us are clean and sober, to say the least.
Well, I was working this International Harvester for a while, and I worked one whole summer, and I could never keep up with the demands of this simple job.
There was a sub-assembly that I was responsible for making.
And I had to make this thing...
As in submarine or a...
No, a sub-assembly.
This was part of the brake system and it was like a little...
There was a device that had a couple of hoses on it and they had to put a thing here and a thing there.
You had to drill out this.
You had to put a cap on it.
It's about a ninth-step process and I had to make these things all day.
That's the point at which I learned that if you want to work in factories in the United States, and I always advise this to people or factories anywhere, learn to become either a receiving clerk Or an inspector.
Inspector, right.
And the inspector is the best job there is.
And it doesn't take much.
And it's a good job anyway.
So I'm doing this thing.
Were you high?
No, I wasn't high.
It turns out that later, it turns out there was a big drug bust in both the General Motors plant and also at the International Harvester place where these guys were strung out on amphetamines.
And that's the only, because I was never, I could never keep up with the quota.
The guy was always being, yeah, you're way behind, you're thousands of units, you're not done.
Yeah, that's why you gotta take the Cokes.
So these guys were all, it was mamphetamines.
Beans.
What did you call them?
Beans.
Beans, man.
Benny's.
So they used to, apparently these guys were down in these things all day.
They were just completely wasted on drugs and they could get their production numbers up.
Right.
And I think that this is, and if we look at it, they always, the United States is laced with cocaine and all kinds of other performance enhancing drugs.
Yeah.
Because there's so many demands on the workers.
That's why our productivity is so high.
But at the same time, let's face reality about this stuff.
If this is the way it is, legalize drugs for God's sake.
All right.
Done.
Right.
Cool.
I should try some of that.
Why?
I've never done coke in my life.
Ever.
Ever.
Yeah, I would avoid it.
With your personality?
That might be funny.
I would avoid it.
I haven't done E. I haven't done Coke.
Weed, that's the only thing I've ever done.
I think in college I snorted a diet pill.
You were so strung out on weed for so long that if I were you, I would stay away from everything.
Wait a minute.
You saw me on weed.
I wasn't like strung out.
That's not a good characterization.
I functioned perfectly fine.
No, I wouldn't say strung out so far as that you were wasted.
You were fine.
You were noticeably normal on weed.
Like I told somebody recently, I said, when he stopped using weed, I couldn't tell.
Who were you talking to about my situation?
My wife.
Oh, okay.
That's cool.
I couldn't tell he changed.
It looks like the same guy to me.
So you were obviously, I don't know, I guess the word strung out is the wrong one, but you were apparently so into it that it was part of your life and it really didn't change your personality much, but you couldn't get off of it that easy.
If you brush past me on the street, you get a contact high.
You would.
Yeah.
You know, I've got to tell a story.
We're used to walking around San Francisco discussing things when he was working on us.
With me trailing behind like a Muslim housewife.
When we got there, I would always look behind him and there was two or three dopers going like, breathing real hard.
They were always following him.
No, no.
I always said, get out of here!
I always had to chase him.
There's always these groups.
I always had to chase him away.
We want to scrape his hair, man.
Alright, enough of that.
Hey, first interview is now out with Sweet Mickey Martelli.
Ha!
Yeah, Sweet Mickey Martelli.
He's still alive, that's a plus.
Well, you know what?
I'm going to revise my statement about Sweet Mickey Martelli.
What was your statement?
Well, that, you know, it's just another shill.
Yeah?
He's just a dumb guy.
He's not my statement.
So I think the guy actually has...
He's not smart enough to be a shill?
Is that what you're saying?
No, he's not.
And I'm listening to this interview.
Do you want me to decide here?
Okay.
I think his heart is in the right place.
So first of all, there's two bits I want to play here.
This is from, I think, a Canadian interview, which is completely chopped up.
The woman's asking questions, and then it's like...
Snip, and then you hear his room noise.
It's edited, the questions are done later probably, I don't know.
But the first thing is about the consultants that he used, which of course we know, actually they were Spanish consultants, I didn't know this, these election consultants who also ran the McCain campaign, For Senator McCain.
Not successfully, I might add.
But these are professionals, and their headquarters is in Gitmo Nation castanets, which I find rather peculiar.
I haven't delved into them very far.
But anyway, so the interviewer asked the question about how he came up with, you know, why did he decide to go with consultants?
Duh!
His answer is rather surprising.
I want to ask you about your history as an...
There was the clue that it's Canadian.
Okay.
I want to ask you about...
...entertainer and how you've moved on to the political stage.
You hired an international consultancy, the same one that helped elect Felipe Calderon in Mexico and that worked on John McCain's...
No, right.
Calderon, isn't he the drug lord?
No, he's the head of Mexico.
Thank you.
No, you're thinking of the Calderon drug cartel out of Colombia.
I'm sorry.
Different Calderon.
Not related.
Alright, so let's get back to the question and answer.
2008 presidential campaign.
Why did you feel you had to do that?
Well, to be honest with you, I plan on doing, on campaigning on my own.
It's a group of friends that felt that it would be good for them to offer this to the campaign, and they did.
My buddy said, hey, check these guys out.
I can just see this guy smoking a joint.
I'm going to run, man.
I'm going to do it.
Hey, yeah, great.
Hey, Mickey.
Sweet Mickey, dude.
Let me introduce you to some cool dudes.
Alright, man.
That's good.
And I really appreciate their donation.
But myself...
I believed that we would have still done good, although I'm so much satisfied and so happy that I was able to use the experience of that firm to the point where they're still advising me today.
But somehow, I never felt the need.
I was probably immature then or not a politician enough to understand that I needed them.
But as they came along, I greatly appreciated their work.
So do you already feel kind of where this is going with this guy?
He's like, he's dumb.
He's like, oh, you know, I thought I could do, well, you know, I guess it's a good idea.
Yeah, these guys helped me.
What do they do?
Don't worry about it.
Don't worry about it.
He's kind of like that dumb guy who was in South Carolina, wherever it was, he ran unopposed in some election.
Oh, yeah, the...
He's kind of a sweet but dumb guy.
Right, exactly.
And he's just like, oh, I thought, you know, the people, I thought they really loved me, didn't they elect me?
No, dude, it was fraud.
Your votes got bought, dude.
Please don't, he's like totally believing it.
Now, here's the tip-off.
I had to play it back four times.
I had to research like ten websites to make sure that the guy actually, he's got it all wrong.
And I'll stop it at the point where he does this.
He doesn't even know the name of the organization that is withholding the money.
So this is about housing for the slaves, who, by the way, are going to be turned into slaves besides the tourism part, which is John's favorite.
They're going to have to make mangoes now, grow mangoes, to export mangoes, and they're creating jobs.
I'll read all the documents, by the way, this Haiti hack job.
They're creating 18,000 jobs in the garment industry.
Oh!
Yeah, exactly.
Ha ha!
And in addition to that, there's all kinds of help groups for young women, 15 to 24, to help them get on their feet and not be hookers, but be in the car.
Call girls.
Yeah, exactly.
We're going to upgrade you.
This is what we're all about.
Clinton leading the charge.
So this is about housing for 5,000, for tents, to get people out of tents and into houses.
Unbelievable.
Listen to this.
Right now I just finished a meeting with a landowner.
He has about 5,000 acres of land and is willing to partner with the state.
Now it's a matter of financing this project.
Okay, so he has a guy who wants to partner with the state.
Of course, we don't know who that is, Bill Clinton.
And who's got like 5,000 acres.
And, well, where are we going to get the money?
Who has the money, John?
Where's all the money?
Remember all that money?
Yeah, the money people were texting.
Well, let's go find out.
Mickey, where are you going to get the money from?
Haitians need a decent life.
It's imperative that we take them out of the tent.
So we will either through the CERH, which is the International Commission for the Reconstruction of Haiti.
Okay, so this is where I'm like, CERH? I'm like, what?
What he's saying is C-I-R-H, which is actually the domain name for the IHRC. And IHRC is not the International Haiti Recovery Commission.
It's the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, who, of course, is the president of that organization, is John What?
Bill Clinton!
No.
Yes!
So not only does this Martelli not know the actual name of the organization that has stolen the money, or doesn't even have it, but is supposed to be the funnel, which is the IHRC, the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, he's got the initials wrong, and he even thinks it stands for International Haiti Recovery Commission.
It does not.
It stands for Interim Haiti Recovery Commission.
Which is the International Commission for the Reconstruction of Haiti.
It's not even reconstruction, it's recovery.
Recovery of what?
Of Clinton's crap, recovering land that he thinks he owns, Martelly.
We will identify funds or again in the new budget for the next year, fiscal year, we will make sure that we put money Oh, how nice!
Really?
Isn't that what all the money is meant for?
I think we got a dummy.
The way they're living right now under the tents is unacceptable, as much as the education system that needs to be rebuilt.
And here it comes!
And in case the Sayer Ashwood wouldn't allow us to get funds for that, we have also identified other places where we can generate money.
So, to summarize, in case Bill Clinton decides not to give money for the people to have houses instead of tents, which it sounds like Martelli has no control over, because, you know, hey, it might not happen, you know, in case they don't allow it, you know, my overlords, we have other places we can get the money.
You know, like, hookers and bull!
It's like, it's so obvious.
The guy, oh my god, sorry Haiti.
Oh, and this is something unexpected from the Haitians.
It's not unexpected, it's just not reported.
And you look at all the, if you look at, and it is actually, I have to give them that, the website is cirh.ht.
And maybe everything's backwards because it's supposed to be French, but it's not the International Haiti Reconstruction Commission.
It's the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission.
And recovery, I guess the only thing they're recovering is just whatever they think belonged to them in the first place.
And you just go look at the recovery plan.
It's like $11 million here...
Where's all the billions?
Where did the billions go?
All the people that texted $10 on their phone.
I swear to God.
Well, the Red Cross has the majority of it.
By the way, Japan's Red Cross, which has collected over a billion dollars in the first three weeks because of the earthquake and the tsunami, says we have not yet distributed any of the funds.
Any.
Wait a minute.
Why?
Any.
Well, Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano has been urging that this take place.
Let me just see.
Japan's Red Cross collected more than $1 billion.
Meanwhile, the operator...
No explanation.
Shut up!
Why are you asking questions?
Just shut up.
We just hadn't...
No donations are dispersed through local governments that rely on independent commitment.
They have no answer.
No one's asking the question, apparently.
But the statement is...
A five-year-old can say, why?
Yeah, well...
The media hasn't got any five-year-olds.
Japan's Red Cross has collected more than one billion dollars.
By the way, everyone who bought the album on iTunes that went to the Red Cross, that's your money.
How do you feel now, stupid idiot?
You fell for it again.
More than $1 billion in the first three weeks after the massive earthquake and tsunami, but has yet to distribute any funds directly to victims.
Well, no, of course not.
It's got to go to corporations.
When will we finally understand this?
Never.
Never.
And why don't any of these Hollywood elites just say, I'm not participating in the Red Cross because they steal the money?
They don't think for themselves.
The funny thing is, I was watching this thing about, it was on one of the, I think it was Entertainment Tonight or something, I didn't take any clips, but for good reason.
But there was about, what's her name, the actress who's getting married, it's a big deal.
Oh, Reese Witherspoon.
Reese Witherspoon.
Why do I even know this?
Yes, there you go, now you're right in.
Papa!
Yeah.
So they have a clip of her when she's 15 on some talk show and she's giggling.
She says, I don't know.
I'm only 15.
They just tell me what to do and I do it.
Whatever they tell me to do, I do it.
God, I don't know anything anyway.
I'm only 15.
And she goes on like that.
I'm thinking this is the way all these actors are.
They don't know what they're doing.
They're told what to do.
In the case of George Clooney and all this Sudan and the rest of it, you never see him by himself.
He's always got some guy with him.
The whole thing is just ridiculous theater.
Handler.
Handler.
Yeah, he's got a handler.
Always.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah, that's bad.
So anyway, I've got a couple of things I want to get to before we...
Because we didn't talk about Libya at all.
I got some Libya stuff.
Well, I got a couple interesting things, because I have two clips, and I want you, because I have a question for you, and this will be an Ask Adam.
Is that up first or not?
No, no.
Up first is the NATO press conference with this foppish guy who is the...
It starts off with this woman on the speakerphone for like half an hour saying how awesome it all is.
It's taking place in Naples, but let's play a clip here.
I would like to know if it's possible to confirm how many proven casualties, civilian casualties, there have been due to NATO attacks that you can be sure and you can confirm.
And what is NATO doing to improve communication and coordination with the rebel forces?
Thank you.
I'm going to get a reputation for this because I'm going to take the second question first.
Oh, very good.
The boys at the club won't believe me.
I keep taking the second question first.
Oh, Someone's going to catch up with me quite soon and then start asking the questions round the wrong way.
And then I said...
Soon they're going to catch up to me and I'll start taking the questions first!
Bertie!
Bertie!
Pause another one!
Your second question was, what are we doing to improve the communications with the rebel forces?
I have to be frank and say it is not for us trying to protect civilians Of whatever persuasion to improve communications.
The homosexual persuasion.
With those rebel forces.
I can see what your point is of how do you avoid knocking out TNC tanks that we hadn't previously seen in that respect.
But I think I'm secure in that and saying it's not for us to improve the communications.
What we have to do is we have to see very clearly where civilians or civilian population areas are being attacked.
And then make sure that we can either take action, or if we can't take action, it's because we might cause collateral damage in that respect.
So that's my answer to that question, I think, of we need to make sure where there is action, we know where it is, that we can protect the civilians.
And then I said, nothing!
I just talked about tanks and they bought it.
The second half of the first question, which he took second, is actually worse.
Your first question on civilian casualties, I think the best answer to that, in trying to be very precise, is to ask NATO HQ to come back up with an answer to that and follow up that.
Because there is a danger that any answer I give now could be out of date by the time I gave it.
What?!
Hold on a second.
Now, here's what he said.
I can't give you an answer because there's going to be a lot more dead people in five minutes.
What is he talking about?
How many people are they killing?
They must be killing people left and right for him to give that answer.
Right?
Let's listen to it again.
That was pretty damn good, John.
Hold on a second.
Because there is a danger that any answer I give now could be out of date by the time I gave it.
It's not even five minutes.
It's like five seconds.
Yeah.
Wow.
That's astonishing.
What he's saying is that we're killing people left and right.
That's what the subtext is.
Yeah, you know, the people in Libya are apparently now painting the roof of their houses pink.
Yeah, so don't throw the bomb here, which of course immediately turns into a target.
They must be hiding there.
Human shields!
This one's cropped up.
Blow them all up!
They're using people as human shields!
In that respect, so what I'd like to do is hand over back to NATO, or not hand the question back to NATO HQ, but to say that's something we'll come back to you on that.
Thank you.
And then I told him we're killing lots of people and I told him I'll get back to them later.
There's another thing to note.
There was no reason for him to reverse order the answer to that question.
There was no connection.
Well, I guess there was.
No, there was because by taking the second question first and the first question second, in that time that he answered the second question first, he could kill more people.
He was on the mission.
I need to kill some more people.
So I'm listening to this thing.
It goes on and on, and apparently it's in two places, and one of them's coming over the phone or something.
There's a woman in the other area, and she decides to chime in on something.
Oh, I missed that one.
I tuned out after the whole Betty thing.
Well, anyway, so this woman chimes in about...
Now, I'm going to add, this is an Ask Adam.
Play an egg.
You've got one that's queued up.
Ask Adam.
Ask Adam.
Ask Adam. Ask Adam. Ask Adam. Ask Adam.
Ask Addie.
Hey, get stopped.
That's terrible.
That's a D. Too long.
People doing these things, you've got to make them snappy.
Who is Baroness Ashton?
Do I play the clip or answer the question?
Well, play the clip, then answer the question, because I'd like to know.
I can answer the question.
Why is she involved in the war in Libya?
Well, Baroness Ashton is, of course, a member of the British elite.
That's why she's a Baroness.
She's a total douche bucket.
And she is the United States of Europe.
Well, the technical name eludes me, but it's something like ambassador to the world at large, anything that is not on the moon bases.
But really, she's like the foreign minister.
And she's a total nincompoop.
And now we'll play the clip.
In terms of the humanitarian mission, as you know, NATO has completed its plans for a humanitarian mission and stands ready, if requested, to put that mission in place.
At the moment, we are making sure, as the Rear Admiral said, that we are de-conflicting, as the term goes here.
making sure that there is no conflict no confusion between our operations to enforce the arms embargo and humanitarian operations ongoing for the people of Libya And also, in terms of our regular contact with the European Union, that is ongoing,
that is clear, that is transparent, I can tell you that the Secretary-General will be meeting the European Union High Representative, Baroness Cathy Ashton, next Monday, and we have all also invited Baroness Ashton to the NATO Foreign Minister's meeting next week in Berlin to discuss the situation in Libya.
Yeah, the high priestess.
What did they call her?
They said she was high.
Well, she is high.
Now, she's a total douche bucket.
Nigel Farage rags about her all the time.
Baroness Ashton.
Yeah, she has a staff of like 50.
She makes half a million euros a year.
It's unelected, just appointed.
She's a horrible, horrible woman.
And she's ugly.
And the portions are so small.
Exactly.
No, this is, you know, it's crazy.
It's just crazy.
But you've got to laugh about it.
You know, we've got Haiku Herman, you know, walking around saying, yes, it is all our, we are good.
We have made it all happen.
I'm watching this carnival, circus, I guess is a better word, and I I'm wondering about, you know, I wrote down this note, are we actually, maybe we don't know this, but the United States is secretly, what we're really up to here, is secretly re-militarizing Europe so they can kill each other again?
Oh, I hope so.
They can kill each other again and we, you know, we're going to get a few dead, but we're going to reap the rewards in the long haul?
It's really interesting you say that, because if you look at the fractal of it all, Look at who's all ganging up together.
And look at who's opposing stuff.
Germany is kind of like opposing the French.
And we got Italy with a Mussolini guy in there.
It is kind of a fractal of another World War thing.
World War I and World War II. Yeah.
And then we'll divvy it all up again.
We'll have another Paris 1919.
We'll have another divvying up of the world.
And California will be the Middle East or something.
I don't know what it's going to...
It's nutty.
It's not good.
Meanwhile, let's just stick with Libya for a second.
So I was flabbergasted, literally flabbergasted by what crossed my television set earlier this week.
I watched the Wolf Blitzers during the day.
And with the situation wrong.
Wolf Blitzer is just a pretty gray-haired fox, isn't he?
That pretty man.
Even though there's this huge war and everything, they've got Nick Robertson in Tripoli.
It's just open communication all the time.
They've got, I'm just standing here.
Nick Robertson, by the way, who used to be a satellite engineer.
That's how he got started.
Did you know that?
No.
Yeah, he got started as a satellite engineer during the first Gulf War, working with Peter Arnett.
He was probably the guy that set up some of those fake satellite things.
He seems like he would be.
For all I know, Nick Robertson is in the Bahamas.
They never have an establishing shot.
It's always just like with some pine trees, actually, in the background.
Have you noticed this?
No, but I'm going to start looking.
And then sometimes he'd be like, oh, while we're speaking, we just hear some gunfire.
You'd hear, like, nothing.
And then Wolf will always go, yeah, turn up the microphone so we can hear the gunfire.
And like, well, it's really heavy artillery fire.
You don't hear nothing.
Just bite shitty mics there at CNN. Anyway, that's nothing to do with this clip.
So he has another, like a guy who's in Libya, and this is former congressman, what's his name here?
Kurt Weldon.
And I forgot to mention this on the last show, but Kurt Weldon went over to Libya.
He's like, I'm going to go over there.
I'm going to go fix everything.
Like, what?
So all of a sudden, the former congressman just decides to hop on over to Libya, which, by the way, is real easy to do, apparently.
John, you and I could go vacation there, I think.
Yeah, you want to go?
I'd love to.
Everyone seems to be just walking in and out, you know, in and out of the press compound.
No problem whatsoever.
You know, I'd love to see it.
And he says the most astonishing things, and Wolf Blitzer's actually questioning him, and it just blew me away.
Listen to this.
When was the last time you spoke with someone from the Obama administration about your mission?
Well, I don't want to get into the details of what I did before I came, but...
Right then, I'm like, my head whips around.
CIA. My head whips around.
I'm like, what?
I don't want to get into the details.
And this is video.
It sounds like audio, but it's video.
I was to say, as you've seen acknowledged in the press, I did reach out in an ongoing way with friends who have ties to both the State Department and the White House, and I did...
CIA, yes.
...interact with friends in the Congress from both parties.
Friends!
I did not seek any endorsement for this trip.
In fact, the first letter I received to invite me here was from the Deputy Foreign Minister, and I said, no, I'm not going to accept that.
I said, if I get a letter inviting me as a private citizen by someone like Bashir Saleh, then I would consider coming.
I received that letter in both English and Arabic.
In fact, I made it available to your network, and that's why I'm here.
I plan to provide information when I get back as they deem appropriate.
If they don't want my information, fine.
I'm not here to make policy.
I'm not here to deviate from the president's agenda.
All right, so at this point I'm like, wait a minute.
Why is he there?
Yeah, that's the first question I'd ask.
What are you doing there?
Is he there for the baths?
The mud bath?
Or is he there for the healthy waters?
Is he there for some enema?
I support President Obama in this effort.
I support Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.
And O'Biden?
I think they are taking the right course.
Hillary's statements yesterday...
Notice that!
Hillary's statements!
What?!
You know, at first he's talking with Secretary of State, then it's like, you know, hey Hillary, what did Hillary said the other day?
And like, that was a slip.
That is a big slip to say, Hillary, you know, whatever, Hillary.
By someone like Bashir al-Salah, then I would consider coming.
I received that letter.
In both English and Arabic.
In fact, I've made it available to your network, and that's why I'm here.
I plan to provide information when I get back as they deem appropriate.
If they don't want my information, fine.
I'm not here to make policy.
I'm not here to deviate from the President's agenda.
I support President Obama in this effort.
I support Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.
I think they are taking the right course.
Hillary's statements yesterday about what needs to be done here by Colonel Gaddafi, I support 100%.
I just want to clarify your specific role, because some questions have come up about if you're involved in any business deals, have been involved in business deals with Libya over the years.
You say you've had no financial relationship with Libya in any of your capacity since leaving the Congress.
Is that right?
Absolutely.
I have not made one dime, or I should say one dinar from Libya, anyone in this country.
Now, dollar is a different thing, but dime?
No, I don't do dimes.
And that is in case, that is in fact today, coming over here, no one's paying me.
I'm doing this because...
Alright, now listen, no one's paying me.
As I did for 20 years as the Vice Chairman of the Armed Services Committee.
Wired Magazine has reported that your company, Defense Solutions, a company you work for, did it one time.
Here it starts to unravel.
I'm like, this is interesting.
Okay, Defense Solutions.
So Wolf was actually like, he's quoting Wired, like deep journalism.
Yeah, that's the best he can do.
Point, propose selling arms to Libya under Qaddafi.
Is that right?
No.
First of all, I have no ties to Defense Solutions.
I did some consulting work with that company, as did General Barry McCaffrey and a couple of retired ambassadors.
That company has not been in existence.
Wired Magazine ought to become up to date because it's been basically non-existent for, I think, three or four years.
I did some brief consulting for them.
Never did I ever offer to sell any weapons to Libya because, as you know, our State Department requirements have never allowed arms to be sold to this country.
Unlike the Brits and perhaps some of the other European countries, we have a mandate that that's not been permitted.
Alright, so at this point I'm like, alright, whatever.
But then it takes another interesting turn.
Just to be precise, you never encouraged, you never worked to lift that embargo on selling arms to Libya?
No.
No, I've worked to try to normalize relations.
I've put together a comprehensive series of initiatives that could bring our people together in health care, in education, in housing, in environment, in energy.
I've put together ideas to create a relationship between the Jamahariah and the Congress, as I've done in nine other countries.
This guy must be a saint.
He's just there to go make it all good and get housing and education for children.
No, because, thank God, Wolf starts to ask again.
I'm proud of what I've done, and I'm sad that our efforts haven't paid off, and now we're in the midst of another war that's cost the American taxpayers almost a billion dollars, money we don't have.
And who's paying for your current trip?
Now remember, like, no one's paying for it.
Didn't he just say that?
No one's paying for it?
No one's paying.
I'm here with my own free goodwill.
Together with your delegation to Libya now.
The delegation is three people I brought over, an attorney friend of mine from Houston, because there are some things you're working on that I will not discuss tonight.
He's working on some things that I'm not going to discuss.
Tomorrow, you can talk to your own people about that.
Your network's been in the lead on that.
The only thing that was covered was my airfare over here.
And that's it.
I'm not asking for any money.
That's not why I'm here.
Who paid for the airfare?
The airfare was paid for by the team of Steve Payne and Brian Ettinger.
There we go.
Steve Payne and Brian Ettinger.
Finally!
It takes him four minutes, but Wolf gets it out of him.
These guys are total oil weapons consultants, worldwide strategic partners.
Who have some amazing little brochures out there hanging out with George Bush at his ranch and shooting skeet with Dick Cheney.
It's like the jackals are in.
The jackals are already in.
And they're being protected on all sides.
So it's over.
We're already in.
Is this a shock to any of us?
No, but the fact that Wolf Blitzer actually uncovered...
Actually got it out of somebody?
Yeah.
That he named a name, but then there did no follow-up whatsoever?
No, nothing.
Nothing.
There's another 30 seconds.
Oh, those two guys?
Oh, okay, great.
Bye.
Yeah, and I went to Korea with them.
You know, it's like the whole thing...
And this is a former congressman.
This is the problem.
This is the entire problem.
They're all elitist pricks, every single one of them.
And what they need is a chute!
That's what they need.
Anyway, I just thought it was funny.
Yeah, and of course Wolf says nothing.
Nothing.
88.
All right.
And what else do we have?
Yeah, that Nick Robertson thing, I delved into that, but that was kind of dumb.
You know, the whole false flag rape victim.
Which reminded me so much of that woman who talked about the...
Remember in Iraq?
The Kuwait woman that was from Hill and Knowlton that talked before Congress about the mess that was going on.
Yeah, with the premature babies in the incubators.
Yeah, I don't remember that part.
No, she was talking about the Iraqis, the soldiers coming in and tipping over the incubators with the babies.
Yeah, there's one.
Push it over.
Yeah, and so this woman who was allegedly raped, Nick Robertson interviews her, and she's like...
Yeah, you know, it's like I got tied up and beaten and raped and then you can't see it anymore, but as soon as I upload the videos to YouTube, I'll get them to you.
Literally.
This is like, what?
Yeah, it's just, the whole thing is crazy.
And then Dana Perino.
Remember her?
Yeah, she's on Fox all the time.
She's actually...
She's hot.
She's very pretty, but then when you see her seated with a bunch of other people, she's apparently like 4'1", and I think she's got a really big butt.
Oh, really?
I'm just saying, I've never seen her standing, but I mean, from the looks, there was some presentation recently, and there was a whole slew of people, and there's like person, person, person, person, midget, person, person, person, person.
And I said, who's the midget?
Who's the midget?
And I look, and look, and it's Dana Perino.
Remember when she had a black eye after George Bush beat her up for saying something wrong?
No, I don't remember that.
She had a black eye.
She probably walked into a doorknob.
So she's on SeanHannity.com, and I forget who she's with, but she says the most bizarre thing about his tie.
I'm interested in cutting spending here in Washington, D.C. And joining me now with reaction from the Fox Business Network, the host of Varney& Company, Stuart Varney, and former White House Press Secretary, Fox News contributor, Dana Preena.
What were you saying about Mr.
Varney's tie?
What?
Nothing.
It's lovely.
That's not what you were saying.
It has an interesting emblem on it, but not that anything was wrong.
All right, let's compare.
It looks like...
Did you ever work for the Al Jazeera Networks?
He's wearing a tie that has Al Jazeera logos on it.
And I'm like, yeah, of course, this is total subluminal stuff.
But if you really paid attention, you'd see a lot of pins and stuff.
You know, symbolism is big with the elites.
And I bet you, and literally, the guy has a tie that looks like the Al Jazeera logo.
And she called him on it.
But she wasn't supposed to, because like, hey, hey, Dana, Ixnay on the Jazeera emblemet.
Alright?
We all know we're trying to promote that.
Ugh.
When she was the press secretary, they rolled out, they had generally some men, and then they bring out this pretty girl.
She's very pretty, there's no question about it.
Very pretty, very pretty.
And they put her on, and I think she's the one who didn't know anything about the Vietnam War that existed.
Really?
It was something really dumb that she did during that era that they gave her crap about, or that there was a civil war in the United States.
She just didn't know any history.
But she's actually become fairly decent as a commentator on Fox.
But she's tiny and has a big butt.
I don't know about the butt.
I'm just guessing from the looks of when I saw this one thing.
There was person, person, person, person, person, midget, person, person, person.
It looked like the midget had a big butt.
That's all I can say.
Susan Rice has a big butt, too.
Well, you know, that's the Hillary thing.
Yeah, she's got those straight pant legs underneath the red jacket.
It's like a uniform.
It's like a coat.
Yeah, I know.
It's horrible looking.
It's like, Napolitano has this kind of outfit.
Yeah, it's like, don't do that.
You know what?
We could not only advise Russia today.
We could advise all of these warmongering women to do a much better job.
Yeah, presenting themselves.
Yeah, it's not nice.
They're unpresentable.
Yeah.
There goes the female audience for the next show.
Those guys are a couple of sexist pricks!
No, I'll tell you something.
We actually love women.
We appreciate women as total equals and peers.
But when you get these women, and by the way, we call out men just the same.
Didn't I just talk about some ugly old shrumpled up dude just today?
We talk about it all the time.
It's just you get called out on the women thing.
Right.
Well, generally speaking, people who do these kinds of news analysis shows don't resort to personal attacks on people's appearance.
Yeah, but it's fun.
But that's...
We just do it because I think that is needed.
Yeah, it is needed.
Thank you.
It is needed.
I think a lot of people say that.
They say, oh my god, this woman looks like crap.
Well, let me put it to you a different way.
We say it.
We should be saying it.
Politics is show business for ugly people.
We are oh so critical about Kim Kardashian's butt.
And we talk about that all the time, shamelessly, by the way.
We make fun of anyone who's on crack or drugs and gets a mugshot taken.
We love it.
We pass it around to each other.
So I think you're right.
I think it's fair game.
For the show business for ugly people politics for them to be called out on their appearance as well.
They want to be in it.
They all get high on it.
They're all horny for camera time.
They all love it.
They all get their hair done.
Look at Hillary.
She does a press conference in France just to get her hair done.
That would be my theory.
Yeah.
Alright, time for the end of show clip.
Now we have a conflict here.
What is your end of show clip?
Well, I have a couple.
I wanted to discuss a little bit about the Donald Trump and the fact that he's an interesting red herring and I have two clips from Trump and one including most of the crap that he said on the Today Show.
Which is hilarious as far as I'm concerned because he's essentially bringing out topics he's talking about.
By the way, the birth certificate thing, he keeps bringing it up and there's a new theory going around that you don't hear too much about in the mainstream media.
But as soon as it came up, I said, oh, that's an interesting theory.
Which is that he has a certificate of live birth but he won't bring out his real birth certificate and Trump doesn't even mention this but there's apparently the movement about show me the birth certificate, show me the birth certificate, show me the birth certificate is based on the fact that yes he has one but in there there's a section that says religion Muslim.
Okay.
So that would be a bad thing.
So he doesn't want to show his birth certificate.
Now, so I'm going to pass on the Trump clips because I think they're funny and universal enough that we can put them on the next show.
Okay.
And you can run your clips and movies.
Oh, really?
Are you sure?
Yeah.
I think they're good enough that we can – it's a humor.
That's pretty cool.
Yeah, I have been following the Trump thing, and of course, who's making the most money from this right now is NBC, because the ratings are up for...
And Golly G. Whiz, he was on the Today Show.
What network's that on?
Oh wait, and Golly G. Whiz, he was all over MSNBC. They were criticizing him, but they played the whole thing.
Of course, because it's great for the ratings of The Apprentice, which is on right now.
And I think you are right that it is just a setup for Mitt Romney.
Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention Susan Rice married to an ABC News producer.
Forgot to mention that.
The compromised ABC News.
Yeah, so Trump, yeah, it's annoying.
At this point, it's just annoying.
And it's like another topic of discussion that just distracts from everything else.
Oh, it's a total distraction, but I personally find it quite funny because everybody gets so worked up about it.
Now, just at the end here, I want to A, curse you, and B, thank you.
Curse you because you noticed that there was promotion going on for the Kennedys.
And so this thing is...
I guess they wanted to run it on the History Channel, but the History Channel said, well, this is not really historically correct.
So they sold it to Reels.
And by the way, the History Channel said that?
Yeah, I know.
So we watched this thing, and it's running every single night there's an episode.
It's the biggest piece of crap ever.
The acting is horrible.
Is this the thing with Katie Holmes?
Yeah, and Greg Kinnear.
Katie Holmes, by the way, I kind of...
Mickey disagrees, but I think she's probably the best actor in the bunch, and she plays Jackie O. But the sets are a piss-poor quality.
The acting is so atrocious, and the whole thing is, Kennedy saved the world!
Kennedy saved the world!
I'm like, oh my god, it's so unbelievably stupid!
Now, Well, thank you.
I won't have to watch it now.
No, you don't.
However, because of that, I was watching television, you know, the entertainment TVs, like all the kids do these days, and I wound up catching the premiere episode, which aired last Sunday, and it's still being repeated, of course, tonight, but tonight is the second episode of The Borgia.
Oh, yeah.
You have to watch this.
This is great.
This is 1492.
Cardinal Borgia takes over the papacy.
Jeremy Irons is a real actor.
And he plays Pope Alexander Sextus.
And it's subtitled The Original Crime Family.
And this is the type of show that could only have been made by Jews, I swear to God.
Because it like rips apart the entire Catholic religion.
And not that I care about either one either way.
But it's amazing.
Now the quality of...
And this is Showtime.
Man, these guys, they put some money in this stuff.
It looks beautiful.
It's really, really good.
And the story is probably a lot more believable than that Kennedy crap.
It's really good, and I would advise everyone watch it, because if you just want some really good entertainment that happens to come over television, this is it if you've got showtime.
Or get it on Torrent, for all I care.
It's really, really, really good.
So they're playing episode one and two tonight?
Of course, they always repeat it an hour before.
I'll DVR it, and I'll start watching it.
Absolutely outstanding.
Oh, you know what?
Before we go, it'll be too bad if I miss this.
One of our producers did some excellent work on TV film promotion.
Let me just see if I have this.
So he was watching...
Where is this guy?
If I don't have it, then I'll skip it.
Screw it.
I'll keep it for next week.
It'll be good next week.
Don't worry about it.
Anyway, so watch that.
By the way, I also want to mention I have some people that didn't get thanked for today's donations, and I'm going to push them off to Thursday.
I pushed off to Sunday, then I screwed up.
My mistake.
Well, it's all you really have to do for the show.
I do all the production and everything.
Yeah, yeah, I know, Mr.
Martyr.
I was going to go downstairs and get the material, but you told me no.
Erica's just sent me a note, and she is a midget, but no big butt, I have to say.
Okay, well, he would know.
She's not wearing a bra in this picture, either.
Just whatever she was wearing when she was in the midget shot, she just looked like she had a big butt.
No, no, no.
She looks cute.
She's a cute little thing.
Okay.
If only she had a flathead.
Alright, so here we go.
There goes our female listenership.
Exactly.
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And thank you so much for tuning in.
We are way over time, but we enjoy doing it for you.
Leaving you now with Max Keiser and his sidekick there who deconstructs the entire financial crisis right down to the bone.
And we'll talk to you again.
We haven't done our...
This is kind of weird.
I totally screwed that up.
We haven't done our...
It's all you have to do, like you just said, in production, and this is what we get.
I know.
For those of you questioning this, by the way, it is the Marriott Jazz Quintet.
The title of the song is On the Seventh Day.
I get a lot of questions about this music that we play at the end of the show.
And it's pod safe.
Now, the most important question, are you doing twit today?
Yeah, I'm going to do it from the crackpot commands.
Oh no, from the buzzkill bunker.
I'm not going anywhere.
I'll tune in then.
Cool.
It's always fun to watch you.
Alrighty.
I have to comb my hair, apparently.
Yes.
And the president will be speaking, I think, on Monday or Tuesday, so we'll have an analysis of that on Thursday's show.
Coming to you from Gitmo Nation West in the actual Crackpot Command Center here on the Hilltop Watchtower.
In the People's Republic of Southern California, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley in the Buzzkill Bunker, where it's sunny and pleasant, but the office needs cleaning.
I'm John C. Devorak.
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My hair needs combing.
We'll talk to you again on Thursday, right here on No Agenda.
No Agenda.
So this is the Guardian News, and they've done a deep investigation into the story that we've covered before, which is Wachovia Bank.
And they were found to have laundered $378 billion, or 30% of Mexico's GDP in this time, of drug money.
The cocaine.
Of cocaine, yes.
$378 billion.
$378 billion laundered through Acovia, which of course now is owned by Warren Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway.
And of course, he's never talked about that either.
And it's a huge part of the Mexican GDP. And the bank paid a fine.
Well, it's $378 billion in money laundering through the Casas de Cambio.
And they paid a $110 million fine, or less than 2% of one year's profits from Wachovia.
Wachovia is now owned by Wells Fargo.
Warren Buffett owns 6.5% of it.
But from this article, there's a very interesting point that I want to note that relates to this whole financial catastrophe.
First of all, Wachovia started really getting involved in these Casa de Cambio In 2004, just when the violence really started getting extreme in the Mexican drug wars.
In April and May of 2007, three years later, Wachovia, as a result of increasing interest and pressure from the U.S. Attorney General's office, It began to close its relationship with some of the Casas de Cambio.
And then in July of 2007, all of Wachovia's remaining 10 Mexican Casa de Cambio clients operating through London suddenly stopped.
July 2007.
What happened in August of 2007?
The world credit crunch.
The world credit crunch began.
So, what we see here is that the global banking liquidity is funded from the Mexican cocaine drug cartels.
When somebody decided to go after them, they withdrew their liquid cash, because remember in the global economy it's all credit and paper money, there's actually no cash except for the drug money.
They took the drug money off the market and they crashed the global economy.
The reason Bear Stearns went bankrupt, the reason Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, is because the Mexican drug cartel withdrew their cash from the market as a protest against the investigation.
In other words, so Wachovia, if I'm following this correctly, they had to pay a fine.
No further investigation was pursued, presumably because if they went after this story deeper, the Mexican drug cartel would threaten to withdraw the money again and throw the global economy back into a total standstill?
Well, I think they learned their lesson, because let's go on to the next headline.
The bank run we knew so little about.
This is from the New York Times' Gretchen Morgensen.
And she looked at the Federal Reserve Freedom of Information documents that were released only last week.
This is based on the Bloomberg News efforts to force the Fed to release information that who they were loaning money to at the Fed's discount window.
And it turns out, according to Gretchen Morgensen, in August 2007, as world financial markets were seizing up, domestic and foreign banks began lining up for cash from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
That August 20th, Commerce Bank of Germany borrowed $350 million at the Fed's discount window.
Two days later, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wachovia each received $500 million.
Now, banks only go to the discount window when they're in serious crisis and they're facing a liquidity crunch.
Thus began, Gretchen Morgensen says, the bank run that set off the financial crisis of 2008.
So, in retrospect, it was set off by Mexican drug gangs.
The ending of the money laundering via the banks.
Without that access to liquid cash, they froze up.
Because it turns out, it appears that...
Drug money was the only cash in the system.
Americans don't have jobs.
We only have debt.
Brits only have debt.
There is no cash.
There's no liquidity.
There's only crime.
All right, so we covered this story at the time, and we've talked about this.
We suspected it, yeah.
And we said that the crash of 2008, the only way that the wheels of global banking systems started turning again was that the money was released by the Mexican drug lords.
But what we're saying today is that the reason why the crisis happened to begin with...
Exactly, yeah.
...was that with the withholding of the cash...
Now, I remember...
Let me tell you something, Stacey.
I remember just very vividly when I was working on Wall Street in the 1980s.
Every Friday, we have cocktails on Park Avenue and watch this parade of limousines.
Travel down Park Avenue into the basement of Citibank.
Everyone knew this was money that was being laundered by Citibank from drug money.
This was an open secret.
Nobody doubted this.
So I'm glad to see now, at least 20, 25 years later, people are beginning to understand that the global finance community, the global banking system, runs...
Entirely on cocaine money.
So when they say, well, why is the war on drugs failing?
Because they need the cash to run the banks.
Why is the drug problem so rampant around the world?
Because bankers need that money to pay their bonuses.
The bankers, when we say bankers are terrorists and they kill people, and they have the moral equivalency of a Mexican drug lord lopping the head off a baby to support their crime syndicate, that's what we need.
They're the same.
They're the same, too.
Faces of the same coin.
They're terrorists.
Blankvine, Diamond, Jose, whomever, Drug Lord, they're all terrorists.
They all revolve around cocaine and money laundering, and now we know...
Unequivocally, based on Gretchen Morgensen's report and others, Wachovia Bank, of course, Warren Buffett's now involved with that.
Who knows what Charlie Munger's habit is?
The guy must be a horse!
At the time, up until July 2007, when money was...
Circulating through the banking system from the Class A drug dealing, those CDOs backed by Wachovia Bank, J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, all these other banks that went the following month to the Fed, prior to that, their CDOs may have been A-rated.
Following that, all the downgrades happened.
Now, we first reported on this in 2008 when Antonia Maria Costa, then head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, said he had evidence to suggest that proceeds from drugs and crime were the only liquid investment capital available to banks on the brink of collapse.
He said, quote, interbank loans were funded by money that originated from the drugs trade.
There were signs that some banks were rescued that way.
Right, and again, here's another aspect to it.
Why do analysts give these CDOs a rating of AAA? Why does Moody's, S&P, Fitch give what is obviously garbage a AAA rating?
Isn't it clear they're high on cocaine?
Isn't it clear the people at Moody's, the executives at Moody's, Fitch, and...
S&P need to be in rehab immediately because they're taking massive quantities of cocaine to support their delusions.
Yeah, but Max, what it's suggesting now, that Wachovia has not been put in trouble.
There's no criminal sentence.
There's nothing but a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, minute little fine like pocket change.
They're saying it's AAA rated now because Class A drugs are once again backing up the collateral that we're offering, the assets we're selling.
I guess this is, again, why the Federal Reserve doesn't want an audit.
Because if you open up the vaults there at the Fed, whether it's the Fed in New York or the one in Washington, you're going to find Pablo Escobar sniffing 20 tons of blow.