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	I don't want sugar in my croissant.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, May 12th, 2011.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination.
	This is episode 303.
	This is no agenda.
	And now officially recognized by the European Union.
	Coming to you from the Hilltop Watchtower, Crackpot Command Center, and Giveaway Nation West, the People's Republic of Southern California.
	In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I can't really hear the music or anything else that you're playing there.
	Ah, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Sorry about that.
	And you're like, wow, why is he doing that rambling without the music?
	That make no sense.
	In the morning to you, John.
	In the morning to you, Adam, and to all ships at sea and feet in the air.
	And to all of our human resources who are in the chat room at NoAgendaStream.com, NoAgendaChat.net, all charged up and ready to go the way their government loves them, slowly amortizing their $9.1 million human resource value down to zero.
	So the...
	I'm looking at some of the email and I realize that...
	Gee, when's the last time we heard anything about those nukes in Japan?
	The nukes in Japan?
	The power plants.
	Oh, okay.
	When's the last time you heard about it?
	Did you know that as of today, plant number one is now causing all kinds of problems?
	The core, the fuel has been exposed to the air and maybe more radiation than ever before will be now released?
	I'm too preoccupied waiting for listening to Senator Inhofe talk about the Osama Bin Laden pictures.
	I have no time for important stuff like that.
	You mean like the clip that I have?
	Did you get it too?
	Inhofe?
	Yeah.
	The one from Elliot Spitzer?
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Oh my goodness.
	Brilliant minds think alike.
	Actually, it's interesting because I think it might have been pool video at one point.
	Because everyone has the video of Senator James Inhofe who's on the Intelligence Committee.
	Is that what he's on?
	Is that why he's a privileged elite that he's allowed to see the pictures?
	I don't know what committee he's on, but he did get to see the pictures and said they were gruesome.
	Well, we can actually hear him explain.
	But the question is, what pictures did he actually see?
	The first twelve were taken in the compound as obvious as right after the incident took place.
	So they're pretty grueling.
	The other three were taken on the ship and they included the burial at sea.
	So I would say this.
	Three of the first twelve pictures were of Obama when he was alive.
	Obama?
	Pictures of Obama!
	And the funniest thing, it's a split screen with Eliot Spitzer.
	And you know there's a little delay.
	And Spitzer is looking like a freaking zombie into the camera.
	Well, Inhofe says, Obama.
	And all you see...
	Is Spitzer's eyes for like a nanosecond, shift to the right and then back?
	Because, you know, he's looking at some floor producer going like, no, no, no, don't react to it, don't worry about it, don't say anything, shh, shh, shh, shh, don't say anything.
	Three of the first 12 pictures were of Obama when he was alive.
	You know, this can't be a coincidence anymore.
	This is impossible.
	Well, you know, it's hard.
	I catch myself.
	I haven't done it recently.
	I haven't had this happen ever.
	Mickey's had it.
	You've had it.
	All the people I love seem to have it.
	This has not happened to me.
	By the way, you may be...
	I don't know.
	I mean, there was an interaction between him and Spitzer, I thought.
	I mean, the thing could have been just a feed.
	No, he's actually asking questions, but he certainly...
	Well, I don't know why he didn't say something, because it seems to me that right there you say, hey, you mean Osama.
	Well, Spitzer looks off to the right, for us to the left, for him to the right, for a nanosecond.
	He shifts his eyes, and clearly someone was standing next to the camera, a floor producer going like, no.
	Well, then he's an obvious stooge, because any normal person who's listening...
	Excuse me, you mean Osama.
	Now I did it.
	The thing is, I always say Osama Bin Laden.
	I rarely ever say Osama.
	If you're just going to say Osama, that's when it happens.
	And I rarely ever say Obama.
	I always say George W. Obama, you know, giving our president credibility with his proper name.
	Hello, everybody!
	Let's just listen to these pictures, though, for a second, because, of course, we want to know how incredibly horrible these gunshot wounds look in Obama's head.
	And they did this for the purpose of being able to look at those and seeing the nose, eyes, and the relationship for positive identification purposes, and that was good.
	Of course.
	That's how we always identify people positively is by their nose and ears.
	One of the things that was, and I had to make my own conclusion on this because they're not really sure.
	One of the shots went through an ear and out through the eye socket.
	I was like, cool.
	So that was a shot from behind then.
	He was shot in the back.
	No, if it goes through the ear and it comes out the eye socket, then it's a shot.
	He also corrected it.
	He didn't know.
	He went on.
	No, he didn't.
	Or it went in through the eye socket, but it exploded.
	No, he doesn't know what he's talking about.
	He doesn't know what he's talking about.
	Yeah, but that was pretty hilarious and pretty stupid that, what's his face, Elliot Spitzer didn't say anything.
	Typical.
	Imhoff sounded drunk.
	Excuse me.
	Well, wouldn't you be drunk if you had to do this kind of work for a living?
	I was thinking about the exact same thing.
	I'd be hammered.
	I was watching nothing but these hearings.
	I listened to the entire AT&T T-Mobile hearing, which I have some clips of, which I find interesting.
	Really?
	That's interesting?
	Yeah.
	Why is that interesting?
	Because the guy that runs the CEO of AT&T is a douchebag.
	That's why.
	Oh, okay.
	You mean a...
	Douchebag!
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Well, that makes sense.
	And he's full of crap, but he's a sweet talker.
	But anyway, watching these things, I'm thinking, I bet you, you know, there is a reputation in Washington for all the senators and House members to be alcoholics.
	I can see where you'd head that way, because it's pretty, you know, you've got to do something.
	Yeah, well, it's funny.
	My uncle, as you know, has been involved in many a decision-making.
	My sister visited him when she was recently over from Italy, and the next time I see him, and I will see him when we go on the big No Agenda Gitmo Nation tour, we will be seeing Uncle Don.
	And maybe you could borrow Will Smith's bus.
	The stinky one?
	The stinky, noisy one?
	Anyway, and Willa was telling me some story that he was talking about when they decided to do some, basically start a war.
	It must have been either Korea or Vietnam or whatever.
	That my aunt, Aunt Meg, they were in the study.
	I guess they didn't do this in any secure location at his house, probably.
	And they were discussing this for, you know, until deep in the night, but they were drinking like, they had drunk like three bottles of scotch until they thought, yeah, let's do this.
	Completely hammered.
	We should go bomb this stuff.
	Let's bomb it.
	Let's bomb it.
	And what do you say?
	John, we could do that job.
	Well, you know, if you're plastered enough, probably the only word you can actually say and get out is the word bomb.
	In fact, I think my uncle actually said, dudes, I'm so bombed.
	Bomb?
	Okay, let's do it.
	Let's bomb it.
	Hey, a lot of PR company work is going on, which has just been astounding me.
	The one that came out, I guess, this morning, this story from the PR company that apparently Facebook hired to get a journalist to write an op-ed that they would then place in some prominent publications, I might add, some of them which we read, such as the Washington Post, To smear Google on their privacy policies and actions.
	Have you followed this yet?
	No, I missed this whole story.
	This is great.
	It is great because it shows two things.
	A, Google's evil.
	B, Facebook's evil.
	C, PR companies run the show.
	Well, we know that.
	This is about Google's circle.
	Anyway, Daniel Lyon is the reporter.
	I guess he used to work for MSNBC. I think I know him.
	Yeah, you might.
	Let me see if I can pull up the...
	Here.
	Let me look at pictures and I'll see if it's him.
	Yeah, this is...
	Is it with an E or an IEL? Hold on.
	I've got a...
	There we go.
	L-Y-O-N? L-Y-O-N? Yeah.
	L-Y-O-N-S. Yes.
	Okay, so this was...
	Is it Forbes?
	Maybe is it...
	I don't know if they even have the right guy here.
	Anyway, so Facebook hired PR firm BM, what is that, Burson?
	Yeah, Burson Marsteller, yeah.
	Right.
	One of the big, big boys.
	Right, and so they approached the journalist and said, look, here's all the details on how evil Google is with their...
	Google social circles thing, whatever, stealing your information and selling it to advertisers, etc.
	And they said, you know what?
	We can get you a placement in Washington Post, Huffington Post, Politico, all these great online publications that people trust so much.
	Daniel Lyons is the fake Steve Jobs.
	But is he the guy?
	He may not be the...
	Yeah, Dan Lyons reveals, yeah.
	Hmm.
	Yeah, he wrote a book about it and the whole thing.
	And the funny thing, I don't know him personally, but I do know that...
	I mean, yeah, he's the fake Steve Jobs.
	He's a very high profile since he pulled that stunt.
	No, this is a different guy.
	I'm sorry.
	Lyons is the guy who's breaking it.
	The person who...
	Oh, okay, so Lyons is breaking the story.
	He's breaking the story.
	The journalist in question was Christopher Sogoyan.
	S-O-G-H-O-I-A-N. S-O-G-H-O-I-A-N. And so he's actually published the emails from the PR firm.
	It's a tremendous scandal, and I really hope that people can take this for what it really is, because it says so much, mainly about Facebook.
	How can you trust people that do stuff like this?
	What is Facebook so afraid of unless, of course, someone's not playing ball?
	We can't have this happening if both Facebook and Google are NSA CIA. So, you know...
	This is so fresh.
	I mean, it happens on the show morning.
	I'm looking at his Twitter post, and he says, did Facebook give its PR firm a list of privacy advocates who might agree to a ghost-written op-ed or did a PR firm create the list itself?
	He's breaking the story that apparently Lyons picked up on.
	Exactly.
	So who's the writer that is a stooge writer?
	So he's not the guy.
	Well, Segoian's the guy.
	No, he didn't write the article.
	He's the guy who broke the story.
	No, no.
	He's breaking the story that he was approached by BM. Oh, okay.
	And he was approached.
	Yeah, and he's published the emails.
	Now, there are other bloggers who were approached, and apparently they probably took money as well to write about this.
	So this is great.
	This is really good.
	Yeah, it's scandalous.
	How come I wasn't approached?
	Yeah, really?
	I know!
	Here's how the meeting went.
	How about Dvorak?
	Dude.
	He doesn't even read his email.
	He gets no spam because he doesn't read it.
	He doesn't read his emails.
	It's a waste of time.
	Don't waste the bits on sending Dvorak an email.
	Well, I think that Sigoyen should be praised.
	Yes, absolutely.
	For blowing the lid off of it.
	And all the other bloggers who didn't.
	Because what you do with these kinds of things, of course.
	You don't just approach one person.
	You have a fan.
	You fan it out.
	Spread the love.
	And so, yeah, great.
	That's funny.
	But that was Burson Marsteller that got their tit in the ringer.
	Yeah, well, and they're big, right?
	They're huge.
	Oh, huge.
	Yeah, and they don't just do tech companies.
	They've got to do all kinds of stuff.
	No, they do.
	They're the big, they're like the hill of Norton.
	They're as big as Hill of Norton.
	They are the hill of Norton.
	So there's another huge PR push, which is working extremely well.
	But people are missing out or really missing the point as to what's happening.
	And this is about vaccines.
	And normally we leave vaccines until later on in the show.
	Now, for those of you new to the program, we have been doing research and tracking the pharmaceutical companies for years now regarding vaccinations.
	And, of course, we all know about the swine flu vaccines and how the World Health Organization was complicit with the people making money in the back end, owning patents, having interest in pharmaceutical companies.
	And the big pharma companies, all of their big medication, their patents are running out in the next few years.
	So they have to have the next boondoggle, the next bonanza.
	They would have had more good medicines and maybe things that would actually help people.
	But instead, they spent all their money on marketing.
	Exactly.
	And in all of their annual reports, and not necessarily the report that is sent to Wall Street, but if you go into any Sanofi Poster or Merck or any of these big guys, and you want to download the PowerPoint presentation that either their CEO or the COO has given to investment bankers, And in that, you always see this huge hockey stick curve and, well, this is our vaccine business.
	It's going to be a bonanza.
	And why is for multiple reasons.
	One, this is giving medication to people who aren't sick.
	So there's a lot more of people who aren't sick than are sick.
	This is really groovy and it's going to protect you from something.
	They've successfully changed the actual definition of what a vaccine is.
	In addition to that, for vaccinations, now there is a statutory law in the books, approved by the Supreme Court of these Gitmo Nation United States, that does not allow you to sue a pharmaceutical company if you get sick from a vaccine.
	So they've kind of got everything all teed up.
	Beautiful.
	Now, of course, we need to push this agenda further and further, and there's a new way they're doing it, and it was fascinating to me.
	And I was reading about this, and it wasn't until I saw this woman appear on Fox...
	And I looked her up and I listened to her story and oh by the way I saw that she's a guest on the show and she has an IFB i.e.
	an earpiece in while she's discussing this on the show.
	Most guests I will tell you don't have an earpiece when they appear on a show.
	I beg to differ.
	Most guests, I said.
	If they're on the show, she's in studio.
	Okay, if she's in studio, it's rare.
	If it's a remote shot, they always have an IFB. She's in studio.
	She's sitting right across from the desk from the guest host.
	Was there anybody that she had to listen to?
	No, no.
	She's in studio.
	And what happened, and I didn't notice it until I saw her pull it out of her ear because, and this happens a lot, if you either don't set it up right and you don't have it on the guest channel only, she was probably hearing some crap in the control room and it was annoying her while she was talking.
	Either that or what they were saying she didn't like.
	That's also possible.
	But really, when I looked at this woman who, by the way, is hot...
	Was it a generic earpiece or was it a custom earpiece?
	I couldn't tell.
	I couldn't tell.
	But she was hot.
	I mean, whenever they got someone on Fox who's hot, I mean, you've got to be like, okay, shill, right?
	Let's see what she has to say.
	Yes, there must be something extremely important.
	So this is a...
	I've got to set it up because then only will you really understand what's being said.
	This is...
	She's blowing the lid...
	Blowing the lid off of this huge scandal we didn't know about.
	Apparently, the government has been paying child victims of vaccinations gone wrong millions of dollars quietly so they don't cause too much trouble.
	You with me?
	Yeah.
	So, what you think she's saying is...
	These vaccines, you know, they're causing autism.
	It's horrible.
	You shouldn't take them.
	So this is basically one of these...
	Reverse psychology.
	Reverse psychology.
	Yeah, reverse psychology.
	Sleight of hand.
	You start thinking one way and then they drop the bomb on you.
	So the message here, I believe, and I want you to listen to this clip, Johnny.
	You tell me.
	Especially, there's some things in there that she says that it really hits home.
	The message, I believe, here is...
	Vaccines good.
	And actually she says that at the end of the clip.
	Vaccines are great.
	There is a very small percentage of people who because of their DNA respond in horrible ways to vaccinations and get autism and get all messed up.
	But don't worry, the government will pay you money.
	And this is the message.
	And what is so fascinating about what you'll be announcing tomorrow and what you and the other parents say, the federal government has always said that there is no connection between vaccines and autism.
	Though they did have a multi-million dollar payment to one little girl, Hannah Poling.
	And they said that her case was so unique because she had an underlying mitochondrial condition that did cause autism, but that that would never happen again and that that was very unique.
	Yet, you are living proof that, in fact, they have been paying other parents.
	How much has your settlement been?
	Our settlement has been millions of dollars.
	And the way that they do it is there's a lump sum for the child.
	It's not something the parents ever have access to.
	It is then paid out in an annuity, where they figure out the exact life costs for the child over a lifetime.
	However, let me tell you, as you're figuring this out, they say helpful things like, But a lot of the kids don't live to be very old with this disability.
	So she's just telling you the contract here.
	Let me point something out immediately.
	These deals are never done without non-disclosure agreements.
	And she actually goes into that.
	Of course.
	She could not even be talking like this.
	Right.
	If they were paying her, they would not be paying her another nickel.
	Exactly.
	Figure it right down to the diaper and it's paid out yearly.
	So as the government was saying all these things, it was very baffling to me as the parent of a child that the government out of the other side of their mouth was saying, yes, your child is disabled, he has autism, he has mental retardation and seizures, and we're going to pay for his care.
	And see, because the government has never allowed for this connection, And in fact, they've been quite clear to say that there are no studies that connect autism with vaccines.
	This in some ways smacks of a cover-up.
	A cover-up?
	Who ever told to keep quiet?
	Who is this woman that's on Fox that's doing these dramatic readings?
	She's reading the script.
	Thank you.
	She's reading the script.
	It's so obvious.
	She even said cover-up because it's in uppercase in the teleprompter.
	Cover-up, emphasize this word...
	Very routinely.
	We had a lawyer who did these kind of cases regularly and talked about how dicey it was to have a topic like autism come up.
	And even subsequent to winning the case, and I say winning in quotes, You know, the winning came at the expense of a marriage breaking up of the other kids going through severe stress and of my son finally being placed in a home because he needs around-the-clock care.
	So winning is misleading.
	Relative, yes.
	But even after that, I was told, you know, this is an annuity.
	This is something he's not giving.
	She's actually laying out the terms here.
	It's an annuity for every year your kid lives.
	We give you an amount of money.
	And his money for life.
	Be careful talking about this.
	Yeah, I'm sure that's what the government said.
	Just be careful talking about this.
	This is an annuity.
	You could stop at any time.
	What bull.
	Yeah, thank you.
	You're best just to, you know, feel lucky you've won this case.
	And to be quite honest, not knowing other parents, you have no access to anybody.
	I had no idea how prevalent this was.
	Aha, prevalent because everyone can do it.
	Tomorrow, you...
	And dozens of other families are taking the bold step, even though you had been told to be quiet because the money could dry up for care, you're taking the bold step of coming out and making what announcement?
	Okay, now, let's see if she actually says anything here.
	Making an announcement that the idea that there's no link between vaccines and autism is a complete red herring.
	My child was compensated in 2000.
	Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.
	That's a good one.
	It's great, isn't it?
	I love this.
	I mean, this hit me so hard.
	Mainly because everyone was sending me these emails saying, you know, the government's been covering this up.
	I'm like, no, no, no, no, no.
	This is a PR move.
	There are dozens of other cases like this.
	And, you know, we know from something like statistics, as soon as we have one exception to what we're saying unequivocally, it's not true.
	This is not true.
	You know, certainly there's a risk in parents speaking up.
	Some aren't comfortable doing that.
	But, frankly, being one of the lucky ones, I feel a real obligation to do that.
	She's one of the lucky ones.
	I don't understand.
	Her kid's messed up, but she's one of the lucky ones.
	I guess because...
	One of the lucky ones is getting cash.
	Paid, right.
	And I know that you also want to make the point that you are not anti-vaccine, nor are these other parents.
	You just want the information to get out there, that there is a risk to vaccines.
	There's a risk to vaccines.
	I'm assuming that we'll find out like so many things that there's an interaction between genetics and a very few number of people.
	I'm very pro-vaccine program.
	I understand public good, that there's often a few that suffer in the context of that.
	My problem is not taking care of the children that have been the casualties of this.
	To me, that is completely immoral.
	So, I looked this woman up.
	I looked this woman up, Sarah H. Bridges.
	Guess what?
	She's a doctor, a Ph.D., And she's a consultant.
	Her consulting advice draws on this both sides of the desk experience and is firmly grounded in what works, not just what's possible.
	Right.
	Now, we talked about this on the show before, which is the ability of some PR agencies, or the modern PR agencies, which use all kinds of psychological methods.
	And in this case, of course, this...
	And as you could tell by some people who wrote in, this whole...
	And to the point where your brain was receptive to the message late in the discussion, which the message was, ah, it's got nothing to do with it.
	You know, autism and vaccines are good.
	But there's a secondary thing here at work that I think that was even more subtle, which is the message that is genetic somehow, which leads us to the dual headed monster of genetic testing and collecting DNA on kids.
	Cool.
	Cool!
	I can't wait.
	Me, my kids, and Osama Bin Laden, all in the gene pool database.
	So I suspected there was going to be a big genetic...
	We'll watch this.
	We'll put it on the prediction.
	Yeah, very good.
	A genetic testing push within the next 12 months.
	Because you have to do these things within...
	If you're going to bring these PR stunts out, you have to do your follow-up within some reasonable time.
	You can't wait five years.
	No, because the client gets upset if it takes too long.
	And the message is wasted, right?
	Yeah.
	Well, no, the client gets upset because it's taking too long.
	They need some action.
	Some actual reaction.
	That's a good find.
	Yeah, no, it's just...
	But this is what I love so much is when people send this and they make these automatic presumptions.
	I'm like, you know, there's a lot more to this.
	And when you listen to her speak and now know that she's a paid consultant, she's paid to go on television shows to talk about stuff.
	I mean, I hope...
	Well...
	It's horrible if her kid had a terrible adverse reaction.
	She may not even have a kid for all I know.
	Well, if that ever was revealed, she has to have a kid.
	There's no way they're going to let that.
	Because if that ever got it, something like that got out, it would be...
	You mean that would be like Facebook hiring a PR firm to slam Google?
	It'd be worse.
	But yeah, something like that.
	Oh my goodness.
	Yeah, there's a lot of cool stuff going on.
	Just on the vaccine front, and a lot of people sent me this as well, just so we can get it out of the way.
	North Carolina School District, of course, everyone's pushing the vaccines.
	And I guess one of the big pharma companies came in with an idea, and they said, Hey kids, if you get vaccinated, you can enter a contest for a prize to win an iPod.
	And to bribe these kids.
	Yeah.
	It's great.
	And you know, the kids are like, well, screw it.
	I want an iPod.
	They should have upped it, though.
	It's a little old-fashioned.
	It should have been an iPad.
	Have you seen...
	Do you watch South Park?
	Yeah, really?
	Now you mention it.
	What a bunch of cheap tricks.
	Do you ever watch South Park?
	Not too much.
	I mean, I watch it once in a while.
	It's always fun, but it's kind of dated.
	You must watch...
	No, it's not dated.
	They've gotten so...
	I'm talking about the style.
	Yeah, but that's why they can be so actual and so current with the topics.
	So what's the one you like?
	The Human Sentai Pad.
	And it's all about not reading Apple's terms and conditions.
	Oh, I may have...
	Is this new?
	Yeah, it's the latest one.
	Oh, okay.
	It's hilarious.
	I'll get it off of Hulu or wherever I get it.
	Yeah, you can get on Hulu.
	It's really good.
	Those guys, they'll probably listen to this show.
	I doubt it.
	So, you're at a computer, and since we're talking about bogus bullcrap, I have a global warming commercial.
	By the way, I think 10-second commercials on television are very effective, because this one really gets the message across, and it makes you want to go look up the website.
	Global Warming.
	It's got a lot to do with what you put on your plate.
	Find out more at letsactnow.org.
	Alright, so what's at letsactnow.org?
	I don't know, you tell me.
	So it's so effective that you went through all the trouble of getting the clip of the commercial but didn't actually go to the...
	No, no, I went.
	Letsactnow.org.
	Sending requests.
	Oh, it looks like we've killed the website.
	I'm doing my Leo now.
	We've killed the Letsactnow.org website.
	Everyone's surfing to it.
	It actually has been killed.
	I can't get to it.
	What's on it?
	What do they have?
	Nothing.
	I've never gotten to it.
	It doesn't exist.
	It doesn't work?
	But here's the deal.
	Here's what I thought.
	I don't know why this ran.
	This ran yesterday.
	Let's act now.
	Most people don't have a browser at their television, so they hear this.
	Oh, it's on your plate.
	Obviously, this is a vegan thing saying meat is making global warming.
	Let's act now.
	Let's act now.
	So all the messages, you just think to yourself, let's act now.
	Okay, I'll act now, not eat meat or whatever.
	But you go to this web.
	There's nothing at this website.
	It doesn't work.
	It's like bogus.
	It doesn't work.
	While we're on the PR tip and the global warming, and this came from research, of course.
	So here's the meeting.
	How do we get these people to start really thinking about global warming?
	What can we do?
	They don't care about dying.
	They don't care about the earth burning.
	Underwater.
	Wait a minute.
	I've got it.
	Climate change could disrupt Wi-Fi.
	Oh, no!
	What?
	What?
	It's all over the UK press.
	Climate change will disrupt Wi-Fi connections.
	Oh no!
	Oh no!
	I can't get to Facebook!
	I can't get to Twitter!
	And I heard that, I'm like, well, what a great meeting.
	The best they can do?
	This is actually the rail minister.
	It's like they must be getting all the money.
	She warned, intense rainfalls, droughts, heat waves in the next 50 to 100 years because of man-made global warming.
	The signal from Wi-Fi cannot travel as far when temperatures increase.
	Heavy downfalls of rain also affect the ability of the device to capture a signal.
	Yeah, I guess if it's raining in my house, it would be a problem.
	How much outdoor Wi-Fi are people using?
	None that I know of.
	There's a picture of her with a green denim jacket standing in a field of grass, smiling at the camera.
	And she has one of those necklaces on with the big shell beads.
	You know the one I'm talking about?
	Puka shells.
	What are they called?
	It sounds like puka shells to me.
	Pupa shells?
	Puka.
	P-U-K-A. I say poopa.
	It's just funny.
	Carolyn Spellman.
	There was one a couple weeks ago, and we forgot to mention it on the show, some other wacky connection between global warming and some other thing.
	Well, the Vatican now has also come out, and they have apparently, they've got a...
	They're all in.
	Yeah, they've got, well, they're a bank, right?
	The Vatican deals with a lot of money and stuff.
	And, yeah, let me see if I can find the story here.
	Vatican.
	Here we go.
	The Vatican appointed panel warms of climate change.
	So they've got a panel.
	We're never on any of the good stuff, are we?
	We don't get on the panels.
	We don't get the money to blog about stuff.
	Once we started doing this show, we're not getting on anything.
	We're not getting invited anywhere either.
	Like, here, here, boys.
	But, you know, it's not as though we were invited to a lot anyway.
	No, I've never been.
	We are.
	In fact, John, we are.
	Young Wolves!
	Okay, I've got to play one clip for you, and then we can go thank some producers.
	This is, once again, it sums it all up.
	I think this is CNN, actually.
	It's not Fox, as usual.
	Curiously, I was listening to CNN mostly this week.
	Well, that's not curious.
	There was actually a lot of C-SPAN stuff that I was watching, but it was long, tedious, and not clippable, unfortunately.
	Al Franken.
	I got clippable.
	I heard the Franken.
	I didn't clip from Franken.
	That's what I said.
	It was non-clippable.
	There was clippable stuff in that pairing.
	Yeah, like, what's his name, douchebag Sam Schumer?
	Where he's like, eh.
	Schumer is a total, I mean, that guy is getting worse by the minute.
	He wants to implement a no travel on the train list?
	Yeah, not just that.
	Wait a minute, how do we get no travel on the train?
	You can see that no fly, it's a private company, American Airlines, they can do whatever they want with their passengers.
	But this is a public service, and they want everyone to take public transportation.
	Now what happens if you can't get on the train?
	Well, more important is how...
	You can't get on the bus.
	You can't get on anything.
	What kind of a country is this?
	What do you...
	I mean, do you ever show up for this program?
	No.
	Once in a while?
	A couple weeks ago?
	Yeah, surely you know what's happening.
	Schumer was on this panel and he was saying, well, you know, these apps that tell people about sobriety checkpoints, they need to be taken down off the app store.
	Yeah, because they're killing people.
	But it was too long.
	It wasn't about that.
	The hearing was about AT&T and T-Mobile getting together.
	So what's Schumer throwing that crap in there for?
	Hello, this was a completely different conference.
	Oh, what were you watching?
	I was watching the one about mobile security.
	Oh, that one.
	Yeah.
	That was last week.
	I mean, that was last Wednesday.
	Whoa, what am I thinking?
	Trying to keep up.
	I'm so behind the times.
	Anyway, here's the lone wolf thing.
	If there is indeed ever to be a no travel by train list, I'm on it.
	To talk about all this, Paul, what is it that makes these so-called lone wolves different, more dangerous, more threatening, and where do they come from?
	Well, they're here in the United States, this growing extremism.
	And by the way, why do we get this douchebag from another country?
	What is this guy from Britain telling us?
	Because it sounds...
	This is why they do it.
	If it's a Brit, then it's...
	Oh, honey, you look awesome.
	Hello.
	Thanks.
	You can see me from there.
	Oh, I got my camera on.
	Yes, you do.
	If it's a Brit, then people take it more seriously.
	He's a security consultant.
	I'm here connected to al-Qaeda in the United States.
	Al-Qaeda.
	He sounds like, what's his name from the American Idol?
	Al-Qaeda.
	Simon Cowell?
	Al-Qaeda?
	Inspired by Al-Qaeda's ideology.
	He sounds like George Michael to me, really.
	Alright, let's listen to him.
	We've seen more than 30 cases of Americans and American permanent residents becoming involved in terrorism cases here in the United States in the last few years.
	30?
	Holy crap!
	Out of 300 million, we got 30!
	Do the math on that.
	And with these lone wolves, it's very difficult to detect them because they're not part of a group.
	They're not part of a network.
	They're not necessarily communicating with other radicals.
	So it's very, very difficult.
	So wait a minute.
	Not part of a group.
	We're not communicating with other individuals.
	We?
	Why do you keep saying we?
	Are you one of these lone wolves that's going to...
	Well, he's saying they.
	I mean, someone's got to respond.
	If he says they, someone's got to say we.
	I might as well.
	I'm a lone wolf here alone.
	Do my podcast stuff.
	Difficult to stop them launching attacks.
	So what can be done?
	Look what you're saying.
	Conspiracies always bleed information.
	You pick it up through wiretaps because people are talking to each other.
	A lone wolf by definition.
	If he or she is acting individually, how do you drill down, find them, and find out what they're up to?
	What the FBI has done, for example, is look at high-risk individuals and on occasion launch sting operations.
	Also, a number of law enforcement agencies here in the United States have now undercover cyber agents who are actually communicating with these extremists online and trying to assess whether they really pose a threat.
	This is Sugar Ray Sunstein's whole mission, right?
	That was his whole thing, was we've got to infiltrate the groups.
	Yeah, but he's doing it for political reasons.
	He's not doing it to find, you know, terrorists.
	He's doing it to screw you and everybody else over.
	He is a terrorist from that perspective.
	Totally, totally.
	You say you try to identify them.
	What are you looking for?
	I mean, this seems to me where it gets so difficult.
	Obviously, if we have an ideology like Al-Qaeda's, you can go...
	Al-Qaeda's?
	Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda's?
	You can call them Al-Qaeda, I can call them Al-Qaeda.
	All right, let's listen and see what you're looking for.
	How can you identify us as little wolves?
	Who was communicating there?
	But let's face it, these lone wolves often are not just radical Islam.
	And so if the FBI, the CIA... And, you know, how does he...
	They're often not just radical Islam.
	What kind of sentence is that?
	What is he...
	Why is he saying that?
	Because he's Elliot Spitzer in the arena.
	We're worried about this.
	Where else do they begin to look?
	Well, there's a warning signs online.
	It's often online.
	They're on sort of Facebook or other sites that communicate...
	You're on Facebook, you terrorist!
	Don't interact with others, kids.
	Rick suggests they may want to try and launch attacks, or they're praising other people for launching attacks, or they're watching sort of suicide videos, and they're praising those sorts of videos.
	Oh, look at that!
	I'm praising it!
	Great suicide videos.
	This is all made up.
	I'm doing a like.
	I'm clicking the like button on that suicide video.
	Bring out warning signs and more investigation by the authorities, Elliot.
	And of course, Paul, those who are individuals can act faster than a conspiracy.
	It's just easier for one person to go out and do what he wants.
	And that, of course, is one of the great dangers of these lone wolves, all right, Paul?
	Yes, of course.
	Don't play anymore.
	That's the end of it.
	Of course, that's one of the great dangers of these lone wolves.
	I want to talk about something before we do that.
	Now that you brought this up.
	So we had an incident in the San Francisco Bay Area that's been completely underplayed by the national media.
	An attempt to bring down an airplane?
	Yes.
	By a Yemeni nutjob?
	Who was screaming, Akba Allah.
	He's screaming all his great words.
	Okay, so let me read from one of the local coverage of the thing.
	I thought you were going to read from the Quran.
	I'm sorry.
	It's kind of interesting because nobody wants to bring this.
	And the Department of Homeland Security all dawned on me after this thing was over what the problem is here.
	Is that TSA failed miserably to spot this guy.
	What we always have been saying was security theater is what it is.
	It doesn't work.
	But let's read this.
	Elmer Marisi walked quickly to the front of the plane while shouting Allahu Akbar, tried the cockpit door handle, then rammed the door with his shoulder, prompting a flight attendant to yell, I need help now.
	According to witnesses.
	And here's what happens.
	Other flight attendants, retired San Mateo police officer Larry Wright, a retired Secret Service agent, an off-duty American Airlines pilot, an Olympic shot put champion, and Bill Nieder jumped from their seats and beat the crap out of the guy and pulled him down.
	I think not!
	I just happened to be on that flight.
	Now the...
	Now, the funny thing is, is this is what happened with the shoe bomber when somebody conked him on the head with a fire extinguisher.
	It's the public that does the job here.
	It's not these officials.
	And this is a classic example of how the government is so screwed up.
	And they keep wanting to, you know, lord it over us when they accomplish nothing.
	And it's like, if you remember when we were doing this show in the early times, the early days of the Katrina disaster, and all these volunteers wanted to, you know, get in there and save people and go to the houses and bring their own fleet of boats.
	No!
	Step away, you stupid slave!
	Let FEMA handle it!
	You had that situation and now we have this situation and so now this has been suppressed because it's a bad reflection on TSA. They obviously didn't spot this guy.
	He had no luggage.
	He had all the earmarks.
	He's from Yemen.
	He can't speak English.
	He's got no luggage and no money.
	Gets on the plane.
	Well, hold on, John.
	Can I just approach this from a different angle?
	So you have all of that.
	He's on the plane.
	Coincidentally, we have ex-police officer, ex-CIA officer, and throw in an Olympic shot putter for good measure, because that looks cool, and you've got a perfect false flag.
	It's bullcrap.
	It's a setup.
	It's not a false flag because it wasn't played as such.
	It's a local story.
	How is that a false flag?
	Excuse me.
	It's a national story.
	It was bunched into three other stories with some guy who was drunk and tried to open the door.
	Another one where there was a notice found in the bathroom saying there's a bomb on board.
	I am not seeing Lucy out there talking about this.
	All I see is they're suppressing the story.
	This is not a false flag.
	Stand by.
	Stand by.
	They're just waiting for the timing.
	It's timing.
	It's too late.
	The story's old now.
	Well, then maybe something got messed up.
	Stuff happens when there's a lot of douchebags running the show.
	And how does this work into the scheme of things?
	This doesn't fit into the narrative.
	It does.
	The narrative that TSA is going to save us.
	No.
	No, no, no, no, because the narrative is about the trains now moving away.
	Take the train, take the train, take the train.
	I agree with that, and I think that's true, but I think that this is not a false flag.
	This is a classic example of the public doing the job that the government should do.
	Okay, fine.
	So you're telling me that this douchebag from Yemen...
	I don't know if it's a douchebag.
	You know what?
	When someone says Allah Akbar, that can also be...
	If you consult the Book of Knowledge on Allah Akbar, which I did, and it's in the show notes, noagendashow.com or nashownotes.com, brand new.
	Then Allah Akbar can also be used when someone is frightened, someone is worried, you know, if someone's freaking out, maybe there's turbulence, like Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar!
	And maybe he had to puke, maybe he had diarrhea and he thought that was the bathroom.
	I mean, it could be anything.
	You weren't on the plane.
	Well, you were, you said.
	Allah Akbar.
	Al-Akbar.
	The Al-Akbar thing I don't care about.
	It's just the fact that the matter...
	Well, that's what everyone is...
	Oh, you were screaming Al-Akbar.
	But the Egyptian pilot who crashed the 747 into the ocean also yelled Al-Akbar.
	So was he a terrorist?
	Was he just afraid?
	Consult the Book of Knowledge.
	I don't care about the Al-Akbar.
	You do.
	Al-Akbar.
	Ali, Ali, Akbar.
	Meanwhile, we have them patting down a baby.
	Oh, wait.
	Wait a minute.
	And this guy gets on the plane.
	I mean, I don't care if...
	Okay, let's just assume that your theory is correct.
	It's a false flag.
	This still makes the TSA look like a bunch of douchebags, and that is not in the narrative.
	Detective Dookie.
	Detective Dookie.
	Poop Police.
	SPU. Special Poopers Union.
	I knew we had a reason for that jingle.
	Yeah.
	Because it's not the TSA, John.
	It's the poop police who are checking the babies now and checking in their diapers.
	This is amazing.
	We live in great times.
	But the picture that's gone viral of that kid assuming the position with these two agents putting their fingers in his diaper.
	Come on, man.
	That's funny.
	It is funny.
	That is just hilarious.
	Yeah.
	Like, this is what we resorted to.
	Yeah, this is like the poop police.
	Hello, it's the poop police.
	We're here to check your poop.
	Dookie SPU Special Pooper Unit.
	This fall on NBC. So I want to thank a...
	I have, by the way, the clip of the year.
	Before we get...
	Actually, I'll run the clip of the year after.
	Let's just thank our...
	We have three executive producers we want to give some kudos to.
	Snorra Stain.
	Oh, Sir Snorra.
	Sir Snorra.
	From Norway up there in the North Pole.
	We have to find some way of getting out there within the next six months or so.
	Will I have to ask him, when is the Northern Lights at their best?
	I think we just missed it.
	I think it's back in a moment.
	Because he kept sending me pictures of the Northern Lights.
	This guy's life.
	First of all, I think he's up there with his wife, who I think is extremely hot.
	I haven't seen the picture, but I got this idea.
	Well, Norwegian women are amongst the...
	Not to belabor it.
	But in the Scandinavian countries, including Sweden, everybody says that the Norwegian women are the most beautiful of all of them.
	And the Swedes tell me this.
	So, listen to his life.
	He's got two snowmobiles.
	He's got a hot wife and shotguns.
	He goes out hunting, shooting for polar bear.
	Breaking down reindeer.
	They eat reindeer.
	Which is quite tasty, by the way.
	We have a standing invitation.
	That I know for sure.
	Yeah, reindeer is quite good.
	I've had reindeer.
	I love it.
	It's very tasty, and they use it for everything.
	They make sausages out of it.
	The first time I ever had reindeer was on a Pan Am flight.
	Check this out.
	Well, in those days, they're over-serving reindeer on an airplane.
	Yep.
	This is when my mom would dress me up with little white gloves in a suit to go flying.
	It was like a reindeer kind of hot pocket.
	And it was like a snack.
	Hot pockets!
	Reindeer pasty.
	Yeah, that's what it was.
	I think hot pockets should do a reindeer hot pocket.
	How cool would that be?
	You know, the American public is just, you know, they see Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
	You can't eat Rudolph!
	Yeah, it's unbelievable.
	Yeah, mm-hmm.
	It's very tasty.
	In Finland, when I visited Luke Wonderhelm up there, I was there once in Helsinki.
	He took me out to dinner, and they have the whole history of the reindeer.
	I said, I want some reindeer.
	And they have the name of the reindeer, the farm it came from, how old it was.
	And I think that's much more honest than...
	Was it Rudolph?
	It was Blitzen.
	Who cares?
	That's Blitzen.
	It's not an important reindeer.
	He's second class.
	Alright, so Sir Schnorderstein, right.
	A.J. Reistad in Caldwell, Idaho, where he's now a member of the 303 Club and executive producer.
	He also mentions that we forgot to make note of his douchebag call-out.
	Oh?
	You left out my douchebag call-out for Aaron Heinrich.
	Douchebag!
	Okay.
	Sound check my note for Adam in episode 301 in the pre-stream, but not to mention the episode proper end note in the show notes, blah, blah, blah.
	Okay, so that's it.
	Executive producer and member of the 303 Club, the exclusive member, actually, of the 303 Club.
	That's cool.
	And then an associate executive producer would be Joseph Frost in Wooddale, Illinois, a new donor.
	Desperately need karma for a new job search.
	You've got karma.
	Right on.
	Thank you so much for supporting us in your time of need, Joseph.
	That's great.
	Supporting the show.
	Karma does work, I will say.
	Those are our executive producers for today's show.
	Okay, a couple of PR shout-outs and mentions.
	These are all domains forwarding to NoAgendaShow.com.
	DonateToNoAgenda.com, which actually forwards to Dvorak.org.
	This is a good one.
	Don't we have a jingle for that?
	Well, we have a jingle for Dvorak.org slash N-A. Oh, that's what I meant.
	Then we also have GiveToNoAgenda.com.
	A brand new Android app for the No Agenda program.
	With the last 10 episodes, Wi-Fi, 3G, or LTE required.
	Skip to any point in an episode by tapping a location on the timeline.
	Glossary section.
	Oh, to learn the history and meanings of recurring themes and catchphrases.
	This is brand new.
	A link to that in the show notes at nashownotes.com.
	I set up something cool, by the way, John.
	So if you go to nashownotes.com, you have all the show notes.
	But if you go to the episode number, nashownotes.com, it takes you right to the page for that show.
	So if you do 302.nashownotes.com, you go to the show notes for the last episode, for 302.
	This is a great resource I should mention to people out there if you're a student.
	There's a lot of good material in these show notes.
	Probably more than the show.
	Well, there is more information in the show notes than in the show itself, because we'd have a 10-hour show.
	And also now, as a part of our service and the product, every single clip that we use on the show is also in that archive, which you can download right from there, because people are always asking, hey, where's that clip?
	That was a good clip.
	So you can start your own little No Agenda show on campus.
	Another forward here, coming to Ross from Perth.
	Neopolitano.com.
	Kind of interesting.
	A little hard to say.
	And I want to thank America Hartman.
	America has a little web store that she makes things herself.
	She's doing all of her own handicrafts.
	And I don't know if you saw, I tweeted a picture of mine.
	She sent your present to me.
	So two pillows.
	You have a pillow that is handmade.
	Handmade in America by a woman named America Hartman.
	And it says, I get no spam on the pillow.
	It's very cute.
	And she sent me a pillow which says, by curious mail.
	It's beautiful.
	I tweeted a picture of it and people really enjoyed that.
	And then a huge shout out to all of our producers and listeners and donors and even the boners down under in Australia.
	Yesterday I did an interview.
	I was interviewed by Maynard, our buddy Maynard there from...
	Ah, yes.
	And he interviewed me for ABC Broadcasting in Australia and a couple of podcasts.
	He said he got, because we talked for over an hour, and he's very funny, this Maynard dude, as we all know.
	But his questions were kind of right there as well.
	And he says he got 10 minutes of the interview on the national radio.
	That's not bad, 10 minutes.
	That's a lot.
	Yeah, and he said, I really wish it could have been you and John.
	I said, did you send him an email?
	Yeah.
	I said, did he get a reply?
	No.
	I said, there you go.
	It was probably in the spam box.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's why I get no spam.
	And then, finally, I'd like to mention the No Agenda Nation tour.
	Miss Mickey and I are really gearing up now.
	We've got the big map with the pins on it.
	We're starting to prick pins into places.
	That's a start.
	You know, it's a real story.
	We've got all kinds of books.
	The only thing we still don't really have is the wheels.
	So, we do have a great offer from Sir Gear up there in Washington, but a lot has to happen, and his machine is a family heirloom.
	Oh, Sir Birch, not Gear.
	Not Gear, Birch, I'm sorry.
	Sir Birch, my mistake.
	Thank you.
	It's like a family heirloom.
	Yeah, no, that thing is probably not your best bet.
	So he's offering it as a definite solid backup plan, but we really just need wheels.
	We might have to do a donation drive just for this, I don't know, but it's expensive to rent this thing.
	Renting it would be like, it's almost a non-starter.
	So if anyone knows anybody who has an RV that we can use, I mean, I can pay something for it.
	I'm sure we can pay a little bit, but not like the $200 a day that an RV costs.
	We'll insure it and everything.
	And it's going to be great because we have lots of places to go visit, lots of producers and human resources around Gitmo Nation.
	And if you want to...
	Oh, shoot, I haven't set up the email forward yet.
	If you want to send an invite, send it to Miss Mickey.
	And I'll put her email address in the show notes.
	It's not done yet, the email forward, so I'll put it in the show notes at nashownotes.com.
	You can send that to her.
	And she's now a part of the production team for that.
	She also says she's going to be doing all the driving.
	She's like, you'll be too busy prepping the show.
	I'm like, okay.
	Okay.
	So, thank you very much, Sir Schnatterstain, 303 Club member A.J. Reistad, and Associate Executive Producer Joseph Frost for supporting the show.
	Everybody else out there, you have a clear mission.
	You must go out and propagate that formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Word.
	Order.
	Say it loud and proud.
	Shut up!
	me.
	Clip of the year.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, I thought this would be the clip of the year.
	This is taken from a Law& Order SUV, and it's about some psycho kid who's a serial rapist.
	Psycho kid!
	But it was just this line that finishes here that, to me, at the end of it, I could probably clip it off and use it once in a while.
	Or you can, on the machine there.
	But I just died laughing when I heard this.
	Hello, Brie.
	Nice of you to show up.
	What is wrong with you?
	Whoa!
	No, you tell them that I didn't raise you this way!
	Are you in the habit of smacking your child around?
	No.
	Her weapon of choice is a verbal tongue lashing.
	So?
	When I got out of line, my mother beat me with a belt.
	Maybe I should have spanked him.
	Well, actually, studies link corporal punishment to increased violence and lowered IQs.
	Well, I got whipped plenty, and I'm a marketing executive.
	No!
	I'm a marketing executive.
	Perfect!
	That is a good one.
	I got whipped funny and I'm a marketing executive.
	My mom, my dad gave me the belt once, I think.
	And by the way, I never got over it.
	But my mom had this threat.
	It was like, I'm going to smack you with a hairbrush.
	She never did it, of course.
	If you're really bad, I'm going to smack you with bristle side down.
	Like, really, Mom?
	What?
	Really?
	That's what you're going to do?
	Hey, I have a great elitist prick clip that is really short, but it's very funny.
	This is the Haiku Hair Mom.
	Haiku!
	Haiku Hermy.
	The president of the United States of Europe there.
	By the way, I want to read his latest haiku before I play this clip.
	Oh, absolutely.
	You must.
	Yes.
	Okay, ready?
	This is celebrating Europe Day.
	So, I guess Europe has a day.
	Yes, May 1950.
	One of the two main founders of the EU, Robert Schumann, presented his proposal for an organized Europe known as the Schumann Declaration, considered to be the birth of the European project.
	This is the haiku?
	No, no.
	The haiku is...
	That would have been much better.
	I think we should turn press releases into haikus.
	Yeah, there you go.
	We need a filter.
	We need a translator that takes a press release and turns it into haiku.
	Okay, here we go.
	This is the President of the United States of Europe.
	A corona of stars rolling over the deep blue sea together forever.
	That's it?
	Well, it's a haiku.
	That's it.
	Sucks.
	So he has the...
	He has...
	And this is just...
	You've got to see this clip.
	It's from...
	What is that TV? Euronews.
	They do a lot of stuff without voiceover.
	I don't get to see them much anymore.
	They have one of those things.
	What do you call it?
	Oh, yeah.
	A website.
	You ever heard of that, John?
	And so they got a website and you can go there and they've got video.
	So they have the director general of the, I think the food program or something from the United Nations.
	And just to show you how much of a douchebag this guy is.
	So, of course, they don't really do anything.
	It's like she just goes there to, I don't know, check her bank account or whatever.
	And then they have to do a little PR thingy.
	And so literally, what he's trying to communicate to her is, please come into this room, stand here, so the press can take pictures of us shaking hands, and so that way we can prove, you know, that we can take the deduction on our expenses, or whatever it is.
	But just listen to his English.
	I don't know if you could hear it.
	He says, they need a shake hand.
	They need a shake hand for picture.
	No, I didn't hear that.
	No, it's too bad.
	You have to see the video, nashownotes.com.
	Just a crazy, crazy, crazy douchebag.
	So, I was a little...
	I just want to get a couple of things out of the way before we change topics here.
	I really have gotten to the point where I detest the use of the word veggies.
	Yeah, you've been annoyed by this in the past, and quite rightly so, because it's not proper use of the word.
	Well, I mean, it's beside the point.
	It's juvenile.
	Somebody sent me an email today, and they threw the word veggies in.
	And you deleted it.
	You put them in the spam block.
	They're blocked.
	They're blocked.
	Blocked!
	Because it's just, I don't know, and the other thing that bugs me, I mean, I'm sorry, but it brought this to mind, is that you go to Yelp, and you look up your own restaurants, and you start reading these reviews, and some people, apparently the only, I don't know, maybe it's the only adjective, or it's not even an adjective.
	I don't even know what it is, but it's a declarative, I guess.
	Wait, awesome?
	No, yum!
	Yum?
	They use the word yum.
	Just, you know, all the food here is, you know, I ate the hamburger.
	Yum.
	I did this and that and the other thing.
	Yum.
	I did da-da-da-da-da.
	Yum.
	It just drives me crazy.
	Can't you see somebody say yum?
	What does that mean?
	It means all these are the best in the world.
	But no, if you read these people, most of them, by the way, are vegans.
	If you read these people.
	Damn vegans.
	Horrible people, you vegan.
	I'm telling you, it's the vegans that popularize veggies and they popularize yum.
	Let's call them vegies.
	If they want to call vegetables veggies, we'll call them Vigis.
	Yummy Vigis.
	Because they're tasty.
	So there's no clip that goes along with this?
	I'm sorry.
	No, it's just a minor rant.
	Yes, I understood.
	I totally got it.
	Well, wow, yeah.
	There was actually quite a lot going on at the international level.
	You know, we spend so much time on television paying attention to the Arab Spring.
	And everyone wants democracy, and we've got to go, and we've got to get democracy, and we've got to go protest in Tariq Square, and we've got to be...
	But meanwhile, Greece is burning!
	Greece is burning to the ground.
	I don't know why they're not covering Greece better.
	I mean, it's like the same thing with the nuclear reactor in Japan.
	Nobody's covering the fact that the number one reactor now is coughing up radiation all over the place.
	But that's much less interesting at this moment to me than Greece and Portugal.
	It won't be when you grow a third head.
	Hey, I'm only worth two million according to the government standards.
	You know, I'm okay.
	But yeah, whatever.
	Greece is burning.
	Athens is burning.
	The slaves are revolting.
	I mean, literally, they're in the streets.
	The people are being tear gassed.
	This is much bigger.
	And it's more people than we're in Tariq Square.
	And there's no coverage of it.
	Nothing.
	Not a single piece.
	And there's this huge fight between Portugal and Finland.
	Of course, Finland buckled.
	Portugal needs to bail out now.
	And Finland said, I don't think so.
	Or at least some guy who immediately is deemed, oh, he's like Adolf Hitler.
	Yeah.
	The Adolf Hitler of Finland.
	The Adolf Hitler of Finland.
	Yeah.
	And, oh, he's like Hitler, man.
	We can't, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But, um, and, and Gipmo Nation lowlands.
	I mean, these people have an austerity program.
	They're hiding in their houses.
	All of Europe, the slaves are being screwed.
	Like, their nuts are in a nutcracker.
	And it's being tightened up.
	Pfft.
	And it's just no coverage in Greece.
	They're out there.
	They are rioting.
	They're burning stuff.
	Doctors are striking.
	Doctors are like, sorry.
	I'd say that's kind of an issue.
	No, we're not going to cover it.
	Because the media has been told, we don't want you to know.
	We don't want you to know.
	You cannot know this.
	Because then you might do it.
	Well, the other thing, yeah, it's because of the economy, too.
	So, you know, everyone's scared to death that this could happen anywhere.
	Meanwhile, of course, we're talking about the EU. Denmark has decided to reinstitute borders.
	Yeah, this is the Schengen Accord.
	So there was this agreement that, and by the way, it's always been bull crap, because I've flown all over Europe, and you always have to show your passport.
	It never was really instated, except Spain, interestingly.
	If you flew to Spain or Portugal, it was funny.
	You walk right in, like, hey, no one's asking to see my passport.
	No, you just walk right in.
	But now it's going to be, show us your papers, Ausweisbeter, everywhere, throughout all of Europe.
	Because of immigration issues.
	Well, Denmark has, you know, for the first time in history, they put a link between Denmark and southern Sweden with the train and car road, which is very long and it's a very big, it was a huge project.
	It was a big deal.
	It was the first time it was ever done.
	And I've been on the train.
	It's a long ways.
	And so they go to southern Sweden.
	And southern Sweden has been taken over by, I don't know, African Muslims.
	Damn them!
	And they keep coming over to Denmark, you know, where all the cute blondes are and causing trouble.
	Hey!
	Hey!
	Hey, you African!
	African Muslim, lay off our blondes!
	These are our blondes, darn it!
	By the way, I was just tuning around, and the big news distraction, at least on the right-wing talk shows, is this rapper, what's his name, Commonplace, or Commonality, I don't know his name.
	I saw the story, and I'm like, I don't care.
	But I did care once I heard, this guy, by the way, used one of our words twice, and I'm going to just play using the word clip, and tell me if you can recognize the word.
	Okie dokie.
	I believe in inclusiveness, but this is abhorrent.
	This is a time for a sister.
	Yeah, abhorrent.
	It's a valid word.
	Anybody used that before?
	Oh, no.
	And he used it again like a few minutes later.
	But what is the...
	Well, it's very possible that he's listening.
	What is the...
	And don't say, I don't think so.
	People listen.
	I don't think so.
	I don't think he's donating.
	That, I'll give you that.
	That we can be assured of.
	He's probably a boner and not a donor.
	What is the actual controversy about this guy?
	Oh, because he did a rap tune that said, kill the cop or something like that.
	I thought it was kill Bush.
	No, there was a Bush reference, but it was like Burning Bush.
	It was hard to really pin it down, but it was beside the point.
	In the rap song itself, he was talking about what people are talking about, and he says we can't be like that to finalize it.
	In other words, it was a play on Killing Cops and Killing Bush.
	By the way, can I just say one thing?
	And you should probably take note of it, although you're excused.
	We don't say rap artist anymore, or it's hip-hop.
	Yeah, I know.
	Hip-hop is what it is.
	People correct me constantly.
	I just want you to be cool.
	So this guy had this, it was just a kind of a, it was a meta reference.
	It was a, at least if you looked at the actual song, but they made a big deal about it on all the right wing because they had nothing to talk about.
	They didn't want to talk about the reactor number one in Japan.
	They didn't want to talk about Greece.
	You're really on about this reactor number one in Japan.
	Yeah, it's a big story.
	They didn't want to talk about Greece.
	They didn't want to talk about the hearings with AT&T and T-Mobile, which to me is another disaster waiting to happen.
	Of course not.
	So they wanted to talk about Obama inviting this guy to the White House for a poetry reading.
	Right.
	As though this is the worst thing that's ever happened.
	And Hannity, by the way, who's turned into the worst of all these guys, he's not as bad as Ed Schultz, who is the worst.
	Yeah.
	Talk show guy in all the networks.
	Because Schultz is just ridiculous.
	And he just seems like an idiot.
	But Hannity cannot get off this, why aren't you thanking George Bush for killing Osama bin Laden?
	And it's just like ridiculous.
	And he brought it up again yesterday.
	You know, that's interesting you say that, because Condi...
	Condoleezza Rice is still on the promo tour.
	She's still on the promo tour.
	And I follow a lot of progressive, left-wing, liberal websites.
	And it's great because they have often the same videos and clips that we have, except they have a completely different take on it.
	And so everyone is in the liberal, not that we're right-wing, by the way, but everyone in the liberal, leftist, progressive vibe is saying that Condoleezza Rice is now out there promoting the fact that Bush had a lot to, you know, it's all because of Bush.
	Bush, Bush, Bush.
	I think it's something else.
	And this interview she did with, this is, the guy who has the GPS show, On CNN? Is he Indian or Pakistani?
	I don't know what he is.
	But his show is called GPS, which is like, dude, you know, what a stupid name for a show.
	Nobody watches it.
	Why don't you call your show Coffee Maker or something like that, GPS? Listen to what she says.
	I think that there is something else going on here.
	President Obama did say that he felt that the capture or killing of bin Laden was not a top priority when he took office and he moved it to a top priority.
	What's your reaction?
	Oh, it was a top priority.
	We wanted to get Osama Bin Laden every single day.
	And there was a unit at the agency that worked on nothing else.
	And I remember actually when Mike Hayden told President Bush that they had discovered this courier.
	And that he had a brother.
	And we began to hear some of the details about it.
	And they went on his trail.
	It took this long.
	But in fact, these leads developed quite a long time ago.
	The agency and the military then acted on them.
	And there's one other thing.
	The capacity of our military and our intelligence agencies to fight in this integrated fashion is something that developed over a long period of time, starting in Afghanistan in 2001.
	So I think what she's saying, or maybe this is what the issue is, is she's been sent out on the promo tour to promote the Secret Service.
	I think for some reason, either they don't feel like they're getting propped enough, or...
	The Secret Service?
	Yes, our intelligence services.
	Well, that's not the Secret Service.
	No, I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry.
	The intelligence services and the intelligence community.
	You're not getting props enough?
	That's all we see on TV? No, no, no.
	That's not true.
	It's like the Navy SEALs and it's like men and women in uniform.
	That's not true, John.
	These are the...
	No, I don't know.
	I think it's...
	Aren't they not supposed to get credit?
	That's part of their job?
	Yes, but that's not the point.
	Why is Condoleezza Rice out promoting this?
	And by the way, the courier had a brother, by the way, so I guess that's going to pop up pretty soon.
	You know, here's a logical inconsistency here, by the way.
	You have this courier.
	They knew who it was back when.
	And he has a brother.
	They knew who he is back when.
	Meanwhile, they're pushing the idea.
	I mean, I think it's a mistaken concept.
	I don't know why they're doing it because I think it's humiliating.
	They're pushing the idea that torture works.
	Why did they just grab the guy and torture him?
	Because he had a package to deliver.
	He got the guy.
	They know who it is.
	They have to wait 10 years.
	He was delivering weed.
	And torture works.
	Grab the guy.
	Torture him.
	Say where Ben Laden is and go shoot him.
	He had to deliver some weed.
	I mean, come on.
	They're not going to torture the weed delivery.
	This is logical inconsistency.
	Now we're starting to hear that an ISI guy turned over the information.
	And we're hearing all these other covers.
	I love it.
	I love it.
	It's fantastic.
	It's a great big show.
	However, John, not quite as big as...
	And now, back to real news.
	The real show!
	The show that we pay homage to once a year here on No Agenda Show, noagendashow.com.
	And just a little warm-up for the big show.
	It's that time of year when presenters compete with over-the-top television production and viewers cringe and criticize musical cultural differences.
	Yes, it's the Eurovision Song Contest.
	The first of two semifinals having been completed, we now know ten of the countries set to compete in Saturday's final.
	Russia will be joined by nine others, including Serbia and Azerbaijan.
	Under the rules, five countries qualify automatically.
	Italy, Spain, France, the UK and this year's host, Germany.
	Iceland was the last to get through in the first batch of qualifiers.
	A second semi to select a further ten countries will be held on Thursday.
	And for Eurovision addicts, the current betting has the French contribution sung in Corsican as favorite.
	So, of course, this is also completely rigged.
	Who do you think is going to win, John?
	Who needs the win the most?
	Sung in Corsican?
	Yeah, that's awesome.
	Okay, give me the finalists again.
	Well, it's all this...
	It's Europe.
	Yeah, I know, but what country?
	Well, French are the favorite.
	We've got Iceland.
	We know Holland never wins.
	Well, that's not true.
	They have won, but they're the worst.
	Iceland could use a win.
	Go on, who else?
	Iceland could...
	I don't know.
	I mean, someone...
	Greece isn't in there, are they?
	No, there's no mention of them.
	But just the favorites doesn't mean that that's what's going to win.
	No, I'm not looking for the players.
	I'm looking for the country that they want to give it to to make them feel better.
	Right.
	I don't know.
	I mean, I have not done the research yet.
	But we have to...
	We're near the semifinals, so we've got to hurry up and get our predictions in.
	Which country needs to win the most?
	How about Turkey?
	Turkey is still on...
	They're still slated to join the EU, so...
	No, they won't.
	They won't give it to them.
	No?
	No, I think Iceland is, and they brought him in at the end so they got a special mention because they're the last ones to get in.
	Right, right.
	That may be a key.
	They need a little boost because they got screwed?
	Yeah, and they're also fighting with the, you know, they don't want to pay their money back and maybe this will help.
	How about Ireland?
	Ireland needs a little boost.
	Is Ireland in the finals?
	I don't know if they're in the finals.
	Well, they just mentioned who the five were.
	I wasn't listening.
	But this does bring me to another scandal, which, gee, I think we talked about this ad nauseum.
	By the way, as I called the winner of the World Cup football, we knew it was very easy to deduct who was going to win because all of this is fixed.
	It turns out, John, did you know that it's fixed?
	Have you been following the FIFA scandal?
	Well, no, but we knew it was fixed.
	Yeah, but now it's out in the open and they have testimony and hearings going on.
	And when it comes to choosing the country for the World Cup, which, by the way, we now know, of course, is for the 2012 Cup is Qatar.
	Incidentally, the country that runs, oh, what is that, Al Jazeera, the country that is cooperating with the NATO allies in the Arab Spring.
	You know, they are helping the rebels take the oil from Libya.
	So Qatar, who, of course, got this huge payoff by receiving the World Cup.
	Turns out the judges, the guys who vote on this, very much like the International Olympic Committee, were all taking bribes for their vote.
	One bribe caught my attention in particular.
	Five months ago, the FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, revealing the winners and the losers in Zurich.
	England were losers, of course, but Lord Treisman made a series of explosive allegations to a committee of MPs today about the activities of four of the 22 men who voted.
	Trinidad and Tobago's Jack Warner, the man Treisman claims asked for two and a half million pounds to build a school that would house his own officers.
	Paraguay's Nicolás Leoz, who Treisman says asked for a knighthood.
	Dude, it's only a thousand bucks we'll give you a knighthood here on this show.
	Yeah, knighthoods are inexpensive.
	Yeah, I mean, this is where you want to be for knighthoods, man.
	This is where it's at.
	And it's just as valid.
	Hell yeah, it's just as valid.
	I wanted to talk to you about something else, John.
	This is actually what we ended the last show with, about Bitcoin.
	Oh yeah, Bitcoin.
	Wow, you already have the, oh yeah, Bitcoin.
	Oh yeah.
	So I've been doing, I did the work.
	I did the investigations, and I have actually implemented it.
	And I have to say...
	You're now a Bitcoiner?
	I'm a Bitcoiner.
	As I was Bitcurious, I'm a Bitcurious male.
	And I have to say, I'm liking it.
	Why?
	Well, because in essence, you know I'm a gold nut.
	It loves me the gold.
	I think that this really is a virtual equivalent of gold, and it can be used as a money standard.
	And here's the test that I implemented.
	I said, hey, you guys want a daily source code?
	I need 100 bitcoins, which, by the way, by today's exchange is $500.
	I need 100 bitcoins in my bitcoin account, and I'll do a daily source code.
	And then I turned, so I got that.
	I got more than 100 bitcoins.
	And I've turned around and I've ordered some real products.
	Coffee, shampoo.
	Well, I mean, I wanted some real-world products.
	They haven't been delivered yet, but...
	Did you get some tomatoes?
	You know, I think that this is the only...
	So let's just presume, and all the experts have kind of weighed in, that the system works as described, and it's...
	Pretty much invulnerable to corruption.
	Certainly the type of corruption that Ben Bernanke and little Timmy Geithner there propagate with printing money.
	As long as I can...
	I mean, the ultimate, of course, is that I can buy food and pay rent with it.
	But there are certain products like coffee and like shampoo that I need.
	And as long as I can provide value, get some bitcoins, turn around and use that on real world products, I think it works.
	I have to say, I'm a believer.
	More people got to get in and start using it.
	And, you know, of course, it'll come to a head somewhere because I'm sure paying taxes with it will be a problem.
	Coffee and shampoo?
	Well, that's a start.
	It's a start.
	But it's really interesting because the way these coins are created, about 50 are created every 10 minutes, it's very hard to make them, although our no agenda, lots of our producers out there could probably be generating coins because you need like a whole data center full of nitrogen-cooled coins.
	Liquid nitrogen cooled processors to create bitcoins.
	But you know what?
	My experiment will remain valid every week as long as I get 100 bitcoins.
	I'll do a daily source code.
	And as long as I can keep using the bitcoins to buy real world products, stuff that I normally spend dollars on, it works.
	I mean, nothing wrong with that.
	I think you should take a look at it, John.
	I really do.
	Yeah, okay.
	I'll take a look at it.
	Are you negative?
	Are you being sarcastic?
	I'm both.
	Why?
	I don't see.
	I don't see the benefit.
	Well, the benefit is, what if, I mean, salt has been used in history as paints.
	Yeah, well, anything can be used.
	Right.
	There you go.
	That's my point.
	So, isn't that beautiful, though?
	Or do you like the dollar?
	I just don't like the idea.
	I mean, I thought there was a good reason that we got away from private monetary systems, gray market systems, because they are more corruptible.
	So, let's just say this is not corruptible.
	It's not corruptible.
	That's the beauty of it.
	Well, you haven't done any research because you're a leader.
	No, I haven't done any because I gave up on this with the beans and the other bull crap.
	This is different.
	It's really different.
	You have to take a look at this.
	How's it different than what Ron Paul was trying to do with it, or those Ron Paul supporters with the Ron Paul coin that got all thrown in jail?
	Because with the Bitcoin, you can't just make them.
	That's the beauty of the system.
	It's just as hard as mining for gold.
	It's very expensive, and if you don't have the right system, there's like $6 million in circulation.
	The total max that can ever be put in circulation is 21 million, which won't be reached until the year 2160.
	But there's also eight decimal spots in the currency, so you can start subdividing it almost indefinitely.
	But you can't just go out and make coins.
	This is why it's different.
	It's not a currency that you can go print or mint somewhere.
	This is what makes it very different.
	You really, as a techno expert...
	I'll tell you this.
	For one thing, I do not like the idea of the movement to virtual money that you don't actually have something in your hands like a silver coin.
	I'm not a big fan of that either.
	Because I think it's just leading to the future of paperless money.
	You know, of this virtual, you won't be able to get around, you won't be able to buy anything without a card.
	Well, I see it a little differently.
	I see it more as a barter system.
	It's a real throwback to the days of SALT or...
	Yeah, well, barter systems are, you know, essentially the IRS doesn't like them.
	Right.
	I'm not going to have anything to do with it.
	Well, that should tell you enough.
	The IRS doesn't like them because they work and they're good.
	You know, it's great to say, well, the IRS stinks and I would like to bypass them and I'm going to set up shop in the Cayman Islands.
	I'm going to do this and that to avoid paying any taxes whatsoever.
	I'm not saying that.
	No, I'm just saying that the IRS sees everything as a scheme to avoid tax paying.
	And when these schemes crop up, I avoid them.
	Because you don't want an audit.
	I don't want an audit.
	I don't want to deal with it.
	You got something to hide?
	No, I got nothing to hide.
	No, nothing to hide.
	See something.
	See something.
	I think you're suspect.
	I think you're suspect.
	I've been audited so many times.
	It doesn't matter.
	My anal cavity is that you could drive a truck through there.
	I'm bored with these crazy ideas, but I'll look into it so I won't be so bigoted.
	Yeah, I don't mind if you're against it, but I would have hoped you had looked into it a little bit.
	I didn't bother, but I do have a funny clip.
	I'm trying to make up for it.
	Okay, what you got?
	The Biden clip.
	You mean O'Biden?
	I was back here on February the 11th to welcome home members of the 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team of Afghanistan.
	155 of you got off that plane in the middle of the night.
	The only thing that's more exciting to see you getting off is watching your families watch you all get off.
	For our listeners outside of the United States of America, that was funny.
	He also sounds drunk.
	He is drunk all the time.
	Why do you think he's falling asleep everywhere?
	He gets drunk.
	That's why he takes the train.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Hey, by the way, the Onion guys had a great one about high-speed rail.
	In case you didn't catch it, I love these guys.
	President Obama announced changes to his proposed Recovery Act today, replacing his national high-speed rail plan with a national high-speed bus plan.
	The switch to the new buses, which cruise at speeds of up to 165 miles per hour, will save more than $17 billion from the country's recovery budget.
	In a press conference today, Project Director Alan Peterson called the plan a cost-efficient way of cutting travel times in half.
	Buses can be retrofitted and modernized for as little as $40.
	Starting January 1st, you'll be sharing the road with the next generation of buses roaring past you at race car speeds.
	Get out of the way.
	The bus of the future is here.
	It's really funny.
	They do a good job on that stuff, man.
	That was really good.
	Somebody was pointing out, you know, I was thinking about the high-speed rail bull crap.
	Hold on a second, then.
	As long as we're going to get into it, let's get into it.
	Where's the...
	Oh, my God.
	Here we go.
	All aboard!
	Train's good, plane's bad.
	Woo-hoo!
	I was reading some article, somebody's moaning about this whole thing, and they pointed out that they've taken a cellar from, I think it was Philadelphia to New York or something like that, and they decided the price was like $110 or some $140 to take the train.
	And it's like, the bus is $15.
	Yeah.
	Now, I was thinking about it, you know, and the bus is an inefficient product compared to a train, which is on rails.
	Of course, the train is empty, so, you know, not necessarily on the East Coast, but especially on the West Coast.
	If I want to take a train from San Francisco to Seattle, which I can drive in about 11 hours, It would take me 24 hours on the train, and it would cost me more money than it would cost me to take the plane, which is the basis for one of the reasons we think this all is bull crap.
	But if they were pricing that trip to Seattle at, let's say, 40 bucks...
	Go to Seattle for $40 and speed it up a little bit.
	Drop some of the...
	Say maybe it took about 12 to 15 hours to get there.
	I'd probably be going up and down the coast a lot.
	I mean, it just seems to me...
	But that's not going to happen.
	It's not going to happen for $40, obviously.
	Well, if you can do a bus trip for $15, I don't understand how you can't get the train.
	The train prices have to be less than the bus prices.
	Not the airplane prices, but the bus prices, which are dirt cheap.
	Well, Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, in LaHood, baby, he tipped his hand on another fine program I watch as much as possible.
	It's Morning Joe, everybody!
	So, Morning Joe is, without a doubt, the elitist program in the universe.
	Of course, that whole, what's that girl's name?
	Malika Leticia, what's her name?
	Brzezinski.
	Brzezinski's daughter is co-host of the show.
	Yeah, so no.
	So, LaHood is on, and he's doing a...
	Because he's saying, well, that money that Florida rejected, we're giving it to other people.
	So, you kids didn't want our lollipop, we're giving the lollipops to other kids.
	Yeah.
	And here's the memes, or here's his hand tip, really.
	Trains are safe, trains are only for elites, and it's really for freight.
	All in one little handy clip.
	Joining us now, the Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, Secretary.
	Good to have you with us.
	Good morning.
	I want to get to your big announcement in just a moment, but I'm interested in what you think about Chuck Schumer's comments.
	We know there was some information recovered inside Osama bin Laden's compound that suggested he was...
	And by the way, Can we get it straight?
	It's either compound, mansion, house, hiding place.
	No one uses the same word.
	They should use the right word, which is hellhole.
	Piece of crap.
	Shantytown.
	Compound.
	Compound.
	Looking at the possibility of targeting passenger trains.
	Is there anything else you can tell us about that?
	Ooh, boy!
	This is a really sharp journalistic question set up right in front.
	It's like, all right, here's what you do.
	You lay out the whole, you know, the Simon Schumer thing right out in the bat, and I'll just deal with that real quick, and I'll move on to the real agenda.
	Okay, ask the question, here's the answer.
	Well, look, we're going to look at the information from Ben Laden's house and see what's in there and see if there were any threats that they were thinking about.
	Oh, we don't know if there were any threats, apparently.
	...trains, but...
	And we'll work with Congress on this...
	We'll buy them off.
	I'd say this morning, you know, we need to really look at the information carefully and just see if there are any threats.
	Oh, we haven't looked at the information, John.
	It's not true.
	Well, that doesn't make sense.
	Everybody's been telling us that they've gone over this with a fine-tooth comb.
	No, we have to look at the information to find out if it's true.
	It's not true.
	It's not happening.
	Not with my trains.
	You know, there should be one script.
	Yeah, well, unfortunately, you know, we got a lot of riders there in Washington.
	No, uh, riding trains is safe.
	Safe!
	Based on what you've seen and what you've heard over the last week, you've...
	Wait, wait, wait, maybe I should say I ride the train?
	It's safe!
	Encourage people to continue using the train.
	Absolutely, I took the train here last evening.
	Oh, yeah, I took the train?
	I take the train!
	I took the train!
	Last evening?
	I took the train once.
	I couldn't take a flight this morning because it was a freaking train.
	I had to take it last evening, but I took the train.
	...to New York from Union Station to Penn Station, and the train was packed.
	Packed!
	And it was very safe.
	And, you know, they have the dogs.
	It was quite safe.
	But, you know, they have the dogs.
	...on there, the dogs that sniff for...
	This is for elitist pricks like me, but I tricked them.
	I fooled them.
	Play the clip!
	Bombs and things like that, and it was very safe, and people were enjoying the ride.
	All right, now let's talk about why you're here to make a big announcement, which I think will be very exciting to a lot of people who do use the trains.
	Well, we're announcing today the money that came back to us from Florida, that was refused from Florida, is going to be spread around the country.
	But most importantly, it's going to be used here in the Northeast Corridor.
	Okay, now this is very important because I've finally figured it out.
	All this money, all these high-speed trains, it's only for the frickin' politicians who want to get from Boston to New York and to their place in the Hamptons.
	It's not about any other person and the rest is all about freight.
	The whole thing, John, is about giving more room for these elitist dicks like this guy And making their trains go 20 miles an hour faster.
	That's what all of this is about.
	And to get to higher speeds in the Northeast Corridor, which members of Congress have been asking us about.
	We've already put $11 billion out over the last two and a half years.
	This $2 billion will actually go to fix up infrastructure and buy new equipment.
	And it's a great announcement.
	It will really deliver people in a much quicker way.
	And it'll be done...
	I love that.
	It'll deliver people in a much quicker way to the FEMA camps.
	But you know what I'm saying?
	It's like the Congress is asking for the Northeast Corridor.
	They want faster trains to get their ass back and forth from home to Washington.
	Yeah, because they all commute from those areas.
	Now, the freight thing is coming up, though.
	It's very interesting.
	Pretty quickly.
	I mean, we're not talking about 10 years.
	We're talking about over the next few years, we're going to get people on trains that are safe, convenient, and will go a little bit faster.
	So you're talking Boston, New York, down to Washington.
	That's correct.
	Yeah, Boston, New York, down to Washington.
	High school.
	What does that mean exactly?
	How fast can we explain?
	If you want to produce the show, you can start and stop the clip.
	No, you're interrupting the clip on every sentence.
	I want to get the gist of it.
	I'm telling you the gist.
	150, 160 miles an hour.
	The seller goes what right now?
	125, 130.
	A little higher in some places, but average, that's about it.
	But it's also going to make investments in upstate New York.
	We're going to make investments all the way to the state capital over...
	Exactly.
	Thank you very much.
	All the way to upstate New York, where all the elites have their country homes.
	Buffalo, Rochester, and our goal is to go all the way to the Canadian border so that people really do have the access.
	And then all the way south, all the way to the Carolinas.
	We just signed agreements with our freight rail friends.
	Oh, freight rail friends!
	In North Carolina.
	So people are really going to have good access to very convenient trains that they can afford.
	There you go.
	The guy's an idiot.
	You know, the freight, he blew it when he said that.
	Freight, yeah.
	We made deals with our freight friends.
	Of course.
	It's all about the freight.
	No, it'll be about the freight, and the trains that they're going to be running that have passenger service will be obviously just for those, you know, you're right, probably guys who work in Washington, D.C. Yep.
	Meanwhile, the Florida thing, of course, the guys rejected it because they did the math.
	I think Wisconsin did the same thing.
	They said, yeah, you can give us the money and then we're going to go broke maintaining the rail beds because we're going to be responsible for that, which is the joke of it.
	Yeah, hilarious.
	I think it might also be done because I think, you know, the places where they got rejected, like Wisconsin and Florida, and there's probably some other ones we don't know about.
	Those are places that are run by Republicans who they knew would reject it.
	And they probably gave them the deal saying, here's what we're going to offer you and you're going to have to do this.
	And they said, we can't do that.
	We can't afford it.
	Knowing they were going to reject it, because there's no reason to put high-speed rail from Milwaukee to Madison.
	I mean, there's just no reason for it.
	It's just ludicrous.
	And, you know, so they were rejected out of hand, but I think it's so they could point the finger for negative political points to these Republicans who rejected the free money.
	Look what they're doing.
	We're giving them free money.
	They don't want to take it.
	Yep.
	Someone sent in a ringtone of you, John.
	A John C. Dvorak ringtone.
	What am I just going...
	I don't remember, but I have it...
	Queued up?
	Queued up.
	If you want a John C. Dvorak ringtone, start your recorders now.
	Well, you know, he didn't leave the house in two days.
	Says he's doing some sort of a podcast.
	It's pretty suspicious if you ask me.
	That needs to be attached to...
	You should play it again, but attached to See Something, Say Something.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	Yeah, so hold on.
	This is a mega ringtone.
	So people can record that.
	But the payoff is See Something, Say Something, right?
	Right.
	Okay, let's try it again.
	Well, you know, he didn't leave the house in two days.
	Says he's doing some sort of a podcast.
	It's pretty suspicious if you ask me.
	If you see something, say something.
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	Because watching C-SPAN is like watching paint dry.
	Well, talking about C-SPAN, I do have a few clips here.
	I've tried to keep these short.
	There's one long one that...
	Oh, actually, the AT&T CEO in the future is not to be played.
	I sent it to you by accident.
	That's actually...
	I'm sending...
	That was the CEO of AT&T going on and on about some technology.
	I'm sending it to a guy who is one of the top networking characters in the country to have him fact-check the bullcrap That the AT&T guy said, well, if you want to hear bull crap from AT&T, listen to this bull crap about Skype when the AT&T CEO Stevenson is going on about innovation and how becoming the guys that own the whole place will be better for everybody because it's going to increase innovation somehow,
	even though we know that's bull.
	But listen to this.
	Nobody calls him on this because apparently nobody that's in Congress knows anything.
	You're seeing Microsoft on new OSs.
	And don't forget or don't miss the importance of what you read yesterday of Microsoft buying Skype.
	They run a very important wireless operating system that they have developed, combining that with a voice over IP capability now.
	This is going to be a very exciting and dynamic manifestation here.
	We're seeing applications hit the market at hundreds of thousands at a pace, being downloaded billions of times.
	And so when I stop and just think about this kind of innovation cycle, by virtue of T-Mobile and AT&T combining...
	Okay.
	So what wireless operating system are we talking about that Skype has invented?
	Well, I don't know what it is, but it's not going to work with global warming.
	None of that shit's going to work, brother.
	It's all going to go to crap.
	I would like to know, could somebody in the chat room tell me what this wireless operating system is that Skype has innovated that is also combined with voice over IP? Well, no.
	I think what he's saying, although it has nothing to do with an operating system, that is bull crap.
	Skype has a built-in feature that when you're in an airport or other public places where there's public Wi-Fi available, you can actually get on that Wi-Fi with your Skype account.
	And with your Skype monies that you have in your Skype account, they have kind of like a closed-loop system.
	And it's fairly automatic.
	I've seen this happen.
	It's quite amazing.
	When you open your laptop, if Skype is running, Skype will detect the network.
	Of course, you have to have your Wi-Fi on.
	It'll detect the network, and it'll pop up and say, well, do you want to connect to this network and make calls?
	And then they charge some nominal fee for it.
	I think that's what he's talking about.
	Oh, thanks for clarifying.
	Well, I got a letter from the president of AT&T. You know, we have AT&T because that's just what we've been using.
	And it's gotten really bad recently up here on the Hilltop Watchtower Command Center.
	And, you know, I actually had to open up a Google Voice account because it was no longer reliable.
	I mean, I would miss text messages.
	That's the worst, actually.
	I don't care.
	You know, people who call me, tough.
	But my daughter will actually result to tweeting saying, hey, answer my text message.
	And that's like reboot the phone and like completely crap.
	I get the letter from AT&T from the president.
	Yes, we are upgrading in the California area.
	I hope the upgrades are going well for you.
	How insulting is that?
	And it's gotten worse because they're moving all the antennas around.
	AT&T blows.
	The whole cell system blows.
	Everything sucks.
	And now we'll only have two guys to compete.
	And the ham operators can't even communicate.
	Did you have your ears on this week, John?
	No, I was watching C-SPAN. You should put your ears on because there's some kind of atmospheric crap going on and the ham guys can't communicate.
	Oh, that's interesting because that might explain some of the crazy dropouts I've been getting when I was watching the CNN reportage.
	Well, you know what they're saying.
	I was like clear skies, beautiful out.
	There's nothing going on.
	It wasn't storming.
	And I was getting lots of digital failure.
	Well, you know what they say it's from.
	Tell me.
	Yeah, HAARP. Of course.
	The harp activity is crazy.
	Well, they had a little earthquake in Spain.
	Yeah, and it was, of course, it was predicted in Rome, which is quite hilarious.
	I guess some, you know, it was probably on Snopes, propagated through Reddit.
	It's true.
	Some guy predicted in his manuscript that there would be a big earthquake in Rome yesterday.
	And people were leaving Rome.
	Which is great.
	They were leaving Rome.
	But then, of course, it hit in Spain.
	It was bad.
	They missed.
	Yeah, they missed the target.
	But I was looking at the USGS seismic monitor page, and there's a lot of seismic activity going on.
	I mean, just everywhere.
	It's like...
	Stuff is off the chart.
	It's really...
	Who knows?
	Let me do this real quick.
	Shadow Puppet Theater!
	Because otherwise we'll miss it and we'll get to the end of the show and then we'll forget about it.
	So there were two Shadow Puppet Theater announcements this week.
	One was very clear and the other one not so clear.
	The first one is Meredith Atwell Baker and she was an FCC commissioner.
	She actually helped shuttle through the NBC Universal Comcast deal, and well, guess what?
	She's now leaving, and she's going to become a lobbyist for Comcast.
	Yeah, we got a lot of notes on that one.
	Isn't that amazing?
	Isn't that amazing?
	Isn't that great?
	I thought this wasn't going to happen with this Obama administration.
	The promise that this revolving door bullcrap, you know, you're a regulator, you give these guys the wink-wink, nudge-nudge, I vote yes.
	You're fired!
	Yeah, and she looks like a douchebag.
	Why don't I just give her a douchebag?
	Douchebag!
	With a Hillary coat.
	But it's the wrong color.
	She has to have one of those Hillary red things on, but it's not quite the right color.
	She got it at the cheaper store.
	She got like kind of the Hillary do going on and everything.
	These people make me sick to my stomach.
	Because you know that this is a payoff.
	It's a total payoff.
	You just sat there and helped to get this deal through, which is probably not good for us.
	No, no.
	None of this is good for us.
	People should appreciate the show that we're producing because this show is not going to last.
	No.
	Because we're going to get taken off the air, I can assure you.
	Wait, wait.
	I have one more shadow puppet theater.
	Well, there's two things.
	One, so Sheila Bair is going to leave the FDIC on July 8th.
	That will be her last day.
	Sheila Bair, of course, was supposed to be on the lookout for us when she was at the SEC. And by the way, she has one of those pooper necklaces on with like boulders.
	I mean, it's like huge rocks on this necklace.
	And these are shells, you say?
	No, these are like shiny rocks.
	Not like diamonds, but like, you know...
	I can't see how she can keep her head up, by the way.
	She must be walking with a...
	Like Quasimodo, this thing is so big.
	So we have to see where she turns up.
	So we've got to keep our eye on Sheila Bear.
	She's a total elitist douchebag.
	Now, this is the one that was not so obvious.
	So first of all, the U.S. Postal Service is in big, big, big, big trouble.
	They are now, they posted a $2.2 billion net loss.
	I don't see how you can, I mean, it seems really simple.
	I know I talked about this with Horowitz, and I thought we talked about this on the show before, because we had some testimony, and I think it came from C-SPAN, that shows that the post office is actually making money.
	Oh, really?
	Really?
	Yeah, they're actually making money, and the reason they have this $2 billion loss is because a bunch of the profits that they normally make go into the general fund, and they get a bill from the government, which is higher than what they do make, so they come in at a loss constantly, and they keep having to jack their prices up.
	But there's a number...
	If people look into this, they'll find out that there's a bookkeeping bullcrap that gives them this big loss.
	They're not losing money.
	Oh, really?
	Interesting.
	Interesting.
	Well, the shadow puppet theater move here, which is not really shadow puppet, is that the president made a lot, you know, when there's turmoil and lots of stuff going on and we're all really interested in pictures of Osama bin Laden's eye blown out, you've got to be very wary and watch stuff.
	And there's a lot of personnel changes that were announced.
	A lot of judges.
	I just don't have the time to follow up on these judges.
	Oh yeah, they're going to slip it past us.
	Right.
	But he also announced the appointment of Robert G. Taub as Commissioner of the Postal Regulatory Commission.
	And this guy was the...
	He was an Assistant Secretary to the Army.
	I thought that was really an interesting move.
	And it's one of two things.
	Either the army needs to be wary because a lot of guys are going to go postal and start killing people, or maybe we're turning the postal system into an arm of the army.
	Well, it could be an arm of the intelligence arm of the army.
	Because the see something, say something requires postal workers to now be on the lookout for suspicious behavior.
	So they're essentially now going to be, which is probably the reason you want to cough up the negative $2 billion, to give them more money so they won't, you know...
	Think on the fact that they're now just walking spies or essentially cops on the beat when they're delivering mail.
	That would be my guess.
	I'll take that one.
	Of course, we have the See Something, Say Something jingle.
	And someone pointed out to me on email that we really should be able to sell this to the Department of Homeland Security.
	And $50,000 may be low-balling, considering they pay $18 million for a website.
	If you see something, say something.
	Turns out, one of our producers did some work, and he says, hey, that See Something, Say Something, they actually stole that themselves.
	This is not an original thought.
	See Something, Say Something comes from a 2008 episode of Starship Troopers 3.
	Wait, hold on a second.
	Starship Troopers had an episode?
	I thought it was just one crappy movie.
	No, no, no.
	They had three.
	It was an entire...
	They had three of those movies about the bugs?
	So they had to recoup somehow.
	That movie was the worst.
	Yeah, it's horrible.
	So I guess the producers recouped their money by selling See Something, Say Something to Lucy Napolitano.
	Have a listen.
	Federal Council members were called together today by Sky Marshal Inoki for his weekly report.
	How are you doing, sir?
	Good to see you, sir.
	Then...
	Disaster.
	A bomb carried by a member of the Ghana Peace Coalition explodes.
	Among the missing, Sky Marshal Inoki and his loyal aide, General Dix Hauser.
	Each and every one of us has been attacked by a man who would demand peace at all costs.
	A man who calls himself a citizen.
	A man who is no better than a bug.
	That man is Elmo Gonneth, self-proclaimed pacifist turned terrorist.
	And today, he and other members of the Gonneth Peace Coalition are wanted in connection with the Council bombing.
	And hey, citizen, you can help.
	Know your neighbors?
	Take another look, citizen.
	You could be living next door to a big, fat reward.
	If you see something, say something.
	Would you like to know more?
	So I'm waiting for the commercials from Lucy Napolitano that says, hey citizen, you could be living next door to a big fat reward.
	If you see something, say something.
	That's a great catch.
	Hey everybody, hey citizen, hey citizen, you could be living next door to a big reward.
	If you see something, say something.
	Hey citizen, gotta work on it still.
	Well, I don't think you're working on it.
	I don't have time.
	I'm watching C-SPAN and programming the news network.
	I think you should at least spend a couple of hours with a bunch of videos or a bunch of those things you like to watch.
	Yeah, but a couple of hours.
	I don't have a couple of hours.
	Well, you like to watch the Obama speech and the address.
	While you're watching it, follow the cadence.
	You're going to watch it anyway.
	When I see something, say something.
	That's what you're telling me right here.
	Yeah, if you see something, say something.
	If you see Obama, say Obama.
	Okay.
	I really want to do it.
	Believe me, the only reason I keep pushing is because you sound exactly like him for that one moment.
	Not only that, but I look exactly like him.
	You do.
	It would be perfect.
	It was the first question Maynard asked yesterday.
	He said, so, how are you doing with your Obama impersonation?
	Like, really?
	Hey, citizens.
	Hey, citizens.
	You could be living right next door to a big fat reward.
	If you see something, say something.
	Hey, citizen!
	Yeah, I gotta work on it.
	But I will work on it.
	You say that.
	Okay, okay.
	But look.
	Look.
	Let me be clear.
	There's a lot of work going on.
	Noagendanewsnetwork.com, nashownotes.com, noagendastream.com.
	What are you doing?
	Yeah, thank you.
	You're building PCs.
	So, here's a clip that, this is again back to the AT&T hearings.
	I finally listened to this whole thing and I realized that the whole deal, of course this is obvious when you just think about it for a second.
	The idea is for AT&T to basically shut out all the little guys, even though they claim that they're not going to do that.
	But to shut out the little guys from being able to get roaming agreements and the way you do that is you have to make sure you don't need roaming agreements yourself.
	It's like patent portfolios in tech business.
	If you have a big patent portfolio and you're locking everybody out of those patents and you've got some little chip company that wants to make a chip that uses any of your patents and they're competitors, you can just tell them to screw themselves.
	They don't get any of your patents.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	If they have one loan patent that you need, you're screwed.
	You have to give them a deal.
	So you have to let them use your patent.
	This is what happens with AMD and Intel.
	They're both big enough that they have enough patents each that they have to share technology.
	This is the same thing with roaming.
	So there's a roaming guy comes out, some guy from, his name is Mina from Cellular South, who's in the committee, and he's one of the guys, and he bitches about the fact that AT&T won't give them roaming even though the FCC told them to.
	The AT&T guy comes back with some bogus reason, and then of course they get into a little argument, and then...
	Grassley, who doesn't seem to care about really...
	This whole thing is rigged, by the way.
	They're going to do this deal.
	He tells them basically to shut up, but play this problem with AT&T roaming.
	And as far as the fees are concerned, one of the biggest challenges that we have faced is trying to get a roaming agreement with AT&T, especially a data roaming agreement at the 3G level.
	Even after the FCC mandated data roaming in their order back in April, we've not made any progress toward that.
	Now, you know, April was just last month.
	But, you know, we've been told the roaming person's out of town.
	So it's very important for...
	To answer your question, it's very important for carriers to be able to provide service that allows their devices to work anywhere the user goes, anywhere in the country, rural, urban.
	It's awfully important for the voice and the data to work wherever they go.
	Mr.
	Stevenson.
	First, in response to the rural roaming, we have a number of 3G rural roaming deals around the U.S. with rural providers.
	The FCC rules have established how that process should work, so we're open for business on roaming for rural 3G services.
	As it relates to Mr.
	Mina, He's on a different technology than AT&T operates on.
	I'd be glad to talk to you after this.
	I'll get something going, but we don't offer CD. We have a GSM property that we've been trying to talk to you about for quite a while.
	We sure do.
	We have a GSM property in North Alabama.
	Well, folks negotiate on your own time.
	You know, You know, it seems to me that when this little debate began and it seemed a real important element here was the fact that AT&T is only going to do roaming agreements with people that they have to do them with because of this similar situation like with the patents.
	That would be something you'd jump on if you were on the committee, right?
	But no, they tell the guys to go...
	You know, play in the sandbox someplace else.
	And I thought it was a good example that this is rigged.
	Uh, yeah.
	Anyway, that's my main complaint.
	I spent a lot of time to find that little clip.
	And I appreciate you doing that because no one else is paying any attention to it.
	The news media certainly isn't paying any attention to it.
	And essentially, it's a monopolistic move by AT&T as they buy up T-Mobile.
	And you're right.
	The telecoms companies, what they pay...
	The congressmen and senators in campaign fund donations is huge.
	These companies, they spend the most...
	AT&T and Verizon, they're the biggest advertisers in the universe.
	These guys are huge.
	And they own everybody and everything.
	And by the way, they track everybody and everything.
	This is all very important.
	Or as that guy says important...
	He says important kind of in a weird way.
	Yeah, they have weird accents.
	Their milieu, whatever it is...
	It's their milieu.
	Weird voices.
	So some Haiti news.
	As you know, I still track Haiti very closely because, well, not only do I have my thoughts about the naturality of the earthquake there, but when Presidents Bill, Billy Boy Clinton, and Douchebag Bush came out and said, Hey, just send us your cash.
	We just need cash.
	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
	Just send your cash.
	So, a couple things going on in Haiti.
	It is obviously still extremely dire.
	The cholera projections have been up once again.
	People are pooping themselves to death, literally, in Haiti.
	And your own news did go out and try to investigate the claims that the UN peacekeepers actually have spread this cholera.
	And the way it happens is, so they have these blue helmet camps, UN camps, which is an army camp.
	You know, it's military.
	Because they have blue helmets, therefore, I guess they're not, they don't look as aggressive or whatever.
	And when they poop, it goes from the latrine right into the river.
	And so the guy went out and tried to investigate.
	We're not being told exactly what's going on here, but it certainly smells like sewage.
	There are toilets right there, and the liquid seems to be draining into this river just a few meters away that flows into the nearby town of Mirbalet.
	Local residents said they'd frequently seen sewage from the base leak into the river, and that families in the area had recently become ill.
	It's only people downriver who have been infected.
	A child close to here died.
	Another family had three kids get diarrhea, and one died the same day.
	The UN is firmly denying the battalion could be a source of the outbreak.
	A senior official told Al Jazeera the water had been tested already.
	There has also been a rumor that the Nepalis in Mirabile are a source of cholera.
	We have taken samples from the river, and they've been confirmed by the National Laboratory to be negative.
	But downriver from the Nepalese base, there are certainly cases of cholera.
	Fifty cases have been confirmed in the local prison, and the river runs on into Artibonit, the worst affected region.
	The Nepalese contingents wouldn't tell us when they arrived here, but UN headquarters confirmed it was mid-October, just weeks after a cholera outbreak in Kathmandu, and on Wednesday the soldiers appeared to be taking away more samples, suggesting this investigation may not be over.
	So that was Al Jazeera, I apologize.
	And of course, they had the guys actually on their hands and knees scooping up poop.
	This seems to be a theme that we have now in our government.
	Detective Dookie.
	Detective Dookie.
	Poop Police.
	I love it.
	Special Poopers Unit.
	So anyway, so while that's going on, while people are pooping themselves to death, President Clinton will be leading the official U.S. delegation to the inauguration this weekend of Haiti's new president, the douchebag formerly known as the guy in the band that no one cared about, sweet Mickey Martelli.
	And who will be accompanying him?
	Martelli?
	No, Bill.
	Billy Boy.
	Who's going to be accompanying it?
	Well, it's got to be some celebrity.
	Well, no, it's Hillary, of course.
	Hillary's going along.
	Now, yeah.
	So, of course, what we're still trying to figure out is where did all the money go?
	The money that these guys literally shilled for.
	And I can tell you, after we remind ourselves how they pitched this to the American public and the world.
	Shysters show up and take advantage of people's goodwill and generosity.
	We just need cash.
	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
	Just send your cash.
	The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, that's who you sent your money to, announced yesterday it would invest $2 million to complete construction on a major hotel project in Haiti.
	Ah.
	I'm glad we nailed that early.
	The 130-room Oasis Hotel.
	And they will, of course, have the Bill Clinton suite.
	Oh, yeah.
	Which Bill Clinton will get comped.
	For free, yeah.
	It's unbelievable.
	Unbelievable.
	What happened to the rest of the billions that were collected?
	$10.
	Just type it in your cell phone.
	$10, $10, $10.
	Where'd that money go?
	Into the Clinton Library.
	Well, you know, they had the big...
	Of course, the giveaway for these things is always the concert with all these, you know, actors and, you know, singers and they're all the same.
	Bono, those types of people all singing.
	Sir Bob.
	It's like a giveaway.
	As soon as they do that, you know, it's just a scam.
	I know, I know.
	It's nasty.
	It's nasty.
	But at least, you know, when people listen to our show, they don't get entirely...
	Yeah, we do the show.
	Another one we've been talking about.
	John, how long have you been saying there will come a day when corn sugar will just be called sugar?
	Yeah, it was obvious that that was the idea.
	Here's the commercial.
	Has that day come?
	That day has come.
	Here's the commercial.
	Like any parent, I have questions about the food my daughter eats.
	Things like high fructose corn syrup.
	So I started looking for answers from medical and nutrition experts.
	And what I discovered is that whether it's corn sugar or cane sugar, your body can't tell the difference.
	Sugar is sugar.
	And knowing that makes me feel better about what she eats.
	And that's one last thing to worry about.
	Learn more at CornSugar.com.
	Sugar is sugar.
	This showed up about a month ago, actually.
	Well, we never played it on the show.
	No.
	But it's obviously, you know, I was disgusted by it because there's actually some follow-up.
	There's a couple of experts floating around that's been pointed out to us that come out with this new meme, which is sugar is sugar.
	Yeah, well, we did play that clip a couple of weeks ago.
	Yeah, that's it.
	And the point is, is that it's not.
	And everybody, I mean, the earlier pitch that the fructose guy, the high fructose corn syrup people had, was it's high fructose.
	Hello?
	Sucrose and fructose are not the same, and we always assume that sucrose is sugar.
	Because that's what, you know, we've been, over the centuries, the eons, we've been eating sugar.
	Sugar, which is derived from, originally from cane, and then it'd be started, you could get it, you could extract it from certain sugar beets, but it was a sucrose product, and high fructose corn syrup is a completely different thing.
	It's a combination of mostly fructose and a little sucrose, and it's mixed up with God knows what, because it comes out of a refinery, so who knows what's really in there in terms of, like, the way, and the way it operates, the way they're bond together.
	Who knows what it does?
	Obviously, it's not good, or we think it's not good, and we We assume it's not good because they keep covering up the facts and they keep jumping on people who complain about it and they keep putting it in everything that we don't want it in.
	Anyway, to make a long story short, it's bull crap that sugar is sugar.
	Sugar is sugar.
	Poop is poop.
	It's just unbelievable.
	Unbelievable.
	Then why do they call it high fructose corn syrup?
	Because it's sugar.
	It's sugar.
	It's ridiculous.
	And they are going to pull this stunt where on the labels it's just going to say sugar and it's going to be high fructose corn syrup.
	And I was looking at bread.
	I was at the store getting some croissants and some other stuff.
	And I'm looking at this package.
	Wait a minute.
	You were getting a croissant?
	Yeah, I was getting a croissant.
	A croissant in your milieu?
	A study of croissant.
	Was that part of your material to get a price for your croissant?
	So anyway, so I'm looking at the bread ingredients in these various bread products and they got high fructose corn syrup in half the bread.
	And your croissant?
	No, the croissant didn't have high fructose corn syrup.
	But these other products, I mean, I'm saying, why am I buying, why is there high fructose corn syrup in my bread?
	Because sugar is sugar.
	Have a croissant.
	I don't want sugar in my bread at all.
	Why do I want this in my bread?
	Would you please say, I don't want sugar in my croissant.
	I don't want sugar in my croissant.
	There's the opening of the show.
	Perfect.
	I don't want...
	I said it.
	I don't want it in my...
	Do you want a safety?
	Yeah, please.
	Do one for safety.
	I do not want the sugar in my croissant.
	See, that's not funny.
	See, that's just not funny.
	Because you said it like you really meant it.
	I did.
	That's why I pronounced it.
	How do you pronounce croissant?
	Croissant.
	Croissant.
	Sugar in my croissant.
	Croissant.
	Hello, everybody.
	Croissant.
	My Tourette's is acting up.
	General Hospital, end of an era.
	I don't want to overdo this, but we are at the end of days.
	I'm not talking about the end of the world, but they're taking all the soap operas off the air.
	And we're going to miss dialogue.
	People should start watching the soap operas because you're never going to see them again.
	These aren't going to exist anymore.
	They're all going to get replaced by crappy reality shows and talk shows like Ellen.
	So this is like the radio plays going away.
	Yeah, this is the end of an era.
	I'm surprised you didn't just keep walking.
	I'd be lying if I said it wasn't my first instinct.
	But you've decided to ignore your own ultimatum and say hello.
	Maybe there's hope for us yet.
	I really shouldn't be talking to you.
	I miss you.
	Good.
	Hopefully at some point you'll miss all of us enough to go to rehab and get help.
	Help.
	The only reason I'm talking to you right now It's because I'm scared you're going to do something stupid and get yourself killed.
	The end of an era.
	The end of General Hospital.
	The end of an era.
	Ellen coming up next.
	Hello, everybody.
	It's just like, I just was flipping around and I saw this and I said, oh my, this is terrible.
	I was on Another World one.
	We should see if we can find that episode because that's a classic.
	You were on Another World?
	Yes, yes.
	Also, it's defunct, it's long gone.
	Yes, as a special guest star, I was on Another World.
	With that big hair of yours?
	Yes.
	You know, the only people who ever say anything about my hair are people who lack it.
	You know, you had big hair.
	You don't have it as much anymore.
	No, I don't.
	No, I don't.
	No, we're talking big hair.
	I could have a crew cut and people would still say, hey, that's the guy with the big hair.
	You had big hair.
	What am I supposed to say?
	No, no, there's nothing wrong with it.
	But the only people who still talk about it are the ones who have no hair.
	And you're kind of thin.
	No, anyone who saw those old clips of you would say the same thing.
	So, it was like 1988 for the chat room.
	They're going to go and look for it.
	It was another world, 1988, I think.
	We need to get that.
	Yeah, it'd be hilarious.
	It's the end of an era.
	A couple of things.
	There was a little slip-up regarding Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
	Of course, we know that everyone lied to the human resources, who, of course, are the awakened slaves, and the slaves themselves, that the president had somehow gotten rid of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and now if you're happy and you know it, clap your hands, and if you're gay, you can tell everyone.
	Well, that's not true.
	And so this week, two things happened.
	First, the news came out.
	Navy chaplains authorized to perform same-sex marriages on bases.
	Well, that took about 12 hours.
	Navy suspends its new policy on same-sex unions.
	It's like, you know, someone went, who the hell authorized that?
	They need a new office, a new department where the major script is kept.
	Yeah, the master script.
	The writer's room.
	They need a writer's room where all the writers are in one room and they all bang the ideas around and they agree on something.
	Yeah, they can't go like this.
	This is making them look like idiots.
	We don't really want them to do that because then we'll kind of lose all our good material.
	Very sad.
	Playboy Gunter Sacks, ex-husband of Brigitte Bardot, committed suicide.
	Prediction.
	This actually came from Robert, who posted this on noagendanewsnetwork.com.
	He says, so here was the article...
	German-born SAC78 left a suicide note saying he had been suffering from a hopeless illness and felt he was losing his memory, ability to think and communicate clearly.
	So we're just waiting for this to turn into a promo for Alzheimer's vaccine.
	But while you're on this sort of topic, did you see the Hollywood hit that took place?
	On the MTV executive with an execution style?
	First of all, let's just roll it back a little bit and tone it down.
	This is not an MTV executive.
	Okay, well, an MTV dude.
	Yeah, he was an MTV dude.
	I don't know him.
	He was young.
	He was from the L.A. operation on a couple of these reality shows.
	I don't think this was a hit.
	He was shot in the back of the head while he was on his knees.
	You don't think it was a hit?
	Yeah, so was Osama bin Laden.
	That wasn't a hit.
	That was an accident.
	No, I looked into it.
	I don't think it was a hit.
	I don't.
	I mean, maybe because one of the shows that he worked on was like a rap...
	Oops, there I go.
	A hip-hop show.
	So maybe there were some hip-hoppers pissed off at him, but I don't think so.
	Okay.
	I don't think so.
	Well, you're down there.
	You would know.
	Yeah, I continue to monitor.
	Now, did you see this?
	Do you remember our friend, the Google executive?
	You know, the guy who actually started the entire Egyptian revolution?
	Yeah, that guy was credited with it, yeah.
	No, no, he started it.
	He did the entire thing.
	Oh.
	He has a book deal.
	Oh.
	Uh-huh.
	His book will be called.
	So some guy is a Google guy.
	He just works in an office at a desk, and he tweets something, and now he gets a book deal.
	Mm-hmm.
	It's called Revolution 2.0.
	Ugh.
	I knew you would.
	I read that.
	I'm like, uh-huh.
	Okay.
	Right.
	Unbelievable.
	And one more from the Ministry of Truth Files, and then I want to give you a couple of 33s.
	Actually, there's two things we have to talk about.
	So this was unbelievable that the...
	Who was it?
	There was a Freedom of Information Act request...
	I'm trying to figure out who filed this.
	ACLU.
	So the American Civil Liberties Union.
	And they requested a whole bunch of documents from the FBI.
	And they've published some of these documents.
	And this is about the government wiretapping you.
	So here's the documents that the FBI sent back.
	The FBI withheld the identities of the electronic communications service providers that have provided information or are listed as potentially required to provide information to the FBI as part of its national security and criminal investigation under authority granted by Section 702, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	That, of course, is the FISA Act.
	Has been asserted because disclosure...
	So they won't tell...
	Under the Freedom of Information Act request, they are refusing to tell the slaves which telecommunications companies are giving out information about their customers.
	and here's the reason why specifically these businesses would be substantially harmed if their customers knew that they were furnishing information to the FBI.
	The stigma of working with the FBI would cause customers to cancel the company's service and file civil actions to prevent further disclosure of subscriber information.
	I mean we're doomed.
	AT&T, by the way.
	Of course, but can you believe that?
	The FBI will not tell us, under law they're required to, they will not tell us because we might sue those companies or go to another company.
	That is the definition of abhorrent right there.
	Ooh, the word comes back.
	Libya has a little bit of a problem.
	NATO admitted earlier this week they don't know if Gaddafi is dead or alive.
	So all of a sudden pictures start to show up.
	Here he is.
	He's alive.
	He's doing well.
	And the President just announced that that douchebag from the opposition will now be visiting the White House, and he'll be taking a meeting.
	So they're recognized.
	It doesn't matter if Gaddafi is dead or not.
	The EU is opening up an office in Tripoli, and London is opening up an office in London for the Libyan opposition.
	They just pretend like Gaddafi doesn't even exist now.
	Well, that's one way of doing it.
	Yeah, I like it.
	It's like, oh, it doesn't really matter.
	Whatever.
	Huh.
	Yeah, it's a little disturbing.
	Or, go ahead and say it.
	What?
	It's abhorrent!
	I'm not going to say it.
	Alright.
	I'm going to avoid using the word unless something really gets to me.
	Okay, well let me try this one on you then.
	So, there's a...
	We have to fund the military.
	Of course.
	Because we have to pay the troops.
	So this is like a six-hour C-SPAN shindig, which I have not watched everything, but I would like to pull the relevant quote.
	So they have the fiscal 2012 defense bill.
	And as with most of these big bills, which is, of course, trillions of dollars, they always slip stuff in.
	Check this out.
	What they've added to this bill is an update to the 2001 authorization to use military force to reflect the Al-Qaeda of the present day.
	Of course, it's much different than the organization that attacked us on 9-11.
	So the original authorization tethered the war to those directly or indirectly responsible for 9-11, which means the president can say, you know what?
	You were directly or indirectly responsible for 9-11.
	We could declare war on you.
	The new language authorizes, quote, an armed conflict with Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated forces as those entities continue to pose a threat to the United States and its citizens.
	What this means is...
	With associated forces, which of course could be a...
	The President now can authorize the United States to go to war with anyone, any country, anywhere without going to Congress.
	Yeah, this is a big scandal that's going on right now.
	And I was listening to John Garamendi, who seemed to be the guy that seemed to be on top of this, saying that all this is doing is a blank check for the president to do whatever he wants.
	And there's been a number of these bills going through.
	There was one that showed up, I don't remember the number, but it's another Schumer bill.
	Where Schumer says, all these Senate confirmations that we're doing, why don't we just skip them and let the President do whatever he wants?
	In other words, you have to imagine yourself in a position of one of the three parts of our government, giving up power to the executive branch just out of goodwill or who knows why.
	The fact of the matter is that our Congress is just essentially turning this country because they have spineless group of people that don't want to – they just basically don't want to do any work.
	It's like the Roman Senate, which is always – people complained about it when the Romans turned into a – from a republic of sorts to a – Dictatorship.
	These are – oriented dictatorship, which is what we're slowly turning into, and I want to remind people that this show that you're listening to is not going to continue forever because of this.
	And the Schumer bill and this thing here that Garamendi's complaining about and all the rest of it is just more indications that they're just turning more and more power over the executive branch, both the Republicans and the Democrats.
	And, of course, you want to keep Ron Paul out of the argument, even though he's won every straw poll.
	But don't talk about him running for anything.
	For heaven forbid he won't be part of the game.
	and they've just given away the whole operation, both parties, to the executive branch.
	And, of course, the Republicans figure, well, we'll get back in there someday, and so we'll get to be the Caesar.
	It's ridiculous.
	It's a problem.
	So, to wrap it up, when Maynard asked me, Maynard from ABC Australia there, he said, you know, what can we do?
	And he's like, oh, you should be Mayor Curry.
	I'm like, no.
	I think the real way to get...
	The guy with the hair?
	Yeah, he's the guy with the hair.
	Thanks.
	Hey, I saw him in another world.
	He was awesome.
	Swamp Thing was great.
	Now he's mayor.
	I kind of came up with the only way we can get rid of these elites.
	And the only way is to really get under their skin and annoy them.
	Because when they're annoyed, then they go on television or C-SPAN, which will be good enough in this case.
	And they do trip up.
	Because the media, this is the only thing they can't control.
	When one of these elites really trips up and does something really dumb, that propagates, goes viral, and they lose all credibility.
	So the best way we can do that is to keep getting under their skin by calling Hillary Lucifer, you know, it's Lucy Napolitano, it's Scheister Schumer.
	You've got to keep irritating these guys.
	That's what really works.
	That is my...
	No, I'm going to stick to it.
	I'm glad you feel that way.
	And just so you know, John, FEMA has ordered over 100,000 boxcars with shackles.
	I don't believe this story.
	Well, there's a nice picture of them.
	There's a picture of it.
	Reminded of one of the websites that showed a routing to a FEMA camp.
	This is a couple years back, and I just coincidentally had a picture of the same place, which turned out to be in Slovenia.
	So, I mean, I'm not buying a lot of this stuff.
	You have to send me a link, and I want to check it out.
	I'm sure it's a fake.
	It could be.
	It could be.
	It could be a fake.
	But anyway, I have put in a request for an executive suite for us.
	I think I should put in a request for a...
	What do you call it when you get to the FBI documents?
	Freedom of Information Act request.
	Okay.
	We need to have some people out there that are doing this for us.
	And we should be doing it for ourselves.
	Just requesting all kinds of stuff.
	I'm too busy emulating the president.
	It takes years to get it, by the way.
	Yeah, oh yeah.
	I'm too busy trying to do the president's voice.
	I got no time for...
	Well, you haven't been spending enough time on that.
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