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307: US-EU Framework Agreement

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	Well, aren't you special?
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Devorak.
	And it's Thursday, May 26, 2011.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 307.
	This is no agenda.
	Experiencing severe deja vu all over again here at the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center in Gimbo Nation West in the People's Republic of Southern California.
	In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's sunny and warm and shiny, it's fantastic.
	I won't have a very good show then.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Well, in the morning to you, John.
	In the morning to you, and in the morning to all ships at sea, feet in the air, boots on the ground, and whatever else I wanted to say hi to.
	And, of course, all of our human resources who, once again, faithfully, have shown up in the chat room at NoAgendaStream.com, NoAgendaChat.net.
	They are all charged up and ready to go exactly the way their government loves them.
	And I said it right there in the opening, John, I feel like it's deja vu all over again.
	Okay.
	This is nuts.
	Now, I looked it up because we all know what deja vu feels like.
	You're like, oh, wait a minute.
	I did this before.
	I've been here before.
	Is this a dream?
	So when I hear about the volcano erupting in Iceland...
	Before you go on, you have to remember the two of us both mentioned that when the one volcano goes off, the other one goes off shortly thereafter.
	Right, the one next to it, you mean?
	Yeah.
	This one's not quite next to it.
	It's down the road there, but it went off.
	I mean, I was just waiting for the other one to go off.
	I knew something was going to happen.
	Well, I think the deja vu is going to happen because, well, it is happening.
	So, first of all, we get this.
	They start shutting down airports.
	And then I read some things like, oh, President Obama had to actually reroute his flight as he's in Europe.
	And I looked it up, and April 2010, that was when the...
	So we're almost exactly a year later.
	He's in Europe, and he had to reroute his flight to Poland.
	I'm like, wow, this is amazing.
	It's like the same script.
	And then I'm thinking, why, why, why, why, why?
	Okay, here we go.
	Well, it's actually quite simple.
	I mean, Europe is very interesting right now.
	Very interesting to watch as the struggle for the IMF chieftainship is now in full swing.
	By the way, did you see Christine Lagarde started her Twitter feed and it's Lagarde underscore IMF? I mean, please...
	Really?
	Yeah.
	I missed that.
	That's hilarious.
	Why don't you just tell us you're in now?
	I mean, it's so obvious.
	Lagarde underscore IMF. Okay.
	It's not like she's in the IMF yet.
	So what gives her the right?
	Well, you know, she had...
	I mean, the French feel that they own that seat at the moment.
	Because the Europeans who supposedly run the IMF, they said that with this guy, what's his name?
	Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
	That guy.
	He was going to be the last European to run the IMF. Right.
	Well, they cut his deal short, so that doesn't count.
	We get a do-over.
	The guy didn't get it full term.
	Yeah, we get to complete our thing.
	Yeah, so they're going to put another French person in.
	But here's what's happening.
	Greece is in absolute disarray and chaos.
	I mean, like, really, really, really bad.
	In fact, let me just play a little clip.
	I got some, what was it, this might have been Russia Today or something, but they got some typical Greek guy.
	It's just like, hey, let's, and by the way, Russia Today is doing something very interesting with their production.
	You know how when you want to edit a soundbite, a statement from somebody, you have to have some kind of beauty shot in between in order to edit what the guy is saying, right?
	So oftentimes it's a naughty, as we call it, so they'll show the interviewer, and then the interviewer's going, uh-huh, uh-huh, which is all taped after the interview.
	Yeah, it's all B-roll.
	Well, along with the questions often.
	They ask the questions again and then they insert that because they're doing this with one camera.
	Yeah, the whole thing is bogus, ladies and gentlemen.
	Yeah, just so you know.
	But they have a new format.
	They take an extreme close-up of the person who's talking, cut off right above their mouth, So you see their eyes, their nose, and every single crevice on their face.
	It's the ugliest shot ever.
	And they'll use that as the shot, so it looks like the person is talking, but you can't see his mouth, so you can't match up the words with what he's saying.
	It's like, wow, I mean, what kind of...
	Which idea was that?
	Really?
	It's like every single time they do it, I'm like, ugh, I don't want to see it.
	Well, you know, we pointed out on this show once before, I think one of the, some analysts who does...
	Look at this stuff.
	Mention that you want an extreme close-up of people on a television set.
	It makes them look dishonest.
	No kidding.
	And it's done on purpose.
	So I would assume that Russia Today only does that with people they're trying to slant their public opinion against.
	Oh, good point.
	I'll have to pay attention to it.
	Yeah, you've got to see who it is.
	Yeah, it's very short.
	I would doubt they do it with everybody.
	So here's this report, and I believe most of this report to be true, but the Greek guy is kind of defending there.
	But just listen to the dissatisfaction.
	The ideology is that Greeks are those guys who lie in the sun and don't work.
	Wait a minute.
	See, I told you it's true.
	He's telling the truth.
	Those Greek guys just lay in the sun and don't do anything.
	Well, the reality is not that.
	Greeks work at least as much as other Europeans.
	I think the idea of the German government is that we should sell everything to them because we owe to them.
	So, you see, it's a kind of situation That in the end produces a very uneven relationship inside a supposedly union.
	Though even the slightest rumors that Greece might leave the euro have already been flatly denied by Athens and Brussels, some experts believe this would be best for the EU, even claiming it could be less painful than being warned.
	Experts from abroad, they try to make us clear that no country that has debts should escape the euro area because they would lose money.
	But this shouldn't be our problem.
	It shouldn't be the problem for the wealthier European countries.
	Our research has shown up that Greek could leave the Euro area without any big problems.
	But the Greek people are facing big problems.
	The total out of work is expected to hit around 800,000 this year.
	With an unemployment rate of 40% among the young, it seems people strolling through the city's markets are just putting on a brave face.
	So, 40% unemployment with the youth.
	The Germans are clearly saying, get out, we don't want any part of you.
	And there's this struggle right now in the EU between, because of course Greece needs more money.
	And this money that is given to Greece and Spain and Portugal and Ireland, it's not just like the taxpayers from other countries, it's from banks.
	You know, J.P. Morgan owns, I think it's $7 billion worth of Greek bonds.
	Yeah, it's not a giveaway either, by the way.
	Oh, absolutely not, but everyone's talking about, well, we should restructure Greece's debt.
	And the banks are going like, I don't think so.
	Reprofile is the new word.
	Reprofile, that's the word, exactly.
	Reprofile, which means, oh, maybe they wouldn't have to pay any interest for a couple years.
	And the banks are going, I don't think so.
	We want our money.
	And Christine Lagarde is the one who was saying, uh-uh, not going to happen.
	Sell your beaches.
	Literally, John.
	They're being told to sell the beach now.
	The Greek people will have to pay a fee to get on their own beaches because they're privatizing them.
	So this is a huge, huge problem.
	And the same is happening in Spain right now?
	Spain's got the same unemployment rate.
	And by the way, when I was there, I was told that this was going to happen and we reported it on the show that the Spanish have a huge situation going on.
	It's being underreported.
	But they have the same thing with the low...
	The high unemployment for youth, same thing, about 40%.
	It's ridiculous.
	And the kids are irked.
	Wait a minute, irked?
	Is that the word you're using?
	They're irked.
	The kids in Spain have no houses.
	They can't even afford a place to stay.
	In Greece, I read, the average soup kitchen before the crisis had about 100 people a day coming by.
	These days, the average soup kitchen in Greece, 3,500 people come by.
	The rats are on the street.
	So there's a lot of real trouble going on.
	The Icelandic foreign minister was just in Washington about a week and a half ago.
	He did one of those stupid Hillary clippity-clop moments up to the podium to say, oh, we had a great little conversation.
	It was so stupid I couldn't even pull a clip from it.
	It was like a minute and a half.
	It was literally nothing.
	So just suppose we've got all this crap coming down.
	We have to create a distraction, a big one, by closing the airports once again.
	And by the way, I call my buddies and they're all like, it's beautiful weather, blue sky, and these are aviators.
	They're like, here we go again.
	Have we forgotten the last time?
	Have we absolutely forgotten that there was nothing you could fly?
	A whole year ago, for God's sake, of course.
	Yeah, but you could fly...
	You could fly.
	This happens all the time.
	Airspace didn't shut down in the United States when Mount St.
	Helens erupted.
	It just kind of routed around it.
	You don't have to shut everything down.
	So I think the Icelandic foreign minister was here.
	Hillary says, look, we've got some problems.
	I think you should flip the switch on that thing.
	Spout the thing off.
	Create a distraction.
	Obama's there.
	They've got the G8 meeting.
	It's perfect.
	Keep everyone distracted with not being able to fly.
	And that's everyone I talk to from Europe.
	All they can talk about is, oh, the airports are shutting down.
	You can't fly.
	It's going to be horrible.
	And meanwhile, all this other stuff is taking place.
	And they're starving.
	The people are absolutely starving.
	And to further my thesis that a lot of this is all set up, you know how they love to throw some little numbers in our face, John, when they pull off a little funny coup, the elites?
	Like, 33 is a big number, right?
	Mm-hmm.
	Yes.
	So, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, I was wondering why they kept reporting his hotel room number.
	What was it?
	2806.
	And it became like, you know, the mystery of room 2806.
	And I'm like, how often does that happen in a story about rape that they have to continuously put the room number in there?
	Okay, I got a room number story for you too.
	Go on.
	2806, which in European date nomenclature would be June 28th.
	Illegal proceedings may force Dominique Strauss-Kahn to stay in the U.S. for several months, while the deadline to participate in the Socialist Party primaries is June 28th.
	Yeah, that's a good one.
	I love how to do that.
	So I was with a couple of friends of mine discussing this and some other issues, and with the theory that the latest thing, of course, is that Putin was involved in this.
	Probably, probably, yeah.
	And they said, well, Putin, well, apparently there were some things the IMF was doing that Putin didn't like, and at the same time, because it's Sarkozy trying to keep a competitor out, if that's the case, Putin had the assets to do this kind of a scam.
	Mm-hmm.
	And the French probably didn't.
	If we see some sort of a relationship between Sarkozy and Putin in the near future, you're going to maybe know the reason why.
	But the kicker was apparently, and I think this is part of us, if you're going to scheme against somebody, you can't just let them casually show up at a hotel and drop into a room.
	He was upgraded to that room.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	He was upgraded, okay.
	So that wasn't his original room, so they put him in that room after he checked in.
	The thing is, John, that I think the global government, the New World Order, has really started to come together, and all these guys are working together so much that they pull off one thing.
	It behooves so many people, it's hard to pin down a conspiracy on one guy.
	It's like the mysterious killing and disappearance of the body in any picture of Osama Bin Laden.
	It behooves so many people that you can't even pin it down on it.
	Did it benefit Obama?
	Of course.
	But did it benefit the military-industrial complex?
	Of course.
	Did it benefit, oh, let me see, every dickhead who wants to extend the Patriot Act tonight at midnight?
	Of course.
	So you can't pin it down to one thing because you're really coming together.
	Yeah, no, I agree.
	And it's not necessarily a conspiracy.
	It's just this kind of...
	It's a hold-up.
	It's like somebody coming up to you.
	You're walking down Market Street.
	Somebody pulls a gun on you.
	Says, give me your money.
	And then they take your money and run off.
	And you can't say, hey, this was some sort of a wild conspiracy.
	No, I see it differently.
	It's like you're walking down the market.
	Some guy stops you.
	Another guy kneels down behind you.
	And then the guy pushes you over him.
	That's what I'm seeing.
	It's just unbelievable.
	And the way that would work with your interpretation, which I would agree with, is the guy who got behind you and dropped to his knees, He just saw the situation and decided to do that.
	Let me jump in here.
	Let me help out.
	This is cool.
	We can go kick some ass.
	It's crazy, the stuff that is happening.
	President Obama, what is he doing?
	He's on a European tour or something?
	Well, first he had to go to Ireland because of his Irish roots.
	Oh, it gets better than that.
	Because then he has Irish roots.
	Now he also came out and said that he was connected with the Queen.
	He had some other connection.
	And there's also now an article that he has Flemish roots.
	I mean, it's like, yeah, of course, eventually we're all related to each other.
	If you go back to Adam and Eve...
	But come on, this is an Obama joke.
	Obama, where's my posture?
	So he goes to a bar named Obama.
	Obama's.
	With a picture of him.
	And he's having a Guinness, and by the way, the picture in the Financial Times of him and his wife, and she didn't look like she was a Guinness drinker.
	No.
	He's drinking from a half pint.
	Yeah.
	It's like, you know, drink from a pint glass, buddy, if you're going to be in one of these bars, right?
	Even if you don't finish it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	So he's drinking Guinness from Stemware.
	No, I also saw him drink a proper one, but that could have been from two years ago.
	Who knows?
	Well, that's right.
	You know, I saw him drink the proper one, too, but the picture in the Financial Times, you know what it must have been?
	Can you take another shot, Mr.
	President?
	A do-over, please, Mr.
	President.
	A do-over.
	And so he probably didn't want it.
	So there's a couple of things that are very interesting, and I have some theory about that.
	So he's messing up everywhere when it comes to protocol.
	Now, I don't give a crap about the elites protocol.
	But he signs the guest book.
	You heard about this, right?
	I didn't know about the guest book.
	I know about the toast.
	Yeah.
	Which all the right-wing talk show guys are going nuts over.
	Oh, he doesn't know how to toast the queen.
	Like, who cares?
	Yeah.
	The toast was...
	Because what he's supposed to do is wait for God Save the Queen to end.
	Yeah.
	But he didn't do that.
	He toasted too early.
	No, he held the glass waiting for her to pick her glass up and she looks at him like he's crazy.
	He's like, are you mad?
	Are you mad, man?
	To the queen!
	I'd like to make a toast to Her Majesty, the Queen.
	Very proud of her.
	No, so he signed the Westminster Abbey guest book and dated it May 24, 2008.
	What?
	Yes!
	So I'm thinking...
	This is probably the other Obama and they had him in a deep sleep.
	And they just woke him up for this tour.
	That's why he's doing the same stuff.
	They just initiate the program.
	He's out there in Ireland.
	He's like, yes we can in Ireland.
	Are you kidding me?
	Yes we can.
	Where did they get all those actors?
	I can't believe it.
	I can't believe it.
	It was just the whole...
	Oh my goodness.
	I was like something else that was kind of funny from his trip to Ireland.
	Is it, what do they have, what's, I don't know, I know so little about Ireland.
	Kenny is the, what is he the, is he the, I don't know.
	He's the leader of the parliament over there.
	I sound like a stupid American.
	Just say the leader of the parliament.
	You drew attention to yourself.
	Yeah.
	Well, they have a name for it that I can't pronounce.
	His last name is Kenny, though.
	And he comes out and does a speech, and it's an exact replica of Obama's Yes, We Can speech.
	And the news column on it, and he says, Oh, no, it was a tribute.
	Listen to this piece.
	It's pretty funny.
	The Taoiseach has defended his use of part of Barack Obama's election speech, saying the duplication was deliberate and designed as a tribute.
	Ender Kenny said he had a copy of the original speech hanging in his office, and the problems identified by President Obama were universal and applied in Ireland.
	The speech of a lifetime for the Taoiseach yesterday as he introduced President Obama in College Green.
	But today, critics noted remarkable similarities with Mr.
	Obama's election night victory speech in November 2008.
	If there is anyone out there...
	Now, if there's anyone out there...
	Who still doubts that America is a place where...
	Who still doubts that Ireland is a place where all things are possible...
	I still wonder if the dream of our ancestors is alive in our time, who still questions our capacity to restore ourselves, to reinvent ourselves, and to prosper.
	Well, today is your answer.
	Theft, art, art!
	Who put that clip together?
	The Irish TV. Good clip, right?
	Good job.
	Good work.
	That's the kind of thing that only Jon Stewart does in this country.
	And it's not exactly the same.
	Instead of ancestors, he says fathers.
	Yeah, that is the same.
	But even the cadence, even the tempo, the pacing of it is the same.
	Is there just one movie studio that does all of this for these guys?
	Someone's got to write the speech for that Irish dude who runs the parliament.
	Send Coach Debra over.
	It's like, really?
	And here's the thing.
	This killed me.
	Who's he kidding?
	Yeah, please.
	So, you saw the President address the British Parliament.
	Right?
	No, I didn't as a matter of fact.
	Oh, no, I watched the whole thing.
	But when he comes in...
	That's why I didn't do it.
	I had a sense.
	It was within the force.
	Oh, Adam's listening.
	Okay, well, I was.
	I watched the whole thing.
	I'm sorry.
	Yeah, well, it's what we do, so you don't have to.
	So he walks in, and as he walks out, there's this dude, and he's carrying, like...
	Like a stick.
	You gotta watch this.
	Like a white stick.
	And like, what is with the dude with the stick?
	And apparently he's called the gentleman usher of the black rod.
	But I mean, it looks like a curtain rail.
	You gotta see this thing.
	It's like, I'm all for tradition.
	But dude, the stick is like lame.
	This is white stick.
	And apparently this has some huge significance.
	I thought it was a black rod.
	I know!
	That's why I tweeted it.
	I said, what's with the dude with the stick?
	And I was like, oh, it's the black rod.
	Well, why is it white?
	And why does it look like a curtain rail from Ikea?
	It's really weird.
	It's supposed to have some significance, whatever.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, so it's just that the whole thing is nuts.
	And meanwhile, back home...
	So wait a minute.
	Stop.
	You told us you went and listened to this hour speech and you didn't say...
	What did he say?
	Was it important to get a clip?
	Nothing?
	No, it is very important.
	But the important stuff was between Lucifer Clinton...
	And Lady Barron Gaga Catherine Ashton Who, as you know, is the high priestess of the European Union.
	We've discussed her in the past.
	So she is with Clinton.
	Jamie Ashton.
	Well, it's funny because Hillary Clinton calls her Kathy.
	Oh!
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	And she has...
	I don't want to talk...
	They must have something going on together.
	Well, I don't want to think about that.
	Because what really was going on, and I think Obama is kind of the cover for all this.
	How come men can't get away with that?
	Do you think if Obama called her Kathy, the right-wing talk show guys would be all over it?
	Yeah, it's a good point.
	And she is what they call her the high representative of the European Union, which I which is it just sounds so incredibly elitist, the high representative.
	So I'll just call her the high priestess.
	But what they've done is and this is what this whole visit was about.
	They've put together a treaty between the United States and the United States of Europe.
	It's the EU U.S.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me just get the exact word.
	It's a it's a treaty.
	And it's kind of interesting because this is because of this treaty.
	I, I wasn't expecting to talk about this at this moment.
	I'm going to bring up the, uh, here it is.
	The EU, the US EU framework.
	There we go.
	So, Secretary of State Hillary Lucifer Clinton, European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Securite Policy Catherine Ashton signed the framework agreement between the United States and the European Union on the participation of the United States in European Union crisis management operations.
	Does this tell you anything?
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	So we're sending our military over there.
	Well, here's how it works.
	So first you've got to listen to Lucifer, and she was interviewed by, who's the NBC chick?
	I'm thinking Jane Pauly.
	You know the one.
	Well, I think President Obama was very clear.
	And what we want is to continue to support the voices of democracy, those who are standing against the brutality.
	But we're also well aware every situation is different.
	And in this one, Assad has said a lot of things.
	So this is about Syria.
	Now, it's very important we hear this before we hear what she and Kathy Ashton say together.
	You didn't hear from other leaders in the region about the kind of changes he would like to see.
	That may all be out the window, or he may have one last chance.
	At the same time, you know, this...
	Who's that?
	That voice.
	Who is that?
	Say it again.
	The Syrian regime is close to Iran.
	They're getting support.
	No, isn't that...
	What's-her-name from CBS? Oh, the one who's leaving?
	No, yeah.
	What's her name?
	Yeah, that one.
	Yeah, she's dead.
	What's her name?
	Deborah.
	From Iran for their tactics of suppression, if you will.
	They support terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas.
	So why not just say he needs to be removed?
	Well, you're right that Iran is supporting them and we're calling them out on it.
	We're calling them out.
	There's all kinds of memes here.
	We're calling Assad out on Syria.
	So this is about moving into Syria.
	Stand by.
	But I think we also know that there are many different forces at work in Syria, and we think it would be better if the people of Syria themselves made it clear to Assad that there have to be changes.
	The whole notion of regime change isn't working very well in Libya, is it?
	I disagree with that.
	I think we are seeing slow but steady progress.
	The pressure on the Qaddafi regime has increased to the point that Qaddafi's wife and daughter fled across the border into Tunisia in the last two days.
	The oil minister has defected.
	So we're making progress.
	I wish it would go faster.
	They certainly wish it would go faster, but we're on the right path.
	Why does the killing of civilians in Libya justify U.S. military involvement, but the killing of civilians in Syria does not?
	There's no one-size-fits-all.
	Hold on a second.
	You know, that's Katie Couric.
	It's Deborah Couric.
	No, we do know.
	Yeah, Deborah Couric.
	Deborah Couric.
	Does this sound like...
	I mean, she's obviously being groomed by the White House because she's being kicked out of CBS and she's going to go someplace else and do special reports.
	Oh, yeah.
	And she's reading all these questions with her eyes down.
	I was just going to say, it sounds like she's reading from a script.
	These are so poorly executed as questions.
	She is actually, because this is a two-camera shoot, a three-camera shoot.
	She actually has her eyes down and she's reading the question from the paper.
	She is reading the questions the White House wrote for her then.
	Yes, yes.
	And this is very important how Lucifer answers and then what happens next.
	I want to mention to people that the reason that you want the White House or the way the White House would prefer this...
	Performance to be done this way is because it has to lead the listener.
	You first got to get the listener to a frame of mind.
	It's just the way you do sales.
	One of the old sales tricks I always like is...
	Do you want the sandals or the boots?
	I like the sales trick where a guy says, well, don't you agree that?
	Or don't you agree to get you to say yes a couple of times about some innocuous questions?
	And once you say yes and you put your brain into yes gear, then they drop the bomb on you.
	Alright, so now here comes something very funny.
	And Syria does not.
	There's no one size fits all and there's no magic wand.
	If there were, we'd be waving it like crazy.
	That's Hillary.
	That's Hillary with her magic wand.
	And in Libya, what we had was a unique international coalition.
	What we're seeing now is increasing pressure on Syria.
	We're seeing the European Union taking actions, us upping the actions.
	You hear that?
	We see the European Union taking actions.
	So the European Union is taking actions, as Hillary says, against Syria.
	Okay, this is important.
	For the days to come.
	Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
	All right, and then she goes into that.
	I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too.
	So then Hillary and Kathy...
	Who has one of those, it's a trait, you know, it's like a, it's a tribe.
	She has one of those chins that's been chopped off, you know what I mean?
	It's like chopped off backwards, like she hit the dashboard real hard, and it like collapsed.
	Chinless wonder, we call them.
	Chinless wonder, that's the one.
	You know, nothing about people's exterior, but it helps in my hate for her, just to look at her dog face.
	So they sign this agreement, they hand each other the binders, and then this.
	Well, it is such a pleasure for me to welcome back to the State Department High Representative Kathy Ashton.
	This is weird, isn't it, that she says, Kathy?
	Everyone in the world says, Catherine, and she's Kathy.
	Hi, Representative Kathy.
	Hi.
	The United States and the European Union are partners working together on, I think, every global issue and regional challenge that you can imagine.
	We're doing the urgent, the important, and the long term.
	Now listen to this.
	The urgent, the important, and the long term.
	This is good.
	All at once.
	And we are united in a transatlantic community that is based on shared democratic values and limitless faith in human potential.
	As always, Kathy and I had a lot to talk about because there is so much happening.
	Kathy, as we were rattling our jewels and we were looking at comparing our Chanel dressels, we had a lot to talk about.
	Happening around the world.
	And by the way, you should see her, she's going, oh-ho, oh-ho, the chinless wonder is nodding her head.
	At a time when people are standing up for their rights and demanding a say in their own futures.
	And both the European Union and the United States are very committed to advancing democratic values and universal rights.
	And we know how important that is over the long term, but we also know that right now those rights are under threats from repression and reprisals.
	We expressed our serious concern about the continued violence in Syria.
	The Assad regime has responded to peaceful protests by launching a brutal crackdown that has killed, by our best estimate, nearly a thousand people.
	Ah, so quite a different story now from what she was telling Deborah Couric there.
	Now it's like, oh, this guy is horrible.
	He's killed a thousand people.
	Already.
	They have embraced the worst tactics of their Iranian ally.
	Oh!
	And they have refused to honor the legitimate aspirations of their own people in Syria.
	President Assad talks about reform, but his...
	And this is new, by the way?
	Yeah, this is...
	Yeah, but now the EU can go in and now we're going to support them.
	He handed a brutal crackdown.
	Brutal.
	Shows his true intentions.
	Hmm.
	In response to the continued violence, both the United States and the EU have imposed sanctions against senior Syrian officials.
	And today we discussed additional steps that we can take to increase pressure and further isolate the Assad regime.
	Yeah, what could those steps be?
	Let me think.
	Steal their money.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Number one.
	Well, she actually tells you what's going to happen by reiterating what we just did with Libya.
	Our message has been clear and consistent from the beginning.
	Stop the violence and the arrests.
	Release all political prisoners and detainees.
	Okay, check.
	to respond to the demands of the people by a process of credible and inclusive democratic change.
	The High Representative and I also discussed efforts to protect civilians in Libya.
	The United States continues to support our efforts to implement the United Nations Security Council resolution.
	Is that long form for throwing bombs on people?
	Is that what efforts means?
	Our efforts.
	It's our efforts.
	It's just an effort.
	Excuse me, is that an effort that just blew my ass into the sky?
	Yes, it's an effort.
	We're working with the EU to support the Transitional National Council, and we welcome the EU's decision to open an office in Benghazi.
	This killed me!
	Oh, what color are the drapes for the office in Benghazi, Kathy?
	An office in Benghazi?
	I mean, what?
	We love opening offices, but we don't care about fixing the potholes here in the good old USA. Ongoing EU support for humanitarian assistance.
	Oh, yeah, consultants in boots on the ground.
	And for our part, we are working with our Congress to redirect some of Qaddafi's Seized assets toward immediate humanitarian needs.
	Yeah, like my hotel in Haiti.
	That's my immediate humanitarian aid.
	So the message is so incredibly clear.
	It's like, hey Assad, do exactly what we say.
	We're going to take your money and we're going to use it for efforts.
	And then we'll open an office and then you'll be screwed.
	Yeah, you better get out while the getting's good, buddy.
	So I could not find a copy of said EU framework agreement other than...
	Oh, you will.
	Oh, yeah, I will.
	Of course.
	Sunday show, ladies and gentlemen.
	I'm sure it's going to be a gem because if you can't find it right away, then you know there's some good stuff in there.
	Well, I have one paragraph.
	This agreement provides a legal framework.
	Legal framework.
	This is legal.
	It's the law.
	Law of the land.
	For United States civilians to participate in European Union crisis management missions.
	I mean, that's like, wow, so we're going to use our army, our military force, for anything the European Union wants.
	The United States previously negotiated an agreement for our participation in the EU's rule of law mission in Kosovo.
	And an ad hoc arrangement for our participation in the EU Security Sector Reform Mission, EUSEC, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
	This agreement eliminates the need to negotiate entirely new, separate agreements for our future participation in EU missions.
	Voila!
	We are now the military of the United States of Europe.
	Yeah, and here's the kicker that was in there.
	Did you notice this kicker in the Katie Couric piece where she was questioning her with a bogus question about how it's going in Libya?
	And Hillary made the point of saying it's not going well.
	It's not going as well as we expected.
	And why is that?
	It's because we're not running it.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Of course, the irony of this, of course, is when we are running it like in Iraq, we can't seem to get out.
	Yeah.
	It goes on for decades.
	Just to show you what's going on in Libya, play the bombing Libya clip.
	Oh, you caught me off guard.
	I'm so sorry.
	Here we go.
	It was the heaviest bombardment of central Tripoli for more than two weeks.
	NATO said it hit a vehicle compound used for resupplying Gaddafi's troops.
	Libyan government officials took camera crews to a nearby hospital, showing reporters three dead and claiming 150 showing reporters three dead and claiming 150 were injured.
	We have three martyrs so far.
	The injured have been taken to two different hospitals.
	This is one of them.
	Some of them, of course, were cheated and they have gone home already because of their NATO has been expanding its range of targets in central Tripoli, hitting Colonel Gaddafi's fortified compound, intelligence headquarters, and naval vessels in the city's harbor.
	You get the idea.
	There's two things in here.
	One, I thought this was a no-fly zone.
	This sounds like an attack.
	Well, not only that, but...
	So, first of all, last week, they sunk eight ships.
	Yeah, they mentioned that in this report, which I cut short, but...
	Yeah, and then he talks about it's bombed a bunch of ships.
	Yeah, eight ships.
	How's that a no-fly zone?
	And now they have actual troops on the ground to coordinate assistance and attack helicopters.
	Yeah, they had three Apaches, I think.
	Yeah.
	They asked Hillary Clinton for her comment...
	I just love that.
	So I love this.
	The spokes idiot from Libya goes, he says, if you could play that little part, I'll just reiterate.
	He says, you know, we had three dead and then six or he had some number of people cheated from martyrdom.
	In other words, these three that got killed were lucky and the other ones that made it through were cheated.
	What kind of a bunch of boneheads are these people?
	Right.
	What is going on with the world is what I say.
	They're cheated.
	Well, okay, we'll go back and bomb them at home.
	Do over.
	They're cheated.
	It's pretty funny.
	I mean, it's not funny.
	It's funny.
	I mean, it's...
	For the basis of this show, it's hilarious.
	Yeah.
	Well, there's plenty more to talk about.
	I think first we should thank some of our producers who have made today's program possible.
	Some people came in late with some nice...
	And we have to add another...
	Another night to the list.
	Oh, really?
	Oh.
	Yeah.
	Well, Kent Zeiser came in this morning with a $1,000 donation with the following note.
	John, I'm sorry it's been so long since sending you guys some money to increase my giving level.
	Would you mind sending my wife and I some karma?
	Yeah, of course.
	Kidding me?
	You've got karma.
	And, uh...
	He says, we've been trying to adopt a baby and having some difficulty with the process.
	It's our turn to see if much needed karma would turn things around.
	Oh, I thought I had to go help.
	Freak me out for a minute.
	You guys are the lithium that keeps me going through the day and always look forward to the CB Crackpot and Buzzkill days on Thursday and Sunday.
	And that's Sir Kent Zeiser and he's going to...
	He'll be knighted today.
	No, he's already been knighted.
	Oh, he's already knighted.
	Oh, that's right.
	He is already a sir.
	But he wants, I asked, I sent a note back saying, do you want to give this knighthood to somebody?
	Somebody else.
	Somebody else, yeah.
	So she'll be a dame.
	A dame, yes.
	Shalomi.
	Do we, okay.
	Just put it on the list.
	Shalomi?
	What an interesting name.
	Dame Shalomi.
	Okay.
	S-H-A-L-O-M-I, I think.
	Okay.
	Also, out in Darwin.
	Yes.
	In Australia.
	And who wants to go by the name?
	And who will be a knight today?
	Murasaki 8.
	Jump down to $1,111.11 bandwagon.
	Oh, the big 11111111 karma.
	The 11111111 karma.
	Please use Murasaki 8, not my name.
	Jeff Smith, no.
	Hello from Darwin, Australia.
	Don't always agree with either of you.
	Of course not.
	Why would you?
	Yeah, that would be great.
	Then you missed the whole point of the show.
	The point of the show is not to get agreement.
	It's to get you to think, you know, in new and different ways.
	But it's always thought-provoking, of course, and funny.
	That's mostly because I'm hilarious to listen to.
	And currently...
	I'm currently at the uni, future sysadmin.
	Wait a minute, this guy is a student?
	Yeah.
	I would like some karma for my linear algebra exam in a few weeks.
	Yeah, you need that.
	Here it comes.
	He's got karma.
	Wow!
	He's at uni?
	And he's...
	Wow, that is...
	Now we have another birthday, which I don't see mentioned here, but he says it was a birthday shout-out to his fellow conspirator, Lani, who got me listening to No Agenda.
	Her birthday is on Friday the 25th of May, but please don't inquire about her age.
	She's 19.
	Yeah, of course she is.
	I have Lanny on the list, so we'll make sure.
	Oh, you do have Lanny on the list.
	Yes, I do.
	Okay, it just wasn't botched here.
	It wasn't buttoned.
	It didn't have a little logo.
	Yeah, there's no logo, but I got it.
	And we got one check in the mail, which also counts for an executive producer, which was David Hoffman, sent in a generous donation of $717.02 with a note.
	Thank you, John and Adam.
	Here's the area code donation.
	Ah, yes.
	We've been exploiting that enough.
	717 plus two cents.
	My two cents, he says.
	Thank you, Rhino the Bearded, Yellow Jacket, Gitmo Slave, Citizen X, Mr.
	Oil, and all the producers who make the No Agenda stream more than just a bi-weekly stop.
	That's true.
	No Agenda, Ham on the Air, and he has his call letters, which I'll do in the, I'll pronounce the way I guess you do it.
	Sir N, or I'm sorry, it would be Nuclear 3 Popcorn Random Ossify.
	Ossify?
	Ossify.
	I didn't know I was breaking the speed limit, Ossify.
	That's David Hoffman in an O. Oscar.
	O is for Oscar.
	Oscar?
	Oscar.
	November.
	Papa.
	It was Ossify.
	Ossify.
	Or orange.
	Yeah.
	So when you're flying next time and someone hands you the controls, try that.
	Yeah, this is Naples Ossify Orange coming in for a landing.
	We'll see how you do.
	And then we have our, one more, an associate executive producer, Dwayne Melloncon.
	Oh, Dwayne's been around for a while.
	Sir, sir, Dwayne.
	I think, is it Melloncon?
	Melloncon?
	Have we been through this?
	Well, he's in Tiggard, Oregon, so I don't think he pronounces it Melloncon, but maybe it could be.
	It's French.
	John and Adam.
	Greetings from Sir Dwayne.
	On Saturday I heard Blondie's rapture a whole bunch of times.
	Maybe that's...
	Does he mean on the stream?
	Was Doug packing up?
	Maybe.
	Could be.
	Maybe that is what that douchebag meant.
	Oh, for the rapture.
	Of course.
	Oh, no, I get it.
	So you got radio stations.
	This is an old Top 40 trick.
	Hey, everybody, we're not dead.
	And here's Blondie's rapture.
	I'm so incredibly funny.
	I came up with that.
	Okay, that's worth it.
	Okay, you're right.
	Anyway, glad I hung on to my money.
	But I thought I'd send you some appreciation of your great work lately.
	The fact that Adam said my last name correctly, Melanson.
	See?
	Melanson.
	Melanson.
	In the morning.
	I was with a bunch of French people yesterday.
	I went to the big champagne tasting in San Francisco.
	Wow!
	Everybody was French.
	That's funny.
	I don't see my invite anywhere.
	It was for the trade.
	And Sir Duane was in for $307.
	So thank you very much.
	Thanks.
	All the new knights.
	We have more info.
	I guess the rings are in the mail now.
	DHL has sent the rings.
	By the way, Murasaki 8 is a dame.
	I am reliably informed.
	Did we know that?
	Hello?
	No, we don't know that.
	There's no evidence.
	How do I know Murasaki is a dame?
	Well, I have it.
	The shill is back-channeling me.
	So, you're telling me that she's taking linear algebra?
	What a sexist thing to say.
	Are you telling me that women can't do linear algebra?
	Is that what you're saying?
	Shame on you, Mr.
	Dvorak.
	Yes, it was bad.
	Shame on you.
	Actually, one of the smartest women I ever knew as a mathematician.
	Women are dissuaded.
	That's like saying, some of my best friends are black.
	They are.
	Women are dissuaded from going into math.
	That's what I meant to say.
	By who?
	Who dissuades women going into that?
	Me, guys like me.
	Okay, done.
	Alright, a couple of PR mentions.
	Clink says, John and Adam, please put a call out to whomever is maintaining noagendapredictions.com.
	Get them to update the calendar or at least turn over control to someone who will.
	The last entry is from October 2010.
	This way John won't have to write down the prediction and highlight it with his marker.
	That's how it works.
	A couple of other cool forwards.
	Let me also thank Lois Whitman, who's out there as actually a professional public relations person.
	She's really working it for us, isn't she?
	She does every once in a while.
	She is the W in HWHPR in New York, and she's a real old-fashioned, hard-working type, New York-style PR woman.
	And she's done a...
	Every once in a while she thinks the show needs to get some publicity and she sends out her note to I don't know who.
	Well, shouldn't she commission some kind of study that shows that people that listen to No Agenda are...
	I'll have to talk to her about the study.
	...are better at linear algebra or something like that?
	Yeah.
	Because that's what we need.
	That's what gets us the press.
	We need a study.
	Yeah, we need some phony baloney study.
	I mean, sorry, I'm sorry, some serious study.
	Yeah, scientific science.
	Science is it.
	Science!
	Science!
	Forwarding to NoAgendaShow.com, another great domain name, VeritableTreasureTrove.com.
	Of course, referring to...
	Yeah, that was a beauty.
	...veritable treasure trove that was found in Osama Bin Laden's compound, his mansion.
	Another forward, DvorakCurry.com.
	Funny no one ever tried to register that one before.
	That is weird.
	Yeah, currydvorak.com, so that's good.
	I don't quite understand this.
	Well, there's two that came in here from James.
	UNBiodiversityConference.com, which is nice.
	You know, someone should be Googling around and all of a sudden they hit our show notes.
	Like, what?
	That would be ironic.
	And then COP11.com.
	Am I missing something with COP11? Oh, I know.
	Of course, that's the COP. That's the Climate Conference.
	Isn't that called the COP? I don't know, is it?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Oh, wow.
	So we have COP11.com.
	People are like, I have to go see if I can book a hotel room for the climate conference.
	COP11.com takes into NoAgendaShow.com.
	Nice.
	And then Baron von Pelsmarkers.
	I don't know.
	This guy has a...
	He's in my prayers every night.
	He really is.
	I go to bed and I think, and Lord, please bless Mickey and my daughter and Stephen Pelsmacher.
	Please just bless him.
	Please protect him from all evil.
	The Baron of Belgium.
	John and Adam, I decided to add a couple more domain names that forward to noagendashow.com.
	John, let me just give them to you.
	tutothehead.com.org.me.
	Advertising, underwriting, all call-it-whatever-you-want.com.
	Back to realnews.com.
	What is this?
	Be a donor, not a boner.com.
	Biodiversite.com, info, me, and org.
	Biodiversite.me.m.m.mobie.
	Chemtrails.me.
	Coincidence.me.
	Dameofnoagenda.com.
	Dedouching.com.org.me.
	Distraction of...
	We need to document these.
	We're losing track of all these things.
	Well, I have them all.
	I just don't have them all in one place.
	I'm going to put up a wiki.
	I've been working on finding the best wiki software.
	Oh, please.
	Wiki.
	Yeah, and that way people can...
	Come in and change it.
	Come in and wreck it.
	Nobody will wreck it.
	Come in and wreck the wiki.
	Well, wait.
	Let me just finish the list.
	Distractionoftheweek.com.org.me Don'tbeadenier.com.org.me Geneticallymodified.me That's a great one, isn't it?
	GitmoNation, Lowlands.me, Gitmoslave.com, InfoMe, MobiNet, and Org, Gitmoslaves.com, Harp.me, JustSendCash.org and.me, NightOfNoAgenda.com.
	Hello, was that not registered?
	Live from Gitmo Nation, lucynepolitano.com, mavericksofmedio.com, me, mobyorganinfo, nakedbodyscanner.me, newworldorder.me, noagendaslave.com, another one I can't believe, planes-good-trains-bad.com, but also planes-good-trains-bad.com.
	PunchPeopleInTheMouth.com RoundUpReady.me Nice.
	SeeSomethingSaySomething.me SwineFluMinute.com TakeYourMedicines.com TakeYourMeds.org Text333.com TheFormulaIsThis.com TrainsGoodPlanesBad.com TSASlave.com You've got Karma.org And YouWillObey.com Hello!
	Baron Von Pelsmockers Again, the man is just in my dreams.
	Those are all great.
	We are actually setting up, even though we don't mean to, but we're actually setting up what could become a great forwarding, kind of like a botnet.
	You could actually use these for some sort of powerful movement, if we ever need to.
	Well, and there's a couple of things I was thinking about, and I'd like to, I'm processing what we can do here, but one thing's for sure, when we're unable to pay our internet license fee to do a show, which is coming up, they're discussing that in France today, you know, when we have to have a license to do a podcast, the so-called internet podcast license.
	Yeah, and the license won't be cheap.
	It would be like an early broadcaster.
	You know, you have to remember that in the early days of radio in the 1910s, anyone could just get a radio transmitter and it was a hobby.
	It was like a computer hobby.
	And then somebody got the wise idea and said, well, there's too many people broadcasting on these frequencies.
	Let's start charging them money and making them fill out forms and rationalizing why they should exist.
	It's expensive.
	It's not so much the money we're going to have to pay, it's going to be the forms and the paperwork.
	And you and I will go like, uh-huh.
	Oh, never mind.
	So anyway, when we refuse to do that, of course, and they take away our domain name, we'll have 300 more we can just flip on.
	That's the beauty of it, because that's what they're doing, right?
	They're taking away the domain names.
	They're capturing the DNS. And we don't care.
	Shutupslaves.com still runs.
	Oh, we'll take that away.
	It's okay.
	SeanHandy.com still works.
	Gitmoslaves.com.
	And then a nice tip here...
	One of our producers registered noagendawatchlist.com, and he says, you know, instead of just forwarding to noagendashow.com, why don't we set it up so that we can have a list of names, so we will have our own watch list of douchebags that we're watching.
	I thought it was kind of a good idea.
	That is a good idea.
	So I hope that...
	Now, Wiki would help there.
	Wiki.
	Wiki suck.
	No, wikis are great.
	Anyway, thank you all so very much.
	Thanks to our PR associates there, and of course, Associate Executive Producer, Sir Duane Melasson, and our Executive Producer, Sir Kent Zeiser, Sir Dame, sorry, whoops, let me just change that in the notes here.
	Dame Murasaki 8 and David Hoffman for supporting the show.
	You are the ones who are driving this along with all of the other people who come in at lower amounts, but we're equally appreciative of that, and we'll be thanking them later on in the show.
	Of course, we have something we'd like all of you out there to do, and that's propagate our formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	World Order!
	Alright everybody, say it loud in front.
	And I just wanted to mention, I think I interrupted myself, distracted myself, that the Knight Rings, anyone who supports the show with up to $1,000 or more, more is certainly welcome, becomes a Knight or Dame of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	You get an official No Agenda Knight or Dame ring, and they are on their way from China.
	With DHL, but we have these beautiful velvet velour box that they come in, and you get an official certification thing.
	A little certificate of authenticity.
	Yeah.
	On with the show!
	I need some coffee.
	Also, people can go to NoAgendaNation.com NoAgendaNation.com I need some coffee.
	I need some coffee.
	So, yeah, I've got a couple of things just to do a quick break here.
	Yeah.
	I do have another soap opera clip.
	Oh, lucky me.
	From the Bold and the Beautiful.
	And I realized, I didn't realize it, but what they do is they try to make the banal kind of, by kind of overacting, you can make the banal quite dramatic.
	And this is a good example.
	Yeah.
	Keeps coming back to me.
	How close I came to losing you.
	But you didn't.
	You rescued me.
	By the grace of God, too.
	Here I am grilling you about something so ridiculous.
	Yeah.
	Well, it does seem a little bit ridiculous, but you know what?
	I should have told you about those berries.
	You said Thomas didn't want you to eat them?
	No, he didn't, and he was right.
	I shouldn't have.
	That's some good acting right there, John.
	You know, of course, we play this...
	And I can't get a bit part?
	I mean, come on.
	Well, no, because this is all an homage of the fact that the soap operas are going away.
	I watched Oprah's very last show yesterday.
	You know, I did everything to avoid...
	In fact, I was so...
	I'm irked about this Oprah Distraction of the Week.
	You should play that before you go into this, by the way.
	It's a distraction of the week, and I avoided watching the Oprah show.
	I don't watch it anyway, so why would I watch it now?
	And there were all these reports that were, every time they brought it up, I switched the channel.
	I don't care.
	Well, no, but this is why we have such an interesting program, is because we switch around like that.
	You know, you watch very important soap operas about berries, and I watch Oprah's last show.
	I think the soap opera where she swallows a berry is more interesting than listening to, watching Oprah cry over her.
	Ha ha!
	Ha ha!
	Actually, here's something I watched, and I actually wrote a review of it.
	I watched the big whitewash known as HBO's television movie, Too Big to Fail.
	Oh, yeah, I missed that.
	How was it?
	Piece of crap.
	Ah, good.
	Now, first of all, it was put together well.
	I mean, it was nicely done.
	The actors in this thing, James Woods, Paul Giamatti, Matthew Modine, Ed Asner, Bill Hurt, I mean, good actors.
	Yeah, guys who like to watch act.
	Yeah, and they all should be ashamed of themselves.
	They all should go self-radicalize themselves in the bathroom.
	Okay, I'll sum it up for you.
	Your government is really good on your side and saved us all from Armageddon.
	Banks now are really too big to fail.
	In fact, that's the end of the movie.
	John, it's unbelievable.
	Hank Paulson, Treasury Secretary at the time, is portrayed like a hero.
	Like a total hero.
	Oh, I have to save the world.
	Stuttering Hank?
	Yeah, the rats will be walking on the street and his wife calls him Pete He has to throw up because he's so emotional about what's happening.
	Ben Bernanke, expertly played, I have to say, by Paul Giamatti, is the voice of calm and reason.
	He's so smart.
	He has studied the Great Depression.
	He's so good.
	And guess who's the genius in this movie?
	The genius behind the bailout?
	Neil Kashkari!
	Is the genius in this movie.
	And Timmy Geithner...
	Timmy!
	He's like a straight shooter.
	Yeah, he just calls it like it is.
	Timmy.
	Timmy!
	It's just unbelievable.
	This was such a whitewash.
	Wow.
	It sounds embarrassing.
	Totally embarrassed.
	In fact, I ended my review, which I wrote at curry.com.
	Luckily, President Obama's European tour 2011 has distracted a lot of attention from this blatant broadcast from the Ministry of Truth.
	The creators failed to draw in the big audience they wanted because of a rookie mistake.
	They didn't cast Kim Kardashian.
	That is the fact.
	Then it would have scored.
	So I take it nobody watched this?
	No, no, no.
	It was no good.
	Well, Kim Kardashian doesn't save anything, if you haven't noticed, because when they brought on a Piers Morgan, they couldn't get any numbers either.
	I think it's bullcrap.
	But that's like North and South Pole, the magnet.
	I think everything kind of hinged on Obama's car getting stuck.
	Oh, my God.
	He wasn't in it.
	You know, he wasn't in it, John.
	He wasn't in it.
	Really?
	What was he walking?
	Of course he was in it.
	Of course he was in it.
	I love that to say, the president was not in the vehicle.
	Yeah, he was.
	What was he in then?
	It's bullcrap.
	They can't have our Lord Savior embarrassed by anything.
	Talk about thin-skinned.
	You better tell them I'm not in it.
	So the thing, I guess they haul this clunker everywhere.
	They put it in the 747 somehow, I assume.
	Of course they do.
	And so they haul this thing called the Beast or the Monster, whatever they call it.
	And so they brought it to Buckingham Palace and the thing comes across a speed bump and then gets stuck on the speed bump because it's so low and long.
	I think it was Ireland, John.
	It was Ireland, right.
	It was the embassy.
	And it was rocking.
	It was the embassy.
	It was rocking on the speed bump.
	Yeah.
	And it made a big scraping sound and it got stuck.
	But he wasn't in it.
	I didn't know that part.
	No, he wasn't in it.
	No, he wasn't in it.
	So what was he walking?
	He was on a bike?
	Where was he?
	Well, they were just taking it for a spin.
	He wasn't in it.
	Hey, you know who died?
	This tripped me out today.
	Tripped you out?
	Yeah, Mark Haynes.
	You know Mark Haynes?
	He's the co-host of CNBC, Squawk on the Street.
	Oh yeah, that guy.
	Did you know he died?
	Yeah, I do, because I was watching something last night and they mentioned it.
	So Aaron Burnett leaves to go work for the Ministry of Truth, and he dies.
	And we still don't know how he died.
	I don't know.
	It was a sudden death the way it was described on CNN. Right.
	One of those sudden death things, huh?
	It's like Aaron, Mark.
	Why would he be a target of anything?
	I don't know.
	I mean, he's got a big mouth.
	He might have peed someone off.
	But it's just like Aaron Burnett leaves and a week later the guy's dead.
	Sudden death.
	Yeah, but Aaron Burnett wasn't on CNN. No, it was CNBC. No, he was on CNN. No, John.
	Mark Haynes is the fat guy who hosted with Aaron Burnett CNBC's morning show.
	Is that right?
	Yes.
	Hey, I've only seen that show a couple of times because I don't get up at that hour.
	What?
	Oh, you're right.
	Yeah, okay.
	He's the former host, though.
	I think he was at CNN. No, you become former host when you're dead.
	I'll be the former host of No Agenda one day.
	Adam Curry, former host of No Agenda, better known as the lone wolf of the internets, refused to pay his license, his podcasting license.
	Well, I do know I did watch that show once when they were blasting Layman.
	Or they had people on that were blasting Layman.
	Listen, he...
	Aaron Burnett leaves.
	He dies a week later.
	That's just messed up.
	Either it was heartbreak, which I can believe...
	Just total heartbreak.
	They weren't on at the same time and nobody...
	I've been to those offices.
	They did the show together!
	She was on that morning show?
	Yes!
	They did the...
	Gosh, John!
	They did the show together!
	She was co-host!
	Really?
	I'm reading the thing here.
	Yeah.
	You should read that thing.
	Please.
	Please.
	So, well, I think I've been talking about this for a couple years now, and finally, yes, we have a study, and the science is in, ladies and gentlemen.
	Researchers from the Medical University of Vienna, Vienna now, say, you know what?
	If we put lithium in the water, less people will commit suicide.
	Yeah, you've been talking about this on and off.
	Yeah, but now they have a scientific research published in the British Journal of Psychiatry.
	And so there's, again, serious discussion about putting low levels of lithium into the drinking water.
	In fact, this says lithium is the new fluoride.
	Is that what it says?
	Oh, that's terrible.
	Lithium is the new fluoride.
	The best part of waking up is fluoride in my cup.
	I need a new jingle, please.
	The best part of waking up is lithium in my cup.
	They're going to put lithium in the water because it reduces suicide rates.
	It makes everybody mellow.
	Yeah.
	Can you imagine?
	Hey, John.
	What's going on?
	By the way, if they put it in our wire, this show is toast.
	Well, that's why I have reverse osmosis filtration system.
	Oh, do you?
	Even on the shower water.
	Oh, yeah.
	Even on the shower water.
	Do you know how much...
	Yeah.
	You have more chance of chemicals coming into your body from water that you shower with.
	Let me write this one down as a crack.
	Stroopwafels.
	It just sucks.
	You're porous, apparently.
	You know, I would get some caulk or spackle.
	What are you talking about?
	This is absolutely true.
	There's more water than the chemicals seep into your body when you take it.
	Of course you're porous.
	I know that I go and take a shower.
	I'm like 10 pounds heavier when I get out.
	Oh, which reminds me.
	This is hilarious.
	Hold on a second.
	I got to...
	And now, back to real news.
	This was a great story that came in this morning from New Zealand.
	And I'm like...
	I mean, are people really buying this?
	Okay, so listen to this.
	Listen to this story.
	A New Zealand truck driver...
	Fell between the cab and his trailer.
	And you know, between the cab and the trailer, they have those big curly yellow, red, and green air hoses.
	It's for the air brakes.
	Yeah.
	So he fell.
	I've got to read this.
	This is from the BBC. I've got to read this.
	So you know it's true.
	A New Zealand truck driver who fell on a compressed air hose that pierced his buttock Survived being blown up like a balloon.
	The nozzle pierced his buttock and began pumping air into his body, which expanded dramatically.
	Am I to believe this?
	What was this written by?
	The Warner Brothers cartoon people?
	As he screamed, Mr.
	McCormack's colleagues turned the air off and laid him on his side, saving his life.
	I guess they had to tie him down, too, so he didn't float away.
	So, doctors told him they were surprised his skin had not burst as the compressed air pumping into his body at 100 pounds per square inch had separated fat from muscle.
	I was blowing up like a football.
	I felt like I had the bends, like in diving.
	I had no choice but to just lay there blowing up like a balloon.
	Oh, God.
	At the end, though, and this is the case, BBC, I mean, whoever, you're right, I don't know who wrote this.
	Byline Arch Obler.
	Let me see, byline, no byline.
	It's fair to say he's lucky to be alive.
	It was a potentially life-threatening situation, a hospital spokeswoman told Agent Franche Presse.
	Final line of the story.
	Mr.
	McCormack confided that the air was gradually escaping his body in the way that air usually does.
	I survived.
	Yeah, they really need to get some new material.
	BBC, ladies and gentlemen.
	Hey, how's that lithium doing for you?
	Boy, I'm glad I didn't fall on an air hose today in my buttock.
	It's so nutty.
	These people, man.
	I can't believe it.
	But I do appreciate it because it gives us hours of material.
	Just hours and hours of material.
	Hey, I got one for you, kind of an ask.
	Did you hear about the Ted Stevens follow-up report?
	Yeah, I did.
	I saw you had a clip, so I don't have a clip.
	Yeah, play the clip, and I want you to comment on it.
	Okay, this is...
	Do we have to set it up about the crash or anything?
	No, this is apparently...
	This is on our national public broadcasting...
	We have to explain who...
	For our European listeners, you have to explain who Ted Stevens is.
	It's important.
	Yeah, and this was on the NewsR PBS. Ted Stevens was a senator, a very powerful senator from Alaska, who...
	...who was killed in an airplane crash mysteriously, and this just adds to the mystery of this report.
	...46.
	The National Transportation Safety Board has found no definitive cause for the plane crash that killed former Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska and four others last year.
	The report today said the pilot was temporarily unresponsive before the small plane went down near Dillingham, Alaska.
	It also said a warning system, which could have told him he was approaching a mountain, had been inhibited.
	There were no indications of mechanical problems, and toxicology reports ruled out drugs, though the pilot and his family had a history of strokes.
	It was impossible to know more because there was no flight data or cockpit voice recorder on board.
	Now, there's a couple other things we've got to mention.
	Not just a powerful senator, but he was not necessarily operating to the advantage of the New World Order and the oil cabal.
	When his plane mysteriously went down.
	Yeah, and he was going to vote against something coming up.
	We talked about this to an extreme when it happened with information that I never heard from anyone else.
	It's all documented.
	We dig up stuff, but it was just obscure.
	The mainstream media didn't pick up on any of it.
	We think he was killed.
	Whatever the case is, what do you think about this inhibited What does that mean?
	The instrument was inhibited?
	Well, so I read through the NTSB report, of course, as an aviator.
	I'm always very interested.
	And...
	What is the exact definition of inhibited?
	It can mean that it was obstructed.
	It doesn't mean that it was sabotaged.
	And it was daylight.
	It could have been turned off.
	If it was turned off, they would have said that.
	But for the type of aircraft they were flying and the terrain, and it wasn't like a huge high mountain.
	It was the side of a hill.
	Yeah.
	But here's what the report states, which is not in that audio clip we just played.
	Smith, that's the pilot, was aggressively turning left and trying to climb when the plane hit the ground, which suggested that he was desperately trying to avoid a collision.
	And that doesn't mean necessarily a collision with the ground.
	It could have been a surface-to-air missile, for all I care.
	The weather was fine.
	It was typical for Alaska.
	I mean, these people died from lack of speed.
	That's what happened.
	That's what we say.
	They died from lack of speed when they hit the side of the mountain.
	And I'm sorry, I'm not buying the stroke or any of that stuff.
	He was an expert, expert pilot with 20,000 plus hours.
	I'm pretty sure that this...
	And by the way, it didn't really slam in nose first or anything like that.
	This was a hit.
	And it's being covered up at best.
	Well, I don't think they need to do much to cover it up.
	There's everything scant information.
	It's beautiful.
	Well, this is the same.
	They recovered the cockpit data recorder from that Airbus plane that went down over the ocean.
	The one coming out of Brazil?
	Yes.
	Now, they don't typically release these reports.
	They release reports on small aircraft incidents, but 9-11, they still haven't really released a full report.
	It's all kinds of stuff that's always missing.
	But the report and the way the media presented it is that the plane, which was at like 40,000 feet, went down so quickly that the air masks didn't even have time to deploy.
	Excuse me?
	Bull crap.
	That is such a lie.
	40,000 feet.
	You know how high up that is?
	How long it takes to get to the bottom?
	Yeah, at the speed of gravity.
	I mean, even if you were turned down and accelerating, it would take a while.
	Well, 40,000 feet would.
	How many miles?
	I mean, the air mass deploy in like 10 seconds.
	So they make it sound like, you know, this...
	And by the way, it was pilot error, of course.
	Nothing was wrong with the aircraft.
	Anything on an Airbus is always pilot error.
	Yeah, it's pilot error.
	Yeah, yeah.
	That's why we love that fly-by-wire stuff so much.
	Nah, you can't trust any reporting, in general, but certainly not on aviation-related matters.
	Talking about fly-by-wire, so they're landing the 380 here in San Francisco now.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, I'm going to try to get on board one and check it out.
	Yes.
	Yeah, why don't you just walk on the tarmac and try and get on board, see how that works out for you.
	Right now, Lufthansa is coming in twice a day, and then I guess Air France is going to start coming in with this thing.
	Because that international terminal has one of the few places where they actually have, they set it up for ridiculous sized planes of the future.
	Yeah, so that they can handle the baggage.
	Yeah, the baggage and apparently you need four doors to get all the people out of it.
	So, you know, you need a big double-decker.
	I mean, there's two doors.
	There's doors on the top and doors on the bottom.
	So, it's pretty funny.
	A big-ass plane, man.
	That's a big plane.
	It can carry up to 900 people.
	It's designed to carry up to 900, but they're carrying around 450, which is typical.
	If you remember when the 747s first came out, I never flew on this.
	John, that was 1970.
	No, not really.
	Well, if you remember that era...
	Well, you don't, but I do.
	No, I was in first grade.
	Well, if you remember that they had all...
	And you might remember this part, though.
	They always showed the 747 with a lounge and a piano bar.
	Yeah, and a pool.
	Yeah.
	Everything but a pool.
	That was the upper deck.
	There's a piano bar.
	You could go up and you could have a drink with the stewardesses and somebody could play the tune.
	You could hang out and pinch their butt and stuff.
	Yeah.
	No, I remember that.
	And you saw that spiral staircase and you're like, oh man, that's where all the good stuff is up there.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, now it's just jammed.
	Jammed with his old business class seats.
	Virgin tried to bring some of that back.
	Virgin Atlantic.
	It was kind of like a process type deal with the bar and then they get like a massage.
	It was just kind of lame.
	Do you remember MGM Grand Air?
	Oh, yeah.
	I've always wanted to fly it.
	I've flown it several times.
	Oh, now I'm jealous.
	Yeah, it was between New York and Los Angeles exclusively.
	Right, and it was all first class.
	The whole plane was one big first class.
	Even though it was not really a great plane.
	No, no, it was like a 727.
	It was not a huge plane.
	It was like, I think, maybe 30 passengers, 40 passengers.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, something like that.
	And half of the plane was a bar.
	And then they had state rooms, like in a train, where you sat three on each side.
	And then the table would lower down and it would become one huge bed.
	So you could reserve that in advance.
	And everyone in Hollywood, if you're going between New York and L.A., you're on MGM Grand.
	It was like nothing but a star-studded celebrity fest.
	And I think it only flew from LaGuardia.
	And I remember flying it once, and I always wanted the stateroom because if I was lucky and no one else was there, I could just turn it into the bed.
	It's like a two-person bed.
	And by the way, it wasn't that much more expensive.
	It was probably about equal to a first-class ticket, which MTV paid for, of course, back in the day.
	And I remember I got stuck in a stateroom with Sean Penn, his brother, you know, the one that's dead now, and his mom for six hours.
	And it was like right after the Madonna breakup and his brother, Christopher, I think it was Christopher Penn, He was like drinking beer, taking his shirt off.
	He's like sitting there with a big sweaty fat guy with no shirt on, drinking beer.
	I'm like, well, this is kind of ruining my experience.
	I would think.
	And of course, he knew who I was.
	I was that guy from VH1, is what he said.
	So I felt extra special.
	Thanks, dude.
	And then I said, so what was it like with Madonna?
	He says, hell hath no fury, my friend.
	That was it?
	That was the insight?
	Yeah, and that was like nothing else to say for the rest of the trip.
	It was horrible.
	It was one of the worst.
	It harshed my mellow.
	Anyway, Gene Simmons weighed in regarding President Obama's call for Israel to return to the 1967 borders.
	Which is actually the 1947 borders.
	I think they should get that straight.
	Explain.
	Well, the 67 borders were formed in 47 when they first created the state of Israel.
	And then in 67 there was a war because you could just bomb the crap out of Israel from the Golan Heights.
	You could actually be up there and look down and say, let me just start shooting.
	Yeah.
	And so the Israelis figured, well, you know, we better get this part.
	So they beat the Arabs in the war.
	They actually asked the Palestinians, which one of the reasons, which is a point of contention here, is they told all the Palestinians, all the Arabs told them, get out of the country, just abandon the place, because we're going to kill all the Jews.
	And so all the Palestinians left, and that was part of the issue here.
	And so they...
	Jews turned the tables on them and rousted them and beat them in this short war and then changed the borders in 1967 to what they became.
	So does the 1967 border, does that include the Golan Heights?
	No, the new border, post-67, includes the Golan Heights.
	Pre-67, it doesn't.
	But when they say 67 borders, these are really 1947 borders, and it's kind of a misnomer.
	It sounds as though, well, it's only 40 years ago or so.
	Okay, so in 67 is when they actually took the Golan Heights in addition to the 47 border.
	Right.
	Well.
	And I can be corrected on any of the details because I don't have the thing in front of me, but believe me, the 67 thing is a red herring.
	So Gene Simmons takes a bite of the red herring.
	What do you think of President Obama's suggestion that the borders be redrawn pre-1967?
	President Obama, and I voted for an idea.
	What I didn't realize what I was getting was an idealist.
	If you've never been to the moon, you can't issue policy about the moon.
	You have no...
	idea what it's like on the moon for a president to be sitting in Washington DC and saying go back to your 67 borders in Israel how about you live there and try to defend an indefensible border nine miles wide on one side you've got hundreds of millions of people who hate your guts on the other side you've got the Mediterranean unless you control in Israel unless you control those Golan Heights it's an indefensible position it's a nice idea When you grow up,
	you find out that life isn't the way you imagined it.
	And President Obama means well.
	I think he's actually a good guy.
	He has no idea what the world is like.
	Because he doesn't have to live there.
	That's why President Netanyahu, whose brother led the Entebbe raid and died, crossing inter-country lines, breaking international law, landed in Idi Amin's territory, killed the local policemen, and freed those Europeans Who were abducted by Idi Amin and crossed back to Israel.
	The UN condemned it.
	You broke air sprays.
	What would have happened if you go to the UN? Most pathetic body on the face of the planet.
	By the way, America invented UN. May I just say a couple of things here.
	Many things.
	What, is he running for office, this guy?
	Well, he's extremely Jewish, like Israeli-Jewish.
	Yeah, there is a difference, by the way.
	Yeah, of course there is.
	And so our friend Gene here.
	So a couple things.
	One is, I keep reading this meme about Bibi Netanyahu's brother.
	You know, he was killed, he was killed, he was killed.
	So this is being rolled out as a talking point.
	And then this whole Entebbe thing, which I believe he's not entirely correct.
	The Entebbe thing, weren't they picking people off of the U.S. Embassy?
	I remember that period.
	I don't remember the details anymore.
	But I think what you witnessed there with this was a preemptive anti-UN rant because it's believed by some.
	Well, the UN is, and this is what, remember we had the Susan Rice clip?
	And everyone, all the congressmen and senators are pissed off at the UN because they actually allow any Arab state to be in the UN. They're all angry about it.
	Everyone's angry about a UN stance against Israel.
	Well, apparently the UN is going to, I think it's in June, it's coming up for a vote.
	They're going to give, the UN just unilaterally is going to give the Palestinians that area.
	Yeah, because the UN runs everything now, I guess.
	Well, they don't run anything.
	That's the joke of it.
	Well, they run us to bombing Libya.
	Yeah, right.
	Well, let's just have Gene finish up.
	He's always entertaining to listen to, and I've met him many times.
	I've got to tell you my Gene Simmons story.
	Hold on.
	First, let's listen to this.
	After the League of Nations was a disaster, this is a paper tiger.
	We allowed dictators to get up there and spread propaganda from Hugo Chavez to Gaddafi.
	Garbage.
	And then when they want more money, they put their hands...
	I love the hate.
	The hate that the Arabs and Jews have for each other, it's just, it's unbelievable that people can hate each other so much.
	Garbage.
	Garbage infested, I tell you.
	Garbage.
	It's like poop garbage.
	Now, to America.
	You all agree with every word I say.
	You know it.
	The biggest pacifist who's against the death penalty will immediately want to kill somebody who's got a gun to his mother.
	You walk in a room, you happen to come back from hunting or whatever, and there's somebody there.
	You don't want to find out why that person is deranged.
	Great analogy, isn't it?
	How does he jump to hunting?
	Well, he winds it up in a way only Gene Simmons can.
	If he's on crack, you want to kill him.
	Let's talk about it.
	You should have a trial by jury.
	You and the courts you wrote in.
	You're going to die, pal.
	Death on the spot.
	It's justice.
	I like that.
	You break into my house with a gun, I will kill you.
	It's sort of Sharia law.
	Now, what is this?
	It's sort of Sharia law.
	What?
	Who is this dingbat?
	She's from like Business Insider or something.
	It's a total idiot.
	She's cute and she's blonde and everything.
	Well, she should go to Russia today.
	Well, she'd be perfect for them.
	So what's Gene Simmons come back to?
	It's Sharia law.
	I guess she didn't have her earpiece in or something.
	She just came to mind.
	It's like Sharia law.
	It's not.
	Women should be in charge.
	Like the insect kingdom.
	You're much brighter than we are.
	You should have thousands of babies and be in charge.
	You have my vote, except for the thousands of babies part.
	I don't need to have thousands.
	I have two.
	At least practice thousands of times.
	She's trying to bone her.
	That guy's terrible.
	That guy has no shame.
	It just deteriorates.
	It goes from some sort of thoughtful analysis to kill the guy in your house to shooting.
	There's a real lot of let's go to bed.
	I'm out hunting and let me nail you.
	Unbelievable.
	It's fantastic.
	Why is this stuff on the air?
	I don't know.
	It's just funny, though.
	I like it.
	I can't help myself but like him.
	The whole thing, Obama's getting a U2 reception in Ireland.
	Yes, we can, Dublin.
	Yes, we can.
	Hello, everybody.
	That's good.
	Hello, everybody.
	No, the yes, we can.
	Yes, we can.
	Yes, we can.
	Don't anyone ever let them tell you that you can't be what you want to be.
	Oh, there you go.
	Because yes, we can.
	Yes, we can, Ireland.
	Anyway.
	And then BB Netanyahu comes over.
	And I've never seen this.
	I mean, everyone gets together in Congress and Senate, and he's like, I represent the small people!
	And everyone stands up in a place.
	He got 26 standing ovations.
	For what?
	I know.
	I was just like, what?
	And then there was a bunch of analysis afterwards.
	But what a great speaker he is because he doesn't go, uh, uh, like Obama does.
	Who cares?
	It was just weird.
	Don't invite him back.
	No, I agree.
	And so the only thing I don't understand is, I've heard for the past year, everybody say, Israel back to the 1967 borders.
	Israel back to the 1967.
	Everyone in Congress, everyone in the Senate, the President, everyone says it.
	B.B. Netanyahu comes in and says, I ain't going back to the 1967 borders.
	Oh, yes.
	Awesome.
	Awesome.
	Oh, he's so great.
	I don't get it.
	Did I miss something?
	Did I hear it wrong all this past year, John?
	This whole theater that we watched with this guy showing up and then Obama making this dumb comment about 1967 and then the follow-up and all the debate, it seems like a distraction of the week to me.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Now, before we start with thanking some people for helping out the show, I'd like to remind those of you who are new or are just puzzled that you've gotten so far in this podcast and going, what is this?
	How does this work?
	We do not take advertising.
	We do not take any money from commercial entities because you can only imagine that we would not be able to talk about certain stories.
	And of course this is a lot of work.
	It's pretty much, it's certainly my main job.
	John, yours?
	I don't work.
	I don't do anything.
	John has to live by himself.
	His family won't even live with him anymore.
	No, they've escaped up north.
	They send me a care package once in a while.
	Stay.
	Go back to work.
	Go back to work.
	It's just like Gaddafi's family.
	What are you doing here?
	Go back to work.
	Gaddafi's family left him too.
	And finally, As an aside, I have a clip that this is why, you know, we don't, since the show is a low-budget show, even though we get donations that support it, but they pay bills.
	And I have a clip called, Why Use Pro Gear?
	So I don't have pro gear for recording a lot of stuff, you know, because it's just too expensive.
	And there's about five or six clips that sound like this because of, I don't know why.
	What is this?
	Is this something you recorded?
	Yeah.
	Excellent job.
	Okay, we need some support so John can get some gear.
	What is this?
	Now, here's one of the things.
	What is this?
	This was part of a couple of clips I had which were supposed to lead...
	Okay.
	This was going to lead into a great little...
	I had two clips.
	I had one from the O'Reilly show where he discussed the fact that Orbitz, apparently Media Matters, which is a Soros group, has been attacking Fox News as much as they can.
	And they've started this thing to force Orbitz, the travel agency, and some other advertisers to not advertise on Fox anymore.
	They're attacking Fox advertisers.
	Wow.
	And apparently Orbitz told them to shove it, but meanwhile I have another clip from Gay USA where the guys...
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Is this a channel?
	Gay USA is a weekly news show on free speech TV. Do they have an RSS feed?
	I don't think they need to follow us.
	As a bi-curious male, I resent that comment.
	So with the day they out you, because they spend most of their time outing people, I find it quite amusing.
	It's very good if you want to be entertained.
	But it's also very boring and it's long and there's too much.
	They dwell on things.
	But they brought this Orbitz thing up.
	And the show comes out and they say Orbitz is a gay-friendly travel agency that all the gay community should be attacking them for advertising with Fox.
	Wow.
	What kind of BS? Orbitz, there's like 90% of all travel booking online.
	How can that be?
	Are we all gay?
	Well, the gays think they're a gay travel agency.
	Whatever the case is, they were completely pushing this idea, which I thought was abhorrent to be attacking advertisers like that.
	And then I said, now here's the two clips that will be great lead-ins to our solicitation.
	But didn't the clip sound like, as you played...
	Oh, it sounded like the Why Use Pro Gear clip.
	Oh, that sucks.
	So anyway, so I don't have the backup clips to back up my thesis, which is that if it wasn't for the listeners out there, they're the third party in this.
	It's myself, Adam, and you that keep the show going, and that's why we need your support, and that's why we do these little segments, which are still shorter than you would be getting on just one advertising break.
	Okay.
	You're about to segue in.
	I do have a Soros-connected bridge here to our support.
	NPR's ombudsman What is an ombudsman?
	An ombudsman is some corporations and news organizations, other people have them.
	It's the middle man who's not really responsible for anything and you can tell him your troubles and he'll go up.
	And do nothing.
	And do nothing, exactly.
	So NPR, National Treasure, NPR's ombudsman is a woman.
	Ombudswoman.
	Alicia Shepard writes here, There's a deep current of concern running through the NPR newsroom about taking money, $1.8 million, from Soros, as she says, someone with a well-known documented political agenda supporting Democrats and Democratic causes.
	So this is another part of the problem, is that they take this money from big political donors, and we just take it from people who just want to be de-douched.
	I mean...
	Exactly.
	There's a huge difference there.
	Now, DuPont.
	This is interesting.
	This is really good.
	Give us some money.
	We'll deduce him.
	Briefly.
	DuPont.
	So this is from Adweek.
	This is very interesting.
	DuPont has traded in television spots for editorial content and advertorials in a bid to become a thought leader around global concerns like fuel, protection, and food, which of course they make all of those.
	Fuel, protection, and food?
	Yes.
	Along the way, the company ceded an unusual amount of control, even for the internet age.
	For example, the editorial piece Horizons, a TV series documenting how business, government leaders, and organizations are tackling macro problems related to population growth, was produced entirely by BBC World News.
	So the BBC World News is now producing advertorials for DuPont.
	Wow!
	So do you think they're now going to come out and say, hey, by the way, DuPont sucks, DuPont is killing people, and like all big corporations, there's plenty of evidence of that.
	Do you think they're going to do that now?
	No, they're compromised.
	BBC World News.
	Anyway, so all of this gives reason for us not to take any advertising money and to basically just do this show.
	And your support...
	It's what keeps it running.
	Right, and except for the high-end support we got this week, we didn't do very well.
	I know, I know.
	We've only got six people to mention here on the break, which is one of the reasons I had this extra material to promote the idea that people should be helping us more.
	But Thomas Nussbaum, Sir Thomas, from Virginia Beach, Virginia, for Nicole's Damehood, it's number five, John accidentally de-douched me.
	I don't remember that.
	But he wants to be douchebagged.
	What?
	He says his normal state for karma.
	He wants karma for Nicole's graduation, but he needs his normal state as being a douchebag, so douche him.
	Alright, well, bend over.
	Douchebag.
	How'd that feel?
	And now some karma for Nicole.
	Okay, of course.
	Not a problem.
	You've got karma.
	I don't understand this mechanism.
	We didn't even invent it.
	It was the listeners who came up with all this stuff and we just follow orders.
	They're the bosses.
	We're only doing what we are ordered to do.
	Exactly.
	And anyway, that's $111.11.
	Andrew Crocher in Eastleigh, Hampshire, UK, $82.10.
	There may be a note from him.
	I don't have it.
	He's a new donor.
	Michael Klink in Oak Park, Illinois, $53.33.
	In the morning, John and Adam, sending you some of my slave earnings in exchange for a birthday shout-out.
	Turning 44 on May 27th, if you could play the Gitmo Nation National Anthem and forego the karma.
	Thanks for keeping me sane and entertained.
	We'll do that in a minute.
	On my daily commute, Michael Klink, sorry, no relation to the wacky German Colonel P.S., I've been waiting for my check from Obama.
	His election campaign was based on change, so I figured I'd be getting 87 cents or so.
	So how do we do that?
	Do we want to play the national anthem?
	We haven't played it in a while.
	I think we should do the birthday call-outs and the knighthood and then play the national anthem after all.
	That will be done.
	Good, good, good.
	Arthur Kessler in Acme, Alberta, Canada, and Kendra Robertson, another new donor from Burlington, Iowa, and Peter Totes in Sugar Land, Texas, all $50 each.
	We want to thank them and everybody else who donated for this week's show.
	Okay.
	Something came in late, so I'm not sure.
	It probably wasn't on the spreadsheet, but Sir Clancy, whenever one of our knights sends an email, it's okay to...
	So far, in the morning, Adam John, so far I've raised more than 1,500 pounds for Doctors Without Borders in my No Agenda-thon.
	Remember, this is a guy who was running the marathon, or marathons, and of course 10% of the amount that he raises for Doctors Without Borders, he is matching himself To donate to the show.
	As a reminder, I'm running the Stockholm Marathon this Saturday.
	Please remind the other producers they can donate at noagendathon.com.
	That's not thong.
	It's noagendathon, by the way.
	That's a good one.
	Noagendathon.
	Thong?
	Yeah.
	Noagendathon.com.
	I like it.
	Noagendathon.com, where my company will match their donation to Doctors Without Borders at 100%.
	I match 10% to...
	Oh, yeah.
	So his company matches the money to Doctors Without Borders, who John and I both support.
	I think it's a good organization.
	His company matches at 100%, and Sir Clancy matches at 10% to the show.
	Could I get just a little spare?
	Problems are clancy.
	You've got karma.
	So we, of course, will be daming Murasaki 8, who is a fresh dame here on the show.
	But Murasaki 8 wants us to congratulate Lonnie with Lonnie's birthday on Friday, which will be the 27th of May.
	And as we just heard, Michael Klink turns 44 tomorrow, Friday.
	Congratulations from all your buddies here at the No Agenda Show.
	Yes, yes.
	And, well, it's nice that we at least had a couple people coming with some bigger donations.
	I think times are very tough for everybody.
	So that's why we appreciate so much.
	John, do you have your blade with you?
	Hold on, I've got to get out of the drawer.
	You've got to be stuck in the doorway.
	Marsaki 8's Mark Butterford.
	And Miss Shalomi, please step forward.
	All three of you have reached the giving level in support of the No Agenda Podcast show for at least $1,000.
	Therefore, I can proudly pronounce thee, Dame Murasaki 8, Sir Michael Klink, I'm sorry, Sir Mark Bedford, Bodiford, and Dame Shalomi.
	Knights and Dames of the No Agenda Round Table.
	That may have sounded a little bit confusing, but don't worry.
	The right people will get the rings in the beautiful...
	Do you realize that Sir Mark is the only member of a sandwich knighthood celebration?
	Yes, that's right.
	It's a dame sandwich.
	Huh?
	Hey, I think...
	He needs a special consideration.
	Yeah.
	What do you mean?
	He needs to be sharing some of that special consideration.
	That's what I'd be thinking.
	Oh, that's nice.
	Awesome.
	Yeah, so Dame Murasaki 8, Sir Mark Botterford, and Dame Shalomi, thank you all very much.
	Your rings will be forthcoming in their handsome velour boxes with your certification.
	Elizabeth Warren, we know who she is?
	Yeah.
	Well, Mr.
	Smarty Pants, who's Elizabeth Warren then?
	I've heard of her.
	Okay.
	The name rings a bell.
	As soon as you tell me who it is, if I could Google it.
	But whoever...
	Elizabeth Warren's name is right at the top of the brain.
	She's the controversial choice for the Consumer Protection Agency.
	She is the woman who is supposed to protect us, human resources, and slave of the Gitmo nation states...
	Wait a minute, I'm going too fast.
	We can't do this, John.
	We've got to put the brakes on.
	We've forgotten some very important things.
	Like mentioning how people can donate to Dvorak.org slash NA. You know, we keep forgetting to do that.
	I mean, how stupid are we?
	Yeah, people should help us out by going to NoAgendaShow.com or Dvorak.org slash NA and hitting the donation page, which I need to update, by the way.
	Go there as soon as you can because I'll have a new updated page by the end of today.
	Yeah, you said that last week, but you'll do it.
	I know, you know, I forgot all about it.
	It's weird.
	Sorry, went down the wrong tube.
	So, frothy mix.
	So, besides this five hours of content almost you get every single week, We have the show notes with all the research.
	A ton of great stuff there at nashownotes.com.
	Noagendashownotes.com, also forwarding to that.
	And I think we do quite a bit.
	You can also get all the sound clips now.
	Yeah, the sound clips are all available to everybody.
	You know, another thing I should mention...
	You can do your own show.
	It's like the Noagenda home kit.
	I've thought about this.
	You know, something else that's interesting is that when we do this break for the donations, it's actually in and of itself entertaining.
	We try.
	Alright, let me just do this one more time.
	And then by request, please rise for your Gitmo Nation national anthem.
	You may sing along if you know the words.
	In the morning, Gitmo Nation, we are all charged up to beat.
	Human resources and service in all lands and all ships and sea.
	From the east to west, down under to the lowlands and beyond.
	We are happy and distracted slaves.
	Hear our Gitmo Nation song.
	Alright.
	That's a good segue because it gave me the opportunity to do a backgrounder on Elizabeth Warren.
	Tell us who Elizabeth Warren is.
	Well, she's a woman that apparently has been around.
	She's like a policy wonk that's been around the White House.
	She's going to be considered for the Supreme Court.
	Let me just give you a little background.
	All you need to know is this part.
	Elizabeth Warren was born Elizabeth Herring and raised in Oklahoma where she was state champion debater at age 16.
	Can you imagine dating this woman?
	Wait until you hear my clip.
	No.
	That's all we need to know.
	She is being confirmed now in the Senate for this position, this controversial position of the, she will be leading the Consumer Protection Agency, which is supposed to protect us from the banks raping us.
	Yeah, it's not going to protect us from anything.
	Well, certainly not with her on board.
	She is the most elite, she needs, she's probably like in the Hillary Lucifer Clinton drinking club.
	So, she's in, this is a relatively short clip, she's in her, one of these hearings where, you know, they get to ask questions.
	And by the way, there's shills on the senatorial side as well.
	And I guess that she thought that she only had to sit there until 2.15 because she had another meeting.
	Now, remind, this is a confirmation hearing.
	And she's being questioned about her validity.
	It's a confirmation hearing.
	She's looking at her watch.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Listen to this.
	You are causing problems.
	We had an agreement for a later hearing.
	Your staff asked us to move around so that we had to change everything on my schedule to try to accommodate.
	And I certainly appreciate that, but the original hearing was 2 o'clock.
	I would be out of here at 2.15 because there are other things now scheduled at 2.30.
	Now, pay attention.
	So she's here, so I have to be out of here.
	But then she goes into the royal we, which is just, what?
	That was a request, but we moved the hearing so you could actually get the questions in.
	Congressman, you told us one thing.
	I did not tell you anything.
	We have no one here to ask questions, Mr.
	Chairman.
	We have no one here to ask questions.
	I have other obligations I committed to based on the representations of your staff.
	And our effort will try to accommodate you and rearrange our schedule to accommodate you.
	Look, Ms.
	Warren, it was a simple request.
	Your staff had a request.
	My staff said we're trying to accommodate you.
	We're going to get you out of here in ten minutes.
	No, Congressman, we had an agreement.
	You had no agreement.
	We had an agreement for the time this hearing would occur.
	You're making this up, Ms.
	Warren.
	This is not the case.
	This is not the case.
	It's too bad you can't see her face.
	She's like, oh no, you didn't just call me a liar.
	Oh no, you didn't.
	And then this other guy, he's like...
	Who does she think she is?
	This is the problem with the executive branch.
	And one of the debating things that I picked up on that's one of those scratchy cuts because I have equipment that doesn't work was some of the debates going on where the House of Representatives was part of this new War Amendment Act thing where the Congress is giving up Powers.
	To the presidency.
	Don't go there yet because I have those clips too.
	Geez, they say, here, take it.
	We don't want to do anything.
	No, be quiet.
	Be quiet.
	You're blowing all my clips.
	Go.
	Just listen to the end of this Warren thing.
	Mr.
	Chairman, you just did something tonight.
	I'm trying to be cordial here, but you just accused the...
	She's accusing me of making an agreement that I never made.
	I think you need to split this up with your staff.
	And I have.
	They have moved this thing around 50 million times.
	50 million!
	And she's got to go to another hearing.
	Congressman, not to another hearing, to another meeting.
	Congressman, I would be glad to answer questions for the record.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	Who was the shill who came in and defended her?
	Oh, Clancy, some douche.
	He's like, oh yeah, oh yeah.
	I have other important things to do!
	I have a meeting!
	I've got to go to the meeting!
	I've got to go to a meeting or the meeting!
	We have to go to a meeting.
	You told us that we had to go to a meeting.
	Us are meeting with Kathy and Hillary.
	I got a beautiful clip here.
	What an arrogant, horrible person.
	It's okay.
	She's here to protect your interests.
	Yeah, sure.
	Yeah.
	I have a clip here.
	This is a beauty sent in by one of our producers.
	Here's another law professor from Harvard Law School.
	Does Obama do anything but bring in people from Chicago and Harvard Law?
	I just threw a shoe at her.
	Is there anybody from Washington State or Nevada or maybe Oklahoma they could bring into this administration?
	Is everyone from Chicago or Harvard Law?
	Yeah, well, including Christine Lagarde, Chicagoan.
	She's a Chicagoan too.
	This woman is a professor at Harvard Law School and has lots of meetings.
	Yeah, us have meetings that are really important to we.
	So, hear the gaffe.
	This is the funny...
	I think you'll deem this clip of the week, and I did not catch it.
	One of our Gitmo Nation East producers caught it.
	This is David Cameron doing a press conference with President O' Obama.
	And listen to the gaffe.
	As well as the economy, the President and I had some very good discussions on security.
	Now, Americans and Brits do not need to explain terrorism to one another.
	Both our people have suffered at its hands, and indeed they have died together.
	Suffered at our hands.
	Suffered at our hands.
	Oops.
	Oops!
	I'm sorry.
	There's not enough lithium in my water.
	You just can't keep it out of the brain.
	The brain reveals all.
	Okay, so now there's a couple of things going on today that is extremely interesting in the Senate.
	So the extension of...
	And I'll just sum it up and then we'll see if we need to play any of these clips.
	But I do have some questions for you, John.
	So the Patriot Act, which includes warrantless wiretapping, warrantless going into people's homes, killing Americans when the president thinks it's okay, is just part of what's going on right now.
	But this is the Patriot Act part.
	So this really only started as a discussion about a week ago.
	Of course, they've had like 10 years to discuss this.
	Harry Reid.
	I saw this.
	This is one of the clips that I blew.
	So here's Harry Reid, and he pulls a move, because what he doesn't want is he doesn't...
	Now, Rand Paul, Ron Paul's son, is blocking this.
	Right.
	But now we're into political...
	He decides to do a character assassination on Rand Paul.
	I've got that, too.
	But this is the first one.
	This was two days ago, where Harry Reid invokes cloture.
	Now, do you want to explain cloture?
	Well, let me play the clip, a little bit of this clip, and then I want you to get into cloture.
	Can I have a quorum call?
	Yes.
	I would ask consent that that be vitiated.
	So he says, can I have a quorum call?
	And he wants it noted, because it's very important for the legal move he's pulling here.
	Without objection.
	Mr.
	President, we've been working for...
	I've been working on it for a lot longer than several days, but several days publicly on the process to move forward with the Patriot Act.
	What a douchebag.
	Just the way he sounds, I just want to kick him in the teeth.
	We have...
	...worked over the last...
	Worked over at the bar.
	Several days to work something out that is...
	I think an excellent compromise.
	Is this bill something that everybody in the Senate likes or everybody in the House likes?
	The answer is no.
	See, I don't get that.
	He keeps saying this.
	Is that my phone or your phone?
	Not mine.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	It doesn't even sound like a phone.
	It sounds like some high-pitched squeal.
	Yeah, it's nasty.
	So, what is the deal with saying, is this perfect?
	It goes like this.
	Look, look, we got this thing.
	We got to get it passed.
	It's not perfect.
	Yeah, but I hate that.
	I want it to be perfect.
	Why can't we demand something?
	Nothing's perfect.
	But we all know how important it is.
	Oh, really?
	Terror!
	We continue this legislation.
	So Senator McConnell and I and Speaker Boehner have agreed on a way to move forward on this.
	The alternative is to have a long, long-term extension of this that the House would send us, and I think that wouldn't be to anyone's benefit.
	So we're moving forward on this.
	I've tried to do it with the bill that we invoked cloture on yesterday.
	I've had many conversations with Senator Paul and others, but principally him, and tried to come up with a process to allow Senator Paul Stoffer amendments and other Stoffer amendments.
	It's not just him.
	Now, this is where it gets interesting, and I'm sorry it's taking a little long, but these clips are very important, because we know what he said last night, which I have a clip, but listen to how he's like, so complimentary, because I'm so sorry.
	You know, I really like Senator Paul.
	He's such a good guy, but, you know, I have to get this passed.
	We need protection.
	I've been unsuccessful.
	Now, I understand...
	Senator Paul's exasperation, because this is something extremely important to him, and there was every desire from my perspective, and I think this body, to have a full, complete debate on the Patriot Act.
	But the Senate doesn't always work that way, and there have been a lot of things that have Gotten in the way of this, and the time is suddenly upon us.
	Mr.
	President, we have to complete this legislation by midnight on Thursday.
	We cannot let this expire.
	Why not?
	We cannot let the Patriot Act expire.
	Why not?
	I have a responsibility to try to get this bill done as soon as possible, in spite of the fact that some of my senators and some Republican senators would rather I did it some other way At some other time.
	The guy goes on, and he's boring me to tears.
	He's boring me to tears.
	He's a terrible, boring guy.
	Not only that, he's a horrible man, because he's just saying, you know, we have to get this passed, and if you really want to listen to what he's saying, it's linked in the show notes, but it's a half an hour of him saying, well, you know, we found all of this evidence at Bin Laden's compound Yeah, so the second clip is actually more interesting because he mentions that as though the Patriot Act had something to do with it.
	The reason is that he's fighting for an amendment to protect the right, not of average citizens, but of terrorists, to cover up their gun purchases.
	Do you hear that?
	This is what he's saying about Rand Paul.
	This is the second day.
	This is the one he just did yesterday, right?
	He says that Rand Paul is frustrating the extension of the Patriot Act.
	He wants an amendment to the Patriot Act that will protect people who buy guns.
	Not just people.
	Not just people, terrorists!
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Did I say people?
	Yeah, no, terrorists.
	Oh, yeah, no, anything you want to do nowadays is to protect terrorists.
	That's right.
	So it's terrorists.
	Here we go, terrorists!
	The reason is that he's fighting for an amendment to protect the right, not of average citizens, but of terrorists, to cover up their gun purchases.
	Unbelievable!
	It's just unbelievable that he would say that.
	And Rand Paul comes back.
	I rise in response to a scurrilous accusation.
	Word of the day, ladies and gentlemen.
	I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
	To be attacked of such a belief when I'm here to discuss and debate the constitutionality of the Patriot Act is offensive.
	I find it personally insulting.
	And I think it demeans the body.
	It demeans the Senate body and the people that we can't have an intelligent debate over the constitutionality of this.
	I totally agree.
	For some reason, I'm not a fan of Rand Paul.
	I love his dad.
	Rand Paul seems icky.
	I don't know what it is.
	I can't base it on anything.
	He's creepy looking.
	And by the way, we just go by looks on this show.
	If you look creepy, you're out.
	There's some truth to that.
	So, in the meantime, is it Senator Udall or is it Congressman Udall?
	I don't know.
	I got it here.
	If he was in that room...
	Well, no, because they're doing cloture, which means...
	I mean, it's a process that means there's going to be no debate.
	He's a senator from Colorado.
	Yeah, he says there's a...
	Oh, no, a senator from New Mexico.
	It's either Mark Udall or Tom Udall.
	I don't know.
	There's a bunch of them around.
	Mark Udall, he's the one who wanted to be patriotic.
	They're senators.
	In a nutshell, cloture can only be done when nobody has a supermajority.
	If there's a supermajority, then you can do whatever you want.
	The majority can.
	But if there's not, you can call for cloture and you can vote on it.
	It's just a majority vote saying, look, you can...
	Shut up, slave.
	That's what it is.
	Just shut up is what it is, right?
	Right.
	Yeah, shut up.
	We've got to take the votes.
	Do you know how long they debated each of these issues in the Patriot Act?
	Ten minutes total.
	Ten minutes.
	Five minutes for each side.
	The most important changes to our freedoms...
	Ten minutes.
	And then, so, the way I understand that is, Sammy Reed there, he slipped these extensions into another bill, Which is, because I kept seeing on C-SPAN, to follow this bill they're talking about, look at S-990 on thomas.gov.
	And S-990 is to provide for an additional temporary extension of programs under the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 and for other purposes.
	This may be part of something that was just written up and wired.
	I sent you a link.
	Yeah, no, I was about to say that.
	So this is what Udall is about, that there's actually a secret Patriot Act that we haven't seen yet.
	Yeah, and apparently Senator Ron Wyden is from Oregon, is a Democrat from Oregon, has been kind of hinting about it.
	And he's on the Intelligence Committee, but he can't say what it is because it's all classified.
	Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more.
	And I'll just read a little piece from this article.
	One component of the Patriot Act in particular gives them immense pause is the so-called business records provision, which empowers the FBI to get businesses, medical offices, banks, and other organizations to turn over any tangible things it deems relevant to any security investigation.
	You got a problem with that?
	I always thought they were doing this already.
	Anyway, basically they can go after all records.
	They can tap your phone.
	They can do all kinds of stuff.
	There's a bunch of extra stuff.
	This article is quite interesting because it's like everything you think is bad about the Patriot Act just make it worse.
	And I think that they're just basically just recording everything they can on these terabyte drives on everybody they can.
	Hell yeah.
	At first it sounds good because it's all about terrorism.
	We're going to be able to track some guy down.
	But once they get these systems in place, it's going to be about normal crime.
	You say, well, I don't know.
	Is this guy a jaywalker?
	I don't know.
	Let's check him out.
	Let's follow his video.
	Look at that!
	There's a hundred bucks we can collect.
	Kick that guy's ass.
	Todd Hinnon, who represents the type of material collected thus far as more individualistic and specific.
	Driver's license records, hotel records, car rental records, apartment leasing records, credit card records.
	Hooker records.
	Blow records.
	Well, that's the idea.
	You get somebody.
	Now you can create blackmailing schemes.
	You can find out what stocks to get into.
	This is one of the problems with this loss of privacy.
	Now the government, some agents within the government who are exploiting this information can figure out there's a merger acquisition going on.
	They can get in on it.
	No one's ever going to be able to trace anything.
	I mean, the whole thing...
	Or you can blackmail somebody in Congress and get them to vote a certain way for, you know, genomic engineering or whatever.
	This is why it's bad.
	It's not because you're doing something bad.
	Oh, I'm not doing anything bad.
	I don't care.
	You should care because somebody who might be doing something sketchy, you know, like maybe thinking about divorcing their wives.
	Oh, no!
	And then the next thing you know, somebody finds out about it and then blackmails them so they vote a certain way and that way they vote hurts you, the members of the public.
	That's the problem.
	If you see something, say something.
	I could go on and on.
	People don't get it.
	They don't understand why privacy is important.
	Well, there is one person who gets it.
	And I was considering doing this an end-of-show clip.
	We're almost at the end of the show, but I would prefer to play the clip and then briefly discuss, hold hands, and then end the show.
	It's Ron Paul.
	Who is, in case you didn't know, because of course the news media doesn't mention it, but he is a presidential candidate.
	He's a Republican.
	And they try to demean him and keep him out of the discussion.
	Everybody in the mainstream media, everybody in the Republican Party, and everybody in the Democrat Party does this.
	Because he doesn't have any money to spend on the news networks.
	Isn't that the way it works?
	I mean, Obama's going to raise...
	I think there's more to it than that in his case.
	Well, duh, because the guy is pretty much right on, I think, in just about everything I've heard him say.
	So he rises.
	He rises to the occasion.
	He takes his five minutes.
	And, John, when you listen to this, it's basically what you just tried to say, only he had it written down and he's a professional.
	I tried to say.
	And he's a professional.
	Thanks.
	Thank you, Mr.
	Speaker.
	The last nail is being driven into the coffin of the American Republic.
	Yet Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes.
	The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and ignorance as to the true meaning of liberty.
	It is driven by economic myths, fallacies, and irrational good intentions.
	The rule of law is constantly rejected and authoritarian answers are offered as panaceas for all our problems.
	Runaway welfareism is used to benefit the rich at the expense of the middle class.
	Who would have ever thought that the current generation and Congress would stand idly by and watch such a rapid disintegration of the American Republic?
	characteristic of this epic event is the casual acceptance by the people and the political leaders of the unitary presidency, which is equivalent to granting dictatorial powers to the president.
	Our presidents can now, on their own, order assassinations, including American citizens, operate secret military tribunals, engage in torture, enforce indefinite imprisonments without due process, or Order searches and seizures without proper warrants gutting the Fourth Amendment.
	Ignore the 60-day rule for reporting to the Congress the nature of any military operation as required by the War Power Resolution.
	Continue the Patriot Act abuses without oversight.
	Wage war at will.
	Treat all Americans as suspected terrorists at airports with TSA groping and nude X-raying.
	And the Federal Reserve accommodates by counterfeiting the funds needed and not paid for by taxation and borrowing, permitting runaway spending, endless debt, and special interest bailouts.
	And all of this is not enough.
	The abuses and usurpations of the war power are soon to be codified in the National Defense Authorization Act now rapidly moving its way through Congress.
	Instead of repealing the 2001 authorization for the use of military force, as we should now that bin Laden is dead and gone, Congress is planning to massively increase the war power of the president.
	Though an opportunity presents itself to end the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, Congress, with bipartisan support, obsesses on how to expand the unconstitutional war power of the president, he already holds.
	The current proposal would allow a president to pursue war anytime, anyplace, for any reason, without congressional approval.
	Many believe this would even permit military activity against American suspects here at home.
	The proposed authority does not reference the 9-11 attacks.
	It would be expanded to include the Taliban and associated forces, a dangerously vague and expansive definition of our potential enemies.
	There is no denial that the changes in Section 1034 totally eliminates the hard-fought-for restraint on presidential authority to go to war without congressional approval achieved at the constitutional convention.
	Congress' war authority has been severely undermined since World War II, beginning with the advent of the Korean War, which was fought solely under a UN resolution.
	Even today, we're waging war in Libya without even consulting with the Congress, similar to how we went to war in Bosnia in the 1990s under President Clinton.
	The three major reasons for our constitutional conventions were to guarantee free trade and travel among the states, make gold and silver legal tender and abolish paper money, and strictly limit the executive branch's authority to pursue war without congressional approval.
	But today, Federal Reserve notes are legal tender.
	Gold and silver are illegal.
	The Interstate Commerce Clause is used to regulate all commerce at the expense of the free trade among the states.
	And now, the final nail is placed in the coffin of Congressional responsibility for the war power, delivering this power completely to the President, a sharp and huge blow to the concept of our republic.
	In my view, it appears that the fate of the American Republic is now sealed, unless these recent trends are quickly reversed.
	The saddest part of this tragedy is that all these horrible changes are being done in the name of patriotism and protecting freedom.
	They are justified by good intentions while believing the sacrifice of liberty is required for our safety.
	Nothing could be further from the truth.
	More sadly is the conviction that our enemies are driven to attack us for our freedoms and prosperity, and not because of our deeply flawed foreign policy that has generated justifiable grievances and has inspired the radical violence against us.
	Without this understanding, our endless, unnamed, and undeclared wars will continue and our wonderful experiment with liberty will end.
	And I yield back the balance of my time.
	Have a great weekend, everybody!
	Enjoy life!
	Now, you would never have seen that on television or heard that on radio in its entirety, uninterrupted, with the context that John gave just before we started the clip, and that's why you need to support our show, because this is the type of message you can...
	I mean, I'm serious about this.
	No, and I think you nailed it, and I like the fact that you segued over to it, because that is a great clip, and you're right.
	Not only would you not hear that anywhere else, except this show, except on C-SPAN, or wherever you got the clip, and the show.
	C-SPAN, of course.
	I got it from C-SPAN. If it was ever used, it would be clipped out, so the guy would look like an idiot, because that's what they do.
	This guy has been marginalized and pushed aside, and nobody is, you know, I mean, it's unbelievable what's going on, and this is, yeah.
	That was a great clip.
	That's the clip of the day.
	If only he was blonde and had a nice set of hooters, he would be great.
	But no, he looks kooky.
	This is the problem.
	In the olden days, he would have a shot at it.
	But now you've got to have a...
	But where's the balls on these other guys?
	Where's the Mitt Romneys and these other guys who are running for office?
	They're just elitist douchebags.
	They are elitist douchebags.
	All of them.
	Yeah, and they're all working for the same people, for the banks.
	And Monsanto.
	Oh!
	Monsanto!
	Well, even the Supreme Court works for Monsanto.
	Yeah, it's, you know, Mickey said to me yesterday...
	Another lively show!
	I know!
	Mickey said to me yesterday, well, you're already in your no-agenda mode, I see, because I'm like, my face is like down to my balls.
	I'm like...
	What's going on?
	I don't...
	But, you know, I don't know.
	I think that just knowing this makes me feel better.
	And I hope everyone else, as long as you know it, then it doesn't hurt so much.
	Yeah, no, that's true.
	I think that's what we deliver.
	And we also deliver the ability to see through a lot of this stuff.
	I think people, you know, they can watch.
	I mean, I, you know, even though, you know, I've actually improved my cynical ability to see through crap just because we do the show, you know, and we keep reaffirming the concept of deconstruction.
	And so you can get, you know, you get through it.
	But it's like, unfortunately, there's so many people out there.
	And I think this is what's annoying to a lot of the listeners.
	And I want to tell people that we need more listeners.
	Yeah, we do.
	But you're not going to get anybody who you get irked by.
	You have to bring in people who are kind of already leaning.
	You have to preach to the choir because that's the only people that will buy into this.
	Because the other people are gone.
	It's like you've just lost them.
	They're lost to whatever.
	Right.
	Well, what I am noticing, though, is that there's so much of the kind of material we talk about, but it's kind of spread out all over.
	People are hearing things.
	So, for instance, Mickey has one of her best friends, this guy from Holland.
	He's over for a week, and for his birthday, he gave himself a trip, and so they're hanging out.
	And I have never really had a chance to sit down with him and bond a little bit.
	He's an important guy in her life.
	And so he definitely understands what I do.
	And then, you know, last night we were having dinner.
	He says, so, um, he's Builder Burgers.
	Tell me about it.
	Builder Burgers.
	It's a drinking club.
	Yeah, well, that's exactly what I said.
	Well, my partner John would say it's a drinking club.
	He says, yeah, but, you know, it's like really a Bernard started this and he's got a lot of the background.
	But what he's really sensing, and this is good, is that the elites do run a lot of the show.
	And in Gitmo Nation Lowlands, they are severely suppressed.
	It's like real shut-up slave time over there.
	And what's happening is that everyone's getting angry at each other.
	It's like, why should we pay for the Greeks?
	Why should we pay for the Portuguese?
	Why should we pay for the Spanish?
	Yeah.
	All of this stuff.
	Meanwhile, they're broke.
	He's a real estate guy, but upper end.
	His business went down 50%, but he's still doing fine.
	Meanwhile, dermatologists are making $600,000 a year.
	Surgeons, well over a million dollars a year in Holland because of the scam that the insurance company set up with the socialized medicine.
	Nurses make about $35,000 a year.
	Yeah, there you go.
	It's screwed up.
	Anyway, so, you know, but we've got students at uni who are becoming experts in linear algebra.
	We've got all kinds of kids who are doing amazing things, and there's a lot of hope for future generations.
	Unfortunately, John, for you and I, party's over.
	We don't get to hang out anymore and have fun like the 80s and 90s.
	Well, it wasn't that much fun looking back on it.
	How about the 70s, though?
	Did you have a good time in the 70s?
	I don't.
	You know, the 70s are a blur.
	See, that's what I mean.
	I'm so pissed off that I didn't get to hang out.
	I could have had it.
	I don't know.
	I may have had the time of my life.
	Who knows?
	I feel gypped that I didn't get the 70s.
	I think that would have been great in the 70s.
	The 70s.
	Well, this decade should be very similar because it's on the same cycle.
	So starting in the next year or two, it should be party central.
	I mean, it's going to be a lot of parties.
	Because the 70s were a downturn in the economy, but it was an upturn in creativity, partying, movies, art.
	And I think that's the same thing we're actually in the beginning of witnessing here.
	But because of all this repression that we discuss a lot on the show, I think it's holding things back.
	But, you know, something's going to happen.
	Do you think that it'll be great for creative spirit?
	That we're going to see a lot of great...
	I mean, art, I think...
	Art I agree with.
	I disagree with movies and television.
	No, you watch the movies will start up.
	It has to happen.
	It happened in the 30s.
	It happened in the 70s.
	It has to happen this decade.
	But there's too much propaganda going on right now.
	I think you're going to see some great movies this decade.
	Yeah, but back in the 30s there were no unions.
	Now it's really complicated.
	Just to make a movie, a small budget movie is $10 million.
	I'm just going by the cycles.
	I'm not going by the finance.
	You're not going by facts.
	You're just going by cycles.
	No, I'm not going by facts.
	I'm going by cycles.
	The cycle says something good's going to happen.
	Well, I think you and I are performing a form of art, and I'm very happy to do it.
	This is a performance.
	This is about it.
	This is totally a performance art piece.
	And anybody says, you guys are full of crap.
	You said, you know, we do make mistakes on this show.
	Because we're just going, we're winging it.
	Yeah.
	And we got, we get our facts, but then, you know, Adam asked me something about what happened in 1973, and I don't know.
	So you guys are wrong.
	You said this, you said that.
	Hey, look at it as performance art.
	Yeah, it's performance art.
	And what do we have, like a staff?
	We got no staff.
	We got all volunteers.
	We got all volunteer artists, volunteer PR people.
	We got volunteers everywhere.
	We do have people sending us stuff voluntarily.
	I mean, it is art more than it is anything else.
	Now, I do want to say that what's been incredibly helpful is the people contributing to the No Agenda News Network.
	So you can go to noagendanewsnetwork.com.
	There's also a couple of different domains pointing to that.
	What's great about this, 24-7 stories come in and people are contributing it.
	So if you find yourself sending me an email...
	Once a week with a story, please send me an email with No Agenda News Network or N-A-N-N in the subject line and ask for an account because I'm dying in the email over here.
	It really helps when you're on that system and it benefits everybody so you can track what stories I'm looking at.
	When you do that, they're looking at this, maybe I can do some research over there.
	And that really does work.
	A big thanks to Southern Bread is his handle, blog.southernbread.com.
	This guy's amazing.
	I can't wait to meet him on our tour, which I have to mention.
	The No Agenda Nation tour.
	Thank you very much.
	Keep sending your suggestions to Mickey.
	Mickey at curry.com.
	M-I-C-K-Y. John, the invitations were...
	I mean, we actually have tears in our eyes sometimes.
	The things that people are inviting us to.
	I mean, a lot of it is, you know, park in my driveway, dump your septic tank in my yard, steal my Wi-Fi.
	We're going to do a barbecue.
	But there's people like...
	I've got a boat.
	I've got a balloon.
	Come here.
	It's so beautiful.
	We are so incredibly excited.
	Keep a database.
	No, Mickey's keeping everything, which means it's organized.
	She's more organized than you, so that's good.
	Yeah, she's very organized.
	And it's heartwarming.
	It's beautiful.
	The only thing, of course, we still don't have is an RV. And I'm afraid that we're going to have to wind up doing something drastic to be able to...
	I mean, we're going no matter what.
	But renting one is like out of control.
	It's really expensive.
	I'll keep begging and maybe something good will happen.
	I keep asking.
	Hey, I got it.
	Give yourself some karma for the RV. Come on, get it.
	You've got karma.
	There you go.
	That was a wrong key.
	Oh, well.
	So, yeah, plenty more stuff.
	So we have the new show notes system, which you all get as a part of the package.
	So you just fill in the episode number.
	So this will be 307.NA, that's NovemberAlphaShowNotes.com.
	Or as John would say, what is NA in your world?
	NapsterAngry.
	NapsterAngryShowNotes.com.
	And, of course, if you fill in 308, by the end of the day, you'll start seeing the stories and the show prep for Sunday's show.
	And keep that support coming, people.
	Keep the support coming in.
	Support this show.
	We need your help now more than ever, as you can tell from our short thank you list.
	Nice to talk to you again, John.
	It was a pleasure, and I'm glad that our listeners are hanging in there.
	Yeah, and I'm glad we don't have to talk anywhere except during this show.
	Keeps the relationship great.
	It's a good thing.
	Coming to you from Gitmo Nation West in the People's Republic of Southern California.
	The Hilltop Watchtower Crypot Command Center in the morning.
	My name's Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where the clouds have moved in, which is disconcerting since it's all not even noon yet, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We will talk to you again on Sunday for early morning service right here on No Agenda.
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