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	Their alleged offense?
	Heterosexuality.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, June 30th, 2011.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 317.
	This is No Agenda.
	Protecting our blood and treasure from the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center in my nation west, the People's Republic of Southern California.
	In the morning, I am the square in your Google Plus circle.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley with bells on, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	And in the morning to you.
	Good morning to you, Adam Curry, and all ships at sea, feet on the ground, boots in the air, and jets in the airport, and airports to fly on all the rest of you.
	Okay, and to all corporate jet owners, in the morning to you, everybody, this is the No Agenda Show.
	We'd like to say a special warm welcome to all of our human resources in the No Agenda chat room, noagendastream.com, noagendachat.net, charged up, ready to go just the way the government needs them to suck the lifeblood out of them.
	We're here to give you your bi-weekly entertainment injection.
	As we traverse down the tree of news.
	As it were.
	So let's start with the fact that you happen to be on this show.
	We have to deal with the fact that you're stoned.
	I'm drugged.
	I'm totally drugged.
	So I threw my back out yesterday.
	And it was one of those weird things where I do these interviews for the Big App Show with authors.
	And, you know, I don't have Kevin the Blade anymore as the intern, so I'm doing everything myself.
	I'm running around, and I need a bar stool for the studio to sit on during this particular segment.
	And I'm stressed already, and I pick up the stool, and all of a sudden click.
	You know, it's like, Mickey says, like a rotated hip disc or whatever it is.
	And it's very painful.
	Muscle spasm.
	Of course, now it's spasming to counteract whatever.
	So she tried massaging, and she's got that machine.
	It's funny how the machine always winds up, you know, oh, I'm sorry, I slipped in your butt.
	It's like, that's the big joke, right?
	Massaging your back, and oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to put it there.
	It's like, hey, hey, hey, hey.
	And then she says, well, you know, she has a leg difference.
	So, she often is in some form of pain and is under continuous care of a chiropractor, which I'll be seeing tomorrow.
	She said, why don't you try one of my muscle relaxers by prescription?
	I'm sorry, are you sure?
	Yeah, yeah, I took one during the day once.
	It was okay.
	And so, before we started the show, I read this to John.
	It's carisoprodol.
	And it literally says here, Soma.
	The trade name Soma.
	Soma.
	For those of you who have never read A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, that is the drug that keeps all the slaves complacent.
	Yeah, well, apparently this stuff is not a true muscle relaxant.
	What is it?
	It's groovy is what it is, baby.
	It's good stuff.
	But it does offer a relief of acute painful musculoskeletal conditions.
	In other words, it kind of does the trick.
	So Valium is often used as a muscle relaxant for the same reason.
	Is this like Valium?
	Yeah, a little bit, only it's probably more addictive and apparently people get strung out on it.
	You can buy it on the street from $1 to $10 a pill.
	Really?
	Wow.
	Well, you know, now that this is like five pills left in the box, that's $50.
	I'll need it now that Amazon has canceled my affiliate program in California.
	Yeah, I'm very upset about this.
	Well, that must have been bringing in 15, 20 bucks a month.
	Please.
	This supplements the no agenda income.
	I sell apps through Amazon.
	I sell books through Amazon.
	Yeah, and for those of you who don't know, it's kind of shaken up the affiliate world due to a law passed and signed into law last night.
	By douchebag Jerry Brown, Amazon has done what they've done in several other states, including, I believe, Illinois, I think North Dakota.
	Yes, they have no choice.
	Yeah, well, so here's what I wanted to ask you about that.
	Well, let me just finish what's happening here.
	So they say, look, what this law is intended to do is to make us charge sales tax across state lines, and we believe it's unconstitutional.
	So like these other states where this has happened, unfortunately, we have to cancel all affiliate contracts.
	And the way I understand it is...
	That you are an advertiser for Amazon, and that there's some huge lobby from Home Depot and Walmart in particular, who want to screw Amazon, who of course are weaseling in on their business, by saying, if you have advertising and sales representatives in a state, That is the same as having a store in the state, therefore you need to pay...
	Well, it's actually not the advertising so much, it's the so-called presence.
	Presence, right.
	The way the law is written is that if you are...
	This started with mail order.
	This has been going on since the early days of mail order in the 20s or even before then.
	And, yeah, everybody was complaining, local merchants were always complaining about mail order guys that were mailing stuff into the area where people they would hope would come to their store.
	So there was a compromise made some...
	I don't know, decades ago, which said that, well, we won't tax you unless you have a presence in that state.
	And a presence means you would have a store like Sears, for example, had Sears catalogs and then they had all these Sears stores all over the place and you'd have to pay, if you bought from the catalog by mail, you'd have to pay taxes to your state because you had a presence.
	So they couldn't find a presence because there's no Amazon stores around here.
	And then some wise guy, I think it was in Virginia or someplace else, some governor said, hey, wait a minute, what about these affiliates?
	Doesn't that count?
	They're stores.
	Well, I think it goes beyond that.
	I mean, as I've been reading into this, there's a huge, you know, multi-million dollar lobby that's been going on to make this happen.
	Now, of course, it's really, it's Amazon that canceled my contract and contracts of any affiliate anywhere in the great state of California.
	So I really should be mad at them, but they're pulling the constitutional card, and that's what I wanted to ask you.
	They're saying they believe that this move is unconstitutional.
	I think it is.
	It's taxation without representation.
	The idea is, for one thing, it's not a federal tax.
	So it's really not a federal thing.
	You can't tax somebody that's not in your state For doing business in your state when they're not really doing business in your state.
	I mean, the only argument that you can maybe make in a long shot is that, well, look, the book is coming in through UPS, and UPS is a representative delivery mechanism for Amazon.
	But UPS pays their taxes.
	I pay my taxes over the proceeds from my affiliate sales on the books as well.
	I pay taxes on that.
	You pay taxes for whatever money is made.
	The idea is everybody's so hard up to keep all these overpaid government workers with those high salaries and big benefits when they retire that they're scrounging around for any way they can tax.
	And this has been going on, like I said, for decades before the Internet.
	They've been trying to screw over these mail order companies.
	And yeah, there was a few, maybe there's some business lost.
	Walmart loses some business.
	But Walmart has been screwing.
	We're screwing over local vendors anyway.
	So maybe that shoe should be on the other foot here for those guys.
	They're a bunch of sleazeballs.
	So this is the first time that I can remember in my life...
	Where, I mean, the rug was literally pulled out from under me.
	I mean, I've been building this big app show for a year and a half.
	And of course, LinkShare is part of the iTunes affiliate program.
	I'm sure that they'll have to do something similar or we'll have to come up with some kind of taxation scheme or whatever it is.
	I've been building this, and this big book show has been a real big push for me for the past four or five months.
	And literally, it's like from one day to the next, that's it.
	No more money to be made.
	And there's no other way to make money on a show that promotes books through Amazon.com.
	And I literally, I sat down with Ms.
	Mickey last night, and I said, I think we have to move.
	Just out of protest, even.
	It's $1,500 a month that I make on this stuff.
	I sell books.
	That's a lot.
	Yeah, but I've been working hard on it.
	I'm trying to supplement the income.
	I think it is a lot.
	It is a lot.
	I've been in that program, and if I make $10 a month, it's a miracle.
	Yeah, but if you really, really work at it...
	Yeah, no, you're right.
	I suppose you could probably even double that.
	Well, I was on track to do quite well this year, and now it's like gone.
	Now, of course, I guess I could incorporate in another state, I guess, but out of principle?
	And we were just talking about it.
	And Mickey, I have to say, she said, she actually brought it up.
	She said, well, let's move out of this crap state.
	I'm like, really?
	She said, yeah.
	Where's a good deal?
	So we went to the webs, and we did what everyone does.
	What?
	Guess what state is nearby that has no income tax, personal income tax, no corporate tax?
	I don't know, like Nevada?
	Nevada, yeah.
	Nevada.
	And they have hookers.
	Hell, dude, you're talking my life.
	By the way, that was exactly what I told her.
	And they have hookers.
	She said, could it be any better?
	So we're seriously considering.
	Well, actually, not to encourage you to move, but it's not that far a drive from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.
	No, she could still do her auditions.
	You can hop on a plane.
	It's 45 minutes.
	There's a lot of people that live in Vegas, even though you become kind of a Vegas guy.
	Yeah.
	Wait a minute.
	When I'm Wayne Newton all of a sudden?
	I'm a Vegas guy.
	But you know what?
	But the property prices over there are incredibly depressed.
	You have no idea.
	We were looking at what we pay here in rent.
	We're living in a mansion in Vegas.
	I swear to God.
	It's like, what?
	Mickey's like, what?
	We can live in that for the same amount of money?
	I say, yeah.
	And less even.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I'm like, wow.
	And, you know, because we're renting here.
	I can't buy, nor would I buy.
	Yeah, no, if you had a place in Vegas and you didn't mind being in Vegas, I mean, you could entertain yourself there.
	Hello, hookers.
	Hello, what's your problem?
	I could.
	There's a lot of shows.
	There's good restaurants.
	There's shows.
	There's restaurants.
	And everyone from L.A. comes through eventually.
	Yeah, everybody's in and out of the place.
	We'd be party central.
	People would be like, hey, I'm coming to Vegas this weekend.
	Can I use your spare?
	Because we could actually have a spare bedroom.
	Yeah, and since you're not dependent on working in Vegas, you don't have to deal with the local economy, it was probably not a bad idea.
	Well, we're going to do our Hot Pockets 2008 tour first, of course, but we're seriously...
	I mean, the alternative is Texas.
	Another great place.
	Another great place, but obviously my daughter is here, and it's kind of nice to know that if she needs me or whatever, I can drive a couple hours, I could hop on a plane and be here, or she could come to us or whatever.
	Yeah, Texas is a long walk.
	Yeah.
	And I think with the pending global cooling, it'll actually be pretty darn nice out there in the desert.
	And how about utilities?
	They've got that Hoover Dam there.
	Is electricity cheap?
	Everything's free!
	Yeah!
	I'm telling you, we are seriously considering this.
	And it's funny, by the way, Mickey's been listening to the No Agenda stream, which of course we went all talk, no commercials, no agenda.
	And she's like, you know, I've been listening to this stuff.
	She says, you know, it's still kind of weird, which she's right, because we don't have scheduled shows yet.
	We don't have enough shows to do scheduled shows.
	She said, but, you know, the overarching thing I hear on the stream, and it's lovely that she's doing it.
	She really never listened to the music stuff, because it's not her thing.
	She's into...
	Trance.
	Yeah.
	And whatever.
	Chill.
	Chillax.
	Whatever they call it.
	Advertising.
	Yeah.
	She says, it's really nice, but the overarching message is, government, stay out of our business.
	I'm like, you are going to pass your citizen test with flying colors.
	Yeah.
	You will.
	All you have to remember is just to say, I just want to get by and live the American dream.
	I want to get by and live the American dream.
	I do want to, for those of you who don't know, noagendastream.com is now, as I said, all talk, no commercials, no agenda.
	And I've signed up, I think, another 50 people since the last show and this show to the No Agenda News Network, which, of course, is simultaneously the way you can get stuff onto the stream.
	Here's a new show that popped up this morning.
	It's a one-minute show, and I think it's worth listening to.
	In the morning, slaves, this is Combsy, your host of the No Agenda Haiku Show, a show that follows in the footsteps of the great haiku Herman.
	Each week, I'll read one or maybe more haikus that are based on the content of the most recent No Agenda episodes.
	Feel free to share your haiku at NoAgendaHaikuShow.com.
	Just remember to keep them relatively clean and stick to the 575 haiku format.
	Well, without further ado, my first haiku.
	Wiener knows the truth.
	His wife a secret lover.
	Lucifer calls.
	I hope you enjoyed our first episode.
	See you next time.
	Genius, I tell ya!
	Genius.
	If he wants to keep doing that, I'm all for it.
	Genius.
	Genius.
	It's that kind of stuff that gets me up in the morning.
	I'm like, yay!
	I just love it.
	So, just to get into a couple things, of course, President George W. Obama held what seemed like an impromptu press conference yesterday.
	Of course, this is one of these press conferences that John and I loathe, because there's a list of journalists, big air quotes, who are asking scripted questions, purely scripted questions.
	And actually, so I pulled a couple clips just because it seems like someone in the administration went, okay, what do we have to answer to?
	The president's got to get tough.
	He's got to get tough on all this, on these criticasters.
	And it sounds like they pulled the last 10 no agenda shows and went through them and said, all right, we're going to hit every single point these douchebags are ragging on us for.
	Every single one.
	And what killed me is, well, there's a couple things, actually.
	They brought in an MKUltra slave to ask a question, and her name is, hold on, her name is Juliana Goldman.
	And the President even said, well, Juliana, you know, because, you know, he's handing off to him.
	Juliana Goldman, born in Bethesda, Maryland, she's the daughter of Barbara Goldberg, Goldman, and Michael Goldman, who was partner at Silverberg, Goldman, and Bykoff, a huge Washington law firm, i.e.
	lobbying firm.
	She's also one of the Obama originals.
	Do you remember what those were, the Obama originals?
	No.
	These were the press corps that were covering Obama in 2008 on his election run and they were all featured in the HBO. Remember that horrible HBO so-called documentary?
	So she's an insider.
	She's a total shill.
	Now, they doped her up.
	They turned on the chip.
	And listen to this.
	John, I want you to tell me if this is a question or if this is a setup to just let him throw out whatever he needed to say on these particular topics.
	This blew me away, actually.
	Are you concerned that the current debate over debt and deficits is preventing you from taking the kind of decisive and more balanced action needed to create jobs in this country, which is the number one concern for Americans?
	And also one of the impediments to job growth that the business community repeatedly cites is the regulatory environment.
	So do you think that the NLRB complaint against Boeing, that that has created some of the, is an example of the kinds of regulations that chill job growth and also that you yourself have called just plain dumb?
	Is that a setup or is that a setup?
	Well, I had a, unfortunately I lost some of my clips because of a failure, but I had a clip that was interesting from the press conference where he starts off When he starts off the press conference, the first thing he does is he looks down on a sheet of paper and says, let me go over my list of people I'm going to call on.
	And then he calls on a guy from the Associated Press, and I don't have this clip, unfortunately.
	Wait, fortunately, I don't have this clip, but I did time it out.
	So he calls on the Associated Press guy, the guy reads the question, and then Obama goes 6 minutes and 55 seconds.
	Yeah, into the answers.
	He's answering this question with a speech.
	Yeah.
	Oh yeah, there was a couple of those.
	One thing really, really struck me as he's trying to put the corporate jet owner meme into everybody's head.
	A little medley for you.
	Tax breaks for oil companies and hedge fund managers and corporate jet owners.
	It would be nice if we could keep every tax break there is.
	But we've got to make some tough choices here if we want to reduce our deficit.
	And if we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, I think it's only fair to ask an oil company or a corporate jet owner for the Republicans to stand there and say that the tax break for corporate jets is sufficient.
	You'll still be able to ride on your corporate jet so that some corporate jet owner continues to get a tax break.
	So that's six times he's talking about a corporate jet owner.
	Now let me just say something because words do matter.
	A corporate jet owner is the corporation that owns the jet.
	Okay?
	It's not a private thing.
	A corporate jet owner.
	That is the corporation that owns the jet.
	John, guess what?
	You, me, and every other American taxpayer is a corporate jet owner.
	Unfortunately, the only douchebag in the jet is Obama.
	That's my jet, that 747.
	Two of them, and one of them his wife flies around.
	And he uses it to go on vacation.
	And so does she.
	Yeah, he flew that thing over 30 times since January.
	And a lot of it to fundraisers.
	And that irked me.
	It's like, I am your corporate jet owner.
	Excuse me, I own that jet.
	And that's okay, you can use it.
	You know, for important business.
	But this corporate jet owner, it's like, I think he really jumped the shark in this press conference.
	Well, it was pretty glib.
	Well, he got angry.
	He mocked some guy.
	Let me see.
	Where's the...
	This really...
	Hold on a second.
	This was really funny.
	Where did I put it?
	Oh, this is towards the end.
	Of course, this didn't air on the news.
	It was one of the last questions.
	This is about Congress taking vacation or whatever.
	And here's what he did.
	You need to be here.
	I've been here.
	I've been here.
	I've been doing Afghanistan.
	I've been doing Afghanistan.
	Bin Laden.
	I did Bin Laden.
	The Greek crisis.
	I did the Greek crisis.
	What is that?
	I did Bin Laden.
	What did he say?
	He said, I've been here.
	I did Afghanistan.
	I did Bin Laden.
	I did the Greek crisis.
	You need to be here.
	I've been here.
	I've been doing Afghanistan and Bin Laden and The Greek crisis?
	Please!
	He's been doing that.
	He's been golfing!
	I've been doing that.
	That's weird.
	That's really, really, really weird.
	I've been doing that.
	So, um...
	Now, the lies really got to me.
	So we had the second guy, maybe it was the third guy, he says, hey, you said it was going to take days, not weeks, for this Libya thing.
	The second guy was the NBC guy who he mocked.
	Chuck, yeah, Chuck, Chuck.
	I got that, too.
	This is the third guy.
	Let me just take you back to March 21st of 2011.
	It is U.S. policy that Gaddafi needs to go.
	But let me emphasize that we anticipate this transition to take place in a matter of days and not a matter of weeks.
	So, a guy gets up, scripted question, says, you said it would take a matter of days, not weeks.
	Here we are, day 100.
	What's up with that?
	Well, first of all, Jim, just a slight correction.
	What I told the American people was that the initial phase...
	He did not say that!
	But it gets worse.
	Where Americans were in the lead would take days.
	This is bullcrap!
	Play the clip again.
	Play the original clip again.
	It is U.S. policy that Gaddafi needs to go.
	But let me emphasize that we anticipate this transition to take place in a matter of days and not a matter of weeks.
	Now, let's listen to this again because it gets worse.
	Well, first of all, Jim, there's just a slight correction.
	What I told the American people was that the initial phase where Americans were in the lead would take days.
	No, he didn't.
	It's a blatant lie.
	Blatant lie.
	It gets worse.
	Perhaps weeks.
	Perhaps weeks?
	He never said perhaps weeks.
	He didn't say perhaps weeks.
	He said not weeks.
	Not N-O-T. This is the problem with the mainstream media.
	They will not call these guys out by playing their own clips back to them.
	Gets worse.
	Where Americans were in the lead would take days.
	If perhaps weeks.
	And that's exactly what happened, right?
	I mean, after around two weeks, a little less than two weeks, we had transitioned where NATO had taken full control of the operation.
	So promise made, promise kept.
	Wow!
	Promise made, promise kept.
	Really?
	I mean, am I deaf?
	He literally said days not weeks to get Gaddafi out to transition.
	Not perhaps.
	Not promise made, promise kept.
	A little more to this clip.
	Second, I think when you have the former Republican nominee for president, John McCain, and the former nominee for president on the Democratic side, John Kerry, coming together Now, this is the one that really bothered me.
	And I really went deep into what McCain and Kerry are doing.
	Now, we've learned from, it started for us, I think, with The Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, how this actually works.
	It used to be, you'd send the CIA in, the CIA would cause a ruckus, they'd finance some rebels, and they'd start some kind of revolution, and then, you know, usually with violence and big protests, they'd overthrow the government, and then the U.S. puts their own puppet in.
	So that has now been replaced by social media.
	And so, you know, I start looking at this and I come across a very interesting hearing.
	And this does not relate to Libya because they've got to catch up.
	They're still in Egypt, right?
	Now, remember on the last show I told you that John McCain was in Egypt with...
	Immelt from GE, with Coca-Cola, with Bechtel, with all the douchebags who are now going to take advantage of our new puppet, who will be El Baraday, predicted on the show.
	They're all in Egypt, and they're walking around, and I find a little clip.
	Here we go.
	This is from, I believe, Euronews.
	Just important work that they're doing there in Egypt.
	Former U.S. presidential candidates John McCain...
	By the way, this is the meme, right?
	Oh, they're important guys because they were former presidential candidates, not just some schlubs.
	...and John Kerry visit the Egyptian Stock Exchange.
	The senators, on a two-day visit to Egypt, were accompanied by senior American business leaders.
	They were greeted by Egyptian Stock Exchange head Mohammed Abdesalam.
	Republican McCain and Democrat Kerry were invited to ring the opening bell.
	Both expressed their belief in a democratic and free Egypt.
	It is in the United States national security interest to see a prosperous, growing democratic and free Egypt.
	But we are both...
	Extraordinarily committed to what is happening here in Egypt.
	We have great respect and admiration for the changes that you are fighting for.
	The group arrived in Cairo on Saturday, where they made a visit to the iconic Tahrir Square.
	He's ringing the bell.
	So let me just give you the rundown here.
	So they have, and this is something I've found, they're pushing a bill.
	It's on the Senate floor now.
	It's S-618, Senate Bill 618.
	Introduced by McCain, by Kerry, and by Lieberman, of course.
	And it's the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund that they are setting up.
	And so the text of this bill, which you can find in the show notes at 317.nashownotes.com.
	Here it is, the pertinent paragraph.
	The Egyptian American Enterprise Fund will provide monies to finance and technically support small and medium-sized Egyptian businesses.
	And the bill states that according to the Egyptian government, such businesses are responsible for nearly 75% of private sector employment in Egypt.
	Now, while the bill does not offer exact dollar figures for the Enterprise Fund, it cites, which means that's kind of like the lead up to it, a $1.2 billion kitty used to foster economic growth in the former Soviet Union and its satellite states after a $1.2 billion kitty used to foster economic growth in the former Soviet
	So essentially, these guys are taking at least a billion dollars and are going to give it to the exact companies who accompanied them on this trip to set up their businesses in Egypt while here were starving and got no jobs.
	Not to mention the potholes in the road.
	That's so funny.
	People keep bringing that up.
	Now, so I look a little further.
	New York Times article.
	Let me see if I can find the date for you.
	This is April 15th.
	A number of groups and individuals directly involved in the revolts and reforms sweeping the region, including the April 6th youth movement in Egypt...
	The Bahrain Center for Human Rights and grassroots activists like Enstarkadi, a youth leader in Yemen, received training and financing from groups like the International Republican Institute.
	Okay, so what this says is that these uprisings, as we've already discussed on the show, were financed with training and all kinds of important, you know, techno-experts by American groups such as the International Republican Institute.
	Let's go to the International Republican Institute.
	Who's on the board of directors, do you say?
	Usual suspects.
	U.S. Senator John McCain is the chairman of the board.
	The chairman!
	You know, this guy's a douchebag.
	Let me just give him a little...
	Douchebag!
	There we go.
	Now...
	It's fairly certain, and we discussed this on the show, that the president will be Mohamed ElBaradei.
	This is the guy who's on the crisis board.
	Yeah, we spotted him probably two months ago.
	Right.
	He's on the...
	Let me just see.
	So they haven't done elections yet.
	The International Crisis Group, a Soros-funded outfit.
	So, you know, the guy's been a shill from day one.
	But then I start looking at this.
	Remember the Google guy, Wal Gonin?
	Yeah, the kid that showed up out of the blue and is credited by many circles as being responsible for the revolution.
	He is the Thomas Jefferson of the movement, I guess.
	I don't know.
	Well, guess what he did?
	He actually created El Baraday's official campaign website.
	Oh.
	Good catch.
	You're winning.
	So I'm like, you know, just so everyone knows, the jackals are...
	Why don't we just make this a comedy show?
	It is a comedy show.
	What are you talking about?
	It's a complete comedy show.
	So, of course, Egypt, set, done, match, we're good.
	Meanwhile, let's talk about corporate jets.
	Yeah, corporate jet owners.
	Not just corporate jets, corporate jet owners.
	By the way, that distraction of the week, the corporate jet thing was actually, I thought was well done because it got, I'm driving over to San Francisco, I turn on the radio, I'm flipping through, I listen to talk radio and I get the Rush Limbaugh show.
	He spends the whole show because of course Rush is, you know, has 400 million bucks in the bank and a jet.
	Spends the whole show moaning about this.
	But no one says the exact meaning of corporate jet owner is the corporation.
	Yeah, no, that's fine.
	But the fact is that this is still a distraction when there's the Egypt action going on.
	That's why he said it six times.
	Now, so we're moving on from Egypt.
	So there's a Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting on C-SPAN. Hours of it.
	They bring in...
	I watched that one.
	Yeah, so I'm sure you saw the shill from the State Department, the lawyer, just amazing, this lawyer talk.
	But then Webb...
	And Kerry get into this whole lawyering talk about Libya.
	So this is about extending the stay or our assault on Libya by a year.
	And stealing the money from Libya to pay for it.
	Listen to this.
	Yeah, I love this.
	There's actually a bill, or there's an amendment to the bill that was brought up by, I think it was Lugar.
	And he, you know, the idea was that we're going to do this for a year, but then we're going to give them a bill.
	No, we're taking the money that we took from them, that we stole, we're going to use that money.
	Senator Lugar points out it's...
	The purpose of this amendment is to provide some clarifications to the original amendment that Senator Lugar offered, and I appreciate him offering it.
	It basically states that no funds should be obligated or expended for deploying units or members So this is very interesting.
	So this is about how they're going to get boots on the ground.
	Boots on the ground will happen and you're hearing the legalese being twisted right here to make it happen.
	In Libya for the purposes of engaging in ground combat.
	Or supporting stabilization or international peacekeeping operations following the removal of the Qaddafi regime.
	There's been a lot of discussion back and forth as to what it really means when we say no boots on the ground, the House As many here know, voted with 405 votes to prohibit boots on the ground.
	But the question that has not really been answered is, what happens after Qaddafi falls?
	What do we do?
	To answer Senator Boxer's question, this is not intended to address the issue of funding at all.
	The language which was...
	Perfected by legislative council.
	Perfected.
	Perfected, oh yeah.
	Legislative council means lawyers.
	Members for the purposes of supporting the stabilization operations.
	The difference is members and not members.
	Not funds.
	But what this amendment also does is to say that there shouldn't be contracts for private security contractors to do those sorts of things.
	But then it...
	It lists two important exceptions.
	One is for the immediate personal defense of United States government officials, including diplomatic representatives, or for rescuing members of NATO forces.
	In an attempt to separate what we're doing now from what's going to happen after the Qaddafi regime inevitably does leave, it says that if the President determines and certifies to the Congress that action is necessary, then he can come to the Congress and ask for legislation to be enacted specifically authorizing any further operations.
	Isn't that unbelievable?
	I don't know that we should be surprised by this.
	I mean, first they froze all those assets, which means somebody's got access to them.
	I mean, on the other hand, you can make the argument, well, it's not going to cost us anything to do any of this.
	Well, that's the whole point.
	That's the whole point.
	Steal their money.
	You're right.
	So it gives you the rationale.
	So the public, because we don't have a draft or anything that's going to upset anyone.
	So the public says, well, if it's not costing anything, I guess it's okay.
	Yeah, but we steal their money, then we shoot million dollar Hellfire missiles on them, and then we pay for it with that money.
	It's perfect.
	Raytheon, all these guys, like, hey, there's 33 billion.
	We need more.
	More bombs, everybody.
	More bombs.
	And then, oh my God, in the press conference, the president pulls out the rape card like no one else's business, which we know has been proven by the United...
	The big bull crap, right?
	The United Nations Human Rights Committee went to Libya, said there is no conclusive evidence.
	They only found one woman who had already been portrayed all over the media as having bruises.
	We had this shill showing fuzzed out video of women getting raped with broomsticks by But, oh, you know, we don't know who they are.
	They speak Libyan, though, so it's probably Libyan forces.
	Oh, they're using Viagra.
	And I just want to point out, I know something you know.
	You know?
	You know?
	The International Criminal Court.
	Which we don't recognize.
	Identified Gaddafi as having violated international law.
	Having committed war crimes, what we've seen is reports of troops engaging in horrible acts, including potentially using rape as a weapon of war.
	And so when you have somebody like that in charge of large numbers of troops, I think it'd be hard for us to feel confident that the Libyan people are going to be protected unless he steps down.
	That's right, because he's making all of their penises hard, and that's very dangerous.
	And they're all walking around with boners, and that's war, I tell you.
	Boner war!
	Now, to wrap up my rant, Lucifer is in Jamaica at the Four Seasons Hotel.
	Why?
	Are we going to attack them?
	Get into Ganjaman.
	What are you talking about?
	That was already taken care of.
	Don't you remember?
	Where we took over all of Jamaica.
	We had that baby doc and all that stuff.
	That's Duvalier.
	Whatever.
	That's Haiti.
	I'm sorry.
	What was the...
	It was the gangster.
	And they cracked down on everybody.
	Play that clip.
	Now, do you want to talk Bush administration?
	Here we go.
	I say with all respect that the Congress is certainly free to raise any questions or objections, and I'm sure I will hear that tomorrow when I testify.
	But the bottom line is, whose side are you on?
	Are you on Gaddafi's side?
	Or are you on the side of the aspirations of the Libyan people and the international coalition that has been...
	You're right, George Bush!
	It's exactly George Bush!
	It's a classic!
	You're either with us or you're for the terrorists.
	So I just want to add one more thing to this since you've got this little thing going.
	Rant.
	So I'm looking at clips.
	I'm going back over time looking at clips.
	I'm starting to notice a kind of an interesting pattern, which are clips about Afghanistan.
	Because it's not just one or two people coming out and saying, oh, we've got to stay in Afghanistan.
	Oh, we've got to do this.
	We've got to stay.
	Everything's short of stay the course, which does crop up once in a while, which is a Bushism.
	And, uh, it's person after person after person wants to stay in Afghanistan.
	We're going to have to stay in Afghanistan.
	And, of course, we're, you know, they killed Bin Laden and everyone thinks they're going to get out.
	No, we did Bin Laden.
	Front page in the New York Times two days in a row.
	The first one was the teaser.
	It's a story above the fold at the top.
	Gunmen storm a luxury hotel in Afghanistan.
	Hmm.
	Four insurgents killed, blah, blah, blah.
	And it's a long story about this happening.
	And then, today, this morning, attack at, again, above the fold, front page, New York Times, attack at a hotel deflates hopes in Afghanistan.
	Oh, of course.
	So we can't even bring home the 5,000 troops we talked about.
	Deflates.
	It's not there, too, for some unknown reason.
	Well, our country goes to pot.
	No.
	Now, we're going to thank a couple of producers in just a second, but let me give you an idea why it's important that programs like this are financed only by the listeners who care about getting real news.
	This is from MSNBC this morning.
	The Morning Joe Show.
	With...
	What's her name?
	Micah?
	Milica?
	Soros?
	No, Brzezinski's daughter.
	Oh, right.
	Brzezinski's daughter.
	So they have...
	Now, of course, MSNBC is the Ministry of Truth.
	There's no doubt about it.
	They take complete talking points.
	I think they're still owned by GE. So they need to be very careful when criticizing the president.
	So they have the editor of Time Magazine, another fine mouthpiece for the Ministry of Truth.
	They have him on.
	And something goes horribly wrong.
	Two-part clip.
	First listen to what happened, and then how they try and scrub it out.
	He's his base, pushed back against the Republicans.
	I guess the question is, because we all know a deal has to be done, is this sort of showmanship?
	You know, a lot of times you go out there and, both sides, and they act tough so their base will be appeased, and then they quietly work the deal behind the scenes.
	Are we on the seven second delay today?
	Oh, Lord.
	I wanted to characterize how I thought the president would be a...
	How do you think he's going to be a...
	Well, we have it.
	We can use it, right, Alex?
	Yeah, sure.
	Come on.
	Take a chance.
	Go for it.
	Yeah, let's see what happens.
	I'm behind you.
	You fall down.
	I'm going to catch him.
	And the president has been set on this show.
	So we're good.
	I thought he was kind of a dick yesterday.
	Oh my god, delay that!
	Delay that.
	What are you doing?
	So the guy says, are we on the seven-second delay?
	And they say, sure, we got a seven-second delay.
	Yeah, I heard that.
	He says the president was a dick.
	Right, which, by the way, something I would say on this show, something you would say on this show.
	Yeah, we don't have a problem saying it.
	He was a dick.
	So they come back after the commercial, after the many phone calls, And they blame the whole thing.
	It was a joke.
	I didn't mean it.
	The director pressed the wrong button.
	It was supposed to be on the seven-second delay.
	Listen to this.
	This is it.
	Apparently there's this other button over here.
	Alex is the director.
	They keep cutting to the control room and the director's looking like, oh, I'm sorry.
	There's a lot of buttons here.
	Oh, God.
	Truly, before the show, we're joking.
	We haven't driven that baby in a couple of years.
	Alex, apparently it was the wrong button.
	What's wrong with you?
	I'm telling you what I think of you, but you don't know what button to push.
	We're sorry that we left you hanging out there.
	It's our fault.
	Joking aside...
	This is not a pro-forma apology.
	It's an absolute apology.
	Hard felt to the president and to the viewers.
	I became part of the joke, but that's no excuse.
	I made a mistake, and I'm sorry, and I shouldn't have said it.
	As I said, I apologize to the president and to the viewers who heard me say that.
	And we apologize that we didn't have to afford to do it.
	So, we'll get you next time.
	Thank you.
	I appreciate it.
	Never trust Alex Corson.
	He always splits the arms.
	Let's read every person.
	We're going to have a meeting after the show.
	So it's unbelievable.
	Holy crap.
	He says, it was the director.
	Never trust the director.
	Alex pressed the wrong button.
	I'm so sorry.
	I apologize.
	It was just part of the joke.
	I got sucked in.
	I shouldn't have said it.
	Wow!
	Who called?
	Who called?
	Somebody big called.
	Yeah.
	It's like, you don't talk that way about your leader.
	I mean, and of course, on the repeat of the show, all of that was edited out.
	Of course.
	Good catch.
	You win.
	That's two points for you.
	I caught something, which I was going to mention before our break when we thank our donors, which is on Hannity, they had Opie and Anthony, some little political talk show, zoo style, that's on the radio.
	and the guy comes out and says, well, when we show up.
	Woo-hoo!
	In the morning!
	Woo-hoo!
	Woo-hoo!
	Yeah, there you go.
	And so he comes out and says, you know, when you do this kind of show, you always have to be careful that you don't, you want to take it to a certain level, but you don't want to go so far that you get fired.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You didn't want to get fired.
	Ah, it's just unbelievable.
	Yeah, well, that's the thing that we don't worry about, because nobody's going to fire...
	Well, who's going to fire?
	I'm going to fire myself.
	We own the show.
	John, you're fired!
	Thank you.
	Hey, John, I'm hammered from this Soma stuff.
	Yeah, you're on a roll.
	At least you're not slurring.
	Who supported the show?
	I suspect it.
	I'm feeling really good.
	I'm feeling no pain.
	Dame Francine Hardaway, Phoenix, Arizona, helped us out with 366.
	We want to thank her profusely.
	Justin Seitz, Seitz.
	In Pittsburgh, 3333.
	By the way, I think Francine did 366 because she wanted a podcast license as well.
	That would make sense, right?
	If you do 333 plus 33?
	Yeah.
	Okay, cool.
	She's got one.
	She should get one anyway.
	She's great.
	No agenda karma works, according to Justin.
	I asked for Karma for my brother's cycling career.
	In the next race, he came in fourth and won $800 in the morning.
	Awesome!
	Love the new format of the stream with the user-generated talk.
	Was disappointed.
	Current TV changed its format from user-generated content to repeating Keith Olbermann's countdown five days a week.
	Why don't they just call it the Keith Olbermann channel?
	And by the way, the show is exactly, kind of, without the better writers that it used to be.
	The writing is worse.
	The writing is worse and it's boring.
	Yeah, that's exactly the way it was.
	Exactly.
	Well, we'd like karma for you and Miss Mickey for the tour and the No Agenda stream.
	Oh, that's very nice.
	We'll accept a little bit of that.
	You've got karma.
	Hotpockets2008.com to follow the tour kicks off July 15th.
	Nate Meyer in Evans, Georgia, 33333.
	Eric Mitch, Burlingame, California.
	And those are our executive producers.
	We have three executive producers and three associate executive producers, which I call a balanced show.
	Eric Mitch, Burlingame, California.
	He's got a note.
	I can't find it, Eric.
	You have to send it again.
	We'll read it in the next show.
	You mean Buzzkill Jr.
	Buzzkill Jr.
	Can't find it.
	I can't find it.
	The problem is people will send a donation in and then they'll send a note in, but the email address can't be searched.
	And they don't put their names, so it's like it's disconnected.
	It's real problems.
	S. Russell Williams.
	And by the way, Eric gave us 220-222.
	Eric and Russell Williams, S. Russell Williams in Boise, Idaho, which is a nice place.
	Looking to make up for my being a long-time boner, not a donor.
	But I did buy a challenge coin, and I can say no agenda karma works after buying the coin.
	I got a job on the same day I ended a relationship that should have ended years ago.
	Looking out to call out my buddy Aaron as a douchebag.
	Douchebag.
	For not listening to the show, despite his enjoying it every time I play it for him.
	He should be downloading it himself.
	Also, can I get a karma shot for all Americans?
	Because we are screwed.
	Hey, bend over, everybody.
	You've got karma.
	And our final executive producer, Sir Stefan Springer from Garland, Texas.
	And he needs some karma for an interview on Thursday in the morning.
	You've got karma.
	Happy to oblige.
	Happy to oblige.
	No 317 club members, but we do have two 333 club members.
	Very nice.
	Thank you.
	That's, of course, a super karma number coming up.
	And a couple of PR mentions.
	Sir Daniel Hutton, Huttoner, checks in.
	And I love it when people listen to the show and take immediate and decisive action.
	He registered adiosmofo.us.
	Yes.
	Adios, mofo.
	Beautiful.
	A beautiful domain name.
	One of the great, great quotes of all time.
	Yeah, but Christopher Shue is right on with followmeontweeter.com, which I think is perfect, and findmeontweeter.com.
	And we have LicenseToShill.com.
	These are all domains that forward to NoAgendaShow.com, and you'll want to stay tuned because we're working on some cool stuff where we'll be able to do a lot more with these domains that are forwarding.
	Sarah Palin's Emails.com, now also forwarding to No Agenda Show.
	This one I thought was very nice.
	This, of course, is in honor of the TSA, examining the 95-year-old wheelchair-bound grandmother's adult diaper, Poopsniffer.com.
	Is perfect.
	Poopsniffer.com, now forwarding to No Agenda Show.
	And this one, I think, is the best.
	ThisWeekInJasonCalacanis.com Oh, that's very funny.
	We can donate that one to someone eventually.
	I think we just give it to Leo.
	That's what I was thinking.
	Yeah, happy to.
	ThisWeekInJasonCalacanis.com Very, very funny.
	CanIHaveMySoulBack.com And howibecamearobot.com, all now forwarding to noagendashow.com.
	psyop4cash.com, forwarding to our show site.
	welcometothepolicestate.com.
	And Sir Pete checked in.
	He has a whole bunch.
	He has gridhamsters.com, historypredictions.com, instacolumn.com, and beautifulreporterconsultants.com.
	So we appreciate Sir Pete's forwards.
	And then finally, MonsantoisEvil.com.
	All of these now forwarding to the No Agenda show.
	We appreciate that.
	We're going for a Guinness World Book of Records.
	We have been entered.
	We have officially been entered for the most independently registered domains pointing to one website.
	We're now getting close to 500 of them.
	And that, of course, would be a big win.
	It seems like there's a valid category because it doesn't exist yet.
	And one of our producers is out there trying to make that happen for us.
	So that's pretty awesome.
	And of course, remember that we have the No Agenda Hot Pockets 2008 tour kicking off on July 15th, 2011.
	That's when Ms.
	Mickey and I fly to Baroness Maggie Vincent of Virginia.
	Oh, by the way, she...
	She had a question.
	So she sent the tire measurements and she said, boy, John's a real sexist.
	Because you said something like, women don't know about tires.
	Do you recall?
	Oh.
	Yeah.
	I didn't say anything.
	I said something to the...
	That probably indicated that it's shocking to me that any woman would know anything about tires.
	Maybe that is sexist.
	What can I say?
	So what's kind of cool is...
	Wow.
	Ageist on yourself.
	I'm old.
	I'm dumb.
	Self-radicalization right there.
	Yeah, there you go.
	There you have it.
	So I have to ask you after the show about these measurements.
	I'm not quite sure.
	I'm dumb.
	I'm a chick.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	I'm a tire chick.
	I don't understand what to do.
	But you can order them online and have them delivered.
	Oh, yeah.
	The Tire Rack.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Exactly.
	Great website.
	But I've got to ask you a couple questions.
	I think I just want six new tires.
	I think that's the policy.
	I think if she wants you to get two, I would get two.
	Well, anyway, thank you all very much for forwarding your domains to noagendashow.com.
	Remember that we have nashownotes.com, and today's show notes can be found at 317.nashownotes.com.
	And we thank our 333 club members and executive producers, Justin Seitz, Nate Meyer, and Sir Stefan Springer, and our associate executive producers, Eric Mitch and S. Russell Williams.
	Without you, this show could not continue because, well, I got no more Amazon income.
	Right.
	Everybody else, go out and propagate the formula.
	The formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Are you ready to say it loud and proud?
	Yeah.
	Shut up, ladies!
	Shut up, please.
	And people should go to Dvorak.org slash N-A and NoAgenaNation.com and...
	Dvorak.org slash N-A. I'm tripping on the Soma.
	A bit.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Wow.
	But what a week, John.
	What a week.
	A couple things happened.
	I think you can cross off in the little red book that we accurately predicted Christine Lagarde would become the director of the IMF. Little known fact that at the same time, an ex-Lehman dude became the treasurer of the World Bank.
	This is also, I'm sorry, a woman.
	Miss Antonczyk, who worked for Barclays Capital before joining Lehman Brothers in 99, is now running the Treasury of the World Bank.
	And by the way, this Lagarde thing, interestingly enough, is kind of being seen as a win for women.
	I mean, have you noticed that?
	No, I think that was the point when we deconstructed it.
	First, they've got to keep a French person in.
	And because they had to do something to assuage all these small countries that want to run the thing, that's never going to happen.
	Yeah, right.
	But they had to assuage them, so they put a woman.
	It was just perfect.
	Because now you say, well, look, we did this.
	How can you complain about it?
	Two things.
	First, it's debatable if she's a woman.
	And the second is, of course, she worked at the Chicago, Illinois headquarters of a very influential law firm for 25 years.
	She is a part of the Chicago cabal, the gangsters, where President George W. Obama comes from.
	It's very, very annoying.
	But okay.
	And the first thing she does is she says, Grease?
	Greece!
	You better accept it!
	And of course, Greece accepted the austerity measures and there's blood in the streets.
	I mean, it's nuts.
	By the way, I think there's a general strike of government workers in Gitmo Nation East today.
	Big strike.
	How come this isn't reported anywhere?
	Why would you bother?
	It's on the NoAgendaNewsNetwork.com.
	That's where I got it from.
	Robert Leather put that in.
	And I did some work, John, a little medley.
	It's really amazing to me how much stuff...
	Is not reported?
	Is not reported and they just want to keep...
	Everything's fine.
	You know, oh yeah, look at those potholes.
	Well, again, you don't want to show white people rioting.
	This is not good.
	It's okay to show some brown people in the sand with an AK-47 with a towel on their head.
	Guys with towels on their heads.
	We don't have any of them here.
	That won't happen.
	But you can't show the white people doing it.
	Be careful of those Brits.
	They will get pissed off enough eventually.
	Yeah, they've done it before.
	I got a meme that actually started when the President gave his Afghanistan fake troop drawdown address.
	This is the blood and treasure.
	And he mentioned that in his speech, which actually ended up this medley, he said, you know, we've got blood and treasure.
	We've spent so much blood and treasure.
	I'm like, what is this code for?
	I mean, who has treasure?
	Pirates have treasure.
	Are we pirates?
	This is a good, you know, the funny thing is I've been hearing this meme too, and I didn't spot it as a meme until you just mentioned it, but now I realize it is.
	So I spent the week clipping C-SPAN. You will not believe how this is propagating.
	Not just their time, but their treasure.
	And not waste our precious blood and treasure.
	The loss in blood and treasure.
	We must make hard choices about where to spend our blood and treasure.
	I just don't believe that it is worth the blood and the treasure.
	And blood and treasure.
	In my mind, not only are the costs and lives and treasure.
	With all of the American lives.
	And treasure that were laid down for the lives and the treasure that were expended.
	A second war was launched in Iraq, and we spent enormous blood and treasure.
	So, what's up with that, John?
	Hold on a second.
	How did you get those clips?
	Dude, this is what I do.
	No, no, but you didn't listen to five hours of one guy yakking just to get it.
	Is there a search engine that you can look up treasure?
	I... I started paying attention.
	First of all, I turned on the right TV, the one where you can zip back.
	So I did have to edit this, obviously.
	But every single time I heard someone use Blood and Treasure, and it was used five of the ten times in this clip in one congressional hearing.
	And so every single time it happened, I'd pause, I'd get my recorder, rewind, record it.
	Every single time.
	This is just this week, John.
	So you're not using a search engine to find...
	So in other words, they're saying it so much.
	Yes!
	I keep hearing it.
	I'm like...
	Alright, so what did you discover?
	Well, it's very hard.
	It appears to be a...
	I found one website where people are discussing this.
	And so apparently it's been used several times throughout history.
	Let's see.
	Edward Gibbon used the phrase at least three times in the decline and fall of the Roman Empire in 1776 in his tome.
	But it appears to be kind of like a neocon type of thing.
	It's got to be code for something.
	Well, first of all, instead of saying, dead children and our money, that's really what it is.
	Blood and treasure means our dead kids, dead, and our money.
	That's what it is.
	But it's not blood and treasure.
	It sounds like, yes, blood and treasure.
	And on the other hand, I think it means we're pirates.
	Where'd we get the treasure?
	So I could not deconstruct really why it's being used.
	One of our listeners will have a clue to this.
	I mean, I looked high and low, and there's lots of examples of it being used in the olden days, but really the only thing I can find is it's kind of a neocon-type term, which would make total sense.
	Because, you know, I believe the Democrats are neocons.
	Would make total sense.
	Well, you have to remember the neocons stem from the far left.
	Yes.
	So, but it's annoying to me because what you're really not saying is dead kids and aren't money.
	Right?
	Yeah, that's what it, yeah.
	Well, they're not going to say dead kids and our money because blood and treasure is a good euphemism, I suppose, for these guys.
	Couldn't even say blood and treasure, blood and treasure.
	But isn't there a better one that doesn't sound so corny?
	Every time I've heard it, I've kind of rolled my eyes.
	I never thought that it was a meme, but obviously it is.
	Yep.
	Huh.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	So, yeah, I found that to be somewhat annoying.
	Somewhat.
	Now, another thing that happened this week, we got a lot of tweets.
	And by the way, I hate it when we're right about certain things, particularly these things.
	So, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, under the Freedom of Information Act, obtained documents and released them.
	Apparently, there are cells of cancer amongst TSA employees.
	Yeah, we got that one early.
	Cancer clusters in their ranks.
	I'll read the quote here.
	TSA employees at Logan International Airport believe they have identified a cancer cluster in their ranks, according to documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act released by the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
	They have requested dosimetry to counter TSA's improperly non-monitored radiation threat.
	So far, at least, they have not received it.
	The documents also reveal a paper from Johns Hopkins.
	This is what we said time and time again, but no, here it is.
	Essentially questions whether it's even safe to stand near an operating scanner, let alone inside one.
	The Politano and the pistol and these other stooges won't go through it.
	And said, oh, we got this Johns Hopkins there.
	Yeah, Johns Hopkins never tested the machines.
	And we discussed that verbatim.
	They only said, well, you know, if it's only this much, then it's okay.
	But they never tested the machines.
	Right.
	Yeah, no, the whole thing is a scam.
	So Johns Hopkins, of course, has a reputation to defend.
	They say the Department of Homeland Security mischaracterized their work by telling USA Today that NIST affirmed the safety of the scanners when, in fact, NIST does not do product safety testing and never tested a scanner for safety.
	Really?
	But then this kills me.
	Department of Homeland Security...
	And let me see if there's a date on this.
	June 27th, they just received their first patent.
	And I didn't know that government organizations can go out and patent stuff, but okay.
	Guess what they just patented, John?
	I don't know.
	A citizen's dosimeter.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate has developed a miniaturized version of a dosimeter, a portable device used for measuring exposure to ionizing radiation, which can provide life-saving early detection in the unlikely event of a nuclear accident or dirty bomb. which can provide life-saving early detection in the unlikely event
	Dubbed the Citizen's Dosimeter, this high-tech plastic card, really, would be as convenient and affordable as a subway card with the capability to measure the amount of radiation on a person or in a given area.
	And by the way, TSA slaves, you're not getting it.
	Well, you know, the TSA people who work in there are getting a little annoyed by this themselves.
	Yeah, the cancer thing is a little annoying, maybe.
	And meanwhile, of course, we moan and groan about the TSA and some of their, you know, taking a diaper off the old lady and stuff like that.
	But in the meantime, the under-reported story headlines, TSA Viper Program has been expanded.
	Really?
	The TSA conducted last year more than 8,000 Viper operations in the last 12 months, which we talked about the Viper operation.
	Yeah, and they're doing this at what, bus stations?
	No, now they want to expand it so they can stop your car out of the blue and search it without a warrant.
	Yeah, we're Viper!
	In 2009, the total cost of the taxpayers was $30 million, and now the agency's requesting funding for 12 more Viper teams, which would bring the total to 37 squads, and they used the military word, squads.
	Squads, yeah.
	Nice.
	And a budget of $110 million a year, and these are just basically black-shirted SS guys.
	Stooges that are going to go out and they're going to go to bus stations, they're going to go to trains, depots, you know, where you don't have to take off your shoes, according to Obama, and they're going to start pulling cars over just randomly.
	Yeah.
	What is this?
	It's Gitmo Nation, my friend.
	What are you talking about?
	It's unbelievable.
	And why isn't this front page, scandalous front page news?
	This is ridiculous.
	Because it's all controlled media.
	This is the problem that you're running into with controlled media.
	They're not stepping up to the plate when they have to.
	You just played that thing from MSNBC. It was deplorable.
	The guy calls the president a dick for being a dick at that press conference.
	For being a dick.
	Yeah, he correctly calls him a dick.
	And then he gets called on the carpet?
	Yep.
	You can't do that.
	Are we supposed to be on our hands and knees?
	Are we supposed to be kowtowing?
	Are we going to start bowing to the president?
	Whatever he says is fine.
	We can't say anything critical?
	And I didn't even think that was hardly critical.
	I mean, what is wrong with this picture?
	Well, it gets even worse, if you don't mind me saying.
	Have you seen the cover of Time magazine?
	Not the latest.
	So what did we pick up on on the last show?
	We talked about Farik, Farik GPS man from CNN. Oh, that guy.
	The guy who wants to ditch the Constitution.
	Time Magazine.
	Cover.
	They have a picture of the Constitution, we the people, and the bottom of the Constitution is shredded, like it's been in a shredder, and then it says, does it still matter?
	There's a push, I think there's an absolute push, John, to overturn the Constitution.
	No, to redo it.
	Rewrite it.
	Revise it.
	And look, Iceland did it.
	Yeah.
	There's a very good article by Aaron Worthing, which is linked in the show notes, noagendashow.com.
	And he actually combed through this document, which the cover story is called One Document Under Siege.
	And he says, oh, by the way, I counted at least 13 mistakes of their interpretation of the Constitution.
	Time magazine is abhorrent.
	And I'm thinking, you know, this is it.
	This is what they're trying to do, is just, you know, War Powers Act, screw it.
	It's in the way of what everybody wants to do.
	Of King Obama.
	King Obama and the Congress, it's like a Roman Senate that went along with everything that Caesar said to do.
	I mean, these guys don't stand alone.
	The Congress, the legislative branch, which should be as powerful as the executive, is supposed to be a balanced system.
	They're gutless on both Democrats and Republicans, and they're very deferential to the president, to the executive.
	The president wants this, the president wants that, and we're not as powerful, and we're kind of here trying to do this and this, that, and the other thing.
	Yeah, he wants to start a war on his own, and he's going against the Constitution, but we're not going to do anything about it.
	We're not going to impeach him, which is what they could do.
	And they don't get documents when they want them.
	They get big black pages that come out of the printer with just black, and then they hand a bunch of those in as though that means something.
	It's just basically laughing, mocking the Congress.
	The Congress is just pathetic.
	I don't know.
	What else is new?
	It's a rather long clip, but should we just listen and deconstruct Obama's answer?
	This was Chuck from NBC. This is the 6 minute and 50 second.
	No, the first one was 6 minute and 50.
	This was a little shorter.
	This is 5 minutes.
	Chuck was told that basically he was an idiot.
	Not only that, but Chuck was given these questions.
	He was like, what's the constitutionality of you going into Libya under the war powers resolution?
	And I thought the president's answers...
	We're just scathingly disgusting.
	And I think we need to discuss it.
	Well, that was a hodgepodge.
	So first of all, he asked three very important questions.
	And that's a hodgepodge.
	Wait a minute.
	It's two constitutional questions.
	And I forget what his third question was.
	Well, that's a hodgepodge.
	No, this is important stuff, dude.
	Chuck, we're going to assign you to the Supreme Court, man.
	Hey, man.
	Hey, man.
	We're going to put you in the Supreme Court, man.
	And by the way, it wouldn't surprise me.
	Ladies and gentlemen, all rise for Supreme Court Justice Chuck from NBC. He could do it.
	He could do it.
	Chuck's going like, yes, nailed it.
	I nailed it.
	I got my question in and now I'm on the Supreme Court.
	I'm not a Supreme Court justice, so I'm not going to put my constitutional law professor hat on here.
	That was weird.
	I'm not going to put my constitutional law professor hat on here.
	Well, according to documentation, he is a constitutional law professor, although all his records are sealed, so I was just taking word for it.
	And he was a teaching assistant, probably.
	But besides the point, why does he make that comment?
	I agree.
	Let me focus on, initially, the issue of Libya.
	Libya.
	I want to talk about the substance of Libya.
	Okay, so not going to answer the questions.
	Let's talk about the substance of Libya.
	Because there's been all kinds of noise about process.
	Noise!
	Noise, like people arguing constitution.
	This is like, it's a noise.
	You hear that, John?
	Yeah, he said it was noise.
	Noise.
	It's just noise.
	And congressional consultation and so forth.
	Let's talk about concretely what's happened.
	Muammar Gaddafi, who prior to Osama bin Laden, was responsible for more American deaths than just anybody on the planet.
	Now, what is that?
	That's a lie!
	Muammar Gaddafi, prior to Osama bin Laden, is responsible for more American deaths than anyone on the planet.
	Did that include Hitler?
	Yeah, I guess so.
	I guess no one died in World War II. Did that include Ho Chi Minh?
	I mean, didn't we have some dudes die in, like, Vietnam and Korea and, uh, I'm sorry, children die?
	Okay, alright, you want to categorize it that way.
	Okay, we'll bite.
	Was threatening to massacre...
	His people.
	Massacre!
	Massacre!
	What is the definition of massacre?
	Kill with want and disregard for anything?
	Just kill people left and right?
	I thought that they were using their penises.
	I'm confused now.
	Depends on what time of day it is.
	And as part of an international coalition under a UN mandate that is almost unprecedented, we went in And took out air defense systems so that an international coalition could provide a no-fly zone, could provide humanitarian protection to the people on the ground.
	I spoke to the American people about what we would do.
	I said there would be no troops on the ground.
	I said that we would not be carrying the lion's share of this operation, but as members of NATO, we would be supportive of it.
	Because it's in our national security interests and also because it's the right thing to do.
	We have done exactly what I said we would do.
	No, we were supposed to be out in a matter of days, not weeks, but okay.
	We have not put any boots on the ground?
	We've put loafers on the ground, CIA and all those guys.
	That's okay.
	Boots, not boots, loafers.
	And our allies, who historically we've complained aren't willing to carry enough of the load when it comes to NATO operations, have carried a big load in their pants when it comes to these NATO operations.
	And, as a consequence, we've protected thousands of people in Libya.
	Thousands!
	We have not seen a single U.S. casualty.
	There's no risks of additional escalation.
	This operation is limited in time and in scope.
	Oh, really?
	Limited in another year is what Kerry and McCain are asking for.
	So I said to the American people, here's our narrow mission.
	We have carried out that narrow mission in exemplary fashion.
	And throughout this process, we consulted with Congress.
	Oh.
	We've had 10 hearings on them.
	We've sent reams of information about what the operations are.
	Reams!
	36 pages.
	What is reams?
	What is the definition of reams?
	That's about 500 sheets.
	No, that's a ream?
	Yeah.
	That is the actual definition?
	A ream is 500?
	A ream is 500 sheets.
	Yeah, you buy a ream of paper, you buy 500 sheets.
	But it's reams, so it'd be 500s.
	So it must be thousands.
	No, 36 pages.
	I read them.
	Not reams.
	36 pages.
	Well, maybe to him it's a ream.
	I've had all the members of Congress over to talk about it.
	Yeah, we had tea.
	So...
	A lot of this...
	Wait, hold on.
	He had every member of Congress?
	I know.
	I was waiting for you to catch that.
	No, of course he didn't.
	All 400-plus members?
	It was a crowded room.
	The Oval Office was packed, I tell you.
	This is bullcrap.
	Half of the congressmen have never talked to this guy.
	Of course not.
	I had all the members of Congress.
	Uh, no.
	Uh, fuss is politics.
	Fuss.
	It's a fuss.
	This whole Constitution thing is a fuss.
	And if you look substantively at what we've done, we have done exactly what we said to do under a UN mandate, and we have protected thousands of lives in the process, and as a consequence, A guy who was a state sponsor of terrorist operations against the United States of America.
	Who we did business with for years.
	Yeah, 20 years ago he was and then he gave up on the process and he was our buddy, apparently, until just a few months ago.
	Is pinned down and the noose is tightening around him.
	Oh, really?
	Now we're lynching people.
	Why don't you just go get him?
	We're lynching people.
	This is what we do.
	Hey, we're going to lynch you.
	The noose is tightening around you.
	Now, when you look at the history of the War Powers Resolution, it came up after the Vietnam War, in which we had half a million soldiers there, tens of thousands of lives lost, hundreds of billions of dollars spent, and Congress said, you know what, we don't want something like that happening again, so if you're going to start getting us into those kinds of commitments...
	You've got to consult with Congress beforehand.
	This blew me away.
	So this is how he explains that we're in a limited...
	Because if it's not 500,000 troops and tens of thousands dead, then it's not really a war, and therefore it doesn't really even count for the War Powers Resolution.
	Was that how Congress decided to do that?
	Was that really the intent?
	No, absolutely.
	And the idea wasn't to consult with Congress.
	It wasn't as though you can say, hey, you guys, I'm going to go do this.
	Oh, okay, whatever.
	Hello, everybody.
	Hello, Congress.
	Nice to have all 400 of you here.
	I want to consult with you.
	And by the way, we spent more money on the Iraq-Afghanistan thing than we ever spent in Vietnam.
	Oh yeah.
	The Pentagon just came out with the numbers.
	By the time we're done, if ever, four trillion dollars will have been spent.
	Four trillion dollars.
	And what did we get?
	A guy with a fire in his crotch.
	What else did we get for that $4 trillion?
	Well, we got the Crotch Bomber.
	We got...
	The New York Times.
	The Times Square.
	We got Bin Laden.
	We got Bin Laden.
	Yeah, we got him.
	And miscellaneous guys that we shot with the drones over Pakistan.
	I know some guys in South Central who will do it for $50.
	They'll go and get Bin Laden.
	Bin Laden has already got...
	Right.
	But $4 trillion seems a little steep.
	$4 trillion seems like a lot per head.
	Yeah.
	And I think that...
	Such consultation is entirely appropriate.
	Yeah, if we're going to go send half a million troops, it's appropriate to have a consultation.
	It's like your career advisor?
	I like it.
	He thinks it's appropriate to have a consultation.
	I think it's appropriate.
	We can tell him what we're up to.
	But do I think that our actions in any way violate the War Powers Resolution?
	No.
	The answer is no.
	No.
	So I don't even have to get to the constitutional question.
	The answer is no.
	I don't have to get to the constitutional question.
	I don't even have to listen to that crap.
	There may be a time...
	What's up with that, John?
	What does that tell you?
	That he's lying?
	To tell.
	So if you're going to start getting us into those kinds of commitments, you've got to consult with Congress beforehand.
	Let's do it again.
	Consult.
	I'm using the word consult.
	Consult.
	Hello, let's consult.
	I want to hear the dab, dab, dab, dab, dab, dab again.
	The consultation is entirely appropriate.
	Appropriate.
	But do I think that our actions in any way violate the War Powers Resolution?
	Violate.
	The answer is no.
	No.
	So I don't even have to get to the constitutional question.
	Uh-uh.
	There may be a time in which there was a serious question as to whether or not the War Powers Resolution Act was constitutional.
	I don't have to get to the question.
	Shut up, slave.
	Somebody who nobody should want to defend.
	And we should be sending out a unified message to this guy that he should step down and give his people a fair chance to live their lives without fear.
	Of a drone!
	And this suddenly becomes the cause celeb?
	The cause celeb?
	That's what he said.
	What is the cause celeb, John?
	It means that everybody's up in arms about the situation, and he can't understand why, because it makes no sense to him.
	Isn't it cause celeb?
	Isn't that like Charlie Sheen?
	He was for a while.
	Yeah, that's a cause celeb.
	I saw...
	I'm sorry.
	Go on.
	Well, I was going to say, I saw a movie the other night, which I was very surprised.
	It's from 2010.
	It's called The Green Zone.
	You know, I tried watching that movie two or three times, and I could not stand it.
	Well, it's very interesting because it is actually a complete, I believe, truthful portrayal of what happened in Iraq.
	It's starring Matt Damon.
	And it took a little while, but then I got into it.
	And essentially what it is, is he finds out that this Ben Rawi, I think his name is, who was one of Saddam's Republican National Guard.
	He went to Jordan.
	He told the Greg Kinnear character in this, who I'm not quite sure is supposed to be in real life, that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
	And then the Greg Kinnear character goes ahead and tells the State Department there's weapons of mass destruction.
	And he leaks this report to the Wall Street Journal.
	And this is exactly what happened.
	And then Matt Damon is like, oh, my God, we're in Iraq because of this lie.
	And, you know, you have to come in and you have to tell everybody this was a big lie.
	And of course, the moral of it is the Ben Robbie character says, no, no, no, man, you don't understand.
	It's like your government wanted this lie.
	So it's not like you were tricked and we're all here because of a lie.
	But anyway, the movie is one thing.
	It's based on a book.
	And this is Attention No Agenda Book Club.
	It's based on the book by, actually, Washington Post editor Rajiv Chandrasekharan.
	I'm butchering that.
	The book is called Imperial Life in the Emerald City Inside Iraq's Green Zone.
	And this is, of course, what now has become the new city, I'm sorry, embassy, Well, the embassy's in the green zone.
	The green zone itself is quite large.
	It's almost the size of Delaware.
	I mean, the thing is, a monstrous area.
	It's apparently like, I obviously haven't been there, but people who I know who have been there say it's kind of like being in Hayward, you know, or Reseda.
	Some place where you, you know, it's a bunch of ranch houses that have been recently built.
	Oh, no.
	It's...
	It's a city within a city.
	You have to read this book.
	I blew through it in a couple hours.
	I loved it.
	This guy was actually there.
	It talks about how Halliburton was flying everything in.
	It was a complete Americanized city.
	People are hanging out by the pool.
	They're having sex all day.
	No one ever really left the green zone.
	They forced the people who were running the cafeteria...
	To cook American meals.
	And everything included pork.
	Everything.
	Which, of course, Muslims find offensive.
	So it was bacon.
	It was pork belly.
	It was just everything.
	Pork, pork, pork, pork, pork.
	They had like 21-year-old kids writing up PowerPoints, sending it back to Washington, saying, yeah, everything's great.
	I mean, when you read this book, your mind goes, oh my God, I can't believe it.
	And we're doing exactly the same thing in every other country.
	And I've...
	Great book to read.
	You'll really enjoy it.
	And I'm trying to get the author of it for the big book show.
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	I'm going to show myself old by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
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	Yeah, on the agenda in the morning.
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	Cutting my grass.
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	Somebody's going to...
	By the way, I think we did a...
	Some talking points on this, but I think people out there, when you go to the airport, get a copy of the article about the cancer cluster at Logan Airport and carry it with you.
	It's in the show notes.
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	I think I can probably get less radiation from the RAPA scan as I can from standing next to you.
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	Yeah, wow.
	Taborac.org slash N-A.
	And also go to nogenanation.com, nogenashow.com and help us out.
	Help us on the next show coming up.
	And we appreciate all the help we get.
	And this is the way we do it.
	And we don't have to worry about somebody firing us.
	And if we want to call the president a dick, we don't have to worry about somebody calling and threatening the station.
	Or pulling or threatening our advertisers.
	This is what the media has come to.
	People can't even express themselves.
	And I think we put in the work.
	You sure did with the treasure and blood thing.
	Yeah, well, I have to say, guilty pleasure, I enjoy it.
	I get turned on.
	I'm like, oh my god, what have I found now?
	And you just keep going.
	Now we've got to figure out what the message is.
	What's going on with this bullcrap?
	Yeah, we have to understand what blood and treasure means.
	I mean, the treasure we stole from Gaddafi, that's treasure.
	We're pirates.
	Yeah.
	I picked one little note out of the bin here.
	I'm not quite sure how much Isabel donated, probably under $50, but she has a very important message for us.
	This is Isabel Pearson, P-E-A-R-S-O-N. Adam and John, it's been a long time coming.
	I'm proud to now be a contributor to your unrivaled show, which I've listened to since the first podcast you did.
	Yes, I stumbled across you both back then, and I've never looked back.
	Now, finally, I'm on the path to knighthood, which would be damehood, in fact, for her, which is an absolute must for me.
	And, of course, if you...
	Want to take a look at rings.nashownotes.com.
	All of our dames and knights and barons and baronesses get a beautiful white gold ring, which leaves an indentation in the morning and hit him in the mouth when you hit someone in the mouth with it.
	From what I gather, your female fan base makes up a small percentage of your listeners, so I therefore reckon I may qualify as possibly your first and number one female fan.
	We found her, John!
	We found her.
	Now, here comes.
	I am a club DJ based in Manchester, England, a partial geek and technical-minded, one might say, with a healthy interest in current affairs.
	Your eye-opening, informative, and humorous insight into the media has proved a continuous source of entertainment.
	Keep up the good work, guys.
	Now...
	P.S. If you go ahead with producing a pin-up calendar featuring your listeners, then I will gladly volunteer to feature as a fun way of contributing.
	I think I still class as a hottie by most standards.
	Hope you approve.
	Go to isabelpearson.com.
	I would if I didn't just...
	That's one mother.
	I'd like to.
	I would if I don't have this message that says Firefox not responding.
	Let me tell you this.
	We're doing a pin-up calendar with only Isabel.
	She's smoking hot!
	That's a good thing.
	It's about time.
	She's our first female listener.
	She's been with us from show number one.
	She's on her way to Damehood.
	And she's smoking hot!
	Okay, this thing clear.
	What is it again?
	Isobel, I-S-O-B-E-L, Pearson, P-E-A-R-S-O-N, dot com.
	Dude.
	Dude.
	and click on gallery.
	You there?
	Yeah, I'm clicking on it now.
	Look at her.
	It's just taking forever to load.
	Yeah, she's quite pretty.
	Smoking hot, hello, quite pretty.
	Look at her!
	And she's geeky, and she's a DJ. And look at the woman, it's hot!
	She looks to me like someone who should be on Russia today.
	Yes, thank you.
	Reading the news.
	She has a slight Eurasian look.
	Slavic, little Slavic look, little Slavic look to her.
	She would be perfect.
	She's beautiful.
	I'm in love.
	So I think we should do the calendar with just her.
	Okay.
	Yeah, well, I think people would buy that.
	They probably would.
	Isabel, thank you so much.
	It's so incredibly nice.
	Really, really appreciate that.
	And, well, again, thank you all so much for supporting the show.
	It is what keeps us going.
	It also helps finance the HotPockets2008.com tour across America, which...
	We've been doing some calculations.
	This eight miles to the gallon thing is going to be rather expensive.
	But we will be broadcasting live from the road all around Gitmo Nation.
	And keep those invitations coming.
	Send it to Mickey at Curry.com.
	And hopefully we'll be able to catch you sometime in the very near future.
	First of all, a big birthday shout-out to Mr. Orwell.
	Oil.
	He celebrates his birthday tomorrow.
	And Black Knight George Vanderhorst and, of course, his bride Audrey said, please would you congratulate our son, Joshua Vanderhorst.
	He turns one year old today.
	And, of course, we'll give him a little karma shot in just a second.
	Beryl Snyder turns 41 today.
	Happy birthday.
	Thomas Weiler turns 41 tomorrow.
	And Sir Ernie Ernst, he's celebrating his birthday today.
	He says, thanks so much for the night ring.
	I'm waiting for the first one to hit in the mouth as I speak.
	On the 30th of June, my birthday coincides with N.A. Show Day.
	Please play the birthday jingle as well as the karma one.
	That's not just for me, but rather a gift for myself to all the peeps out there who still work towards a free world.
	You've got karma.
	Thank you all very much.
	Very, very much.
	Sorry, I'm distracted by this browser crashing.
	Something weird happened in Gitmo Nation East.
	Let me see if...
	Yeah.
	I want to get the exact...
	Here it is.
	This is very weird.
	It's like really underreported.
	They're saying there was a mild tsunami that swept along the southwest coast of England.
	And the reporting is, they have a video of it, and you see, well, let me read the report first.
	A mild tsunami along the south coast was probably caused by an underwater landslide, according to a coastal expert.
	It created an unusual tide surge that struck the Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, and Hampshire coastline Monday morning.
	There were reports of rivers changing direction, fish leaping out of the water, and even hair standing on end because of static.
	Tsunami?
	No.
	Harp?
	Yes.
	And they have this video of a river...
	The river's flowing in one direction and this tide flows in the other direction.
	Have you ever heard of such an occurrence?
	No, but I wouldn't be surprised if it hasn't been documented before, whatever it is.
	Isn't that a biblical thing?
	I thought the city that appeared in China was kind of more interesting.
	I saw that too.
	Hey, hey, hey, hey, I'm just getting started, okay?
	Tell us about the city in China that appeared.
	This is great.
	I think it was in Shanghai or Beijing or something, one of the big cities.
	If you were on the bridge, a city, a whole city with trees around it and buildings and skyscrapers, and it went deep into the distance, it kind of looked like...
	A woodsy version of Sao Paulo showed up in the middle of as a mirage that was very visible for I guess a few minutes and people there's videos of it and people are walking by commenting on it.
	Look at that thing there.
	And then it disappeared, and it's never been fully explained what it was.
	I mean, a lot of it was obviously your imagination.
	Of course.
	Of course.
	I'm just making it up.
	I'm on Soma.
	But, you know, some people say it was a vortex, and it was actually a city that did something.
	Maybe it was the Stargate that you're always talking about.
	Could have been something like that, but then again, it was probably just a mirage, but it was a beauty.
	And there are videos all over the internet about it.
	Well, there's another thing that has been videoed all over the internet, and I'm sure, John, you'll say that it's all fake and it's all doctored, and even though it's like...
	When do I ever say that?
	All the time.
	Above London, in broad daylight, I'm sure you saw this, all of a sudden three apparent UFOs appeared and then a mothership?
	And it's really clear on the video.
	And it's like...
	And you see all these people on the street, you know, pointing their cell phones and video cameras up at the sky, and they're all recording this.
	And it's like these little ships going...
	And then the mothership appears, and it hovers.
	And by the way...
	And then it blasts off.
	Did you see that?
	Yeah.
	And by the way, I want to...
	Just as a side note that really has to do with the show...
	If that happened, it's another short-term phenomenon similar to the mirage.
	It was something that happened and then stopped happening.
	People left and right were taking pictures, movies, because everybody's got a camera on them now all the time.
	So when we keep seeing these reports and we can't get any visual confirmation...
	We know these, you know, we're talking about news reports from the mainstream media and there's no visual confirmation, just these crazy reports.
	We know it's bullcrap because people are recording everything that goes on.
	So I don't understand what you're saying.
	I don't either.
	What?
	Thanks.
	It's still probably a part of Project Blue Beam.
	What?
	We talked about Project Blue Beam.
	Project Blue Beam is a psyops operation to get everyone to believe in extraterrestrials.
	And then, of course, they're going to come down and kill us, and then we'll have...
	Oh, it's just that.
	Yeah, do whatever your government tells you to do.
	Interesting HAARP magnometer data.
	HAARP was extreme.
	This is right off of the government websites.
	Coincidence or not, but the 2.5 hertz HAARP waves were active for two full days before the Japan earthquake and tsunami.
	Like, massively active.
	Check that out in the show notes at 317.nashownotes.com.
	Everyone laughs at me when I talk about this stuff, but okay.
	Maybe I'm just crazy.
	I'm not laughing.
	Because I still believe that that was induced.
	I don't know if it was our harp or Russian harp or whoever was fiddling on the harp, but it didn't seem very natural to me.
	What is natural, John, is the following drug ad.
	It follows you wherever you go.
	It's a cloud of depression.
	And although you've been on an antidepressant for at least six weeks, you're frustrated that your depressive symptoms are still with you.
	Seroquel XR, when added to an antidepressant, is approved for the treatment of major depressive disorder.
	For many, taking Seroquel XR with an antidepressant was proven more effective for treating unresolved symptoms of depression.
	That's 26 seconds.
	What do you think the remaining one minute and four seconds is all about?
	Yeah, just all telling you it's going to kill you.
	Yeah, but this is good stuff.
	This is better than the stuff I just took this morning.
	Get an antidepressant alone.
	Call your doctor if you have unusual changes in mood, behavior, or thoughts of suicide.
	Antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults.
	Elderly dementia patients taking Seroquel XR have an increased risk of death.
	Call your doctor if you have fever, stiff muscles, and confusion, as these may be signs of a life-threatening reaction, or if you have uncontrollable muscle movements, as these could become permanent.
	High blood sugar has been reported with Seroquel XR and medicines like it, and in extreme cases can lead to coma or death.
	Your doctor should check for cataracts.
	Other risks include decreases in white blood cells which can be fatal, seizures, increased cholesterol, Weight gain, dizziness on standing, drowsiness, impaired judgment, and trouble swallowing.
	Use caution before driving or operating machinery.
	For more help putting distance between you and your depression, ask your doctor about adding Seroquel XR today.
	Learn more at SeroquelXR.com If you can't afford your medication, AstraZeneca may be able to help.
	I love it!
	I need some of that Seroquel.
	What's funny about that commercial is they have this little cloud following us moving around.
	It's a cartoon.
	I know, the cloud.
	Hey, it's the cloud!
	It's another cloud meme.
	Maybe your music is in that cloud, too, that follows around you, and you've got depression.
	I just wanted to stay because there's a couple of vaccine related things along with the drugs.
	And the first one is a new study.
	John, new study.
	Apparently it's changed now.
	Getting your flu vaccination while you're pregnant is actually now good for your baby.
	How does that work?
	Well, it's a new study.
	I love it.
	I love it when they do this stuff.
	Remember, it was like, no pregnant women?
	This is from parentcentral.ca, which is, I think the article is taken from the Toronto Star.
	And, yep, so there's a brand new study.
	Research, there's a polling, polling, Dr.
	Catherine Pooling, pediatrics professor at Wake Forest Baptist Health Center in North Carolina.
	Along with researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Vanderbilt University, that's of Anderson Cooper Vanderbilt, and Anderson Pooper, by the way, is his new name, and the University of Rochester analyzed data, and they said, you know what?
	It's really good to get a flu vaccine if you're pregnant.
	And this now appears in this month's American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
	And they checked data from seven flu seasons.
	Apparently, they missed it the first time around when they said don't get it.
	But I guess it's now different.
	Well, it sells more shots if they get it.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, of course it's screwed up.
	Of course it sells more shots, yeah.
	Because, you know, somebody had a meeting and said, look, we can give this shot.
	Well, it's going to maybe kill a bunch of women and maybe the babies are going to be deformed.
	Who knows?
	So that's okay.
	There's no liability issues.
	The government is giving us free, clear.
	Let's just shoot everybody with a shot.
	Who cares if they die?
	We don't even have to shoot.
	It doesn't make any difference.
	What happens, what happens, happens.
	We don't even have to shoot you up because, and here's the big breakthrough, annual flu protection could soon be as simple as downing a spoonful of yogurt.
	Another groundbreaking trial by Washington scientist Barry Marshall paving the way for food-based vaccines.
	Ha ha!
	So now they can just put it in your food.
	End of the article.
	Vaccines could also be put in the drinking water.
	I don't think I like the sinister laugh, actually, John.
	It's hilarious.
	As if lithium and fluoride is not enough.
	And you know what?
	People are going to go, hey, that sounds like a really good idea.
	I think we should put more vaccines in our water.
	This is loaded up with drugs.
	The water is already contaminated with all these drugs that they can't get out of the sewage treatment anyway.
	I need some vaccine in my water.
	I want my diabetes vaccine.
	I want my flu vaccine.
	I want my diarrhea vaccine.
	I want my vaccine vaccine all in my water.
	And now, ladies and gentlemen, our favorite person.
	Our favorite person.
	Who was our favorite person, John?
	Our favorite person is John.
	And you can always follow me on Twitter.
	No, it's the tweeter.
	It's the tweeter guy.
	Rick Perry.
	Well, I think he's got a real good shot at winning the Republican nomination.
	You were going to put that way?
	Hold it.
	You want that in the red book?
	Because I'm going to definitely know on that guy.
	I don't want it in the book, but I do know that he's got a lot of money behind him.
	Yeah, sure, Texas.
	You know why?
	I'm going to put my prediction in the book that Rick Perry will not be the nominee.
	Okay, no, that's cool.
	No, that's cool.
	He is actually...
	What was that?
	He actually...
	This is good.
	He is on board with Merck, and he is now trying...
	To make Gardasil vaccinations, this is the HPV vaccination, which I do not believe is helpful, making it mandatory in Texas.
	Yeah.
	What a douchebag!
	It's amazing.
	Adios, mofo.
	What a douchebag.
	So he's in bed with Merck.
	Merck got a lot of money.
	Yeah.
	So, you know, remember, we do choose our presidents like we choose our soap powder.
	Well, if you want to get Obama re-elected, put this guy up for election.
	Then we have some two-to-the-head news.
	And it starts off in the pharmaceutical industry.
	This was rather interesting.
	This came to us from Sir Snorrestein.
	So this is from, I believe, Norway.
	Here we go.
	Professor Emeritus Lars Heiheim...
	Amongst experts who were highly critical of the number, the World Health Organization assumed when they put swine flu influenza preparedness at the highest risk level was killed during a fishing trip.
	Whoops.
	Huh.
	Yeah, the 65-year-old had been out on a fishing trip, was reported missing from the family at 1 o'clock on Wednesday morning.
	The 65-year-old and his boat were found at a distance from each other just south of Rijavarden about an hour later.
	Yeah, so apparently he fell overboard and drowned.
	It happens.
	Yeah, it happens when you're against vaccines.
	Yeah, well, it happens.
	Don't go fishing, by the way.
	A little news on Michael Jackson.
	Of course, LaToya's been making the rounds.
	Yeah, she's been telling everybody that he was murdered, and there's no doubt about it.
	Yeah, of course, you heard that here first on the No Agenda show.
	Yeah, and she decided the usual suspects is that, you know, this is like, to us, this is like, to what, three years old?
	How old is this story for us?
	Yeah, it's like, has he been dead for two years now?
	I don't know.
	Two years.
	I don't think we need to cover it.
	Well, no, the thing we do need to cover, according to court papers obtained by Reuters, now, before Michael Jackson died, what was the reporting?
	What was the reporting continuously?
	He was in debt.
	He was broke.
	He was broke.
	So according to court papers obtained by Reuters, the late Pop Icon was in $400 million of debt when he died.
	Since his death, sales have now resulted in a 2010 profit of $310 million.
	Yeah, net.
	$310 million profit.
	The guy was worth more dead than he is alive.
	That's why they offed him.
	Yeah, well, that's a problem.
	If you're going to be worth more dead than alive, I would move someplace else.
	Nevada.
	Wait a minute.
	He lived in Nevada.
	Hmm.
	So anyway, I thought that was rather...
	Well, I got a couple of news items.
	Yeah, hit me.
	I think we should keep up with gay news once in a while, and the New York Times is the best place for that.
	I love me, as a bi-curious male, I love me some gay news.
	In a softball case, a thorny debate over who qualifies as gay.
	The five ball players summoned before the protest committee at the Gay Softball World Series stood accused of cheating.
	Their alleged offense?
	Heterosexuality.
	Don't tell me there were some straights in the gay game.
	Inside a small room surrounded by committee members and other softball officials and players, they were interrogated about their sexual orientation.
	Confusion reigned.
	According to the court records, one player declined to say whether he was gay or straight, but acknowledged being married to a woman.
	Another answered yes to both gay and heterosexual definitions.
	A third asked if bisexual was acceptable.
	This is why I'm getting this.
	Wait a minute, wait a minute.
	Wait a minute, you're telling me I'm being discriminated against?
	A bi-curious male can't participate in a gay game?
	He was told, quote, this is the gay world series, not the bisexual world series.
	There's a new league!
	Ultimately, the committee ruled that three of the five were non-gay.
	How do you rule that?
	It's like, alright, son, we're going to see if you're really gay.
	They were non-gay and stripped the team of its second place finish.
	No!
	This, ladies and gentlemen, is straight from the gay news front.
	John T. Dvorak and your bi-curious male, Adam Curry, bringing you the gay news.
	More gay news now from Lucifer Clinton.
	And then there is the work that our embassy team in Rome has been doing.
	Two weeks ago, they played an instrumental role in bringing Lady Gaga to Italy for a Euro Pride concert.
	Now, as many of you know, Lady Gaga is Italian-American and a strong supporter of LGBT rights.
	And the organizers of the Euro Pride event desperately wanted her to perform, and a letter to her from Ambassador Thorne was instrumental in sealing the deal.
	Over 1 million people attended the event, which included powerful words in support of equality and justice.
	Fantastic!
	The U.S. State Department helping Lady Gaga make more money.
	That's right.
	Anyway, there's another...
	I don't even want to get into that one.
	I mean, really?
	And she's smiling.
	Does the Department of Commerce be doing that?
	No, it was the State Department.
	Gaga is being sued, class action, about those earthquake bracelets she was selling.
	Yeah, she sold them and then didn't do anything with the money except, I guess, spend it on...
	Meat dresses.
	Meat dresses.
	There's a segment of the show I'm thinking of wanting to do, just want to experiment with it.
	As an idea.
	And that is reading from my spam box.
	Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we have a brand new segment here on the show.
	This is John C. Dvorak reading from his spam box.
	Urgent and confidential.
	Mr.
	Carl Mensah sends a note to me, or actually sends it to undisclosed recipients for some unknown reason, but it's apparently to me.
	Hello.
	Please pardon me for not having the liberty of knowing your mindset before writing you this letter without any formal introduction.
	My name is Carl Mensah.
	I am the present branch manager of the International Commerce Bank of Ghana, LTD. And if you look him up, of course he is.
	I write to solicit your partnership in claiming 15 million United States dollars from an account at our head office.
	I got this one too.
	You got the same one?
	Yeah.
	Wait a minute.
	You're not going to read it?
	This isn't stupid, John.
	They do this on Top 40 Radio.
	Let's not do this.
	I don't like your segment.
	But wait a minute.
	How did you get the same one?
	Oh, shut up.
	Duh.
	All right.
	I'm not going to read any more of the letter.
	But believe me, I could be retired from this show.
	I understand that you're upset that your SD card failed and you didn't have clips and stuff, but that doesn't mean you have to go groping.
	I have a couple old clips.
	Nah, I got better.
	I got new stuff.
	Alright, hit it.
	Alright, so this TSA thing has created, obviously, quite a stir.
	We've got the poop police now.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	I have a jingle for that.
	For the Poop Police.
	Detective Dookie.
	Detective Dookie.
	Poop Police.
	SPU. Special Poopers Unit.
	Right.
	So what does NBC do?
	NBC, of course, compromise.
	They do a very interesting hit piece in video.
	What they do is they take two experts on airline security.
	One is maybe the former security expert for El Al, an Israeli guy who talks like a terrorist himself.
	Which, of course, is the whole point.
	And the other one is this very eloquent man who I think was either the deputy TSA or...
	Well, actually, Brian Williams will tell us in the intro.
	And they play the two clips one after another.
	And you come away...
	It's a total hit piece.
	You come away feeling like, well, the Israeli guy is clearly nuts.
	The other guy is very, very smart and eloquent.
	And it's completely beautifully pieced together.
	I love those deals.
	Yeah, this is the equivalent of a hit piece in video.
	Extremely well done.
	What?
	What to do about it?
	Tonight we hear the topic debated by two experts.
	Errol Southers, former nominee to head the TSA, and Isaac Yefet, the former head of security for Israel's state-run airline, El Al.
	I never said, and I will never say, that passengers, because they are coming on a wheelchair, we should not search them.
	But when I see a woman 95 years old, sitting on wheelchair, because the alarm went off, I have to be so stupid to search her from A to Z, including forcing her to pull out her diaper?
	This is not security.
	This is a joke.
	It should not be the first step.
	This should be the last step.
	We have seen threats where young children have been used to transport improvised explosive devices.
	We have seen IEDs placed on gurneys, concealed in wheelchairs.
	So we've seen methodologies to deliver IEDs in a whole host of items and people to get to the target.
	So it's not unusual to have a threat in some countries Where young children and elderly people might be cause for some concern.
	We're dealing with a very intelligent and adaptive adversary.
	An adversary that when we have a thwarted plot, it's a lesson learned for them.
	So the TSA has adopted a model that is trying to stay one step ahead of these threats and one step ahead of these attack paths that might be implemented.
	I don't see any kind of better security that we had before September 11th.
	And we have to stop relying on God and on luck.
	Build a security system.
	Use a profiling system.
	Don't be afraid.
	Be afraid that innocent people will be killed because of us.
	Enough is enough.
	And if the alarm goes off, let me search you.
	If not, go.
	This is what I'm calling illusion.
	What I can say in defense of the TSA is that these people are very hard-working, dedicated individuals.
	They are trained well.
	And when people engage them in an aggressive and combative way, there are others that might be going through the process not getting the attention that they deserve that really need to be going to secondary screening.
	So I would say Patience on both sides of the equation.
	Understand that these people want the same thing that you do to get to your destination, to have a good weekend and a good time and get there safely.
	And respect has to be given on both sides.
	I just thought that was a pretty amazing report.
	I don't know what to make of it.
	I mean, this guy from TSA seems so reasonable.
	Well, he's saying that we have found children and elderly people with IEDs.
	Yeah, but then he noticed how he also mentioned that that was in other countries.
	Other countries, yeah.
	Other countries.
	He kind of slips that in.
	There's no evidence that's ever happened in the United States.
	In fact, it hasn't.
	When has it ever happened?
	No, it hasn't happened.
	You don't think they wouldn't be all over it?
	Oh, yeah.
	No, if it ever happened, it would be like they'd upped the ante even more, had more x-ray machines.
	Well, all I can say is what we have to do is make sure to get copies of that article about the cancer cluster, and when you go to the airport, and they want you to go through that machine, and you say no, and then they give you crap, although they don't all do that, because we have plenty of evidence.
	They don't give you crap, they look through your crap.
	Well, do we have people that have said you did the right thing, too?
	You know, there's some smart TSA guys out there.
	But if they give you crap, pull out that article and say, you should read this when you get a chance.
	Yeah.
	Have yourself tested for cancer.
	So, anyway, that situation is just not improving.
	And nobody in Congress seems to give a crap about it.
	I mean, a couple people do.
	And we did have the testimony that was on a C-SPAN report where the guy basically came out and said that these machines don't even work.
	Something for the math geeks.
	This just came out.
	I'm a little confused.
	Mathematicians are now campaigning for pi to be replaced with tau.
	Experts are claiming that the number, the constant which references the circumference of a circle to its diameter, is wrong and should be replaced with an alternative value called tau.
	So pi, of course, 3.14159265, they say it's the wrong figure to be associated with the properties of a circle.
	It should be tau, which is 6.28, approximately twice what pi is.
	What?
	Yeah, I know.
	I don't understand it either, but it seems like this is a pretty fundamental thing.
	Well, somebody's going to have to explain it to us, what they're talking about.
	Right?
	Right.
	I don't know where you got that one.
	from the Daily Mail.
	Huh.
	Uh-huh.
	Um, remember I was talking about the grid experiment?
	They want to slow down the cycles on the grid?
	Yeah.
	As some kind of cost-cutting measure or whatever?
	Which I still have not.
	No one's explaining to me how that would save anything.
	Well, but they're doing it because they've announced it.
	It was like an official announcement.
	And one of our producers says, oh, no, this is really bad, and they did it in Venezuela.
	I'm like, dude, could you please just find an article and send it to me?
	So it's now in the show notes.
	From CNN, from 2003, Caracas, Venezuela.
	This is from Reuters, but republished by CNN. Title, One Country Loses Time Literally.
	In a bizarre mass malfunction, Venezuela's clocks are ticking too slow due to a power shortage weakening the electric current nationwide.
	By the end of the day, each day the sluggish timepieces still have another 150 seconds to tick before they catch up at midnight.
	So, you know, I think we'll be okay.
	Most clocks are probably not necessarily dependent on that anymore.
	But there are a couple other things that happen when you start messing with the cycles.
	We use 60 cycles or 60 hertz here in Gitmo Nation West.
	Apparently, it screwed up some companies who had mixing engines for orange juice.
	And because it runs at a slower cycle, it was mixing the orange juice slower, and therefore they had to throw out all these batches because it was literally like the machines run slower, and so it was mixing it at the wrong measure for their secret formula.
	What?
	Yeah.
	Don't you understand that?
	Where'd you get that one?
	From the same article.
	This is from the Daily Mail though, right?
	No, this is from CNN. From Reuters.
	From 2003.
	When they had the exact same problem with the cycles going down.
	There's something up about this.
	This is one of those things like the treasure and blood.
	There's something more to this story.
	I've already told you what it is.
	It's controlling you.
	Cycles are all around you.
	This electricity is all around us, and they're going to slow us down.
	Yeah, I'm telling you, that's what it's for.
	It's to slow us down.
	They have 50 cycle service in Europe, and they're slower there?
	Yeah, yeah, hello, point made.
	I don't have to say any more than that, do I? Nice correction we got from a number of our producers, which we highly appreciate, about the Chinese aircraft manufacturer.
	And we were talking about China, possibly, you know, you were like, I'm not aware they had aircraft manufacturing.
	Well, it turns out that they, at the most recent air show in Le Bourget, We're selling the C919 Chinese passenger jet.
	And in fact, a couple of airlines in the U.S. have said, you know what?
	If they can create something that is comparable to the 737, we'll buy them.
	And there it is.
	The Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China has orders for 100 single-aisle C919 passenger jets.
	From international...
	Oops.
	Ugh.
	Well, here we go.
	Aviation ambitions received a big boost as customers ordered 100 of its first commercial jetliner, the C-919.
	State-owned manufacturer COMAC, a commercial aircraft corporation of China, announced the orders at the Zhuhai Airshow Tuesday, two years after launching designs for the 150-seat aircraft.
	Comac said orders came from four Chinese airlines and the leasing arm of General Electric, which will supply the jet engines.
	Yeah, nice.
	Here go our engines.
	Yeah, for now.
	Then the Chinese will be making their own engines.
	Of course, yeah.
	They're like, give us an engine.
	Give us an engine.
	We will take a look.
	Give us an engine.
	We can deconstruct it.
	We can look at engines.
	We've got lots of engineers.
	We can look at engines.
	Some desperate measures happening down under, although Kiwiland, to be exact, One Nation Kiwi.
	Tomorrow, they are outlawing all smoking in the prisons down there.
	And so the prisoners are now smoking the nicotine patches.
	You know, you want to have a prison riot on your hand?
	Take away the smoke.
	So, 5,700 inmates have taken up the nicotine replacement therapy of nicotine patches and lozenges, and now they're smoking them.
	I'm sorry for you guys.
	That really must suck.
	Can you believe that?
	You're in jail and you gotta go detox off a smoke?
	Holy crap, that's gotta be hard.
	It's gonna be really, really hard.
	I'm looking at this jet.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it's just got everything.
	It looks like an exact clone of European-American jets.
	Yeah.
	Well, it's got the same thing here.
	The overhead compartment's got the same latch.
	Yeah.
	Well, I mean, the whole kind of concept of aircraft is not, you know, there's not a lot of revolutionizing you can do.
	You know, it's just kind of what it is.
	Yeah, but you'd think there would be something that was a little distinctive.
	I mean, there's a difference between an Airbus and a Boeing jet.
	Anyway, go on.
	Alright, so I'm just going to run down the news, the things that I just definitely wanted to mention.
	We have, let me see, oh yes, this was very interesting.
	So we have this flooding in, is it North Dakota?
	Where's the flooding taking place?
	North Dakota Minute is one of the key spots.
	So, now, the reason why, why is this all flooding?
	The Army Corps of Engineers, this is the Missouri River, right?
	Didn't they decide to open up some land?
	They flooded land in Mississippi and other places.
	Yeah.
	Well, no, this is different.
	There's been two or three episodes of flooding over the last couple of months, and the rationale for each one is a little different.
	This one's just a river that just apparently went nuts because of nothing but rain and then the high temperatures melting the snowpack and it just overwhelmed the town.
	Right, but in Missouri, they actually let it flood.
	Yeah, that's a different situation.
	Okay, this is what I'm talking about.
	They let it flood in Missouri, saying, well, we have to do this.
	Yeah, to protect other parts of the country.
	Well, now residents and owners of this land are receiving letters from the Army Corps of Engineers offering to buy their land.
	How about that for a perfect storm?
	Oh, that's interesting.
	So first you let it flood, and then you say, hey, let me buy that land.
	I find that to be Agenda 21 type stuff.
	Yeah, I like it.
	I don't.
	Well, I like it from a story perspective.
	I don't like it.
	I've got a story for you.
	Let me give you a story.
	Sure, sure.
	Taiwanese blogger sent to jail for writing negative review of a restaurant.
	This was going to start happening here, by the way.
	Oh, yeah.
	This woman, Liu, blogs about food health and on and on.
	She said the food served by the restaurant was too salty where she only had dried noodles and some side dishes on that day.
	Moreover, she judged the place as unsanitary because there were cockroaches and challenged the owner who was a bully as he allowed customers to park their cars haphazardly, leading to traffic jams.
	Apparently, after the owner spotted the criticism, he accused her of defamation.
	The court ruled her criticism of the restaurant exceeded reasonable bounds and sentenced her to 30 days.
	Shut up, slave!
	Wow.
	You really think that's going to happen here as well?
	Well, once we know what's going to happen here, we're going to have a number of stages.
	An initial stage is going to be the licensing, which there's no question in my mind that this audit control blogging situation is going to have to require people to be licensed.
	Right.
	Right, in order to write a review.
	And, uh, yeah, probably.
	Wow.
	Hey, the iPhone 4 sucks!
	You have an iPhone 4.
	I'm just saying.
	Or let's say, hey, the iPhone 5 sucks!
	Hello, son.
	Do you have a license to review products?
	Oh, I see what you're saying.
	Do you have a license to review?
	What's your license?
	I haven't used the iPhone 4 for six weeks.
	I'm still using the Google Android phone.
	Loving it.
	The Nexus S? Is that the one?
	Yeah.
	Loving it.
	I turned off all the tracking stuff, as far as I know.
	Yeah, I turned all that stuff off.
	Did you turn off your near-field communication check?
	Hell yeah.
	Are you kidding me?
	What do I look like?
	Like I fell off the turnip truck?
	Yeah, I like that.
	I like the phone.
	It's got, you know, the navigation on that phone, I find to be quite good.
	It's outstanding.
	I find it outstanding.
	It's better than the iPhone.
	Yeah, no, I use it all the time.
	And you can just yell into it.
	You just hit the little microphone and you go, and it gets your address immediately.
	No more typing in all these different screens, city, state, road.
	Yeah, I find the voice recognition to be a little sketchy in the field.
	It works fine in the house.
	I use it with the top down in my 1999 Saab.
	Yeah, you know, I could never get the street Hesperian Boulevard.
	Let me try.
	Hold on a second.
	Hesperian Boulevard?
	Yeah.
	I got it right here.
	Let me see if I can do it.
	San Leandro.
	Okay, hold on.
	Let's see.
	Hesperian Boulevard, San Leandro.
	Okay.
	And that's California, right?
	Yeah.
	Okay, let me speak the destination.
	Hold on.
	Hesperian Boulevard, San Leandro.
	Working.
	I got Hesperian Boulevard.
	No good.
	No good.
	Okay.
	Well, good try.
	I think in general, though, it has to do with the voice.
	Google Recognition really likes my voice.
	And I don't have the customize your voice.
	I didn't want them, like...
	Tracking my voice, because you can also set it so it'll remember your voice and the things that you wanted.
	But it works quite well for me, even with background noise and everything.
	I have a missing mid-range.
	I have a missing mid-range, so cheap microphones don't do me any good, which tend to emphasize the mid-range.
	So the thing that I found very disturbing, there's a lot going on with Gabrielle Giffords.
	And there's a lot of research about connections to Obama and her husband and all kinds of weird things going on.
	But now there's this Jared Loeffner thing where the judge wants to have him doped up on anti-psychotics so that he can testify.
	This doesn't make sense to me.
	Have you been following this?
	No, I'm not following this at all.
	You have to brief me on it.
	Alright, so Jared Laudner, who is the...
	The lone wolf shooter.
	So he has to testify.
	They've already said, oh, the guy's clinically crazy.
	He's psychotic.
	But we want him to testify, so we're going to shoot him up with anti-psychotic drugs in order for him to testify.
	This doesn't sound right to me.
	It sounds to me like something fishy is going on and they need to dope him up to hand out whatever story.
	He's already pleaded not guilty.
	It's weird.
	Maybe we'll figure something out here and figure out what that's all about.
	Well, I mention these things so that our No Agenda producers can get on it because typically they'll come up with some really good things.
	E. coli virus or bacteria is still rampant throughout Europe.
	Forensic evidence emerges that the E. coli bug super bug was bioengineered.
	Of course, we already deconstructed that here on the show.
	Just in this morning, E. coli outbreak may be traced to Egyptian seeds.
	Hello.
	That's a new one.
	And the FDA is now saying to consumers, don't eat evergreen produce sprouts.
	Unless you cook them.
	Right.
	I don't even think they're saying that.
	I think this is from our National Treasure, NPR. I don't even think they're saying that.
	I think they're just saying don't eat them, period.
	I would say look for Russia to do a deal with the Chinese for all of their veggies pretty soon and cut out all of Europe.
	Now, the Food and Drug Administration says this is salmonella.
	They're not saying E. coli, but they're like jumping on the bandwagon here.
	And they just say, don't eat them at all.
	No mention here at all about cooking them.
	We're also talking about the type of sprouts you use on a sandwich, which is not the same as the bean sprout that's used in Chinese cuisine.
	Right.
	I don't know anyone who puts bean sprouts on a sandwich.
	Oh, people in Holland do that all the time, in the lowlands.
	The big bean sprout, they're huge.
	Not the big ones, but it's called tauge.
	I don't think that's the same one.
	I think that's a green sprout.
	Oh, I might be wrong.
	Tony Blair and Bill Clinton are setting up a new business venture.
	They are starting a merchant bank.
	Unbelievable.
	Called Tineo.
	And that's very interesting because Teneo is a word from...
	What is the etymology of Teneo?
	How do you spell it?
	T-E-N-E-O. I possess, I occupy, I control, I watch, I guard, I maintain, I defend, I retain, restrain, detain, check, control...
	Very.
	I always love it when people name companies.
	I want to know where it's coming from.
	So they're going to be controlling something.
	They're getting into the banking business together.
	Good on you guys.
	Very, very good.
	Love that.
	Well, hopefully the real bankers out there will take these guys for all they have.
	Well, they are, of course, part of it.
	You were wondering what Julian Assange was up to, that we haven't heard anything from him?
	Yeah, I had this thesis on the last show that he did what he had to do and they got the Libyan-Tunisian thing started, basically, and then he just shoved it.
	He's done.
	Right, he's done, but of course he has to make a living.
	So one of our producers tweeted me this particular photo.
	And you can always follow me on Twitter.
	And this is 15th and 17th July 2011, the Cass Business School, London.
	The Center for Investigative Journalism Summer School.
	This year's themes?
	Whistleblowing.
	Taxation and digital activism with keynote speaker Julian Assange.
	He's doing gigs now.
	He's been relegated.
	He's just doing stand-up before you know it.
	He's just doing gigs.
	It's a beautiful thing.
	I love it.
	I wonder who his agent is.
	There's a nine-year-old kid who discovered something very interesting about our president and just about every single president of our elitist society.
	It's the first family tree of its kind.
	Pouring through more than half a million names for months, 12-year-old Bridge Anne d'Avignon discovered that all the U.S. presidents, except Martin Van Buren, are related to the former king of England, John Lachlan Plantagenet, signer of the Magna Carta in 1215.
	Mildred Reed is his first great-grandmother on George Washington, and on Obama, Mildred Reed is the tenth great-grandmother.
	It started as an assignment to research her own lineage.
	There you go.
	They're all related to the King of England but one, Martin Van Buren, who I think was an actor, actually.
	Wasn't he in, like, some sitcom?
	A lot of people put Martin Van Buren at the beginning of the corrupt government movement in the United States.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Was he corrupt?
	Yeah, I think so.
	Interesting.
	So I thought that was kind of fun.
	He initiated a lot of weird stuff.
	The other one that's kind of interesting to follow, when we look at the CIA, the intelligence-centric government, and all the growth of agencies that want to tell you what to do, it looks like it stems from Truman.
	Truman.
	It's been growing ever since.
	Truman.
	That's how you got to say it like Seinfeld.
	Truman.
	I can't believe...
	You know, like Newman.
	Truman.
	I only have two things left, John, if you got anything.
	I'm good.
	You're good?
	You're done?
	Well, I mean, I would like to play that clip of all the...
	Oh, jeez.
	No, no, no.
	I recorded it for you.
	It's 12 minutes and it's horrible.
	No, it's not.
	It's horrible.
	It's not 12 minutes.
	Of all the Miss Americas?
	Well, then, no, I think, no.
	That clip has been changed then, because that clip I think that you have, that...
	I think they switched it because the original clip is about a minute and a half.
	Oh, no, no, no.
	It's 12 minutes of all...
	They got something else going.
	I'll get the real clip and put it in.
	I mean, it was interesting.
	It's not 12 minutes.
	Well, you sent me the YouTube video.
	I made the clip since your stuff was all messed up.
	I think they swapped that video out because the clip that I was running was short.
	It got to the point and ran through it.
	It was quite amusing.
	No, no.
	No, this is not so amazing.
	I'm sorry.
	Well, first I have an example of why you need to support our show, because this is what passes for programming on our national treasure, NPR. From WAMU 88.5 at American University in Washington, welcome to the Kojo Namdi Show, connecting your neighborhood with the world.
	It's Tech Tuesday.
	It's Tech Tuesday, everybody!
	Woo!
	How about some jazzy music?
	It's Tech Tuesday!
	What are we going to do?
	Hello, Kofi and I. It's a rambling, chaotic conversation about local neighborhood culture taking place 24 hours a day, 140 characters at a time.
	Welcome to the real-time, frenetic world of Twitter.
	Lee, Twitter!
	Unbelievable!
	That's programming?
	We're paying for that?
	I'm sorry.
	We're not paying for it.
	You're telling me that this is a show where they just read tweets?
	No, they have like all these Twitter tweeter experts and they're talking about the importance of tweeter.
	Holy crap.
	Yeah, it's unbelievable.
	But it's Tech Tuesday, everybody!
	Yeah, Tech Tuesday!
	Hey, really?
	Are you out of your mind?
	There's nothing tech about Twitter.
	No.
	So I have a clip which I think is an end of show clip, but I think it's important because it ends in the most unbelievable way that we have to come back after the clip.
	And this is of Mayor Bloomberg on Fox and Friends.
	It just came in this morning, otherwise I would have...
	I mean, I tried to cut it down, but everything is so outrageous in this clip.
	Every meme is in it.
	This is Mayor Bloomberg with a PSA of Adam Gadon.
	Which they set him up with this.
	And apparently, we have to now go after gun shows because Adam Gadon, the American, who President Obama will eventually kill with a drone, because he's already tried, and it's legal for him to do that now, is telling the terrorists to go and buy guns at gun shows.
	Because this is the easiest place to go and get a gun.
	And Mayor Bloomberg, he wants this stopped.
	Because this is terrorism.
	Complete terrorism.
	And every single meme hits this clip all the way up to the end.
	So I will leave your mic open for any responses that you might have to it.
	But it will freak you out.
	You ready?
	Hit it.
	Congress about illegal guns saying that they are more than a crime problem.
	They're now a national security danger.
	They even use the words of an al-Qaeda spokesperson in a new PSA. The latest Al-Qaeda plot instructs terrorists on how to buy guns in America.
	This is a golden opportunity.
	America is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms.
	You can go down to a gun show and come away with a fully automatic assault rifle without a background check.
	So what are you waiting for?
	Joining us this morning to talk more about this, someone who's fought against this for years, is New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
	Good to see you this morning.
	This gun show loophole, an estimated 40% of U.S. gun purchases are sold without background checks because of this, quote, private sale or gun show loophole.
	Why has that not been able to be closed after all of these years?
	Congress is just unwilling to face the fact that the Second Amendment doesn't protect terrorists.
	I don't think anybody thinks that Al-Qaeda would...
	Yeah, you're loving it, right?
	It gets better.
	...in the minds of the Founding Fathers, right?
	I don't think...
	Oh, did you hear that?
	Oh my god, I gotta replay that again.
	I don't think this is another anti-Constitution meme.
	Face the fact that the Second Amendment doesn't protect terrorists.
	I don't think anybody thinks that Al-Qaeda was in the minds of the Founding Fathers.
	What is that?
	That is a total anti-Constitution meme.
	It's saying that the Constitution is a dated document that needs to be updated based on today's facts.
	And didn't we have like the British or something?
	Didn't we have our own version of terrorists back in the day when they wrote this?
	Yeah, they'd storm and they'd do unwarranted checks.
	George III's troops would come in your house.
	That's why we had to have warrants.
	But of course, it seemed to have been avoided recently because with the Viper teams.
	But that's beside the point.
	But yeah, they were the terrorists.
	Yeah, but of course the founding fathers weren't thinking of Al-Qaeda back in the day.
	Right.
	Guns protected in the Constitution.
	Every state has the right to set their own laws.
	They do that.
	But the federal government passed a law saying you can't buy a gun if you are a minor, if you have psychiatric problems, or if you have a criminal record.
	Then, they didn't fund the ATF so that there's really no enforcement of it.
	And they have this gun show loophole where if you say, I'm a casual seller, You don't have to do the background check that's required to meet the first set of requirements that I just talked about.
	And so people go to gun shows and just buy guns, and the sellers go to gun shows, and they're not casual sellers.
	They can have a few hundred guns there to sell.
	And the guy you saw in the ad, he's not an actor.
	This is a terrorist.
	This is a guy we think is hiding in Pakistan, an American, Adam Gadot.
	Yes.
	Converted to Muslim, to become a Muslim, and which, there's nothing, Muslims, most Muslims aren't terrorists.
	John, did you know that most Muslims aren't terrorists?
	Really?
	I thought they all were.
	Most aren't, but of course, let me write this down in the red book.
	Most Muslims aren't terrorists.
	So this guy Gaddan is a total stooge.
	He made this commentary on it's a part of a greater scheme.
	Of course!
	Of course!
	He's not even a terrorist.
	The guy's a phony.
	He's a terrorist!
	And wait until you hear Bloomberg at the end.
	He's a terrorist!
	He's a terrorist!
	He happens to be an extreme Muslim who is out there advocating people to buy guns and kill Americans.
	And he says you can just do it right in America.
	Just walk up to a gun show.
	So the NRA response to that spot is that he is recommending to people who are not part of an organized movement, really lone wolves, to go buy guns.
	Those lone wolves who might go to a gun show and buy that gun and commit a terrorist attack wouldn't be on a watch list anyway, quite possibly.
	I don't know that, but what rational reason could you have for not at least trying?
	It is true that everybody that wants to bring down an airliner isn't on the terrorist watch list, but to not check before you get on a plane doesn't make any sense.
	Now listen to this.
	Listen to this.
	We're going to put it into your head now.
	How did you get this clip?
	And Fox and Friends.
	Fox and Friends.
	Yeah, with a hot chick.
	How is Fox and Friends running this?
	I thought they were like the ultra, you know, conservatives that would be totally questioning this thing.
	I got a boner for the chicks on that show, man.
	Good.
	They do find some people.
	Be a donor.
	And I can just, if you were on that plane, how would you feel as you're coming to the end of your life and say, well, they didn't have the courage to test?
	I'm coming to the end of my life and I'm thinking, they didn't have the courage to test.
	Can you believe that this is a serious mayor that he's talking like this?
	This is weird.
	You know, that really gets everyone's attention when you're starting to talk about terrorists and using our gun laws to get guns.
	But what about, I want to get your thoughts on this ATF Fast and Furious program, which is the U.S. watching these guns.
	They were trying to find out where the guns go into Mexico and how Mexican drug dealers get them.
	Mexican drug dealers have killed something like 30,000 people over the years.
	Wait a minute.
	That's more than Bin Laden's killed.
	30,000.
	These Mexican, horrible Mexicans.
	What guns do they get here?
	There's no question.
	The guns come from America and we buy their drugs.
	Right.
	Yeah, the government.
	The money goes to fund more drugs, more guns.
	Absolutely.
	There's no question about that.
	No question.
	They screwed up.
	They did a lousy operation.
	That does not mean we shouldn't keep trying to stop the flow of guns.
	This is how it's going to be whitewashed.
	This whole Fast and Furious.
	They just had a lousy operation.
	The idea was good.
	The idea of smuggling guns in was good.
	It's just a lousy operation.
	If I was in charge of the Department of Homeland Security, it wouldn't have happened.
	People who advocate for gun rights say, we have a lot of rules.
	We have a lot of laws on the books already.
	They're not enforced.
	Well, that's not true in New York City.
	Well, you guys have a wonderful...
	I mean, you guys have a real...
	Okay, there are plenty of other cities and states in this country that do a good job, too.
	You know, America isn't full of...
	America.
	Did you hear that?
	America.
	America.
	In America.
	Most people really do a good job at stopping it.
	It's just a handful of people.
	But right now, what their argument is, is why go after people who just want to enjoy guns on their own, have never done anything illegal?
	Why not enforce what we see?
	I mean, on the streets of...
	Just read an article about on the streets of Newark, you can just buy a gun.
	You know, quite easily.
	Actually, probably just as easily as you can buy drugs or something else.
	Look, the mayor of Newark, Cory Booker, has got a very tough job.
	So does the mayor of every city in this country.
	Even if you don't get everyone, why would you not want to stop those people who have psychiatric problems, are minors, or have criminal records?
	We have a federal law that says they can't buy guns, but it doesn't apply to gun shows where 40% of the guns, as you pointed out, come from.
	There's just no reason not to enforce the existing law.
	Now, John, this is about to wind up with 15 seconds left.
	What did you just say about Adam Gadon?
	He's a stooge for the anti-gun lobby.
	And incidentally, you also want to close what they call the terrorist gap, and that is, if you can't fly, you should be added to that category of minor...
	People who can't.
	All right.
	Mayor Bloomberg, good to see you.
	Thanks very much for joining us.
	Thanks for having me.
	This is real.
	This is a real terrorist.
	He points back at the Gadan guy and says, this is a real terrorist?
	Yeah, this is real.
	This is real.
	This is a real terrorist.
	What has he done that makes him a terrorist?
	I don't know, but this is real.
	This is a real terrorist.
	Just some blowhard.
	Yeah.
	The CIA! Please.
	Somebody.
	I think his dad was in charge of the Anti-Defamation League.
	Let me please.
	Oh.
	You should look into Gadan, yeah.
	I've heard of this guy.
	I've got to look into him a little more.
	All right.
	Well, John, it's always a pleasure, or we should say a pleasure.
	And I look forward to...
	I'm glad we can do this.
	I'm glad we can still do this show here in America.
	In America.
	Because we might have to move to China.
	Well, we got our podcast license.
	Thank you, everybody, for supporting the show.
	It's extremely important.
	It's the only way we can continue our work.
	And it's just nice that people seem to appreciate it.
	I'm impressed that you got through this show without falling asleep.
	Ah, what?
	Obviously, you got your adrenaline kicked in.
	Yeah.
	Hey!
	Hello, everybody!
	I'm tripping on Soma.
	And here in Gitmo Nation West, People's Republic of Southern California.
	Yay!
	Well, I will soon leave!
	Thank you, Jerry Brown.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Devorak.
	Talk to you again on Sunday, right here on No Agenda.
	Not just their time, but their treasure.
	And not waste our precious blood and treasure.
	The loss in blood and treasure.
	We must make hard choices about where to spend our blood and treasure.
	I just don't believe that it is worth the blood and the treasure.
	And blood and treasure.
	In my mind, not only are the costs and lives and treasure.
	With all of the American lives.
	And treasure that were laid down for the lives and the treasure that were expended.

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