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	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, July 15, 2011.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 322.
	This is no agenda.
	Reporting from the front lines of Gitmo Nation from the Four Winds 5000 Crackpot Command Center and Gitmo Nation for lovers, the great state of Virginia from Baroness Maggie Vincent's driveway in the kind of morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, which is also for lovers, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill!
	In the morning!
	Hey now!
	Hey now!
	In the morning to you, John.
	In the morning to you, in the morning to all ships at sea, and all feet on the ground, feet in the air, and everyone in between.
	And the boots on the oceans.
	And of course, all of our human resources, who are all charged up and ready to go in our chat room, noagendastream.com, noagendachat.net, charged up and ready the way their government loves them, prepared to suck the lifeblood out of them.
	And to all producers out on the patios, listening to the streams in real time.
	So you're in Virginia?
	Yes!
	Currently parked in the Four Winds 5000 Hot Pockets Mobile for the Hot Pockets 2008 Tour.
	We're in Baroness Maggie Vincent's driveway, which...
	Wow, you've gotten far!
	Yeah!
	We've driven nowhere!
	Have you taken the thing around for a spin?
	No, we've slept in it for two nights.
	And let me just give you the lay of the land here.
	This is...
	So this is actually about, I'd say seven or eight feet shorter than the rig that we rented for the test drive.
	Okay.
	However, so that kind of makes, it's funny.
	It means it gets one mile to the gallon better mileage.
	Yeah.
	The bed, though, I have to say, is actually like a foot longer, which is great, because that was the biggest problem in the one we rented.
	So the bed is fantastic.
	We've slept great.
	Kind of interesting, though, because when you look at Baroness Maggie Vincent and the lovely Miss Mickey, so they both kind of coordinated all this stuff, right?
	So everybody fits into the bed, that's what you're saying?
	Yeah, we're all in the bed.
	No, what I'm saying is Maggie had everything all tricked out and everything you could possibly think of that we would need on the trip.
	But of course, Miss Mickey, I spent a whole day weighing suitcases to make sure we wouldn't go over the 50 pound per suitcase limit as per whatever bull crap rules there are.
	So it's like physics.
	You show up with three suitcases.
	This box is only so big.
	It was funny.
	You can get some straps and put stuff on the roof.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, we could.
	Then you look like a real hick.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You know what even be funnier?
	What?
	Never leave the driveway.
	Yeah, just stay here and pretend.
	Yeah.
	We'll be leaving tomorrow.
	But it's been great, man.
	So we arrived at Dulles Airport, and there we had Harry Pilgrim and his lovely wife Jen to pick us up.
	Now Harry is the guy from the Pentagon.
	And they broke his ankle just to make sure that he wouldn't take off with us.
	And he couldn't leave with you.
	Yeah, they broke his ankle.
	He's on crutches.
	And they had a...
	Here's the funny thing.
	So they had a sign, a beautiful sign, you know, No Agenda Welcomes Adam and Mickey Hot Pockets 2008.
	And people will walk by this sign just going like, yeah, whatever.
	You know, 2008 doesn't matter.
	It's all good.
	People are oblivious.
	No one cared.
	So we got here...
	Wow, let me tell you something, and I'm going to learn a lot on this trip.
	Traffic in this area...
	It's worse than Los Angeles.
	Oh.
	It's unbelievable.
	A lot of parts of the country are that way now.
	Around Atlanta, it's like that.
	Chicago is a nightmare.
	Well, this is really...
	This was bad.
	This was a Saturday...
	Well, no, I'm sorry.
	It was Friday, but it was like 8 o'clock.
	And we were in standstill traffic.
	And we're not like in D.C. Hey, you know, this is because you should be on a bicycle, man.
	Yeah, dude.
	Yeah, we need some more bike cars, baby.
	These are all the bicycle nuts out there, the ones you almost run into half the time when you're driving around these areas that have bike lanes.
	Yeah, bastards.
	And they cut in front of you, they don't pay attention to the stop signs.
	This happened to me the other day.
	Some guy, you know, he's zooming around, he comes flying across on a crosswalk.
	Yeah.
	You know, I'm supposed to stop for him.
	I mean, and they're the ones who make, you know, pressure these legislative types not to build roads so you have this mess everywhere and a waste of gasoline and it's unbelievable.
	So, we had our...
	So, yeah, you're right.
	There's no bikes here, though.
	That may be happening in the D.C. metro area.
	I don't know.
	No, but they're bicycle influence.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, it's a mess.
	So we arrive here at the Baroness's homestead, which is beautiful, by the way.
	The Baroness and Mr.
	Smith.
	The rig is in the driveway.
	They actually created an entire station to hook up to with the 30 amps and everything, with the plug and the water.
	Have you seen this documentary, Catfish?
	Have you heard about this?
	No, Catfish, the documentary?
	Yeah, so my daughter turned me on to this.
	Catfish is about...
	It wasn't intended as a documentary, but it's a New York photographer.
	He shares an office with a couple of filmmakers, and that's why they turn it into a documentary.
	This guy makes pictures.
	They get published, and then he starts getting these beautiful paintings sent to him from a seven-year-old Abby somewhere in Illinois somewhere.
	And he has this whole ongoing conversation with her mom and then Abby's older sister, who he's starting to fall in love with.
	And then all of a sudden he starts seeing some weird things.
	It turns out that this kid's mom was actually making the paintings and she created 25 fake Facebook profiles and this entire world, right?
	And just to lure this guy in or really just to have a life essentially.
	And I have to say, you know, like a week or so before we left, I was like, you know, what if we show up and it's like, the thing's got like no time, the thing doesn't exist, right?
	It's just a Photoshop.
	That's what I was thinking all along, to be honest about it.
	I was actually hoping for that.
	Oh, shut up, you.
	But what turns out is it's a million times better.
	We couldn't have hoped for this.
	The RV is awesome.
	Maggie's awesome.
	She had a whole dinner for us with cheese fondue and skewers and then chocolate fondue.
	And she was making martinis and Cosmos.
	I was so hammered after one drink.
	And we were smoking cigars out in the back.
	It was just beautiful.
	And then yesterday we had the first official Hot Pockets 2008 tour meetup for the Virginia area, for the state of lovers.
	Dude, John, it's like I'm almost regretting not strapping you to the roof and taking along on this trip because you would love this.
	People drove over 200 miles to come to this meetup.
	It was really amazing.
	And so I was at a seafood place where we had, I think it was blue crab.
	Does that make sense?
	Blue crab?
	Was it soft-shelled?
	No, no, no, hard.
	We got mallets and everything.
	We're like whacking away.
	There is a thing called a blue crab in the area.
	Yeah, so we were whacking away at the crabs.
	And then we went to, I forget all the names.
	We went to some bar that serves 300 micro-brews.
	And so it's like, you know, 25, 30 of us.
	And I have really good news.
	Here's the good news.
	70% of the producers who were there yesterday have some form of security clearance.
	Our sysadmins work within the bowels of government or government contractors and could take over portions of the world with one hit of a button.
	We are on the inside, John, I'm telling you.
	Every conversation...
	Yeah, I'm looking at a picture of the meetup and I'm seeing at least five guys who are probably running some operation or other and could shut it down at the drop of a hat.
	These guys have like...
	They're only getting paid so they don't screw these guys over.
	Right, no, these guys have like 75-year NDAs.
	How long do they think that people will live in the future, is my question.
	We're all going to be robots, and we're going to live to 120?
	So, no, this is good news.
	Every single person is like, yeah, no, I'd do something, you know, like, over there.
	It's like, could you mess things up?
	Oh, yeah, yeah, no problem.
	We also found that, JC and I were looking at the one picture, and we found the one, maybe two CIA guys.
	Oh, yeah, anyone with a baseball cap.
	It's okay, though.
	It's okay, because they were all kind of playing along, even the feds.
	Actually, there was one sysadmin who used to work at the Federal Reserve, and he left after starting to listen to our show.
	He's like, I can't work here anymore.
	This is evil.
	This is no good.
	And he left.
	So it's good news, because everyone here is just trying to live the American dream, right?
	And get by.
	And just barely paying the rent.
	So they're doing what they have to do, but they're on our side, my friend.
	If we need them, if there ever was some spark of revolution, our people could make a real difference.
	They could really mess stuff up.
	It's awesome.
	Yeah, the difference would be we could get the mesh up and keep doing the show.
	Yeah, that would be nice.
	Anyway.
	Yeah, so it's been phenomenal.
	It's very weird, of course, to be doing the show this late.
	In the beat!
	It's in the p.m.
	here.
	Oh, that's right.
	Yeah.
	So I got it.
	And I noticed that when I was in New York.
	Yeah.
	And it's messed up.
	You know, it's like, of course, I'm on a weird time schedule.
	And we're sleeping in the RV. So you wake up with the birds, which is, you know, like 536 o'clock.
	And of course, I'm on like 233 a.m.
	time.
	Like, what?
	Really?
	Shut up, birds.
	Screw and cicadas, John.
	Oh, that's right.
	The cicadas are out.
	How is that?
	It's a symphony.
	It's so beautiful.
	A symphony of grinding teeth of bugs.
	No, it's beautiful.
	It's a beautiful symphony.
	Yeah, it's nice.
	So, of course, I'm in the RV now.
	We've got the mobile rig.
	If you haven't seen it on the tweeters, it's adam.onthetweeter.com.
	You can see a picture of the mobile rig, which seems to be functioning okay, knock on wood.
	I'm tapped into the Baroness's Wi-Fi.
	She also, by the way, being a sysadmin, she's got like a mobile 3G router all hooked up for me.
	It's amazing.
	And that'll be handy if you need it.
	And everybody is missing you, my friend.
	Including us.
	And well they should.
	Yeah.
	So tomorrow we strike camp and we'll be driving through North Carolina.
	To North Carolina.
	So we'll be driving.
	I think we're taking the Skyline Drive down through Virginia which is the Shenandoah Valley.
	Exactly.
	Be on the lookout for chiggers.
	That's my advice.
	For what?
	Chiggers.
	Chiggers?
	Yeah, it's a small burrowing bug that bites you and then eats into your skin and then creates a nest just underneath the epidermis.
	Well, that's a happy thought.
	They're all over the South.
	So can I say that now?
	What?
	Chiga?
	You gotta be kidding me, Chiga.
	So, no, you can't.
	Oh, I can't?
	Okay.
	So before we get going with the basic material, I do have a breaking news.
	Wait, wait, hold on a second, hold on a second.
	And now we go over to John C. Dvorak.
	He's got some breaking news for us.
	He's in San Francisco.
	John?
	This comes from...
	You have to say thank you, Adam.
	Thank you, Adam.
	This comes from Varen von Pelsmacher.
	This ends this quickly.
	Just read the headline.
	Verizon tells customer to get a lawyer and a subpoena to get an itemized bill.
	You know, I saw the headline come through.
	Did you read the story?
	I didn't have time.
	What's going on with this?
	It's just basically, you know, if you ever get a cell phone bill, it's never really, you know, it's just basically, here's how much you owe us.
	Right.
	You know, they never do much, and so the guy wanted an itemized bill, I guess customer service said, yeah.
	Yeah, get a lawyer.
	Get a lawyer, get a subpoena, and they left out the best part, get in line.
	Oh, my God.
	This is, by the way, the company that's better than AT&T. Oh yeah, let's see how all those shills in San Francisco, all those techno experts, how they start talking now.
	And they're always bitching like, I don't want an iPhone because I'm going to wait until Verizon has it.
	Well, and then of course Verizon went right ahead and capped everybody.
	And now this.
	Yeah, we'll see.
	We'll see.
	That's all I got.
	Actually, I got quite a lot of stuff.
	Although we have to...
	And by the way, Miss Mickey has been fantastic.
	She's really doing all the production.
	She's doing the coordination.
	I'm just like, what?
	It's time for me to drive?
	Okay, just tell me where to go.
	You know, whatever.
	Because you realize when you're doing this how much...
	It's not really work, it's just what we do.
	But how much I'm doing all day long in collecting stories and preparing for the show, because now that I've been traveling, we did the meet-up and everything, it's like, whoa!
	I just haven't had the time to do everything.
	There's so much information coming in.
	So I got some stuff.
	And none of it, by the way, will make you happy.
	Well, I have a few items, but you might as well start it off.
	Yeah, I was going to say, the big kind of, in a way it's a distraction, because we've got to be very careful, because the press is now all over this, is the Murdoch stuff.
	So, of course, the ginger Rebecca Brooks, and as we know, redheads have no soul, as Baroness Maggie Vincent pointed out to me.
	Who is a redhead?
	Screw Dvorak, I've got a soul.
	It wasn't my show.
	It's not the one who said that.
	It's those British bastards.
	So she resigned.
	Maggie?
	No, not Maggie.
	Rebecca Brooks, the CEO of...
	I know she resigned.
	But here's what's interesting.
	So there was a couple stories about the tweeters.
	You know, because she resigned.
	I don't know if it was well-timed or what it was, but trending on Twitter after her resignation was like the Harry Potter movie, which shows you one of two things.
	Either A, which is most likely, people are so...
	It's anesthetized and so dumbed down that even when this relatively large media event takes place, people are like, eh, it's alright, Harry Potter's opening.
	I don't care about what's going on.
	I don't care if the news media is corrupt and stealing stuff and hacking phones.
	It's Harry Potter!
	It's the final Harry Potter, man!
	But then another terrifying thought.
	That this trending thing on Twitter...
	I never use it.
	I don't know if you do.
	I know exactly what you're going to say, and I'm very suspicious.
	Yeah, how could this news of Rebecca Brooks not be trending?
	Isn't it possible, or at least conceivable, that Twitter is changing their trending topics?
	By the way, if those guys don't want to make any money ever, that's how you do it.
	And could it be any better that it's a movie?
	Yeah, no, the other thing, I mean, we see this in newspapers.
	In fact, uh...
	Eric DeShill tests this occasionally because he's got some software to do this, and he believes that most newspapers that do these little local polls, they twist them to say, do you think that the president is right in his opinion?
	And if the Democrat paper and the area is Republican, everyone will say no, but the paper will say that they all said yes.
	Of course.
	I mean, that's what you do.
	So this trending thing is very suspicious, particularly if news media are actually taking that as like a census poll.
	Like, let's take the temperature of the people.
	News media is going to get what they deserve if they keep this sort of...
	We can talk about this as we discuss this Murdoch thing a little more.
	I believe this entire thing is an orchestrated hit to get Murdoch out of Great Britain and to shut down any sort of contrarian news reporting there.
	So the BBC, who of course are completely complicit in this, they do a report on Murdoch, and the way they do it is they go to the number two shareholder of News Corp, which is an Arab guy.
	Yeah, Lala, whatever his name is.
	Yeah, Alibaba.
	And I'm going to skip all of the preamble because they go to Cannes and they show the boats and they show all this luxury.
	Yeah, just make it look right.
	Set it up.
	So I actually trimmed this down as much as I could.
	So the guy's on his boat.
	By the way, he looks like a total arms dealer.
	He's got the wraparound sunglasses.
	He's sitting there by the railing.
	And he's got his rosary beads or whatever.
	They're not rosary beads, but he's got one of those...
	There's beads, yeah, beads.
	Anal beads.
	Yeah, he's rubbing the anal beads.
	And the BBC guy is like, wow, could you hit any more?
	Cheers, thank you very much for having us on board.
	So he's coming on board now, and there's like 8 million people's staff.
	It's like, ugh.
	I met the prince on an upper deck of his yacht.
	And not just any deck, not the Lido deck, the upper deck.
	Come sit down over here.
	We hope that as this thing unfolds, the truth will come out, because it's very important for me and my company.
	What?
	I'm just saying, this guy, for one thing, he's being used.
	I mean, this is his investment, and he's being used, and he's too dumb to know it.
	Well, there's two things he said.
	That's the only two pieces of the clip I have.
	The first one will tell you how they operate, and the second one will tell you how he operates.
	Investors in News Corp.
	Since 20 years to get this in order, because ethics to me are very important.
	I mean, there's some terribly unethical things have taken place at News Corporation.
	I mean, awful things like hacking into the telephone of a murdered teenager, hacking into the telephone of relatives of British soldiers who've died in action.
	I mean, these are awful things.
	I'd just like to correct you.
	The problems happened at the News of the World newspaper and not at News Corp level.
	And I'd like to differentiate between News Corp, Conglomerate, And the News of the World was shut down.
	Unfortunately, these tactics that were used by those tabloid newspapers in the UK were done not only by News of the World, but by other newspapers and tabloid newspapers also.
	But James Murdoch's in an uncomfortable position, isn't he?
	Because either he knew what was going on and didn't tell the British authorities, in which case he's liable perhaps to a criminal prosecution.
	Or he didn't know, in which case, as a manager, he wasn't in control of his own organization.
	Okay, so the BBC guy is setting him up to basically say, you're screwed no matter what.
	And of course, the only reason this guy is doing it, because what has he seen?
	10% of his investment go down in the past two weeks, John?
	10?
	More?
	I don't know.
	I think it's maybe 10-12%.
	It was some money.
	They don't come out looking good.
	I think we have to wait for the commission that has been appointed by the Prime Minister and look at the results.
	Why should we anticipate and predict and preempt what they're going to come up with?
	The facts are going to come out very imminently and soon, hopefully.
	Okay, so what he's saying is, fix is in, don't worry about it, it'll be six months, and it'll all be taken care of.
	But what do you think, as a major shareholder, and you're the second biggest shareholder after Rupert Murdoch himself.
	Now this is beautiful.
	I mean, you know, what have you been saying to Rupert Murdoch about what's been happening?
	Now, how do you think he talks to Rupert Murdoch?
	I mean, you know, this is the, he holds like 10%.
	On the short wave?
	By cable?
	No, how do you think he talks to him?
	This really brought it home for me.
	Calls him Rup?
	No, no, no, man.
	Worse.
	Rupert Murdoch is a peon in the game.
	Check it.
	What I say to Mr.
	Rupert Murdoch and James Murdoch, who are my friends, who are my allies in Newscope and in my company in Saudi Arabia, Rotana, I said to them that you have to cooperate fully, and they are going to fully cooperate with the Commission.
	That has been appointed by the Prime Minister to dig deep and get the truth out, and nothing but the truth.
	They know exactly my high ethics when it comes to business, and frankly speaking from my dealings with them, there's nothing but high ethics in the past 20 years.
	B-Sky B was a key part of the strategy for growth of News Corp, wasn't it?
	It was a key strategy, but at the end of the day, you have to understand that News Corp is a profitable company, even without the many 61% of B-Sky B. The B-Sky B is being shelved right now, but it's not dead forever.
	So you think News Corp might come back and make a bid again for B-Sky B? I don't talk on behalf of management.
	The management is Mr.
	Robert Murdoch and James Murdoch.
	They are management.
	They're just management.
	This is how the richest people in the world speak.
	You know, like VCs talk about that?
	It's just management.
	I don't deal with management.
	But then today, this bid has been withdrawn, and based on the law in the UK, the minimum period to come back is six months.
	And we always have to see what happens after six months.
	There you go.
	Are you still there?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	So, it's...
	Hello, darling.
	I don't know what to make of it.
	Well, I think what we both think is right is they just want to get rid of him.
	They're sick and tired of him.
	He jumped his own shark and just got too big for his britches.
	Well, they're also following the strategy to don't let a good crisis go to waste.
	And so they're piling on.
	The clips that I have today are basically the piling on part.
	And it's not piling on Murdoch.
	It's piling on the media in general and trying to regulate it.
	Oh yeah, now this is the big commission that they want to start up in the UK, and all the press are going like, okay, we're going to have rules, we're going to have regulations, what's going on?
	Which clips do you have, John?
	I'm very curious about this.
	Well, I've got a bunch of different clips to show the way, in fact, this is from Parliament, with the...
	So I've got about three or four douchebag clips.
	Nice.
	But let's start with the...
	It starts off soft.
	And let me see which one's the soft one.
	Cameron begins softly.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Under oath can be called under oath.
	On the issue of media regulation, I prefer to call what I think we need to aim for...
	Independent regulation rather than self-regulation.
	I think self-regulation has got quite a bad name now.
	No, it doesn't!
	Self-radicalization has a bad name!
	What is he talking about self-regulation as a bad name?
	I'm regulating myself.
	Hold on.
	Play.
	Many things.
	Now, I don't want to move to a world of full statutory regulation.
	I worked in an industry that was statutory regulated television.
	It works, but I don't think it's right for the press.
	But we'll have to be guided by what this inquiry finds.
	But I think, as parties, looking at this, I hope we don't get into a sort of bidding war.
	I think he understands what I mean.
	So let's shoot for independent regulation if we can.
	On the issue of privacy, yes, of course this inquiry will look at it, but there's also the very good work that I know is going to be...
	You know what's crazy?
	And you probably didn't hear about this.
	Did you know that there were huge cutbacks at the BBC? At the BBC World?
	Yeah, I did hear about that.
	Yeah, and so they went on strike.
	It was a big scandal.
	You were moaning about it.
	This is how they regulate.
	This is how the government can regulate the BBC. It's like, oh really?
	Well, how about if I take away your money, bitch?
	So anyway, it goes on and on and on, and he finally cuts it off at some point, but in the meantime we have a bunch of other, the real douchebags come up on regulations, and they just insist on it, and let's play the Jack Straw, our friend Jack Straw, who looks, he's just a creepy looking character.
	What is his title again?
	Well now he's just a member of parliament, but he used to be a part of the, I think it was Blair, the Tony Blair administration.
	Wasn't he a foreign affairs?
	Yeah, it was a foreign ferries guy.
	I happened to unfortunately stumble into his neighborhood with a friend of mine.
	We were floating around the countryside.
	The Thames?
	Were you floating on an inner tube?
	We were floating around the countryside in England and he says, oh, this is great thatch.
	We were both photographers and he said, this is a great town filled with thatched roofs.
	It's the number one tourist attraction.
	It's the best houses, you know, all these thatched roof joints.
	We pull in, get out of the cars and take some pictures of these gorgeous houses, surrounded by the army.
	Really?
	What are you doing here?
	Why are you here?
	And they detained us for over an hour, and then we found out later it was...
	Wait, they detained you?
	Yeah.
	They're making phone calls.
	They had us waiting, you know, for they were talking.
	They were looking under the car.
	It was unbelievable.
	And it turned out this was Jack Straw's little township.
	And the prick turned his own township, which used to be a tourist attraction, into some sort of an armed camp that we knew nothing about.
	I felt that this guy had to be a douchebag to do that.
	So here he is talking about regulating the media.
	Mr Jack Straw.
	Thank you Mr Speaker.
	On the issue of the future regulation of the press.
	May I urge the Prime Minister not to fall into the trap which I think some in the press are setting to assert that any degree of statutory regulation is bound to lead to an end of self-regulation.
	Given that the express newspapers have actually withdrawn from the Press Complaints Commission, as they did in January, will he acknowledge that there may be some measures which will have to be imposed by statute in order that there is a stronger system of self-regulation?
	Yes.
	I think the right old gentleman speaks some very wise words about this.
	There are ways of setting up a regulatory system that is effectively independent, non-statutory, not involved with the government's fingertips all over it, as it were, but that can do a good job and a trusted job.
	I think you see that in some of the advertising.
	That's good enough.
	He mentions the advertising.
	In other words, he wants the newspapers to be regulated like the advertising industry.
	Yeah, which is regulation.
	Yeah, big time.
	Total regulation.
	Just play one more little clip here on Cameron on media experts because I thought you'd get a kick out of this one.
	Okay.
	I think the Honourable Lady makes a very good point.
	There's no doubt, having worked in a regulated industry in television where you could be fined if you got something wrong and the company I worked for was fined a lot of money once, it has a huge effect on the business.
	But it's not for us to say what the rules should be.
	It is for this inquiry and it should be properly advised by experts who understand how the media works.
	Sir Peter Bohn.
	Yes.
	That's right.
	John, you and I should be on this commission!
	We should, because we understand how the media works.
	Yes, yes, we understand.
	And here's the rules, as per John C. Dvorak, the Honorable Mr.
	Dvorak and the Honorable Mr.
	Curry, there should be no ugly chicks presenting the news.
	That would be my rule.
	Actually, that would be a pretty good rule.
	Yeah, that would be my rule.
	So, the point is, this is obviously headed in some direction called regulating the media so the government can control the information flow, and they've got to get...
	Now, they're going to get rid of Murdoch, and they're going to probably take over the...
	I mean, I realize now that the London Times is really the target here, and I'm wondering why.
	If you start looking into it, you find some really sketchy stuff they may have been working on, including a story about how it's possible that the Crown was behind the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, which happened nine months after Gordon Brown got in, and a few...
	And after that creep who you played the clip from last week.
	I don't know if I have a clip from him.
	Which creep?
	A political creep?
	Yeah, the head of labor.
	Oh, a middle band.
	Yeah, that guy.
	He apparently, Budo called him directly and said, hey, they're trying to kill me.
	Don't shoot!
	And he said, oh, well, you know, I don't think we need to help you there.
	You know, she's assassinated.
	Whoops.
	So, I mean, there's something fishy going on, and I believe, because if you look at the Times of London, they were pretty aggressive at going after some of this stuff that the other papers weren't doing.
	And I also think there may have been an interagency war going on, because, you know, we already know that the CIA populates American newspapers with...
	With people that work for them and they plant stories when necessary, why wouldn't they have agents within the British media?
	And if that's the case, would they need to be rousted?
	It's interesting you say that because I had a couple discussions yesterday about politics and show business and the celebrity ambassadors, etc.
	And everyone here knows how it works.
	It's real simple.
	All these guys have handlers, and you and I talk about it all the time, John.
	They all have handlers, and they just give them the story, particularly if they're reporters.
	It's like, oh, that's a great story.
	Thanks.
	Let me just go write that.
	I don't think there's no shills.
	It's just, you've got a handler, the guy who calls you, a tipster.
	I'm deep throat, man.
	And I think if they actually got to the bottom of it, which they won't, it's quite likely that the so-called phone hacking that took place wasn't even done by any of the reporters.
	It could be people out in the field that just needed to leak certain kinds of information.
	I mean, the thing that last week, people should listen to the last show, the Gordon Brown clip that we had on there.
	He accused the London Times of revealing all kinds of very secret information that had nothing to do with phone hacking.
	Where did they get his medical records?
	Where did they find all this stuff out?
	And he blamed the London Times, which is part of the Murdoch operation.
	He comes on in a very formal setting and he rants about this.
	And I'm thinking, well, this sounds like MI5 trying to get rid of the CIA or something along those lines.
	I don't know.
	And of course the CEO of Dow Jones, who published the Wall Street Journal, he resigned.
	So the rats are leaving the ship.
	And it's over.
	And they got rid of the Cameron assistant.
	Yeah, and actually Rebecca Brooks was arrested this morning.
	She turned herself in, but she's under arrest.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, but the problem is, this is a huge distraction.
	There's lots of stuff.
	You know, Libya, hello?
	You know, there's so many things going on.
	Actually, I want to talk about Libya, but why don't we thank some of our producers before we get into it, John?
	Yeah, good idea.
	We do have a number of producers that helped us with today's shows, including a couple of big producers.
	Michael Zelina, Sir Michael Zelina, who's just re-upped his knighthood.
	He wanted to join the $1,111.11 club to commemorate 11-11-11, which is coming off.
	On guess what day?
	Duh.
	Is it a Sunday?
	It's 11-11-11.
	Well, duh.
	I could set him up.
	It doesn't help.
	We just re-upped my knighthood.
	Thanks to you and your significant others for sticking to the model through thick and thin, I went back and listened to some earlier shows this week using the No Agenda app from my iPhone.
	It was interesting to hear a show evolve into what it has become.
	It's a beautiful thing!
	I need to check the hot hot seat.
	Sorry, sorry, sorry.
	Misfire.
	I need to check the Hot Pockets 2008 tour to see if it's going through Cleveland.
	Adam, I bet you could make a splash at that Fancy Pants Rock and Roll Hall of Fame we have gracing our shores.
	I'd be more than happy to.
	I'll make sure that Miss Mickey has Cleveland on the map.
	Cleveland!
	Cleveland, everybody.
	It's funny, you know, it's like...
	I think...
	You have to understand that I am persona non grata in the official circles.
	So MTV has its 30th anniversary on August 1st.
	Guess who's not going to be in it?
	Seriously.
	Me?
	I'm not going to be in it.
	You're right.
	Yeah, John, you're excluded.
	And they're going to be talking about Headbangers Ball and that douchebag Ricky Rackman will be on like he owns the show.
	I shouldn't get too frustrated.
	I mean, you know, it's what happens when you sue a big corporation and win.
	I wouldn't invite you either.
	It's bad.
	But it's like they're erasing me.
	I'm rubbed out.
	I'm rubbed out from history.
	They just erased me.
	So, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum, yeah.
	You know what?
	Here's what will happen.
	I'll show up.
	They can't get you out of the Swamp Thing movie.
	That's true.
	Now I'm there forever.
	That I'll show up and they go, hey, Adam Curry, great!
	That'll be a $39 entrance fee.
	Oh, no, no.
	There'll be two big goons hauling your ass and throwing your butt out the door.
	Get out of here, kid.
	Hey, you're not invited.
	You know what that means?
	Yeah, I'm not invited.
	$39 at the door.
	You should just show up.
	You should.
	Yeah, we're okay.
	Chris Jacob, Sir Chris Jacob, as a matter of fact, out of San Francisco, is $1,000.
	Now this is a special donation?
	Yeah, I think you have the note there.
	Yes, I do.
	Now, Sir Chris Jacob, who is a long-time friend of the show, I've known Chris a long time myself, in the morning, guys, I'm donating this knighthood to a long-time listener and monthly plan donor to the No Agenda show, Craig William Ducar, I think that's how you, D-U-C-A-R, who will now be Sir Craig, died tragically in a motorcycle accident on the 13th of July this year.
	Craig was a huge supporter of the show and gathered people around him to get involved in it as well.
	He was a friend of mine for 25 years, an example of kindness and generosity to all.
	Please take a moment to recognize him on the show.
	So we will do that with a posthumous knighthood, of course.
	And Chris, thank you so much for thinking of him.
	And what a beautiful way to commemorate his attention and support to the show as well.
	Yes, and it's a shame that we're losing our listeners.
	Yeah, no shame.
	This is not how we want to go down, because our listeners diminish this way.
	This sucks.
	David Hewitt of Exeter, California, $666.66, which turns him into a night as a second installment.
	I first heard your show when Ossie Maynard interviewed Adam, replayed on the Skeptic Zone podcast.
	Keep up the good work that people must keep informed.
	Please put in a plug against weasels.
	I've been dealing with them for years and now I'm tired of it.
	There should be severe punishment for weasely behavior.
	Oh, okay.
	People weasels, alright.
	Maybe you should have a de-weaseling to complement the de-douching.
	I actually had weasels in my chicken coop when I lived in Belgium.
	And weasels suck.
	Weasels are the worst.
	They go and they sneak into a chicken coop because they can get through any crack and then they eat all the chickens.
	Yeah, it's not a pretty sight when you're with your six-year-old daughter.
	Hey, let's go get some eggs.
	It's usually like a beak.
	Yeah, really.
	It's like pieces of chicken everywhere and not like McNuggets.
	Yeah, it's disgusting.
	Yeah.
	David, I'm sorry, Christian Winter, Mac Tank, as he's known.
	Venice, California, 444-44.
	Gas money, bring it home, baby.
	LA awaits.
	Hey, can we have a party at your house while you're gone?
	No!
	No.
	I was thinking of that too.
	Even Christina doesn't have the key.
	She's like, hey daddy, can I have the key?
	No.
	Oh, can you imagine?
	Hey daddy, can I have the key to the car?
	No.
	Ying Zhu.
	No.
	Not going to happen.
	Ying Zhu and Mossman, New South West Australia.
	New South Wales.
	South Wales.
	What am I thinking?
	New South Wales, NSW. In the morning, John and Adam, Ying from Gitmo Nation Science.
	I was hugely embarrassed to be told about my friend Lawrence.
	Lawrence Yin from Gitmo Nation Chili Crab during the last episode.
	I'm ashamed to have been a long-time douchebag.
	Please don't dedouche me as I work better under pressure just like all good slaves.
	Despite having the jingle Dvorak.org slash NA engraved in my brain for years, I have been too lazy to type the URL into my browser.
	Oh, it's so much work.
	But I finally went to the site this afternoon.
	I was so impressed that it looks exactly the same whether no script is turned on or off.
	That's because there's no script.
	Yeah, none.
	That I have to give you guys some extra rice.
	I'd like to contribute $3.33 for the next episode.
	$33.33 for a podcast license and the rest of Adam's gas fund.
	Total of $400.
	Can you please play In the Morning in Chinese?
	Yes, of course.
	And give some karma back to Lawrence for being such an awesome corporate slave shill.
	No problem.
	Here, slave.
	You've got karma.
	You've got karma.
	And he's going to race Lawrence to knighthood, he says.
	Where the loser will be enslaved and have to drink high fructose corn syrup.
	Nice.
	Yes.
	Well, I don't know if that's a good idea.
	Taylor Stewart.
	Sir Taylor, as a matter of fact, from Calabasas, California.
	Home of the Kardashians.
	Is that right?
	Yeah.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	2-22-22 in the morning.
	John and Adam love my night ring and I wear it every day.
	My wife and I feel exactly like Adam and Mickey.
	We're going to get the heck out of California too.
	Ironically, we are house hunting in Flagstaff, Arizona this Monday while you two are house hunting in Vegas.
	Our donation of a lucky 111-11 from each of us and we'd like a double shot of karma to help us in our dream, find our dream property, get off the grid.
	And how about a shot of karma to you and Mickey to find the perfect home too.
	Good luck with your escape from behind the iron curtain.
	Alright, let me give a double dose of karma there for you.
	Here's dose number one.
	You've got karma.
	Alright.
	And Miss Mickey and I will gladly take the second shot as well.
	Here we go.
	One more karma for me.
	You've got karma.
	We do have a new category of support, John.
	During the meetup, lots of people came up with envelopes with beautiful cards and really nice notes.
	And I want to mention all of them in the donation segment later on.
	They will be our official Hot Pockets producers.
	But two of them came in with excessive funds, which are great.
	I think it's probably going to cost us about $250 a day in gas alone on the road, considering the gas price.
	If you stay on the road, it will.
	It's only 10 miles of the gallon you can do.
	It's like nine.
	It's going to cost you five bucks.
	Four bucks to go ten miles and you're going to go...
	Yeah, we're going to go...
	It adds up.
	Yeah, we're going to go like four or five hundred miles a day.
	So, yeah, it does add up.
	Anyway, so people are giving us gas cards, which is really nice.
	That's highly appreciated.
	And we got $200 from Harry Pilgrim and his wife Jen, which is highly appreciated.
	And Matt Jones, and I have a note from him later on in the new Hot Pockets Producer segment, 222.22.
	He has a very funny note, by the way, so we'll get to that later on.
	But you will be associated...
	Associate Executive Producers for this episode of No Agenda, episode 322.
	You can find all the credits and the show notes at 322.nashownotes.com.
	And the support has really been overwhelming.
	Then again, when I think about the sauna that I'm in right now, I think we deserve all the support.
	I can't keep the air conditioning.
	It's just going to get hotter.
	I'm telling you, it's like I am dripping, literally.
	It's like, I thought for a second, am I sitting on a swimming pool?
	Oh no, that's just my ass.
	I can't have the air conditioner on because it just sounds like a mess.
	I've got a very slow fan going here at the feet.
	So you are going on this tour.
	Yes, sir.
	Hopefully you're leaving.
	When are you leaving?
	Tonight?
	No.
	Tomorrow morning we're going to leave early.
	Okay, leave real early when it's cool.
	Uh-huh.
	And like, you know, five.
	And you are in the West Coast, one of the great heat waves of the United States history, so this will be memorable.
	Well, what's...
	Kind of a bummer in a way is because we're on East Coast time right now.
	So the show literally kicks off at noon.
	I mean, could it be any hotter at this moment?
	Could it be any warmer right now?
	And bring some of those bags.
	There's these bags.
	You don't see them as much as you used to.
	I don't know where you're going to get them anymore.
	I think surplus place.
	But there's these canvas bags that you fill with water and they leak kind of and the bag cools because there's evaporation.
	The water leaks.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And so it keeps the bags cold and people usually have them hanging off these RVs and then every so often you have to take the bag of water and literally throw it on the radiator because you're going to be overheating in this weather.
	I don't care what you're driving.
	Hey John, thanks.
	That's encouraging.
	Anyway, I want to give some special karma to our host, Baroness Maggie Vincent, the elusive Mr.
	Smith, as well as Harry and Jen Pilgrim.
	They've been fantastic.
	They've really taken care of us.
	So here's a special shot of karma for them.
	You've got karma.
	Now, a couple of domain name forwards that we have coming in that are all forwarding to NoAgendaShow.com.
	MyBigBlackBalls.com.
	Not quite sure what the reference is, but...
	Magic 8-Ball.
	Oh!
	Well, there you go.
	Matthew Von Mater says, Hey, you know, I've just re-upped.
	I guess we weren't tracking all these domains.
	We have well over 500 now.
	Let's see.
	AnagendalessMorning.com.
	Fu-NWO.com.
	As in F-U. W-N-W-O. New World Order.
	Got it.
	MediaAssassination.com.
	NoAgendaDatabase.com.
	NoAgendaConsole.com.
	And of course, 420InTheMorning.com.
	Yeah, how could we do without that one?
	That's a good one.
	NoTaxForYou.com.
	Which is based upon a potential move out of the state of California.
	Memefest.com, which I think is great.
	That's a good one.
	Yeah, that fits right in.
	The product is People.com, another great one.
	You guys are really all over this stuff.
	This is good.
	Crazyslave.com and Revealedhedeniers.com, which I think will be a perfect...
	Crazy Slaves was available?
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	All aboard the Crazy Slaves!
	Reveal the deniers, which I think will be good.
	When we find a denier, which you and I would be the first ones, we'll have adam.revealthedeniers.com and can put that on your business card.
	So you can follow the trip at hotpockets2008.com.
	I've committed myself to blogging a little piece every single day.
	Miss Mickey has taken tons of pictures.
	There's also...
	We had a little family discussion here, and I caved in.
	Miss Mickey has a Facebook page for the tour.
	Hot Pockets Tour 2008.
	So it's Facebook.com slash Hot Pockets Tour 2008.
	What about a Google Plus page?
	Yeah.
	So, come on, man.
	She lives in that world.
	It's fine.
	Well, then she should live in Google+.
	No, she's not in the Googles at all.
	Interesting.
	My hands are now so wet, I'm slipping all over the knobs.
	Sliding on the knobs.
	So, thank you all so much for the support.
	You need a couple of towels there to towel off.
	Believe me, I have a few.
	It's kind of foggy and overcast here.
	It's beautiful, 70 degrees.
	It's 100 degrees here in Virginia.
	So the support is highly appreciated, particularly during these summer months.
	It's very difficult to make anything work on the internet during the summer because of vacations and all kinds of stuff.
	So we highly appreciate the people coming in with higher amounts to pick up some of the slack.
	And of course, as always...
	The monthlies are incredibly important.
	We lose about 10 a week on just PayPal kicking you off or whatever happens.
	We've never really figured it out.
	So please check it if you have a $5 or 11.11 or a 33 monthly subscription.
	Those are really a base that we need to grow more and it's incredibly important.
	So your support, of course, is always welcome.
	I'm telling you, I'm really bad today.
	There we go.
	Everybody else, you have a message and a mission.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	World.
	Order.
	Save my crowd, everybody.
	Shut up, baby.
	So, uh...
	I want to get one last clip in before we go on, which is a term I heard in the Parliament.
	Okay.
	And I want you to...
	Have you ever heard this, or is it a common term?
	Is it a term that we should promote?
	It's the WTF clip.
	Okay.
	Is this a term that we should be promoting?
	Let's have a listen.
	Thank you, Mr.
	Speaker.
	Thank you.
	I welcome the Prime Minister's statement in the terms of the public inquiry which she set out, but can I ask if the public inquiry will consider the role that mobile phone companies have played in this scandal and any future consideration of the responsibilities which they might have to their clients and protecting their privacy?
	I think the Royal Lady makes a very good point.
	I mean, as it were, it takes two to blag, someone to ask, someone to give.
	Blag?
	Yeah, they used the term blag and blagging.
	Yeah, that's what this was, is blagging.
	Yeah, blagging.
	Yeah, I mean, I guess, I don't know where it comes from, but that's the term they invented for this hacking.
	They call it blagging.
	Well, I thought blagging was, because I heard it again in a different context, and it sounds to me as though the definition means to portray yourself as someone you're not.
	I have not looked up the definition.
	It takes two to blag.
	One, the blagger, which is a phony, and the other one that responds positively to the phony.
	So, could you be a blaggard?
	No, you couldn't be a blaggard.
	Maybe.
	Yeah, you could be a blaggard.
	You can be a blagger, like a blogger, but you can't be a bloggard.
	Hey, are you a blogger?
	No, I'm a blagger.
	Oh, okay.
	Welcome to the show.
	I don't know.
	I never heard it before.
	They're using it freely.
	Have you heard the term slog?
	And slogging?
	Yeah, slogging, which means you're working, kind of dragging your ass to a pipe.
	No, no, no.
	That's a term here in the D.C. area.
	So they have these slog stops.
	Along the highway, because it's so crazy here, and they have a three-person HOV lane.
	So you pull off at a slog stop, and then you say, I'm going to the Pentagon, as one does, and then a minimum of two people jump in, and then it's like a carpool, only it's called slogging, and they have websites for it and all kinds of stuff.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	It's like the bus sharing that we have here in the Berkeley area.
	Yeah, without the sandals, though.
	I've never seen the sandals on these commuters, but you know what you do in the AC Transit area in the morning commute to San Francisco is you stand at the bus stop and some guy will drive up usually in a nice car like a BMW by himself and he put two people in the car and then he jumps on the freeway and he gets to go through the carpool and he gets to the city faster and everybody gets over there free.
	Hmm.
	Well there you go.
	So I guess it's similar to slugging.
	Slogging is a user-generated movement here.
	I think it's the same thing.
	We don't call it slogging.
	We call it mooching, a ride.
	I don't know.
	I love it how Eric the Shill will post something in the back channel.
	Hotpockets2008.com seems to be down.
	You know what?
	I'm going to go log in right now because I have nothing better to do.
	You know what?
	The only thing I can think of doing right now is some system administration.
	That's what I'm into.
	Awesome.
	So there's a new movie coming out, John, which was brought to my attention.
	You know, it's that time of year again.
	What should we be focusing our attention on?
	Aliens?
	No, no, no, no, no, no, not even close.
	The budget crisis?
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	Underrepresentation in government?
	No.
	What?
	Well, of course, if it's a movie, it's about how we're all going to die.
	Yeah, okay.
	Well, is it going to be a virus this time?
	Yes!
	Oh, another flu.
	It's called Contagion.
	It is about the bird flu, literally.
	No freaky, like, some kind of weird flu.
	No, this time they're actually just going all about the bird flu.
	And it has huge stars.
	Matt Damon, of course, we know he's on the inside.
	He's in everything.
	Yeah, well, on everything that matters.
	By the way, I did some system administration.
	It's working now.
	So listen to a bit of the trailer from Contagion.
	Memefest.com all over it.
	The average person touches their face three to five times every waking minute.
	In between, we're touching doorknobs, water thumbs, and each other.
	Beth!
	Mom?
	No, no, go up to your room, honey.
	So we have a virus with no treatment protocol and no vaccine at this time.
	You had a seizure this morning, Beth.
	She had a history of seizure.
	No, no, no.
	As of last night, there were 32 cases.
	Unfortunately, she did die.
	Right.
	Can I go talk to her?
	Mr.
	Amoff, your wife is dead.
	What are you talking about?
	What happened to her?
	What happened to her?
	Is there any way someone could weaponize the bird flu?
	Is that what we're looking at?
	You hear that?
	Weaponize the bird flu?
	I like it.
	Yeah, and it's Lauren's fish burn.
	It's amazing.
	Was it Baxter that did it?
	That paid for the movie, you mean?
	No, Baxter that weaponized the bird flu.
	No, we don't know.
	We don't know.
	I mean, we have to see the movie.
	Oh, you mean they don't tell you the trailer?
	Most of these trailers tell you everything.
	Well, listen to it!
	Is there any way someone could weaponize the bird flu?
	Is that what we're looking at?
	Someone doesn't have to weaponize the bird flu.
	Oh, the birds are doing that.
	Oh, birds!
	Oh, the birds are out to get us.
	It's transmission, so we just need to know which direction.
	On day one, there were two people, and then four, and then 16.
	In three months, it's a billion.
	That's where we're headed.
	They're calling out the National Guard or they're moving the president underground.
	People will tell me.
	Get away!
	It will tip over.
	The truth is being kept from the world.
	Cook your samples.
	destroy everything.
	Hello.
	I need you to get me the names of everyone who serviced this room.
	It's an emergency.
	You can't panic now.
	I know.
	I'm gonna get you home.
	I got people too, Dr.
	Cheever.
	We all do.
	Don't talk to anyone.
	Don't touch anyone.
	Stay away from other people The president is done We're not sick!
	It's figuring us out faster than we're figuring it out.
	It's mutating.
	It's mutating!
	We're all gonna die, bitches!
	Die!
	Take your shot now!
	And you know what?
	In the movie, you know what the only remedy is against the bird flu, John?
	A shot.
	Hot pockets!
	Nope, you gotta eat your hot pockets.
	So, okay, 1971, same story, Andromeda Strain.
	Uh-huh.
	1995, exact same story, Outbreak with Dustin Hoffman.
	Which was about monkeys.
	This is about the bird flu.
	Yeah, but this is about an agent that got into the air.
	Yeah, it was a different animal.
	But it's the same basic thing because it spreads like crazy.
	Yeah, but it's better when it's bird flu because you don't need to weaponize it.
	The birds are doing it for us.
	Yeah, no, I like that.
	But none of these other ones were weaponized.
	They were just accidents.
	And one of them was...
	Who watches this crap?
	It's a big movie.
	You got, what's her name?
	Kate Winslet, Lawrence Fishburne, Matt Damon.
	They should all be ashamed of themselves.
	Oh, thank you.
	They shouldn't be doing these movies.
	Well, you know, they're MKUltra.
	What are they going to do?
	Matt Damon was in a movie I was watching, and my daughter kind of forced me to torture me to watch this thing.
	Which movie?
	Which movie?
	Pawn You.
	I haven't seen that one.
	Oh!
	Well, just play a clip.
	Play the clip.
	Pawn You and True Love, and you'll get a handle on it.
	Oh, my goodness.
	You have clips from a movie trailer.
	I can't believe it.
	Here we go.
	No, it's from the movie.
	Listen, my darling, why don't we let Ponyo become human for good?
	We must test the boy.
	If Sosuke's love is true, Ponyo will be permanently transformed and the balance of nature will be restored.
	But if his love isn't real, then Ponyo will turn into sea foam.
	True.
	That is where we all originated, my darling.
	The boy is so young, so innocent.
	What the...
	Shh!
	What is it about?
	Like My Little Pony or something?
	Let me tell you what it's about.
	This is like some famous director everybody talks about.
	JC, what's the name of this famous director?
	Grimaldi?
	Or what the hell is his name?
	Frank Karachi.
	Anyway, this is about an environmentalist who is some sort of a wizard.
	He's an environmentalist who wants to kill all human beings off the face of the earth, which is kind of reflective of what a lot of environmentalists believe is the way it should be.
	Right.
	And he's married to some goddess that runs the oceans.
	And the two of them created a goldfish as a child.
	And the goldfish turned into a little girl who fell in love with this little boy in the outskirts of Japan someplace.
	And the whole process...
	And this is a cartoon.
	Nice.
	And Matt Damon is in it.
	Of course.
	The guy is in all...
	He's on 30 Rock.
	He apparently is bored.
	He just does anything.
	No, he'll do anything that his handlers tell him to do.
	Speaking of population control, I think it was The Guardian.
	Let me see, what was it?
	Yeah, it was The Guardian.
	So you know the Beckhams had a new kid, right?
	So now they have four.
	And here's the article from...
	I couldn't believe this.
	Beckham's...
	By the way...
	Yeah?
	I understand those kids are actually born with Botox built in.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Duh.
	Hold on.
	I'm going to give you a little ding there.
	Title of the article, Beckham's a bad example for families.
	David and Victoria Beckham have been overjoyed to welcome their new daughter, Harper Seven.
	What is it, like a drone?
	Harper Seven?
	What should we name the kid, honey?
	How about Harper Seven?
	Yeah, that's good.
	I like it.
	I like it.
	Harper Seven of nine last week.
	According to a growing group of campaigners, the birth of their fourth child make the couple a bad role model and environmentally irresponsible.
	Yes!
	The Green MP, Caroline Lucas, says as the world's population is due to hit 7 billion at some point in the next few days, there's an increasing call in the UK to open a public debate about how many children people should have.
	That's right.
	Stop having sex.
	This is not good.
	When you call your kid Harper 7, you're kind of asking for it.
	The media's got to get their act together.
	They're talking about the depopulation of Europe because of low birth rates.
	And the fact that the whole place is going to be taken over by high birth rate cultures from the Middle East.
	And that on the one hand, and on the other hand, they bitch and moan when somebody actually has more than two kids.
	I mean, these people are disgusting.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's not okay.
	Bad example.
	It's a beautiful family, by the way.
	Yeah, if anybody should be breeding, it's people like, you know, the rest of us, including myself.
	But, I mean, you've got a superstar athlete and a woman.
	Of course, you can't tell if she's pretty or not.
	She's got so much Botox on her face.
	But, generally speaking, you'd think she's attractive.
	She can sing, kind of.
	Please.
	Please, Chigga.
	So the president, of course, one of the presidents, once again showed us that at least one of the two Obamas is a drone.
	I don't know if you caught this.
	How many times a guy does a press conference about this American Idol thing he's in?
	What's it called?
	Oh yeah, the debt ceiling.
	Now, new from Fox, it's the debt ceiling.
	What'll happen?
	Who's gonna win?
	Who will turn out to be awesome?
	So, uh, another round, uh, we're in, uh, semi-finals now of the debt ceiling.
	And, of course, we know that President Obama was at least one of the Obamas, the campaigning Obama, was rebooted in the Gitmo Nation East in the UK, and he signed his name in the registrar book there at Westminster Abbey, Obama 2008, so they just kind of rebooted the whole campaigning program.
	Then he forgot how old his daughter was.
	Now, this is from two days ago, and I couldn't believe he did that.
	I mean, they've got to tweak the programming.
	I think it's a Perl script that has gone awry.
	People like myself, if I'm going to be turning 50 in a week.
	Really?
	In a week?
	Now, his birthday is August 4th.
	So when he said this, it was like three weeks.
	How do you get that wrong?
	Yeah, you may be onto something here.
	Well, first of all, it was your entire thesis that there are two Obamas.
	We did have two swearing-in ceremonies.
	We haven't forgotten.
	Right, there were two swearing-in ceremonies, and there's two different-looking guys.
	No, no, something like, yeah, next week.
	Does not compute.
	Does not compute.
	I mean, you know what, if...
	I mean, I understand.
	I wouldn't say, yeah, it's my birthday next week.
	If it's in three weeks, I'd say, you know, like next month, you could say that.
	Like a couple weeks.
	Or my birthday's coming up or whatever.
	Yeah, but he literally...
	But actually three weeks isn't even near your birthday, it seems to me.
	You wouldn't even bring it up.
	But just listen to the intonation and everything.
	It's like he actually believes it's next week.
	People like myself...
	If, you know, I'm going to be turning 50 in a week.
	In a week?
	No!
	It's three weeks!
	Wow.
	Maybe he's on different, like, they still had him on 50 cycles for the UK, and then they put him on 60 cycles, so his internal clock is running faster.
	It's got to be something like that.
	I'm sorry, this doesn't make any sense to me.
	And by the way, this is the gray-haired Obama.
	Oh, okay.
	Not looking good.
	Not looking good at all.
	So, I don't know.
	You tell me.
	And, well, he did say something really funny.
	Hey, John, let me just ask you.
	Are you one of the 80% of Americans who are completely sold on higher taxes?
	No.
	I don't know who is sold on it.
	Who wants higher taxes?
	What idiot wants more?
	I want to be taxed.
	Well, here's the guy.
	The bottom line is that this is not an issue of salesmanship to the American people.
	The American people are sold.
	Sold!
	The American people are sold.
	Who are we sold to?
	China?
	We're sold.
	Shut up, Chip.
	Shut up, Chuck.
	You have 80% of the American people who support a balanced approach.
	80% of the American people support an approach that includes revenues, It includes cuts.
	Okay.
	And revenues means taxes.
	Yeah.
	No, it's a better word.
	Revenue.
	Yeah, let's go make some more revenue.
	That sounds good.
	But we're sold.
	We're sold.
	The American people, this is not salesmanship.
	Isn't that exactly the way a used car dealer talks to you?
	Hey man, I'm not trying to sell you anything.
	Okay?
	But I got a great options package for you.
	Well, I'm surprised he's not pulling the old, would you agree with me that?
	Yeah.
	Well, he's close to that.
	Well, I don't want to blow up this clip right away, so never mind.
	Okay, well, hold on to it then.
	Hold on to it.
	I'd like to speak to our friends down under.
	Gitmo Nation, Oz.
	Those poor guys.
	Yeah, and it's important.
	The content of this is really not all that important, but we've seen it here.
	What was the last time when the president had some woman, and she's like, I believed in you, and now I don't know how to believe you.
	And she was scripted, right?
	You and I both sat there and watched.
	It's like, oh, wow.
	They got some scripted woman, and they're going to refer to that woman time and time again.
	And you can always kind of see when these shills get up.
	Julia Gillard, whatever her name is, she did an open forum, like a little town hall meeting, and this hottie gets up, and just listen to the words she's using, and tell me this is not a scripted question, which, by the way, the Prime Minister doesn't answer at all.
	I'm Eliza, and I work in higher education.
	Same as the other woman in America.
	She was a teacher, remember?
	She was a teacher, so here's higher education.
	My question is that I am not sure as an ordinary Australian, whatever that means, that I can trust.
	Whatever that means, because I'm not.
	I'm 30 years old.
	I'm a single female, single income, just bought my first home.
	My parents were flooded in the recent floods.
	I wasn't.
	My parents' neighbours were flooded in the recent floods.
	And I'm bearing the brunt of your taxes.
	I have seen you backflip on many things.
	Your determination that you weren't going to overthrow Kevin Rudd You've backflipped on the carbon tax.
	You have backflipped.
	You've even done things that in opposition you would have found abhorrent.
	Abhorrent!
	Oh yes, that's how everyone talks down there.
	The only people in the world who use the word abhorrent is you and I, John.
	And this is like, I'm just a regularly ordinary girl.
	I'm a single female.
	I'm hot.
	I'm not married, by the way, so please turn your brain off and just think of...
	Stopping me!
	And asylum seekers to Malaysia.
	My question is fairly simple.
	How can anyone trust you with this record?
	Because I don't think I can anymore.
	So, and then of course the Prime Minister goes on to say, well...
	Okay, well I can answer that question.
	It's not an easy question, but I'll have a go at it.
	Yeah, I'll just read the script.
	The script that we agreed on prior to this.
	Now go back and get your batteries recharged.
	I like this backflip term.
	Backflip, yeah.
	We would say flip-flop.
	Flip-flop was the one we came up with.
	It also promotes a product, so that's a good thing.
	It's always good when you can sell something.
	But a backflip doesn't really promote any products.
	But I like it.
	It makes you look like you visualize a porpoise jumping out of the water and flipping over.
	Or a poodle.
	You know, I've always wanted to have a dog.
	A poodle.
	That could do backflips.
	So I'm really dismayed.
	And I need some help from our producers.
	Oh.
	Of course, we've got over 200 now at NoAgendaNewsNetwork.com.
	We've got a lot of people posting there, which flows into the stream at NoAgendaStream.com.
	So, Lucifer Clinton is out on the road again.
	By the way, she's on the road with Kathy, the High Priestess of Europe, the High Representative.
	Ashton.
	Ashton.
	Baroness Ashton.
	And so what is shitty, sorry for the language there, is like, she's in Turkey.
	And apparently no news media can go to Turkey and cover the most evil person in our government, which is Lucifer Hillary Clinton.
	So I'm dependent upon whatever snippets they put up at state.gov and the Turkish television, which is unusable, un-understandable, because, let me think, oh yeah, it's in Turkish.
	And I'm trying to look through sites and try to find just a clip of her really talking.
	Because the United States of Gitmo Nation now officially recognizes the Transitional National Committee of Libya.
	Were you aware of this, John?
	Oh, yeah.
	And I'm really bummed because the State Department, they don't have Final Cut Pro.
	I think they're using iMovie or maybe Cut and Paste in QuickTime.
	That's what I use.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Well, it sounds like something you would have edited.
	Hey!
	So Lucifer comes out in Turkey, and there's a preamble, and she says something, and then they cut away from it.
	And I know it was going to be really funny.
	I have no idea what she said.
	And then she just goes into her whole thing.
	So listen to the preamble, and you're like, Oh, I wish we could have heard everything she said.
	And then listen to how she now recognizes these douchebags.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	That's it, right?
	You know there was something there.
	Okay!
	Okay!
	Hi!
	Do you like my hair?
	The assurances the TNC offered today reinforce our confidence that it is the appropriate interlocutor for the United States in dealing with Libya's present and addressing Libya's future.
	That is why I announced earlier that until an interim authority is in place, Now, what does this mean exactly?
	Well...
	We have a member of the TNC who, by the way, fly around in a C-130.
	You'll only hear this in the clip.
	And it's very confusing because this whole, I think it was a BBC report, they show these guys with white masks and they're the rebels and they've got AK-47s and they look like Dad's Army, for those of you who would know.
	But it's like...
	They look highly unorganized.
	And this is only to give you the idea that they're rebels.
	Meanwhile, we've got drones killing people in Tripoli.
	Hundreds of children.
	They're shooting up schoolhouses, hospitals.
	You don't see any of that.
	No, no, no.
	We're going to show you a bunch of guys in the desert walking backwards.
	And then they fly in on a C-130, and they're pretending like they're landing on a desert road, which, by the way, is a huge runway.
	I can tell they're just between a converted desert road and a highway, but okay, whatever.
	This is how these guys get around.
	They're not like sitting there in the dugout, in the hideout.
	No, they get flown in on a C-130.
	And, of course, these are guys that are all educated in Pennsylvania.
	So is it time to talk to the regime?
	A plane carrying rebel ministers from Benghazi lands on a mountain road converted into an airstrip.
	Bullcrap.
	Gaddafi and his family have to leave unconditionally.
	This is a Libyan.
	This is a Libyan rebel.
	And I don't know if any...
	The guy sounds like a wannabe broadcaster from Des Moines, Iowa.
	He sounds like that guy, that homeless guy who was that voice talent.
	Oh, right, the voice.
	Yeah.
	Whatever happened to him.
	Yeah.
	This is what he's doing now.
	Yeah, he's like, ah, hey, hello, everybody.
	You officially in the cabinet that I represent that look into or believe that we are ready to...
	Yeah, whatever.
	So the guy is fluent in...
	Sounds like your version of an Arab accent.
	Yeah.
	I can't even do it like that.
	So, he's one of the ministers, and of course this Juju Jabril is another Pennsylvania educated shill.
	And what is it all about?
	Well, what does the support really mean?
	What does it really come down to?
	It comes down to the money that was stolen that we're now going to give to these guys.
	Now, what would it cost?
	I'm thinking, John, if you and I said, you know what?
	Let's go overthrow this government in the desert.
	How much money would we need for that?
	As the official and legitimate governing body of Libya.
	The question becomes, how will that help the rebels?
	At this point, you know, we spoke today to the press secretary for the Transitional National...
	How about they have a press secretary?
	They got a hold, they got Helen Knowlton now.
	A whole PR agency.
	He told us that what they're in need most of right now is funding, that this council has been promised for the past few months $700 to $800 million.
	They've been given assurances and credit lines from countries that have frozen assets that belong to Libya, but that they have not received those funds, that they need those right away.
	In fact, he said they need At least $3 billion in aid immediately.
	They need it as quickly as possible in order to try to establish the democratic institutions and reforms that the international community and the Libyan rebels are so desiring for Libya.
	I love it.
	Hey, give me $3 billion!
	So, of course, this has now been decided.
	This is how it works.
	Hey, you do deals with the Chinese?
	Guess what?
	We're taking all your money that you have in our banks.
	We're going to call that...
	By the way, it's $33 billion.
	Nice number.
	Then we're going to have a bunch of guys fly around in a C-130 with a bunch of other guys shooting AK-47s into the dust.
	And then we're going to take $3 billion, another nice magic number.
	You take $3 billion, and then we've got an office for the European Union and Benghazi.
	Shame on all news media.
	Where are the pictures of the dead children and dead civilians that these hellfires have caused and the drones flying around just shooting people?
	Missiles up their butt.
	You don't see any of that.
	This is truly wag the dog.
	Truly.
	So they're going to give these guys, hey, thanks for playing along.
	Here's three billion.
	I wonder what will happen to the other 30.
	It's disgusting to me.
	Yeah, the $30 billion is going to vanish, that's for sure.
	Well, anyway, that was a front-page story in terms of news coverage on the New York Times Saturday edition.
	And when I do my little breakdown today, I want to mention I finally have come to the conclusion that it's the Saturday edition of the New York Times, which nobody reads.
	That has all the meaningful news stories that need to be communicated to the Stooges.
	Okay, do you want a break now?
	Yeah, we might as well go over who we got.
	Yeah, it's time to break.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda In the morning So, uh, I thought I'd play an off-key note Since you're gonna sing off-key or insist on it Luke Lucas Hokanson, Sir Lucas, as a matter of fact, in Selkirk, Manitoba, $150.
	Hey there, John and Adam.
	It's been too long since I last donated, so here it is.
	On a side note, I wish to call out my father, Lorne Hokanson, as a douchebag.
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	I would say DeLeon.
	It could be DeLeon.
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	It's one of the two.
	Duncanville, Texas, under $11.11.
	This goes towards my husband, John Anthony's knighthood.
	His 26th birthday is tomorrow, so please give him a shout-out.
	Also, we can get some NA karma for our house search.
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	And to make his day extra special, please hit Hugo Perez with the douchebag.
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	You've got karma now.
	She gave us some hugs and kisses.
	Oh, nice.
	Troy Walters, Sir Troy Walters, 100 bucks.
	And finally, I fall a few shorts behind due to taking a holiday.
	Finally, you guys covered the...
	Bullshit that is politics down under.
	Value for value coming to you from 20 minutes into episode 320 where you cover it in those Aussie carbon tax bullcrap.
	And then he makes a very interesting commentary.
	$100 for much.
	Rhymes with hunt.
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	I can't imagine what he's referring to.
	Daniel Jones, Austin, Texas, $50.
	Bless me, I've not donated in years.
	Please add some karma for my wife's job search.
	You've got karma.
	Adam, check out co-workers' offices for the tour.
	They should be available in mid-large cities.
	Austin has a number of them.
	Rateaustin.com.
	What, am I supposed to set up an office in Austin?
	I'm not sure what he's referring to.
	Jason Dozier or Dozier.
	As in Lamont Dozier.
	In Kansas City, Kansas, $50.
	And that's actually the total sum of our small donations this week.
	Wow, yeah.
	I'm glad we had some bigger ones to offset some of the charges.
	Yeah, that was a good thing.
	Let me see.
	I have a couple things here.
	First, emergency karma from Stephen Anto, who has been a donor in the past.
	I received some karma a month or so back.
	It was amazing.
	I find the highest posing job I'd ever had, then landed an even higher paying job just this Friday.
	Comes at a great time when moving, trying to start a family.
	My grandmother adopted me when I was born, raised me alone.
	Just had her 80th birthday last week.
	She took ill, doesn't look good.
	I'm waiting on two very nice checks that will come in on the 29th, and then I'll make a no-hassle donation.
	But if I get some emergency karma for Grandma, so I figured we should at least help him out with that.
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	And then the Hot Pockets producers who are helping us out here on the road.
	We have Harry and Jen Pilgrim.
	Matt Jones.
	We have...
	Actually, I want to read Matt's note here.
	It's kind of funny.
	In the morning, Adam, hope this is enough for a tank of gas.
	Maybe a cheap hooker.
	I call this amount the 222.22 to the head because I'm always amused by a good old-fashioned assassination.
	This also gets me two-ninths of the way to knighthood.
	My brother, associate executive producer Sam Jones, called me out as a douchebag back on July 3rd.
	However, I do not wish to be de-douche because I still consider myself a douche until I have reached knighthood.
	Instead, I want to be de-bonered.
	We don't have a jingle for that.
	For I am a donor now.
	You may notice that on every bill I have crossed out the Federal Reserve seal and wrote End the Fed in red marker.
	Oh, God.
	Which is against the law, people.
	I do this to every bill that comes into my possession.
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	No one has ever refused to take them.
	Okay.
	I would like to mention a little robot I created called dot slash fortune to follow on the tweeters.
	It uses the old Unix fortune command.
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	And Kevin Treminella.
	And, let's see, this is from Kevin T. Hey, just a little something to help you on your way.
	Since this is my first donation to the show, it would be great if I could get a de-douching and some karma, so we'll give you a double shot on that.
	You've been de-douched.
	Karma.
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	So we hope the karma helps.
	Thank you, everybody, for your beautiful cards.
	Some people just gave us a nice card, which is appreciated.
	We got, like, tattoos to wear and bumper stickers and all kinds of great stuff.
	And the next meetup will be in North Carolina.
	Miss Mickey is all over it.
	She sent out emails today to everyone who...
	So where are you going in North Carolina?
	I don't know.
	North Carolina is a beautiful state.
	I think it's one of the really fine states in terms of gorgeous state.
	I don't think we're going to go to Raleigh, though.
	I think we're going to go to...
	What's the other big city?
	Well, there's Durham, Raleigh, there's Ashland, there's...
	Asheville?
	Asheville, I'm sorry, Asheville.
	Which is also referred to as Sheville.
	Because there's hot chicks there?
	It's a stronghold of lesbians.
	Awesome.
	There used to be a website called Sheville.
	You just take the A off and it spells Sheville.
	Wait a minute.
	Wait a minute.
	Sheville.com.
	Let me just see.
	It's not what it once was.
	Sheville.com used to be a great website, but now it's minor.
	Lesbian singles, meet lesbian, commitment rings.
	Hey!
	They're doing commitment rings.
	I know we're going to do that.
	Biltmore Hotel Asheville.
	Wow!
	Cool!
	Meet lesbian singles.
	No.
	I know where we're going now.
	I think I pissed off the shill.
	He's so angry at what I said.
	I'll tell you, the other thing is that area has a different style.
	What you want to do is all throughout that area, you want to have as many, you want to stop at barbecue places and only eat like pulled pork and ribs.
	The North Carolina barbecue, which has four distinct styles, very unusual for any part of the country to have four styles of barbecue, are absolutely It's absolutely the best in the country.
	Yeah, John, great.
	I'm all over the lesbians, if you don't mind.
	So, okay, we'll look for pulled pork, whatever.
	Pulled pork, yeah, there's a joke in there, too, you know what I'm saying?
	Yeah, absolutely.
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	Hey.
	Don't worry about it.
	Can you cut off his power so we'll come around?
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	I'm so much younger.
	All right, happy birthday.
	Lawrence Royk celebrating his 51st birthday yesterday on July 16th.
	Of course, that's Sir Lawrence Royk.
	We appreciate all the support that he has given us throughout the past years on the show.
	And Melissa DeLeon says happy birthday to her husband, John Anthony.
	He turns 26 tomorrow.
	Happy birthday from all your buddies here at the No Agenda Show.
	Nice slide whistle, John.
	Excellent work.
	Ah, let's see.
	How I become a member of the symphony.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	Cool.
	Alright, so we have two nights, so let me just pull this one out.
	Would you let off the slide whistle and get your blade?
	Ah, well, there you go, finally.
	David Hewitt, step forward!
	And in absentia, in memoriam, Craig William Ducar.
	Both of you have meant a lot for the No Agenda show.
	Craig William, of course, in particular.
	And we appreciate Sir Chris Jacob for honoring Craig William Ducar in memoriam.
	And David Hewitt, thank you for all your support.
	You are now both Knights of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	I now knight me Sir David Hewitt and Sir Craig William Ducar.
	Knights of the No Agenda Roundtable!
	As always, hookers and blow.
	Now we should send out a ring.
	I guess we can maybe put it on Sir William's memorial or something.
	Yeah, something.
	Chris could tell us what to do.
	Chris will do that, yeah.
	I owe him a call.
	He called me like two weeks ago and I called back and then he called and so we've been missing each other.
	And we're sorry about Sir Craig, of course.
	Sucks.
	Hey!
	Wait, before you go hey and go into another...
	Oh, by the way, we did mention Dvorak.org slash NA, right?
	Yes.
	Well, you know, one more time.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. Something that's kept coming, that has been mentioned in a number of these notes and thus, and we have not talked about it, and I don't want to put it off and put it off so it doesn't mean anything anymore, but you did go house hunting and failed to report on the episode.
	I did.
	Miss Mickey and I went to Las Vegas.
	Gitmo Nation lost wages.
	We left last Sunday night after the show.
	Took a flight down and we're very excited about going to see if we could make a move there.
	And on Monday, we spent all day in 100 plus degrees heat looking at real estate.
	And I got to tell you that...
	Let me predict.
	You're going to say it's a fantastic place.
	It's an entertainment center of the world.
	And it's a place where people should just think about moving to.
	That's exactly right.
	That's exactly what I was going to say.
	And I will add to that that it's not for us.
	Why?
	You know, we need...
	It's the sand thing.
	And, you know, so when we get back from the tour, we're going to look at other places in Nevada.
	Maybe Reno.
	The sand is...
	We have to have green...
	It's too miserable down in Las Vegas, is what you're saying?
	I don't want to say it's miserable, but, you know, even the real estate agent couldn't sell it to us.
	You're like, no, so tell us about, you know, what's going on.
	Well, you know, if you like gaming...
	Yeah, but you know...
	How about the community?
	And then we saw some amazing homes.
	I mean, without a doubt.
	I mean, you could live in beautiful homes.
	But then you look out the window, and we saw one place, and it's all sand.
	And we're hill people, for sure.
	I like being on a hill looking down.
	And it was one place, you look out the back, there was like a trapeze.
	Like some entertainer had his whole setup in the back.
	And it was hot, and...
	I just couldn't see.
	And Mickey was literally physically ill from the thought.
	It just didn't work for us.
	Physically ill.
	I'm not kidding.
	Oh, this makes me sick.
	She was being a good sport about it.
	She really was.
	But I don't think we can do it.
	I like the idea of having the trapeze guy out there.
	They can give me free entertainment as he practices.
	Yeah, it would be awesome.
	Maybe we can show you.
	We can walk over there and say, hey, buddy, can you show me how to do a little of these tricks?
	Because you never know.
	I might need some extra work on the weekends.
	Look, I'll tell you one thing.
	We've got to move out of what we're living in now.
	It's too expensive.
	That's just a fact.
	We're going to look at the places in North Carolina.
	Wow.
	I know.
	We're going to be like...
	You know, we had a...
	Locally, we had one of the right-wing talk show guys, one of the pioneers of the Bay Area's right-wing talk shows, Jim Eason.
	Old-fashioned right-wing talk show.
	It had kind of that glib style that you don't hear too much anymore.
	And he, at some point, he moved to North Carolina and continued to do his San Francisco local broadcast from off an ISDN line right in there in North Carolina.
	And nobody even knew he was there.
	No, you know, and I think that...
	See, the only problem is my daughter lives in L.A. And as long as she's in L.A., I don't want to be, like, you know, a four-hour plane ride away.
	She's, you know, she's all alone.
	Her mom's in Gitmo Nation lowlands.
	You know, I've got to be kind of near.
	She's 20 still, so...
	Maybe I'm just being nuts.
	This is actually a big deal.
	I'm not going to see her for several weeks.
	Why don't you fly her out for a couple of days?
	Because you've got plenty of room in that thing.
	Bring in one of the kids.
	We already have agreed on that.
	We're bringing her out in two and a half weeks.
	And she's excited.
	I'm like, okay.
	Oh, that'll do it.
	She doesn't know what she's walking into.
	She's like, yeah, that'll be great.
	And here's where you sleep.
	What?
	Yeah, and do it right around when you're in Missouri or, you know, around Illinois.
	When it's nice and hot.
	Yeah, exactly.
	John's gonna hum the Sunday time.
	Well, okay, so you forced me to do this.
	I do want to bring up the fact now that I'm convinced that Saturday Times is where it's at.
	I'm cool with that.
	You can do the Saturday Times.
	But I'll just give you an example.
	Here's the Sunday Times.
	I got it right here.
	Egyptian military.
	They do have a couple of stories.
	Egyptian military.
	It's the old news.
	Egyptian military moves to cement a muscular role in government.
	Talk about old news.
	Below the fold on the Sunday Times today, which goes out.
	This is probably the biggest distribution they have of any of the papers.
	They have an alarming new stimulant sold legally.
	This is the front page.
	Sold legally in many stores and they're talking about these bath salts.
	Wait a minute.
	They're just now getting into that?
	Can you believe?
	And this is front page.
	We've been talking about this how long?
	Like two years?
	It's unbelievable.
	What is it?
	Where did these guys just fall off the turnip truck?
	Well, maybe they finally got some stock in these companies and now they're ready to promote it.
	And then they have a little piece on the Murdoch thing, and then above the fold, a horrible photo of a guy on a bicycle looking at the freeway beneath him as though it's bad.
	And battle over charter school, shifting to affluent suburbs, another non-story.
	And then beneath the fold, the last one, for Bachman, they're going after Bachman's husband.
	Yeah, this whole thing is kind of weird.
	First of all, for one thing, he exhibits the characteristics of being extremely gay.
	Yeah, totally.
	He's like one of those foot shufflers.
	He looks like a gay guy to me.
	Yeah, he's solid.
	Have you heard him talk?
	My bicurious gene lit up when I heard him.
	Over the top gay.
	Not that it's a bad thing.
	But you wonder about her.
	So she likes this guy.
	The guy's a goofball.
	So they're trying to slam him.
	So who cares?
	Nobody really cares.
	So here's the Saturday times.
	I mean, this is good stuff.
	There's a whole good article on Obama signaling support for the various measures in the budget.
	Number one front page story, Libyan rebels get formal backing at $30 billion.
	A whole story on the Libya thing that you said wasn't covered is on the Saturday Times.
	Two top officials...
	Yeah, but hold on a second.
	Not covered, but I want the video.
	I want to hear what she actually said.
	Not some interpretation.
	Just saying they covered it.
	Some real serious stuff about the press scandal.
	Misery follows as Somalis try to flee hunger.
	There's another thing going on in Kenya and Somalia.
	How they pulled the money away from the SEC. And finally a voice of those silences in the mobster's reign about Whitey Bulger.
	All good stories and some good photos.
	And it's like the Saturday Times is where it's at.
	So something's up with that.
	Well, there's a problem because we only have a jingle for the Sunday Times.
	No, that's okay.
	We'll do the Sunday Times, but I'm going to point this because I think there's still something in there for the public, but I think for the insiders, for the spooks and for the people that need to get the word, they've got to read the Saturday Times.
	Does that conclude our segment for this weekend?
	Yeah, we're done.
	John's coming home for the Saturday Times.
	Hey, Clooney's back in the picture just in the nick of time.
	He probably had to go back to class.
	Well, no, he has his movie coming out where he runs for president or whatever.
	And, of course, now that Sudan is its own country, under great cheer of thousands of...
	Thank you, darling.
	Thousands of people.
	Remember he started that satellite project, the Sentinel project, to monitor...
	Oh, right, so he could spy down and make sure...
	Yeah, yeah.
	And they found a big graveyard, I guess.
	Oh, not a coincidence!
	All of a sudden, it's like, we have to move in and take over South Sudan.
	Coincidence?
	I think...
	Man!
	I can't believe it!
	I was looking at the pictures of my Sentinel project, and just as all this takes place, I can't believe it!
	I'm so lucky!
	I find a mass grave!
	And Time Magazine is like, you know, we were the first ones to write about Clooney's project.
	Yeah, duh.
	They're like patting themselves on the back.
	Are we really the only people who see this, John?
	Are we really the only ones?
	We have enough listeners that see it and observe it occasionally.
	But in terms of mainstream media, it's like they're not only oblivious, they don't really give a crap.
	No.
	We're too busy looking at Dad's army in the desert.
	So stupid.
	You've got to see this video.
	It's linked in the show notes at 322.nashownotes.com.
	So they've got all these rebels.
	They have white masks on.
	And I've seen this exact same thing in Iraq when I was there, when they're training the Iraqi police force as an army.
	And I saw the same in Florida.
	I once did a documentary about, you know, those Cubans who were all ready to go back.
	And these guys are like 80 now.
	And they train every weekend because one day it'll be their turn to go back and take Cuba back from Castro.
	And they hang out in the woods once a week and practice their military skills.
	And so they have a lieutenant going, face!
	And half the guys turn left, the other half turn right.
	It's sad.
	It's sad that people actually will look at this news reporting and go, wow, man, those rebels.
	This whole rebel thing is such a crock.
	Well, we're going to see it in Syria now.
	That's happening.
	Yeah, there's no stopping it.
	Al Jazeera actually had a pretty interesting article.
	Of course, we know that this is financed by Qatar.
	And it's MI6. MI6, yeah.
	But it's kind of interesting.
	Has America become a nation of psychotics?
	I like it.
	You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications.
	In 2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics became the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the United States, surpassing drugs used to treat high cholesterol and acid reflux.
	And this, of course, is the problem, is that everyone here is doped up.
	That's why, of course, we're not getting the pictures of riots in Ireland, riots in Greece, protests in Portugal.
	My goodness, Italy.
	We missed this one.
	One of our producers in Italy said, did you notice how Italy said, we're not going to participate in the Libya bombings anymore.
	We're not going to participate in supplying them weapons.
	The next day, oops, you're downgraded, bitch.
	Moody's downgraded him.
	Austerity measures.
	Everyone's like, what?
	Hold on a second.
	This is like...
	In America, we're just like...
	Yeah, man.
	Give me another pill.
	Give me one of those Abilify.
	Which, by the way...
	We've been watching Dr.
	Drew Celebrity Rehab.
	Have you ever watched that show?
	I can't stand it.
	You've got to watch this.
	First of all, in every episode, I know at least one person who's on it, which is kind of interesting.
	Like Steven Adler from Guns N' Roses.
	So these people are there to get off of drugs, but Dr.
	Drew keeps handing out Abilify to them.
	I don't understand how that works.
	Isn't Abilify, isn't that to enhance whatever antipsychotic drug you're on?
	Can you just give that as a stand-alone?
	Yeah, you can give it as a standalone.
	We run ads for Abilify twice on this show, and they sell it just straight up.
	But they always say, if you're on a drug and you need a boost, it's like a rocket booster, then you take Abilify to help what you're on.
	But why is Dr.
	Drew prescribing this to alcoholics and druggies?
	Well, I don't know.
	Right here from the National Health NIH.gov, it's used to treat symptoms of schizophrenia.
	Well, okay.
	Let me just read this.
	This is kind of interesting.
	Of course, the page just changed.
	Let me go back.
	I just found it.
	I've heard it three times now where Dr.
	Drew says, you know, you've really got to take your Abilify.
	You've got to take your meds.
	Really?
	This is bad.
	Let me just read from the NIH.gov site.
	The name of it is Ara Pip.
	Oh, shoot, John.
	Oh, crap.
	What?
	Hold on a second.
	I just had...
	I don't know if we're still streaming or not.
	I just had something bad happen.
	Hold on.
	Are we still recording?
	I don't know if we're recording.
	I don't know anything.
	Let me see.
	I don't know if we're recording.
	I don't know if it was just an interface crash.
	All right, we'll fix it and then we'll figure out where we're going.
	Hold on, let me just see if we're...
	It takes a second for everything.
	Can anyone hear me?
	Hello?
	Oh, shit.
	If that thing crashed on the recording, we could be in deep shit.
	Hold on.
	Someone out there will have a backup.
	Oh, no, we're still...
	Oh, amazing.
	Yay for Unix!
	Okay, we're still good.
	Okay, so this from the NIH.gov site.
	It's used to treat the symptoms of schizophrenia, and then it says in parents, a mental illness that causes disturbed or unusual thinking, loss of interest in life, and strong or inappropriate emotions.
	In adults and teenagers, 13 years of age and older, it's also used alone or with other medications to treat episodes of mania.
	Okay, well that makes sense.
	Because they're all maniacs on that show.
	But I don't think it's right.
	Does it say anything about can be used for detox?
	I'm going to open up the main page and see if it does.
	I'm not seeing it.
	That's weird, man.
	Anyway, so it's pretty clear.
	It's not approved for the treatment of behavior problems in older adults with dementia.
	Okay, wait.
	Let me just do a search for alcoholism or detox.
	These people are either alcohol addicts or heroin addicts or we had one guy.
	You remember Leif Garrett?
	Remember him?
	Yeah, I do remember.
	Let me read this.
	He became a steroids addict.
	Oh, jeez.
	You should know that alcohol can add to the drowsiness caused by this medication.
	It doesn't say it stops you from drinking.
	Do not drink alcohol while taking.
	So Dr.
	Drew is basically just a shill salesman for Abilify.
	It's disgusting.
	I'm telling you, this is wrong.
	Well, that's terrible if what you say is true.
	Well, I'm not going to lie to you.
	I've heard Dr.
	Drew say it several times on the show.
	At the Pasadena Detox Center.
	Please, Chigger.
	So this is one of those, what's the term when you use a drug for some other reason?
	Off-label, you mean?
	Off-label use.
	It sounds like the media is using it as an off-label.
	Well, he shouldn't be propagating that.
	It doesn't seem right.
	Other uses for this medication.
	Here's the kicker.
	This medication may be prescribed for other uses.
	Ask your doctor or pharmacy for more information.
	Ask Dr.
	Drew for more information on how Abilify can help you kick the habit.
	Here's an interesting little contraindication.
	You should know you may experience hyperglycemia increase in blood sugars.
	If you're with schizophrenia, you're more likely to develop diabetes in people who do not have schizophrenia.
	And taking this or a similar medication may increase the risk.
	This is great.
	It's a bad drug.
	So they had this one chick who was in, I don't know, like some Chinese fighting movie.
	Her name is Ling Ling or something, or Ba Ling or Bu Ling.
	Like she's been in one movie.
	What was the guy who died?
	Bruce Lee.
	Not Bruce Lee, but was it his son?
	Didn't we have another movie where someone died?
	Brandon Lee.
	Brandon Lee, right.
	So she was in that movie.
	And she's allergic to alcohol.
	So she can't...
	So what's the problem?
	Well, so she's trying, because she drinks, and then she just keeps on drinking.
	Why is she allergic to alcohol?
	Why is she drinking?
	It makes no sense.
	Because she's messed up.
	And so Dr.
	Drew is like, where's Boo Ling, or Ba Ling, whatever her name is, Ba Ling, B-A-I-L-I-N-G. Where's Ba Ling?
	She needs her Abilify.
	And she's on the roof!
	And then Dr.
	Drew's running around like, did she jump?
	Did she jump?
	And Stephen Adler's down there at the bottom like, jump!
	Jump!
	It's a mess, man.
	The whole show is a mess.
	So anyway, that's what's being propagated.
	I'm sure it's a very popular show.
	I'm sure lots of people watch it.
	And we're all druggies.
	We're all drugged out here on the official stuff.
	And we've got to stop.
	We've got to stop the insanity.
	One of these days, I'm going to throw out the bat signal, man.
	I'm going to tell all of our producers here in the metro D.C. area to press the button.
	We have power that you don't know about.
	Be careful.
	Yeah, well, you tell that to the guys driving that black Escalade when you're in the hills there in North Carolina.
	A funny little thing happened in Haiti.
	City officials in Port-au-Prince are paying...
	There's families living there in the National Stadium.
	Yeah.
	It's the Pierre...
	I don't know what it's called.
	Anyway, a representative from the National Palace went down to all these folks who are living there at the National Stadium and said, here, it's $250.
	Get out because we need to have events here now.
	They need concerts.
	I guess Lady Gaga is coming.
	So they've got to kick all these poor people out.
	And of course, $250 to a Haitian is just like a year's wages.
	So they're all just taking this money so that they can have events.
	That's so screwed up.
	They're having Lady Gaga?
	Are you sure is that real?
	No, I'm not sure, but I guarantee you it could happen.
	No, I'm sure it could.
	In fact, I could just imagine it.
	Here it is.
	This is from Associated Press.
	People began moving off the parking lot at the National Stadium in the Capitol Friday after Haiti's government paid them to clear out off the spot that has been their home since last year's earthquake.
	This is 18 months now.
	At least 30 families cleared their belongings from tents and shelters left for unknown destination.
	And let's see if they say who's coming.
	They gave them $250 each.
	But it's for events?
	Our plan has not started yet.
	Let me see if...
	I'll bet you $10 Lady Gaga's doing a show there.
	Well, I'm looking for it right now, and I'm not seeing a show, but she is big in the Haiti relief.
	Yeah.
	With this, you've got to sell more bracelets.
	So she can move down, she can relocate all these bums from the stadium and give her a concert for what's left of the upper crust over there.
	What do you mean what's left of the upper crust, the new upper crust?
	The new upper crust, all mostly white people from the United States looking for hotels to stay in there, little monsters.
	And yeah, you're probably right.
	We'll keep an eye on that.
	I'd like to see what she has to say when she's in that stadium.
	Sad.
	What you got, man?
	You got a couple more things here we can listen to?
	Yeah, let me...
	There's an idiot.
	I didn't realize how dumb this woman was.
	Her name's Betty, or Betsy, one of the two.
	McCollum, from Minnesota.
	She's a...
	She's a Democrat from Minnesota and she keeps getting up during the budget crisis thing, bitching about the fact that the Army and the National Guard and a couple other people have race cars in NASCAR. Yeah.
	Actually, she's like a Berkeley Hummer, and she can barely read her own script.
	And just play the Idiot from Minnesota clip, part one.
	Volunteer military.
	I disagree, but I respect their passion despite the fact there is no evidence to demonstrate that motorsport program is effective in recruiting.
	And that's why my amendment maintains a significant and a significant investment in motorsport sponsorships.
	Twenty million dollars to allow the Pentagon to demonstrate to us and to the taxpayers it does work.
	Now, as members of Congress, we must do a better job of exercising our oversight over the Pentagon's recruiting budget.
	Right now, 75 percent of Americans ages 17 to 24 years of old, ages years of old, are not qualified.
	Let me repeat.
	75% of young Americans ages 17 to 24 years old are not qualified to serve in the armed forces.
	Well, she sounds like she might be plastered.
	Play the idiot from North Carolina, Minnesota.
	She actually says the problem with high grass prices.
	Well, this is what Obama does, right?
	Rail rays.
	This is a new thing.
	Excuse me.
	I think there was a bad batch of meds they hand out to all these people, including the President, and it's slurring their speech.
	Yeah.
	Because the President did rail raise, and she is bad...
	American people don't know that we're at war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
	They don't need a racing car to tell them that we have a volunteer military, and our country's at war.
	Already this year, the Republican Congress has voted to cut nutrition programs for the poor, hungry, and for infants.
	And this majority is cutting investments in energy efficiency and high grass prices.
	I urge my colleagues to support this amendment and to limit the motorship sponsor racing to $20 million.
	The motorship sponsor racing.
	I've got to tell you, these high grass prices are killing me!
	I can't...
	I mean, if you listen to this, I'm going to make a composite of all her little singing for next show.
	She's great.
	Just the idiocy of this woman is beyond belief.
	Let me hear that last bit.
	The motorsport racing, what?
	Let me hear that again.
	Efficiency and high grass prices.
	I urge my colleagues to support this amendment and to limit the motorship sponsor racing to $20 million.
	Listen!
	Stop that motor ship.
	Because motor ship sponsored racing.
	Motor ship sponsored racing leads to high grass prices.
	Now, let's vote on that.
	The guy, by the way, the speaker, the guy who's handling the gavel, and the guy who's the head of the committee, were basically one inch away from breaking up laughing.
	Oh, man.
	And then, of course, everybody turned down her stupid amendment.
	It was like, people say, yes, zero, it's just crickets.
	And then, no, no!
	And so then she gets back up and demands a roll call.
	Oh, man, oh, man.
	She's from St.
	Paul, one of the more...
	Yeah, it's great.
	I mean, people are great there.
	It's a cosmopolitan area.
	And they have her representing them?
	I mean, they should be embarrassed.
	So, Dennis Kucinich is on a roll.
	This is something, by the way, I got off C-SPAN. Of course, I can't watch C-SPAN easily in real time, and really, of course, this was just the beginning of the tour, so it's been very difficult for me, but I was able to peruse around on the C-SPAN video library.
	Don't just go to c-span.org.
	There's a little button up there, top right, and it's called their video library.
	And a little secret I'll let you in on, you can actually search the transcripts, so you can search for stuff.
	And every once in a while, every once in a while, one is missing.
	Yeah, what was that?
	You know, someone asked me that the other day.
	What was that?
	Remember that, when we were looking for something and it wasn't there?
	Yeah, there's a bunch of them that are missing.
	It's not just one or two.
	And by the way, the transcripts are very poor.
	And by the way, when you find them, there's missing clips.
	And there's one missing, I forgot what it was.
	This was about six months ago, so I can't remember the details.
	But I found a missing clip, because I knew this guy was something I wanted to get in on.
	And it was a missing clip.
	It came, oh sorry, no clip.
	And it said, please report.
	So you write in a note.
	Yeah, and they get a knock at the door.
	They never get back to you.
	Of course not.
	And if you want to download them, it's like 15 bucks.
	You can buy some utilities that'll do it.
	And I just record the audio.
	I know how to do that.
	Yeah, we only do the audio.
	It's just like, wow.
	Alright, so Dennis Kucinich is in the big American Idol semifinals of the deficit debate.
	And he comes out and he lays it on the line.
	And I've got to say, it's Ron Paul in a Democratic jacket.
	It's fantastic.
	And by the way, just as kooky, that's why he's marginalized.
	That's why no one cares.
	That's why the news media doesn't report.
	But this is like a senior guy, isn't it?
	He's from Ohio.
	Oh yeah, he's been there forever.
	He ran for president.
	Yeah, this is a real guy with really something to say.
	And you don't hear this anywhere...
	It's two and a half minutes, so just shut up and listen to it, and he just lays it out the way it is.
	The rancorous debate over the debt belies the fundamental truth of our economy, that it is run for the few at the expense of the many.
	That our entire government has been turned into a machine which takes the wealth of the mass of Americans and accelerates it into the hands of a few.
	Let me give you some examples.
	Take war.
	War takes the money from the American people and puts it into the hands of arms manufacturers, of war profiteers, of private armies, The war in Iraq, based on lies, three trillion dollars will be the cost of that war, at least.
	The war in Afghanistan, based on a misreading of history, half a trillion dollars in expenses already.
	The war against Libya will be a billion dollars by September.
	Fifty percent of our discretionary spending goes for the Pentagon.
	A massive transfer of wealth into the hands of a few.
	Well, the American people lack sufficient jobs, health care, housing, retirement security.
	Our energy policies take the wealth from the American people and put it into the hands of the oil companies.
	We could be looking at $150 a barrel for oil in the near future.
	Our environmental policy takes the wealth of the people, clean air, clean water, and puts it in the hands of the polluters.
	It's a transfer of wealth, not only from the present, but from future generations, as our environment is ruined.
	Insurance companies, what do they do?
	They take the wealth from the American people in terms of what they charge people for health insurance, and they put it into the hands of the few.
	We have to realize what this country's economy has become.
	Our monetary policy, through the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, privatizes the money supply, gathers the wealth, puts it in the hand of the few.
	Well, the Federal Reserve can keep creating money out of nothing, give it to banks, to pocket the Fed, and our small businesses are starved for capital.
	Mark my words, Wall Street cashes in whether we have a default or not.
	Love that.
	This guy's good.
	Yeah, nobody pays any attention to him.
	Of course not.
	I mean, he obviously has the right constituency because they keep putting him back in office.
	You know, so they love him and his local guys.
	And the same thing with Ron Paul.
	You know, his people love him.
	Yeah.
	But, you know, and they're probably all pretty, you know, knowledgeable about what's going on because these two are two of the few.
	There's probably a couple other guys, I'm sure, I hope, in Congress that, you know, tell it like it is to their people and they...
	They tell like it is to the public at large, and nobody pays any attention to them.
	I mean, they're on whatever they're told to be on.
	It's ridiculous.
	I'm amazed that they didn't pull that clip off of C-SPAN. Nah.
	So, you know, there's something Baroness Maggie said to me the other day, which kind of, you know, he was talking, Kacinich was talking about the insurance companies.
	And just to give you an idea of how it works, so she, Maggie's amazing.
	She has like eight million cats and three huge dogs.
	I don't know, they're the St.
	Bernard's, I think?
	I think they're St.
	Bernard's.
	Nobody has three St.
	Bernards.
	Baroness Maggie has three St.
	Bernards.
	You know, with like the rum underneath their chin and everything.
	Yeah, they drool a lot.
	Yeah.
	Well, one will kill you.
	That's Sherman.
	Sherman stays behind the fence.
	Sherman is very crazy.
	He's a buzzkill.
	He's very cranky.
	And the other two, you know, like you go in and they're so happy to see you, but it hurts when she's sniffing your crotch.
	She's like, boom!
	Ah, ah, ah.
	So anyway, so Maggie is crazy about animals.
	And she's saying, you know, especially with dogs, you've got to take them to the vet.
	She said, all of a sudden, my vet bills went through the roof.
	And she tried to figure out why the veterinarians all of a sudden were asking so much money for their treatment.
	Do you know what it is?
	It's when they started offering insurance for your pets.
	Yeah.
	This insurance, this is a kind of a, this is the biggest scam, and I've mentioned this on the show before, I'm going to do it one more time.
	I'm on an insurance plan, and I track the drug costs, the price of various drugs.
	And once Obamacare went in, the drugs that used to cost like $50 or $100, let's say, that you would only pay $10 for because it came out of the insurance, the insurance company paid an extra $90.
	All of a sudden went to $300.
	You still paid the $10, but now the insurance companies are gouged for the rest of it.
	This is the reason why people out there who are all, you know, we should fend for ourselves, we should either get rid of the insurance companies and let things go back to 100% free enterprise.
	Free market and get no insurance except for, you know, catastrophes.
	None of this bullcrap co-paid garbage, which is what's killing us.
	Or go to single payer where somebody, one person in the government says, hey, this is too expensive, forget it.
	She also said that they have credit cards at the doctor.
	So if you're not on the insurance scam, then they'll give you a credit card with like, you know, 18% interest and if you miss a payment, it's 30%.
	So it's analogous to the scam that is the insurance industry for what you're talking about.
	No wonder we're sniffing bath salts.
	I need to up my Abilify here.
	It's a complete rip-off and nobody's doing anything about it.
	The Democrats are all so happy that they've made people buy insurance, which makes the scam worse.
	And the Republicans have no solution to this.
	As far as they're concerned, it should be kind of half insurance, half non-insurance, let people die on the streets.
	Seriously.
	And so both parties are not addressing this at all.
	You know, one side is, oh, you know, we should just be able to, you know, too bad if you can't afford it.
	Or, you know, pay too It's one of the two.
	It's ridiculous.
	Let your dog die.
	No, no, the veterinary thing is going completely out of control.
	She says, I was just looking at the chat room, the baroness says, $1,200 for an x-ray on our St.
	Bernard.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	That is a total scam.
	Yeah, if you just take him through the airport, it's free.
	So anyway, I'm going to up my prediction, John, on the default.
	I've been following what's happening in Europe.
	I have a couple of clips from the douchebag ministers.
	Now, here's what's going to happen.
	And I think we talked about this maybe two shows back, this concept of the euro bond.
	So that's now coming to play.
	Everyone's talking about the euro bond.
	So just to recap...
	In the Lisbon Treaty, which is what really started me getting interested in any of this stuff.
	I was like, hey, hold on a second.
	What is this Lisbon Treaty?
	Oh, it's some document nobody wanted, like the Constitution, and then they just pulled it apart and called it a treaty.
	Shut up.
	Shut up, slaves.
	Just vote.
	Oh, you can't vote.
	Pass it.
	So this whole thing is falling apart, but in this Lisbon Treaty, it specifically said there will be no bailouts if a country goes under.
	So, of course, what happens?
	Oops!
	A country goes under.
	And the money that is owed is owed to banks.
	Not to other countries, but to other countries' banks.
	And it is absolutely now my belief that Moody's or Standard& Poor's will downgrade the United States.
	Now, on the last show, you said it's never going to happen.
	When I listen to Dennis Kucinich say, make no mistake, Wall Street wins...
	Either way, and I believe that to be true, and then I hear a guy who I kind of had followed for a while, Jim Rogers.
	He's an investor.
	He actually left the United States.
	He lives in Singapore or something.
	The guy is off the deep end, but go on.
	Here's a little clip from him on Russia Today, who, by the way, they're doing auditions again, Russia Today.
	Please, please, Russia Today.
	These women are no good.
	This is like...
	I mean, Maggie's dogs are cuter than this woman on Russia today.
	And you know, the thing is, is that it's not that there aren't a lot of attractive women from Eastern Europe.
	Tons of them!
	And I just want to reiterate...
	They're just crawling with them.
	I just want to reiterate, when we talk like this, John and I are only speaking as television executives.
	We understand this stuff.
	If you're going to be in the douchebag ratings game, you've got to get hot women.
	Otherwise, why bother?
	They're not doing it for news.
	Anyway, Jim Rogers is on and he says something kind of interesting.
	Live from Singapore.
	Mr.
	Rogers, thank you very much for being here with us in the program.
	Well, as we know, this isn't the first time budget talks have stonewalled, but differences have always been overcome.
	Why is Moody picking now to review the U.S. rating?
	Marina, you're asking an extremely good question.
	The U.S. rating should have been downgraded years ago.
	I don't know why they're just out getting around to it, but we know that the rating agencies don't have much of a clue about anything.
	They got everything wrong in subprime.
	They've gotten everything wrong for a long time.
	I don't know why they don't understand what's going on.
	Exactly.
	Because it's a game.
	I can't believe that the most powerful man in the world, the President of the United States, can just pick up the phone and say to Moody's, Hey!
	You're not going to downgrade.
	And is using it as some kind of weapon.
	They're going to downgrade.
	We're getting an AA- or something.
	It's going to happen.
	I'm sticking with my predictions.
	This is bullcrap.
	This is all brinksmanship.
	No, we're going to raise the debt ceiling, but we're still going to get the downgrade.
	No.
	Okay.
	All right.
	We'll see.
	We'll see.
	There was a program on the BBC. One of our producers, Robert, from Gitmo Nation...
	Warm beer.
	Recorded some clips from the BBC Parliament program The Record Europe.
	A roundtable discussion of European issues by ministers of European Parliament.
	So let's go to the Duchette from the Lowlands.
	It says...
	Oh, I know her.
	I've met her, actually.
	Sophia Innetfeld.
	She tries to be a do-gooder, but she's not.
	Here's her take.
	She's saying we don't have a debt crisis.
	Debt crisis, frankly.
	We do not have a Greek problem.
	We have a European problem.
	We do not even have a debt crisis.
	We do not have a financial crisis.
	We have a political and institutional crisis.
	Because there, and you'll be surprised to find that I agree with you, the big mistake we made at the start is creating a monetary union without a political union.
	It's like having the dollar zone without the government in Washington.
	That's essentially what we've created.
	And I disagree with you if you say that things went well.
	I think it's fairly dramatic that for the last year and a half, the political leaders of the Eurozone and wider Europe have been unable and unwilling to take decisions.
	I mean, can you imagine the kind of debate that we're having?
	I refer to the...
	The deaths in the U.S. are as bad, if not worse, as in Europe.
	California, a much bigger economy than Greece, has been on the verge of bankruptcy for years.
	And yet, I do not hear anybody calling the Californians names and saying that they're lazy and it's their culture and we should kick them out of the dollar zone.
	That is the difference.
	People have confidence in the dollar because they know that there is a government behind it.
	In Europe, people do not have confidence.
	The markets are testing our political will, and that is what we will have to prove.
	I'm not saying things are going well.
	No, that's not why.
	It's because we've got better drugs over here, lady.
	I think she's...
	I like what she said.
	Well, in that regard, it's true.
	But what she's shilling for is more power.
	We need more power to tell the slaves what to do.
	I thought the back story with what she was saying was the British idea that this whole thing should be dissolved.
	No, no, no, no.
	She's all for it.
	She's a pro-EU woman?
	You know that for a fact?
	No, I think she actually acts like she's anti, but she's pro.
	She just wants more power.
	No, I think she's against it.
	No, no, no, no.
	Well, let's listen to Dan Jorgensen.
	He is from Denmark, and he is a member of the Danish Liberal Democrats, and he was also in this conversation.
	I mean, Jean is talking as if, you know, the problems or the mistakes were made, you know, long ago when the euro was first launched.
	But looking back at the last six months, it's been an absolute disaster, hasn't it, for handling by the EU of this crisis?
	I wouldn't say at all.
	I mean, if it hadn't been for the Eurozone, if it hadn't been for the EU, then Greece would probably be bankrupt.
	Greece is bankrupt, isn't it?
	Greece is not bankrupt.
	No, no, no.
	Then you don't know what bankrupt is.
	If a country is bankrupt, that their money is not worth anything, they would have to leave the Eurozone.
	If that had happened, then that would have spread to other countries.
	We might have had other countries also go bankrupt.
	You know what?
	I was in the UK a few weeks ago, and I followed the British debate in the British media, and highly esteemed economists said, listen, to be honest with you, we don't even know what would happen to our economy if Greece goes bankrupt.
	because the fact of the matter is that even though the UK don't have a lot of money invested in Greece, German banks, French banks have a lot of money in Greece, so if they go bankrupt, those money are worthless.
	This means that the banks in the UK that are tied up with the British, French banks, are also all of a sudden big problems.
	This is a very good example of why it is necessary for the EU to work very close together in these issues because my own country, for instance Denmark, we are also not a part of the EU, but we are very dependent on what goes on in the EU.
	Yeah.
	So, you watch.
	Euro bonds are going to come out.
	But Greece is not bankrupt, John.
	It's not bankrupt.
	The slaves just need to give up more.
	This thing is all dependent on trying to tap Germany, which now turns out to be a culture of cheapskates.
	Easy now.
	Easy.
	When's the last time we got a donation from Munchen?
	I mean, I haven't seen it.
	You mean Berlin?
	I think it's because they're thinking, oh, brother, you know, we can't.
	The Germans aren't, I don't know, I just don't say.
	I think a couple of clips we had a couple of shows ago where it's obviously the Germans are fed up with this stuff is the problem.
	I have one more clip from Minister of European Parliament Martin Callahan, and he is from Gitmo Nation East.
	...to do that, but I just think it's interesting looking at two of the central pillars of the European Union, the Euro area, the Schengen...
	Both of those are in a central crisis at the moment and I think some people should be closely examining their commitment to further integration or further movement of economies towards each other when there is clearly crises in the two fundamental building blocks of the EU. Because there's no question.
	The Netherlands government, the Danish government are responding to massive public pressure.
	This is not something they've dreamt up.
	They are being forced to by public pressure.
	To pressure on public opinion, but not to actual security issues.
	And that's what irritates me a lot.
	I think what they're saying is, who cares what they think?
	It's not about something important, because the Dutch are kind of saying, well, this is not a good idea, and the bank should participate.
	I have this summary clip to describe what's really going on in the EU. Please, I need it.
	What do you got?
	Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster victory.
	Wait a minute.
	I'll hear this.
	How could I have missed that clip?
	All right.
	Finally, does a pasta strainer count as religious headgear?
	One self-confessed atheist in Austria has fought and won the right to be shown in his driver's license photo wearing the strainer.
	Because he says it's all part of his religion called Pastafarianism.
	It's a tongue-in-cheek faith that is part of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
	Dude, I'm in!
	You have to wear a spaghetti strainer on your head, and they show a picture of his driver's license with him wearing it.
	Now, wait a minute, so, and you can do this in the EU? Apparently, in Austria.
	Wait a minute, so, it's the Pastafarians?
	Yeah.
	I love it.
	This obviously is kind of an okay for people who want to wear masks or burkas.
	I love it.
	The EU is headed.
	So you go look at a driver's license and you look at the person with the burka and you say, yeah, that's you.
	I love it.
	Yeah.
	Oh, that's great.
	Oh, I need one of those.
	I think we brought a strainer.
	Or maybe Baroness Maggie put a strainer on.
	I'm going to wear that.
	You should.
	I'm going to wear it all the time.
	It would also keep the satellite brainwaves.
	It'll keep me safe.
	And it's a fashion statement.
	It's a total fashion statement and a winner.
	Totally winning.
	Nice.
	Okay.
	And by the way, something weird happened in Gitmo Nation Lowlands that there's no clips I can play or anything, but the way it's set up, you know, it's a very small country.
	They have an infrastructure, which I didn't know this is owned by the French.
	The French own these huge broadcast towers.
	I'm sure you've seen them, John, when you were there.
	And there's two main ones.
	I've actually almost flown into one at one point in the mist.
	That's known as Lopik.
	And then you have another one down south, a little bit more south.
	So I don't know exactly how many there are, but all of the radio stations, the government transmitters, the commercial stations...
	Everything, except for the cable, of course, is on these towers.
	And there was a fire.
	And these are huge towers.
	You look at the show notes.
	I mean, these are amazingly big towers.
	And so there was a fire in one of them.
	And the fire was so bad that the antenna melted and collapsed.
	And the same day, there was a fire in another one.
	So there was like no radio in all of the Netherlands.
	And what is the likelihood of that happening?
	Nil.
	Thank you.
	And these things have been around for eons.
	But, of course, the crazy thing is, is Alticom, a French company, owns the infrastructure.
	And you have broadcast partners, another commercial company, who actually run the transmitters.
	And everyone's renting from each other.
	And no one knows what to do.
	And meanwhile, I think they're on...
	There's like one AM station is broadcasting.
	The same time, they've actually...
	Chop the budget of the Dutch World Broadcasting Service down to like 5% of what it used to be.
	There's something weird going on.
	And I think it's Al-Qaeda in the lowlands, personally.
	I'm amazed no one has actually mentioned that.
	They haven't said, oh, we've got Al-Qaeda here.
	They're breaking our infrastructure.
	No radio.
	Why not?
	What do you mean, why not?
	Yeah, I mean, I think it's perfect, but it's just, I mean, what is the likelihood of that happening?
	It's crazy.
	Eh, of course, that was just...
	Well, everyone needs to get their ham license sooner than later.
	I got a couple hams who showed up at the meetup who were, to say the least, disappointed.
	They had not heard you on the air yet.
	I only have local transmitting capability.
	I don't use any repeaters.
	I'm not that good.
	Tell them to stay tuned.
	When I spend a little more time on my hands, I'll be on the air looking for them in Virginia.
	QDX, QDX, hey, John, you got your ears on?
	So other than that, I do have the one guy who, I do have one lone clip out of the blue, which still refers to the back, to the way to wrap it around, to the Murdoch thing.
	There's one guy who came up in Parliament, and he's the only guy who makes sense.
	He's actually the guy who says that, you know, while you're going to beat up the media for doing this so-called illegal activity, you have to remember it was the media that caught them.
	May I very much welcome the statement of the Prime Minister, and can I also thank him for consulting myself and my two fellow Select Committee Chairmen about terms of reference last night.
	While there is no doubt that we need a stronger system of regulation of the press in this country, will he bear in mind that it was not just newspapers that were responsible for these wholly unacceptable and often illegal activities, it was also newspapers who exposed them.
	And I hope he will agree that a free press is an absolute fundamental cornerstone of a free society.
	And we mustn't do anything to jeopardize that.
	You know what it was?
	It was the Guardian and the BBC. It was the established compromised media.
	We have the left-wing commune.
	We were probably both tipped off.
	I still think there's an MI6, MI5, CIA thing going on here and they just had to roust everybody and get Murdoch out of the country.
	So let's just stay on that for one second as we wrap it up.
	So you're saying that the CIA, who of course had the Murdoch properties, they have a beef with MI6. Yeah.
	And MI6 wants the CIA out.
	Is that it?
	Is that what you're saying?
	Yeah, they're interlopers.
	Huh.
	Okay, well, let's look for signs of that.
	And please, everyone who's on the No Agenda News Network, keep your eyes peeled for that.
	Be very careful that you don't get wrapped up in the American Idol competition going into its final stretch now.
	By the way, the fix is in on that.
	Did you see this, John?
	No.
	It's already been set.
	Who wins?
	Well, Obama, of course.
	It's real simple.
	Obama's an American idol?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Right.
	No, it's like they've got some way to raise the debt limit.
	They can do it over three times, and they've set it up so they're going to vote on this procedure, and this procedure passes if one-third of the votes are yay.
	So it's already done.
	If one third of the votes are gay?
	Yeah, if one third of the votes are gay, then the debt limit gets raised.
	Seriously, you haven't heard about this?
	Yeah, I know I have.
	It's stupid.
	All this stuff and the president's entire address...
	It's all bullcrap.
	Yeah, it's tiring.
	It's tiring and it makes it difficult for us to get clips of Hillary.
	So please, if you live in Turkey, record some stuff.
	And support the show.
	We haven't had anything from Turkey, had we?
	No, you're right.
	Besides this New York Times article, which I read, by the way, that says nothing.
	Well, I need clips from Turkey.
	I think we have one Turkish listener.
	All right, everybody.
	Thanks for bearing with us there on the live streams.
	We have the No Agenda Producer update coming up right after this show.
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