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	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It is Thursday.
	This is August 18, 2011.
	Time for Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, episode 331.
	This is no agenda.
	I've got a couple of hands missing here.
	That's not a problem.
	Reporting from the front lines of Gitmo Nation from the 4 Winds 5000 Crackpot Command Center in the Empire State, and from the Curry Greg Homestead in Armonk in the great state of New York.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And here in northern Silicon Valley, California, where it's safer.
	And from the Buzzkill Bunker, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Craig Bunker.
	I apologize.
	My hands got crossed.
	I don't have my normal jingle set up.
	I noticed the hit it lag time was at a max.
	Yeah, we have major laggage on the hittage.
	In the morning to you, John.
	In the morning to you, Adam, and all ships at sea and boots on the ground and feet in the air.
	And, of course, all of our human resources in the chat room at noagendachat.net, noagendastream.com, all charged up and ready to go exactly the way their government loves them so that they can be sucked dry of all of their resources, which starts at about $9.2 million at birth.
	So where are you at, John?
	You like two mil?
	Two mil left?
	I'm probably down to next to nothing.
	You've depreciated.
	I got ripped off somewhere along the line.
	You're off the books.
	So we are here in Uncle Don and Aunt Meg's driveway in Armonk, New York, where we have parked...
	Armonk, the home of IBM! That's right.
	We have parked the RV here for two days.
	Little mini family reunion.
	Beautiful area, by the way, for people who want to visit.
	It is.
	If you like douchebag hedge fund managers, they've bought up the entire area.
	And there's a little Curry homestead which has been in our family since 1929.
	You know why IBM isn't our monk?
	It used to be headquartered in New York City.
	For the quality of living?
	Wrong.
	A-bombs.
	Come again?
	They were worried sick in the 50s.
	Oh, I do remember that.
	That New York was going to get bombed by the Russians.
	Yeah, and this would be a good hideout?
	And they decided, they did a bunch of research to figure out what's the safest place in the country to be in case of a nuclear war.
	And Armonk is it?
	You're right there.
	Armonk is it?
	How can that be the safest place in case of a nuclear war?
	That's what they decided at the time, and they moved headquarters to Armonk.
	Oh.
	They figure they're just going to decimate New York, Washington, D.C., and God knows where else, and Armonk somehow is going to survive it.
	Like, maybe the wind patterns for radioactive fallout.
	I'm not sure.
	Sorry about that.
	A misfire.
	Yeah.
	Well, anyway, we are here, a little mini family reunion.
	My sister and her husband.
	Yeah, no, Tiffany, actually.
	Tiffany?
	Yeah, Tiffany.
	She's not a donor.
	She's a complete boner.
	She doesn't like anything about what I do.
	It's like, ah, whatever, internet.
	She doesn't want to know.
	And their son was 12, I believe, and they're on their way there.
	So they flew over.
	They're on their way to Orlando to go visit the parks and have a little vacation.
	So it was cool.
	They stopped here.
	My cousin Lucy, my favorite cousin, her daughter, who is now 23, and her roommate, they're just moving into New York.
	And, of course, Don and Meg.
	It's been great.
	So wait a minute.
	You're telling me that the Hot Pockets Tour 2008 was just a big scam?
	Just to get here.
	That's the only reason why.
	It was also an intelligence gathering mission for me, John.
	Trust me.
	I've asked plenty of questions.
	Okay.
	My favorite?
	No.
	Obviously, I'm not going to talk about what we discussed here at The Family.
	But I did throw one out just to see what the response would be.
	And I said, actually, Don said, what do you think about the whole Murdoch thing?
	The phone hacking.
	And so I laid into it first, like, well, you know, it's funny how the press jumps on that, but doesn't care about Americans' phones being tapped and tracked and the FISA and Patriot Act.
	And I said, but our assertion on the show is pretty much this is MI6 versus CIA. Dude, he didn't flinch, didn't move a muscle, just like nothing.
	And then, you know, MI6 hasn't been doing too good lately.
	Yeah, that's what it sounds like.
	I think that's our theory.
	We're sticking to it.
	We're sticking to that theory.
	Absolutely.
	So a couple of...
	I was watching Lucy Napolitano's...
	God, my family's not going to understand this show.
	Watching Lucy's show...
	I can't believe that they haven't been listening all along.
	I'm so stunned by this.
	Willow has.
	Yeah, Willow has a commute.
	Oh, yeah.
	So Lucy introduced her See Something, Say Something campaign, which, by the way, on the drive down from Boston, all of the highway signs have this portrayed nicely.
	You know, the electronic signs.
	See something, say something.
	It's all right there.
	Probably in honor of the kickoff of the campaign.
	See something, say something.
	Licensed by the, who was it?
	New York MTA? Yeah.
	And so she kicked that off, and so I'm watching this, and it was unbelievable, because they were at the Chamber of Commerce, and they had, who else were there?
	Former, the two previous secretaries of Homeland Security, which would be Chertoff and Ridge, who both, of course, are now selling stuff to the Department of Homeland Security.
	Yeah, they're selling scanners that don't work.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So, I'm watching that, and actually, I only got one clip from it, which is worth it, just to hear about the special relationship that they have.
	Governor Rich, Secretary Chertoff, myself, we share a...
	She just sounds so glib.
	Oh, and she's smiling while she's doing this.
	She's, like, smiling because she talks about their special relationship.
	Special bond.
	Oh, I'm sorry, special bond.
	Because, of course, let me think, why is that?
	Oh, yeah, we're buying your stuff!
	Now she's going to get all hip on us all of a sudden.
	Check it.
	I think in terms of the multi-mission aspect of the department and building the department even as we deal with everything from natural disasters to terrorism to other sorts of man-caused disasters.
	So we run the gamut.
	We have multiple missions It is now the third largest department of the federal government.
	By the way, whoa!
	Third largest department of the government?
	Yeah, it's going to get bigger.
	It's going to be the largest you watch.
	So what is it?
	Is it defense, state, and then Department of Homeland Security?
	State has got to be second.
	Don't you think?
	I don't know.
	Hillary's got an entire army.
	What's number two?
	Well, they're all battling to see who takes over the secret police.
	So...
	So, I'm just thinking, what is the number two agency?
	If defense is number one, what is the number one?
	Maybe something the chat room will know.
	Anyway, here it comes.
	Department of Homeland Security.
	So, Governor Ridge, Secretary Ridge, thank you very much for your service to the nation in this regard.
	And I think a shout-out is required.
	A shout-out!
	What is she, a rapper?
	My name is Janet.
	They call me Lucy B. I do my shout-outs to you and to me.
	I say, hey, Tommy Ridge.
	Hey, Michael C. Shout-out to you.
	Let us all be.
	Yo.
	Busted, we out.
	Crazy, huh?
	Shout-out.
	That woman creeps me out.
	Yeah, she is.
	Um, so anyway, so I'm watching that, and then all of a sudden, we get an executive order!
	Came in this morning, activated actually 12.01am, uh, even though the president is out on his big black bus tour, uh, he somehow had time to, uh, Author up an executive order and get it out at 12.01am ready to rock and roll.
	Before you say what it is, do you, like me, find that those buses are incredibly creepy?
	Yes.
	They are like the matrix.
	So I wrote up a couple of complaints on Twitter about these buses.
	They cost the taxpayers $1.1 million.
	They're supposed to be used for official business.
	Per bus, by the way.
	Per bus.
	And they're being used for a campaign, obviously.
	And I moaned about these buses being creepy.
	And some of them, oh, it's the Secret Service bus.
	The Secret Service made the bus.
	Obama didn't make the bus.
	And I'm thinking as if Obama had nothing to do with the specifications of this bus.
	Just whatever the Secret Service says goes.
	Hey, what brand is the bus?
	It's bullcrap.
	They're made in Canada.
	That's the joke of it.
	Thank you.
	A Canadian bus.
	We can make a school bus.
	Unbelievable.
	I mean, who's all these rock stars?
	The country and western guys are driving around these buses constantly.
	Screw rock stars.
	Those are made in Canada.
	How about the RV parks?
	Yeah, we got all these RV companies that need help by the administration of Winnebago.
	Thank you.
	These guys are going out of business, and meanwhile, they just send the money to Canada?
	Not that the Canadians aren't great people, but that's beside the point with this guy and his big talk.
	And his big bus.
	That bus is creepy.
	It's all black.
	It's blacked out.
	And here's the one that really cracked me up.
	They said, ooh, we can't put any stickers of any sort on it, like presidential bus or anything like that, because then people will know what it is.
	This bus is in an entourage of about 40 cars.
	I wonder who's on that bus.
	Who could be on that bus?
	You think he actually travels on the bus like he's got a bunk?
	Like he's sleeping in the bus?
	Must be sleeping in the bus.
	He's got one and Michelle's probably got the other if she's even there.
	She's probably taking the 747 somewhere.
	She's got the one with the rims.
	These guys are just unbelievable.
	And the servos.
	Anyway, so a presidential order came out.
	Ladies and gentlemen, this is the latest executive order.
	I'm sorry.
	And it is, of course, posted nicely on whitehouse.gov.
	We appreciate the techno experts there, always taking care of the show.
	Today, President Obama called for the president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, to step aside and took the strongest financial action against the Syrian regime thus far.
	And so, of course, you know me.
	And this happened at 8.05 that this got published.
	So I'm like, oh, now I've got to read this thing.
	And it boggles the mind.
	It refers back to two previous executive orders.
	I believe both signed by...
	Another time waster for you.
	Yeah, thank you.
	Both signed by, I believe, President Bush, W. Bush.
	So here's the pertinent language that I've found, and I've found a little bit of history on these precise executive orders.
	The United States cannot and will not impose this transition upon Syria.
	Of course, the transition we're talking about is to a democracy.
	It is up to the Syrian people to choose their own leaders, and we have heard their strong desire that there not be foreign intervention in their movement.
	This is new, by the way.
	Did you see this on the news?
	Well, it just came out this morning.
	No, I mean, have you heard about the strong desire from the Syrian leader, their own leaders, not to have foreign intervention, or the opposition to foreign intervention in their movement?
	Who are we talking to?
	Who are these guys?
	I don't know.
	They're probably a bunch of radicals.
	They have another transnational community.
	Probably a bunch of Iranians, for all we know.
	What the United States will support in an effort to bring about is Syria that is a democratic, just, and inclusive for all Syrians.
	And we already know this is bullcrap because the Senate legislation is all about Iran and you can still, up until this, you could still invest $20 million and no mention of Italy and other countries that import and export and trade with Syria.
	It has to be inclusive for all Syrians.
	We will support this outcome by pressuring President Assad to get out of the way of this transition and standing up for the universal rights of the Syrian people along with others in the international community.
	And we will do this by blocking property of the government of Syria and prohibiting certain transactions with respects to Syria.
	Oh, going to steal their money.
	Steal their money.
	Exactly.
	Section 3, I hereby determine that the making of donations of the type of article specified in Section 203B2 of IEEPA50USC1702B2 by 2 or for the benefit of any person whose property and interest in property are blocked pursuant to Section 1.
	That means any persons, corporations, etc., Would seriously impair my ability to deal with the national emergency declared in Executive Order 1338.
	There's my aunt.
	Are you going to unplug me already?
	Is it time?
	Have they called?
	No.
	My aunt just came out.
	She's like, she's got the Glock.
	She's waving at me.
	So, of course, I want to know what these donations are.
	I'm like, what donations are they talking about?
	And so it took a little while because, wow, this is all over the place.
	And it goes back to 2010.
	I'm sorry, 2009.
	And there's another similar executive order in 2004.
	Donations by persons subject to the jurisdiction of the United States of articles such as food, clothing, and medicine...
	Intended to be used to relieve human suffering except to the extent the president determines that such own nations would seriously impair his ability to deal with any national emergency declared under section blah blah blah.
	So what I'm reading here is that even food, clothing, and medicine are not allowed to be sent to Syria.
	So don't send your water and blankets.
	Wow.
	So this type of executive order has been used in the following cases and then we just be quiet about it because of course we know that this is a repeat of Libya.
	It was implemented in 79 for Iran, 97 for Myanmar, also known as Burma, 97 for Sudan, in 2000 for Russia, 2003 for Zimbabwe.
	The first time for Syria in 2004.
	Belarus has been in place since 2006.
	North Korea since 2008.
	And Libya, of course, 2011.
	And now here we go again.
	So if we just look at those, well, I guess we can expect some kind of trouble soon in Syria.
	Perhaps in the drones.
	Yeah, then meanwhile, of course, Obama's going on vacation.
	Yeah, well, hey, same as he did with Libya.
	He went down to, where was he?
	He went down to Brazil.
	He doesn't want to be around when the shit hits the fan.
	It's amazing.
	Heck no.
	So he takes off.
	He's going to be gone for 10 days, so that means all the action will take place during that period.
	When he's gone.
	And then he'll be reporting remotely from, where's he going?
	I don't know.
	But let me wait.
	I just got to this morning's New York Times and let me take the special pages that are always...
	You can pull out page 10 and 11, which is the key to understanding the daily paper.
	And let's see, there must be an Obama story in here.
	Oh yeah, far from capital, Obama finds that its woes have followed him.
	Or I guess they're capital woes, not his.
	And they're talking about him...
	It doesn't say where he's going.
	Hmm.
	Big black and Canadian, they're busting them on the RV. We're just going to call it the presidential RV from now on.
	Yeah.
	Hey, does that have slide-outs?
	Do you need a full hook-up 50 amp?
	You got your dump tube?
	You know they gotta have one.
	You know they've got to dump somewhere.
	This thing has to stop somewhere to dump.
	I wonder if they go to Campgrounds of America.
	Be sure that the paparazzi will be taking pictures of that.
	They'll probably stop at the Campgrounds of America, KOA. Hold on, we've got to dump here.
	Well, we don't allow off-road dumping.
	You'll have to take a site for the night.
	So why did the Secret Service get into the black?
	There's a paragraph in here that says, as for the jet black color, a guy says, George W. Bush oversaw the retrofitting of his campaign bus in 2004 and said, apparently, the Secret Service obviously has a culture of the black car.
	So they were trying to get as close to that as possible.
	What are they, Darth Vader?
	Is that the CEO? Let's be honest, it looks cool.
	It does.
	That bus looks creepy.
	Big black bus like that?
	It looks cool, yeah, if you're running some sort of a covert operation.
	It's not...
	I don't think it looks cool.
	If I saw that thing coming, I wouldn't want to see who's coming out of it.
	He's not getting any crowds.
	He's not getting any people, yay, change, hope, change, hope.
	These people that, you know, he goes to these speeches, and for example, I got it.
	Here's his typical speech.
	I got it here.
	Obama promotes.
	And by the way, when you play this clip...
	Is this the one in front of the red barn?
	No, no, this is a different one.
	Most of these are pretty identical.
	There's nobody there, and nobody, you know...
	Got a couple guys clapping.
	But here's the funny thing.
	He drops his train of thought when he says, this will create more jobs and...
	And then there's a long pause.
	He can't think of anything else.
	What he said was, if we're going to help you, then you've also got to change your ways.
	You can't just make money on SUVs and trucks.
	There's a place for SUVs and trucks, but as gas prices keep on going up, you've got to understand the market.
	People are going to be trying to save money.
	And so what we've now seen is an investment in electric vehicles, and then what we did was we put investments in something called advanced battery manufacturing, because those electric cars, how well they run depends on how good the batteries are, how long they can run before they get recharged.
	We only had 2% of the advanced battery manufacturing market when I came into office.
	We're on track now to have 30, 40, 50% of that market.
	We are making batteries here in the United States of America that go into electric cars made here in the United States of America.
	It creates jobs and it creates batteries.
	It creates energy independence and it also improves our environment.
	How does it create energy independence?
	You have to charge the batteries somehow.
	It creates batteries.
	It creates batteries.
	And by the way, I think you have the stats on these fantastic battery cars.
	How are they selling, Adam?
	Oh, we have sold 125 Leafs.
	Oh, no, I'm sorry.
	Chevy Volts in July.
	I can't wait for the August numbers to come out.
	I think Total now, since the product has been on the market, hasn't even hit 800.
	Yeah, they're doing good.
	Well, of course, they cost $60,000.
	Not quite.
	What do they cost?
	You know the prices.
	Yeah, they cost $38,000.
	Actually, with all the stuff you want on them, it's going to be about $42,000.
	And then you can get a $7,500 rebate from the U.S. government, which drops the price somewhat.
	And then you get another rebate from California, I think about $3,000.
	You can take about $10,000 off the thing.
	Plus, you can go across the bridges for free.
	Oh, that's true.
	You know, I thought I'd clipped this regarding the big black bus, because the Democratic Black Caucus is very angry at the President, is demanding an immediate meeting And I can't believe I... Well, let's just summarize.
	Yeah, summarize is, the big black bus didn't come to the black neighborhoods.
	That's the summary.
	Oh, well, of course not.
	I don't know why the blacks haven't figured this out, but they're not needed because they're already in the back pocket.
	Well, that's what this one Republican representative was saying, and I'm angry.
	Maybe I'll find the clip.
	He's saying, well, you know, the Black Democratic Caucus, I guess Maxine Waters leads that?
	He says they are just controlling the plantation, keeping everybody quiet.
	I'm like, whoa!
	That's heavy!
	I've got to find that clip.
	I'm stupid.
	I don't know where it went.
	Yeah, that's pretty much it.
	I think that's a good description of what's going on regarding the black community and Obama.
	But specifically to say, hey, the big black bus didn't come to the black community.
	And I was like, yeah, really?
	It went to the Red Barn.
	Which, what a setup, eh?
	I mean, if you and I were producing that show...
	We probably...
	Actually, I think it needed more flag.
	I didn't see the American flag.
	Yeah, a lot of the clips didn't have enough flag.
	No flag, but they got plenty of...
	And he also failed to...
	I don't think they had enough people show up.
	Apparently, some of these things have been complete disasters.
	Because in the olden days, he would have behind him all the people smiling, the smiling faces of the Stooges, the Obama bots right behind him.
	So he's facing out, and he has a bunch of people Yeah, and of course, although this happens every single time around when election starts, he's basically campaigning, but he's calling it a listening tour, which is a very bad example for children, teaching them how to listen.
	I thought when you listen, your mouth was closed.
	Be quiet.
	And one other thing about Drone Nation, before we get into thanking some people.
	Yeah, this also came out this morning.
	So there was a drone in Afghanistan that crashed into a cargo plane.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, the cargo plane, this is, of course, we know, how many drones?
	7,000 drones?
	7,000 drones.
	Which, by the end, I want to remind people, we're spending a lot of time now listening to the reports and other things going on at the Brookings and other institutions.
	These guys are dropping bombs left and right.
	But this came from the Ministry of Truth from CNN, and it's quite frightening.
	So we're talking about smaller drones.
	These are the 12-foot drones.
	Yeah, and by the way, there's a number of do-it-yourself projects underway on the Internet.
	You can build one of these drones yourself.
	And if you do it right, especially if it has a computer chip in it, you can actually launch it out to sea, and then, of course, you'll lose direct contact with it because you're not set up with an infrastructure.
	But you can program it to turn around and then get back in contact with it.
	So you can go out to sea, take some pictures, turn around, come back to you, pick it up again with your remote control and land it.
	So, when you hear this clip, and I'll give you the payoff right up front, now I understand the necessity for, and so I'm even thinking this drone crash, or at least the way it's being played up, may have been explicit and perhaps on purpose.
	Now I understand the whole push for the next, what they're calling, next-gen aircraft control.
	So you know that they want to move away from smart, talented air traffic controllers watching screens, talking with pilots, with human-to-human interaction.
	As an airman, I think I can say that this is a very good thing, and there's always a healthy friction between aviators and air traffic controllers, but we do depend on each other.
	Instead, they want to move it to everything's automatic, and the planes know where they are, and they route automatically around everything.
	Ready?
	The American drone that collided with a huge Air Force cargo plane was only 12 feet long.
	But look at the damage it caused.
	The collision forced the huge Air Force plane to make an emergency landing in Afghanistan.
	And it's raising questions about the safety of unmanned vehicles.
	This is a very, very rare event.
	Tim Owings works for the Army's unmanned aircraft systems.
	He says they've flown more than a million hours in dirty, dangerous combat situations without an accident like this.
	The U.S. military has built a fleet of UAVs and troops are coming home to become cops and firefighters with the expertise to operate them.
	They want to use that technology here.
	Unmanned aircraft could show firefighters how fast a blaze is moving and where.
	They could search for climbers stranded 9,000 feet up on a mountain.
	By that I mean you're no longer worried about the risk of a guy having a flight through a snowstorm.
	You use the unmanned system to go spot people and save lives.
	But remember what a small drone did to a cargo plane?
	The thought of it hitting a commercial jet is scary.
	That is really the heart and soul of the real issue now that faces our industry.
	Paul McDuffie works for Institute, an unmanned aircraft developer.
	He says the Federal Aviation Administration It has to define the rules and regulations to integrate UAVs into American airspace.
	There you go.
	Do you think the pace of the development caught the FAA by surprise?
	No, I think it was their belief that this was simply an annoyance.
	But there's an entire convention hall filled with new technology.
	From pocket-sized helicopters...
	Two aquatic vehicles that can submerge a thousand meters for nine months at a time.
	They now realize this is a much bigger problem and that UAS are in fact here to stay.
	They're going to have to wrestle with the issue.
	Well, right now, the military is working on various systems to help these drones avoid collisions, starting with a ground-based radar system that would direct the drones away from other planes.
	For its part, Wolf, the FAA will start integrating some of the smaller drones first and then go on to the bigger planes.
	And the goal is to get a completely new air traffic network in place well before the year 2025.
	Ladies and gentlemen of Gitmo Nation, we need to stop this insanity.
	Are we seriously hearing this, that we are going to have drones flying all around America?
	Saving lives, of course.
	Yeah, and spying on people in their backyard sunbathing and then shooting them.
	Hey, if that thing flies over the hilltop watchtower, I'm skeet shooting.
	I'm blowing that thing out of the sky.
	If you can hit it, when they're up at 25,000 feet, you can't even see it.
	Depends on what hardware I'm using, John.
	I'm not seeing you out there with an adaptive optics telescope looking for drones.
	Well, we've got to make it a sport.
	But seriously, I mean, they're just coming out and saying it now.
	It's like, oh, we have troops coming back, and of course the highest unemployment in the United States by segment is in veterans returning.
	And by the way, what bull crap.
	I mean, the guys who are flying the drones are outside of Nellis Air Force Base.
	Yeah, of course.
	In various, you know, trailers flying these things.
	There are not a bunch of guys coming back from Afghanistan with drone, all sorts of drone experience.
	It's bull crap.
	Yeah, maybe they have drone experience by rolling the thing out to the runway.
	Actually, a lot of these you launch by throwing it like you used to do a glider.
	the air and it goes well they have a little rocket little jato jato yeah no it's just like a model airplane these are model airplanes well those are the small ones i'm talking about the ones with the with the the predators oh no no no the big ones have a runway or the raptors whatever those ones that shoot you the reaper the reaper reapers yeah those things will be all over the usa too yeah now of course and that's why we need the next gen air system which is going to be billions of dollars It's not for your safety.
	We don't want to lose a drone.
	Ooh, that would be horrible.
	So was that a C5 it hit?
	Um, don't know.
	Don't know what it hit.
	I mean, it damaged the wing.
	It was, you know, it was like a bird strike, essentially.
	We were in Boston.
	We were walking around.
	It was something that really hit me, which was really weird.
	We were walking in Boston two days ago.
	Was it two days ago?
	Yeah.
	We're walking Newbury Street.
	Beautiful area.
	Beautiful shops.
	It had rained, but it had stopped raining.
	Everyone's beautiful in Boston.
	There's tons of money around because of Harvard.
	There's all kinds of...
	Just good.
	Life is good in Boston.
	And I pass a guy, and he's got his dog tags out, and he says, could you spare a dollar for a homeless veteran?
	And you know me, right, John?
	You know me and people asking for money on the street.
	Five buck Adam.
	Yeah, I'm a big sucker that way.
	And so I turn around, and I said, veteran of what war?
	And he says, this one, sir.
	I'm like, wow.
	How messed up is this?
	We're all out there.
	You're on the street already?
	Yeah, we're having a good time.
	He said, I did two tours.
	Came back.
	You know.
	And it just blew me away that when he said, yeah, this war, sir.
	I'm like, oh yeah, of course.
	I'm sorry.
	Oh no, which one of the five that we're in?
	And like, you know, how nutty is it that we're all just, we're shopping, we're buying sunglasses, you know, like, ooh, having a good time.
	As a homeless veteran, he claims he was homeless, I have no reason to doubt him.
	Of this war, sir.
	This war?
	This war.
	Yeah, because you think Vietnam, you know, a veteran of what?
	No, this war, sir.
	Ugh!
	Makes me mad.
	Anyhow, lots of fun stuff today.
	On that note, we should probably at least thank our executive producers.
	Let us do that.
	So we have one, two executive producers and one, two, three associate executive producers.
	And our executive producer for the 333 Club for this show is Fish Guy out of Missoula, Montana.
	It says, finally a donor after being a fish boner all this time.
	I'll send a PDG email with the latest stories from Gitmo Big Sky.
	It's probably PGP. It's probably encrypted is what he means.
	Oh, PGP. Could be.
	Getting my potato head.
	I have just figured out a couple of new ways to soak the rich.
	Yeah, right.
	So we'll look for that email.
	We'll read it in a future episode.
	Scott Hankel in Sunland, California is in on the 331...
	Oh, the only member.
	That's great.
	Awesome.
	He's the number one member, and he actually sent a weird set of donations.
	I had the email to figure out what he was up to.
	Anyway, so he's an executive producer.
	He chose that.
	Jonathan Dowdy in Alpharetta, Georgia.
	$210, pronounced Dowdy.
	In the morning, John and Adam, I'm a full-time student and work full-time, and I'm living the American dream just getting by.
	Ha!
	You know, can I just interrupt that so that I can play the Just Getting By so that my Uncle Don can hear it?
	Oh yes, please.
	Yeah, because I think he needs to hear that.
	We can reprise a few of these for him.
	Yeah, I think it's well worth it.
	This is from the President's weekly address from, what is it now, five weeks ago?
	Five, six weeks ago, probably?
	It's a while back.
	Yeah, here's the American Dream, according to your President.
	In the end, the folks I hear from in letters or meet when I travel across the country, they aren't asking for much.
	They're just looking for a job that covers their bills.
	They're looking for a little financial security.
	They want to know that if they work hard and live within their means, everything will be alright.
	They'll be able to get ahead and give their kids a better life.
	That's the dream each of us has for ourselves and our families.
	That's right.
	So long as I have the privilege of serving as president, I'll keep fighting to put that dream within the region.
	Thanks!
	He's not going to put the real American dream to work.
	He's going to put that dream, that one.
	Just getting by.
	Just getting by.
	Eking out a living.
	How you doing on that, John?
	Eking out a living.
	Eking it out, man.
	Eking it out.
	He's been meaning to donate, Jonathan has, but with school costs, he's not been able to.
	Please give me a shot of karma and a de-douche combo.
	Yeah, double shot.
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	There you go, my friend.
	double shot and thank him anonymous in brussels belgium two hundred dollars uh please keep anonymous this donation and the podcast license he needs you have to put him on the list even though you have to extract it yeah no problem great show uh warringly quickly becoming my only source of news analysis i will give you warringly says this is i agree i don't think we should be the I'll keep on sending you my Euros before they collapse.
	By the way, people out there in Europe should think about this.
	Your 100, about 40 euros is 14 to us.
	And he made $200, and he says ITM. Travis Dillman, Red Deer Alberta, our last associate executive producer in the morning, John and Adam, I've been listening to you guys, your show for a year and a half, and never donated.
	He needs a douche, he wants to be douchebagged.
	Well, why would you want that?
	Isn't that a de-douching?
	Well, he says he wants it because he hasn't done it.
	Alright, alright, alright.
	It's an S&M thing.
	You got it, my friend.
	Douchebag!
	That's what you want.
	After listening to that one episode where you guys were talking about Lucifer's lesbian relationships and then laughing his ass off when apparently I made the comment about her sniffing her finger.
	Oh, John!
	Which was not my best moment, by the way.
	No, it was not.
	I hope your wife scolded you for that.
	She cracked up.
	I bet.
	There's $200.
	Anyway, those are our executive producers and associate executive producers of today's show.
	And we do have a couple of Hot Pockets producers to thank as we first go back to our Pennsylvania meetup, Shikshini meetup at the wonderful log cabin on the lake of Shikshini Lake with Michael and Sarah.
	It was a great time.
	People came from all over.
	Scott Shellhammer donated $333.33 to And let me just see.
	I'll probably have to do his letter during our donation segment, but it was a beautiful letter that he wrote us.
	So we'll put him on the list for, I guess, the 333 Club.
	He did even the 33 cents, which is great.
	And we have a couple other people we'll be thanking from there as well.
	And also from Boston, but no one quite came in at the executive or executive producer level.
	But we are looking forward to thanking all of them later on in the program.
	Then a couple of PR mentions.
	So first of all, the email paid off, John.
	The Texas...
	The Tribune, as you'll recall, had sent me an email requesting information about one of the now probably close to 600 domain names that forward to the noagendashow.com website, rickperry2012.com, and I'd sent him back an email.
	Did you see what they printed?
	Yeah, they printed a good little quote, even though they spelled my name wrong, and they're linking to it.
	They can easily say, what kind of fact-checkers do they have at that place?
	Yeah, it's not very good, apparently.
	By the way, I wrote the email, so I don't understand how hard it was.
	So they talk about people trying to make a mint on Rick Perry's running now.
	Like, we care.
	And so here's the blurb about the show.
	While not personally looking to cash in, media personalities...
	John, how do you feel?
	Media personality.
	I feel like a media personality.
	You got the ballsy voice to go with it.
	Adam Curry, a former MTV VJ and John C. Dvorak...
	That's so horrible.
	At least they got the C part, right?
	Yeah, that's the best part.
	Our two beneficiaries of domain-purchasing pranksters.
	Type in perry2012.com.
	You'll be whisked to the site of their podcast, the No Agenda Show.
	No link, of course.
	But they aren't responsible for that.
	The address is registered to an air conditioning and electrical services company in Keene, Texas.
	Sounds like a front...
	Quote, Our listeners have registered over 500 domain names that point to our show website.
	Curry explained in an email, Usually this is due to a conversation or topic on the show.
	We're no fans of Perry, so this is a nice blocking move.
	Another Perry-themed way to get to the No Agenda show site?
	AdiosMofos.com Adios, mofo.
	I like that.
	I have no idea if the Texas Tribune reads that or not.
	Probably not.
	They have a.org domain name, so it doesn't seem like that's a great thing.
	No, not for a newspaper.
	No.
	Not that you can't get some newspaper names.
	Well, you know, speaking of that sort of thing...
	Well, I do have a couple of domain names.
	You want to say something?
	Oh, yeah.
	Run those through, and then I want to go to this one little thing that asserts one of your theories.
	Oh, good.
	So a couple other domain names being forwarded to the show site.
	InfiniteGrowthParadigm.com Great.
	It's catchy.
	It's real catchy.
	Of course, this is a callback to the previous show.
	TeachersWithBenefits.com Also...
	Call back to the Facebook story that was all over the fake news media.
	Noagendapuppets.com is not a domain name forward, it's an actual website where puppets speak in video and propagate our messages.
	So it makes no sense for me to play this one, because it just sounds like...
	It's just us, but it's puppets on it.
	No, no, no.
	It sounds like a guy.
	No, no.
	He's hired a guy to do a puppeteering thing, and he does the Gitmo Nation national anthem.
	They're not overdubbing our voices?
	No, no, no.
	It's fresh new content.
	Then we have ExpectingTurbulence.com, which I thought was also very nice, from Leland, who's been unemployed for a couple months now.
	NoAgendaVinyl.com, this will of course be for my Adam Sings The Hits, which you're planning on releasing.
	www.officialgovernmentwebsite.com And I guess we talked about this last time, but this is from Victoria Arnoldi, and says, hey, you forgot to pimp out my buddy, because we did talk about it in the donation segment, but I didn't put it into the link, so that's in the links now.
	And finally, it's in, John, currydvorakconsulting.com Yeah, it's about time.
	Yeah, we can start our business.
	And we'll be using that, by the way, but there's a $30,000 retainer.
	I figured that's where we should start.
	Shouldn't it be a $33,000 retainer?
	Oh, so I like the official government...
	What was it again?
	Officialgovernmentwebsite.com.
	I love that.
	That's a great website.
	So let's Google it.
	Let's see what happens if you do that.
	If you Google for...
	Hold on a second.
	If you Google for official government website...
	Because people would be Googling for that, right?
	I would think, yeah.
	Wayofusa.gov.
	We need some work on the juice.
	That'll happen.
	Yeah, we need some work on that.
	Yeah, USA.gov.
	Yeah, we need some work on that.
	I didn't even know this existed.
	This is the government's official web portal.
	They're making more websites at this $8 million a pop deal.
	Somebody's making out like $18 million a pop.
	Somebody's making out like a bandit.
	Yep.
	Sonia, CurryDvorakConsulting.com will be activated, of course, as we go into our consulting business, primarily consulting Russia Today on better-looking hosts who just bring in the bacon.
	Because they've got all the right messages.
	They must have some kind of nasty feminazi run into place that won't allow it.
	Possible.
	Possible.
	That's the only possibility, because if it was, you know, normal broadcasting people...
	Yeah, we'd have hot babes, blondes.
	Yeah, it doesn't make any sense.
	I'll name Natasha.
	Natasha, back to you, Natasha.
	Thank you, Natasha.
	Let me tell you what's going on here.
	Okay, now Natasha is up next with the weather.
	They're not German.
	Well, I'm trying.
	BachmanCorndog.com.
	Very apropos and extremely courant.
	Here's one that is a nice try, but I don't think it's ever going to do us any good.
	IncompetentBureaucratsAfraidToAnswerYesOrNoQuestion.com.
	Appreciate the try.
	But we don't think that's really going to fly.
	Then we have lootingandriots.com.
	That'll be a good place if you're looking for looting and riots.
	That's a good one.
	They'll be knocking on the door over that one.
	Yeah.
	A couple others in this forward PR work from Mike.
	Infinitegrowth.com and particularlypopular.com.
	Then we have a new wiki which has been set up, a No Agenda Watchlist wiki, and you can find the link in the show notes at 331.nashownotes.com.
	This is for all the people that we're watching, so this is our watchlist, and you can contribute to that.
	And then the best one, and of course we have to play a couple of clips here, which we'll do momentarily after John has something to say, LoneWolfBlitzer.com.
	I like that one a lot.
	LoneWolfBlitzer.com So those are our PR mentions.
	We highly appreciate it.
	Thank you very much to our producers.
	Who helped us out.
	So, of course, from the Hot Pockets producer list, we have Scott Shellhammer with 333.33.
	And then also on the list, we have executive producers Fish Guy, we have Scott Hankel, we have Jonathan Doughty, we have Anonymous from Brussels in Belgium, and Travis Dillman as our associate executive producer in Red Deer, Alberta.
	Everybody else out there, of course, you do have a mission.
	It's very, very simple.
	We'd like you to go out.
	We'd like you to propagate our formula.
	This is what it's all about.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	New world border.
	And say it with me like you really mean it.
	Shut up, slave.
	Be quiet.
	Sit down.
	Eat your peas.
	Pull off the band-aid.
	Just get by.
	Yeah.
	So, you've been asserting for a while that, and I'm thinking that probably you're partially right.
	I believe one of the writers on the Jon Stewart show, at least one of them, has a listener.
	Listen to the show, yeah.
	And the only reason I say that is because this particular gag, which we have queued up here, Stuart Steals Our Gag, is too obtuse.
	Squirrel!
	Because what you began the squirrel meme, which some people found offensive.
	I always thought it was great because you always dropped it in.
	It was short.
	It was a good, quick little ditty.
	Never bothered me.
	Squirrel!
	And I like it.
	Which is the dog in the movie Up.
	Which is an old movie.
	It's not a common reference.
	It's not a new reference.
	We started this Thanksgiving this past year.
	Because that's when I saw the movie.
	In November when I saw the movie.
	Because my daughter said, this is a great movie.
	You've got to watch this.
	And she was talking squirrel.
	I have to give her some props.
	And I was like, that's perfect.
	So whenever there's some terrorist alert...
	Squirrel!
	And by the way, we've never explained this on the show.
	Whenever someone's talking about terrorists, terrorists, terrorists, lone wolf terrorists, oh, terrorists, terrorists, just hit a squirrel.
	So, Jon Stewart finally comes around, somebody on the staff, I don't know that he watches or listens to us, but somebody does, because this coming out of the Blue Lakes, and by the way, this was run on Monday of this week, this bit that I'm going to play, and then he did it again, he brought the squirrel thing, he said squirrel a couple of times, either on the Tuesday or Wednesday show, I got the two mixed up, but he did it again, I think we'll hear from it, but because he's got a bigger show...
	Millions of listeners and viewers, he's basically stolen our material.
	Bastard!
	And we'll look derivative.
	Yeah, we'll look like we're stealing it, so we've got to come up with something else.
	I hate that.
	Markman thinks about Rick Perry.
	He's new!
	We haven't seen him before.
	The media really is the dogging up.
	You know, it's been seven hours I'm tired of Michelle Bachman.
	Squirrel!
	Anyway, as the media said, Rick Perry is...
	Yep.
	There you go.
	That's how it goes.
	Yeah, we are the unsung heroes, John, of the squirrel meme.
	And we will, of course, you're right, be called derivative of it.
	And that's how it goes when you have taken a vow of poverty.
	Well, the funny thing is, you know, there's a kind of an unwritten rule in the world of comedy that you have to either pay for stolen material or at least maybe do a noagendashow.com plug.
	I'll tell you what's better.
	Or even ridicule us.
	I think it would be great if he said these two idiots.
	Right.
	Here's what I'd like.
	I'd like him to do a segment like, whatever became of that hair guy.
	He's hanging out with this douche.
	And just show us and then noagendashow.com.
	A plug for the show is all we need.
	Under any circumstance.
	I don't care what they say.
	Or I would be happy to step back and I think that you could be on the show to promote your book.
	There you go.
	The one with about IBM communications programming from 1978.
	So I'm just wrapping up getting my clips and then I'm watching a little TV late night and I normally don't watch Jimmy Kimmel but I'm kind of a fan of Joe McHale, the guy who does the soup talk.
	Oh, the soup guy.
	He's great.
	He's great.
	So he was on, and he gave this anecdote about this weird TSA program.
	I mean, he makes it kind of humorous, but I'm wondering, let's try to deconstruct what they might be up to here, because this is really weird.
	Forgive me.
	Yeah, let me do this really quick.
	Okay.
	No, yeah, I flew in this morning, and on my way there at LAX, I was getting through the security, and a man, one of the TSA people, right next to me began to shout the word Bravo.
	Squirrel!
	He was just going, Bravo!
	Bravo!
	And I was like, thank you.
	I totally nailed putting my laptop into a container separately.
	And then they all shouted Bravo all together like a flash mob.
	And then they went, nobody move!
	And I, of course, thought, oh no, there's been a problem.
	I'm going to try to get out of here.
	So I put the kilo of heroin back in my bag.
	And...
	But they're like, don't move.
	So I literally, we all were fro, like one woman had her hand up, just like...
	And then there was a pause and he goes, you've just been a part of the TSA's Bravo program.
	You may now proceed.
	Really?
	They never said what it was for.
	Other than fun.
	And how long did it go on?
	It went about a minute that we sat there frozen.
	Really?
	And then I would have just gone, why not just go, bad guy, bad guy with bad stuff, get him!
	But it was one of those moments where I thought...
	When I hear Bravo, I think, of course, of the real housewives.
	Maybe they're preparing for a visit from them.
	That is a big terror threat.
	Wow.
	Yeah, of course I have the new procedures.
	I don't have them on this laptop for obvious reasons.
	But I'll look it up, and I'll see if there's a Bravo procedure in there.
	Well, there's references to it on the internets that go back to 2009, and here's one example of it.
	Code Bravo is a code phrase of the general security alert at airports.
	But it sounds to me if they're practicing on the public with false alarms, and they want everyone to freeze, I think they're just trying to...
	I think they're just messing with us.
	Let's make everybody stop moving.
	Watch this.
	In that clip he mentioned...
	Flash mobs.
	The meme is back.
	Of course, flash mobs have been around for a while.
	They're in commercial television these days.
	The guy that's trying to start the flash mob and he's 10 minutes early because he isn't using AT&T or whatever.
	And so I've been looking around, and I found a couple of very...
	By the way, by the way, I don't think it was AT&T, but that's how ineffective that commercial was.
	Commercial's working great.
	The commercial works great.
	You know, you guys got to go hire Jeff Smith.
	Sir Jeff Smith does jingles.
	Those things work.
	The pendulum will swing back.
	You'll find out that making catchy little tunes for your product is better than these stupid high-concept commercials, which we don't remember.
	So our national treasure, NPR, starts it off with an assertion that was quite new to me.
	We were forced into a gut-wrenching decision of how we were going to stop it.
	This, by the way, is of course about the BART train station turning off cell phone service because people were going to organize into groups to protest.
	Given the propensity of this group to create chaos on the platform.
	Using mobile devices to organize groups of people isn't new.
	Such groups are sometimes called flash mobs.
	Flash mobs have used mobile devices to organize fun stuff, like group dancing in a public spot.
	But in other cities, flash mobs have been organized to rob stores and attack people.
	The question is whether or not cutting off cell phone service is the right way to combat the problem.
	And I'm like, what?!
	Now, when did we hear about a flash mob being organized to rob stores?
	Plural, by the way.
	Plural.
	This is from the NPRs.
	Stores.
	Plural.
	NPR. So I'm like, I gotta find an example.
	There must be something recent.
	There must be some story about a flash mob being organized to rob a store, which I'd never heard of before.
	Because of course now flash mobs will be outlawed and it's going to be this great little meme that everyone can use.
	And lo and behold, I find one.
	This throws back to about a week and a half ago at the state fair.
	And in the state fair...
	Here you go, darling.
	Thank you so much.
	The following takes place, but they've got the sheriff on, and he kind of gives away that it's probably...
	We don't know if it's a flash mob.
	We're just going to use the meme anyway.
	Summer, something that's been harmless.
	Even a fun fad has turned down.
	Fun fad!
	Fun fad flash mob!
	Fun fad!
	Fun fad!
	Thank you.
	Are they still listening, Nick?
	Oh, God.
	Is Uncle Don rolling his eyes?
	Yeah, he's listening in the other room.
	He's on the hotline now.
	He's sleeping.
	He's sleeping.
	You're like, Uncle Don would like, I can't listen to this.
	Am I really related?
	I want a DNA test now.
	Dangerous and illegal young people using social networks and text messaging to get organized have been assembling in what they call flash mobs.
	But over the weekend in Germantown, Maryland, a flash mob of more than two dozen young people showed up at a convenience store just before two in the morning.
	So here's the host asserting a flash mob showed up at the store to rob it.
	Now let's hear from the law officer.
	Look at it, right there.
	Grabbing things off the shelves.
	Look at it!
	Look at it!
	You flash mob!
	Out they go, leaving without paying.
	Without paying!
	It's called stealing and shoplifting, not flash mobbing.
	Seeing similar reports in other cities, most involving African Americans and some...
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Black people flash mob.
	This gets worse.
	...leading to mob violence.
	With us now, the Montgomery County Maryland Police Chief, J. Thomas Manger, and CNN contributor...
	Maryland's in the worst place in the world.
	Listen to what he says, though.
	Chief, this is your jurisdiction, Germantown, where this played out.
	What do you know about how they got organized?
	I've spoken to the Philadelphia Chief, Charles Ramsey, recently.
	He says they're using texting, using social media.
	Is that how this happened?
	Well, that's still under investigation.
	Still under investigation.
	We don't know.
	John King's just talking out of his ass.
	Gets better.
	We've gotten some information that some of these kids were at the Montgomery County Fair.
	When it closed, they took the last bus back to the transit center in Germantown.
	Then when they got there, what we're thinking is that that's when they started using the social media to get a larger group together to go into the 7-Eleven.
	So, bullcrap.
	It's just a nice little meme to use.
	And more fun taken away.
	No more dancing.
	No more dancing, you.
	No more flash mobbing.
	Now here comes the funniest thing.
	This is the funniest.
	I think I've got the clip of the day.
	This is the spokeshole for Bart.
	Now, just to recap, for those who don't know, BART, Bay Area, Rapid Transit, there were people who were organizing a demonstration because a transit cop killed a young man, and he was pretty much acquitted, I think.
	They held the trial in Los Angeles, of course, nowhere near Oakland where it took place, because they didn't want huge riots happening.
	They didn't want any peers.
	No, exactly.
	Peers.
	Thank you.
	And he, this guy, he's the spokeshole.
	Listen to his view of the Constitution.
	John, could you please grab your copy of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights?
	Because we have to fact check what this guy is saying.
	That as a Bart official...
	As a BART official, my new focus now is to provide safe transportation for folks.
	And so, to answer your question directly, I can't tell you what we're going to do because we don't know yet what we're facing.
	I guess I should say they turned off the cell phone service in the station so people couldn't create a flash mob.
	All we know is that we have a protest, and here's a peaceful one, and we welcome a peaceful protest.
	I'm the administrator of the free speech program at BART. So he's an expert.
	He knows all about free speech.
	Let's go!
	And as long as they stay outside the fair gates, in the free speech zone that's designated by the Constitution...
	Hold on a second.
	The free speech zone as designated by the Constitution...
	Holy crap!
	As designated by the...
	So you can have free speech...
	What is that in Hyde Park in London?
	I mean, what are we talking about?
	Your speaker's corner?
	The free speech zone as designated by the Constitution.
	But it gets better!
	Stop!
	You've got to play the douchebag clip, please!
	Isn't that unbelievable that this guy could actually say that?
	Douchebag!
	Alright, free speech zone as designated by the Constitution.
	Let's hear more from this leader of free speech.
	We welcome the protests.
	Well, if it is, Linton, if it is a peaceful protest, as everyone is hoping, then why the need to shut off cell service, if that is the way you go?
	Well, what we're going to do is take the open steps within the Constitution to be able to ensure the safe passage of our passengers.
	So, wait a minute.
	The Constitution says you have to have safe passage on a train.
	This is what he's asserting now.
	Remember, there are more constitutional rights than just free speech here at stake.
	Oh, yeah.
	Listen!
	Be quiet!
	Listen!
	It's the right to be safe.
	The right to be safe!
	John, could you please look at the Constitution?
	Do we have a right to be safe?
	The right to be safe is a constitutional right, ladies and gentlemen.
	And there's more.
	And that is a constitutional right.
	It's a constitutional right!
	John!
	What is this guy?
	He's a total asshole!
	And I know the media is very sensitive to free speech because that's their business, but we're very sensitive to safety.
	Well, let me ask you, because it's ultimately up to...
	Go ahead, go ahead.
	You want to know why we're forced into this decision?
	Exactly.
	The protesters forced us into this decision.
	They made us choose between people's ability to be able to use their mobile phones, an amenity that we provide, and our customers' constitutional right to be able to get from point A to point B. Hold on, check the Constitution.
	Do we have a right to get from point A to point B? Yeah, there it is.
	Just working their business for.
	And so what we did is we took a very narrow time frame, three hours and four stations, where they said prior to that protest that they were going to try to disrupt and create a huge safety problem.
	And we stopped service for mobile phone users because they were going to take the very tool that we put in place, this tool, the mobile phone service, a safety tool, they were going to turn it around and use it against our customers.
	So they took this mobile phone service, a tool for safety, and used it against our customers to try to violate their constitutional rights to safety.
	I want to invoke my constitutional right to safety.
	Please.
	Well, here's the thing that bothers me more about that clip than the fact that the guy's a moron.
	Is what is a reporter doing?
	Why doesn't she say something like, hey buddy, you're full of crap!
	Yeah.
	Because she doesn't know?
	Is she an idiot?
	Does she not know anything?
	No.
	Does anybody even read the Constitution anymore?
	No!
	I would fire the reporter the next day.
	I would bring her in the office as the editor and say, look, look at this.
	This guy is wide open for nothing but a couple of decent questions.
	You didn't ask anything.
	You're fired!
	Constitutional right to safety.
	No, it's crazy.
	On that note...
	And then I'll shut up.
	This is not a clip, but Fareed Zakaria, our friend, who has private consultations with our president, he wrote a blog post.
	He hates the Constitution.
	We should make that clear.
	Yes, he hates the Constitution.
	He doesn't think it's good.
	And here it is.
	Does America need a prime minister, he writes.
	Oh, brother!
	Who's going to be king?
	Well, him!
	Apparently.
	After the S&P downgraded the United States, no country with a presidential system has a AAA rating from all three major ratings agencies.
	Only countries with parliamentary systems have that honor.
	And then he goes on to say that our government is no good because we can't make decisions quickly because of our presidential system.
	The American presidential system, in contrast to David Cameron of the Gitmo Nation East, you have the presidency and the legislator, both of which claim to speak for the people claim.
	As a result, you always have a contest over basic legitimacy.
	Who is actually speaking for and representing the people?
	He is advocating...
	Doing away with our entire system.
	He's actually, this is actually, if you look in the Constitution, you cannot, he is actually advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government on CNN. He's treason!
	Treason!
	It's as close to treason as anything else that these guys are saying is treason.
	I mean, like that idiot Rick Perry who says that Bernanke is treasonous for doing what he has to do at the Fed.
	Yeah.
	How amazing is that?
	Nobody's calling this guy out.
	It's amazing to me.
	It's amazing that he gets away with saying this.
	Now, he doesn't actually come out and say, I've got to overthrow it and make somebody king.
	He actually says, follow me on Facebook and Twitter.
	Well, same thing.
	It's the same thing.
	If we're in for another five years of this squabbling in the U.S., we are going to make presidential systems look pretty bad indeed.
	Thank you, Farik.
	GPS, Zakaria.
	Anyway, that got me a little riled.
	Well, I'm a little annoyed by this flash mob situation because the New York Times, some, I don't know, maybe a week or so ago, there was a little op-ed or some little editorial, perhaps.
	I can't remember.
	I just remember seeing it.
	And they were saying, you know, isn't this getting a little old and cliché?
	They were kind of throwing a wet blanket on the whole idea.
	And I thought I kind of agreed with them, which is like it is cliché.
	But I didn't think it was maybe some sort of code for let's put an end to it.
	I think it is.
	I think it's just another step and another little notch to remove all of our, yeah, essentially all of our freedoms on the interwebs.
	It just keeps on going.
	Yeah, no, you equate flash mobs now with evil.
	I'm looking this up, and there were some incidents in Philadelphia, supposedly, in January or March.
	Well, they're just blaming everything.
	Flash mobs are bad.
	Well, actually, Russia...
	I was just going to say this because I was talking to Buzzkill Jr.
	about this, and he says there's a huge movement afoot, which is not flash mobs, but it's one of these underground things that's starting up, for everybody and their sister to re-register as Republicans and vote in Ron Paul.
	Because there's no reason to be a Democrat in the upcoming primaries.
	You mean Ron Paul, the third party candidate?
	The kook from Texas?
	The kook.
	The kook?
	Who we'll get to in a minute.
	Can I just tell you a little Uncle Don story?
	Yeah.
	So, Uncle Don, of course, I love the man.
	He queries me, and we talk a little bit about the kook from Texas.
	Because I said, hey, remember that kook?
	And then he says, so who do you...
	And of course, he's very disappointed in President Obama, by the way.
	And he says, so who do you think...
	I say, you know, Obama's going to quit.
	And he gives me one of his looks.
	Really?
	Yeah, he said, well, who do you see as the guy on the Democratic side?
	And I said, Kucinich!
	And he says, oh, the kook from Ohio?!
	There was a Supreme Court decision a few years ago that is being used to usurp the War Powers Act, and it all comes down to the Constitution.
	Let's set the War Powers Act aside for a minute.
	The Constitution makes it manifestly clear that only Congress has the power to send our young men and women into war.
	Unfortunately, this administration, even though it's headed by a constitutional scholar, now is ignoring the Constitution and determining that they have the right to send our troops into war any time they please.
	There you go.
	Kooky!
	Kooky guy.
	Yeah, that's crazy talk.
	That's just outrageous.
	Well, I've come to the conclusion, I'm going to put it in the red book as my prediction, which is, and I did predict that Obama's not going to run again, but whether or not he does is beside the point on this one.
	I believe that the Republicans will have the two, who's going to be running?
	Romney's going to be the head guy.
	Oh, you don't think Perry?
	No, Perry's going to be the vice president.
	Perry only came in to be the vice president because he can't sustain a possibility of a win because he's a complete screw-up.
	You know what he is?
	He's the money man because he's got Big Pharma behind him.
	He's a big supporter of Gardasil and all the...
	Right, he's a big pharma guy.
	But more importantly, as far as the public's concerned, yeah, that's what we're talking about.
	But as far as the public's concerned, he is the evangelical balance against the Mormon.
	Oh, there you go.
	We can't have the Mormon getting in.
	No, not without a balance, because then you know you can always shoot the guy and you get the evangelical to take his place.
	So you don't have to worry about anything.
	So there's no worries because you have the evangelical in the White House and he'll be out there acting like an idiot, you know, that he is.
	Very good.
	So that's the only reason he came into play at all, is to just say, here I am, I'm going to go put up a good fight, and all the media guys are going to say, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's part of the whole thing, he's really a contender.
	But he only came in to be the vice president, because they have to give it to Romney.
	Romney's been waiting just patiently the way, you know, McCain was last time.
	This is all a scam, and they put these people in line and say, okay, you're next.
	Oh, God.
	Okay, well, the Bachman thing, don't worry about it.
	She's not getting anywhere.
	And Palin's been told not to run.
	You know, they've just got good consultants, and they're smart, because we need the presidential reality show to look good, and we put Bachman in.
	But you know what?
	For as calm and collected as she was several months ago, what is the deal with her screaming?
	Someone give this woman microphone technique, please.
	Stop it.
	It's annoying.
	Sorry, I blew up my mic.
	We're gonna take back the country!
	We're gonna take birth!
	Like, hello, stop!
	Right?
	Yeah, she's gotta fist the mic.
	So I figured it all out, though.
	I figured it all out.
	Remember me talking about Project Bluebeam?
	This is not second half of the show stuff, actually.
	Vaguely, go on and explain.
	Okay, Project Bluebeam is a theory that claims that NASA is attempting to implement New Age religion with the Antichrist at its head to start the New World Order.
	And the idea is that the government would create a fake invasion of aliens...
	And that then we'd all be like, oh, you know, whatever, we'd all get in line.
	And of course, you know, I follow the, you know, I'm a crackpot, so I follow the stuff like Project Bluebeam, and whenever there's a UFO sighting, I'm always quick to believe that it's real, but I always have in the back of my mind, you know, maybe this could be the start of Project Bluebeam, because I'm not leaving anything out.
	I have no real agenda.
	And then we have Nobel Prize-winning economist.
	Krugman, who writes for the New York Times, and he wrote this in his column, I was floored, and luckily, so I don't have to read, he went on Zakaria's show, uh-huh, Zakaria, and he explained the solution to all problems in these United States of Gitmo Nation.
	Very simple.
	Think about World War II, right?
	That was actually negative social product spending, and yet it brought us out.
	I mean, partly because you want to put these things together.
	If we say, look, we could use some inflation, Ken and I are both saying that, which is, of course, anathema to a lot of people in Washington, but is, in fact, what the basic logic says.
	It's very hard to get inflation in a depressed economy, but if you had a program of government spending plus an expansionary policy by the Fed, you could get that.
	So if you think about using all of these things together...
	You could accomplish a great deal.
	If we discovered that space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive build-up to counter the space alien threat and really inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months.
	There you go!
	So all we need is the threat of space aliens invading us, and we'd be out of this recession in 18 months.
	And what he does, in fact, if I understand him correctly, because I'm no Nobel Prize winner, is he calls back to World War II and says that was good for business.
	He says, World War II got us out of the slump.
	Is this correct, John?
	You're a scholar of these things.
	Well, you know, that is one theory.
	Now, if you go by economic cycle theory, that's bull crap.
	In 1940, it would be the end of one of the 80-40 cycles, and it would have...
	Picked up no matter what you did.
	This is the same thing that Ronald Reagan ran into.
	He was right on that in 1980, was right on the cycle ending.
	So the economy was in the toilet through the entire 70s.
	And then it just came out of it, even with voodoo economics.
	In fact, whatever he did would have worked because it all works during the cycle.
	And 1940s, that other cusp.
	And so it's questionable.
	Yeah, it looks good on paper.
	That we got out of the Depression because of the war, but I'm never bought into that.
	Well, so let me ask you then.
	By the way, do we have to have a war to get out of a Depression?
	This is the question you have to ask.
	Thank you.
	It seems so.
	Well, let me ask you then.
	If smart guys like this, who writes for the Ministry of Truth, Nobel Prize winner, who's the other Nobel Prize winner?
	Oh yeah, President Obama.
	That's a peace prize.
	That's slightly different.
	Still, it comes from the Nobel Institute.
	If their thinking is like this, could this entire lone wolf terrorist around every corner under your bed, crazy white guys without turbans on, could that be to build up the Department of Homeland Security and create more government jobs?
	Of course, Janet, Lucy, wants to be number one.
	She can't just be number three.
	That doesn't look good on your resume.
	Could that just be, could all of this be to just build up and build up and create more jobs to get us out of the economy?
	Slump that we're in?
	Well, yeah, the problem, yeah, I mean, there's that element, I think, has always been in play, and I think we've kind of acknowledged it.
	But the problem is, is that this all really began after 9-11.
	Right, and it hasn't really worked.
	And it hasn't done crap.
	Well, what is done is it sells books.
	It's putting us deeper and deeper into a spiral, a downward spiral.
	None of this is working.
	This guy is completely off base.
	His entire economic thesis, not Kregman, but the Obama administration, and all this, and creating the secret police and kind of armed forces within the U.S. and harassing the public, this is going to turn out badly.
	So let's get into it then.
	As I think, again, we're being ripped off.
	Because we first started out with...
	You watch Jon Stewart start playing Lone Wolf clips.
	You watch him do that.
	So there's a book out.
	And I heard this on the road when we were driving on the National Treasure.
	I've got a couple clips.
	Two guys, Eric Schmidt...
	Not from Google.
	Not our Eric Schmidt.
	And Tom Shanker.
	Actually, interestingly enough, his name is spelled T-H-O-M, so it's Thom.
	Thom.
	Thom Shanker.
	Both journalists at the New York Times.
	And they've written a book.
	And this book produced an article in Your Sunday Times, which we talked about briefly on Sunday.
	But they're out plugging the book, and they have started off an avalanche, I tell you.
	An avalanche of abuse against the poor citizens of the United States of Gitmo Nation.
	Yeah, it certainly did.
	What the American military intelligence can do is forge the watermarks or certification, if you will, of official Al-Qaeda postings, because they don't want people going online and pretending to be them, but, you know, American cyber technology is so advanced that they can have a near perfect recreation of an Al-Qaeda message.
	And what they're doing from time to time is going on to jihadi websites and posting conflicting and contradictory orders, statements that raise doubt about who the jihadi should follow and who's really in charge and is this person still alive?
	Are they still in control?
	And the goal is to really disrupt the entire network by sowing distrust and dissent and confusion.
	We've been told that they've had some great successes at that.
	So do you think it's possible that perhaps, and these of course are amongst others probably Lucifer Hillary Clinton's techno-experts, do you think it's possible that if they're out there to convince extremely sophisticated jihadi terrorists that they might confuse a New York Times reporter or two?
	With writing conflicting bogus reports of, I don't know, how about ricin?
	Maybe we're going to go kill everybody with ricin.
	The death toll could possibly be far higher than the 9-11 attacks.
	The New York Times reports that U.S. officials fear that al-Qaeda may be trying to produce the very deadly poison ricin.
	The Times says ricin would be packed around small explosives for attacks against the U.S. According to the Times, for more than a year, the Al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen has been trying to acquire large quantities of castor beans.
	Those beans are necessary to produce the ricin.
	The white, powdery toxin is so deadly that just a speck of it can kill you.
	The author of the Times article is Eric Schmidt.
	He's also the author of the new book, Counter-Strike, the Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign.
	Against al-Qaeda, his co-author is Tom Schenker.
	Eric Schmidt joins us now from New York.
	Hi there, Erica.
	This is a frightening and amazing story as well.
	I want to begin by asking you, what does this ricin plot tell us about the danger of al-Qaeda affiliates such as the one in Yemen?
	Well, what it tells us, Randy, is that even with the death of Osama bin Laden in May, the affiliates of al-Qaeda in places like Yemen, adherents in Somalia, these are still very dangerous to the United States.
	The arm of al-Qaeda in Yemen, after all, was responsible for the plot of the so-called underpants bomber in Christmas of 2009, and then ten months later, the printer cartridges that were packed with explosives and put on cargo planes bound for Chicago.
	So what it shows is that even with Bin Laden's death, these affiliates are still very dangerous to the country.
	Very dangerous.
	Very dangerous.
	So, you know, I'm thinking our own cyber command put out a thing about rice and to scare people.
	Whatever happened to anthrax?
	You know, it seems to me that I guess they dropped the ball on that one.
	No, no, ricin is easy to make.
	This is the whole thing.
	We've got to make it easy to make.
	Raymond Noodles and ricin.
	And there's a couple more.
	Because now, of course, we've got to roll out everybody on our stupid, compromised cable news networks.
	You know, I imagine that...
	Post-Bin Laden, al-Qaeda, might be looking for some kind of attention-grabbing attack of some sort.
	Is that part of the equation here, that there's some concern that al-Qaeda might be trying to show that it's still relevant, even without Osama bin Laden?
	Now, what do we know about Al-Qaeda, John?
	We know that they are ready for an IPO. Their CEO got killed.
	They have affiliates.
	And we should refer to them in the proper context when we're on a bullcrap news network.
	Well, I don't...
	You know, I think probably there is a desire to attack revenge for...
	No, not this guy.
	Yeah, this guy was on the Bin Laden team, failed from 90 to 99.
	This guy is...
	I can't remember his name.
	He's an ex-CIA guy.
	I gotta ask Uncle Don about him.
	This guy is a jabroni.
	He is a complete douche.
	Jabroni.
	Jabroni.
	He's a jabroni.
	He looks like a jabroni.
	Well, listen to how he rolls it out.
	For Bin Laden's killing, surely is on tap.
	The idea of maybe some kind of attack around the 10th anniversary.
	Of course, let's all be afraid about that.
	But I think the important thing to keep in mind is that Al-Qaeda is an old established firm.
	Firm!
	It's the firm.
	It's the firm now, John.
	They can't stop doing it.
	It's the firm.
	Killing its leader is important, but not a fatal blow to them.
	They've had a nuclear acquisition program underway since 1991, chemical weapons since the late 80s, early 90s.
	This is an old-established firm, and the fact that they're getting to the point where they can find a way to use these We should have like a fresh dupree 1853.
	Is troubling.
	And I also have to say that killing Bin Laden will indeed unleash within Al-Qaeda people who are much less measured in their approach to attacking things.
	Much more willing to kill civilians, much more willing to stage smaller-scale attacks inside the United States.
	Bin Laden's son once said that the Americans will be very sorry they didn't kill my father in 1998 or 1999 because the next generation is much more vicious.
	Yeah, yeah, vicious, vicious.
	Ooh, be very afraid.
	Then we've got to roll out Bolton.
	Because, of course, Bolton, you know, he was an ambassador.
	He's official.
	He was the ambassador to the United Nations.
	Hey, let's get Bolton on.
	That mustache can hide all of the grimaces he's making.
	You know, this is amazing, because you only need the smallest amount of rice and just a few grains, like salt, just a few grains, to kill somebody.
	How frightening is this, and what is the reality?
	Well, it's a very real threat.
	You know, ever since the terrorist attacks of 9-11, we've been worried that the really devastating possibility exists that these terrorists, these suicide bombers, would acquire weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical, or biological, so that even the 3,000 deaths of 9-11 would be eclipsed by tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands dead in a terrorist attack.
	Millions!
	We know from captured documents after we overthrew the Taliban in Afghanistan that al- Wait a minute!
	We overthrew them?
	Is that done?
	Did you get that memo?
	We're done?
	Taliban's over?
	We did once.
	Oh, okay.
	And they kind of made a comeback.
	This is a priority.
	So it's not new in a sense, but it's new in that this is a current, ongoing operation by al-Qaeda in Yemen, apparently.
	And it should underline for all Americans that the war on terror is a long way from over.
	Yes!
	And if it continues, could escalate with devastating consequences for innocent civilians here or wherever the terrorist attack.
	And what's so astounding about this is you need such a little amount.
	And look what they already did in Yemen.
	They were able to send what, remember those printers?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	If they filled them with rice, then I'd be more impressed.
	I've got a clip to follow on to these clips.
	Go for it.
	Wolf Blitzer on 9-11.
	I want to say something about it when it ends.
	Wolf had an exclusive interview with Obama and here's what he comes out of it with.
	I have the whole interview if you want to play it as well.
	I don't want the whole interview.
	I just want this.
	And he sat down with Wolf Blitzer, my colleague, for an in-depth one-on-one interview.
	Wolf joins me now.
	Wolf, congratulations on your scoop interview.
	What was the most striking part of it from your point of view?
	At one point, we started talking about the 10th anniversary of 9-11.
	And I'm very worried, Piers, I don't know about you, but I'm very worried, having studied terrorism in the Middle East for a long time, that Al-Qaeda elements, whatever is left of Al-Qaeda or sympathizers, will seek to do something spectacular on the 10th anniversary of 9-11.
	And I was wondering how concerned the president was.
	And he's very concerned, and he specifically is concerned about what he called a lone wolf.
	Terrorists emerging, someone along the lines of what happened in Norway, and he is worried about other potentially more significant kinds of terror attacks, but he says that they're going to step up their precautions, and it It was sort of stark to me that the enormous responsibility he has as commander-in-chief on this upcoming 10th anniversary,
	you know that there are al-Qaeda elements who will want to seek revenge against the United States come on this 10th anniversary, and I'm sure he's very concerned about it.
	Alright.
	He's sure they're concerned about it.
	What he was talking to, did he ask him?
	Yes, he did.
	Well, here's the thing that got me.
	When he's doing this, this went on a little longer.
	He made an implication that we killed their leader.
	Oh.
	And so they might want to kill our leader.
	And so now I'm thinking, was this some sort of a subtle message or telling Obama to get in line?
	We've seen this before where there's these subtle kind of implications that kind of show up in the news media that are like, Obama, you know, get back to work.
	What I didn't like, and he did the same thing to the president, He says, So he's delivering the message.
	Did you see the interview with Obama?
	Yeah, it was terrible.
	The Middle East for a long time have covered terrorism for a long time.
	And I have to tell you, I'm worried that on the 10th anniversary or approaching the 10th anniversary of 9-11, Al-Qaeda or what's left of Al-Qaeda or their supporters will try to do something to seek revenge for your killing Bin Laden.
	How worried should we be about that?
	How worried are you about that?
	So, I mean, that's like...
	Me, me, me, me, me, me.
	He's setting it all up.
	That's not okay.
	No.
	This is leading the witness.
	But the president literally three times in the interview talks about a lone wolf.
	The President brings it, unprompted he's talking about, well, just listen to one answer.
	That's why I want to hear the president say it.
	Well, look.
	Look.
	Look.
	Look, Wolf.
	Look.
	We are vigilant and constantly monitoring potential risks of terrorist attacks.
	And I think that the men and women in our intelligence agencies as well as the FBI have done a terrific job and Department of Homeland Security.
	But the risk is always there.
	Excuse me, it was the SEALs, dude.
	It wasn't the Department of Homeland Security.
	Wait, back that up again.
	He said that, he's like saying Department of Homeland, it was CIA and the SEALs, it wasn't DHS. Well, maybe it wasn't.
	Back it up.
	Try to do something to seek revenge for your killing Bin Laden.
	How worried should we be?
	By the way, he killed him.
	Obama, personally, killed him.
	How worried are you about that?
	Well, look, we are vigilant and constantly monitoring potential risks of terrorist attacks.
	And I think that the men and women in our intelligence agencies as well as the FBI have done a terrific job in the Department of Homeland Security.
	But the risk is always there.
	And obviously on a seminal event like the 10th anniversary of 9-11, That makes us more concerned.
	It means we've got heightened awareness.
	The biggest concern we have right now is not the launching of a major terrorist operation, although that risk is always there.
	The risk that we're especially concerned of right now is the lone wolf terrorist.
	Somebody with a single weapon being able to carry out wide-scale massacres of the sort that we saw in Norway recently.
	Nice.
	Nice way to bring it all home.
	By the way...
	I got a prediction for the Red Book.
	Okay.
	On 9-11, nothing happens.
	Nothing happens, of course.
	That's a shoe-in.
	Of course nothing's going to happen.
	I got it down.
	I wrote it.
	No, you don't get to put that in the book.
	That's not okay.
	That's not okay.
	But I just want to say one thing.
	So he's talking about a lone wolf with a single weapon who could kill a lot of people like in Oslo.
	Very unfortunate, of course.
	Try that in Texas, lone wolf.
	That's what I want to see.
	I want to see a lone wolf try and kill a lot of people with a single weapon in Texas.
	Because that won't happen.
	Because after one shot's fired, this lone wolf will get obliterated by an armed population.
	Yeah, the bigger danger is to stray bullets from the armed population getting you.
	Well, that's not the point I was trying to make.
	I know, but it's funnier.
	That's not exactly what I wanted to say.
	But then, so how crazy is this?
	In this interview, and you can listen to the whole clip at 331.nashownotes.com, the president mentions Lone Wolf three times.
	So he doesn't say anything about ricin, because of course we know that that was the U.S. Cyber Command putting out false messages to the Al-Qaeda operatives on their own websites, confusing the boneheads at the New York Times who are selling a book.
	Please keep that in mind.
	And then all of a sudden, we get this report from Tampa!
	He did indeed, and he wrote it down in the manifesto.
	He also had bought bomb-making supplies, according to Tampa Police.
	He had everything he needed to carry out a massacre at Freedom High School in New Tampa, the first day of school.
	Oh my goodness!
	So we have...
	Oh no!
	Yes, a lone wolf terrorist.
	He had bomb-making materials.
	He had a manifesto, which I think is...
	TV speak for Facebook.
	And what was this guy's name?
	John, can you guess what his name was?
	No, I can't.
	The teen suspect was expelled from Freedom High School in New Tampa a year and a half ago.
	After Tampa, police arrested him for carrying a concealed firearm.
	Police Chief Jane Castor says Jared Kano...
	Oh, Jared!
	Where have I heard that name before?
	Beautiful.
	Beautiful.
	No interviews with classmates.
	We haven't seen it with no family.
	What were the bomb-making materials?
	I don't mention that.
	They don't have any information.
	College of Drano and Vinegar.
	But his name is Jared, so that works, because of course we had Jared Loeffner, who allegedly shot Giffords.
	Like, wow, really?
	I guess Jared's a bad name.
	It's not going to be on the top of the list of what to name your kids.
	And then I'll finish off this whole Wolf Blitz interview.
	I watched the whole thing.
	He did talk about the economy with the president and some other things, but the lone wolf thing was extremely disturbing to me.
	And then at the end, Wolf does a little throwaway, ha ha ha ha, because I'm buddies with the President.
	And a great example set yet again by the President of the United States.
	You're re-elected.
	The last time you were elected, you got Sasha and Malia a cute little puppy.
	Yeah.
	Bo.
	What are you going to get them the next time, if you're re-elected?
	When I'm re-elected, what I'll be getting them is a continuation of Secret Service so that when boys want to start dating them, they're going to be surrounded by men with guns.
	Yeah.
	Very good.
	Somehow I didn't laugh about that.
	So is he advocating that the best way, the best solution to problems familial and other problems is just to have people surrounding your family with guns?
	Yes.
	So he's advocating guns.
	Is that what he's doing?
	Yes.
	So Obama is promoting guns.
	Yes.
	And predator drones.
	That's fine.
	I mean, it's good.
	I mean, I think Texas has got that right.
	Yep.
	Guns.
	Very good.
	I'm surprised these liberal gun-lobby nutballs, or anti-gun-lobby nutballs, don't come out of the woodwork with some commentary about that.
	But have you heard anything?
	No.
	There was some talk about...
	This is so funny.
	The president about our economy.
	This is one for the prediction book.
	You can put the president now in our little red book.
	And by the way, for those of you who are new to the program, we do have a little red book.
	John, could you tweet a picture of that so people can see it?
	Yeah, I can tweet a picture of it.
	And all our predictions are written down.
	On the cover it says, Memjet, think fast, and it's a red book.
	It's funny because the first time Buzzkill Jr.
	is in Rome and I says, oh, the book is actually read.
	Yeah, what do you think?
	We're making this up, Buzzkill Jr.?
	So write this one down for the president.
	What I think the markets were reacting to is the fact that the economy has not grown as quick as it needs to.
	There have been a lot of headwinds.
	The European debt crisis.
	Headwinds.
	Headwinds.
	Japan.
	Japan.
	Just Japan.
	Just Japan.
	Japan.
	And what else is to blame?
	High gas prices from the Arab Spring.
	That is such bull crap.
	High gas prices because of the Arab Spring?
	Really?
	You're pulling that in now?
	And what a lot of folks are worried about is that the recovery that we have been on is stalling or not moving as quickly as it needs to.
	Do you think we're in danger of another recession?
	I don't think we're in danger of another recession, but we are in danger of not having a recovery that's fast enough to deal with what is a genuine unemployment crisis for a whole lot of folks out there.
	And that's why we need to be doing that.
	Folks, the concern.
	Folks.
	All right, no double-dip recession.
	No more.
	No recession, according to your president.
	Write it down.
	You know, I ran some on the blog.
	People can check it out.
	I ran a chart from a company out of San Francisco we talked about once in a while called ShadowStats.
	And these are government statistics that are recalculated to what they are in reality.
	I saw this.
	Yeah, I saw this.
	And the unemployment rate is what bothers me about the last one besides the fact that there's a huge discrepancy between the U3, the U6, which is the unemployment numbers, and what ShadowStats comes up with their numbers.
	It used to be a fairly reasonable margin between the three numbers, but now it's separating big time and the unemployment rate is actually increasing.
	Although the government numbers showing it's slightly decreasing, and that concerns me a lot.
	But ShadowStats, you can look it up on the internet.
	ShadowStats.com, it's an economist out of San Francisco who does all these, he shows you what's really going on.
	It's very good newsletters.
	Yeah, so we're actually at 25% unemployment is what you're saying.
	Yeah, close to it.
	Yeah, close to that.
	So, of course, we've got to get all kinds of crazy stuff out in the news.
	Reuters, I couldn't believe Reuters actually did this.
	What am I saying?
	Of course I could.
	They brought back a 2003 study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, which found that geomagnetic storms, of which we've had a lot recently, you know I track this, affect the stock market as traders are more likely to make pessimistic choices.
	According to the study from the Federal Reserve...
	So they're saying, hey, the markets, the craziness...
	Oh, no, no, no.
	It's just geomagnetic storms.
	You know, I'm not completely away from this theory because I believe that the cycle theory has something to do with people getting literally depressed.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	If you're depressed, you're not going to really be thinking positively.
	Unusually high levels of geomagnetic activity have a negative statistically and economically significant effect on the following week's stock returns for all U.S. stock market indices, the authors found in their report.
	So, nothing to worry about.
	Once those are gone, everything will go back up.
	Just give us your money.
	Gold, by the way, $1,820 today.
	John, is it time to sell?
	Almost time to dump.
	So, everybody, you can listen to me as you would have sold around $1,000.
	Listen to John, that is.
	Or you would have held on to it like me and you'll take those gold coins to your grave.
	But they'll be worth a lot of money.
	So, in other words, all the good it will do you is you never sell.
	In the ongoing anger fest between standards and poor, I'm just sticking with the banksters for a moment.
	Now, John, you had a great assertion.
	We talked about what we accurately predicted, that the debt ceiling would be raised, but that we would get downgraded.
	And you called this as a fight between the administration, predominantly because of the Dodd-Frank Act, which takes over these ratings agencies and subjects them to all kinds of government regulations.
	So it's really a war, and the CEO of Standards and Poor's fine Indian gentleman who does not give a crap about anything but his ego.
	About his safety.
	Yeah, his safety.
	So guess what they've done?
	Came out today.
	So, of course, Standards and Poor's downgraded the United States credit rating.
	And now, the Justice Department is investigating whether the nation's largest credit ratings agency, Standards and Poor's, improperly rated dozens of mortgage securities in the years leading up to the financial crisis.
	You can play at this game.
	We can play this.
	We're not going to sit down and let you just do that to us.
	Outrageous.
	I would say that's better than him getting shot.
	Yeah.
	Hey!
	Hey, you!
	Indian man!
	Alright, how about a little spot of, uh...
	And now, back to real news.
	I think this clip will go down in YouTube history for a long time.
	You know, Anderson Pooper.
	Anderson Vanderbilt Pooper.
	He has a segment called...
	What is it?
	I don't know.
	It's like...
	He always talks about...
	This is not what those girls are singing.
	No.
	Oh, good.
	No.
	He has a segment...
	I think what it's called.
	And it's about...
	It's usually about Jersey Shore or something.
	It's called the Ridiculous Moment or something.
	Ridiculous.
	The Ridiculous.
	The Ridiculous.
	A ridiculous list.
	A ridiculous list, yeah.
	And we laugh about a lot of stupid, inane humor on this show, so I'm not saying that that's not okay.
	But I don't think we've actually had this type of girlish giggling from Anderson Pooper himself.
	The news report comes out that Gerard Jepardieu...
	Hold on a second.
	You don't obviously watch The Ridiculous that much.
	No, of course I don't.
	That's what he does constantly.
	It's nothing but girlish giggling.
	No, no, you haven't heard this one.
	You have not heard this one.
	Because, of course, there's nothing funnier than laughing about poop.
	Right?
	We know that.
	That's what CNN is all about.
	Yeah, if you're 12.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So Anderson comes out, and he obviously didn't...
	I don't know if he wrote it himself or not, but so Gerard Dupage apparently was drunk on an airplane.
	He needed to go to the bathroom.
	The stewardess said, no, shut up, slave.
	You can't.
	We're on the active taxiway.
	And then I guess he tried to pee in a bottle, and he peed on the...
	He dripped.
	And so Anderson comes up with this ridiculous, which I just clipped a little bit of it, but it's like an eight-minute segment, and every single word is a pun about urine.
	And then, of course, he has to go there.
	He has to take it to poop.
	And this is your fine news organization, and the outstanding, outstanding journalist, Anderson Pooper Vanderbilt.
	Well, there is a bright side.
	Please stop laughing.
	It's distracting.
	Now that we know he doesn't have any stage fright when it comes to public urination, maybe he can get together with his fellow castmates from La Viena Rose and they can all have a pissing contest.
	You know, like a Piaf.
	Piaf, because the movie was about Edith Piaf.
	I said Piaf.
	So after Gerard took his little solo flight to Urination, the plane had to turn around and go back to the gate, and some unlucky cleaning crew had to deal with the Golden Globe winning tinkle.
	Now all I can say is they should thank their lucky stars it wasn't Depard 2.
	Sorry.
	That made me giggle every time I read it.
	He hasn't commented on this incident.
	Departure. of I know you got it, but...
	Alright, sorry.
	Alright.
	Can you believe this idiot?
	Unbelievable!
	It keeps going on!
	Sorry, this actually never happened to me.
	See Milton Berle?
	Poo!
	I said poo I said poo I said poo Poo laughs Harvey Korman working with Tim Conway?
	I mean, what is this?
	Douchebag!
	That's what that is.
	I want to get a couple clips out of the way before we take our break.
	Yeah, good idea.
	And, by the way, we forgot to mention Dvorak.org slash NA during the first...
	Oh, I apologize.
	My faux pas.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. We get like no donations when we forget to do that.
	And by the way, we haven't gotten that many this week.
	We did very poorly, I think.
	We forgot it last week.
	So Ron Paul came in second in the straw poll and probably won the thing because Michelle Bachman bought 6,000 votes cash for $180,000.
	Oh, tell me about that.
	I didn't know about that.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, to vote in a straw poll, you've got to cough up $30 to show your sincerity.
	Oh, so she bought the tickets for everybody.
	She bought 6,000 votes and 4,500 people voted for it, so think about that.
	The other 1,500 took her money and voted for Ron Paul, apparently.
	And some people still think Ron Paul actually won the thing and the numbers were rigged.
	It's rigged.
	It's bullcrap.
	It's rigged.
	But anyway, the media has been avoiding, and we've talked about this on the show forever, that they've avoided talking about Ron Paul.
	So Jon Stewart defends him fairly well in a fairly long segment that I clipped down quite a bit called Ron Paul Support and play that, and then I want to do the follow-up, which is a disgusting CNN example, and then the kicker we'll talk about after we finish these clips.
	So now with Polini dropping out, Rick Perry dropping in, and Michelle Bachman and Ron Paul dominating the Ames Straw Poll, we gots ourselves a race.
	We have a top tier.
	It is Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Michelle Bachman.
	We have a new top tier, and it's Perry, Mitt Romney, and Bachman.
	There's now a top tier in this race, at least for now, of Romney, Perry, and Bachman.
	I think that's fair to say.
	Really fair to say?
	You're not forgetting, I don't know, anyone, say, an ideologically consistent 12-term congressman who came within less than 200 votes of winning the straw poll?
	Isn't anyone going to give that gentleman a little love?
	There's a top tier now of Bachman and Perry and Romney and, you know, we haven't mentioned and we should...
	Thank you!
	We haven't mentioned and we should Rick Santorum who did really surprisingly well for the amount of money and resources he had.
	Rick Santorum?
	He didn't get half of what Ron Paul got.
	He lost to the guy who lost so bad he dropped out of the race.
	Santorum?
	We're looking at Mitt Romney, who continues to be the frontrunner, but we have Rick Perry as well, and now Michelle Bachman.
	Let's not count out John Huntsman, though.
	What?
	John Huntsman?
	Huntsman got 69 votes.
	And by the way, this pretending Ron Paul doesn't exist for some reason has been going on for weeks.
	A new Gallup survey showing Rick Perry running second to Mitt Romney, knocking down Iowa favorite Michelle Bachmann to fourth.
	Behind who?
	Fourth behind who?
	How did libertarian Ron Paul become the 13th floor in a hotel?
	Why?
	What's wrong with...
	He is Tea Party patient zero.
	All that small government grassroots business, he planted that grass.
	These other folks, they're just moral majorities in a tri-cornered hat.
	Ron Paul's the real deal, and Fox News should love this guy.
	Which I say is proof that Fox News is run by Democrats.
	Yeah, there's no question about it.
	But here's another thing that's interesting.
	Both Hannity and Rush Limbaugh poo-poo Ron Paul in all kinds of different ways.
	Rush is interesting because he's very defensive about it.
	He says that the problem with Ron Paul is that he's going to make the Republican Party look crazy.
	And then he makes the assertion on the show on Monday that Ron Paul...
	It has nothing to do with the Tea Party.
	He kind of takes credit for it, but it's not actually true, which is bullcrap.
	He is the one who started the Tea Party.
	But we'll skip that, and let's go to this clip, which is the Ron Paul Support 2 clip, which is the kicker to the Stewart bit, which I don't mind lifting broadly after he took our material and didn't credit us.
	This is the part two where the CNN guys...
	They literally, on the air, say they don't want to cover him.
	And even when the media does remember Ron Paul, it's only to reassure themselves how there's no need to remember Ron Paul.
	Right now, live, right next to the bus behind us, Ron Paul is speaking, and seven of the candidates are here today.
	We have live pictures of Ron Paul, but you know what?
	We're talking about Sarah Palin, we're talking about Rick Perry, the two people not in the race yet.
	And guess what, Paul?
	Now, if you get video of Sarah Palin or get a soundbite from her, bring that back to us.
	You can hold the Ron Paul stuff.
	Right?
	Right?
	I mean, f*** that guy, right?
	Right?
	We'll be right back.
	Can I insert a quick little CNN clip where they had a woman from Reason Magazine on talking about this?
	Go.
	I think Ron Paul is getting a tremendous amount of coverage for someone who's never going to be president.
	He knows that.
	The press knows that.
	Everyone's behaving as if he's never going to be president.
	That said, he's bringing some great, you know, overlooked issues into the debate.
	I think there's a long, proud tradition of fringy candidates mixing things up and making it exciting.
	And I think Michelle Bachman is in that tradition.
	I'm surprised that the debate isn't more about how she's being over-covered than that he's being under-covered.
	So...
	Again, I think he is someone who is out there to make a point, and he's doing fantastically well.
	Think about how he lines up against somebody like Gary Johnson, who holds very similar views, some might argue a little bit more coherently, and yet has been not even included in the debates.
	You know, if I were Ron Paul, it makes sense that he's saying, hey, hey, look at me, I'm over here.
	But I don't think it's unfair at all to simply say, the guy's not going to be president.
	He doesn't have a plan for being president.
	He's great when he talks about principle.
	He's terrible when he talks about politics and what he would actually do if he made it into the Oval Office.
	That's because he knows he's never going to get there.
	Unbelievable propaganda.
	He has, what is that little thing he always, oh yeah, the Constitution is his plan for being president.
	You twerp.
	So, Stuart does this bit on Monday, and it was pretty funny.
	By Wednesday, all of a sudden, Stuart is not mentioning Ron Paul at all.
	He's got that guy who used to be the head of the Republican Party, that black guy, what's his name?
	Yeah, the guy who got caught paying for strippers.
	Is that right?
	Yeah, remember he expensed drinks at a strip club in Los Angeles?
	Oh, right.
	There was a party, and yeah.
	It wasn't...
	Yeah, it was overblown.
	It was bull crap.
	They just wanted to...
	Anyway, they didn't want a black guy running the thing.
	So, anyway, he's on the show.
	He's the ex-head of the Republican National Committee.
	He starts throwing out the same memes about whether it's three people, and then he starts mentioning other people that aren't involved.
	Not once, through the entire interview, I was watching it with Buzzkill Jr., and our jaws dropped because it was like...
	He never, Stuart never mentions Ron Paul again.
	Here he's got the guy, you can ask him, what's the deal with Ron Paul?
	That's all he has to do.
	What's the deal with Ron Paul?
	How come they're marginalizing him?
	And the guy can answer?
	Nothing.
	They haven't had this big weekend.
	Rick Perry, everybody was all excited to get him in there.
	They're already talking about, hey, what about Paul Ryan and Chris Christie?
	Let's get those guys in.
	Can we stop the noise on that already?
	I mean, the reality of it is this field is set, and you've got the top tier.
	How many times did you hear that term the last past week?
	But you've got the three folks who are going to be leading the charge.
	You've got Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich, who I think did himself really well in the last debate in terms of laying out some policy.
	Is Newt Gingrich still running?
	Yeah, he's still running.
	Yeah, believe it or not.
	My man knew he was still running.
	But I think, you know, all of this conversation by a lot of the establishment types, particularly in Washington.
	You're talking about establishment Republican types.
	Establishment Republicans, whether you're talking Karl Rove, you're talking the Wall Street Journal, they just cut that noise out.
	Because what it does is...
	They're not satisfied.
	They're not satisfied, and too bad.
	Get over it.
	You know, the reality of it is these are the folks who are going to be running.
	All those other individuals are not going to get into this race at this point because they've got to get on the ballot in 50 states, and that's a process that takes time.
	They've got to raise the money, they've got to put the organization in place, and if they haven't done it by now, particularly given where Perry Bachman and Romney are, it's just not going to happen.
	Perry, hold on, just kill it.
	Yeah.
	So this is Michael Steele.
	Perry just got in.
	Yeah.
	Like what, three days ago?
	Yep.
	Four days ago, Ron Paul's been running for months.
	So you just screw all these guys.
	Never once has he mentioned this.
	Obviously, a memo came down at Comedy Central, which I believe is Viacom.
	Oh, it's Viacom.
	Yes, it is.
	And so it comes down saying, hey, look, it was fun what you did on Monday.
	Just drop it.
	Jon Stewart has no backbone.
	There you go.
	Not only does he steal our bits, which comedians do not do, But he's weak.
	But worse than that, it's like he's making money doing this.
	He can't...
	He is...
	Compromised.
	He's compromised.
	He has advertisers that probably don't like Ron Paul.
	There's all these things, which is why we...
	Don't take advertising.
	And we don't work for somebody like, you know...
	I'm sorry.
	Imagine all the people that do this.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on your agenda In the morning Ah, the best laid plans.
	Anyway.
	Sorry.
	That's absolutely right.
	You know, I was talking to my aunt, Meg, who is one of the most amazing people I know.
	And she actually takes me aside from time to time when I'm here.
	She says, you know, this is really interesting what you're doing.
	You are so right about the future of news and being able to say whatever you want to say, not having advertisers having the ability or having some group Force your advertisers to pull out, which is even worse, which we've seen happen as well.
	And she actually says that she thinks that we might be the future of news.
	Now, I disagree because all we do is sit around and watch C-SPAN, but we're doing okay on that front, and there is good reporting out there, it's just it never makes it above the fold.
	And the only way that happens is by not taking any money from anyone except from the listeners who enjoy an outstanding product.
	Obviously not quite that outstanding because we did very poorly.
	No, we got very few donations this last week.
	Although it's the dog days, which is always the worst month.
	I mean, August is horrible.
	But beside the point, people are still listening.
	I'm sure some of them will catch up eventually.
	But we do have some people to thank for helping us out this show.
	Stephen Taft in Marietta, Georgia.
	For the 45th wedding anniversary, amazing married in 66, 45 years equals 111.
	We never thought about that angle.
	Ooh, that's a very good one.
	I like it.
	Can you believe it?
	Use it for gas and more karma for my hiking buddy now finished with chemo and waiting for test results.
	Give him a shout out karma.
	Yeah, we definitely want some karma going out because we hate the cancers.
	That's stupid ass cancer.
	You've got karma.
	It makes me mad.
	Please call him Steve Taft, by the way.
	He's going to be heading for knighthood against the podcast licenses and falling behind with what Adam on the road and all.
	I'll just continue to listen illegally until mine arrives.
	Sean Rice in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, $91.11.
	Love the Sunday show.
	That's the kind of analysis I'm happy to pay for.
	Thanks, guys, for watching all the crappy television, because I don't want to.
	Sir Samuel Vanderplank in Belge, $77.70.
	Hoping Adam will drive next year across Europe.
	I'm all for this, by the way.
	No.
	I registered HotPockets2009.eu.
	Yeah.
	Additionally, I forwarded these donations to the No Agenda.
	IsJPMorganStillInBusiness.com?
	HappyAndDistracted.com?
	GitmoReport.eu?
	That's a good one.
	GitmoReport.be and GitmoReport.com?
	All good, yeah.
	No, that didn't get...
	Derek Boley...
	Yeah, Bowling in North Sydney, New South Wales.
	Donating for my birthday.
	He's 50 for double legals on the dime.
	17th of August.
	It's been a birthday call out.
	Should Adam get about 50 yards down the road in the RV Duchess when I donated a similar amount last year?
	Fellow NA listener David Bettany emailed me and thanked me for not naming him as a douchebag.
	This year, not so lucky.
	Douchebag!
	That's actually quite funny.
	Yeah, I like that.
	Steven Anto in Toledo, Ohio in the morning.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	I'm the guy who requested the emergency karma last month from my grandmother.
	I'm a little bit late, but I hope this makes up to you.
	Sadly, my grandmother passed away, but everything else is falling into place.
	Nicely, I'd love to get a lone wolf squirrel and get out of your way.
	He, get out of the way.
	If you give him a lone wolf squirrel.
	I can give him a lone wolf squirrel.
	There you go.
	Just listening to the first shows, Adam literally says the show has no jingles and no theme song for at least the first three episodes.
	So, now we have $55 for Melissa Case in Metairie, Louisiana, and Black Knight, George Vanderhorst, and Katz Hovel.
	Katz Hovel.
	Yeah, Home of Dead Cats, Netherlands, $50, and Jason Dozier, also from Kansas City, Kansas, $50.
	And that's it for this week's...
	We actually, we do have a couple of...
	On-the-road donors.
	Yeah, a couple of on-the-road donors, for sure.
	Now, we had two meetups.
	First of all, I do want to pass out some karma to Sir Rory Stone.
	And, of course, whenever a sir comes into the mix, he says, hopes of karma, getting my MPA, but sorting out loans and admissions.
	So he needs a shot of karma.
	You've got karma.
	And we love to do that.
	I have some special karma for Kathy, who could not come to the meetup in Pennsylvania, Shikshini, as she had just started her second round of chemo.
	But it was great.
	Her family was there.
	Did you see the Facebook pictures, John?
	John, do you see the kids with the slave t-shirts on?
	Yeah, it's hilarious.
	Yeah, one had happy, as in happy slave, and the other one had distracted.
	And you had her husband, a lovely guy, who had the I'm with crackpot t-shirt.
	And so Kathy couldn't make it, but she has it secretly.
	And I wasn't allowed to talk about it, but her husband didn't know about it.
	But she's secretly been an 11-11 donor.
	And we called her up and had a nice chat.
	And she's been propagating the formula there in the hospital, getting all the hot nurses to listen to the show.
	uh That's what we need.
	That's what we need.
	More of that.
	So, Kathy, this is for you.
	Super karma.
	You've got karma.
	So, from the Pennsylvania meet-up, and again, thanks to our producers, Michael and Sarah, what a fantastic time we had.
	We had a 333.33 donation from Scott Shellhammer, and his note, In the morning, I'm a close 333.33 to support the Hot Pockets Tour to begin my nighthood.
	More importantly, I'm supporting an outstanding program that keeps me informed without treating me like an advertising commodity.
	These days, that is hard to come by.
	I'd asked for karma, but I already got some.
	I began listening to No Agenda a year ago as a considerable douchebag.
	I was an overworked, stressed-out college kid whose dream internship didn't get funding.
	internship didn't get funding in the months following my introduction to no agenda my backup internship turned out to be the best experience possible i graduated with honors got a well-paying techno expert job and met an amazing girl my amazing girlfriend i feel like i've cheated you by getting good karma without donating my apologies please send karma to our family and friends ricky and kathy they're great people that are responsible for a family listening to no agenda so they get another shot out there, of course.
	In the months following my introduction to No Agenda, my backup internship turned out to be the best experience possible.
	I graduated with honors, got a well-paying techno expert job, and met an amazing girl, my amazing girlfriend.
	I feel like I've cheated you by getting good karma without donating.
	My apologies.
	We've got karma.
	And we appreciate that.
	Gary Miller donated $100.
	Sir Dave, known as November 3 Papa Romeo Oscar, who was, of course, a knight.
	It was nice to meet him, by the way.
	He had the most awesome t-shirt on.
	What was that, the Operation t-shirt?
	The game, Operation.
	Don't know it.
	$111.15.
	Then we got Joe and Mary Costello, and I have a note from them.
	We hope that you are enjoying your...
	Hot Pockets 2008 tour.
	Here's $50 to help.
	Feed the Duchess.
	We are looking forward to a Hot Pockets 2009 tour.
	Feed the Duchess.
	Feed the Duchess.
	Safe travels with the tour.
	Then we have Victoria Shellhammer.
	She gave us $81.40.
	Just absolutely beautiful to receive that.
	And we had John Bolland, $50.
	Thank you.
	We had an on-the-site nighting, Andrew Schmidt.
	Who had already donated up to $974.85.
	He brought an extra $50 and I knighted him with a meat cleaver.
	We have an on-the-spot nighting.
	It's dangerous.
	Yes, pictures at itm.im slash tour08.
	And we'll be nighting him momentarily.
	And then Elliot Gardner, once he donated $60, wanted me to call out Chris Coulson as a douchebag.
	We'll do that here.
	Hold on a second.
	My irrigation sack is stuck.
	Douchebag!
	And he wanted some karma for his upcoming wedding, his nuptials, to his lovely future spouse, Krista, the cripple.
	She had a broken foot, and they make a beautiful couple, so here's some karma for your nuptials.
	You've got karma.
	Then we moved on to Boston.
	Sir Frizz organized a great meetup.
	It was unfortunate.
	It rained really hard, and it was a miserable night, but people still came out.
	Sir Frizz, thank you so much for donating your $100 to the Duchess.
	Then we have Mike, Rabby Mike.
	Who came in with $33.33.
	Thanks for the show that makes people think most of my generation has grown up being bottle fed the news and it is all we know so we swallow it wholesale.
	You two do great work and it is so easy to get people that I pass the show on to get hooked.
	Interesting.
	Please accept the low amount included.
	I had hoped to have had more included.
	Three weeks ago, my heart stopped for 15 seconds.
	I was lifeline to the hospital just waiting for the fuel bill for that trip.
	Feeling fine and glad to be still alive.
	I think that deserves a little bit of karma for sure.
	Let me hit you with that.
	You've got karma.
	Jim Spitzer, lovely guy.
	Had a nice chat with him.
	$100 from him.
	And then we have Patrick Daly.
	And Patrick came in with $100.
	He splits it up as follows.
	$33.33 for the Common Sense with Dan Carlin podcast license.
	3333 for the Hacker Public Radio podcast license, which we need to listen to, apparently.
	HackerPublicRadio.org, HPR, which I like.
	And 33.33 for my mothership boarding pass, a total of $99.99.
	As you know, we always are happy to toss in an extra penny, so we'll do that in this case.
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	I think I've got everybody...
	Bill Arcand, did I mention him?
	$100, just to make sure.
	And, of course, we will have a New York-New Jersey meet-up taking place Friday.
	And details to follow, but that will be in Hoboken, New Jersey.
	And Ms.
	Mickey has had quite a time organizing this particular meetup, because, of course, if you know anything about Jersey and New York, it's a fire and water, essentially.
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	It's the college there.
	Thank you.
	No, it's where all the college kids hang out.
	That's where they live.
	Instead of Manhattan.
	It's not a college town, it's where college kids live.
	I'm sorry, let me put it that way.
	The University of Hoboken, surely you've heard of that.
	Yeah, yeah.
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	Ugh.
	Wow.
	I got one.
	Another weird foot story.
	Oh, no.
	Foots.
	Foots in the ocean.
	This is a little different.
	A little different.
	Oh, that's my cue?
	Well, yeah.
	And a bizarre discovery in the bay by a Hayward man.
	Al Frazier says that he was fishing near Treasure Island on Sunday when he spotted something floating nearby.
	Turns out it was an artificial leg complete with a sock and shoe.
	Frazier says that he was going to toss it back, but instead he's going to keep it in hopes of finding the owner.
	Ha ha ha ha!
	That doesn't count.
	I don't think it does, but I just thought it was funny.
	Now, unless somehow the currents are changing.
	There were some feet that did wash up over the last week or so, although I didn't document them.
	Oh, well.
	As long as we got the artificial limb, that's good enough.
	Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
	So, I have to say that Russia Today did a very interesting piece, and this comes along with something else that I heard on, ooh, I think it was our national treasure.
	You know, we're driving a lot, and the strongest signal you can receive anywhere is NPR. Of course.
	That's a government signal.
	There's really no getting around it.
	And they had a professor on who was at Tahrir Square.
	Remember, if you want to be taken seriously in journalism, you've got to pronounce it right.
	So it's Mumbark and Tahrir Square.
	Tahrir Square.
	And he was in the midst of all the tweeters and all the Facebookers and everything going on.
	Now, let's recall that Andy Carvin, who is the...
	What is his title again?
	Techno expert, no doubt.
	But he is retweeting everything that he receives that he can't, of course...
	There's no way for him to vet any of this.
	Nothing is vetted.
	It's all bullcrap.
	And it seeps right into the news stream.
	We have all the major news outlets, including the Compromise, Big 3, 4 networks.
	They all take whatever's on Twitter as fact.
	And we know that the State Department of the United States of America is training up to 5,000, we know for sure, and another, what was it, another couple thousand in Belarus recently, training people how to start revolutions on Twitter.
	Right, and how to actually write what essentially is a press release so that our media can pick it up and run with it.
	Of course, if that happens here or in the United States of Gitmo East, then we have to stop that.
	We have to shut it down because people have their constitutional right to safety.
	Flash mobs.
	Flash mobs.
	Can't have any of that.
	Here's what the professor from Egypt said about his experience as he was in the middle of the riots and people being shot at in Tahrir Square.
	Nothing would have worked, he said.
	That's absolutely true.
	And it's not just the muscle, but it's actually the actual physical presence.
	So the nature of the grievances that people had in the front lines were very different than what was being reported on Twitter at the exact same time.
	And the phenomenon around Twitter where you have to retweet things that your friends say tends to create something of an echo chamber.
	Give me an example of what you just described.
	I was actually in and around Tahrir and there was supposed to be a big protest in front of the Interior Ministry.
	And some of the folks on the Twitterverse I was seeing were claiming that there were hundreds of police security directly shooting even live rounds in the air at people.
	While I was at this protest, I actually was watching where some of the people were who I was following on Twitter, and I saw them at the periphery of the protest.
	And then I went to the front lines, and I was observing what was going on over there, and I didn't observe any sort of live rounds or anything being fired into the air, other than rubber bullets and tear gas canisters.
	So it's sort of a game of telephone.
	I think people sort of Observe or they hear something and they think that that might be a phenomenon that they're reporting on, for example, a live round.
	And then because of retweeting, where people sort of echo one another's thoughts and they want to spread it to their own audiences, right?
	That's actually going to create the mass distortion of something that was initially just a little bit off of reality.
	Do you think the interview stopped not long after that?
	This guy's got to be thrown off the air immediately.
	Do not give him any more air time.
	The interview stopped not long after that.
	Thank you very much, Professor.
	I mean, really, this is an Andy Carvin.
	Hello, Andy.
	Andy Carvin is the number one retweeter.
	This is all he does is retweets.
	He retweets for the State Department.
	Oh, I'm sorry, for PBS. Yes.
	NPR. NPR. And then along these same lines, and this actually is a good summation piece that's kind of good to play near the end of the show here.
	And by the way, I want to warn people to stay tuned at the end of the show.
	I do have a clip.
	That I want to play at the end of the show.
	The clip is called Is This Rick Perry?
	I believe I've caught Rick Perry in a different kind of job.
	Just believe it.
	Just think Rick Perry and listen to this clip.
	And is that something we need to discuss or is it just an end of the show clip?
	No, no, no.
	Just play it and we'll be fine.
	Okay, good.
	So, of course, we already pulled all of this phony baloney, all this fake Twitter, the State Department, the U.S. Cyber Command, which, by the way, Uncle Don's like, we have that?
	That was pretty funny.
	I'm like, really?
	What do you need with all that?
	That it's just phony.
	And they picked up, finally, now that it's the 18th of August, they pick up on the Internet in a Suitcase, I thought it was a nice piece that Russia Today put together.
	Once again, though, unfortunately, they have not visited the website, currydvorakconsulting.com, as they do not have the proper introduction or the proper host.
	Part of what Secretary Clinton calls a venture capitalist approach to addressing the wide range of challenges that democracy and human rights activists face in internet repressive environments around the world.
	Centralized servers like this one can easily be cut by governments, but the Internet in a suitcase is designed to give dissidents a mobile web with mesh technology that runs through cell phones and other devices, making it harder to cut.
	The founder of his own clearinghouse of confidential documents, John Young, worries that American suitcase servers will serve another purpose.
	The suitcase is meant to give the illusion that you can run these electronic devices without going through national systems.
	And that may be true, but they will not be outside the U.S. system.
	Young says the suitcase is just part of so-called liberation technology that has its advantages for the U.S. The prize that you get for being empowered is that the United States gets to watch what you're doing and probably influence what you're doing.
	And it isn't just government, according to the Hackers Collective Anonymous, which released 70,000 classified emails from defense contractor H.B. Gary Federal about the Romas coin program.
	Romas Coin is a surveillance project.
	You have Apple participating.
	You have Google participating.
	Both through single, you know, national intelligence agencies.
	Brown says Romas Coin is partly designed to manipulate social media.
	One of the really more bizarre and dangerous capabilities that have come to light recently through the H.P. Gary emails.
	The persona management involves the use of software by which a single person can pretend to be several other people who they're clearly not.
	This software would allow the US military to push their agenda by flooding social media, forums already influenced by so-called witness bloggers.
	International outrage at the kidnapping of a self-declared lesbian blogger in Syria had real policy implications, until Amina turned out to be this American man.
	And I feel really guilty about that.
	Others say there's a contradiction between support for internet freedom abroad and subpoenas of alleged WikiLeaks collaborators at home, including Private Bradley Manning.
	Free Bradley Manning!
	Posner says the suitcase is just part of a larger internet freedom agenda.
	Don't shoot the instant messenger.
	Instead, address the underlying grievances.
	But these platforms appear less welcome when activists take to the streets at home.
	In San Francisco, police cut cell phone services on the metro during protests.
	It does leave the local San Francisco city government open to charges of hypocrisy.
	I mean, you can imagine the Egyptian government saying, well, hell, look, the United States does it too.
	And following riots in London, there is talk of shutting down social media.
	We are working with the police, the intelligence services, and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder, and criminality.
	The U.S. will spend $70 million on Internet circumvention technology in 2011 abroad, even as tough questions remain at home.
	So, uh...
	You know, this is nothing we haven't been covering for weeks on end.
	No, no, I know.
	But where is this girl from?
	Is she in the 12th grade?
	Yeah, it's horrible.
	She can't even read.
	These guys don't get it.
	They don't understand.
	Now, of course, this is Russia.
	It wasn't a bad report if she had somebody who could actually deliver it.
	Yeah.
	And by the way, they lifted everything from our show from the past six months, but that's okay.
	It's okay when they catch up.
	But hey, guys, stop taking our consulting for free, or do us a favor, get some hot women on that channel.
	So I've got an interesting clip, which is kind of, it was just, it was done, there was a lot of good stuff from the Brookings Institute, and this was from the, I never heard of this, the National University for Defense or something.
	And everybody in the audience was a spook or Rand or some, and some Rand guy came up and he was asking about how, when are we going to get out of these damn wars?
	And when are we going to leave Iraq?
	By the way, didn't we do a show about six months ago when we had the guys coming out, driving those trucks out of Iraq?
	Yeah, but Rachel Maddow was on them.
	Yeah.
	I thought we already left, but no, apparently we're still there fighting.
	So Hillary now tells us that we're out for sure by the end of the year, even though I thought we were already out.
	But we might be invited back, and if we're invited back, and then she drops this little bomb in there like they always do in these little events where they're talking to their fellows.
	That they have a good authority that we're going to be asked back.
	Oh, really?
	Oh, that's interesting.
	...of approach for the future.
	Well, that's why I wanted to be very clear that the combat mission is over.
	And our troops are leaving.
	And they are, you know, in the process of, you know, literally packing up.
	And that was what we agreed to.
	And I agree with you that that is very much in America's interest to keep that commitment.
	But what Leon is saying is also important.
	You know, if a country comes to us within what we would view as a normal diplomatic relationship and says, you know, my troops need training.
	They're not yet what they need to be.
	I'm going to need continuing help on collecting intelligence, learning how to do it for counter-terrorism purposes.
	I think it would be irresponsible of us not to listen to what they're requesting.
	And indeed, the Iraqis have not made a formal request, but we have reason to believe that they are certainly discussing it internally.
	Oh, and where do we send the bill, Hillary?
	Who pays for that, for that reasonable request?
	So, uh...
	Oh, man.
	Yeah, I saw this.
	So there's your giveaway.
	I see.
	Yeah, of course.
	That we're not really...
	We're going to maybe leave, officially leave, and we're going to make a big announcement, and Obama said, we got the troops out, and then they're going to request, because they have a good authority, that they're going to do this.
	What good authority, we don't know.
	In other words, it's rigged.
	Yeah.
	And so we're going to go right back into Iraq, or we're going to send a bunch of Blackwater guys in or something.
	It's just going to keep costing us money.
	And, uh, I saw this with Leon Panetta.
	They were both on the stage.
	And she also said, and maybe I should have clipped that, she trusts Karzai implicitly.
	Yeah.
	Like, okay.
	Great.
	A guy with calf fetuses shaped into a hat.
	That's my guy.
	With a cape.
	I like the cape.
	The cape is a good touch.
	I like the cape.
	I think I'm going to start wearing a cape.
	Hey!
	And a cane.
	A cape and a cane.
	That would look good on you.
	I think it would.
	With a shiv in the cane.
	A shiv.
	So meanwhile, we were doing the same thing.
	We picked up a Libyan update by a French commander, which makes zero sense.
	But he apparently, according to the French commander running the NATO operation, the Libyans, they've lost already.
	And now it's a matter of days, not weeks.
	But it's just like some of the...
	They even try to understand this guy, I think, is a good moment of humor.
	...have any more an effective operational capability.
	It could certainly, as I mentioned in French, throw the dishes against the wall to make a bit of noise.
	But we do not believe that it could generate a significant operational effect.
	Oh!
	The rebels themselves sent victory, continuing to take small towns like this one along the road between their stronghold of Benghazi and the capital.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's working out great.
	What was that again?
	How long would it take?
	I can't remember.
	Days of U.S. policy that Gaddafi needs to go.
	But let me emphasize that we anticipate this transition to take place in a matter of days and not a matter of weeks.
	Okay, good.
	When was that?
	How many months and months ago was that?
	That was March 21st, 2011.
	Days!
	March, April, May, June, July, August.
	Five months!
	It's still days.
	That's a lot of days.
	When it comes to days, it's good days.
	Good days.
	Good times.
	Good days.
	In the Afghanistan thing?
	Oh, by the way, by the way, in this clip that they show with the French commander talking, he's kind of like your French.
	They show that one of these jabronis, you know, on the back of a pickup truck with some anti-aircraft gun, and the guy's got his butt over the side, and he's firing his gun just aimlessly.
	They get whatever weapons they have, they're just shooting it into the woods.
	Yeah, for the show.
	Yeah, for the show.
	Boom, boom.
	Hey, man.
	Hey, man.
	Just shoot that.
	Hold on a second.
	Hold on.
	Get out of the shot.
	All right.
	Yeah, go ahead.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Shoot!
	Hey, did you get that?
	Yeah, great B-roll.
	Thanks, boss.
	We'll send that back to home bafe.
	That's about right.
	That's exactly what it is.
	And then for those of you just getting by here at home, if you're on food stamps...
	I'd like you to know that you can be very proud that you are actually helping the U.S. economy.
	This is part of a stimulus program.
	I was unaware of this, but Tom Vilsack, who of course, as you know, was a lead lawyer for our friends over at Monsanto, and he is now the guy in charge of the FDA. No.
	What's agriculture?
	Department of Agriculture?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It turns out Department of Agriculture runs the food stamp program.
	I was unaware of this.
	But it is not just a program.
	Those of you on food stamps, and I know many of you are listening to this program because it's a free program, thank you very much for stimulating the American economy.
	Question.
	Mr.
	Secretary, good morning.
	Many people don't know that actually food stamps falls under the Department of Agriculture, and a report was just released that one in seven Americans now are currently on food stamps.
	Just getting by?
	What strategies?
	What's being done right now and kind of being done going forward that you think is really addressing poverty and the poor within the country and bringing some alleviation to those kind of numbers?
	Well obviously it's putting people to work which is why we're going to propose some interesting things during the course of the forum this morning.
	Later this morning we're going to have a press conference with myself and Secretary Mavis and Secretary Chu to announce something that's never happened in this country which we think is exciting in terms of job growth.
	But I should point out that when you talk about the SNAP program or the food stamp program you have to recognize that it's also an economic stimulus.
	Every dollar of SNAP It generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity.
	If people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store then someone's got to stock it, shelve it, package it, process it, ship it.
	All of those are jobs.
	It's the most direct stimulus you can get into the economy during tough times.
	The reason why these numbers have gone up is that we've done a pretty good job of working with states that had done a poor job in the past in getting the word out about this program.
	States like California and Texas and Florida underperformed.
	We're now working with them to make sure that people who are eligible get the benefits and therefore help stimulate their local economy.
	Yay!
	Right on!
	You are part of the stimulus.
	If that's true, why don't you just throw every dollar into that program and it'll crank things way up.
	He was talking about exciting announcements, so maybe he's going to crank it up.
	So where are we going to follow this exciting announcement?
	We know it's going to be...
	A piece of crap that's going to either be...
	I mean, is there going to be some source for the announcement?
	Do you know what the website is?
	I mean, what are we going to do here?
	Let's look at justgettingby.com.
	Vilsack announcement set for 8.30 a.m.
	Tuesday.
	So it'll be this coming Tuesday, I believe.
	When he will be making this very exciting announcement.
	Okay, well, it'll be on C-SPIN, I'm sure.
	Exciting announcement.
	Very exciting.
	Exciting?
	It says it's exciting.
	I am totally excited, and maybe, maybe we'll get on board.
	By the way, of course, it is J.P. Morgan who handles the food stamp program.
	They're excited.
	Yeah, we do wonders with our money.
	Play the money wasted in Afghanistan clip.
	I just removed it.
	Sorry about that.
	Here we go.
	This is about our money?
	Great.
	Yeah, our money!
	...of Afghanistan have wound up in the hands of the Taliban.
	Criminal and local power brokers siphoned off millions more.
	The Associated Press reported today that a U.S. task force estimates, all told, some $360 million went astray.
	The report cites profiteering, bribery, and extortion.
	Awesome!
	Well, there you go.
	I can't wait to pay my quarterly California taxes.
	Yeah, that way you can go to the Taliban.
	Yeah.
	So isn't that supporting terrorism?
	I don't know.
	I think somebody should be arrested.
	Anyway, I'm going to go in and take my lumps.
	I'm sure there's a couple waiting for me.
	Yeah, and they're well-deserved.
	You're showing off.
	Those of you who have supported the program, thank you very much.
	It is highly appreciated.
	It is the only way we can continue to just get by.
	And in these summer months, believe me, we are just getting by.
	Right.
	I also want to remind people that we have a Rick Perry speech at the very end of the show here that you'll all appreciate.
	Yes.
	Rick Perry speech coming up.
	And we will be leaving Armonk, New York, for beautiful Hoboken, New Jersey, tomorrow with the Hot Pockets 2008 tour.
	Whoops, I'm already preparing for next year.
	And Europe.
	Thank you very much, Ms.
	Mickey, for keeping my sanity and for producing the Hot Pockets Tour.
	She's coming up, of course, with the No Agenda Producer update right after this on the stream, on No Agenda Stream.
	Coming to you from the Curry-Greg homestead here in Almark, New York.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I should remind people that in the San Francisco Bay Area, it's BART, not the Metro.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll talk to you again on Sunday, right here, for early morning service on No Agenda.
	Thank you to the Zybacks.
	Nice program.
	Good set of cattle.
	Good J&B cattle right here.
	They're superior verified.
	They are natural, and they are black naturals right here.
	Hey, they just brought them into the pen and got them where you can see them.
	Now, guys, they're running outside.
	They'll be little grazing things right here.
	Don't come September 1st, 3rd.
	Right here, boy, you talk about a little old set of cattle.
	Get it done.
	Now, they're weighing...
	Raise that base right up to $450 on you.
	$161.
	I'm at $161.
	$161.
	$152.
	$162.00.
	Next slide.
	You can take that to the bank.
	Adios, mofo.

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