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	Slaves of Europe, you have a choice.
	Either you can go into a dire situation like the hunger winter of 1945 to 1949, or you can let us take care of all of your taxation and all of your financial troubles, that is all.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Thursday, September 15th, 2011.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, episode 339.
	This is No Agenda.
	No.
	Enjoying my RFID tooth implant here at the Hilltop Watch Tower Crackpot Command Center, the People's Republic of Southern California.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Gitmo Nation, Fejwada, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Fejwada?
	That's the Brazilian national dish that everybody talks about endlessly.
	The only place you can really have it is in somebody's house.
	Oh, they don't serve it in restaurants?
	I think they do, but nobody orders it at a restaurant because their mom makes it better.
	Like pancakes.
	I won't have pancakes anywhere else but here.
	Hey, John, in the morning to you there in Brasilia.
	That's pretty awesome that you're able to connect from there.
	Woo!
	Yeah, well, it wasn't easy.
	I have to thank Eric Lieb, who runs...
	What's the name of their...
	I can for some reason never remember it.
	The television...
	Just TV. Just TV is so easy.
	It's so hard for me to remember that.
	It's so difficult.
	That's like the main television station?
	So I'm in their studios on a pretty good line.
	Is this like a terrestrial broadcast channel?
	No, all IPTV. Oh, really?
	Is it big?
	Do they have a big audience?
	They're huge.
	Why don't we simulcast it?
	They should have a camera on you right now.
	They do television.
	We don't do any...
	There's no visuals on our show, thank God.
	So, well, what you doing there?
	Sorry?
	What you doing there?
	There was a FutureCom event, which I gave a speech to at, and so they flew me down to do the speech, and it was a paid speech, obviously, so otherwise I don't leave the house.
	So I'm coming back later this week.
	We eat!
	I can just hear the family joyous in Washington, in Walla Walla.
	Send him away.
	We eat once again.
	So you've been to Brazil before?
	I've never been, actually.
	I've never been to South America.
	Yeah, I've been here a half dozen times.
	And?
	Do you like it?
	It's a kick.
	I really do like it.
	I mean, the people are great.
	They're social animals.
	The Brazilians, unlike any place else in the world, I think they're the most social animals.
	get a chance, they'll throw a party around you.
	And the food here is spectacular.
	It's very, you know, and they have these barbecue places called Chirascarias, which serve all kinds of pieces of meat.
	And the Italian restaurants here are world-class, are in the same league as Italy.
	And yeah, no, it's a very, except visually, towns like Sao Paulo, which is where I am, leave a lot to be desired.
	I will say, though, Brazil has the most awesome, most beautiful transsexuals in the world.
	I don't know.
	It's a possibility.
	You can't tell they're so good looking, apparently.
	But I went to the...
	I do have some photos.
	I'll be blogging from the FutureCom event because in Brazil they still pride themselves with booth bimbos who are killers.
	So you got to check them out.
	I'm telling you, that's them.
	That's where they're all working.
	Well, you take a look at these pictures and see if you can spot the transsexual idea.
	Wait a minute, hold on a second.
	It's a new game from No Agenda, Spot the Tranny!
	So the thing is, I actually, I think they're like, at these trade shows, I think these girls are like tourist attractions, because they'll be in the booth, and a bunch of guys will be around, they're taking their pictures.
	I mean, they just swarmed to the booths just to take the pictures of these women.
	I've got to get me one of them gigs, man.
	I've got to go down there.
	This sounds like awesome.
	I've got to get me a trade show.
	Look at the photos I post on the blog, Dvorak.org slash blog.
	And you're just teasing me now.
	No, no, I'm going to Post them.
	As soon as I get back, I'm going to post everything.
	Unfortunately, the reason there's a couple of problems I had on this trip is technology problems.
	Let me explain.
	Please.
	First of all, I've got no clips, but I do have clips.
	And the reason is because I'm using a Class 6 or a Class 8 SD card and my reader will not read anything.
	And this class thing with these readers is ridiculous to me.
	What difference does it make?
	Why would a Class 6 be any different than a Class 8 or a Class 4 before they had classes?
	This is an SD card that your laptop can't read?
	Is that what I'm understanding?
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	And I didn't bring the right USB cable because I didn't think I needed one.
	And the next thing you know, I've got both photos that I wanted to blog and sound clips that I wanted to use that I can't read because of the lack of the interface.
	People don't realize that these cards have got...
	You know, not all SD cards are the same, and some old devices won't take some of the newer cards, because I don't know why they don't think ahead, to be honest about it.
	It seems to me that you would have...
	Immediately, you know, this has to do with capacity, but you'd think that these guys would dream up a system that would take it to like a terabyte on a SD card and not worry about it, but that's not the case.
	Well, we're a fine pair then this morning.
	You can't read your Class 8, and I've got a Class D Part 15 RFID chip now implanted in my tooth.
	You probably do.
	Does it hurt?
	Yeah, it throbs.
	Yeah.
	So I take it you went to the dentist, you warned us about this, and you now have, they had to drill down through the gums and down to the bone, down to the base of your skull.
	They don't screw in the post anymore.
	They used to screw them like wood screws.
	Now it's just, you know, they drill in there and then they put a metal pin in there and then they glue it in.
	Oh, the glue on that won't hold.
	Cement, whatever it is.
	And I always want the dentist or endodontist slash prosthetodontist, prosthodontist, whatever it is.
	I always want them to tell me what they're doing.
	If you would just tell me, I hate sitting there.
	While they're doing it?
	Yeah.
	It's disgusting.
	You're now drilling through your brain.
	Yeah, that's basically what he said.
	And he's like, this huge long drill.
	Like, now, watch this.
	And I was like, what is the compound?
	Well, it's a fuck-a-luck-a-vuck-a-vuck-a.
	Well, tell me more about it.
	He's from Germany.
	Yeah, does it have a brand name?
	Yeah, I just keep going.
	Brand name?
	You're doing this while this guy's in your mouth?
	As it were.
	That is a ringtone.
	Right there, everybody.
	Anyway, so we're just barely getting by, everybody.
	But here we are.
	And in the morning to you, John, there in Sudamerica.
	And in the morning to you and all ships at sea.
	In the morning to feet on the ground and the boots in the air.
	And of course, we do have a number of our human resources all lined up, ready to go.
	Good to go in our chat room.
	They're charged up at noagendastream.com, noagendachat.net.
	And we're very happy to have you all here because there's plenty going on.
	Number one, John, we have a new meme.
	It is no longer...
	The lone wolf is over!
	It's gone!
	Replaced!
	We have a new one.
	That's no good for us.
	We like that sound effect.
	No, it's very good.
	And I have plenty of new sound effects because the new meme is brought to us by Vice President Joe Biden.
	You once said that the idea of there being a massive attack in the United States like 9-11 is unlikely, end quote.
	What is most likely at this moment in history in terms of a terror action, Mr.
	Vice President?
	Uh...
	Well, Ann, the thing we're all most worried about is what they call the Lone Ranger, a lone actor.
	There you go!
	It's the Lone Ranger, everybody!
	Is this guy a dick or what?
	Hey, John?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, no, I think you've found a winner.
	Why don't we just demean one of our folk heroes?
	Yeah.
	That's our new jingle.
	He's such an idiot, he can't even read the script.
	Everyone's talking about Lone Wolf, but no, not Joe Biden.
	Here it comes again.
	What is most likely at this moment in history in terms of a terror action, Mr.
	Vice President?
	Well, Ann, the thing we're all most worried about is what they call a lone ranger, a lone actor.
	I'm listening to this.
	I'm like, really?
	So first of all, he's an idiot.
	Because he's just not sticking to the script and he's just like, yeah, I'll go on, I'll talk to Ann Curry, whatever.
	It's the Lone Ranger.
	But then he keeps saying this word actor, and I think that this is actually the subtle new change in the messaging.
	Listen to a little bit more.
	Not some extremely complicated plan like it took to take down the World Trade Towers or the plane in Shanksville or the Pentagon.
	Doesn't mean those things couldn't happen, but they are much less likely.
	The lone actor is the more worrisome thing.
	So, it's not just actor, it's the lone actor.
	Now, allow me to read you the definition from Webster's of actor.
	Noun, a person whose profession is acting on the stage in movies or television.
	Two, a person who behaves in a way that is not genuine.
	In war, one must be a good actor.
	So, is he basically just saying that this is all phony, that these are all actors, all these guys who are like pretending to...
	I mean, he's not lying, I guess.
	Literally, we can be on the lookout for actors hired by the Department of Homeland Security to go out and pretend to cause terror.
	Yeah.
	You know, I think this is a conclusion we've drawn, that most of this is...
	You know, a false flag.
	And that's what an actor would do.
	You think it may be just a Freudian slip?
	No, he keeps saying actor, actor, actor.
	It's all about actors.
	I live in a town full of actors.
	I mean, you know, yeah, there is a third on the list.
	A participant in an action or process.
	Employers are key actors within industrial relations, but not really like an actor.
	I don't know.
	I find it curious, to say the least.
	Particularly because he then talks about the Lone Ranger, an actual actor.
	Yeah, and a childhood folk hero.
	I don't know.
	They should just keep this guy off the air and let Obama do the acting.
	Well, Obama's not too good either.
	So I know you've been in Brazil, so you haven't been able to follow everything.
	But he's been going around the town.
	Am I actually missing anything?
	Because he seems to be giving this exact same speech over and over and over.
	Has he modified it?
	Well, there's a couple of things going on.
	So, let me see.
	First of all, let me see.
	Where is it?
	So, he was in Ohio.
	He was in North Carolina.
	So, he's in, this is North Carolina, I believe.
	And, of course, he's going out.
	He's trying to get everyone to get on board with this jobs bill, the American Jobs Act.
	Which is not a bill yet, as far as I know.
	It's just like a one-pager that's been published.
	Last time I looked, he held up a big, giant, thick document that he claimed this was the bill.
	Oh, I have not seen that yet.
	He's holding it up like a preacher holds one of those sagging Bibles.
	It has yet to be published.
	I have not seen it.
	I've seen a one-pager on whitehouse.gov which kind of outlines it.
	But a bill, you know, it's filled with legalese that has to replace things and other texts.
	And it's a very complicated thing.
	And of course, regardless of what it is, we have to pass it now.
	We've got to pass it now.
	And there's a North Carolina...
	That's what now?
	That's the problem.
	And why is he in such a hurry?
	Well, I have some ideas about that.
	First, let's listen to how desperate he's really become.
	And for those of you who are in other parts of Gitmo Nation around the world, around this globe, this testicular object we call home, planet Earth, this is supposed to save our American economy.
	It's very unclear what it is.
	It just seems like a bunch of crap.
	But this is how desperate he is.
	He's talking to some folks in North Carolina.
	This is pretty funny.
	We need to build an economy that lasts.
	And Raleigh, that starts now.
	Starts now.
	I love you back.
	That starts...
	But if you love me...
	If you love me, you gotta help me pass this bill.
	Not once, but twice.
	If you love me, you gotta help me pass this bill.
	If you love me, you gotta help me pass this bill.
	That's pathetic.
	That is totally pathetic.
	So have you seen the new site that's floating around?
	Wait, wait, wait, wait.
	Before we get to that, because I know exactly what we're going to talk about.
	Before we get to that, let me give you two more little thingies here.
	So he's in, now he's in Ohio, and he's at some, what is it?
	He's at some high school.
	And he's so...
	This is all set up, right?
	So they've had producers go in there, because of course it's all television show.
	They've already had producers go in.
	They've set it all up.
	They've rehearsed the kids.
	To start this chant, which is now, pass this bill, pass this bill.
	This is what's going on continuously.
	Oh, yeah, that's going to do it.
	And so he comes out, and he's so programmed that he's even stumbling through the opening remarks, and, well, you'll hear it.
	It is a great honor to be here at Fort Hayes, one of the best high schools in Ohio.
	Wow!
	I want to thank Tom for that introduction.
	He just gave me a quick tour.
	And let me just say, these buildings look great.
	So instead of these buildings, he says, this bill.
	He's so preoccupied.
	And let me just say, these buildings look great.
	He's so insincere!
	You don't give a crap about the buildings.
	It's all about this bill.
	I mean, these buildings.
	Let's do it.
	Let's do it.
	Come on, kids.
	Now, listen.
	You can actually hear the producers in the background because the crowd is quiet.
	They're not riled up.
	They're completely quiet.
	And you hear the producers with their scripts banging their hands above their heads to get everyone to start doing the chant.
	Listen.
	Pass this bill right away.
	There we go.
	Now, I've been on so many TV shows and sets...
	This is how it works.
	It's pre-prepped.
	Explain to people listening what a warm-up man does.
	Yeah, so on every single show where there's an audience, whether it's live, pre-tape, doesn't matter, for at least half an hour, sometimes an hour.
	Before the show starts, you've got a number of people sometimes, but typically you've got a producer, a guy with a headset on, with a communication device, looking all important and stuff, and he's going to, alright, everybody over here, we're going to practice, because when the president comes out, we're going to practice something.
	So I want you all over here, I want to say, pass this bill!
	Pass this bill!
	I mean, if only we could have boots on the ground to go look at some of this stuff.
	I'm telling you, this is happening.
	This is set up and it's a television experience.
	Right, and a lot of the times that...
	These are high school kids.
	These are high school kids.
	All they're thinking is, I want to get laid.
	They don't care about the bill.
	Exactly.
	And these producers, by the way, many of them are actually cheerleaders that can really get an audience worked up.
	I've seen guys that just make an audience go crazy with a...
	You know, they can make them applaud.
	They get in front of them during the presentation, and the audience goes nuts with some of these guys.
	This is obviously a big setup, but I was wondering the following, which is that, if you remember about two years ago, we did one of these Obama things, and there was somebody yelling out, I love you, and he didn't have much to say.
	He said, I love you too.
	It was unrehearsed.
	Right.
	But now it seems like that I love you thing was rehearsed, and that whole thing seemed like a script.
	Ooh.
	Should we listen to that again, just to check that?
	I don't know.
	Or some people.
	There are workers ready to do it.
	So let's tell Congress, pass this bill right away.
	Wait a minute, sorry, that was the wrong one.
	ugh My mistake, here we go.
	We need to build an economy that lasts.
	And Raleigh that starts now.
	I love you back.
	That starts You know, that's a good point.
	Because it sounded almost like he was waiting for it.
	And the key word was, it starts now.
	And it sure didn't sound like a high school guy to me.
	Well, it could have been one of the guys from the football team, but that's kind of curious.
	One of the guys.
	Listen, it's like the guy is a linebacker.
	I love you, Brock!
	We need to build an economy that lasts.
	And Raleigh, that starts now.
	I love you back.
	Buenas tardes, te quiero!
	Anyway, so it's really just sad because in the meantime, people are starving.
	We're not doing good.
	No, and we're not going to do any good to him whether the bill passes or not.
	The whole thing's ridiculous.
	And besides that, it's already even some Democrats are bailing out on him.
	This is not going to go anywhere.
	I think he's just wasting his time.
	The question is, is it going to affect him in the public eye as either a failure or will it be a public turn on the Republicans because he's going to try to convince everybody that this is not really a new tax bill?
	I've been reading more and more that...
	Once again, it's cropping up.
	He may just not run for re-election.
	Yeah, well, that's one of our theories.
	We win.
	We would need something.
	But who would run?
	Let's think about that for a second.
	Who would run?
	Would Biden run, or Biden?
	Or would Hillary jump in?
	Because they're not going to let her run.
	We already figured that out, and we know the reasons why.
	So who would it be?
	Well, you and I could run on the Democratic ticket.
	That would rock.
	Yeah, we could win.
	And then they blame us.
	So there was something that came out that I immediately identified.
	I'm like, wow, this is amazing.
	Big news here.
	Big news is that cholesterol...
	Are you okay?
	Sorry, I'm looking for my little red book.
	Sorry.
	You brought it with you.
	Good.
	Couldn't bring an SD card reader, but he brought the damn book.
	I have an SD built into the machine.
	All the good it does.
	So there's big news out here in the United States of Gitmo Nation.
	And when I heard this, I immediately went, oh, I've got to look into this.
	And I was right, I believe.
	New research suggests that high cholesterol levels could boost the risk of Alzheimer's disease by creating more brain-clogging bits known as plaque.
	Now...
	We've been on this Alzheimer's thing for what, John?
	Months now?
	We've been tracking this, waiting for it, and then once in a while there's a little thing about, oh, maybe there's a vaccine, and I've been tracking the vaccines, but now all of a sudden it all comes into clear view.
	This is about Lipitor going out of patent, Right.
	In November, in fact.
	So they've got to start it up now.
	And then all of a sudden, there's this magical study, which really, if you look way down into the study, says, well, you know, it could be.
	But the headline is...
	It could be.
	Yeah.
	No, the headline is, high cholesterol might be linked to Alzheimer's disease.
	So let me just remind you...
	Of the drugs that are coming off patent, which means that now any generic or even a brand can be made of the same drug, except they don't have to pay the licensing fees to, in this case, Lipitor is Pfizer, I believe.
	So here it is.
	According to IBIS World, the industry research firm, some of the blockbuster drugs whose patents expired this year are the Cholesterol Buster Lipitor, and then we have Zyprexa, we have some other antibiotics and other things.
	But the big one is Lipitor.
	Lipitor is responsible.
	The sales of Lipitor, as we've discussed in this program, in the United States alone is more than the entire gross revenue of the music business.
	Lady Gaga, Beatles back catalog, everything all combined.
	Lipitor outsells that.
	So it's a big deal to Pfizer to keep Lipitor somehow on the books or to be able to sell it as something new.
	So I go and take a look at this research done by, let me see, the Association of Alzheimer's.
	This is the research that is being quoted.
	And I have to say, it's unbelievable.
	I actually cannot believe that no one does this when they hear these reports.
	Like, go read the report, journalist!
	Is it that hard?
	So you can find it at neurology.org, Association of Alzheimer's Disease Pathology with Abnormal Lipid Metabolism.
	This is the Hisayama study, which is now being quoted everywhere in the press as great news because we can stop you from being a demented, babbling, retarded idiot by giving you Lipitor.
	And there's a little section called Disclosure on the report.
	Now, it would take me ten minutes to read the entire thing, but let me highlight a couple of the researchers here.
	It's all written together, too.
	While you're doing that, can I point something funny out that I just ran into while looking this up?
	Sure.
	Apparently, and this was I guess a lot, there was a lot of news along these lines, in 2008, around the April time frame, a slew of neurological studies came out, and I'll just read one headline which summarizes them all.
	Lipitor, no help for dementia of Alzheimer's patients.
	Really?
	It says it right there?
	If you look up Alzheimer's with an S, Lipitor, you will get a series of links, mostly around 2008, saying this is bullcrap.
	And so they're obviously just waiting for this to die down.
	Yeah, they actually...
	They hire some guys and come up with a phony report.
	So here are the guys.
	So here's the main guy, Dr.
	Kanba.
	Serves as a scientific...
	So these are his disclosure notes on this study.
	Just to let you know that, you know, besides doing this great study where it turns out that, hey, you know, if you lower cholesterol, you know, you can reduce the entire risk of Alzheimer's.
	And here's some other things I do.
	Dr.
	Kamba serves on a scientific advisory board for Astellas Pharma, Inc.
	Serves, or has served, on editorial advisory boards for molecular psychiatry, the Journal of Neuroscience, the Asian Journal of Psychiatry, blah-de-blah-de-blah, has received speaker honoraria From Janssen, Shanghai, Sumara Pharmaceuticals, and a couple more Japanese ones, and then it goes on,
	has served as consultant for Eli Lilly and Company, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Inc., Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, Ono Pharmaceutical Company, and then it actually says, has received research support, and has received research support from Eli Lilly and Company, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Inc., Asaika, Asaika, Tuka, Tuka, Taka, Taka, Taka, Taka, Taka!
	So they paid for it!
	Yeah, apparently.
	I think these guys are really desperate.
	But they're going to try to pull something off before this thing fails.
	In other words, the patent runs out.
	Well, this is it.
	I mean, it runs out in November.
	This is it.
	This is the one.
	So they're trying to hype this up, and you watch.
	It's getting legs, because this is a very popular drug.
	It soon will be available, to understand, over-the-counter.
	So you won't even have to have a prescription for it.
	Oh, really?
	Mm-hmm.
	Yeah, man, people will just be buying that and popping it.
	Just popping Lipitor.
	Hey, man, you got a Lipitor for me?
	I know plenty of people.
	You know, this is what doctors do.
	They go, well, you know, you're now 40, Mr.
	Curry.
	I'm sorry, 47.
	Yeah, you really need to think about your cholesterol.
	Just in case, you know, let's just give you some Lipitor.
	Lots of people take this.
	They've been scared into submission.
	My doctor once pointed out to me over the years, he says he's always noticed that there's an acceptable level, supposedly, of cholesterol.
	And he says over the last 25 years, every two or three years it changes.
	And they keep lowering it and lowering it to bring more and more people into the fold of doping them up with Lipitor.
	Yeah.
	So, no agenda producers, keep your eye on this.
	You'll be seeing plenty of news reports about this.
	Plenty of them.
	So the thing I was going to mention earlier, which is the...
	Attack Watch?
	Have you seen that blog posting?
	It's the new anti-smear Obama...
	Yes, attackwatch.com.
	Is that what you're referring to?
	No, no, this one's a different one, but it's the same basic thing.
	So they're already gearing us up for the fact that anyone criticizes Obama.
	This one's actually an email list I subscribe to that will give me quick alerts anytime there's a smear.
	That needs to be fought somehow by my posting things.
	Yeah, yeah, no.
	If you go to attackwatch.com, this is what everyone's talking about here.
	Meanwhile, we're calivording around with trannies in Brazil.
	We're actually paying attention.
	Attackwatch.com, which is paid for by Obama for America.
	Join Attack Wire.
	Help stop the attacks on the president before they start.
	When another unfounded attack surfaces, we'll arm you with the truth, so you can share the facts with your friends and family.
	And then you go to attackwatch.com, and it's kind of ominous.
	It's a black, red, and white website.
	Look at this, because a lot of people are saying that these are the colors of the Nazis, which I found to be kind of interesting.
	It's a good one.
	And they have a Twitter feed.
	Opponents are using smears to undermine the success of President Obama's auto-rescue.
	Get the facts.
	Public figures weigh in with outlandish claims about President Obama's record on legal firearms.
	Get the facts.
	And by the way, for people who said that the red, black, and white color scheme, they have to realize that one of the great graphic designers of the United States, Roger Black, Who did the Rolling Stone logo among other kind of fancy things.
	He's the one who's promoted this color scheme, not the Nazis.
	Well, maybe he was a Nazi.
	Well, I don't think so.
	It just happens to be very attractive.
	What's kind of nice, though, is that people are taking, I think, in a way, it's probably a trend, not that we're responsible for, but people are really starting to do some fun things with this idiocy, and they're starting to create fun little bits and stuff.
	I may play the whole thing at the end of the show.
	Here's someone who's made a spoof ad.
	It's video, but the audio is pretty funny, of Attack Watch.
	Attack Watch!
	The newest campaign website to expose the right-wing lies about President Obama.
	Get the facts, fight the smears.
	Attack Watch!
	Dot com is where you can report attacks on President Obama.
	If you heard an ad on the radio or television, if you saw a suspicious website, if you heard a friend spreading rumors, let us know.
	Attack Watch!
	Rick Perry lied about the stimulus.
	Sure, the unemployment rate has gone up as a whole, but come on, think of how many more jobs Obama has saved.
	Attack Watch!
	Stop asking how you can measure saved jobs.
	Attack Watch!
	It's not just Attack Watch.
	It's AttackWatch.com because normal websites put their full URL in their homepage banners.
	Attack Watch!
	It just goes on and on and on.
	It's cute.
	Yeah, it's very funny.
	It sounds actually like some other broadcaster I've heard before who does Prison Planet.
	What's his name?
	Anyway, yeah.
	Oh, you mean Alex Jones?
	Doesn't it sound like Alex Jones?
	A little bit.
	I think he would be insulted.
	voice.
	He would be insulted.
	Listen, people!
	The New Order is real!
	I'm not making this up!
	I have all the documents!
	That's my Alex Jones Yeah.
	I think you should work on your Obama more.
	So, my son, Buzzkill Jr., he sends me, he was completely baffled by this, and he doesn't know whether he got it from, he doesn't know what mailing list he got it from, but it came from, but it's a mailing list thing, because it has, you know, it's to a lot of people, and I didn't get one, I don't know if you got one, but it came from the Mac, It's a macroeconomic research at Moody's.com.
	No.
	And he thinks it may have been, he may have said, I think he signed up at WhiteHouse.gov.
	If you didn't get it, though, because I think you subscribe at WhiteHouse.gov.
	Yeah, I've signed up to all the WhiteHouse.gov stuff, so I don't know what that is.
	Well, he doesn't know how he got this, but it's a Mark Zandi, an analysis of the Obama jobs plan, and he's the chief economist at Moody's Analytics.
	Hmm.
	And he sent out these things talking about why we should, you know, why this jobs plan is so important, including, let me just read you the points.
	They're stupid.
	President Obama's job proposal would help stabilize confidence and keep the U.S. from sliding back into recession.
	Really?
	Really?
	Yeah, right.
	It would do that?
	Magically?
	Magic!
	The plan would add 2% points to GDP growth next year, add 1.9 million jobs, and cut the unemployment rate by a percentage point?
	Uh-huh.
	Okay.
	How does that work?
	The plan would cost about $450 billion, about $250 billion in tax cuts and $250 billion in spending increases.
	How does that work?
	Can you dissect that for me?
	No, I can't.
	Actually, I'm looking.
	This email, I guess, was also published in the Washington Post, apparently.
	Can you dissect this?
	You're going to spend $450 billion and you're going to cut $250 billion in taxes and you're going to spend more, $200 billion more?
	That sounds like a negative number to me.
	And the President's proposals are unlikely to pass Congress, but the most important have a chance of winning by most important.
	So this is going to be segmented?
	I don't know.
	I just found that this is the propaganda that people should be fighting.
	Well, this is interesting.
	Mark Zandi was born in Atlanta.
	Of Iranian descent and grew up in Radnor, Pennsylvania.
	He attended Upper Marion High School, earned his diploma, blah, blah, blah, blah, went to Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, which we know is where all the spooks are trained.
	His surname of Zandi comes from the Zand Dynasty, which ruled southern and south-central Iran in the 18th century.
	He's an elite.
	Yeah, of the highest order.
	Yeah.
	Well, you know, I think this is all mute.
	Or moot.
	Not mute.
	It's mute, too.
	Wait a minute, this is mute.
	I think it's all mute.
	It's all mute.
	Let me make a mute point here for a second.
	This is all mute.
	We gotta change this.
	From moot to mute.
	Richard Branson knows how to save us.
	Are you ready for Richard Branson's plan?
	The chairman of Virgin...
	Well, if I was running America, I would make sure that the 10% of people who are out of work were given jobs.
	And the way I would do that was I would say to companies, get out there, talk to your workforce, find out how many of them are willing to work 50% of the year rather than 100% of the year.
	How many are willing to job share?
	How many more would be willing to go part-time?
	And you will find that in every company, there's something like 10 to 20% of the workforce who would actually like to work less hours.
	They can afford to work less hours maybe because their partner's working less hours.
	Is this guy already on the moon?
	What planet are you from, Branson?
	So he actually runs companies?
	Yeah, and he's like...
	You had a theory some time back, which I... That he runs nothing.
	He's just a front man, for God knows who.
	He was interviewed while he's promoting a new wristwatch.
	That's why he was on television.
	He was promoting a new wristwatch.
	He's just a pitchman.
	The guy can't run.
	He can't run anything.
	I'm sorry.
	He may have been great.
	He discovered Mike Oldfield and did Tubular Bells and all that.
	Maybe Boy George, I can call him one of his inventions.
	But please!
	It's insane.
	He has no idea.
	Just has no idea.
	And in that way, you could share the amount of work that is out there.
	Take, I think, as much as 7.5% of the unemployment problem off the streets and back into earning some money.
	And I think that would deal with a lot of the problems of riots.
	At the moment, you've got people in America working 50 out of 52 weeks working, only getting two weeks holidays, which is pretty miserable.
	That's so miserable.
	Maybe you should take more vacation.
	This is Richard Branson's plan.
	Take more vacation and we'll solve unemployment.
	It's fantastic.
	This is pretty miserable.
	That's a clip of the day.
	You win again.
	That's the third show in a row.
	This is pretty miserable.
	We have only two weeks vacation.
	I think you should job share.
	Sounds like some guy in Parliament.
	He doesn't know what he's talking about.
	You need to job share.
	Jump share, I tell you.
	You can do with 50% of your money, can't you?
	Jump share!
	Hey, by the way, I just got my water and electricity bill for July and August.
	Yeah, did they screw you?
	Yeah.
	It's exactly the same as when I was living here the two months prior.
	So now what course of action did I have?
	You weren't even there.
	That's what I'm saying.
	I wasn't here for almost six weeks.
	You were on the road.
	You were on the road in the RV. And I made sure everything was off.
	The water was turned off.
	Well, not the mains, but the pool refiller was off.
	I made sure that the air conditioner was off.
	The only thing that was running was the computer that runs the No Agenda Stream and my mail server computer.
	Everything else was off.
	It's exactly the same.
	So now what do I do?
	I think you should go to the Public Utilities Commission and see what happens.
	But let me give you some advance warning.
	They don't do anything.
	Public Utilities Commissions in this country have been so defanged in every state and locality that it's laughable that they're still getting money.
	They should all be fired.
	But again, that's what you should do.
	It's ridiculous.
	To me this proves, and we don't have a smart meter yet, but to me this proves, they just slap whatever the average is, just give it to the guy and print it up on the statement.
	They make a little graph.
	The usage, it's the same usage.
	I'm going to scan these documents.
	I'm going to publish them.
	It's infuriating.
	Because of course I have no discourse.
	I have no place to go.
	No one's going to give a crap about me.
	But I am being ripped off.
	Seriously.
	And this was a test.
	Remember, we were talking about this.
	Like, I can't wait to see what my bill's going to be like.
	It is exactly the same.
	Yeah, you were gone for five weeks.
	More.
	Five and a half.
	Five and a half weeks.
	Yeah, you had plenty of buffer.
	So, it should have at least been no more than 70% of the typical bill.
	And here it is.
	It's exactly the same.
	Exactly the same.
	$1,400 for two months of water and electricity.
	Are you freaking kidding me?
	Really?
	Yeah.
	I mean, I might as well have a grow house.
	Yeah, you might as well.
	It's going to be the same bill anyway.
	Yeah.
	In fact, I'm paying for a grow house.
	I'm surprised they're not knocking on my door to see if I'm growing something.
	Well, we're moving.
	I'm getting out of this godforsaken state.
	What other corrupt state are you going to move to?
	Texas?
	Yeah.
	The home of Katy Perry.
	Not Rick Perry, I'm sorry.
	At least Katy Perry will be president and we won't have to deal with him as governor.
	That's the good news.
	He'll be out.
	Let's thank some producers.
	Exactly.
	How do we do today?
	So we have, besides Eric Lieb, who will be an executive producer for Loaning the studio, we start off with an anonymous donation, no location north of nowhere, $421.24 in the morning.
	Wood?
	Oh, gee, I'm sorry.
	Yeah, I know people are getting hyped up about the Adam Curry Molly Wood show.
	In the Morning Wood.
	That's right, yeah.
	Oh, In the Morning Wood.
	Yeah.
	Is that the name of it?
	That's great!
	Yeah, InTheMorningWood.com.
	It's all good to go, man.
	It's just, please just read this as from anonymous, no name or location.
	Thanks.
	Donating to you guys is like a GMO crack.
	I only wish I could do it more.
	Well, I know that's why we need more people like him.
	Hell yeah.
	Whoever he is.
	Sir John Smith came in with a couple hundred bucks, and he's an associate executive producer, and then Kate Marengo in Chicago, also $200.
	And Smith says, normally I have some smart-ass remark to make, but today is just too depressing.
	It's not just a sad day for those who died, talking about 9-11, I suppose.
	But tomorrow will mark the day that all of us become suspects.
	I know some of us support Ron Paul, but please don't forget John and Adam.
	Didn't we get this last week?
	Not only are the donations weaker than last week, we're rereading them.
	Yeah, I just noticed that.
	I'm pretty sure we did this one.
	But that's okay.
	Maybe John...
	Maybe he did it again.
	I don't know.
	And so that's all our producers for today.
	No, no, no.
	That's not true.
	I have a Kate Marengo.
	Yeah, you said Kate Marengo.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	That's it?
	No, I back-read.
	I said John and Kate, and then I went back and read his.
	All right, well, there you go.
	Of course, we do appreciate that support.
	So that's the thanks we get for our last show on Sunday, which must have been a turkey since we had a lot of executive producers then.
	I don't know.
	Well, anyway, if you do appreciate the work that we're doing from any location in any state of mind or physical health, Dvorak.org slash NA. And Sir John Smith is right.
	Even if you are sending money to your favorite political candidate, it makes it tougher.
	You know what you should do?
	You should just take more vacation.
	Listen to Richard Branson.
	Work half-time and send more money to us.
	So we can continue to work more and watch more C-SPAN for you.
	A couple of PR efforts that did come in, which are always fun.
	A couple of domain names that are forwarding to NoAgendaShow.com.
	UberDarkSouls.com.
	Adam, you probably won't understand what this is about, but there is a video game called Dark Souls, and I was going to build a website for them, but decided not to.
	So I'm just going to forward this domain to you, UberDarkSouls.com.
	Then we have some pretty fun ones.
	Pete Dobson clearly listened to the last show.
	We really do appreciate that.
	Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications dot com.
	Hey!
	You know we're going to get in trouble for that one.
	Someone's going to be like, Miss Clinton, Miss Clinton, Lucifer, we need to register our domain names.
	But Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications dot com has been taken.
	As has DigitalOutreachTeam.com, which I think is just about the best URL I've heard in the past couple of months, which is Hillary's name for her techno experts.
	Yeah, no, I think we should actually turn that into something.
	Digital Outreach Team.
	A money-making scheme.
	That's my idea.
	Yeah, okay, another money-making scheme.
	Great.
	DeceiveUs.com, now forwarding to No Agenda Show.
	Very good.
	HaveCameraWillFire.com, which is good.
	I like that.
	And this...
	Oh, yeah.
	Jeff Yerke comes in.
	He slides in home with AttackVectorDashboard.com.
	There's our product, John.
	We have the domain name.
	We just need to make up the product.
	Well, why don't we get some funding first?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Let's talk to some VC. Hey, John.
	Well, you know, there's a CIA VC down in Silicon Valley.
	We can talk to them.
	Hey, John Doerr.
	Listen, we've got a great idea.
	It's called Attack Vector Dashboard.
	We think all Fortune 500 should have one because Vivek Kundra said so.
	Our marketing materials can even be, as the great Vivek Kundra once said, Attack Vector Dashboards are the future of corporate IT. Get yours now.
	From Curry Dvorak Enterprises, Inc.
	Scott McKenzie wants us to know that One Day in Gitmo Nation has just been released as a special limited edition hardback And you can buy this from Lulu.com.
	The price is $33.33.
	Or, of course, you can get it from NoAgendaNovels.com.
	66% of the proceeds goes to the show.
	So we highly appreciate that.
	And it will only be available for the last 111 days of this year.
	Do you think he's in the numerology somehow?
	No.
	I think he's got one too many numerological gimmicks, but you never know.
	You can't have too many.
	I got this great email from Nate in New York who said that he was shocked to learn there was a no-agenda bingo game mentioned on last Thursday's show.
	Shocked, I tell you.
	Especially since I actually programmed one and put one up a few months back but never actually took the time to write in and tell you.
	Yeah, that would not be the way to promote things, Nate.
	But anyway, noagendabingo.com is actually, it's really, really good.
	You should check it out, John.
	Noagendabingo.com because it actually has, it's nice because it has the layout of the board and it has the rules right there on the left and it's called No Agendo.
	But it has, it has, it has...
	I was looking at it on this Brazilian computer and I was thinking, wow, they translate stuff on the fly.
	But let me just give you an idea of some of the things you could cross off if you were playing during today's show.
	The word nights.
	Pre-roll.
	Trains good, planes bad.
	Phone rings in background.
	See, this is not just things we say, but things that happen.
	Mickey in background.
	You could cross that one off.
	A Dvorak wine tip.
	Adam way late with sound clip.
	Thanks.
	We got that one crossed off.
	Hating on Bill Mayer.
	Over-modulated.
	Yeah.
	Dvorak saying, it's an outstanding product.
	Adam looks up word.
	Dvorak mispronounces vegan.
	Dvorak's loud keyboard.
	Dvorak hates the cloud.
	There's a lot of Dvorak here.
	Hating on Joy Behar.
	I think just randomize the board and you can get more.
	Hating on Nancy Pelosi.
	Hating on San Francisco.
	It's good.
	It's very, very funny.
	And you can also, and of course there's a donate link right there on the page.
	So I think that's very cool.
	We appreciate everything you guys do.
	I know it's a weird time of the year.
	Everyone's getting back to work.
	Everyone's getting back to school or whatever you're doing or getting back to 50% of your job.
	And please do continue to think of the work that we're doing, because it is all we do, except for John, apparently, who can take these nice little strolls down to South America to go tranny hunting.
	That's Mickey saying hi.
	What?
	Nothing.
	So, okay.
	I think I'm a little disappointed.
	Dvorak.org slash NA... ChannelDivorek.com slash Anna Divorek.
	I'm sorry.
	NoGenNation.com and NoGenTheShow.com are places where people can go to help us out because I think they need to...
	I think we need a little...
	I don't know.
	Maybe nobody listened to the last show.
	Was there a holiday?
	I think there was a few weeks ago.
	I'm not sure.
	So we do thank our executive producer, Anonymous, and shall be listed as Anonymous.
	So if your name is Anonymous, you can list this as a credit.
	I'm sure a lot of people will put this now on their IMDB. And our associate executive producers, John Smith, Sir John Smith, and Kate Marengo, we do highly appreciate you checking in and helping us out.
	And of course, if you have anything you'd like to do to help out, you can always propagate our formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	New world order.
	Shatter!
	Sneeze!
	Here's one for the Red Book.
	Thank you.
	A lot of people mailed this.
	The Watson, the Jeopardy computer, as predicted, is set to announce a deal for the health insurer WellPoint that WellPoint will be using the Jeopardy computer in number crunching to help suggest treatment options and diagnoses to doctors.
	And the only thing we're waiting for next is for IBM's Watson Jeopardy computer to predict global warming trends.
	And this is actually a very disturbing trend.
	Have you seen this?
	Oh, crap.
	I forgot to write it down.
	It's a thing that's new.
	It won some contest.
	Some kids put together a computer, and you can talk to it, and you can type in stuff, and it learns from other conversations it's having with people.
	Are you aware of this?
	No.
	I've only heard this all my life, by the way.
	Well, what's bad is it's like...
	Come on, someone in the chat room will know what this thing is called.
	But I'm hearing people whose kids are on it for hours at a time just talking to it.
	And I tried it.
	It comes up with CleverBot.
	That's what it is.
	Thank you, chat room.
	Hold on a second.
	CleverBot?
	CleverBot.
	I don't know if it's CleverBot.com.
	But even some of our producers were saying, yeah, CleverBot.com.
	Even some of our producers were saying their kids are on it.
	So let's ask it a question here.
	What is the No Agenda show?
	Let's see what it comes up with.
	Okay, it's thinking.
	And, okay.
	A Star in the North.
	Great.
	What?
	I said, what is the No Agenda show?
	And it says A Star in the North.
	What?
	Yeah, that's what it says.
	Let me do shut up, slave.
	Let's see what it comes back with.
	Shut up, slave.
	It should talk.
	I guess there is a...
	That isn't nice language.
	I guess if you get the Android or iPhone app, it'll actually talk to you.
	But anyway, I think it's a bad idea that people are...
	This is a piece of crap to come up with this answer.
	Yeah.
	What is the no agenda show?
	A star in the north.
	It's bad.
	Let me see.
	By the way, I have another computer in the same office here.
	Yeah.
	It says, it's the opposite of the Southern Hemisphere.
	That's really weird.
	Same question.
	Oh, check this out.
	Oh, check this out.
	Oh, you'll love this.
	I've got to take a screenshot.
	Who is John C. Dvorak?
	Answer, leader of the resistance.
	Hold on, I'm taking a screenshot of that.
	Yeah, you better save that one.
	Wait a minute.
	Let me try me now.
	Hold on a second.
	Wait a minute.
	When I got, because I didn't use caps, it says, I'll ask the questions around here.
	Oh, really?
	Well, I'm taking a screenshot of that first.
	That's pretty funny.
	Okay, this is...
	It looks as high as the other computer.
	Hold on.
	Let me just take that.
	Now, let me do...
	Yeah, that's a winner.
	Yeah.
	Your machine is better than ours.
	Who is Adam Curry?
	Oh, boy.
	Let's see what we come up with.
	Mm-hmm.
	Oh, it has to think a long time about this question, apparently.
	I don't know!
	Okay, I'm done with that.
	Thank you.
	Actually, mine is more elaborate.
	It says, I don't know who is Adam Taurus.
	So, as I said, this is a bad development that people are starting to trust these stupid-ass machines.
	But, of course, Watson was promoted as a Jeopardy winner, and that's why it's smart.
	And so now, here's what I guess.
	Oh, maybe I should ask the clever bot.
	What can prevent Alzheimer's?
	So while you're doing that one, I put in, you are an idiot, and it came back with, you are.
	It's like a 10-year-old.
	So I'm pretty sure that this brilliant machine, Watson, is going to...
	Stupid answer.
	Is going to start saying that, well, you know, what would be really...
	Lipitor, Lipitor, Lipitor.
	And people will believe it.
	Because, you know, I had the thing went on Jeopardy.
	This is a very, very dangerous precedent that's being set.
	Well, whether it actually won on Jeopardy is still another issue that we've discussed before.
	But the fact is, they have a deal with a healthcare provider.
	Which we predicted.
	Yep.
	This is a new way of getting...
	We had these before.
	They were called expert systems, and there were a lot of medical expert systems, and they were supposed to replace nurses.
	And they kind of fell out of vogue and fell out of favor, and they already had the code, so they had to reinvigorate the market, and so they came up with this Watson scheme.
	It's just one of the most clever public relations stunts that you'll ever see in your life.
	Good work, boys.
	Let's ask one more.
	Who is John Galt?
	Gotta be my favorite.
	I have no idea.
	Of course not.
	You're part of the New World Order.
	By Ayn Rand.
	Any excuse?
	Yeah, any excuse.
	You created your own excuse to play that clip.
	I did.
	I hope you're very happy.
	Uh, so, uh, you didn't do a show with, um...
	By the way, we got one question right on these machines.
	What's that?
	Who is Barack Obama, the U.S. president?
	Oh, woo, woot.
	Isn't that weird?
	Yeah.
	Did you, uh, you didn't do a show with, uh, Horowitz, did you?
	No.
	This week?
	Uh, because I missed it.
	No, no.
	I tell you, I like that show.
	I do like that.
	Yeah, I do like that show.
	A lot of people like that show.
	They really get mad at us when we don't do it.
	Yeah, that's like the daily source code.
	It's like, I haven't done it in a while, and people are like, ugh.
	And then, you know, like, I got time.
	You know, it's not like anyone's paying me to do it.
	And I don't think you're getting paid for Horowitz's show, are you?
	You guys don't make any money on that.
	No, I'm not getting a nickel.
	It's killing me.
	I wish people would donate more to the No Agenda show, and then I wouldn't be complaining so much.
	But, of course, there is a lot going on in Europe, and I would like to make a prediction about that.
	But first, we need to do a quick round and see what's happening, because we've got more riots going on in Greece, big ones, actually, which you're not seeing on television.
	We have teachers protesting in Madrid, and, of course, the Roman slaves are also not too happy.
	Italy's fragile coalition government has lived to see another day, and the country is set for a further bout of austerity after the parliament passed the government's latest plan.
	The much-altered measures are aimed at putting the brakes on the debt crisis threatening the whole Eurozone.
	The vote in the lower house was effectively a vote of confidence in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government.
	It survived, but the mixed package of tax hikes and spending cuts designed to balance the budget has exposed deep divisions in the ruling coalition.
	Deep divisions too in the streets of Rome, where anger over the final votes brought clashes between protesters and riot police.
	Some demonstrators hurled smoke bombs as hundreds of people marched near the parliament.
	Resign, they shouted at the politicians.
	Earlier, one former member of Berlusconi's coalition, who voted in favor of the measures, was heckled as he appeared in the crowd.
	The trouble illustrates the tension the austerity plan has brought.
	European institutions, though, will be watching to see whether the government has the stomach to implement the measures it's passed.
	So I want to make a prediction on what is going to happen to Europe.
	But first, we do have one listener in Italy, a producer I should say, and a donor, not a boner, my sister Willow.
	How sad is that that your sister has to support you?
	Well, somebody's got to do it.
	Pretty pathetic.
	Hi there!
	Still haven't finished Sunday's episode.
	It's a long one.
	But I thought I'd give you some extra details on austerity measures in Bunga Bunga land.
	I think she got a kick out of the Bunga Bunga title for our last show.
	So here it is.
	The austerity measures.
	One, the higher retirement age for women, remember we talked about this, John, means that it will become the same as for men.
	Up until now, men retire at the age of 65 and women at the age of 60.
	So it only means that it will now be the same age for women as for men, which to me still means, go work, bitch!
	Am I wrong?
	That's what it sounds like.
	Two.
	You know, by the way, this sort of thing is the reason, and a lot of people don't seem to realize this in the United States, that the Equal Rights Amendment never passed.
	Because it was basically just, it wasn't going to give anybody any more rights than they have.
	It was going to screw the females.
	Right.
	Well, this is exactly, so yeah, this is the same thing.
	Congratulations, women of Italia.
	You will need to work five years longer.
	That's a big deal, actually.
	Most countries give you two extra years.
	We have it here in the States, don't we?
	67 hasn't been raised now?
	Is that now official?
	I don't think so.
	No, it's still 65.
	I think it's still 65.
	Two, the solidarity tax, which is a great name, let's have solidarity, is 3% for those who have an income above 300,000 euros.
	However, only 35,000 Italians declare to earn more than 300,000 euros.
	Uh-huh.
	Yeah, they lie.
	Yeah.
	The whole financial package was changed about six or seven times, putting things in, taking things out, but I seriously doubt it will make any good.
	It's the corruption down to the bone that is the ruin of Italy, she says.
	Have a good one.
	Mega love, Willow.
	Willow, we certainly appreciate that.
	She's so funny.
	You can't bring her down.
	She's always positive.
	Hey, it really sucks.
	Have a nice day.
	That's my sister for you.
	So here's my prediction.
	And if this prediction does not come true, it will severely alter my entire vision of the world.
	So this is a big one.
	It is my prediction based upon...
	Remember we had those quotes on the last show?
	John?
	Yeah.
	You really don't remember, do you?
	No, I don't remember much.
	I need Lipitor.
	If it wasn't true, I wouldn't be laughing.
	No, we had the quotes from the European Union, and I'm actually going to look up the one that I read specifically, from Prody, who was the president, I think, of the commission in 2001.
	Is this ringing a bell for you now?
	No?
	Oh yeah.
	Okay.
	So here was his quote.
	Here it is.
	Hold on a second.
	I am sure the Euro will oblige us to introduce a new set of economic policy instruments.
	It is politically impossible to propose that now, but someday there will be a crisis and new instruments will be created.
	Romano Prodi, EU Commission President, stated in the Financial Times on December 4, 2001.
	It is my belief, John...
	Because basically what people are talking about now is Greece gets kicked out of the union.
	That's one.
	And good riddance to you.
	Two, Greece defaults, which of course would be very difficult because then, you know, who's next on the list?
	But I think really what is going to happen is that more power, in fact, local financial power, And sovereignty, if you will, is going to be handed over to Brussels and all of these governments are all going to say, look, here's your choices.
	Either we descend into a depression worse than the hunger winter after the Second World War, or We give these lovely people in Brussels who really want to help us all this power and centralized taxation, centralized wage prices, centralized minimum wage, centralized benefits.
	I think this is it.
	This is the crisis that they're going to use to really make a United States of Europe.
	And that would make so much sense as the plan that the elites have had since 1956, I believe this thing has been building.
	They're not just going to let this over...
	I think it's set up.
	I actually believe that...
	The Greek crisis, by some means it might have been a natural progression, but they were waiting for it.
	And Germany up front.
	I think Germany's been really ready.
	They're going to have a lot of power.
	And they're going to run the show.
	But it's going to be, give up your rights, give up your sovereignty, let us do all the taxing central, we have to save you.
	That's what I think is going to happen.
	How about this for an idea?
	The whole Greek thing was set up from the beginning to do this.
	Yeah.
	And the deal was, you guys go along with the program, we'll bail you out, you'll be the first to get bailed out, so resist as much as you can, don't pay attention to anything we do, and trust us.
	Well, it certainly seems that way, because all these guys are still doing fine.
	And by the way, is Papi on Papaduo is an American.
	From Minnesota.
	Yeah, Minnesota.
	And he speaks fluent American.
	Yeah.
	American English, unlike me, obviously, with a great accent.
	And he was educated, wasn't he, was he educated in, why do I want to say Philadelphia, actually?
	I don't know, let's look him up.
	How do you spell his last name?
	now hold on a second Greek Prime Minister Here we go.
	How do you even pronounce his last name?
	George Papandreou.
	There you go.
	George Papandreou.
	I'm looking at the...
	You're looking at the Book of Knowledge?
	Yeah, I'm looking at the Book of Knowledge.
	Early Life.
	Born in St.
	Paul, Minnesota.
	United States.
	He looks like a guy...
	Yeah, there you go.
	He looks like...
	When you see his picture, he just looks like some guy that used to sell cars or he ran a car dealership.
	He just looks like some...
	Hey, hey, hey!
	I got a Chevy for you.
	You're going to love it, son.
	He was born in St.
	Paul, Minnesota, United States.
	I'm liking where we're going with this, John.
	Where his father, Andreas Papandreou, held a university post.
	His mother is American-born Margaret Papandreou, actually Shant is her maiden name, educated at schools in Toronto, at Amherst College in Massachusetts, Stockholm University, the London School of Economics, and Harvard University.
	He was a fellow of the Foreign Relations Center of Harvard University.
	Let's see.
	One of his skull and bones.
	I bet he was skull and bones.
	Is that Harvard?
	I thought Yale was skull and bones.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	That's right.
	It's Yale.
	Harvard's got some other club.
	I can't remember.
	The Cloak and Dagger or something like that.
	Right, right, right.
	Oh, Papandrea was elected to the Greek Parliament in 81, the year after his father became Prime Minister for the constituency of Ascheia.
	Now, this is clearly...
	He may be the Manchurian candidate.
	He's a plant.
	Yeah, we may have been looking at Obama all this time, but this guy is actually it.
	Hmm.
	Papandreou, like all other political leaders, was unwilling to make concessions on Greece's fundamental position that Cyprus must be reunited, and accept that this could not lead to a status quo ante.
	Keep your eye on this guy.
	Well, so are you kind of agreeing with me or are you just going along with my...
	No, I'm totally in agreement, but I think there may be more...
	There's obviously another dimension to this guy.
	He either works for Obama, he works for the United States interests, he's a CIA guy possibly.
	Whatever the case is, he's in there, but he may be on...
	You don't know whose side he's on.
	I mean, the fact that they're letting the country go into the toilet and they're going to soak the...
	Maybe he's the point man for sinking the EU on behalf of the United States.
	I mean, that would make a lot of sense to me.
	And it would be a good way to go.
	But when you think about it, somebody's got to do it.
	I know, but it makes a lot of sense, right?
	Because it's kind of a smallish, kind of insignificant country.
	Everyone in there has already got their money offshore anyway, i.e.
	Cyprus.
	That's where all the Russian money is.
	People still go on vacation there.
	It's still a great spot.
	It's not like people don't love the country anymore.
	So write it down in the red book.
	Specifically, what do you want me to write in the Red Book?
	Okay, specifically, that the European debt crisis is going to be resolved by more financial political power going to Brussels.
	Oh no, I got that already written.
	That's already in.
	When did you put that in?
	Some specific thing about Greece.
	Well, yeah, so Greece is not going to default.
	Greece is not going to be kicked out of the union.
	But this is what everyone is talking about.
	All the mainstream media saying, well, you know, we're going to kick them out.
	We're going to do this.
	I'm just not buying it.
	I'm not buying it.
	I think this is something funny, though.
	I would almost take a different tact on this to counter what you said, but the last time I did that I lost.
	You don't want to be a loser.
	Let me give you an idea of the hubris of the Germans, who of course will wind up running the entire show, which is what they've always wanted.
	Sorry Gitmo Nation Deutschland, but this is what your elites want.
	Germany's European Commissioner has said, or as it states here in the article, has lent his voice, demanding national flags of all bailed out European member states be flown at half-mast at EU buildings to show that you're a loser.
	Wow.
	Gunther Uttinger told German media last Friday the move would be a big deterrent to those countries, which he called deficit sinners, who cannot keep control of their financial affairs, although he admitted it would just be a symbol.
	Right.
	Well, this has got to resolve itself within the next 30 days.
	This just can't keep going on like this.
	For one thing, it's screwing up the U.S. stock market like there's no tomorrow.
	And then the fact that the Chinese keep jumping into the game trying to fool us, it just makes it even worse and sillier.
	Yeah, and wasn't there also, there was a report out here that Brazil was now going to jump in and save Europe?
	Did you hear this?
	I haven't heard that.
	Yeah.
	I have a Brazilian sitting here with me and he just grimaced.
	Yeah.
	And shook his head.
	So apparently no is the answer to that one.
	Yeah, no, apparently it's all over the news.
	Like, yeah, Brazil is going to come in.
	No, they're wrong.
	I'm in Brazil.
	I've seen no evidence of this.
	Yeah, the Brazilians are like, eh, don't worry, we'll come in.
	How is Brazil doing that economy-wise?
	The Brazilians aren't going to do that.
	What?
	How is it?
	Yeah, it's good there.
	Isn't Brazil one of the brick nations?
	Everyone's doing great?
	Give your look at the definition of house of cards.
	Gotcha.
	That bad, huh?
	Well, let's put it this way.
	The traffic is really bad, and when I go to the airport, I see a lot of people standing around doing nothing, but they're getting paid a lot of money.
	In fact, the funny thing was I'm at the one airport in Brasilia, and they – you know all those moving – they get like a – what is it?
	Conveyor belts are all over the place that suck the luggage all over the place, right?
	Yeah.
	So all the people working behind the counters at TAM and most of the other airlines stand on the things to go from place to place.
	They use it as a human-like elevator or kind of a subway system.
	They're so lazy there that they don't even want to walk anymore?
	So they jump up on the conveyor belt, and they go down to where they're supposed to go, and then they jump off, and then they want to come back, and they walk on the conveyor belts, they dance on the conveyor belts.
	It's ridiculous.
	In the United States, there would be all kinds of safety code violations.
	They use the conveyor belts for everything, but mostly to transport themselves around the airport.
	It's hilarious.
	It's quite funny to watch.
	That's cool.
	But I don't know.
	I have, you know, I've been here before and it's a little more, the energy level's up, but I don't know how they can sustain what's going on.
	Most of what's going on here is foreign investments, which is keeping everybody busy.
	But, you know, that can stop.
	I do have one anecdote.
	I had dinner last night with someone that used to work for the big Chinese router company, Huawei, whatever they are, which is huge.
	It's H-U-A-W-E-I, I think is the spelling.
	He's worked there for a while.
	And what I heard on the show floor was interesting from a guy who was a consultant for American guy, was a consultant in Brazil.
	He said that Huawei's main way of doing business is like they'll follow an Erickson salesman around and then go visit right after Erickson shows up and says whatever Erickson's bid was, we'll do it for 30% less.
	Really?
	Whatever it costs.
	Even if Erickson comes in at bare bones bottom, they're losing money on the deal.
	They'll do it for 30% less.
	So that's what these Chinese are up to.
	And the guy, though, that I had the dinner with, he said that the company sold them.
	It's a real slick operation.
	I think they're getting as big or bigger than Cisco.
	He says that they're so miserable to work for because they have that standard, you know, really bad Chinese management style where they yell at you and throw things at you.
	I don't know.
	You've seen it in a Chinese restaurant, I'm sure.
	Yeah, I've seen it at Nevio, I thought, once in a while.
	You seen it where?
	At media.
	Yeah, well, I said worse.
	And so he doesn't think they have a long-term, you know, because it's so bad.
	I mean, it's such a mean company, mean-spirited company.
	But these Chinese are just pretty much tearing apart the world with their way of doing business.
	It's funny you bring that up.
	Yesterday, and I haven't published the interview yet, I interviewed Lawrence Anthony.
	Have you ever heard of this guy, Lawrence Anthony?
	He's known as the Elephant Whisperer.
	He wrote a book in 2004-2005.
	His first book was called Babylon's Ark.
	He's the guy that went to the Baghdad Zoo in 2003 after we started bombing and went to save the animals.
	Oh, that's right.
	Yeah, that guy.
	So he was born in South Africa, and he started this conservation reservation called Thula Thula.
	And so, you know, he was on the Big Book Show, right, for the Big App Show.
	So I interviewed him, and an interesting book.
	I mean, the guy's a nutball, because he, like, you know, he now actually, like, licks elephants, and they love him for it.
	So he's a fearless guy.
	And his next book will be about rhinoceros.
	And he told me, because of course through the show I have garnered the knowledge there's a million Chinese in the Congo.
	We know that there were 30,000 Chinese evacuated from Libya the minute that started to heat up.
	And he says that the Chinese are all over Africa and they are killing rhinoceros at the rate of one every 20 hours.
	And I'm like, you know, so my question was, you know, all right, and it's for the horn, right?
	This rhinoceros horn.
	And these things can be four feet long, John.
	I don't know how much they weigh, but he told me that, you know, it's the Chiners who use this rhinoceros horn dust for stomach ailments.
	And he said the price is now equal to the price of gold.
	So I'm thinking if you got one rhinoceros, how heavy could a rhinoceros tusk be?
	I don't know.
	It's got to weigh a lot.
	Let me see.
	How heavy is a rhinoceros horn?
	Let me just calculate the value.
	Of course it's not going to say that, I don't think.
	I wish they would say that.
	But if it's four feet long, that thing's got to be pretty heavy.
	So one rhinoceros toss, that could be like a couple million bucks.
	And I said, so can we just blame the Chinese?
	And his response was pretty funny.
	Absolutely.
	Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodians, they're killing them all!
	And they will not be remembered for anything but for killing animals.
	For mythical properties.
	So I had a lunch a week or two ago with someone who listens to the show.
	And I've called him an economic hitman before and he says I'm crazy.
	But he says the whole idea is bogus.
	But he used to work for USAID and he's lived in 90 different countries and, you know, just a normal person.
	So he told me, because I was asking him some stuff, because he has stories to tell about China.
	By the way, it's five million Chinese in the Congo.
	Really?
	If you want to know the facts.
	Those fuckers replicate fast.
	This is only a year ago.
	What are they doing?
	There was only 50 of them like less than 10 years ago.
	They have also built something like 9,000 miles of roads in the Congo.
	And their goal there is to rape the country of every mineral.
	Apparently the Congo is one of the richest states in Africa and it happens to have something like 40 of the 50 or 60 critical rare earth elements.
	Right.
	That, in fact, your iPhone would not exist if it wasn't for the Congo.
	Right.
	And so the Chinese are going to take every piece of, you know, every amount of cobalt and everything else they can get out of the country with their, you know, and just basically take everything, leave the roads and let them deteriorate.
	They don't care.
	And go on to the next project.
	And I guess in the meantime, they might as well knock off a few rhinos while they're at it.
	And I don't want to sound like a jingoist here and again complaining about the Chinese, but, you know, there's...
	I think that a lot of the activity going on that the Chinese are behind needs to really be questioned by the UN or by us.
	I think they need to be ridiculed, not just questioned.
	We just need to make fun of them.
	I think ridicule is one good way to do it.
	Make fun of their small penises.
	With Asian cultures, let's take a look at this idea of ridiculing.
	For one thing, they don't appreciate it and they resist it.
	But what kind of a great job have we done ridiculing the Japanese about their whaling practices?
	They almost wiped out the blue whale and they still don't give a crap about it.
	Right.
	So ridicule doesn't necessarily work.
	Well, no one's ridiculing the Chinese or the Chiners for the rhinoceros.
	No one talks about that.
	No, I've never heard it until you just brought it up.
	I have my Chinese data about what's going on in the Congo and other places from my friend.
	But I didn't hear anything about the rhino horns.
	But if they're that valuable, yeah.
	What they do is sometimes they knock the rhino down and then saw off the horn.
	Yeah, they chop it out actually because it goes underneath the skin.
	So here's one other thing I learned which I thought was interesting news because George Clooney might as well just go home.
	So elephants are so smart, and he says that they can communicate over hundreds of kilometers through these subsonic stomach vibrations they make, but they can actually communicate with another herd that's 100 or 200 miles away, and then they can communicate with the next ones.
	These elephants are so smart, because this guy also has worked in the Sudan.
	Remember when the peace agreement was signed between North and South Sudan?
	This was what, I don't know, how many years ago?
	Like a while ago, like eight years ago, maybe something like that.
	It was before they split off as a separate country, that's for sure.
	Right.
	So when the revolution, when the war started, I should say, all the elephants left South Sudan and migrated to North Sudan.
	And the day after, and they were like 400 kilometers away from the border, the day after the peace agreement was signed, they migrated back.
	So I said to him, I said...
	What, are they reading the New York Times?
	I guess so.
	So I said, we need to keep our eye on these elephants, because if it starts to heat up over there and they leave again, then we know there's heavy shit coming down.
	And the guy said, absolutely, you can trust the elephants.
	Absolutely.
	I'm all over that.
	The subsonic frequencies and there's a lot of communications that take place between animals using the earth as the carrier instead of the open skies.
	And it's been discussed in the U.S. government and there's a number of professors around the country that have talked about the possibility of rigging something up that you stick a stake in the ground.
	Like, I could stick a stake in the ground here and then send you the Skype transmission through the earth.
	It would actually sound better.
	No doubt about it.
	Hold on a second, John.
	I got it.
	Well, we're on the topic of biodiversite.
	Some breaking news came in.
	The Nobel Prize winner for physics in 1973, Dr.
	Ivar Giaver, I guess it would be Giaver, Giaver, resigned as...
	Giaver?
	No, it's G-I-A-E-V-E-R. Giaver.
	Giver.
	Yeah, giver.
	Ivergiver.
	Hey, everybody, Ivergiver here.
	How you doing?
	He resigned as fellow from the American Physical Society on the 13th in disgust over the group's promotion of man-made global warming fears.
	Now this is the guy who endorsed President Obama.
	Huh.
	Another global warmist turned against the movement?
	Yeah, well, it's about one word in particular.
	You know how much we love words here on the No Agenda podcast.
	He says, I resign from APS. Thank you for your letter inquiring about my membership.
	I did not renew it because I cannot live with APS's statement about global warming as below.
	The evidence is incontrovertible.
	That's what Al Gore says, too.
	He's used that word, incontrovertible?
	No, he can't really say that word, but...
	Incontrovertible.
	Adjective.
	Not able to be...
	The science is in.
	Yes.
	No, it's better.
	Not able to be denied or disputed.
	Incontrovertible proof.
	So that's our new word of the day, incontrovertible.
	Hmm.
	I'm putting it in the red book.
	As a new meme that's going to come out?
	I did find it kind of interesting.
	Memes that are hard to pronounce when you're drunk are no good.
	I really got a laugh out of this.
	Survivors Network against...
	I guess it's against pedophilia.
	Snap?
	And they're suing the Pope, and they're suing him in the International Criminal Court.
	And, like, how funny has the world become when we have, like, a fictional representative of God in a fictional court representing the world suing each other?
	How nuts has it gotten?
	They're trying to get some money out of the church.
	Oh, no, it's definitely about getting money.
	definitely about that.
	So, have you seen this story about Syrian opposition creates a national council?
	You know, I'm of the opinion that the Syria thing has been turned off by, you know, according to the New York Times.
	Right.
	But there's still this boiling, this simmering going on, and the Syrian opposition creates a national council?
	Well, I think what happened is in the U.N., The Russians said, yeah, hold on a second.
	We don't want to sign any document like the Resolution 1970-1973, which enabled NATO to go in and drop 30,000 bombs, which we've never seen on television.
	The Russians said, we're going to go in and check it out.
	So the Russians are in there, and I think...
	What may be happening is they said, why don't you just set up a council, one of these TNC things, transitional, blah, blah, it'll sound good, and then we'll kind of smooth things over.
	That's what it sounds like to me.
	That could be.
	I know something's going on that's just going to stop it cold.
	Well, it seems to be kind of on a hold, and I think that maybe...
	Well, the Russians are behind it.
	I mean, it's obvious.
	The Russians have been complaining about a number of things.
	And ever since that Exxon deal went through, which showed us the president of...
	The CEO of Exxon shaking hands with Putin is not really supposed to be the guy that does these deals.
	And since that moment, all this stuff settled down.
	All of a sudden, Syria's off the table.
	Everything got really quiet.
	I agree.
	And I think maybe the focus now is on, you know, it's Europe's turn to be in the news a little bit.
	I can't wait.
	You know, it's going to happen.
	Slaves of Europe.
	Hold on.
	Slaves, slaves of Europe, you have a choice.
	Either you can go into a dire situation like the hunger winter of 1945 to 1949, or you can let us take care of all of your taxation and all of your financial troubles, that is all.
	I think that's where we're headed.
	Yeah, you need a little more echo in that.
	I did the reverb.
	You can't hear it through Skype, but it was there.
	It sounded really kind of ominous.
	So the Solyndra drama continues here in the United States of Gitmo Nations.
	And this is the company, the solar power company, that received a little over half a billion dollars in government loans.
	And, of course, unfortunately, it turns out that some executives from the company also supported President Obama in his presidential run.
	So it all looks kind of shady.
	Yes, it does.
	So the Republicans are, of course, grasping onto this.
	But, you know, they did actually find something.
	They're too...
	Two representatives, Griffin and Murphy, who I'm going to play short clips from, and they are grilling the guy.
	He has a weird title.
	His name is Silver.
	Hi-ho, Silver!
	And he has the ominous title of being charged of government loans.
	Not a good place to be right now.
	So Griffin comes out and he actually finds that they've made a law.
	This guy is from the Department of Energy.
	They've made a law that basically says, well, he'll explain it exactly.
	I'm concerned about this is situation, but I would point out in paragraphs 1 and 2, it references that no guarantee shall be made unless...
	Which gives some flexibility, but in paragraph 3 of section 1702 it says the obligation shall be subject to condition that the obligation is not subordinate to other financing.
	Let's just explain subordinate for a moment, for those of you who don't know.
	If you have a company and you take financing, like either it's for shares or it's a straight-up loan, subordinate means that if more money comes in, that loan has to be paid back first.
	And I don't think there's any investment ever done that I can imagine.
	John, you might correct me on this.
	Where someone gives a loan and says, but you know what?
	If you get more money, if you borrow more money from somebody, you can pay them back first.
	I don't think that happens.
	Well, that would happen with specialized vehicles where you have, like, you issue stock or bonds, certain kinds of convertible debentures or something that are so dissimilar that you could find somebody in a preferred situation.
	So, yeah, it could, but that's not the way, this doesn't sound like that.
	Let's put it this way.
	If you and I were running the government and in charge of the slaves' tax money, would we put our slaves' tax money in danger like that?
	Well, this current administration might.
	Have you read the memorandum of law on this?
	I have not read the full memorandum, no, but I've been briefed.
	Would it shock you to know that if you read it and you pay attention to what's being said, and I have it right here, I'd be happy to give you a copy with my notes on it if you want them, it looks like it's a law school project where you're told to come up with an answer.
	Here's the question.
	Give me the right answer.
	Defend it the best you can.
	That's what it looks like.
	Because under this analysis, What it says is that if we close the loan in the morning and at lunch somebody has an epiphany and says, you know what, I think that we should see if we can get some more money from somebody else and we're going to subordinate that money and we're not going to follow this paragraph.
	Because there is no line and in fact somebody raised that issue, the memorandum points out, somebody raised the issue, should there be a line between When the loan is granted and possible default.
	And they said, no, that's not necessary because the law doesn't say that.
	You can change it anytime you want to if the secretary thinks it's appropriate.
	Does that make good common sense?
	As Mr.
	Green pointed out to you, you don't have to be a lawyer to know good common sense.
	Does it make common sense that the Congress of the United States responsible for setting our legislative policy would say that you are not to subordinate, but under the interpretation of your lawyers, they could subordinate after lunch for a loan closed in the morning?
	Does that make good sense?
	So that's the general premise of why they're hammering on this guy.
	As well they should.
	Yeah, well then this schmuck, Silver.
	Hi-ho, Silver!
	He gets hammered because he basically is saying, I don't know, I'm not responsible.
	I didn't do it.
	The dog ate my homework.
	Well, this staff talked with the company on a regular basis.
	I really want you to stop throwing everybody else under the bus.
	I hear you throwing all your staff under the bus.
	I want to know, you're in charge, you've handled loans of this size, and now you're saying it's everybody else's fault, but you except you're in charge.
	You tell me what you as a person in charge did with half a billion dollars of taxpayers' money now saying it's all my staff's fault.
	I didn't know.
	I can't do anything about it.
	You tell me what you're going to tell the taxpayers.
	We're in the hole for so much money in this country and you're dealing with this in a very casual, cavalier way.
	Whose fault is it?
	Well, sir, first let me say that the 200-odd professionals working in the loan guarantee program are exceptional professionals.
	And you throw them all under the bus.
	It's a pretty bumpy ride.
	But you're the driver, Mr.
	Silver.
	You're the driver.
	And now you're saying this is restructured.
	And going back to the slide that says the obligation shall be subject to the condition that the obligation is not subordinate to other financing, and now it gets restructured so that taxpayers don't get their money back.
	The restructuring, any restructuring, Congressman, is based on a binary decision as to what is the better outcome.
	Binary decision.
	This guy should work for Vivek Kundra.
	Exactly.
	You're going to be talking COBOL next.
	I like a binary decision.
	...come for a recovery, a liquidation, a sale of assets in a moment in time, or a restructuring.
	Who is it that made the decision that this...
	This act passed into law by the federal government was going to not be adhered to.
	Who made that decision?
	As I said, it was reviewed by legal counsel for the loan program.
	So you have no responsibility in this either?
	So we're throwing him under the bus too?
	I'm not a lawyer, sir.
	I rely on counsel.
	Are we throwing her under the bus too?
	Did the Secretary of Energy have anything to do with this decision?
	Or is he under the bus too?
	Not to my knowledge.
	So no one's responsible.
	This is an incredible organization you work for.
	No one in the federal government is responsible for half a billion dollars of taxpayers' money.
	This is phenomenal.
	What do you do for a living?
	If you don't know what's happening, everybody else is to blame.
	What do we go back and tell our constituents who have to work hard?
	We're so many people in this country in poverty, so many people in problems.
	We're saying, if this federal agency is saying...
	We don't take any responsibility.
	It's everybody else's fault.
	We work to the fullest of our capabilities, Congressman, to ensure that these projects are as de-risked as possible.
	I understand, but now the taxpayers are on the hook for this.
	As was pointed out earlier, there are always challenges in investing in innovation, and I should point out that Congress, through the appropriation of $2.4 billion of credit...
	When did this company actually get their check?
	It doesn't work like that, Congressman.
	I tell you, the only guy getting thrown under their bus is this guy.
	Poor schmuck.
	I own silver!
	That guy is so screwed.
	He better resign.
	Silver.
	So did you watch that?
	Was that a video?
	Did you pick that off the C-SPAN? Yeah.
	Was he squirming?
	What does he look like?
	Sweating.
	He's like a little Weasley guy, you know, balding, sweating on top of his head.
	This is why I love watching C-SPAN. Besides the fact that it's kind of my vocation now, you can't write this.
	That was some good scripts that this guy was blowing out there, this Murphy.
	That was good.
	Oh, your lawyer?
	Throw her under the bus?
	Who else?
	Getting pretty busy under that bus there.
	This is the problem.
	And by the way, there's so many companies that got these half-billion-dollar loans.
	You know that, what's that classy car, electric car company?
	Tesla.
	No, no, no, no.
	Didn't Tesla get a bunch of money from the government?
	They got money, but I don't know firsthand about that.
	It's like the really high-end luxury sports car.
	They only make one car.
	Kleiner Perkins invested in it.
	That's Tesla.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Hold on.
	I'll find it for you.
	What's Kleiner Perkins?
	KPCB? They got half a billion dollars in loans.
	From, oh man, let's see, private companies, companies by initials.
	I'm looking on their website right now.
	What would it be under?
	Consumer, Security, S-Fund, Life Sciences, Green Tech.
	I bet you it's under Green Tech.
	Some bullcrap Green Tech.
	Come on, John, you know about these.
	I can't believe they didn't give you one to drive.
	Tesla.
	No, it's not Tesla.
	It's not.
	It's, uh...
	They only make one car.
	It costs like $170,000.
	Yeah, the Tesla.
	No, it's not the Tesla.
	You're wrong.
	Okay, keep arguing with me.
	Fisker.
	There you go, Fisker.
	Thank you.
	Oh, those guys, that's even worse than Tesla.
	That's my whole point.
	They got a half a billion dollars.
	Well, Tesla does make a car that meets all the descriptions you make.
	They make one car.
	It costs $125,000 plus, and it's a sports car, and it has a bunch of government money.
	Fisker Automotive.
	Here you go.
	Electric luxury and performance.
	The Fisker Karma.
	Woo!
	Love it.
	The Fisker Story.
	Read our reviews.
	I got a half a billion dollars, and Ray Lane got it for them.
	I know, because I know he went through all these negotiations with the government.
	And that's going to turn out to be a dog.
	Look at FiskerAutomotive.com.
	It's going to be a total dog.
	I'm looking at it now.
	It looks like a BMW that has some sort of a birth defect.
	Doesn't it look like that?
	It does.
	It's not even symmetrical.
	Here, Fisker Automotive.
	Let me see.
	Do they talk about...
	Fisker Automotive is a green American premium sports car company with a mission to create a range of beautiful, environmentally friendly cars that make environmental sense without compromise.
	Can you believe that our government is paying for that?
	Can I ask a rhetorical question?
	Why are we investing in high-end sports cars with government money?
	Both Fisker and Tesla.
	From the Wall Street Journal, a tiny car company backed by, ooh, guess what?
	Here's your answer.
	Former Vice President Al Gore has just gotten a $529 million U.S. government loan to help build this hybrid sports car in Finland.
	Interesting.
	The award this week to California starter Fisker Automotive, Inc.
	follows a $465 million government loan to Tesla.
	So they've got even more money than Tesla.
	Combined, a billion dollars for sports cars.
	Are we crazy?
	High-end sports cars, by the way.
	High-end.
	Looking at the car and driver review of this thing, it has 402 horsepower.
	I don't know a 402 horsepower car that does 0 to 60 in 5.9 seconds.
	That's the best they can do.
	And the top speed is 125?
	That doesn't sound like a...
	That sounds like a Fister, not a Fisker.
	Whoa.
	Must weigh a ton.
	Now here it says it's got 235 horsepower here.
	Okay, it's got...
	Oh, by the way, good work with our money.
	Let me just read you some of the specs on this thing because they have a little picture of it.
	It's got a repurposed GM Ecotech 2-liter turbofan powers the 235 horsepower AC generator.
	And in the back, everything that really powers this thing, two Chinese-made AC motors.
	Oh, no!
	Supplying 402 horsepower of thrust.
	Chinese!
	China, China, China!
	Hey, I'm getting sick of these Chinas.
	So we're basically loaning them money to buy a Chinese motor?
	I'm sick of these Chinas.
	This is nuts.
	I'm not going to pay my taxes.
	It's called the karma?
	It's called the karma, yeah.
	Hey, what did you get for $465 million dollars?
	You've got Carmen.
	Thank you.
	Backed by Al Gore.
	Yeah!
	The skirt claims to have 3,000 deposits in the bank.
	Some of those who plunk down the cash are doubtless atoning for past Turbo V8 sins.
	Oh, brother.
	But others may be less altruistic, simply drawn on the sexiest fenders ever, draped over an American sedan.
	Whatever the motivation, they'll get a beautiful, luxurious machine that goes easy on the guilt.
	This is from Car and Driver, of course, who always can't really slam anything because there's too much...
	Yeah, because of advertising.
	It's advertising, advertising.
	Yeah, advertising.
	So if they had $3,000, what are these cards going for?
	$90,000?
	That's what they're selling them for?
	Apparently the price on this model that they tested, price as tested, was $96,895.
	So that's like $280 million in sales, but of course these things, you know, they're not making any money on them yet, so...
	Anyway, speaking of advertising, something we know nothing about.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	In the morning.
	Indeed.
	And by the way, you're right, they're probably losing money on that thing.
	Okay, we have a few donors this week.
	I want to mention them.
	I'm going to call them out.
	Mark Fusco in San Antonio, Texas.
	$133.70.
	Another LEET. As an elite contribution to the show for a few things.
	First, my belated birthday.
	I didn't get a chance last week to donate for my birthday on the 8th.
	Second, just some good travel karma for my trip to get Mo Nation Stinky Cheese this Saturday for a week to have some great wine for my podcast license.
	See number one after three initial ones at 1337wine.com.
	Well, let's hand him out some karma for his trip.
	That's really important.
	You've got karma now.
	He also got some karma for his mom's cancer.
	It seemed to have worked.
	She got into an experimental trial with a high success rate because they found slightly more cancer.
	If they hadn't found it, then she would have been on the regular treatment.
	Wow, let me see how this works.
	So karma gave her more cancer and therefore worked because she got into a special treatment?
	It's kind of the way it reads, but I'm sure it means something else.
	No, I'm sure he means it well.
	But anyway, I hate cancer.
	Yeah, it's bad.
	It's fucking lame.
	And so...
	Good luck, Mom.
	I want to thank Mark.
	He also sent me a note, which I'll respond to him on email.
	Gil Freund in Rahovit.
	$131.31.
	Please a shout-out to my son, Yuri, who will celebrate his bar mitzvah and some karma to all the peoples of the Middle East.
	Here you go, peoples of the Middle East in your Arab Spring.
	You've got karma.
	You certainly deserve some karma.
	Senamore Johnson...
	You can call him Fenimore, but don't call him Johnson.
	San Diego, California.
	U.S. of A. 123.45.
	I'd like to call out Prancer for being a douchebag from Shark Face.
	He wants to thank us for all we do.
	Glenn Riccio and Scott Tolstoy both up on the $111.11 monthly program.
	Gregory...
	I doubt that's a monthly.
	It seems like that's a one-shot.
	Neither one of them had much to say.
	Glenn Riccio from Charlottesville, Virginia and Scott Tolstoy, whose name has cropped up before in Mount Prospect.
	Gregory Ladrup in North Hills, California.
	$100.
	John and Adam, keep up the good work.
	And he will become a knight today.
	Oh, yes he will.
	Per...
	Oh, brother.
	This is kind of botched on my screen so I can't quite read it, but it's per Hasselström.
	I think it's Hasselström.
	Kostelstrom in Stockholm, $100.
	Clint Brown in Frederick, Maryland, a very interesting area, $97.
	Greeting from the People's Republic of Maryland where the state motto is, what could we tax that we didn't tax?
	What can we tax tomorrow that we couldn't tax now?
	This email.
	I heard about...
	I heard about the show last year when Thomas Woods blogged about you guys discussing his book Nullification on show 242.
	Oh.
	I've been listening regularly ever since, so I figured it's about time I paid up.
	I figure that a buck a show is a reasonable price to pay not to be yelling at the radio on my drive to work.
	Therefore, I'm sending a $97 donation to cover all the shows that I've listened to so far.
	It amazes me how much you guys managed to dig up that I haven't yet come across.
	Before the show, keep up with the good work, Mofos, 97 from Clint.
	Gregory Davies in Lawton, Oklahoma.
	$60.
	John and Adam, I want to thank you for a fabulous, entertaining show and exposing the mainstream media for the bag of douches that they are.
	Recently, I was assigned to write a review of the movie Contagion for the geeksofdoom.com.
	I'm thankful I've picked up some of your deconstruction tips when looking for those hidden agendas.
	This is actually a good movie review, so we might as well read it.
	The film was utterly awful.
	Interestingly, Jude Law's character is an anti-vaccine crackpot called Alan Crumweedy or something, but his name is almost Alan Crummy in the film and suspiciously almost rhymes with Adam Curry.
	Coincidence?
	I think not.
	You know, it's funny because CDC came out, and I'm looking for the actual article, and said, you know, here it is, CDC, contagion-like outbreak, quite plausible.
	And this was done by, wasn't it Sondheim who directed that thing?
	The guy who did Crash?
	I don't know who did it.
	Yeah, it's a really good director.
	The reviews are all crummy, so I'm not too concerned about it personally.
	Because you have the vaccines, vaccines, vaccines in the movie.
	Well, Dr.
	Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said on the early show Monday, and I have to go find that, The scenario portrayed in the film is quite plausible.
	Of course, the CDC worked closely with the filmmakers, i.e.
	paid them money to create a highly accurate portrayal of a growing pandemic.
	We are all connected by the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, Frieden said.
	The CDC and our partners identifies one new pathogen each year.
	We're all going to die.
	Well, Greg here mentions that it turns out the movie is written by Scott Z. Burns, who was also the producer of Gore's Inconvenient Truth.
	Oh, you're kidding me.
	Well, there you go.
	I mean, not like we didn't know it, but that's a total New World Order film.
	Yep.
	Wow.
	Anyway, it's depressing.
	Bradley Carrier in Lexington, but that doesn't mean people shouldn't donate more.
	No.
	Lexington, Michigan, 5555.
	Can I please get some karma for my wife, Rachel, who is having eye surgery this week?
	Absolutely, Rachel.
	Here you go.
	You've got karma.
	A little more karma for Tom Boushey in St.
	Paul, Minnesota.
	55 double nickels on the dime.
	He needs some karma to help him just get by.
	Don't we all, my friend?
	Here you go.
	You've got karma.
	Also double nickels, or actually 5150, sorry.
	From Jeffrey Gerlach, Sir Jeffrey Gerlach, I'm sorry.
	Alamo, California.
	Three's a charm, bada bing.
	Mike Potter, St.
	Louis, Missouri.
	5150 on my 40th birthday was on 913.
	The tugboat karma worked.
	The tug paver works like a champ.
	I'm not sure what this all means.
	But we've got them on the birthday list.
	That's a good thing.
	Black Knight Aradudurian, Trabuco Canyon, California, $50.
	Guys, after 17 years at her company, my wife, Dame Lena, lost her job, apparently.
	It was simply eliminated.
	Anyway, my first thought is to donate to the show and ask for karma.
	Now, there you have it.
	And ask for karma so she finds a job quickly.
	Thanks, guys.
	All right, here we go, Lena.
	This is going to help you find a new job.
	You've got karma.
	It's part of that Richard Branson gig, I guess.
	Yeah, just take more time off.
	Enjoy your vacation.
	Help the economy.
	Chris Lewinsky, Sherwood Park, Alberta, $50.
	David Middlebrook, Aberdeenshire, UK, $50.
	David Middlebrook, I'm sorry, that was him.
	Jason Burke, Richmond, Texas, $50.
	Michelle...
	What is that?
	Gearing.
	Is it gearing?
	Gearing.
	I see gearing.
	The font's too small.
	Manhattan, Kansas, $50.
	The font's too small.
	Well, I got this on a laptop.
	I had to shrink the spreadsheet because I was tired of scrolling back and forth and back and forth.
	The font's too small.
	The font's too small.
	There you go.
	Mike, and it's in green.
	Mike Westerfield, Sir Mike Westerfield, Enderlin, North Dakota, $50.
	And that'll be it for today's show.
	That's it.
	I want to thank everybody for donating.
	And we appreciate everything we get.
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	Mickey was wearing her No Agenda, her slave t-shirt.
	Oh, yeah?
	Yeah, she wore it to the gym, and she says, people didn't bat an eye.
	Of course, exactly.
	I didn't know they had t-shirts.
	Hey, I know I'm a slave, but where's my slave-issued t-shirt?
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	Consider us, because we're doing a lot of work for you.
	I like the $97 donation for every hour that you've listened.
	Was it every show?
	Because I think we're worth more than a buck an hour, but that's just me.
	But just consider what you're spending on your media entertainment and how you could cut back, possibly.
	A lot of people are getting rid of cable.
	Just think about how much money you're saving, and just a sliver of that would really help us out, because this is all we do.
	We do.
	We don't play commercials, don't take any money from any commercial interests, and we watch a heck of a lot of C-SPAN just to make sure you don't have to.
	Mark Fusco congratulates himself It was his birthday on the 8th.
	Mike Potter, also a self-congratulatory note, he turned 40 on the 13th.
	Michelle Gearing says, Happy birthday, hubby Justin Gearing.
	His birthday is, I guess, celebrating his birthday.
	Sir Don Bean congratulating himself, 52 today.
	And Harry Pilgrim wants to congratulate his lovely wife, Jennifer Pilgrim.
	Of course, they helped out big time on the Hot Pocket 2008 tour.
	Her birthday was yesterday.
	And like a good little slave, I won't mention how old she actually turned.
	But happy birthday.
	And Harry actually did have a little note here.
	He said, ever since we picked you guys up from the airport, Jen has become a loyal No Agenda listener and has quite a knack for propagating the formula.
	She is a PR savant.
	Very nice.
	Good.
	Yes, we love that.
	We really do.
	Now, for those of you who don't know how the program works, you can become an executive producer or an associate executive producer, just like Hollywood.
	If you ever see the credits rolling by on television, those are the people who have actually financed that program.
	Now, there's two things where our show differs from Hollywood.
	One, when you get...
	And what is the limit, John, for a producer credit, associate, executive producer?
	That's $200.
	$200.
	So if you come in at least $200, then you are an associate executive producer.
	And above that, it kind of shakes out who's the executive producer.
	The difference with Hollywood is, unlike those phonies here, if you paid for something, you get your name on a credit, and then you want to prove it, For your next venture, say, well, I was an executive producer on this show.
	You can never find those guys.
	The LLC is gone.
	It's all busted.
	You never get any residuals anyway.
	So they're phonies.
	They won't vouch for you.
	If you need us to vouch for you for any reason, you can call us up.
	You send us an email.
	We'll be happy to talk to anybody.
	Now, there is one other difference.
	If you are an executive producer in Hollywood, you get to bang all the hot actresses.
	That, unfortunately, is not the case on The No Agenda Show.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's a shame.
	But, you know, we're working toward it.
	We are working very hard.
	If you can draw your sword, John, then I'd like to bring out Gregory Ludrup, because he will about to join the illustrious club where the hookers and blow, the tranny hunters, the hunters...
	Pants and booze and, of course, the Ren Boys and Chardonnay all hang out.
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	Gregory Ludrup, thank you for your donations tallying up to $1,000 in total.
	Extend your finger for your ring and please accept your title of Sir Gregory Ludrup, Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	They're all waiting for you, the dames and the knights and the barons right over here, sir.
	We highly appreciate it.
	It is the model we have chosen.
	For this show, and we've been going for four years now.
	And we don't, nobody can tell us what to do.
	Which is kind of cool if you think about it.
	Oh, it's awesome.
	Except for my landlord who can tell me to get the hell out when I can't pay the rent.
	Well, I mean, yeah, your wife can tell you what to do.
	I mean, I'm saying regarding the show.
	Regarding the show, no one can tell us what to talk about.
	Well, no, I think our listeners who are inherently taking a product...
	Yeah, they all stop listening.
	They kind of tell us what to do.
	Right.
	Because they are not the product.
	They are the recipients of what we consider to be a pretty darn good product.
	Second half of the show.
	Let me reiterate this product notion just because I'm sure a lot of new listeners don't get it.
	Most magazines, newspapers, and all the rest of these operations that use advertising as a vehicle, they're actually making you the product, and you as a product are being sold to the advertisers, and that's how special interest publishing, all publishing works this way.
	They figure out kind of who you are.
	They package you up as a product and walk over to one of the big agencies and say, here's what we've got.
	These are our subscribers.
	And they sell you to them.
	That's a back-ass word.
	Well, it's even worse than that.
	If you have a company, let's say like Tweeter, like the Tweeters, and you say, okay, I've got 50 million people, you are assigned a value.
	When that company either takes new investment or is sold.
	Because regardless of the business model, just having you on a list, what is a person worth on a list?
	Like at least five bucks?
	Isn't that kind of what it goes for?
	Are you kidding?
	You're way low.
	No, but seriously.
	No, no, no.
	You're way low.
	Well, wait a minute.
	Can we sell our list?
	We have like 5,000 people.
	We have 5,000 people on a list somewhere on MailChimp.
	We're ripe for investment.
	So tell me about this.
	It's about $20 to $100 a head.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	It depends on what the business is and how specialized it is, but it's $20 to $100.
	And I've seen higher numbers crop up once in a while, but $20 is as low as it gets.
	So just being a registered user of some hip service, right?
	Let's just say it's a hip social networking thing.
	You're worth $100?
	$2,200.
	It depends on how focused it is.
	If it was something where the list is very valuable to some large corporations, it could be as much as $100 easy.
	Wow.
	That's a good scam.
	It's a totally great scam and that's what they do and they don't care about delivering facts.
	When your business is really just selling customers to advertisers, you don't care about giving people information that they could use to better their lives.
	You don't really give a crap.
	There's no reason to because that's not what your business is.
	We have to do what we do to keep people listening and contributing.
	Otherwise, the donations dry up and we're done.
	In fact, I never look at the stats.
	This is the big difference in all the businesses I've always had.
	I was like, how many people?
	How many registered users?
	And I got so tired of that because it was never about what really counted, which is about the show.
	You and I have sleepless nights thinking about what can we do in the show the best we can.
	That's mine at least.
	You're in Brazil.
	Who knows what you're doing?
	I have sleepless nights about that.
	What can we do better?
	Because that translates directly to our bottom line.
	The only way we can measure if we're doing a good job is if people support us.
	And I think that's a very fair way.
	It's value for value.
	You think we suck.
	You don't think we're good enough.
	You think, man, okay, but not worth it.
	You won't send any money.
	You don't send money, it becomes tight.
	The only thing we don't know is what we're doing right.
	Well, yeah, there is that problem.
	Well, what we do is essentially we just go along with our own sense of things.
	And we just basically deconstruct stuff and ridicule the media and do the best we can.
	Or we find the hidden messages that people are probably ignoring or whatever.
	I don't know.
	Speaking of hidden messages, John, it's happening once again.
	Because that looks like a very cold map.
	There were numerous reports of fireballs Flying across the sky last night, across Arizona, across southern Nevada, even across southern California, Carol.
	UFOs that weren't quite sure what it was.
	Was it some sort of satellite falling through the atmosphere?
	But scientists are saying it was just a meteorite or a shooting star, if you will.
	But it was reported and seen by thousands of people across that part of the world.
	Which reminds me, last night I saw a movie which took aliens that were coming to us in meteorites and asteroids.
	They plunged in the Pacific Ocean and they came up and they attacked Los Angeles.
	Riveting stuff, so maybe that has something to do with it.
	But that's not what that was.
	No.
	So, we've got green balls of fire flying through the Los Angeles skies.
	What could it be?
	Of course not.
	I went to bed at like 9.30.
	Of course not.
	You didn't go to bed at 9.30.
	You would never go to bed at 9.30.
	I did go to bed at 9.30, and I'll tell you why.
	Because I was in such discomfort yesterday.
	Oh, because you're having your tooth drilled out?
	Yeah, I figured I'd get up at 4.30 this morning and do everything, which is exactly what I did, knowing also that you'd be in Brazil and you'd be light on the clips.
	I didn't know you'd have no clips.
	I knew you'd be light on.
	No, it's okay.
	I actually made some clips back home and I was going to put...
	It's okay.
	It's a technology thing.
	It's okay.
	It's okay.
	It's pre-crime.
	Just a pre-crime.
	Anyway, so normally I'd say, yes, they're coming for us and the mothership is here and I'm all ready for it.
	But actually, it's much worse than that because here is what is actually going on.
	Turns out one of NASA's satellites is coming down.
	And I think that's what this is.
	This is a report from two days ago.
	Before the green lights were seen, and it's not very good or encouraging, actually.
	End it by looking out your window.
	You might see something strange streaking across the sky.
	Let's hope it's not headed toward your bedroom.
	Huge pieces of space junk hurtling to Earth.
	The upper atmosphere research satellite has been dead in space since 2005.
	Well, guess what?
	It's falling out of orbit now.
	The thing weighs more than 12,000 pounds.
	It is NASA's largest satellite ever to fall back to Earth.
	So where is it going to hit?
	Let's ask Nick Johnson, NASA's chief scientist for orbital debris.
	Orbital debris, a big problem, and this thing is a really big problem.
	Do you know where it's going to land?
	No, John, we don't.
	Right now, it could be anywhere from 57 degrees north latitude to 57 degrees south latitude.
	Well, basically, that includes, well, all of the populated surface of the Earth.
	I think we've got a map.
	That is actually quite funny.
	That basically is everywhere except the north and the south pole.
	And NASA guy is like, well, it could land anywhere between the north pole and the south pole, but it gives you some latitudes so you don't really have to think about it.
	...to show the possibilities here.
	When this thing does come in, assuming it happens at night, at least night on whatever side of the earth it comes through, people are going to be able to see it, right?
	Yeah, it'll put on quite a show, and you'll probably be able to see it during daytime if that's the way it turns out.
	All right.
	Well, Nick Johnson from NASA. We hope it doesn't go bunk on anybody's head.
	Thanks for being with us.
	We'll keep updated with you as to when this thing finally comes down.
	So, of course, this could be true.
	It could be some space junk, or it could be the first visible sights we're getting with the naked eye of Comet Elenin, which is going to kill us.
	And this, of course, is slated for this month.
	As you know, I've been tracking this.
	We have elites up there in Alaska moving to Colorado and all over the circles that I travel in on the interwebs.
	We are now speaking about a report.
	That under SALT, the Strategic Nuclear Arms Control Agreement was sent to Russia because the deal is that both parties are required to notify the other if they're going to do any drills or any practices.
	And I'm always worried about this.
	Whenever there's a drill of some kind, something bad usually happens.
	We've seen countless reports of this.
	Apparently on September 27th, There will be a DEFCON 1 drill in the United States, codenamed Cocked Pistol.
	And as a part of this drill, the President is going to be put into the secured bunkers in Denver, which of course are underneath Denver Airport with all the crazy murals and everything.
	And so I've been following these reports about this cocked pistol.
	Of course, you can't find anything about it on the DOD website or any Pentagon-related websites.
	But I have to think that someone got...
	I mean, even come up with the code name was pretty interesting.
	But this code name has been used before.
	Cocked pistol?
	Cocked pistol, yeah, it was used in 2010, according to the interwebs, for some Korean exercise that was taking place.
	When they were having, it actually went into play, it says U.S. goes to cocked pistol alert, or alert status over Korean warfare, which was the May event where the Koreans were bombing a shack on the other side of the border.
	And so cocked pistol has to be something that predates that, insofar as a methodology for hiding the president in the bunker.
	Well, I don't know.
	I mean, if you Google this, you'll see the same report over and over again.
	So it's obviously something that's propagated and is flowing through the wires.
	I do know that the president will be in Colorado on September 27th.
	Yeah, he gives a speech, jumps into a hole, they lock him up.
	And then Eleanor strikes.
	And he comes out, the only man alive.
	That's right.
	And he's going to come out the only man alive and go, oh, crap, man.
	And she's the only woman.
	Yeah.
	So that's your flying saucer report for the week.
	Do you think I can get on coast to coast with that one?
	I don't know.
	I don't understand why we can't get you on Coast to Coast.
	That would actually be a good one.
	That's just enough to get you on Coast to Coast for once.
	One segment.
	You've been on the radio.
	These radio shows are...
	We're going to bring you right on in a minute, Mr.
	Curry.
	Mr.
	Noor will be right with you.
	We're going to turn you on and just wait for the...
	Everybody, welcome to Coast to Coast AM. We have now on the phone, it's Adam Curry.
	Now, Adam, you are sometimes known as the Crackpot.
	And that's how it'll start off.
	Might as well just call me a douchebag.
	Actually, it'll come.
	It'll start off with, you know, Nori does the old-fashioned.
	He'll give the plugs and everything all in advance.
	Oh, really?
	Because a lot of these old-time radio guys don't want to leave a lot of stuff out at the beginning because they don't want guys slipping plugs in because it sounds sleazy.
	Yeah.
	So, Ron?
	And then you'll be on, and you'll say, we'll be right back right after this message, and you'll take a ten-minute break of advertising.
	Yeah, advertising, right.
	On and on and on.
	Buy gold!
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	Survivor Seeds!
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	You want some storable food!
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	I do want to talk about some PR work that was absolutely astounding.
	Were you able to see that stupid-ass, lame Tea Party presidential Republican debate before you left?
	No, but I did read a bunch of reports about it, and I guess Perry and Ron Paul are having the time of their lives.
	Well, actually, it was a complete setup to try and obliviate Ron Paul.
	A complete setup.
	And it was because of one...
	Actually, so Wolf Blitzer is now...
	Because, of course, Wolf Blitzer hosted the event.
	What theater this is.
	Wolf Blitzer is now all over this.
	He completely loves what he's done, but I think he was in collusion.
	If not, CNN, of course, is probably reasonably easy to infiltrate and get them to do something.
	Because a question came out of left field, which is like the most outrageous question, I thought.
	And you probably didn't hear about this, but part of the question is actually in this little piece, which Wolf Blitzer is now rerunning over and over incessantly, and then I'll pick it apart for you and tell you what actually happened here.
	Two days after our groundbreaking CNN Tea Party presidential debate in Tampa.
	Ron Paul still getting some heat about the answer he gave me to one of my questions.
	We have some new information to put the Republicans' views on health care into some context.
	For that, we asked Brian Todd to do some checking.
	Brian, what are you finding out?
	Wolf, as you know, Ron Paul stuck to his position that night.
	He never wavered.
	But what he didn't do, he didn't bring up a very personal story, a story of a close aide that he lost three years ago, a story that takes this way beyond the hypothetical for Ron Paul.
	It was one of the most pointed moments in the early debate season.
	Wolf Blitzer asked Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, a staunch opponent of a government role in healthcare, what should happen to a 30-year-old man who can afford insurance, chooses not to buy it, then becomes catastrophically ill.
	He needs intensive care for six months.
	Who pays?
	That's what freedom is all about, taking your own risk.
	This whole idea that you have to prepare and take care of everybody...
	Asked if society should let the man die, Paul said no, and said in his experience, churches, charities, friends and relatives would help.
	It's a circumstance Ron Paul knows intimately.
	In June of 2008, Paul's former campaign chairman, Kent Snyder, who Paul says talked him into running for president that year, died of pneumonia.
	Snyder had no insurance.
	So this was such a brilliant plan.
	That Wolf Blitzer asks a question specifically about a 30-year-old man who has no insurance, should we let him die?
	Fully well knowing, and I'll tell you why, because Matt Ortega told him, fully well knowing that this is something that, well, it depends on how you read the headline, but his campaign manager, about 30 years old, died of pneumonia.
	By the way, he did get health care.
	He died with a whole bunch of bills, so it's not like if he had insurance he would have lived.
	It made no difference, because he got the care he needed.
	And immediately, we have a website, lethimdie.com.
	Oh, brother.
	At the Tea Party GOP debate, it was asked if we should let an uninsured man die.
	The Tea Party audience cheered, applauded, and exclaimed, Yeah!
	The American people want to know.
	And then it's, would Rick Santorum let him die?
	Would Newt Gingrich let him die?
	So it's like, all of the Republican can't, would John Huntsman let him die?
	So I'm like, wow.
	So I do the who is look up, and lo and behold, Matt Ortega, Has registered lethimdie.com on September 12th, so presumably day of.
	This guy is a member of New Partners.
	We've got to take a look at these guys.
	New Partners is a PR firm.
	Very interesting.
	And this Matt Ortega is one of the people, so NewPartners.com is one of the people who works there.
	Let's see.
	He was responsible for Barack Obama's historic Iowa caucus win.
	Responsible for Barack Obama's groundbreaking national grassroots strategy.
	How grassroots is it if you have a PR firm working on it?
	Yeah, there's a name for that.
	It's called AstroTurf.
	Well, in fact, if you look at new partners, they have strategic positioning, communications research, grassroots organizing.
	Here you go.
	Our approach to field and grassroots organizing is guided by a belief in the power of people talking to people.
	Our peers, neighbors, community leaders, friends, and co-workers have become the ultimate tastemakers in the world where top-down communications doesn't get the job done anymore.
	We can help you create a robust grassroots organizing program.
	It's like the opposite of what grassroots is.
	Hey, play the douchebag thing, will you?
	Douchebag!
	So, I'm looking at his LinkedIn thing.
	Yeah.
	You should also mention he was on the Democratic National Committee as the web specialist.
	And you can tell by that website he just designed, he's a genius.
	Well, I think he actually worked for the State Department.
	He's a techno expert.
	Yep, he was the ECA web developer for the State Department after that.
	Then he became the new media director of Clean Energy Works, according to his own bio, which you cited.
	And now he's the new media consultant.
	Yeah, this guy's a douchebag.
	And this whole site, LetHimDie.com, if you follow the trail, is one of his clients.
	And one of his clients called Protect Your Care, which you can find at protectyourcare.org.
	Protect Your Care is a 501c4 organization that will create the political and media space for elected officials, industry leaders and community advocates to champion the Affordable Care Act and hold accountable those who seek to take those benefits away.
	So they did a brilliant job Of setting Ron Paul up.
	Scamming CNN. Scamming CNN. Setting him.
	What a question.
	I think Wolf Blitzer said, I got a good question.
	Let's ask him now.
	No, of course not.
	He fully well knew.
	He fully well knew that this was going to happen.
	Asshole.
	Wolf Blitzer.
	Douchebag.
	Absolutely incontrovertible.
	The guy's from Oakland.
	Of course, he's a gangster.
	He's in Oakland, raised in Hayward.
	Oh, gosh.
	Hayward, that's where I refuel airplanes.
	I don't want to do anything else there.
	It's a nice little airport.
	Yeah.
	Something...
	Very sad happening in Gitmo Nation East.
	I'm sorry, just not to belabor this idiot, but it's mattortega.com.
	I can't believe...
	I mean, if this is a...
	I find it offensive that they would let a guy from the DNC, essentially, write the questions for the Republican debate.
	You know, the Republicans can debate themselves with their own ideas.
	It was set up to completely discredit Ron Paul.
	Yeah.
	And make him look like a dick, saying, yeah, people should die.
	There was another part of the debate where...
	Which was kind of sad because people started booing him.
	And he basically...
	Ron Paul?
	Yeah.
	I don't have the clip of it.
	Oh, that was set up too.
	Let's face it.
	They loaded the audience up.
	Of course it was set up.
	It was about...
	Ron Paul said, we should ask ourselves why Muslim extremists were angry and bombed us.
	He said, because we've been bombing them.
	We'll be killing millions of people.
	And people went, boo.
	Yeah, right.
	Yeah.
	So Nathan Eccleston is a soccer player, footballer for Liverpool.
	And he tweeted, I guess on September 11th, He said, I ain't gonna say, I ain't gonna, I ain't going to say, attack, don't let the media make you believe that was terrorists that did it to us.
	O-T-I-S, hashtag.
	O-T-I-S is the hashtag standing for only the Illuminati succeed.
	Big mistake by this young man as he's about to get kicked off the team.
	Yeah.
	Now you can't say anything.
	This is what it's come to.
	So if you have any standing in the world of, if you have an audience, you can't say anything.
	Of course, this guy, look at his shirt.
	Vodafone, he's got all kinds of advertising.
	You can't be saying that stuff.
	In fact, the club said, the club takes this matter extremely seriously, and senior officials have informed Nathan Eccleston that we are undertaking an investigation into the circumstances surrounding these postings.
	They will decide on an appropriate course of action, which will mean we will be cutting your testicles off.
	That's very, very sad.
	I know they don't have freedom of speech in Gitmo Nation East, but...
	People should be rioting again.
	Get on the streets and riot.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	You don't have any CIA telling you to do that now.
	It's just sad.
	Speaking of that, here's the message in the United States.
	Tweet about illegal activity.
	If you rat on people, you will die.
	A chilling message to those who use social media in Mexico.
	Now, we have to warn you, the video that you're about to see is very graphic.
	But take a look.
	Two bodies hanging from a bridge with signs of torture.
	Messages left near the body said the victims were killed for denouncing drug cartel activity on a social network.
	Joining us with much more on this is Rafael Romo.
	Boy, that video is hard to look at.
	Tell us, what do you make of this?
	What do you know about it?
	Well, here's the bottom line, Randy.
	What happens is that in Mexico, media outlets have been threatened by organized crime.
	And for a long time now, they have practiced self-censorship.
	So what people were doing was using social media to report on the crimes committed by drug cartels and organized crime.
	So now, what's happening now is that Yesterday morning, they found two bodies hanging from a pedestrian bridge in the city of Nuevo Laredo.
	Just to put it in perspective to our viewers, this is across the border from Laredo, Texas.
	This is very important.
	This is America.
	You might as well be in America, across the border.
	And right next to the messages, there were posters indicating that this is going to happen to everyone.
	All those who are posting messages online reporting on what's happening with the drug cartels, drug violence in Mexico.
	So it's a very shocking and chilling message to people who are doing this in Mexico.
	So I think that this is a shocking and chilling message basically telling everybody to shut up.
	I don't care what it's about, shut up.
	Yeah, there's definitely a shut-up message involved.
	And of course, it's right across the board.
	And the first thing you would logically think is, oh, well, if they can do it there, they can sneak across the board and kill me here.
	So I'm always, you know, under threat.
	But yeah, this is a shut-up slave.
	And by the way, who's running the group?
	Did they explain what the social media connection was with this story?
	Were people tweeting stuff?
	Yeah.
	I mean, you can always set up an anonymous Twitter account and tweet on anything you want.
	It's just more psychological warfare, in my opinion.
	You can set up an anonymous Facebook account pretty easily and tweet anything, your tweet, and then Facebook anything you want.
	Facebook it, yeah.
	Facebook it.
	Well, the whole idea is don't be saying anything on the tweeters because you could get killed.
	And we'll see if this propaganda...
	No, you get hung upside down from a bridge with your guts hanging out.
	Alright, John, I know you've got to go.
	They legalized these drugs, and none of this would even be a story.
	That's never going to happen, obviously, for these reasons.
	You can use it as a fear, as a kind of a, just another thuggish thing to keep the public under control.
	So to end the show on a high note, and I really want to do it this time.
	It can happen.
	Yeah, it can.
	It can.
	We do have producers in New York City, but I think that if they're getting away with it in New York City, which I'm not sure exactly how it works.
	I don't understand why this is okay.
	But if this is okay, we need to take to the streets and put up our own signs.
	Because there's a guy going around, and he's creating...
	Crazy signs that look like actual street signs.
	They have the whole thing.
	It's made of the same material.
	They're attached to light to lampposts, except they have very, very frightening messages.
	Every block in New York City is loaded with traffic signs, alternate side, bus stop.
	But if you look up long enough to notice this one at 15th and 9th, you'll probably chuckle a bit.
	Just pay attention while walking.
	Your Facebook status update can wait.
	Courtesy of the Metropolitan Etiquette Authority.
	We track down the guy who's been putting these up around the city.
	I've got one that says, pull up your pants.
	No one wants to see your underwear.
	Jason Shelowitz says the signs cost him about $30 apiece.
	He has a real street sign vendor make them, and according to him, the police don't seem to mind.
	I'm sure that there's some law against this.
	I haven't really researched it, but the message is positive, not defacing property, and they're not blocking any important signs.
	They're just sort of there as an extra thing for pedestrians to see.
	The Metropolitan Etiquette Authority.
	Getting away with it.
	Well, you know, right down the street from my house is one of those companies that make signs like that.
	Well, I think this is a very good...
	They have the whole kit.
	You can have a sign made, you know, like a triangular yellow sign that says, you know, student crossing or whatever.
	And they have the strap and they have the whole kit.
	You can just put the whole thing together and just find a good pole and get a ladder and put it up on there and you just crank it down before anyone notices.
	One of our producers sent in some album art.
	It's a New York street sign.
	It says, shut up, slave.
	It has a guy with a bat hammering a guy on the ground and says, pay your taxes.
	That's great.
	We might use it.
	I don't know.
	Let's see what comes in.
	And of course, always thanks to all of our fantastic artists who help us out with creating great album art.
	John, when are you coming back from Brasilia?
	I'm coming back as soon as I can.
	I'll be back for Sunday for sure.
	Okay, good.
	So please do think of us.
	Think of the work we're putting in there for you.
	Helping you seem smarter at cocktail parties.
	And the ones we all attend probably have plastic cups.
	Oh, before I forget, I do want to thank the anonymous No Agenda producer known as Lotto, who purchased an Ohio State lottery ticket for us.
	He says, all I could afford...
	Unfortunately, none of the numbers hit.
	Actually, none of the numbers.
	Not a single one of them.
	Yeah, she just sent a dollar in.
	Coming to you from Gitmo Nation West, the People's Republic of Southern California, where I've got to get out of this place.
	Good morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Gitmo Nation Feijoada, otherwise known as Brazil, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We will be here again as your guiding light through a sea of poop.
	On Sunday, with no agenda.
	The Lone Ranger.
	I don't feel where I A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust, and a hearty Hayo Silver!
	The Lone Ranger!
	Adios, mofo!

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