Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 340.
This is No Agenda.
Reading the bill that must be passed here in the Hilltop Watchtower, Crackpot Command Center in the People's Republic of Southern California.
In the morning, Gitmo Nation, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley where the sun is shining and everybody's happy, I'm John C. Duarte.
Yeah, everybody's happy up there in the north always.
The guy was distorted.
No, maybe just on your end.
Well, maybe he's distorted.
I don't know.
It's not easy.
It's a Mickey Mouse setup.
It's not like a professional deal.
It's ridiculous.
It's ridiculously overkill.
You've got tons of gear there.
Most studios would love to have half the stuff you've got, including that collector's item.
That's why, yeah, the TLA 5052.
Yeah, that's why it's all distorted.
It's because I've got too much gear, I guess.
No, I don't know.
In the morning to you, John.
In the morning to you.
In the morning to all ships at sea and boots on the ground and feet in the air.
Yeah, and ankles in the straps.
And, of course, all of our human resources charged up, ready to go there in the chat room.
NoagendaStream.com, NoagendaChat.net.
You know that your value, according to the U.S. government, is diminishing.
And of course, it's accelerating with the drop of the value of the dollar.
So whereas you used to be $9.2 million when you're born, I think it's probably more like $8 million now.
Well, it depends on when you were born.
Some of us have no value at all.
Present company excluded, of course.
I think the dollar's up.
Against the Euro it is, yeah.
No, the Euro went back up a bit.
I've been watching it.
It went from 145 to 135 in like 48 hours last week, and now I think it's back up to like 137 and a bit, something like that.
Yeah, well, that's better than 142, which has been sitting at forever.
Crude oil's down.
Yeah.
Oh, well.
Damn.
Sell the futures.
Whatever.
Or buy them.
I don't know.
I don't invest.
Buy the cells.
I don't invest.
Hey, good to have you back, John.
I presume your trip was fine there to Brasilia?
Yeah, it was a good short trip, of course, but I've been to Brazil before.
It's not like I've never seen the place.
And...
You say that so...
It's not like, I've never seen the place.
It's like, yeah, I've been all over this globe.
I have.
Yeah.
That's true.
And...
You know, it was what it was.
It was interesting.
I'll tell you, they seem to have a booming economy going on, and when you start asking around about it, everybody's busy.
The traffic is ludicrous.
Well, if traffic were a major, then California would be awesome.
Well, I know, but we've been that way for a long time.
Actually, Thailand is bad.
Taiwan is ridiculous.
All around the world, traffic is something that no one wants to deal with.
In Gitmo Nation Lowlands, they have traffic reports, which only reports the length of the backups.
There's no alternative routes or anything.
It's always hundreds of kilometers every single morning, every single afternoon.
Nothing ever changes.
On the trip out of town, I have a photo.
I'm going to try it if I see how it came out.
I think you would have to look at all the lanes and count them up, and it would be a 30-lane freeway.
Cool.
15 going each way.
You're kidding me, right?
No.
15 lanes each side?
Yeah.
Can you imagine?
I've got to get to the exit?
You actually have to do a spreadsheet to get off the thing.
Wow.
Like Japanese subways, just take what you...
I'll take this exit.
I can get to this one.
And so...
Dad stopped.
30 lanes of traffic going both ways.
No movement.
Wow.
But you made your flight, obviously.
Yeah, you leave three hours in advance for the airport, takes you about an hour and a half, and then you get on, you're fine.
Of course, the airport's there, they don't have the scanners, and by the way, they don't have them in New York either.
What, the naked body scanner?
They didn't have a naked body scanner in New York.
I went through New York on the way back and I had to get off the plane and go through the system again.
There's no naked body scanner.
Wait a minute.
So you could have had all kinds of explosives in your underpants, landed in New York, just like the guy who came in from Amsterdam.
He was going to land in Detroit.
You could have landed in New York and then you could have gotten on a flight to San Francisco and burned your crotch.
Without a problem.
You know, the interesting thing, even if they had the scanners, is they can still stick the stuff up to various body cavities.
Where the sun don't shine.
Actually, you could swallow a bomb that was remote-controlled and just dial yourself on the cell phone and blow yourself up.
I mean, this is false security.
It doesn't work.
But in Brazil, and this has been going on way before 9-11, they have the Israeli form of...
Oh, they question you.
Yeah, some guy questions you, he asks you stupid questions.
Really?
What were you here for?
What?
Really, what was that all about?
So what is your speech about?
I have a speech about future trends.
I've got to change the speech.
Oh no, you didn't do that one, did you?
It's a classic.
Do you have a PowerPoint that goes with that?
I'll tell you, look, if you do speaking in today's world, especially to business conferences, and you don't do PowerPoint, you're making a huge mistake.
I spent years experimenting with showing movies, doing stand-up speeches with no PowerPoint, and everything in between.
You have to have PowerPoint because people are either going to fall asleep or sometimes they just zone out on the PowerPoint.
You can keep your notes up there.
You don't have to keep referring to anything.
Do you have your email address at the top there?
Hi, I'm John C. Dvorak.
You can reach me at dvorak.org.na.
That would be funny to slip that in.
So while the TSA was not checking your underwear, they were pretty busy back here in Gitmo Nation West.
The one who really unraveled this entire unbelievable scheme.
Law enforcement officials and the TSA actually helping drug traffickers get through airports in three separate states.
Detectives with the DEA and the U.S. Attorney's Office made that announcement during a news conference today in Stanford.
We know that three TSA agents and two cops are among 20 people who were arrested in this conspiracy to traffic massive amounts of oxycodone from Florida all the way up the East Coast for distribution in Connecticut and in New York.
Authorities say during that scheme, TSA agents would get the drugs through security checkpoints in exchange for money or gift cards.
I love that part.
These guys are so stupid.
Then not only are they trafficking drugs, but they're accepting gift cards as payment.
How does that work?
Oh, a Best Buy card!
Oh, yeah.
Walk on through.
And a new stereo.
Walk on through.
Oh, Walgreens flu shot card.
Thanks.
Awesome.
Go ahead.
You're cleared.
Go on through.
You're good to go.
That's our TSA. Funny how that's only on local news.
We didn't hear it.
No, of course not.
Why would they suppress such a news story so it's only on local news?
I'm surprised it even showed up on local news.
Well, you have to be afraid.
Squirrel!
And the TSA is there to protect your security.
We had a lot of fun yesterday.
I don't know when you came back, but I sent out a rare bat signal a day before the show, and I needed some producers to help me with a mission.
And we had a little bit of fun with, what's that guy's name from NPR, Randy Carvin?
Andy Carvin?
You know that guy?
Yeah, this is your favorite.
This is your pal.
Yeah, my techno expert pal.
So this is the guy who tweets revolutions, and he retweets anything that has a hashtag that says, I'm a good guy.
And he's the senior social media strategist for NPR, our national treasure.
And he works for Hillary Clinton.
Yeah, of course he does.
He's a techno expert, as she calls him.
Or tech-savvy expert, I think she's changed it now.
So yesterday was the start of Occupy Wall Street.
Which was announced in mid-July, and actually it's a worldwide movement.
If you go to OccupyWallStreet.org, you'll see that on September 17th, around the globe, people were going to financial centers and protesting.
Protesting the fact that they're douchebags and have all the money, and we don't.
It's a pretty good protest.
And of course this has no leader to speak of.
It's an actual kind of real grassroots people are angry kind of thing.
Yeah, I find that hard to believe.
What?
That they're angry?
No, I don't find that hard to believe.
I find it hard to believe that there's not somebody coordinating this for some other reason.
No, I've really scoured it, and there was no coordination.
Otherwise, it would have been done better, and it certainly is not coordinated from the State Department's techno-experts.
Because it was kind of fun.
They had live streams, and the hashtag was probably every 10 seconds there would be 100 tweets coming in.
So I'm following this.
And you know me, I've got all my TVs on.
I'm sure CNN will show something.
And there was a couple thousand people down there on Wall Street.
The cops had the bull cordoned off.
That was kind of funny.
They were protecting the bull on Wall Street.
That was their main job.
Well, you know, if you had a shot at that bull under some circumstance and you had a couple of cans of spray paint, you could have a lot of fun.
Of course.
But that seems to be like the symbol.
Mayor Bloomberg.
That bull.
Yeah.
Mayor Bloomberg.
By the way.
Why don't you explain?
There's some listeners that probably don't know what you're saying.
You should just explain what that bull is.
Down by Wall Street, there is a bull, which signifies the bull market, I presume.
I wouldn't know any other reason why.
I think it's down by the Morgan Stanley Plaza or whatever it is.
Yeah, it's a very nice, it's a big, giant carving, not a carving, but a casting, huge, of a bull that looks like it's going to kill someone.
Yeah, like he's ready to charge.
And if you look at him from behind, he's anatomically correct.
And my goodness, that guy has some balls on him.
A big bull.
And Bloomberg said, well, this is not a legal demonstration.
Because people are coming anyway, we've set up free speech zones.
Ha ha!
Which I think were in the Hudson River.
Of course, everyone ignored that.
It's a demonstration.
And people are out there, and they're holding up signs, and they're walking around, and they're making noise.
And there's no coverage.
In fact, quite the opposite.
There's no coverage.
No.
Quite the opposite.
I love the media.
It got better.
It got better.
You should go look at that bull, boys.
Yeah, on CNN and Fox both, they had some guy talking about the Reno Air Race crash.
It was like, oh, we have to cut live to this.
There's thousands of people protesting bankers on Wall Street, and it's happening globally.
So I'm watching this, and I'm watching this, and of course the hashtag isn't really trending on Twitter, all this typical stuff that you would expect.
And I'm watching, and I'm like, it's interesting because it's a protest.
It's not much different probably than what happened in Israel recently.
People, you know, they're sick and tired of it.
They can't afford it.
The bankers get bailed out.
And so I'm waiting, I'm waiting, I'm cruising around.
And there's no blog posts.
Nothing.
Complete silence from the media.
Now, and this has been well known and announced in advance in July.
So you'd think that CNN or maybe even New York One would send a crew down just to have a look and do a report.
I mean, it's a slow news day, except for the, you know, the...
Constant replay of this airplane crashing.
Unbelievable.
Yeah, I talk about that.
Nothing to see here.
So I send a tweet to Randy Carvin.
His name is Andy, but I figure it'll piss him off if I keep calling him Randy.
So I send a tweet to Randy, and I say, Hey, Randy, how come you're not retweeting any of this?
And by the way, he was tweeting about the Reno air crash and tweeting about the University of Florida football.
I'm like, hey, you know, there's something going on here.
Don't you cover that.
And he goes like, no, it's not interesting.
It's not big enough.
I only cover Middle East.
I'm like, oh, this is new.
I didn't know he only covered the Middle East.
I didn't know that either.
Well, apparently he's now only with the Middle East desk.
So he has nothing to do because that's all done, right?
We've taken over.
There's nothing left to tweet.
So he's just sitting at home, tweeting about the Reno air crash, and I'm like, well, that makes no sense.
This is people, it's a demonstration.
There's a protest going on.
This is what you're good at.
Reporting on this, retweeting, curating.
And he's like, no.
And literally, look at the Middle East, now look at Wall Street.
Look at the difference in size.
Discuss.
So, oh yeah, oh yeah, no, the tweet stream is absolutely hilarious.
In fact, maybe I should, let me see, I have it here.
I can read some of them.
So I'm like, alright, this is kind of weird.
And it goes back and forth, and he's like, you know, and so of course I hashtag him with like techno expert.
And then he's like, I find it hilarious and ironic that Adam Curry is calling me out on this.
You know, like a link to my wiki.
You got into a beef with the guy?
Yeah, that was funny!
So then I'm like, alright, you know, watch this douche.
So I send out the bat signal.
And I'm like, hey, everyone get on Carvin about this.
Because, you know, this is ridiculous.
And, um...
And everyone just starts ragging on him.
And of course he has his little army of people.
And he actually says, don't try and pressure a journalist.
That's a sure way to get him not to look at anything.
I'm like, what?
This guy, he's an idiot.
A total idiot.
No, he's a douchebag.
Yeah, well, besides...
Yeah, absolutely.
Douchebag!
Here, I don't cover U.S. economy and related matters.
I'm just reading some of his tweets here.
Let's see.
What else does he have?
Someone tweeted the best one is, It's not a revolution until Andy Carvin retweets it.
I thought it was kind of funny.
So it just kept on going.
This probably went on for...
I don't know, maybe two hours or so.
And it really heated up.
It was interesting.
But he didn't.
He did not tweet about it.
Of course not.
He did his marching orders.
He only tweets about what he's told to tweet about.
You can't pressure him.
You can't pressure a journalist when he's already got marching orders.
And then I tweet him like the NPR sponsor list and I said, hey, that's funny.
Citibank, Bank of America, U.S. Bank, all sponsoring NPR. I wonder why you're not covering this.
Oh, good one.
Oh, yeah.
It's a PDF. It's from 2008.
Because, of course, they haven't released any current numbers.
Of course not.
God forbid they do that.
And then I say, hey, how about the 400,000 people who were protesting in Israel?
And I went back.
He hasn't tweeted about that once.
Because you're right.
And last time I checked, I think Israel is in the Middle East, isn't it?
Isn't it kind of like in that region?
I believe it should be there, yes.
I think so.
And it's just unbelievable that this guy has the...
And if you Google around and you look at the YouTube, you know, the interviews, he's all coy.
Like, I'm Randy Carvin, and I'm sitting here, and yeah, yeah, I brought to NPR into the 21st century.
Yeah, yeah, we got it all set up.
And I said, well, dude, if you're all set up, then...
If you look at his Google +, it says, I tweet revolutions.
That's his tagline.
Oh, brother.
Anyway, it was a fun way to pass a couple hours on a Sunday afternoon.
But this guy, he really bit into it.
And I want to thank all the producers who got on board with that.
Because it is, of course, sad at the end of the day, where you have actual people with an actual beef protesting, and there's no coverage.
Not even from the guy who's supposed to be on our side.
It's his marching orders.
I mean, I don't even know why we just accept the fact that these guys are told what to do.
They can't think for themselves.
What's the point of having a Middle Eastern beat?
This is not what Twitter's for.
It's ridiculous.
And I bet you if somebody did some research, I'd find he tweeted about a lot of things other than the Middle East.
That's what people were doing.
They're pulling it apart.
They're like, hey dude, you tweeted this.
He was tweeting about Wisconsin.
Yeah, because his orders were to blast that Republican.
Exactly.
He's obviously part of the Democrat machine.
Yes, well, we know that.
We know that from his wiki page.
But anyways, it was kind of like a last-ditch effort to see if this guy maybe, maybe, maybe...
No, you were living in a dream world.
Well, no.
To even think that, I think...
I had nothing better to do.
Come on.
You should have just, from the beginning, knew this was a ridiculous douchebag.
Douchebag, yeah.
Hey, John, I have to say, the president came out.
He came out?
Let me rephrase that.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Yeah, that would be funny, wouldn't it?
I wouldn't surprise anybody.
His weekly address.
Let me play you a 15-second clip.
On Monday, I'll lay out my plan for how we'll do that.
I will pay for this plan and pay down our debt by following some basic principles.
Making sure we live within our means.
That's...
John, it's the American dream.
Live within your means.
We've got to make sure we live within our means and...
And asking everyone to pay their fair share.
Pay your fair share.
Fair share.
Fair share.
But right now...
What?
You've got to get Congress to pass this jobs bill.
Pass this jobs bill.
Alright, so guess what I did over the weekend?
You paid your fair share.
No.
No.
That I will do when Mimi gives me all the details of what fair share I have to pay.
We have to coordinate that this year.
No, I read the American Jobs Act.
So you don't have to.
And you were right.
It's 199 pages.
This American Jobs Act, and I've taken the liberty of highlighting a couple of pieces of it.
No, there's a lot of gems in there.
Have you read it?
No.
Okay.
So, don't worry, I read it so you don't have to.
I'm glad.
And let me say this right off the bat.
I agree with the President.
I think we should pass this bill as quickly as possible.
It is absolutely essential that we pass this bill.
Because it will be a bonanza.
It will be so awesome.
And it will accelerate the demise that much quicker.
So if we can pass this whole thing, awesome.
Let me tell you what's in here for jobs.
First of all, There's a billion dollars in here for air traffic control advancements, and if you read down a little bit further, you'll see there's $27 billion, which a large portion is going to be appropriated towards the next-gen air traffic control system.
Now, we've discussed this, this next-generation air traffic control system advancement, as he calls it here, and that is so that we can have the drones flying around without crashing into other aircraft.
Right, that we keep forgetting that.
Let's mark that one off.
I'm happy with that.
We need the drones.
So let's get our drones in.
Then we have capital assistance for high-speed rail corridors.
Which starts off with $4 billion here for the first year.
Very good.
I think we need that.
That's been proven.
Just look at China.
And that's, by the way, that is to benefit Warren Buffett, who's on board with all this stuff.
On board.
On board.
So that's $4 billion.
Just look at China.
It's really great.
Working well.
So I'm all for that.
Yeah, between crashes, between deaths.
And slowdowns.
Slowdowns and stoppages.
It's the mid-speed rail in China now.
Then, of course, we have to put another $2 billion into the National Railroad Passenger Corporation.
That's so that Joe Biden can get from Pennsylvania to Washington quicker.
So, I'm happy with that.
That's very good.
We'll put that one in.
And then we have a name, a new name.
AIFA. And I hadn't heard this term before.
It stands for the American Infrastructure Financing Authority, which is the iBank, the investment bank.
Remember the infrastructure bank that he was talking about?
Everyone was saying we need an infrastructure bank.
This is it.
And some very interesting things.
So the way the infrastructure bank works is there's a whole bunch of projects that you can bid on.
And you will get a loan, in all cases, a minimum of 50%, which will cost no less than the yield on a treasury bond.
So interest is like nothing, which is great.
And I'll read you a couple of highlights.
So any investment that the infrastructure bank makes must have an investment-grade rating.
Now you do a show with Andrew Horowitz.
You know about this stuff.
What is an investment grade rating?
We know that America had a triple A and was recently downgraded to double A by Standards and Poor's.
What is investment grade rating?
Well, you know, it's kind of a meaningless term because it depends.
This is for big funds and union funds and there's giant agglomerations of retirement funds that people put together.
And they'll have a minimum standard.
They will not invest into bonds or subsecures.
They don't have like double.
Typically, it's double A+. Oh, no, no, no.
The Obama standard for something that our taxpayer money will go into is BBB minus.
Oh.
That is investment grade, according to the Obama administration.
BBB minus.
Huh.
Yeah, I thought that was interesting.
I wonder why that would be that.
Because there's so many good investments above that rating that it's baffling why you'd have that even on the list.
That's so any shithead can come in and do anything they want with a flaky project.
That's what it sounds like.
Now, here's how it works.
So, you get your money.
By the way, I'll bring that up with Horowitz on the next show.
Yeah, please do.
Please do.
And I've highlighted the PDF, so you can download it from 340.nashownotes.com in the assets section.
You'll find it there.
It'll say American Jobs.
It's a PDF. So, here's how it works.
You get money from the government.
At least 50%.
In some cases, they will finance everything.
We'll get to that later.
You have 35 years to pay it back.
35 years!
Just repeat that.
35 years.
And by the way, if you don't use all the money, you can use what's left over to start paying it down.
So you can basically stretch this out 40 years if you want, maybe even longer.
But then, the federal credit instrument shall be repayable in whole or in part from tolls, user fees, or other dedicated revenue sources that also secure the infrastructure project obligations.
So in other words, we're going to pay.
We're going to lend these people who have BBB minus investment opportunities.
We're going to pay our money.
It's going to them.
They may or may not have to put up the other half of the money.
But of course, if the government's financing, you can get the bank to finance the other part.
So you don't have to actually have anything.
And then when it's built, you're going to be paying for it with tolls and user fees.
How great is that?
Just a form of taxation.
Do you think?
So here it is, maturity date, 35 years after date of substantial completion of the infrastructure project.
So not even 35 years after the money.
It's like after it's completed and it's really signed off and the ribbon has been cut, that's when you have to start paying it back.
So you're telling me that if you do pull a China scam where you start a project but you never quite finish it?
Mm-hmm.
You could just stretch it out forever?
Yeah.
Ooh, we've got one more brick to lay!
Yeah.
It's like that Twitch studio.
It'll never be finished.
So you don't have to pay anything back.
So that's pretty good.
Then we have another section, Section 261, Project Rebuild.
Now this one I found very interesting.
Where $15 billion will be made available per year, and it's like a five-year act, to purchase homes that have been foreclosed.
So...
Purchase and rehabilitate properties that have been abandoned or foreclosed upon in order to sell, rent, or redevelop such properties.
And this is a 100% coverage.
So you don't have to put up any money.
The government will basically give anyone who asks for it, and you have at least a BBB minus credibility, they'll give you the money to buy a home and then rent it out.
What?
Yeah.
So you get this money, I'll read it verbatim, purchase and rehabilitate properties that have been abandoned or foreclosed upon in order to sell, rent, or redevelop such properties.
So I guess I can just say, look, here's a whole neighborhood That's closed down.
Everyone's either abandoned it or has been foreclosed on.
I can get a loan from the government to go and buy all of that and then rent it out.
At almost any rate, I'll make money because I don't have to start paying anything back until the project's complete.
So I'll just keep one road under construction.
Right, so you have 20 buildings, you start fixing them up, and you have the 20th building, you never quite finish it, and you keep working on it because you're going to really make it fancy.
And so the whole project, which would include fixing all 20 buildings...
Cost me nothing.
Cost me nothing to do.
Forever, because you can always just stall on the last building.
Isn't that cool?
That's very cool.
Let's get in on this.
That's what I'm thinking.
We definitely got to get in on this.
And here it is.
No matching fund shall be required in order for an eligible entity to receive any amounts under this section.
So John, as long as we can write the proposal, we don't need any money.
Which is good because we don't have any money.
Then there's the whole emergency broadband infrastructure project.
This is so that there's going to be a great broadband network only.
And guess what?
It's not for you and me.
This wireless broadband network is for Lucy Napolitano and for FEMA and stuff.
But there's a little clause in here, which is nice.
The corporation shall negotiate and enter into, as it terms appropriate, roaming agreements with commercial network providers to allow the nationwide public safety interoperable broadband users to roam onto commercial networks and gain prioritization of public safety communications over such networks roaming agreements with commercial network providers to allow the nationwide public safety interoperable broadband users So a couple of things going on here.
One, of course, they're not going to build anything because they're just going to be doing network agreements because there's coverage.
And by the way, who's going to get in on these deals?
AT&T, Verizon, it's going to be the same guys.
So they get the money for free to build something out.
Then they get to charge extra If the emergency services have to roam onto their networks, let's face it, they'll be roaming all the time.
Yep.
And if there's some kind of emergency, there goes your Skype connection because they will have prioritization over the network in times of an emergency.
You have to stop here.
What has this got to do with jobs?
Well, it'll take lawyers to put these agreements together.
Oh, it's a full employment act for lawyers.
Yes, exactly.
Exactly.
So here it says, Public Safety Entity Equipment is technically compatible.
This is for the Silicon Valley.
It's for the Ciscos.
They've got to make new, because they're auctioning off Spectrums.
They've got to make new boxes.
The Commercial Network will be reasonably compensated.
It's fantastic.
Oh, and it says here, such access does not preempt or otherwise terminate or degrade all existing voice conversations or data sessions.
Right.
Then we have the bridge...
What was that again?
Does this say Skype will still work?
Think about that.
Let me just read it to make sure.
Commission may adopt rules if necessary in the public interest to improve the ability of public safety users to roam onto commercial networks to gain priority access to commercial networks in an emergency if...
An emergency if, so they can roam it.
Okay, such access does not preempt or otherwise terminate or degrade all existing voice conversations or data sessions.
That's pretty shaky language.
Yeah, it means it won't terminate all of them, so it can terminate 99% of them.
Some of them, some of them, exactly.
But here's the one that I thought we could get in on, the Bridge to Work program.
Now this is very interesting.
Part of this is the Pathways Back to Work.
This subtitle may be cited as the Pathways Back to Work Act of 2011.
Essentially, the government will pay people to work at your company as like a paid volunteer.
Yeah, no, I heard about this.
This has been discussed.
That's one of the things I do know about.
And it seems as though you can, you hire some, you actually get an intern.
No, no, no, no, up to 38 hours a week.
Well, more than an intern.
That's more than an intern.
Plus.
Yeah, and they will get paid minimum wage, minimum wage, in states that adopt this program, which, let's face it, everyone will adopt it.
That's why I think it's great.
California, for sure.
Yeah.
So I can hire, like, five people.
I don't have to pay him anything, and the state of California will pay the minimum wage to learn.
From you, from the...
From the podfather.
On high, from the podfather.
Yeah.
Yeah, the only problem, you know, there is a downside to having to fight people.
Why?
You have to manage them.
Yeah, I'm just saying.
It's all just dreams, John.
It's not actually something I want to do.
But here it is.
The wages payable to individuals described in paragraph one should be paid from the emergency unemployment compensation account for such individuals as described.
I did all this work.
You go back and forth, section 402, blah, blah, blah.
But it will be a minimum wage.
And there's two levels.
You have the level for 25 hours a week.
That will be part-time.
And 38 hours a week.
And that will be for a max of eight weeks per person.
I think that's a pretty good deal.
Bridge to work.
You can only hire them for eight weeks?
Each person.
So you can get another douche, you know, a slave.
Another slave after three weeks.
I get it.
Now the real slave...
Slave wanted.
No, you're not allowed to advertise that.
What?
Yeah, you're not allowed to advertise, are you unemployed, have we got a gig for you?
How do you get these people?
Does somebody just knock on the door by coincidence?
No, you're allowed to advertise, but if someone shows up and they can actually sue you if you discriminate, that's another part of the bill, if you discriminate because someone has been unemployed.
So here's how it goes.
It's very simple.
Because I've been through these tests.
Right now you can't discriminate against handicapped people, as an example.
And if I have an interview with someone and I say, so that wheelchair, does that suck?
Going up and down the elevator or stairs?
If I don't hire that person, they have a very, very good case against me to sue me for discrimination because I ask the question.
I cannot ask in a job interview, how old are you?
If I ask someone how old they are, and you say, well, I'm 58, and I say, oh, that's great, yeah, cool, and I don't hire you, you can say, hey, he asked me how old I was, and the room went cold, and the guy's clearly discriminating against me because I'm old.
I took these things too.
Especially in California, they're onerous.
You basically can't do anything.
You just have to figure it out, everything out for yourself.
You cannot advertise and say, are you out of work?
Come work for me.
You'll learn video production.
I can't say that.
But that's just a caveat because, of course, anyone who responds is going to be out of work no matter what in California.
But then we have the summer employment and year-round employment opportunities for low-income youth.
And these are the real slaves because, of course, youths get minimum wage.
And the government will also pay for them to come and work for free at your company, which is just awesome.
Then we have, let me just see, a couple other things here.
Yeah, here it is.
As an employment agency, it shall be unlawful employment practice for an employment agency to publish in print or on the internet or in any other medium, an advertisement or announcement for any vacancy in a job as an employee that includes provisions stating or indicating that an individual's status as unemployed disqualifies, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So essentially you can't say, you know, are you unemployed?
So that's the stuff that no one is talking about at all.
So essentially, rolled into this is the high-speed rail project, the infrastructure bank, and slaves for free.
Which I think is great.
We should pass this bill.
I don't even care.
I don't want to read the next part about how it's going to get paid for.
I think we should just go ahead and pass it.
It'll be awesome.
Free labor.
Free slave labor.
High-speed trains.
Drones in the air.
And all kinds of...
Oh, and free homes!
You and I can buy up a whole bunch of free homes.
Yeah, I'm all for that one.
So that's it.
You don't have to read it.
You're done.
If you want to, there is a copy with my highlights in the show notes at 340.nashownotes.com.
And I would please ask you, if you love Barack Obama, go out and tell your congressman to go pass this bill.
It's good stuff.
And in the process, I get the biggest kick out of this because Buffett, again, shows up with his, I think everyone should get more taxes.
Can you give me that high-speed rail deal?
And so now Obama apparently says, I didn't hear this, but he calls the proposal about taxing the rich, which is, you know, overtaxing, or taxing more anyone worth a million dollars or more, which is part of this proposal you're talking about.
Calls it the Buffett rule.
Yeah.
So now it's associated with Buffett.
So every one of his rich buddies is going to be giving him nothing but grief about this because you can see this trend worldwide.
It's starting in Italy and there's a thing called...
In Europe, which is going to sneak over here, called the wealth tax.
Yes, that's what this is.
It's basically the same as an inventory tax that ruined a lot of book publishers because they used to keep a lot of stuff in inventory, but they got taxed.
It was sitting in a warehouse, and every once in a while, they get taxed for what's sitting there doing nothing.
Do you know what's happened in Gitmo Nation Lowlands at the moment?
If you have a second home, if you live in the...
The Gitmo nation state of the lowlands, the Netherlands, and you have more than one house.
So let's say you have a pied-à-terre in Amsterdam.
Because the traffic is so horrible, you have a little flat or whatever.
The government has now decided you cannot live there.
You must leave, and they will rent it out to someone at a rate that they determine.
What's the point of that?
Yeah.
Well, so the people, you know, when you slave quarters...
So if you have more than one home, your second home, I'm not quite sure.
What about these guys that have, like, that'll never happen here because we have congressmen that have got seven places.
That's what you think?
Well, yeah, because they have it themselves, yeah.
Well, it's about ownership.
Ownership is being taxed.
That's the main problem.
Yeah, this is similar to an inventory tax, but there's going to be, it's going to sneak in, it's going to be called, what is called in Europe, the wealth tax.
Mm-hmm.
And only the most, you know, the richest people in the world, they can spend, they can give us some of their money.
And it'll be, you know, target, you know, people worth 10 and 20 and 30 million dollars.
It's not going to target anybody in our league.
But it's going to target these guys.
And it's going to say, what do you want?
You know, they're bringing the tax guys.
They're going to come in and there's going to be a big, you know, a lot of lawyers are going to make money on this deal.
And they're going to just get a bill for like $2 million.
In Gitmo Nation East in the UK, they just hired an additional 3,000 tax inspectors.
And guess what their mission is?
Not to inspect banks.
It's to inspect slaves.
To come and see if you're on the up and up.
If you are paying your taxes.
Anyway.
Hey John, happy National Farm Safety and Health Week to you.
Happy Farm Safety and Health Week to you, too.
Yes, and let's thank a couple of our producers who have supported our work, which consisted a lot of the past few days in between shows of reading 199 pages of great policy and listening to the air crash news and pestering Randy Corvin.
This is a new name.
One executive producer and two associates.
Kind of a slow week.
I have thoughts on that.
Philip Fotenhauer.
I think it may be Fotenhauer.
Fotenhauer.
Fotenhauer.
Couldn't tag it by Fotenhauer.
He's from Tampa.
Tampa, Florida.
That's one of the greatest places in the world if you like strip clubs.
Yeah.
From the beautiful state of Bayern, an assignment to Oktoberfest.
Oh, he's actually in Deutschland.
Ah, jawohl!
That makes more sense.
Hold on, Jimmy was right about the TSA on the way over here.
I'm all done!
I was selected for the Ray machine, and of course I opted out.
When directed to proceed to the pat-down area, I instinctively began walking towards the magnetometer, and boy did the agents go ape shit.
Ha ha!
God help us that the terrorists never realize the trick to sneaking metal objects into the plane.
Please send me some karma as I have to...
Yeah, it's just baffling to me why they do that.
Let me send them some karma first and then we can discuss.
You've got karma.
He sent me some carmite out to deal with the appliance repairman upon my return and I figured you could use the donation a hell of a lot more than he can.
Oh, thank you.
And you did the 340 for the 340 client.
So I was leaving when I left to Brazil.
So I go over there and they're pushing people through the x-ray machine.
And every tenth person or so they run through the magnetometer and not the x-ray machine.
So I throw my bags on there, and there's one guy that's directing traffic.
You go here, you go there.
He had his back turned, so I went over to the magnetometer and walked right through.
He had his back turned.
He was too busy counting his gift cards.
I don't know what he was doing.
Whatever the case was, he didn't motion me into the machine, which happened the last time when I went through Seattle.
So I just went right through the magnetometer, and it was fine.
The guy was, yeah, come on through, you know, with the hand gesture.
And I didn't beep or anything.
And...
It was that.
Anyway, on the way back, you go through Brazil, they got none of these X-ray machines, and they didn't have any in New York, and so it was like a walk in the park, and why shouldn't it be?
David C. Pugh, North Canton, Ohio, $200, looking forward to the No Agenda Guantanamo Bay meet-up.
It'll be the forced meet-up, unfortunately.
The forced meet-up at Gitmo.
And we'll be drinking water that night.
Sir Norman McDonough.
Forced.
Sir Norman McDonough is also in at $200, another associate executive producer in Kitchener, Ontario.
This starts my second knighthood.
My thanks to Eric DeShill, and he knows why.
He's not talking.
Please send some karma his way.
Okay, karma for DeShill.
You've got karma.
That's interesting.
And that's it for our slightly slow week for the nations.
So you said you had thoughts on that, why it was slow?
Yeah.
I've decided I'm just not going to care anymore.
I'm just really happy that in these times of distress that we're getting anything, really.
So I'm just going to be happy from now on.
I'm happy.
The show may go off the air, but I'll be happy.
We have some people who have done some fun stuff for us.
They've done some PR, and a lot of that consists of thinking up crazy domain names that we'll forward to our show, which actually works quite well.
I've started using a couple of them, depending on the conversation.
We don't have noagenda.com, which is owned by some band or something that we can't get a hold of.
We have noagendashow.com.
That's a way for the band to fold.
No, I think the band, this website hasn't been updated since 1994.
Oh, so they probably have folded.
Yeah.
But when you say, yeah, the show's no agenda, people are like, so how'd I get noagenda.com, noagendashow.com?
And they can never remember it.
Well, I always tell people, I don't even do that.
I always tell people just to Google no agenda because then I say we own the first four pages of the search results and if I can get them to do that, it's very impressive if you've never heard of the show and you type in no agenda into Google and you get bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, four pages and another eight pages of mixed results.
I mean, it's impressive.
It is, but I also just like saying rickperrysucks.com, adiosmofos.com, shutupslaves.com, depending on the company that I'm in.
And now we can also say jcdleideroftheresistance.com, which is forwarding to the show site.
Remember the computer?
Spit that back is who you are.
You're the leader of the resistance.
Yeah.
You could also try totalbullshit.org, which I think is also a nice one.
I just have to remember the.org part.
Hold on.
I think I may have missed one here.
astarinthenorth.com.
That's what the other one was.
massdebatedaily.com.
Here's the next one I kind of like, GovSnub.com.
It's kind of cool.
It's a short one.
It's hard to get short domain names.
In honor of Solyndra, we have ShovelReadyGreenJobs.com and AttackWatch1984.com, which I also thought was actually quite nice.
It's a good one.
We are the AttackWatch1984.com.
We need some...
I want to suggest to our creative listeners that we need some...
Because I was in the lounge at JFK waiting for my flight.
And there was a bunch of people there yakking about...
Doing good work, and it's important Obama get re-elected.
There was just a bunch of Obama bots.
You were in the bot lounge, apparently.
I was in the bot lounge.
What airline was this?
Delta.
They're off the list.
Older women was going on about how, you know, but the classic, you know, hand-wringing, fretting, guilt-ridden Jewish type said something like, well, you know, people need to be more active.
We need activists.
People have to get in there because you have to do something.
You just can't sit around.
You can't sit around in a lounge bitching about it.
Exactly.
So I'd like to get something that has some sort of a sound to it, like it's some sort of an environmental green or even a global warming kind of a sound that you could give to somebody.
Like, oh yeah, go to greenenergy.org or something that has that ring to it, so then they get sucked into the agenda thing.
Because I still think a lot of people who are thinking, whose thought process is skewed, Could be converted.
Although, in fact, I still recommend that people only convert or turn people on who are already converted because it's like, you know, making people change religion.
It's not necessarily that easy.
So we then would need to start the show because if we have like gogreenforobama.com, just as an idea, right?
Go Green for Obama.
Then when we have to start the show off like this, it'd be like...
Hi, everybody.
We're here.
We're here to save the world one tree at a time.
It's all green solar.
Great wind power is going to do it for us.
Hey, John C. Dvorak.
How are you doing up there in environmentally friendly Berkeley?
I'm breathing clean air, and I'm thinking green, Adam.
I'm pooping green down here, John.
It's a beautiful...
Yeah.
Then we'd suck them in, and then we'd go straight into our rap.
Yeah, deconstructing some stories.
Yeah, we'd go straight into the rap.
Well, thank you all very much for working on our PR efforts.
Thank you to our executive producer for today's program, Philip Fottenhauer, our associate executive producer, Sir David Pugh, and...
I'm sorry, David...
I think he's not a Sir...
No, no, not yet.
No, David Pugh, and we do have Sir Norm McDonough.
McDonough?
McDonough.
We appreciate your support of the program.
It's really great.
I do have another idea to motivate people and to consider donating to the show, which I'll do at the very end of the program.
It's a new experiment that I'm working on, so you can look forward to that.
These, by the way, these executive producer credits and associate executive producer credits are real credits.
Just like our knighthoods, it's a real knighthood.
You get a knighthood ring when you've supported the show at or in excess of $1,000.
It's a beautiful white gold ring that when you hit someone in the face or in the mouth, for that matter, it'll say in the morning and hit them in the mouth in Latin.
It's a signet ring, so it's in mirror script.
And these credits, you can put them anywhere.
Unlike the way they do it in Hollywood, the phonies here, if someone actually says, hey, what kind of credit is that?
Well, you can just say it's a real executive producer credit.
I worked on the show.
I'm a producer.
And I supported that episode just like CSI or any other sitcom, like Two and a Half Men or whatever you have.
And we will vouch for you.
We'll gladly take the call and gladly help out.
Of course, you can always do one thing which costs no money, and that is propagate the formula.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Say it if you're proud of it.
Shut up, slave.
And I want to remind people that Dvorak.org slash NAA and ChannelDvorak.com slash NAA, NoAgendaNation.com and NoAgendaShow.com are vehicles to which you can access the donation page.
Dvorak.org slash NAA. I got my own bill here.
Did you buy one?
No, that's my sample.
Oh, the sample.
That's not good.
You can't do this.
Squirrel!
No, I can't.
But why would I want to?
You can't do this.
See, you can't do that.
True.
Yeah.
All right.
Back to the show.
Yeah, I got plenty today, so I'll just kick back since I've taken up about 45 minutes of our time deconstructing the best jobs bill in the universe!
Yeah, well, I got a couple of things that are kind of interesting, a little different.
This one is interesting.
I think this is one of the networks trying to slam Viacom, to be honest about it.
I'll explain why when I play the tease.
But play Jump Cuts Make You Fat.
You have two, so...
No, but one that doesn't have the two on it.
Obviously.
This has long-term effects, and school performance, attention problems, even lead to obesity.
So, you know, there's a very good chance that these results would be extrapolated into the future.
So the bottom line from the study is that it's not just quantity of television, but quality.
I mean, Robin, how would you define fast-paced television?
Well, in the study it talks about how often a scene is changed completely.
So they're in the kitchen, they're in the bedroom, they're in the swimming pool.
How often does that happen?
Hey, you know, this is really interesting.
Was this on NPR as well?
Because I heard this, and it actually was about SpongeBob SquarePants.
Play the jump cuts part two, and this is the kicker.
And up next, the negative impact that fast-paced cartoons, for example, SpongeBob, might have on your children's development.
We'll talk about that right after this.
You know, so I heard this on our National Treasure.
This was on a morning show.
Right.
No, no, no.
What that means is there's a PR company out there peddling some kind of study that was done.
Yeah, but why are they blasting SpongeBob in both instances?
I don't consider SpongeBob the fast...
I mean, you watch Hawaii Five-0 or anything on normal television nowadays.
It's extreme.
Extremely fast-paced.
Well, what I understood about the SpongeBob SquarePants thing is that things happen that can't really happen in the real world because it's, what is that called?
Oh yeah, it's a cartoon!
And things take place, it's kind of like Wile E. Coyote, you know, like you strap some rockets onto your feet and you can fly over the canyon.
Yeah, or you run off a cliff and you stand there in mid-air until you notice.
Actually, that's exactly the life we're living with these donations.
Yeah.
We're actually doing that.
We're standing in the midair.
We have to look down and then we fall.
Now, from time to time, and we've mentioned this throughout the years, I'm going to Google it right now.
I tell people to go.
There's a fun thing you can do, which is the Zen TV experiment.
And the Zen TV experiment, it's like a couple steps, and it tells you...
This is a lot of the background of how we know what's really going on with the show.
And it helps you understand what a dishonest medium television is.
And these people are...
I mean, it's some bull crap study.
They don't know themselves because they are in the box.
But some of the experiments are like this.
Watch any TV show for 15 minutes without turning on the sound.
Then watch any news program for 15 minutes without turning on the sound.
Then watch television for one half hour without turning it on.
Just watch the black screen.
And you go through these things and you start to learn how deceptive a Zoom is or indeed how you are bridging in your mind the fact that they were in the living room one minute and then they're in the car the next minute.
And, of course, they're not really in the car.
They're in a studio in a green screen.
And I'll put this in the show notes.
It's called The Zen TV Experiment.
Do this.
It will change your view on television forever.
And it shows you how you get coerced into a fake reality, how you get hypnotized.
There's a really good section about, quote, news.
You will really, really love this.
And so don't listen to that bullcrap report.
Jump cuts make you fat.
I love the fat part.
Makes you fat.
But I'm putting that in the show notes right now.
You will not regret it.
We've noticed doing this show is that, because we take clips that we just play as audio off of video, and almost every time while we're either editing or playing it sometimes on the show, as witnessed last week, we hear things that you don't hear when you're watching the show, and you pointed this out with the acting.
Correct.
Yep.
And how bad it really is.
The acting is really bad, but you don't realize how bad until you just pull away the visuals.
Yeah.
This is a fun thing.
I've been pointing to this.
Thank you, love.
I've been pointing to this experiment page for, I think, four, maybe five years.
And every once in a while it comes up.
And I forget because, you know, John, you and I were, I mean, you were literally born when the medium television started.
And that's not meant as a slam, but that's just a fact.
Like an internet baby today.
Yeah.
Exactly.
And I should mention that not only was I born during the TV era, so I've always known TV, I've always had TV in the house.
We weren't like late bloomers in terms of pulling TVs into the house.
And I had a TV in my room When we went through the first TV set, that went into my room and we got a new set, so I've always had a TV available to me.
We can even go through the evolution and the revolutions of television, which consisted of a couple things.
The remote control was, of course, the biggest one.
Growing up in Gitmo Nation Lowlands, we had two channels.
When I was a kid.
It started at 7 p.m.
with news.
The same guy, the same newscast on both channels at the same time.
And it ended at like 10 past 11.
And it was goodnight slaves and they put a test pattern on.
And it was over.
And that was it.
Remember Color TV? You had to warm it up?
You had to warm the setup?
You had to do it with black and white TVs too.
Okay, well I don't remember that of course.
But the Color TV, you had to press one button, you had to wait like a minute, and then you could press the other button.
Otherwise, you know, you blow up the television.
Oh, we didn't have any of that kind of corniness.
I mean, that sounds like you have like a spark on the car you had to start.
Crank it in the front.
I think all Citroen still have a crank.
Did you know that?
Yeah, there's a crank hole for that.
I think you'd kill yourself if you tried to do it.
So I think the remote control concept is interesting because I think remote controls led to the 500 channels.
Of course.
Because if we had that many channels today and no remote control and you had to change them by hand, people would just lock onto one channel because it's too much effort.
Well, it wasn't even that.
It wasn't even the switching.
And of course, I was like the slave in the house.
And my dad, you know, if he was there.
Get up!
Yeah, hey, go change the channel.
But at worst, turn the volume up.
Can you imagine not having a volume control?
Yeah.
Anyway, to do this experiment, you will not regret it.
Speaking of TV, of course, in Gimonesian Pasta there in Italia, our bunga bunga boy, Silvio Berlusconi, who owns all of the TV stations and the newspapers, and is there anything he doesn't own there?
I don't know.
I think he owned just about everything.
So his bunga bunga parties are now...
He's totally a Mussolini.
...have become famous.
And so the question is, okay, so we know you did, as he says, in recorded tapes, because they wiretapped...
And they wiretapped him, talking about his bunga bunga parties, and that there were like 11 women waiting outside his door, but he couldn't do, quote, do more than eight.
But the question is whether he paid for them, and whether he paid for a prostitute which was underage.
But the whole reporting is just bizarre.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi allegedly used state aircraft to fly in escort girls to his private parties.
That's according to transcripts of wiretaps published by Italian media.
In one call, Berlusconi bragged to businessman friend Gianpaolo Tarantini that 11 girls waited for sex outside his bedroom and that he could only sleep with eight.
Perrantini is in custody in Naples, accused of supplying poor girls and trying to extort money from the Premier.
The leader of the centrist UDC party said Berlusconi lost any will to govern some time ago.
He should let Italy be ruled by someone who believes in her, he said.
Even Berlusconi's longtime ally, Northern League leader Umberto Bossi, says it's unlikely that the Prime Minister will see out his full term until 2013.
The billionaire media tycoon has always denied paying for sex and has previously described his parties as friendly gatherings.
Friendly gatherings.
You know, no wonder the guy's too tired.
Eight.
How old is that guy?
He's in the 70s.
There's no way he's doing eight.
If you can bang eight escorts in a night, you should be the king of the world.
I'm voting for him.
It's bullcrap.
Of course.
He's laughing.
You see, this is what people have to understand.
He's got eight.
He's just...
Yeah, can you believe that?
I rock.
Let me just tell you, as a guy, if it's in the news that you have a strong libido or libido...
Right, and 11 girls are lining up and you can do 8 of them and you're 70.
That is an ego booster.
That's great.
The guy loves this.
He didn't give a crap about it.
He's like...
So in all the reports about this, did anybody say about the 8 that this is bullcrap?
He's calling up, hey, Putin!
Ha!
Ha!
With your gay shirt off, I banged 8 chicks!
Ha ha!
Get on your horse!
And that's just on Monday.
Woo!
Good one.
So Europe, of course, is completely falling apart.
And I have a clip from our buddy, John.
He's back.
Oh, great.
Nigel Farage.
We love him.
He carries the show.
In times of economic distress, Nigel Farage will carry the show.
And he, of course, is great today because he is completely agreeing with my thesis.
That what is going to happen in Europe is not that Greece will be kicked out or anything like that, but that it will all be controlled by Brussels.
And the elites in Brussels, led by Haiku Herman, and then of course there will be the IMF, led by Christine Lagarde, who kicked out Dominique Strauss-Kahn in order to do this.
We'll say to all of the individual states, all right, go tell your human resources the following.
Either A, you can suffer the hunger winter like we had after the Second World War.
That's option one.
Or option two, give us all the power and we'll take care of you.
That's option number two.
This is your basic theory.
We put it in the Red Book last show.
Right.
Nigel Farage puts a name on this, and he calls it European Economic Governance.
Now what you've got is economic governance, and everybody here in this front row supports more European economic governance.
What is European economic governance?
I'll tell you what it is.
It's a plane landing at Athens Airport, out of which get an official from the Commission, an official from the European Central Bank, and an official for the appalling IMF. And those three people, the triker you call them, go in, they meet the Greek government, and they tell the Greek government what they may or may not do.
You have killed democracy in Greece.
You have three part-time overseas dictators that now tell the Greek people what they can and can't do.
It is totally unacceptable.
Is it any wonder that Greek people are now burning EU flags and drawing swastikas across them?
Frankly, unless Greece is allowed to get out of this economic and political prison, you may well spark a revolution in that country.
I suppose there is some good news at least, and that is that in Germany, people are waking up right up to the President.
People are saying, all of this represents the death of democracy.
None of this can work, and the German people simply will refuse in the end to pay the bill.
Your one achievement is you have split Europe between North and South.
The Greeks now badmouth the Germans.
The Germans badmouth the Greeks.
I have one last plea, Mr Barroso.
Will you please help Greece?
Help her to get her currency back.
Help her to reschedule her debts.
Help her out of the mess that you have put her into.
Your policies have failed.
Stand up.
Be a man.
Admit it.
Yeah, take that.
So, a couple of things about what Nigel Farage just said there.
One, he telegraphed to us by saying, you may well spark a revolution.
Well, I think that is definitely going to happen.
But for all the people in the United States of Europe who listen to the program, which makes up at least a good 40% of the show, I have heard this.
I've had contact with many Dutch people in the past who have been over in Los Angeles.
We've been over here visiting.
And there is an absolute created hatred against the Greek.
And this is how it goes.
Why did you shut up?
They got to retire when they were 52.
Oh, come on, get on board with the program.
I'm sick and tired of paying for those assholes who are lazy down there.
And this is a very, very bad thing.
This is an engineered crisis.
Engineered to make the peoples of the United States of Europe hate each other.
War is good business.
Particularly when it's in your own backyard.
Elites love that.
Don't fall for the trap.
Anyway, it's nice to put a name to it.
European Economic Governance.
And I think Nigel Farage is right on with his assessment.
Yeah, I think it definitely is a propagandistic thing that we're dealing with.
So, let me play one more clip that's kind of...
Kind of interesting.
This kind of came out of the blue.
I wanted to run it on Thursday.
I'm going to run it now.
It's Got the Wrong Man, because I have a question about this.
When I was listening to it, the normal story itself was interesting, but it brings up a point that I don't think anyone's ever brought up.
And a scare for new parents in the East Bay, a woman, was nursing her baby when armed federal agents started pounding on the door.
Yeah, it happened early this morning in a quiet neighborhood in Alameda.
And as Ann Makovic explains, turns out the FBI agents got the wrong house, but that didn't have to look too far to get the right one.
The pounding on the door starts and it is epic.
I can't really make out the words that are being shouted.
Our first thought was the neighborhood's on fire.
It wasn't a fire.
That frantic knock he heard just after 7 this morning was from the FBI. I open the slats on the window next to the door, and I see what turns out to be eight uniformed, armored, armed officers, four of whom are pointing guns through the window at my face.
How are you feeling?
As the officers were about to cuff him, Clemens warned them that they had the wrong guy, and then he mentioned that his wife was Priya David, a correspondent for CBS News.
What does this have to do with the breastfeeding at the beginning of the clip?
Well, I think they tried to personalize it so it's like, oh, you know, this woman's calmly feeding her kids and then the cops are busting into the place.
Of course, they don't take it any further.
But the question that came to mind when I was listening to this was, does anyone, you know, this happens all the time.
Yeah.
They stossled like bitches and moans about this constantly, especially when these fake drug busts take place.
They bust into some wrong person's house.
And the question is, has anyone documented this and then bring up in court, the way they're doing this with DNA now, bring up in court that if these guys can't get the simple fact of where somebody lives correct, how can we trust any of the information that's in the indictment?
I mean, the easiest thing, it seems to me, would be to get the guy's address correct.
For law enforcement to know where the guy lives before they bust into the place.
And if they can't get that correct, how do we know that any of their procedures are any good?
I mean, any of them.
Yeah, you make a good point.
And that is, it's right along the lines with something a lot of people emailed me about, based on our last show.
This entrapment that law enforcement is executing.
Whereas, I think your point was, you know, if someone is like...
Doing some stuff that...
So, for instance, an example.
You walk out of a bar.
The cops are watching.
You're drunk.
You're driving over.
You're walking over to your car.
Or maybe just walking in the parking lot.
There's a couple things.
The way I also believe the community cop used to be is like, hey...
Hey, buddy.
Hey, Adam.
Hey, man.
How you doing?
Having a good night?
You had a fun party?
Hey, you better not drive because that would be dangerous and I'd probably have to take you in.
And that's how I think a respectful community officer of the law should respond.
But instead, they sit there and wait until you're in the car and then they bust you!
Or if you're doing something that could be perceived as maybe bad, you know, stop them.
They actually try to trick you to create a...
They'll trick you to do a crime that you maybe may not have done if it wasn't for the fact you've been entrapped.
And this goes on constantly.
I mean, instead of policing...
This is just essentially an operation that's just designed to arrest people.
This isn't policing.
Policing is like going around, like you said, and tapping is, hey, don't do that because I will arrest you.
Instead, they arrest you.
Yeah, they wait and they actually sit there and wait.
It's like this is a numbers game.
They're just trying to rack up numbers, which is like they always deny, but it's always like at the end of the month you see it happen when they're just pulling everybody over left and right.
It's really a bad scene.
I mean, when I was in Brazil, for example, which is 30 million people in Sao Paulo, I don't think I saw one cop.
I mean, I saw some cops in cop cars and motorcycles once or twice, usually with their red lights on running to some accident on one of the 30-lane freeways.
But just roaming around town...
I didn't see anybody.
I mean, there's nobody.
People don't realize if you go into some other country, the amount of policing.
When I'm in Albany, or Berkeley, I can go from one end of the town to the other, and I'll see five police on the trip to the store.
And I'll see five more coming back, or two.
I very rarely get out of the house and go more than a few miles without seeing at least one police, if not two or three.
Let me ask you a question.
When you were in Sao Paulo, what did you not see?
What did I not see?
Are you calling me a Nazi?
I realize it came out that way, but no.
When you were outside, walking around, did you notice there was something missing?
No, I didn't.
What are you getting at?
What are you driving at?
This is the city that has banned all outdoor advertising.
Oh, well, that's somewhat bullcrap.
Oh, really?
Yeah, because that's funny.
I mentioned that to one of the dinners because I noticed a lot of the billboards were blank.
I thought it was peculiar.
When you leave the airport, there's blank billboards.
They couldn't sell the billboards.
I saw this because I watched the greatest movie ever sold, which is the Super Size Me guy.
He did a movie about product placement, and the whole thing is financed by the products that he's trying to get into the movie.
So it's like a fractal documentary.
And he shows Sao Paulo, Brazil.
And I was amazed.
So yeah, the billboards, some of them are still there, but they're all blank.
There's no advertising on taxis, on buses.
And this was banned maybe two years ago, I think.
Let me see.
No, four years ago, looks like.
Four or five years ago.
So it's still not there, huh?
There's no advertising, and it didn't feel better?
No, that's not true.
That's the joke of it.
Oh, okay.
Like Samsung has got billboards all over the place when you leave the airport, and then there's a bunch of blank ones, and then there'd be one car company.
You'll have a bunch of them.
There seems to be something more to this story now that you mention it, because I did think it was peculiar, and I asked some guys about the missing billboards, and they did fail to mention this to me.
So, there was some?
Yeah, there was some.
And they were always for the same brand.
Samsung would be the main one.
Well, Samsung was also the...
I saw on all the shirts of the Libyan Rebels.
Samsung, those guys, they got a great advertising strategy.
It's like, let's go to the place where there's no advertising.
There's two we can think of.
One is Sao Paulo, Brazil.
We'll buy that.
And then, let's see.
We have all the football teams.
Let's get some Rebels.
We'll sponsor those guys.
Go ahead and look at some of the pictures of the Libyan Rebels.
Yeah, you're right.
Samsung has their logo all over the place.
Samsung, yeah.
Hmm.
Okay, that was a...
What's his name again?
Morgan Spurlock is his name.
Oh, okay.
So that's disappointing because Mickey and I were looking at that and like, wow, that must be really nice because when you drive through the City of Angels...
No, here's what's bad about it.
Here's the problem.
There's all these billboards.
That's bull crap.
They didn't take the billboards down.
They're still there.
Now they're incredible eyesores.
Right.
Because the billboard that was on it was all torn off.
So just this big, ugly, empty billboard.
It looks like crap.
But not only that, it's not true because there's clearly still advertising.
Yeah, there's still advertising on some of them.
Hmm.
Well, that's disappointing.
Oh, I got a funny one.
You'll like this.
By the way, can I mention something else if you know about it?
Oh, that must be nice.
Sao Paulo has lots of pretty parts of this city, but most of it is very ugly and with lots of graffiti everywhere.
The billboards would spruce it up, let's put it that way.
It's not like Krakow, Poland that's gorgeous because it's got no billboards.
It's funny you say graffiti.
Is that correct pronunciation?
Yes.
Is it graffiti or graffiti?
Yeah, you can say it either way, I think.
I don't know.
I could be wrong.
But transsexuals, did you see those?
No, I've never seen one.
Of course, then again, I could be fooled.
They might be that good.
They are that good.
I've got to go to Sao Paulo, Mick, to look at some billboards.
So, we have been tracking for a while the very interesting stumbles.
The only thing that hasn't happened is the President hasn't done it himself yet, but I'm sure it will happen.
This mix-up between Osama and Obama.
And this is a big thing.
And of course, the names, and by the way, if your name is Barry, and you're going to become president, somewhere you would have thought some consultant would have said, you know, maybe just keep it, what was his last name?
Barry Sotero.
Yeah, Barry Sotero.
Maybe just keep it Sotero, because Obama sounds a lot like Osama.
It's not like this guy hasn't been known.
It could become weird.
And besides the fact that his face, if you overlay the President's face over Osama Bin Laden, there's a lot of similarities.
Small ears, flat nose, the teeth.
It's kind of scary when you look at it.
But anyway, Dick Cheney The zombie, because of course he's dead.
He's kept in life by a laptop battery, which pumps his heart, literally.
He's got a vest he has to wear.
I'm sick of seeing this guy.
He's on everything.
What has he ever accomplished before he became a government bureaucrat and a chief of staff for another president?
And then he somehow worms his way into it.
He is one of these guys who's like the bureaucrat to run amok.
I mean, what has he ever done as a person before he became a guy?
He's like the worst case scenario for a government worker.
No, he's done a lot.
He assisted the 9-11 attacks.
He told the planes to stand down, not to shoot airliners out of the sky.
He's done a lot of incredibly important things for someone, not for us, but for someone.
You know, he shot people in the face.
He got himself rich on Halliburton contract deals.
What are you talking about?
Very important guy.
And he's on the Dennis Miller radio show.
And he makes...
By the way, Dennis Miller just lost like 8,000 points in my book.
God, did he suck up to Cheney.
Yeah, he's like a kiss-ass.
I mean, I'd kiss up to all my guests, too.
But I wouldn't have Cheney as a guest.
I'm like, F off.
Beast?
Vampire?
Zombie?
And Cheney makes the Obama-Osama mistake, but in a very frightening way.
He made a public statement endorsing what he'd done and congratulating them on their success.
I also thought it was important and did emphasize the role our career, intelligence, and military people had played in.
Because a lot of folks had been working that problem for 10 years when they finally solved it and figured out where Obama was, and then were able to mount the operation with SEAL Team 6 to take him out.
The work the problem thing's big with you, right?
Where bin Laden was.
So he says they figured out where Obama was and took him out, but instead of going back and saying Osama, he says Bin Laden.
Very curious to me.
Yeah, that is weird.
Let's listen to it one more time just to make sure.
Yeah, that's pretty interesting.
We figured out where Obama was, and then we're able to mount the operation of the SEAL Team 6 to take him out.
The work of the problem thing's big with you, right?
Where Ben Laden was.
So maybe they were looking at where Obama was.
Oh, he's on the golf course.
Good.
All right, we've got him on the golf course.
Now let's do something funny.
Make it look like we're going to do helicopter stuff.
I don't know, but that was a weird mistake, or a weird way to correct it.
Instead of Osama, which is what every normal person would say.
I mean, I can't believe I said Obama.
I mean Osama.
He says, I mean Bin Laden.
Yeah.
Yeah, that is interesting.
Not sure...
Not sure what it really means.
Not sure how interesting it really is.
It's kind of interesting.
I'm not sure what it means.
So here's something that really bothered me.
And it's seemingly quite small.
And before we get to thanking our supporters for this week, I'd like to discuss it with you.
So we had this huge, huge...
Everyone was all over it.
Dr.
Oz...
Who I'd never heard of before until I guess in a lot of stations he's taken over Oprah's slot.
Well, he is an Oprah guy, right?
He's an Oprah guy.
He's had a show for a while.
Yes.
And I've watched it a couple of times and there's a lot of the stuff he does.
I think we've had some of our producers write and say, this guy's full of crap.
This isn't true.
The guy is like a...
Celebrity doctor.
Yeah, so let me take you through some of the research I've done.
So I've never really heard of this guy.
I think someone sent me a clip, and he had really big on his screen there in the studio audience, what is your poop like or something like that.
A good poop joke is always funny for me.
So I'm like, okay, the guy's talking about checking your poop.
All right, that's cool.
And, um, so the, the controversy here is he has come out and, and by the way, this is of course a season opener.
So this may have something to do with it.
We're going to talk about this.
Uh, he's come out and he says there's arsenic in the apple juice, arsenic in the children, arsenic in the apple juice.
And he's done a study and all this stuff is happening.
So there's a couple things that happen.
So I'll just give you a quick thing.
This is ABC, the Compromise News Network.
This shows me that it's not coming from the government.
Because when ABC goes...
I mean, ABC is, of course, the president of ABC News.
His sister is now a trusted advisor to our president.
And ABC News has George Papadopoulos.
It's completely compromised.
So when ABC is against someone, then I know it's pretty much not from the government.
So here's Dr.
Oz, and he's on with the Richard, Dr.
Richard Besser.
Who is ABC's resident doctor.
And let's just give you a little idea of the pros and the cons, and then I'll get into some of the research I've done and where I think this might be coming from.
I have to tell you, Mehmet, I'm very upset about this.
I think that this was extremely irresponsible.
Putting out this kind of a health warning, manufacturing a health crisis based on faulty, incomplete data.
This fear-mongering, it reminds me of yelling fire in a movie theater.
I'm very annoyed about this.
And Dr.
Oz, do you stand by your results?
And how do you respond to what Rich just said?
I'm not fear-mongering.
We did our homework on this, Rich, and you know, we spent a lot of time making sure we got our numbers right.
Let me just go through this real quickly.
We had some concerns about arsenic and apple juice, not because we thought about it, but other groups, independent of ours, over the last three years have been publishing reports about this.
I have to call into question some of the assumptions that you're making.
First off, You claim that most of the arsenic in apple juice is of the organic type.
That is not true.
The only peer-reviewed study that I looked at that evaluated high levels of arsenic, which was published in the University of Arizona in 2009, showed that most of the arsenic was actually of the inorganic.
I have to interrupt you there.
I'm sorry.
How can you go on the air and publish arsenic results without breaking it down into total...
Into inorganic and organic, into the dangerous kind.
So this goes on and on and on and on, and I'm like, whatever.
Okay, so I understand the basics of it.
He's saying there's arsenic in the apple juice, and the FDA is saying, hold on a second, all of the juice brands are making statements, etc.
Now, the first clue that something was weird is at the end of this six-minute segment, six minutes, Listen to this.
The CA should not allow more arsenic in our apple juice than we allow in our drinking water.
If you're going to pay money to buy something for your kids, they ought to at least have a low arsenic level.
Yeah, because you brought up water.
Mehmet, you're right.
We have started a conversation here, and we appreciate your willingness to come on and talk to us live about it.
And I'm sure it's a conversation that we're going to consider.
And you guys went to school together?
We were classmates, that's right.
Oh, they were classmates!
Because I had heard them the whole time, Rich, you know, instead of Dr.
Richard or whatever, Mr.
Besser, Rich, you know, Oz, back and forth, like, huh.
So first I look at this Besser.
Now, Besser used to work for the CDC. In fact, he was the guy, during the huge swine flu scare, he was the guy that would go on television all the time on behalf of the CDC and tell everyone how we're dying.
Remember those reports?
He'd get up there.
And I even see in the New York Times where it says, Dr.
Oz says, wow, this guy is doing so great.
I'm so proud of him, my former classmate.
He has lapped me when it comes to television medicine, to being a doctor on TV. So now I'm suspicious.
Now I'm like, okay, there's a reason for this.
So I start investigating this Dr.
Oz guy.
And he's got the scam of all scams, I gotta tell you.
Let's just do a flu shot.
So here is a quick setup that he did.
This is back in the day when he was clearly working with his classmate at the CDC. Today, we're talking about the swine flu pandemic and the steps you must take to be prepared.
Joining me is Janan.
How are you?
Hi, nice to meet you.
Now you're a mom.
Yes, I am.
Are you worried about swine flu?
I'm very worried about it, actually, because they're saying that...
It's totally scripted.
It's so obvious.
50% of the population can be, you know, infected with this.
And I have three girls, 12, 10, and 5.
You're going to vaccinate them?
Yeah.
Of course.
Now, so I'm like, oh, that's interesting.
So I start looking around on his website.
You've got to listen to the commercial.
It's a commercial.
And this is how the guy operates.
He'll bring up some horrible thing, and then he'll sell you a product.
Third flu fighter I'm going to arm you with is the flu shot.
Shot!
Shot!
So I'm going to get my...
Listen to the audience.
Whoa.
Flu shot.
Whoa.
Never heard of that.
Oh, yeah.
So, René, thank you for being my assistant.
Yes.
We'll move from there.
Flu shot.
Now, here to administer my flu shot is Stacia Woodcock, a Walgreens pharmacist.
A Walgreens pharmacist.
Ah, okay.
So I'm like, oh, okay.
So that's cool.
He slipped it in a Walgreens pharmacist.
I thought that was going to be it.
Thank you very much for visiting me, Stacia.
No problem.
So, Stacia, as you've trapped my arm, if you don't mind, explain the importance of getting a yearly flu shot.
Well, the CDC has changed the recommendations this year.
So now they recommend that absolutely everyone, six months of age and older, receive a flu shot.
So that's everyone should receive a flu shot.
Much easier, by the way, when we don't have all the little, you know, this, if that, then, then.
Exactly.
Very simple.
And they've made it even simpler this year.
The flu shot this year contains both seasonal flu vaccine and H1N1 vaccine in one shot.
So it's literally a one-shot deal this year.
It's very simple.
All right.
Okay.
He's propagating that meme.
Okay.
By the way, we still have to ask the question why the swine flu shot originally was two shots, couldn't be combined with anything, and all of a sudden, it's all combined.
Yeah.
Well, stay with me.
She's ready.
You guys all set?
And there it goes.
And you know what?
It doesn't hurt.
It's such a small needle.
A mosquito bite hurts more than this.
And when you get the flu shot, you're not just doing yourself a favor, you're doing a favor for everybody around you.
And we have partnered with Walgreens and their new campaign.
We've partnered with Walgreens.
I'm sorry.
I didn't realize it was a commercial.
And you get everybody in America armed.
You get one of these really cool band-aids.
So, Stacia, what's this program about?
So, Arm Yourself for Those You Love campaign.
And what Walgreens is doing is really trying to protect America against the flu.
And the way we're doing that, we have more certified immunizers than anyone else in the country.
And that means wherever there's a Walgreens, when the pharmacy is open, you can come in and get your flu shot.
24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
No appointment is necessary.
You can bill most insurance companies directly at the pharmacy.
She's good.
She's the nurse that apparently has a PR background.
She's perfect.
And it's like their entire campaign she's laying out.
It's wonderful.
If the light's on, then you can come in and get your flu shot at Walgreens.
And the reason we're doing that is to protect you.
It's not only protecting yourself when you get a flu shot, you're protecting the people that you care about.
So when you come into Walgreens and you get your flu shot, we have a lovely sticker that says, I got my flu shot for, and Dr.
Oz got his for, a healthy America.
He's trying to protect everyone and show you the importance.
Now here's the deal.
I'm getting it.
Now, here's the deal.
Wait!
But wait, there's more!
Can you see this poster at Walgreens?
He's on the poster, John!
He's on the poster!
Let's go see it, Stacia.
Put it like this.
I'm hoping it reminds you of how important it is to get vaccinated.
Stacia, thank you very much.
Listen, here's the present for you.
Everyone in our audience is going home with a Walgreens flu shot gift card.
Woo!
Woo!
Yeah!
Woo!
In the morning...
So the guy's got a great scam going.
He sets it up and he gets paid by Walgreens.
The whole website, DrOz.com, has pre-rolls on every video for Walgreens.
So I'm like, okay, this guy's a shill.
All right.
It's really disingenuous, by the way.
And I'm looking at him.
Oh, by the way, it turns out he owns 150,000 shares of Sigma Corporation.
Which is, here we go, in their product pipeline, vaccines for smallpox, arena virus, dengue fever, bunya virus.
So he's a shareholder and a director of Cigna Technologies.
So be on the lookout for a show soon about dengue fever.
So he's doing that.
Smallpox, too.
Right.
All those things on that list.
So then I'm like, okay, there's got to be something in it.
There's got to be something.
And I think there's two things.
Either A, it's a commercial for this company.
My grandfather's tart cherry farm in Turkey.
We made a delicious drink called Vishne Suya.
And little did I know back then that it contained what would be the ultimate antioxidant.
Blueberries, cranberries and oranges are all powerful antioxidant superstars.
But could there be a new one that tops them all?
Groundbreaking research is discovering the hidden health secrets of the tart cherry.
And it turns out, the juice of this humble little fruit may be nature's ultimate antioxidant.
So, the only company that I could find that makes tart cherry juice is the R.W. Knudsen family of products.
They're organic.
They make the tart cherry, and what I could find in this segment that you're about to hear 30 seconds of, there's a bottle of it sitting right there in the studio as he explains how great it is.
Add tart cherry juice, and for that reason your melatonin levels are overflowing.
And because it's overflowing...
You end up a lot sleepier.
Now, I'm going to point something out.
I have said this over and over again in our 2011 Move It or Lose It program.
I don't want you eating within three hours of bedtime.
So you don't have to have a state at night.
You have to have it at dinner time.
But this is something you should make part of your diet.
Tart cherry juice.
Bon appétit.
And he's got it right there.
So, everybody, have some nuts and tart cherry juice.
So, three things are possible.
One, he just went out to get some big numbers opening season premiere, and he did a pretty good job.
He even got me watching.
Two, this is a commercial for tart cherry juice.
The third thing, and this is only because I heard him arguing with his classmate, who he's buddies with, I believe this was a smokescreen.
I think there's benefit all around, by the way.
I mean, I'm sure the tart cherry juice will come up and he'll be promoting that.
If you Google Dr.
Oz tart cherry juice, you go to the Knudsen website.
So it's SEO, that's for sure.
And the guy knows his SEO. There's a lawsuit currently between the companies that make high-fructose corn syrup and the sugar organization.
And the sugar organization, people who make sugar from cane sugar and from sugar beets...
Are suing, saying we don't want the high fructose corn syrup people to be talking about high fructose corn syrup, calling it corn sugar, which we have been talking about for years, and we even, I think you have in the book, John, that soon it'll just be sugar.
Right, because they'll make the argument that what type of sugar it is is not important.
It's still sugar.
It says sugar.
It's just corn sugar.
Your body can't tell the difference!
And it's funny because I was actually collecting clips and getting ready to do something about this on the last show.
And this is on the news.
It's all over.
There's report after report after report.
And you've got experts saying, well, there's really no difference.
It's about branding and advertising, which of course is a lie unto itself because people forget the history of high fructose corn syrup.
It was made to fatten up cattle.
And this controversy wiped that entire discussion off the news.
It's gone.
The lawsuit continues, but it's gone.
So I think...
That there was a triple play at work here.
One, to remove from the conversation, what is high fructose corn syrup?
Because we're going to get pretty close.
People are going to start figuring it out.
No matter how many experts you put in saying, well, it's just your body can't tell the difference.
And the guy gets some benefit by his opening season being big, and probably he threw in a sponsorship there for the tart cherry juice.
Tart cherry juice?
This is ludicrous!
Weigh in on this, John.
What do you think?
I think you nailed this from top to bottom.
I think there may be one or two other elements that are possible.
If you start digging into the apple juice thing, you run into the fact that Mott's was the target.
And he's obviously not being sponsored by them.
Not anymore.
And there's some evidence that a lot of this arsenic bull crap stems from the fact that we're importing a lot of apple juice in tanks from China.
China, China, China.
The damn Chiners!
I hate them Chiners.
They sound blue!
So when you have the Chinese involved, you always have a shakedown possible, which is, you know, the old-fashioned thing that the Rainbow Alliance and L Sharpton and people like that used to do, which was like, you know, you guys haven't really been donating to the cause.
Oh, yeah, this is, of course.
Hey, what, Mots, you don't want to advertise on my show?
Okay, bitches, watch this.
Think that's part of it?
I don't see why not.
I mean, that's the kind of leverage that you do.
By the way, I want to mention this since we're leading into the donation segment.
This is the kind of leverage corruption.
I'm not saying that he's doing that.
I am.
But that's the kind of thing that is commonly done.
Leaning on advertisers who aren't paying enough and then slanting your coverage to blast them.
And unlike Dr.
Oz, we don't sit here and say, John...
Did you get your flu shot yet?
No, Adam, I didn't, but I don't think, do I really need one?
Well, yes, because 50% of the population will get this virus, and you know, now we have integrated the H1N1 into the regular seasonal flu shot, and you can get it at Walgreens, and you get a cool Band-Aid.
Oh, really?
I mean, I only need to get one shot now instead of three?
That's right.
If the lights are on, you can come on in.
We'll take care of you.
We have more trained professionals than any other outlet in the United States.
And you get a Band-Aid, because you're not just doing it for yourself, you're doing it for the people around you.
At Walgreens, it's really, and by the way, most insurance will cover it, John.
Oh, so I don't have to pay the full amount?
Is it expensive?
No, not...
Who cares?
Your insurance will pay for it.
And we'll give you...
You know what?
Today, John, on this show, everyone who has donated will get a Walmart flu shot gift card!
Wow, Adam.
Thanks a lot.
John C. DeCore at 10PB of the day.
Sorry.
I'm going to show myself mood by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fun.
Yeah, on your agenda in the morning.
I'm not quite sure how that was my opinion.
I'm sorry.
No, no, I hit the wrong button.
I was so excited about the free gift cards.
Before we get into that, so obviously this is one of the reasons you don't hear us doing that because we only take money.
To pay bills from people who listen to the program, appreciate it, and have made that a part of their media consumption budget and support the show because of it.
And it's not just for you.
You're helping others around you.
Because when you're awake, other people will hate you.
This is not just for you.
They will hate you.
I do want to mention a quick karma story from Sir Gerlach.
Who says he had donated $51.50, the crazy $51.50 for three shows in a row.
He said, it worked!
Later in the day after Thursday's show, after I'd given my crazy $51.50 donation for three shows in a row, the email came in from my boss telling me he had just submitted the purchase request for my contract extension.
I'm good well into the next year.
Keep the karma rolling!
So we're very happy for Sir Gerlach.
Yeah.
I love it when it works out that way.
Well, it should work out that way.
And we have free karma gift cards for everybody!
Free karma!
Free karma!
Here, wait a minute.
Grab your free karma, everybody.
Here it comes.
Enjoy it.
You've got karma.
You know what?
Screw it.
Let's call up Walgreens right after the show.
Let's just go for it.
Let's just do it.
Matt Asbury from Wawa, Wawa, Tosa, Wisconsin.
Hi, John and Adam.
Sending the donation is the exact amount of our old cable bill.
So I can easily do the value.
This is $178.56.
And by the way, that is not an unusual number for some people's cable bill.
When did cable go from like $20 a month to $178.56?
I pay $240 a month.
It includes internet.
And a phone that I never use, that's only used by marketers to pester me, because of course they sold my name immediately, and a whole bunch of channels that I don't watch.
I can't afford it.
I'm cutting that out, but you can't.
See, there's a problem.
It's bundled now.
Yeah, they're bundled so you can gouge.
It's a gouge.
I made the mistake.
And what does it cost them to do this?
They've got a wire.
They don't do anything.
I'm sending this donation, the exact amount of oil cable, so I can easily do the value for value math for my beautiful, sexy, smart wife.
Hold on.
Please throw me some karma.
That's one mother I'd like to.
Throw me some karma.
Karma.
Karma.
You've got karma.
Trying to extricate himself from the legions of media support stooges.
No agenda show, best show ever, he says.
Matt Astbury.
Chris in Marysville, Washington, $133.
ITM fellas, I just can't quit you.
Here's another from one podcaster to a couple of the greats just getting by.
Hell yeah, thank you, Chris.
Anonymous in Inogera.
What do you think?
Inogura, Queensland.
That's Australia.
I know that.
Yes.
In the Morning is inspired by Adam quitting his corporate job and took unpaid leave from work, university, so I work on my PhD dissertation.
And the agenda helps me keep my mind sharp, so I want to return the value with what little money I can spare.
Would love a shot of karma to help me finish my doctorate.
You've got karma.
And he finishes with adios mofos.
Adios, mofo.
Black Knight Greg Birch up there in Port Angeles, Washington, our official dentist for the No Agenda Legions.
$111.11 support for Adam's dental work.
Eventually the RFID chip will be removed and a true implant can be placed, one that plays on the seventh day.
That's our end tune, the Marriott jazz content.
Right, by David Marriott every time he eats pan.
Thank you so much, Sir Birch.
That's highly appreciated.
Black Knight, Greg Birch.
Judith Cook in Orleans, Massachusetts.
60 bucks.
Just keeping up and listening to your 9-11 show.
Had to pause after the Valerie Jarrett rant to donate.
Excellent show.
Sadly, living on the East Coast, I won't be able to visit you guys in jail.
She wants some karma for her sons Jefferson, Christopher, and Ken Post.
That's pretty funny.
You've got karma.
Andrew Haverson and Grant Hurst on Mr.
Adam Curry.
Open up the door, Mr.
Curry!
Now!
We're so in Gitmo.
Free water!
Andrew Haverson in Gravenhurst, Ontario, 5555.
Wanted to hear John say my name where I'm again.
Again, where I'm from, L-U-L-Z. Haverson, Gravenhurst.
Gravenhurst, that's what it is.
Graham Wolfe in Wichita, Kansas.
Double nickels on the dime in the morning.
Having been hit in the mouth by Sir Brian Kaufman, I finally decided to get de-douched.
Well, hold on, hold on.
You've been de-douched.
I started listening in June and I'm working backwards through the archive.
Value for value, thanks.
That's crazy.
I still don't understand.
Our show must be so good.
I hate to pound myself on the back here, but people do this all the time.
They go back through the archives.
I mean, we're a topical show.
Yeah, I know.
I would think that you could maybe go back five or six shows.
Not even.
Why bother?
Yeah, I agree.
Why bother?
But you should listen to show 200.5.
Which is out there somewhere.
Yeah, it's available on NoAgendaNation.com along with mugs.
Jeffrey Wolf, Edmond, Oklahoma.
Double nickels on the dime.
Keep up the great word, guys.
Oh, John, can you try and pronounce my name correctly this time?
Jeffrey Wolf.
Yeah.
Should I say woof?
Woof.
Joe Esposito, Joe the Dish Slave, as he's known.
Hey, Joe.
Stockton, California.
He's back with double nickels on the dime.
Hey, guys.
Joe the Dish Slave with double nickels, as always.
I'd appreciate a mention of my podcast, The Ozone Nightmare.
Please fire some karma out for my mom.
All right.
Hey, mama.
Mama.
You've got karma.
Always extra karma available for moms on the show.
And then we have some commercial art day, something south, I guess it's in, I don't know, that's a mystery, but it's $50, we'll look into it.
Tonya Foster, San Francisco.
That's Dame Tonya to you.
Dame Tonya, it doesn't say Dame Tonya on here.
Yeah, but, well, she's a Dame.
Sure it's not, Tonya's different than Tonya?
San Francisco, $50.
Please give a birthday shout-out to Shyster from his family.
I think she's a dame.
Tanya.
Tanya is, but Tanya, Tanya.
Tanya, Tanya.
And that's all we got this show, unfortunately.
And hopefully we'll pick it up a little bit in the weeks ahead.
Hmm.
All of the support is highly appreciated.
Again, at the end of the show, I have a thought for some people, but I'm positive.
I'm really positive in these days where everyone's just getting by, living the American dream, according to our president, it's very difficult.
To spare anything, really.
It warms my heart when I see people who really have no business giving up any money at all.
But I really like it when people evaluate their media consumption budget, like the cable bill, and say, hey, you know what?
Whatever I paid in cable, you guys are worth the same amount.
I would say give up your cable bill.
Get a Hulu subscription and Netflix, and you're good to go.
And then support us.
What else do you need?
I mean, really.
Please don't watch CNN, NBC, MSNBC, Fox News.
Don't watch any of that.
We'll do that for you.
The only thing you'll miss from not having cable is C-SPAN.
But again, don't have to watch that.
Yeah, well.
You don't have to C-SPAN.
So there's many ways to support the show there.
The easiest one is to go to the following website.
Dvorak.org slash NA. But you can find that address simply by going to NoGenderShow.com, NoGenderNation.com, ChannelDvorak.com slash NA. There's a million places.
Just Google Support Adam and John.
That'll probably work, too.
And we appreciate it.
But, yeah.
We do what we can, and I know you're doing what you can, and that's the best of it, I guess.
Yeah, I was right.
It's Dame Tanya Foster.
She congratulates the shyster with his birthday.
He turned yesterday on the 17th.
And Kate Marengo, I guess PayPal, either PayPal made a mistake or we didn't get it right, but...
Hey, John and Adam says, Kate, my husband and I came out to see you in the Hot Pockets Tour in Palentine, Illinois.
We gave Adam the Adios Mofo t-shirt, which, by the way, has been captured by my daughter.
She thinks it's hilarious to walk around Los Angeles with a picture of Rick Perry on her shirt with Adios Mofos.
And they promised to stop being boners and start paving our pathway to knighthood.
I'd like to have my husband and I de-douche for our freeloading loyal listening.
Now what happened is, she donated last week.
And this didn't come through on the PayPal or something got confused.
So she was listed as an associate executive producer instead of her husband, Tony.
And that was really the whole point, is that he would get the producership.
So we'll change that in the show notes.
In fact, we'll put Tony in the show notes for today.
And, of course, we congratulate Tony Barango with his 34th birthday.
That was yesterday.
Happy birthday from your administrative slaves here at the No Agenda Show.
It's your birthday, yeah!
We try hard.
Sometimes it's...
We try.
We have staff.
Hey!
Can we get Buzzkill Jr.
on that Bridge to the Future thing?
What do you mean?
Can we put him on the payroll as a government employee?
Yeah.
Yeah, sure.
Yeah, I mean, he could make more money.
We'll have to fire him, though, in two months, right?
Well, so, and then we'll hire him.
Put him back on the regular payroll.
Can we just switch back and forth?
Yeah, hire them again.
This jobless bill is not going to pass anyway, so we might as well give up.
But you can assume that the pieces of it will be put into another job bill, and I think the main ones are the ones you cited today are the ones they want to keep in.
I want this whole bill to pass in its entirety so we can get it over with.
It's like an operation.
Just do it now.
Just rip it out now so in four years or whatever, five years, we can just be done with the depression.
We know it's unavoidable.
I subscribe to John's cycles theory.
2013 will be the great, great, great, great, great, great depression.
It'll be crap.
And we might as well just get it over with.
This will accelerate it.
So let's do it.
Let's do it already.
We can sleep on the train.
On the high-speed train.
Sleep on the train.
We can sleep on the train.
Sort of a round-the-world ticket.
I will give everyone one piece of advice.
You look at the numbers, and you look at this jobs bill.
It's like, yeah, it's great.
We're going to build roads and drone airways and high-speed rail and all kinds of stuff, but it's not about anything we make.
60% of the gross domestic product of the United States is banking.
So we don't build anything except machines that kill people, which I'm all for.
Sell as much machinery as you want to kill people.
Just sell it to the Chiners, sell it to anybody you want.
But the only thing you can do, the only thing, if you don't already own a grow house, If you're not already growing marijuana, here's what I recommend.
If you don't have a yard, start growing in your house lettuce, carrots, vegetables.
Because seeds are cheap.
You can get seeds.
You can buy seeds from somewhere.
Start growing it because you can sell that to your starving neighbors.
This is a good idea.
We have to go back to farming.
Start it now.
Backyard farming.
And if you don't have a backyard, do it in the living room.
Of course, they've tried to make that illegal in some areas.
I know that's why you just got to go do it.
You can still kind of get away with it now.
And it will work, seriously, because you don't need to charge five bucks for a head of lettuce.
You can sell that to your neighbors for 50 cents because it's not going to cost you that.
And then your kids, put them all on the couch.
They all got to sleep in bunk beds, whatever, and use their bedroom as a grow house.
It's a surefire.
Daddy, can I sleep in my own bed anymore?
No!
I'm growing my radishes there, kid!
Shut up!
John's gonna hum the Sunday time.
The Saturday paper was a little more revealing because it has this in-poll support for Obama slips among base and of course it's the latest news, New York Times CBS News poll.
I'm not sure why they have this combination constantly.
It's a magic number.
Did you see that?
No, on the article I don't see a number at all.
It's 33%?
Well, yeah, there you go.
So they're trying to tell them to get lost.
Advice on debt.
Europe suggests U.S. can keep it.
We can keep our debt and eat crap, and they're going to go on an austerity program, which everybody who is not a Keynesian thinks is going to just sink the world economy faster than imaginable, which is probably true.
And then there's the Palestinian bid in New York.
It's interesting.
Yeah.
We'll explain that.
Constitution Day came and went, nobody cares.
Yeah, that was a proclamation, Constitution Day.
I forgot about that.
So there you go to the Sunday Times, that's Saturday.
Arab hopes, U.S. worries, Obama tax plan would ask more of millionaires and they'd talk about that Buffett rule.
Then they have a huge front page story on autistic kids.
And then they have the story about the racing.
I hear Dr.
Oz is getting in on that.
Everyone in the audience gets an autistic kid.
Yeah, that's probably what's going to happen.
By the way, I want to go back to the Saturday paper just because of the front page picture.
So I'm going to describe it.
First they have in the background some idiot in one of those trucks with an anti-aircraft gun mounted on the back.
Shooting in the sky.
Shooting in the sky.
And in the front, there's a guy with a hookah.
Smoking?
Smoking something.
Really?
Yeah.
That's awesome.
And next to him is a big, giant blue gas can, and he's got a hookah.
Of course, the whole thing could blow up, unless that's water, it could be.
And he's smoking dope or something out here, and it's like the front page picture.
When you look at it, you go, what's the point of this picture?
It's not like a great work of art by any means.
Why are they showing this guy smoking something?
Yeah, I don't know.
I'm all for it, though.
Smoking a hookah.
So anyway, I want to play a clip.
Fox on the air races, because the air races were covered on the front page as part of the nothing to see here thing.
I want to know, what the hell is the Fox guy?
There's a weekend Fox guy named Greg doing the Fox News.
And why is everyone jumping on these air races?
They've only been going on, what, since the 20s?
Yeah.
Well, let's listen.
That's involved.
Every single pilot that is racing out there has a tremendous amount of skill.
Jackie, what about a mechanical failure?
And apparently they're looking at it in this particular case.
Look, this was an extraordinary pilot, 74 years old.
He'd been doing this for decades.
He was quite skilled by all accounts.
But, you know, apparently part of his plane may have fallen off, the tail section, and that led to these nine deaths and...
You know, more than 50 injuries.
In fact, I mean, here's an account of an eyewitness.
Quote, I saw body parts and gore like you wouldn't believe.
Yay!
I'm talking an arm, a leg.
The alive people were missing body parts.
I'm not kidding you.
It was gore.
Unbelievable gore.
Another witness said if the pilot hadn't pulled up at the last moment, it would have hit and taken out the entire bleacher section, meaning hundreds could have died.
And this was a skilled, experienced pilot.
Doesn't this suggest that maybe this is a bad idea?
You know, I thought about this, and I did a little bit of research.
So first of all, and by the way, Randy Corvin was tweeting about this, and he gave his reason, well, you know, if there was lots of video of body parts of Wall Street, I would have tweeted about that.
But no, we've got all this video.
And I looked at this.
First of all, there's an ageist component to it, which bothers me tremendously.
Yep.
Which is not okay, because when you have a pilot's license, you have to have a valid medical.
And the medical is a serious medical.
If you're not in sound shape, you can't get your license.
You certainly can't get insurance for races and aerobatics.
Of course, you can't really see what happened.
There was a weird theory going around.
By the way, did you find it peculiar that nobody had a camcorder or there was any really good clips of this crash?
I mean, there's lots of video, and I saw tons of it, and I did see a lot of camcorder things, but people are following the planes going by, and this guy basically shoots up.
He tries to invert, and instead of basically a very tight loop, and instead of coming out of it, he bores straight into the ground.
Yeah.
There was a weird theory, which I'll mention, but I don't even subscribe to it, and that's saying something.
Ron Paul was in Reno the very same day to address people very close by to the Reno air race at the convention center.
And there were rumors that he either was or was scheduled to attend the air race, which would have put him squarely in the grandstands where the plane came down.
But I'm not buying that.
But that is something that cropped up out there.
Add to it that the plane's call sign was like XN7911 or something.
I'm a crackpot, but not that much of a crackpot.
You don't know.
The guy could have passed out on the tight loop.
All kinds of things could have happened.
But it's what happens.
And by the way, it's what makes racing exciting.
All forms of racing.
It's what makes reality shows exciting.
You want to see the train wreck.
What can I tell you?
But it was used to spice up your life over the weekend.
Because we had video of it.
Horrible body parts, gore.
It's not news.
You know, they were running, they were on this story to such an extreme on the weekends.
It made it very difficult to watch anything.
You know, you go to CNN, there was just this story.
There was Fox, there was a story.
The networks was a story.
HLN, there was a story.
Wherever you went, it was ridiculous.
They were over-covering.
What was there to cover to such an extreme?
And why is the Fox guys all against it?
I mean, this guy was, when he was discussing it with this woman, he was always grumbling into the mic.
She said, well, it's not that dangerous.
We've been doing this forever.
You know, he would be grumbling and saying it's a bad idea.
We shouldn't be doing it.
We should be banned.
I mean, when did Fox become the station of wimps?
Well, since they've been run by the Democrats.
There's nothing new there for us.
So it's just, it's completely annoying.
And I feel bad.
I feel bad for everybody.
But, you know, don't go to the air races.
Don't walk outside.
Put a helmet on.
Put a life vest on.
Put a, you know, don't slip in the bathtub.
You know, it happens.
I feel horrible.
And in aviation, we say, you know, that guy had a bad day.
To say the least.
It's a real day wrecker.
No doubt about it.
So I want to close the New York Times.
I got another little topic I want to get into because it's something that I think we've been overlooking.
Wait, do I have to close the Times first?
Yeah.
All right, shut that paper up.
up.
There we go.
John's gonna harm the Sunday times.
You know, I'm a little annoyed by a note I got from Eric the Shill.
Oh, I was annoyed by it too.
And I'm not annoyed at him, I'm annoyed at myself and probably annoyed with you too.
Oh.
I want to mention, he talks about, this is from Eric, he talks about Executive Order 23954, which is a bogus hoax that's going around the internet.
Are you annoyed that you googled it like I did?
I did Google it, of course.
But, of course, you have to.
But Eric points something out that just really irked me.
Targeting him, but targeting me.
We have not deconstructed the Rick Santorum meme that comes up on Google and has been on Google for, I don't know, five years or more.
Let's explain this again.
If you put into Google, and I will do it right now, Rick Santorum, who is a Republican presidential candidate, The top hit is Santorum.
You click on that link and it says, Santorum, noun, the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.
Click to continue.
And so, here's what's been going on.
And this has been going on for, like I said, I first heard about the Santorum thing way before the 2008 elections when he was still...
Some gays apparently got irked by something he had said and it targeted him with a Google-washing campaign, which is what it was called.
This term was invented by Andrew Orlowski at the Register.
And it was a problem a number of years ago during the era of George Bush when people type in George Bush and they come up with everything you need to know about donkeys as the top, you know, hit at the top, you know, on page one.
And it was all done by using tricky SEO methodologies that Google has pretty much eliminated or tried to.
So the question remains, and I never thought about that until I got this note from Eric, why hasn't this been corrected with the Santorum searches?
This has been going on for...
At least five years, perhaps longer, because I don't know.
It's been going on forever.
Google has done nothing about it.
It's actually juvenile, if you think about it, and you have Jon Stewart referring to it.
Oh, isn't that so funny?
And Rachel Maddow giggling.
Oh, you should look him up.
Look up Centauri on Google.
And you have all this has been going on.
Google has to know about it.
The whole thing is ludicrous and it's been going on forever.
Google hasn't done anything.
So what is that telling you about what the hell is going on?
Now Eric suggests that Google is going to be the source of all news eventually because we demean the news and we're screwed.
Well, he went one step further, which I really appreciate.
He said the Rick Santorum Google setup was a Google poisoning, and it was a test.
Successful, extremely successful.
And so now with this, just to close out what you're saying here, now with this fake executive order, everyone should do this right now.
What was the executive order again?
23954.
It's 23954.
You Google Executive Order 23954, and here's the hits you get.
You get, the first one is YouTube, of course, joinfreedomtorch.com.
And by the way, the so-called executive orders that Obama signed an executive order to allow a Japanese military base to be built in Ohio.
And then there's political...
I mean, it's just pages and pages of this being replicated.
And what Eric asserts, and I agree with him, and here's a PDF link, is that this is a test to see how far-reaching...
Something like this really is.
And how many sites will pick this up automatically?
And a lot of this is bots just scraping stuff.
And a lot of it is just idiots who need to fill up their stupid webpages to get stupid Google banner ads or whatever.
Of course, Google benefits on all sides.
It's impeach Obama.
It's spread over to Facebook.
It's just everywhere.
We are gamed.
The whole system is gamed.
And you can't trust...
Gee, what a revelation.
You can't trust Google, John.
Darn!
How does that work?
Who could have figured that one out?
And this, of course, will be taken when you see all this.
And, of course, it's written pretty well, the executive order.
It looks pretty official.
But, you know, I mean, obviously it's bogus, but it's copied all over the place, and I can easily see.
Let's just give it a shot, shall we?
I'm just going to pick one of these.
Breaking news.
Okay, here we go.
This is from, I just picked one, Lima Land News.
In a very surprising move today, President Barack Obama signed Presidential Executive Order 23954, authorizing a Japanese military base to be built next to the Honda Manufacturing Factory in Marysville, Ohio.
Obama authorized what he called a small contingent of Japanese soldiers, approximately 2,300, to be stationed at the base, complete with armored personnel, carriers, tanks, and artillery.
Keep reading.
And then it goes to the political coffeehouse saga.
And actually, this has a byline by J. Michael Warner with a picture of Obama signing something at his desk.
And here it is.
The reason given by Obama for this action is that with all the terrorist activity occurring within the United States, it is felt that the Japanese government should shoulder some of the responsibility for protecting their interest here in the United States.
It is also my understanding that the land being made available for this Japanese military installation has been appropriated by using eminent domain laws and is being exchanged with Japan for $730 billion in Federal Reserve bonds.
That's where I went.
I went, pfft, right.
I called Mayor White to find out what was going on and was not able to get through to him.
His secretary told me he was, quote, not available for comment.
I was told off the record that several militia organizations have made threats of violence.
So this guy, J. Michael Warner...
I don't know.
Couldn't bring it up to look at the Federal Register to see if this was real.
Or even whitehouse.gov.
And he reported on it and gave himself a byline.
How embarrassing.
Completely embarrassing, the political coffeehouse.
Who does this about the political coffeehouse?
Let me see who runs this site.
Uh...
Hello, I'm J. Michael Warner.
I'm a former soldier with ten years in the Army, a veteran of Desert Storm.
I currently work as a handyman doing lawn work.
It's a nice-looking site, by the way.
Carpentry and electrical work.
So, yeah, you're being duped.
So, here you go.
Well, here's if you go to the political coffeehouse saga and you look at his other posts, they're all bullshit.
So, this whole article that maybe embarrassed himself really didn't.
It was obviously meant to be a put-on because look at this.
Ron Paul's Constitution Day money bomb.
President Perry is sworn in.
Almost two years after campaigning, the former governor of Texas was sworn in as president.
So the guy is a satirist whose news story apparently was picked up by a bunch of boneheads and ended up going all over the place.
And here's this Japanese military thing.
It's right after labor leaders applaud Obama for Japan's Ohio military base.
He writes that story.
So this whole thing is...
I don't know.
He's trying to be a one-man onion and it's kind of like creating this situation.
From the Jersey Shore?
Sorry, that was a reference you didn't get, did you?
I don't watch the Jersey Shore.
Let me just do a who is on this website for a second.
Let's just find out if it's registered to some place in Virginia.
That would usually be the case, wouldn't it?
Let's see.
Who is the politicalcoffeehouse.com?
Uh, he's in Ohio.
Mike Warner.
Pratersville, Ohio.
Hmm.
No.
So, dead end there.
Eh, whatever.
But yeah, so it's very easy to, uh...
There was another story I read somewhere about Google removing some PR piece that violated their terms and conditions of news.
What?
Yeah.
I didn't grab the story.
Let's see.
Google removes news story.
Let's see.
Maybe we can find it.
Here it is.
Google News removes website finance by Water District.
This is from the Los Angeles Times.
Officials.
Officials at Google News.
They have officials there.
On Tuesday, removed a website from its search index that had contracted with the local water district to produce promotional pieces, quote, written in the image of real news.
Isn't that what real news is?
Totally.
Yeah.
The move came in response to a Times story on an unusual agreement.
So here's the Los Angeles Times colluding with Google.
An unusual agreement between the Central Basin Municipal Water District and a consultant affiliated with the news website, News Hawks Review.
Under the deal, the Water District, a public agency based in southeast L.A. County, paid nearly $200,000 to a consultant to publish positive stories that appeared as articles on Google News.
A Google spokesman, so this is lower than the official I guess, said in a statement to the Times that NewsHawk Reviews had violated its guidelines and would no longer appear in Google News searches.
Wow, that's harsh.
There's Google censoring.
The spokesman did not elaborate.
Yeah, but they haven't done anything about Santorum.
No.
And by the way, I don't like Santorum.
No.
But in this case, I think he's being screwed over.
But I do like me a frothy mix.
Yeah, I bet you do.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
I loves me a little frothy mix.
Yeah, exactly.
So there you go.
You're absolutely right.
So there's more proof that this program needs to be supported because we don't usually fall for that crap.
We've been duped.
Yeah, but we usually catch each other, so it's never really gotten past the, it's never made it out of the show.
Well, that's why we do it together.
Sisters, sisters.
Here's a cool one for you, Johnny boy.
I've been following Haiti for quite a while, ever since the fake natural earthquake, which was set off by the Clinton cabal, Can you stop?
I was just going to say something before you, because I'm looking at something.
Sure.
I don't see any evidence that Google has stopped using the PR Newswire, which is this out-and-out public relations operation on its Google News.
Yeah, you can pay for that, right?
It's $400 and it shows up.
Yeah.
It shows up everywhere.
Yeah.
But they're not talking about the PR Newswire.
It's the Hawk News Review or something like that.
But you could use PR Newswire.
They hired an SEO consultant.
The guy gamed it, got it in, got it into Google News.
And then the LA Times said, hey, hey Google, official, hey official, official, official, we're news.
That guy's not news.
And Google said, you're right, that's not official news.
That's not real news.
We shall remove him immediately, according to our spokeshole.
I may do a column on this Santorum thing.
It just irks me to no end.
Good one.
Just make sure you put the words frothy mix in the column.
I will.
Yeah, cool.
There's nothing like a column about frothy mix in MarketWatch, a serious publication of real news.
It'd be in PC Magazine, not Market Watch.
There's no stock involved.
Well, alright.
People have to realize, let me give a little hint here, CNBC, Market Watch, TheStreet.com, Fox Business doesn't get this, and that's why they're not doing as well, and they just do political stuff.
These things thrive.
These publications and TV stations thrive because they consist of one thing and one thing only.
If you're a writer and you don't get this, you shouldn't be writing for them.
Stock tips.
Yeah.
It's all about the stock tips.
I've had people come up to me.
Oh, can you write us up on MarketWatch or company?
Sure.
Give me $200,000.
And I say, yeah, that'll be the day.
And I say, are you a publicly held company?
And they say, no.
And I say, well, I can't write it because who the heck cares?
Yeah.
You could have the most interesting product in the world, but if you're not a public company that people can trade the stock with, they're not going to read the column.
This has to be stock tips.
So we know that the Clintons are certainly Bill Clinton, but Hillary has a hand in it as well.
They've always been big fans of Haiti.
And President Clinton, former President Clinton, is, of course, the UN Special Envoy.
And I would like to remind you, for those of you who have forgotten, remember that big concert we had?
Remember everyone, oh, that's so horrible for all the people in Haiti.
And we all sat there and watched all these douchebags on TV. Yeah, good luck, George Clooney.
Sent all your money and everything.
And none of that money made it.
Billions of dollars from around the world.
We even had two former presidents come on television and say...
We just need cash.
I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
Just send your cash.
So there's still, I don't know, 200,000 people still homeless in Haiti.
But hey, they're building the convention center and rebuilt the arts and crafts center.
And they're laying down asphalt on Bill Clinton Highway.
And, of course, we got a music guy in there after Wyclef Jean became a douche and failed and grew too big for his britches.
They kicked him out.
He said, you know, shut up.
You're not doing it right.
And they got his bandmates.
Who else was in that band?
Martelli.
Sweet Mickey Martelli.
Yeah, he got a cool name.
Put a suit on that guy.
And he became the president of Haiti, admitted by the UN observers in a very dubious election.
And now, lawmakers in Haiti's lower house on Friday unanimously approved the nomination of Gary Connell as the country's prime minister.
Prime minister, of course, holds all the power, really.
The president is not that important.
The prime minister is very important.
It just turns out that this Gary Connell was an advisor to Bill Clinton.
Gee, how does that work?
Coincidence?
I think not!
Huh.
So that's very nice.
That's a shocker.
Yeah, that's the shocker right there.
Shocker.
Two in the pink, one in the stink for Haiti.
Thank you very much.
That's great.
Good job, Billy.
So they'll be rocking it out there on the beach.
It's going to be awesome.
I have a few other things that I just wanted to run through.
Well, you're looking at that.
Play Homer Simpson in Brazil if you want to know what he sounds like in Brazil.
Okay.
Homer Simpson, you should be my married husband.
I was trusted in you.
They even translated dough.
It's something else.
That's good.
I like that.
I have another end-of-show Homer Simpson clip.
Okay, we'll play that at the end.
Hey, a very interesting endorsement for Ron Paul.
I have an agenda when it comes to this.
I'm endorsing Ron Paul.
He just won the California Straw Poll by like 44%.
You know, and not reported.
No, no, no.
We've got to show another video that we don't really see the impact of the crash from Reno.
Just missed it.
But there you go.
So he won that.
Ron Paul is kicking ass.
He's on fire.
And I think it's great, as your prediction starts to come through, that neither the Republicans or the Democrats really want to win this.
They don't want anyone in there when it all goes to hell in a handbasket.
But here's Barry Manilow now weighing in for the good doctor.
Sis.
It was also reported that you had made a contribution in 2007 to Ron Paul.
I did.
You did?
I did.
I like him.
Do you still like him?
I like what he says.
I do.
I like what he says.
I think he's solid.
I agree with just about everything he says.
Love that.
Barry Manilow.
Good for him.
I'm not a fan.
Oh, man.
Now that you mention I'm not a fan.
Oh, no.
Barry Manilow rocks, man.
And that's the Jewish vote right there.
Ron Paul needs that.
He needs that.
The old Jewish ladies love Barry Manilow.
Yeah, they do.
They love him.
Oh, Barry, you can do no wrong.
I like him.
I've always liked his stuff.
You know, he wrote so many amazing jingles.
He did the, have a coconut smile, and you deserve a break today at McDonald's.
All of that's Barry Manilow.
The guy's a genius.
He's got the ear.
He does.
I found something rather interesting.
I believe, now we're kind of looking at what's going to happen for the Democratic side of the 2012 race.
And I don't think Joe Biden is going to be on the ticket if Obama runs, which neither of us actually think is going to happen.
We think he's going to drop out because of health concerns or be with the kids more or Michelle doesn't like it or whatever.
And I can point to the Obama for America website, Obama 2012.
They sent out an email for all the new campaign merchandise.
Oh yeah.
I got one of those.
You got the email?
Did you go to the website?
No, I found the campaign merchandise site.
Oh, okay.
I linked to it somehow.
So this is BarackObama.com 2012.
We've got the car magnet.
They've got the fired up, ready to grill.
By the way, I would advise people to grab those car magnets because they come right off apparently.
Yeah, it's better than the bumper sticker.
And it's a collectible.
Yeah, and no mention of Joe Biden.
Not on the magnet.
Not in the pitch letter.
If you remember, it was Obama O'Biden 2008.
It actually was Obama O'Biden.
No campaign buttons with Biden on it.
There's the dog collar.
The dog collar is Barack's best friend.
Dog collar.
Again, no 2012.
That's very funny.
I love the dog collar.
So nothing about Biden.
So that's the new merch.
And I'm thinking that he's not going to be on the ticket.
Well, it would be a benefit to get him off the ticket if they actually wanted to win.
As a sidebar, if you look at this website, link in the show notes, 340.nashownotes.com, the shirts and hats say, made in the USA, which is great.
That's not next to the magnet and everything.
So why don't you get those and see if it says made in China on it.
That'd be kind of funny, wouldn't it?
I don't know if we can make that.
That's magnet type that is used.
You see it.
Pizza shops have it.
It's just essentially a very thin, rubbery magnet.
Well, we'll see.
It's probably made in China.
That's what I'm saying.
It would be funny.
I don't think anybody makes those in this country.
Made in China.
Anyway, I want to make a prediction.
Get your red book.
All right.
You got it.
You asked me on this previous program...
If Obama's not going to run, then who will?
And I figured it out.
Okay.
Gabrielle Giffords.
Oh yeah, you put that.
I saw it.
This is...
Yeah.
Nice try.
Write it down.
Hear me now, believe me later.
And so she will either be running with Obama as vice president, depending on which way he'll...
She was shot in the head.
So?
Biden had the top of his head taken off two times.
That's a good point.
And I will take it even a step further.
I'm not so sure she was shot in the head.
Ooh!
Now you're talking.
I went back, and by the way, if you Google this, and I just Googled this just out of my own accord and found that I'm not the only one thinking this.
There is so much wrong with the pictures and video footage of that attack.
There is so much wrong with it.
Right down to the 911 calls, this entire thing looks like it was a drill.
That there are actors in play.
It's very interesting to see all the mistakes made with how the apparent attacked body of Congresswoman Giffords was handled.
No blood spurting out of her head.
You can find your own websites, make your own decisions.
I don't know if she was shot in the head.
I'm really doubting that.
Well, I'm really enjoying the fact you're finally moving this stuff to the end of the show.
And it's both she and her husband, members of the Council on Foreign Relations.
I'd like to point that out.
And I think it's a really, it's a perfect setup.
By the way, I went, of course, I immediately thought, oh, I should register Giffords2012.com.
That has been taken, interestingly enough, registered on January 8, 2011, the exact day of the attack.
So either someone's sicker than I am, apparently.
Or someone who plans ahead.
Yes, exactly.
Well, we'll see when she comes to...
She's going to do some public speaking because she sits on the floor of Congress now, so she's going to have to come up and say something.
Well, she already has a book out.
A book about her being shot?
This is great.
This was the clincher for me.
Okay, check this out.
Find her book, Gifford's book, and it's called...
Title of the book.
Come on, what the hell is this book name?
Come on, help me out here.
I'm trying to get my mouse to work.
That's my ringtone.
That apparently no one will ever want to use.
There's no evidence.
A story of courage, I think is what it's called.
Written by the same guy who co-wrote the book with Scully.
Sully.
Sully, that guy.
You know, the guy that comes in and helps everyone who was offered a book deal as part of whatever they had to do?
Yeah, he's a ghostwriter who's a pro.
Yeah.
He obviously has the propagandistic style down.
He's got the inside track.
So, that's my story on...
Mark Kelly's the guy's name.
No, isn't that her husband?
Gabrielle...
Mark...
Oh, I was just looking.
I'm trying to...
No, that's her husband.
I got some pop-up ad I can't get rid of.
I hate that.
Yeah.
The man who gets no spam.
And then I got to pop a bat and then it also says connect with Facebook.
Oh, no!
What's that got to do with anything?
Oh, no!
Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly book, Gabby.
No, Mark Kelly's the writer.
No, Mark Kelly's her husband.
No, the joint memoir.
Okay, you're right.
The joint memoir of Gabrielle Giffords and her husband's soon-to-be-retired astronaut Mark Kelly.
I forget that's his name.
Sorry.
The book titled, Gabby, A Storage of Courage and Hope, was written With the last lecture co-author Jeffrey Zaslav...
There's the hope meme.
Courage and hope.
Hope.
We got some hope.
We need the hope for the election.
Mark my words.
Either VP, if Obama decides to stay on, which I think is still not evident...
It'll be...
I'm sticking with that, too.
Yeah.
And otherwise, it'll be Giffords for 2012.
She's perfect.
American hero, shot in the head, came back to help save the world by voting yes for the...
What did she vote yes for?
Remember that?
Something.
Yeah.
Something important.
I'm still digging.
Something important.
It's perfect.
Yeah, she came in at the last minute to cast her vote.
Perfect.
After being shot in the head.
Yep.
But take your time, and I'm not putting it in the show notes.
I want you to find it on your own, and look at all of the weird things that are going on with that attack.
I don't see that he wrote the book about Sully.
What's the guy's name?
Zaslow.
Z-A-S-L-O-W. He's done the last lecture, The Girls from Ames, Highest Duty.
Maybe that was the book.
Here's Sully's Remarkable Journey.
Best-selling Michigan author.
Best-selling from Shuler Books.
Best-selling Michigan author Jeffrey Zaslow.
It was Highest Duty.
I was right.
Sully's new co-pilot.
Zaslow.
Come on, man.
Is he going to help write Haiku Herman's next book as well?
Please.
The Magic Room.
Currently, Jeffrey Zaslow is writing The Magic Room, a story about the love we wish for our daughters.
New for publication next year.
The New York Times best-selling journalist.
Takes us to a small town, remarkable small town bridal shop where generations of mothers and daughters have shared precious dreams of love and life.
Oh brother.
So one of Gabrielle Gifford's people who was also shot...
This is all I'll tell you.
You go look for that yourself.
So a couple of people were shot that day.
And one of them was this woman.
Her name escapes me for a moment.
And they have the 911 tapes of this woman's daughter calling in saying, you know, there's been a shooting.
And she's really calm.
Her mom's been shot three times, apparently.
Doesn't mention that.
She has been a shooting.
I'm here.
Yeah, I'll wait for the police to come.
Doesn't, isn't freaking out.
It's very bizarre.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because most people get kind of panicky when they're calling 911 when their mom is shot in front of them.
Yeah.
I can look for it if you're interested.
I can find...
Oh, now you got me interested.
I knew I'd get you.
I knew I'd get you.
That's okay.
The prediction I'm still putting down is a no way.
Wait a minute.
You're not allowed to editorialize the red book.
I put it on here.
No way.
I did it once before when you predicted one thing and I predicted the other and I won and then you won.
That's the one that calls me the most.
It happens.
Looks like you won Dvorak two weeks later.
Boing, oing, oing, oing.
I'll collect a couple of links.
Anyway, so be on the lookout for that.
A couple of things that are interesting.
This one, you know the White House insider that I've been tracking?
Ulster, whatever the guy's name is.
Ulsterman.
He interviews, from time to time, this White House insider.
And there's been some interesting revelations there.
So now he has the Wall Street insider.
And this blew me away when I read this.
Apparently, according to the Wall Street insider, the Obama administration wants to unionize the American military.
Oh, this sounds like a hoax.
Why would that be a hoax?
Because it just sounds like that executive order bullshit.
It sounds like there's some weird, screwy logic to it, but it sounds like just some way to...
You can't unionize the military.
It's idiotic.
Well, I'm not saying it's a smart thing to do, but apparently, according to the Wall Street Insiders...
Good hot soldier!
You have to talk to my steward, sir!
Talk to my case officer, sir!
Steward?
Is that what it's called?
Steward.
A steward?
Shop steward.
Shop steward?
Could you imagine?
Hey!
I only got three Cheerios!
I'm on strike!
I'm filing a grievance.
But that would be pretty cool if all of a sudden you had like two million extra union people paying dues.
This has happened before.
Apparently, the American Servicemen's Union, founded by Andy Stapp in the 1960s, was a serious attempt to unionize the American military.
There's not a large amount of info online about this, but I remember it well since I was an anti-war protester on the campus of the University of Oklahoma at the time.
And Stapp was a bit of a local hero among leftist groups.
Thank you.
Well, it didn't happen.
When was that?
When was that written?
1960.
This is done as a trust in opposition to the war in Vietnam.
Hmm.
So it's not a new idea.
No, I mean, but we know how Obama loves the unions.
Yeah, well, he does.
Anyway, to wrap this up, I have Greta Van Zusteren, who I kind of like.
Because somehow I think she is kind of outside of the elitist agenda.
I don't know what your feeling on her is.
Yeah, I find her...
I haven't found anything seriously amiss from her.
But she's definitely a fox girl, even though she claims to be best friends with Rosie O'Donnell.
And she's admitted, according to Rosie, that she hates working there.
Yeah, I mean...
But it sounds like she's...
When I watch her, it looks like she's enjoying it.
So I don't know what Rosie's thinking.
Well, she did her homework...
When she went to interview McCain, and some interesting revelations, and I think it's just funny how McCain answers, about contractors in Iraq, predominantly in Afghanistan.
She's come up with the numbers which are not refuted by McCain, except he says it's really important.
Senator, recently I spoke to one of my colleagues who works out at the Pentagon, Jennifer Griffin.
I had her try to find out how many contractors, civilian contractors, we have in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And the estimate, she said, the best you could get to other fluid, but it's either up or down from about 250,000 people.
Now, did you know this number?
250,000 contractors?
I think I did know that number.
That's pretty big.
So while we're drawing down troops, we're still got boots on the ground, only they happen to be wink, wink, nudge, nudge, working for some contracting operation where they don't get a pension.
How can we afford that number one, and what are they doing?
Well, I think a lot of them are people who are working on projects.
It's projects.
It's just projects.
They're just working on some projects.
They're working on some projects.
Yeah, they're projects.
That are part of the rebuilding effort.
Oh, it's part of the...
Projects are part of the rebuilding effort.
Okay.
And so then...
I just clipped this next piece because I thought it was funny to hear McCain stumble over his answer about what these people are actually doing.
Listen, and I hate to swear, but I feel a little bit had when I find out we're drawing down our troops, and I think, well, we're leaving Iraq, but we're really leaving 250,000 people that we're actually paying for, that are ex-military, and it's because we don't have the men and women to do it, so we've hired these outside people.
So we are leaving a force there of some kind.
I'd like to remind you again, the significant number of these are the actual contractors.
They're out there helping the Iraqis build things to restore bridges, infrastructure, those kinds of things.
But we're paying for it, right?
Yes, we are paying for a lot of it, indeed.
They're helping.
They're just here to help the Iraqis.
We're paying to help build bridges and stuff.
I want to remind you, this is very important, Greta.
Very important.
They're on projects.
It's okay to pay for that.
Yeah, right.
A-hole.
He's the worst, that guy.
I'm glad he didn't get elected.
But we're stuck.
They haven't run anybody that's worth a crap, and they wouldn't run Ron Paul in a million years so they can give up on that idea.
And so we're just stuck with these guys.
They hate America.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Because, I mean, we're basically spending our money building bridges in Iraq when we need, according to Obama, we need half the bridges in this country are decrepit and falling apart.
How come that same exact money isn't being used in this country?
Well, we're going to use...
How much money do we have to just blow on everything?
It's unbelievable.
Yeah, well, we're going to use that money to get free slaves for everybody.
You hear that, Buzzkill Jr.?
You're hired.
As a free slave.
Well, let's hope we can get our free slaves.
We can teach them quite a bit.
Yeah, they can learn.
All we have to do is put the right application paperwork together.
And before everybody hangs up, which apparently they do as soon as this theme comes up, make sure to go to Dvorak.org slash NA. And we do have a clip after the show ends, so you might want to stick around for a minute.
Also, here, yeah, I had something to say.
I'm looking at, right now, still left on the live stream, we have 561 people listening.
If every single one of you who's listened now for two and a half hours, if you thought this was worth ten bucks, we would never have to ask for money again.
Think about that.
That's it.
That would do it.
We had people sneaking around for two and a half hours listening to this show, John.
Yeah.
Two and a half hours.
So that would be an equivalent of a quarter of minimum wage.
And it would be also the equivalent of a long movie, which they'd pay 20 bucks to see.
Yeah, except you could make your own popcorn and it was cheaper.
Alright, so we've got the Homer Simpson clip coming up, and we will be back here on Thursday, as we always are, Thursdays and Sundays, coming to you from Gitmo Nation West, the People's Republic of Southern California, in the morning.
Remember, free flu shot cards.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where it's sunny and everybody's happy.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
And we'll talk to you again on Thursday, right here, on No Agenda.
Buck Mitchell voltou melhor do que nunca.
Com cinco home runs em duas noites, ele acabou com os boatos de uma aposentadoria precoce e do uso de esteroides.
Mas ouvi dizer que essa volta por cima se deve aos conselhos matrimoniais de Marge e Holmes Simpson, vistos nessa foto de arquivo.
Homer, você prolongou esse casamento de celebridade por pelo menos mais uma temporada.
Depois disso, quem é que se importa, não é mesmo?
Esta noite, Tabita Fix.
Aviso, as dez primeiras fileiras podem ficar excitadas.