Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, episode 351.
This is no agenda.
It's your personal spiv here at the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center in the People's Republic of Southern California.
In the morning, everybody, it's Adam Curry here.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where we celebrate the salvation of the EU, I'm John C. Dvorak.
Yeah!
They also apparently cracked a few skulls, finally, in Oakland.
Yeah, about time.
They also beat the crap out of an Iraq vet who's now been hospitalized in critical condition.
Well, it was kind of interesting.
I was looking at some of the reporting.
Do I sound over-modulated to you?
No, you sound great.
Okay.
Well, that's good.
My ear is under-modulating.
Here's a quick report from the local news.
Police used tear gas and fired beanbags to disperse what they say were crowds of up to 1,000 protesters.
More than 100 were arrested.
The number of injured is not known, but we do know two officers were injured.
At least one protester, an Iraq war veteran, suffered a fractured skull.
Sounds so much nicer when you say beanbag instead of rubber bullets, doesn't it?
Beanbag.
They didn't mention the sound cannon.
Oh, I didn't know about the sound cannon.
They used one of those?
Oh, yeah.
That's such a vile weapon, man, the sound cannon.
Well, it should be used against civilian populations, especially our own people, but first it came out with all the reports about using the sound cannon, which came from Homeland Security.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
Then they suppressed it.
Interesting.
Because there are apparently a lot of kids at the protests and these sound cannons, people can look up sound weapon.
It's a weapon.
It's an actual weapon.
It hurts.
It'll burst your eardrums.
It'll make you permanently deaf or hard of hearing for the rest of your life.
It also causes brain damage.
It can give you a concussion.
It has all these problems, and of course the Oakland police decided to pull one of these things out.
This has been used, I think, on the G20 riots.
It's been used here and there against our own people.
Philadelphia.
It's really inexcusable.
And so now it's been, now whatever information was released to the public at first seems to be pulled, and I don't know if they're denying they ever used it or what, but the evidence is they probably did.
But they also had a bunch of Those flashbangs.
That's what's very interesting, because here's the denial of the flashbangs.
How do they deny it?
You can see it.
Well, it's interesting because it's not actually the spokeshole for the cops who denies, but the report.
This is from PBS, actually.
They had already thrown bottles at us.
They were going back into a garbage can to retrieve more bottles.
And by policy, we are allowed to use less lethal rounds to neutralize that person and take them into custody.
Police also denied using flashbang grenades as demonstrators had charged.
They said the explosions came from firecrackers thrown by protesters.
Yeah, get me some of them firecrackers.
They rocked.
Those are great firecrackers.
You know what?
This is an outrage.
And I was talking to an author yesterday, interviewing this author for the big book show.
And, you know, once you say to someone, you know, she's like, I wish the Occupy Wall Street people, the Occupy movement had a clear message.
And once you say to them, it should be the same as the Arab Spring.
Remove, you know, regime change, remove the dictator and implement a no-fly zone.
People go, huh.
Yeah, you know, that's actually not so bad.
Because is the footage not identical to what we saw first in Tahrir Square with Egypt?
It was rubber bullets, tear gas.
It's the same thing.
Well, we're missing the guys on camels with baseball bats.
A bunch of cops on camels.
Well, they'll do something different, like donkeys or something.
They'll have some version of it.
You know it's coming.
And of course, as predicted on this show weeks ago, this happened in the dead of night.
They haven't got the guts to do this during the daytime.
No.
And by the way, the flashbangs wouldn't show up so obviously during the day if they were using them.
And those are flashbangs.
I mean, I've seen flashbangs.
Those are flashbangs.
Oh, they had a chopper overhead, and they were shooting pictures, and you could see it was, yeah, it was way firecrackers.
Are you up to speed on the Occupy hand signals?
Pretty much.
I know a few of them.
Well, you know the Twinkle...
Are there new ones coming out?
Well, there's a very...
Is there a book?
Well, there's a link in the show notes at 351.nashownotes.com, which is...
A video.
I think it's Occupy Seattle where they go through.
It's a general assembly.
By the way, this is total mind control when this repeating.
This is not about everyone has a voice or a megaphone.
This is mind control.
This is dronery.
To sit there and like, and the hand signal is, and the hand signal is.
You can't see the hand signal, but I want you to listen to the description, then I'll tell you what the hand signal is.
Eagers!
I can't hear what's being said!
I can't hear what's being said!
Wrap it up!
Wrap it up!
This is taking too much time!
This is taking too much time!
I get your point.
Please finish!
Now here it comes.
Listen to this one.
Process point!
Process point!
Process is not being followed off topic!
Process is not being followed off topic!
So do you know the hand...
Wait a minute.
This sounds like a comment blog or something.
Off topic.
Off topic.
Well, it's worse than that.
Do you know the hand signal for process point?
Why are they using a term like process point?
Is this some sort of a seminar we're in?
Let me give you the hand signal and then maybe you can help me.
It is the Illuminati signal where you hold your hand in a pyramid with your thumbs together like Jay-Z does in his videos.
It is the Illuminati hand signal.
No, no.
It's not funny.
I saw this and I was like, wow!
That is funny.
It's the Illuminati hand signal!
The Illuminati says you're not on process point.
Please clarify.
I was like, wow!
You're kidding me!
They're throwing Illuminati signs now.
Either that or it's a Jay-Z commercial for his new CD. I think my microphone is...
If you think about it...
Oh, you're just a falling apart.
I know.
Hold on.
It's that thing again.
That thing.
That wonderful thing.
While we're doing that, I'll entertain the audience.
No.
Okay.
All right.
What?
No, that was good.
That was a little...
Goddamn.
Okay, so maybe...
One of the theses of our show...
They can't hear you when I'm doing that.
Okay.
I think it's fixed now.
Okay.
One of the theses of our show is everything does go back to show business and movie.
Why wouldn't it be the Jay-Z sign?
Maybe they slipped that in just for that purpose.
Yeah, possible.
That reminds me I should buy this CD... Hey, how's Beyonce's baby, actually?
I was just thinking about that, dude.
It's still cutting out, piece of crap.
Anyway, in the morning, John.
In the morning to you, in the morning to all ships at sea and boots on the ground and feet in the air.
And in the morning, everybody, my name is, actually, I am human resource number 3,282,515,303 as calculated by the BBC Human Resource Number Calculator.
Which is very cool.
Oh, where is it?
In the show notes.
No, is there a URL findable or is it something I can Google?
You can Google, I'll tell you what to Google.
It's, I don't know, it's somewhere, I'll give you the 7 billion people and you, what's your number?
That's what you want to Google.
I'm Googling BBC Human Resource Calculator.
No, no, no, no, no.
Oh, this is interesting because I get BBC. How does a human calculator do it?
Go to 7 billion people and you.
Google that.
And all you have to do is input your birth date, and then it gives you your human resource number.
Well, why would it be in the trillions if there's only 7 billion people?
Well, I was born in 1964.
So what?
There was already a whole bunch of people around by then.
Oh, they're talking about the number of people that are also dead.
No.
Yeah, that's how you get to seven trillion.
I'm sorry, seven billion.
My mistake.
Oh, I should be whipped.
I should be shot.
I'm a slave and I don't know my number.
I'm sorry, my human resource number is 3,282,515,303 reporting, sir!
And, of course, in the morning to all of our human resources in the chat room, obtain your number!
Use it as your Twitter handle, everything!
Use your human resource number!
They're at the, uh...
Noagendastream.com, noagendachat.net.
I was a little overzealous there with the trillion.
All calculations provided by the United Nations Population Fund.
I'm telling you, it's for real.
They literally gave me my number.
What's your number?
I don't even want to do the calculations.
Come on!
Screw it.
Do your number.
Let's see if you have a low number.
Hang on.
We've got someone in the chat room who's 5,542,843.
Wait a minute.
Here's the thing.
What about two people born on the same day?
Here's what I'm going to do.
Hang on.
No, it's...
Well, look.
Okay, I got a number here.
What's your number?
I... Where's my number?
Just as I was...
When I was born...
You hit go.
I were the...
Yeah.
2-6-1-4-5-4-4-3-9.
Person alive on Earth.
7-5-8-5-8-7-2-4-6-2-7.
Yeah, you're in the 2 billion club.
Now, let's do it again.
Oh, you think it'll be different all of a sudden?
Well, what about two people born on the same day?
Is it going to be the same number?
I don't know.
Do it again.
See if you get a different number.
You won't let me do it again because the Go is grayed out.
You have to go to a different browser on a different machine.
They're tracking you.
Don't worry.
I'm telling you.
This will be a...
Sam knows.
This is bullcrap.
This is bullcrap.
Really?
You think so?
This is not official?
I want my official number, damn it.
I want my official human resource number according to the United Nations.
Well, anyway, I still feel like a human resource.
Why do they do this?
Oh, I see.
To prepare you.
Oh, look at, because there's a hockey stick graph at the bottom.
Yeah, like we're all going to die.
It's going from you are here to, oh my God.
Yeah, as soon as it'll be.
We're all going to die.
Everybody under number four billion, report to the FEMA camp.
Your shower is ready.
Yeah, people should definitely look this up.
Look at this.
So there's this word that cropped up over the past couple days, and of course I know that you've been following the actual news along with me for the actual news media in the United States of Gitmo Nation.
It's totally...
Don't look over here.
Nothing to see here.
Ooh, look at that.
Please don't look at what's happening in Europe.
Please, go look at Herman Cade's smoking ad or smiling ad.
Please don't look at what's happening.
A new word!
SPIV! SPIV? SPIV! SPIV! SPIV stands for Special Purpose Investment Vehicle.
Unfortunately, the idiots in Brussels don't realize this is also slang, British slang, for a person who makes a living by underhand dealings or swindling.
Ha ha!
Such idiots.
Does no one have the Urban Dictionary in Brussels?
Do they not see the irony?
Or is it just throwing it in my face?
I think the latter.
I think the former.
They're too dumb to throw that in your face.
Like, hey man, I got a great idea.
Hey Herman, look, we call it Spiv.
We are like black marketeers.
That's Angela.
That's my Angela.
Angela Merkel.
No, that's your same old, what's his name, Brzezinski.
No, Brzezinski is very much like this.
No, no, this is Angela.
So, the United States of Gitmo Nation Europe, United States of Europe, which now truly is becoming the United States of Europe, only the states have no say in the matter.
They decided late last night or early in the morning for the Europeans that they have a deal and markets respond accordingly.
Everyone's vibing on it.
Everyone's groovy.
I have Haiku Herman's victory speech here if you'd like to listen to that just so we can set the stage a little bit.
Oh, is he going to do some poetry while we're at it?
No haiku, unfortunately.
But just his little victory speech about how great they are.
Good morning.
Good morning.
As I said to the journalist...
Good morning.
Ducks walked into a bar.
Good morning.
As I said to the journalist only a few hours ago.
Last night was a...
What a non sequitur.
What is the point?
Good morning, as I said to a journalist only a few seconds ago.
Thanks, douche!
Crucial political step.
Sometimes I hear complaints that markets don't give democracies the time we need to get things approved.
There is some truth in it.
But I am deeply convinced the markets will give us the time we need when they see a clear direction and a clear determination.
I've worked hard with all the European Council members.
I work so hard.
I'm such a hard worker.
And in particular the President of the European Commission to achieve this result.
Yeah, I rock.
All along, we had a double duty.
Dealing with the current crisis and preventing a new one from arising.
Oh, okay.
Taking emergency actions, like setting up rescue funds, but also putting together, step by step, a new economic governance to help avoid future problems.
Hello, that would be one you can cross off in the red book.
I predicted this, I predicted there'd be new global governance...
As the integration of the United States of Gitmo Nation Europe is now closer than ever because of the purposeful failing of the euro.
The European Union is often charged with coming up with too little and too late.
The markets have the luxury of moving at the speed of a click of a mouse.
Political processes...
Yeah, those stock guys are always looking at the mouse.
Click of a mouse.
They are working at their most rapid, cannot deliver so speedily.
Speedly.
In politics, one needs time to bring everybody on board.
Time is the politician's cement.
You'll remember that one.
Time is the politician's cement.
This is going to be one of his new haikus.
Cement.
Vet.
Politicians.
Dry.
Thank you.
Thank you.
We can give to the public, to the markets, and to ourselves.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Emergency what?
Who knows?
You said emergency.
That was a key right there, that emergency thing.
Well, let's listen to it again then.
Prevent them from arising.
And it is also crucial.
Rapid cannot deliver so speedily.
In politics, one needs time to bring everybody on board.
Time is the politician's cement.
Yet it is crucial that we put in place rules and procedures that will anticipate problems in the future and prevent them from arising.
And it is also crucial that we develop emergency procedures enabling a more speedy and flexible reaction.
Yeah, you're right.
The emergency procedures.
So they released a 15-page document.
Now, of course, all you're going to hear about in the media, I think, is the three main things.
That private investors in Greece and other failing states of Europe, such as Spain and Italy, that they are taking a 50% haircut I'm going to have some information on that.
The second one is the leveraging, please listen carefully, the leveraging of the European Stability Fund, the ESFS, whatever it is, the Starship Enterprise.
They're leveraging by up to five times.
So they have about 250 billion euros in the fund, and they're going to leverage it.
Explain that to me.
No, that's how they get to the trillion.
That's how they get to the trillion.
They're going to leverage it, which means basically borrow against it from China and other countries who are very interested.
Now, the third one is the recapitalization of the banks.
This is an important one.
I believe that means we take money from the slaves and give it to bankers.
Is that a correct assessment?
Well, that seems to be the model.
Okay.
However, the 15-page document, which I would like to go through just briefly here and read a couple of highlighted passages, of course you'll find it in the show notes linked under the assets section, 351.nashownotes.com, the wordage is very interesting.
Want to go through that for a second?
I'm all ears.
All member states of the Euro area are fully determined to continue their policy of fiscal consolidation and structural reforms.
Cross it off in the red book.
Fiscal consolidation, which means tax consolidation coming to you from Brussels.
A particular effort will be required of those member states who are experiencing tensions in sovereign debt markets, i.e., you're screwed.
Action should include enhancing labor market changes to increase flexibility at firm level and employability of the labor force and other reforms to improve competitiveness, especially extending the reforms in the service sector.
I read that as lower minimum wage.
How do you read it?
Well, I don't read it.
You're reading it.
But, it could be.
Italy will now implement the proposed structural reforms to increase competitiveness by cutting red tape, abolishing minimum tariffs in professional services, and further liberalizing local public services and utilities, i.e., we're selling off your crap.
We take note of the plan to increase the retirement age to 67 years.
Oh yeah, this has gotten everybody in an opportunity.
Keep working, Italian slaves.
Good job on you.
Especially the Greeks who retire at 55 or something like that.
We support Italy's intention to review structural fund programs by reprioritizing projects and focusing on education, employment, digital agenda, and railways networks with the aim of improving the conditions to enhance growth and tackle the regional divide.
Now here's the first mention of some of the words that become interesting.
We invite the commission, that's Starfleet Command in Brussels, to provide a detailed assessment of the measures and to monitor their implementation.
So this is the first time they're using the word monitor, but it gets a little bit better further on.
In context of the new program, the commission in cooperation with the other Troika partners.
Now the Troika...
Just to explain, first of all, when was this used in history, the Troika?
Wasn't it used like a bad term?
Wasn't it something in the Russian?
It was mostly used for various forms of government where nobody could agree on who was running the thing, so they created a Troika, and I believe it's a Russian term because I think the Russian communists did this every so often.
Well, the Troika in this case is the European Central Bank, The IMF and the Starfleet Command in Brussels.
So, you know, there's basically two financial parties, one of which is certainly external to the EU, the IMF. Did they use the word Troika?
Oh, yeah.
Troika.
The Troika Partners.
This is the classic communist term.
These people are just telling it like it is.
Absolutely.
We've taken over.
Including with the involvement of national experts to work in close and continuous cooperation with the Greek government and the Troika to advise and offer assistance in order to ensure the timely and full implementation of reforms.
Now, about the haircut.
To this end, we invite Greece, private investors, and all parties concerned to develop a voluntary bond exchange with a nominal discount of 50%.
It's voluntary.
Now, here's something I didn't know about.
Greece commits future cash flows from Project Helios...
Or other privatization revenue in excess of those already included in the adjustment program to further reduce indebtedness of the Hellenic Republic by up to 15 billion euros.
Did you know about Project Helios?
No.
Project Helios basically turns Greece into one big solar panel.
It is...
Now, I'm reading from a couple months ago.
It's a mammoth, according to the International Herald Tribune, 10 gigawatt solar plant that encompasses 200 square kilometers of public land.
So, essentially, they're taking all of that money that comes from selling that energy, if they sell it, I guess, and they have to give it back.
So this goes on.
This crap goes on and on and on.
And here's the SPIV. We agree on two basic options.
This is the agreement they signed, basically.
Two basic options to leverage the resources.
So this is how they're going to take that $250 billion and turn it into a trillion.
Maximizing the funding arrangements of the EFSF with a combination of resources from private and public financial institutions and investors, which can be arranged through special purpose investment vehicles, SPIV, i.e.
black marketeers.
The leverage effect of each option will vary depending on their specific features.
So essentially, it says right here, but could be up to four to five.
So they're going to leverage that money to come up with more.
Now, when we started this podcast in, was it 2008?
I think it was 2008, right?
I thought it was in the 40s.
Might as well have been.
We're just repeating it.
So I had just started to become very interested in the Lisbon Treaty, which essentially, for those of you who are forgotten or too young, was the Constitution of the United States of Europe, which was voted down, and then they pulled it apart, split it into all these different pieces, and called it the Lisbon Treaty.
And of course, France and the Netherlands voted against it, Ireland voted against it, do-over, it was voted in, we're done.
But I specifically remember discussing the protocols, which is something that is rarely referred to.
The protocols are these documents that sit somewhere else that essentially tell you how it's going to be done, which includes the right to arrest anyone who has a contagious disease, such as swine flu, the flu, AIDS, whatever you got, and the right to kill human resources if they run away from the police.
And this is the first time I've seen a document that references one of the protocols openly, namely protocol number 14.
And this will be for the Euro group, working group.
They get to elect a president, and it looks like they're going to elect this Finnish guy who's been a shill from day one.
And this is the guy who's going to oversee all of this stuff.
And here's how they're going to do it.
And this is where it gets into the crazy language.
Hold on a second.
I just need to find the word.
I'm sorry.
It's such a crazy document.
The word surveillance keeps cropping up.
And I don't know if there's a legal definition for the word surveillance.
Other than exactly what I think it sounds like?
John?
Well, you know, I'm guessing...
Let me throw in a couple of things here before we get too much on a track.
First of all, I think this whole thing is bullcrap.
I think they're just stalling.
The whole system is about to collapse and they don't want to just do anything they can to keep it from happening.
And I've got some clips that are interesting to kind of back up my thesis.
And so this is just a bunch of arm-waving and bullcrap just to keep the stock market going.
And in fact, it really triggered the U.S. stock market.
Yeah, we're up 300 points or something.
That's fantastic.
They fixed it.
They didn't fix anything.
And they didn't agree on anything, and as you point out, most of the stuff that they did kind of agree on, even though it's vague, is all...
You know, it's leverage and a bunch of other bull crap.
The Germans, in fact, Merkel on today's front page of the New York Times looks dour and it doesn't look like she's a happy camper about anything.
She didn't eat her Wheaties, that's for sure.
When does she look otherwise?
Ever since George Bush grabbed her.
So I'm not convinced that any of this is really anything more than panic.
And I will say that to defend the use of the word surveillance, I'm assuming that it refers to financial oversight.
Well, let me read it and then we can move on from this.
The legislative package on economic governance strengthens economic and fiscal policy coordination and surveillance.
After it enters into force, it will be strictly implemented as part of the European semester.
That's a whole other thing you've got to look into.
We call for rigorous surveillance by the Commission and the Council, including through peer pressure and the active use of the existing and new instruments available.
Woo-hoo!
So essentially, what this means is you are now going to have taxes determined by Brussels, and I predict the main one will be a harmonization, one of their favorite words, of the value-added tax.
This is what's going to happen.
Actually, that's a good one to put in the book.
Let me put it in there.
Let's back up and see how this all began.
Play my clip.
The EU did not follow its own rules.
Yeah, you're right.
And this started a while ago.
The Constitution we're on, which is so beautifully designed, is our second Constitution.
We had the Articles of Confederacy for a few years with the same problems.
A bunch of states didn't want to be one federal union.
So it doesn't surprise me they're dealing with this now, but they've got to make some hard decisions.
I would agree that initially the mistake was to get into a currency union without having the political union right there to start to support it.
That was the original sin, but then they spent ten years flouting their own internal rules.
They had a Maastricht That required countries not to run budget deficits in excess of 3% of GDP. That didn't stop Greece having a budget deficit of 15% of GDP, Ireland 14% of GDP,
Portugal and Spain close to 10% of GDP. Once you build up those imbalances in a fixed exchange rate system, it's too late to be talking about we should have more political union and The better structure,
you've really got to address those imbalances and it's very difficult to do that without having the benefit of a devalued currency that promotes export growth as an offset to the kind of fiscal adjustment.
These countries are having to do four or five percentage points of fiscal adjustment in a year right in the middle of a recession.
This just doesn't work.
So this guy is an ex-IMF director back in the 90s who seems to think the IMF is telling everybody the wrong things to do.
And he's a contrarian.
This is a congressional hearing.
And I think what the surveillance...
This kind of points out what the surveillance is.
In other words, these guys were violating all their own basic...
What they signed up for.
Because there was no surveillance in terms of making sure these people were following the rules.
According to this guy, if you want to listen to some more of his material, he is a great pill in terms of there's no happy outcome.
In fact, you can play no happy outcome for the euro.
Well, I actually saw this, and I want to listen to these clips.
I saw this on C-SPAN. I followed it with great interest.
I assert, however...
That these policies were set in place and purposely violated.
It started with Germany, actually.
Germany was the first one to go over the 3% debt versus GDP ratio.
They were the first ones.
These are the most fiscally sound guys in the nation.
I think was done on purpose to get to this point, to get to the political union, to get to the fiscal harmonization.
That's what I think went on here.
I like the way you're thinking.
If I'm going to listen to the IMF guy or the former guy, I'm going to have to conclude that that's possible what you're saying, but it may be that they've screwed it up so badly that they can't get there without having a massive depression.
And by the way, that could be too.
If you're going to just take your theory to the complete limit, you have to have the massive depression, which then that's when you can consolidate power a lot easier than when everyone's happy.
Ah, well I think that what might happen is we might see a war and the war will come between the Eurozone EU members and the non-Eurozone EU members.
So you'll get the UK and Sweden and what's the other one?
Switzerland.
No, Switzerland's not in the EU at all.
Who uses the franc?
Oh, they're not in the EU. I'm sorry.
You're right.
Switzerland, interesting.
Never trusted those guys.
The Swiss are not in the EU and neither is Norway.
But you may see the UK bond with other countries who don't use the euro and maybe not even in the EU at all.
That's a possibility.
I mean, because Sweden and I don't know what Finland, if they use the EU, I think they do.
Yeah, no, they do.
They do.
I don't know.
It's a possibility.
England's always on the, always seems to be part of a war against Germany trying to save the French.
Well, let's listen to what this guy says about the outcome for the Euro.
What can we do here in the United States?
What can the administration do in order to try to help facilitate that?
It's really limited.
It's like watching a family member who's about to marry somebody they really shouldn't marry.
You can provide advice.
There's not a lot more you can do.
Let me just take that another step further, and Dr.
Lockman or Mr.
Oshie, please chime in if you'd like, but what can we do in the United States recognizing the issues that are over in Europe right now and how potentially disastrous they could be?
What can we be doing here in Congress to try to help insulate that crisis for the American taxpayer?
I think that what one can do is base one's policy on realistic assumptions.
I would agree with Mr.
Elliott that there's not much one can do about a dysfunctional political union where the problems, the political problems, are huge.
I don't think that it's a question of dithering leadership.
I think that is a question that you've got electorates that really don't have their heart in wanting to bail out countries.
You've got really very deep divisions how the burden should be shared politically, that the Germans have got a different view of the world than the French do.
These are very deep differences that I'm not sure that there's a whole lot that we can do to resolve.
The point is they got themselves into a currency arrangement that made very little sense.
They didn't play by the rules for 10 years.
I don't think that you can expect a very easy solution.
These problems have been building for a long, long time.
And in my career at the International Fund, I've never seen such huge public finance imbalances and external imbalances in a fixed currency arrangement.
than we've got in Europe, which doesn't give me much hope that this is going to have a happy outcome.
Yeah, well, it's not for the slaves, but it'll have a very happy outcome for the elites.
John, this has been going since 1958, since they started with the first European Atomic Treaty.
It's just been going on and on and on, and they've been planning this.
It's planned.
This is an absolute plan, and the Germans are mainly behind it, which is why they popped the 3% rule in the first place.
I like it.
I know what you're saying.
Yeah, but you shouldn't like it.
You should be outraged by it.
Don't like it.
It is outraged.
Well, it's kind of interesting to observe.
I think there's a book in it.
Yeah, yeah.
It's called Process Point Violated.
We're all screwed when these guys go down.
There may be some thinking like that on our side of the Atlantic, and these guys don't ever say that this is a great thing for the United States, but we seem to be, and we've discussed this on the show before, that we seem, because of the nature of our economy and the way we've handled it, we're not going to avoid a massive downturn.
I mean, that's not going to happen, but we seem to be somewhat armored against what Could really happen that's incredibly bad in Europe, which I think is a foregone conclusion.
Now, why do you think we're somewhat armored against that?
I think because our economy is not tied to those guys.
In fact, there was actually a good discussion on CNN or CNBC World about the fact that we can't be taxed when every time somebody screws up in Europe.
I mean, we're not part of that system.
I mean, you can see that we're trying to be dragged into it with this one-world government nonsense, but except for people like Obama, perhaps, and some of the Democrats, the American public's not going for it.
Well, I'll tell you that the way Obama is going...
I'm a little disappointed.
Unfortunately, the clip failed.
Oh, no, I do have the clip.
It's to play the Thomas Friedman.
Here's a guy, an American, you know, three-time Pulitzer winner.
And listen to the blather.
He has a new book out.
Of course.
And the blather.
See if you can catch kind of the one-world notion that he's pushing, because he's an agenda-ist, we call it.
The basic...
The basic point we're making in the book is that we believe that the political system is completely stuck right now, okay?
And that between the two parties, and the system needs a shock, that we need to open up the discussion in a certain group of areas, Bill, that, well, we just had at least...
What are the things that I'd love to see on the table that aren't on the table right now?
Carbon tax.
There's a whole set of issues, okay, that are just, like, off the table right now.
And I would love to see a presidential debate, okay, with the Republican, the Democrat...
And an independent candidate, okay, who brought up all these other things.
Let's end the filibuster.
Let's have a carbon tax.
Well, this is going to happen, and I'll tell you why.
As the president announced when he talked about his American Jobs Act, he said, if Congress won't do it, I will.
And he's doing it.
And this went kind of unnoticed by the media and by us.
The first thing he did without congressional approval, vote, or even discussion was removing the – or giving out waivers for no child left behind.
And in the past week, it's completely unreported, all of a sudden Congress goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on a second.
What did he just do?
And now they're debating it.
The next thing, You know, I'm going to give all the students, and you can just cross it off out of the red book, I'm going to help you on the belly out of your student loans.
And he's done this without congressional oversight, approval, or even discussion.
He is now acting like a dictator, and he's doing it by executive order.
Well, you know, one thing that's interesting, because this has been mentioned, it hasn't been reported in much detail, but he did make the threat, he did it at the Oval Office, and he did it again.
He said, well, Congress isn't going to agree with what I want, and so I'm just going to do it.
And he's basically said that two or three times now, which is essentially taking the executive order power and upping the ante.
I have been wondering for years how far this executive order idea, which has been abused, By a lot of the presidents.
I don't know when it began.
We should probably do a little research and see where...
Because I bet you there's an interesting curve.
But from what I could tell, because I know Clinton did a bunch of weird ones that were just basically executive orders for his buddies.
When it was going to be the executive order could just take care of legislation.
Just legislate from the Oval Office.
Make a...
Make it an executive order.
Take that whole jobs, jobs, jobs bill and make it an executive order.
Why even give it to Congress?
If you can do any executive orders, why can't you do that?
The first executive order issued by George Washington.
Damn.
That would be the first guy.
But no one's abused it.
The potential for abuse is there, it seems to me.
I think Dwight Eisenhower.
Used it to organize the intelligence agencies at the beginning of his term, and then Roosevelt kicked in with a lot of them.
Again, for the creation of agencies, this is when the surveillance state really started.
So it was really around the Eisenhower era.
And George Washington's executive order was instructing the heads of departments to make a clear account of matters in their departments.
Like, alright, that's not such a huge one.
It's kind of like, hey.
That's an internal thing for his own group.
Yeah.
It's the boss here.
You go clean up your crap.
Show me your spreadsheets.
I get that.
I get that.
Well, there's a couple of things that are very worrying.
And let me go through the PR portions, and let me go through the really bad portion, and I'm just going to make another prediction.
It's just going to keep going.
So first of all, this executive order stuff, I really do believe that, as you point out, we're moving towards dictatorship, because that's really what it is.
I mean, it's just, hey, shut up and do as I say.
So...
Obama shows up here in California, President Obama, I would like to say, and he goes on The Tonight Show.
Did you see this by any chance?
Oh yeah.
So I had to pull a couple of clips.
By the way, before you go on, because I know you're going to say this, so I'm going to say it first.
This was the most rehearsed interview I have ever seen in my life.
No kidding.
It was like, why doesn't Leno just hold up a sheet and read from it?
It was obvious that the questions were prepared by Obama.
He didn't ask anything off-topic or even an ad-lib question.
They were structured in such a way that this was not even Leno's voice.
Leno talks a certain way and he has a certain pattern.
This was structured in some way that was obviously done by the press.
It was ridiculous.
And there were no obvious questions.
No obvious ones.
This is the closest he got to something that was kind of interesting.
This is about droning people and laughing about it, essentially.
It's not something that I think we should relish.
And, you know, there was a reason after Bin Laden was killed, for example, we didn't release the photograph.
You know, I think that there's a certain decorum with which you treat the dead, even if it's somebody who has done terrible things.
Yeah, like what Hillary Clinton did.
Have we all forgotten what she did?
I mean, is that all of a sudden, we just don't remember that anymore?
We came, we saw, he died.
Yeah, so that's respecting the dead.
That's respecting the dead.
So then let's try this one out for size.
How hard was it to make that decision to send in those Navy SEALs?
Because that could have been...
Could have been a disaster.
But the reason I was able to do it was...
He finished the question Leno didn't finish, by the way.
Of course, because he's just reading along.
He knew what to say.
When you meet these SEALs and you talk to them, they are the best of the best.
They are professional.
They are precise.
They practice.
They train.
They understand what exactly they intend to do.
They're prepared for the worst in almost every circumstance.
So even though it was 50-50 that bin Laden would be there, I was 100% confident in them.
And I could not have made that decision were it not for the fact that our men and women in uniform are the best there is.
Now, what are we missing from this?
What are we missing from this?
The applause sign?
What are we missing from what he's saying?
It's too bad they're all dead!
Well, he missed the accidental death of these guys.
I mean, he's just saying, yeah, they rock, they're awesome.
It could have been so tragic.
He could have said anything.
We have to honor people.
Yeah, we've got to honor dictators who get killed, but not the SEALs who kill the dictators.
Blatantly rude, to say the least.
Well, I thought the one that Leno really, again, is rehearsed, and he was reading from a script...
But the one that was really bad was when they talked about Lockie, and he never mentioned, you know, there's a controversy over you putting out an order to kill an American citizen.
That's the obvious question.
Yeah, not for a second.
Not for a second.
Not for a second.
Let me just finish these up.
Then Obama runs off the rails, and he screws up the language.
We have gone through the worst financial crisis, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
People are hurting out there.
And they've been hurting out there for a while.
And people were having a tough time even before the crisis.
Incomes, wages were all flat.
Costs of everything from college to...
Incomes, wages were all flat.
...to health care, to...
Oh crap, he's thinking, oh crap, I just screwed it up.
Gas, the food, all of it was going up.
Yeah, what happened since he got in?
Did it go down, John?
Did insurance go down?
Did gas go down or did it double?
Everything went up.
He really screwed it up here.
And so people were feeling a lot of pressure even before this crisis.
And so...
And he's blaming it on everybody else.
You got this clip, the Libya thing?
Well, the one I see, the clip that...
I'm trying to...
You didn't pick up on this one.
I thought the most interesting clip was the one I have on Libya, where he all of a sudden, out of the blue, I mean, I thought this was unbelievable.
When the Europeans hear this, especially the Canadian guy who's the head of NATO, the NATO forces that took this thing, this project on, and the French and the rest of them, out of the blue, Obama takes credit for the whole thing as though nobody else did anything.
Now, you took some heat for the whole leading from behind tactic here with Libya.
Explain that.
Well, the truth was we...
This was a phrase that the media picked up on, but it's not one that I ever used.
We led from the front.
We introduced the resolution in the United Nations that...
Allowed us to protect civilians in Libya.
I'm badass, mofo!
When Gaddafi was threatening to slaughter them, it was our extraordinary men and women in uniform, our pilots who took out their air defense systems, set up a no-fly zone.
It was our folks in NATO who were helping to coordinate the NATO operation there.
And the difference here is we were able to organize the international community We're able to get the U.N. mandate for the operation.
We're able to get Arab countries involved.
And so there was never this sense that somehow we were unilaterally making a decision to take out somebody.
Rather, it was the world community.
And that's part of the reason why this whole thing only cost us a billion dollars as opposed to a trillion dollars.
Not a single U.S. troop was on the ground.
Not a single U.S. was killed or injured.
Standby applause sign in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Good job, everybody.
Let's go to commercial.
I'm sorry.
I was directing the show.
So, yeah, the applause was a little offbeat.
I think a guy leaned on the button too soon, to be honest about it.
But this is bull crap.
I mean, all of a sudden he comes out and he starts pounding his chest.
And then bragging about how cheap it was?
Oh yeah, it was cheap.
So he's cheap?
Cheap.
He's a cheap bragger.
It was cheap, man.
It was cheap.
Not a problem.
Days, not months.
Let's get off of this.
We need to give our credit.
Let me just do the last clip because this is my prediction part.
Here's the meme that you're going to be hearing for the next eight weeks.
You ready for it?
See if you can catch the meme, Johnny Boy.
Oops.
I just ran...
I hate it.
When you do the big build-up, you always do that.
I always screw it.
It's like choking.
But I also think that policymakers and future presidents need to understand what it is that we're getting ourselves into when we make some of these decisions.
And there might have been other ways for us to accomplish those same goals.
But the main thing right now is to celebrate...
The extraordinary work that our men and women did and having them home for the holidays.
Ah, that's it!
Home for the holidays!
Bring out the Carpenters!
Oh, there's no place like home for the holidays.
They're going to reissue this.
This will be the theme song.
Yeah, you watch.
Perry Como did the original, but I think they'll reissue the Carpenters because more money to be made.
That's a good one.
Everything's about making money.
Did you notice that Obama, by the way, people who listen to our show listen for Obama.
Every time he says, look...
He said it five times, I believe, and then folks.
Everything is folks.
Our folks in NATO, our folks in the military, our folks.
There's got to be a reason for that.
I know there's a reason for it.
I just don't know exactly what it is.
But he keeps saying it, I think it's to bring the discussion to kind of a homey style, since he's really kind of a dilettante.
Well, I do know whenever someone says we instead of I, that's like lying and pushing possible blame away from you.
And he says we all the time.
All the time.
Yeah, no, he doesn't take the blame for anything, but takes the credit, apparently, for everything.
So if you have a moment, it's in the show notes, 351.nashownotes.com.
Look at the Alterman report.
He has another interview with the White House Insider, which I think really is a real insider.
In fact, two weeks ago, this insider predicted this home for the holidays meme.
And in addition to that...
So this is not your prediction?
No, I predicted...
I'm taking it off.
What do you mean?
You ripped it off from the other guy.
No, okay.
Whichever way you want to do it.
You think I ripped it off?
I'm putting it down, but you're going to get...
I said the Carpenter's Home for the Holidays is going to be re-released.
Oh, you're predicting that the record's going to come out?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
What he...
The title of the most recent interview is that Obama gets off on the drones.
That he loves it.
I think he does.
He seems preoccupied with them.
He totally gets off on the drones.
I'm like, you know, I think that's actually right.
He's like totally into it.
And then when you listen to that White House press corps speech...
I have two words for you.
Predator drones.
I mean, really.
He says it like he's like...
It makes him feel powerful.
Anyway, we got no Predator drones, but we do have some people who helped us out once again this week in keeping our show on the air.
Yes, we have some executive and associate executive producers for today's show I want to thank, starting with Joe Pumphrey out of Mississippi.
In the morning to you both from Gitmo Nation Cottonfield.
This letter will prove that your damnable jingles produce results.
Included with it will be a check for $1,111.11.
The amount is clearly worth the entertainment and critical thought-provoking content you provided since I started listening to the podcast in August.
And the accents you provide.
As I stare at my roadmap of Mississippi, I can see that your podcast has been with me across most of the state.
I travel every weekday for my job as a bargain basement IT consultant.
We are nationwide, baby.
And the show helps keep me awake.
In more than one way, which is a fact.
In fact, that's what we do.
I'm recommending the podcast to all my friends as a refresher on civics.
Your erudition on how corrupted the government has become reminds me of one of my favorite teachers from high school who admonished us that when politicians are talking, they're lying.
When they're not talking, they're scheming.
I hope my donation will go towards helping you to get through the lean months ahead.
I'd like to get some karma sent to my friend, Other Joe.
You've got karma.
Absolutely.
He's going to be a police officer in Jackson, Mississippi, taking the training.
Look for the murder statistic for that town.
You'll see why he needs the karma.
Also, it makes me laugh for reasons I can't explain.
Thank you very much.
So this guy is a lowly IT technician.
On the road, and yet sees somehow able to scrape together 11-11-11 for super lucky karma and to help the show.
That's awesome.
That's heartwarming.
Yeah.
We appreciate it, and it's good to have listeners down in Mississippi where they are skeptical of a lot of things.
Simon Reed, New York, New York, no note.
Well, hold on, hold on.
Sir, he will be a sir today.
Simon Reed maintains domains.nashownotes.com.
Oh.
So he already busts his ass on the show, and he's now completing his knighthood with this last installment.
35148.
Yeah, I thought we had...
Was there no note from him?
I forwarded something to Buzzkill Jr.
Yeah, well, I didn't see it.
Okay.
There's a little K to the side here and column F. I'm not sure what that means.
It's the start of a whole paragraph.
I think it's got something.
There's a B down further.
It's like code.
Cloud Sigma in Deutschland.
We got one of those symbols.
It's some town, or that's the street, I think.
33333.
We'll get to the bottom of that later.
And there'll be all our executive producers and also a couple of associate executive producers, including one from...
Dirk Madreau.
Greetings from land screwed down under.
We get the red-headed dragon and a guy in Speedos.
At least you have cool remote-controlled drones available at any hobby shop.
As with many, I'm a long-time boner, first-time donor.
I love the show, but it takes all my time and stops me listening to others.
And then there's a bit where the wife growls as Adam calls us all to arms.
What?
What the hell is that in the morning greeting?
Who is she?
Who is she texting you so late at night?
What?
Wait a minute, I'm not...
Who is she texting you so late at night?
I think he's confused.
Yeah, he's adulterous.
I don't know what that means.
All great giggles to be had.
I will work my way to top knighthood.
This is hopefully one of my first and many contributions, so could I have a shot at karma?
I really need to get myself on track, career-wise, and a shout-out in the morning to my son, Xander.
Who thought?
Karma.
Alright, and a shout out in the morning to his son Xander.
And one of the listeners, I'm not sure that's on this list, but they think it's hilarious.
We may come to it later, but play it anyway.
Hilarious to play the Chinese version.
Oh, sure.
Massimo Cataneo in Noosa, Queensland, $200.
Good day, John and Adam.
These are two Australians of executive producers.
Long-time listener since before podcast was supported in iTunes.
Please give a birthday shout-out to my beautiful daughter, Julia.
We'll do that shortly.
And she turns 15.
And that'll be our group of producers and executive producers for show...
What is the show number?
351.
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Click on the donation button or also NoAgendaNation.com where there's a donation button and also you can get a slave t-shirt.
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And I understand that the slave t-shirts, the hot for hotties, are in the works.
Those are the thinner ones, the ones that are form-fitting.
Those are the ones that Miss Mickey approved, which is pretty darn awesome.
Then I have, let me see here.
Oh darn, I'm looking for something.
I thought I had it.
Anyway, some PR... Initiatives, these are usually domains that are forwarding to NoAgendaShow.com so you can use them at your discretion based upon the situation you're in if you're promoting the show.
OccupyThePope.com And then I think one of my favorites, LadyMcDeath.
And we have multiple versions.
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We came, we saw, he died dot com.
Wow.
Wow.
That'll be a new one for the drones.
Apparently, Occupy Amsterdam is being shortened.
Do you know what the contraction is for Amsterdam?
What?
A apostrophe D-A-M, i.e.
Adam.
Oh.
Yeah.
Occupy Adam.
Occupy Adam.
So this is everywhere you look in the newspapers in Gitmo Nation lowlands, it says, Occupy Adam, doing well.
So our human resource, Matthias Janssen, decided to register OccupyAdam.com and OccupyAdam.nl.
We appreciate that.
Occupymycrotch.com, now also forwarding to noagendershow.com.
You never know when that could be an ending.
Yeah, that's one of our typical listeners.
Typical, yeah.
A waste of $4.95, but we appreciate it anyway.
Europrison.com, now forwarding.
That's a good one.
That has potential.
And based upon some news, which we'll come to later in the Red Book, Just when you thought ChelseaClinton2016.com was good, it seems we need to move it up, and we have ChelseaClinton2012.com.
What about 14?
She's going to run for Congress.
Yeah, the Senate.
She's going to run for Senate.
Do you think Senate?
No, no, no.
She can't run, no.
Oh, you didn't read the predictions, eh?
No, I read the predictions, but she's running for office.
I didn't hear Senate.
She's not going to...
Where?
What state would elect her?
Well, they elected Barbara Boxer, so I guess there's always that potential.
I could be wrong.
Maybe it was...
I'm not thinking Senate now.
She's got Congresswoman written all over her.
Congressional run.
I'm sorry.
18th District in Westchester County.
Remember what Lucifer said?
Do you remember what she said?
Remember what she said?
Here's what she said.
I noticed that Chelsea's been doing more events.
We saw her a couple of weeks ago doing an event with you.
Do you think she has the Clinton bug for politics?
I don't know.
I don't have any reason to believe that.
I think she does have the public service bug.
There you go.
No, this has been all over the news in the New York area.
It looks like she'll be making a run for the 18th Congressional District.
That's Westchester County.
That's where they have a house.
And this is also, as predicted, based upon our makeup artist who did her makeup and heard her mom talking about raising money for her office run.
Wait a minute, you're telling me that Hillary was disingenuous with that comment?
She's lying to the public?
What a surprise!
I can't believe it!
Yeah, it's pretty disgusting.
And then we had this awesome clip from Maynard.
But for some reason, I seem to have misplaced it.
I'm not sure.
He spoke to a former Black Ops guy.
I'll play it as an end-of-show clip, but just have to get it from email.
He spoke to a Sir, I think Sir Gavin or something or other, and Sir Gavin says, hey, in the morning to you, Maynard, and they go off on this whole tangent, and this is Maynard who works for ABC Australian Broadcast Corporation, they go off on this whole crackpot buzzkill thing.
Sir Gavin of Melbourne, totally promoting the show.
It was outrageous.
I'll play that as an end of show clip.
And thank you all very much.
You can find these domain names at domains.nashownotes.com.
Again, thanks to our executive producers and our associate executive producers for saving our ass once again.
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Shut up, slave.
I forgot to congratulate you.
Thank you.
On 10 years of the Patriot Act.
Oh, great.
Yeah.
Dylan Rattigan celebrated this.
This guy...
Yeah, he can't be long for the world.
I agree.
Listen to what he said about it.
Well, then again, you've got to remember, since Cable Town bought MSNBC, or NBC, they could be, and they're conservative.
They're conservative, family-oriented.
It's possible that Rattigan's actually on just the opposite.
In fact, I'll make this prediction.
He's on the fast track to primetime.
Let's listen.
Well, it was ten years ago today that President Bush signed the USA Patriot Act into law designed to give the FBI more counter-terrorism power in an era of extraordinary fear immediately following 9-11 and the invasions of Afghanistan and, of course, Iraq.
Noble intentions, perhaps, but power, as we know.
when it is allocated to a few without any visibility and without any enforcement mechanism for integrity can be a complicated thing at best an exquisitely dangerous one at worst and under the cloak of quote national security right now the FBI is able to invade our privacy yours and mine withhold its reasoning behind that invasion searching you or me and issue letters that prohibit you or me from letting anyone know That you are being investigated.
Sounds like a third world country, doesn't it?
Yeah.
Overthrow the regime, remove the evil dictator, and implement a no-fly zone.
It's not that hard, people.
We really need to get on this.
We did discuss this, the FBI, the famous FBI letter, because we had some clips from the guy who had actually gotten one of the letters, and then he went to his lawyer who wasn't supposed to, and the whole thing.
He ended up writing a book about it.
But this is continuing, and it's like, it's ridiculous.
And there's nobody doing anything about it.
The Congress is just...
They're just submissive.
They don't care.
This is like the Rome default during the fall of Rome.
It was the Senate.
They just stopped dealing with anything except they're having a good time partying.
It's actually worse.
There's a bill now that changes the rules of the Freedom of Information Act.
FOIA. Have you heard about this rule change?
No, but I'm sure it's not a positive change.
I guess it's a new constitutional amendment.
I guess it's part of the Bill of Rights now, the right of the federal government to lie.
The Freedom of Information Act came into effect, President Lyndon Johnson, July 4th, 1966.
It gives Americans the right, and really other people the right, to look into the halls of government and see What's going on?
Sure.
By email, by fax, by letter.
Send a request to the particular agency.
Give me the records.
They have a certain amount of days.
You pay and get the records.
Now, by a rule change, the Department of Justice says, we want the capacity to say...
That records don't exist when they do in fact exist.
Now, there are certain exemptions under the law.
Law enforcement, foreign policy, personnel records, personal records involving particular people.
And so that's exemptions built in.
But the ACLU... And other organizations, even middling and right-centered organizations for openness in the government, are saying, listen, this is going too far.
Don't explicitly say that it's going to be a policy of the federal government to say we're going to lie.
So this is fascinating when you read the text of this proposed bill.
Now, hold on a second.
Wait a minute.
Stop the presses.
Yeah.
I thought this was going to be the most transparent thing.
Administration in the history of the United States.
And this is going on?
This makes no sense to me.
Well, you fell right into my trap because I pulled the exact words from President Obama about the Freedom of Information Act.
The way to make government...
This is from 2009.
...possible is to hold it accountable.
And the way to make government accountable is to make it transparent so that the American people can know exactly what decisions are being made, how they're being made, and whether their interests are being well served.
The directives I am giving my administration today on how to interpret the Freedom of Information Act will do just that.
For a long time now there's been too much secrecy in this city.
The old rules said that if there was a defensible argument for not disclosing something to the American people, then it should not be disclosed.
That era is now over.
Starting today, every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known.
To be sure, issues like personal privacy and national security must be treated with the care they demand.
The mere fact that you have the legal power to keep something secret does not mean you should always use it.
The Freedom of Information Act is perhaps the most powerful instrument we have for making our government honest and transparent and of holding it accountable.
And I expect members of my administration not simply to live up to the letter, but also the spirit of this law.
I will also hold myself as president to a new standard of openness.
Going forward, anytime the American people want to know something that I or a former president wants to withhold, we will have to consult with the Attorney General and the White House Counsel, whose business it is to ensure compliance with the rule of law.
Information will not be withheld just because I say so.
It will be withheld because a separate authority believes my request is well grounded in the Constitution.
Let me say it as simply as I can.
Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
Did you hear what he said at the end there?
What, it's going to be the rule of law and transparency will be the touchstones of this presidency?
I think he said touchstones.
No, he said touchstone.
No, I don't think so.
Yeah.
No, I don't think so.
I think he said touchtones.
Seriously.
We'll play it.
The touchstones of this president.
He says touchstones.
He said touchstones.
You're right.
He's saying touchstones.
What the hell's a touchstone?
Let me say it as simply as I can.
Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this president.
I know what touchstones are.
Here's touchstones.
All right, everybody, it's time to take caller 100.
All right, we'll take it now on the C100 Freedom Lines.
Just listen for the touchstones.
He was doing a radio promotion.
So, justify this guy saying this one thing and then the other thing happening and not being completely beside themselves and the media in particular over something like this.
You heard him, what he said.
Yeah.
It was a promise.
But I know why this is being done.
This is being done because now they're getting into Fast and Furious, and they're getting into Solyndra, and Fisker, and Husker Du, and all of these different...
Yeah, they got their tit in a ringer.
$35 billion that this loan program consisted of, and people are figuring out that this went to people who bundled donations.
Stooges.
Yeah, and by the way, Kleiner Perkins up front.
Their investors in Fisker Husker do.
Half a billion dollars.
And no matter which way you put it, Fisker, Tesla, these are high-end automobiles.
These are elitist mobiles.
Jason Calacanis drives one of these things.
This is an $80,000 car.
This is not helpful.
No, it was over $120,000, wasn't it?
I think it's gone down a bit.
Oh, it's gone down?
I think they came out at $125,000.
The little, dinky little Lotus with the electric engine.
Let's see.
Price of Tesla.
The original Tesla was $125,000, I'm sure of it.
Let me see.
The price of the Tesla...
It's not really giving me that.
Of course not.
Before you get the battery...
It doesn't say what the price is.
I thought it was 80.
Maybe the Fisker is 80 grand.
But that's twice the...
Oh, wow.
Base price of the 2013 Tesla?
$49.99.
Huh.
No, they dropped it quite a bit.
Oh, wait a minute.
That's the car they haven't produced yet.
Oh, that's that cheap disposal.
It's just a prototype.
Yeah, it's the one made of clay.
It's a nice car.
They had it at Oracle.
I think I had some photos of it.
I never posted them.
But I went over to Oracle World.
Yeah.
They take over the city of San Francisco, and they had one of that car, because I think Ellison's deep into investing in it as an operation.
Dude, I remember...
They're going to hate me for saying this, but I don't care.
I remember being invited, and accepting the invite, on Ray Lane's G5 jet to fly from San Francisco to, I think it was Burbank...
It was Burbank or...
No, it was Long Beach.
And they had the Teslas.
It was like a huge elitist thing.
It was lined up.
There's the eBay guy's plane.
Everyone's plane was there.
Seriously, and they had Teslas, and you would wait in line, and they had drinks and everything, and then you'd get in almost like a...
Yeah, like a carnival ride, and you get in line, and you step off a little podium into the car, and you wait for the next one to come along, and it was your turn, and then you'd ride around the tarmac.
They had, you know, like Top Gear.
They had a whole part of the track.
Yeah, and this was the investor scam, and, you know, this also got them the money.
The huge elitist thing.
Did you go?
I told you, of course I went!
You crazy?
Oh, so you drove the Tesla.
Did you even get in one?
No, I did not.
I did not get in one.
Why?
I don't stand in line for anything.
I did, however, fly...
So you're telling me there's a bunch of guys flying with their private jets standing in line?
Yeah, to ride a Tesla.
And then they were putting up on the board who had bought one.
Oh, brother.
On a big LED board.
That's like something you find out in Alabama.
Yeah.
Yeah, we got a pig for sale.
We got a pig right here.
Big, fat pig.
Now, anybody wants to buy this pig?
Put your name on the list.
Like the Necham's Auto Auction.
They do that, too.
We got a buyer over here.
We got a buyer.
So who was there that bought one?
Oh, everyone was there.
Bezos.
Everybody bought one?
Yeah.
But you couldn't.
I don't think you could fit in one of these things.
It's a lotus.
No, I don't fit in the lotus body.
It's a little lotus body.
It's dinky.
No, but I wasn't interested.
The reason I went is...
You just wanted a free ride.
You're just more interested in the G5. I sat up front in the G5, and it was just so hilarious.
And it was with Bloom and Marta.
So it was like four people in a G5, which holds 20 people.
That's how disgusting it is.
But I like Ray Lane, by the way.
He's a good guy.
I'll ride in your jet.
So I flew jump seat in the cockpit.
This is brand new.
And these pilots are all cocky, like...
And Ray Lane's in the back, so I didn't see this, but they're drinking scotch and stuff, and he's like, I don't need to wear my seatbelt on my own plane.
And they land, and for some reason, the brakes were on lock when they landed, so the rear wheels hit the tarmac, and boom!
The nose wheel slams down.
Apparently, Ray Lane went flying through the entire cabin with the scotch all over himself.
Rolling down the aisle.
Yeah, yeah.
The whole thing was embarrassing.
They were showing off.
I got my license.
You propeller boy.
You helicopter boy.
Watch us.
Boom!
I almost broke the nose gear off.
That was a funny little bit.
Anyway, so that's why I think this Freedom of Information Act change bill has been implemented.
As part of a massive government cover-up is what you're accusing this of.
Yes, of course.
Of course it's massive.
Now, the other thing that's happening is, remember we talked about possible race wars, the race card being used, particularly by the Obama administration, to incite violence.
As a last-ditch effort to win.
Yeah, I think we're getting there.
I think we're getting there.
We have to make a decision whether we think he's going to run or not, for one thing, and...
Well, I have kind of a double whammy.
It might be possible that, you know, I think Valerie Jarrett is the only original person left in the White House, and she's so desperate.
She may actually try some kind of false flag event where the president is at least threatened.
Under a racial attack.
And that can swing it either way.
Either that will make him incredibly strong and everyone will want to support him.
Or it will be a reason for him to quit.
I do think it's starting here.
Alan Grayson, he's a Democrat, isn't he?
Yep.
And he's on board with the program.
Here's what he was saying on MSNBC. I mean, for Paul Ryan or any Republican to talk about this, to talk about the president inciting the politics of division, is much like O.J. saying that he's going to devote his life to finding the real killer.
They're the real killers.
That's a, that's a, them fighting words.
He's saying Republicans are racists.
And they're killers.
Found that to be disturbing.
Yeah, that's probably one of the reasons.
You know, Grayson was a hot item for a while.
No, he went and then was like, boop, who cares?
Then finally people figured out that he's just a troublemaker and they got rid of him.
Yeah, he's quite a troublemaker.
But I think we might see that as the pivotal moment.
And of course, this whole bailout of the student loans is an obvious attempt at, and of course, it doesn't start until 2012, an obvious attempt at getting young voters.
Vote for me, I'll give you cash.
I don't see it any other way.
Yeah, it's a bribe.
It's a total bribe.
Vote for me, I'll give you cash.
Why would you have to push this off to 2012?
And then, by the way, when 2012 comes around...
Forget it.
Yeah.
Hey, I'm sorry we tried.
Yeah, good luck there.
Suckers.
Why not?
What else would you do?
Of course.
Well, they always do this.
Just like, did you hear about...
The football is what it really is.
Just like NATO. Did you read about what NATO said?
We've made a decision.
We're going to stay in Libya.
Very important.
Really?
Huh?
Oh, huh?
You would have thunk it.
Somehow, I didn't expect that.
Why would that have ever happened?
Let me see.
I have the NATO's, the NAC will meet with partners on Friday, that's tomorrow, to discuss our Libya mission and take a formal decision.
It's an ongoing process in the UN Security Council.
U.S. Defense Secretary Liam Panetta said Tuesday morning to visit Japan that some of the Libya's leaders had called for NATO to continue its mission during this interim as they tried to establish some new governance.
So it looks like...
Here we go.
NATO official who could not be identified understanding rules.
What the hell does that mean?
What kind of rule is that?
Is that like a freedom of information rule?
I don't know.
Said the alliance has not received any formal request from the Libya's transitional government to prolong its air and naval patrols past the end of the month.
So someone's lying.
Go figure.
But meanwhile, they are not halting their no-fly zone and I guess drone attacks.
I don't know.
And, of course, the obvious NATO troops on the ground is now popping up in YouTube videos everywhere.
I mean, it makes no sense to use any of that on the show because of the audio nature of it.
But just Google NATO troops in Libya and you'll see all kinds of guys moving out of the shot in the background.
Well, look, according to Obama's sense, we're running the whole thing and we're in NATO. Yeah, not a single boot on the ground.
How could that be?
It doesn't make sense.
Somebody's lying to us.
You think?
Well, how about Lucifer?
I think she may be lying.
She was asked on...
Fox News, by the guy who used to be, who's that guy who used to be like on CBS or NBC or something?
Chris Wallace?
Is that his name?
Well, it could be.
I mean, if that's who you're talking about.
I think it is.
He asked her about her quote, which I'm calling Fainy Feedy Killy.
We came, we saw, and he died.
Question.
Do you regret what you said, Secretary?
And if I may, do you regret what you said?
And do you feel Gaddafi was wronged or that he got what was coming to him?
Now, what a setup.
He basically gave her an opening to completely skirt around the entire issue, which she does ad nauseum.
Luckily, Chris comes back in the end.
Well, let's have an investigation.
I fully support the United Nations investigation, and I fully support the Transitional National Council's own call for an independent investigation.
I support it on the merits, because it's important to answer the question.
I find the facts and I support it as part of what will be a challenging transition process.
You know, the Transitional National Council today is going to declare the liberation of Libya.
They are then going to announce a new government.
They need to make it clear that it will be a government to unify the country, to seek reconciliation, to make everyone who supported the former regime, as long as they do, By now, of course, what was the question?
Don't have blood on their hands.
Feel safe and included in a new Libya.
And so from my perspective, I think such an investigation would be very important to establish accountability, rule of law, and pave the way for the inclusive democratic future that the Libyans tell me they want.
Secretary, do you regret what you said?
Well, I'm not going to comment on that.
We didn't even know what was happening at that time because it was an unconfirmed report.
What?
What kind of an answer is that?
I'm not even sure.
Who do you think you are?
I'm not even going to comment on that because it was an unconfirmed rumor at the time.
A democratic future.
Unconfirmed rumor at the time, so I'm not even going to comment on that.
What you said?
Well, I'm not going to comment on that.
We didn't even know what was happening at that time because it was an unconfirmed report.
What does that mean?
I don't know if it was confirmed.
Then she would have commented.
What does it make?
What does it make if it was confirmed or not?
Did you regret saying it is the question?
I know.
She won't say.
And Wallace doesn't.
She obviously doesn't regret it.
No, of course not.
But she hasn't got the guts to say that.
There's only one thing I have heard Hillary Clinton, Lucifer herself, Lady MacDeth say that is the truth, and that's this.
But now, you know.
I want to try some other things.
I want to get back to writing and maybe some teaching, working on women and girls around the world.
That's the only thing that's the truth.
Yeah, she wants to work on some women and girls.
Around the world.
Around the world.
Try to catch up to Bill, who's got a huge bunch of scalps.
Yeah, they're like in competition, who gets the most babes.
She was on the BBC, and we've talked about hubris before.
About the techno experts, about our own State Department training.
Twitterers.
Twitterers.
Facebook.
And, I mean, she...
I was blown away by this.
Now, there's one little side note to this.
You might have seen the article.
The article that came out was from...
I think it was actually...
I think the State Department might have released this.
He says, the equipment developed by California-based Blue Coat Systems is allegedly being used by Syria's autocratic government to block access to the Internet and crack down on dissidents who have been protesting against President Assad for nearly eight months.
Are you familiar with Blue Coat Systems?
No, but I just want to throw in as an aside, when, you know, we're talking about the Oakland riots earlier and there was a thousand people, and then yesterday after they cracked heads there were three thousand, and then as the night fell, Twitter went down.
Oh, this happens all the time.
So I believe this is a, you know, the State Department's like, we're going to look into this.
We can't have American companies selling stuff to countries to, you know, block the Internet.
And then I look at Bluecoat.com, Bluecoat Systems, a list of their clients.
Air National Guard, Army Internet Cafe, Army Operations Center, CENTCOM, Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Commissary, Defense Information Systems Agency, Department of Defense, Dependent Schools, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security.
Of course they're doing it!
These guys are the guys!
They sell the boxes!
And then Hillary goes on the BBC, and I think she's tired, and I think she's like, man, no one gives a crap, these damn Brits, who cares?
No one in America's watching this.
We're doing a lot of work to try to come up with technologies that can circumvent the jamming and the internet.
The jamming!
Don't be jamming the interwebs.
Corruptions and the tracking that the regime are engaged in right now.
We are providing technology, some of which, you know, is more effective than others.
We are certainly training people.
What country do you think she's talking about?
A lot of countries.
Iran.
Both outside and inside to be able to use technology to circumvent.
This is one of my highest priorities.
I've spoken out repeatedly about the right of people to have access to the Internet.
It is freedom of speech and expression and assembly values that we think every human being is entitled to.
But we've also seen the regime in Iran impose what amounts to an electronic curtain.
It's the 21st century equivalent of the barbed wire and the fences and the dogs.
The fences and the dogs and the barbed wire.
And the moats.
This is her analogy to the jamming.
The moats.
The fences.
And the barking cats.
And the boiling oil.
And the boiling people.
And the spears and the arrows that the old Soviet Union used because they come at it from the same mentality.
They want totalitarian control over what you learn and what you say and even what you think and how you worship and all the things that go to the heart of human dignity and human freedom.
So yes, we are doing everything we can.
Now I will quickly add that we're experimenting.
Sometimes we think something will work.
It turns out not to work.
Like make everyone's icon green.
Sometimes we get, you know, maybe a year ahead of the regime's efforts and then they catch up and we have to go back to the drawing boards.
But I want to assure your viewers here in this third world country known as Britain, your viewers, that we are committed to doing everything we can to provide as much communication freedom inside and outside of Iran to people trying to speak out for their rights as possible.
How unbelievable.
So, just an aside here, I think there's some irony in the name Blue Code, because let me just read from the Blue Code of Silence entry in the Book of Knowledge.
The Blue Code, and when you hear it, you realize what it is.
Blue Code or Blue Code?
Blue Code of Silence, also known as the Blue Shield, is an unwritten rule among police officers in the United States not to report on another colleague's errors, misconducts, or crimes.
It's Blue Code.
Oh.
But that has other implications.
Who were the Bluecoats?
Well, let's find out.
Yeah.
I'm going to the book of knowledge.
The Bluecoats.
So, I think Bluecoat would have been better.
Yeah, no, I agree.
I tried to stop you before you put your foot in your mouth.
No, that's okay.
I can go off the deep end.
It doesn't make any difference.
I wonder who invested in them.
Let's see.
Here's Blue Coat Systems.
And they're curious.
They have a police badge as their logo.
Curiously.
So maybe I'm not too far off.
Let's see who's in management.
Board of Directors.
You're out of Sunnyvale.
This is a good thing.
Used to be called cash flow.
I guess they gave up on whatever that was.
Whatever business.
They make a canine web proxy.
That's what they do.
Canine dog.
They're public.
We should invest in these guys.
NASDAQ BCSI. Yeah, 16 bucks, 71 cents.
So you can go look them up and see who the bosses are.
Yeah, I'd like to know who their investors are.
That'd be kind of cool.
Well, the public is.
No, but these guys have angels or A-Round.
That's been long.
That was when they were cash flow, and I think that's long over.
It would be nice to know.
I don't think their investors are meaningful.
Syria using American software to censor Internet, experts say.
Bluecoat denies sale to Syrian censors.
We didn't do it.
Bluecoat Systems acquires S7. Blue coat competes acquisition of Packeteer.
Anyway, I just love how she just says, yeah, we're training.
Yeah, we're training people in Iran.
Don't worry about it.
We're training them.
It's just nothing.
Don't worry about it.
Don't worry about it.
Yeah, we've got all kinds of systems.
We're badass that way.
Huh.
Interesting.
Well, anyway, we're censored here.
It's just a foregone conclusion before they turn on the...
If you're not going to the Amazon.com site to buy some refill ink cartridges, you're not going to get on the net.
Definitely is going to push us out of business at some point.
I want to remind people that one of the reasons that you listen to this show is so you can make sure that...
I mean, everybody who likes the show thinks along a certain line of, you know, reasonable deconstruction of when they...
So they're not believing all the bull crap.
But I honestly believe...
And between you and me, if it was...
A lot of times I'll go off the track very easily, but you have your attitude about stuff and I'll return to the more sensible view.
And I think working together – I think one of the reasons a show where you just have one guy blathering never works because he can be just as easily swayed.
It's extremely powerful, the media messaging and everything that goes on outside the show.
Oh, it's very, very powerful.
Much more powerful than what we do.
All we can do is kind of slap people around a little bit to try to keep them noticing that Bobama keeps saying, look and folks, for some unknown reason.
Well, on that note, I have two clips.
Normally this is your gig.
I have two clips from highly rated dramatized series that propagate the memes of the police state.
The first one is Dexter.
This is from the most recent episode.
Actually, yes, we believe that's our killer signature.
So if you see something, say something.
And now that I listen to that clip, it is so weird, the cadence of this actress's voice.
It's almost like it was dubbed in later.
So if you see, it's like said so clearly.
Did you notice that?
Yeah, it's like it was looped.
Actually, yes, we believe that's our killer signature.
So if you see something, say something.
It's a whole different audio background, too.
So if you see something, say something.
The ambience is different.
But it's almost like she's mind-controlling me.
So if you see something, say something.
I believe that's our killer signature.
Repeat after me.
So if you see something, say something.
So if you see something, say something.
Now, that was bad.
But man, the whammy came from the mentalist.
Before it's a crime, it's pre-crime.
I thought I saw something in Tim's eyes yesterday, but I wanted to make sure, so last night I did.
What'd you see?
He's a man on autopilot.
Set to kill.
If we weren't there to stop him yesterday, I'm confident he would have pulled the trigger.
You got all that from his eyes?
Pretty much.
I'm not doubting you, I'm just fascinated.
Well, there was a tension in his body as well, and the overcoat, but the eyes were enough.
The trouble is, I mean, even if you are right, we can't arrest an offender before he's offended.
It's better than after, don't you think?
Oh.
Yeah, I saw that episode.
I was thinking of that clip.
Better than after, don't you think?
Don't you think?
Yeah, no, I was kind of put off by that, too.
It was definitely a pre-crime message.
And you liked The Mentalist.
That's one of your favorite shows.
Yeah.
That's probably why he didn't pull that quote, that clip.
He said, maybe it's just some joker writer that's not getting it, or he's been convinced, or maybe it was, I don't know.
I was very upset by that myself, yeah.
There was a very interesting discussion.
One of our producers, I think, posted this on NoAgendaNewsNetwork.com.
And he said, you know, with his specific instructions, what to clip.
This was a conversation about the CDC and vaccines.
I think it was from C-SPAN. And this goes right into how mainstream media of all forms, not just television, not just news, but also movies, are being manipulated to propagate an agenda, regardless of what the agenda is and whether we agree with it or not, which we don't, I think, I can safely say.
I'd like you to listen to this bit about the movie Contagion.
Now, we've discussed this.
This movie being basically a whole vaccine, you know, get your vaccine, get your flu shots, but I didn't know that it went to this level.
It's a two-minute clip, but well worth listening to.
It's interesting.
We had a discussion before this started, and one of the real problems today that didn't exist 25 years ago is the Internet.
I mean, it's a great thing, but it's a problem, because once you're on the Internet, you're there, and...
You know, I was saying to somebody, you know, you can go and search on vaccines.
Some of the sites that will pop up have names like the National Center for Immunization, which turns out to be an anti-vaccine site.
It sounds like it's...
So unless you know you're at the Center for Disease Control, the World Health Organization or GAVI or something else...
Ministry of Truth.
...a lot of misinformation spreads.
And so even though...
The Andrew Wakefield paper was withdrawn.
That information continues to circulate and people still talk about it.
I'm sorry.
Stop, stop, stop.
You're going to have to back it up because he said something and then he had a little subliminal thing that he threw in.
Like Andrew Wakefield, not Steve?
Oh, is that what it was?
Yeah.
I wonder what that was about.
Who's Steve Wakefield?
I don't know.
I'll look him up in the book and all that's what you want.
I'm sorry, this is actually the Inside CFR podcast.
So it was on C-SPAN, but this is the podcast version of the Council on Foreign Relations, one of my favorites.
Oh, you're buddies.
Yeah, and now you're about to hear Sophie Delaunay.
Sophie Delaunay, who's executive director...of the U.S. section of Doctors Without Borders, which we have lauded in the past, and I'm about to change my entire opinion.
So what we need is an information campaign.
Unfortunately, governments are at an all-time low in terms of their own confidence levels, and so it's hard to get the message out, but we have to keep going at it.
And by the way, we talked about it in Marin County.
The reason polio broke out in northern Nigeria was because of problems with An anti-vaccine movement there related to concerns, you know, religious leaders had on what was being done.
We've had the same thing happen recently in Pakistan.
We had a situation where, you know, the military used immunization as a potential way to try to get into and get samples of bin Laden's families.
So this is a risky compact, if you think about it.
You go into people's houses, strangers, and you say, hopefully the female vaccinator says...
I'm here.
I'm going to inject this thing into you.
You have to trust me.
It's safe because we tell you it's safe.
And any of these breaks in confidence are huge problems.
I should just note, that's one of the reasons that when I was an advisor on the movie Contagion, we made Jude Law's character, the blogger, the bad guy.
And what's been very interesting since is that the blogging community that deals with health-related stuff on a Wait a minute.
She says that...
The blogging community, okay, so the bad guy is the blogger, and the blogging community, to add insult to injury, let's put it that way, she says the blogging community, I guess she knows who, if there's a spokesperson, I don't know who it is, who supports the bad guy, the blogger's a bad guy?
Even worse, she says, when I was a consultant, that's why we made Jude Law.
I guess they funded the movie.
That's why we made Jude Law.
She's from Doctors Without Borders, which frightens me.
Listen to her again.
I should just note, that's one of the reasons that when I was an advisor on the movie Contagion, we made Jude Law's character, the blogger, the bad guy.
That's pretty heavy.
That's one of the reasons we did it.
To mind control you.
So bloggers are bad guys.
Yes.
Well, no, not according to the spokesperson of bloggers.
We all agree.
You know, it's obvious.
The science is in.
Interesting.
Well, that's depressing.
Council on Foreign Relations and Doctors Without Borders.
That depression.
Well, we have to find a new charity.
Yeah, we do.
And there was more vaccine news.
A government advisory panel recommended today that in addition to young girls, boys as young as 11 should be vaccinated against HPV, the human papillomavirus, to protect against certain forms of cancers.
Meantime, a heated debate is raging over whether to test the anthrax vaccine on children to see whether it would...
Safely protect them against a bioterrorism attack.
Good idea!
That antivax vaccine, even the military guys don't want to use it.
No, of course not.
You don't want to be shot up with some test vaccine.
And what's happening now in the United States of Europe, they are now working on legislation that makes children's medical files, when they're 15, private.
So parents, it literally says this, parents will not be allowed to access their child's medical file Once they turn 15.
And this, of course, is all to, you know, the same thing that happened in California.
Once you're 12, you know, you can go get a flu shot or an HPV shot without telling your parents.
This is the biggest growth market for the pharmaceutical industry is children and shooting them up with stuff that they...
Well, yeah, we've already seen, I mean, they've already doped them up with stuff.
I mean, essentially, every kid who's a hyperactive kid, which seems like a natural thing, you know, they give Ritalin and everything else they can to keep them so they're passive and submissive in class, and it's less of a hassle for the teacher, so you keep the kids on drugs.
You claim they have all kinds of ailments when they don't.
They're just kids.
Last week, the American Academy of Pediatrics revised its ADHD treatment guidelines, giving doctors a green light to prescribe drugs even to preschoolers.
Oh, God.
Really?
Yes.
Preschoolers.
If they have ADHD. Preschoolers are supposed to be morons.
You're supposed to go...
What are they supposed to be?
Albert Einstein, who, by the way, never spoke until he was like in some later years, which means he would have been doped up and we never would have had an Albert Einstein because they would have given him some drugs.
This is the American Academy of Pediatrics who have revised their treatment guidelines.
The drug companies have bought and sold these people.
It's a scandal.
It goes beyond scandal.
In my book, John, this is a complete outrage.
It's an outrage.
You drug up kids with a riddle when they're in preschool.
How old is a preschooler?
Two?
Three?
Four?
Well, it would be any age before, you know, kindergarten.
So it could be like one.
Or just out of the way.
Just born.
Mrs.
Smith, we're so sorry.
Your brand new baby is crying.
I think it's got ADHD. Yeah, it's crying too much.
Yeah, it's crying too much.
They're going to give your baby some Ritalin.
Oh, thank you, Doctor.
Won't cry so much.
Oh, thank you, Doctor.
You'll like that.
That's so nice.
Thank you, Doctor.
Whatever the doctor says, I'll do.
There's another scam which I'm very upset about that I have now tracked in four different cases here in California.
Here's how it goes.
A woman goes to get a pap smear.
They call you on Monday...
Early.
Say, oh, you might have precancerous cells.
We have to do a biopsy.
Then they do the biopsy.
And then it's like, well, you know, we've got to keep an eye on it.
You've got to have a pap smear test every month and a biopsy every three months.
And this is all part of this HPV scam and it's insurance fraud.
And these are young women under 30.
And it's well known that...
This is why insurance rates are so high.
Yeah, pap smears...
It's just everything's an insurance fraud, basically.
It's well known that pap smears in women under 30 can vary wildly.
Because there's all kinds of hormones going on there.
Biopsy.
It's disgusting.
It scares the crap out of them.
It scares the crap out of them, that's for sure.
And this is going on all the time.
And it's the same thing.
And then at the end of that, it's like, you know, you really should get the Gardasil vaccine, you know, you really should.
And by the way, your boyfriend, you should probably have it too.
Yeah.
In case there's like oral sex going on or something.
Yeah, well, great medical establishment.
Yeah.
Self-policing.
Yeah.
Ugh.
Just makes me nuts.
Any more good news?
I got tons of good news.
I got, uh...
This was kind of cute.
If you want something cute.
Want something cute?
No.
Okay.
I did get a clip that I lost.
I'm going to explain it to people.
And unfortunately, I erased it.
It really irks me.
But somebody's got to get this clip because it's Rick Perry saying constitution...
You can't say the word constitution.
It's the constitution...
I can't even do it.
It's so ridiculous.
But anyway, I'm sorry.
It's interesting because there's a lot of talk now about the debates and that Rick Perry is probably not going to show up in a couple of...
They're doing 30 debates in total.
His numbers will go up if he doesn't show up.
Yeah, but what's happening is the Hollywood industry is freaking out because if they don't have Perry to paray Romney, they've got no show.
This is why people are tuning in.
So I think that Perry is holding out saying, you know what, you want me to do all your damn shows?
I mean, it's like every channel gets a shot.
I mean, this is such a bullcrap thing.
There was even one on Bloomberg.
Oh, yeah.
That's the next one, right?
I think the one on Tuesday?
No, no, they already did the Bloomberg one.
Yeah, nobody watched it.
No.
Well, they probably got better ratings than they usually get.
Oh, yeah.
But now Perry is saying, you know, I'm not going to participate in this.
Of course, he's not going to do it until he gets some, like, a special, you know, some kind of, you know, like, on the road to the White House thing.
This is so obvious, this manipulation that's going on.
And so the Hollywood guys are flipping out.
They're like, what are we going to do?
We've got to have our main star in there.
Yeah, he is the star.
So that's why they're pulling Herman Cain.
You watch, Herman Cain's going to get busted for being a lobbyist, and that's coming.
They've got to spike it.
It's like we've seen it now.
We've seen the questions.
The last one was the, who's mowing your grass?
I love the moment of grass.
Now it's going to be, your guy's smoking in the ad.
It's like, we're so...
We're kept so dumb.
So, front page of the New York Times.
We should have brought this up a few minutes ago.
China reigns in entertainment and bloggers.
So they're going after the bloggers, I guess they've got...
They're also...
Political censorship in this authoritarian state remains absolute, but for years the Communist Party has a tolerant, creeping liberalism in popular culture, tacitly allowing everything from popular knockoffs of American Idol-style talent shows to freewheeling microblogs.
Now that's enough, they said.
Enough of those freewheeling microblogs.
We'll not have any of that.
And apparently there's some sort of a menace of noisy birds in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Front page news.
Now you're really stretching.
No, it's front page news on the New York Times.
I think it's just a plug for angry birds.
So I went to the Chrome browser.
Yeah.
Have you ever used it?
Once.
They have apps.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know.
And they have angry birds.
Yeah, you can play it on Chrome.
I know.
Why can't you just play it on any browser?
I mean, what's the deal?
Isn't it just a flash animation?
I don't get it.
No, I think you've said it.
It's a deal.
It's a Google deal to get you to use the Chrome browser, which calls back to home base on everything you're doing.
I finally use Firefox, and I just blocked all Facebook cookies because I was tired.
Every page you land on that has a Like button, you get the Facebook cookies.
I'm just blocking it now.
No more, you know, I can't log into Facebook, but boo-hoo!
Boo-hoo!
What are they cooking you for constantly?
To track you across all sites, to sell you, Biosch!
Sell you what?
I don't know, ads!
They don't need to track you to do that.
No, I'm just saying.
I was wrong, though.
I thought that the outburst of vagina, the use of the word vagina on network television, was to prepare us for the coming of vagina-based ads.
I was wrong.
Because we're also going to have...
Go back to the book and find it in here.
No, don't cross it out.
Let me finish.
I think we're going to have not only the use of the word vagina in advertising, but also use of the word penis.
Because Under the Wire, which totally discredits the entire New York Times article that said, oh, you know, women are now producing shows, they're empowered, and we have to use the vagina word.
I'd say it's kind of a toss-up between vagina and penis, as this montage proves.
The last guy I dated never liked going to new places.
Sounds like a guy with a really big penis.
One thing's for sure, it's hilarious.
Yeah, I'm laughing like there's no tomorrow.
That's a lot of penis.
So, October 13th, you made the prediction that the vagina meme, within six weeks, would appear in advertisements.
We already had an ad a couple of shows ago, which was My V, which was a diary written by a vagina.
Now we're just waiting for the actual use of the word.
So I have, what, three more weeks?
Yeah, it looks like it.
And this is just to prove that there is a red book.
I know people have been promising to take a picture of it, but I haven't.
The red book, this red book is almost full, by the way.
Well, one thing's for sure, we ain't getting any money from the vagina industry.
I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda.
In We do have some people to thank this week for helping us keep the show going and actually helping themselves because this is essentially the twice weekly reminder that we're inundated with bull crap and we need to be constantly slapped in the face to not falter.
Anyone could backslide into thinking pre-no-agenda thoughts.
Oh, it's very easy.
Yeah, it could happen to me.
I just said earlier.
So it's like the show helps me, as a matter of fact, but it also helps the people that are supporting us.
I'd like to mention an on-the-spot personal donation at the start of our segment here, John.
Did you get cash from somebody that came up to you?
I did not miss Mickey.
She was in Austin for two days setting up the Ford operating base for Camp MoFo.
And she hung out with a couple of our producers who we also met on the Hot Pockets tour, Mike and Jane.
And they donated $111.11 on the spot tour.
And we are very, very appreciative of that.
I'm going to put you ahead of me again.
Although, there was something weird.
So, you were leasing this place, obviously.
And the owner came by.
Well, Mickey, because we want the walls painted a different color.
So, she's organizing that, and it's a bookcase that has to be put in.
And the owner comes by, and you know what he says to Mickey?
In the morning?
Exactly.
He says, in the morning.
And Mickey's like, what?
In the morning?
He says, really?
Camp Mofo?
Really?
Yeah.
Camp Mofo.
He's like, it's Casa de Tarantula.
Okay, we'll stick with Camp.
Casa de Tarantula.
I know, I know.
Which isn't bad either, if you think about it.
I might stick with the original, but he was like, really?
Camp Mofo?
Really?
So the guy's a listener.
How cool is that?
Well, he is now.
He's probably just doing due diligence.
He probably works for NSA for all you know.
So, in the morning, John and Adam, this is Danny Haynes and Gray Staines.
Gray Staines, New South Wales in Australia.
$144 in the morning.
John Adam made a donation for my birthday on the 27th of October.
My birthday present to you after adding my birth year and my age.
I was amazed, I say amazed, to find that it added up to $111.
I have thrown in another $33 for my age.
Look at all the threes here.
Three ones.
One, one, one.
Three, three.
And one for four equals 12 times 12.
And one plus two equals three.
Some things I like about this show.
One, the fun and snappy jingles.
Two, the mocking commentary during clips.
And three, when Adam and John go deep on researching some story, providing insightful analysis, and then climax with a rant and a jingle.
I've been listening to this.
There's our formula.
Climax with a rant.
Climax, rant, jingle.
Ah, it's the breakfast of champions.
I have been listening to the show since episode 94 and was hooked at the introduction.
I have since listened to the entire back catalog and found it to be very entertaining due to longer term...
This guy must be a commuter.
Due to the longer term nature of your analysis, much of the back catalog is evergreen.
Thanks for the show, your humble slave, Danny.
Thank you, Danny.
Dame Francine Hardaway from Phoenix, Arizona came in with $111.11 as did Jaap Geelhoot.
Geelhoot.
Hail the foot in Antwerp, $111.11.
Robert Simpson, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, $111.11.
Dennis Price, Pine Grove, California, $81.10.
Tim Gillen in Randwick, New South Wales, $80.
James Green, Mesquite, Texas, $62.
Request karma for my mother who passed away on October 24th.
Less than a week after her 75th birthday, this will hopefully grease the palm of the people in charge of good seating in heaven.
Alright, hold on.
Let's do that right now.
Enjoy your seat, Mom.
Love you guys.
The first thing I listened to after finding out...
Was No Agenda, episode 350.
Oh, he's brand new.
Yeah, I guess.
Cool.
Bradley Nelson, Monmouth, Illinois.
5555 in the morning, gentlemen.
I just want to tip my hat to John for sticking up for the farmers in the fields on episode 348.
Being a grain farmer, myself using precision ag tech...
I wouldn't appreciate having light square affect the performance of our costly machinery slash tech.
Besides helping stop driver fatigue throughout our long days in the field, GPS guidance also helps us generate yield maps.
How many bushels per acre we're producing and minimize excess costs from overlaps.
Since big companies like Monsanto are giving us the shaft with the prices of seed, fertilizer, and other inputs, we need to use Precision Egg to minimize our inputs while maximizing our outputs, a.k.a.
just getting by.
It says it's not used by all farmers.
Its use is growing every year as it becomes more accurate and affordable.
I'd like to give some karma.
Shout out to all the farmers in the fields during the harvest season.
We could use some here.
The four field fires and three road accidents so far.
Thanks for your ever awesome show.
Makes auto steering in our fields 14 hours a day more entertaining.
Give them a little karma.
All right.
Here's for the farmers in the fields, everybody.
You've got karma.
You know, he actually, I think he sent me a note earlier when we were talking about LightSquared and sent me straight because I thought it was only the GNSS that was affected by LightSquared.
And it turns out that, and even based on the clip you played, this is the problem.
I didn't know it was that sophisticated.
It shows you what I know.
But it is a problem for the farmers doing, you know, they won't be able to essentially plow in straight rows anymore.
It'll be all over the place.
They'll be doing crop circles before you know it.
What the heck?
Christina, well, hopefully it'll work out for them.
Christina Fabiani in Hamilton, Ontario, 5533.
In the morning, gentlemen, so after three checkouts from the local library and having it put me to sleep for six months, I finally finished Atlas Shrugged.
Yay!
Do I get to play the jingle now?
I was waiting.
I was waiting.
By Ayn Rand.
And it says, it's worth every penny of this donation to call Ayn Rand out as a douchebag.
Thanks for all your hard work and amazing show, guys.
I've moved into confessions of an economic hitman, so I'll keep you posted.
Wow.
You're a couple years behind, but you'll catch up.
Don't worry.
Yeah, well.
Anonymous from Baltimore, Maryland.
Double nickels on the dime.
Great show.
Thanks a lot.
Thanks for karma.
You've got karma.
Adrian...
Boy, that's a good one.
Verneuil.
Verneuil is what it looks like.
Please keep my location private.
Parts unknown, yeah, right.
Verneuil, okay.
Can't possibly be anywhere in...
The lowlands.
In the lowlands.
Hi, John and Adam.
I contributed my first $100 for the show 350 and beginning to road up tonight who unfortunately seemed to have missed my request for karma at the end of my note.
Oh, no.
So I thought I'd call for an F-55 in order to receive my...
On-the-air karma from my job search.
Oh, I'm so sorry, Adrian Vernoy.
You've got karma.
From parts unknown.
I blame PayPal.
Arthur Kessler, Acme, Alberta, $50.
Mike Bernstein, Bettendorf, Iowa, $50.
Sir, snakes in Amsterdam, $50.
Yeah, sir, paid snakes.
Yeah, paid snakes.
Peter Totes in Sugarland, Texas, $50.
Sugarland!
Sugarland.
Sugarland.
It's right up the street from you.
Yeah.
And Tegan Murray in Calgary, Alberta.
Hi, guys.
I went to a job interview last week, but I haven't heard back yet.
The job's exactly what I'm looking for, so a shout-out karma would be greatly appreciated.
Please don't mention my last name on the show.
Well, that's too bad we didn't catch that, but...
You've got karma.
Tegan.
50 bucks to Tegan.
Or 50 bucks from Tegan and a bunch of karma and hopefully he'll do fine.
And that'll be it for this week's contributors.
We want to thank everybody who donates to the show, specifically the executive producers and associate executive producers and everybody who contributes.
Over 50, we give you credit.
And it's devorek.org slash na, channel devorek.com slash na.
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There's a donation button there.
And also at No Agenda Nation where you can pick up that valuable slave t-shirt and also a mug if you want one.
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I wanted to mention that I was listening to our National Treasure, NPR, on KPCC in Los Angeles, and it was really interesting.
And they had a, of course, I can't, you know, it's not available on the web because it was like a house ad, if you will.
And they said, if you'd like to reach, you know, 600,000 people in the California, in the Southern California area, if you'd like to...
Unaudited 600,000, by the way.
Right.
But it was basically, it was a whole, like, you know, advertise with us, advertise with us.
And they said, send an email to underwriting at kpcc.org.
So I sent them an email, and I said, hey, you know, a client of mine with a fast-moving consumer products group, you know, I faked it up a little bit, is very interested in advertising, I put specifically, in the Southern California area, could you please send me your rate card?
I haven't received anything back.
You'll get one.
I want to get one, because that would prove, unless they say, hey, just so you know, it's not advertising, it's underwriting, but I believe that they would send me...
I think it's important to have it on paper that just says, okay, we're not about underwriting.
Underwriting implies that you are sponsoring good programming.
They're actually out there saying, do you want to reach people, our cool people, to listen to us?
You are the product of that.
Underwriting implies that you are paying for something for the public good, not to promote yourself.
Yeah.
That's what they're doing, though.
Well...
Did we do Dan Manning?
I have a Dan Manning from Grand Rapids...
Oh, I don't know.
Did we?
Because I got a note here.
We do have a note to read.
Now, I'll read this.
Dan Manning from Grand Rapids says, I'm always just about ready to send a check, but I get sidetracked.
Oh, really?
But the NoAgendaBingo.com site is so friggin' awesome, you should mention this game pretty regularly because it's funny.
It keeps me completely focused on the podcast, and I don't know, whoever came up with this site has all the memes nailed.
I just had to send you a check thanking you for all your years of entertainment.
Been listening since you guys did food talk way back in the beginning.
I listen when I pull weeds in my yard, when I do the dishes, sitting on the patio with some booze, when I'm playing World of Warcraft, whenever you guys...
Whenever.
You guys are the only people out there reporting on the bull crap being pushed down our throats by this horrible system.
Anywho, I'm pretty high on absinthe right now.
I'm typing this into Notepad for some reason.
This is our typical listener.
We love it.
Wasted on absinthe going...
I'm wasted, dude.
Dude, I'm baked on absinthe.
Here's a check.
Happy birthday to Julia Catanio.
She turns 15.
That's from Massimo, Daddy, celebrating on the 30th of October.
And Danny Haynes congratulates himself.
He is celebrating his birthday today.
Happy birthday from your buddies here at the No Agenda Show.
You know, we should try the show high on absinthe one time.
See how that works out for us.
Absinthe, you know, for one thing, the true absinthe, even though they have these ersatz absinthe, if I can't even say it, available, they make them all over the country.
There's about 20 of them, I suppose.
They don't have enough of the original ingredients.
There's still some absinthe makers in Holland and Spain that have the real stuff.
Mm-hmm.
And it's, you know, it's not that good.
No, I've had it.
It's like, you know, you've got to sweeten it.
They poured over a sugar cube or something like that?
Yeah, it's bull crap.
What do you have to go through all this rigmarole?
I mean, have a good, you know, you want something to drink.
Have some Listerine.
It's healthy.
Drink some cognac.
Yeah, all right.
Could you draw your blade?
I have mine out already.
Here it comes.
Thank you very much.
Okay.
Joe Pumphrey, Simon Reed, and Peter Totes, step forward.
The three of you have done awesome work supporting the No Agenda Show, the best podcast in the universe, in excess or equal to $1,000.
Therefore, we proudly bestow upon thee the knighthoods.
Sir Joe, Sir Simon, and Sir Peter, come on over to the Knights of the Know Agenda Roundtable.
Have a seat here.
We've got your hookers and blowers, your hot pants and booze, and your rent boys and Chardonnay.
And thank you so much for supporting the program.
Our nights are just growing.
It's really great.
It keeps us rocking.
It keeps the show going.
And you can support us at...
And we've got new rings on order.
Right?
Yeah, we got new rings and we may change the color of the ring.
We may be finalizing the silver coated ring, the gold plate, the silver, whatever, white gold.
White gold.
I don't even know what white gold is.
Yeah.
And going to actual gold and...
Oh, really?
Oh, that's cool.
Maybe.
I don't know.
I'm trying to decide how to...
It's how to deal with it, because we will have some of the white gold left, and I don't know.
I'm talking it over with Eric DeShill.
I mean, our model has always been, you know, don't do product, but we felt like when someone's sponsoring the show for $1,000, it would be cool to have a nightclub, but it really is a big hassle, to be quite honest about it.
Yeah, but it's, you know, the funny thing, I got a note...
Who was it?
I don't have the thing in front of me.
Actually, I'll plug it next show.
But one of the knights sent in a check and sealed it.
Oh, cool!
Sealed the note.
I'm liking this idea of checks more and more.
I think that's really a good idea.
On the Dvorak.org slash an A page, you'll find out where you can send your check to.
Yeah, and you can go to the bank.
It turns out one of our producers sent a note in saying that there...
I didn't realize this because I thought there was some sort of a charge for this.
But he says he can see at his bank they can set up an installment plan where he sends us $11.11 a month or something.
I don't know what the amount is in this case.
But he says the bank paid the postage, which makes no sense to me.
Huh.
What is that?
Can't be Bank of America.
No, it would be any bank but them.
But, yeah, apparently the thing is picked up and they just put you on some plan.
I guess if you have a minimum in your checking account, they...
They figure that 44 cents a month is not that big of a deal.
And the rest of it's automated.
These are machine-cranked-out checks.
They don't even have a signature.
It says signature on file.
And it's obviously done mechanically, and so it probably doesn't cost the bank anything.
Love it.
Except for the 44 cents.
Do you remember who George Thomas Wainwright was?
Name rings a bell.
Yeah.
He was one of the whistleblowers against BP. He was the remote operator.
Why, funny you mention that.
So you'll note that BP just got a new license to drill offshore.
Right.
So this Thomas, George Thomas Wainwright, he six months ago, he moved to Australia, which is probably a smart thing to do for a whistleblower because, you know, you kind of got like a little target on your head.
And we've seen the elitist murder people in many interesting ways.
You know, two to the head, gun in the left hand, hot tub with the cover on.
What else have you seen?
You know, I don't see how it could get any more creative than the suicide.
I mean, I think they've run out of good ideas on how to kill people.
No, they came up with a great one.
Oh, really?
Killed in a shark attack.
He was eaten by a great white shark, apparently.
Yeah.
And then one week later, boom, approval for BP. Okay.
Coincidence?
I think not!
Poor guy.
I mean, what's the likelihood of getting eaten by a shark?
Shark victim George Wainwright.
Here's the classic from Aja Stiles in the Sydney Morning Herald.
The headline says it all.
Shark victim George Wainwright was living the dream.
After just getting by, he was living the dream.
Unbelievable.
32 years old.
How do you think that worked, huh?
I wonder if they can train sharks to do that.
Yeah, they probably killed them first and threw them to the sharks.
Yeah, just fed them to the sharks, yeah.
Because, of course, there's no evidence, right?
Because it's in the shark's belly.
Poor guy.
There you go.
That's where whistleblowers have extra protection with the Obama administration.
Remember that?
Whistleblower is important.
Very, very important.
So we haven't...
We didn't actually do this episode of our little mini-sub show, but since it was so eloquently described on some news show that I picked it up from, I felt that we could once again play Win, Lose, or Drones!
That's right!
We now have the junior category of Win, Lose, or Drones!
If you're a teenager, you can be eligible.
All you have to do is go to devorock.org slash NA for Win, Lose, or Drones!
According to a Facebook tribute page, he liked watching The Simpsons, reading Harry Potter, listening to Snoop Dogg.
He was a U.S. citizen born in Colorado.
Sixteen-year-old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was like so many other kids his age.
But he happened to be the son of Anwar al-Awlaki, the Al-Qaeda leader seen by U.S. intelligence as a key operative in Yemen.
Two weeks after his father was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen, the younger al-Awlaki was also killed by a drone there, along with a teenage cousin and several others.
The same strike also may have killed a prominent al-Qaeda militant.
It's not clear why al-Awlaki's son was with that man.
Was the teenager a militant?
There's no evidence from anything he wrote, anything he said, or anything the family have said that he was a militant.
By the same token, he could have decided to embark on the path of jihad after his father's death.
Such honor and duty goes deep in Yemeni society.
I have two words for you.
Predator drones.
I'm telling you.
There's a couple of things here I want to mention.
First of all, I did a little research on this son.
And it begins with...
What I was looking into was Yamini culture on an article that was written in the New York Times some months before Alaki died or was killed.
And it talked about his wife...
And that he was married and that none of his friends in Yemen knew about this wife.
And then it said in the New York Times, I don't have this specific quote, but it's something like, it's Yemeni culture not to mention your wife.
To the hookers or just in general?
In general.
You never mention her.
Supposedly.
Somebody I contacted on Twitter, of all places, who is a Middle Easterner, described the situation.
Then she did more research.
Because she was a little baffled by the story in the New York Times herself for some reason.
And finds that the only mention of his wife was in this New York Times article that he had a wife that would create a son.
And she says that it's true that you don't introduce your wife to the males because you don't do that in the Arab culture at all.
But you would at least, if you had friends at all, you would mention it.
Apparently he never mentioned it.
She said that was the odd part.
So she thinks the whole thing was...
And I was trying to get to the following theory.
And I never completely got there, but I think I'm close enough.
I'm stopping.
Which is that he never had a son.
He was never married.
He was always a CIA guy.
He was extracted, but there was a loose end.
And that was the kid.
It was the kid who was either pretending to be a son so he could be part of the team, he could have been a handler, or he could have been the kid's handler, we don't know.
But the kid was, his son was obviously part of the whole scheme and had to be extracted also.
And so they had to kill him, if they did, and close this book on the story, because otherwise that guy would be left hanging out to dry if it ever got out.
So that's kind of what I was trying to figure out, if that might be a plausible analysis, and I think it is.
I'm totally buying that.
It was a loose end, and he had a couple of buddies with him, and they got rid of them, too.
Right.
Cleaned up.
So we're done.
We're out.
Yeah, so we know Obama gets off.
Lockheed can get his nose job and shave his beard, and he'll be teaching at Columbia, some other guy.
And he can go live in Australia.
Oh, God.
Oh, my goodness.
Let's see.
You have one or two clips?
You want to roll something out before we close it up?
Well, I still have a couple of lagging clips, which is still part of the EU fiasco, which is, again, the guy from the IMF discussing what really has to happen in Greece.
Namely, they do have to...
Go bankrupt and get out of the euro.
And I think this is part one.
I've had two clips.
One is a little more explanatory, but the first one I think is the most logical thing I've ever heard.
And, of course, if this happens, we can expect the stock market not to go past 12,000 like it's currently doing, but to reverse course.
And this is Greece must exit the euro, just to be sure?
Or leave euro part two?
Maybe in the past year...
There were talks, or at least thoughts, that Greece would get out of the Eurozone and go back to the drachma.
And I would like your thoughts on that.
I mean, I don't think that's going to happen.
But I think that that could pinpoint some of the problems that are going on.
That would be...
I should mention that I wrote a Financial Times piece two years ago indicating the reasons why Greece would exit the euro, and sadly events have really borne that out.
Basically, the problem is that Greece having as large a public sector deficit problem as they've got, you can't reduce that in a fixed exchange rate system without promoting an enormous you can't reduce that in a fixed exchange rate system without Greece's economy has already contracted by 12%.
They've still got a budget deficit that's 10% of GDP.
If they persist in the IMF approach of not devaluing their currency, not writing down their debt, but simply engaging in savage fiscal austerity, they're going to drive that economy totally into the ground.
It's creating political unrest.
It's making it very difficult for them to meet their budget targets.
The logical thing for Greece to do would be to write down its debt by 50%, 60%, but they would also...
Be well advised to exit the euro that would at least give the economy a chance to grow through exports, through improving the tourist sector.
Otherwise, I'm afraid that Greece is condemned to a decade of not a deep recession, but this is more like a depression.
Anybody else?
Yeah, if I may.
And I'm a financial sector expert more than an economist, so let me just say, Dr.
Lockman is in a minority among the economists I've spoken with, as I think he would admit.
That doesn't mean he's wrong.
It's going to rock.
It's going to be awesome.
He's not wrong.
Wow.
And the second clip, which you don't have to play, I'll just explain.
There's another debate that continues about how bad it would be and how things would fall apart if they switched out of the Euro.
And Lockman, the IMF guy, former IMF guy, says he's heard this before and then he gives example after example after example of where this has happened without all this dislocation that everyone else is worried sick about.
Wow.
So it's an interesting...
This is not going away anytime soon, and it's going to be fun to watch.
As long as donations keep coming, it'll be fun to watch.
By the way, I want to remind people out there that are in the EU, your money's worth a lot, so it doesn't take much to get...
I think if you contribute 10 euros, it's like 500 bucks to us.
Well, check it out.
The euro right now, and this is Thursday, the 27th of October, is at $1.42.
That's up...
It's way up.
In fact, the fact that it's up so high, of course, is that, again, you have to listen to the Dvorak Horowitz show, because Horowitz has this theory that this is part of repatriation during a financial disaster.
What is repatriation?
It means get the money back into the country.
In other words, buy up, get euros so they can use them to pass around, essentially.
So you've got to get all the money back, because they need every dime they can get, so they have to create Raise the value of the euro so when they spend it on bailouts and all the rest of it, it has a lot of value.
Ah, okay, right.
I mean, it's not good for their economy to have a euro so high because they can't export anything.
I mean, a Mercedes-Benz, instead of costing $20,000, at this rate would be like $28,000 or almost $30,000.
It just went up 3% today.
Yeah, it's ridiculously high.
And so this is actually a bad sign that the Euros is...
Because when things do get fixed, and if they get fixed at all or if it collapses, that Euro is dropping like a rock.
So...
So now's the time to donate to the no-gen?
Yeah, if you're in Europe, please, to help us through the cold winter with no gas.
Exactly.
Yeah, that's a very good point.
We need it.
We need your help.
Let me see if I had a couple of things here.
Oh, yes.
Remember we were talking about the root?
The Root.
Oh, The Root.
Yeah, The Root.
And we're wondering what The Root is doing now, doing televised things with the White House.
The Root is like this publication, which is part owned by the Washington Post.
I got on the Twitter after the show.
Someone told me what the connection is and why it's so weird.
The Root was founded by Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.
of Harvard University.
Do you remember him?
Yep.
He was the guy that had a beer with President Obama after he got arrested.
Right.
So I'm thinking quid pro quo.
Hey, man, look.
Have a beer.
So, listen, dude.
Don't make such a big deal about this.
I'll get you in the White House.
I'll get you reporting and do some televised stuff.
How does that sound to you?
Yeah, I think you're right.
It's a good one.
Good catch.
Well, it wasn't my catch.
One of our producers.
Well, you took credit for it.
You and Obama.
I just said one of my producers sent that to us.
All aboard trains good, planes bad.
Woo-hoo!
Here it is!
I've been waiting for it.
Cross it off the list, Johnny Boy!
UK, UK, from the BBC News.
UK urged to research pilot-free planes.
Woo!
Cross it off the list.
Come on, cross it off the list.
I like it still.
Okay.
I love it.
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers said the country's research and development spending has flatlined, so we should be researching pilot-free planes.
Yeah, that's great.
Pilot-free and solar planes.
Oh, that's an investment right there.
How's the weather?
Not too good.
Well, maybe we shouldn't fly.
We'll have no energy.
So I'm thinking that they're going to get people into pilot-free planes.
The first thing besides making the flights dirt cheap, which will encourage most people to try, take a chance.
I think that planes will be operated remote-controlling like drones.
They won't be fully pilot-free initially.
No, no, no.
They won't have pilots in Nevada.
Oh, no, I agree.
I think you're spot-on about that.
I just have a couple things I just wanted to jam in.
We've got a couple minutes left.
We don't have...
Apparently no drone has ever crashed.
No, no.
Drones rock.
Although they've crashed a lot.
I'm bored with the program, dude.
The Vatican called for a global public authority in Central World Bank this week.
They don't understand subtlety, do they?
Like, hey, come on, man.
It's like, we're working on this here.
Shut up, Vatican.
This is our deal.
Then we have, um...
This was a great little note.
Defense Secretary Philip Hammond of Gitmo Nation East in the UK urged companies to pack their suitcases and head over to Libya to secure your reconstruction contracts.
Ha!
I wish I had audio of that.
Pack your suitcases.
That's a good one.
Jackals.
Pack your suitcases.
Pack them.
Pack them, I say.
It's great.
Pack them.
Well, the last time I was watching one of the news shows, there was John McCain yakking away about, bitching about something, and he's in Tripoli.
Well, he was at the...
World Economic Forum, and, you know, of course we know that McCain and, what's the other douche's name?
Lieberman?
They're the guys who basically got the resolution started in the United Nations against Libya.
Of course, John McCain is the guy who then subsequently goes with Coke and Exxon and all these companies.
They go on a junket, you know, they pay.
Pack their suitcases and they're off to Libya the day after Gaddafi's killed.
Who's there?
McCain.
Like, hee-hee!
Whoop it up, everybody!
And he was talking about Syria in regards to...
I mean, he's basically just saying, Syria, you're next.
The Assad regime has spilled too much blood to stay in power.
Its days are numbered.
But it will use those days to murder more of its own people.
In this way, there is no moral distinction whatsoever between the case of Syria and that of Libya.
The question is, what can be done about it?
The Syrian revolution may now be entering a new phase.
The opposition has formed the Syrian National Council and is seeking to better organize itself.
There are increasing reports of defections from the army.
More Syrians appear to be taking up arms against the regime.
There are even growing calls among the opposition for some kind of foreign military intervention.
Doesn't it sound like he's reading The Night Before Christmas, the way he says that?
Some people...
Well, I'm looking for...
Well, there's more.
There's more to his clip.
You look it up.
We hear these pleas for assistance.
We hear you.
We are listening to and engaging with the National Council.
We're engaging.
And now that military operations in Libya are ending...
There will be renewed focus on what practical military options might be considered to protect civilian lives in Syria.
Bring it home!
The Assad regime should not assume that it can get away with mass murder.
Give me a zinger.
Gaddafi made that mistake, and it cost him everything.
In other words, the Obama doctrine, do as I say, or I drone your ass, mofo!
I mean, the guy is just basically...
I'm not seeing the go-ahead in the New York Times.
Oh, okay.
Well, there's a lot going on.
I think this is just a holding pattern.
I think it's obvious that McCain is, you know, because the Russians are part of this deal.
We can't get around that fact.
And McCain has either got something, he wants to hold it over the head of the Russians, or he's asking for trouble.
I don't know.
Well, he's the guy that set up the last one.
The BBC is also on this bandwagon, as we noted on the last show.
And a couple of these guys, these are renegade policies, as far as I can tell.
Well, it's an exact duplication of the script, so the only thing standing in the way are the Russians with their naval base there.
And who knows?
But there's still the possibility that we'll have home for the holidays.
We know that Turkey is blowing stuff up in northern Iraq, Kurdistan.
The possibility for a huge false flag, maybe against our embassy there, that will finally give us the impetus to go and attack Iran.
Where, of course, we already have the techno-experts trained and ready sitting there.
So it's a toss-up.
Syria, Iran, and don't discount Morocco.
I have a weird feeling about Morocco.
You see anything in the Times about Morocco?
No, no, nothing.
I'm looking and looking.
I'm not seeing anything.
I got...
Let's see what we're looking at here.
Well, the Moroccans are also demonstrating.
They've got Occupy Morocco.
Bahrainians are too.
I mean, everybody is, but we selectively pick one for whatever political reason.
So maybe...
In Syria, hints of...
This is...
Here's a Syrian tidbit.
This is a minor below the fold thing.
I'll read it.
And it's on A12, so it's buried.
In Syria, hints of army unrest.
Syrian army defectors claim responsibility for an attack.
This is what McCain's talking about.
That's what he just said, yeah.
So let me just see how they handle that here.
It's the World Economic Forum, which is all about money.
He's preaching to the choir there.
They're like, can I pack my suitcase?
I hear they've got some nice naval ships there.
Well, maybe there's trouble in paradise with the Ruskies.
I don't know.
It's completely possible.
Well, they did a deal with Exxon, so unless that deal falls apart, or maybe there's another deal afoot that needs to be done, that Russians have to attend to some other oil deal, and this is just holding a sword over their head.
I don't know, it's a scam of some sort.
Well, we're keeping our eye on everything as usual.
And just one more note.
I find it highly interesting that the Occupy Wall Street livestream now has helicopter shots.
They're cutting live to a helicopter cam.
Please tell me how that works.
How does that work?
I don't know, but it is very interesting.
Very suspicious.
These are the subtleties that we notice here on the No Agenda Show.
Sometimes coined the best podcast in the universe.
And people should go to podcastawards.com and vote for us.
And vote for us often.
And if we have all these techno-experts, maybe one or two of them can create a bot.
That can rotate through IP addresses and vote the heck out of us.
Because we know the other guys are doing that.
Someone's jamming us, man.
They got barbed wire and dug at the fence.
Apologies to Maynard.
For some reason I can't find this clip.
We'll play that on the next show.
I will, however, bring you the Novagenda Lone Squirrel Mix at the end of the show.
I thought you were going to bring the...
What did I just say?
I thought that was something you were going to read.
No, no, no.
It's an audio clip.
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And from northern Silicon Valley where we're celebrating.
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It was so depressing that I can't remember.
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For the American people, I've got one question.
Do you smell...
Bullshit!
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Right now, 75% of Americans ages 17 to 24 years of old are not qualified.
Let me repeat.
We don't know you.
We don't want you.
And the sooner you're put out to grass, the better.
Now they're racing to find out to see if the suspect was mentally unstable or a lone wolf terrorist.
They were now, quote, hunkered down, close quote.
You know, this was meant to be the first post-ideological generation, right?
This was meant to be the generation that never thought of anything bigger than our Facebook profiles and our TV screens.
This was meant to be the generation where the only thing that Saturday night meant was X Factor.
I think now that claim is quite ridiculous.
I think now that claim is quite...
I think now we've shown...
Now we've shown that we are as ideological as ever before.
Now we've shown that solidarity and comradeship and all those things that used to be associated with students are as relevant now as they've ever been.
You know, the most incredible thing that happened on Wednesday, I went down, I thought I was going to go down on lunch break and then get back in time for lessons.
Perhaps I should have known they'd put the guy in charge, the G20 in charge.
Perhaps I should have been more concerned for my life than for whether I was going to get down for lessons.
But when I tried to get out and I was told it was a sterile area by police officers standing and not letting anyone out, I thought, well, that's why we need a university education.
If we don't get one, we end up in police uniforms.
LAUGHTER You know, when I was kettled in there, I was with thousands and thousands of school students who'd come down with their ties around their heads in their school uniforms, and yeah, they were cold.
Who'd come down, who'd never been on a protest before, who'd never joined a political party or been involved in a political movement before, who didn't have any economic knowledge or political degrees, but they were there...
Because they believed in something.
They were there because they believed in something bigger.
And they were there because they knew that either...
You know, there weren't a million choices.
There were two choices.
Either they laid down and took whatever the government threw at them, or they stood up and fought back.
And so those school students who'd never been involved in anything before stood up and they fought back.
And when they were in that kettle, being kettled in by police, you know that the word went round as we were sitting, huddling around fires, sharing out what little food we had.
And the word went round, people said, we know what they're up to.
We know that they don't think we're a danger to the public.
I'm 15 years old.
People there were as young as 13.
We know they don't think we're going to run riot through the streets of London.
We know what they're up to.
They think that if they kettle us now, we're not going to come on a demonstration ever again.
Well, let the word go out from today, people said.
Let the word go out about next Tuesday.
Let the word go out about next week and next month and next year.
But they can't stop us demonstrating.
They can't stop us fighting back.
And however much they try to imprison us in the streets of London, those are our streets.
And we will always be there to demonstrate.
We will always be there to fight.
People who had always thought that the police were just those people at the other end of the telephone line to help if there was a burglary.
People who'd always thought that the media were just those friendly newspaper men who were there to give them that unbalanced picture of the facts.
People learnt a lot last Wednesday.
People learnt a lot as they huddled round fires and then emerged from that kettle to see headlines like vandals on the Evening Standard that afternoon.
People learnt a lot when a police van was left in the middle of the road so that the police could tow it away and show the whole public, look what vandals these people are.
People learnt a lot...
So the message that goes out from last Wednesday is very clear.
We are no longer that post-ideological generation.
We are no longer that generation that doesn't care.
We are no longer that generation that's prepared to sit back and take whatever they give us.
We are now the generation at the heart of the fight back.
We are now the generation that will stand with everyone who's fighting back.
The most inspiring thing, I think, was that just after Wednesday...
Hundreds of people joined a Facebook group, school students joined a Facebook group in solidarity with RMT members on strike.
Those are people who previously thought, those are people who previously thought tube strikes were something annoying because they stopped getting into school.
Now they think they've got to link arms and fight back with everyone.
So we want to show solidarity with everyone who's fighting back.
We hope you'll show solidarity with us and send a strong message to this government that they can't throw their cuts at us.
We're going to stand up and we're going to fight back.
If you get video of Sarah Palin or get a soundbite from her, bring that back to us.
You can hold the Ron Paul stuff.
Now the Tea Party, that energy, that upwelling of energy, that rejection of that unfairness, rapidly became a political vehicle for all sorts of interests that had nothing to do with what the Tea Party started on.
And you don't have to look any further than the Tea Party's refusal to actually engage the banks.
I'm sitting here as an anchor at MSNBC. I'm like, oh man, when the bank reform comes, the Tea Party's going to be on their throats.
There's no way they're going to be able to get away with this Tea Party.
Nowhere.
Don't look over here.
Nowhere.
Nowhere.
And so you get this first rejection of a tea party.
Then you also have the Obama wave.
Hello, everybody.
Which is Obama's going to fix.
President Obama will fix this.
Senator Obama will become president and he will fix this.
It didn't happen.
I believe the occupation is like the third wave.
Think of it like sets of waves of energy or hands at a blackjack table.
The origins of the occupation, which I don't know, I don't know if anybody will ultimately know.
Problem, reaction, solution.
I think are less, for me, are less relevant than the energy of the rejection of unfairness that is being continued to be expressed either through the support of President Obama and his candidacy, which was the perception that that would get fixed.
Bullshit!
The emergence of the Tea Party before it was co-opted, and now the Occupy movement, which honestly, if history is any indication, the Occupy movement won't go anywhere either, by the way, but you will continue to see waves of rejection of unfairness because the world is so transparent now that everybody can see it.
Everybody knows the problem.
The problem is our government is bought.
The Democratic Party is bought.
We just need cash.
The Republican Party is bought.
Just send your cash.
That's not an opinion.
Remember, 94% of the time, this is a fact, 94% of the time, the candidate who raises the most money wins.
That is not a democracy.
That is an auction.
Look, you know, when I was a kid, I... Let me be clear.
I inhaled.
Frequently.
That was the point.
These guys, these sleazeballs in the chat room just kicked me off.
I'm banned.
Hey, that's right.
John C. Work was kicked.
No service for you!
Oh, someone called you an impersonator.
What a bunch of douchebags.
Yeah, really.
Hold on, let me douchebag them for you.
Douchebag!
Anyway, um...
I'm done with them.
We'll do it live!
Do it live!
I'll write it and we'll do it live!
Why would you watch that?
Because that's actually where you get news from, douchebags.
Why don't you get an advertiser, they always say.
Sponsorship, underwriting, advertising, call it whatever you want.
Nobody doing podcasting, professional level, good quality podcasting as we're doing, has taken it serious.
Daddy, where's the slide whistle?
We are seriously, you know, we have programs.
We came up with the night thing.
We've got different kinds of...
We also don't call it a tip jar.
We don't work for tips.
Yeah, that's bullshit.
We're seriously doing this, and it's like, take it or leave it, this is the model we're working with.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
It's going to be a lot better.
The product you're going to get is a lot better.
If you get anything out of it, you get something out of it, you know, contribute.
I mean, just the way, this is new.
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What idiot was this?
The guy on PBS is an idiot!
I'm a fancy, fancy Englishman.
Try to bamboozle the idiots who actually listen to MSNBC. This is the most amazing douchebaggery I've ever seen.
Just stupid journalists with their douchebag stories.
Wolf Blitzer sitting in front of this green screen with his jacket on.
I mean, dude, do you know you're a douchebag?
It's douchebaggery, I tell ya.
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