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You look too much like Qaddafi.
They'll catch you and shoot you.
Adam Curry, Chauncey Dvorak.
It's Thursday, December 1st, 2011.
Time for Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 361.
This is No Agenda.
Rabbit, Rabbit, and Bunny Bunny from Camp Mofo in Austin, the capital of the lone star state.
In the morning, I am the lone wolf belligerent known as Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I have nothing clever to say, I'm John C. Dvorak.
In the morning to you, John.
Sounds like a machine gun.
Yeah, that's what I got, man.
That's what I got here in Camp MoFo.
Hey, by the way, I got a nice housewarming gift here from producer Josh.
Yeah, pot?
No, you know I don't smoke the pots.
No, he gave me the judge.
Oh, he gave you the judge.
He gave me the judge with some.410 shotgun shells and with some.45s.
The long cartridge.
The big one.
The big one.
Is that the Magnum.45?
I don't think it's Magnum, but it's long.
Well, I'm sure it'll hurt when you shoot it.
Yeah, yeah.
And he gave me the...
He said, here's the ones you want to use for home intrusion.
This is the.410 shotgun shell with the slug.
With the slug?
It has a slug and six pellets.
So it's like...
Wow, it's a combo.
Yeah, first it tears your arm off and then...
Infects the wound.
Yeah.
Immediately, Mickey's like, let's take some pictures, man.
Did you see that picture?
Yeah, I did.
It's pretty...
Outrageous.
I think she's captured you.
It's outrageous.
So, my wife, in the olden days, used to have a shotgun filled with...
Before I met her, she'd been in his house.
When she was in the comedy.
She always had a shotgun filled with...
Salt.
She was in the comedy business.
That's why she needed a shotgun.
Yeah.
For those damn comics.
She had a shotgun filled with salt.
What do you mean with salt?
You can do that?
It's one of the things you do because it makes it so you can shoot at people legally, I think, in Oakland.
With salt?
But she had some guy in the backyard and she blasted this thing and hit the guy.
Yeah, salt.
Do you have to load those yourself or how does that work?
I don't think so or somebody does it for you.
I'm not sure I've ever seen it for sale.
Well, ask her.
That's interesting.
I want to get me some salt to...
So instead of bird shot, which you'd have in a normal shotgun shot, this is salt, and it's non-lethal, but it's apparently quite painful.
It not only creates the wound, but puts salt in the wound at the same time.
Yeah, see, we don't do that here in Austin.
We just go for real.
Screw you, man.
Get off my turf.
Blow your arm off.
You're a tough guy all of a sudden.
You just moved to Texas.
Yeah, I am a tough guy.
That's what we're like here.
Good old boys here in Tejas.
It's so nice here, John.
It's so awesome.
We really love it.
We'll see what you feel like.
We're making bets on how long you're going to be able to put up with Texas.
We have a pool.
It's like a dead pool.
At the family, you mean?
Yeah.
You know, you shouldn't be that way because Washington State, in particular the Seattle area, is Austin's sister city.
No, it's not us or Austin or that we don't like Texas or Austin specifically.
It's your never-ending need to move from place to place.
You're like a guy on the run.
I'm a gypsy.
Guy on the run.
Guess what's being set up for me?
A lunch with Rick Perry.
No.
Yeah.
Hell yeah.
Yeah.
I can't wait.
It's going to be fantastic.
Adios, mofo.
How are you going to get a lunch with Rick Perry?
Well, the No Agenda producers here, they got pull, man.
It's quite amazing.
Are they Rick Perry fans?
Adios, mofo.
No, I don't think they...
And they want to change your mind about the man?
Could be.
You know, there's like, well, you know, he is actually a nice guy.
I'm sure he's a nice guy.
George Bush is supposed to be one of the greatest guys to hang out with.
Yeah, I'm sure he's a nice guy.
I think the only guy that's probably a douchebag to hang out with would be Al Gore.
Well, I can mention a couple others.
Did you see that that Ann Coulter called Newt Gingrich a douchebag on Morning Joe and they bleeped her?
Oh, really?
There's no good video of it because they have it on, I guess, a seven-second delay and they just go silent, right?
But she called them a douchebag and they bleeped it like that's some horrible thing.
Wow, what a bunch of wimps.
It's cable.
Thank you.
It's MSNBC. No one's even watching.
How can you offend anybody?
It's ridiculous.
I did not know that.
Did she make a fuss about it?
I think she makes a fuss about things.
Of course, she loves doing it after the fact.
Like, I can't believe MSNBC bleep me.
Of course, she's right.
The guy's a total douchebag.
Yeah, I know he is.
And now that Sperman Herman is going to drop out.
Sperman Herman?
Yeah, this is my new name.
Did you dream this up or is it on Texas talk show radio?
Honestly, it's not on Texas.
The neighbors call him that.
Sperman Herman.
My neighbors, there was a guy walking down the street with three dogs and a goat.
I love this place.
Where's Mickey and the camera?
It was too late.
This place is great, man.
Street dogs and a goat.
Let me walk the goat.
Hey, honey, I gotta go walk the goat.
It's beautiful, man.
It is beautiful.
We're very happy.
So you can place all the bets.
Can we get in on this pool so we can win it?
No, because then you'll, you'll, no, that's like, you know, it's one of those things where if the person's in the, it's like, it's like, it's like betting on somebody leaving, you know, it's a discontinued, when is he going to do something and he's in the bet, he's just going to do it on that day and it's not fair.
You can't be in the bed.
You can't even know what the bed is.
Well, can you and I team up together and we can do something on the side so we can beat your wretched family who's apparently...
Oh, and then we can send you half the money?
Betting on my unhappiness?
That's not a bad idea.
Betting on my unhappiness?
This is wrong.
I've got you down for long.
You're long on Curry and Austin.
I'm on your side.
He's long on Curry and Austin, eh?
It's actually Mimi.
She's just eye-rolling, you know?
He'll be out of there in six months.
What do you mean?
She is the bird lady from Alcatraz.
What are you talking about, Mimi?
She should understand this.
He's not going to hate it down there.
No, we love it, man.
So far, you've only been there a week.
Two.
Two.
It's like puppy love.
Two.
And they called it Puppy Love.
In the morning to you, John.
In the morning to you, Adam Curran.
In the morning to all ships at sea and boots on the ground around the world listening to us on Armed Forces Radio.
Really?
And also feet in the air.
Wouldn't that be awesome if we were on Armed Forces Radio?
Yeah, that would be the day.
In the morning to all the human resources in the chat room, good to see you all in a quorum, all lined up, ready to go, charged as your government loves you, depleting your $9.2 million value at NoAgendaStream.com, NoAgendaChat.net.
And to kick it off, John, I figured we'd do something just a little off-color.
Are you familiar with Yogi Akal?
It rings a bell, but no.
Now, these are two YouTube videos that apparently have been up for a month or two, and with like no views.
And I can't believe no one had alerted me to this previously.
Yogi Akal is a numerology yogi.
You know how I like the numerologies.
And he does readings and talks about people.
He'll basically give you a numerology reading based upon your birth date.
Now, do you believe in any of this stuff?
I like to play with it, but I really don't believe in any of it.
So in order to promote his services, and I think he's $45 a pop for a simple reading, he has done the numerology of tech leaders, including Mark Zuckerberg.
And John C. Dvorak.
Oh!
And I heard this.
Of course, the question is, does he have your real birth date?
Because, I don't know, you could be 34 for all I know.
You could be 79.
Both are possibilities.
Whatever's on the wiki page, I think.
Because it looks like he got pictures from the wiki page.
Would you like to hear your numerological reading?
I'm absolutely riveted here now already.
Listen up.
Welcome to Tech Numerology.
By the way, the guy has a turban and everything.
A beard, a turban.
And he looks legit, I have to say.
What do you mean looks legit?
Legit what?
A legit yogi.
He looks good.
I mean, the guy's like a yogi dude.
I like him.
We're looking at one of the influencers in the tech industry, John C. Dvorak.
I've just received this birthday.
It's the first time I've looked at it.
This, by the way, that's always, you know, whenever they say that, I've just received this.
I've never looked at it.
That's always kind of suspicious.
Yes, it sounds like, yeah.
So I'm going to do a quick analysis of it, and hopefully that'll be useful to John, and perhaps useful to you as well, for those watching.
First of all, when I look at this, John, it's like looking at the Beach Boys.
Yeah.
This caught my attention, as you can imagine.
That's the kind of energy that you have.
That's the kind of person that you are.
I don't know what you do in your world.
I don't know what your life is like.
But you ought to have some of that music around.
And hopefully you're in California a lot.
If you're not surfing, you ought to be singing.
I should be singing.
Is he referencing the dead beach boys or the ones that are still alive?
The dead.
I feel like you're a communicator.
Or the crazy one.
Was it Dennis Wilson who's completely bonkers?
Brian.
Brian.
Your voice has to be used.
You have to be heard.
I have to be heard.
That was good.
This is good.
Listen up.
This is really good.
Yeah, this is typical bull crap.
The kind of impact on people that somehow makes them feel more acknowledged in their life.
It's a very powerful combination of healing and good business.
You have power.
Now this year, 2011, is your year to plan ahead.
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 years.
This is not a year for you to be thinking about tomorrow or one year ahead or how you're going to feel in two or three years, but how you're going to feel in a decade, a decade and a half.
How you'd like the world to be because you're an influencer there.
You are.
In 10 years or 15 years.
And make your decisions this year and next year and the year after based on that longer term vision.
This is an important process for you.
Yes.
Because at the beginning of your life, you were living in a little bit of a mystery.
Oh!
Now you're living in a place where there's a great deal of sense of self.
Yes.
You know who you are.
Uh-huh.
And you're going to move into a whole other stage of your life over the next 10, 15 years where you have much more power.
Power.
Now, I'm not saying power to control.
No.
But you have more power.
You personally, within yourself, more energy.
Yes.
Yeah.
More vitality, more influence, more impact.
What a good place to be.
Yeah.
And this is your year to work.
Forget vacations.
Listen to this.
If someone offers you a trip, only do if it involves work.
Yeah, see, this is totally you.
Well, that's all I've ever done, so what's new?
If you're involved in any relationships, pay attention to the detail and the diplomacy of every relationship in your life.
But don't try to make anything permanent right now.
You should have some fun.
You should be singing a song and you should be surfing in California.
On your phone.
On your phone.
This is tech numerology.
You should be surfing in California on your phone, John.
I'm telling you people who are listening to this will think it's pretty accurate.
In fact, I think it's very accurate.
I really like it.
It's a lot of general stuff, which is typical.
You remember that guy, Edwards, who used to be crushing over and he had his TV show and all?
No, I'm sorry.
You remember?
Oh, no.
I always figure, if you ever listen to one of these guys doing an analysis of someone else, imagine that they're doing the analysis of you and does it apply?
And you'll find that 99% of the time it does.
It's a very generalized analysis.
Of course.
Well, you know, you say that fortune tellers like to do it.
You say that.
You say that.
Separate from your money.
You say that.
But the yogi also did a reading of me.
Of you?
Yes.
As a tech influencer.
Would you like to hear the numerology reading?
Well, we might as well.
Yes.
Welcome to Tech Numerology.
My name is Yogi Akal.
It's clear the guy doesn't know me, by the way, because he's mispronouncing my name.
He's like Adam Curry.
He's like, totally wrong.
That's a scam.
He does that on purpose.
Well, listen to what he says.
And today we're looking at one of the influencers in the industry, Adam Curry.
My producer gave me his birthday.
I'm not familiar with this birthday.
It's the first time I've seen it.
So I'm going to give you an immediate take on the numerology for this person and see how you can connect to that.
Okay.
Connect.
He's looking at a piece of paper and he's in deep thought here.
There are some people who have a flare with words, and others who tend to be reactive to words.
But what happens when you have both?
What happens when you tend to be a little reactive, but you also have a flare?
Hmm.
You have to be careful not to flare up.
This is the most important thing for Adam Curry.
Correct.
Because he has the facility in his life that what he says can happen.
Yeah, I have power when I say it, it can happen.
It's quite a power to have in one's life.
Yes.
But if you don't master it, and you don't master it as a careful study.
Then it's a weapon of mass destruction.
A careful discipline, it starts to work against you.
And then you really can't believe anything that happens, or what anybody says to you.
So, Adam, this is a special challenge in your life.
Yes.
Now, everybody can relate to this because everyone has had this situation happen to them where someone doesn't tell them the truth or they're not sure about the integrity of what they're saying themselves.
But for Adam, there cannot be a compromise on this.
No.
Stop compromising.
When there is a life of success, you cannot allow...
Anybody to infiltrate that life.
Exactly.
So Adam, this is the key to your happiness.
You gotta get rid of Mickey?
Stop infiltrating my life, Nicky.
Go away.
He gets a genius thing in a minute here, which you're going to love.
Happiness is something that you get to manage.
I manage my life.
You also have an impact on other people's happiness, on their state of mind.
I agree.
That doesn't mean you're responsible for it.
You're not.
But you have an impact.
Not just professionally, not just personally, but on a deeper level.
See?
A deeper level.
I have an impact on a deeper level.
How you think and what you say has an impact that lasts.
Lasts.
That's quite a position to be in.
And it has to be through the written, spoken, or visualized word.
In other words, it can be done through radio and television.
What?
Well, no, listen, he explains it.
It can be done through the internet.
It can be done through spoken word, through written word, photography.
Anything that has to do with the media arts is what works best for you.
There you go.
That's true.
Now, here comes the kicker.
I don't like to talk about past lives.
No!
Wait, wait for it.
It can get misunderstood so easily.
But in this case, it's worth saying.
You're done.
I'm done.
Well, you've done everything that has to be done.
And the only reason you're here, the only reason is to do it with more consciousness, more awareness.
Exactly.
Everything you're doing, you've done before.
And now you're doing it better.
Better.
Everyone you meet, you've known before.
Remember when we met in the 1700s?
Now you're doing it better.
So this is your opportunity to get it right, especially in the domain of words.
You can be so kind, but you cannot ever drop the ball on that.
I imagine this year in particular, there's a lot of work on yourself.
That's why I'm speaking so directly.
Next year, there's no stopping you.
If you're looking at new partnerships, both personally and professionally, put it off until next year because that's the time for you to start connecting in a way that will last.
So, apparently I was doing Top 40 radio in the Middle Ages.
I'm done.
Let him finish.
That's the end.
That's the end of it.
It got cut off.
No, he says, I'm Yogi Akal.
That's the end.
That was the end.
I like it.
I think he's spot on about me.
I'm done.
Oh, yeah.
I'm done.
I've always thought you did take part in the Madison administration.
As the town crier?
Yeah, that's it.
The town crier.
Yeah, I like that.
I want to be a crier.
What's wrong with that guy?
He's crying.
Anyway, I like the yogi.
I think he's good.
What did he say about Zuckerberg?
It goes on forever.
He says Zuckerberg is like, you've had three incarnations.
And he also did Leo.
Oh, he did?
What did he say about Leo?
Go ahead.
He likes to talk.
He likes to work on the Twit broadcast.
Yeah.
You should do something this week.
I'm seeing this week something.
This week.
I'm seeing this week.
Speaking of this week, guess what popped up this week?
What popped up this week?
The Clinton Foundation IRS Form 990.
Finally?
Yes, it finally popped up.
I've got your dog in it, so what did I say?
Well, it's very convoluted, as you can imagine.
First of all, as far as I can tell, they only raised $15 million from Haiti donations.
That makes no sense.
Of course it makes no sense.
It was billions of dollars, and we know that they didn't even have the Bush-Clinton-Haiti Foundation set up, so the money was coming into their foundation first at the surge of it.
So to say that that surge was only $15 million is bullcrap.
It's very difficult to read these reports.
It's a cash business.
But here's something that jumped out right off the bat.
Apparently...
On the IRS Form 990, you have to report, if you have a total of $15,000 raised during fundraising events in the entire year, then you have to report any event that raises over $5,000 on Part 2 of Schedule G. And so if you look at that on the Clinton Foundation, they list two events.
Event number one, Millennium.
Event number two, Gala.
Which, of course, is not helpful.
It's like, huh?
How does that work?
If you Google Clinton Gala, they have a million of them.
So, gross receipts?
Maybe they consider them all one event that's just spread out.
Yeah, maybe.
They can probably pull that off.
So here's how it works, and I'm happy to report this because this is what they always say, or what we always say.
Gross receipts in 2010.
Remember, this is an organization that pulled in $135 million at these charity galas where all the douchebag one percenters show up and the elites hang out and Bono's always there.
Total gross receipts.
$1,618,788.
Total cost?
Put them at a negative $311,135.
So they lost money on the deal.
They lost money on their charity deals.
How does that work?
The nerve.
It's literally 1% of the money that comes in is in these charity galas.
It's just a party.
It's just a party.
And they lose money on the deal after paying for food and beverage and entertainment.
Why are they paying for entertainment at a charity event?
Oh, excuse me.
In Hollywood, if you want, if you have a, and I know this from all the agents, if you want to get a celebrity to show up at your charity event, the going rate for a top grade celebrity is $100,000 and you have to pay for their shopping spree.
So they go get to go, you know, get to buy clothes and whatever.
It's huge.
These douchebag celebrities don't do it for free.
They charge money.
You mean Clooney's charging money?
Possibly.
I mean, I don't know for sure in his case.
I think he's got a back-end deal on the oil fields.
He's got points on the back-end.
But anyway, I guess the reason why this is interesting is because also this week, they threw Wyclef Jean under the bus.
Now, you'll recall Wyclef Jean is the dude from the Fugees.
Yeah, I guess he didn't play ball or something.
I was kind of surprised by this.
What do you think the deal is?
Duh, look at the coincidence.
So Clinton releases his bullcrap numbers, but then we've got to distract the attention away from Haiti by throwing this poor sap under the bus, who they set up in the first place.
Like, yeah, man, you can become president.
It'll be great.
And then Wyclef started to believe it, and he started, like, you know...
Remember, he was on the jet and he was wearing the suit and everything.
Like, no, no, no, no, no.
Dude, you're supposed to just be a figurehead.
You're not supposed to believe you can do anything.
Go away.
So then the New York Post, of all journalistic, of all integer.
You'll get it.
Yeah.
Of all places.
Yeah, of all of the journalistic publications.
The New York Post comes out and says, the guy was scrounging money off of his charity.
And gave like $700,000 to his father's firm and all this.
So they totally threw the guy under the bus.
And the guy was an idiot.
I mean, he didn't deserve to be president in the first place.
But it comes out the same week when Clinton finally comes out with his IRS Form 990, which I think we had a hand in that, you know, with our Clinton990.org and people sending in the IRS complaint forms.
A lot of people did that.
And all of a sudden, oh, there it is, six weeks late.
I think he probably had zero influence, but it's possible.
But to distract, one thing's for sure, to distract from their numbers, they throw this guy under the bus.
That's how the Clintons operate, man.
Really?
Yeah, really.
He's lucky he didn't get shot.
Yeah, well, that's actually true.
So I'm looking at the New York Times.
There's a picture of Hillary.
She's in Myanmar.
You mean Lucifer.
Lucifer.
Yeah.
And she really needs to get back to Paris as fast as she can.
Yeah, her hair.
She's now resorted to the pastel color outfit.
She's wearing the blue pastel.
Oh, she's a wreck.
The pink pastel.
Now, she needs her hair done.
She needs a facial hair.
As it were.
She needs to get back to Paris.
She does.
She's not going to get a good haircut in Myanmar, I can guarantee you that.
And she was in Burma before that.
And she actually, I tried to find a clip of it.
It wasn't available.
She told the Burmese, she said, you have to be better shoppers.
And she was referring to China.
When you go shopping, don't go shopping with the Chinese.
I go, really?
She's such a horrible woman.
So, Myanmar is Burma, by the way.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I thought it was...
What am I thinking of?
Oh, yeah, you're right.
It's the new name, right?
Yeah, well, yeah.
They've changed the name to avoid the bad publicity.
Yeah.
We should change our name here in the United States.
Something cool.
I think it's still a cool name.
So...
There's a bunch of weird stuff that happened this week, I have to say.
And there's a couple of things going on.
There's the SOPA and Protect IP stuff trying to go through Congress, which is just total corruption.
I got the commercials from the NCPC announcement.
The National Crime Prevention Council.
Play it.
I haven't heard it.
Well, so they had a big announcement with a whole bunch of DBs, and Holder was there.
And they roll out their campaign, and all the campaign has...
They so believe in the trademark of McGruff the Crime Dog.
He's still in the campaign.
You're kidding.
This thing should be in public domain by now.
It should be owned by Disney.
They actually had this whole thing, like, you know, McGruff really works well in the Target demo.
Yeah.
What target them with dogs?
Thieves, I guess.
I don't know.
Thieves.
So they start off, and they did not contact the Curry-Devorak Consulting Group, because we definitely would have told them this is a bad idea.
So they have a TV spot, which was made by MTV, which I can't play because it's too visual.
But the whole idea is, when you buy counterfeit, You are killing people.
Because, yeah, this is it.
Counterfeiting kills.
And everything is so wrong about their campaign.
So the first radio spot, they have three of them, actually four, is Eric Holder himself.
They think this is a good idea, that Eric Holder is going to grab the attention of people and stop them from buying fake Gucci bags.
The next is a radio public service ad from Attorney General Eric Holder called You Can Help.
In it, the Attorney General speaks to Americans about how street gangs and organized criminal enterprises are profiting from selling a range of counterfeit products to fund drug trafficking and other criminal activities.
So let's analyze this spot, shall we?
Let's test its effectiveness.
You can help.
This is Attorney General Eric Holder.
Click.
I'm gone.
I'm already off to the next station.
We are working hard to protect our communities by reducing gang violence and organized crime, and there is an important and simple way that you can help.
Some street gangs and organized crime groups are selling counterfeit products such as fake watches, DVDs, and purses as an easy way to make money.
And they use that money to fund other crimes, like trafficking in drugs and guns.
When you buy knockoffs on the street or online, although it may not be obvious, you could be supporting gangs, putting money into their pockets, helping them to engage in other illegal activities that put our communities at risk.
We're asking all Americans, please don't buy fakes.
The next time you think about buying counterfeit products, consider the source.
Remember, counterfeits hurt, but you have the power to stop them.
To learn more, go to www.ncpc.org forward slash getreal.
That's ncpc.org slash getreal.
How about that domain name, huh?
How about that call to action URL? Go to ncpc.org slash getreal.
How stupid is that?
I mean, we could even offer one of our domain names to these guys.
We probably have at least two or three that are better than that.
This is so stupid.
A message from the National Crime Prevention Council and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice.
Bullshit!
Thank you.
Now, let's listen.
We need to do something for the kids.
We've got to direct our attention.
We've got to get the kids involved.
How do we do that?
Thank you, Attorney General Holder, for adding your credible voice.
Your credible voice!
It's so credible.
Yeah, you're smuggling guns across the border that have people killed.
So credible.
...voice and important message to this effort.
The next radio ad called Everyday People makes the same point, but with a different messenger.
This sounds like the woman that used to be head of NPR, Schiller.
No she's not.
It's a little troll woman.
No she's not.
In this spot we hear from a former gang member who turned his life around and is now a pastor.
Now, notice that in the spot, he never identifies himself.
He never says, I'm now a pastor, which is so stupid.
They're so idiotic.
They think this is great because they know the story, but the spot doesn't represent it at all.
Oh, that's dumb.
It's totally dumb.
...firsthand how gangs use profits from selling counterfeit DVDs or other IP products as a funding...
This is a new meme, IP Products, by the way, which has multiple meanings, IP Products.
It could also be Internet Protocol Products.
Very interesting.
...source for their other activities.
Other activities.
Being a gang leader landed me in prison.
But back in the day, you and me probably did business together.
Business.
Can we get a more black guy to do business?
We did business together.
How?
If you ever bought any counterfeit merchandise on the street, you know a fake purse, a bootleg DVD, a pair of sunglasses, there's a good chance you would put the money straight into my pocket.
Because most times, it's gangs who illegally supply the knockoffs to street vendors.
Now that sounds like bullcrap.
I mean, this is so bogus.
Have you ever been to Canal Street in the dayday?
Yes, of course, of course.
Stuff was being shipped in straight from China in big cargo, and it went right to the street.
Yeah, how did it get in the country?
In boats, in covert boats in the middle of the night?
No, these are actually just backdoor products from these companies.
And by the way, we're being set up by the entire advertising industry to want this crap that we can't afford, so it's normal.
And by the way, this whole thing, I should mention this because I actually have a collection of counterfeit watches.
Me too.
You're killing people.
I was at the point where I would actually go down to Canal Street, but I would look for counterfeit watches that don't exist.
Right, exactly.
In fact, I have a watch.
I still use it.
It's a copy of a Movado.
Mm-hmm.
With the old museum style watch, which is very plain.
It's got a plain face and just some hands.
But instead of being gold on black, it is silver on silver.
They have never made a watch like this.
So it's not really counterfeit.
No, it's not.
Except it says Bovado on it, so I guess that's kind of counterfeit.
Detail, but...
But you're killing people.
But the point is, it's actually one of the prettiest watches I own, and it doesn't exist in the wild as an actual Movado.
So that's actually contributing to the overall aesthetics of the country.
You're contributing to gangs.
You are killing people, my friend.
So anyway, I would notice this when I used to go to New York a lot.
That the month beginning around Thanksgiving, there would be a crackdown on Canal Street and you couldn't get anything for about a month and a half anywhere.
You'd have to really pry to get it.
This is the new version of that.
They're basically clamping down.
They do this just before Christmas, make a big deal, get everyone to stop buying these things.
Of course!
Thank you.
The timing is not coincidental.
Thank you.
And then they drop the whole thing in February.
So, but listen to the sound effect that they bring in just to show you that you are actually responsible for killing people.
John C. Dvorak with your fake watches.
Get real, my friend.
Those kind of fair prodders come from gangs and their overseas connections and are bought by everyday people just like you.
So if you keep buying fakes, these gangs are going to keep on making easy money.
Money they use for other activities.
In other words, they're getting a lot of bang for their buck.
Do they think this is a good idea?
These commercials aren't very good.
They're not effective.
Well, they have.
So then we had to reach the white girls.
Because now we've got the hood kids, right?
Now we've got to reach the...
Who are going to stop buying anything except for the fact that their stuff won't be on the street during this era.
Well, listen to how they think the right way is to approach white girls who shop at the mall.
My sister Katie and I love to shop.
Well...
I'm a valley girl.
Mostly window shop.
She means we're thorough.
She means we're bargain hunters.
Exactly.
But my sister Kelly showed me an article that made me change a really bad habit.
Just wanting us to do what's right.
You see, at one time, I just couldn't stay away from those bargain knockoffs.
You know, the handbags and scarves sold on the street.
Uh, counterfeit merchandise?
Ooh.
Ooh.
You make it sound so illegal.
I'm horny.
Is stealing.
Ouch.
Stealing.
I wouldn't steal.
I didn't realize that this sort of stealing can lead to more Americans losing their jobs.
So, no more buying fakes and knockoffs, right?
Right.
Just honest bargain hunting.
Now you're talking?
How does that work?
You mean Chinese, maybe, but Americans losing their jobs?
The asshole from the Chamber of Commerce that came on NewsHour, and I have some clips that I'll bring on the Sunday show because it's just like they need to be dissected too much.
But anyway, this jerk comes on, and his whole pitch, it was almost like talking points.
Yeah.
Which is costing us jobs.
Americans are losing jobs, and it's like, because of these counterfeits, I'm thinking, wait a minute, Rolexes aren't made by Americans.
No, no.
All these things are made in China.
Louis Vuitton is not made by Americans.
Who is he kidding with this crap?
It's annoying.
It's very, very annoying.
And then they have these bogus numbers.
Oh, $3 trillion is lost to the American economy because of these IPs.
And if you really boil it down, this is all bull crap.
This entire thing, and this is part of the Protect IP law and SOPA, which are these two onerous laws they want to put into effect where they can just shut down websites at the drop of a hat.
They don't need, though.
They already do that.
They don't need these laws.
I know, but What this will do, it'll give them even more power, so they'll be shutting down our websites.
And by the way, let's just be correct.
They say they're shutting down websites, but they're not.
All they're doing is breaking DNS. They're not shutting down the actual websites.
Which is, of course, the way the Chinese would do it.
I'm so proud of our internet...
I don't care what anybody thinks.
This is about the RIAA and the MPAA doing anything they can to shut down viruses.
It's got nothing to do with Louis Vuitton or counterfeit Rolexes or any of this other stuff.
It's just a meme and it's bogus.
And the reason why is they need the media in their pocket because we've got an election coming up and you've got to play friendly to the media.
That's the whole way it works.
I mean, Fox runs Fox Studios and Fox News and Fox Television and American Idol and X Factor and all of this stuff.
It's really important.
That's why they're doing it.
Now, we, on the other hand, don't have to suck up to the media.
We should, though.
I mean, we should certainly be consulting these guys and making better spots.
I mean, crikey, we could do better than that.
Oh, yeah.
No, that's pretty bad stuff.
I mean, unless they're just...
The other thing is, why would they hire consultants when they could just throw this crap out?
Because it doesn't mean anything.
There's no reason.
This is just a throwaway.
It's just a wave your arms and scream that you're doing something and making everybody happy.
Yeah, and everyone's happy, and it's all groovy, and we all go to the Christmas party and get drunk.
We, on the other hand, only have people who donate drunk.
Yeah, well, we didn't get too many drunks this week, but let's thank a few of them.
Our executive producers for this show...
Beginning with one executive producer, Michael Henry, from Snellville, Georgia, who gave us $700.
Wow, that's awesome.
Thank you.
Finishes off his knighthood.
In the morning, everybody, talk of my favorite demon drink from Gitmo Nation Haggis, LaFroig, moved me to move up my next donation.
Wait a minute, this is a clue.
Yes, we should talk about Scott some more often.
Yeah, we're crazy.
What are we talking about?
The news.
Yeah, let's just talk about no news, just booze.
No news.
Wait a minute.
Oh, perfect.
No agenda show, no news, just booze with Adam Curry and John C. Nvorak.
I also picked up the gold Johnny Walker from a tasting of seven expressions of the brand.
Thanks for all the work you do to make the best podcast in the universe.
He says world, but he means universe.
I knew I made a mistake.
Austin, we have three associate executive producers all giving $200.
Austin Voss in Calgary, Alberta.
And he needs a spoonful of karma.
Let me hand out some karma for this.
A nice little spoonful for you, my friend.
You've got karma.
A spoonful of karma helps the medicine go down.
Bill Rutter in San Jose, California, and James Brewis, Sir James Brewis to you, in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Adam John just read the newly released Sherlock Holmes novel, Great Read, Highly Recommended, the audiobooks narrated by Sir Derek Jacoby.
Wait a minute, a new Sherlock Holmes novel?
I guess.
Interesting that the author, the new author, is Anthony Horowitz.
You know, it's a public domain character.
I could write a Sherlock Holmes novel.
May well be a listener as the plot revolves around one of Adam's second half of the show theories on a tale that, according to the opening chapter, has been too shocking to reveal until now.
Now I have to read it.
And, of course, he doesn't give us a...
He doesn't have a spoiler.
A spoiler.
But he didn't give us a spoiler.
We want spoilers.
Yes.
What's up with that?
Without the alert.
Just the spoilers.
While we're reading it, we just go like, oh crap.
We just spoiled it.
So I want to thank all four of those gentlemen for...
Aiding us in this particular show.
I want to remind people to go to NoAgendaShow.com, Dvorak.org slash NA, ChannelDvorak.com slash NA, and NoAgendaNation.com, where you can click on the donation button and help us stay on track to continue this show and the five hours a week that we produce, specifically for the people out there who are looking for something different.
Dvorak.org slash NA. So speaking of that, there's a PR mention.
Are you familiar with the Joe Rogan Show, the podcast, Joe Rogan's podcast?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So we have a big crossover in audience, apparently.
A lot of people, I think, so he talks a lot about the same stuff we talk about without the, except instead of assassinating the media, I think he smokes marijuana.
Okay.
And drinks on the show, which is a good thing.
Well, there's an advantage to that.
But what he does, I mean, the real crossover is you're basically listening to him and another guest or a couple guys just talking for two and a half hours.
It's exactly what we do, and I think people really enjoy that.
I think a lot of people were tweeting, Adam, you should go on the Joe Rogan show.
And then at the end of his last show, he said, oh, we're going to have Adam Curry on.
So we haven't actually connected personally, but I'm looking forward to it because I think that'll be fun.
And Big Show could help us and maybe we could toss him a couple of listeners as well.
Just put a list of memes in front of you.
Yeah, I think that'd be good.
And I did want to tell you about your influence.
As you know, the yogi has said that you have a lot of power.
Oh, yeah.
So our landlord, Trey, was over the other day because the rocker switch on the electric stove, there's a rocker switch for the downdraft exhaust.
It's broken.
For the convection oven?
No, no, no.
We have an electric stove.
Yeah, but you still have a convection oven.
Does it have a convection function or no?
On the stove?
Where else would they show up?
No, in an oven.
Oh, you're talking about on the burners?
Yeah, the burners, yeah.
Oh, I thought you meant the oven, sorry.
No, no.
I said stove, not oven.
I'm not paying attention.
Thank you.
You will when I tell you the story.
Okay.
So, now Trey, he's a first-time landlord.
And so he likes to come over with his toolkit.
Longtime listener.
Well, he is.
He comes over with his toolkit to fix stuff.
And, you know, he's blowing fuses.
It's like sparks coming out of the thing.
It's very entertaining.
And I'm just sitting there with a flashlight, like, oh, that's cool.
All right, Trey.
And he's trying to fix this rocker switch.
And you know what he says?
Man, this rocker switch is bogative.
He said that on purpose.
He said it doesn't matter.
Yeah, well, bogative is a damn good word.
It is a damn good word.
I think it could catch on.
Yeah, well, we're working on it.
Anyway, thank you very much to our executive producer and associate executive producers for checking in today and helping us out.
It is so incredibly important for keeping this podcast the best one in the universe on the air.
And, of course, we have a formula that can go out and propagate.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
New World Order.
Come on, everybody!
You know it!
Shut up, slave.
Shut up, slave.
So, there was a very funny thing that happened on NBC. Did you witness it?
Amateur Hour and NBC Part 1?
No, I did not.
Let's see what this is about.
Well, perhaps not something special anymore.
Again, we have an announcement going on here in the studio.
Tom Costello, we should advise our viewers there's no danger to us.
We'd love to make this stop.
Yeah, I saw CNN, I think, making fun of it.
Yeah.
This part, too, because you think they go to a commercial and you're in a studio.
You are a major network.
You go to a commercial in a situation like this, right?
Yeah, sure.
Don't you?
And then they fix it?
Yeah, sure.
Yeah, play part two.
As we continue to deal with a fire alarm that is stuck, we press on nonetheless with tonight's broadcast, and that means we're back with the latest installment in our series of reports, The War Next Door.
This has just let the guy burn.
It's unbelievable.
I mean, what kind of an operation are they running there?
Mickey Mouse.
There's an excuse that they're doing the newscasts and there's an earthquake.
You see that once in a while.
The set's shaking.
There's nothing you can do about that.
But this?
It's dumb.
Yeah, it was pretty funny.
I saw a new Dvorak Horowitz Unplugged came out and it is definitely the best podcast in Florida.
And...
So I don't know if you talked about this, but Bloomberg News came out with an incredible report as they documented that the Federal Reserve had essentially lent more than $7.7 trillion to banks that they did not disclose.
I don't think it was that much.
I think it was $1.7 trillion.
No, it was $7.8 trillion.
Yes, it's $7 trillion.
Well, I saw the guy discussing it on one of the shows with the Bloomberg reporter, and it was very entertaining.
Well, so the implication here is that the Federal Reserve essentially just mailed out the world.
Yeah, made up some numbers and said, here you go, the banks made money on that, of course.
But everyone else, like stupid slaves, they're just like, screw you, we're going to take away your house and everything.
And Dennis Kucinich...
Our other favorite wacky in the House, who of course is the Democratic Ron Paul, he said something very entertaining on C-SPAN, which I was watching.
Well, Congress is in a deadlock over tax and spending cuts.
We learned the Fed secretly gave Wall Street banks over $7.7 trillion.
Where did the Fed get that $7.7 trillion?
They created most of it from nothing.
Well, our government has massive debt.
The Fed picked winners and losers and secretly held big banks tally record profits.
Remember the great debate we had here?
Over $700 billion in TARP funds?
There was no debate over the $7.7 trillion the Fed gave the banks.
Did Congress have a clue?
There's another game going on way over our heads, and our constituents are struggling.
Well, the banks, with the help of the Fed, have captured control of our government.
Now the rating services are threatening us.
If we don't come up with a deal, they'll downgrade U.S. debt.
Could the threat to our national sovereignty be any clearer?
It's time for Congress to listen to the wisdom of the founders, reclaim its constitutional primacy over monetary policy.
There is a way.
It's called the NEED Act.
The Fed takes our freedom and gives it to the banks.
Let's take our freedom back from the Fed.
And of course, his buddy there in Congress, Ron Paul, he is leading the Finance Committee, so he could actually call for an investigation.
Could you please tell someone we're doing the best podcast in the universe?
Some sales call from some toll-free number.
I paid an extra three bucks to Time Warner Cable to have our number not listed in the database.
You have to pay for that privilege.
For the first week, I've got nothing but, hello, this is ADT Home Security, calling over and over again.
They sold my name, bastards!
Well, it's not in the directory, though.
Yeah, yeah.
They didn't say they wouldn't sell my name.
That's true.
Anyway...
That's another five bucks.
So what I like what Kucinich is saying here is he's very astute.
He says, there's another game going on over our heads.
Yeah, duh.
Duh.
And I was looking...
Do you ever read Zero Hedge?
No, I've been meaning to.
It's actually quite good.
They picked up on a story from Forbes.
Now, what happened is the central banks came out the day before yesterday and said, we got a great idea, of course.
Timmy Geithner set all this up.
And the idea was they're going to lower the interest rate that banks have to pay if they borrow money in a swap.
And, of course, this is all intended to confuse you because the minute people hear swap, they're like, whatever.
Let's go shop.
Swap, shop, what did you say?
In other words, the central banks, including the Federal Reserve, our Federal Reserve, our money, the guys who are just handing out money left and right, are saying, you know what?
Come, give us a piece of paper that says you have this many euro, and we'll give you a piece of paper that says that equals this many dollars, and then you pay half a percent interest for doing that.
And usually these are short term, like overnight and stuff.
But what Zero Hedge concluded, and that they picked it up from Forbes, is that this was done because it appeared that a big European bank got close to failure.
And they had to do something really quickly.
And then, of course, we got the big Santa rally, as it's known, yesterday.
And everything popped up, and now everything's all great, and it's all groovy, and we have nothing to worry about.
But I think this is the final...
This is it, man.
We're close.
We're very, very close.
Well, actually, if you listen to our Dvorak Horowitz podcast, which you'll run probably after this show or next...
Yeah, get most laid.
We'll put it on the stream, of course.
We...
It's really grim.
In fact, if you listen to Ron Paul on the Tuesday debates, I've got a couple of clips that just kind of summarizes it.
I have two clips.
One is Paul followed by Romney, which is where Paul goes, and this is the second half of Paul's little complaining.
And then Romney, of course, is an idiot, and he just goes and throws it back into the political arena and blames everything on Obama for some reason.
But play Paul followed by Romney.
But this whole idea of talking about the endless wars and the endless foreign aid, it seems like nobody cares about the budget.
I mean, we're in big trouble and nobody wants to cut anything.
So if you're going to keep sending foreign aid overseas and these endless wars that you don't have to declare and go into Libya without even consulting with the Congress, the biggest threat...
The biggest threat to our national security is our financial condition.
And this is just aggravating it.
Congressman Paul, what they're doing is cutting a trillion dollars out of the defense budget.
They're cutting a trillion dollars out of the defense budget, which just happens to equal the trillion dollars you're putting into Obamacare.
And so what you have is a president that has a priority of spending us into bankruptcy, but he's not just spending us into bankruptcy, he's spending the money foolishly.
What an idiot.
The guy's an idiot.
So he goes on and on and on, and then luckily they let, for some reason CNN, I guess they took the clue and they let Ron Paul actually speak.
So play the second clip, which is Paul snaps after, this is the end of Romney's rant about how the military's not getting enough money.
That's the best way to save money, not the military.
Hold on one second, because Ron Paul wants to respond to that point.
Well, they're not cutting anything out of anything.
All this talk is just talk.
Believe me.
They're cutting, they're nibbling, they're nibbling away at baseline budgeting.
It's automatic increases.
There's nothing cut against the military and the people on the hill near Italy hysterical because they're not going, the budget isn't going up as rapidly as they want it to.
It's a road to disaster.
We better wake up.
Yeah, yeah.
They're nibbling.
Nobody's paying any attention to this.
No, of course not.
And the fact of the...
Oops, I didn't say anything.
I'm sorry.
It doesn't count.
Yeah, it does.
Oh, boy.
So...
Ron Paul is the only guy making this point, and the one thing that people have to look at when they keep moaning and groaning about the military is go look at the military spending in 1990, 2000, 2000, and then look at it year by year.
When has it ever gone down?
Never?
Well, yeah, after World War II it went down, but for some reason it just started going up, and once...
I think Clinton kind of stopped it from continuing to grow at a high rate.
But now it's massive.
And they've even said that they can't even audit the Pentagon.
This is another thing.
If they want to audit the Fed, they can't even audit the military.
They're just throwing money away.
We've been tracking that.
Why anybody would be defending this is beyond me.
Well, there's a brand new Joint Chief of Staffs.
You know, the military dudes.
He's been there for like two months, I think.
And he came out.
And, you know, everyone hates the Obama administration now, including the Democrats.
Everyone wants this guy and all his cronies and that slumlord, Chicago slumlord, Valerie Jarrett.
They want them all out.
And he's even, for the Joint Chief to say, you know, well, this is not okay.
We can't have this spending cut.
This is not good.
You know, for him to say that's a big deal.
You know, you're supposed to be, like, kind of together, particularly when you're, you know, Obama's his boss.
He's the commander-in-chief.
And this guy, you know, he's coming out and saying, hmm, this is not really so good.
And then, of course, the joke of it all is, is that it's just not going up as much as it already is supposed to go up automatically.
And that's what Ron Paul is saying.
Yeah, and when people talk about cuts, they're not talking about actual cuts.
They're talking about cuts and growth.
Yeah, exactly.
So you got like a, say you're spending a trillion dollars and now you want to spend 1.1 trillion and it comes, oh, we're going to cut 500 billion dollars from the growth, not from the baseline stuff.
I mean, it's still a trillion plus.
And it's over 10 years.
It's like whoop-de-doo.
That's over 10 years.
It's up to $2 trillion by then, and you've cut, what, half a trillion?
It's ridiculous.
And why doesn't the media call people out on this?
When they talk about cuts, they're not talking about real cuts.
They're talking about cuts in the growth.
They don't care.
Apparently, I guess nobody does.
So Haiku Herman was in Washington, along with Barroso.
Oh, and by the way, stop.
Why do we need continued growth on these budgets?
Gross is what it's called.
Gross.
Why do we need continued gross?
So we can be them bad MFs that we are, man.
So we can continue to go kill people.
The budget is big enough.
No, apparently not.
Anyway, I'm sorry.
Go on.
Haiku Herman is more entertaining than I am.
Oh, he's very entertaining.
Haiku Herman has his own website, and they put his videos up.
It saves me so much work.
I'm so appreciative of it.
But when you look at his webpage, he's all slick looking, and they have all these cool videos.
And they're also good because they're short.
They're like 20 seconds.
And so he's in Washington.
Now, of course, December 9th is the big day when they're going to announce whatever's going to happen and how they're going to save the universe over there in Euroland, which, of course, will not help.
And, you know, this latest central bank collusion, the world bankers essentially colluding against us, because the way I see it is the Federal Reserve created money that we eventually have to pay for.
They lent it out to other countries so that they can pay back American bankers.
I mean, am I stupid or what?
It's taking our money and giving it to bankers.
Is that not correct?
That's what it looks like.
Okay, so here's Haiku Herman telling us about the actual situation.
And notice he always uses we.
We.
He's got a mouse in his pocket.
We.
We also consider the situation as grave and even as dangerous.
Grave and dangerous.
And we explained.
We explained.
What we already have done and what we intend to do.
I told them in broad lines what I intend to propose at the European Council meeting of the 8th and the 9th of December.
9th.
9th.
The 8th and the 9th of December.
Did he say in bread lines?
Yes, in bread lines.
Wait a minute.
Let me listen to the bread lines.
What we already...
I've done and what we intend to do.
I told them in broad lines.
No, here it is.
I told them in broad lines.
Shut up!
So on.
Say it again.
I told them in broad lines.
Yeah, bread lines.
Broad lines.
Bread lines.
The Europeans will...
It's grave and dangerous.
They will all be in bread lines.
And then, of course, he has to address the slaves of Europe.
And so here he is.
And it's nothing more fun than making...
There's nothing more entertaining than making fun of someone's pronunciation.
And here he is.
Of course.
It's great.
They refuse to do that nowadays on mainstream media.
No, of course not.
Here he is saying, you know, basically we have to have a fiscal union, which means you'll have to pay your taxes to the federal state of Euroland.
And there's some fun to be had in his pronunciation.
We need a significant step forward towards a real economic union commensurate with our monetary union.
We need to offer our citizens and the investors direction for the future that brings back confidence.
We have to show that the euro is an irreversible project.
Yes.
An irreversible project.
Irreversible project.
It is an irreversible project.
Jean, an irreversible project.
An irreversible project.
Now, I'll give you a funnier one.
Who was visiting President Obama this week besides Haiku Herman and Barroso?
It was the Prime Minister of Gitmo Nation Lowlands, Mr.
Rutte.
Why?
Just to hang out.
It's his turn.
It was on the schedule.
Because he gets a boner from it.
And I can prove it.
You can prove it?
Yeah, I can prove it.
Mickey knows this guy, Ms.
Mickey.
And she says he's a total empty suit.
That doesn't sound that empty.
No, he's a total empty suit.
Right.
Hold on a second.
Very good.
Now, she won't say it, but he's gay, which is fine with that, but he likes going to the fashion shows and hooting and hollering about the dresses and stuff.
It's just like he's an empty suit.
A douchebag.
But of course, when you visit our president, what does our president always say?
Would you like to come up to the Lincoln bedroom?
Hello everybody.
First he says, hello everybody.
Whenever the president goes into his, hello everybody, you know it's fake.
Hello everybody.
It is wonderful to welcome Prime Minister Ruta and his delegation to the White House.
Part of the reason we wanted to make this meeting happen is because we have no stronger ally than the Netherlands.
There it is.
He says this about everybody.
No stronger ally is our bestest buddy.
We're BFFs forever.
And then it's Ruta's time to talk.
And first he makes a huge fupa.
As you know, that's the way you pronounce it these days.
Fupa.
And instead of saying President Obama or the President, he says Barack Obama.
And you can see President Obama just looking at him going like, you dick.
I have a little respect.
And then he rolls it out.
Mr.
Prime Minister.
Yeah.
Well, thank you so much.
I'm glad to be here and to meet once again with you, Barack Obama.
How wrong is that?
To meet with you again, Barack Obama?
Is that wrong or is that wrong?
I don't know.
It sounds funny, though.
...and to meet once again with you, Barack Obama, and I hope very much to welcome you to the Netherlands.
That will be a great honor and a great opportunity.
The relationship between our countries is very strong.
It goes back a long time, and I came to the United States basically to discuss three issues.
What could those three issues be, John?
Well, I'm pins and needles waiting to find out.
Jobs, Jobs, and Jobs. Jobs, Jobs, and Jobs. Check the calendar, dude. Jobs, Jobs, and Jobs.
Steve Jobs, Peter Jobs, and Enrique Jobs.
Jobs.
Just Jobs.
Idiot.
I've got to ridicule that guy.
But Michelle Obama, and then I'm done.
She has a video on whitehouse.gov.
This is her Jackie O moment where she presents the Christmas decorations for the White House.
There's a whole bunch of kids there.
Interestingly enough, Sasha and Shanikoa aren't there.
What's her name again?
Malika.
Malika?
Malika or something like that.
Sasha and Malika aren't there, which makes no sense because, you know, this is the moment.
It should be the family.
But then there's like some kid, I guess, and you can't see it because they don't cut away.
I think the kid is trying to climb up on the stage.
And you tell me if this sounds like a friendly woman.
How's everyone doing?
Good.
Are you excited?
Are you ready for Christmas?
Yeah!
Where are Malia and Sasha?
Yeah, where are Malia and Sasha?
Yeah, where are they?
Yeah, where are they?
What else they got to do?
Well, here it comes.
Well, it's great to have you all here and your families as well.
Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the White House as we kick off the holiday season.
This is...
Oh, yes, here's a little one.
You come on up.
Come on up.
I'm sorry, but that's it.
Come on up!
Come on up!
It's like the winch, man!
Like, come on up!
Here's a little one.
Come on up!
Come on up!
It's frightening me.
This is...
Listen, listen, listen.
Yes, here's a little one.
Yes, we're gonna eat you, you little one.
Come on up.
Come on up!
Come on up!
It's scary!
Come on, man.
That's frightening.
Oh, brother.
That's not a nice mother.
You're over the top on this.
It's the style.
Come on.
Style?
That's no style.
Come on up.
Come here, you little one.
She's like the woman in the gingerbread house.
Yeah, my pretty.
Come on up.
I'm sorry.
It just struck me as odd.
Well, yeah, I can see it did.
So, uh...
And a couple of clips that are kind of interesting.
You know, there's a big to-do about this is the week that Lipitor goes off patent.
Yeah, that's right.
Do you know what they did with Lipitor last year, Pfizer?
Well, first they made an Alzheimer's drug.
No, no, what they did money-wise.
Oh, let me guess.
I'm going to say $8 billion.
$10 billion.
And the entire entertainment, no, the entire music industry is $4 billion.
Yeah, I know, it's amazing.
I know, four.
Four billion versus ten for one pill.
Right.
So there was a long exposition on this.
It was a real big presentation on the NPR. I'm sorry, not NPR, but NewsHour.
Yeah.
And it was, you know, unfortunately, when I watched the news hour, when they actually need to ask a lot of questions, they got somebody who's a stooge.
They never really grill him.
But when you get some guy who's like a critic and who wants to talk, they let them go, too.
So this guy had some good stuff to say.
But it finally evolved into one of the female hosts asking this stooge shill.
No, he's the opposite of the shill.
He's the book writer.
About what is Pfizer trying to do, pulling a fast one to keep this thing alive as long as they can, even though now it's off patent.
And there's two things that came out of this.
And the first one is, if you listen to the kinds of stunts they're pulling, this only works because of the healthcare industry being basically corrupt because it's now dominated by insurance companies.
But play Pfizer pulling a fast one.
Now, Pfizer, though, is fighting back against generic competitors.
Yes, they are.
It's really kind of like trying to hold back the tide, because in six months, because of a variety of legal reasons, there will be many generic manufacturers, and at that point, Pfizer can't keep fighting them all back.
I think what it's trying to do is just preserve whatever franchise it can in the waning months of its availability on the market, and frankly, I'd rather that all of that Enormous creativity that they're showing in ways of dealing with this legally and through deals and economically were being spent on developing new products rather than trying to figure out other ways to get people not to use the generic.
But explain what they're trying to do.
It's quite a novel approach.
It involves arranging deals with prescription benefit management companies to not make the generic available.
It involves making coupons available to patients to bring down the copay to get them to stay on Lipitor as opposed to the generic.
It involves a variety of kind of side deals with insurers, with druggists, with anybody who's a player to try to desperately hang on to a couple more months of Lipitor use.
Now, is there not a debate about whether generics are, quote, as good or...
Stop it.
So, I got this another clip.
For some reason, I didn't clip it right.
This guy's a professor, I believe.
He's John Hopkins or Yale Medical or someplace like that.
And he's been following this for a while.
And the thing that kind of got me was the question that she began to ask her, which I do have on another clip called Generic Drug Rant, where she actually...
She's not too reticent after he kind of scolds her for even asking the question.
But I wanted to run this clip because I think this is actually a clip that people need to listen to.
Because it really summarizes the problem with generic drugs.
And the problem is that they're just exactly the same.
And there's no evidence to the contrary, and this guy makes it very clear.
But there's a lot of propaganda, and he points this out, that generic drugs aren't as good, or we make it a little better because we had the original, blah, blah, blah, but play a generic drug rant.
Is there not a debate about whether generics are, quote, as good, or at least as reliably good, as the brand name manufacturer?
Or do you consider that a settled point?
It's not subtle, and it should not be a debate, and it should not have been a debate for decades.
Generics are every bit as good as the brand-name drugs.
There's a lot of disinformation that gets spewed out there.
It is not scientifically accurate information.
All the data we have is that generics are every bit as good as the brand-name products.
They're held to the same high standards by FDA. They contain the exact same molecules and the exact same strength.
And I really wish that that old canard about generics don't work as well, It's just to rip us off.
Yeah!
It's just to rip us off.
Everything seems to be designed to rip us off.
To rip us off.
You know, when my first company, I had a pharmaceutical Janssen.
Is that it?
Janssen?
I don't know.
I never heard of it, but maybe I did.
Maybe I'm mispronouncing it.
I'll check the book of knowledge.
I thought it was Janssen.
And, you know, we would build a website or some crap for them, whatever, an $18 million website back in the day.
And we went to their headquarters, which I think is in Colorado, and And I'm like, you know, this will be cool, it'll be high-tech.
It's like an oil factory.
Yeah, Janssen Pharmaceuticals.
Yeah, it's like an oil factory.
They've got nothing but big vats of goop.
They were established in Belgium in 1953.
Yeah, and it's just like, wow.
It's like a refinery.
Because a lot of this is, correct me if I'm wrong, isn't a lot of this made with, like, petrochemicals?
Yeah, some of it, sure.
Yeah, it's just making oil.
It's like a refinery.
It's really crazy.
And they put in a pill and they get more money than you would forever for a gallon of gas.
And they're trying to sell this.
They're screening kids now for cholesterol at school.
They're doing everything.
It goes way beyond what's being discussed here.
The cholesterol on kids thing is outrageous.
It's just nuts.
It's just nuts.
And this cholesterol.
Do you take Lipitor?
No.
Do you take Viagra?
No, I don't need Viagra.
Have you ever tried Viagra?
I'm just asking.
Have you ever tried Viagra?
No, I've never even tried it.
I don't like the idea of it because I don't like my heart rate being changed around.
And also the temporary blindness and the other possibilities.
Well, that could actually be a benefit.
You get a double whammy there.
It's like, hi honey, hold on.
Oh, I'm blind, but look at my boner.
Let me at it.
Yeah, no I don't.
Why, do you?
You a big Viagra user?
Never tried it.
Never tried.
Of course not.
But just all this stuff is disconcerting.
It's the advertising, man.
People believe this.
You know, Miss Mickey has made friends here with someone.
Just now?
Yeah.
Just this very second.
That's what it sounds like.
Yeah, and she was talking to her on the phone, and this is Austin, right?
And this mom is from out of state, and she's been here for about nine or ten months, and she has two kids, I think.
One is nine, one is 14.
And so they both can't go into school unless they have their mandatory vaccines, which, as we know, is the next...
Big bonanza for the drug companies.
Not only because it's giving stuff to people who aren't sick, but they also can't be sued if it kills them.
But the other one was, this mom actually got a call from the school.
Yeah, your son's not really adjusting.
The Texas schools, by the way, are notorious for this.
Time for Ritalin.
Throw that kid on to Ritalin.
How horrible is that?
It's a very common...
The Texas school system commonly likes to dope up their kids.
It's so wrong.
I don't know why that hasn't been stopped.
Well, it's Perry, because of Governor Perry, the douchebag.
No, it goes way before him.
It was before the Bush, when Bush was governor.
Well, there you go.
Do I need to say anything?
It was Bush.
Yeah.
Duh.
All a-holes.
So this mom is like freaking out.
I don't know if they can mandate that.
Wouldn't surprise me.
Your kid's got to be on Ritalin.
I think you can homeschool here, though.
Yeah, I think so, too.
I would just homeschool.
Yeah.
Until the kids are old enough to want to actually get out of the house.
All of his mom is probably like, yeah, anything to get the kids out of the house.
Just give them some dope.
Get them out of my house.
I want to hear this kid yammering at me, running around like a crazy kid.
Dope them up.
Yeah, that's great.
Yeah, doping them up.
So the Penn State pedo bear thing continues.
Yeah, now they've got another school involved, Syracuse.
I think your theory about first buddy is probably accurate.
Because this is starting to crop up now here and there.
I think it'll be two or three more incidents.
This is becoming the new version of...
First they went through the Catholic scandals, and now we're going through the coaching scandals.
And I think this is just the tip of the iceberg.
And that Penn State thing, they filed one lawsuit already, and you can just assume this school's going to damn near be...
We're bankrupted by these lawsuits.
And it's just going to be a real interesting mess.
And it serves them right.
Penn State deserves this.
They had that one college, one of the original heads of the school, this female, who had to quit.
Yeah.
You know about this, right?
Did we talk about this?
I don't think we talked about it.
Okay, before, about five or six years ago, there was a couple of the football players had gone in the dorms and beat up some kids, and it was just a big deal, and the cops were called out.
And so she went to the coach and called him to the carpet, and he said, you're not calling me to the carpet, I'm calling you to the carpet, I'll take care of it, get out.
And nobody would back her to discipline these kids.
And they got rid of her.
And she said, well, screw you, I quit!
Right.
So she's out during this major scandal, and the sucker that came in was the guy who got fired, who should have interesting trouble getting work in the future.
I mean, this is what happens when you have a corruption of, you know, this sort of corruption at a college.
I mean, you can't have, they should close the football program down.
No, instead they had a prayer circle.
Yeah, that's going to do it.
Well, they're going to be praying for a better lawyer to defend them because this is not going to get any easier.
And then we have a professor at the University of Utah who was looking at porn on a Delta flight.
Did you catch that one?
Oh, I missed it.
Yeah, he was sitting in the first class section of Delta Flight.
Yeah, I'm in first class, man.
I can look at porn, can't I? The man behind him saw what appeared to be child pornography.
Oh, child pornography.
He notified the flight attendant.
Of course, it could have been nothing.
Well, who knows, but...
The Anti-Child Pornography Task Force broke down the door of his Cottonwood Heights home and they searched it to see if they could find more kiddie porn.
It just shows to me these universities have just become places where your kids, their minds are messed up, their bodies are messed up.
I mean, you might as well not send your kid to a university.
All they're doing is get indoctrinated with crazy stuff.
I'm generalizing.
But wow, this stuff is rampant, John.
It's rampant.
And it's the past 20 years that this has started to really happen.
There was a guy...
It would be that big of a deal if the tuitions were lower.
True.
True.
I've always been harping on the Secretary General of Justice in the Netherlands, Joris Demink.
This is the guy that I was harping on, and not only did I get fired from the radio station, but they took down the whole station.
Burned it to the ground.
Yeah, completely.
So there was a day...
So why did you get fired again?
I forgot.
Because I said, hey, this guy, he's a pedophile.
And there's enough evidence that there should at least be an investigation.
There's never an investigation.
And there were two big publications that...
Well, he should have sued you for libel.
Well, this is the thing.
He never sues anyone for libel because it's probably true.
So there was a big scandal.
We didn't even talk about it on the show.
A couple months ago in Gitmo Nation Lowlands where this director of a daycare center was abusing kids.
And a big scandal.
And then the guy goes to court and then he's let go.
Well, he's suffered enough.
Because, of course, the Secretary General...
He's suffered enough.
He's had to be in court.
Yeah, they let him go.
Let him go.
And the parents are like, what?
What?
They just let him go because the Secretary General is in on the game.
This is how it works when there's that kind of takeover.
Everyone's being blackmailed and you all got to be part of the club and shut up and it's rampant.
And meanwhile, Penn State advertising their big lecture on climate ethics.
My God.
Penn State is going to do ethics on anything?
Douchebags.
Yeah, really.
No, it's sad.
It's very, very sad.
But there you have it.
So I got one more clip from the debates.
Oh.
Where we actually caught Romney pulling a parry and stammering and stuttering and then making some stupid comment.
I don't know.
Was there ever a genocide convention?
A nuclear program.
Whether Iran is going to become nuclear.
We have a president who pursued an agenda of saying we're going to be friendly to our foes and we're going to be disrespectful to our friends.
The right course in America is to stand up to Iran with crippling sanctions, indict Ahmadinejad for violating the genocide convention, put in place the kind of crippling sanctions that stop their economy.
I know it's going to make gasoline more expensive.
There's no price which is worth an Iranian nuclear weapon.
I'd love this guy to be president.
It's a guaranteed four years of material.
We totally need this.
He's like falling apart.
What is this genocide convention?
I've got to look it up in the book of knowledge.
Maybe there was one.
I didn't know about it.
Well, Donna, please.
Genocide convention.
You should check it out.
Meanwhile, the...
Preventgenocide.org, Convention on the Prevention of the Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
But is there a genocide convention?
Yeah, it was in the United Nations General Assembly, 9th of December, 1948.
I don't think he means that.
I think he means the Geneva Convention.
I think he meant Geneva Convention, but he's here again.
Well, the Geneva Convention is getting played up.
Now it's like, hey, the slaves over there in Iran, they stormed the British Embassy, and that's against the Geneva Convention.
You've got to protect the embassy.
Don't you get it?
Don't you understand that people are pissed off?
I got a different approach on this one.
I think, and there's a couple of interesting clips that will lead into my conclusion.
Okay.
Play this clip, MI6 Once War With Iran.
Okay.
And finally, this latest news out of Iran, the British government withdrawing a portion of the diplomatic staff after Iranian protesters, not clear exactly who they were, stormed the British embassy in Tehran, overrunning the diplomatic buildings, quoting, chanting death to Britain, Richard Seymour.
Yeah, well, I think that we have to understand this in the context of the geopolitics.
There are elements within the British government that really want a war with Iran.
That's come out recently with the connections between Liam Fox, who was the defense minister, and a very hard-right, neoconservative, Atlanticist, pro-Israel, and a fellow called Adam Werity, who was a friend of his, and who coordinated among all these Atlanticist and pro-Zionist organizations.
And it seems that they were lobbying quite hard for an attack on Iran, and I think it's quite clear that there are elements within the government who would like to escalate some sort of situation.
Yeah, but that's never going to happen.
It's not the point.
The point is that when he says elements within the government, he's talking about MI6. And we've talked about this before because I've always been convinced that MI6 through the BBC has been trying to stir up things in Syria.
And much of this Iranian stuff is also the British.
And I think the Iranians said, hey, look, let's draw attention to the fact that it's the British that are trying to cause trouble here.
And they stormed the embassy and made a big stink about it.
So we're both saying the same thing.
It's like they're fed up with it.
Yeah, but I don't think it's just a bunch of fed up citizens.
No, no, no.
I understand.
I understand what you're saying.
But here's the question.
Because the UK put sanctions in place, and that apparently...
I mean, I can't think of any country who are like, sanctions?
Who gives a crap?
Whatever.
But what were those sanctions?
It had to be with oil, I guess.
It had to be something that they won't take their oil, or...
What was...
Well, it's never really been perfectly outlined in the fact that the...
Oops!
Ooh!
I won't hit you for that because you caught yourself.
The Russians and the Chinese aren't buying into it, so they're just still trading, so it doesn't hurt them at all.
And they still can trade with African nations.
These sanctions are bogus.
And by the way, this guy who was talking, this Seymour character who was on that last clip, he used the word Atlanticists twice.
And Atlanticism, which is a thing that's kind of creeping up on people, Is the idea that specifically the United States and Canada and even Mexico to some lesser extent, and you've heard about this, we've heard other clips from C-SPAN and elsewhere talking about them hooking up with Britain as their kind of own sub-EU,
where you have Great Britain and Canada and the United States forming an alliance outside of the EU. A special relationship.
And so there's some connection between the Atlanticists, who apparently go back to Reagan, Churchill, Blair, and the various intelligence agencies are trying to stir up various, I don't know, make trouble in these areas for whatever reason.
The whole thing is, it's kind of a mess.
I mean, I'd like to see some reports...
I'm deconstructing all this, but it's no doubt in my mind that this is fake.
I mean, this whole anti-Iran thing is just a scam.
I'm trying to look for it now.
I'm pretty sure I clipped it.
You know how I'm always harping about how the British, they're just not what they used to be?
We know now that the British women are the fattest in the EU. Welcome to my show!
Yesterday in Gitmo Nation East, 2 million, they say, 2 million public workers who were protesting against their austerity measures, one being that the pension age, which of course is now kind of the new normal, is being raised to 67, and they have to, in some cases, double their pension contributions of their paycheck.
And so this sparked off two things.
One, we have...
And by the way, the airports have never been as great, everyone says.
Because this included school teachers, border patrol, security agents, police officers, and everyone at the airports.
And they have video clips like, hey, it's great.
We breezed right through.
There wasn't this normal hassle all the time from these a-holes.
It was fantastic.
This should happen more often.
But Jeremy Clarkson...
Who is the main host of Top Gear, the very popular automotive program on the BBC? Yeah, the big guy.
Do you know what he said?
Well, I'm going to find out.
About these strikers?
I'd have them all shelt.
I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families.
I mean, how dare they go on strike when they've got these gilt-edged pensions that are going to be guaranteed while the rest of us have to work for a living?
And I have to say, I'm kind of on Jeremy's side on this.
Of course, you don't want people being shot, but it is true that they have it great over there if you're working for the government.
They really do.
They have it great.
They have it pretty well.
Yeah, great.
But then, and this is the clip, it's long, but I think this is the best rant ever from a pissed off Englishman.
And I think it's long, John, but I really want to play it.
I can handle it.
So this is an Englishman.
How long is it?
It's a couple minutes.
That's no problem.
Well, if you don't like it, which I doubt, just yell stop.
I have a long one, too.
So he's a cab driver.
He's also a union guy, and he is going on strike.
But he really brings the real true thinking of a true pissed-off Englishman into it, and it is just the most beautiful video I've ever seen on YouTube.
I'm going to try and do this, actually, without swearing or shouting.
As well as being an artist taxi driver, I'm also a university lecturer, an associate lecturer at Chelsea, and I'm the branch secretary of the UC Union at Campbell College of Art.
We will be having a picket line on November the 30th.
But everyone knows that it's for pensions.
But you can't just strike these days.
You have to fucking give them, like, months' notice, and it's like...
Oh, by the way, not safe for work, this one.
It is one, you have to have a cause and it has to be pertinent to you.
You can't just come out in sympathy.
But everyone knows it's not just about fucking pensions.
This government, right, is trying to do away with the human rights law.
This government is trying to do away with the minimum wage.
This fucking government, right, is trying to privatise the NHS because they know all their mates will get involved in it And it's a fucking goldmine.
Because when someone's little kid's sick, they will have to go and get them fucking, because they know, you can afford a mobile fucking phone, you can afford to get your little kid's leg fixed.
It's a fucking disgrace.
This government's appalling.
It's sitting alongside a Liberal Democrat.
They're fucking lied.
Most of the fucking poor students that voted for Liberal Dem are now suffering because they've trebled it.
They signed a pledge to fucking do away with it.
And them greedy fucking gits have trebled it.
Because it's just like, where's all the fucking money going?
Into the fucking pockets of the fucking corporations that this government, this government...
This government, right, should be protecting the people from the corporation, but it's protecting the corporation from the people.
There's no right to fucking protest on the streets of London.
You get kettled and fucking dragged in and beat and arrested with as-on fucking provocateur police.
They're fucking...
They're supporting the fucking energy companies whose bills are going through the roof and the fucking old people are going to die.
They're doing away with people's fucking pensions.
It's a fucking disgrace.
They're rummaging around the world, raping and pillaging and killing other people in tiny little countries, stealing their fucking minerals.
And we've had enough.
We're fucking striking about all of this and everything that's happening around the world in fucking other countries and all the other protests like in Egypt and in America.
It's all fucking connected, cos we're sicked to death of you and your light, David fucking Camerface, and Francis Moore than Dahlia and Alexander.
Stick your fucking dicks back in your trousers, stop waving them around, Telling us what we're fucking doing.
Because we're striking, because we're sick to death.
We're sick to fucking death of being living in wage fucking slavery while CEOs and fucking bankers are spunking our money up the wall.
Yes, that's our money that we're paying in taxes.
Taxes that should be going towards the health and education of our children.
You're fucking giving it to banking speculators who are gambling with people's lives.
And don't think it's not fucking connected, because it is.
Because I'm also striking for the fucking people that are starving in East End, the Horn of Africa, who've got fucking nothing.
Because they're starving, and it's to do with the fucking bankers.
And we all know it, and we know there's a fucking cabal that's running, ramping, paging around the world that wants to start a war in fucking Iran so they can fucking steal all their oil, all their fucking oil.
We've got fucking arms dealers.
We've got our government fucking selling arms to dirty, disgusting fucking military around the world like the Bahrainis and the fucking Egyptians so they can use on their own people.
They don't even fuck about in America.
They just pepper spray their own fucking people for pacificly protesting, just sitting down.
And everyone's fucking sick to death of David Cameron, the fucking Labour Party who killed fucking people in Iraq.
You're out!
We're fucking out and up!
And I'm striking on November the 30th for the fucking whole lot!
And we're sick to death!
We want...
David fucking Camerface.
Does this guy...
Camel, wasn't it?
Camelface?
I think he said Camerface.
I don't think he said Camelface.
Camelface.
He goes on for another minute.
Does this guy's a lecturer at some university at Chelsea?
People probably must just sign up.
I bet it's loaded.
I bet the auditorium is packed.
Can he go three words without dropping an F-bomb?
Holy mackerel.
I love how he starts it off and says, I hope I won't swear with what I'm about to say.
That's the joke of the whole thing.
However, of course, you will not hear this on the BBC. Oh, you wouldn't hear anything but this show.
You have to resort to this program, to this little MP3 file.
The power of the MP3 file.
But I liked it because the guy is not just about Britain and the pensions.
It's about the killing of brown people in desert.
He's like, the Americans, they don't muck about.
They just pepper spray.
It's like, yeah, that's right.
Coming to your town soon, my friend.
Well, I think he's got a couple things.
He did mention that Iran thing, which I could harp on with another clip.
Yeah, it was right into it, didn't it?
What would Iran do?
I was watching one of the, on C-SPAN, there was a, I don't know if it's a think tank, it seemed like it, but there's some woman that was, let me get her name here.
By the way, a message for GX2. Of course, as with all the clips, that clip will be in the show notes at 361.nashownotes.com.
And I'm expecting a remix.
Let's see.
I don't know if I have her name.
Anyway, this was the Israeli Peace Forum or something.
This woman is in some crazy organization I've never heard of discussing this stupidity of thinking that even if Iran had the bomb, what would they do with it?
Knowing that they would be decimated if they did anything.
David's stupid fucking camera face just wants to go in and start a war in Iran and just steal the wall!
What would Iran do as the clip?
Can I ask you a question?
If they get it, what are they going to do with it?
First of all, say they have one or two.
Have a test, a big test, you know, withdraw from the NPT, do a North Korea.
I mean, they can't launch it against anyone because there would be horrific retaliation.
So what does it get them?
How does it make Hezbollah or Hamas stronger to know that Iran has a nuke?
I mean, they're Arabs.
They know Iran is never going to use that nuke on their behalf.
They know that.
I mean, when I first went to Iran, I discovered Iranians are anti-Semitic.
They hate Arabs more than anyone.
So, you know, they're not going to use it on behalf of Hezbollah or Hamas.
What Hezbollah and Hamas have are conventional rockets that can do a lot of damage, and that's the way they operate.
So what exactly does Iran accept?
It can beat its breast.
The only thing I see, John, is that it's a proxy for Russia.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Isn't that basically what Iran is?
That's what it used to be, traditionally.
Yeah.
And since we've kind of, I think, there was some clips I never collected, but Pat Buchanan was on Book TV over the weekend a couple weeks ago talking to, of all people, Ralph Nader.
So he had two guys that were interviewing each other.
It must have been entertaining.
It actually was entertaining.
Buchanan, because they had more in common than not.
I bet, yeah, I bet.
But Buchanan was discussing the fact that when we forced the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the USSR, and then they fell back to just the borders of Russia and they left all these things open, Buchanan and then they fell back to just the borders of Russia and they left all these things open, Buchanan criticized the U.S. policy for rushing in and then setting up bases right up against the Russian border when that's
And all we did was confirm it.
And now that we're the number one superpower and we're doing all these crazy things around the world, all we're doing is confirming the worst fears, which I always thought were bogus.
Bogative.
Bogative.
That's the definition right there.
The worst fears that these guys always had, which is that we're maniacs.
And that we had, you know, you needed a big buffer state around Russia just to protect the Russians.
From the maniacs.
Yeah, like Poland.
From the maniacs.
Russia's going to invade Poland, you know.
Now that we're setting up all our nukes there.
Are ballistic missiles?
It could happen.
They're already saying it.
They're already saying, you know, hey, Poland, if those missiles come in, we're going to come in.
And by the way, Poland is big.
It's not some little...
No, it's huge.
A little ass state.
And they're the most westernized of all those countries along that edge.
Huge economy.
Huge.
It was like 80 million people in Poland or something.
It's huge.
Yeah, no, you're right, John.
Thank you.
We're maniacs.
And we're such maniacs that this is great.
Now, of course, this goes back to the drone attack that Pakistan...
I think the whole...
Well, I'll tell you what I think about Pakistan, what the deal is.
Yeah, that interests me because there is something...
There's something afoot.
Hail the foot.
Hail the foot.
So here's a report.
Apparently...
Well, listen to it.
We've got to deconstruct this one.
U.S. officials now suspect the Taliban may have tricked NATO forces into launching a deadly attack on Pakistani soldiers.
Twenty-four Pakistani soldiers were killed on Saturday at two locations near the Afghan border.
The attack has sparked massive protests in the streets of Pakistan.
And I'm joined now by NBC News Chief Pentagon correspondent Jim Mikliszewski.
So, Mick, why does the U.S. now say it might have been lured into this attack?
Well, actually, somebody in the U.S. is saying that, but quite frankly, Thomas, everybody I've talked to doesn't put much credibility into that claim, and it sounds like somebody is looking for an excuse as to why the U.S. military killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, and blaming the Taliban is just as good as any.
But some of the facts that no longer appear in dispute are that the U.S. military and Afghan forces were conducting an operation there along the Afghan-Pakistan border.
And that somebody from the Pakistan side of the border fired in their direction.
Now, even some Pakistani officials on background are acknowledging that soldiers at that outpost suspected Taliban was in the region, fired flares, and even fired mortars.
The U.S. military claims that before launching any strikes against that area, the U.S. military got permission from the Pakistani military to go ahead with the attack.
But here's the bottom line question.
The US military already had that area of the border pretty well mapped out.
They knew exactly where the Pakistani outposts were located.
So the question is, why or who gave the order to attack those Pakistani outposts?
Okay, so first of all, yeah, you shot a flare at a drone, okay?
So that's bullcrap.
I do believe that this was said.
I do believe there was permission.
I think the whole idea is to split Pakistan up into like, you know, three or four different regions to weaken Pakistan.
By the way, is there a difference between you believe and you do believe?
What does that mean?
Oh, you say I do believe.
Why are you saying do?
Well, the fact of the matter is...
I'm just saying.
I got mine on you.
Okay.
I believe.
It's an emphasis thing.
I think, as you know, the yogi said, when I say things, they come true.
Okay, you do believe that there was a scam involved.
Totally.
I don't know.
I mean, this whole thing has been baffling.
I don't even know there's anybody that was actually killed.
Well, you know, they say there were 24 guys were killed.
Yeah.
Well, they can say whatever they want.
Right.
But do you not think that this is a tactic that some elements...
They're vacuuming here.
That some elements within the Pakistani military who run the joint there, they're in cahoots.
Or infiltrated.
But there's something fishy about the whole thing.
If we knew it, we had the whole thing mapped out.
We're good at logistics.
We know where everybody is.
Right.
And we knew that this was a Pakistani outpost, supposedly, according to the report.
And then the Pakistani military gives us the go-ahead, of course, then denies it, I'm sure.
Of course.
To go and bomb this thing.
Why?
I mean, what would be the point?
I mean, what we're going to get out of it?
I think somehow...
Were we convinced that it was overrun by the Taliban and now they owned it and they were shooting flares at us?
I mean, this whole thing is so fishy.
Mm-hmm.
I have not got one piece of information from anywhere that even sheds any light on this whatsoever.
It's going to have to be one of these intelligence briefings that we're going to catch on C-SPAN where somebody will describe it.
Maybe.
It will be revealed, but it won't be revealed to the public at large.
It'll be revealed to the audience of 14 people that watch these things on C-SPAN. Two of which are us.
Right, it's down to 12.
And they're not talking.
No.
So the BBC, for some reason, felt it necessary to go back and prove that the guy who we killed in Libya was indeed Colonel Gaddafi.
And I don't know if they understood what they were doing.
So they get this guy, a Libyan rebel, who speaks decent English, so always suspect, decent English, and he apparently was the first guy to find Gaddafi in the tunnel.
But what he says kind of contradicts everything.
I thought that maybe he's somebody else.
He just looks like Gaddafi.
But I wasn't believed that he's Gaddafi at all.
But when I look at his face, I was sure that he's...
That's him, you know, that's him.
But his other body...
No, no, no.
He's not Gaddafi.
But when I saw that face, I was sure that he's him.
So they had Gaddafi's head mounted on another body or something?
No, it's not like there's nobody in Libya that doesn't look like Gaddafi.
I mean, it's like Saddam Hussein apparently had, you know, dozens of body and facial doubles that look exactly like him.
We're still not absolutely sure that was him that we hung.
I mean, as far as we are, you could still be living in Gstaad, Switzerland, for all we know.
Paraguay.
You know, with a nose job.
Paraguay.
Or Paraguay next to the bushes.
That's right.
They got a big estate up there.
But, you know, maybe it wasn't Qaddafi.
They just, you know, found some guy that looked like he was hiding.
Go down there.
You look too much like Qaddafi.
They'll catch you and shoot you.
No, no, they won't do that.
I'm not Qaddafi.
Just get in the tunnel.
Don't worry about it.
You should see the interview with this guy.
It goes on for like 10 minutes, and he's just like, you know, and then I spoke, but Gaddafi didn't say anything.
It's like, really?
Are you just sending me a message trying to tell me that this is not true?
Meanwhile, in Libya, one of the...
Did they go get DNA from him?
Have we had any confirmation?
No, no.
Please.
His body's sitting there in that cold storage room.
It's like Lenin.
So we have Ali Tarhouni, who resigned from the council.
He said this whole election, everything is bogative.
He was the rebel oil minister.
And he quit.
He said the current...
Libyan government is only supported by less than 10% of Libyans.
This is so obvious that this whole thing was a fake.
And then we have Libya sending 600 fighters into Syria to go and start the crap up over there.
It's really quite annoying.
And you're right.
This is us.
We're doing this.
We are the maniacs.
And there was a senior Turkish lawmaker who went to Syria, and she came back.
And this was, of course, not published widely, but it was published on probably a Russian site.
That makes sense.
She says, Western media outlets are not reflecting the reality in Syria, and the West is playing a game in that Arab country.
She says it's totally not true.
There's no violence.
All it is is there's some snipers in these two little towns, which are clearly, you know, agent provocateurs, and it's being played off as if it's people who are revolting against the Assad regime.
And I tend to believe that.
Well, the New York Times is still on that path.
They have yet to roll over on Syria.
When is that going to happen?
I don't understand.
Let's see what today's paper looks like.
Let's see.
Front page.
We got voting in Egypt shows mandate for Islamists.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
That was a good job, everybody.
And how come...
We predicted that.
Why isn't Anderson Pooper over there now?
Remember, we had cameras on balconies.
We're all at Tahrir Square.
Yes.
Uprising.
Arab Spring.
How come we're not there now?
Why is Pooper not there?
The subbed headline is Ultra-Conservative Party Teams with Muslim Brotherhood.
So they'll be running things shortly.
There's a thing of an Indian outsourcing in California asking voters to raise taxes because we're not taxed enough in California.
Six central banks act to buy time in Europe.
Crisis easing for borrowers.
Stocks soar.
Do they have anything about what they're doing in Italy and Brussels now?
Here's how it works.
Please help us save our country.
Buy government bonds.
Buy debt.
And they have the entire football team over there in Italia.
Get my nation pasta.
Their national team.
And they're being used as the promo guys.
Yeah, it's great.
We're going to go over and buy some bonds.
We're going to buy the Italian debt.
And then Belgium does exactly the same.
How stupid are these people?
How stupid?
I don't know.
I'd be selling.
Yeah, of course.
I'd be selling, too.
And I'm looking, looking, looking.
There's nothing on Syria.
I don't understand it.
It's a whole paper.
Oh, okay.
So the New York Times, which is what we believe to be the mouthpiece of the CIA, is still standing back.
Nope.
Nothing is happening.
Then it's just not true.
Well, they just refused to go along with it.
I think they...
Some of the people who...
I think they were getting sick of being pushed around by the British.
The British are starting all this trouble.
David Camerface?
Camelface.
Okay.
I'm going to show myself old by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on no agenda.
Cool.
In the morning.
We did get a couple of interesting donations for this show at the $111.11 level.
Any drunk donations?
One came in at $121.21 from Leonardo Sobrato in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
After listening to your last show, I decided to make a contribution to Underwrite or Sponsor, whatever you want to call it, advertising John and Adam's Windows Phone Purchase Fund.
I realize it's far less than the amount you want it, but I don't think it will even get you a used one.
I don't think so either.
But maybe you can add ownership of a Windows phone to your American dream before the elites revise that dream any further.
Please send some karma for a new job this way.
Regardless, love the show.
Keep up the good work.
You've got karma.
Sir Alan Bowes up in Langley, British Columbia.
Hey, John and Adam, here's my donation after listening to the fake holiday and Sunday No Agenda episodes.
Not only do I listen to each episode at work, I also listen a second time a week later while commuting in the car in case I miss something while working.
Your theory about not listening around holidays does not apply to me.
Oh, thank you.
Keep up the outstanding work.
Bob Appleby in Greensburg, PA, in celebration of my lovely wife's birthday December 8th, please accept this donation for the world's best podcast you're part of every weekend.
For us, we listen to you gentlemen each Sunday as we attempt to gather our strength once again and once again battle against the continuous stream of lies and loss of our personal liberties that our government officials push on us.
If not for your humor, how could we all begin our week without the smiles you helped put us there?
Help put there.
Sorry.
Thank you for providing so much fun each weekend.
You can wish my lovely wife and we do that shortly.
Can I just remind everybody, it is not the best podcast in the world.
We would hate to have that accolade.
It is...
Best podcast in the world!
It is the best podcast in the universe, not the world.
Robert Simpson in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, $111.11.
John Smith, Sir John Smith, I'm sorry, in St.
Petersburg, Florida, $100.
Like most listeners, I find about 90% of the population to be insufferable.
Is that good or bad?
This was even made more difficult with the death of my 13-year-old Beagle.
Beagle Lab Mix, who died of liver cancer last week.
I really miss the old mutt.
And I feel for the other listeners fighting cancer.
Fuck the cancer.
Hey, I interviewed this guy, John.
John Smith?
No, Joshua Cody.
He's written a book called Sick...
S-I-C. And there's a reason for it.
But anyway, he wrote about his battle with cancer.
But this guy, he's like the Andy Warhol of our age, man.
He wrote the most crazy book.
And he took notes while he was on morphine and stuff.
You've got to read this book.
It's one for the book club.
I think this guy is a genius.
Okay, put it on the book, people.
I'm going to be sick.
Martin Peters in Vianen, Utah.
No, no, no, no, no.
This is Martin Peters in Vianen, Utrecht.
Oh, what says Utah here?
It's Vianen.
Vianen.
Utrecht.
Utrecht.
Where there's a treaty or something at that place.
They do a lot of paperwork in the Netherlands.
That was Maastricht.
Oh, Maastricht, yeah.
Not Utrecht.
$100.
There's not enough Springbank left to get pissed with Springbank, another one of these Isla scotches that are quite tasty.
But I'll donate any which of the best podcasts in the universe.
I've been a boner for too long and need a bit of karma to get me my hot milf and little human resource through the holidays.
Oh, okay.
Why don't we just do a double shot, then?
That's one hot milf, baby.
You've got karma.
Happy Sinterklaas to the two of you.
By the time Sinterklaas gets to your place, he has gained some weight.
This is interesting.
You know, Sinterklaas is the Dutch...
Santa Claus.
Right, but I've told you the story about Sinterklaas, right?
You might as well repeat it.
So Sinterklaas, he's the Dutch version of Santa Claus.
He's a thin guy, and he has the big hat on.
He has like a Pope hat and a big stick.
But he has these helpers called Black Petes.
And these Black Peets, it's usually guys in blackface, they run around with burlap sacks, and if you've been a bad kid, they'll threaten to throw you in the sack and take you back on the steamship back to Spain.
Yeah, yeah.
So Sinterklaas comes from Spain?
He comes from Spain, yes, on the steamship.
But now, so this is celebrated around the world, and I saved this note somewhere.
I guess in Minnesota somewhere?
Let me just check.
They've outlawed the annual, which has been going on for like 25 years.
They've been celebrating Sinterklaas in one of these places in the States.
I'll find it in the show notes.
But they've outlawed it now because the whole Black Pete thing, it's racist.
So there's no Dutch Christmas celebration for you.
It's racist.
Of course it's racist.
The Dutch invented slavery.
America gets blamed.
The Dutch, they shipped all the slaves.
That was their business.
Sean Palladino in Cinnamon Sun, New Jersey, 7701.
In the morning, John and Adam.
The town name is Cinnamon Sun, is what I said.
It's right off the river from Philly.
Thanks for making fun of my town.
The last time I donated, I needed a de-douching for not donating for almost six months, but as a worker at Taco Bell...
I think you'll understand why I'm barely getting by.
With this donation, I will have donated $128, which as a computer nerd is awesome.
I also got 128, you know, it's a binary thing.
I also got the domain name noagendamoneydrone.com to compete against InfoWarsMoneyBomb.com.
InfoWars has actually earned over $400,000 in the past few months, and you guys deserve much more because you aren't as crazy as Alex Jones.
Plus, this is the best podcast in the universe.
I can get some karma to help me on my job search after three years of working at Taco Bell.
Yes, I think he deserves a double shot here.
You've been de-douched.
You've got karma.
Absolutely.
Thanks, man.
Good luck there, post-Taco Bell.
Roman Andrusco in Bradford, Ontario.
Hello, John and Adam.
Canadian listener becoming more and more dedicated to follow your show.
I have hit a bit of a low point in my life.
I lost both my girlfriend and job in the same month.
Feeling a bit down.
Sad part is I had a great girlfriend and a great job.
I think the universe is trying to teach me something, but I'm not sure what.
I'd really like to get my girlfriend, Julie, back and get another great job.
I hope that I can get some karma to help me turn my luck around.
All right, we'll do that, man.
No problem.
Here's some get laid karma.
karma $66 for Roman David Fox in Raleigh, North Carolina 5678, my girlfriend said I couldn't listen to your show again until I donated that's a woman for you That is a woman.
Right on, baby.
Love you.
First time donor, no longer a boner.
Could you please hit the beautiful Miss Christy and myself with a long overdue de-douching?
You've been de-douched.
And while you're at it, call out the GOP establishment as a bunch of douchebags.
Douchebag!
There you go.
Sir Andrew Schmidt in Atlas, Pennsylvania.
Double nickels on the dime in the morning.
John and Adam just wanted to call out my podcast co-host, Sir Craig Jones, for a birthday call-out.
We'll do that.
He and I record the Just Getting By podcast on the No Agenda stream.
People can go to justgettingbypodcast.com for more information.
Thanks for all the work you guys do.
And thanks for the opportunity to get our voices heard.
Hey, that's Sir Andrew Schmidt.
Andrew Schmidt.
Yeah, that's nice.
That's a derivative.
That's a derivative show.
That's really cool, actually.
Yeah, it's a spin-off.
Well, not a spin-off, it's a derivative.
It's a spin-off.
I like that spin-off, yeah.
Daniel Thorley, another double nickels on the dime from Brighton East Sussex, sacrificed a lot, or sacrificed a shot of JCD's favorite scotch and sent the money to you instead, a shot 5510.
It's about right with that stuff.
That stuff, you know, I've been talking about Laphroaig 30.
I looked it up.
Actually, I could have bought it a few years ago, reasonably priced.
Now it's $900 a bottle.
What?
LaFloig?
Yeah, $30.
My goodness.
We've also forwarded a new name to NoAgendaShow.com, PencilOfPromise.com.
Oh, perfect!
PencilOfPromise.com.
How's that going?
Did you and Eric talk about doing the Pencil of Promise as a premium gift item on NoAgendaNation.com?
Not yet.
It's a good idea.
Yes.
Well, it has its moments.
Joshua Stoyer in Fondulac, Wisconsin.
Double nickels on the diamond in the morning, John and Adam.
Greetings from Gitmo Nation Cheesehead.
I'd like to request a double shot of karma for my fiancée Courtney and I and our future endeavors.
I'd like to call Kyle Smith out as a douchebag.
Douchebag!
Turned him on the No Agenda show a few months ago and having to listen to him blasting the Alex Jones show and he's yet to give a donation.
Thanks and keep up with the great works.
He needs a karma.
Well, a double shot means we'll give him a milf and a karma.
I'd like it.
You've got karma.
Kevin Payne in Richmond, Virginia, Double Nickels on the Dime.
Thanks for the Sunday show.
This is an addition to my monthly pledge so I can get a shot out of karma.
I'll be driving in Bonaire, arriving in the 30th.
I will not be able to hear the show until I get back, but I expect to feel the karma wash over me at the appropriate time.
Hit him.
Here it comes.
Here it comes.
It's a flood of karma.
You've got karma.
You've got karma.
Mmm.
Danny Meadows in Stockbridge, Georgia, $52.
Throw mom some karma.
She just had a quadruple bypass.
You've got karma.
Hold on.
Then we have some miscellaneous donations.
Geek Rolling, $51.39 out of Los Angeles.
Andrew Haverson in Gravenhurst, Ontario, $50.
Christopher Lawton, Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
Greg Brunsel, Kenosha, Wisconsin.
And Lucas...
Te...
Some sort of thing that takes place on the 10th of December at the Beersplein?
Beersplein.
It's like the Wall Street of Amsterdam.
Beersplein.
Oh, it's Occupy Beersplein.
The goal of this activity is to bring classical liberalism and libertarianism to the streets.
Good luck with that.
Yeah, Paul Alvid in Toronto, Ontario.
50 bucks.
Some karma for him and Sir Jimmy's new podcast, Emergency Broadcast System.
Oh, sorry.
Yeah.
He says he also had a hard drive crash.
He believes this brings him to an X amount of money, but it's not quite...
Here you go for your podcast.
You've got karma.
It's another one that I believe is on the stream.
And finally, last but not least, is Black Knight Robert Durden from Hoboken.
I have a couple of karma requests that came in.
Good day, Adam C. JCD. Just call me RollSK from the chat room.
And I'm going to be a part-time producer.
Sadly, part-time donor boner.
However, I can explain my lack of donation of late.
I'd like to petition you for some karma.
I've spent the past year going through a divorce.
No kids, luckily.
I was four days away from completing it uncontested.
I just found out that my ex-wife is going to try and take my home and all my assets.
On top of...
Don't laugh.
That's horrible.
On top of that, she's asking for over $30,000 in support for the past year.
year.
The thing is, she left me to live with her parents in Arizona and refused any communication since.
So even if I wanted to, there was no way I could help.
The Canadian divorce system is very harsh on any spouse who makes the majority of the money, and I will likely not come out of this clean.
I just hope I can keep my house.
Please send some karma, and I will resubscribe to the mothership passport, even though PayPal unsubscribed me some time ago.
Anything I can send you is anything I can send you is something she can't take.
Living the dream up in Kipmo Nation, Great White North.
Okay, my friend, I think you deserve a little shot of karma there.
You've got carbon.
That's some divorce karma.
We also got a note from Domet, Dirk Modrow, who sent us the drunken note last week that got us off on the tangent about scotches.
Yeah.
And he says he's sober now.
Well, stop.
It's not interesting.
If he's sober, there's no good.
That's what I'm kind of thinking.
But he did make the argument that he should have been given a knighthood because he's up over the thousand mark.
But I'm going to nix this, and I'm going to tell you why.
Really?
I think he's a knight, not a black knight, because we ran that piece, that drunk piece.
He didn't get in before the deadline of midnight.
I just ran it because I thought it was good to read.
So I prematurely...
Accepted his donation and then ran his drunken note.
So I'm not sure.
What do you think we should do?
Because he wants a black knighthood or expects one or thinks he's got one when I'm not sure that he wouldn't have just gotten one because this is the day we should have been reading his note.
I think it's a major controversy that we have to discuss.
Controversy.
It is a controversy.
So what you're saying is because you slipped in his drunk donation...
Well, wait a minute.
When you did that, John, were you drunk at the time?
No.
Oh, well, then I think he's a black knight.
Why?
Because if you had slipped up and it was a mistake and you were drunk, then it would have been okay as a drunk knight, a black knight.
Why don't we just make him a drunk knight, a compromise?
No, we're not going to invent a new category.
Come on, come on.
You can be a drunk knight.
Keep falling off the horse.
It's too dangerous.
I think he's asking for trouble.
I think there's liability issues.
We'll give him this black knight.
I think it should be a drunk knight.
How about a black drunk knight?
We'll make him a black knight.
Black knight?
Alright.
I still think drunk knight is the way to go.
I'm just saying.
That would be a samurai.
Ooh, I like that.
How do you become a samurai?
I don't know yet.
You become a samurai if all of your donations were done drunk.
It's not like a title, though.
I mean, I don't think there's a...
These are titles that's different than a...
It's kind of something.
We'll figure it out.
Let's do some birthdays.
I'm almost done.
John from Northwest PA. My wife, two little gurus, father, stepmother, and father-in-law will be traveling to Disney World this Friday for the first trip.
I'd be grateful if you could bestow upon us some travel karma during the show, so we'll happily do that.
You've got karma.
And then finally, Sir Rory Stone.
I would love, of course, we always break for our nights.
I'd love a karma shout out today because my mother will be in surgery just as the show is starting.
Night in need of some karma for his mother.
My mother's getting her back fused today.
And will be in bed for about 10 weeks.
Just want karma from mom to encourage her speedy recovery.
Well, we always have karma for moms.
You've got karma.
Especially if it's coming from one of our nights.
So, thank you so much.
Remember, karma is only good for about a week, so you need to bear that in mind if you're requesting some of that.
And you need to up the ante if you want it for a sports team.
We're not doing those anymore.
But all of this can be found, including the most uninteresting donation number in the world, which is 124.07.
Or is it 127.04?
That was 124.
124.07.
I think, yeah.
The most uninteresting number in the world.
Well, let me check the book of knowledge.
Yeah, you can solve the book of knowledge.
124.07.
And the way you can do that is by simply clicking your mouse to...
No, no, it does not exist.
I also go to No Agenda Nation and pick up a slave t-shirt and perhaps some other...
So Ms.
Mickey, she's bought a mannequin.
She's ordered one, you know, like a clothing mannequin for her photography stuff so she can...
Practice on non-live models.
Like a store mannequin, not one of those dressmakers things.
Correct, correct.
And she emailed me the picture, and I swear to God it got turned on.
I'm like, this model is hot.
Right, this Let me write the date of this.
This model is hot.
And I said, is it wrong that I got turned on by the mannequin?
She said, no, I got turned on by the mannequin too.
Anyway, the point is, every single time we have something special on the show, like the slave t-shirt or something else, she's going to do a picture of the mannequin with whatever the special thing is.
So we could have her drunk one time, bend her over puking or something with her hair all messy.
Yeah, you could take some Campbell's chicken soup and pour it on it back there.
We could do all kinds of cool stuff.
Yeah, it'd be funny.
Yeah, but whenever we have something, but particularly the merchandise.
Sick.
Yes.
Well, we're in Austin.
We can do whatever we want, particularly the merchandise.
She's going to be taking product shots.
I'm very excited about that.
Yeah.
I can tell you're blown away, John.
That's great.
Yeah, no, I can't imagine.
It's amazing that anyone would think of such a thing.
It's your birthday, birthday!
On No Agenda!
Hello!
Dame Jess Walters congratulates her husband, Sir Troy Walters, celebrating tomorrow on the 2nd.
Bob Appleby says happy birthday to his wife, Kathy.
She celebrates on the 8th.
And Sir Andrew Schmidt congratulates his podcast co-host, Sir Craig Jones, who turns 23 today.
Happy birthday from all your buddies here at the No Agenda Show!
It's your birthday, yeah.
That's a big one.
Where's your blade, man?
Here it comes.
Did you come to the show unprepared?
No, it's right here.
You got it.
Okay.
Time for our night, hoods.
Michael Henry, Robert Simpson, and Dirk Magro.
Please step forward as all three of you have contributed to the No Agenda show, the best podcast in the universe.
In the amount of at least $1,000, and special props go to Dirk Madreau, who has donated drunk and will receive his black knighthood today.
And your rings are on the way, and I hereby pronounce these Sir Michael, Sir Robert, and Sir Dirk, Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable.
Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys Chardonnay, and Hot Pants and Booze, here for you!
Thank you for your support of the No Agenda Show.
We could not do this program without you.
That is a fact.
Not just a fact of the matter, that is a fact.
It's a fact of the bladder.
That's what you can do.
The fact of the bladder is...
It's a fact of the bladder.
That's good.
It has a nice sound to it.
I like it.
We should keep it.
The fact of the bladder.
It's as good as bogative.
And you can actually slip that in when you're testifying before the Congressional Committee.
The fact of the bladder is...
The fact of the bladder is...
They won't even notice.
Exactly.
No one's listening.
They're all snoring.
What are you just saying?
So there's a funny little story, just before we get to some more normal stories.
You've got to play this.
This was just run off on the Democracy Now!
show as a news item.
And I was just a head shaker.
It's the WTF clip.
Oh, Bloomberg?
Okay, hold on, let me play.
New York City Council has voted to sue Mayor Michael Bloomberg over new restrictions that critics say will force homeless people from shelters out into the streets.
Under the new rules, adults seeking to spend the night at shelters would be required to submit information, including documents about their housing history and finances.
The council is expected to file its suit next month.
Yeah, this is a big deal.
Wait a minute, let me get this straight.
Yeah, we're kicking out the homeless.
So you've got some homeless bum who's probably half insane, he's a wreck, and you want to see his paperwork about his housing history and his finances?
The guy's got no money.
Yeah, but you know who started this?
Does Bloomberg think everyone keeps around a bunch of files, folders where you've got to keep everything for seven years for the IRS or something like that?
I mean, what kind of thinking is this?
It's a legal way to get rid of bums.
The guy is homeless.
Yeah, it's how you get rid of bums.
Giuliani started this.
They threw them all under the bridge.
George Washington Bridge.
They threw them out.
Threw them to Jersey, Pennsylvania.
They're just throwing them out.
Throw them out of New York City.
They are your papers.
You got no papers?
Yeah.
That's not funny.
It's what New York City has become.
No.
Bloomberg is...
Give Bloomberg a douchebag.
Yeah, he's turning into a real big douchebag.
Douchebag!
Another word you will not hear on mainstream media because it's a bad word.
Can't say that.
I got a funny little thing for you.
I got a funny little thing for you here.
Have you heard of the new Batmobile in North Carolina?
No.
Well, here is the commercial, and you better watch out, because the Batmobile is coming to get you.
It's sleek, powerful, and efficient.
And this crime fighter is on North Carolina roads and coming to a city near you.
If you're drinking and driving, watch out for the Batmobile.
The Breath Alcohol Testing Mobile Unit is a remote processing station and mobile courtroom for immediate on-site forensic tests and judicial appearances.
The Batmobile, law enforcement's latest tool in the fight against drunk driving.
Remember, it's booze it and lose it.
Brought to you by the North Carolina Governor's Highway Safety Program.
You should see this truck.
The Batmobile.
So they set up a sobriety checkpoint.
And then you blow into the tube.
They can take your blood right there.
And they got a judge on board.
And a jail.
It's all in one.
It's like the old west where they always have some hanging judge sitting there.
It's groovy.
That's right.
It's a hanging judge.
Yeah, but the thing looks amazing.
It's beautiful.
And they got the little Batman theme in there.
I'm looking at it now.
The Batmobile.
It looks like a fire truck.
It looks like an ambulance or something.
It's huge.
It's a big bus.
Yeah.
With a hanging judge and with a jail and a blood lab.
Alcohol.
Booze it.
Booze it and lose it.
Hey, donate drunk before you drive.
Booze it and lose it.
That's great.
And neo-prohibitionism continues.
Well, not just that, but the attack on free speech is getting out of control.
This bullying thing, which I think we now have correctly identified, is being used as a meme and being taught to our children as an erosion of your...
First Amendment, right.
First Amendment, yeah.
Totally.
So bullying could be like, well, of course, the only bullying...
Everything's bullying, it seems.
Yeah, well, the way that you can't...
See, you can't...
When bullying is like, you're gay, you're a fag, then of course, like, oh, well, you can't do that, it's all so wrong, you know, that is a form, it's messed up, that is a form of bullying and a form of First Amendment right, exercising a First Amendment right, and the whole idea is you should be able to say, well, yeah, you're an ugly, you know, your mom sucks toad, or whatever.
But this is now, it's being taken to the extreme in Minnesota.
There's now even an executive order for the bullying squad.
Because Minnesota has one of the weakest bullying laws in the nation, Governor Dayton today announced a task force to recommend changes.
You know, witness that children in Minnesota are being subjected to a form of harassment, a form of emotional torture.
Wow, I haven't even heard that.
Emotional torture.
Wow.
This is a big one.
People in authority are not responding and not preventing that and not acting upon it.
It's just something that is so un-Minnesotan that it's hard to fathom.
The governor's executive order forms a task force of no more than 15 people, including the commissioners of education and public safety.
It's to make its recommendations to the governor no later than next August 1st.
But one of the challenges is engaging kids themselves.
At the bullying hotline and website at the Pacer Center in Bloomington, counselors say one of the number one reasons kids don't report bullying is because they're afraid they'll be next.
Now, here's what I don't understand.
Bullying hotline?
Yeah, yeah.
When a cop walks by and nonchalantly sprays you with pepper spray, that's not bullying.
But when kids are calling each other names, then, oh, we need a hotline, we need a task force, we need anti-bullying laws.
This is not good for the general population, for our kids.
They have to learn to stand up for themselves.
I don't know.
It doesn't seem like a good thing to me.
It's a nanny state.
Well, I think it's worse than that.
Yeah, well, it is worse than that, but a nanny state is worse.
I mean, it is in and of itself worse.
I don't know what that means.
I guess it was not very well put.
The fact of the bladder is that somehow we have to...
See, the reason why you're not allowed to say anything about this, and this is what bugs me so much, is because they only report on bullying when it comes to kids who are gay.
And then it's like, oh, man, you can't say anything about that.
You can't say, like, that's not okay, and there's bullying, because, you know, it's gay.
Which, by the way, I think, as a bi-curious male, I'm insulted by that.
You should be.
Yeah, because, you know, gay guys and girls can come up for themselves.
They can stand up for themselves.
Well, most of the gay guys are so pumped up, it's like they could kill anybody.
You do a pulp, exactly.
But how come...
I don't like it.
It's a real problem, and I am going to continue to say that we have to do away with all this...
Okay, I'll call it nanny state.
This bullying bullcrap.
Stop it already.
Send the kid to jujitsu.
They're bullying us over it.
Well, I mean, you still have kids who are young enough.
Yeah, nobody's being bullied currently.
Why not?
Because your kids are educated to stand up for themselves and bully back, right?
I don't know.
Well, Eric probably does bully back.
Careful.
Yeah.
He's actually more of the bully type.
Careful.
Eric is actually a bully, is what you're saying.
He was a bully.
No, no.
Eric doesn't put up with any bull crap.
Let's put it that way.
Look at Jay.
I don't think she would put up with any bull crap, would she?
Probably.
But she wouldn't be upset by it.
She wouldn't be crying.
She'd be like, oh, get lost.
By the way, Michelle Obama should be arrested for bullying.
She's scaring kids.
Come up here.
She's a bully.
Come up here.
So there was this guy, there's a book we should got to put on the list called, it's written by Paul Van Buren.
We meant well.
And this guy works for the State Department, currently still works for the State Department because they can't seem to fire him, who wrote this scathing book about our escapades in Iraq.
Like naming names and talking about all the ways.
Oh, is this the book called The Green Zone or the movie was based on?
No, this is a fairly new book, I think.
Look it up on the Book of Knowledge.
It's called We Meant Well.
I think the whole title is We Meant Well, How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People.
And he's got a website, wemeantwell.com, which has got a bunch of nasty stuff on it.
But I've got a couple of clips I want to run through, which I just think is kind of funny, especially the part where he kind of gets fired, but they keep paying him.
Hold on one second.
Which one is that?
And that's the first one.
Peter Van Buren, clip one.
And also, how it is you're still working for the State Department.
Well, working after fashion.
The State Department is very much like the mafia in the sense that they don't like you to talk about the family outside the family.
And what my book did was expose some of the failings of State Department leadership from the highest levels down to the levels where I worked that contributed to the lack of success in Iraq.
This was not taken very well by the State Department, and I was initially punished by having my security clearance removed, ostensibly because of a link, not a leak, a link on my blog at weementwell.com to a WikiLeaks document.
In fact, the 500-pound gorilla in the room was the book.
The State Department then sought to make me disappear, shave off my beard and push me out of the tribe, if you will.
I was placed on administrative leave six weeks ago.
My badge was taken away.
My diplomatic passport was taken from me.
I was marched out to the front door where I was ceremoniously told I was officially banned from entering any State Department facility.
And I was sent home.
Unfortunately, the State Department found no mechanism to actually punish me or challenge me in a way that I could respond to, so they sent me to sit at home with full pay, to be quiet, to stay out of the way, to make me go away.
I'm sending an email right now.
I'm getting this guy in the big book show.
Ha ha!
That sounds awesome.
The fact that he's getting paid full pay, sitting on his duff at home, tells you something's wrong with this government.
I love it.
The first rule about the State Department is you don't talk about the State Department.
I know.
It's funny.
So this goes on, by the way, this goes on endlessly, this interview.
But he does have one little point, which is a little long, but it's my long clip.
He talks about the oversized embassy, and as he talks about it, and we've talked about the stupid embassy in Iraq.
It's still yet to be explained why this embassy is there.
Oh, I know why.
Do you want to play the clip first?
Because you know what's happening at this very minute?
Do you know that the embassy is filled to the brim?
With bankers?
With bankers.
What do you mean with bankers?
Oh, yeah.
They're doing a huge...
They're going to buy the mobile phone system.
This is a bonanza.
All the bankers are over there.
They've all got security detail.
Oh, you mean they're giving up Iraq?
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
This is happening right now.
Goldman Sachs opening offices.
Oh, yeah.
This is the takeover.
The military was just...
It was just to get some annoying people out of the way.
Now, there's a huge report about that.
Play this clip about the oversized embassy.
Peter, I just want to return to the point that you and our previous guest have also raised about the size of the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.
So with the U.S. military withdrawal scheduled for the end of this year, you have also mentioned in a recent article, as have others, that the State Department will be required to hire thousands and thousands of contractors to fulfill security as well as other services that the military previously provided.
Can you say a little about that?
Absolutely.
The State Department has created the world's largest embassy in Baghdad, literally the size of the Vatican, something you can see from space.
And with the military leaving, has hired over 5,000 mercenaries, contract security people, similar to Blackwater under some different names, as well as creating its own armed air force, its own blood system to supply people who are injured, and a whole lot of other militarized functions that have no place in diplomacy.
In many people's minds, the 16,000 personnel who are going to occupy the State Department facilities are nothing more than an extension of the occupation of Iraq, albeit under civilian control rather than military control.
In countries around the world the size of Iraq, the State Department typically will have a mission of 100-150 people.
In Iraq, before the 1991 Gulf War, our embassy was relatively small, about the size of the mathematics building at some state college with about 100 people working in it.
And that is typical around the world for us to have a medium-sized embassy like that in a country that is about the size and complexity of Iraq.
Why 16,000 people?
Why 5,000 armed security contractors?
Why an Air Force, helicopters with weapons?
Why all this equipment?
The State Department is occupying Iraq.
It's an attempt to continue our influence there, absent the military or at least until Joe Biden can negotiate a return of the military to Iraq.
Do you think that's why he was in Iraq?
I think Joe was there for a couple of things, partially, of course, the negotiations that your previous guest referred to, but I think also this is an attempt to have a victory lap, if you will.
The president campaigned on getting the United States out of Iraq.
It was only because the Iraqis refused to grant us immunity for our soldiers.
That the president was able to fulfill his campaign promise.
That said, the White House is trying to make the most of it, announcing that the president has done what he said he was going to do.
And I think Biden's visit to Iraq was something of a chance to crow a little bit, to celebrate the end of the war at Obama's hands and to run a victory lap.
I'd like to propose that no VIP be allowed to go to Iraq, certainly not to announce anything using the words victory or success, until he or she is willing to do that on an announced visit with the airplane landing in the daytime.
Yeah.
Now, Joe Biden was there with all the bankers.
That was the report that I got.
Yeah.
And they came in at the dead of night, I guess.
Of course.
As usual.
Of course.
Yeah.
Wow.
I'm getting this guy at the big book show.
He sounds awesome.
He's a real interesting guy, and he's got a lot of stories.
He needs to watch out, though.
Yeah, probably does need to watch out.
Did you hear about the notary?
Food poisoning would be my prediction.
I have a quick two...
Well, actually, I have a food poisoning.
Come on, man.
The hot tub with the lid on is my favorite.
Food poisoning is old.
So we have a couple of two-to-the-heads that we need to mention before we go.
The first is this...
And this is a total, total obvious two-to-the-head cover-up for the bankers, the bastard bankers.
They killed the notary public.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Here's a nice little report from some local station.
The notary who signed tens of thousands of false documents in that massive robo-signing foreclosure fraud scheme was found dead in her home on Monday.
Let's go straight to News 3's Marissa Mike.
Marissa, so what do we know now?
Details are limited as to how 43-year-old Tracy Lawrence died, but sources say her body was found yesterday by a police officer.
Always kind of suspicious.
We've learned Metro homicide detectives were working the case, but they ruled out homicide.
It is unclear if she died from natural causes or if this was a suicide.
Natural causes, suicide.
Is there any other option you could think of, John?
Lawrence was supposed to be in court at 8.30 yesterday morning for her sentencing hearing.
When her attorney did not hear from her for more than an hour, the deputy attorney general asked the judge for a bench warrant to be issued for Lawrence.
The judge denied it after Lawrence's attorney expressed concern for her client's well-being.
The Attorney General's office contacted Metro, and officers found her in her apartment.
Last Monday, Lawrence pled guilty to only one criminal charge of notary fraud.
She would have only had to face a year in prison and or a $2,000 fine.
That's why I would suicide myself.
Oh, I'm going to...
I'm in big trouble.
I'm going to kill myself.
Gary Trafford and Geraldine Shepard, two title holders from California, are allegedly behind the foreclosure fraud.
They're accused of advising employees to forge signatures on default notices between 2005 and 2008.
The two have yet to be arrested and we're told they are still in California.
Yeah, so they're on the run.
They're like, I don't want to be suicided.
I've got to run away.
The report is really funny at the end.
The Attorney General's office is negotiating the terms of surrender for the pair.
They're expected to turn themselves in sometime in December.
Now, we're still waiting to hear from the Clark County coroner for the results of a toxicology report and Tracy Lawrence's cause of death.
We will stay on top of this story and bring you the very latest just as soon as we receive any updates.
Yeah, how much do you want to bet that's not actually going to happen?
Well, we'll be sure to update you.
We'll give you...
When we get the toxicology report, she died from lead poisoning to the head.
Lead to the head.
Now, that was not the only whistleblower, because, of course, that's what's going on.
She's a whistleblower.
She knows a hell of a lot.
They didn't want her testifying in court at all, because then everything starts to unravel.
So they had to get rid of her.
Now, this is very interesting.
A Marine, and this only happened a couple months ago...
Got the highest, the Medal of Honor from the President.
Big deal, big ceremony at the White House, videos on whitehouse.gov.
And then this Marine subsequently accused his employer, BAE, of selling weapons to, I think, riflescopes to Pakistan.
So, what I think happened is, this guy's a whistleblower.
He had the goods, and he was like, you know, you guys suck.
I'm gonna tell on you guys.
And then the White House went, oh, no, no, no, man.
Look, we'll decorate you.
We'll make you a hero.
Come over here.
And he goes ahead and he does it anyway, and then, of course...
A recent Medal of Honor recipient is suing a former employer, defense contractor BAE Systems.
Former Marine Sergeant Dakota Meyer claims the company ruined his chances at getting a job in the industry by saying he has drinking and mental issues.
You're insane.
You're insane.
Decorated Marine.
War hero.
You're insane.
Sorry, son.
You're insane.
You know, it goes right back to what you said.
We're maniacs.
We're total maniacs.
And then the big investigation, of course, if you'd listened to this podcast, the best podcast in the universe, you would know that this whole thing was a setup.
But it's a little different than we thought it was.
I think the true story is now surfacing.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Was Dominique Strauss-Kahn's downfall the result of a plot to derail his French presidential ambitions?
An investigative report by a US journalist raises questions over the ex-IMF chief's arrest on charges of sexually assaulting a hotel maid in New York in May.
It claims a Sofitel employee and another man were filmed apparently celebrating as they waited for police to arrive.
And it queries whether DSK's BlackBerry phone was hacked They were literally high-fiving on the video.
They're like, yeah, right on!
We nailed that motherfucker!
By his political rivals.
The leader of President Sarkozy's ruling conservatives dismissed such suggestions, saying conclusions could be drawn if there were facts or clear evidence.
But as long as this is just gossip, rumors, and allegations based on anonymous...
Yeah, blah, blah, blah.
So what I think happened...
These guys just got lucky.
They were hacking his phone.
And his phone, by the way, did go missing.
He couldn't find his phone.
Remember the whole thing?
He went back to the hotel to get his phone.
That was kind of the story.
Yeah, and then somehow he ended up naked in the bathroom.
Well, I think he did.
His penis fell on that poor maid.
That was probably just him being an idiot and a douchebag.
But they cleverly used that.
To distract from the fact that they were actually just hacking into the guy's phone to get him out of the race and to get Christine Lagarde into the IMF. And that's the cover-up.
Yeah, because Lagarde is going to be the one that becomes the president or prime minister eventually.
Queen.
Queen.
She's going to become queen of the universe.
Alright, that's about all.
I mean, we should mention that the Senate approved the belligerent terrorist bill.
So now that goes to the President, who could, of course, veto it if he had any balls.
That is, what is it, S1860, 1680?
The one that allows a secret panel to essentially determine if you're a belligerent, and if you're a belligerent, then you go to Gitmo.
Yeah, I think something has to be resolved at the House level, though.
I don't think so.
A 61 to 37 vote.
Yeah, but you can't just pass a bill in the Senate and send it to the President.
Well, didn't it already go through the House?
I don't know.
I have to look into it.
I didn't think the thing was going to get this far, so I didn't follow it as closely as I should have.
No, I think it goes to everything I'm reading here.
Well, if it came out of the House and then went to the Senate and then they just didn't do anything negative to it, they could just go right to the President after that, I guess.
I don't know.
I'll look into it.
It would be discussed on Sunday.
Right, but Tuesday, 61 to 30, 37 vote, granted the military dibs, exposed a deep rift within the Democratic Party, and so they're kind of looking at it differently now, as will Obama veto this?
But I think it's done.
You won't veto it if it gives the president more power.
Well, no, of course not.
Of course it's not going to be.
But that's the only thing we have left.
Otherwise, it's a done deal.
I think it's done.
If it's in the Senate, it doesn't go from Senate to the House.
It's House to Senate, right?
No, it can go any way it wants.
Oh, really?
Yeah, the Senate dreams up stuff out of the blue and says, hey, you guys, look at this.
What do you think?
And that's what I have all these committees for.
They're supposed to organize this stuff.
I think it's awesome.
Yeah, that's about it.
I got some stuff.
I'll keep it for Sunday.
Some Drone Nation stuff, which is pretty funny.
We'll keep that for Sunday.
Unless you have...
No, I'm good to go.
Some other pressing matters.
I think we covered all the important stuff.
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