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	TMTV Awards.
	The Terrorist Music Television Awards.
	Yeah, now there's our opportunity.
	There's the opportunity.
	Al Jazeera would pick it up in a minute.
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, January 1st, 2012.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 370.
	This is no agenda.
	Kicking off our last trip around the sun ever, coming to you from Camp Mofo here in Austin, Texas, the capital of the drone star state.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from further to Silicon Valley, we're apparently, I don't know, we're just not going to have a great connection today on January 1st, 2012.
	I'm John C. Borat.
	It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Wow, well done.
	Way to kick off the new year.
	Rockin'.
	Tight.
	Real tight, John.
	What'd I do?
	Well, the opening was kind of like...
	You trailed off.
	You want to start over?
	No, no, no.
	Are you kidding me?
	We never start over.
	Ever.
	What?
	We never start over.
	I can't find example after example.
	So Skype decided to crash on me upon usage this morning.
	This is what I find very peculiar.
	Well, it's a Microsoft product, so it doesn't surprise me at all that it's starting to suck the minute the date changes or something.
	It happens all the time.
	The date changes, the thing stops working.
	Yeah, it's typical Microsoft.
	It makes no sense that it would just crash...
	So I would explain to people, we'd call each other, and then he'd say, are you there?
	And I'd say yes, and then it would be disconnected.
	Yeah, no, I'd hear you actually say yes, and then a dialogue would pop up that would say, this program has crashed.
	Would you like to, A, close the program, B, find a solution online?
	Yeah.
	What is that supposed to be?
	It's like the old abort retry and fail.
	It's exactly what it is because you click on that and it goes like, finding solution.
	Solution online?
	You can wait for a long time because it doesn't find anything.
	And the chat room was like, they're all coming up with so many different suggestions that it scrolls off too fast for me to click on any link whatsoever.
	It's completely useless.
	It's like, ah, okay.
	Okay.
	Anyway, I reinstalled Skype, and now it seems to work.
	It's the big Skype reinstall of 2012, everybody.
	In the morning to you, Johnny Boy.
	In the morning to you, Adam Curry, and to all ships at sea and boots on the ground and feet in the air and feet in the water.
	And, of course, the human resources hung over but still kind of charged up in the chat room.
	NoagendaStream.com, NoagendaChat.net.
	I guess you guys are all ready for another 365 days.
	Actually, it's less than that.
	I think we're now at 354 days.
	Until the end of the world.
	I don't think that many people hung over.
	People were freaked out about going out because of all the threats by the police state.
	We're going to arrest everybody drinking and driving.
	You're going to ruin your life.
	Did Namini force you to go out last night?
	Yeah, we went out and I was the designated driver.
	I refused to drink on New Year's Eve.
	Period.
	Except water.
	What time did you get back in?
	I got back in.
	Actually, we went around, went to dinner, went to party, but we actually got back at the house at quarter to twelve because I have some champagne here that is special champagne, and we get to watch the fireworks in San Francisco from the balcony.
	Well, we...
	We watched from our balcony.
	We saw the Austin fireworks.
	Did you see it, really, from your place?
	Oh, yeah.
	You're out in the middle of nowhere.
	Yeah, you see it right over the ridge.
	You see it all popping up and stuff.
	Oh, okay.
	But we went to San Antone to have dinner.
	Have you ever been to San Antone?
	Yeah, I have.
	It's a beautiful little town.
	Well, it's not a little town.
	It's like the fifth largest city in the United States or something like that.
	It's pretty big, actually.
	I was unfamiliar with that fact.
	Yeah, but they have the Riverwalk, which is kind of like a cross between...
	It's a bunch of bars and restaurants.
	Yeah, it is.
	It's kind of like Venice meets Amsterdam in a way.
	Yeah.
	And it was really nice.
	We had a New Year's Eve dinner at Steakhouse Rhein.
	There's a lot of German stuff.
	I never knew this.
	There's all these German settlements all over Texas.
	And you drive to San Antone, and you see like Stittenhausenwagenburg.
	Like, really?
	Really.
	Yeah, it's the craziest thing.
	It's weird because I don't see the Germans warming up to Texas necessarily.
	There's nothing similar.
	No, apparently there's a lot of German.
	Well, they make some beers down there that are decent, German style.
	Well, it's Austin Bergstrom Airport, so there's another Germanization for you.
	Hmm.
	Anyway, so we got back, and of course, we're in the central time zone, and for those of you who have ever been in America, you see on television, that'll be on at 8, 7 central!
	So we're the seventh part of that, which is really weird, because in...
	Everything's an hour early for you.
	Yeah, and in California, of course, they delay by three hours, so it's just like, you know, you just pretend like New York didn't happen, it's happening all over again.
	But we watched, we were actually bopping back and forth between the New Year's Eve programs.
	Highly entertaining, I have to say.
	Did you watch?
	No, you got back too late, right?
	So you didn't see much of it.
	I didn't watch any of it.
	I got back in time to watch the fires, but just before the fires, I was still getting clips.
	So, first of all, Times Square, once again, was sponsored by Nivea, which is so disgusting.
	Nivea?
	Yeah, remember last year we talked about this.
	This is their new thing.
	And they have a stage with all these chapsticks, with oversized chapsticks that look like huge tampons holding up the stage.
	And then they have this kiss of the new year, and they always have someone propose.
	It's all about kissing, Nivea, for their chapstick product.
	And everyone is wearing big blue Nivea crazy like cat in the hat hats.
	And they all have blue...
	They're like dildos.
	It's like they're waving blue dildos on Times Square.
	And it's the Nivea balloons.
	So it's all commercialized.
	Duh.
	Yeah.
	But it's gotten really bad.
	And bar none...
	The word of the evening.
	Amazing!
	It's just amazing here!
	It's amazing!
	Oh, it's so amazing!
	It is not amazing.
	It was not amazing.
	We had Anderson Pooper live on CNN with Kathy Griffin, which was...
	I mean, if there was ever a team not meant to be together, it's Anderson Pooper and Kathy Griffin.
	I can't imagine.
	I saw the previews.
	They had previews of it.
	Yeah.
	Which makes me wonder.
	I guess they did it last year because they couldn't have previews of a show like that.
	And I just thought they didn't work at all.
	Kathy Griffin's annoying.
	And she was using the vagina thing the whole time.
	And then Lady Gaga performed.
	And then she took off her dress.
	Standing there in her bra and panties.
	Which I actually have to say was kind of funny.
	Because Anderson didn't know what to do with himself.
	He's like, oh my god, a woman.
	I don't know what to do.
	On ABC, Carson Daly hosts...
	I actually have to say...
	It's called Carson's Countdown.
	Now, they had the Nivea sponsorship deal, so they had the stage with the big tampons.
	And Carson, I have to say, I like how he does it.
	He's very cool.
	He's a good host.
	He's not like Ryan Seacrest over there on NBC doing...
	Oh, it's the other way around, I think.
	Yeah.
	Wait a minute.
	Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve.
	Is that NBC or ABC? That's NBC. I can go look it up.
	No, no, no.
	It doesn't matter.
	So Carson Daly's doing a pretty good job.
	This time in New York, I don't care about what's going on.
	No one cares.
	But Carson Daly's doing a good job.
	I have to say, as a television host, it's good.
	The guy is smooth.
	I've always thought Carson Daly was very professional.
	Yeah, professional.
	But his personality is lacking.
	He doesn't have a lot of charisma.
	It's okay, because I just want the guy to talk the bits together and hang out a little bit.
	He did a good job.
	But then, just before midnight, they have CeeLo Green.
	You know who CeeLo Green is?
	Yeah.
	So CeeLo Green gets on the Nivea Tampon stage to sing Imagine.
	And, yeah, he's singing, and by the way, poor performance, but, you know, okay, I'll give him that because of, you know, the setting and the monitors and everything, but he didn't hit, he just couldn't hit it.
	But I'm listening to this guy singing Imagine No Possessions in his full-length mink coat with his huge gold watch.
	I'm like, really?
	John Lennon's spinning in his grave right now.
	Disgusting.
	I like the irony.
	But then the funny thing.
	Maybe it was supposed to be humorous.
	No.
	I was laughing.
	Mickey and I were both like, oh my god.
	You have to see this guy's watch.
	It's as big as my head.
	And it's like gold.
	Yes, you're pretty big.
	And I got a big head.
	So then we have Ryan Seacrest, who is so hype-y and like, you want to reach through the screen and just slap him.
	And he's doing Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve.
	Now, Dick Clark is a staple in the United States, and he's always done Live from Times Square for 40 years, actually.
	And I like Dick Clark.
	I've worked for his company a couple times back in the day.
	Yeah, okay.
	Good guy.
	You don't like him?
	I think he shouldn't be on TV anymore.
	Well, thank you.
	This is the point.
	So, in a time span of one minute, We have Lady Gaga, who was wearing a diamond-crusted dish on her head, which is so heavy, because you don't see her face.
	In fact, maybe it wasn't even Lady Gaga.
	She was probably at home and just sent some bimbo to wear this diamond dish on her head.
	That's not a bad idea.
	You know, Andy Warhol used to send out Andy Warhol lookalikes to give his public speeches.
	Good!
	So I encourage this.
	But unfortunately, it probably was her.
	This thing was so heavy that it's pushing down on the bridge of her nose.
	And she's talking like this.
	This Ryan is really great to be...
	It's really amazing.
	So she can barely talk.
	And then they switch over to Dick Clark, bless his heart, who had several strokes.
	And he's like...
	It was like...
	The New Year of the Retards.
	It was like, please, get this off my television.
	I love Dick Clark, but he can't be on television anymore.
	It was horrible.
	He was born in 1929, and that's what he says he was born.
	He probably fudges that.
	But he had a stroke, so he has difficulty speaking.
	And he's probably 90 years old.
	And it's really uncomfortable.
	And then they cut away because you can't watch him, I guess.
	Well, you might as well put Michael Douglas' dad on.
	Get a couple more of those guys.
	I mean, if you're going to do it, go over the top.
	Yeah, just have a whole slew of them.
	It was really pathetic.
	Really, really sad.
	Well, meanwhile, while you were being distracted by this crap, apparently...
	I was drunk.
	I was drunk.
	You know, on a Saturday, when everyone's watching...
	Football and getting, you know, either watching college, coming off college football day on Friday, professional, last day of the season on Sunday, big day tomorrow on Monday, a bunch of bowl games, BCS games, all this New Year's, New Year's, New Year's.
	On a Saturday, with nobody looking, Obama signs off on the bill.
	Signed the NDA, I know, I know.
	How much coverage?
	I don't see any coverage of him signing it.
	It's like, I'm looking at the front pages of today's New York Times, nothing.
	There's nothing about Obama's strategy for the 12 elections, frustrated with GOP. There's not one thing about him signing that crazy bill, which now, of course, allows the military to arrest citizens of the United States on American work.
	It's even worse because he released a statement along with the signing of the bill, a written statement.
	This is Bill 1540, H.R. 1540, which he now says is 500 pages.
	I don't know how that works because I read 900.
	And I pulled two quotes from his statement.
	So this is not, you know, I have no audio from this, but just his written statement, which is on WhiteHouse.gov.
	I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation, and prosecution of suspected terrorists.
	That statement...
	So he's got reservations?
	Yeah, this is his hedge.
	So now this is his hedge.
	Yeah, and then...
	Now I had reservations.
	Who knew?
	So then further along in this statement...
	Against our record of success, that's killing bin Laden or whoever they killed, some in Congress continue to insist upon restricting the options available to our counterterrorism professionals and interfering with the very operations that have kept us safe.
	My administration has consistently opposed such measures.
	Ultimately, I decided to sign this bill not only because of the critically important services it provides to our forces and their families.
	Bull crap!
	We know that that's only like 18% of the money.
	And the national security programs it authorizes.
	Yeah, like underwater sub-bases.
	But also because the Congress revised provisions that otherwise would have jeopardized the safety, security, and liberty of the American people.
	What a hubris this is!
	Moving forward, my administration will interpret and implement the provisions described below in a manner that best preserves the flexibility on which our safety depends and upholds the values on which this country was founded.
	Values?
	Values?
	No, how about the Constitution?
	There's not a single thing.
	Uphold the values.
	This very, very, very tricky language that's being put out there.
	Well, it's just bullcrap language.
	He's just saying this.
	It's like, you know, signs a bill that interns everybody.
	Well, this is for the public's good.
	It's not for the public good.
	Even worse.
	They're doing it for their own safety.
	You know, this sort of thing.
	I mean, it's unbelievable to me that this would happen.
	And then, of course, to do it on a Saturday, like this particular Saturday.
	And he's in Hawaii, John.
	He's in Hawaii.
	He's not back.
	He's in Hawaii.
	He's on vacation.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, he doesn't want to be around.
	You never know.
	Maybe somebody would protest.
	Apparently not.
	When we were in San Antone, I understood.
	Because San Antone is like two and a half million people.
	And Mickey jumped into a liquor store to get some champagne to take back to the Casa.
	And I'm standing out there because I'm smoking.
	By the way, how far of a drive is it from your house to San Antonio?
	An hour and 25 minutes.
	That's not true.
	Oh, no, it's great.
	And I'm standing outside and I'm just observing the people.
	Oh, man.
	They're all idiots.
	I'm just like, well, no wonder no one cares.
	There's guys hitting on girls, they're heckling, catcalls.
	They got tattoos on their heads, dollar signs in their necks.
	It's like, wow, no wonder.
	Everyone's hammered, drunk, just falling down.
	You know what?
	I'm like, this is actually good.
	Lock these people up.
	Get rid of them.
	Meanwhile, in the Los Angeles Times, report that the military is now forced to rely on civilian contractors who are placed all along the levels of the drone kill chain.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	That wasn't the word they used, though, the drone kill chain.
	Absolutely.
	Quote, quote, the kill chain.
	Quote.
	I have it in quotes right here.
	Who's using the wordage?
	David S. Cloud.
	I mean, that's the writer, but where does it come from originally?
	Who first coined it?
	We have to have somebody dig this one up.
	Well, let me look up the whole article here.
	I just have the extract.
	It's from businessinsider.com.
	Well, I have to go to his article now.
	Hold on a second.
	Let's take a look at it.
	I mean, it's in quotes, the kill chain.
	Wow, the drone kill chain.
	I like it.
	I like it too.
	Is that a keychain around your neck?
	No, man.
	That's a killchain.
	That's a drone killchain.
	So he talked to Major General Timothy McHale.
	By the way, someone right away should be going for that one.
	Dronekillchain.com.
	Dronekillchain.com.
	Absolutely.
	So maybe he used it.
	I don't know.
	But it's good.
	So the whole problem is that it takes so many people to fly a drone, and more staff than an F-15, that the Air Force...
	That doesn't sound right to me.
	Well, when you think about it...
	Um, yeah, no, I mean, it's only one dude flying, and then they have, you know, they have operations.
	Yeah, but why would they have more maintenance people than a regular F-15?
	Check it out, check it out.
	It's like down half the time.
	Here's the details.
	There's a thousand guys working on it, pounding away.
	John, this is why the military-industrial complex loves it, because, check it out, about 168 people are needed to keep a single predator aloft for 24 hours, according to the Air Force.
	The larger global hawk...
	Doing what?!
	You know, like, calibrating.
	The Global Hawk surveillance drone requires 300 people for a 24-hour period.
	In contrast, an F-16 fighter aircraft needs fewer than 100 people per mission.
	Even that seems a lot.
	What are they doing?
	Anyway, so that's where your drone kill chain comes from.
	And so it's all civilians.
	And we know it's civilians because half of them listen to this show.
	Yeah.
	Just don't drone us, bro.
	Hey, don't drone me, bro.
	Please, please don't drone me, whatever you do.
	So it's going to be civilians in this drone kill chain making decisions all along the way.
	It's the year that...
	The world might as well end.
	Well, it largely has, you know...
	Buzzkill Jr.
	and I were discussing some of this, and I think we came to the conclusion, or he did, that this NDAA may actually be, because it essentially...
	It makes it so that the Patriot Act is not necessary if you really look at it carefully.
	And we're expecting you to read the whole thing.
	Both of us are, by the way.
	What do you mean?
	To read what?
	I've already read everything.
	What are you talking about?
	The whole thing.
	Okay, well, the way it's written, it seems as though the Patriot Act could be tossed out and this thing could take care of it.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, we don't need it.
	So I'm thinking that it's a prelude to Obama or some of these other douchebags coming out and saying, we're going to get rid of the Patriot Act.
	Yeah.
	We're going to negate it.
	Good idea.
	I like that.
	Because they don't need it anymore.
	They've got this thing instead, and it makes you look like a good guy.
	Yeah, the patriot guy was a little, you know, he's taking our freedoms away.
	Meanwhile, we've got a military state.
	I really like that concept, John.
	Yeah.
	Hold on a second.
	I just want to set this up here.
	So there were a couple other things.
	Because I was actually doing some work, believe it or not.
	And my daughter was here, and she went back.
	It's been real busy.
	Sounds like it.
	But what happened just in the few days since our previous program was, of course...
	Something I love.
	We studied on this show, and I had to bring back a clip just to look at it.
	This is, well, here's the report, and I'll stop it after like 30 seconds or so.
	We can talk about it.
	Democracy groups with American ties.
	Our World Affairs Correspondent Jill Doherty is joining us right now.
	Jill, what's the very latest on this issue?
	Well, Wolf, you know, this is an indication of how seriously this is being taken here in Washington.
	The Pentagon saying that Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta spoke by phone with Egyptian Field Marshal Tantawi and expressed deep concern about the raids, thanked Tantawi for his decision to stop him, but he also emphasized that it's critical for Egypt to continue on the path to democratic transition.
	Okay, so this is about the Egyptian military forces, who of course are in charge, raiding the 17, quote, NGOs, non-governmental organizations.
	Now, this is very important, the non-governmental organization part.
	And as we know, these are basically spy organizations who are outfitting the techno-experts in all these countries and giving them, you know, like internet in a suitcase.
	It's completely sponsored by the state.
	In fact, literally by the State Department.
	We know they have a $300 billion budget.
	Yeah, $300 billion budget.
	No, $300 million.
	What was it?
	What did Lucifer get?
	No, I don't remember what it was, but it wasn't $300 million.
	No, $300 million.
	No, she got $300 million.
	$300 million is just one weekend in Bermuda for Hillary.
	That's just for funding these outfits.
	So they busted in, and they took laptops, and it's like an outrage, and everyone in the news, this is an outrage!
	These people are just trying to help democracy!
	They're just trying to help!
	So you know me, I'm watching the State Department website, and the spokeshole And she gets a question about, can you really assure us that these are really like, aren't these funded by the State Department?
	Just for the record, could you just tell us, often it is...
	It's alleged that they are an arm of the U.S. government.
	They do receive some type of funding.
	By the way, if you go to NDI.org, you can see that the State Department is funding it.
	You didn't mention NDI before.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	NDI. But it's not alleged.
	They say it right there on their website.
	Foundation for Defending Democracies?
	Is that what it is?
	What's NDI? National Democratic Institute.
	Democratic Institute, yeah.
	Can you just explain precisely...
	Now, by the way, this is a script, because immediately this woman starts reading the script about what the NDI is and what the relationship is with the State Department.
	So she would know off the top of her head?
	No, no, no.
	This question is expected in script.
	No, I'm just saying, the woman would...
	Obviously, there's...
	If somebody asked me about the NDI, out of the blue, I would say I'd like to look into it.
	Right, no, no.
	Here it comes.
	What is their relationship, if any, with the U.S. government...
	And could there be any attempt to overthrow or do anything like that in another country?
	These are both non-governmental organizations.
	They are strongly supported around the world with US government funds.
	Their primary purpose around the world is to support the development of democratic institutions.
	They work most actively, both NDI and IRI, in countries that are in democratic transition.
	They do things like train poll monitors.
	They train poll monitors.
	This is really hard, by the way.
	Democracy is really hard.
	You have to train people how it works.
	So you've got to train people how to stick their finger in the ink pot.
	Train poll workers, train political parties in how to mount their campaigns.
	But they don't support any individual candidate, any individual party.
	She's reading this.
	And all of their work is open to public scrutiny and to government scrutiny.
	And we've been, particularly in the Egyptian case, extremely transparent.
	They have been extremely transparent already.
	About the programs that they have in Egypt, about who's participating, etc.
	Okay, so I remember that Lucifer, clippity-clop Clinton, did a keynote on November 7th at the NDI. And of course, if you look at the news reports, it was like, this is Madeleine Albright's non-governmental organization.
	This is so wrong.
	Well, listen to Hillary clippity-clop.
	Lucifer.
	Just last week, the World Economic Forum released a report on the remarkable benefits countries see when they bridge the social, economic, and political gap separating women from men.
	And helping them get there is a priority for the State Department and for me personally.
	Uh-huh.
	Graduates of NDI training program.
	Graduates of NDI training?
	What is this, a college now all of a sudden?
	Wow.
	Let me interrupt for a split second.
	Yes.
	And mention some of the things.
	Because non-governmental organizations, which are huge, they're all over the place, would generally start, would be normally thought of as something like Greenpeace or in the olden days.
	But this is almost a commercialized operation.
	Madeleine Albright's the chairman.
	I'm looking at their board of directors.
	Tom Daschle is like the vice chairman.
	People on the advisory committee, Mario Cuomo, for example.
	Yeah, all good guys.
	William Alexander, the former chairman is Walter Mondale.
	Howard Dean is on the board of directors.
	I mean, this is a, as an NGO, this is obviously a bunch of...
	Hired gun stooges that know how to get money from the taxpayer, mostly, and whoever else gives them money.
	I can't imagine anybody voluntarily giving them money.
	Oh, no, no.
	Well, yes, contractors give them money, of course.
	Yeah, sure.
	I'm sure your boys at Blackwater would.
	You mean, what's their new name?
	Fi or Fo?
	No, they went from Z to...
	I can't remember.
	Let me look it up.
	Freedom?
	It was like Patriot or something.
	Something really bad.
	It was designed to help women run for office, now sit in local councils and parliaments from Morocco to Kuwait.
	Yeah, it's called Spies Infiltrating.
	But we all know a great deal of work lies ahead to help all people, women and men, find justice and opportunity as...
	Academy is what it's called.
	Yeah, Academy.
	Academy.
	Full participants in new democratic societies.
	Now listen to this.
	Along with our economic and technical help...
	Economic and technical help, okay.
	America will also use our presence, influence, and global leadership...
	I thought it was just the trained pole dancers.
	I don't understand.
	Now all of a sudden we're using influence and technical and financial support?
	Okay.
	To support change.
	And later this week I am issuing new policy guidance to our embassies across the region to structure our efforts.
	Policy guidance across the region.
	In other words, more spying, go out and make a ruckus.
	In Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, we are working to help citizens safeguard the principles of democracy.
	It's so hard.
	These cultures don't have a clue, and they never will.
	No, they're idiots.
	They're sand bunnies.
	They don't know anything.
	That means supporting the forces of reconciliation.
	The forces of reconciliation.
	I love it.
	These are great words, Lucifer.
	...other than retribution.
	It means defending freedom of expression when bloggers are arrested for criticizing public officials.
	So what are they doing?
	Like, if a blogger gets arrested, they go kick some ass and free him?
	I mean, what does this mean?
	It means standing up for tolerance when state-run television...
	This sounds like a lot more than what the spokeshold just said.
	that they have begun.
	Listen, listen.
	The United States will be their partner.
	Check it out.
	And of the many tools at our disposal.
	Tools!
	The National Endowment and NDI and all of the family of organizations The family of organizations.
	I love it.
	That's all of them.
	The whole family.
	It's all paid for by who, Lucifer?
	...were created three decades ago to help people make this journey successfully.
	We'll be right there.
	I heard Madeline say when she introduced me that I defend NDI. Well, I do, and I also defend IRI. I defend those organizations that we have created, that the American taxpayers pay for.
	There you go.
	Thank you.
	The American taxpayers pay for a non-governmental organization.
	I'm not an idiot.
	This is really annoying.
	That was a long road, but I think it was worth it.
	Well, there's more to come.
	So I'm watching this spokeshole.
	And all of a sudden, there's an Indian guy.
	By the way, I want to just stop you for a second and interrupt it and just mention, because she did drop the National Endowment, she says.
	Yes, that's also important.
	And that refers specifically to the National Endowment for Democracy, which is, and I'm taking this right off the book of knowledge, the U.S. non-profit organization that was founded in 1983, that would be during the Reagan administration, to promote democracy, it's Funded primarily through an annual allocation from the U.S. Congress within the budget of, get this, here's our buddies, USAID. There it is, ladies and gentlemen, USAID. That's your economic hitman.
	Yeah, that's right.
	So then there's two Indian guys in the audience.
	It's a little difficult because you have to kind of get into the accent.
	It's a short clip.
	And the first guy goes off script and the woman is like, she doesn't know what to say.
	The second guy is so on script that it's funny.
	But this first guy is like, remember David Headley?
	Yeah.
	Who's David Headley?
	I just remember his name.
	Do you want me to look him up in the book of knowledge?
	Can you tell me?
	No, look him up in the book of knowledge.
	He was the guy associated, a CIA asset, with the Mumbai attacks.
	Oh, right, right, right, right, right.
	So this guy goes off the reservation.
	National Investigation Agency of India had charged a number of individuals, including several ISI agents and also LET... Connections, including Mr.
	Hagley, who is here in the U.S. with the U.S. of...
	I mean, Indian officials had already interviewed him in Chicago.
	My question is that this is in connection with several bombings throughout India, including in Mumbai attacks.
	Has anybody contacted the U.S. with this chart sheet, which was handed over in Parliament this week?
	So essentially, Om Malik here is saying, hey, David Hadley needs to be questioned because the guy was clearly involved with the Mumbai attacks, which was pretty much, it was certainly a false flag.
	Has anyone reached out to the State Department to interview this guy?
	Because this is all wrong.
	And this was not in the script.
	Yeah, the David Coleman Hadley, formerly known as Daoud Saeed Jilani, that guy in Chicago, Pakistani guy.
	Here's the answer.
	And if they have requested any further interviews or getting idly to India for further questioning or to face charges.
	I don't have anything in particular on that, Goyal.
	I will take the question.
	If we have anything to share, we'll get back to you.
	Yeah, okay.
	What are you doing?
	Now, here comes the funny bit.
	And it is a long stretch, but it'll pay off in the end.
	Now the real Indian guy, who was supposed to ask the real question, pops the question, and she's reading all the answers once again.
	And it's an eye-roller.
	Yes.
	You are sending a comedy group to India.
	What is the comedy behind it?
	So just in case you didn't understand it, you're sending a comedy group to India.
	What is the comedy behind it?
	Good question!
	Well, thank you for that, Tegender.
	Thank you for that, Tegender.
	Thank you for getting us back on script.
	Indeed, sending an Indian-American comedy group.
	We are supporting a seven-city tour that they are making around India.
	They're called Make Chai, Not War.
	And this is part of our regular global cultural exchange program that we do around the world.
	There are three Indian American comedians.
	And the reason we decided to support this tour is because among the things that they are known for, Is there talk about religious tolerance, about the importance of breaking down prejudices, and about the positive experiences they had growing up as Indian Americans in the United States?
	Okay, that sounds great.
	Make Chai Not War, a positive group going around India, American Indians.
	So I go to their website.
	Would you care to hear one of their stand-up bits?
	This positive, politically correct...
	I'm sure it's a beauty.
	I was in Washington, D.C. three years ago.
	And I went to this Smithsonian exhibit about diamonds.
	Diamonds from across the world throughout history.
	And they had a picture of the Covinor and a caption that read, The Covinor is one of the largest diamonds in the world.
	It is found on the British Royal Crown and was originally found in India in the mid-1800s.
	Right.
	It was just found in India.
	It wasn't taken from India.
	It was just found there.
	Because we didn't know what the fuck they were, folks.
	We didn't know what the fuck diamonds were.
	We didn't know.
	It's perfectly reasonable.
	Look, we were fucking eating them.
	We were fucking eating them.
	We were fucking eating them.
	Grinding them up, putting them in a crate, you know what?
	Diamond Bidiani!
	Yay, it's Thursday!
	Diamond Bidiani Day!
	Fuck stovetop, kids.
	We got diamonds.
	But luckily, the British showed up.
	And first they tossed it to use their opposable thumbs, huh?
	And then they told us to walk on two feet.
	And then they took those evil diamonds away before we had something else to do with them.
	Man, fuck the British.
	Fuck them.
	I know it sounds ridiculous to be bitter, but the Queen of England?
	Fuck the Queen of England.
	There you go.
	That's your politically correct comedy group that we are sponsoring.
	So basically we're sending over some Indian comics to breed more anti-Western hatred in the region.
	Particularly against the British.
	Well, that's good.
	At least they focus it.
	Now, of course, the question that arises in my mind is, well, what does this comedy tour cost in me as a taxpayer?
	They will be in India January 4th to 17th.
	As I said, in seven cities, in addition to doing shows, they'll also be holding audience discussions on these issues of religious tolerance and doing workshops.
	Religious tolerance?
	Yeah, yeah, fuck the British.
	Which cities and what is the budget?
	I believe the...
	Full tour costs about $100,000.
	The US Embassy in New Delhi is supporting them with a grant of $88,000.
	$188,000!
	Wow.
	It's a good gig, and they get to float around India and eat on the tap, someone else's tap.
	Dude, we've got to get into this scam.
	Yeah, well, we just need to have some nasty comedy to do.
	It's unbelievable!
	188,000!
	And of course, by then, I'm like, NDI, who cares?
	This is crazy.
	They're sending out completely anti-Western culture, anti-British comedians to have talking sessions about political correctness.
	Make Chai Not War.
	Make Chai Not War.
	It's just crazy!
	Well, until we get our comedy troupe together, we're going to have to continue to just get by with the help of our producers.
	Yeah, we do have a few.
	Let's name the ones.
	Let's name our executive and associate executive producers before we get on to more topics of interest.
	Let's do.
	We have three executive producers and two associates today, beginning with Jason Hoffman, who is...
	Somewhere, parts unknown essentially.
	He's got an APO address.
	Well, he says he's from, right now he's in Pizza Pie, Italy.
	Serving in the United States Army here in Italy.
	And thought he'd give a shot to become an executive producer.
	After listening to your show for several months, I've decided to stop being a boner, become a donor.
	Though I'm proud to say I've been propagating the formula wherever you get the chance to make sure to put, we need some stickers to be posted in Italy.
	Yeah, for sure.
	And he loves the insight and thought-provoking commentary you create with your media assassination and shield deconstruction of all the douchebags out there vying for control of the planet.
	As a security police member in the Air Force, I do find that when you talk about police and military action, you tend to be wrong about 80% of the time.
	No, no, it's more like 79%, I think.
	I don't think it's that.
	I think it's 78, to be honest about it.
	We're wrong.
	Yeah, we're wrong.
	Okay, we don't...
	All right, how are we wrong?
	I think this is...
	I think this is...
	We give Adam plenty of ammunition to go on his highly entertaining rants about how ridiculous he thinks their actions are.
	I do admit, I myself, though, think some of the recent events to be overboard.
	However, I would like to give the following douchebag call-outs to my dad.
	Do we have the rest of this?
	Because this is...
	I'm truncated on my thing.
	Let me see if I can scroll down a bit.
	Hold on a second.
	That's what happens when you have...
	Oh, yeah.
	It's weird on mine, too.
	It only puts in so much.
	People shouldn't write these memos to be this long.
	Hold on a second.
	Whoops.
	Where'd it go?
	Well, he needs a douchebag call out to a couple people.
	Yeah.
	Well, hold on.
	Let me see.
	To my dad, Kip.
	Douchebag.
	For turning me on to the show last summer, but still hasn't donated.
	My good friend...
	Yeah, and then it goes all haywire on me.
	Well, maybe I can make it smaller.
	Yeah, we gotta do something about this.
	Here we go.
	My good friend AJ, who I punched in the mouth several months ago and converted to the cause, but despite plenty of warning, still let me beat him to the donate button.
	And to you two.
	Douchebag!
	Why do we get douchebagged?
	Why do we get douchebagged?
	I don't know.
	$370.37, you can call us a douchebag.
	It's like sitting in the dunk tank for Jason.
	Yeah, really.
	But he doesn't actually say how we're wrong 80% of the time.
	No, it's typical.
	This is a guy who knows we're right 80% of the time.
	But he knows we're going to mention his name, so he won't cover his butt.
	But he's part of the system.
	He's a cog in the military-industrial complex wheel taking orders.
	He's a part of the drone kill chain.
	And he's blaming us.
	Hey, we're just the messengers, Jason.
	Yeah, by the way, according to SHIELD, DroneKillChain.com now redirects to NoAgendaShow.com.
	All right.
	Our people are the greatest.
	Onward to Justin Bakke, or probably Bakke.
	Because it's Lafayette, Louisiana.
	Bakay!
	Got some money for Christmas, and I thought, what the fuck?
	I'll produce an episode of the greatest podcast in the universe.
	I can't do a Cajun accent.
	Thanks for the great show.
	And happy, distracted New Year, Justin Bakay.
	Lafayette, Louisiana, where he eats the onion.
	I like it.
	Thank you so much.
	And our third executive producer is old Ice Share Meteor, which is actually Sir Lennart Renkema in Groningen.
	Groningen.
	Groningen.
	And he's just crediting Lennart with no comment, which actually screwed us up this morning because JC says he was stuck on this.
	It was $320.12.
	I want to thank him for that.
	Because the fact that there's a comment in there.
	Can't mean no comment, so it makes no sense to type no comment in the comment box.
	Okay, that's just JC being a computer engineer.
	A chip maker.
	Sir Oleg, yeah.
	In Richmond Hill, Ontario.
	I'd like to make a birthday shout-out to my brother, and we'll have that later, which falls on January 1st, which has got to be miserable.
	Midnight of New Year's Eve, it usually goes, Happy New Year and Happy Birthday.
	Also, I'd like to request karma for him and the rest of the family in the New Year.
	Thanks, and keep up with the good work on the best podcast in the universe.
	You've got karma.
	My sister Tiffany actually celebrates her birthday on January 1st and it is a big pain in the ass.
	She hates it.
	And then finally, our last executive producer, he came in, Oleg, on 20 cents and 201.
	Well, that's 2012 is what he did.
	I like it.
	2012, right.
	And Jerry Jones missed that, but she came in with $201.
	And she sent a card.
	This came in the mail.
	And she said, she calls herself a big-ass blonde.
	She's from San Antonio.
	And she's from San Antonio.
	You could have had dinner with her.
	And she could have picked up the tab.
	I love big-ass blondes.
	And she's a big-ass blonde.
	She says, and if you look at the mail came in on the return address, it was B.A.D. and then her address.
	First, I heard of No Agenda, of all things PID Radio, a Christian conspiracy webcast.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Cool.
	Well, she props out to them.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I'm not complaining.
	Since then, I've listened to the show religiously while I'm working at my government job.
	Oh, yeah.
	Big-ass blonde.
	Well, you know, San Antone is a big military town.
	Really?
	Oh, yeah.
	They got Air Force, Navy, all kinds of stuff there.
	It's crazy.
	It says, in lieu of karma, would you consider redirecting your Sean Hannity?
	We can't, because the Sean Hannity thing would really screw us up on the...
	Oh, no, the SEO. That's the only thing that we're actually getting SEO on, is SeanHannity.com.
	So instead of, in lieu of karma, we'll give you some karma.
	You can have that.
	Absolutely.
	Here you go.
	Big-ass blonde karma.
	You've got karma.
	And I'm going to give her a...
	That's one mother I'd like to.
	I think she deserves it.
	So we want to thank all these executive producers for sponsoring today's show and want to remind people that this is the new year.
	We might as well start thinking about how we're going to make it through to the end.
	Go to Dvorak.org slash NA. ChannelDvorak.com slash NA. NoAgendaShow.com and NoAgendaNation.com where the mugs, by the way, are fantastic and you should buy one.
	Yes, please.
	Aren't they nice?
	The mugs are very nice.
	Yeah.
	And they're big.
	They're not like the little...
	No, no.
	They're tall.
	They're tall is what they are.
	Not big.
	They're tall.
	Well, they hold at least a cup and a half of water.
	Yeah.
	Or coffee, as you wish.
	They're very nice.
	I like them a lot.
	And I need to program your brain for a second to open up those gray cells.
	Donating is loving.
	And some PR initiatives.
	Andy, is it...
	No, wait a minute.
	It's...
	First we have Andy from Gitmo Nation East.
	I'm a future film music editor, composer, and occasional movie producer in Gitmo Nation East.
	Big fan of the show.
	I, too, was inspired by the Open the Door Mr.
	Curry clip to contemplate how great a movie could be about two cult podcasters on the run from them.
	But unlike the guys from Australia, I had done nothing about it yet except by the domain noagendathemovie.com.
	Which is currently forwarding to noagendashow.com.
	But as and when the guys complete their movie, I'll reassign it to them.
	In the meantime, if they require a musical score and some sound work, please pass out my details.
	I'll do it for nothing if you and John and the show in general get to benefit further down the line.
	So I think that's very cool.
	He also says, thank you for the birthday card I recently received from you guys and made my day.
	Another donation coming soon.
	So thank you very much, Andy, a producer from Gitmo Nation East.
	And then I received a funny email and a picture from Stan...
	It was registered...
	Stan the Man.
	Stan the Man.
	Yeah, he has registered thejudgeowners.com and he's putting together a picture website of all of us No Agenda producers who own The Judge.
	He sent me a picture wearing like a beanie.
	You guys don't get on a watch list after this.
	No, no.
	We're totally getting locked up.
	And then finally we have another PR mission done by Supermom, I think formerly known as the Crazy Shantix Chick.
	Remember that one?
	Oh yeah.
	And she's created a Squarespace site, supermomcomic.squarespace.com.
	Where I guess it's an episodic comic.
	And she says here...
	And basically the whole thing is a donation solicitation for the show.
	Oh, that's nice.
	That's sweet.
	For the month of January, I'll be giving half the donations received for the No Agenda Show podcast starring John C. Dworkin and Adam Curry.
	It's an awesome show!
	No, it's not awesome.
	It's the best podcast in the universe.
	We appreciate that, so that's very cool.
	And of course, we have other people out there who can always do one very important thing.
	You can go out and propagate our formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	New!
	World Order.
	Pick up your t-shirt at noagendanation.com.
	Shut up, slave.
	Dvorak.org slash N-A.
	Donating is loving.
	I'm not alone.
	Mickey says we're not doing that well yet.
	She says we're not saying it with conviction.
	Oh, I can't imagine anyone saying it with more conviction than you.
	I don't know.
	Well, she says maybe you're not there yet.
	Maybe she should come on the line and say it, because it would have a sultry voice.
	Okay.
	Give her a couple shots of whiskey first so she gets a little gravel in it.
	She only needs two.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, we've got to get some consulting gigs.
	This is the year.
	Yeah, because otherwise it's going to be sad.
	It's going to be very sad.
	So I got a couple of things that I've kind of deconstructed, actually.
	Oh, nice.
	And I was watching the Fox.
	Oh, really?
	And ended up with a...
	You mean the Hot Legs Network?
	The Legs Network.
	And I caught a scripted bit.
	Ooh.
	I mean, it's almost as though it was beautiful because the guy who was a weekend warrior, wasn't one of the normal guys, comes on and he has Judith Miller on.
	And you remember her.
	She was the New York Times reporter that got fired because she was planting stories for the CIA. Yeah, no, wait.
	Wasn't she the one that reported weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, which is all phony?
	for the government some funny way now and now of course she's landed on you know instead of being you know a journalist shamed now she's now she's a fellow at the manhattan institute oh nice and she's doing their magazine for probably twice as much money as the times is paying her she's got that shitting grin on her face because of it most importantly but she comes on and she essentially came out to do a briefing.
	The way I see this was, this was a scripted bit.
	The guy asks a question, she succinctly answers it in four parts.
	And they're very, they cut right off.
	It's not like an interaction.
	There's no, normally when you go on these talk shows as a guest, you will, there'll be some interaction.
	You'll be talking and he talks, you talk, and it goes back and forth a little bit.
	This was no, this was a...
	Like a scripted question, scripted answer, scripted question.
	And it gives us a little insight as to what might be going on in Iran and what we're going to do about it.
	This is the one, right?
	Straits of Hormuz?
	That's the one you want me to play first?
	Yeah.
	The contributing editor of its magazine, City Journal.
	Judith, great to see you.
	You know, Iran has made this threat at least twice before to shut down the Strait of Hormuz.
	They never followed through because they would guess kind of be shooting themselves in the foot, right, if they did?
	Right, exactly, Trace.
	Well, half of Iran's money that it needs for its budget comes from those oil exports that move through the Strait of Hormuz.
	And if it chose to sabotage that passageway, it would, in effect, be sabotaging its own source of income.
	That doesn't mean it won't do it.
	It's done a lot of crazy and unpredictable things in the past, but mostly for the moment, U.S. analysts think that it's just a lot of saber rattling.
	Okay, so what we have here is the introduction of the basic fact of the Strait of Hormuz threat, which is that it makes no sense for them to do this, and so we're going to let you know that as a moment of information for people who can read between the lines.
	Now, then you dropped a little bombshell in there, which I like to see deconstructed by her, which is they've done a lot of crazy and unpredictable things in the past.
	Yeah.
	But, you know, they come out, Iran comes out and says that they are monitoring, in fact, surveilling the United States military.
	What does that tell you?
	Look, it tells you that this is a very, very persistent rival power.
	This is the Iranian regime, which has really had some very tough blows this year.
	Most important is the collapse of its only Arab ally, Syria.
	Syria is under enormous pressure.
	It...
	Right now, Bashar Assad, most people say his days are numbered.
	That would really cut it off from the Arab world.
	And the United States has left Iraq, which gives it an opening there.
	But the Iranian regime is under enormous pressure, also from its own people.
	Remember, the Arab Spring did not start in an Arab country.
	It started in 2009 in Iran.
	It had to be ruthlessly suppressed.
	So this is a country that is desperately looking to kind of flex its muscle and tell its own people and the world, don't take us for granted, don't think we can't fight and aren't prepared to defend our interests, because we will.
	Okay.
	The Syrian regime has collapsed there, John.
	That's what she says.
	It's collapsed.
	She also makes a point.
	Like a lung.
	She makes a number of points there.
	For one thing, rival power, like Russia.
	I mean, how are they a rival power?
	They make rugs.
	In Russia?
	No, they never had.
	Persian ruts.
	Arab Spring was not even coined as a term until it actually happened in Arab countries.
	And now to kind of back it up to that little incident that was hardly like what happened in these other countries is kind of sketchy.
	And then, of course, she uses the word, since it really wasn't that much activity, except large protests, Ruthlessly suppressed.
	Ruthless.
	Ruthless.
	Yeah.
	We're getting a kind of an interesting briefing that has kind of two layers of information.
	One is the real information that we need to know to make decisions as whatever, you know, analysts.
	And the other one, which is the propagandistic stuff, which is for the public's consumption and the typical Fox viewer.
	But Iran has been flexing its muscle, Judith, now for years and years and years.
	I mean, they threaten us like four or five times a week.
	Why this time are we paying such close attention to this threat?
	Well, because, in fact, one-fifth of all the world's oil moves through the Strait of Hormuz.
	And because, let's face it, Trace, if they actually carried through on this threat, it would be regarded by many states as an act of war.
	And this situation could escalate very, very quickly into full-blown military conflict in a very sensitive part of the world.
	So it is something that the administration is watching very closely.
	Oh, yeah.
	Cool.
	Now, here's the interesting...
	Get ready for the end.
	You know where that's leading.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Well, let me get one thing out of this.
	He says, you got to get this one.
	This is like that idiot border guard who was arrested two or three spies and terrorists a day.
	Iran has been threatening the U.S. four to five times a week.
	Really?
	Really?
	Four to five times a week we are threatened by Iran?
	Yeah, it's like the three terrorists from Canada every single day.
	You sons of bitches, we're going to kill your kids.
	That's number one.
	You sons of bitches.
	How many threats can they make?
	So that, by the way, that makes about 250 threats a year.
	So, okay, now we'll wrap it up and you tell me, you make the conclusion of what you think this really all means.
	That has to be my next question, Judith.
	I mean, you brought it up.
	We're talking about some pretty tense times here.
	Are we nearing military conflict with Iran in your assessment?
	We know a lot of the Congress really wants that to happen.
	They say that even if the sanctions succeed in putting pressure on Iran, it's not going to be enough to dissuade them from pursuing their nuclear program.
	That's the goal of all of this pressure and the sanctions and the talk.
	And if that doesn't work, the issue is if the United States doesn't strike now, it will be facing a nuclearized country that is still irrational and still wants to throw its weight around.
	So many in the Congress say, if we're going to have a confrontation, let's have it now.
	That, in my view, is a rather dangerous course of action, but many people believe that that's the wisest course.
	Wow.
	I think they're doing it all wrong.
	They need to send an American-Iranian comedy troupe to Iran.
	To the wisest course.
	You know, it's a bad idea, but it's the wisest course.
	There's almost contradictory to what she says.
	So I've concluded that they would like to take action for the one reason, one reason only.
	I think it's all true.
	And I think it's coded in here, the information.
	We...
	We went into Iraq and now it was for the oil after all, as you noticed in the last couple of clips that we did a few weeks ago.
	We, the United States, and I think it's going to be a mess to do this because I don't think we can get away with it, but I think it's going to be an interesting attempt.
	We want to control the Straits of Hormuz.
	Well, duh.
	Because that way we control all of Europe's supply of oil.
	I mean, we essentially own the...
	This is the geopolitics that the Germans were working on in the 30s and 40s because they know all these different choke points and you figure out what...
	And nobody talks...
	Nobody's used the word geopolitical much.
	No.
	But if you start looking at modern geopolitics, that Strait of Hormuz is such a key choke point that whoever controls it controls the world.
	this ladies and gentlemen concludes our broadcast from the observatory for human rights dot com go to observatory for human rights dot com for more now it's well of course you know the whole problem is there's a competition with that Nord Stream I think it's called that's running from Russia across Poland Remember they had to kill all the Polish government?
	Yeah, they had to kill the entire Polish government.
	Yeah, and we haven't forgotten that, by the way, that little ditty.
	They killed the entire Polish government so that they could run the Nord Stream pipeline through their territorial waters.
	So that's the whole competition that's going on here.
	At the end of the day, once again, it's all about the oil.
	Interestingly, as a part of all this, in this collapsed regime, we have the...
	Collapsed Syrian regime.
	Collapsed Syrian regime.
	We have the Arab League observers.
	And the Arab League, if you've been following this, it's very confusing.
	But the Arab League observers, and by the way, Arab League is a bunch of dictators.
	Yeah, that creep from Sudan?
	Yeah, all of a sudden these are the good guys.
	So they can't find anything.
	Like, we don't see any real problems.
	Oh, I got some shaky cell cam footage.
	The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is not affiliated with the ObservatoryForHumanRights.com, they claimed that the Syrian regime had secretly changed the street signs to trick the observer teams.
	So they went the wrong direction, like Wile E. Coyote.
	It's like, oh no, you need to go that way.
	Hey, use Google Earth.
	Other rebels claim the government had pulled its tanks out at the last minute and that they had released 4,000...
	Yes, it's so easy to do.
	They had released 4,000 prisoners from the jail and hid them somewhere.
	This is literally what the Syrian observatory...
	It's so easy to do.
	It's like...
	I'm sorry.
	That's just like the Libyans raping people with Viagra.
	I mean, this is so stupid.
	So stupid.
	Anyway, observatoryforhumanrights.com will become a true website.
	That's one of our New Year's resolutions because it's a great domain name and we could get some dough.
	We could get on the BBC and we'll be espowing all kinds of stuff, John.
	Maybe we can get some gigs where we have to go observe human rights.
	Yeah.
	You know, from the Four Seasons Hotel, you know, one of these places.
	Yeah.
	Well, they really don't treat the help here very well.
	No, it's not good.
	And you push the button and the butler doesn't show up for an hour.
	It's horrible.
	What a suppressed collapse regime we're living in.
	I would like you to take note of the following, Mr.
	Dvorak.
	So you have a crunchy carrot?
	Is it real sweet?
	This is very sweet.
	This product is an even...
	Is it a Texas carrot?
	Texas carrot from Red Rock.
	Even better, I think, than your product.
	Listen to it.
	I doubt it.
	Listen to it.
	That sounds pretty crunchy.
	An outstanding product.
	Just wanted to mention that because I felt a little...
	I got this from the farmer's market.
	Well, we have that sandy soil in Texas that should grow decent carrots, but these carrots up north are extremely dense.
	My goodness, what a product.
	Did you break a tooth?
	An outstanding product.
	That was my intermezzo.
	That's good.
	It worked out.
	So anyway, so what do you conclude from all of this?
	Well, I think there's still up for...
	I think there's a little battle going on about what we're supposed to do about this Iranian thing.
	So we're creating phony baloney scenarios.
	We're saying that Iranians are doing this and that.
	I'm sure that we need to get somebody to translate better because these...
	We're told the Iranians are telling us and threatening is one thing, but we'd like to see some documentation on the other side.
	I think there's still a battle.
	I'm not absolutely convinced that we're going to be able to, because of these other idiotic wars, and I think the Arab Spring has screwed things up.
	I think the road to Iran that we talked about from the clip that Wesley Clark made...
	I think it was supposed to be a little smoother than this.
	And now the Egypt thing, which was not on the list.
	No, it wasn't on the list, and the Egypt guys are going, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, stop that.
	And Egypt is a mess, and it's going to foul up the whole plot.
	I think Egypt is going to foul up the plot, and I don't think we're going to be able to pull off any Iranian thing.
	I think they're going to try, but I don't think they're going to be able to do it.
	Well, the time to do it is October Surprise.
	That's the time to do it.
	Well, that's, yeah, well, October's going to be the, yeah, we'll work our way up to the October shows, and when that happens, by the time we get to September, we're going to see, it's going to be obvious what's going to happen in October, if anything.
	But something has to happen, or Obama's not going to get in, unless he can somehow pump up the economy through, you know, printing a lot of money, or doing what Clinton used to have methodologies for this, and maybe he's going to learn from him.
	Which brings me to the Iowa caucus, which should be held on Tuesday, the 3rd of January.
	For those outside of the Gitmo Nation of the United States, the way it works is we have to first select our Republican nominee, because of course there's only two parties, no one else can win in this X-Factor.
	And very interesting to see that the fix is now completely in, as the votes will be counted at an undisclosed secret location because they're afraid the Occupy movement might try to mess it up.
	What Occupy movement?
	They're in New York.
	They're in various large cities.
	What are they doing in Iowa?
	Well, they say that the Iowa State Republican Party representatives say that we're going to count the votes at a secret location off-site from the GOP headquarters because activist groups, including the Occupy movement, indicated they'll attempt to interrupt in the closing days before the caucus.
	Which means, I guess they're going to go phony up the votes.
	Isn't that what that means?
	How is this transparent?
	It doesn't sound right.
	No, you're right.
	It's fixed.
	It's rigged.
	They're taking it off.
	We're going to count it over here.
	One for him.
	One for Ron Paul.
	Three for Mitt.
	One for Ron Paul.
	Three for Mitt.
	That's how it's going to be.
	It's going to be one big phony.
	Okay, let's make some predictions.
	Oh, damn.
	I got the new red book, but it's downstairs, and I'm not going to go down and get it.
	I'll have to write on a piece of paper.
	Prediction?
	Oh, I can give you the prediction right now.
	Okay.
	Give me your prediction.
	Okay.
	Mitt Romney wins.
	Number two, Rick Santorum, because all of a sudden he's surging in the polls, so the fix is in on him.
	They've got to have a buffer between him and Ron Paul.
	Ron Paul will be third.
	Even though, of course, he will win the election, the nomination, the caucus.
	He will actually win it, but they're going to fake it up, and it'll be Romney- Santorum, and then Ron Paul.
	And have you noticed, by the way, how all of a sudden on CNN and Fox, they've got all, especially Fox, they've got the beautiful black women now.
	You never see black women on Fox.
	All of a sudden they're talking about how important the black vote is.
	No, that's not true.
	There's a lot of black women on Fox.
	I have not seen that.
	Last week's clip by the woman that was jacking away.
	Yeah, but I'm seeing like panels of them.
	Yeah, there's a lot of blacks on Fox.
	Okay.
	Well, maybe that's my own color blindness then that I just don't even see it.
	Well, you don't watch Fox as much.
	No, I do.
	Correct.
	Anyway...
	I tend to watch Anderson Pooper.
	He's so hot.
	Anyway, the Iowa caucus is not...
	I have two possible outcomes to predict.
	Go ahead.
	One, Ron Paul wins outright, and the whole thing is marginalized, and Romney comes in second.
	The second one is Romney wins by a hair over Ron Paul, showing that he has the ability to win in a place like...
	There is no way Ron Paul comes in third.
	Okay, we shall see.
	I like your first prediction, because if we listen to the mainstream media, I have a little compilation clip of the Iowa caucuses being irrelevant, insignificant, and not important.
	So I think that plays right into your prediction, number one.
	Ron Paul sweeps it, but it doesn't count.
	How much are the Iowa caucuses really like the rest of how we vote in America?
	How democratic is the Iowa system?
	If Ron Paul wins, some Republicans are going to say, who cares about Iowa?
	Do you think that it is American in the modern era that Iowa gets to go first?
	I think we might actually be seeing something bigger in the works here.
	The demise of Iowa.
	The hard truth here is that Ron Paul winning Iowa itself would not matter very much.
	If Ron Paul wins here, what then?
	The Ron Paul people are not going to like my saying this, but to a certain degree it will discredit the Iowa caucuses.
	But I wonder if there is an extent to which the organizational principle of Iowa does make it not only less democratic, less representational, but a little bit more corrupt.
	I mean, if Ron Paul wins, then what?
	You go to New Hampshire and start from scratch.
	Iowa doesn't matter.
	At the end of the day, Iowa doesn't matter.
	Start from scratch in New Hampshire?
	Totally agree with that.
	I'm acting.
	It would make the caucuses mostly irrelevant, if not entirely irrelevant, if Paul wins.
	That result would also mean roughly nothing to the rest of the presidential race.
	He doesn't like Ron Paul and he's not going to like Iowa if they have the bad judgment to vote for this guy.
	All this noise is going to come to an end relatively soon.
	Maybe Ron Paul wins Iowa, but who cares?
	Maybe Ron Paul wins Iowa, but who cares?
	I'm going to say that House Democrats are the winners.
	Iowa is not only a weird system for picking somebody, they are a non-representational system.
	Okay, you get the point.
	Okay, now let me make a couple of comments, which now brings me to another thought, which is that it's possible that there's enough Ron Paul loyalists within the Iowa system that that's the reason they're grabbing the voting boxes and taking them to a secure location to protect Ron Paul if he does win.
	Hmm.
	What do you mean to protect him?
	To take the votes away from all the local guys where you might have local corruption or anything that could skew the vote.
	The Ron Paul people now have the boxes and they will make it a legitimate vote.
	That's an interesting theory.
	I, of course, thought completely negatively, but you're thinking non-bogative.
	You're thinking this is to protect it to make sure he wins.
	To make sure he wins if he does indeed win.
	Right.
	Now, I want to make a couple of, or at least one comment.
	Rachel Maddow, who should be ashamed of herself, what is her problem with Ron Paul?
	She's the one of all the commentators on MSNBC who is pounding the hate Ron Paul drum the loudest.
	Yeah, she's a mind-controlled, MKUltra lesbian model.
	Yeah.
	Now, the funny thing was when you ran that, which is on all the commercial networks, PBS did it kind of a little differently on the NewsHour show.
	It's an Iowa rundown clip.
	And what it was is it sounded as though they're going to – when I started recording, I said, oh, this is good.
	This is another negative thing they're going to – Pound Ron Paul.
	But the two commentators, which is Brooks and this other guy, a Democrat and a Republican, actually turned it around and made it seem as though Iowa was even more important with a bunch of interesting statistics about the thing.
	It's a little long of a clip, but it really stopped this lair in his tracks, and he had to...
	Both of you, beginning with you, David, should Iowa matter as much as it appears to at this point?
	I mean, we're talking about it, the whole world is talking about it right now.
	Should they be?
	Is this the way to choose candidates for President of the United States, starting with Iowa?
	Yeah, I still think so.
	This is still my favorite place to cover a political race.
	It's not the way it used to be.
	It's not just George H.W. Bush driving around in a station wagon with one aide and maybe a press person.
	Now there's clumps of people.
	There's big buses.
	But it's still, it's more retail.
	The people are really run through their paces.
	Rick Perry tried, couldn't make it here.
	Michelle Bachmann, we saw what happened to her among voters here.
	I think it's still a good testing ground.
	Is it the most representative state in the country?
	Maybe not, but I still think it's a practiced, knowledgeable electorate who are very good at putting candidates through the ordeal of running.
	And I do think it's a legitimate way to screen out candidates and give a couple a chance to move on.
	You agree with that, don't you, Mike?
	I do, Jim.
	I mean, Iowa is unrepresented.
	It has the fourth highest literacy rate of the 50 states.
	It has the third lowest divorce rate.
	It has the sixth highest high school graduation rate.
	Higher than the coastal smug states of Iowa.
	Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon, Washington.
	And the people take it quite seriously.
	The coastal smug states.
	I love that, don't you?
	Yeah, that's very good.
	Well, it's funny because that was PBS, you said?
	Yeah, that was the news hour.
	I thought it was very objective.
	I gave him kudos for that.
	I think MSNBC just has some marching orders, because this is from, I think, this morning or yesterday.
	Our new NBC News Marist poll shows Ron Paul running neck and neck with Mitt Romney, but there are also plenty of Iowans who have big problems with the Texas congressman.
	More than 40% of likely Iowa voters believe that Paul is an unacceptable nominee.
	Putting a concrete ceiling on how high he can climb in the Hawkeye State.
	NBC political reporter Domenico Martin.
	Unacceptable.
	Unacceptable.
	41%, whatever this poll is, unacceptable.
	And then they go to a guy who's at a newt rally.
	He's literally, he is the expert.
	He's at a newt rally with people with newt signs behind him.
	It would have been cool if she had said powerful bogatives That would have been great.
	Yeah, we'll get it in there.
	Unacceptable in their view.
	Well, you know, it's interesting.
	Last night, even, I was out at a Romney event, and a lot of the people there, there were about 400 people or so, but a lot of them were undecided.
	I talked to some of them to see what they thought, and some of the people, most of the people who said the reason that they're actually looking at Romney now, even though they might like other candidates and they had been with Herman Cain, they said, look, we don't want Iowa to go down in history as having voted for Ron Paul.
	Yeah.
	The thing I wanted to lead up to, though, is I also have a compilation of the mainstream media talking about Iowa in 2008.
	Now, do you think that Iowa counted and was it important in 2008 in the previous election, John?
	Well, it always has an impact on all the elections.
	Our top story for a moment, and to be honest, it's very likely tomorrow night's top story and the next night.
	The once every four years Iowa caucuses.
	We're all watching what happens there because so much rides on the people of Iowa.
	For a state with fewer than three million residents, Iowa packs a big political punch.
	It is not only the first test, it's the first real test after months and months of talking.
	Iowa caucus voters do care about who's going to win in November.
	Iowa caucus voters do care about who's going to win in November.
	Iowa will play a huge role in the 2008 race.
	This is the big day in Iowa.
	It is the big caucus day in Iowa.
	You have more influence on who the next president of the United States is going to be than anybody else.
	So what effect, if any, do you think that tonight's numbers, the results of the caucus are going to have on the upcoming primaries in New Hampshire and South Carolina?
	Oh, huge, huge, huge.
	I mean, yeah.
	And that, as clearly as anything else, speaks to the importance of the Iowa caucuses just six and a half weeks from today.
	And it just goes on and on.
	It was really important.
	What's funny is some of the same commentators are now poo-pooing.
	Exactly.
	And one of, by the way, should be ashamed of himself besides Rachel, is Chris Wallace.
	Wallace, yeah.
	I mean, what is his problem?
	They're all...
	John...
	That's not a question I want you to answer.
	This is why we do a media assassination.
	We just want to show you that it's all bogative.
	It's all bogative.
	The whole thing is rigged from beginning to end.
	And I've got to say, I love Ron Paul, who once again this morning on Candy Crowley, which is just a funny show, State of the Union, Candy Crowley.
	What is she?
	Yeah, I know.
	Let's not talk about physical appearances.
	Let's just say she wouldn't make it on Fox.
	Once again, Ron Paul said that he says, I will never unequivocally state that I will not run third party.
	So he's never ruling it out.
	But I think his whole idea is just to keep propagating.
	Maybe Iran has to grab the baton or something.
	Maybe that's the idea, but...
	Left, right, or whatever, he has woken a lot of people up.
	He has changed some mindset.
	Well, he's gotten his memes into the mainstream.
	Yes.
	And the Fed.
	And that's the key.
	And I think that's really going to be the net result of the whole thing, because since the beginning I've always thought the thing was rigged.
	But I'm now beginning to think he's going to still win Iowa, which...
	Seemed apparent.
	But what I get a kick out of is the fact that if you remember these, I think we had clips of it, where this douchebag on CNN was talking to somebody and said, well, don't do anything you want.
	Go talk to Sarah Palin when she shows up.
	Just don't even bother with Ron Paul, of all things.
	And he laughed.
	You know, he says, ha ha ha, I don't have to talk to Ron Paul because he's an idiot.
	Let me see if I can find that.
	It's almost a while back, but it was like, wow, what kind of, you know, why didn't they just maintain that style of just shedding up about Ron Paul?
	Now they're all freaked out and they're wringing their hands over him and then they're criticizing him for stuff he's got nothing to do with.
	Well, there's fear.
	There's fear.
	I mean, I still think that the black and Latino vote comes out and they just hammer it.
	And they just push this guy all the way through.
	I'm certainly hoping.
	Well, you're not going to get that with guys like Morgan Freeman.
	Was that one of your clips, you think, that Palin clip?
	Palin will run or won't she?
	Was that it, maybe?
	No, it was when their bus was going to show up somewhere and...
	Well, I could save the best question for last, but we have a straw poll coming up tomorrow, and you're here at the fairgrounds, and I think a lot of people might want an answer to this one question.
	Are you considering a run for the presidency of the United States?
	I am still considering a run, John.
	You know, I think the good folks here in Iowa, you could do a man on the street here, you could ask anybody here, and I think that...
	No.
	That wasn't it.
	That wasn't it.
	But it's funny.
	Forgot about that.
	Yeah, and how about Sperman Herman?
	He's just disappeared off the radar.
	Amazing.
	They got rid of him.
	He was doing too well.
	He was getting too much attention.
	I love how all of a sudden it's like, hey, we've got to get some ratings.
	And throw Santorum in there.
	Yeah, that's cool.
	I love it.
	It really is highly entertaining.
	I don't think it's highly entertaining, but it is.
	It gets you worked up, especially the Rachel Maddow stuff.
	But no one's watching that, so it doesn't matter.
	You're watching it.
	I have a couple of producer feedback memos, which I think we should just read briefly.
	Hi, Adam.
	Regarding the last episode, other federal webmasters have probably already let you know, i.e., this is a federal webmaster, because we have them, you know, the guys who make the $18 million websites.
	But we seem to be using.net slash.orgs now that Obama suspended all the new.gov domains.
	Remember we were looking at the...
	Yeah, yeah, that one the other day.
	Yeah, the rewardsforjustice.net.
	So the reason why is because...
	Remember, this was like, to cut down on government waste, we're going to have less domain names because it's so wasteful.
	It's such a waste of resources.
	Now they actually have to pay for the domain names.
	Because, of course, the government controls.gov.
	You don't have to pay for a.gov domain.
	Yeah, they get them free forever.
	They get them free.
	Now they've got to pay for them.
	How is that saving money?
	For us in the Virginia area, our shining example is maketheconnection.net.
	I actually haven't looked at the website.
	You know, I think there's something else behind this.
	Well, that's what our insiders are saying.
	Here, maketheconnection.net.
	Shared experiences and support for veterans.
	I think there's some laws about what you can do with a.gov site.
	That involve non-corrupt practices and things like that that aren't applicable to the.NET site, so they come up with this?
	No, I don't think so, John.
	Our insider is literally saying we're not allowed to use.gov domains.
	Yeah, but why?
	There's got to be some other reason than that that's too stupid, because as you just pointed out, it costs more money.
	Yeah, you're right.
	So maybe there is a legal thing.
	You're right.
	Rob says, Adam and John, I'm listening to 369.
	I heard you discuss this submarine that almost collided with the cargo ship.
	John asked what the ship was doing submerged in U.S. waters.
	As a former submariner, I can tell you that at any given time, there is at least one nuclear sub at sea near every submarine base, and they stay either submerged or at periscope depth, mostly submerged 99% of the time.
	The subs are usually out for either training or testing, but they are out there, and the amount of money that gets sunk into just one boat is ridiculous.
	You wouldn't believe the amount of money that the U.S. Navy will pay through their own supply system for the simplest of parts.
	Now, we would believe that, actually.
	And we know that they're building an underground submarine, underwater submarine base.
	And then finally, Burton says he found the Soros-funded OpenSecrets.org report.
	I know this is about Congress, that they're all rich.
	Yeah.
	This New York Times, that they just went ahead and just, you know, that they're in Soros' pocket.
	Apparently, the reason why I couldn't find it is the report was published in November.
	Yeah.
	Huh.
	So he says, so it took the New York Times a month to get the data, which is just as interesting as them having access to the data that we don't.
	I think that is kind of interesting.
	It was available for a month.
	Who knows?
	Who knows?
	Oh, boy.
	I'm looking at this Make the Connection site.
	I knew you would be looking at it and saying, how can I figure out what's going on?
	This is what we do.
	Oh, here's an interesting one.
	This is very interesting.
	Maketheconnection.net slash events spirituality.
	Treatment got him from rock bottom to living well.
	Robert was a young medic whose experiences witnessing death and treating severe combat wounds made him face the hard truth that he couldn't save anyone.
	That's interesting.
	Meanwhile, over in Gitmo Nation Euroland, European leaders have celebrated the new year by warning of a difficult year ahead.
	Herr Merkel says, well, we experienced one of the most severe tests in decades, but we're growing closer to the debt crisis this year.
	Thanks, Angela.
	They have done a beautiful job.
	You have to give them credit for kicking the can down the road better than anybody.
	Europe is broke.
	We're broke too, but we're less broke.
	Here's Super Mario, Mario Monti, the Goldman Sachs shill who now runs Italy.
	Italy's borrowing costs fell from record highs at its latest government debt auction.
	But cautious investors still demanded interest rates of close to 7% for the 10-year bonds.
	That's the level at which other Eurozone countries had to seek bailouts.
	And it raises questions on how Rome will finance its public spending in the next few months.
	At the same time, Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti called for the Eurozone's bailout fund to be beefed up.
	He said the European Financial Stability Facility needs significantly greater resources, but refused to say how much more.
	Commenting on the debt sale, Monti said...
	As you know, the Treasury bond auctions that took place this week went pretty well.
	This is encouraging.
	However, we absolutely don't consider the market turbulence to be over.
	There's still a lot of work to do.
	Indeed, analysts say there are too many risks and uncertainties surrounding Italy and buying its long-term bonds is a leap of faith.
	The Italian Treasury has the challenging task of raising around 450 billion euros next year.
	So, essentially, this auction failed.
	Oh, no, it did fail.
	It's like, eh, that went pretty well.
	Eh, that went pretty well.
	It failed.
	They didn't raise what they needed to raise.
	Spain now has come out.
	And, of course, we have another shill in, you know, we've had three leaders, like, just all changed.
	Greece, Italy, Spain.
	They say, well, our deficit turns out to be a lot higher than we communicated earlier.
	Yeah.
	As they announce the first 9 billion euro austerity measure package.
	Spain is doing some interesting things though.
	I like this.
	This is what's happening in a small village.
	A small town in Spain is encouraging people to use the former currency, the peseta, to boost the local economy.
	Many people still hold pesetas and the shops can accept them since the Central Bank of Spain continues to exchange them for euros under Spanish law.
	Residents from neighbouring districts have been coming to Salvaterra de Minho to support the project, which is organised by the local Chamber of Commerce.
	The programme's been extended from one month to three and we want to extend it again.
	As long as there are people from other places to buy with the Peseta, the programme will go on.
	Most shops in the town have joined the scheme, especially as it's the Chamber of Commerce that collects the pesetas and takes them to Madrid to exchange them for euros.
	People are very happy about the program because we can use the peseta again.
	It's like we can buy things for free.
	The Chamber of Commerce says the project has proved an effective way of boosting the local economy, but it doesn't mean the whole of Spain will start using the peseta again.
	I don't know.
	I'd be careful about that.
	This is a trend, you watch.
	Every country is going to start doing this.
	Because they still have this year, I think, to...
	Well, the French franc stops being exchanged for euros in February of this year.
	So most of these countries, I believe this will be the case, it's going to be in the next few months where this is over.
	But not if everyone keeps using them, then you have to force the bank...
	I mean, the bank can change its mind.
	Well, you've got to come out and you've got to drone some people.
	You can't be using other old money, tools.
	Gitmo Nation Lowlands is by far the most interesting.
	For 20 years, they've had this system called PIN. Which started as Bayonet, but actually it's a very interesting system.
	It's like a debit card, but it doesn't work anywhere else in the world, only in the lowlands.
	So you swipe your card and then you type in your PIN, your personal identification number.
	So as of today, it is now officially over and everyone has to use the new card, which has a smart chip in it.
	So they're completely going into the cashless society.
	And everyone's like, yeah, this is really handy.
	It's good for my security.
	Yeah, this is really good.
	So this chip thing, of course, and I think it's the same people who make the chip, they use that crappy encryption that they use for the public transport.
	Okay.
	So it's completely bogative.
	But more important, we now have a MILF as the president of the Council of the EU. Yes, Denmark.
	Who did she replace?
	That wasn't Herman.
	No, no, no.
	He's the president.
	We've got too many of these people.
	Everyone's the president.
	There's a bunch of bosses.
	Yeah, look up Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
	She is the Danish, I think she's the first female president of the council.
	And she is now the prime minister.
	She's the prime minister of Denmark.
	And for six months, I believe, the Danes will hold the presidency of the council of the EU. So we'll see how they do.
	But she's pretty good looking.
	Take a look at her.
	Depends on how she has her hair.
	Well, of course.
	Even Hillary can look good when she has her hair done.
	Which hasn't been...
	She's looking worse.
	I don't know what's going on.
	The last shots I saw her, she looks really beat.
	Yeah, she does.
	It's not good.
	Not good.
	This woman does not look like a brainiac.
	So I guess the bottom line is that Europe is failing.
	It's broke.
	They keep calling on countries under the ESM, which we accurately predicted, the European Stability Mechanism, which is different from the ESFS, which forces all of these member states into sending tax euros to Brussels to bail out all these other countries.
	And people don't get it yet, but they will.
	Slowly, they're going to say, hey, hold on a second.
	How come the school kids now in the socialist lowlands, no more student loans, no more money, no more subsidies?
	These kids, they get, I think it's like 300 euros a month in subsidy to go to study, to go to university.
	They're talking about ending that and ending all loans.
	You can't even get a student loan if you want one.
	Well, they've got to make room for the Chinese students.
	Yeah.
	They don't need a bunch of locals.
	This is going to cause trouble once they get educated.
	They start listening to No Agenda.
	They put two and two together.
	It's just trouble.
	It's just trouble.
	They're Chinese and they're always docile.
	They do what they're told and you bring them in.
	That's what they've done here at the University of California in Berkeley.
	It's almost mostly Asians.
	They don't even want to talk about balancing multiculturalism anymore because it's like Asian kids are just pretty...
	They opened this huge...
	New building, I don't know how much money they spend on this Asian studies, like, you know, because if you're going to bring students in from overseas, you want to put some Asian studies program that's massive, because it's like you going to the Sorbonne and taking English, you know, or American history.
	I mean, you already know half of it.
	So you get your...
	So you pass.
	You're going to ace it so that keeps you in the school.
	So it brings your GPA up because it's all easy.
	It's just kind of a freebie.
	And the whole thing's a scam.
	It's ridiculous.
	I think we discussed this before, but the largest real estate owner in San Francisco...
	It's the Art Institute.
	Yes, the Art Institute.
	Exactly.
	No, so the whole thing is real estate.
	Very smart, by the way.
	Right by the Neveo office there, there's the bus stop for the Art Institute.
	There's actually two of them.
	One across the street is another one.
	Right.
	And there's two or three new buildings.
	They're always getting busted for misusing the buildings because they're zoned for education.
	So they get low tax rates and they just keep collecting property.
	So when the property values turn around, they're just selling everything and walking.
	Yeah.
	But there's always Asian chicks.
	Oh, it's all foreigners.
	Everybody that goes there, they come to San Francisco and they go to that school because you can buy your way in.
	And it's expensive.
	And, you know, almost all the editors at Mevio are from there.
	From the Art Institute?
	Yeah, all the guys who use Final Cut Pro.
	Really?
	Another gig we can get into.
	Teaching Asians Final Cut Pro.
	Yeah, well, this is more, yeah, Asian than everybody else.
	Anybody overseas.
	I'm telling you, we are doing this so wrong.
	We want to keep the Americans dumb.
	You know, if you remember that clip that I dug up...
	Or a quote I dug up a long time ago about the general who said during the Nixon administration, if we keep the population educated, we're going to have too many of these protests and all these problems we're going to have with the public.
	Let's just dumb down our own public.
	Which we've seen happen with the reality shows and the rest of what we see on television that passes for entertainment.
	Keep the public stupid.
	You were just talking about that earlier in the show in San Antonio looking around with the guys with tattoos on their faces.
	Not a good look.
	Dumb.
	Just a bunch of dummies.
	And then we can just do what we want.
	And so you pass the Patriot Act and who even complains about it?
	Nobody even knows what it is or what it means.
	And then they whine a lot when they get arrested.
	Yeah.
	Hey man, that's unfair.
	That's unfair, man.
	That's not right.
	That's not right, man.
	And we had another crazy accident.
	Another crazy accident.
	I think it could have been a two-to-the-head exercise here.
	We haven't played that in a while.
	This happened up in Northern California.
	I've got a little clip of the news thing here.
	Officials say this is the first plane crash in your county in nearly a decade.
	They say the pilot, 38-year-old Brian Robertson, was not too far from his final destination when he crashed.
	Emergency responders say by the time they arrived on scene, Robertson had already passed away.
	He was from Huntington Beach, California, and was the CEO of Amnix, a commercial solar power manufacturer.
	Okay.
	So that, of course, my head whipped around.
	Ammonix.com.
	Let's see.
	They received $9.5 million in stimulus funds as part of the Recovery Act.
	And $15.6 million in grant funding through the Department of Energy.
	So let's see what happens to that company.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	This could be another cylinder.
	I was going to blow the whistle.
	Well, it's, you know, so he was in a twin-engine Cessna.
	A twin-engine Cessna.
	Fairly safe plane?
	Yeah, so he was on long final, from what I understand, and he did radio in.
	Of course, I have no real information, because they don't know how to do that in the mainstream media.
	On long final, and he said, look, I have engine trouble with one of the engines.
	And then his plane spiraled down and crashed and burned.
	When you train for twin engine, you train for exactly that scenario.
	So, you know, a day record for sure, but suspect in my mind, because, you know, you can only imagine if if you have two engines and one quits, then, you know, what happens?
	You know, if you don't know what you're doing, then, yeah, your your plane can start spinning around and you can spin out of control.
	So I don't know anything about his record, how many hours he had or whatever, but it's, you know, it was by himself.
	I don't think I'm ever going to go fly again, ever.
	It's just not a good idea.
	I mean, I do like doing the show, and it would not only be a day wrecker for me, but it would ruin your income.
	Yeah.
	It would suck.
	Yeah, I wouldn't do the show by myself.
	No, no.
	I'd just do one more clip show, then I'm done.
	Yeah, nor would I. Actually, maybe a couple of clip shows.
	Meanwhile, remember that other great company that received half a billion dollars in loans?
	Yeah, which one?
	Fisker Automotive.
	Oh, Fisker, the guys with the electric car.
	They're recalling all 239 of its 2012 Karma luxury plug-in hybrids because of a fire hazard.
	Oh.
	Hey, good job.
	Good job, everybody.
	There you go.
	That's perfect.
	And then tell me how this works.
	I've heard NPR do this.
	And now I got a letter, because I subscribe to the William J. Clinton Foundation.
	And NPR does this all the time when they're doing like their, we need $30,000 in the next hour.
	And then so this email comes through from Chelsea, by the way.
	Chelsea sent the email.
	Supporters like you are fueling our work to combat climate change and economic inequality and improving millions of lives around the world.
	By the way, that should be our slogan.
	No Agenda Show!
	Combating climate change and economic inequality and improving millions of lives around the world.
	I like it.
	Maybe we can get somebody to do a jingle for us.
	Thousands of individuals...
	Just that one, exactly.
	Say it again.
	The No Agenda Show, fueling...
	I'm sorry.
	The No Agenda Show, working to combat climate change, economic inequality, and improving millions of lives around the world.
	All we have to do is say that over and over and over again.
	That's what we're all about.
	Well, we have to do add one more trick.
	She says, now, until midnight tonight, all caps, a generous donor has offered to continue President Clinton's two-for-one matchmaking gift with an additional pledge to triple your donation.
	You get the triple your tax write-off?
	I find this highly suspect.
	Ha!
	And NPR does this all the time.
	A very generous, anonymous donor.
	Matching donator.
	Anonymous.
	Well, usually on the local shows, they have a matching, you know, but they name the guy.
	No, I've heard it all.
	They do it locally here.
	Mostly it's always some hardware store or something like that.
	I've heard it be anonymous lots of times in LA. And a lot of times, here's the way it works.
	I call in and say, yeah, I'm Joe's Hardware.
	I really love your stuff.
	I want to give you guys $10,000 to help you.
	Oh, no, no, don't give us $10,000.
	I'll tell you what.
	Do it as a matching donation.
	We'll use you as a shill.
	We'll take your $10,000 and then we'll match.
	It'll be up to $10,000.
	Everyone who gives money will use your money as matching money.
	We'll call it a matching thing.
	Would you do that?
	Oh, sure.
	I don't care.
	So, wait a minute.
	So, we can get one of our patrons to do a matching donation?
	Does it work?
	I mean, does it really result in more?
	It wouldn't work for us, but I mean...
	It sounds good.
	If you're doing a live broadcast where there's all this frantic energy and the phone's ringing, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring in the background, yeah, it probably does work.
	But not for us.
	We don't do that kind of thing.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me get some phones ringing.
	Yeah, where's our ringing?
	We used to have a whole ringing medley.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	Let me see if I can find some ringing phones here.
	Hold on a second.
	I'm going to show myself hold by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	Match it now!
	In the morning.
	We just got to keep that going.
	Hi, it's Reese Witherspoon.
	Did you call to donate to help for Haiti?
	Hi, it's Sean Penn.
	Yeah.
	Crap.
	The Haitians are pooping.
	You should donate to No Agenda.
	They're the only guys who actually help anybody.
	Wait a minute.
	Wait a minute.
	Hold on a second.
	The phones are ringing off the hook here.
	So let's thank a few of our donors.
	Scott Hankel, Sir Scott Hankel in Sunland, California.
	Congratulations on a successful year hosting the best podcast in the universe.
	May 2012, bring the both of you...
	Every time I see that, I think May 2012 is like something going on in May.
	Bringing both of you more outstanding podcasts in the universe as well, all around karma for all involved.
	Just a generalized karma.
	You've got karma now.
	Also, Sir Thomas Nussbaum in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
	I'm obviously tongue-tied today.
	One, two, three, dot, four, five.
	Thanks much for everything.
	Hugs and kisses from Sir Nussbaum and St.
	Nicole.
	Oh, that's so nice.
	It's nice to have them check in.
	Yeah, Oscar Nadal in Tecati, California.
	Did you have to wake up?
	It's an alarm clock.
	Hey man, the phones are ringing off the hook with our matching donors.
	Tecati, California, 1111.
	Hey guys, can I get a karma shot to my friends in the Pharaohs, Jetty Knights, Heat Seized, Westside, and Flying Elephant Scooter Clubs?
	Yeah, hold on.
	We've got a busy signal.
	We don't have enough incoming lines.
	You've got karma.
	Norman Pearson III in Macon, Georgia.
	$111.11 in honor of my fantasy football team, the Berkeley Hummers, winning the championship.
	The Berkeley Hummers.
	I decided to finally become a donor, not a boner.
	Is this enough for a de-douching?
	Absolutely.
	You've been de-douched.
	Absolutely.
	I think we should have t-shirts with Berkeley Hummers.
	Berkeley Hummers.
	Dennis Hartle in, or Hartley, Hartle.
	Hartle or Hartley.
	Titusville, Pennsylvania is calling in.
	$100.
	I figure I better donate.
	I've been enjoying your show for about seven months now since you haven't been shut down.
	Use this, check the phone.
	Levi Prinzing in Denison, Minnesota.
	I think I have to read this one, don't I? $100, yes.
	I'm not drunk this time, at least not yet anyway.
	Give me a few hours.
	$100 close to the knighthood, and I have a request.
	I need karma and a plug for Emily Christofferson's comic book.
	Yeah, that's the Supermom comic that we talked about in the PR segment.
	It's at supermomcomic.squarespace.com.
	She just recently started it and needs a little more exposure.
	Plus, she needs a job badly.
	I don't know if she sent you a note or not.
	She said for any donations she gets in January, half of it will be sent to you guys.
	So, absolutely, there's your plug.
	Not drunk.
	It is kind of a funny comic, though.
	If you read it.
	I'll check it out after the show.
	Black Knight, George Vanderhorst from Katzhovel.
	Katzhovel?
	Hovel.
	The cat hole.
	Cat hump.
	It's the cat hole.
	$100.
	Cat home?
	Cat hump.
	Cat hump.
	Mike Potter, Lake St.
	Louis, Missouri.
	$75 over the transom from the Tug Nuts.
	This is a message.
	It must be code for someone.
	Brian Hay in Morgan Hill, California, just down the road from me.
	$70 to John and Adam.
	Donating in the last hours of 2011, asking for a de-douching as a long-time listener, first-time donor.
	Give him a de-douche.
	You've been de-douched.
	He's one of our IT consultants.
	His company is BH Consulting.
	Drives a bit.
	A crazy show keeps me sane.
	He drives a bit, so a crazy show keeps me sane and drives me crazy at the same time.
	I know I'm not the only one who sees through the charade.
	That is our two-party system.
	And then you shine the light on the corrupt douchebags in Congress, and that drives me crazy.
	We don't see eye to eye all the time, but the show makes me deconstruct all the news, including the show itself.
	I've purchased NoAgendaNinja.com since you are a media assassin.
	It's a perfect fit.
	Nice.
	Thank you.
	Yes, we're going to buy some merchandise and donate some of the profits of the show.
	$70 is really $33 and 30% for a podcast license, so make sure you can do that.
	He's going to get us more eventually.
	Sir Schnorristein out there in the middle of nowhere, Norway.
	North Pole, man.
	North Pole.
	North Pole, man.
	55-55.
	Six weeks into the dark season, I send regards to my No Agenda friends and producers.
	I want to kill you all!
	No.
	He didn't say that.
	He says, Happy 2012.
	The snowmobiles are out and running.
	Come visit, Sir Schnorder.
	We've decided that it's the vitamin D and the vitamin A in fish oil and cod liver oil that settles down that nuttiness you get when you have these dark periods.
	And these areas of the world, like if you go to an Iceland grocery store, for example, in the supermarket, there will be an aisle that is, as far as the eye can see, of varieties of hot liver oil and fish oils.
	They just drink the stuff, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	And it keeps you sane.
	It's good for people who have that disorder from not enough light.
	Maybe we should mention, I don't know if he sent a donation, but we got that note from Wunderhelm.
	I think he did, yeah.
	Did he donate?
	I think so.
	Was he on the list?
	I don't know.
	He's donated before.
	Anyway, so he's in Finland where they also have the six months of darkness or whatever.
	And he says he's having trouble donating because he had a speeding ticket of 680 euros.
	And we're like, I thought LA was crazy.
	680 euros?
	And it's because he drove 124 km per hour on a 100 km per hour motorway in Lapland.
	The way they do that in Finland, the level of the fine is dependent upon your income based on last year's tax filing.
	Is that amazing?
	That's outrageous.
	Yeah, so in other words, if you've got no income, you're poor, you can travel as fast as you want.
	Go as fast as you want, yeah.
	It's just encouraging poor people to kill themselves.
	Yeah.
	Well, there you go.
	Enough said.
	Enough said.
	Yeah, that was terrible.
	All right.
	That's $1,000, essentially, for a speeding ticket.
	It wasn't even that big of a deal.
	It wasn't like it was going 200 kilometers an hour.
	124 and 100 kilometers.
	Well, it shuts you off.
	What is 100?
	124 is basically like 70 miles an hour.
	And 100 is...
	Yeah, I'm going to do the calculation.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I think 100 is like 60.
	100 is 62.
	So the speed limit was 62 miles an hour.
	You know, 60 basically.
	And he went like 73.
	And he was doing 74.
	Hold on a second.
	Shut up, slave.
	That's what that is.
	My goodness.
	No kidding.
	Hey, in Lapland, okay?
	Lapland.
	Yeah, in the middle of nowhere.
	You know, when I was up there, I was in Lapland and we were on snowmobiles driving around.
	And I was told, and I ended up seeing them, they actually have these roads for the snowmobiles and they have speed limits and cops are all over the place.
	They'll try to get you a ticket for speeding in a snowmobile.
	When we were driving back from San Antonio, San Antonio was like Gitmo.
	Here in Austin, it's like, drive safely.
	That's what you see on the highway light signs.
	In San Antonio, it's like, drink, drive, go to jail.
	I'm like, you skipped a step there.
	Get caught.
	Jeez.
	Anyway, onward.
	Scott Rezepka.
	In Villa Park, or Via Park would be in California, but Villa Park, Illinois, I'm sure it's not Via.
	5510, drunk with one hour before New Year's and almost forgot to donate.
	Happy New Year's, mofos.
	Check out my buddy Parth as a...
	Oh, call out my buddy Parth as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	Hey, Parth, you're a douchebag.
	Hey, we need more drunk donors.
	Yeah, Chad Nelson, Boise, Idaho.
	He's also succinct as a drunk.
	Chad Nelson, Boise, Idaho, double nickels on the dime.
	We're not reaching my goal of knighthood this year and daily being reminded of this fact by my liege, Sir Reistad.
	I have high hopes for the new year.
	Please send karma in the hopes that more faithful will go to VinylRocket.com slash N.A. And get a no-agender sticker.
	No-agender sticker!
	This directly supports the show, and I pool these purchases and eat the shopping for the best podcast in the universe.
	Eat the shipping, actually.
	Eat the shipping, not the shopping.
	I feel like it's the first time I was doing champagne.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Karma.
	Karma, karma, karma.
	You've got karma.
	And can't forget the karma.
	Rob, you got it.
	He's got the karma now.
	Robert Cain in Columbia, Alabama.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Dear media assassins, my wife asked me what I wanted for Christmas.
	I told her, the fact of the matter is, I want to be a donor, not a boner.
	And to give to the best podcast in the universe, she rolled her eyes and said, not those crackpot and bug kill guys.
	No, crockpot.
	Crockpot and bug kill guys are always going on about it.
	Yeah, crockpot and bug kill.
	I like it.
	I corrected her slight mispronunciation.
	She rolled her eyes again and said, whatever.
	A few days after Christmas, I was telling her about your segment on how Ron Paul isn't so short, and she says, oh yeah, I forgot to tell you that if you want to get a boner and donate to those crack pipe and buzzsaw guys, you can.
	I ran straight to the computer singing Dvorak.org the whole way.
	If you would, please de-douchify me and play the kids singing the MILFs jingle for me for She Who Must Be Obeyed.
	73, Robert Kane.
	N4, IXT. Oh.
	Hold on a second.
	What does he want now?
	He wants a de-douching?
	A douche bag.
	No, he wants a de-douching milk combo.
	That's one hot milk, baby.
	You've been de-douched.
	That's a fine woman right there.
	That's a fine woman.
	You know what?
	It takes two in a relationship.
	Yeah.
	Bug kill.
	Yeah.
	Rock pot.
	Kent O'Rourke, Frostburg, Maryland.
	Thank you once again for the best podcast in the world.
	Double Knuckles on the Dime.
	Adam Shasted in Knoxville, Tennessee.
	5311.
	Thank you for taking my money.
	Several shots of whiskey and tequila to make me kind of the man you want me to be.
	Karma works!
	Yes!
	Clinton Sluice, pronounced Sluice forever and always due to the show, asked that Shasticals Adam Shasted receive karma for a raise, and I did.
	Wow.
	Please give my hot wife, Allison, a milf Clifton shoe.
	That's one mother I'd like to.
	And I only...
	He's drunk.
	Bruce and I are the only donators of our group, so if you could please call out for our non-donating douchebag friends.
	I... Eric...
	He's drunk.
	Eric Murcherly.
	He's drunk.
	Jason Hill.
	Douchebag.
	Corey Clinton.
	Douchebag.
	Jason Sanders.
	Douchebag.
	And since I'm drunk, I think I've missed a few others.
	I'm sure I have.
	So to recap, I need a bill for my wife.
	I'll see some douchebag call-outs.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	I already did those names.
	Don't forget to call yourself lotionally.
	It's very important.
	Ron Paul 2012!
	2016 thank you that I love that.
	He's a survival place we can go visit, he says.
	Nice.
	Celtica.com in Zurich.
	5151.
	Please give a karma to the Celtica apps available for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.
	Oh, I know who that is.
	That's a comic strip blogger.
	You've got karma.
	He's got apps?
	Yeah.
	He makes apps.
	What does he do for the Android?
	I think he only...
	I don't know if he does...
	I don't know.
	Let's take a look.
	Celtica.com?
	C-E-L-L-T-I-C-A. Let's see what kind of apps he makes.
	Waiting for Celtic.
	Oh, of course, we've crashed his site now.
	What, five guys?
	The entire chat room.
	Oh, he's got the iPhone apps and iPad apps.
	He's got a Jeff Smith app.
	He's got a Tilt to Photo app, a Cartographer app, XSLT app, Swiss German, and he's got a Mevio app.
	Really?
	That's odd.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Onward.
	Thomas Starkweather, Brooklyn, New York, 5115, like to request karma for his girlfriend Dawn.
	She's a documentary filmmaker and in the process of applying for film festivals.
	Her film, World on a String, is brilliant!
	And I'm obviously biased, but it's the best film on the world yo-yo competition that exists.
	Worldonastringfilm.com.
	Also, a birthday greeting for my friend Dave.
	We've got him listed.
	And it happens to be his birthday, and the reason he's working on his birthday...
	I'm also the reason he's working on his birthday, but I only like to hire the best photographers I know to work with me.
	Give her a karma.
	Dawn.
	You've got karma.
	Hold on.
	Hold on.
	Hold on, hold on.
	It's the trailer.
	No, for World on the String?
	Yeah.
	It's not going to be any spoken word.
	Oh, that's crazy.
	It's like being in the World Series, but for Yo-Yo.
	Just like being in the World Series.
	Only not.
	Only different.
	Yeah, it's different.
	All right, just a couple more.
	Richard in San Francisco, 50 bucks.
	I don't even know what this means.
	Oh, he's rmantech on Twitter.
	I've been following your show for a while.
	I've decided to donate.
	I just moved to San Francisco from NYC, which is unusual, and was going the other way.
	As my mother and sister recently passed away, and I came back west to be near the remainder of my family for now.
	I'm an IT slave and landed a job in the city.
	I wanted to donate earlier, but my family expenses moving, and the rest of it, he has a number of excuses.
	Keep up the great work, John and Adam.
	Your show is the best at weeding through the BS that is being fed to us.
	Thank you very much.
	Even though he didn't ask for it, I'm going to give him a little karma shot.
	Yeah, good idea.
	You've got karma.
	Then we have Brian Barrow in Wooten Wiltshire in the UK. Fifty dollars.
	This year's greeting from Wooten Bassett.
	As in wooden.
	Wooten Bassett.
	Here's another 50 terms.
	My number one source of information.
	Keep you guys on the air.
	Also start off my wife Maura's damehood.
	I don't count toward your Afro-American listenership, but keep your black British count.
	To at least one.
	Give the great work and best for 2012, at least until the world ends.
	Doesn't Brian become a knight today?
	I believe he becomes a knight today.
	Let me check.
	He's going to be a black knight.
	It looks like he should have been a knight a couple weeks ago.
	Yeah.
	Awesome.
	And finally, last but not least, Greg Brunstall in Kenosha, Wisconsin, $50.
	Awesome.
	And we want to thank them and everyone else who's helped us on this show today.
	Reminding you to go to Dvorak.org slash nachanneldvorak.com slash nanoagendashow.com and noagendanation.com and there's a donate button there too.
	Right.
	And what do we have to remember?
	What?
	Donating is loving.
	Donation is love.
	Please continue to support us through the darker days of the year when most people are not listening.
	This showed up late.
	I know you got one as well, and I'm sorry.
	I hung it in the tree two days ago when I got it, so it's still in there.
	In the morning, Adam West here from Gitmo Nation Freshwater.
	That's Manitoulin Island, Ontario.
	I spend a lot of my spare time making Christmas ornaments on my scroll saw.
	Using the shape of Manitoulin on the design, there are ten islands in the design.
	Yeah, it's pretty interesting.
	I like it.
	It's a duck.
	It's actually quite pretty.
	It is.
	99% of the time I'm listening to No Agenda, and I don't know how I could do without you guys.
	I would go nuts or cut my finger off listening to Alex Jones.
	So I would like...
	Well, you could store that.
	Storable food.
	So I'd like you to have this ornament as a token of my appreciation for all you do.
	I wish you a very Merry Christmas and have a very unbogative New Year.
	Maybe next year we could come up with a No Agenda Christmas ornament for the shill to sell.
	I think it's a great idea.
	Wes, thank you very much.
	Extra karma shot from Minuteman Oscar Nadal.
	A.K.A. the romantic Hispanic.
	Can I get a karma shot to my friends in the Faros, Jedi Knights, heat seized, west side?
	We just did that.
	We did that?
	Yeah, I think so.
	Really?
	It was in the list.
	I'm sorry, I was too busy eating my carrot.
	Well, that's lame then.
	I'm sorry.
	Did we give McCormick?
	That's okay.
	Did we give McCormick stuff?
	Pharaohs or Jedi Knights, Heat Seas, West Side Flying Elephant Scooter Clubs.
	Oh, that was way at the beginning.
	He's getting his knighthood today.
	Right.
	Okay.
	It was way at the beginning.
	I got it.
	All right.
	All right.
	It's your birthday, birthday!
	I'm a bonehead.
	I'm no agenda!
	Alright, so sorry about that.
	Sir Oleg congratulates his brother, Sir Constantine Racatine, who celebrates his birthday today, January 1st, 2012.
	Thomas Starkweather congratulates his buddy Dave on his birthday, and that's all I've got on the list.
	And of course, as always, cards will be on their way.
	Happy birthday from your buddies here at the No Agenda Show.
	It's your birthday!
	I don't know if it's the best podcast in the universe.
	I don't know.
	Did you get the one birthday thing?
	Which one?
	Were there three?
	Did you get three?
	No, I only had two.
	Did you look at the one that's on the show, Redux Redux?
	We had one.
	I thought I did Redux Redux.
	We missed one, I guess.
	I copied Redux Redux.
	Hold on.
	Open it.
	This does not bode well.
	No, well, this is the beginning of the year.
	We get off to a rocky start.
	No, I have Redux.
	I have Sir Oleg.
	No, Redux Redux.
	Redux Redux?
	I don't have Redux Redux.
	You should.
	It's the higher up.
	It's the last one that came in.
	Well, you know, come on.
	No, it's only two birthdays there.
	I have Redux Redux.
	That's Redux, but Redux Redux.
	No, I have Redux Redux.
	I have Redux Redux right here.
	Redux Redux.
	What do you have then?
	What's the third birthday?
	Unfortunately, I'm looking at one of these idiotic websites and I'm trying to capture the mail.
	Big talk there.
	I mean, you know, I was just trying to save the day for this poor girl that was not getting mentioned.
	Well, who was it then?
	Hold on, I've got to reopen my email.
	And find Redux Redux.
	Luckily, there's no spam in there.
	There isn't.
	Yeah, daughter Ashley for Sir Tom Derry.
	All right, we'll say it again.
	Sir Tom Derry, daughter Ashley, for his daughter Ashley.
	He sent us a request the other day, and apparently it was in, I don't know where it ended up.
	So he sent another note in saying that we missed him, missed his daughter's birthday.
	Oh, no, I'm sorry, this is the, oh, okay.
	That's the night.
	Ah.
	Okay, okay.
	It's my fault.
	Do you think you can get your blade out without cutting yourself?
	Do we have to dull that thing down?
	I don't want you hurting yourself now.
	My goodness.
	All right.
	Sir Tom Derry, would you please have your daughter Ashley step forward?
	Thank you.
	Brian Barrow, come forward, you black knight, you.
	And Oscar Nadal, all of you have supported the No Agenda Show, the best podcast in the universe, in the amount of $1,000 or more.
	more, so I hereby proudly pronounce these, Dame Ashley, Sir Brian Barrow, Black Knight, and Sir Oscar Nadal, all knights and dame with a no agenda round table, come on over, red boys and chardonnay, hookers and blow and hot pants and booze for you, and of course Now that they're in, the shill has informed us by the tweeters that the new rings are in.
	Which is great.
	And that means we'll lose another five to the mail system in Canada and another three to the mail system in the UK. It does happen.
	It does happen.
	That's okay.
	Eric DeShill was complaining about this, but he says what's weird is I think we have like a couple of nights in Africa that go by the mailing address of the Congo...
	The Congo, you know, general delivery, the Congo.
	And they get their, no problem getting their rent.
	But the North Dakota, problem.
	No, North Dakota's okay.
	It's when it gets to Canada.
	It's these Commonwealth states.
	Oh, right.
	And the UK are the two worst.
	Well, the UK is clearly censoring our shipments.
	How about the North Koreans?
	Did they ever get their t-shirts and stuff?
	We have yet to find out.
	I don't know if they got him or not.
	They're not communicating with us.
	Well, you know they fired off that ballistic missile in Iran.
	Maybe those guys were on it.
	Oh, I don't know.
	Maybe.
	Did you see the pictures or the movies or the BBC report on Kim Jong-un?
	No.
	And the poor kid, he just looks like he's out of place.
	And he's got some weird haircut.
	He looks like he's pooping in his diaper, doesn't he?
	And he's got some weird haircut that is like some punk thing where it's like shaved on the side.
	He's got a big thing hanging down in the front.
	I think it could be a new look.
	Well, it's pretty weird looking.
	I don't think he's...
	When he's looking over the crowd of hundreds of thousands of people standing there stiff, he's looking...
	Just imagine him thinking, how do I get out of here with some money and live in Paris?
	Maybe I can call Hillary.
	Because apparently he spent a lot of time in Paris and he was even educated for a couple of years in Switzerland.
	So he's not clueless as to what's wrong.
	Hmm.
	So, I don't know.
	Yeah, it is kind of a...
	I like kind of the shade.
	It's got like a fade.
	Like a shaved fade on the side.
	Yeah, it's a fade.
	I'm surprised he hasn't got some logo.
	There's a dollar sign tattooed on his head.
	That's exactly like those guys in San Antonio look like.
	Yeah.
	It's totally.
	It's a new look.
	I gotta talk to Uncle Don about what this all means.
	Yeah, you should.
	It's funny, he sent out a Christmas letter, and it had pictures of stuff, and I guess it snowed in October up there in upstate New York, and he has a picture of two feet of snow on everything outside, and it says, October Surprise.
	Very funny, Uncle Don.
	We've got to get him to listen to the show.
	I don't know if he's still...
	I think Aunt Meg listens.
	He doesn't listen.
	No, he's annoyed by it.
	I'm sure he is annoyed by it.
	Why wouldn't he be?
	It's annoying.
	The show is annoying.
	But he also looks at...
	I actually observed him watching news.
	People have to know him.
	Google Donald Gregg and you'll know who my uncle is.
	So he watches ABC and he just sits there, like me and you, by the way.
	Oh, crap.
	CIA. Bullcrap.
	He's like, CIA. Scripted.
	Message.
	And then he switches over to PBS and he'd be like, man, that guy's an a-hole.
	Israel is starting to piss me off.
	Hey, Ehud used to be a good guy.
	What happened to him?
	It's funny.
	He's a reality show.
	He really is.
	No, it sounds hilarious.
	But that's what we do when we watch the news.
	In fact, my whole family now.
	Yeah, we all do that.
	I mean, that's why J.C. came up with it.
	But he's a little more advanced.
	I mean, he's looking at why the legs are now positioned on the left-hand side of the Fox News broadcast instead of where the logo is, which I still think.
	I was watching it again, and they've kept Guilfoyle over there.
	She has really got some dynamite legs, I have to say.
	Well, that's what you do in news, man.
	That's how it works.
	This was a report that I didn't understand.
	Well, New Year's Eve started with some tense moments at a Texas airport.
	The Midland airport was evacuated after a TSA agent found explosives on someone at a checkpoint.
	The airport is now back to normal operations.
	CBS News reports the man was a soldier recently back from Afghanistan and was not considered a security threat.
	Okay, so there's a soldier recently back from Afghanistan with C4 explosives, but he's not a security threat?
	What is this report telling us?
	Test?
	Test of the TSA? What's he doing with the C4? Was he going to go blow up some chickens?
	I don't know, but what does it mean?
	Oh, he's a soldier.
	That's okay.
	That's alright then.
	He's a soldier.
	That's all good.
	I found that to be very strange.
	And no follow-up, of course.
	That was weird.
	And then NPR, our national treasure.
	My goodness, this was hilarious, this whole report.
	From Pakistan to the web, now, where it wasn't hard this year to find a terrorist group.
	John, did you know that?
	This year, in 2011, last year, it wasn't hard to find a terrorist group on the web.
	There were al-Qaeda videos on YouTube.
	On YouTube?
	Did you see the al-Qaeda videos on YouTube?
	Facebook pages by Islamic militants in Somalia.
	And webzines by Al-Qaeda affiliates.
	Webzines.
	Webzines.
	It gets better.
	It gets so much better.
	Webzines.
	Yes, webzines.
	You know, webzines.
	You've heard of webzines.
	The Temple Rastin reports that terrorist groups have not quite figured out how to use social media.
	John, here's another business opportunity for us.
	They haven't quite figured out how to use it.
	Well, I think Hillary will take care of it.
	Their advantage.
	If there were an award for the best-known terrorist music recording, it'd probably go to the Somali group Al Shabab for this YouTube video.
	Al Shabab, Shabab.
	I think we should do the TMTV Awards, the Terrorist Music Television Awards.
	Yeah, now there's our opportunity.
	There's the opportunity.
	Al Jazeera would pick it up in a minute.
	And this year, ladies and gentlemen, Al Shabaab wins once again!
	And then we'd have Jay-Z. Who's the guy who interrupted Taylor Swift?
	Right, Kanye West.
	Kanye West.
	Well, here, just right now, so we're in that mood.
	Play the AVN Awards clip so we know what it's going to be like.
	Ha ha!
	We're going to do this.
	We are definitely doing it.
	We're going to produce this.
	Best porn star website.
	Joanna Angel.
	JoannaAngel.com Lisa Ann.
	TheLisaAnn.com Jessica Drake.
	JessicaDrake.com Lupe Fuentes.
	ILoveLupe.com JennaHayes.
	JennaHayes.com SunnyLeone.
	SunnyLeone.com What?
	Boom!
	Who will win?
	And the winner is...
	And the winner is...
	Al Shabab!
	Joanna Angel!
	Joanna Angel!
	Woo!
	Everybody!
	Woo!
	Woo!
	It is so cool to come on stage and accept an award for yourself!
	Woo!
	That's great.
	We're going to do that.
	We can produce that.
	Oh, yeah.
	Let's listen to our winner here from Al-Shabaab.
	Bomb by bomb, blast by blast, only gonna bring back the glorious past.
	This tune became so popular, it was actually covered by a number of jihadis.
	I was actually humming it to myself just the other day.
	Why is it in English?
	I'd like to know.
	Because we're recruiting the kids, dude.
	Recruiting Western American kids who we can then go drone through the drone kill chain.
	But wait, it's been covered.
	There's cover versions now.
	Who added hip-hop beats and rap lyrics to it.
	From the east to the west, the hizzle span.
	Word by word.
	All right.
	Stop everything.
	GX2, we totally need a terrorist rap with a hip-hop beat.
	Don't do it.
	And Sir Jeff...
	Nobody gets the joke.
	Don't do it, GX2. I can't believe this is on the radio.
	And to say, like, yeah, it's the number one.
	Hey, number one...
	Number one?
	What morons?
	Hello everybody, it's Adam Curry here with the Terrorist MTV Countdown.
	Number 40 on the chart, we've got Al Shabab who are back with the remix with a hip-hop beat.
	All the kids are loving it.
	Let's check it out as they go to the east to the west and bring it down.
	Bring it down, the capitalist pigs.
	We should do that show.
	Yeah, it would be a little segment.
	I'm going to play some of this crap.
	I wonder what other junk they've produced.
	Well, apparently it's not hard to find because, you know, it was all over the web in 2011.
	That's what it sounds like from that report.
	I never heard of this.
	Wait, let's consult the book of knowledge.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me see.
	Al Shabab.
	We know Al Shabab is a music video operation.
	Hip-hop.
	Well, of course it's...
	Al Shabab, hip-hop, is that the way you're looking it up?
	Yeah.
	Do you think that...
	I mean, Hillary needs some help.
	If this is the best she can come up with, then she really needs it.
	News for El Shabab Hip Hop.
	Somali Hip Hop Band Fighting El Shabab for Hearts and Mind.
	Oh, there's a couple.
	There's a competitive group.
	Wait a minute.
	We have a contest.
	Yeah, that means there's potential for an award show.
	Where do you see the...
	I looked up El Shabab Hip Hop and I just went straight to the web search.
	Web search or video search?
	Web search.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	Guardian has a big article on it.
	Hold on a second.
	He is from September 20th.
	This is Alex, group member hip-hop in...
	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the stage at the Terrace Music Television Awards.
	Alex, group member hip-hop is El Shabaab.
	Okay, well, it wasn't that good.
	I don't see any videos.
	It should be so easy to find.
	No, there's one, Alex, group member, hip-hop, and as El Shabab.
	Yeah, but that's an interview.
	Oh.
	Here, Wayaha Jakaba El Shabab?
	This is bogative.
	Here's a PDF of El Shabab.
	This is the Justice Ministerate in Denmark, the El Shabab PDF. The Ideological Foundation.
	What is this El Shiba?
	Two years ago, no one ever heard of El Shiba.
	I think it was a chicken place that used to serve barbecue.
	Now it's this big terrorist organization.
	This is bull crap.
	It's not a terrorist organization.
	It's a hip-hop organization.
	Here we go.
	I've got one.
	Wayaha Kasub.
	Yo, yo, yo.
	Yo, yo, yo.
	Yo, give me 50 cent. 50 cent.
	Awesome.
	From the get now.
	Go get Mo.
	Go get Mo.
	Hit your birthday.
	Hey, Kanye West is in the video.
	Kanye West is in the video.
	Hit me now.
	Yeah, man, I can see how that could get the kids all interested in blowing up stuff.
	Got me tapping my toes.
	Wow!
	Alright, now on to some serious stuff.
	Hello Gitmo Nation East.
	Hello Gitmo Nation East.
	A report about the CCTV tag and track.
	Have you heard of this new wonderful technology they're deploying there, John?
	No, but I'm sure I will.
	Great Britain may be one of the most watched nations in the world.
	A rough count by police earlier this year estimated there were 4.2 million cameras in the country.
	That's nearly one for every 15 people.
	And now there's a piece of software that lets them know exactly who you are.
	Tag& Track identifies individuals when they enter a camera network, assigning them a unique identifier so it knows where they've been, who they've been there with, and where they are now.
	Ipsotech, the software's developers, have also created systems that catch casino cheats and detect car crashes, but they say Tag& Track is the one that could change the way surveillance works.
	Andrew Eggington is the company's finance director.
	When you want to go back and suddenly either locate a person or find out where their journey went, you find them in a slot of video, you do a simple click, and it's like doing a Google search on the data.
	So you get an instantaneous result which tells you this is the person's whole journey, this is every clip of video that they appeared in, every camera they were in front of.
	And if they're in the city centre at that moment, it will tell you this is where they are now.
	I really like this because the memes are subtle.
	But when he says it's like a Google search, so of course I'm like, yeah, all you have to do is integrate that with Google search.
	And how about, because Google Plus now has Find My Face.
	Have you seen that?
	Yeah, I have as a matter of fact.
	Find My Face.
	So find my face, and of course Facebook has this very same tagging technology, so you're going to walk into frame, one camera for every 15 people, and it's going to go, John C. Dvorak, Al Shabab hip-hopper.
	CCTV is probably the most visible form of surveillance that's around at the moment, but I think in some ways that probably means it's the least insidious.
	This guy represents the CCTV user group, which I guess implies the people who are being spied on, but I think it's actually the operators.
	I mean, a recent survey by the CCTV user group showed that there's massive support for public space CCTV, so I'm not convinced that there is a concern.
	Massive support.
	Massive support.
	Everyone loves it.
	Ipsotech claims that tag and track could seamlessly integrate with information from other recognition sensors.
	Or other sites.
	There you go.
	That's it.
	You're done.
	You're toast.
	This is exactly what the show, which I recommend people who start watching, the new J.J. Abrams show, Persons of Interest, is all about.
	They turn it into entertainment.
	There's so much we need to do in 2012, John.
	There really is.
	There's so much we need to do.
	We can do this entertainment.
	I'll tell you what this is going to...
	You know what my prediction will be?
	I'm going to put it down here.
	My prediction is what this is going to create is a new trend toward men wearing hats.
	Oh, that's already forbidden.
	What do you mean it's forbidden?
	Yeah, it's forbidden.
	You're not allowed to wear your hat in banks, in grocery stores.
	What?
	You can't wear a hat?
	Yes, sir.
	This is in the U.S. But if you're bald and you want to wear a hat.
	This is in the U.S. already.
	Hats forbidden.
	I'm going to...
	You've got to find me.
	Hats forbidden.
	Yeah, hats forbidden.
	It's everywhere.
	Hats forbidden.
	Let's just do banks.
	In banks.
	And, uh...
	Of course, now I can't find it.
	Yeah, this is...
	There's already...
	Wait.
	Huh?
	Hey, you dreamed this.
	You had a...
	No, I did not dream this.
	You dreamed that hats are forbidden.
	No, I did not dream this.
	This is, uh...
	Uh...
	Wow.
	Now I can't find it, of course.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me look at news.
	I'm telling you, this was a news story a while ago.
	There's some really nice hats on this forbidden planet site.
	The ones that have a face on the hat.
	I'm going to get one of these.
	There's some really nice, really nice hats.
	Like, they'll be forbidden, John.
	A Sonic baseball hat where you have Sonic the Hedgehog on the hat.
	That'll confuse these things.
	It's cold some places.
	It's cold.
	I just bought a new hat, as a matter of fact, to replace a cat by law.
	So not a cat, but a fur hat.
	That, you know, when you're in real cold climes, you have to have a hat on your head.
	You can't not have one.
	You freeze to death.
	I'm telling you, hat ban UK. Maybe that's it.
	Hats ban from Yorkshire pubs over CCTV fears.
	Why is it a fear?
	Fear of what?
	So that you can't see you.
	Well, who's afraid?
	Oh, I'm afraid that my CCTV's not going to work?
	Yeah, because you can't identify the suspect.
	Because you're a suspect.
	Here, pubs in Yorkshire...
	You're a suspect just going to a pub?
	With a hat on.
	Pubs in Yorkshire have been ordered to ban people from wearing flat caps or other hats so troublemakers can be more easily recognized.
	Why can't the pub guy respond to troublemakers?
	Isn't that his job?
	He's the bartender.
	What kind of wimps live in Yorkshire that put up with this crap?
	Do we have any knights or any contributors from Yorkshire?
	Probably not.
	No, they ain't wearing hats.
	Meanwhile, they have this article you're talking about and there's two people standing there with hats.
	That's okay.
	Peter Salas left in the BBC's last of the summer wine epitomizes Yorkster's flat cap tradition.
	Yeah, it's that little flat cap that guys drive around in when they drive in an old MG. Yeah.
	How is that?
	You can't identify the guy if he's got the flat cap on?
	Nope.
	What kind of technology is this?
	Boy's family angry over hat ban.
	Let's see what this is.
	Parents of a 13-year-old schoolboy are angry that his school is making him take lessons in isolation.
	Hey, slave, shut up and sit in the ISO cell.
	Because he turned up wearing a baseball cap.
	He has alopecia.
	This poor kid.
	He's going bald and he can't wear a cap.
	Show your bald head, slave!
	That's basically it.
	His mom says it's like putting him in solitary confinement, punishing him for being bald.
	Yeah, they aren't that bald.
	They're baldists.
	Baldists.
	They're baldists.
	This is not okay.
	Hey man, stop harshing on our baldies, okay?
	This is just not okay.
	Oh, boy.
	Speaking of slaves, the Boston Consulting Group has now come out with a report and says, don't outsource to China.
	Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina are going to be cheaper.
	Well, that's probably true in the next few years.
	Yeah, that's where you should be working your slaves.
	But isn't this kind of like the whole idea behind the whole crash of our economy is to make us the slave nation?
	Yeah, there is a...
	I'll have to read this a little more, but there's a book out by the Slovenian philosopher Zizek on Iraq.
	And his thesis is that the war against Iraq was actually, if you really deconstruct it properly, was a war against the U.S. public to get them to knuckle under all these crazy things.
	So we've been under siege by these...
	What's the name of this book?
	Is this a book you said?
	Yeah, it's called Iraq.
	I'll get you the name.
	We'll put it in the show notes.
	I'll talk about it.
	Yeah, I want to read this.
	I want to read this.
	Well, anyway, it's actually quite readable.
	It all fits in nicely.
	This, of course, is promotion as starting today by presidential proclamation.
	I shall read the first paragraph from our president.
	My administration continues to implement our comprehensive strategy to combat human trafficking in America.
	By coordinating response across federal agencies, thereby, as the power invested in me as President of the East of the United States, I now pronounce this National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.
	So, you all are slaves and we're not selling you, I think is what that means.
	National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.
	And he's got to be pissed off that Demi and Ashton are divorced because they were the spokesholes for this.
	Oh, yeah.
	Hey, by the way, I want to mention there was another dead blackbirds.
	Same thing as last year, New Year's Eve.
	Yeah, and maybe it is some crazy...
	I think the Chinese have been doping their fireworks with some sort of chemical.
	No, no, no.
	This is because someone fired their harper, right?
	That's why we got that warning shot off Japan.
	Why would they do it on the same day every year at New Year's?
	Well, it's their version of fireworks.
	I mean, there's a bunch of elites sitting around drinking champagne like, John, come over here.
	Let me show you what I'm going to shoot off this new year.
	Watch Japan.
	Wait a minute.
	Wait a minute.
	Wait for it.
	Oh, by the way, extra bonus.
	Watch the blackbirds in Arkansas.
	That's what they do.
	It was a shallow earthquake, by the way.
	They say it was very deep, but it wasn't.
	It was only 9 kilometers under the ocean bed.
	So this thing skips around the ionosphere, and it hits Arkansas, goes from Alaska, bounces down to Arkansas, zaps the birds, bounced off the birds, and then zapped to Japan.
	Poor buggers.
	It's telling you, it's their version of fireworks.
	It's what they do.
	So, they.
	So, I have it in the show clip if you want to play it or not.
	Yeah, I'd love to.
	What is it?
	It's one of those long, but always entertaining Napolitano rants about how we're screwed and the Patriot Act stinks and it's unconstitutional and nobody's doing anything about it.
	Okay.
	So, basically, more of the same.
	More of the same thing.
	I've now come to the conclusion that he's just a honeypot to get people, like-minded individuals who think that the Constitution is being abused and obliterated.
	They just go gravitate to that show and they think something's being accomplished when nothing's being accomplished.
	He's just letting off steam, but it's still entertaining.
	As entertainment, it's a plus.
	And that's what we do here on the No Agenda Show, the best podcast in the universe.
	Please check out my new website, which is ronpaulwontwin.com.
	And be sure to submit some links, because I'm recording all the mofos in the mainstream media who say he won't win.
	So ronpaulwontwin.com.
	Yeah, I got time on my hands here.
	In between watching C-SPAN. Coming to you from Camp MoFo in the capital of the Drone Star State here in Austin, Texas.
	In the morning, everybody, my name's Adam Curry.
	And from sunny northern Silicon Valley, where this was a nice new year, I think we're going to have a great 2012, everybody.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Well, it'll be our last year, that's for sure.
	And we'll be back again on Thursday with another episode of the best podcast in the universe.
	Please join us then, right here on No Agenda.
	D.C. and New York City murdering more than 3,000 Americans.
	The government responded by launching wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq and by passing the Patriot Act, a reprehensible and unconstitutional piece of legislation that granted federal and local authorities truly unprecedented and unconstitutional powers to conduct searches without warrants.
	We gave up a great deal of liberty in response to these horrific attacks.
	But what do we get in return?
	Are we really any safer?
	Are we any freer?
	In this argument, I look back on the 10-year anniversary of the attacks on 9-11.
	Take a listen.
	Does the government work for us or do we work for the government?
	Is the loss of life on 9-11 a justification for the loss of freedom that the Bill of Rights have guaranteed?
	Tonight, life, liberty, and truth.
	Sunday is the 10th anniversary of 9-11.
	One decade later, Americans are still struggling to understand exactly what happened.
	What will we remember and what will future generations come to believe about 9-11?
	Will it be the loss of life on that day or will it be the even greater loss of life in the global conflicts that directly ensued?
	Will it be the short-term security precautions such as the orders to shoot down any planes carrying innocent civilians?
	Or will it be the lingering destruction of our rights to privacy from unlawful government surveillance?
	The institutionalization of government torture and the government-generated semi-nudity and near-sexual assaults at our airports.
	Will future generations ever know the full truth about the events that led to 9-11?
	Or will they accept the government account of what happened, an account that the CIA's own Bin Laden Unit Chief Michael Scheuer calls, quote, a whitewash from top to bottom?
	In the years preceding 9-11, Osama bin Laden was a young freedom fighter who promised American officials he'd help them to oust the Soviets from Afghanistan.
	Following the defeat of the Soviets and the fall of the Berlin Wall, capitalism was triumphant and communism was gone.
	But in 1991, when the United States invaded Iraq for the first time, we established military bases in a land revered by Islam.
	Furious at the American government for desecrating their lands, Bin Laden and his maniacal associates began plans that would lead to the clash of civilizations that culminated in the tragic events of 9-11.
	But the signs of trouble were apparent after the bombings of the American embassies in Africa and the initial bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993.
	It has now become increasingly clear that the Clinton administration should have done something.
	Michael Scheuer claims that Bin Laden was identified as the mastermind of those attacks and was targeted multiple times and could have been captured and tried for these assaults.
	But President Clinton himself said no.
	Last year, retired Army Colonel Anthony Schaefer, a career intelligence officer, wrote a book entitled Operation Dark Heart, in which he shows that during his time serving on the secret Able Danger Project, he and his colleagues identified Mohammed Atta, the key 9-11 hijacker involved in the planes that struck the towers, a year before he struck, and they found him here in America.
	Although Colonel Schaefer brought this to the attention of the 9-11 Commission and was told he would testify, he was eventually turned away.
	And none of this intelligence was given to the American people.
	It was literally the politicians covering for each other because they failed to protect us.
	Question.
	How many government agents and bureaucrats have been fired for being asleep at the switch on 9-11?
	Answer.
	None.
	How many persons have been prosecuted for failing to do their duty in the years preceding 9-11?
	Answer.
	None.
	How many persons have been tried for committing the attacks on 9-11?
	Answer.
	None.
	Why is the government afraid of the truth?
	In the days after 9-11, while the country wept on the Warhawks' screen for blood, one quiet voice rang out from the despair and offered a simple solution to solve our problems in a manner set forth in the Constitution.
	Texas Congressman Ron Paul offered legislation to authorize the president to send paid assassins to capture or kill Bin Laden and his cohorts.
	It would have cost just a few hundred thousand dollars instead of the two trillion dollars that Presidents Bush and Obama have borrowed and spent on our wars in the Middle East.
	But that voice was drowned out in the ocean of tears and cries for blood and occupation and regime change.
	The bill failed and the wars came and the blood flowed and the borrowing of cash couldn't come fast enough.
	Now here we stand, a decade after the attacks with thousands more dead and a bill for two trillion dollars that needs to be paid.
	What have we learned, America?
	Do they truly hate us for our freedoms or for our presence in their lands?
	Have the terrorists won this war already by getting us to surrender our most basic rights in return for a false sense of security?
	Are the Constitution and our economy stronger now after this tragedy, or are they infinitely weaker?
	We will continue to ask all of this.
	I have two words for you.
	Predator drunk.
	We can't wait.

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