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	No paper for you!
	No bagels, no paper!
	Shut up!
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, March 25th, 2012.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 3, 9 or 4.
	This is No Agenda.
	Proud of my...
	Intransigence here at Cam MoFo in the capital of the Drone Star States.
	That's right, Austin Tejas, where it's beautiful today.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And, by the way, does that mean you have to take a crap?
	From Northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	What does that mean?
	Intransigence.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Intransigence is a new word I learned today.
	Yeah, it means you're stuck sitting in one spot.
	No, that's not what it means.
	Yeah.
	No, that's not what it means.
	You're on the crapper.
	No, listen to this.
	The message is clear.
	If Iran's intransigence continues, it will face increasing pressure and isolation.
	That's intransigence.
	It means something completely different.
	It means...
	I looked it up here.
	Intransigence.
	Hold on.
	Intransigence.
	Definition.
	Adjective.
	Unwilling or refusal to change one's views or to agree about something.
	It has nothing to do with being on the crapper.
	Well, I was sorely mistaken.
	Yeah, well, you know, when Lucifer Clippity-Clop comes out with something like that, you know, I was like, oh.
	It's code.
	Yeah, it's totally code.
	It's Clippity-Clop.
	Just Clippity-Clop.
	Who came up with that one?
	I can't remember, but I like it.
	It's a good one.
	It's Clippity-Clop.
	I think it's from the Lone Ranger or...
	No, no, no.
	It sounds like a song.
	It sounds like a song by Vaughn Monroe or something.
	No, I think it's from the Three Stooges, actually.
	What?
	Yeah, I think it's from...
	That's what I recall.
	No.
	Yeah, I think so.
	Nah.
	Oops, wrong one.
	Clip of the day.
	Clippity-clop.
	Here she is, hold on.
	It's Clippity-clop.
	The message is clear.
	If Iran's intransigence continues, it will face increasing pressure and isolation.
	That's right.
	I'm going to kick your ass, bitches.
	I'm clippity-clop.
	So you have to do that all the time now.
	That's actually a great little clip.
	It's a great little clip.
	I love it.
	Yeah.
	Clippity-clop.
	So what's the deal with the Hunger Games?
	Oh, I don't know.
	What is it?
	Is this a reality show?
	No, it's a big movie.
	Big hit movie.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Everybody's talking about the book and the movie.
	The book and the movie.
	Oh, it's just like the book.
	It's just like the book.
	Oh, it's exactly like the book.
	Almost.
	Who cares?
	I mean, it's like I guess some big book everybody read.
	Yeah.
	We're out of it.
	We should have read this book.
	Or you should have.
	Now it makes sense, actually.
	Not me.
	No, no.
	Something totally makes sense.
	Okay.
	Remember we were talking about Nutter?
	On the last show, that it's illegal to feed homeless?
	No outdoor feeding for human resources?
	No outdoor feeding, yes.
	Okay, well now, turns out there's 20 cities in America with similar rules, including New York City.
	So I think the real Hunger Games is what's taking place now.
	Listen.
	Glenn Merkter arrived at a Westside synagogue today to collect surplus bagels, fresh nutritious bagels, to donate to...
	Fresh nutritious bagel as opposed to the other.
	I hadn't heard that in a while.
	But under a new edict from Mayor Bloomberg's food police, he can no longer donate the food to city homeless shelters.
	It's the no bagels for you edict.
	No bagels for you!
	I can't give you something which is a supplement to the food you already have?
	Sorry, that's wrong.
	Richter has been collecting food from places like the Ohav Zedek Synagogue and bringing it to homeless shelters for over 20 years.
	But recently his donation, including a cholent or carrot stew, was turned away because the Bloomberg administration wants to monitor the salt, fat, and fiber eaten by the homeless.
	Richter said he was stunned.
	It's for food safety jobs.
	The homeless want to regulate how much fiber the homeless get.
	Hey, hey, you, you ain't pooping right.
	And apparently that includes getting no food whatsoever.
	It's better than too much salt, you know?
	He says his family has eaten the same food forever and flourished.
	My father lived to 97.
	My grandfather lived to 97.
	And they all enjoyed it.
	And somehow we're being told that this is no good.
	And again, I think there's a degree of management...
	Which becomes micromanagement, and when you cross that line, simply what you're doing is wrong.
	But Mayor Bloomberg, a saltaholic himself, was unapologetic.
	But for the things that we run, because of all sorts of safety reasons, we just have a policy, to my understanding...
	Hey, homeless guy.
	Hold on, hold on, hold on a second.
	Let me get this straight.
	Yeah, okay.
	So, the guy's got, there's a company that makes bagels.
	No, no, no.
	This is a guy who goes and goes to all the synagogues.
	Yeah, okay, he goes to a place that makes bagels that are commercially available.
	No, he goes to the synagogues after Temple and picks up the excess bagels.
	Bagels.
	Okay, but these bagels were legally sold or they were somehow, they're not illegal bagels.
	They are not, not only are they not illegal.
	There's something you can buy somewhere.
	They're holy bagels.
	Well, there's something you can buy, right?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	In New York.
	So I take something I can buy and I give it to somebody.
	What are they supposed to be?
	Do they have to buy it from me?
	I mean, how can they?
	I've got the bagel.
	Yeah, you've got the bagel.
	And you're a homeless guy.
	Yes.
	Not far from it.
	And I want to give you the bagel, but I can't give you the bagel.
	Can you buy the bagel from me if I have a license to sell the bagel?
	Do you have a license to sell the bagel?
	Well, let's say I do.
	Well, no, you've got to show me the license.
	Then that's a different conversation.
	Right now, you're just a guy with a yarmulke.
	You can't just be handing out salty bagels.
	Bagels aren't that salty.
	Well, these bagels apparently are very salty.
	Are they salt bagels?
	No service for you!
	Can't have the bagel.
	So this is, we know it's happening in Philadelphia.
	It's also in San Francisco.
	This went on in San Francisco.
	This began in San Francisco in the, I believe it was the late 90s.
	There used to be this group, they used to have even one of those big vans, one of those taco truck kind of things.
	The bagel van.
	They, um...
	Catering truck.
	And they were used to, I guess, go into the area where all the homeless were, areas where all the homeless were, and essentially create their own food kitchen, soup kitchen.
	And they were banned from doing it.
	But I understand, meanwhile, if you're going, if you want to stand in line, in a soup line, and go to the Glide Memorial Church and some of these other operations...
	Indoor feeding.
	You can go in there and eat.
	I don't get it.
	What is the underlying message here?
	It's a promotion for the Hunger Games.
	So listen, it's Orlando has this city ordinance, Houston, Dallas, Las Vegas, New York, as we just discussed.
	And how many in total?
	I think it's...
	So if I'm driving down the...
	I'm coming on to one of the freeway entrances, there's a bum standing over the sign.
	Yeah.
	You guys, you know, who knows?
	And I've got a bag of McDonald's hamburgers.
	Ooh!
	Well, no, that's probably okay.
	If it'll kill the homeless, it's okay.
	Okay.
	It can't be a nutritious bagel.
	I get it.
	It's funny because...
	I'm starting to clear up on...
	We were at the market on Saturday, and I went up to the honey guy, and I said, hey, honey guy, honey, how come you can't give me a taste of this in public?
	He says, food safety.
	But there's people over there who are handing out, you know, you can taste cheese and some other things.
	Because I think the honey, he says, I don't really know, but you can go to the tasting tent.
	They have a tasting tent, and there you can have a taste of the honey.
	A taste of honey.
	Because the honey is seen as a form of produce, and therefore it cannot be sampled.
	They're sampling oranges and apples.
	No, we don't have oranges and apples at the market yet.
	I haven't seen them.
	But it gets more interesting.
	So I'm talking to Farmer Chris.
	Farmer Chris, who could be surfer dude Chris, by the way, but he's Farmer Chris.
	Yeah, he's totally cool.
	Farmer Chris is 6'5", gay as a whistle.
	You better hope he's gay.
	What do you mean?
	Well, you just insulted him if he wasn't in Texas.
	You can't call people gay in Texas.
	You can.
	Well, it doesn't matter.
	He's sensitive.
	I like him.
	I like Farmer Chris.
	We have a good rapport.
	And he sells the eggs and the chard.
	Eggs and chard.
	He's got a nice yellow, dark yellow, almost orangey yolk.
	He can even say, this was my Dutch hen that laid this egg, because it has the spots on it, Farmer Christmas, everything.
	And he says, so I say, this is weird, man.
	How come we can't taste the honey?
	He says, oh, you know, you've got to be careful here.
	I once got in trouble for recommending raw milk to somebody, and some fed overheard it, and he got in trouble for it.
	He got a citation.
	The place is crawling with feds?
	Apparently.
	You can't recommend raw milk at the market.
	What?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	What is wrong with this country?
	Oh, well, you got two and a half hours?
	Because I think we have some stuff to talk about.
	There's a lot wrong.
	But in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
	In the morning to you, Adam Curry.
	In the morning to all ships at sea and boots on the ground and feet in the air.
	And in the morning to all of our human resources who are in the chat room, all charged up and ready to go at noagendastream.com, noagendachat.net.
	The U.S. human resources from Gitmo Nation proper, utilizing their $9.2 million value.
	Unfortunately, if you are from the United Kingdom, as just calculated, you unfortunately are only worth £425,000, as per a new report.
	So it's obvious that people from Gitmo Nation East are just worth less.
	So what's £425,000?
	About £800,000?
	About £800,000?
	No, it's not that.
	It's about £1.6 now.
	As of today's reading.
	Really?
	No.
	It's one point, but it's 425,000 pounds.
	Yeah, 420.
	Hold on, let me get you the real number here.
	It's not even times two.
	No, it's not times two.
	It's times 1.6, I believe.
	Right, so it's $700,000 to give or take.
	Well, it doesn't matter.
	If you're in Afghanistan, you're only worth $50,000 because that's what we've paid each of the villagers who were shot to death.
	50 grand.
	So if you're brown...
	The pound right now is $1.58.
	Right.
	So $425,000 times $1.58.
	I'm just guessing.
	I'll do it on the calculator.
	Yeah, do that.
	Wait, don't you have an abacus?
	I do, actually.
	Do you know how to use it?
	You know, it's weird about the abacus.
	You forget how to use it, but you pick it up real fast.
	It's a very effective way to do math.
	Yeah, if you're Chinese.
	Don't be Chinese.
	So, anyway.
	And happy Greek Independence Day, everybody!
	They're thrilled.
	Well, the President actually proclaimed it.
	Barack Obama, therefore I, Barack Obama, President of the United States, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 25, 2012, as Greek Independence Day, a national day of celebration of Greek and American democracy, and beating those slaves into submission.
	Woot!
	That's hubris right there, man.
	Send the IMF goons in to knock people about, take away their pensions, take away all hope, and then say, but you've got a day of celebration.
	What's your problem?
	Idiotas.
	Really, it's quite bad.
	Okay.
	Hey, we should thank our executive producers right at the top.
	All right, let's rock and roll.
	Do we have any?
	We kind of wandered off, thanks to me.
	Yeah, we do.
	We don't have our night listings today, though, so we have to kind of remember who's a knight, like one of our executive producers for today's show is Boris Sloth Marinoff, who's Sir Marinoff to you.
	Eliso Viejo, 333.33.
	Happy birthday to my two human resources.
	They turn seven two days age.
	What?
	Send some karma to my wife and coming soon human resource another kid.
	I just need to get through the next 2.5 months.
	Also send some karma to my eye doctor.
	Shh.
	Shala Abidi.
	Or Abidi.
	That was like a terrorist to me.
	Today's one year since she fixed my eyes.
	Had a severe form or photophobia for more than two years and I was...
	Look that up.
	What's photophobia?
	Oh, it's where you can't handle any type of light and if someone takes a picture and the flash goes off and you happen to be looking in that direction, you freak out.
	Like, really?
	You have to wear dark shades?
	Is that why they always warn you on the BBC? Oh, caution, flash photography.
	No, that's for epileptics.
	Epileptic attacks, yeah.
	I had a guy in my first company in New York, he had that, Beads.
	Beads Land was his name.
	It is his name, I hope.
	And he had that.
	It was heavy, man.
	Anyway, he had a problem for a couple of years until he met her.
	Couldn't even go with two sets of shades.
	Wow.
	And I had to, gosh.
	I had been to ten corneal specialists in three continents without any luck.
	Okay.
	All right, so he wants us to distribute the karma evenly between his two current human resources on Earth and his human resource to come.
	So here you go, and thank you for the support of the show.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	Awesome.
	Awesome, awesome.
	Lucas Hokanson, who I believe is a knight.
	Selkirk, Manitoba, 252-07.
	Hey guys, too long since my last donation.
	I figured I had time to do my part again.
	You've had some kick-ass reporting in the last ten or so shows.
	Keep it up.
	Some all-purpose karma would be appreciated, Sir Lucas.
	Okay, here you go.
	All-purpose karma like lube.
	You've got karma.
	Andrea Francione in Montreal, Quebec.
	$250.
	Dear John and Adam, I've been a listener for about 206 episodes now.
	You've now completely ruined my enjoyment of most news sources.
	Thanks a lot, assholes.
	Anytime, butthole.
	106 episodes ago, I mentally douched myself for being part of the 98% who don't donate.
	Could you please de-douche me now?
	Thanks, Andy Francione in Montreal.
	You've been de-douched.
	That's pretty funny.
	Kathleen Bowman in Quartz Hill, California, 22222.
	Karma, please.
	FYI, I want to know what got me off my ass to donate after two years of my mooching ways.
	Dvorak reading the tweets of Britney Spears.
	More of that, please.
	Well, there we go.
	You've got cars.
	My goodness.
	Well, now we know how to do it, John.
	Just do a little John Reads Britney's Tweet segment, and we're good to go.
	Yes, with the ladies.
	Philip Flick in Albuquerque, New Mexico, $201.
	Hey, John and Adam Brewer, Phil here again.
	I'm sad that my night rings are about to go away.
	According to my calculations, this donation should put me over the top.
	For a knighthood, he will get one today.
	He's a knight, ring size 9, he says.
	I would love to request a huntsman karma for my job search.
	I have a few irons in the fire and want one of them to pan out.
	First round of wenches and beer on me.
	All right.
	Well, and I will remind everybody that the rings will be available up until the end of this year.
	Then we're going to move to something else.
	It doesn't mean knighthoods are going away.
	We're just going to come up with a more official...
	Token of our appreciation which fits in a little bit better with the knighthoods and also something that's a little easier to manage quite honestly.
	You've got karma.
	So now we have a French name that needs a little work.
	Joan...
	Dota Fray.
	Or Dota Fray.
	From Motown.
	I've been to Morgantown.
	Morgantown, West Virginia.
	Beautiful little place.
	$200.
	Hey John and Adam, I'm a little irritated because I already did this once and then my PayPal time ran out before I sent it.
	Even though I'm not even using PayPal and now I have to write this all over again.
	Always cut and paste.
	Anyway, I was going to...
	It timed out?
	Like the PayPal timed out?
	Yeah, it's what happened.
	Wow.
	I was going to go with the future knighthood option but then decided to blow my wad on a producership because I needed big karma shot.
	A big karma shot immediately.
	Our family is relocating to Minneapolis and we need our house to sell ASAP. Do you provide relocation karma?
	Oh, let me take a look here.
	Let me see.
	It's on the list.
	Did you have it underneath somewhere?
	Did you have it stored?
	It's right there.
	Oh, I got it.
	Also, I have been listening to the best podcast In the universe for about six weeks, so I'll have to leave it up to you whether or not I need a dedouching.
	Six weeks?
	No, you don't.
	No.
	Oh, and maybe a MILF thing would be nice because I turned 50 last year and things don't look like they used to.
	I promise you, I used to be a MILF. I have to hurry off now so I don't have to retype this in again.
	Joni in West Virginia.
	Oh, I think you totally are.
	I think, you know, yeah, things change, but you're still a MILF, baby.
	No worries.
	MILF? That's one, mother.
	I got to.
	Relocation.
	We've got karma.
	And those are our executive producers with females holding up the hat.
	Yeah, very nicely.
	Which is good.
	That's fantastic.
	I want to thank them and others who came in.
	And I want to mention to go to the Dvorak.org slash NA page for future donations.
	Also the No Agenda Show and NoGendanation.com and ChannelDvorak.com slash NA. And you should be able to find everything you need.
	We appreciate our producers, our executive producers, and associate executive producers for this episode.
	Three, nine, or four, you can find their credits in the show notes at 394.nashownotes.com.
	And these are real credits, unlike the phonies in Hollywood.
	If you need anyone to vouch for you that this is, in fact, a credit that is just as valid as a big screen or small screen credit, we will actually do that for you.
	And of course, everyone else can go out and do something very important, which includes propagating the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Water.
	Water.
	Hey now!
	Shut up!
	Sleep!
	And a shout out to Dan Hutner, who just emails me and says, Hey Adam, I'm sitting in the maternity ward listening to the show with my new son and future knight, Boyd Ellis Hutner.
	He is now 40 hours old.
	Can never get those kids started too early, can you?
	No!
	In fact, you should just play the show on headphones.
	Really loud.
	Jam those buds in his ears early.
	Yeah.
	Well, John, the news here in Gitmo Nation West has been predominated by complete politicizing of an event that took place in Florida.
	You wouldn't even know there was a coup that took place in Africa.
	No, of course not.
	This Florida fiasco is more than enough news for the public.
	Yeah.
	By the way, they did find some guy who actually saw the thing.
	If you listen to all the reports, and the worst guy...
	Hold on a second.
	Let's...
	Back it up for a second, because not everyone is in our reality distortion field that is the United States of America.
	So I'll give you a quick little report here from CBS just to catch you up to speed.
	CBS, of course, just has compromised everybody else.
	However, the events took place one month ago now, but as of last Friday, everyone jumped on this and the memo went out and it was like, time to politicize this.
	As we predicted, by the way, that race would be a big issue in the general election for Gitmo Nation proper here.
	Here's just something to bring up to speed on what's happening.
	Erica, good morning to you.
	That's right, last night the Sanford City Council here voted a no confidence in their police chief.
	This was after more rallies, including that rally in New York.
	Hundreds were there saying there's been no justice for Trayvon Martin.
	What was called the Million Hoodie March.
	Martin was wearing a hoodie the night George Zimmerman shot and killed him.
	Martin's parents, surrounded by supporters.
	Our son was not committing any crimes.
	Our son is your son.
	I want you guys to stand up for justice and stand up for what's right.
	Another rally was held in Miami, Martin's home.
	Three weeks ago, the unarmed teen was shot in this gated subdivision in Sanford, outside Orlando.
	He'd been visiting his father after getting suspended from school.
	Zimmerman, a Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer, was not arrested.
	He claimed self-defense.
	Florida's Stand Your Ground law, which expands the right to claim self-defense beyond the home.
	You got yourself in the home.
	Last night, in a 3-2 split vote, the Sanford City Council, including Mayor Jeff Triplett, backed that no-confidence motion against Police Chief Bill Lee.
	So, just to sum it all up really quickly, and this is all, you know, people are basing a lot of what they think went on on 911 calls.
	And there is actually a witness who says something a little bit different.
	But a Hispanic guy is a neighborhood watch.
	He's walking around.
	He's legally carrying a firearm, as far as I know.
	And he sees someone suspicious in a hoodie.
	And then, before we know it, this kid is shot.
	And...
	And so the question is, you know, was this racially motivated, an Hispanic guy against a black guy?
	And the kid was 17.
	The president weighs in and says, this could have been my son.
	Well, yeah, it could have been anybody's son.
	And so on one hand, there's a lot of We've got the new Black Panthers saying, arrest this guy, we'll give you a $10,000 reward.
	He has to be arrested.
	On the other hand, he has not been arrested because there's some self-defense laws, which I do not understand to be the way they were reported here, by the way.
	The stand-your-ground laws, as far as I know, are only for your home and your vehicle, not necessarily for outside.
	And then there's a discrepancy as to whether Zimmerman, the guy, a fine name for an Hispanic, by the way, Zimmerman, Yeah, that way you can get a little edge in on the Jewish vote.
	On the Jewish vote, yeah.
	In the police report, I actually read here, I could observe that Zimmerman's back appeared to be wet and was covered in grass as if he had been laying on his back on the ground.
	He was also bleeding from the nose and the back of his head.
	So Zimmerman is saying, look, the guy jumped me, he attacked me, he beat me up, and I called for help, and then I wound up shooting him.
	And so this is partially about gun laws and partially about race.
	And I would have to say, just looking at CNN all weekend, which turned into the Don Lemon channel, it was all about race.
	Yeah, and the whole thing's been about race since the beginning, and especially when we played Reverend Sharpton, whose shameful show on MSNBC... He actually played one.
	He played all the 911 clubs.
	I didn't make a copy of them, but he did play one.
	I was thinking of dubbing off, which was one of the people that heard the scuffle.
	It was in the guy's backyard.
	It was in some guy's backyard.
	There was a fight going on.
	The guy said, these guys are fighting.
	And...
	If you listen to Sharpton, though, no, the guy jumped in his car, followed him around the block a couple of times, you know, and it became a showdown when you're chasing him in a vehicle.
	I mean, the whole thing was made up.
	I mean, this guy's horrible.
	I think I have a clip of the witness here that you were referring to.
	Let me see if this is it.
	What Sanford police have in their folder they put together on the killing of Trayvon Martin, few know.
	The file now sits in the hands of the state attorney.
	And now that file is just weeks away from being opened up to a grand jury.
	Tonight, we are learning more about why cops believe that night George Zimmerman shouldn't have gone to jail.
	I'm part of the neighborhood watch.
	Zimmerman called a non-emergency line and told the dispatchers he was following a teen.
	He was told not to.
	And from that moment to that shooting, details are few.
	Hey, we've had some break-ins in my neighborhood and there's a real suspicious guy.
	But this man's testimony could be key for the cops.
	The guy on the bottom, who I believe had a red sweater on, was yelling to me, help, help.
	And I told him to stop, and I was calling 911.
	Trayvon was in a hoodie, Zimmerman, in red.
	He only gave his name to us as John and didn't want to be shown on camera that night after the shooting, but his statements to the cops were instrumental.
	Because Samford Police backed up Zimmerman's claims, saying those screams you hear on this 911...
	Are those of the neighborhood watch, Captain.
	And the whole thing that bothers me, really, John, about all this is, I mean, it is being politicized because people are killed every single day.
	The president never comes out and says, hey, you know, those three Marines that were killed, they could have been my son.
	There's never any of that.
	He pulls these things out.
	He's almost like he's part of the agenda.
	You think?
	Well, here, play this one clip I have.
	The C-SPAN calling on black-on-black murder from some black woman in your neck of the woods, Houston.
	Oh, I'm sorry, you're in Austin.
	Yeah, it's not quite the same.
	In Houston, discussing this little event that nobody seemed to really mention when it happened.
	Joyce, Republican line, hello.
	Yes.
	You know, this is a really sad case, and I feel for the young man's family and everyone involved, but I think about how many blacks kill blacks, and we don't get this kind of coverage.
	You know, here in Houston, and please let me say this, a young black man killed his young black girlfriend.
	He cut her up and put her on a barbecue pit.
	They found part of her body down the garbage disposal.
	We didn't have this outcry in Houston about this young woman.
	And think about her family.
	I had a niece.
	So Joyce, before you go too far, let's stick to the topic at hand as far as the president's What do you think it added yesterday?
	Oh, I think his comments in the beginning were fine, but when he brought in that if his son was this color, he brought in racism and it was totally out of control.
	And I think that's a sin before God.
	Right on, sister.
	Sin before God.
	I didn't even know about this.
	A guy killed his girlfriend, chopped her up, put her on the barbecue, and then down to the garbage disposal?
	That's a much better story.
	How come we don't have that one on the news?
	Well, it was a while ago, but even when it happened, I'd never heard of it.
	That's cool.
	If you're going to do it, do it right.
	Sick.
	But this is as predicted.
	Race is going to be a part of this election, and here it is.
	And now everyone's talking about we're going back to the 60s and the talk.
	You have to have the talk.
	Black parents in America have to have the talk with their black children, their sons.
	Yeah, well, you know.
	Hey, you know, I had the talk with my daughter.
	Yeah, what'd you tell her?
	I said, you're a white woman as a minority living near Koreatown in Los Angeles.
	You gotta be very careful.
	I had to talk.
	And that's not because you're gonna get killed by some neighborhood dude.
	You're gonna get assaulted.
	Assaulted by all kinds of crazies.
	Primarily Hispanic.
	And it's right.
	This is not a racial comment.
	But we all have to have a talk with our kids.
	It's disturbing.
	The conversation is very dangerous ground we're on, I think.
	Very, very dangerous for this to be politicized this way.
	And the memo went out.
	It's just going to make it worse is what the problem is.
	Now you already see what's happening in Florida.
	The grand jury is going to look at this and probably not come down with an indictment.
	And then everyone's going to go crazy.
	Because they've been riled up.
	Obama's riled them up.
	And that idiot Sharpton's riled them up.
	And who knows who's down there riling them up.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's ridiculous.
	But that's the way it is.
	It's the way it works.
	Yeah, but it's very, very disturbing.
	You see it happening before your very eyes.
	Like, oh, wow, really?
	So, something else happened.
	There's a lot of things that actually took place that were quite interesting.
	Excuse me.
	On the last show, and I promise we'd talk about it, I've been tracking in the vaccine department, I've been tracking this tuberculosis plan that seems to be afoot.
	And here's what's going on.
	The World Health Organization is predicting a complete pandemic of tuberculosis.
	Why now?
	Why now?
	Well, the only thing I can find as to a reason, and I have more evidence to back that up, is because it's a great...
	There's no vaccine for it currently, you see?
	So what we need now is we need the pharmaceuticals who, of course, probably Pfizer, needs a great vaccine.
	We need to come up with a fantastic vaccine for it so we can make a lot of money and it'll be paid for by governments.
	And I'm reading this article...
	Researchers unveil global plan in tuberculosis vaccine hunt.
	And let me see if I can find the...
	Yeah, blueprint has been developed.
	Essentially a document on research plans for the next 5 to 10 years, said Hassan Mohamed, who heads clinical trials for the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative.
	Quite an exciting development because once we basically shoot up all these South Africans with our so-called vaccine, we'll know if it works or not.
	But then in another article, I read this, and this is a quote from Reuters.
	Lucia Diutu of the World Health Organization Stop Tuberculosis Partnership says the following.
	What is so frustrating about the progression of this tuberculosis pandemic is that all drug-resistant tuberculosis is totally man-made disease.
	I'm like, wow!
	What are you telling me here?
	So either tuberculosis is a result of the poor stuff we eat, the genetically modified stuff, or it's actually been man-made and put out there and people have caught it and we're just waiting.
	Because if you can manufacture it, if it's man-made, then you obviously have a treatment for it.
	So this TB bug, mycobacterium tuberculosis, is evolving so that it can fight its way past antibiotic medicines.
	The more treatment courses patients are given and fail to complete, the stronger and more widespread the resistance becomes.
	Now do you want to weigh in on this before I get to the kicker of the whole thing?
	Well, a couple things.
	One is there is actually a vaccine that's been around since the 20s, which means it's public domain, called BCG. Yeah, but that's not good enough, obviously.
	Well, I think if you hand make tuberculosis, you probably hand make a vaccine for it, too.
	Yeah.
	But I was reading about this, and I have the thing in front of me.
	The early use of BCG was marked by a tragic accident.
	In Lubeck, more than 25% of the approximate 250 infants who received the batch of the vaccine, which is an oral vaccine, by the way, developed tuberculosis.
	It was later recognized that this batch was accidentally contaminated with a virulent strain of tuberculosis.
	There you go.
	So they're admitting it.
	How do you do that?
	How do you contaminate?
	We saw this a couple of years ago when we talked about the phony baloney pig flu.
	And Baxter contaminated with bird flu somehow.
	How do you do that by accident?
	You don't.
	You do it on purpose.
	We didn't even do it on the last show.
	And then all of a sudden something very interesting happens.
	President Obama nominates Jim Yong Kim, professor of medicine and social medicine at Dartmouth College, to be the president of the World Bank.
	And I hadn't put the two together, so I'm researching this guy.
	I'm like, you know, this guy's not a banker.
	You know, why is he all of a sudden being pushed to the forefront?
	And I think nominee doesn't necessarily mean he has the job.
	He's actually the president of Dartmouth.
	Right, yeah, but he started out as the professor of medicine.
	Yeah, he's a scientist.
	He's a scientist.
	Scientist!
	Scientist turned bureaucrat.
	So, I'm looking around for something on this guy, and conveniently, he was on the Charlie Rose show just a few weeks ago.
	Ah.
	Oh, yeah, that's a little setup right there.
	Or after he was called for the bank.
	No, before.
	Of course, it's before.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, that's nice.
	Oh, it's a setup.
	It's a setup.
	It's a total setup.
	And softballs, by the way.
	All softballs.
	Like, hey.
	Yeah, Charlie Rose can do that.
	He's as good as the best.
	Out of the park.
	So listen to this little ditty from the...
	Now, is the nominee just means the nominee, or is he going to be the guy?
	Well, they have to be approved, but we call the shots on the World Bank.
	He's the guy.
	Listen to what he says.
	Lowest points were back in the mid-1990s when we discovered all of these patients who were suffering from drug-resistant tuberculosis.
	There was no money to treat them.
	Everybody in the world told us that we shouldn't treat them.
	And we were sitting there in a slum in Lima, Peru.
	Watching them die, but in the process, watching them infect their family members and infect the people around them.
	And it was just the most hopeless feeling.
	We knew that we were sitting on top of an absolutely explosive epidemic.
	We knew that in South Africa and in the Russian prison system it was also happening.
	And all the smart people in the world were telling us, forget about it, it'll go away when we knew it wouldn't.
	It just felt like the whole world was somehow skewed in a direction that was both dangerous And at some point, evil.
	And then, of course, the high point was when we started receiving support, first from George Soros, who gave us our first grants.
	And then we received a huge grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
	And today, you know, we're continuing to try to fight this battle, but at least now the forces are aligned in a very positive direction.
	Oh, I bet they are.
	So, this is no mistake.
	This is no coincidence that this is all taking place simultaneously.
	This guy is coming in, and there's going to be a huge worldwide health initiative.
	A big push.
	Yeah, financed by the World Bank.
	Yes, and it's all going to be about tuberculosis, and it's all going to be about getting your shots, and it's very evil.
	And this guy, by the way, is insane.
	So I found a video of the graduating class of Dartmouth College.
	And you have to see the whole video.
	I'll play a little bit of the audio just to give you the effect.
	But they're doing a version of Time of My Life.
	You know, Jennifer Ward's Bill Medley from, what was it?
	Was that Dirty Dancing, I guess?
	Or whatever, some Patrick Swayze movie.
	I don't know.
	And so the kids are singing on stage and all of a sudden they cut to a video of Jim Yong Kim and he's dressed up like a hip hopper.
	And he's got like neon stuff and he's got the shades and he starts rapping.
	And the kids are going crazy!
	It's the El Presidente!
	He's so hit Take it away, Kim Keep up in here to rock, light a fire, make it hot.
	The new president of your World Bank, ladies and gentlemen.
	The party's hot tonight, baby.
	You gotta see the video.
	The guy's insane.
	He's just insane.
	So he's only going to be a short-termer, obviously.
	Well, he's just going to do his job and get the tuberculosis meme propagated.
	I can't see any other reason for it.
	Tuberculosis, is this deadly?
	This kills people.
	Well, yeah.
	It used to be...
	Is this like the coughing disease, or what is it?
	What is it?
	Well, yeah, there was a...
	It was called consumption.
	And they used to have TB hospitals, because they used to keep the...
	You know, they stopped doing this.
	They used to quarantine you if you had TB. Right.
	You know, like the rock guy, Van Morrison, was in one of those for years.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, you get in there, you can't get out, because you're quarantined away from the public, because it spreads and kills people.
	Yeah.
	But they came up with antibiotics to stop it.
	And then they came up and then that was working.
	And then all of a sudden, this resistant version that uses like MRSA, nothing can stop it.
	And once you get that, you're totally screwed.
	And they still aren't quarantining people.
	And it's like it's a setup.
	The whole thing is a setup.
	Well, it's a total setup.
	And it was so coincidental that I just happened to be reading about this tuberculosis thing.
	And it's man-made.
	And we're going to test it on Africans.
	And this guy comes in.
	He's talking on Charlie Rose.
	He's like, hey, it's great.
	Soros is in.
	Bill and Melinda Gates, they're in.
	Perfect.
	Perfect.
	I don't care about banking.
	I just want to shoot people up.
	We'll see what...
	This is going to be good to follow.
	This is going to be a fun one.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, we're all over it, people.
	Hey, did you see that on the news?
	No.
	Although they could easily put that video on the news.
	The wrapping thing?
	Yeah, the wrapping thing is good.
	Somebody might pick it up on...
	I just gave it to the chat room.
	They're all, like, vibing on it now.
	It's very, very cool.
	Well, while we're on medical news, let's just play a little song for ex-vice prison.
	By the way, the other thing about putting this guy in, you see the picture that was the official picture of him being called into the World Bank.
	Hillary was standing next to him.
	Oh, yeah.
	Because she's the one that's going to get the job eventually.
	Well, she's pulling the shots no matter what.
	Yeah, this is her job, but this guy's going to...
	This guy's going to do something to make a bunch of money for someone.
	You think?
	And she's going to be in on it.
	Well, it'll be pharmaceuticals, for sure.
	Yeah, obviously, pharmaceuticals.
	Yeah, well, that gives me another excuse to play the clippity-plot thing.
	It's clippity-plot.
	Clippity-plot.
	Just clippity-plot.
	And while we're at it, here's one for Dick Cheney.
	Just because I'm presuming that I could be kind of human if I only had a heart.
	Amazing how these people survive.
	Cheney's unbelievable.
	He's a zombie.
	He's got like one eye.
	He can't even control it anymore.
	It's over on the looking God knows where.
	He's starting to look like a chameleon.
	He's a true zombie, man.
	A true zombie.
	Meanwhile, the real bankers, this is good stuff happening.
	Let's see.
	You got TB there, John?
	You okay?
	No, I need some water.
	So the real banksters are killing each other!
	A former Russian banker is being kept under armed guard in hospital after being sprayed with bullets outside his East London flat.
	Gurman Gorbunsov was shot several times on Tuesday as he entered his home near Canary Wharf, the British capital's financial district.
	Police are treating the shooting as suspected murder.
	You think?
	Kubantsov once owned several banks in Russia and Moldova, where he remains on a wanted list for alleged embezzlement.
	The 45-year-old has also been named as a witness in the shooting of Russian financier Alexander Antonov in 2009.
	He's also suspected of being involved in that attack.
	Lovely.
	So the real banksters are out there killing each other, while the smart banksters are getting away with theft.
	Have you followed the Corzine news?
	No, the Corzine thing is great.
	The official at the firm we're talking about, executive of the firm, is Edith O'Brien.
	She's a treasurer.
	She sent an email the afternoon of October 28th, three days of course before the downfall of MF Global.
	She said there was a transfer of funds that was per JC's direct instructions.
	Of course the JC she's referring to is indeed John Corzine.
	And she, apparently, she was talking about direct instructions that he had given to transfer $200 million from a customer fund account to meet an overdraft in one of MF Global's JP Morgan accounts in London.
	Again, all of this according to an email sent by Edith O'Brien, who is the treasurer for the firm And that in turn was quoted in a memo that was drafted by congressional investigators.
	Now remember that MF Global at the time found that intraday credit lines were being limited by J.P. Morgan.
	And so the question during this whole situation is, did MF Global knowingly transfer customer funds where they weren't supposed to be?
	Who knew about it?
	When did they know about it?
	And of course the question remaining, which is where did all of that money end up?
	Well, we know where it ended up.
	It ended up at J.P. Morgan in London because you just told us that.
	And here's what's interesting about this.
	So first of all, it's like a holy rule in banking.
	You do not touch the customer fund account.
	It's just that's not yours to do anything with.
	So Corzine, former Goldman Sachs, who both Obama and Joe Biden were blowing, blowing.
	We played the clips previously.
	He's the greatest guy.
	He's the smartest guy.
	He's awesome.
	Just blowing the guy.
	I should find those clips, actually.
	So he transfers that money because the credit line at J.P. Morgan was being blocked.
	And now JP Morgan is going to all these clients of MF Global and saying, you know what?
	We'll assume your risk of the money you lost.
	So if you lost a million dollars, we'll give you, give us the note.
	We'll give you $900,000 and we'll take the risk of getting the rest back, which could take 5 years, 10 years, whatever, because of course JP Morgan has the money.
	So it's no risk to them.
	The money is in their account.
	So they just wait, and they can wait it out.
	They can wait out for years and years and years.
	So this was at least a 10% theft on anyone who just says, oh, well, you know, wow, I was out a million bucks, and now J.P. Morgan's so nice, they're going to assume my risk.
	At least I got my $900,000 back.
	But they're really being robbed for $100,000.
	And this is all just, and, you know, where's the investigation on this?
	Well, apparently they're going to have a congressional hearing.
	Gosh, yeah, that'll be fun.
	With Corzine.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And this is going to, everyone believes this should be the greatest, greatest congressional hearing in history.
	Oh, I can't wait.
	When is it?
	When is this show?
	I don't know when it starts, but we'll be on it, believe me.
	So the president also passed, just staying on banksters for a second, the president also passed the Stock Act.
	Known as Senate Bill 2038.
	And this wouldn't be no agenda if we didn't review that for you, because, of course, what comes out in the news is, well, great, no more insider trading by these a-holes there in the Senate and Congress.
	But when you read into it, there's a little bit of...
	This was a watered-down version of the bill, apparently.
	And it is kind of cool.
	It says the president, the vice president, employees of the Postal Service, Postal Regulatory Committee.
	No one can do any insider trading.
	They have to report every month instead of every year.
	But that's not what this is about.
	Because in Section 7 of this bill, it's marked up for your convenience in the show notes, 394.nashownotes.com.
	Section 7, Report on Political Intelligence Activities.
	Political Intelligence Activities.
	Interesting.
	And I'm good at this, man.
	I read through a bill and I'm like, hey, what is that?
	In general, not later than 12 months after the date of enactment of this act, the Comptroller General of the United States, in consultation with the Congressional Research Service, shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform a report on the role of political intelligence in financial markets.
	Now, first of all, what does Homeland Security have to do with this?
	And then I read a little further.
	For purposes of this section, the term political intelligence shall mean the following.
	Do you know what the political intelligence is?
	No, I have no idea.
	Okay.
	Political intelligence shall mean information that is one.
	Wait a minute.
	Derived by a person from direct communications with an executive branch employee, a member of Congress, or an employee of Congress.
	And two, provided in an exchange for financial compensation to a client who intends and who is known to intend to use the information to inform investment decisions.
	And then, of course, it made total sense why Department of Homeland Security is involved, because the real scam...
	Is you have lobbyists and you have all these people who gather political intelligence talking to congressmen, talking to employees of congress.
	They are exempt from this act.
	And so, you know, the congressman says, hey, you make us scanners, don't you?
	Like naked body scanners?
	Well, yeah, I do.
	Hey, listen, man, we've got some new rules coming in.
	You should take advantage of that.
	Oh, cool.
	And they're off to the races.
	And this is going to remain completely legal.
	But in a year, we'll get a report.
	So, the report required by this section shall include a discussion of what is known about the prevalence of the sale of political intelligence and the extent to which investors rely on such information.
	Wow, hello, what do you think?
	B, what is known about the effect that the sale of political intelligence may have on the financial markets.
	I don't know, everything.
	I mean, basically...
	Political intelligence, the selling of insider information, remains legal under this great act that the president signed into law.
	Which was the point.
	Yeah, that was the entire point.
	Okay, so you can't do day trading at your desk as a congressman.
	Big deal.
	But the fund that you're invested in can still get information from you and go and invest in something.
	Yeah, which is what really was the problem.
	It wasn't good with day trading.
	Just one or two guys are doing that.
	Yeah.
	Because they were bored.
	So it's insane.
	And people are like, yeah, it's great.
	President did that.
	That's great.
	Hey, good deal.
	Awesome.
	Yeah, this is the MO. This is the fractal.
	Oh, don't I have a fractal jingle somewhere?
	I wish I could find it.
	I can never find that one.
	Here it is for some reason.
	Fractal.
	Fractal of what is the question?
	It's a fractal of Obama, you know, waving his arms and jumping up and down.
	Look what I did, look what I did.
	And then you look beneath the, you know, look behind the curtain.
	He did nothing.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	Please don't look at the man behind the curtain, is really what we should be saying here.
	So, yeah, those are just a couple things that I worked on.
	Wow.
	Mickey's like, did you find anything?
	I said, yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's outrageous, man.
	Some light humor here.
	It must have been a couple months ago when the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte was visiting President Obama.
	And I noticed that he said to Rutte, he said, Hey, you know, there's no greater ally than the Netherlands.
	But I had heard him say that just like two days before to some other guy.
	Remember we played those clips?
	Yeah, there's the latest one going around, I guess, out of that area is Obama's comments about they punch above their weight.
	Yeah, so this is from a Danish TV report who did the same thing, but I clipped out all the stuff, all the Danish stuff.
	I did some work for you and clipped it down just to give you the full spectrum of the Obama bot repeating punching above their weight and no better ally.
	That's fairly typical of the way that Danes have punched above their weight in international affairs.
	I've said this before, but I want to repeat.
	Norway punches above its weight.
	We have no stronger ally than the Netherlands.
	They consistently punch above their weight.
	Ireland punches above its weight.
	It's a small country.
	The Philippines is not the largest of countries.
	It, using a phrase from boxing, punches above its weight.
	No stronger ally than the Netherlands.
	We have no stronger ally than Australia.
	Poland is one of our closest and strongest allies.
	Great Britain is one of our closest, strongest allies.
	As I said earlier, Germany is one of our strongest allies.
	This state visit reflects the fact that the Republic of Korea is one of our strongest allies.
	Israel is one of our strongest allies.
	France is our oldest ally and continues to be one of our closest allies.
	Italy is one of our strongest allies.
	Japan is, of course, one of our strongest and closest allies.
	I also wanted to just say how much we appreciate the great alliance and partnership that we have with the Danish people on a whole range of international issues.
	Notice the Danes are not one of our strongest allies.
	The guy was bummed out about that.
	Everybody's the strongest ally except the Danes.
	We are such sluts.
	We're like a hooker, man.
	Which is probably what got the Danish reporters to do those clips.
	Yeah, no, exactly.
	That's exactly what he said.
	How come we're not a strong ally like everyone else?
	We're just good.
	But we do punch above our weight, which is good.
	Wow, man.
	What a phony this guy is.
	You can even hear him.
	He's not struggling with the punching above our weight thing.
	He's like, which country was it again?
	Ireland.
	You travel around.
	He's not traveling around.
	He's in the White House most of the time saying this.
	It's a home game, man.
	It's a home game.
	Yeah, and he can't remember what he's talking about.
	He's got to think about it.
	I hope I don't blow it, because you would be really bad to have the Danes in there and say, Norway is one of our strongest allies.
	Punching above our weight.
	What an idiot.
	Yeah.
	It's really embarrassing.
	By the way, when you travel around, did you ever wake up someplace in the morning in some hotel and it took you a few minutes to figure out where you were?
	Yeah, of course, of course.
	It's like, where am I? Yeah, Beaumont.
	Ah, I remember now.
	Beaumont.
	I've been to Beaumont, Texas, my friend.
	I've been to Beaumont, Texas.
	You have?
	Did you go to the Roadhouse?
	No.
	Oh, is that the place that serves bull nuts?
	No.
	This is the place where the stage is raised and you're behind chicken wire.
	No, I did not go there.
	Yeah, I was there.
	I was doing a show for like the top 40 radio stations.
	I just drove through Beaumont.
	I got picked up at the Beaumont airport in a pink Cadillac with a longhorn on the front.
	Did it have a horn?
	When you honked the horn, it made a sound of a steer?
	I've been places, baby.
	Those days are over.
	I've been places, baby.
	Whatever happened in this country, we don't have the steer horn sound anymore.
	You know what seems to be new?
	It's illegal.
	You can't have a horn like that.
	You know what I see in Texas a lot?
	They have hubcaps that have like Mad Max spikes.
	That stick out.
	I haven't seen those.
	Oh yeah, and trucks have them too.
	And let me tell you, you keep your distance from that stuff.
	You're like, whoa.
	You know, it's kind of like, remember in Grease, in the movie Grease?
	And Kaniki has like the badass black, you know, racing car.
	Oh, not Kaniki, the guy with his scar face, whatever his name was.
	Yeah, and then he drives next to Grease Lightning and it rips up the side.
	It's those kind of things.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I think they're legal here.
	We need more of that.
	I need some of those.
	On the Dodge.
	On the Ram.
	Get Mickey some on the Rover.
	That'd be cool.
	Speaking of which, she's...
	I was looking around, by the way, where you're talking about tuberculosis and then it got into the Darfur thing.
	I don't know where I clicked on, but all of a sudden I run into Mia Farrow's photo stream.
	She's spending more time in this area than Clooney is, but nobody's talking about it.
	Yeah, she's with a...
	She is involved in a charity that's run by that guy that we talked about.
	Friend or guest?
	No, no, no.
	The other guy.
	The real guy.
	The real guy.
	I've even forgot his name.
	Oh, that guy.
	I've even forgot his name.
	Mia Farrow.
	Yeah, that's how he operates.
	We forgot his name already.
	Yeah, he's really good.
	What is his name?
	Her charity.
	It's part of UNICEF, I think.
	Yeah, but she's blogging from Africa and she's doing all kinds of...
	What's that guy's name?
	Yeah, we'll dream it up in a minute.
	Wow, that's horrible.
	Yeah, no, that's how you do it.
	That's how good he is.
	He's got that nondescript name.
	He's got a nondescript name and he's got the voodoo mojo thing going so he can't remember.
	Yeah.
	Maybe he got tuberculosis and it's like...
	Former PR guy.
	Eating my brain or something.
	Anyway.
	So I got an interesting little Ask Adam.
	Oh, do you need the jingle?
	Yeah, of course you need the jingle.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, it's been so long since we had an Ask Adam.
	I don't do that much, but I got this one.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	Let's see what we got.
	Ask Adam.
	Oh, yeah, that's exciting.
	Well, I can do a...
	Or...
	That's a little GX2 for everybody.
	You got every sort of style of music.
	Okay, I got a rant from someone.
	You have to identify who this person is, and then tell me when he said it.
	I do not share the Rosie Outlook of my friend from Alabama, and I want to pick up on some of the points made by Mr.
	LaFolce, because after all of the statistics are out there, really what matters is what's going on to the average person.
	And I know that the average person turns on the television every day and they hear that the economy is booming.
	But sometimes those average working people have a little difficulty watching the television because they're out working longer hours for lower wages than they used to.
	And the statistics are pretty clear that between 1973 and 1998 real wages for the average American worker are today lower than used to be the case.
	Now in the last few years we have seen some increases and we're appreciative of that.
	But let's not kid ourselves.
	The average American today is working longer hours for low wages.
	It is not uncommon for that worker, whether it's in the state of Vermont or New York State or any place else, to have to work two jobs, three jobs.
	What used to be understood is that one breadwinner in that family, often the man, that was what used to be the case, could go out and work 40 hours a week and bring in enough income to take care of the family.
	I do not see.
	Now, first of all, what is wrong with your clips?
	Oh, these clips...
	Suck.
	Your clips sound like...
	These clips, I took these clips from when I was up north off of a system that had an unbalanced line.
	No kidding.
	So I had to denoise them, and in so doing, it threw them slightly out of phase, and I don't know why that happened.
	Yeah, it sucks.
	We'll get to the part where he goes, I can tell you, it goes on about the 1% and blah, blah, blah.
	It sounds like Bernie Sanders.
	Okay, when did he say it?
	When did he say it?
	Yeah.
	I have no idea.
	Wait, last week?
	A year ago?
	Well...
	February 2000.
	It's the same old thing.
	This guy, every year, he says the same stuff.
	Yeah.
	Actually, he brought the 1% into the story.
	Oh, yeah.
	I've got a bunch.
	I don't have all these clips now because I'm at the re-clip because I'm not going to play these crazy things.
	Yeah, it sounds bad.
	But there's a lot of good stuff on C-SPAN that all took place before the dot-com crash in March, April of 2000.
	This is one of them, by the way, that are just fascinating.
	They're talking about the upcoming boom and they have...
	Oh, yeah.
	Greenspan on there talking about, well, this economy is going to go crazy in the next couple of years.
	It's unbelievable how wrong they were.
	Yeah, so that's 12 years ago.
	12 years ago.
	Does it sound familiar?
	Yeah.
	It could have been 12 hours ago.
	Wow.
	Yeah, that's pretty messed up.
	In other words, he's accomplished nothing with all this rhetoric.
	Nothing.
	Zip.
	No.
	He just goes up there and rants, and he keeps getting re-elected.
	He doesn't do anything, obviously, but he's got a great spiel.
	And he's an independent, right?
	Yeah.
	Well, he was right.
	That way he gets to play both sides of the fence if he wants to.
	So all your clips are going to sound like this?
	No.
	No.
	Oh, good.
	Good.
	Well, let's do another one then.
	What you got?
	I mean, I got so much stuff.
	I'm giving you some breathing room.
	I got, when Clooney is flustered, this is a little comedy.
	Play that.
	I don't, I actually don't even think I... I don't, I actually don't even think I... I don't, I actually don't even think I... Wow, man.
	Did you also put together some cork art while you were up there?
	Are you in Port Angeles now?
	I'm complaining about these things.
	Are you in Port Angeles now?
	Is that where you are?
	No.
	So, okay, here's a Clooney clip.
	This is Clooney.
	Here's the problem I have.
	I have Clooney queuing Pendergast.
	Pendergast.
	Pendergast.
	Pender whatever.
	Yeah.
	Pender guy.
	Yeah.
	And I have the Pender guy...
	I'm cuing Clooney, but I can't extract it from the clip.
	It's weird.
	I mean, because I realize I only saw him do it.
	I saw him mouth it, but I can't get it off the clip.
	It's really annoying.
	But I do have Clooney.
	I want you to pay very careful attention to what Clooney says in this clip.
	This was on the Charlie Rose show.
	He's talking about diplomacy, which is the key.
	I actually don't even think, my suggestion will be, I understand that this is an impossibility.
	You're not going to get a no-fly zone through the Security Council.
	China and Russia will both vote against it, always.
	So we're trying to look for realistic answers.
	And the realistic answers are what we actually do well in this country, which is robust diplomacy.
	And that means taking the techniques we learned about going after terrorists' money and using it to find the money that these guys are hiding.
	They're not buying these weapons from the north in Sudanese pounds.
	They're hidden in banks in Malaysia.
	We want to go find them and freeze them.
	That's exactly what they're doing with respect to Iran now.
	That's exactly what they're doing, and we'll see, but it has proven to be somewhat effective.
	We don't know how effective and how long it'll be effective, but there's hope.
	Yeah, so when he's...
	Was that when he was looking at Prendergast going, like, pick it up, dude, now?
	Yeah, he's doing that, but I want you to review what he just said.
	He says the way to deal with this is with diplomacy.
	And then he describes diplomacy as freezing bank accounts.
	Oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
	How is that diplomacy in any world outside of Neptune?
	Well, you know, I've been following...
	I want to know, how is this diplomacy?
	Is that what we're doing with Iran?
	By cutting them off from world trade?
	John, it's called 21st century statecraft.
	Surely you remember Lucifer Clippity-Clop saying this.
	This is 21st century statecraft.
	Now, I was listening.
	Do you want to play the other Climity clip before I get into this?
	This is the one where, after Clooney had been cued, Clooney decides to jump in.
	Oh no.
	While Pendergast is, you know how that works, right?
	You've been, like, you're trying to talk and I'm coaching you along the way and then you feel that you're good enough to do it the other way around.
	I got the punchline now.
	This is Clooney Q's Prendergast?
	Yeah.
	Basically gone to war with a number of the different regions.
	The South was the only one that was actually fighting for independence, and they won their independence through a referendum, becoming the newest country in the world mid-2011.
	It also cost two and a half million people.
	Two and a half million lives were lost.
	But that left behind these other regions who have similar complaints about the kind of discrimination that occurs in their regions.
	The Darforians, the people where we were just visiting, the Anuba Mountains, Blue Nile, and other regions.
	And they're basically uniting in an opposition to try to...
	Anyway, that was Clooney jumping in with the...
	He had a little statistic.
	Yeah, because he read the memo.
	He's like, two and a half million.
	Because it makes you sound smart.
	I mean, I've done this in so many meetings where I'd be wheeled in like, hey, and as part of our company, we have Adam Curry.
	You remember him from the MTV guy days?
	And then, you know, and Bloom does this all the time.
	He'll even cue me physically so I can say, yeah, yeah, yeah, 30 million in revenues.
	Yeah, we're really great.
	Oh, I know.
	This is what you do.
	Yeah, it's what you do as a celebrity.
	So, I spend some time, the best news, I have to say, the best reporting, the best questions, just the best broadcast, which of course is only, it's not even on C-SPAN, you have to go to the State Department's website, is Victoria Newland.
	And I love watching her because she gets so frustrated when people just...
	Because these guys are good.
	They're from all over the world.
	There's different accents.
	There's just a million different things going on.
	And the question comes up about the 12 countries...
	Now, do you know anything about this?
	So, the sanctions on Iran, and this, by the way, is completely evil, but it is the 21st century statecraft.
	So, what's happened is, the United States, Lucifer, predominantly came out, and she said...
	According to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, haha, and we read this, the United States may impose sanctions on those countries that are purchasing petroleum products from Iran within 180 days of passing the act.
	That would be June 28th is 180 days.
	If the president determines that there is a sufficient supply of petroleum and petroleum products from countries other than Iran to permit a significant reduction in the volume of petroleum.
	So, obviously, this is mainly pointed at India.
	And India is a large buyer of Iranian crude, and also the Chinas.
	And so this statecraft, this diplomacy, as our boy Clooney calls it, consists of the President of the United States threatening these countries, if you don't stop buying from Iran, then we're going to put the hammer on your head.
	The only problem is, no one really knows who all the 12 countries are.
	And this comes up in this news conference, and it's hilarious.
	Now that you have a list of countries who are exempted from sanctions for deals with Iran.
	So there's a list of 12 countries who will not have sanctions because they have already reduced their purchases, but, you know, just a little bit.
	And we're supposed to be going in and telling them where to go get the oil from other sources, which is the Saudis, by the way.
	They're pumping it faster than you can believe.
	But no one knows who these 12 countries are.
	What are the next steps you're taking against India and other countries who are still dealing with Iran?
	Well, we've talked about this a couple of times this week, as you know, to gender.
	Our conversations continue with all the other countries that want to talk to us who continue to have issues with the amount of Iranian crude that they import.
	India is one of those countries, and we are working hard with India to see if we can help India.
	With regard to reducing India's dependence and the dependence of any of the other countries on Iranian crude and looking at alternative sources of supply as well.
	Can you also tell us what those 12 countries are?
	I think, as we said when Carlos was on the Hill and when he backgrounded on this issue, it's pretty clearly readily available in public sources.
	Well, actually, it's really not.
	And I don't see how difficult it is, why it would be so difficult for you all to say which countries, if you are, in fact, talking to all 12 of them, which ones they are.
	And then my second question would be, is that you consider them all to be countries?
	Because I believe Taiwan is one.
	I hadn't realized that you would change your one-China policy.
	So, all of a sudden, you recognize Taiwan as a country now?
	This guy is good.
	Hey, excuse me, they're not known.
	Who was that guy?
	I don't know.
	These guys are great in there, but this stuff never gets to the opposite of the public.
	Never, never, never.
	There's a little bit more to this.
	Why don't I take the question, and we'll get back to it with what we can.
	I think it would be helpful to name the 12, because, as Matt suggests, there are, in fact, different...
	Private source data has different assessments of what countries imported Iranian crude oil in 2011, which I think is the benchmark that you guys are using.
	And it took a while to get to the bottom of this.
	And I think, no, if it truly is publicly available, then I think you guys ought to be able to just say, well, yeah, these are the 12...
	Even if you have to say, if we learn new things, like somebody didn't really import any or somebody else did, and we find out later that it might change.
	Well, why don't I take the question and we'll see what we can do for you.
	Remind whoever it is you're going to take it up with that these countries know who they are already.
	It's not going to be any great breach of...
	It's like, hey, come on, just give us the information.
	Why aren't you telling us this, you ditz?
	I wonder why she's not, because I have the list.
	Well, yeah, what do you have as the list?
	Well, I have China.
	China.
	The problem is that the list is people we can't really do much about, because what are we going to do with China?
	Are we going to cut them off?
	I don't think so.
	India, which he mentioned.
	South Korea, which is one of our best allies.
	What's the name?
	One of our greatest allies, yeah.
	One of our greatest allies.
	We're going to screw them over.
	South Africa, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan.
	Another one of our all-time great allies.
	Philippines, punches above its weight and blah, blah, blah.
	Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Turkey.
	Well, let me explain.
	So you mentioned two.
	Let me just give you a couple of important ones.
	So where's the president today?
	He's in South Korea.
	Right?
	Why is he in South Korea?
	Well, why?
	Because in South Korea, we now have 20 American and South Korean warships, including submarines, aircraft carriers, destroyers, all looking at China.
	Right?
	That's why the president's there.
	So we're saying, hey, China, you've got to reduce your dependence upon oil from Iran.
	Sri Lanka, what do we have in Sri Lanka?
	Let's take a look.
	We have a draft resolution that just went through the Senate.
	Did you know about this, John?
	No, I never heard of it.
	Reaffirming...
	I'm just pulling a piece from the...
	I was too busy following that murder, racist murder down in Florida.
	Yeah, you did well, little human resource.
	Reaffirming that states must ensure that any measures taken to combat terrorism in Sri Lanka complies with their obligations under international law.
	Well, what just happened in Sri Lanka?
	Wow, an Indian company was granted the rights to drill for oil.
	China has made its application for oil exploration.
	This is, once again, it's about kicking the Chiners out and showing them who's boss.
	So, the United States government applauds the passage of the UN Human Rights Council's resolution on promoting reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka.
	In other words, we've already got our experts in there.
	Indonesia!
	Oh, wow.
	Indonesia.
	China-Indonesia signs deal worth $17 billion last Friday.
	Oh, wow.
	Well, actually, this is...
	No agenda.
	Pipeline.
	Viva!
	Viva!
	It's Maynard.
	I couldn't hear it.
	It's the pipes.
	Oh, the pipes.
	But we have to change it.
	It has to be follow the pipes and kick out the Chiners.
	It's not enough anymore.
	So...
	Syria, just to follow along, because this is what it's all about.
	It's about squeezing everybody down.
	And I will say again that all the oil now is coming from Saudi Arabia.
	They've already said, oh, we're going to crank it up.
	We're going to go to maximum capacity to deliver oil to those of you who don't want to buy it from or can't buy it from Iran, which of course affects the price of everything.
	Yeah, it does, which is the reason we're paying five bucks a gallon.
	Yes, of course it is.
	And by the way, I'd like to know, just while you're still on this topic with the list of countries, it was never mentioned that there are countries that are exempt.
	I think it was kind of in passing.
	But, for example, Japan is totally exempt.
	Exempt, yeah, of course.
	And ten of the main EU countries are exempt.
	So what difference does it make?
	It's about squeezing Iran because we want to get in there.
	So I'm watching this Newland thing, and this is where I learned that there's been a coup in Mali.
	I'm like, where the hell is Mali?
	Get out your maps, people.
	It's not small.
	Mali is a huge country right next to Nigeria, and it's very strategically located.
	Let's have a listen to the question that comes up about...
	And, of course, this is all about terrorism, obviously.
	...to make determinations about whether something is a coup...
	Or at least it takes the State Department some time.
	But is there any immediate effect in terms of ceasing cooperation with the government of Mali, particularly on counterterrorism work?
	Well, I think you know that the United States provides significant security and...
	Security!
	...economic and financial support to the government of Mali every year.
	Hey, John, did you know that?
	Did you know that we...
	We do it with everybody, so I suppose I did.
	It's not that much, though.
	Something along the order of $137, $140 million.
	Nothing.
	We are meeting this afternoon.
	No decisions have been made to look at those assistance problems...
	Problems?
	Oh!
	Assistance problems!
	Oh, she misspoke there.
	Ha!
	She blew it!
	Assistance problems, I mean programs, not problems.
	It's no problem!
	It's no problem!
	And particularly on counter-terrorism, some of which I imagine is done with the military, do you think it's possible to continue counter-terrorism cooperation with the new authorities?
	Well, again, our expectation and what we are supporting and working for with our ECOWAS and AU partners is that we can reverse this, that we can get back to good, solid democratic governance.
	In Mali, and with regard to what one would do, could do, should do in this period, with the assistance, we're looking at it this afternoon, so we haven't done it.
	So I'm perked up, right?
	Okay, so we've got terrorism, we've got a coup going on, and by the way, not mentioned in this, which came out the day after, Patrick Barnes, an official from AFRICOM, has now come forward and admitted that the leader of the coup was trained by the U.S. government.
	Still on Mali, Scott, yeah.
	The primary flashpoint here, Appears to have been the military's ability to deal with the Touareg Rebellion.
	The Touareg Rebellion?
	Is it the view of the United States?
	Now, do you know what the Touareg Rebellion is all about?
	Have you ever heard that?
	Something about the Volkswagen, the Volkswagen Touareg.
	That was the top hit on Google, but that's not it.
	It states that that rebellion has been...
	Amplified, revived by the fall of Gaddafi in Libya and the return of Tuareg fighters from Libya to both Mali and Niger.
	Okay, so the guys that we paid to go in and mess up Libya, the Tuareg rebels, they've come back and they're now doing this in Mali.
	So I'm like, what's going on in Mali?
	Well, before you go on, I hate that you're going to do the pipeline again.
	The way I see it...
	If you want to go into the conspiracy side of it, a couple years ago, the Japanese decided to run a pipeline through, I think, from South Sudan over to Kenya, through Mali, and out to the coast to an island.
	And then along the way, I think it may be even recently, the Chinese, the Chiners as you would have it, looked at this, and I think it was Toyota that was doing the pipeline.
	The Chinese guy said, you know, we can help out on this deal.
	Mm-hmm.
	And so it would be possible that, well, you know, maybe we're not so pleased with letting this go on like this, and so we'd take over the place.
	Well, you can say that one, or you could look at the trans-Saharan gas pipeline, which goes all the way up to the north into Europe.
	From all the way down in the south of Africa.
	But that's not even the big thing.
	This is where 80% of what comes out of Mali is gold.
	And the Chinas have huge gold mining operations there.
	Ah, right.
	And that, I think, is the big one here.
	Gold accounted for 80% of the mining activity in the mid-2000s.
	And here's a report.
	According to the latest report released by the Asia Society of the United States, Chinese direct investment overseas in the initial stage of an exponential takeoff.
	Chinese companies overseas assets will reach $2 trillion by 2020, particularly in Mali.
	So this is, again, just about kicking the Chiners out.
	But what was interesting is that today came out that, indeed, we have trained the rebels there.
	So the problems that Ms.
	Newland spoke about are actually caused by us.
	But then, you see, you have to have a solution for the Chiners.
	And we have BP ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips are now talking to Alaska.
	To build a $40 billion pipeline to export liquefied natural gas from Alaska's North Slope to China.
	There's your solution.
	That's what we've been waiting for, I guess.
	It's a possibility.
	I know that they've apparently discovered a bunch of oil in Mali, which is another thing that's variable.
	I would assume that the Chinese, if they're doing gold mining there, have probably built up a pretty big infrastructure.
	Oh, they've got a huge infrastructure.
	They put all kinds of stuff in, but it's always just for them.
	But see, now we have terrorists, you see.
	So now we can go and we can help the Mollies.
	You can see the terrorist thing in the scheme of things.
	But they're mentioning it, so they're talking about it.
	It'll come.
	Is this terrorist thing going to get old?
	No, no.
	It could never get old.
	They know that Curry and Dvorak got to fill hours of programming, so they just keep bringing it up.
	So I took a flight, you know, up to back and forth from Seattle.
	And besides the fact there was some loud, it was one of those situations in Seattle, there was some, I've never seen this before, some loud mouth chick yakking away about, you know, telling it, yelling and screaming about, you know, what you hate the most.
	Yeah, yeah, I hate that.
	The screaming lunatic, and nonstop.
	Yeah.
	And she just kept talking about, you have to take your laptops out, you gotta do this, you can't have anything in your pocket.
	Oh, and TSA you mean?
	TSA. Yeah, TSA. Put the laptop in!
	Was she fat?
	She was a little on the portly side, yes.
	Was she hot?
	No.
	No, they never are.
	I can take it from a hottie.
	Wait, she was like yakking and yakking.
	And so I'm in line.
	And of course, they had this one guy was putting half of them through the body scanner and half of them through the magnetometer.
	And I didn't get to refuse to go through the body scanner because he shoved me in the magnetometer, which is fine.
	Oh, okay.
	Good.
	But anyway, she sees me in line.
	And I have like...
	Because over time, I have my...
	The printout, a paper printout of my boarding pass in my shirt pocket.
	Take it out of your pocket!
	Yeah!
	That can be a dangerous weapon!
	You cannot have paper on you.
	You cannot have paper on you.
	Take the paper out of your pocket.
	Take the paper out of your pocket.
	Put the paper in your baggage.
	Put your paper in the bin.
	A piece of paper?
	Are you kidding me?
	Did you pop that bitch in the face?
	So, anyway, this is like...
	You can get a paper cut!
	Wow.
	You can't have paper!
	No paper for you!
	No bagels, no paper!
	Shut up!
	Paper?
	Really?
	Yeah, I know.
	You can't hold anything in your hand either.
	But you just had it in your shirt pocket, huh?
	Yeah, the boarding pass.
	They used to make you look at the boarding pass when you went through again.
	Show your boarding pass.
	So then they changed that.
	Now you can't even carry your boarding pass.
	So she yells and screams, get your belt off and get your paper out.
	So I had a big wad of paper in my pocket.
	My pants probably said, screw it.
	I'm going to leave that in there.
	I'm leaving my belt on because I had a shirt that was not tucked in.
	I went through the thing, no problem.
	It didn't go off.
	Nothing went off.
	Bull crap.
	So she's just basically lying.
	Yeah, my favorite.
	Sorry for the discussion.
	No, that's okay.
	It's always funny.
	Double knockers on the Dame Astrid sent us a nice note.
	Of course, she got a double damehood from Sir Mark.
	She sent us a nice note that she returned going back to Tokyo from San Diego.
	And she said, I should actually quote the email, but it was kind of hot.
	She said, you know, I opted out.
	And the nice TSA lady was telling me about all the reasons why I wasn't going to die from the radiation in such a smooth, poetic voice that she started to fantasize.
	Did you see that note?
	I was like, that's kind of hot.
	Yeah, I like that.
	So amidst all of this, what have we not seen on television?
	We have not seen any more Syria talk.
	This is just off the radar.
	Yeah, that's interesting.
	And so the reason why...
	Is that Kofi Annan, you know the guy that was all corrupted in the Food for Oil program, that a-hole of the United Nations?
	Oh yeah.
	He put together his six-point peace proposal to end the year-long conflict in Syria.
	And so, back to Ms.
	Newland, and she says hi to the journalist, and I think he's either from Russia, Syria, or Turkey.
	I don't know which one, but she starts off by saying the most ridiculous comment to the guy, because she apparently hasn't seen him in a while.
	And we'll listen to that first, and then we'll listen to his question.
	We missed you.
	Where have you been?
	You've been home?
	Yeah.
	In Syria.
	That's where we got the beard.
	Yeah.
	Where you been?
	Yeah, home in Syria?
	Yeah, oh, that's where you got the beard.
	What?
	What does that mean?
	Maybe as far as she's concerned, he's Taliban.
	I guess so.
	Like, where you been, Syria?
	You freaking terrorist.
	All right, what's your question, terrorist?
	And he comes up with a very good question.
	A great question, I might say.
	You stated that you continue to call on Assad to step down.
	But the Annan mission that you are endorsing does not call Assad to step down.
	Neither it forces any kind of time restraint or it proposes any kind of credible threat of force, right?
	I mean, how both reconcile...
	So this is very good.
	The guy's saying, look, no longer are you calling for Assad to step down.
	You're no longer saying, you know, days, not weeks.
	There's no timeline.
	What happened?
	How does this reconcile?
	What's going on?
	Could you elaborate on that?
	We don't see any irreconcilable elements here.
	The Assad six points are focused on getting an...
	She means the Kofi Annan six points, but she says the Assad six points.
	She's such an idiot.
	Immediate ceasefire, an immediate humanitarian relief process underway, and an immediate political transition dialogue ongoing.
	Now, so this is all not true.
	So I looked up the six points.
	And the six points are as follows.
	Syria commits to work with Anand in, quote, an inclusive Syrian-led political process to address the legitimate aspirations and concerns of the Syrian people.
	That's very different than what she just said.
	Syria commits to stop fighting and immediately stop troop movements and the use of heavy weapons in populated areas.
	Light weapons are okay, I guess.
	As these actions are being taken, Syria should work with Anand to end all violence.
	Under UN supervision, Anand will seek similar commitments from the opposing parties to stop all fighting.
	Syria accepts and implements a daily two-hour humanitarian pause to deliver aid and evacuate the injured.
	Like, hold on, halftime.
	Hold on.
	Let's clean up the field.
	Stomp down the divots.
	All right, everybody good.
	Syria commits to intensify the peace and scale of release of arbitrarily detained persons.
	And Syria commits to ensure freedom of movement throughout the country for journalists.
	And Syria commits to respect freedom of association and the right to demonstrate peacefully.
	Nowhere does it say Assad steps down, let another political party come in.
	It doesn't say that at all.
	That doesn't change the fact that we don't think that Assad is the guy that can lead his country into a democratic future.
	But it doesn't call specifically Assad step down or there is no time frame for these dialogues.
	Again, these are the kinds of things that...
	Now she gets annoyed.
	You should see her face.
	...that the Kofi Annan technical team that's in Damascus is working on.
	But we can't get, you know, we have to get this started, and it has to start with an end to the violence and humanitarian relief for the people.
	Today, Turkish Foreign Minister Davutoglu said that in addition to common message, we also have to develop a joint plan of action.
	He's talking about the Turkish foreign minister who just visited Klippity Klopp.
	Also, there are some commentaries today that Foreign Minister Davutoglu, when he was here, having a meeting with Secretary Clinton, U.S. position was to tell Turkey not to create offer zone or any kind of humanitarian corridor.
	So what I'm reading into this, John, is a deal has been struck.
	I'm reading a deal is done, Russia's coming in, they're taking over, they're getting their port, whatever has to be done, but the deal is done.
	I mean, to me, it's over.
	Yeah, no, I don't think we have to go on with this.
	No, no, no, we don't.
	Today's New York Times, nothing.
	No.
	Page 8, they buried a story about Syria, and it really had nothing to do with anything.
	It's over.
	You're right.
	It's over.
	It's the same way it started.
	It was just somewhere in the middle, I guess, there was a bunch of, we had to do some saber rattling.
	I think this is going to fade out of the news if it hasn't completely already.
	We're not going to hear anything unless somebody doesn't do what they say they're going to do.
	No, I think it's done.
	It's a done deal.
	It's over.
	Whatever had to happen.
	Well, that's the way it goes.
	It was a phony baloney thing to begin with.
	Yeah, the Russians owned the place.
	Well, they already owned half of it, so...
	Yeah, they might as well give them the whole thing.
	Hey, you know, hey, hey!
	Hey, you, dude!
	Hey, eat with your shirt off.
	Take Syria.
	Put a hotel on it.
	The Senate had a big deal about Russia entering the World Trade Organization.
	Which we talked about.
	Right.
	And what's interesting, I have a couple of clips that are...
	Probably not even.
	I can summarize better.
	Because they have the whoo sound.
	Oh, that's too bad.
	What's interesting is that the Democrats are trying to repeal all these restrictions that we've had on trade with Russia.
	And the WTO agreement essentially is going to open up Russia for our exports, but we're not letting the Russians in.
	So we're not going to see a bunch of Russian goods necessarily.
	No iPadsky for you.
	So it's kind of a one-way street, at least according to Bacchus.
	Bacchus on Russia.
	If you want to listen to his overall thing, you can hear...
	There's only like one...
	He went on for ten minutes.
	There's a couple minutes.
	I'm very interested.
	Catherine the Great once said, There is nothing so difficult as to escape from that which is essentially agreeable.
	Dude, this sounds like a recording from 1929.
	Isn't that great?
	Sounds like Eisenhower on the wireless.
	That's the idea of how to use this technology.
	Russia joining the World Trade Organization presents a lucrative opportunity to the United States economy and American jobs.
	We can all agree on that.
	It must all embrace rather than escape.
	I don't know if I can listen to it.
	It sounds fine coming over the thing.
	Really?
	It sounds bad.
	Okay.
	Seriously.
	Russia is the largest economy currently outside the WTO. It is the sixth largest economy in the world.
	To allow American businesses, workers, farmers, and ranchers to seize the opportunity that Russia joined the WTO presents, Congress must act.
	We must pass Permanent Normal Trade Relations, or PNTR, to ensure our exporters can access the growing Russian market.
	If the United States passes PNTR with Russia, U.S. exports to Russia are projected to double within five years.
	If Congress doesn't pass PNTR, Russia will join the WTO anyway, and US exporters will lose out to their Chinese and European competitors.
	These competitors will expand their exports at our expense.
	Russia PNTR is a one-sided agreement that benefits American workers and businesses and requires them to give up nothing in return.
	Unlike a free trade agreement, The U.S. states will not further open its market to Russia.
	We will not lower any of our tariffs or make any other changes to our trade laws.
	It's a one-way street.
	Russia, on the other hand, will lower its tariffs, open its market to U.S. exports.
	Wow.
	A lot of meat.
	And the United States will get new tools for our toolbox to hold Russia accountable to its obligations.
	Tools.
	These include binding legal enforcement and transparency measures.
	Well, this is great.
	So this is pretty much what we thought.
	It's like, we'll give you Syria, and then you give us your rare earth minerals.
	You give us your market so we can throw some stuff at that.
	Fantastic.
	Now, here's the thing that's interesting.
	It's the Democrats who want to do this deal.
	The Republicans are dead set against it.
	Play this taste of Kyle, this guy, this senator from Arizona douchebag.
	It's only a short clip, but this is a part of his long, boring exposition on why we should never even talk to the Russians.
	And I think it's really a throwback to the 50s and his anti-communist sentiment.
	Let's stipulate that American businesses, farmers, and ranchers should be able to sell products to Russia and that free trade is important and beneficial to the United States.
	We still need to determine whether America is getting a good deal through Russia's WTO accession and whether more should be done to protect our interests.
	For example, Russia has never ratified the bilateral investment treaty that the Senate ratified years ago.
	That treaty would prevent Russia from expropriating businesses, an admittedly big problem, in Russia.
	This is a very basic economic right that isn't being protected.
	In addition, one of our witnesses will discuss Russia's failure to remit royalties, which is also not directly covered by the WTO agreements.
	And I submit the administration is missing a point on the repeal of Jackson Banach, which ties most favored nation status to freedom of emigration.
	While immigration may longer be an issue, Russia's blatant disregard for human rights and the rule of law is every bit as relevant today as it was decades ago.
	Let's do Jason Vanek again.
	Jackson Vanek.
	They go on and on.
	Jackson.
	They go on and on and on and on.
	Of course, the human rights thing has got to be hilarious to everybody in the world since we have the most prisoners, 6 million incarcerated, plus the most per capita incarcerated.
	We're the human rights violators.
	Or just go to the airport and try to get through the line without having your rights violated.
	So this is nonsense.
	You know, it's worth it.
	But we need to work on your setup over there, man.
	Well, no, I'm not going to use the setup I used.
	It was a lash-up.
	Okay.
	Another tale of the Hollywood Whackers.
	Time for a little intermezzo here on the No Agenda Show, the greatest podcast in the universe.
	The Hollywood Whackers, worth more dead than alive.
	The estate of Michael Jackson has landed the biggest recording deal in history.
	A $200 million contract with Sony Music Entertainment.
	Oh, man.
	Who would have thunk it, huh?
	Isn't that amazing?
	Yeah.
	But even better is the news about Whitney Houston.
	Whitney Houston.
	Of course, Dr.
	Drew running around.
	Sanjay Gupta running around.
	Ah, she got killed.
	Pharmaceuticals.
	Xanax.
	She got killed.
	Killed.
	Stop taking drugs.
	Legal drugs.
	Killed.
	Killed.
	They're very silent right now.
	As Wolf Blitzer had breaking news, and some idiot who was standing by the coroner's door with a report in her hand, she can't make heads or tails of it, but it wasn't the legal drugs that killed Whitney Houston.
	Well, the Los Angeles coroner's office, Wolf, just gave us what they said was the first official copy of the toxicology report for Whitney Houston, who died back in February, the day before the Grammys.
	And, Wolf, I can tell you the final cause of death has been determined.
	It's been ruled drowning.
	We also know that at the time of her death, Whitney Houston had heart disease.
	There was also cocaine, Wolf, found in her system.
	She was found submerged in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel again just the day before the Grammys.
	The There was cocaine in her system as well.
	What's also interesting, Wolf, in terms of the toxicology here, in addition to cocaine, there were other metabolites that were identified and were contributory to her death.
	Marijuana, the drugs Xanax, however, Flexeril, and Benadryl were identified, but they did not, did not contribute to her death.
	We're just told here, cocaine and other metabolites.
	Finally, no foul play or trauma is suspected.
	Right.
	So the only problem was they found no cocaine in her hotel room.
	And if you take cocaine, let me tell you something.
	I don't know much about it.
	I've never done it.
	I've seen people on coke.
	You don't typically fall asleep.
	Oh, I just took a big toot of coke.
	Let me get in the bathtub.
	No.
	So I'm sure that someone said, hey, we've got to correct this little problem.
	Everyone was talking about Xanax.
	This is not good.
	And it seems like we've got a fall guy for all of this, too.
	As this Ditz continues her report, who is central to all of this, the cocaine death, drowning death of Whitney Houston?
	This whole thing, you know, it's been a long process for the family as well, Wolf, and I know that Bobby Christina was at the center of this investigation.
	Investigators here say that she was crucial to this investigation in terms of closing out this toxicology.
	They weren't able to interview Bobbi Christina, but she was the primary point of contact for the toxicology findings, the primary family contact, and so they were able to reach her.
	We're hoping to get some more information from Ed Winter with the coroner's office in terms of how exactly she was notified.
	Since they had so many problems getting in touch with her in the past several weeks, I believe that they had to Locate her through her attorney.
	So again, we're waiting for more details right now.
	But as it stands, drowning as well as heart disease and cocaine found in Whitney Houston's system.
	Just want to make sure you got it.
	Drowning, cocaine, heart failure, and her daughter.
	Was her daughter giving her coke?
	I don't know.
	But just so you know, it wasn't the Xanax or anything like that.
	Where's Dr.
	Drew?
	Where's Dr.
	Drew on all this?
	Shouldn't he be like, I told you, it was drugs!
	There's a peculiar show talking about that other guy, Doug Gupta.
	Sanjay Gupta.
	He's got some weird show I was watching at the airport called The Next List.
	And he dresses up.
	It's very weird.
	It just seems like, I don't know, I'll get into it.
	I just...
	Thought I'd mention for anyone out there.
	I don't even know if it's on C-SPAN. It might be only airport only.
	C-SPAN owns a lot of the airport TV systems.
	I think they're running the TSA. I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	In the morning.
	You know, this XP computer keeps resetting the clock.
	According to it, it's 946.
	And I keep resetting it up an hour.
	I don't know.
	You do have a few people that donated.
	Curiously, we're kind of missing in the $100 range, which I think hurt us this week.
	Yeah, it did.
	But we did get a lot of the following.
	How many do we have?
	One, two, three, four, five.
	Which keeps Carrie Schoen, our runner in Germany, her initiative alive of donating $69.69.
	Right on.
	So, let me move this thing over so I can see who this person is.
	TinyEmpire.com in Phoenix, Arizona.
	Producer Miles encourages Arizona residents to save the date for Tech Phoenix, November 10th and 11th, a conference formerly known as PodCamp AZ. Website's techphx.com.
	6969.
	Kelby Koenig in Grover, Colorado.
	I'd like to hear a little kid MILF jingle and wondering how much longer I have to get a ring.
	Well, you have to do the math yourself and let us know.
	That's one hot MILF, baby.
	And then we verify it.
	Jonathan Senor or Senor?
	Senor?
	Senor.
	What do you think?
	Seanor.
	Senor.
	Coquitlam, I think.
	British Columbia, 6969.
	John Senor, Senor, Senor, Coquitlam.
	Coquitlam, British Columbia.
	I introduced my buddy Joe to your show.
	You thanked him for his donation on Thursday.
	I've been listening longer than him, and this will be my first donation of what I hope will be many.
	Because of my until-now douchebagginess, I'd like to give two to the head, followed by a de-douching to revive me.
	Keep yourselves and Adam's mic after Thursday's near disaster a shot of karma to keep the great show going for a long time.
	Okay, so the two to the head and the de-douching?
	Yeah.
	We could do that.
	You've been de-douched.
	More than just that.
	And then he wants a karma for us.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	Karma for us.
	Thank you very much.
	Always appreciate it.
	You've got karma.
	I like the tune of the head de-douching.
	If you think about it.
	Yeah, let's hear it.
	You've been de-douched.
	Kind of works.
	Yeah.
	It's like you've been de-douched because you're dead.
	Yeah.
	Mathau Phillips.
	Dearborn Heights in Michigan.
	Mathew.
	Mathew.
	Could be Mathew.
	Mateo.
	Mateo sounds better, yeah.
	Yeah, Mateo.
	Dearborn Heights, 6969.
	Show 383, I started the 6969 donation train.
	Twelve shows later, it's still going.
	Clippity-clop, clippity-clop.
	It's clippity-clop.
	Just clippity-clop.
	Uh-huh.
	Colin Cresswell in Sydney, Australia.
	6969 in the morning, you guys from Gitmo Down Under.
	Fantastic shows.
	Keep up with the good work.
	I'm loving the media smashing nations.
	Media smashing nations.
	First-time donor, short-term boner.
	Can I get a douchebag shout-out to Lacey and Moisey?
	Douchebag!
	For putting me onto the show and a few months back, then failing to donate over the past few months, value for value.
	Can I get a karma shot for my new house purchase next week?
	It's totally out of our price range, but it's going to auction.
	So hopefully everyone gets sick or has rained out and we are left as the only bidders.
	I don't think you can ask for karma for people to get sick.
	That doesn't sound like a...
	I can get karma for a good low bid.
	You've got karma.com.
	So he mentions the donation is coming from his wife's PayPal account.
	He's hijacked it.
	Anyway.
	Sir Michael Miller in Tiburon, California.
	$67.
	Karma for Catherine to feel better and fight off the cold.
	You've got karma.
	Charles Bennett, Boise, Idaho, 6666.
	A little karma for him.
	And I call it to my friend Tricky T in Colorado for being a douchebag for not donating.
	Douchebag!
	You've got karma.
	Heather Simpkin in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
	My wise and wonderful partner, Charlie Stobert, turned me on to the best podcast in the universe as a way of explaining why I get so angry with TV news.
	Shouts at the television apparently and refused to watch biased bogative reporting.
	I save up your shows and listen to a little bit every day just to keep me sane.
	Please could I have some karma for my very talented son Samuel Ranger who is auditioning for drama school this week and is going to be a huge star.
	Then he can be your very own George Clooney for all the right reasons.
	Thank you for being so honorable in such a dishonorable world.
	Love, Heather.
	Aw, that's very cute.
	Well, of course I'll give him some karma.
	I'd love to.
	You've got karma.
	Kristen Jones, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
	The women are representing today, aren't they, John?
	Unbelievable.
	Double nickels on the dime in the morning, John and Adam.
	Please credit this donation to my husband, Sam.
	It's his birthday.
	You'd like to help me get a bit closer to No Agenda Knighthood.
	Adam, we enjoyed meeting you in the summer, both in Fredericksburg and Georgetown meetups for the Hot Pockets 2008 Tour, apparently stalkers.
	Hot Pockets!
	I was with the one who shared a platter of crabs with you in Fredericksburg.
	Sam said he said that those are the two best days of his life.
	I try not to take too much offense to this.
	We still refer to the debauchery that ensued at our house after the first meetup as No Agenda Night.
	We've been working really hard here in Stafford County to infiltrate the local GOP mass meeting to elect delegates for Ron Paul.
	I'd like to request a shot of karma for him.
	And for all the liberty-minded people who are working to spread the true message of freedom and liberty, you guys included.
	So do I have to hang out karma?
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Karma coming.
	Here you go.
	You've got karma.
	Speaking of which, Miss Mickey is now way into the Hot Pockets 2009 idea.
	Thanks, John.
	And I guess...
	You're welcome.
	I would be amiss by not saying, we need an RV. Yes, you can start working on that.
	Jason Seals, Irving, Texas.
	$55 in the morning, Citizens.
	The donation is in direct response to the ridiculous NPR commercial and, more importantly, Adam gargling the frothy mix on 393.
	Thanks for the continued media assassination.
	Can I have a Hey Citizen and some karma for my upcoming move?
	Oh, hold on.
	That didn't work.
	Hey Citizen.
	Hey Citizen.
	You've got karma.
	Sean Sean Wen in Calgary, Alberta.
	$50.
	You guys are awesome.
	My husband Alex and I have been listening to your podcasts since we were still in China.
	We really love it.
	I'm Chinese, but I have to say there's definitely no racism on your show.
	It's still snowing in Calgary, by the way.
	And April 1st will be my husband's birthday.
	It would be a warm present for him if you could bring him some good karma on your show.
	Which means we love no agenda.
	Sounded just like it, didn't it?
	Yeah, well, I could use a little work on my Chinese.
	I can try this.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me try it.
	Let me try it.
	You know that there's Chinese everywhere going, damn!
	Nailed it!
	Mike Bernstein in Bettendorf, Iowa, $50.
	Paul Vela in Tauchester, North Hampshire.
	Northamptonshire.
	Northamptonshire.
	Northamptonshire in $50, no comment.
	Dave Anonymous in Davis, California.
	Please consider signing our petition.
	This is a second donation.
	I'm a student at UC Davis.
	Our Youth for Ron Paul Chapters Collecting Online Responses.
	Invite Paul to speak on campus.
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	They want to get Ron Paul at UC Davis.
	You can go to survey.libertynorcal.org.
	You'll get no spam, only date location updates.
	Okay?
	All right.
	I figured that out.
	And finally, last but not least, is Christopher Hunter in Texas City, Texas, which is, I think, waving distance from you in the morning, fellas, from the Drone State.
	Seeing as today is my birthday, we have it on there.
	I'm hoping to get a little, get your shit together karma as I transition out of the magical 33 to 34.
	Oh, you're screwed now, man.
	Also, throw in a little Kevlar karma for yourselves, preventing two to the head shenanigans and whatnot.
	Okay?
	Okay.
	You've got karma.
	So what happened to everything above 69?
	We didn't get anything above 69.
	Yeah, I found that peculiar.
	Well, you know, there is something we could do to help on the income, if you want to help me.
	What?
	You want to produce me?
	Produce you what?
	Well, I have an audition for Hyundai.
	Oh, Hyundai.
	Hyundai, yeah.
	See, I can't even do that right.
	You said Hyundai seriously?
	Yeah.
	Hyundai.
	So the specs are male, trustworthy, everyman type, accessible, not polished or slick, perhaps a bit of a regional accent to convey authenticity.
	Can you do Texas?
	Well, should I do Texas?
	That's perfect.
	Rare or real small?
	Real small?
	Let's try it.
	This is spot number one to be read in a conversational style.
	What is that?
	You know, where you're just talking to me like you're doing now.
	Many car makers put out a fuel-efficient car.
	What is that?
	Okay, that's out.
	That's no good.
	I'm doing it right.
	Read it to me like you're talking to me.
	Come on, let's go.
	Many car makers put out a fuel-efficient car.
	Hyundai...
	I'm going to make it conversational, then you can do it.
	You can't be in the spot, man.
	No, we're not doing the spot.
	We're just getting you in the mood to do it right.
	No, I'm recording this.
	You're actually recording it.
	This is going to be the spot, yeah.
	Okay, go.
	Many car makers put out a fuel-efficient car.
	Hyundai brings you a fuel-efficient fleet presenting...
	Hyundai.
	It's Hyundai.
	Hyundai.
	Many carmakers put out a fuel-efficient car.
	Hyundai brings you a fuel... Fuck.
	Many carmakers put out a fuel-efficient car.
	Hyundai brings you a fuel-efficient fleet presenting the 40-mile-per-gallon highway Sonata hybrid.
	it.
	Is this conversational?
	No, not at all.
	You suck.
	Why don't you make it...
	You've got to bring down...
	You're actually sounding like an announcer.
	You've got to pull that out of there.
	That's the hard part, though.
	It's not the hard part.
	I mean, you're making it harder than it is.
	Okay, we'll just be talking and then we'll just go into it, right?
	Yeah, talking away.
	Okay, talking away.
	By the way, Adam, do you know anything about the Hyundai?
	Yeah, many car makers put out a fuel-efficient car, but Hyundai brings you a fuel-efficient fleet.
	Presenting the 40-mile-per-gallon Highway Sonata Hybrid, the 40-mile-per-gallon Highway...
	That doesn't sound exciting.
	Who wants to listen to that?
	How do I make this conversational?
	The 40 mile per gallon highway Elantra and the 40 mile per gallon highway Accent.
	After all, there's no such thing as too much of a good thing.
	Only at your local Hyundai dealers.
	I got one for you.
	Alright.
	You know, we did this once before.
	One time I played this clip of this guy, this excited surfer guy.
	Yeah.
	And he was really over the top and you said to me, you said, I can do that voice and you did it.
	Can you do a really excited surfer?
	Well, let's do spot number two because that says to be read with a sense of urgency.
	Oh, that's perfect.
	Do it.
	Kick savings into overdrive at your Hyundai dealer and get a 2012 Santa Fe for 0.9 APR plus 500 bonus cash or a $269 a month deal.
	The Santa Fe has a best-in-class maximum cargo space and it's a 2012 IHS top safety pick.
	So live large and save larger.
	Get a Santa Fe for 0.9 APR plus $500 bonus or $269 a month only at your local Hyundai dealer.
	Dvorak.org slash N.A.
	I am sending it in.
	That's beautiful.
	I'm sending it in just like that.
	You gotta edit it because you have a little flub in there, but you can pull it out.
	Is that good?
	Do you think I'll get it now?
	That's dynamite.
	But should I do the surfer dude?
	Do the first one the same way with that surfer guy.
	Okay, let's try it.
	You nailed it.
	Alright, let's try it.
	Here we go.
	Many car makers put out a fuel-efficient car, but Hyundai brings you a fuel-efficient fleet, presenting the 40-mile-per-gallon highway Sonata Hybrid, the 40-mile-per-gallon highway Elantra, and the 40-mile-per-gallon highway Accent.
	After all, there's no such thing as too much of a good thing, only your local Hyundai dealer.
	No, no, this one, you can't, that copy is not readable in that voice.
	Let's work on it later, then.
	Okay, well, the second one, though, is dynamite.
	All right, we'll keep that one.
	The copy was written for that voice, that second one.
	The first one's written for some, I think, one of those, you know, deep voices, you know, paging Mr.
	Herman, paging Pee Wee Herman.
	We can try that.
	Many car makers put out a fuel-efficient car.
	Hyundai brings you a fuel-efficient fleet.
	Presenting the 40-mile-per-gallon Highway Sonata Hybrid, the 40-mile-per-gallon Highway Elantra, and the 40-mile-per-gallon Highway Accent.
	After all, there's no such thing as too much of a good thing.
	Only at your local Hyundai dealers.
	Not bad!
	I'll send it in like that.
	Dvorak.org slash N-A It was good, especially the ending was particularly bad.
	Oh my god.
	Help us out, everybody!
	Boris Monilov congratulates his human resources.
	Both turned seven on the 23rd.
	He's got one on the way in the oven.
	Kristen Jones says happy birthday to her husband, Sam.
	His birthday is on the 22nd.
	Shansan Wen, her husband, celebrates on April 1st on the Fool's Day.
	And Christopher Hunter congratulates himself.
	He turned 34 on the 22nd.
	Happy birthday from all your buddies here at the No Agenda Show.
	And you have to also say Kristen Nicole wants to turn her...
	Matt turns 30.
	And she's, as a gift, we're mentioning it here so you can hear this, she wants to knight him Which is going to be his birthday gift, or one of them.
	And I'm sure she's going to give him more knighthood, if you know what I'm saying.
	But anyway, she can't seem to get the PayPal thing to work.
	She's going to have to go to the Dvorak.org slash NA and look at the copy where you can mail a check.
	So we're just being good citizens here.
	Good citizens.
	And we're saying that he gets the birthday shout-out for his 30th, and we're just going to expect her to pony up.
	Is that what you're saying?
	Exactly.
	Okay, beautiful.
	Hey, we do have one knighthood to do, John, if you could draw your sword out there.
	Oh, good.
	Here.
	Ah, nice.
	Nice.
	Philip Flick, step forward, my friend, as, well, we only have a little over half a year left on our rings, and you will be receiving one as you have achieved the status of Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable by donations equaling up to $1,000.
	We highly appreciate it.
	Hereby, we pronounce thee, Sir Philip Flick, Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	You know what's waiting for you?
	More of those audition tapes from Adam Curry.
	Yeah, and some wenches and beer if you like it, or workers and blow, or rent boys and chardonnay.
	It's all good for you, my friend.
	Congratulations.
	Thank you very much for supporting the show.
	And, you know, John, we could just do that.
	You know, we just stop donations.
	And we just, instead of a donation segment, we'll just do auditions.
	Yeah.
	Because if that pays off...
	Hyundai should be paying us to do that in that regard.
	Forget about it.
	If I get that gig, I'm sharing it with you.
	I mean, you know, think of the residuals.
	Well, the surfer voice you do is outstanding, but not with a straight copy.
	It has to be exciting.
	I can just see them in the audition going like, what the hell is this?
	I'm sending it in just like that, and you watch me get it.
	And the low one, you think that was good?
	The second one I did?
	Yeah, I think so.
	You probably could have slicked it up a little bit, but the ending was particularly outstanding.
	You nailed it.
	On the low voice?
	Yeah.
	Oh, good.
	Well, thank you.
	The way you ended the low voice one was, you listened to it.
	It's perfect.
	You're sitting there laughing, right?
	No, I'm telling you, because I've always thought you had a really good voice, but you never use it for this sort of work, and so you're not used to doing it.
	I don't know what the hell I'm doing.
	Exactly.
	Well, thank you for producing me, and we'll see how that goes.
	Directing more than producing.
	You know, I got an email from one of our local listeners here in Austin.
	Steve?
	Steve.
	Steve is an architect with a very famous architectural firm here, and he has offered for free to design the Curry-Dvorak Library, which conveniently Miss Mickey and I would live in.
	And I had this idea.
	I'm like, this is a really good idea.
	You know, so think about it.
	If now we could just get some, you know, if we have a design, right, an architectural design, can we do like a barn raising where we get, you know, people to come in with hammers and two by fours?
	Usually an architect's not going to design something that's that simple to construct.
	Well, we just need boxes.
	I suppose he could.
	We just need four boxes.
	You know, it's a box for the library, a box for the studio, another box for the video studio, and then a box to live in.
	It's four boxes.
	Well, why don't we give them a real challenge?
	Let's make it out of cargo containers and a Quonset hut.
	Now you're talking.
	Interesting.
	Cargo containers.
	That's an interesting idea.
	Some architects have used cargo containers to create...
	Wouldn't it be cool if we had like the Clinton Library?
	You know, people could donate containers.
	Send a container.
	The containers are easy to come by.
	Yeah, but they're expensive.
	They're not free.
	Well, they're not as expensive as they could be, but a lot of them are dead-headed over to the U.S. They sent over from China.
	We got nothing to ship back in them.
	And it's not necessarily worth sending them back, so they pile up.
	There used to be a huge pile outside of...
	That's a great idea, John.
	And we can have a library and everyone can book it.
	A library and museum.
	Yeah, you can book it.
	We'll have books.
	We'll have some of our...
	We'll have a bunch of videos going constantly with a bunch of projectors showing various things.
	We could do concerts, conventions.
	If you can't get a bagel on the street because it's illegal, you can come in.
	We'll have a big kitchen.
	You can cook and eat.
	And it's all made out of containers.
	Shipping containers.
	Interesting idea.
	Yeah, I've always felt those things could be turned in.
	And they're pretty rugged.
	I mean, you know, they're hooked on the top of a boat and go across the Pacific and they come over here intact.
	And you just weld them together, right?
	Yeah, I mean, you have to cut holes in them and you got to do all kinds of things, but you could make it into, I think if you look it up, let me see.
	Shipping container.
	I can see Mickey rolling her eyes right now.
	I'm not living in no shipping container, motherfucker!
	I'm not living in that!
	Shipping container house.
	Wait a minute.
	Oh, look at this one.
	It's gorgeous.
	Wait a minute.
	Send me the link.
	Holy crap, this thing's beautiful.
	Hold on a second.
	This can't be beautiful.
	Oh, I'm telling you.
	This thing is dynamite.
	Type in shipping container house and then look at the images that come right up.
	Don't type in images.
	But the one right in the middle.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Oh, wow.
	All of them.
	Oh, these are outstanding.
	That one, the redondo.jpg, which is the second one over.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I got it.
	Oh, my goodness.
	That's beautiful.
	Totally.
	That's just made of shipping containers.
	Oh, that's it?
	Yeah.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Look at the inside.
	The inside is really a trip.
	Oh, it's awesome.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, this is it?
	Goal, I tell you!
	Ten brilliant sustainable shipping container homes.
	They're beautiful!
	Oh my goodness, that's fantastic!
	What a great idea!
	You have to really look to realize it's shipping containers.
	No, I see it.
	In the inside, it's obvious they're shipping containers, but...
	Oh, inside it is.
	Wow!
	You see the one with the blue, the red, the green, and the orange lights and everything?
	Wow!
	Oh my goodness, look at these people sitting outside of their shipping container.
	Look at the one with the two deck shipping containers.
	Oh, this is fantastic!
	Look at the one on stilts!
	Oh my god, this is great!
	The one near the water?
	What an idea!
	John, you're a genius.
	Look at the one with the greenhouse shipping container.
	Yeah, I'm looking at that.
	That's nice.
	What a fantastic idea!
	Shipping containers.
	And everyone can contribute by sending us a shipping container.
	They're easy to transport.
	Adondo Beach is amazing.
	I wonder how they got the...
	That's beautiful, isn't it?
	Built around California's notoriously stringent construction codes, DeMaria designs Adondo Beach container houses, sleek and contemporary.
	And you know what's great about it?
	In the Texas heat, you're fried to death.
	I'm sure there's ways around it.
	I'm really light.
	This is a very interesting idea.
	There are shipping containers that are insulated for shipping wine and things like that.
	Look at the all-terrain cabin.
	Oh, my goodness.
	This is fantastic.
	Okay, I'm blown away by this idea now.
	The Curry-Dvorak Library.
	We need to call it, like, the Citizens Library or something.
	Hay Citizen Library.
	Hay Citizen Library for Freedom and Information.
	The Hay Citizen Gitmo Nation Library.
	Something like it.
	We've got to work on it.
	But think about it.
	We could get some cheap-ass land, which is about all I can afford.
	Cheap-ass.
	There's a lot of land in Texas.
	Yeah.
	It has to be cheap-ass, because I've got no money.
	And no one's going to give a 50-year-old guy a mortgage.
	Hey, check this one out.
	Did you see the one near the top, which is like a bunch of inserts between two apartment buildings?
	Oh, yeah.
	No, it's beautiful.
	Yeah, that's what I said.
	Yeah, the blue, the red, the green.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	But I like the one...
	I like the one, the...
	WildwoodTX.com Don't tell me this is actually someone in Texas who's done this.
	Or is that just an ad?
	What is that?
	WildwoodTX.com That thing on the...
	No, that's something else.
	The thing where you see the shipping containers on the inside, the red...
	By the way, take the same page, the original search, and then click on the images button and take a look at a page of these things.
	They're beautiful.
	Well, not all of them.
	Well, yeah, true.
	There's a few eyesores in the mix.
	What does a shipping container cost?
	Let's see.
	Used cargo containers for purchase and rent.
	How much would it cost?
	How much do these things cost, man?
	They can't cost much.
	Because they're surplus.
	Most of them are junk.
	They're trying to get rid of them.
	Approximately $1,600 for a used 40-foot container.
	$900 for a used 20-foot container.
	That's a good deal.
	But this is the great thing.
	People can buy these containers, send them to us, because that's a known system.
	Right?
	Yeah, it goes right down the back of a truck and they drop the container off.
	I'm telling you, this would be fantastic.
	We build the Hay Citizen Library.
	It's just a bunch of big boxes, but they're beautifully constructed.
	And everyone who contributes, who sends us a container, we've got a place to stay for you.
	But we also have a real library.
	We do art galleries.
	We have real books.
	Free hollow books.
	All of them are hollow.
	With cool stuff in them.
	I'm just saying, it's not a bad idea.
	Well, here's a whole prison, it looks like, that was built from these things.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Well, we can have that, too.
	That is a very interesting idea, John.
	Okay.
	Well, Steve, you got your work cut out for you, man.
	Start designing with shipping containers.
	He's got to buy one of the...
	I'm sure there's a book on the topic.
	Oh, yeah.
	There's way too many of these things not to have some head star for...
	It's beautiful.
	...architects.
	It's beautiful.
	I am amazed by this.
	Anyway, onward.
	Sorry.
	Sorry for this little distraction.
	But I'm liking that.
	What a great idea.
	It's easy.
	Oh, okay.
	Good.
	Maybe we should talk briefly about Toulouse.
	Toulouse, yes.
	Toulouse.
	So it's looking more and more like this guy Mera was a patsy.
	This doesn't even seem to be the actual guy.
	Everything we've seen about him is a goofball.
	The whole thing is just very fishy.
	Well, here's the thing that is really nasty.
	And this actually came from a source that I trust very much so.
	So, you know, it took like 32 hours to get this guy to kill him.
	But really what happened was, and if you look at the timeline, and so they found the guy dead underneath his balcony.
	Because he had jumped out, you know, they said in a blaze of bullets and all that stuff.
	Yeah, it turns out that's like a big crock because what happened was they had already killed him after like 12 or 13 hours.
	But Sarkozy was coming down to do a speech, a live telecast, and he was delayed.
	And so they kept waiting.
	And this comes from a guy who's like three apartments down.
	They kept waiting and waiting and waiting.
	And then when Sarkozy finally got into town, then they did this big barrage of bullets and explosions.
	And then we got him.
	And then Sarkozy goes live on television.
	But if you count the bullets and the bullet holes and the bullets in his body, the guy had been dead for like hours and then never shot him on the way down.
	He was just dead.
	And they just waited for Sarkozy to do his big speech, which includes new laws.
	If you visit internet sites supporting terrorism, whatever that means, you're going to go to jail.
	Which reminds me...
	Somebody mentioned this to me, and I forgot about it, and I have to go now follow up.
	Do you realize that many of the ISPs, I guess in cahoots with the government, have installed a six strikes?
	Six strikes?
	Three.
	Three strikes.
	No, six.
	Where?
	In the U.S.? Yeah.
	No, I know there's three strikes in France.
	No, six strikes in the U.S. You get caught downloading something.
	They don't want you downloading six times.
	You're cut off from the Internet for good.
	It's got no publicity.
	Wait a minute.
	That's a human right.
	The Internet is a human right.
	That's what you'd think if you listen to Lucifer.
	Yeah, it's a human right.
	Except if you live in America.
	Huh.
	No, I didn't know this.
	Is that published anywhere?
	I'll dig into it.
	Is that published anywhere?
	Is that like a real thing?
	A real law?
	It's floating around.
	I have to look.
	By next show, Thursday's show, we'll have all the details.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Good.
	Yeah, so then we have Afghanistan, which has also quieted down just a little bit, but the report's coming out.
	This is a report from Reuters, residents of an Afghan village near where the American soldier is alleged to have killed 16 civilians.
	By the way, why does everyone keep saying 16 civilians, yet he's been charged on a count of 17 homicides?
	Where's the missing person?
	Maybe a pregnant woman?
	You're bad.
	Well, that counts in the U.S. You kill a pregnant woman, they charge her with two homicides.
	Well, they say 16 civilians, but they say 17 counts of murder.
	Oh, and it counts to the Associated Press, I'm sorry, not Roy, it's Associated Press, and to Afghan government officials, the residents allege U.S. troops lined men up from the village against the wall after the bombing on March 7th and told them they would pay a price for that attack.
	So it seems more and more like the true story is this was not one crazy guy who, by the way, has not developed amnesia.
	Can't remember anything.
	It seems like this was a coordinated attack with, indeed, as Karzai.
	Lord knows what his agenda is, him being like a Chevron dude there to protect the pipeline.
	He's saying, hey, you know, this was like 1920 guys who came in and shot this village up.
	Yeah.
	Of course, no.
	Of course, they are saying he did it twice.
	So...
	Did what twice?
	You know, he went out once and he went back and he had dinner, I guess.
	Really?
	With his pals.
	Yeah, you hear this one?
	No.
	Yeah, he goes, this is what the army says.
	He went out and killed like half of these people and then he went back to the base and sat around and shot the crap with the guys and I guess had a smoke and a beer and then he went back out again and finished the job.
	Right.
	And now they're saying it's because he was hit in the head during some action and he's got, you know, slightly been stupefied by the...
	And it was just really some sort of a psychotic break.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I'm believing all that.
	Yeah, it's just so...
	Yeah.
	The best story they could come up with.
	We had coffee with Mike and Jane yesterday after the market.
	They organized the Austin meetup.
	It's really awesome.
	She actually is also an architect, and he's a guitar teacher.
	And they were just like, man, we love the show so much.
	We can't change crap, but it makes us feel so much better.
	Really?
	When you hear all the stuff we're talking about, how can you feel better?
	Well, I think what makes people feel better is that they, because they were always, people watch, smart people, which is mostly our listeners, smart people watch the news and they're constantly giving these nagging doubts about whether they're being fed a crock of crap.
	Yeah, true.
	And they just say, well, no, it can't be a crock of crap because CNN has it and CBS has it and NBC has it.
	And so then we go dig up.
	We don't dig up all the crap, obviously.
	We only have a few things.
	But the stuff we come up with shows that it is a crock of crap.
	And you could probably assume that the entire news broadcast is a crock of crap.
	And it makes you feel better.
	Yeah, and I think that when you hear what is the truth, And I'm not saying that we know everything, but somehow inherently in your body, it feels better.
	Does that make any sense?
	Yeah, no, I think it's healthy.
	I think we're a health program.
	Instead of a news analysis show, we're a health show.
	Health and wellness program.
	Health and wellness.
	I'm going to change our category on iTunes.
	Yeah, health and wellness.
	Health and wellness.
	That's what it is.
	Yeah.
	Speaking of which, Ron Paul has been still...
	He introduced this bill in 2009 and again in 2011, and he continues to move.
	It's the Parental Consent Act of 2011, H.R. 2769.
	And I bring this up because I got a nice little video of the guy who is...
	In charge of the petition for this bill, the Parental Consent Act.
	And what this is, is that essentially the whole idea of this act is no government money shall be spent on supporting the following, which his name is Kent Snyder.
	Says is happening and is being put together very quickly by the pharmaceutical industry, and I think it's worth talking about because a lot of us have little human resources, and it's important to note what is happening.
	In the United States that these things can happen here.
	Mental screening that only took place in the old Soviet Union or Communist Vietnam or those places.
	It's not true.
	Interested people, especially parents of children, need to be informed about this trend, this movement, this very well-crustrated movement to have every single child in America from 0 to 18 Screen for mental illness, which will then lead to treatment, which then really is another word for drugging.
	We already know what the pharmaceutical industry is doing in terms of lobbying efforts for this whole program.
	We know what the psychiatric profession is doing through their lobbyists, so we know all of that.
	When special interest groups like the pharmaceutical industry, which is one of the most powerful lobbying groups in Washington, When they bring their lobbyists to Washington, they're here for business.
	They don't come here for philosophy.
	They don't come here for the good of the country.
	They don't come here for principle.
	They come here to make money on their investment.
	And when they come to Washington with this plan in particular, they see two things in my view.
	They see forced new customers and they see guaranteed payments.
	There you go.
	So there's going to be a mandatory screening of your kid for mental illness.
	It's probably going to happen as a prerequisite for going to school.
	And they're going to find lots of stuff wrong with you, and you're going to get drugs.
	Oh, yeah.
	Everybody's mentally ill from their perspective.
	Yep.
	So do you ever get mad at mommy?
	Yeah, I got mad at her the other day.
	Oh, well, Ritalin for you.
	Yeah, yeah.
	That'd be drugged, kid.
	I don't like to take drugs.
	Resistance, that's terrible.
	Are you doing the Twits today?
	No.
	Oh, that's too bad.
	Because, you'll recall, the last time I was on Twit, in 1937, I blew Leo away by saying that Google Voice, and Google in general, was already listening to us through our computers.
	And I'm sure you saw the news, right?
	And they'll be talking about it today, I'm sure.
	Probably.
	That Google was awarded a patent for advertising based on environmental conditions gathered through a device sensors.
	So they're going to be listening to your phone calls.
	If you have Google Voice installed, uninstall it.
	And I was right.
	The microphone, everyone gets a big kick out of it.
	My laptop's got a little camera on it, like all the rest of them.
	And like every camera I have on all these monitors, I have a little piece of gaffer's tape right over it.
	Right.
	But the microphone is the other one now.
	Yeah, I probably should gaffer tape those things, too.
	I don't think that works.
	Yeah, the gaffer's tape will keep...
	Those mics are not that great.
	I think you should snip the wire.
	I'd have to go in.
	Forget it.
	Go in and snip the wire.
	Snip the wire, the display goes out.
	I'm like, you know, I'm not going to do it.
	Yeah, it's groovy, man.
	Oh, wow.
	We'll have some software to monitor that crap.
	I hope so.
	I hope so.
	I'm running Ubuntu now on my personal machine.
	You say this.
	Yeah, I am.
	Not on the studio machine.
	No, you can't.
	It's too late for that.
	Yeah, but am I too late?
	I got a system set up.
	It's good.
	Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
	It's too late.
	You get a system set up, you got a system.
	You can't just jump around.
	No.
	Well, I could, but it's just not there yet.
	But yeah, I run it on my MacBook Air.
	It's great.
	I love it.
	I trust it.
	You're running Ubuntu on a MacBook Air?
	Yeah.
	My setup is called Mountain Goat.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	You like it?
	I told you about this.
	I've been using this for over a month now.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's great.
	And you know what?
	Firefox is fast on Ubuntu.
	You know, on Mac and Windows, you know, it's like stuttering.
	And when it has to play Flash, Flash is freaking out.
	And then, you know, your browser slows everything down.
	You don't have that?
	Yeah, I do.
	Yeah, but on Ubuntu, amazing.
	Speed.
	And Thunderbird, I'm using that as the email client.
	The thing is amazing.
	I had no idea how good that was.
	And it maintains a database of all your emails, so if you want to search, it's really fast.
	Faster than what I had before.
	It's good.
	It's good stuff.
	I have not yet to bring myself to jumping all the way over.
	I do use one of the Ubuntu-like word processors, which I just happen to like a lot, and the OpenOffice one.
	I use OpenOffice, too.
	But the problem is I have is I do a lot of work on Photoshop and Illustrator and I can't.
	The gimp, man.
	The gimp.
	Remember we had this conversation?
	The gimp is no good and the gimp doesn't do Illustrator stuff.
	The gimp is great.
	You need the gimp.
	The gimp is bad.
	I think the gimp is for you.
	You just like saying it.
	I do.
	It's something about the gimp.
	All right.
	I think that's it.
	There's actually something I want you guys to check out in the show notes, 394.nashownotes.com.
	It's the Monsanto Kids Biotech Basics Activity Book.
	I'm sure you've seen this, John.
	Yes, I have.
	It's awesome, isn't it?
	We use it for homeschooling.
	Yeah, that way your kids won't have to take drugs because it's actually good for them.
	It's all the good stuff right there in the Monsanto Kids Biotech Basics Activity Book.
	Make sure you check that out in the show notes under the Biodiversité under clips and stuff.
	No NAPU today, no Agenda's Producers update on the stream, so y'all can do whatever you want.
	Have some time off.
	And what we didn't get to, which we might get to in another future show, is apparently in China's Guangdong province.
	Yeah.
	The delicacy there, if you're going to go out and have a nice dinner, is deep-fried mice.
	Deep-fried mice.
	That would be a key word for the week.
	I think I've seen a food truck in Austin that has that.
	If not, it's another business opportunity.
	And we're going to have to look at these if we don't get donations for Thursday.
	According to customer Mo Lin, I've been eating mice for 10 years with no ill effects.
	You can fry them, roast them, or boil them.
	They're very sweet and tasty.
	Coming to you from the Drone Star State here in the capital.
	It's Austin, Texas.
	In the morning, everybody.
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