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421: Don't Be Nosey

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	Hey you with a slide whistle!
	Get in the camp!
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, June 28, 2012.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 421.
	This is No Agenda.
	I'm voiding the lethal munchies here at Cam MoFo in the capital of the Drone Star State.
	It's Austin Tejas in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where CNN tells me that the Obamacare was struck down, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	In the morning.
	No, they're saying exactly the opposite.
	I'm so confused.
	Well, they said it was struck down.
	No, then they said it was struck up.
	Well, I guess they made a mistake.
	It's because no one really understands the 90 pages.
	That's why.
	No, it's because they had the story ready to roll.
	You know, because they pre-write everything.
	In fact, they have your obituary ready.
	Yeah, everybody's obituary is ready.
	Days in advance, especially once you get past a certain age.
	Mine, they don't care about, but the president, the vice president, everybody.
	Nora Ephron.
	Especially celebrities.
	All the celebrities.
	You can bet that Lindsay Lohan's obituary has been written two or three times.
	Oh, yeah.
	So somebody hits the big red button, and the story goes.
	Yep.
	Yeah, so I can't even have an opinion until I've read the documents, but of course I had no time this morning.
	How can you distill 90 pages of opinion in like three seconds?
	It's so funny.
	I was watching in the background.
	I had some of the footage on of different news networks, and you see all these news hounds tripping down the steps of the Supreme Court to get to their desk to analyze.
	Like, you know, it's going to take a little bit more than that.
	But what I understand, just from the disinformation that's been given to me, and I'm sure we'll really find out.
	I mean, you know, I love this stuff, right?
	Government legislation analysts.
	I can't wait to read.
	I mean, that to me is porn.
	Like 90 pages, that's, oh, my God, that's better than 50.
	What I think they're saying about the mandate, which is the main, I guess one of the main things here, is that it's okay if it's a tax, but not if it's a forced thing for which you can go to jail, which I think is kind of the same thing.
	If you don't pay your taxes, you go to jail.
	Yeah.
	No, I think that, well, that's my understanding is that Roberts, who switched sides on this thing, said, you know, he just redefined it.
	He says, this is a tax.
	But that was actually the one thing that they kept, remember we had those clips and we were laughing about it because the lawyer arguing for the upholding this is constitutional kept saying tax, tax, tax, and then I'm not sure, maybe it was Roberts who said, hey, you keep saying it's a tax, but it's not supposed to be a tax.
	Remember, this was the whole thing that it was kind of hidden there.
	That it was like, well, it's not a tax, but the IRS are the ones who are going to...
	Right.
	It proves it's a tax.
	Yeah.
	And we kind of called...
	Let me see if I can find that.
	Let me see if I go to search.nashownotes.com.
	The IRS aspect of this has been overlooked in the argument.
	But Obama just wants to say it's not a tax, because he says, no, I'm not going to raise taxes on the public.
	And so he says, no, this isn't a tax, it's something else.
	And then this is a fee, and this is a surcharge, and this is this and that, and it's just still taxes.
	Right.
	But then I was actually watching CNBC more, and it looked like stocks went down on all the insurance companies.
	Those are the guys who actually...
	Why?
	Well, because they probably have real analysts.
	They're looking at real news.
	Let me see what the...
	Look at the stock market.
	Yeah, that was kind of interesting.
	I mean, that's just follow the money if you want the truth.
	So it was down a complete percent.
	But that doesn't mean anything.
	It happens for millions of reasons.
	And who's on Buffett now?
	Anyway, we'll have more on that on Sunday.
	John, it's so chilly here in Austin.
	It's only 104.
	I don't know what to do with that.
	Oh, you're finally getting into the summer.
	You haven't been through a Texas summer.
	I don't know what to do with myself.
	It's like, honey, it's 104.
	Grab the blankets.
	You know, it's not really a...
	I mean, it's a...
	You can live with it.
	For some reason, Texas temperatures...
	It's not that bad, no.
	It's a dry heat.
	The only problem is the stupid effing Range Rover...
	You know, it's made for British climate.
	And so, you know, if you're...
	It just overheats?
	No, no, no.
	We took care of that after the catastrophic water pump failure.
	But everything in the Range Rover, and this one was in 1999, and they were already doing all this electronics crap.
	Oh, yeah.
	I mean, you hear people with new Range Rovers these days, you know, the chair stopped working, all kinds...
	I mean, I hate these cars.
	Although it was a nice cruiser coming over from California.
	When it runs, it runs great.
	But...
	But the air conditioning decides, and I think it's because it's all based on the relays and I actually upgraded the relay box so they don't melt away.
	Yeah, when it's really hot out, the air conditioner doesn't work.
	Yeah, it's kind of stupid.
	It's exactly what you don't want to happen.
	And Miss Mickey, she sits in traffic, she travels at weird times, and she drives a lot, actually.
	And she panics, and understandably so.
	If you're in the car and all of a sudden it's like, hey, what do I feel?
	And then the little book light comes on, which means you have to hook it up to a computer or something's broken.
	And then it becomes 104 in the car, and you're in traffic and you can't get off the road.
	It's a little scary.
	It's a little angsty, to say the least.
	So anyway, I don't know what to do.
	It's just a stupid car.
	Bring ice.
	Put a...
	I told her don't drive.
	Just stay home.
	A cooler in the backseat and have ice in there.
	I said, for now, I said, just don't drive.
	Just stay home with me.
	Take care of me.
	That's all I need to do.
	Well, don't worry about it because it'll probably, there's 100 plus degrees in that part of the country.
	It only goes on for about two or three months, so it's not anything to be too concerned about.
	It's going to add.
	And we have a nice little break because we're about two weeks away from our trip for the wedding and the party in Amsterdam.
	And then when we come back, we pretty much want to go into the fires of Colorado on the Hot Pockets 2009 tour.
	Although, we still don't have a trailer for the trip.
	I love how people keep sending me emails like, hey, trailer for Hot Pockets.
	You know, I'm like, oh, cool.
	And I immediately go look.
	And they have, it's like a joke email.
	It's like, hey, you could get this little teardrop thing for only four grand.
	You know, like the trailer.
	I love that teardrop thing.
	You can build it yourself.
	Yeah, well, we know.
	We know our producers in Ohio built one.
	Um...
	But it's not really what we're looking for.
	It's not what we're trying to accomplish.
	We really need a trailer.
	Otherwise, you know, maybe people don't want to see us.
	Maybe they don't care.
	I don't know.
	Maybe not that many of our listeners are into RVing because they're the ones who don't listen to us.
	But we don't want an RV. That's the whole thing.
	We don't want an RV. We want a trailer.
	There's plenty of trailers out there.
	Just need one in Texas.
	Anyway, I'm just going to start propagating the news.
	This Friday, 8 p.m., here in Austin, Texas, in...
	What's the name of...
	There's a bar in the W Hotel.
	What's the name of it?
	Hold on a second.
	The bar in the W. It has a name.
	We're going to do a meetup.
	So anyone who's in the area, if you want to come by and have a drink.
	Douchebags, that's the name.
	No, it's not.
	Actually, the W here is not douchebaggery.
	Interestingly enough.
	Well, that's a first.
	No, it is.
	People are really nice, actually, I have to say.
	Let me see.
	The name of it is...
	Trace.
	What?
	Trace.
	Tango Romeo Alpha Sierra Echo.
	Trace?
	Trace.
	What is that?
	What's the meaning of this?
	I have no idea.
	I have no idea.
	But it's a cool little bar and you can...
	It's going to have a meet-up in Austin?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, maybe we spread the word that we need a trailer.
	Well, it turns out there's a guy from Holland is in town, Todd Cochran, you know the guy who runs Blueberry Networks?
	No.
	Yeah, he's from Hawaii.
	He's in Austin.
	And he's like, hey, let's have drinks.
	And we don't want to leave the house.
	We don't want to go anywhere.
	We've got better things to do, like having sex without you people around.
	And it's like, well, if there's two guys in town, why don't we just do a meetup?
	I love Ms.
	Mickey.
	She's like, yeah, great, let's do a meet-up.
	So there you go.
	A meet-up.
	A meet-up.
	On Twitter, you'd be also a meet-up and a tweet-up.
	A true meet-up.
	I tweeted it last night.
	I don't think, maybe it was too late for people to see it.
	In the morning, Bobby Eden, she seems to be listening.
	Sorry?
	Bobby Eden, official porn star of the show.
	Oh, Bobby Eden.
	Yeah, Bobby Eden.
	She's checking in.
	Anyway, big news.
	I think we called it once again.
	A surprising toxicology report in that gruesome case of cannibalism in Florida.
	The report shows that marijuana was the only drug found in Rudy Eugene's body.
	He's the man who was shot and killed by police as he chewed off the face of another man.
	Chew it all!
	The attack was caught on a security camera, had raised speculation that Eugene may have been high on a drug called bath salts, but today's report ruled that out and also ruled out alcohol and prescription drugs.
	Eugene's victim, Ronald Poppo, is recovering, and the reason that he did that gruesome act now is still very much unknown.
	Wow, I can't believe it.
	All the news media were wrong.
	How is it possible?
	They were so sure.
	Bath salts, bath salts, bath salts.
	Let's talk about bath salts.
	Oh, it's even better.
	It's weed.
	Sure, sure.
	Listen, I can claim to be an expert on weed.
	I've heard you get the munchies on weed.
	But this is ridiculous.
	Maybe the guy had jam on his face.
	And she still has to say...
	How about this?
	The guy was down and out anyway, so he probably just ate a peanut butter sandwich.
	Like, hey, let me have that peanut butter sandwich.
	Jelly sandwich, and the guy smelled it, and that was the end.
	Well, no, but there's more, and now we have in Waco, Texas, report.
	22-year-old man was arrested Monday after a bizarre episode in which police claim he tried to eat his family's dog in a zombie-style attack, and he was growling at his neighbor.
	Now, it's just so obvious that this is PR for all the zombie movies coming out.
	But at the same time, you know, I think that it'll happen.
	We'll find that it's going to show up any day now that the government is going to sell legal weed and they're going to take care of it and all the homegrown stuff is going to be no good.
	Just look at the supplements, right?
	Dietary supplements.
	Your basic vitamin C. It's being outlawed.
	Why?
	Because you got to get the stuff from the government.
	You got to get it all from the government.
	So, you know, we'll get weed for sure.
	It's just, you know, we're going to be getting it from Uncle Sam.
	His version, which will be expensive and regulated.
	There's something else.
	This is, I mean, the pharma industry is just going crazy.
	Don Lemon, the guy we love to hate.
	Yeah.
	Here's his report.
	All right, so listen, I really want you to sit down.
	Are you sitting down?
	Are you sitting down?
	I'm sitting down!
	Take a seat and listen to this.
	It could save someone's life.
	Oh, it could save someone's life.
	You know or love, it is no longer hiding in the shadows of seedy downtown alleyways.
	Heroin has a new home.
	Heroin has a new home, bitches!
	Come on in, neighbor!
	Bringing its highly addictive, oftentimes deadly power to the white picket tree-lined streets of suburbia.
	Here are just some facts for you folks.
	The average age that kids start using heroin?
	Just before their 15th birthday, and most of them are white.
	And more of them prefer to shoot it up than taking it any other way.
	Now, why is this happening, John?
	Do you have any idea why we have the power of heroin taking over our white picket fence-lined streets?
	Huh, I didn't know this was going on.
	Do you have any idea why this is happening?
	Well, I mean, the real reason would be they've got to move some of the product that they're making out of Afghanistan.
	Well, yeah, and how do you make one product more attractive than the other?
	You popularize it.
	Yes, and?
	Well, go on, tell me.
	Free market?
	I'm sorry, hold on a second.
	I got the world's largest garbage truck going past the house.
	I couldn't hear a word you said.
	It's all about pricing, Joe.
	It's all about the pricing.
	Check it out.
	Why the increase here?
	It's cheaper than pills.
	Drug agents say the crackdown of oxycodone and other pain pills have made pills way more expensive for users.
	Ah, they're trying to balance out the market.
	Exactly.
	And we know we have a great crop this year in Papistan.
	We've got all of our troops protecting the field, so it's cheap.
	It's cheap.
	Just bring it on in.
	And of course, the pharmaceutical industry is seeing this.
	And they're like, well, we've just got to jump on this one.
	But ABC... The Compromise news organization, they had pretty much the best commercial I've ever seen for pills.
	This was fantastic.
	Revealing how far they'll go to have it all.
	Mothers and wives juggling all the demands of work and home with a pill that's being called Mother's New Little Helper.
	It has been exploding in popularity among women in their 20s and 30s.
	In just eight years, the number of prescriptions is up 750%.
	It's a bonanza!
	What could it be?
	But as ABC's Dan Harris reports, using that pill may carry a high price.
	May.
	Not necessarily, because we're ABC. You know, we've got the pharmaceutical industry paying for this report, so it may.
	But listen to all the benefits, bitches.
	They are moms in the shadows all over America, drowning in their daily responsibilities.
	I'm a single mom of three.
	We received a wave of anonymous voicemails and emails from a hidden underworld of mothers who have found what they say is a secret way to do it all.
	I love the hidden underworld of mothers.
	Can I get in that club?
	Adderall.
	And these women don't have ADHD. They say they need Adderall simply to be better mothers.
	Now this is...
	Oh, that's terrible.
	This is what, of course, I discovered when I tried one of these.
	I mean, I've never done anything other than weed.
	And I've had a Vicodin after the dentist.
	I took an aspirin once.
	A Tylenol.
	Let me think.
	Vitamin C. And I've also taken a Vitamin B once.
	Only once.
	And then I also took a pill somebody gave me at a bar.
	Dude, once I OD'd on D. I OD'd.
	But, you know, so once I took one of these pills, and we talked about it on the show, I was tripping out for like six hours, and like, this must be...
	I thought it was Ritalin you took.
	No, no, no, it was Adderall.
	No, it wasn't?
	Vyvanse.
	It's all the same thing.
	I was tripping out for six hours.
	I took the pill and I was tripping out, man.
	I was totally wired, dude.
	We persuaded one of these moms to step out of the shadows.
	Her name?
	Betsy Degree.
	By the way, chat room.
	Shut up.
	We don't talk about Supreme Court decision before we've read the frickin' decision.
	Go watch CNN. Go away.
	Suburban Minneapolis.
	I grew up in a house where my mom was very neat and everything was really clean and beautiful dinners every night and that didn't come naturally for me.
	No, I needed some coke.
	Hi, sweetie.
	Several years ago, one of Betsy's children was prescribed Adderall for ADHD. And no question.
	In a moment of desperation, she stole a pill from her own child and she says it worked.
	I was able to get all the stuff done around the house.
	I was able to But here comes the commercial.
	This is the interesting part of this report.
	It's already a commercial.
	What?
	It's already a commercial.
	She says she took the pill, she got all this work done.
	Wait, it gets better.
	...and have everything perfect.
	Did it make you feel like super mom?
	It did.
	Woohoo!
	You said that you would go from eight undoable loads of laundry to...
	Getting it out and staying up till 3 a.m.
	I'm already there, baby.
	Getting it all done.
	She says she thought she'd only take it once.
	I couldn't stop.
	I could not stop taking them.
	I would just be like, okay, I'm just going to do it one more time.
	When she ran out, she had to trick the family doctor into writing more prescriptions.
	I would call and say we lost him.
	I would...
	This is the guide.
	...call and say that dose isn't right.
	You were trying every trick in the book.
	Every trick in the book.
	In fact...
	This need for trickery has given rise to a whole online ecosystem.
	Check this out.
	If you go to Yahoo and type in the words...
	Are you following along, moms?
	How do I get my doctor to prescribe Adderall...
	You will literally get tens of millions of results.
	Joni Gamil, a registered nurse, started taking Adderall after finding a book that told her how to lie to her doctor.
	It's on Amazon.
	To get the drug.
	It's on my Kindle.
	Your life becomes a squirrel just looking for that nut.
	What a commercial.
	By the way, I interviewed the most ADHD guy in the world yesterday for the big book show.
	Yeah?
	Joe Pantoliano.
	You know who he is?
	No.
	He's a very famous actor.
	He was Cypher in The Matrix.
	He had a bald head, beard.
	I'd probably recognize him if I saw him.
	Oh, yeah.
	So he wrote this book called Asylum, and it's all about his ADHD and his acting career.
	I can't wait to get it.
	I've got to edit that.
	Was he zoned out when he was talking to you?
	He was completely ADHD. It was hilarious.
	So he was bored stiff?
	No, he was just jumping from left to right.
	It was the wackiest interview I've ever done.
	He was in The Sopranos.
	Joey Pants.
	Now I have to see what he looks like.
	What's his name again?
	Pantoliano.
	Pantoliano?
	Yeah, that's Italian for pants.
	Pantoliano.
	Joe Pantoliano.
	Joe?
	Joe.
	Joe.
	Joe Pantoliano.
	Oh, that guy.
	Yeah, that guy.
	Yeah, yeah, he's famous.
	Yeah.
	It was great.
	He's the guy who said, whore.
	Oh, yeah.
	He's just a whore.
	So he wasn't on Skype.
	And then my buddy in L.A. who books all this stuff, he gives me his home number, so I call him up.
	And he's like, hey, Adam, yeah.
	He's like, you know, I can't.
	There's the Internet.
	I don't.
	You know, he's 60.
	I can't.
	But he's like, and I got rid of cable.
	I hated the evil crap.
	You know, I only got internet here, and now it doesn't work, and my iPad, and I'm so confused.
	And then he's calling his daughter.
	He said, Melody, Melody!
	Melody, get over here!
	I'll break your legs!
	I'm like, I'm living this guy's life.
	It was hilarious.
	Took an hour and a half to get him up and running.
	Anyway, that's coming.
	All a part of our extra service here at the No Agenda program.
	The best podcast in the universe coming to you twice a week.
	On one side from Gitmo Nation, West Coast, John C. Dvorak here in the capital of the Drone Star State.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	In the morning to you, John.
	In the morning to you, Adam Curry.
	In the morning to all ships at sea.
	Boots on the ground, subs in the water, and feet.
	Washington Shore.
	And, of course, all of our human resources in our chat room, who apparently are more interested in...
	Go watch CNN if you want to know about that.
	You know, I don't think that there's a discussion worth having.
	No!
	First of all, it's not until the government...
	It's not even interesting.
	Who cares?
	The government legislation analyst needs to read, and then we'll see if there's something to talk about.
	Yeah, if there's something in there interesting, but right now all I see is just a bill that's already been passed, that's already been put into play, and the Supreme Court said it's okay to continue on your merry way.
	So what?
	Yeah.
	Exactly.
	I mean, there's good crap going on all over the world, and we're going to talk about some, you know, Supreme Court decision.
	How dull do you think this show wants to be?
	We want to just go and write down the toilet.
	You may want to reclassify.
	Turn off that chat room.
	You may want to reclassify.
	It's not like Leo's chat room where they actually, you know, kick people out.
	Noagendastream.com, noagendachat.net.
	Our homepage is at noagendashow.com.
	And now also available in the new iTunes podcast, the new Apple iPhone podcast app.
	Conveniently, we are featured under travel and culture.
	Well, we are culture.
	But the funny thing is, if you search for Dvorak, I'm sure you've gotten this email from someone.
	You get dork.
	You get dork.
	Did you mean dork?
	Yes.
	No results.
	No show results.
	Just, did you mean dork?
	Yeah, I only have about six, seven shows, so that works really well.
	And also looks like the summer is really kicking in.
	Looks like we were a bit low today on donations.
	Well, we should thank our executive producers, if nothing else.
	Yes.
	Well, we can always do that.
	Who do you have?
	Do we have some people coming in here, checking in, and supporting our value-for-value model, commercial-free?
	Yeah, I'm telling you somebody with a very long story.
	Oh, okay.
	He's our top guy.
	It's Matt in Crescent City, California, $4.22.60.
	Yeah.
	Bath salts may be a good chance.
	Do you have a bath salt?
	What is this?
	Hold on a second.
	I think he was high on bath salts when he donated.
	Drunk donations are getting a bit old, so I figure a donation on bath salts might be a good change of pace.
	John, do you have a bath salt addict voice?
	Maybe this could be it right here.
	I don't think so.
	No.
	You could conjure up?
	No.
	It's precisely 312 in the morning.
	I've ingested large quantities of bath salts.
	I doubt it.
	Yeah.
	I found them under my bathroom sink in his bag and said, okay, now he's just being silly.
	Yeah.
	He's updating his monthly donation to 1212 in honor of the year.
	This donation brings me to a community, so it's going to be a night.
	We've got that.
	Oh, 1-2-3-4-5-6 is total amount donated to the program.
	1-2-3-4-5-6.
	If people need your show now more than ever, yes, take your deconstruction tricks and make some cash on mattress stocks and Facebook, but please keep the show coming.
	The value-for-value model may be difficult, and our cumulative donations are probably not enough to compare to the cash you'd be making by trading your information, but we're nicer than those people, which is true.
	By the way, great clip of the week on Thursday with the representative Polis Lionheart hoping for a $420 rich show today.
	This is the donation that came in late.
	Okay, so just to summarize, that was that.
	What does he want?
	He wants little girl shut up slave karma for his new niece Edna.
	Here's to hoping her temporary innocence won't be jarred too quickly into slavery.
	Yeah, good luck with that.
	Alright, so let's roll out one of those.
	Shut up slave!
	You've got karma.
	Sir Melanson and Tigard.
	It's always the Knights.
	The Knights are always there to help us, even in the slow times.
	$420.
	This is the second donation of $62.26.
	Oh, and there was a note in the second donation that gets me to a total.
	This is his accounting.
	He's actually given us $5,000 total.
	Wow!
	He has a few Knights to be given to his friends.
	Well, no, he has a whole garrison, right?
	Oh, is he the garrison?
	No.
	Yeah, I think he is.
	And Tigard?
	Tie guard, Oregon, my friend.
	Now I don't know.
	Wow.
	Well, he's a patron.
	He's not just a knight.
	He's a patron.
	Yeah, he's gone up.
	He'll get a barony shortly.
	Oregon.
	That's a good barony.
	The whole state.
	It's beautiful.
	Yeah, I don't see anybody else chiming in from Oregon at that level.
	I could be wrong.
	Marty Frasu, another executive producer, sorry, in Van Nuys, 33333, finally.
	My wife Linda and I are both huge No Agenda fans.
	Good for her.
	I would love you to thank Linda Frasu for the donation.
	Last name is pronounced Frasu.
	It's Basque.
	I think she has a crush on JCD. He's gonna find out.
	If in the throes of passion she says, oh Buzzkill, oh Buzzkill, oh Buzzkill, oh yeah.
	Dean Bertram, Sir Dean Bertram in Accra, Ghana.
	Here's my 419 Ghana SETI contribution from Sir Dean.
	Thank you.
	214.86.
	He'll be an associate executive producer.
	And that would be it for today's show for our executive associate executive producer.
	For show 421, we have show 422 coming up, but there's also a palindromic show 424, which could be interesting for people who like to give on the numbers.
	I want to thank them and everybody else who contributed to the show.
	We'll mention it later in the show.
	Dvorak.org slash NA is the place to go.
	And there's also a newsletter that came out.
	I hope you read it.
	And channeldvorak.com slash NA is another place you can help us by donating there.
	Two quick questions.
	PR mentions, first I was asked to mention that there's a LinkedIn group for No Agenda with something like 250 members.
	I don't do LinkedIn, so I'm not a member of that, but that does seem to be a place where people like to connect with each other.
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	Didn't we have another gunsmith that was...
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	100% of the proceeds, though, goes to the show.
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	Come on, Lizzie, say it with me now.
	Shut up, Wade.
	So to reiterate what we talked about right at the beginning of the show, there's an article here in The Economist from April.
	The United Nations is public this year's forecast for the Afghan opium crop, and the news is not good.
	Despite all the efforts to reduce cultivation, it looks likely to rise again.
	How can it be?
	I don't understand.
	What a coincidence!
	You put all of those troops near the fields and they just grow and grow and grow?
	I don't get it.
	How is it possible?
	I mean, you don't think this would be shipped in on an army aircraft or anything, do you, John?
	That couldn't be possible.
	The peak is still lower than the absolute peak, which was 2007.
	So we should look into what was going on in 2007.
	That was Bush's last year.
	The retirement fund.
	Hey, let's kick it off here with another installment of We Fuck!
	Are we going to go back to the soccer games?
	No, we suck.
	No, we're going to get that in a second.
	So on the previous episode, a lot of people picked up on this.
	We need a jingle for we suck.
	Yeah, someone will check in.
	This is the mea culpa.
	Every news organization does this, of course.
	New York Times has to do it all the time, and CNN had to do it this morning when they wrongly reported that the Supreme Court struck down Obamacare.
	But we're actually proud of it.
	Yeah, why not?
	Yeah, we're proud because, you know, it shows you that people are actually paying attention.
	So we played a clip, let me see if I can bring up this clip here, of Kofi Annan.
	And you thought, and I agreed with you, that he was talking about sovereign population.
	It is time for countries of influence to raise a level of pressure on the parties on the ground and to persuade them that it is in their interest to stop the killing and start talking.
	When I briefed the Security Council last time, actually earlier this month, I said as we move forward, we should keep our goals firmly in view.
	To stop the killing, help the suffering population.
	Right.
	A lot of people said, hey, he didn't say sovereign population.
	He said suffering population.
	What?
	Yeah.
	And I went back and I've listened to it four times now and I think they're right.
	I think it's suffering population, not sovereign.
	You want to hear it again?
	Just that little bit there?
	Yeah.
	We should keep our goals firmly in view.
	To stop the killing, help the suffering population.
	Suffering.
	Suffering?
	Yeah, it's just the way he talks.
	Suffering succotash.
	Yeah, that was the comment I got a lot.
	Well, I still like the term.
	I think, yeah, we're just going to use it.
	Sovereign population.
	Now, kind of in the we suck category, or specifically I suck, this just goes to show how little we know about professional sports.
	Certainly, they're foosball in this case.
	Because I was saying, you know, it's going to be Germany against Italy.
	That technically is not even possible because they're in the same group.
	Oh, you made a blunder.
	Well, the way it turns out, they actually are playing today.
	And this is for the semifinals.
	Yesterday, we had Portugal against Spain.
	Right.
	And I just want to point out for people who are new to the program, for Euro 2012, we don't give a crap about the game.
	We just want to, we believe that all these professional sports are rigged.
	And in the past, it has always been the country that needed the biggest boost economically and culturally and just psychologically would be the winner.
	And we've been very accurate in calling this.
	Now this year it's interesting in Europe because all the money is in Germany.
	Ms.
	is Mickey, who's joined in on this, believes that Germany will win just to prove the point and to start World War III off.
	That they are the boss.
	Yeah.
	And by the way, do you notice that the pigs are all in the final four?
	So we've got, if you substitute Ireland for Italy, it's Portugal.
	These were the five.
	What's that for Germany?
	No, P-I-G-S.
	Portugal, Italy, Germany, Spain.
	Greece is G. Well, it depends on what you want it to be.
	And the pigs.
	Yeah, but the Germans are now new pigs.
	Well, they're not, really.
	It's bullcrap.
	Yeah, you're right.
	But here's what I'm seeing.
	It's over no matter what.
	Because we know now that Italy is teetering on the brink.
	They're the seventh largest economy in the world, so if they go, then the whole world goes down.
	So, today, Greece against Italy, or Germany against Italy, it doesn't matter who wins, because if Greece loses today, then we have Spain versus Italy in the finals, so either one of those countries is going to be very unhappy.
	If Germany wins, and they beat whoever, you know, either Italy or Spain, the world's going to...
	No, no, no, hold on a second.
	It's Germany versus Italy, so that match is going to pit one of those two against Spain.
	Right.
	Right.
	But if Germany loses and you get Italy versus Spain, then it doesn't matter either, because whoever loses is going to bring...
	Imagine the Spaniards, when they lose, they're going to freak out.
	I'm telling you, I've said it all along, Spain's going to win the whole thing again.
	No.
	No.
	You're still sticking with Italy.
	You're sticking with Spain.
	I'm with Italy.
	Miss Mickey's with Germany.
	She's the nihilist.
	This is the funny thing.
	Well, no.
	She's got the most cynical perspective on this.
	That's what's funny.
	You know her.
	This is not Mickey.
	She's always like...
	I think you've corrupted the woman.
	You think?
	Yeah, well, it's about time.
	Anyway, there's a funny report in Spiegel Online.
	It's about time.
	If the Germans win today, the finals is going to be held in Kiev, and it'll be very uncomfortable for Angela Merkel...
	To go there, knowing, of course, that Julia Timoshenko is still in jail.
	So politically, it would be very bad for her to show up there.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, then the Germans have to lose that match.
	See what I'm saying?
	So I think it's Italy.
	You think it's Spain.
	I think we're going to see the Battle of the Bozos, Italy versus Spain.
	And by the way, it was so obvious this was rigged.
	So you have this game, Portugal versus Spain.
	Did you see those shots Ronaldo was taking?
	He missed them.
	They were up by a mile.
	But then at the end...
	I thought these guys were good.
	It wasn't like anyone was hanging off of his back, punching him in the head.
	My grandmother could have made that shot, I tell you.
	But at the end, they go into the penalty kicks, and the coach doesn't even put Ronaldo in there.
	Come on!
	Yeah, what was that all about?
	Rigged!
	It's rigged!
	And then there was a confusion.
	One guy wanted to go and then the other guy showed up and was like, what?
	That was a total psych job.
	No, it's so obviously rigged.
	Well, people always get into huge art.
	Don't email me.
	I'm not going to reply.
	So, anyway, I'm excited.
	People should face the reality of these things being rigged.
	I'm excited.
	I'm excited about it.
	So, Germany can't win.
	We see that now.
	Because, you know, can you imagine Merkel going to Kiev?
	That's not, that's politically bad.
	And I just think Italy is the one, you know.
	We had Mario Monti come out and say, if we don't get Euro bonds, I'm going to quit.
	I'm going to take my bucket and go home.
	I don't think, I think it's going to have to be Spain again.
	They're the ones that have got the teetering on the brink of civil war.
	But in the rest of Euroland, it's beautiful.
	We've got great stuff going on.
	Here's a report Baron von Pelsmacher sent me.
	He sends his regards, by the way.
	Headline in the Belgian newspaper, It's better living in Ethiopia than in Belgium.
	Wow.
	According to the Happy Planet Index, The British New Economics Foundation has determined that the standard of living in Ethiopia is better than Belgium.
	This is bull crap!
	There's a bunch of stories about basically murdering people in Ethiopia.
	Let's see.
	Who comes up with this stuff and why?
	What was the point?
	To make the slaves even more depressed.
	To sell Adderall.
	I don't know.
	But the one that got me, this was a great report.
	It is so bad in the EU that these are the reports on the BBC. Baby crib, the sign says, pointing the way to a journey no mother wants to take.
	In a Berlin suburb, there's a path for desperate mothers unable to cope with their newborn babies.
	This is the baby box.
	Inside, warmth and comfort.
	And in this specialist unit, a new life with adoption.
	Baby hatches aren't a new idea.
	Medieval cathedrals like this one in Italy had windows specially built so mothers could pass their babies through for adoption.
	Foundling wheels, they were called.
	Now they're making a comeback.
	They're making a comeback.
	The baby box.
	It's literally, it's like a little oven.
	And you just, you know, it's like, you get the kid, and they're like, oh, we can't afford this.
	Oh, I'm sorry, honey.
	It's all right.
	I'll take it to the baby box.
	Put it in the baby box.
	Which apparently is not new.
	No, that sounds like a European standard practice.
	Oh my goodness.
	There goes the donations.
	Yeah, right.
	Well, talking about lousy donations, one of the things about marketing you always want to do is you don't want to target a loser.
	You know, a lot of people have a couple products and one's selling like hotcakes and one's not selling.
	But for some reason, the CEO is the head and they think it should be selling.
	So they put all their resources on the dog.
	And I've seen this happen in publishing quite a bit.
	It's a very bad idea because you want to...
	A publishing company will have a cash cow making tons of money and then they start draining the cash cow to put it towards other projects that are dogs.
	In my memoirs, I'll name names on that particular thing.
	So I figure I don't want to put a lot of effort in trying to get donors from India.
	Wait a minute.
	You're not actually trying that, are you?
	So, but I'm going to do, I think we should, one thing we never tried to do with India, which is do real news.
	Oh, you mean real India?
	Okay, hold on a second.
	And now for the real news!
	There's a couple of, there's this hot woman, I can't remember, I can't pronounce her first name, Chopra is her last name.
	Kapoor.
	She's absolutely, you should look her up, she's absolutely gorgeous.
	Kapoor.
	She's a little glib, typical of an Indian actress.
	And this guy Kapoor, who I guess she was dating her sometime, now they've just done a movie together where there's, it's all about reincarnation.
	They had all these, you know, they were lovers in different eras.
	And here's the Bollywood news report right from one of the Indian TV stations.
	In tech hub Bangalore, the duo shared their expectations from the film, which opened to warm response at the box office.
	Chopra, who was rumored to be dating Kapoor some time back, said she could not get a better film to make a comeback with a co-star.
	I'm glad it was with Teddy Medikani.
	I'm glad it was with Shahid because I've always admired him tremendously as an actor.
	And it's always great to work with somebody who gives you that kind of competitive space in a scene that you feel like you can do better work because they're doing such great work.
	So yeah, it's great to be back doing a love story.
	story.
	I've not done a love story in a really long time.
	Dedi Meri Kahaani, which also stars Pachi Desai, Neha Sharma and Rajesh Hirji highlights the idea of soulmate Sanz, Bollywood's favorite theme of reincarnation.
	What a great plot. sniff So I figure this is very similar to the one time we were doing rundowns of sumo wrestling.
	Have that work out for us.
	To get some new audience members.
	I'm hoping that the Indians that listen to this show respond positively with donations.
	I think her name is Priyanka.
	That's the one you're talking about.
	Priyanka Chopra?
	Yeah.
	She is gorgeous.
	Yeah, isn't she?
	Yeah.
	Let me just see.
	Does she have a height listed on her wiki page?
	Of course not.
	No.
	I wouldn't expect it.
	She is very, very pretty.
	Oh, yes!
	Height!
	5'7".
	Hey!
	Hey!
	Why doesn't everybody have their height listed?
	I don't know.
	5'7".
	Hmm.
	What's your height?
	5'17".
	So somebody should put that in your wiki page.
	I'm 6'1".
	They should put that on my wiki page.
	No, you're 5'13".
	That's funnier, man.
	Yeah, it's hilarious.
	Yeah, well, whenever I say, how tall are you anyway, man?
	5'17", they go, because they can't figure it out.
	Idiots.
	So while we're on the real news...
	No, no, no.
	Please don't hurt me anymore.
	You can't.
	Okay, I'll do it later.
	All right.
	Thank you.
	In fact, I'll tell you what.
	Instead of doing it, I have this clip that'll be great for the end of the show.
	I'll explain it about...
	I'll set it up later.
	The Abramoff clip?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, good.
	Because that ties right into some of the stuff I've been researching.
	I don't want to do that just yet, though.
	Let me see.
	What is that?
	Here's...
	You know, so with all this...
	All this bullcrap news going on.
	And, of course, today we have the contempt of Congress vote against Attorney General Eric Holder here in the United States of Gitmo Nation, which probably will not get a lot of play because of the health care ruling.
	And, by the way, what is a contempt of Congress?
	Like, don't do that anymore.
	You're not going to go to jail.
	No.
	There was an executive order that came out.
	Technically, they could go to jail, but they're not going to.
	The president released an executive order, executive order number 13085, for blocking property of the government of the Russian Federation relating to the disposition of highly enriched uranium extracted from nuclear weapons.
	And so this is one of those things where we steal their money.
	And by the way, this is a national emergency has been declared.
	And I haven't heard anyone talk about this at all.
	It just kind of popped up on, I think it was yesterday or end of day Tuesday.
	And what the president is saying here, or what someone wrote for him, is this is concerning the Russian Federation concerning the disposition of highly enriched uranium extracted from nuclear weapons.
	This is an agreement we have with the Russians going back to 1993.
	The HEU agreements provide for the conversion of approximately 500 metric tons of highly enriched uranium contained in Russian nuclear weapons into low enriched uranium for use as fuel in commercial nuclear reactors.
	In furtherance of our national security goals, all heads of the department and agencies of the United States government shall continue to take all appropriate measures within their authority to further the full implementation of the HEU agreements, but apparently the Russians are not doing this, and I think that there's some worry that they are taking this highly enriched uranium and probably going to supply it to Iran.
	I guess that's what this is about, because it is seen as a...
	I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat I think a national emergency is newsworthy Yeah, I'd say so.
	It would be top of the news if you asked me.
	But not a peep.
	And so basically any money that is in the U.S. which might be related to the high enriched uranium projects of the government of the Russian Federation is hereby frozen.
	Secretary of the Treasury can block payments, take away your money, and put your baby in the baby box.
	I don't know.
	There's definitely stuff going on with Russia that is not being covered.
	And I think it must be related to Iran.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, yeah, probably.
	Are you eating something?
	A hard candy.
	Okay.
	I'm just doing it from my throat so I don't start coughing.
	Okay, yeah, I had a little bout of that myself.
	A lot of follow-up from...
	From banking sysadmins, who are producers of this program, actually a varying range of answers to the big NatWest Royal Bank of Scotland Problem where, you know, now we're a week on and they still are having some issues with people getting their money or doing certain transactions.
	Here's the douche, the spokeshole, actually I think he's the CEO of the Royal Bank of Scotland.
	In simple terms, there was a software change which didn't go right.
	And although that itself was put right quickly, there then was a big backlog of things that had to be reprocessed in sequence and that got on top of our technical teams, which is why on Thursday and Friday customers experienced difficulty, which we're well on the way to fixing, but we'll still have some tail.
	Now, the explanation he's giving is consistent with what I saw, and I had a company that did some work for the banking sector in the mid-90s.
	You know, this is like, well, literally we had Windows 95.
	This doesn't give you any idea of how long ago this was in technical terms.
	Right.
	And there were big legacy systems, and we had batch processes that would run overnight with something called settlement.
	Right.
	And these systems would, you know, be crunching all these numbers, make sure all the accounts, everything was straightened out, not just internally, but with other banks.
	But that was in 1995.
	And I've got some sysadmins saying, yeah, no, this is what happens.
	And then if something goes wrong, then, you know, it starts to back up.
	And then it gets, well, this is exactly, listen to the theory that this president is saying.
	So that's broadly what happened, and it's like, I don't know, the landing path at Heathrow or something.
	Once you get out of sequence, it takes a time to get back into sequence, even if the original fault is put right.
	Yeah, but even Heathrow shakes that out in 24 hours.
	So they're still not completely stable.
	But I've gotten also some other emails from some of our banking sysadmins and say that's total bull crap.
	First of all, this happened on a Tuesday afternoon.
	Who doesn't upgrade on a Tuesday afternoon?
	Yeah, really?
	All the upgrades are done over the weekend, usually Saturday or Sunday night.
	Yeah.
	Did you just go all helium on me?
	No, did I? No, you didn't.
	No, don't worry about it.
	Not at all.
	Oh, okay.
	Hey, everybody.
	This is John C. Dvorak on Helium.
	We haven't done this in a while.
	This is Skype at work.
	I love it.
	Perfect.
	High technology doing its thing.
	Do a jingle for us.
	Uh, no.
	Shut up, slave.
	Wait, do it again.
	It cut out.
	No.
	Shut up, slave.
	Anyway, so this...
	Am I still sounding like this or did I? No, no, you're fine.
	Don't worry about it.
	Should I reboot?
	No, just keep it as it is.
	I love it.
	It's too ridiculous.
	It sounds like what you think.
	It sounds perfect.
	This is the way...
	To you.
	This is the way it should always be.
	This makes so much sense to me.
	I'll call you back.
	We'll fix that.
	That was pretty funny.
	Is that okay now?
	Yeah, perfect.
	Anyway, so I think some more modern bank sysadmins checked in and said, no, no, no.
	We have Gold Star Systems.
	You have a system in a data center that writes all the data live to disk, then de-staged to tape.
	Those individual components are all duplicated to remain resilient to failure.
	Data is also being written in real time to another data center elsewhere in the country, connected by huge bandwidth, dedicated fiber links.
	It just does not seem possible...
	Why'd you hang up?
	Don't hang up.
	This is good.
	No, now it's even worse.
	Now you're AM-ing on me.
	Hey there?
	Okay, I think so.
	Hello?
	John?
	John?
	Hey!
	Holy moly.
	We haven't had this problem for a while.
	What's going on?
	I have regular bandwidth.
	It's not on my end, I don't think.
	Hello?
	So...
	I can't hear you.
	Yeah, something's wrong on your end, man.
	Can you hear me?
	Wow.
	Hello.
	I know what we'll do.
	There's one way to get him.
	We'll play the slide whistle.
	Told you it would work.
	You there?
	Wow.
	How long has it been since we've had this problem?
	Oh.
	There you go.
	Can you hear me, John C. DeVore?
	Can you hear me?
	He's helium again.
	Testing.
	That's good.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	If you can hear me.
	I can hear you.
	Let me turn off Skype.
	I'm going to pause the recording for a moment.
	You sound awesome, by the way.
	I'm sure I do.
	So maybe you have to reboot your router or something, because you've got a real problem.
	Yeah, that's a thought.
	Okay, let's take a break.
	Okay, let's take a break.
	Say, we'll be right back, folks.
	We'll be right back, folks.
	You missed an amazing little intermezzo there.
	Yes, I was busy.
	And I didn't record it for the show.
	That was a No Agenda Stream exclusive.
	I jammed with Ringo Starr.
	Is he there?
	Yes, Ringo.
	Ringo was here.
	He did.
	You're 16, you're beautiful in your mind, and I played along on my slide whistle.
	Okay, so you're back.
	We were talking about the banking.
	This basically is...
	Are you still there?
	Yeah.
	This really feels like a bunch of bull crap.
	But there's more things going on that's really weird in the financial sector.
	For instance, more and more you're seeing, and I don't know if this is a function of the merchants or the banks, but you're seeing ATMs not working.
	I've had this happen even in Austin.
	The credit card swipers aren't working.
	I think there's two things.
	One, I really believe there must have been some kind of real issue that is not as simple as this Royal Bank of Scotland or Nat Wester explaining.
	It could even have been, you know, like had some...
	Financial issue.
	I don't know.
	I mean, what a way to keep the money for a couple days, but not handing it out.
	But also, I see a lot of people no longer accepting credit cards or debit cards.
	They just want cash.
	And I think we're going into exactly...
	I haven't seen any of this.
	Oh, wow.
	I hear about it everywhere.
	Well, of course, in Spain, you can't even eat in a restaurant anywhere without paying cash.
	So there's a couple things that could be happening.
	One, people just want cash, which makes total sense.
	Another thing is, credit card terminals aren't working.
	And I have seen this.
	You don't have this at all?
	Do you get out?
	Do you shop?
	I was out of the house last month.
	Yeah, I get out of the house.
	I shop all the time and I use debit and credit cards constantly.
	In fact, just yesterday I was at two or three stores and swiped no problem.
	I've seen problems here.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Bless you.
	Of course, big news not really discussed here is this scandal with Barclays on the Libor, the London interbank overnight rate.
	Can we be following this?
	No.
	Oh my goodness.
	So they got fined like almost three quarters of a billion dollars because they were manipulating the Libor interest rate.
	And in fact, I saw all the bank stocks were way down in the UK today.
	The London interbank overnight rate is essentially what the banks will pay in interest percentage points, and it goes down to basis points, which is a hundredth of a percent, for keeping money overnight.
	Amongst each other.
	And these guys were scamming.
	It was literally like office spaces.
	They were just scamming.
	But this is trillions of dollars at the end of the day.
	And what's worse is these guys get fined.
	I guess they have to pay a half a billion dollars to...
	Our government, Lord knows where that goes, and then I think $100 million total, a little over $100 million to the UK government.
	But this has hurt everyone because your mortgage rate, your car loan, your credit card, all of that is based on LIBOR, isn't it, originally?
	Well, it depends on whether it's a flexible rate or not.
	Everyone has a flexible rate, John.
	Who has a fixed rate?
	Come on.
	I've never seen a car loan that was ever flexible.
	They're all fixed.
	APR, isn't that what flexible is?
	No, no.
	That just refers to the interest rate over a specific period of time.
	Right, but that's all ultimately based on...
	No, but once you sign the bill, once you sign, you're done.
	That's it.
	You're stuck with that.
	Right, but it could...
	When you buy a car, when you buy a house, yeah, you can get a flexible rate.
	Yeah, but that...
	It goes up and down and up and down, but it's generally so low right now.
	But that rate was also determined ultimately by LIBOR. That's not my understanding.
	Okay, well that's the way I, because the way I understand the way the banks really make money is the spread between the LIBOR and then what they can cheat the slaves out of.
	Yeah, but it's again, with the flexible rate loan on a house, it doesn't kick in for like three, four, five, six months after it goes up.
	They just can't fluctuate on it, like your bill changes every month.
	Whoa!
	So it would be caught by then.
	Isn't that exactly...
	The reason that they set it up that way, so this scam doesn't take place.
	Wasn't that exactly what happened with the housing crisis?
	Everyone was like, whoa, now I've got to pay a lot more?
	No, but they took out loans that gave them balloon payments.
	That's what really caused that.
	Okay.
	They bought a house for a low monthly payment.
	After five years, it was going to blossom into some huge payment.
	They did it on speculation, thinking, well, don't worry about it.
	In five years, I'll sell the place and make a fortune or refinance back then.
	The house price goes down.
	Now they get this huge balloon payment.
	So no, it's really not it.
	It's wrong.
	All right.
	I suck.
	No, you don't suck.
	Well, maybe you do.
	But it's...
	I don't think that...
	There's something else going on.
	Well, did you read that Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone article about...
	No, I... You haven't read that?
	Oh...
	Wow.
	What did he say?
	Summarize.
	Okay, it's a very long article.
	The headline was kind of like, the bankers are using mafia tactics with price fixing in order to skim hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars.
	Here's how it works.
	So, the bank will help you put up a bond.
	Let's say you're a municipality and you want to build a new school.
	So let's say that's $50 million and they will help you put up a bond and then that money sits in an account because they're not going to use all $50 million immediately.
	So then they call up a broker, a guy in the middle, and the broker is supposed to go out and find different banks who will give them an interest rate on that.
	But that part of the process was fixed, and they have all these hundreds of hours of tapes of bankers using code like, hey, man, you're a nickel short, whatever.
	So instead of, they were basically divvying up all of these interest rates on giving the municipalities money to a bank, and it would be the difference between 5% or 5.4%.
	So the municipality would get 5% instead of the 5.4%, and then the banker, the middleman, he would get the 0.4% in a kickback in the form of a swap someday later on, which was also known as the big lunch.
	So they had all these code words.
	So the argument here, which is very interesting, is that it was free market because they were still getting 5%, and that's what the market would bear, but...
	But of course, on the other hand, the municipalities, hospitals, schools, old people, grandmothers, etc., were getting screwed out of money that these guys were putting in their pocket, which is kind of the way banking works.
	But then there's also some corruption involved with people taking money and giving it to political campaigns, etc.
	So that mayor would then choose this bank.
	I mean, the whole thing, if you read through it, it's a little bit of a read, but it's pretty disturbing just, you know, how stupid we are that we're sitting in front of stupid podcasts talking on Skype, or we could be making millions just by chatting on the phone cheating people.
	Is Matt Taibbi's next article about how some lawyers are crooked?
	Yeah.
	But you get the general idea.
	Yeah, well, this is not...
	I don't know how anyone could be stunned by this.
	Well, no one cares.
	The story went nowhere.
	Right.
	Nowhere.
	So we're getting...
	I've gotten one call from Gallup about Bank of America.
	It was a bank...
	You could tell, you know, it's a Gallup poll about...
	I don't think it was a poll.
	It was research about what I thought about the Bank of America since I had an account there once.
	And so a couple months go by, so J.C., Buzzkill Jr., got a call on his cell phone, because he has a Bank of America account.
	And we talked about it afterwards, and it turns out the concerns have changed a bit.
	Oh?
	Apparently, the banks, American banks, or at least the Bank of America, are freaked out by the Occupy movement.
	And, specifically, the demands of the Occupy movement of its members to drop all their bank accounts and go to credit unions.
	Right.
	The question seemed to be, are you going to do that?
	Are you sympathetic to Occupy?
	There was a lot of those types of questions where they're trying to figure out how dangerous...
	The bankers are trying to figure out how actually dangerous or not dangerous these occupiers are with some of these...
	You know, threats or not threats.
	Well, maybe they're just trying to hedge their business to find out if they should, like, close your account on you.
	So they called him because he has an account, presumably, and they want to know, you know, are you a risk?
	Are you going to take your money out?
	I'm always, like, reminded of something you might see in The Sopranos where these guys are asking questions and the gangster grabs the microphone and says, John, that's you on the other end.
	I know it.
	We're going to go kill you.
	Yeah, you goomba!
	I always worry about that.
	I don't think so.
	I think they're just trying to figure out.
	I'm thinking the Bank of America will start buying credit unions.
	There's no reason a bank can't own these.
	Is there?
	Yeah, but that kind of ruins the whole idea of it being a credit union.
	Who's going to know?
	Yeah.
	Meanwhile, the central bankers, this has gotten some play, virality speaking, on the interwebs.
	This is a little discussion on MSNBC. About central banks.
	These are a bunch of investment guys, banksters.
	The guy who's leading this show asking the questions is a pretty funny guy, pretty effeminate with a bow tie, which kind of makes credibility hard, like Bill Nye the science guy asking the questions.
	But the question was good and valid, and what came back was probably true.
	There's a lot of risks out here.
	If the ECB does not come with a big bazooka, that may be an even bigger risk.
	So I think investors need to be very cautious in here.
	Does it seem to you, John Batchelor, that the ECB and all the European ministers, mostly what they do is hold summits?
	I think that right now the question is, do we all work for central bankers?
	That's what I want to address to our guest tonight.
	Is this global governance at last?
	Is it one world, the central bankers in charge?
	Jim Urio, you say we've got some downside here, of course.
	I love this.
	This is one world.
	This is New World Order.
	Central bankers rule us at last.
	Jim.
	Direction in the markets.
	Fine.
	But aren't we all just living and dying for what the central banks do?
	Aren't we all just counting on the fact that there's a Bernanke put and that we won't go any lower than, say, 5% down from here?
	Of course we are, because if we look at the economic data, there's nothing to get excited about in that.
	Yesterday we saw some reluctance for the Bernanke Fed to expand their balance sheets and pump more money in.
	But the stock market knows that reluctance is totally different than not willing to do it at all.
	And that's why we saw oil implode and gold trade-off heavily because they're not a protected class.
	If the stock market starts trading off in the 10 to 15 to 20 percent area, the chairman's going to come in and throw some stimulus at it.
	So to answer your question, we are absolutely Absolutely slaves to central banks.
	We'd love to be slaves to the economy, but the economic numbers continue to do nothing but trend lower.
	We're slaves to the central banks!
	Brother.
	If these guys are talking about it...
	Yeah, that means we've got to be talking about something else.
	I thought it was interesting that they actually pull up global governance, and that's what's happening.
	Yeah?
	Yeah, well, the global governance thing is...
	Well, there was a couple of clips.
	I've been listening to all these European and Middle Eastern stations this last week.
	And there's some interesting analysis going on.
	One of the stations that is...
	Quite interesting is Kat Sank.
	Yeah, France 24.
	Van Kat.
	Sorry.
	Van Kat.
	Van Kat.
	What did I say?
	I don't know.
	Kat.
	I don't know what I said.
	It was ridiculous.
	And there was a couple of interesting points.
	Where is this?
	Great.
	It's not on here.
	Good job.
	Is this the right list?
	I don't know.
	What's the name of the clip, man?
	Well, that's a good question.
	I'm looking at the list of the clips.
	There's 13 of them.
	It's not a good question.
	Well, that sucks.
	Oh, here it is.
	Rant about the Euro.
	This is a Van Cat panel.
	Every TV news thing has to have a panel of, you know, their hot panel.
	And there's this guy, some progressive, and he's in French.
	This is a French guy.
	And if you read between the lines, this is really what the thing is all about.
	It's about sovereignty.
	And it's not just about sovereignty.
	It's about giving up your sovereignty.
	And I just don't see how the French...
	Can, out of the blue, really agree to this?
	Giving up their sovereignty to Germany or Belgium?
	Does that make sense to anybody?
	What we need is not a discussion about one is right, one is wrong.
	We need both of them.
	You need austerity, and at the same time, fiscal discipline is better, and at the same time, a growth package.
	And at the same time, you need a transfer of sovereignty, where some countries have difficulties, and at the same time, solidarity, that means mutualization of the debt.
	And the moment is there to stop this fight that is unproductive, what we got the last two years in the European Council.
	Only producing half measures that have worsened the crisis.
	And I think with Mr.
	Hollande, somebody is there maybe who can give another view, a French view on transferring sovereignty.
	I hope.
	I hope that he is not falling into the trap of the old-style French politics and that he knows that also Monet, Schumann, Delors, that's also French tradition in European politics.
	That means a supranational authority on the federal level, on the federal European Union.
	And at the same time then, I think we have to convince Mrs.
	Merkel today, stop.
	Stop it now, and we start the mutualization of debt.
	Otherwise, you shall lose what is the most important for Germany, and that's the Euro, because the Euro is the engine of growth in Germany.
	Okay, now, I got a couple things to say about this.
	First of all, yeah, surprise, surprise that the guy who they elected president in France turns out to be a douchebag shill who wants to sell him down the river.
	Are we really surprised by this?
	I'm not.
	We have the big Eurozone meeting.
	Yet another Eurozone.
	I heard you're Dvorak Horowitz on Plug Show.
	So another big meeting this weekend.
	Friend Rumpoy, Haiku Herman, started out with a 12-page document of what we're going to do.
	It then became a 10-page document, and now it's a 7-page document.
	And of all people, George Soros actually explains in one minute...
	Exactly what is happening.
	Yes.
	Basically, there's an interrelated problem of the banking system and the excessive risk premium on sovereign debt.
	That's a twin.
	They're Siamese twins.
	They are sort of tied together.
	And you have to tackle both.
	And it's recognized that you have to do that.
	And there's now widespread agreement on what to do on the banking side.
	It's the beginning of a banking union.
	And there's a disagreement on the fiscal side.
	And unless that is resolved in the next three days, then I'm afraid the summit could turn out to be a fiasco.
	And that could be actually fatal.
	That could be a fatal...
	I had a bunch of Soros clips for some shows some time back that I just never edited down, where he's speaking to some group, and he is...
	It seems to me, listening to...
	And this clip just confirms this.
	It seems to me that Soros is...
	Soros is a betting man.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	And essentially, and he makes big bets, and he knows, and he bets on all kinds of stuff.
	I think he's been betting against the Euro, and he's doing what he can to help pull the rug out from under it in this very subtle way.
	Do you call that subtle?
	Fatal?
	Using words like fiasco and fatal?
	That's subtle?
	This is new.
	I think it is subtle.
	So here are the points of haiku...
	If your doctor says to you, I think your disease is fatal, I don't call that subtlety.
	Well, it's different than you're going to die.
	Yeah, right.
	Here's the main points I've dissected.
	The document, of course, in the show notes, 421.nashownotes.com.
	There's like seven points here.
	So what they're going to call for now is limits on the amount of debt individual countries can take on.
	Annual national budgets can be vetoed by Brussels if they are likely to mean a country exceeding its debt limits.
	The Eurozone borrowing money collectively can be explored.
	A European Treasury office to be set up to control a central budget and keep an eye on the national budgets, i.e., give us your money, slaves.
	A single European banking regulator and a common scheme guaranteeing bank deposits, like Basel IV at this point, Common policies on employment regulations and levels of taxation, communism, and joint decision-making with national parliaments to give it democratic legitimacy, i.e.
	propaganda.
	This is crazy.
	You can't tell me that when the European Constitution was voted down by France and the Netherlands, and they said, no, we don't want a constitution, and they brought in this Lisbon abortion, that they didn't know this was going to happen.
	It was so obvious.
	This whole thing is one big set.
	Maybe Soros set it up himself.
	Who knows?
	But this thing was always just destined to fail.
	The Dutch Central Bank is now announcing to people, pay off your mortgages as quickly as possible, people.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Why?
	Why are they saying this?
	What's the panic?
	You need to save money because things aren't going to get easier.
	How's saving money paying off your mortgage at extremely high rates?
	I'm giving you the direct quote.
	How do you save money when you just have to spend more?
	They're saying, be aware, because I think interest rates will go up, maybe.
	Be aware things will not get any easier over the coming years.
	The Naval Unserbunk director, Joanna Kellerman, warned on Tuesday.
	She says, people must take into account lower pensions, falling housing prices, and rising health care costs.
	It's a beautiful world.
	It's fantastic.
	Enjoy that.
	And then in Greece, you know, because of course we got the French shill in, this was just so lovely.
	So we get a new Greek government, and the finance minister develops abdominal pains and is quickly replaced by the guy who brought in the euro in the first place.
	How convenient.
	I know the guy was there for what?
	A week?
	Yeah.
	Abdominal pains, yeah, from some guy's thugs coming in and punching him in the gut two or three times.
	That'll give it to you.
	Details of his resignation are unknown.
	However, he was admitted to a hospital last Friday because of intense abdominal pains, dizziness, nausea, sweating, and weakness.
	What poison they used?
	Poison, yeah.
	There's a good poison they got there.
	And then immediately the Greek government has appointed a new finance minister after the first choice resigned.
	You don't just resign because you're nauseous.
	You've got a warning.
	Like, you're out, douche.
	Yanis Stournaris has been appointed.
	His nickname is Mr.
	Euro.
	Because he was part of the team which negotiated his country's entry into the single currency.
	At the time, he was Chief Economic Advisor and aide to former Prime Minister Kostas Simitis when Greece was negotiating entry into the euro in 2001.
	I mean, hello?
	Obvious calling?
	So this is how it goes.
	And I guarantee you, if the whole thing hasn't fallen apart by then, September 12th, when the Dutch have their snap elections, they'll have all the shills coming in as well.
	I mean, look at what we've got.
	I don't understand.
	I mean, yeah, people are angry and they are protesting in many European countries, but they're protesting the wrong things.
	Yeah, it sucks you've got no food and no job, but look at where the problems are coming from.
	Look at who's doing this to you.
	These are the evil people.
	Spain now capital controls.
	No transactions over €2,500 in cash.
	If they catch you, you get a €10,000 fine.
	Well, there's going to be a lot of small transactions then.
	Most of them have already gotten their money out of their Spanish banks.
	Yeah.
	So, I feel really bad.
	I really do.
	It's going to be interesting.
	We'll have some good stories when we're in Amsterdam.
	We'll have some good stories.
	It'll be good.
	Oh, yeah.
	That's definitely going to happen.
	I got my warning.
	I don't know about that Syrian television interview that seemed to be blowing up.
	Let me see.
	Oh, TV studios.
	TV studios got blowed up.
	I don't think that's a good idea for me to go.
	I have a little report here if you want to play the TV station getting blowed up.
	Yeah, let me see.
	Where is it?
	It's in the bottom.
	Yeah.
	Here we go.
	The latest violence hit Syria's state television channel Alekh Baria.
	The regime says terrorists attacked the studios 20 kilometers south of Damascus, killing three journalists and four security guards, while Syrian TV reportedly dropped normal programming and ran live images of the attack.
	Asha Matri sees images from Syrian state TV show the damage after an attack on a privately owned television station 20 kilometers south of Damascus.
	Armed men seized the headquarters of Al-Iqbaria in the town of Drusha at about 4 a.m.
	local time Wednesday.
	They then detonated explosives, destroying part of the building.
	Syria's Minister for Information visited the scene later in the morning and condemned the attack.
	Yeah.
	This is not looking good for my trip.
	So they had, I mean, it seems that all these things that are happening that are bad, I mean, there's always traces back to this anti-government group, whoever they are, nobody knows.
	Yeah, we do.
	They blame the federal government or the regime on all these things.
	Even though they can't really track it to anybody.
	But meanwhile, when they do have something they can trace, it's these bad guys.
	Of course, there's nothing we can do about this situation.
	It has just deteriorated to the point where nobody wants to keep things the way they are.
	So they're going to oust the government in some way, shape, or form.
	Overtake the place.
	And then there's been some good analysis about how small groups of people can...
	Really shake things up in these countries.
	Well, I have a view on this.
	First of all, let's look at the actual facts that are taking place.
	Now, Lucifer Clippity-Clop Clinton was in Helsinki.
	And, of course, we know she was in Helsinki because she was telling the Finns, you're not just going to accept this whole bailout thing, the ESM, because she's part of the cabal bringing down the euro.
	You're going to want collateral.
	And she was there to tighten somebody's balls.
	But then, of course, came the announcement that we're going to have a big meeting this weekend in Geneva.
	Hold on a second.
	It's Clippity Club.
	The message is clear.
	Just Clippity Club.
	Alright, here she is just talking about how horrible it is, and it's just none of it's going to work, and we've got to do something, and now we're going to put together a group outside of the United Nations Security Council for the transition.
	Transition means getting that guy out, putting our guy in, which I guarantee you will be Muslim Brotherhood.
	We believe it embodies the principles needed for any political transition in Syria that could lead to a peaceful, democratic, and representative outcome reflecting the will of the Syrian people.
	If we can meet on the basis of that roadmap, With everyone agreeing before we arrive in Geneva that this will be the document we are endorsing by our presence, then I think a meeting makes a lot of sense.
	And we support it, but we want to ensure that any country that participates firmly supports the envoy's transition plan and his original six-point plan.
	Okay, so the document she's referencing I've not been able to get a hold of, but I guess they're essentially going to say, okay, here's the plan.
	It has nothing to do with the United Nations Security Council.
	I'm also surprised, by the way, that Turkey only invoked the fourth resolution, not the fifth, sixth, or even seventh was what I was expecting.
	And then she threw out this beautiful just list of words that I think we can use over and over again whenever we bring Lucifer Clinton into the picture.
	Painful, tragic, dangerous, difficult.
	We know that.
	Yeah.
	Painful, dangerous, difficult, tragic.
	Thank you for explaining that.
	So here's what I think is happening.
	We have a true push from the Saudis to disrupt this entire region because they've got all of their oil and gas assets and initiatives and they want to just get rid of everything else.
	And they, I think, are goading Erdogan of Turkey to do their dirty work.
	So it's kind of like a proxy war, if you will.
	And he's falling for it.
	He's an idiot.
	And, of course, the U.S. is completely in bed with the Saudis, which I think is dangerous policy for a number of reasons, but it's all based upon money.
	This goes back to George W. Bush.
	He got all the Saudi money, and it's all about money at the end of the day.
	Yeah, most of it's in that book about the Bushes.
	What's the name of that thing again?
	Family Jewels?
	Family of Secrets?
	Family secrets.
	Family secrets, I think.
	Yeah.
	So it's all the Saudi money.
	They love him.
	At one point, if you recall, in the re-election when it was Gore-Bush and Bush won the second term, he actually said it was the Muslim population in Florida that won it for him, which, of course, is bullcrap.
	But this was the kind of thing that he was talking about.
	When did this come out?
	This came out yesterday.
	And by the way, Clinton was also, and still is, I believe, in the Saudi's pocket.
	Yes, that's where his library came from.
	Most of that money comes from.
	Where's that Clinton library and foundation money coming from, really?
	Yeah.
	And then the Obama administration yesterday put out a joint statement by the United States and the United Arab Emirates.
	We remain deeply committed to close consultation and cooperation, i.e., pay me, to promote peace and stability in the Gulf region and the broader Middle East.
	In their meeting at the White House today, President Obama and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nuhayyan Reviewed the full range of regional security issues, including Iran, Syria, terrorism, and energy security.
	So it's all about the Saudi energy industrial complex, if you will.
	And we're in bed with them.
	And I think it's very, very difficult.
	It's a dangerous thing to do.
	I understand that you want money, but I think we're putting a lot of things at risk.
	And there's all kinds of signals that this is what's going on.
	Of course, we had the Syrian jet, which was really, I think, a reconnaissance plane.
	There was no second plane.
	You can't believe anything you hear in the media like, duh.
	But this is completely nuts.
	Here's the tip-off.
	We now have, apparently, soldiers defecting, crossing into Turkey.
	How many soldiers?
	Oh, yeah, baby.
	You've got to know.
	It's 33.
	Of course.
	Tip me off right there.
	Oh, nice one.
	Okay, you get that one.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So we know what's going on.
	I mean, why even mention it?
	Erdogan is now talking about if troops come near the Turkish border.
	So what is he setting up here?
	Like a buffer zone, human corridor?
	You know, this is war talk, and I think he's stupid.
	This could be pretty bad.
	If Turkey and Syria and if everyone gets into that crap over there, we could see a real turmoil in the Middle East.
	And I really, really believe that this is coming from the Saudis.
	And the more I look into it, John, this Muslim Brotherhood thing, I'm not liking it.
	I'm really not liking it.
	I'm not liking the integration.
	I've been looking at...
	Here's something that I picked up.
	This kind of...
	The Muslim Brotherhood.
	These, at one point in our history...
	I was too young.
	We're not aware.
	You've been aware for a lot longer than I have.
	You're a smart guy.
	The Muslim Brotherhood were not the good guys.
	Am I correct?
	No, they've never been the good guys until, I guess, Hillary came along, and now they're the good guys?
	How does that work?
	Well, who is Hillary's body man?
	She has a body double?
	No, you know what I mean.
	Who is the number one top assistant with her all the time?
	Oh, right.
	Her girlfriend.
	Kuma Abedin.
	Kuma's mom, Selah Abedin, has very close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and the new Egyptian dude.
	She, let's see, she worked alongside...
	This would make sense.
	I think we actually have talked about her connection to the Muslim Brotherhood like over a year ago.
	I don't even remember that.
	When we first started talking about her relationship to her husband, Wiener, Anthony Wiener, who was then ousted.
	Yes.
	And we believe, of course, that he's just a beard.
	Well, let me give you an alternate theory.
	Alternate theory, okay?
	So first of all, here we have a Jewish guy, Wiener, marrying a Muslim girl.
	Now, in America, we're like, oh, that's great.
	You know, it's like, you know, black, white, whatever, we all love each other.
	But in Islam, this is kind of frowned upon.
	In fact, I think you would get stoned if this...
	And I'm not talking about the good kind.
	You get buried up to your shoulders and they throw rocks at you.
	So, here's a theory.
	Let's take the lesbian thing out.
	Although, that is my preferred theory because, you know, Khulma is very smoking hot.
	Let's say Anthony Weiner converted to Islam to get married.
	And the reason I say this is it makes so much sense that he, if he really converted to Islam, then you get a free ticket.
	Because you can have as many wives, you can screw around, you can do whatever you want to do.
	And otherwise, this Huma, how could she go to all these different countries and not be accosted for marrying a Jew?
	So maybe this was all...
	Maybe Hillary Clinton has been infiltrated, to coin a phrase.
	And Huma is her handler.
	On behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood.
	So now we have the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt running the show, and we're happy about it.
	It's great.
	Hillary's like, yeah, this is fantastic.
	No, these guys are good.
	I don't recall them ever being good.
	I just don't.
	No, no, no.
	Never.
	And then the other day...
	They're the guys who murdered the German tourists.
	Yes.
	Just to prove a point.
	And then the other day we had a terrorist visiting the State Department, a non-terrorist who came as a part of an Egyptian delegation.
	He got into the White House.
	How did he get into the country?
	With a visa.
	Check this out.
	A visa.
	He's a member of the Gamma al-Islamiyah.
	A terrorist group, a certified on the list in America as a terrorist group.
	And the questions were raised at the State Department in my favorite Victoria Nuland's little spokeshole meetings there.
	And she said, well, I'll get back to you on that.
	I'll figure out how that happened.
	That was obviously a mistake.
	So everyone comes back to it.
	This is a little longer clip, but it's well worth listening to.
	And people are saying, hey, you not only gave a visa to a member of a known terrorist organization, they were in the White House!
	How was that possible?
	Can I go back to Egypt for just one second?
	This is Matt, by the way.
	Love that guy.
	He's great.
	But it's nothing to do with the government.
	It has to do with the visa for the Gama Islamiyah member.
	You said last week that you were looking into the circumstances of how this was issued.
	Have you determined how it happened?
	And are you aware that Representative King has formally asked Homeland Security to find out how he was, in fact, allowed entry, quite separate allowed entry, quite separate from the visa issue?
	On the latter, yes, I've seen the reporting.
	As we promised, we did look into it.
	Unfortunately, you're not going to be happy with me when I tell you that we are not going to get into the details of confidential visa issuance.
	What?
	What?
	You're not going to tell us about it?
	He and the rest of that delegation who were here last week have all now returned to Egypt Well, let's start with the fact that we have an interest in engaging a broad cross-section of Egyptians who are seeking to peacefully shape Egypt's future.
	Really?
	Who says?
	How do we know this?
	This is the Muslim Brotherhood.
	They have killed people.
	The goal of this delegation, as you know, was to have consultations both With think tanks, but also with government folks, with a broad spectrum representing all the colors of Egyptian politics.
	Oh yeah, blah, blah, blah.
	Get to the point where you won't tell us.
	Liberals, Islamists, Salafists, women, Bedouin Christians, we were encouraged that they were willing to travel, that they were open to meetings with us, etc.
	But in terms of specific questions on the visa issuance, I'm not at liberty to get into anything.
	Well, you're saying so...
	The question, and I don't think it's an unreasonable question, it's whether it's a mistake to let somebody who is a self-proclaimed member of such a group in or not.
	It may be that the threshold under the law is higher and that you have to do more than just say, hey, I'm a member of X. You actually have to have a card or, I don't know, pay dues.
	I mean, maybe there are...
	The T-shirt?
	Did you catch that?
	You know what she's saying?
	So the guy says, maybe it's not enough to just say, hey, I'm a terrorist, because that's what the guy said.
	He's a self-proclaimed member of this group.
	Maybe you have to have a card or a certification, and then Newland says, or a t-shirt.
	So apparently you have a t-shirt that says I'm a terrorist.
	Otherwise, you're good to go on the visa.
	I can't believe it.
	This pisses me off.
	I'm trying to get my future wife a visa and I'm in like some kind of holding pattern waiting for the good graces of Janet Napolitano's Department of Homeland Security.
	And this woman works here and makes money and we pay taxes, but you're letting a terrorist with a t-shirt in.
	You know, I bet he has one.
	But the question is whether this is a mistake or not, regardless of, nobody's asking you about the specific details of the issuance, or, you know, it's just, did you make a mistake?
	Again, with regard to this case, we pledged to you that we would look into it.
	We did look into it, but I can't get into any further details with regard to the how, why, where of the issuance for all of the reasons.
	This is good.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You know, ask me some questions.
	Uh, John, um, what would the topic be?
	Can I, is there a particular topic?
	Oh, I got it, I got it, I got it.
	Did you get a free Nexus 7 tablet at Google I.O. yesterday?
	Well, let me, I'll tell you what, I'm going to look into it.
	Okay?
	Now, a week later.
	John, you were going to look into that thing.
	You were going to tell me if you had actually received a free...
	No, I said I was going to look into it.
	I looked into it, and that's that.
	Yeah, but did you actually receive...
	No, I looked into it.
	I said I was going to look into it.
	I looked into it.
	But you can't tell me.
	I mean, is there some kind of...
	No, there's no reason.
	I said I was going to look into it.
	I looked into it, and that's all I can say.
	So that's exactly what's going on.
	Because they don't want, this is going to explode.
	Now, here's what's kind of freaky.
	I was, you know, I've been, I'm very interested in this Fast and Furious case, not about the actual, you know, just the whole process, the contempt of Congress, what does it mean?
	And I really don't like Eric Holder, and I base that on really just looking at the guy saying, you're a douchebag.
	I'm old enough to look at people and go, douchebag.
	You know what that is, right, John?
	That's how we vote on it.
	You get better when you get really old.
	The older you get, the easier it is to spot them.
	Look at that guy, douchebag.
	And so, remember I talked about the Holy...
	What was it called?
	The...
	What was it?
	The Holy Land...
	I don't know.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	We were talking about this the other day.
	It's the Holy Land document.
	So in 2007, they found that there were, you know, like 25 or 30 nonprofit organizations operating in the United States run by the Muslim Brotherhood who were collecting money and were sending that money to Hezbollah like 25 or 30 nonprofit organizations operating in the United States run by the So they were breaking the law.
	And what happened is they found boxes of just all of these front organizations, all the documents, all the bank boxes, I think they're called.
	And if you research this a little bit, which I've done, there were a number of unindicted persons and organizations who basically skipped out on getting prosecuted.
	And I didn't know, I didn't even know about this at all until a couple weeks ago, like a week ago.
	But while I'm listening to the Fast and Furious stuff on C-SPAN, Gohmert, during the Fast and Furious, he's from Arizona, asked this question.
	There is a political aspect to this office.
	It offends me beyond belief.
	Your job is justice, Mr.
	Attorney General.
	It's justice across the board.
	And that is what's been so troublesome around here.
	When we made a request a year ago, here, for the documents that your department has produced to people who were convicted of supporting terrorism.
	They're terrorists.
	And we wanted the documents you gave to the terrorists.
	We're a year later and we still don't have them.
	Why in the world would your department be more considerate of the terrorists than of the people who are members of Congress?
	Who can vote to just completely defund your department?
	It makes no sense.
	So I will ask again.
	And there is no room for a response that, well, it's an ongoing investigation.
	By the way, Gomer's from Texas.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Frank's is from Arizona.
	Yeah, Gomer's from Texas.
	It was the Holy Land Foundation.
	And so they had all these documents.
	There was a lawsuit.
	People were convicted.
	And they showed all of the evidence to the defendants But I guess they've been trying to get these documents to find out what other organizations, I don't know, perhaps tied to the Saudis who we're so in bed with these days, what other organizations were part of this were unnamed defendants.
	So now he's asking for it, and of course Holder is going to give his typical douchebag answer.
	Well, some of these may be classified.
	I'm asking for the documents your department produced to the terrorist supporters convicted in the Holy Land Foundation trial.
	Can we get those documents, just the ones that you gave to the terrorist defendants?
	Well, certainly you can have access to those things that are on the public record that were used in the trial.
	I was also a judge.
	I sat in this Washington D.C. So is that a yes or a no that we will get those documents?
	As I said, I was also a judge and understand the anguish that you go through.
	And just to clear up one thing with regard to the political aspect of this job.
	Yeah, blah, blah, blah.
	So he's not going to give the documents.
	Then we get Franks from Arizona, and he even lays it out a little more clearly.
	Thank you, General.
	Mr.
	Holder, on April 27, 2011, members of this committee asked you to give us information surrounding the decision by Justice.
	To forego prosecution of the unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation case.
	This is the largest terrorism finance case, of course, in U.S. history.
	Now, you refuse to comply with this request, and you're still not prosecuted, despite there being what many consider to be a mountain of evidence against these jihadist groups, at least one of which now says that it's working inside your agency to help advise on the purge of counterterrorism training materials.
	Wait a minute.
	We have terrorists inside the Department of Justice?
	That's what he just said.
	Yeah, that's exactly what he said.
	And this would be ISNA, I-S-N-A, I forget what it stands for, and CARE, C-A-I-R. Yeah.
	And these people are now...
	CARE is a notorious operation that's been around for...
	And they've done a great job of keeping their hands clean.
	Well, yeah, if they're being helped by the Attorney General himself, by these documents being held onto, I want me some documents.
	I want to read some stuff.
	So anyway, so this...
	I'm bothered by all of this, because I've never really looked at this angle of what's going on.
	I've never really, you know, Saudis.
	I thought that was just a Bush thing.
	And then it turns out, you know, Clinton.
	And now we see with this statement, the Obama administration.
	Well, you know, it's just a bunch of incompetent boneheads.
	Or, you know, people working against the best interests of the United States.
	One of the two.
	Isna is the Islamic Society of North America.
	There you go.
	So anyway, I thought the Huma thing was very interesting.
	Her mom, having worked with the new president of Egypt, kind of puts things into a perspective.
	Yeah, kinda.
	Thanks for your input, John.
	I'm going to show myself up by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Show me the documents!
	We show our documents by thanking our donors, including some anonymous fellow, says anonymous, in Hamburg, Deutschland.
	$150.
	I've enjoyed NA for some time and recently my wife also started listening.
	This is good.
	We agree that your podcast is the best podcast in the universe.
	We find ourselves commenting on events of the day with no agenda jingles from time to time.
	We love to propagate the formula more, but it's difficult to get people hooked quickly as we feel it takes a few episodes to get your premises.
	Your rapport and some of the longer-term themes are also difficult to understand to newcomers.
	So a short promo episode might be a good idea.
	You know, show 200.5.
	Yeah, we don't really understand it either, just so you know.
	Yeah, we don't know what we're doing.
	Love the show.
	Here's some value for value.
	Finally, he needs a de-douching for him and his wife and give yourselves some summer donation karma.
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	Roy Pingel in Brooklyn, New York, 1111.
	Thanks for the great shows, incisive decoding, and mentioning of Katastroika.
	Yeah, that's the documentary we talked about.
	Right, and Webster Tarpley.
	I love that guy.
	God forbid, right?
	God forbid.
	But if you were to be removed from the picture, I could work with him.
	You think?
	I know that type of guy.
	You can't work with him.
	By the way, John, my wife, 10-year-old son, and I are going to be in Washington State for 10 days in mid-August.
	We love nature, play, and hiking around.
	We'll spend value for value.
	Any suggestions about lodgings and things to do would be greatly appreciated.
	A new donor could use some karma and some huntsman rap.
	All right, we can do that.
	You've got karma.
	You got any ideas for him?
	Yeah, if he sends me an email, John at Dvorak.org, I'll give him some advice.
	Roman Andrusko in Bradford, Ontario, $111.
	The karma works!
	The karma works!
	Pfft!
	Last, I requested some karma for both my relationship and job search.
	I had lost my girlfriend, Julie.
	I was sure I'd never get her back, and as luck would have it, we got back together with things being much better.
	Plus, for my job search, I've landed an amazing career with a great company with great people.
	I would like to ask for a MILF for Julie, because she is amazingly hot.
	Send pictures.
	And more karma for both Julie and I to keep things happy.
	Oh, very nice.
	MILF! I'd like to.
	You've got karma.
	Sir Howard Guttnacht or Guttnacht in Seattle, Washington.
	Guttknecht.
	Gutnick.
	Gutnick, he says.
	Gutnick.
	He says it's Gutnick.
	Gutnick, yeah.
	$110, but it's probably really Gutnick.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Apparently twice.
	Keep up the fireworks, John and Adam.
	Please tell me ring sizes 50.
	No, 13.
	Anyway, he needs a...
	Does he need anything?
	No.
	No.
	Good.
	Good man.
	Yeah.
	Michael Stadjahar in the Arab Emirates, or no, or AP, he's somewhere.
	Military.
	He's military somewhere.
	Here's my next payment aiming for a 12-12-12 knighthood.
	Thanks for the best podcast in the universe.
	Equinox Publishing, Mark Hanus in Toledo, Ohio, $100, to figure out how to make your emails mobile-friendly.
	We've got to work on that.
	I'm surprised they're not.
	I forwarded you, and here's what happened.
	He's been sending me emails for weeks saying, but he's been kind of like, it sucks!
	You know, one of these, like, yeah, fix your thing!
	And I said, well, what are you talking about?
	And basically, the font is too small.
	And finally, he sent me the way he wants it.
	And I said, well, so you just want the font bigger.
	He said, yeah, but you need to fix this.
	I thought, wait a minute, I thought with these little phones, you put your hand on there and it makes it bigger.
	Yeah, so apparently it looks like crap on the iPhone.
	Yeah.
	Well, I mean, this is done through the MailChimp system.
	So this is what I told him.
	I said, look, this is MailChimp.
	And I know from experience it's not really easy to get John to pull up the hood on things like this.
	And by the way, I wouldn't want to do it either.
	And he says, so he sends me an email back.
	He says, ah, there's a template.
	You can add a special template for mobile-friendly.
	And I sent you that link.
	And he said, and by the way, I'm kicking in $100 to convince John to go take a look at that.
	Mm-hmm.
	Okay, I will.
	Hold on, hold on.
	He wants a milf for a smoking hot soon-to-be ex-wife.
	Gee, I wonder why she's going to be your ex-wife.
	That's one mother I'd like to.
	You may want to consider your approach to problems.
	Honey, this dinner sucks!
	Your dinner blows!
	It sucks!
	No good!
	El Cid Campiador in Sepulpa, Oklahoma.
	$100.
	From the fifth column, a round of karma for both of you and the people who need it.
	I'm giving a bit extra since donations are down.
	Keep up the excellent work.
	Thank you so much, El Cid.
	Highly appreciated.
	You've got karma.
	Anonymous in Mill Valley, California.
	$100.
	Second donation.
	Please keep me anonymous.
	Okay, anonymous.
	Thank you.
	Rodney Staben, Houston Text Nuts.
	Hi, John and Adam.
	Adam, here's a little something to help pay for the luggage fees at Bush.
	Is that what it's called?
	I guess.
	The airport in Austin is Bush?
	No, no, in Dallas is George Bush.
	I thought it was Dallas-Fort Worth.
	Maybe it's Houston.
	I'm sorry.
	Houston.
	I thought Houston was Love Field.
	If there's anything left over, doubtful, but you never know, get John a little something from the duty-free shop.
	Okay.
	Yeah, do that.
	Some cognac.
	Some cologne.
	Some old spice.
	Har-a-har-a-harin. Har-a-harin. Har-a-harin. Calgary, Alberta.
	The rich province. Hundred dollars.
	Damien Tamin.
	Sir Damien to you. Perth. Perth.
	Our favorite town.
	Can I get a karma booster shot?
	I need karma for a transfer to a new position.
	You've got karma.
	Sure.
	Dealing with superstitious baseball players.
	Andrew Lemonsani.
	Colorado Springs, 6969, and it continues.
	Boots on the ground in Colorado Springs.
	Yes, our poor city is on fire.
	Tuesday was the worst so far.
	Ash rained down on my house as erratic winds pushed upwards of 60 miles an hour.
	This is a boots on the ground report.
	Yeah.
	The fire finally hit the city around sunset but didn't proceed far.
	Rumors abound.
	Word on the street was over 20 fires were found and extinguished in the area over the preceding few days.
	Suggesting arson.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, no.
	This will be Al-Qaeda.
	This is what John McCain's always been on.
	He's like, Al-Qaeda going to set brush fires.
	You watch.
	You watch.
	You don't even put it in the Red Book because this is what will happen.
	Al-Qaeda.
	My heart breaks as I watch my mountains smolder.
	Keep your blankets, but please send water.
	June 28th is birthday.
	I'll take a little rain, karma, if you can make it happen.
	Oh, yeah.
	I'd love to do that for you, my friend.
	You've got karma.
	You've got karma.
	Mark Branson in Crook, Durham, North Carolina, or Durham, England?
	Crook, Durham, England, obviously.
	6969.
	Hey there, John and Adam.
	Coming faithfully in with 6969.
	Hoping to pop up, prop up the donations.
	Loving the shows of late.
	The 2012 Olympics and drone stuff is exciting yet terrifying.
	I have a huge request, which I'd be extremely grateful if I get a plug for my smoking hot girlfriend, Kim's University Animation.
	It's doing great in the Virgin Media Short Awards.
	If I can get a quick plug for everyone to go spend two minutes, go to virginmediashorts.co.uk.
	Is it Virgin Media?
	Shorts?
	What has Virgin Media got to do with any of this?
	They're sponsoring this.
	I actually saw the video.
	It's pretty cool.
	It's called Cycles.
	I think Virgin Media, when you started, it says promoting independent talent worldwide or something.
	But she can win a lot of money.
	She can win 30,000 pounds.
	Yeah, it's a healthy donation.
	You can go to the best podcast universe in Instant Night and Dame in the very least.
	And as always, appreciative of the work you guys do so we don't have to at the very best or give all the very best to your buddy Mark Ranson.
	All right.
	Full Cycles film link and some pictures.
	We'll put them in the show notes.
	Yeah, I'm going to give them some winning karma.
	Win!
	You've got karma.
	Kevin Webb in Carrollton, Texas.
	69-69.
	My wife is a career educator with a master's degree in the pedigree to be a stellar administrator.
	Unfortunately, the recession has slowed her progress to the ultimate goal of school president or principal.
	About three months ago, my wife learned her job in education was being eliminated.
	They don't need principals anymore?
	I decided to throw a few of my night payments into the karma bucket and see what happened.
	Donation number one, the wife was admitted to the previously inaccessible interview process to become principal candidate.
	Donation number two, the wife was given stellar marks in the interviews and given a spot in the pool of potential candidates.
	Donation number three, the wife is offered a new, better job as school principal.
	Why the hell am I wasting all this karma on her?
	Give me a shot, please.
	You've got karma.
	Oh.
	Really?
	Just give her some flowers.
	That's a good one.
	That was edited down, I believe, by Buzzkill.
	Yeah, good job, Buzz.
	Sir Dwayne Melanson and Tigard.
	He's all over the place.
	Again, comes in with 6226.
	So this, we read him earlier.
	He mentions that to accept the karma from him and pass some along to Miss Mickey, you two deserve a good fortune for sure.
	Sorry, I'll meet up in Amsterdam.
	We used to live in Linden.
	Leiden.
	I think it means Leiden, yeah.
	Yeah, and was looking for an excuse to get back there.
	I'll be in Australia that week.
	John, keep up the great work on Twitter.
	We need more in the morning jingle time.
	All right.
	Give yourself a karma.
	Thank you so much.
	We appreciate it.
	Good weather, karma.
	You've got karma.
	Be nice if we have good weather.
	Dmitry Fedoseev in London.
	Fedoseev.
	Fedoseev.
	He's obviously $60.
	He'd like some karma for the Syrian people.
	They need it.
	You've got karma.
	Philip Flick.
	Sir Philip Flick to you is in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
	5555.
	Go ahead and douchebag me for being impatient.
	Douchebag me.
	I'm about to move to Santa Fe at the end of July, and I didn't want some douchebag to get my night ring.
	I already mailed Mimi at the new address to get the ball rolling.
	I wanted to say that the karma worked, and I'm working on my new job at the Buffalo Thunder Resort Casino.
	I can see what strings I can pull to get a good deal on a room for Adam and Mickey if all you happen to get to is New Mexico.
	I'd like to request a huntsman karma for my fiancé who took her Step 2 medical exam, sincerely.
	Adam, I think you should take the day off and enjoy your wedding.
	You know, I've got to tell you, It won't matter much.
	I don't think donations by then will be, what is it, second week of July.
	I think we see more people saying take the week off than people that say we need you.
	I think they're wrong, by the way.
	I think if you miss one or two no-agenda shows, I think you'll have a real problem.
	Yeah, and you actually lose audience.
	You lose audience.
	How much audience?
	Will we really lose audience?
	Yeah, you always do.
	You cannot.
	I mean, if you ran a rerun, an old classic-like show, what was that show we did on the pipeline?
	381.
	381.
	381, is that it?
	Yeah.
	If we reran that show, for example, and then maybe ran a show 200.5 for two days, I think that would be okay because people, you know, some people haven't heard those shows.
	A lot of people never listened to 205.
	Right.
	Well, let us know what you think.
	And also, someone sent me a clip show.
	Oh, did they?
	Yeah.
	They sent it along to me so I can listen to it.
	For your approval?
	Yeah.
	Okay, Huntsman Karma.
	Here we go.
	You've got karma.
	I'll tell you one thing.
	I know my wife would be very happy if I wasn't working during the entire...
	I think you'd probably start getting the shakes, to be honest about it.
	Jonathan Rose.
	Oh, your buddy in Tel Aviv.
	Oh, this is the guy who called me the Holocaust denier.
	Yeah, you're a douchebag by his standards.
	5555, he came in.
	This is for Adam's Islamism epiphany on show 420.
	Wait a minute.
	This is really transparent.
	He's apologizing.
	He says he apologizes for calling Adam a Holocaust denier.
	He's not.
	Please at least read the documents I sent in an email regarding Ahmadinejad's wipe Israel off the map.
	Quote, misquote.
	I don't believe in karma and I don't need a de-douching because I recognize I'm a douche.
	And I'll remain one.
	I don't agree with you guys on everything, but I find the show entertaining and challenging.
	And once in a while, you guys come over some truly inspired stuff.
	Once in a while.
	Keep it up.
	Well, now I'm conflicted.
	Because, you know, part of me says, you know, you can't just, like, buy me off and make me feel good with a donation.
	He's begging for a douching.
	Yeah, but he called me a Holocaust denier.
	Oh, poor baby.
	Yeah.
	You know what happens when you get called that?
	It sticks around forever, and then someone will Google one day and be like, Hey, wait a minute.
	He's an anti-Semite.
	This guy.
	Then why, I ought to go kick his ass.
	Sir Ray Jacobson in Ashton, Virginia.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	When does karma happen?
	As we all know, karma evaporates in about seven days.
	My first brush with karma was back in January.
	I was a couple of weeks behind listening to the shows Adam bestowed karma over me via a podcast which was broadcast two weeks prior.
	Within a few days of listening, I won an iPad at a trade show.
	Obviously, this was good karma.
	My most recent brush with karma, I was up to date with my shows and Adam bestowed karma.
	And within the seven days of the show, I got a letter from the Department of Corrections.
	Usually not good news.
	I opened the letter to find a court-ordered restitution payment for items stolen from my car over two years ago.
	again this was good karma not every donation results in clear signs of karma but i think more data is needed to investigate when karma occurs does it occur when you listen to the show or does it occur when the show is broadcast i highly recommend we get to the bottom of this phenomenon everyone should donate over 50 double nickels on the dime has been known to work as well as 1100 and report back if your karma occurs within seven days of the broadcast or listening listen Listening.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	Another shot of karma.
	Well, I'm happy to give it to you.
	Your count starts now.
	You've got karma.
	One, two, three.
	The clock is running.
	Sir S. Russell Williams in Boise, Idaho.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	We need some ring.
	Carmageddon is seeing some fellow Noagena listeners while on holiday in July.
	I would like to get my ring by July 10th so I can show it off to them.
	And if you can please, we'll try to expedite something.
	We're going to be going through Boise, I believe, on the 2009 Hot Pockets Tour.
	If we get a trailer lined up, Boise is on the map.
	You've got karma.
	Podcast for Peace Alamo, California.
	5150.
	Abundance karma, please.
	You've got karma.
	Good old Alan Martin in Brandon, Florida.
	$50.
	Peter Totes from Sir Peter Totes, that is.
	$50.
	Tom Mulroy in Ohio.
	I recently was called out as a boner by my son Pete.
	Pete to teach.
	And I'm now making good by passing along some of Pete's next birthday.
	Value for value reprisal.
	I love it.
	Anyway, if you could pass along anniversary wishes to Pete the Teach and his beautiful wife, Josefa, that would be fab.
	Another reason for my writing is I was forced to retiree from IT at a regional financial processing company in the Midwest, Gitmo Rust.
	I was an application engineer responsible for telephone banking applications, basic account processing and bill payment processing.
	In response to your request for some background on the banking failure story out of England, I would have to go along with the supposition that this is a test run for studying bank failure response.
	Hey, hey, hey, hey!
	Yes, indeed.
	I like it.
	As John mentioned, these applications have the shit tested out of them before they get anywhere near a production environment.
	Even with the extensive testing, errors can still find their way into production applications.
	Toward this end, all applications were on source control systems that would provide a mechanism for backing application back to their previous state.
	Well, these backup procedures could be tedious.
	They could be implemented within a day or two and restore the application back to its prior image.
	As a matter of fact, fear of the FDICF dicks was the primary force behind most of these processes and procedures.
	I'm not totally sure what powers the FDICs carried out, but everyone was scared of the shit of those guys.
	They were scared shit of those guys.
	Quite the fun bunch, by the way.
	This is good stuff.
	Yeah, no, this is very good.
	And I'm thinking maybe some of those ATM failures or non-connections are also testing lack of cash response by the slaves.
	A five-day failure, as noted in the story, is inconceivable.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Which you caught.
	Any banking problems that resulted in customer inability to access their cash or account info were totally unacceptable.
	It resulted in an all-hands, all-hours effort on...
	Either correction or rollback procedures.
	I do not think the loss of bank assets, which is my theory, theft embezzlement, poor management scenario is probable.
	Again, because regulatory organizations, FDICs, would never buy into a cover-up of that kind of magnitude.
	Well, John scoffed at the virus-stuxnet-flame scenario.
	It may have as much credibility as any other explanation because none of them, application problems, etc., Even the four- to five-day test failure is hard for me to imagine.
	The only other scenario I can see is just a totally inept company that had total disregard for accepted institutional practices and regulatory procedures.
	Very interesting note.
	Well, we've had a lot of interesting failures.
	Listen to this.
	June 1st, Facebook outage, which no one really explained what it was.
	June 7th, Gmail outage.
	June 11th, Berkeley campus power outage.
	June 14th, Amazon Web Services outage.
	June 14th, Samsung Production Lines in Seoul outage.
	19th of June, NatWest.
	That was the so-called software upgrade.
	20th of June, Southwest Airlines power outage.
	20th of June, Petrochemical Complex in Singapore power outage.
	22nd of June, Twitter outage.
	Cascading fail, whatever that is.
	June 29th, iCloud, iTunes, and iMessage outage.
	That's a lot in one month.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, maybe there may be testing.
	And I want to thank Tom for that note and also his donation.
	I'm giving some karma just for that note.
	I don't know if he asked for it.
	Yeah, it's a good note.
	We've got karma.
	Great note.
	This is the kind of notes we would like to see more of, which is people that are inside the business telling us what's going on.
	And finally, our last donor today, or over $50 donor, that is, John Kemp from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
	We have a few others, but these are the unanonymous ones.
	I want to thank them and everybody else who donated.
	It's lesser amounts to remember that you do support the show.
	The show is done because you help keep it going with these donations.
	Go to www.orick.org, channeloforick.com, noagendashow.com, and noagendanation.com, and click on the Donate buttons on those sites.
	Yeah, I wanted to pull one out of the stack.
	John the Trucker says, I just signed up for the dollar an hour, $4 a week giving level, which I think should be $5.
	You might want to consider adding a couple more weekly amounts for folks like me who feel like $50 at one shot is just too much, but $10 a week might not be too much of a hardship.
	I was actually considering doing four separate $5 a month transactions four weeks in a row when I realized that the dollar an hour was a weekly withdrawal.
	I'm on vacation this week myself, falling behind, but I always catch up on NA eventually.
	Best podcast in the universe.
	Thank you, John the Trucker.
	So I appreciate that.
	All the weekly donations, the smaller ones, are extremely important, particularly when getting into these summer months.
	Just having that stuff carry over really does help us.
	And I've just got to beg for it one more time.
	We are looking for a trailer in the Texas, preferably Austin area, tomorrow for about three weeks for our 2009 Hot Pockets tour, which will take us through Colorado, Montana.
	Actually, we're going to do Kansas, Boise, some of that.
	Utah as well.
	Utah.
	So we're going to go up and come back down.
	It'd be great if you could help us out with that.
	And of course, this is value for value.
	The only way we make it work is without commercials because no way would anyone want to advertise on a show with an accused Holocaust denier.
	Sponsors would be running away.
	Would they not, John?
	We have no sponsors.
	It's not just that, it's everything.
	We talk about the banks, which you can't do.
	Yeah, that kind of makes the, yeah, no.
	You can't talk about Clippity Clop, Lucifer.
	You can't talk about pharmaceuticals.
	Because it's disrespectful.
	Yeah, and pharma...
	Really?
	And pharmaceuticals.
	So you show very little respect for Hillary Clinton.
	I wonder why.
	Dvorak.org slash N-A-N. Happy birthday, y'all, from your buddies here at the No Agenda Show!
	Happy birthday!
	And then we do have one knight to bring in who came in as our number one executive producer, I believe.
	Matt, right?
	Yeah, Matt.
	So it's a sharp.
	All right, Matt, my friend, please step forward.
	Kneel and extend your middle finger or your ring finger, whichever one you feel like, because we'll be slipping a Noagenda Night Ring on that last chance to dance before we hit the deadline for that at the end of this year, if the world is still around.
	So I hereby pronounce the Sir Matt's Night of the Noagenda Roundtable.
	Come on over, buddy.
	There's a chair right here for you.
	We've got some hookers and blows, some rent boys and chardonnay.
	We've got some hot pants and booze.
	Or if you'd like, just some nice breast milk.
	Welcome, my friend.
	So, my browser crashed.
	Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that.
	That blows.
	So, while we were talking about that banking thing, I was wondering if anything had happened in St.
	Louis.
	If there had been any banking ATM failures in St.
	Louis, I mean, if you Google St.
	Louis ATM failure, it's not really a good search term.
	But I know we have slaves out there in St.
	Louis.
	Have you had any problems?
	Does it look like they've been testing how you'll respond if things are shutting down?
	Because...
	There's some wacky going on in St.
	Louis.
	They got military performing training missions on the street.
	Wasn't this like a month ago?
	No.
	No.
	Here it is.
	It's a military mission in North St.
	Louis.
	Heavily armored vehicles are rolling into town, and while they come in peace, there are all kinds of rumors about why they are here.
	News Channel 5's Casey Nolan is live somewhere in St.
	Charles County, where he got an up-close look at the military vehicles.
	Casey?
	Yeah, Mike, in order to get that up-close look, we've agreed not to say exactly where in St.
	Charles County we are tonight.
	What is that?
	In order to get a close-up look, we had to agree not to say where we are, so now it's like a secret base in St.
	Louis?
	...where these vehicles will be parked overnight.
	The Army doesn't want that information to be made public for security reasons, but we can tell you why they are here.
	What?
	Yeah, for security reasons.
	Wait, this is the Army?
	Yeah.
	Well, listen, you'll hear the whole report.
	Hey, where's Camp Pendleton?
	I gotta go check in.
	Oh, we can't tell you where the camp is because we're scared to death it's gonna be attacked.
	What?
	This may not be such a huge deal that these rigs are in town if not for the speculation that was coming via the internet today.
	St.
	Louis police first put out the word that people may see these armored security vehicles in their neighborhood, especially near the Army Reserve Armory in North St.
	Louis on Goodfellow.
	But that was about all the information they released.
	On the KSDK Facebook page, in just a few hours, we had more than 100 people weighing in on what was going on, with comments ranging from people saying they would stop and salute if they saw the vehicles, to others worried this was...
	How stupid are they?
	The army's taking over our town.
	I'm going to stop and salute.
	The beginning of martial law.
	Well, it turns out this is a group of military police in from Fort Meade, Maryland, and they are here to train members of the 354th MP Company here in St.
	Louis on how to drive these rigs, a military's driver's ed of sorts, if you will, on the highways and on city streets.
	They are not loaded.
	They are not armed in any way, but the army says that does not mean they aren't dangerous.
	Huh.
	That vehicle is over 32,000 pounds.
	If they see that vehicle, it is harmless, but they need to know to stay away from it.
	Stay away from the vehicle, slaves.
	Hello, citizens of St.
	Louis.
	Stay away from the vehicles.
	We are here only for a drill.
	This is a drill.
	I repeat, only a drill.
	Do not be alarmed.
	And stay away from the vehicle.
	And salute me, you stupid slaves!
	Well, that sounds a lot better than your other attempts at that voice.
	We don't mind you all looking at it, but please stay away.
	Every day while we're out riding around, we get hundreds of people taking pictures and filming us.
	Oh, don't film us.
	And a lot of people even swerving in our lane.
	In fact, they were on Interstate 44 today coming in from Fort Leonard Wood.
	They said they had one man trying to drive and take pictures.
	At the same time, they had a kind of a last-minute unintended class in evasive maneuvers to avoid a wreck.
	So their warning, be careful around what is an unusual sight in St.
	Louis.
	Be careful around the unusual sight.
	Be careful.
	This is just an unusual sight.
	All is well.
	Please proceed to your FEMA camp.
	I like this thing.
	It sounds pretty good now.
	What is it?
	What are you doing?
	I got a megaphone.
	Oh, that's it?
	Please proceed to the FEMA camp.
	John C. Devorak.
	Now I have to get a megaphone.
	You have a slide whistle.
	Hey, you with a slide whistle.
	Get in the camp.
	You have a slide whistle.
	I get a megaphone.
	Go entertain the slaves in the camp.
	Get in there, slide whistle boy.
	Dancery monkey boy.
	Actually, I think I do have somewhere in the basement I got one of those.
	I have the one that has a bunch of buttons that plays music.
	Oh, you've got a deluxe model.
	Yeah, you're supposed to take it to a football game and it'll play all kinds of jingles and stuff.
	It's got to be the most annoying thing in the world to be around somebody with that.
	Well, this one has like a vocoder so you can change it, so it's like...
	Hello, slaves.
	Hello, hello.
	Hello, hello.
	Turn off the voice cord and it just sounds like plain.
	I don't know if I can.
	One, two.
	Hold on.
	One, two.
	No, I think the setting I had was good.
	This is the setting that sounds good.
	I like this a lot.
	Yeah, everything has to be prefaced with, hey, citizen.
	Hey, citizen!
	Hey, citizen!
	With your slide whistle.
	Someone sent me a funny clip, actually, I wanted to play.
	Bob Hope, one of the, I have to say, one of the funniest guys, if you like old school humor.
	It's a movie he did.
	Something wrong with my thing here.
	Listen to this.
	I want to see if I can play this.
	You live here?
	Yes.
	Well, maybe you know what a zombie is.
	When a person dies and is buried, it seems there's certain voodoo priests who have the power to bring him back to life.
	How horrible.
	It's worse than horrible because a zombie has no will of his own.
	You see them sometimes, walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring.
	You mean like Democrats?
	That's pretty funny.
	That's a good one.
	I don't know what movie that's from, but I liked it.
	So there's the Russia Today people.
	I've listened to a lot of Russia today.
	They're getting a little sensitive, and they've decided to turn on the American media, and everybody is critical of them, and defend themselves.
	And a lot of their stories are very, you know, essentially, now they're becoming more of a nasty operation.
	But I got the biggest kick.
	Out of the Russia Today tirade.
	You're right, by the way.
	Abby Martin can't read a prompter.
	No, she sucks.
	And she's actually quite pretty when she puts on that big smile.
	She's very pretty, but she needs to show her legs and she needs a lesson in prompter reading.
	And she needs to work on her prompter.
	And she needs to be bleached.
	And we are the guys that can do this.
	I agree with that.
	And it's possible she's working with one of these cheap-ass small prompters.
	You know, you've seen that.
	Oh, like on a handheld?
	It's not even a proper studio camera?
	Yeah, just a cheap little dinky.
	You need the big prompter.
	You don't need these little things.
	No, no.
	That's what I think the problem might be.
	But here's her rant.
	This is the RT gets defensive clip.
	By the way, can I just say, the analysis we just gave, right, that is valuable analysis because, you know, I think you're spot on.
	They have the wrong prompter.
	And look at, this would be a $300 fix for RT to make better programming.
	Oh, and of course, our $10,000 fee.
	But still, this is the kind of stuff we do, people.
	Hire us.
	Wednesday, June 27th, 4 p.m.
	in Washington, D.C. I'm Abby Martin, and you're watching RT. Here at RT, our motto is, question more.
	And what that means more than anything is to critically think about what we're told by the main...
	Okay, stop, stop.
	We need a meeting.
	Who made up this stupid-ass slogan, question more?
	Yeah, this is new.
	This is wrong.
	Now it's on the logo, so this is RT. Question more?
	By the way...
	Do you notice that when she begins her read and she introduces herself and then she goes into her first read, she smacks her lips.
	Oh, really?
	She's done this numerous times.
	She's a lip smacker, huh?
	It's like this.
	She says, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	And today we're going to talk about blah, blah, blah.
	She does it every time she makes a loud lip smack.
	Hmm.
	Very amateur.
	But she has kind of luscious lips, if I recall.
	They're okay.
	Yeah, no, they're pretty, but they don't need to be going...
	No, they don't.
	Okay, so first of all, we're going to come up with a better slogan after we play the clip, but Question More is not a catchy slogan.
	This would not sell sneakers, people.
	It's Wednesday, June 27th, 4 p.m.
	in Washington, D.C.
	I'm Abby Martin, and you're watching RT.
	No!
	Hear it?
	Yeah!
	Hey, Abby!
	She does it every show.
	Abby, stop with the lip smacking.
	Here at RT, our motto is, Question More.
	And what that means more than anything is to critically think about what we're told by the mainstream.
	RT offers a different perspective than the MSN, intends to host more adversarial journalism.
	Dare I say tapping into the roots of what real journalism should be.
	People all over the world are tuning in because they want to see real reporting done about America's domestic and foreign policy.
	According to a recent study, RT leads all other channels on the level of people watching daily.
	Oh, really?
	No, no.
	Oh, you missed the punchline.
	Yeah.
	You stepped on it.
	You've got to back up and listen to this, because when she says that, the more people listening daily, then there's a little punchline that you'll crack up.
	I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
	Dare I say, tapping into the roots of what real journalism should be.
	People all over the world are tuning in because they want to see real reporting done about America's domestic and foreign policy.
	According to a recent study, RT leads all other channels on the level of people watching daily in Canada.
	The channels won't...
	In Canada.
	In Canada.
	And she just rushes past that little tidbit.
	Alright, who's writing the copy?
	In Canada.
	You're fired!
	Popularity hasn't come without controversy.
	Remember the Naked News?
	Is that still around?
	Yeah.
	The Naked News is still around, I think.
	The Naked News?
	I check it about once a year.
	RT is the state-run English-speaking Russian channel.
	It's kind of like Al Jazeera.
	The Kremlin already controls domestic television.
	Now it's going after the international audience to repair a national image tarnished by war, corruption and assaults on democracy.
	Under Vladimir Putin, freedom of the press was stifled as Kremlin-approved oligarchs brought up media outlets one after another.
	And none of those channels, including RT, is about to bite the hand that feeds them.
	Now, a lot of people say, yeah, RT does have spin because it's funded by the government of Russia.
	Let's examine the premise at work here.
	Glenn Greenwald wrote an article that sums it up pretty nicely, shining a light on the people and money behind the scenes.
	He asks, is there a rule that says it's perfectly okay for a journalist to work for a media outlet owned and controlled by a weapons manufacturer?
	Like MSNBC and NBC, or owned by the US and British governments, like the BBC's Stars and Stripes, as well as the Voice of America?
	Or how about owned by Rupert Murdoch and a Saudi prince, aka the benefactors of the Wall Street Journal and the so-called fair and balanced journalistic stylings of Fox News?
	Or what about the banking corporation with long-standing ties to right-wing governments that fund Politico?
	How about for-profit corporations whose profits depend on staying in the good graces of the US government?
	Or by loyalists to one of the two major political parties in the U.S. But it's apparently a violation of journalistic integrity to run a media outlet owned by the Russian government.
	So where did that rule come from?
	So you never do a segment like this, by the way.
	This is the stupidest thing they could ever do.
	Yeah, it's pretty bad.
	It makes no sense at all that they're doing this.
	What an idiot.
	They need our help so badly.
	They really, really need our help.
	Yeah, well, they...
	It's Russia.
	I mean, it's like, you know, it's a joke, and when you're working on some show, especially on a cable company, and you're doing, and you're setting things up, and then they look at it on the monitors in the control room, they say, oh my god, it looks like Russian TV. It's used as a comment about, you know, you don't have enough, like the wall is right at your back.
	You're reading the news and you have a wall behind you, about a foot behind you with a shadow on it.
	I mean, this is the kind of thing that's mocked.
	And RT, which is using green screens mostly, I think they do have one set.
	And it's just, you know, it's rinky-dink.
	Yeah.
	And she really, you're right, her prompter reading is terrible.
	Yeah.
	We could help.
	We could help and we'd be happy to do it.
	We have no shame.
	Be happy to do it.
	Well, I have a little thing talking about bogative news agencies.
	And this is an audio thingy.
	You know LZ Granderson?
	You know who that is?
	No.
	So LZ Granderson, he might have been a sports guy, I don't know, but he came from ESPN. LZ Granderson?
	LZ, L, Lima Zulu.
	L.Z. Granderson.
	And he worked on ESPN, and at a certain point...
	He's a black guy.
	Yeah.
	At a certain point, he shows up on CNN, and they love him, because he's kind of hip-looking, he's got a little dreadlock-y thing going on, and he talks like normal people, whatever.
	And he did this...
	Opinion piece, which was written up on CNN.com, but also on audio, which I thought was more interesting.
	And it's about Fast and Furious.
	And this is not about Fast and Furious, but about how we just need to shut up and not question anything.
	And this kind of sums up, just like that clip did for RT, bunch of defensive, no prompter reading, no leg showing.
	This is the same guy who wrote an opinion article titled, Ted Nugent should be in jail.
	That guy?
	Yeah, that guy.
	That guy.
	Here's his...
	Shut up, slave.
	He's black.
	Yeah.
	Here's his opinion piece.
	Don't be nosy.
	It has a little nice intro music, too.
	Ooh.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	We are a nosy country.
	Though to be fair, it's not entirely our fault.
	Between the 24-7 news cycle, social media, and reality TV, we have been spoon-fed other people's lives for so long we now assume it's a given to know everything.
	And if there are people who choose not to disclose, they must be hiding something.
	Being told that something's none of your business is slowly being characterized as rude.
	And if such a statement is coming from the government, it seems incriminating.
	Times have changed.
	Yet, not everything is our business.
	And in the political arena...
	By the way, this is coming from a guy who works at a news organization.
	There are things that should be and need to be kept quiet.
	Heads should roll because of the fast and furious debate.
	We don't need every detail of that operation to be made public in order for that to happen.
	If it were an isolated sting, maybe.
	But it is at least the third incarnation of a gun-running scheme stretching across two administrations, which means we could be pressing to open Pandora's box.
	We do not want to open Pandora's box.
	Can you believe this?
	Can you believe this is coming from a news organization?
	This is the problem with CNN and these other operations.
	...about this, and certainly not about a bunch of other potentially scandalous things the federal government has been involved with.
	You see, freedom isn't entirely free.
	Oh, really?
	It also isn't squeaky clean.
	And sometimes, the federal government deems it necessary to get its hands dirty in the hopes of achieving something we generally accept as good for the country.
	Wait a minute, so it's okay?
	Like death of a border agent?
	Yeah, oh yeah!
	Such as the death of Osama Bin Laden.
	Oh, okay.
	We danced.
	We cried.
	I did not dance and cry.
	But we did not make a very big deal about the secret operation that was executed in Pakistan.
	What?
	I made a big deal about it.
	What are you talking about?
	Everybody made a big deal about it.
	Was this guy under a rock?
	Yeah.
	without the permission of the Pakistani government.
	The Obama administration did what it thought was in the best interest of America.
	Much in the same way, Project Wide Receiver and Project Roadrunner, the earlier versions of Fast and Furious under W, were executed with the hope that they would do more good than harm.
	Hardly anyone in the public knows the finer points of these programs.
	Were they legal?
	Or hell no?
	Were they effective?
	Who knows?
	By allowing guns to infiltrate Mexico's drug cartel, we thought we could trace them up the ladder to the leaders.
	Take off the head and the body dies.
	As for the innocent people who lost their lives?
	By the way, we don't even know that because we don't have the documents.
	We don't know anything about it.
	Yeah, we don't know anything.
	And by the way, let's get something straight.
	It's been discussed before.
	It was discussed in the hearings.
	In fact, I think it was Chavitz that brought it up.
	White Receiver, which was Bush's thing, was done unlike...
	This other thing.
	Fast and Furious.
	Fast and Furious.
	It was done with Mexico's cooperation and permission.
	And two, the guns were given out to walk, but they were all stopped at the border.
	So this is bogus.
	This is like the argument you hear from guys who are apologists for this bull crap.
	And this guy, by the way, is an obvious douchebag.
	And curiously, the winner for online journalism from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association...
	I need that award.
	And he's defending Obama and I'm just making the connection because Obama has this, I don't know, he was on the front cover of Newsweek saying he's a gay president.
	Connection?
	You tell me.
	30 seconds to wrap it up, it gets better.
	Collateral damage.
	That's the uncomfortable backstretch of this scandal.
	And there are likely other operations like it in our nation's history that we don't even have a clue about.
	And maybe for everyone's sake, we shouldn't.
	I understand the role of the press is to find out the truth, and I am thankful for it.
	But maybe it's better for us not to be so nosy, not to know everything, because, to paraphrase the famous line from the movie, A Few Good Men, maybe we won't be able to handle the truth.
	For seeing an opinion, this is LZ Granderson.
	Douchebag!
	Unbelievable!
	You can't handle the truth.
	It's a corrupt situation.
	We're trying to expose.
	There's no great secret that's, you know, that's...
	They already admitted that they screwed up.
	How is this a bad thing?
	Do I get it?
	Finding out how they screwed up.
	Do I get it?
	Clip of the day.
	Clip of the day.
	That actually may be the clip of the month.
	What an idiot, huh?
	The guy works for a news organization.
	Unbelievable!
	And he's the journalism honoree of this journalist association.
	I'm LZ Granderson, everybody!
	Shut up, slave!
	Don't be so nosy, slave!
	Don't be nosy?
	This is CNN. Yep.
	He also is a commentator, I guess, for ESPN for doing what?
	I have no idea.
	That's where he started.
	He's developed a passion for the National Hockey League.
	Yeah, because they have great teeth.
	Just a quick rundown, but we've got to get out of here, because foosball is about to start.
	Very nice that the human resources here, the slaves of UT, Tejas, here in my hometown, have demonstrated with $1,000 worth of gear how easy it is to distort the GPS signal, which then can take over the drone.
	Yeah, it's great.
	This is beautiful.
	Actually, I've met some people at UT. And there's some really cool people who work at this university.
	There's a nice little group of crazies.
	And these guys are awesome.
	And this can only result in one thing.
	And you're not going to like it.
	But the government is going to shut off your GPS access.
	Can you imagine if all your smartphones...
	Oh, I won't be able to check in on Foursquare because I won't know where I am!
	But they're going to shut you down.
	If people keep showing these easy hacks, which is basically...
	Well, actually, that's not going to happen, but I can tell you what is going to happen.
	They're going to have a secondary system, the really good one.
	They're launching it as we speak, and it's going to be a second GPS up there.
	There's already a couple.
	I think the Chinese will put their own up.
	Yeah, the Europeans have one.
	And there's a new drone, John.
	Woo-hoo!
	Gray Eagle.
	The Grey Eagle?
	The Grey Eagle drone has officially been introduced.
	It has double the weapons capacity of the Predator.
	It features a heavy fuel engine for increased supportability in the field, equipped with triple redundant avionics, redundant flight controls and surfaces, electro-optical infrared, and synthetic aperture radar payloads.
	This is the bitch!
	Gray Eagle.
	Predator, move over.
	There's a new boss in town.
	And I can't wait until they test it.
	I will say we've added to the kill list.
	Killlist.curry.com.
	U.S. drones attacked a house in Waziristan.
	Once again, as predicted, that would be the hotbed.
	We have 151 camps now of terrorists.
	So we killed six.
	Two others were wounded.
	Ooh, bad score.
	Bad score.
	But we got six more to add to the list.
	The General Atomics MQ1C Grey Eagle has its own Facebook page.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Oh, cool.
	I don't have a...
	I got Facebook.
	Hold on.
	Do you have Facebook?
	Wait a minute.
	You can't see it if you have Facebook?
	No, there's certain pages they make public.
	They're auto-public.
	Let me see.
	Grey Eagle.
	Wow.
	But this doesn't look like the right page.
	No, I don't see it.
	Well, I'll tell you which one it is.
	Hold on, which one did I click on?
	Yeah, right here.
	You type in Gray Eagle Drone.
	That's your search term.
	Gray Eagle Drone.
	And then you'll see it, General, at the bottom of the list, just above News.
	News for Gray Eagle, just above that.
	General Atomics MQ1C, Gray Eagle, Facebook.
	You getting that on your list?
	No.
	It's the...
	It's one, two, three, four, fifth one down.
	I'm looking, buddy.
	I'm not getting any...
	No joy here.
	Well, try putting the word Facebook into that search.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	There's an idea.
	Okay.
	Hmm.
	Oh, here we go.
	Got it.
	Yeah, right at the top.
	It's a beaut.
	It kind of looks like a predator, but bigger.
	It's huge.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Let me like this.
	I'm liking it.
	There you go.
	I just liked it.
	I just liked the Gray Eagle.
	There's 74 likes so far, so I don't get that part.
	Yeah, one is talking about this.
	That would be me.
	To interact with General Atomics MQ1C Gray Eagle, you need to sign up for Facebook first.
	I'm signed up, man.
	I got a Facebook account.
	Yeah, I know.
	And you put it like, so it's 75 now.
	Yep.
	Let me just refresh.
	How come there's no dislike?
	Oh, now you're deep into it.
	I do have a quick couple of things on the vaccine front.
	Hill and Knowlton is out from the Hill and Knowlton blog.
	Actually, we can play it.
	Oh my goodness, I love this.
	Where is it?
	Hey, why didn't it play?
	Hmm.
	It's the No Agenda Swine Flu Minute.
	Looks like the number of deaths from the swine flu, according to Lancet and the CDC, were 15 times higher than confirmed than previously reported. - Good.
	Yeah, right.
	Actually, I wanted to talk about that.
	Where are the bodies?
	But now you know why it's a big news story, because Hill& Knowlton is the PR company behind it.
	This is right from their website.
	From H&K Strategies.
	So where are the bodies?
	They say 151,000 to over half a million people died.
	I guess they just died and went to heaven.
	The body isn't all.
	Where'd they go?
	Yeah, where's the corpses?
	Yeah, where's the bodies?
	Are you out, darling?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Yeah, sure.
	Well, that's not convenient.
	And before you wrap, make sure I set up the clip we want to play.
	Yeah.
	We've got like a washing machine repair guy coming, but Ms.
	Mickey has to leave.
	I'm not saying that.
	Washing machine repair guy.
	Leave the door open, honey.
	Leave the door open.
	As she slams the door.
	So the guy comes, you know, like, and I'm still doing the show.
	I'll have to interrupt the show.
	Aren't you the same guy who cleans the pool?
	BBC, we're all on the vaccine tip here.
	This is beautiful.
	You know, this autism thing is going to be such a bonanza when they come up with all these crap vaccines.
	A simple brain trace can identify autism in children as young as two years old, scientists believe.
	Yes, a U.S. team at Boston's Children's Hospital say EEG traces, which record electrical brain activity using scalp electrodes, could offer a diagnostic test for this complex condition.
	So, what does that mean?
	Yep, go ahead and get your kids tested.
	And here's the tip-off, ladies and gentlemen.
	We love it when this happens.
	EEG might offer a way to check for the same condition in younger siblings.
	The latest study found 33 specific EEG patterns that appeared to be linked to autism.
	I love the magic numbers.
	And then we had...
	For HPV? I mean, we're just trying...
	They're pulling everything out now.
	Now, scientists have located the cells in the cervix that give rise to cancer when attacked by the human papillomavirus.
	A discovery that may lead to new methods of preventing and treating the disease.
	So here's how it works.
	They're going to test you to see if you have cells that might be susceptible to precancerous conditions if you have the HPV, the right strain.
	And right at the bottom of this report, this is something that probably could be adopted by clinicians And pathologists, pretty soon, these investigators have actually identified the type of cells which can be used to target new methods of testing, treatment, and screening.
	It's fantastic, said Dr.
	Einstein.
	Literally, his name is Einstein.
	Dr.
	Einstein.
	You want me to believe this report, people?
	Dr.
	Einstein.
	So, be on the lookout for it.
	This is all marketing.
	It's all marketing.
	And this is not like confirmed science or anything yet.
	Science!
	We believe may be possible, could be great, fantastic.
	Terrible.
	You know what we should do?
	We should just watch some foosball.
	The game has started.
	Okay.
	The game has started.
	Set up your clip.
	So this is from the movie Casino Jack, which never hit the screen as far as I know.
	And starring as Kevin Spacey as Jack Abramoff.
	And it's a dream sequence where he's testifying in front of Congress and he keeps saying, I have to invoke the Fifth Amendment.
	He keeps saying it over and over and over and over again.
	But in the dream sequence, he pauses and goes into a rant, which is what everybody wanted to hear.
	Where he especially blasts McCain.
	And then he falls out of his dream sequence and goes right back into the...
	When you listen to this rant, you can see why this movie really never got much play.
	That is your end of show clip.
	We'll be back on Sunday.
	I'll be doing my government legislation analysis.
	John will be out buying a megaphone.
	Yes.
	Italy for the win in this match.
	Miss Mickey says Germany.
	You, John?
	Germany.
	Germany.
	We have two for the Deutscher's and one for the Spaghetti's.
	And coming to you from the capital of the Drone Star State here at Camp Mofo in Austin, Texas.
	Proud to be your media assassin in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	Oops, I forgot I'm here.
	I'm in Northern Silicon Valley.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll be back on Sunday, everybody.
	But remember to support the program with your value for value donation at Dvorak dot org slash N.A. Adios, mofos.
	Senator, I respectfully invoke the privileges as a. .
	No.
	No, I no longer wish to invoke the privileges.
	I have something to say and I'm going to say it.
	No, no, no.
	In fact, if we want to talk all about the money...
	Why don't we start with the four or five thousand dollar checks I personally handed to Senator Jarvis for his re-election campaign.
	And we know what that money was all about, don't we, Senator?
	Or how about you, Senator Burnham?
	I donated thirty thousand dollars.
	To influence your vote, keep the Marianas open for business.
	Remember?
	And what about you, Senator McCain?
	You should be sitting in the seat that I'm sitting in right now.
	For years, you've taken tens of thousands of dollars from lobbyists just like me, representing competing Indian tribes who wanted to open up their own casinos that would have shut my clients down.
	Sir, you're out of order.
	This man, this son of a bitch, is guilty.
	And if he's allowed to go free, then there's something really wrong going on here.
	Sir, you are out of order.
	Out of order?
	You're out of order!
	We're out of order.
	You're all out of order.
	This whole Senate hearing is out of order.
	I got a whole panel of senators who love to take money from anybody who's got a fucking bank account, and you call me a fraud?
	You fucking hypocrites!
	You fucking hypocrites!
	You ought to stand for something!
	You should protect people!
	Hold on.
	Hold on.
	I have just completed my opening statement.
	Mr.
	Abramoff.
	Mr.
	Abramoff.
	Jack Senator I respectfully invoke the privileges as stated Thank you And I'd say to you, Mr.
	Abramoff, shame on you.
	Who the hell are you trying to look right?
	Look, it's Michael Corleone!
	Painful, tragic, dangerous, difficult.
	We know that.
	Adios, mofo.

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