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	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, July 15th, 2012.
	Time for a special presentation of the No Agenda Show, episode 426.
	This is No Agenda.
	Still pretending to be live on the best podcast in the universe because I'm tossing my bouquet in the morning.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I caught the bouquet.
	What an arm!
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill.
	Hey, congratulations, Mr.
	Married Man.
	No, it's actually tomorrow.
	Oh, well, never mind.
	I need my own wedding date.
	You're just tossing bouquets around.
	This is why we do the show live at a certain time.
	We couldn't fake doing this.
	We're too dumb.
	Face it.
	We're just too dumb.
	So we have a special show for everybody today.
	You want to introduce it.
	And we're not going to do it.
	By the way, this is going to be a straight-through show.
	There's not going to be a donation segment.
	So I want to remind people, of course, that we still need contributions and executive producers for the next show, which will list all the people that came in during this last week.
	So get your executive producership, Dvorak.org, slash nachannel, Dvorak.com, slash nanogendanation.com, or nogendashow.com, and hit the donation button.
	And that would help us out greatly.
	And also send Adam a congratulatory note.
	Yes.
	And please send that to Ms. Mickey.
	Mickey as well.
	And so here is, now I've got to give props to a special producer who put this together, Stephen Anteau, which is A-N-T-E-A-U. He says, Adam, I know you're looking to take a day off or a week off or something like that for your wedding.
	More power to you to help.
	I put together a clip show of your pipeline coverage from episodes 381 to 384.
	Hearing it all in one place is jarring and very fun.
	I agree.
	I liked it, of course.
	John and I both screened it, and we thought it was great and highly appreciated that we don't have to, like, figure out more things to do just to tide people over.
	So, really appreciate it.
	I imagine you and John would want to do an opening, but I hope this helped you out.
	Okay, so here we are.
	This is the opening.
	So, thank you very much, Stephen.
	And I guess we'll pop back at the very end, John, just to say goodbye before we leave.
	Yeah, I want to hear it again anyway.
	Okay, here it comes.
	A special pipeline edition of The No Agenda Show.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Thursday, February 9, 2012.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 381.
	This is No Agenda.
	Spending my days with Leviathan here at Camp MoFo in the capital of the Drone Star State.
	In the morning, everybody from Austin, Texas, I'm Adam Curry.
	And plain and simple from northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Devorak.
	It's Crackbott and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	In the morning.
	Hey, Stinger.
	We're going to go right into your thing?
	Yeah, it's going to take a while.
	How long is it going to take?
	It depends.
	You might immediately go...
	I might.
	Uh-huh.
	All right, we'll start.
	That would be really unfortunate.
	I'll start asking questions.
	Okay.
	Well, what is one of the premises that we...
	And we actually talked about this on 200.5.
	One of the premises of our view of the world...
	Yeah, there you go.
	What?
	Are you asking me a question right off the bat?
	I thought you were going to start doing a diatribe.
	No, it's a question.
	I need to ease you into it.
	I'm not going to answer this question.
	It's all about oil.
	Isn't that what we've always said?
	Oh yeah, it's always about oil.
	That's one of our many models.
	And to take it to a further extreme, it's about everybody else's oil.
	We just want to keep ours and then break the world and then we have all this oil and we can be the number one dog on the block.
	Right.
	Which is fine with me.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I think we were a little bit distracted by the oil, per se.
	And it really took me, and again, I've been working at this 18 hours a day for three days straight.
	And what I realized is, it's no longer just about oil.
	Oil, of course, yeah, important.
	But what's going on, and I'll just give you a little taste.
	If you haven't seen it, if you haven't heard it, This is the only thing dominating the news in America today.
	The shattering explosions come every few minutes in the besieged Syrian city of Homs.
	Residents say government troops are using rockets and heavy artillery in a bombardment that has gone on for days.
	As the shells fall, the slaughter mounts.
	Another 60 men and women and children were reported killed today.
	But residents say they cannot even count the dead anymore.
	We can't even count the dead anymore!
	Now, we talked on the last show, John, we talked about, you know, why is this being hyped up about Syria?
	What is going on?
	There is so much incredible hype that there must be something happening.
	Do you pick up on anything?
	I mean, we've been waiting for this in the New York Times.
	Has anything happened with Syria?
	Anything new?
	Well, no, I mean, all of a sudden it seems like someone turned the on switch and pushed it towards 11 and said, we've got to, Syria, it's all about Syria.
	Syria, Syria, Syria, Syria, Syria.
	Well, I have a bunch of thoughts on this, too, with a bunch of clips.
	But I'm more now interested in what you think you've dug up.
	Okay.
	I preface it with the word unnecessary.
	Alright, so I'm going to tell you that this is not about oil.
	This is about gas.
	And it only really struck me when I started to gather a couple of maps.
	Now, John, get your browser ready, because I'm going to give you a URL. Hey, browser ready, boss!
	Ha ha!
	Is your browser ready?
	Browser's ready.
	It's up and ready.
	Should I be in the Google box or should I be in the URL box?
	URL box.
	Put your cursor in the URL box.
	Alright, I'm ready.
	Once you load this, you only have like 20 seconds and the rest of the listeners are going to go get it.
	It's going to crash the server.
	Alright?
	Ready?
	Yeah.
	Pipelines.curry.com.
	You got it?
	Pipelines.curry.com.
	Tell me when you have the page loaded.
	Page is up.
	Page is up.
	All right.
	Picture you when you're 10.
	Now scroll down a little.
	Yes, that's it.
	It's his fault.
	Okay, first, and people at home can play along with this.
	So I want to show you, these are not maps I created.
	These are ones I got from presentations.
	Don't scroll to the bottom.
	Just stay where you are.
	Okay?
	You with me?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So the first picture here shows the state of gas.
	It says oil and gas, but it'll be about gas, and you'll find out why.
	So on the right here, you see all this Russian region, you see bits of Iraq and Iran, and you see that's the largest oil and gas sources of the world.
	And the market, the largest market, is Europe, right?
	That's the second largest market.
	Of course, we have other big markets, but that is a huge oil market, right?
	A gas market.
	And of course, the natural route of transit is through Turkey.
	Going from, and a lot of this, if you go to the second one, you see these are all the pipelines.
	So we have the pipelines, we have the South Stream, the Blue Stream, and you'll see that a lot of this goes through the Ukraine, through Slovakia.
	They built the South Stream, which, and this is interesting, which goes through Greece, and then from Greece it goes to Italy.
	And of course, Europe is highly dependent upon gas for a number of reasons.
	And gas became very important in this past year.
	Gas has become, also, we have to note, to back your thesis up here, the recent memes about the cold, cold, cold weather in Europe and people dropping dead is one of these things that makes people start to think about this.
	Well, there's one other reason, which I didn't actually realize.
	But Japan has a huge demand now for natural gas.
	Why?
	Because they no longer have their nuclear facility.
	And the next option next to nuclear when it comes to what is the cleanest, what is the cheapest, and what is the easiest to deal with is natural gas.
	Now, you'll recall that right after Fukushima, Germany said, oh, that's it.
	We're shutting down all our nuclear plants.
	No more nukes.
	So they need more gas to generate electricity.
	And that's just a side note, but something to bear in mind.
	First of all, before you continue...
	Our basic premise in show 200.5, that it's always about the oil, it applies to gas.
	It does, but there's something else that happened that we have probably forgotten that changed the entire picture and will explain everything.
	And I think it's a model we can apply to everything that's happening.
	I got the title for the show already.
	The big T's.
	Scroll down to the third map.
	Now this is the Arab Gas Pipeline.
	And you'll see the Arab gas pipeline starts down there at Arish, right?
	This is where Egyptian gas was shipped into Arish, and then the pipeline goes all the way up, passing Israel on the right-hand side.
	It actually bypasses Israel.
	Bypasses Israel, Damascus, up to Homs.
	Gee, where have I heard that name recently?
	Every ten seconds on the news.
	Scroll down to the fourth map.
	What's interesting is the Arab gas pipeline only goes to homes.
	It's not complete.
	Because the mission is to complete the final 230 kilometers into Turkey, known as the Syrian-Turkey pipeline.
	So what was happening is we had natural gas being shipped in.
	And this is, in a way, in many ways, competitive to all the Russian gas.
	You with me?
	Although the Russians are in on it, particularly Europe, and the Russians are also in on the Syrian-Turkey pipeline.
	So this is the way the gas was flowing, and we're going to relate this back to Arab Spring in a moment.
	What happened on December 30th of 2010?
	I don't know.
	You tell me, Adam.
	We discussed it.
	But we didn't really think about what the true...
	And all this is in the show notes, by the way.
	We didn't think about the true parameters of what this meant.
	The Leviathan gas field was discovered.
	This is the largest discovery of gas in our century.
	And it's right off the coast of Israel, the northern coast of Israel.
	And it goes all the way, basically, to Cyprus.
	Oh boy, isn't that interesting.
	So all of a sudden, the entire...
	Dynamics changed.
	Israel, which has always had to import their gas, and they imported it, by the way, straight from Syria through that Arab pipeline, Israel now will become one of the largest suppliers of gas.
	Now, if all of a sudden we have this huge gas field sitting right there in the Mediterranean, and we have the biggest Consumer, being Europe, what is the most logical route?
	The most logical route is to go through Cyprus straight into Greece, bypassing that entire other chart that you saw, bypassing this entire deal that you've seen with the Arab pipeline, the Arab gas pipeline.
	And Cyprus is owned by the Russians.
	Cyprus is owned partially by the Russians.
	Cyprus is owned partially by Greece.
	Turkey is very pissed off about the whole Cyprus thing.
	But who do we see showing up in Cyprus?
	We see Hillary Clinton showing up.
	There's a company there called Noble Energy.
	And noble energy has very tight ties to the Bush family and the Clinton family because Israel got a little bit greedy and they said, hey, you know, those laws we had in 1951 about how, you know, if we ever had any kind of natural resources, we'd tax them really low.
	We're going to jack that up a little bit, if you don't mind.
	Just a little bit because, you know, we can make some money here.
	And then Hillary Clinton immediately came out and said, hey, you know, this is no good.
	And then she started working on something called the Law of the Seas.
	Remember that?
	The Law of the Seas, which determines the territory of each individual country and all the rest belongs to the UN or some other bullcrap like that?
	Yeah, good.
	Because who actually owns this?
	Well, Lebanon says it's theirs.
	Or at least part of it, Israel's like, no, no, no.
	This is the promised land, man.
	This is what Moses brought us here for.
	This is ours.
	Cyprus is saying, you know what?
	I think maybe it's ours, but we've got Noble Energy here, the Houston-based company.
	We'll work with you.
	No problem.
	We'll be your buddies.
	And we've seen a whole lot of really interesting things happen between Israel and Cyprus, but also Greece.
	Homes, of course, is really important because you want two things to happen.
	Gas is very cheap right now.
	So we can't just say, oh...
	It's depressed, actually.
	Right.
	We can't just say, oh, here's all this gas, you know, because it won't even be worth it to export it.
	But if we can create some kind of scarcity, i.e., let's blow up some pipelines, right?
	And what happens in homes?
	Pipelines, it's getting blown up continuously.
	Right?
	Oop, blown up.
	Now, three months after this discovery, three months, the Arab Spring starts.
	I'll remind you that Egypt...
	Was exporting their gas into the Arab pipeline, which bypasses Israel.
	Not only do we see the entire regime and the whole country destabilized, but their pipeline was blown up four times during that time.
	Four times!
	Libya!
	Hmm.
	Libya was exporting their natural gas to Italy, straight into Europe.
	That stopped.
	When all of a sudden we had the Arab Spring and the Libyan no-fly zone?
	Stop.
	Done.
	No more natural gas was exported.
	They're trying to restart that, but they're not going to.
	Tunisia.
	Tunisia delivers natural gas to Italy via Algeria.
	So this has always been about the gas.
	Now let's check in on some of the elites and what they're doing.
	This is where it gets really, really crazy.
	I have a clip here.
	This is the new minister of energy for Greece.
	It just gets too funny.
	And he used to be the economic minister for Greece.
	And he was actually the ministry of the economy up until the crisis.
	And then all of a sudden he switched roles and he became the minister of gas.
	And why, you'll figure out in a second.
	So he goes to Jerusalem because the Greeks, of course, they want to have this deal.
	They want to have this gas coming in from this huge Israeli field to sell to Europe and basically shut everybody else out.
	So he goes to Israel and he does an interview with the Jerusalem Post.
	But the interviewer is like a 13-year-old girl.
	So he's really cavalier.
	He's just laying it all out there.
	And the things he says are outrageously amazing.
	Here's question one about exporting gas from Israel to Greece and then from Greece to Europe.
	Only a few weeks following the formation of a Greek unity government, Environment, Energy and Climate Change Minister George Papakonstantino is the first Greek official to visit Israel as a representative of the new coalition.
	Is Greece considering importing Israeli natural gas?
	There is at the moment a big discussion on how to bring to Europe gas from a number of areas outside Europe and diversify sources.
	The negotiations, for example, on bringing gas from the Caspian Sea are now going to come to a conclusion.
	We are trying to make Greece the hub for gas development.
	...transit to northern European countries, either via Italy or through the Balkans.
	And in that context, the discussions with Israel are ongoing on the possibility to bring in also Israeli gas.
	And these have been discussed at a high level in the past between the two prime ministers and at a senior government level.
	So this new prime minister in Greece is very interesting.
	The old guy, Papandreou, he actually was trying to do a deal with the Russians for the, let me get the name of it here, the pipeline, here it is, the Burgas Alexandrupopoulos.
	Which would come from the Russians through Bulgaria into Greece.
	So this is why he had to go.
	Because it's like, wait a minute.
	We've got all this Israeli oil.
	We don't want that stupid pipeline.
	That's way too long.
	We can ship it right through Cyprus.
	We own half of that anyway.
	We can still work with the Russians.
	We can still put a deal together.
	But we're going to be the guys.
	So they bring in the new prime minister.
	And this Prime Minister is all over that.
	The new Greek Prime Minister, as of November 11th, Lucas Pepadimos, last week told Netanyahu that they're interested in strengthening relations with Israel.
	What do you think he meant by this exactly?
	I have learned in politics to never interpret what the Prime Minister says.
	However, for the last few years, starting with the previous government, George Papandreou's government, there's been clearly a new page opened in the relationship between the two countries.
	And I think there have been many instances.
	There's been the visit, of course, that has happened to Greece, and a clear desire on both sides to...
	We've moved closer on a number of issues, political, economic, etc.
	So, Prime Minister Papademos is simply pushing that further, and he spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu a few days to reaffirm our willingness to keep a cooperation that is mutually beneficial.
	Yeah, mutually beneficial.
	So, all code words for, hell yeah, we're doing a deal with those guys.
	Are you kidding me?
	This is going to be great for us.
	One reminder once again about this guy, this Greek energy minister.
	Constantino also served as the Greek finance minister until summer of this year.
	And he talked about some of the causes of the economic issues facing Greece.
	So, he was a part of the collapse of Greece.
	And I believe that he was a true shill.
	Because what has been happening with Greece...
	As they're trying to figure out their deals.
	It's not...
	This is where I made the mistake.
	I thought, you know, it's really all about the austerity measures.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	It's also about the privatization.
	Remember, we're talking about Greece selling everything off.
	So what is going to be privatized?
	Well, obviously, this transit of natural gas is part of this privatization deal, so you don't have the government...
	Soaking up what's going to be a bonanza and then passing it out to the public.
	Right.
	So they're privatizing the airports.
	They're also privatizing the port in general.
	But they're also going to...
	I actually have the list here.
	Concession of the ports and airports.
	Athens International.
	Sale in the stake of the public gas corporation.
	Ah, there it is.
	Also sale of the banks.
	Now the gas corporation, the electrical corporation, is DEPA. D-E-P-A. The CEO of DEPA is a certain Mr.
	Harry Sakchinis.
	This just gets crazy.
	He was also Group Vice President of Standards and Poor's.
	So I think what's going on right before our very eyes is they're trying to delay as much as possible the Greek bailout, because it's not about the deals with the pensions.
	It's all about the sale of the state assets.
	This is exactly what happened in Russia, by the way.
	Yeah, Russia sold off all their really great assets to these oligarchs, who now are billionaires overnight, largely because of this...
	Essentially taking what was in the public trust and instead of sharing it, I mean, we've seen evidence of many stories we've talked about over the years about, you know, where some government like Ecuador, for example, wants to take their oil reserves and not give all the money to Standard Oil or Texaco, but to pass it to the public.
	Right.
	The way they kind of do in Kuwait and in the parts of the Middle East.
	Right.
	Share the wealth with the public at large.
	I mean, California, for example, if we did that here, we'd all be rich.
	So, yeah.
	Actually, I have some of the articles speak of the new energy order.
	And we use this for jet fuel.
	And by the way, wherever there's gas, there's usually oil.
	And this thing, if you look at the Leviathan field, It is literally the mother load.
	Who was the first company?
	Now remember, Noble Energy is key here.
	Noble Energy.
	A lot of ties to the...
	They're from Houston.
	So a lot of ties to Bush, but also to Clinton.
	Who was the first company to get the offshore drilling contracts when President Obama opened up the Gulf Coast?
	Noble Energy.
	They're the first ones.
	They're all in line.
	Clinton.
	She has been pressing Turkish officials to back off from threats to send warships to waters around Cyprus in a dispute over the energy deposits.
	She is completely protecting Cyprus, and this is not necessarily country against country.
	This is corporate warfare between different gas and oil companies, depending on who they're affiliated with, being fought With real guns against real people.
	So this whole Syria thing...
	It's not necessarily Russia who are trying to protect them, but it's factions within Russia who are most likely working with the Russian Cyprus faction, who are working with the Clintons and the Bushes on noble energy,
	who really just want to make sure that there's enough demand, so let's ratchet down the gas to Europe, and we've already seen that 30% less gas is being transported From what is the big Russian company?
	I have it here somewhere.
	Oh, it's too cold here.
	We can't send you enough.
	We have pipelines being blown up continuously.
	Who's doing the blowing up of the pipelines and why?
	Simple.
	Because it's a very short pipeline they've got to build basically between Cyprus and Greece because it doesn't have to go from Israel.
	It's Cyprus to Greece.
	And Israel is now building military facilities in Cyprus.
	Here we go.
	Well, it's all in the show notes at 381.nashownotes.com.
	And this destabilizing of Syria is probably, and now I'm just going into hypothesis mode, is probably our promise, and probably Clinton's, Hillary, Lucifer's promise, like, hey, don't worry about it, Israel.
	We're going to hook you up because we're all in on the back end of this.
	We're going to make sure that that gas is not flowing from Homs up to Turkey.
	We're not going to have that happen.
	So this whole thing, everything, right back to the Arab Spring, this all started after this huge discovery of this Leviathan gas field in Israel.
	And you can apply this to everything.
	Who's next on the list?
	Italy.
	And who do they put in there?
	Another shill.
	Goldman Sachs is in on this, by the way.
	And it's like, I think it's a club of maybe a couple hundred people, and they're all in, they are completely in with the contracts, they know who's getting what, and they do not give a crap about people.
	But they are pushing this theater into, oh, well, we're not going to invade Syria.
	There's no way.
	The Russians are going to take care of what they got to take care of.
	And it's probably the competing Russians who are working in Cyprus who also don't want to see this pipeline completed from Syria to Turkey.
	It becomes so incredibly clear you can almost relate anything we're seeing in the news back to this one thing here.
	Right down to Romney and Santorum and Gingrich who are all sucking off Israel.
	They know!
	They know where the money is at.
	They know it.
	Why is Israel so important?
	Well now it actually is.
	It is important because it's trillions of dollars perhaps.
	And they don't give a crap.
	They will kill anyone.
	Well, for that kind of money, you would too.
	So there's this guy, Patrick Seale, who wrote a bunch of books about the Middle East, and he's an expert out of England, and he seemed to have a grip on this whole thing, and he saw this action in Syria as pretty much, although he never talks about this field or the oil, gas, and oil aspect.
	He does have most of the players down, and he does see it as a battle between the United States and Israel.
	On the same team, obviously.
	On the same team, against the Russians and the Chiners.
	Yes, oh yes.
	You kind of left the Chiners out.
	No, no, the Chiners.
	Of course, no, the Chiners.
	But I want to play, there's a break here, I want to play two clips from this guy.
	Both of them are a little long, but they're very interesting.
	And it's...
	Turns out that it's very easy to do what you're describing, in other words, blowing up these pipelines, because the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, which is another reason we can't get involved in this thing, because they're going to end up taking over the place if the civil war continues, and then we'd get blamed.
	And we already let the Muslim Brotherhood pretty much take over Egypt.
	And we want them to, John, because they're just going to muck it all up as long as it slows down the gas.
	Right.
	So anyway, so they've got a built-in situation, and he explains the geopolitical part.
	This is called the CERL. It's actually his name, C-E-L-L-E. It's a seal on the Middle Eastern security.
	And he kind of discusses the player so we have an overview.
	And by the way, when you listen to this, it's obvious that this is nothing we should get involved with.
	And if you watch these idiotic presentations...
	And by the way, there's one other element you've got to bring into this with this thesis.
	The British, and British Petroleum, and the MI6, who seem to be stirring up the pot on a lot of these things, and I would like to hear your take on that.
	But let's play this guy's take on what factions are at work playing in that area.
	There's disputes going on in the opposition.
	Some say we must cooperate with the Muslim brothers.
	Others say no.
	Some say we must seek external intervention.
	Others say no.
	Some say we need a dialogue.
	I believe dialogue.
	Are you playing the right one?
	Are you playing SEAL on Middle East security?
	Or are you playing what's really going on in Syria?
	SEAL on Middle East security is the one I'm playing.
	Okay, well then go on.
	Do you want me to play the other one?
	No.
	Oh wait, yeah.
	Play the other one first.
	I'm sorry.
	That's the summary.
	Well, what's really going on in Syria?
	That's the one you want to play.
	Yeah, play that.
	Sorry.
	You see, I think to understand what's happening, one has to see this as a concerted attack, assault on not only Syria, but Iran as well.
	You see, Iran, Syria and their ally Hezbollah in Lebanon, that trio, a sort of Tehran-Damascus-Hezbollah axis, has in recent years been the main obstacle to American and Israeli hegemony in the Middle East.
	And the attempt now is to bring that axis down.
	Of course, they're fighting back with their allies, with their friends, precisely like Russia and China.
	So that's what we're seeing on that level.
	Internally in Syria is a completely different struggle.
	Now, you see, the main element in the opposition, the main, the most powerful element in the Syrian National Council is the Muslim Brotherhood.
	Now, just the other day, they celebrated the 30-year anniversary of the assault on Hama by Hafiz al-Assad, the father of the present president.
	And in that struggle, At least 10,000 people were killed in the city of Hama.
	Now we have to understand the background of that.
	Hama in 1982 was the climax of a terrorist campaign by the Muslim brothers, which began in the late 70s to overthrow the Assad regime at that time.
	And they seized control, the insurgents seized control of Hama, butchered Ba'ath Party members and officials, and it's only at that stage that the regime moved in and crushed that insurgency and killed a lot of people, a lot of innocent people.
	The specter of what happened then, 30 years ago, hangs over the present situation.
	And the Muslim brothers, they've been outlawed for the last 30 years, they've suffered all sorts of problems at the hands of the regime, and they are thirsting for revenge.
	So that's why I'm saying it's kill or be killed.
	The present government feels that these are armed insurgents, and the mistake of the opposition was, in fact, to resort to arms.
	Okay.
	Who is this guy again?
	Where is he from?
	What does he do?
	He's from Britain.
	He's a book writer.
	He's got a bunch of books on the Middle East.
	I think he's a security expert.
	And it seems as if that it didn't take much more than for somebody, I can't imagine who, to arm the Muslim Brotherhood.
	And of course, we couldn't ever take credit for doing that because this is a group that really doesn't like us either.
	And just let all hell break loose right in that one area, like you said, where the pipeline ends.
	And now they can't, the pipeline is stuck there while they're trying to deal with this crap.
	And then, of course, the reporting on this is just dreadful.
	I was watching Anderson Pooper.
	I have a thing if you want to listen to this clip.
	Yeah, I do.
	He's got some guy named Daniel.
	There's no reporting on this.
	It's Danny.
	It's Danny on Skype.
	Danny on Skype.
	Now, I've seen this.
	This is fantastic.
	This is a fraud.
	Hold on a second.
	Which clip is it?
	Which clip is it?
	I should say Anderson Cooper somewhere.
	No, I don't see any Anderson.
	That's weird.
	Did you forget?
	Did you forget to send it?
	Oh, that's too bad.
	It's a bus.
	I do have it.
	No, it is, right?
	The second from the top.
	Bogus Syria report by Anderson Cooper.
	Now, this Danny guy, I saw him this morning on with the morning girl.
	Before I play it, I want to set this up.
	He's calling in regular reports.
	This idiot is calling in, yeah.
	And by the way, there's a clip of him talking about some dead kid, and it's like...
	But you never see the picture.
	You see the same picture of a guy with his heel bleeding.
	He makes a mistake.
	Oh, in this?
	Danny, yeah.
	If you hear, it's very hard to hear him, but he says, where's the U.S. when we need them?
	But he meant U.N. So he says, where's the U.S., where's the U.N. when we need them?
	It's a very interesting flub.
	I'm sorry.
	But wait, a couple other things.
	I want to point out to people that in any armed conflict ever, there's always reporters who sneak behind the lines and give us at least written reports that are highly accurate.
	There's nothing coming out of this area.
	Not a single thing.
	Late word tonight on the slaughter that Bashar al-Assad and his security forces have unleashed in Syria.
	U.N. Security General...
	By the way, just listen to the setup.
	Oh, this is pathetic.
	This is pathetic reporting.
	There's no proof of anything going on.
	I mean, we do see some bombs going off here and there.
	But you can't just report like this if you don't know for sure.
	I have some great clips that fit into this.
	We'll continue.
	Ban Ki-moon, calling the regime's assault on Homs a sign of worse to come.
	After four straight days of bombing and shelling, it's frankly hard to see how things could get worse.
	By the way, you only see two explosions and smoke in every single video.
	It's the same one over and over again.
	Right, and the one video that shows the explosion, first they have the camera pointed at where the rocket comes from, and then they follow it right to the point as if it was staged.
	Well, yes.
	Did you notice the way that was shot?
	Oh, no.
	Dude, we've got so much to talk about.
	Worse than this.
	Incoming artillery rocket fire in several...
	That's not incoming, by the way.
	...neighborhoods, especially Baba Amr, where this video was taken today.
	More than five dozen people killed.
	Reports at field hospitals and medical professionals are being targeted, along with the wounded.
	Now, the killing, the atrocities unfolding, despite al-Assad's commitment, or stated commitment, to ending the violence.
	He made that promise to Russia's visiting foreign minister only yesterday.
	He's made that promise before, of course, and that promise has always been broken.
	By this morning, his sincerity could be measured in dead men, dead women, and dead children.
	Which we have not seen any proof of.
	The activist, an opposition member known as Danny, has been risking his life daily, bearing witness to all of this, posting videos on YouTube.
	He filed this dispatch just after today's showing began.
	Now, before we show it to you, I want to warn you.
	Graphic.
	It's not especially graphic.
	It certainly is horrible.
	It's also the sad and simple thing.
	It's not graphic.
	It's just horrible.
	Listen to me, slave.
	It's horrible.
	You will think it's horrible.
	...reality in homes right now.
	This is a building hospital.
	This Is this what the UN is waiting for?
	Is this what the UN is waiting for until we've fixed any more children left?
	Until they kill all the children, kill all the women?
	This child lost his brains.
	A bomb landed in his house.
	He lost his whole brains.
	He had two children who killed him and his sister.
	We've been trying all day with no success to reconnect with Danny.
	We thought we had him several times.
	Communications are extremely difficult.
	The streets are deadly.
	Just before airtime, we managed to get in touch with another activist named Abu Abdo, who had just witnessed a friend die.
	So, I've got to say a couple things here.
	So, for anyone in that region to say, I've seen more video of this guy, who, by the way, is getting the two-book deal out of it, I hear.
	He's going to do great.
	And he's saying, yeah, we need the UN, we need the UN. Did you know that Barbara Walters sat down with Assad and had an interview with him, a 45-minute interview?
	Somehow we missed this.
	I don't understand.
	But it wasn't recently.
	It was December.
	Was it?
	You sure?
	Yeah, yeah.
	December.
	I thought it was a couple years ago.
	No, it was December.
	It was December.
	Well, I did see it.
	I saw the interview.
	And do you want to hear what Assad thinks about the UN? Last week, an independent United Nations commission who interviewed more than 225 people issued a report.
	What it said was that your government committed crimes against humanity.
	And they went on torture, rape, and other forms of sexual violence against protesters, including against children.
	What do you say to them?
	I mean, what I am saying again and again is that protesters were...
	We're beaten.
	Things happened to them.
	Do you acknowledge that?
	Do you acknowledge what the UN said?
	Very simply, I would say send us the documents and the concrete evidences that you have and we'll see if that's true or not.
	You have a lot of allegations now.
	Did the UN not send you these documents?
	Nothing at all.
	You mean the first year?
	They don't have even the names.
	And this is true.
	I've read the UN documents, and just like Libya, they have no one.
	And Libya was like, oh, all these people getting raped, and they had one woman who later said, I don't want to talk anymore.
	Yeah, let's not forget the Viagra bullcrap.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Who are the raped people?
	Who are the tortured people?
	Who are they?
	We don't have any name.
	They didn't.
	But they've issued...
	Sorry.
	Mr.
	President, they have issued this report.
	They have accused...
	It must be true!
	...through in your regime.
	According to what?
	Well, according to what they said, 225 people, witnesses, men, women, children...
	That is a lie, because they have no names and witnesses in the report.
	I've read the report.
	...whom they interviewed and identified.
	And that's when they called it Crimes Against Humanity.
	Well...
	We are government.
	We have government.
	We have institution.
	They should send us the documents.
	As long as we don't see the documents and the evidences, we cannot say yes.
	That's normal.
	We cannot say just because the United Nations.
	Who said that the United Nations is a credible institution?
	Who says it?
	We know that you have the double standard in the world, in the United States policy, in the United Nations that's controlled by the United States and the West.
	So it has no credibility.
	So it's about evidences and documents.
	Whenever they have, we can discuss it.
	Just to discuss a report that we don't see any reality related to it.
	It's just a waste of time.
	You do not think that the United Nations is a credible organization?
	No, for one reason.
	They haven't implemented, they never implemented any of the resolutions that related to the Arab world, for example, to the Palestinians, to the Syrian land.
	Why don't they?
	If they talk about human rights, what about the Palestinians suffering in the occupied territory?
	What about my land and my people that left their land because it's occupied by Israel?
	Of course not.
	For every citizen.
	It's not for me as president.
	I'm telling you about the perception in the whole region.
	You do not think the United Nations is credible?
	No.
	Never.
	It's not something before my generation.
	It's something we inherited as a concept, as a belief.
	You have an ambassador to the United Nations.
	Yeah.
	It's a game we play.
	Yeah, it's a little game we play.
	Which is a fact.
	And, of course, we just mentioned earlier in the show about the United Nations voting, you know, a million to two to get the U.S. to stop their embargo in Cuba.
	We just tell them to shove it.
	So, Assad, although I do believe what he's saying, you know, this is terrorist acts taking place.
	Well, and the expert from London says it's just the Muslim Brotherhood trying to...
	Do their job.
	And they're doing their job.
	They're doing their job.
	They have to blow up the pipelines.
	Yeah, they're doing a good job.
	So even though Assad is telling the truth here, he's a player.
	He's a player in the game, and he lets it slip in this clip.
	So, what's the biggest misconception?
	Why is there this misconception?
	And you are saying the country is stable, we have some factions.
	What's the misconception?
	First of all, who is the most of the world?
	Most of the West, you mean?
	Not just the West.
	Turkey?
	Jordan?
	That's not the West.
	The members of the Arab League, they are saying to you they are imposing sanctions.
	Some of them are telling you to step down.
	These are your neighbors.
	There's agenda for those countries.
	It's political game.
	It's not because they don't care about the killing.
	They don't care about democracy.
	Most of these countries, they have agenda.
	I'm not going to talk about the town.
	I'm not going to talk about their agenda.
	Yeah, I'm not going to talk about the agenda because he's in on the game.
	Yeah, obviously.
	But again, this is not just about countries.
	And so this will relate back to your question about the British and the MI6. You can't see it just as the British and MI6. It's the corporations.
	BP has their own agenda.
	ExxonMobil has their own agenda.
	Shell has their own agenda.
	So whoever has the right people in the right place, this is corporate.
	Yes, Chevron and Unical are also players and also Gazprom or whoever it is out of Russia.
	So, obviously...
	Well, wait, before you go on with this, I want to throw just another wrench into the works.
	Okay.
	So, while there's a bunch of this propagandizing going around, especially on the news shows about this Syria action, and you see pictures of Hillary in the UN, who, by the way, she does not look good.
	No, no.
	All of a sudden, out of the blue comes Brzezinski.
	Your buddy.
	My pal.
	Yeah.
	Just listen, is that the cue here?
	Well, I mean, I didn't know what to make of these two clips that I picked.
	I mean, essentially he always keeps going back to world governance, which again is code for, you know, we want to get in on this action too.
	Uh-huh.
	Because what you're describing is a huge multi-trillion dollar money-making scheme, which would make sense that people would want to get in on it.
	But he's making assertions and other commentary that I think it just doesn't sound right, but in the meta view that you're giving us, it actually makes a little sense.
	And I don't know which one of these to play first, but...
	Play lost at first.
	Collectively address the problems that the world faces.
	One of those is to, I think in your term, expand the West to include places like Russia and Turkey.
	Absolutely.
	I think that it's in the vital interest of the West to do so.
	And I think drawing in Turkey, drawing in Russia, would greatly increase the vitality of the West.
	And after all, the Turks, in the course of the last hundred years, have demonstrated a determination to be modern, secular, and democratic.
	So they're really part of our value system.
	In Russia today, we see for the first time the emergence of something we can call a civic society.
	Okay, so what's happening is he is, and we're going to put names to these eventually.
	And by the way, he is on that side of the accordion.
	Yes.
	Oh yeah.
	We're going to be able to figure it out because what he's saying is Russia, Turkey, Europe.
	That's the way it should go.
	And I'm just going to relate that to the pipelines because there is the South Stream, there's the Blue Stream, there's all these pipelines that run through Turkey.
	So he wants Turkey, Turkey, Turkey, Turkey, Turkey.
	How many times has Hillary Clinton been to Turkey?
	She's been trying that too.
	And by the way, let me give you something on this meme he just said.
	He said that it's a modern, secular, democratic.
	For the last hundred years, they have been fighting this.
	The public in Turkey are fighting this.
	And he says they share our value system.
	They are a hundred percent Muslim society that would love to go Sharia.
	They don't share any...
	It's bull crap.
	Yeah, the elites do.
	But this is...
	I was thinking when I first saw this, before I'm starting to think about this other thesis, was that what is he...
	This guy, has he not been to Turkey recently?
	Has he not been to the Istanbul airport?
	I mean, it's just short of having goats in it.
	I mean, it is...
	Elder women are covered up.
	This is very extreme.
	You'd think that you're in Saudi Arabia.
	Well, there are a lot of places in Turkey where the burqas come off and the girls go crazy.
	Well, actually, in Istanbul, the party section there is beyond compare.
	I have to say, they know how to party in Turkey.
	I'm not saying that's not fair.
	It's not true.
	But that can end at the drop of a hat with one new government.
	And I just don't see what he's seeing.
	Well, Turkey is obviously against the whole Israeli thing.
	In fact, Turkey...
	It has to be.
	Yeah, I mean, they're saying, hey, Cyprus, that's our territory.
	You can't have that.
	This is the whole history of Cyprus and Turkey.
	But again, if you haven't seen it yet, please go to pipelines.curry.com.
	You'll see where all of this is headed and the shortest route from all this wonderful resource replacing nuclear energy going right into Europe.
	Something very interesting happened, though, during a recent Spokeshole Carney press event.
	He gets asked a question by Jake.
	I like Jake because he's kind of compromised, but he always comes up with a great question.
	And so he's saying, look, we don't really have any official reports on what's happening in Syria.
	Do you guys have anyone there?
	Do you really know what's happening in Syria?
	Which is kind of like a softball for Spokeshole Carney to lob it in and tell you how horrible and the crimes against humanity.
	And then something very funny happens.
	But first to set up with Jake in the Spokeshole.
	And just to follow up on the Syria question earlier from North, there have been reports that because of...
	All that's going on.
	I think it's Holmes.
	I think it's Holmes.
	Really?
	Do you think so?
	There was a hospital that lost power and a number of premature babies.
	There we go.
	There's the premature babies again.
	Incubators, we're back.
	We got it.
	it as a result i don't know if that's a true story or not obviously in situations like this there are a lot of rumors um does the white house by the way rumors in the general media have now been replaced by bloggers bloggers Bloggers and YouTubers.
	This is the big trick in the media.
	So instead of saying, we heard rumors, no, we have a blogger there, or a YouTuber.
	This is very important for media assassination.
	Know anything about the extent of the violence, factually what's going on?
	Factually!
	Assume we have people on the ground there to a degree or another.
	Are we monitoring exactly what is happening?
	Well, I can say that we have all here seen the reporting and some of the horrific...
	No, there's no reporting.
	We see YouTube videos.
	There's no reporting.
	Absolutely.
	Of the escalation of violence that's taking place in Syria.
	Um...
	Over the last few days.
	And it's clearly resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilians.
	Clearly.
	Clearly resulted in the deaths of hundreds of...
	Clearly.
	And been accompanied by troubling statements from senior regime officials who have pledged, quote, to cleanse the country of renegades and outlaws.
	Oh, cleanse!
	There you go.
	Nice little genocide meme.
	Throw it in there.
	Pour it on, carny.
	That is hardly reassuring and only...
	That reinforces the fact that the Assad regime is engaged in a brutal campaign to slaughter its own people.
	He's Hitler!
	It's a fact!
	He's just engaged to slaughter, slaughter like cattle!
	A people that has...
	This process began when the Syrian people...
	Peacefully demonstrated in support of reform and transition to democracy.
	Bullcrap!
	So I don't have any details to impart to you on the kinds of information we might have with regards to what's happening in Syria beyond the news reports, but the news reports are bad enough.
	Bullshit!
	The news reports are bad enough.
	Then something really funny happens.
	There's a Russian reporter.
	I don't know how he got in.
	But Carney is not loving this guy.
	And the Russian reporter is calling bullcrap on Carney from the beginning.
	And he winds up finally asking his question, which Carney just completely ignores.
	But it's a...
	I don't know.
	Something wrong happened.
	Something horribly wrong.
	And this guy snuck into the White House press corps.
	He's Alex.
	Alex from Russia Press.
	That'll be the last time you'll see him, by the way.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, this guy...
	This guy, he's dead now already.
	He does...
	I don't think the guy lives.
	...believes they were the right decisions.
	Andre, that's his name.
	Probably the Chinese to say that they are not supporting the Syrian regime.
	What they are supporting is the international legal regime, the international legal norms that exist in relations between states.
	They do not want anyone, including the United States, to speak a regime they don't like, incite rebelling against that regime prior to You understand what I'm talking about?
	So, it may be hard to hear.
	What he's saying is, you know, the reason the Russians didn't want to join in on the veto is because they follow international law, which is like, don't meddle with another country.
	Of course, it's bullcrap, but don't meddle with another country's business.
	Just stay out.
	You know what I'm saying, Spokesall Carney, right?
	Basically what you just presented to us was a rhetorical, political, even economic aggression against that regime.
	My question is very simple.
	What are the specific legal grounds on which you do this?
	Very good question.
	What are the specific legal grounds on which you can go and place sanctions and threaten an entire country like Syria?
	What are the legal grounds?
	I would refer you to the United Nations, to our commission there, and to the State Department.
	The President is saying this, dude.
	You're supposed to say it.
	it but you saw and what you see today is a broad international consensus against the behavior of the asad regime the brutal brook killing of the syrian people we think that's wrong only uh...
	agree with uh...
	many of our partners and allies around the world and in the region when we say that the uh...
	I think, again, the images that we've seen just this weekend...
	He's struggling now.
	He's like, oh man, how'd this guy get in?
	Let me get back to the images.
	...that the kind of behavior...
	Being carried out by the Syrian forces under the control of the Assad regime is vile and unacceptable.
	So that is why we supported the United Nations Security Council resolution.
	And it's why we'll continue to work with our allies and partners to further isolate and pressure the Assad regime to allow the Syrian people the opportunity to choose their own future.
	That's the approach we take.
	Okay, Andre's not done.
	If I may, one additional question.
	I actually wanted to ask you to remind you that lynching, lynching.
	He says lynching.
	The legal in the United States.
	You need to have a court of law.
	But I will not ask you about that.
	I will ask you about, can you tell me?
	Andre, I feel like it might be 1982 and it's...
	I don't know.
	Well, lynching is illegal.
	Many, many like-minded people form a post-it, hunt somebody down.
	Andre, do you have a question?
	Can you assure me that they are not working inside Syria through your special forces, whatever it is, the working military?
	So he's saying, can you assure me that there are no special forces from the United States working inside Syria to stir up this crap and blow up the pipelines?
	Can you assure me that?
	That's the question.
	I'm sorry, what's the question?
	Are we...
	Can you tell me that the United States is not taking any military steps?
	I think we've made very clear that we are pursuing a political and diplomatic course with regards to Syria, and we will continue to do so.
	Wow.
	So he doesn't answer the question.
	No, he actually did answer by not answering.
	He couldn't say no.
	Because that would be a big fat lie.
	Because we're there.
	We're part of this.
	We have promised Israel to do this.
	We have promised.
	That's why they made this idiotic vote when they have no concerns about Cuba.
	To vote with us on that stupid resolution.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Israel, we vote no.
	And Iran, by the way, ships gas to Turkey as well.
	Well, this is an interesting, let's go back again, back to Searle, not Searle, but Seale, and the summary that you started to play, because this is kind of interesting, because it's quite likely, when this is over, or you can figure it out, but it's quite likely that all this action about Iran has something to do with this.
	Now, is this the Middle East security, or what's really going on in Syria?
	The one, the Middle East security summary.
	Yeah, because you played the other one.
	And because it's possible that we're kind of missing the point of Iran, too.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, I think...
	But listen to this.
	Listen to this theory this guy has.
	Disputes going on in the opposition.
	Some say we must cooperate with the Muslim Brothers, others say no.
	Some say we must seek external intervention, others say no.
	Some say we need a dialogue.
	I believe dialogue is the only way out of this.
	And indeed, the Russians have suggested to both sides to come to Moscow and start a dialogue.
	But the opposition says no, we can't dialogue with Bashar al-Assad, he must be toppled first.
	Well, that's a dangerous position to adopt.
	Now, Saudi Arabia is the Arab world's heavyweight.
	It is the great financial powerhouse.
	It doesn't particularly like Iran.
	It sees Iran as a regional competitor.
	It's frightened of Shia power.
	The fact that Shias have come to power in Iraq as well, and so it would rather like to contain Iran.
	However, there are some Saudis, some senior Saudis who understand that Saudi Arabia and Iran are really partners.
	They share a responsibility for the security of the Gulf region.
	They should start a security dialogue.
	That's what they need to do rather than being dragged in to this quarrel between the United States and Israel on the one hand and Russia and China on the other.
	Yes, the new energy order has made the Iranians and the Saudis natural allies.
	Now everyone is against Israel.
	Because Israel's got the mother load.
	And these guys are sitting like, wait a minute, we're here in the freaking sand.
	And these guys are going to be sitting in the catbird seat.
	They're exporting everything.
	We've got to work together here.
	And the way to keep that from happening...
	Is to keep saber-rattling, claiming they got nukes?
	Because it's been said in many, we've seen a couple of these security sessions on C-SPAN where they talk about, you know, the real problem, even though we now assume because all the security agencies claim or say, all of them, say that Iran's not working on any sort of technology.
	No.
	But you want to make it seem so because it frightens Saudi Arabia because if Iran actually got a nuke, every other country would have to get one because they're afraid these guys are nuts because of this Shiite thing.
	But the fact, as this guy expressed, is those two countries, maybe this is just to keep them from ever getting together by scaring everybody with this bull crap.
	Exactly.
	Oh, you know, Israel's going to bomb them.
	Oh, we've got to go in.
	Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb.
	And all of our candidates, except for Ron Paul, who seems to be the only one that would just love to just back out of this deal.
	He's the only one that's honest about it.
	These other guys are just full of it.
	Well, they've probably got back-end deals, dude.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, what am I thinking?
	Hello.
	Hello.
	Ron Paul, 76, he's set for life.
	He doesn't care.
	Noble energy.
	Noble energy is the one to look out for.
	By the way, in Iran, we've had all kinds of things happening, little terrorist attacks, little explosions.
	I'm reading from a report August 12th last year.
	An explosion Friday at a gas pipeline that runs from Iran to Turkey has disrupted gas exports.
	The explosion occurred early in the morning as part of the pipeline that is Turkish territory near the border with Iran.
	This is happening on an increasing level.
	And we can apply...
	I'm thinking now, John, seriously.
	Yes, Europe is in trouble.
	Absolutely.
	But when you put together...
	And by the way, this is what tipped me off with one of our buddies.
	He sent me a note and said, I can't believe it, but Standards and Poor is thinking of upgrading Greece.
	This is a rumor that's out there.
	They're thinking, and this was on Bloomberg, that they want to upgrade Greece.
	But when you understand that the CEO and president of the, if it isn't already 100% privatized, the soon-to-be completely privatized DEPA, the Greek energy company, which will handle all of this gas, which they'll ship off to Europe, used to work at Standards and Poor's.
	The whole thing is an inside game.
	And who was it that actually screwed up Greece?
	Goldman Sachs.
	So Goldman Sachs puts in a Goldman guy.
	He's right at the head.
	The minute this guy's in, all of a sudden, Greece and Israel, they're visiting each other.
	We're hanging out.
	Yeah, we're having discussions.
	Italy, Goldman guy.
	Why?
	Because it has to go from Greece to Italy to Europe.
	These are warring corporations.
	Corporations, I tell you.
	Not countries, corporations.
	It's crazy.
	We just have to figure out which one so we can invest in them and ride the gravy train.
	I've been looking up this stuff.
	Well, Noble's already got...
	No, it's $100 already.
	You can't get in there.
	Yeah, it was down to like $50 and that's $100.
	You can't get in with those guys.
	Although, you never know.
	I mean, it's hard.
	Yeah, there's probably two or three of these players that you can sneak in on.
	There's investment opportunities.
	That's what the show's about.
	So anyway, this is what I've been spending my week on, and the more I look at it, the more it's just like, oh, this makes sense.
	The whole Arab Spring, it was about stopping the gas, because you can't have...
	Gas coming in from everywhere, then, you know, the gas becomes so cheap that you can't make any money on it.
	Syria, by the way, is not...
	And by the way, also, this explains why we've done nothing about Bahrain, Qatar, any of these other countries with the Arab Spring, real Arab Spring action.
	No gas, no interest.
	No gas, no care.
	NGNC. That's your hashtag.
	No gas, no care.
	You got no gas?
	I don't give a crap about you.
	You're not important.
	But think about, and this is my crack pottery, think about Fukushima.
	All this happened after this discovery.
	Hey man, what are we going to do about these nuclear plants?
	Well, I'll tell you what.
	Why don't we make it really scary and really dangerous and there'll be more demand for gas.
	Japan can't get enough gas.
	India.
	Israel is already putting deals together to ship their gas to India.
	India's freaking out.
	They need gas.
	Who's going to send it?
	Israel.
	They're doing deals right now.
	I've got all of the...
	It's all in the show notes.
	381.nashownotes.com.
	You know, you think with the food they eat, they'd have all the gas you'd ever need.
	Hold on.
	No!
	Simultaneous dingage.
	But I just look at the Arab Spring.
	I'm like, it makes so much sense, John.
	Yeah, no, this is good.
	I think this analysis, we should just keep this as our basis for watching this action going on in Syria and elsewhere.
	And we've got to be able to put the corporate names to the shill.
	So Hillary Clinton, we know she's in with Noble.
	And even Bill Clinton came out and started yapping about that.
	But we know that the Clintons really work for the Bushes.
	And this is a Houston firm, so duh, really simple.
	But also the Far East Energy Corporation, which is owned by the Chiners.
	They're also involved.
	And I think they're in the Clinton-Bush camp.
	I'll just say, you know, Clinton-Bush-Obama, because it's not Obama.
	It's whoever is running the show with him.
	Because he immediately, the first company, the first company to get offshore drilling in the Gulf, Noble Energy.
	Never heard of him.
	Guess where they have connections?
	You're going to love it.
	Switzerland.
	Zouk.
	Zouk.
	Switzerland.
	Glencore.
	Mark Rich.
	Clinton.
	Connect all those dots.
	And I think if we just keep this in mind, you and I, because we'd kind of gotten away from it because it overlooked the gas thing.
	You know, it's like gas and whatever.
	I had no idea.
	And we had actually discussed this Leviathan field.
	But we never thought about the implications.
	Now, going back, and I actually did a lot of the search on my...
	I have one of those Yacy search engines, so it filters out all the bull crap from Google.
	It just gives you kind of sparse results.
	Man, I found so many amazing articles about how huge problems have been predicted between Lebanon and Iran and Israel because of this gas and the maritime borders and who really owns it.
	And again, that's why you get the laws of the sea.
	That's what Hillary Clinton has been spearheading herself.
	Well, you know, this is who really owns it and this belongs to them and then Cyprus and, you know, but it's...
	It's corporations, because you have Russians who want to ship the gas through the Arab pipeline, and you have Russians who are in Cyprus and want to get it from Israel.
	And it could be the same guys, for all I know.
	It's just the heads.
	They don't give a crap.
	And they don't give a crap about people.
	Well, they just don't want anybody else getting it.
	Of course, of course.
	And this totally...
	Now, for once, I can say, yeah, Israel is really important for douchebags.
	So let's take a break for the moment, and then we'll get back to you.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, February 12th, 2012.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 382.
	This is no agenda.
	Doing my best to ignore the distraction of the week here at Camp MoFo in the capital of the Drone Star State.
	Coming to you from Austin, Texas in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley where things never change.
	Hey, we started the show at 9.09.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Yeah, there must be some secret Illuminati meeting to that.
	If you haven't heard it, episode 381, we had a pretty good conversation about what all this bull crap in the Mediterranean, the Middle East is all about.
	It's all about the gas pipelines.
	And so I'm sitting there actually editing.
	And I always have, here in the studio, I actually have two satellite feeds, and I've got my iPad running CNN, and I happen to be watching Sky News as well.
	And the only thing we didn't discuss was this.
	I'm like, oh crap, now we've got to talk about it on the show so I can put it into this montage I'm making.
	Two explosions have killed at least 25 people and injured over 170 others in Syria's second largest city, Aleppo.
	I'm like, oh man, we know that the pipeline that goes into the Arab pipeline that goes to Turkey, that it has to go from Homs, where all of this, I'm sorry, where Assad is killing, slaughtering the Syrian slaughter.
	He's killing his own people.
	That it has to go through Aleppo.
	Like, oh, we should have just said, watch for something to happen in Aleppo.
	We completely forgot, and there it is.
	It would have been in the red book.
	We would have nailed it.
	We would have totally nailed it.
	The funny thing is, this was an explosion.
	Of course, it was the pipeline construction that exploded.
	And, you know, Syrian soldiers, predominantly, who died...
	And this report says, okay, well, we got an explosion in Aleppo.
	Now back to Homs.
	And now there are reports that Syrian forces are preparing to mount a final assault on the rebel city of Homs.
	It's like, okay, something happened up there.
	Please, please, whatever you do, don't look over there.
	There's nothing to see there.
	Don't look over here.
	Nothing to see here.
	Ooh, look at that.
	Please, continue to look at Homs.
	Homs?
	Hey, homies, Homs.
	It was just phenomenal to see these things unfold.
	And now, of course, I'm like, okay, Whitney Houston's death, I'm sure it's related to the pipeline somehow.
	It's like everything I see is like, how does it relate to the pipeline?
	How?
	Well, it doesn't.
	I'm good.
	I was still on Syria.
	You wanted to get the Whitney thing in there.
	So we're done with her.
	Okay, good.
	So let me get back to Leviathan.
	I was expecting you to come up with the Hollywood Whackers.
	No, I'm telling you, it's an Illuminati sacrifice.
	This is to change the thinking and the mindset and the energy of the world.
	Something very important is going to happen.
	Save it for the second half.
	Well, you asked me again.
	Stop asking me then.
	Alright.
	So back to the real news of what is happening with this huge oil discovery in Israel.
	Man, Lucifer Clinton, she literally didn't waste any time.
	This week has been a very, very, very busy week for her.
	You okay there?
	Go on.
	Now, of course, we know that we're going to have some form of transport of this gas through Cyprus into Greece.
	And I've got tons that I can talk about.
	We'll touch on some of it briefly.
	I don't want to repeat everything we did on 381.
	But guess who shows up in Washington?
	Oh, boy!
	We have the foreign minister from Cyprus.
	With Lucifer.
	And she does one of her little clippity-clop things where they both come out through the doors that open up like Darth Vader's entering.
	And here comes Lucifer.
	I have the clippity-clop sounds.
	Very interesting.
	First, we'll listen.
	It's very short.
	It's a minute in total.
	As Lucifer starts off with...
	Her reasoning, how important it is that the Cyprus foreign minister is in Washington, and then what the Cypriot foreign minister says is, if you now relate that to our pipeline theory, it's pretty astounding the things that are coming out of her pie hole.
	I am delighted to welcome another foreign minister, and one with whom we work closely, and the relationship between our two countries is deepening and broadening all of the time.
	Deepening and broadening all of the time.
	Yeah, gee, I wonder why.
	Is that because your buddies there of Noble Energy are in Cyprus, Hillary?
	Is that why it's so important?
	Yes.
	We're, you know, very pleased that we work together on regional issues as well as bilateral.
	Regional issues?
	Okay, you mean like the big gas field in Israel, Lucifer there?
	And we will be discussing those in great depth.
	It's all about the depth, by the way, which I think is funny.
	It's deep, depth, it's all down, low, yeah, underground, the pipeline.
	And I want to welcome you here, Foreign Minister, and thank you for coming.
	Madam Secretary, thank you very much.
	Thank you for giving me this opportunity to be here with you and discuss, I think, on a very interesting and important agenda that we have.
	Ah, those cameras are so annoying.
	And why don't they mic these people?
	These are digital cameras.
	You don't have to make that much racket.
	No, they don't have to make any noise at all.
	It's so annoying.
	Somebody mic'd the cameras.
	Yeah.
	Well, I guess it's so we don't hear because she's giving a lot away.
	Dealing with issues of common interest.
	Issues of common interest.
	What could that be, John?
	What common interest do we have with Cyprus?
	None.
	Concerned primarily in Cyprus question.
	Issues about our presidency to the European Union.
	The Middle East and our neighborhood in the north part of Africa.
	Oh, it's all about North Africa and the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
	Uprising.
	And the Arab uprising?
	You mean all about that Israeli gas?
	The Arab Spring.
	All these are very interesting issues and I'm forward to discussing them with you.
	Thank you so much.
	Thank you.
	Oh, the cameras are so annoying.
	I didn't even realize how annoying it is.
	So, you know, along with this comes some interesting news.
	We've been talking about the pipeline.
	Cyprus is probably going to get a natural gas terminal.
	It'll be a floating natural gas terminal.
	All of this in the show notes, of course, 382.nashownotes.com.
	Even more interesting, though, yesterday came word that the Nabucco pipeline, this is the pipeline which was Europe's flagship project, The gas pipeline to the Caspian Sea is definitely off.
	The project is dead.
	Gee, I wonder why it's dead.
	And what's even crazier, these guys are so into getting this done that they're now talking about the world's longest undersea power cable.
	Cyprus could become an energy bridge between the European and Asian continents by installing a 540 nautical mile undersea power cable that would transport 2,000 megawatts of power at a depth of approximately 2,000 meters.
	That's rare, I'd have to say.
	They really want to get this power into Europe and they really want to do it quickly.
	It seems like that's a really easy...
	I mean, I don't know.
	I don't know about undersea power cables.
	Yeah, I can't imagine somebody blowing nothing if you'd have a lot of electrocuted fish.
	Be fish forever, that's for sure.
	Maybe it's down there just to block the fish from coming in from the Stargate.
	Thank you.
	And then comes news.
	Yeah, really.
	That there will be...
	I'm sorry, the offshore Israel liquid...
	A liquefied natural gas infrastructure contract has been awarded to an Italian firm.
	Well, that's very interesting.
	An Italian firm.
	So all eyes now on Italy, because if we're already bringing in the new oligarchs in Greece who will take over the infrastructure, Italy will be next.
	It's not going to be Portugal.
	It's not going to be Spain.
	We have to take over Italy.
	And who shows up in Washington this week, John?
	Oh my goodness!
	The attaché from Italy.
	Yes!
	The Italian Foreign Minister with Lucifer doing her clippity-clop!
	Clippity-clop!
	Clippity-clop!
	Fucking cameras!
	Well, good afternoon, and we are delighted to be welcoming the Prime Minister to the White House this afternoon for his meeting with President Obama, and the Foreign Minister, who is well known in Washington, Well known!
	Oh yeah, we know him quite well!
	Here to the State Department in its new capacity.
	The United States and Italy have such a strong friendship and alliance, and we are working on a full range of important issues.
	Very important issues.
	Hmm, what could those be?
	Pizza imports.
	Hmm.
	From our common efforts in Afghanistan to our concerns over Syria to, of course, the economic issues that will be the topic of the conversation.
	As we take over all your crap.
	With the President.
	But I want to underscore how confident we are in Italy.
	In Italy's future.
	In the extraordinary commitment that Prime Minister Monti and his government are bringing to the challenges confronting the Italian people and in the Italian people themselves.
	So it is with great personal pleasure that I welcome you back, Minister.
	Wow.
	Is she blowing him or what?
	And, you know, it's like, please, this is a, you know, the Monty, of course, is a Goldman Sachs shill who was brought in.
	And if you relate this to how the power has to flow from Greece through Italy, it makes total sense that Italy is next.
	Thank you very much.
	It's a great pleasure.
	It's an honor to be here at the State Department.
	And I believe that we are going to have a very interesting conversation about political issues, which are...
	Yeah, right.
	I'm sure we talk about political issues.
	No, about divvying up the goods.
	It's a common concern to both our countries and where we are involved.
	You know, we are particularly engaged in Mediterranean issues.
	Mediterranean issues?
	Hmm.
	You just have to replace...
	And every single time one of these douchebags says, political, just think commercial.
	If they say, you know, the people think us.
	You know, just replace all those words.
	Yeah, no, the funny thing, you know, I was thinking about this over the last couple of days, and...
	Sarah Palin used to brag about how it was set up in Alaska where the people got the money.
	They had a lot of oil up there that gets pulled out and it gets divvied up.
	Everybody gets a check for a couple grand at least.
	Everybody in the whole state.
	And their tax rates are low because it helps pay for the tax.
	It's like you have a natural resource that's specific to that state.
	And since we are a federal-style government where the states have these powers, you just say, hey, this is stuff that belongs to the people of the state, and they share it.
	Even though, you know, you can see, well, that's just a bunch of communists.
	It's socialists.
	Communists.
	Commies, damn it.
	It's communists.
	But the thing is...
	It belongs to the people.
	Of course it does.
	It belongs...
	And California has always irked me because even though...
	And I'd worked for an oil company, Union Oil of California.
	And I always thought it was unfair that we not only had oil that was being pulled out of the ground, just underneath everybody, and privately owned, and we not only got no benefits from this as a state, we got very little tax income because we're broke.
	But they would also have the highest gas prices.
	I mean, during the crisis in the 70s and the one more recently, our gas prices, like right now, it's like $4 a gallon.
	It's just like we pay more.
	We get screwed twice.
	It's unbelievable.
	You know, and this is why you wound up at the end of your career doing this show and you're not like some elitist with a billion dollars because your thinking is all wrong.
	Yeah, no, my thinking is totally wrong.
	I'm a communist.
	It's stupid.
	It's stupid.
	I'm a stupid communist.
	Stupid communist.
	Now listen.
	So it's like these countries that have always had that idea.
	I mean, Kuwait shares the wealth with its citizens.
	They have, you know, its higher standard of living.
	Hey, citizens.
	Yeah.
	Saudi Arabia, every time they have some issues going on, they just write a check to everybody.
	Hey, calm down, people.
	Here's the check.
	What do you want?
	Five grand?
	Five grand?
	Shut you up?
	Okay, five grand.
	So they do that.
	We don't do any of that because we're taught that this is not right.
	It should all be owned by a guy who scams everybody because he's got the government on his side.
	But some of these countries, like Greece...
	As we point out in the last show, and to a lesser extent Italy, but definitely Cyprus, they always had this common ownership idea, but now they're getting screwed out of it by the true elitists.
	The people who really run the world.
	30 more seconds of the foreign minister from Italy.
	Especially the developments in the societies which are leading towards democratic institutions, which are referring to the sense of the Arab Spring.
	See, he's also talking about the Arab Springs.
	So it's all code for, we got it, we're in, we're in the pocket.
	Oh yeah, we have an understanding, sure you do.
	Thank you all so much.
	It's like applause.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's like, good job, boy.
	Good job.
	All that camera action.
	What kind of shots do they expect to get?
	Yeah, really.
	And why is it so loud?
	And why aren't they mic'd?
	Yeah, it's very annoying.
	So, of course, the stupid slaves in Greece are rioting and protesting once again.
	And this is about the new package from the Troika.
	And it's gotten pretty bad in Greece.
	But of course, the Greek government doesn't actually give a rat's ass about the people.
	They care about the bailout package.
	And I looked at the package.
	We all talk about it.
	And they just talk about, oh, the money, the money, the austerity.
	And I'm like, well, what actually is in this package that they have to sign?
	And I was able to find a list.
	And here it is from Reuters.
	So there's fiscal adjustment.
	Before any funds are dispersed under the bailout, the government must pass a supplementary budget, including spending cuts.
	Bank recapitalizations, i.e., give money to the banks, taxpayer money to the banks.
	And then, here it is, privatizations.
	This is part of the mandate.
	From the European Union and the Troika Starfleet Command.
	The Troika being the IMF, the European Central Bank, and what is the third one in the Troika?
	I don't know.
	Darth Vader.
	Council?
	Darth Vader.
	Oh, Darth Vader.
	Here it is.
	Cumulative privatization receipts.
	Should be at least 4.5 billion euros by the end of 2012, 7.5 billion by the end of 2013, 12.12 billion by the end of 2014, and 15 billion by the end of 2015.
	An initial privatization target of 50 billion euros.
	Point 2.
	Increased powers for Greece's privatization agency to sell assets in pieces or liquidate it if it cannot be sold in its current form.
	It's very important, this little ditty here.
	And the third point, the list of companies whose full or partial privatization will be launched in 2012 include gas company DEPA, gas grid operator DESFA, and the refiner Hellenic Petroleum.
	So there it is.
	It's black and white.
	Forced on the people that their ownership of these about to make a lot of money operations is now done.
	And then I see, and I'm like, oh, okay, so they got more power, the privatization agency.
	Well, it turns out in July...
	Greece named a new team that will head up the privatizations agency that is set up to undertake these billions of euros and have the sale of billions of euros.
	So who's in it?
	Well, let's see.
	Finance Minister, blah, blah, blah, picked EuroBank Equities Executive, Kostas Mitropoulos, as the agency's managing director.
	So that's, let me see, is that a banker?
	Yeah, that's a banker.
	A private bank, I might add.
	He also named Giannis Koukiadis, a law professor, and former minister and European Parliament deputy as board chairman.
	This is getting pretty good.
	We've got some really partial guys on here.
	This sounds really good.
	Other board members, Andreas Koukiadis.
	Toprens' former CEO of Hellenic Post.
	So they'll probably sell off the post office.
	And former chief executive of Athens Water.
	Yeah, of course.
	Don't forget, we're trying to do the same thing here with our post office.
	Yes, of course.
	But now when you look at Greece, you just say, oh, that's the new Russia.
	Everything fits.
	No, the Russian model worked very well for certain groups of people that were well-connected.
	Look, I'm well-connected.
	I need to get something for all the work I've done for you guys.
	Yep.
	Everyone's connected, and they're doing it right on the backs of the slaves, and they give them all kinds of little things like elections.
	Oh, you can pretend to elect somebody, and all kinds of little...
	Oh, no, the public is just completely out to lunch on this whole thing.
	All the protesters, they don't know anything.
	They just throw stuff and get it out of their system.
	The real troublemakers get isolated and thrown in jail.
	Or worse.
	Shut up, slave.
	It's almost like a honeypot.
	And I had mentioned on the previous episode about how all this relates to the Arab Spring and that Egypt's pipeline had been blown up as well.
	Actually, I found an article as I was researching for my video.
	Egypt's gas export pipeline in 2011 was attacked ten times.
	Ten times!
	It is so obvious what is going on.
	And then just to make it completely crazy, I think you call it recursion.
	Maybe we call it fractal.
	But the script leaked out for the reality show.
	That is this interview with Assad.
	I'm sure you saw this.
	Maybe you didn't.
	Is this the one that you played on the last show?
	No, no, no, no, no.
	So what happened is Anonymous, oh, those awesome dudes at Anonymous, whoever they may be, apparently hacked into the Syrian Ministry of Presidential Affairs email system and exposed emails which showed that apparently hacked into the Syrian Ministry of Presidential Affairs email system and exposed emails which showed that the Assad regime is out to propagandize Americans who are so stupid that So this was so mind-boggling.
	I want to play this report from Wolf Blitzer.
	And what's crazy about it is here's a report that is supposed to tell you that you are...
	that you were being manipulated by the Assad regime but of course this is actually manipulation in itself and we're buying into it.
	This is how stupid we are.
	Syrian opposition group is reporting as many as a hundred and thirty-seven deaths at the hands of government forces today and now we're getting a shocking inside look at how the Syrian government shocking is allegedly spinning the crack down to the outside world the source Secret emails posted.
	Secret emails!
	Secret, John.
	They're secret.
	They were secret.
	If they were secret, they would be called cables.
	They're secret emails.
	...by the notorious hacking group, Anonymous.
	Brian Todd is here.
	He's working the story for us.
	So, Brian, what exactly are you finding out?
	Wolf, one person we know who is connected to that hacker group, Anonymous, says...
	One person we know.
	You mean your CIA handler?
	Is that who you're talking about?
	It could be anybody.
	You can say that yourself.
	That's so funny.
	I'm going to say that all the time.
	And when I was talking to Anonymous the other day...
	These emails appear to be authentic, and if so, it does not look like Bashar Assad's aides have a very high opinion of Americans.
	It's days before a big interview with an American network.
	Barbara Walters.
	And Bashar al-Assad is being coached.
	To spin this crackdown, 1Aid writes, don't talk reform.
	Americans won't care or understand that.
	The aide advises the Syrian president to talk about, quote, mistakes.
	Blame his own police.
	American psyche can be easily manipulated when they hear that there are, quote, mistakes done, and now we are, quote, fixing it.
	So this is the point where my mind is boggling.
	I say, am I really hearing a report meant to manipulate the American people that is actually saying that someone tried to manipulate the American people?
	It is so mind-boggling this is taking place.
	Here's what Assad then said about the crackdown in that early December interview with ABC's Barbara Walters.
	This is individual, and that's what I describe as individual mistakes.
	Okay, done by the military or done by whom?
	We don't know everything.
	In some cases done by the police, in some cases done by civilians.
	That email on what to say was apparently from Sherzad Jafari, press attache at Syria's mission to the UN, to one of Assad's press aides in Damascus.
	The hacker group Anonymous posted the email passwords of top Syrian officials.
	Hackers like this one cited by Foreign Policy magazine claimed to have downloaded the emails and posted them online.
	CNN has seen the emails.
	They appear legitimate, though we cannot independently verify their authenticity.
	The email apparently from Jafari advises Assad on a quote to give.
	Syria doesn't have a policy to torture people.
	Says he can contrast that with the U.S. and mention Abu Ghraib.
	Referring to Assad as H.E. for His Excellency, it says, at one point, H.E. was viewed as a hero, and in other times, H.E. was the bad guy.
	Americans love these kinds of things and get convinced by it.
	They think that the American public is really stupid.
	No, they're right.
	They're absolutely right.
	They're totally right.
	But so what?
	Everybody does this.
	I got a punchline.
	President who says he was once imprisoned and tortured by the regime.
	This is what they taught us at the school.
	The Americans, they know nothing about the world.
	They really enslave their people.
	The worker has no rights.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	In the U.S. And they really think so.
	They think that the American is easy to fool.
	Yes!
	David Kenner of Foreign Policy Magazine says the email reflects an amateurish effort to present serious case to the world.
	What is their current media strategy?
	Honestly, I think at this point, they think they have lost the Western media.
	They've lost the United States.
	All right.
	So, of course, I went and looked at these so-called emails that were posted to Pastebin by Anonymous.
	And...
	Very interesting, because if you actually read the email that was sent, which, you know, here's how it starts off.
	Hello, dear, comma.
	So I guess this person forgot to say, and this, by the way, is coming from the Syrian attache at the United Nations, the most corrupt organization in the world, where the script was written.
	Now, I'm going to read this opening paragraph to you, John.
	I think you'll agree with me that something else is going on.
	Please let me know if you need anything else.
	Barbara will be here on the 2nd, and the interview will be on the 4th because she's leaving on the 6th, so that would give you some time to do the editing.
	Thank you.
	They're just handing the script from the United Nations.
	This is not propaganda.
	This was a script that was written in collaboration with ABC News.
	They had a meeting at the United Nations and said, okay, listen, and this is from the person at the United Nations saying, Barbara's going to be here.
	I guess this person means in Syria.
	Here's the stuff you should talk about because we've already done the pre-interview and you'll have some time to edit it all together.
	This is the stuff that's important to manipulate the American people.
	It's the script.
	It's not like some big, crazy conspiracy.
	It's just a script like everybody does.
	And Assad is a player.
	Like Barbara Walters is a player.
	Well, she's more a pawn, but she's a player.
	But yet this is spun into like, oh, the propaganda is crazy.
	They fooled Barbara Walters.
	And of course, we're on to this crap.
	And just about the time that we're starting to understand what's going on and expose it, then all of a sudden, let's change the news and kill Whitney Houston.
	So, uh...
	I'm looking at some articles about some previous public relations ploys by the Syrians.
	I'm wondering who...
	There's obviously two groups involved, and I think the oil interests may be one of them, or the gas interests, whatever.
	Same thing.
	Same guys.
	Who are the, you know, they're taking two sides.
	It's interesting because it's like a public relations battle that they're losing with this story because this story is a bogative story that really is designed to just make everything they do look crappy.
	Like, they're just trying to manipulate us.
	They suck.
	They're horrible people.
	And, you know, they should all die.
	They should get a different firm.
	And nobody considers the scripted aspect of it, the United Nations aspect, or the Barbara Walter aspect, or the after-the-fact editing, which is considered, no, we can't do that, even though they apparently do it all the time.
	This is a briefing from a PR agent here at the end of this briefing.
	And this is something that Lois would give us if we were to do an interview.
	Key points, the government's crackdown, the bloody regime, civil war, security forces and violence, tanks, the YouTube torture clips President Assad ignores, the bloodshed and the help of other countries in the Arab League, army defectors.
	Robert Ford returns to the U.S. for security reasons.
	Syria is an authoritarian government.
	So these are the key points they know that Barbara Walters is going to focus on.
	And then at the end, the broadcast hours and channels, and they give the whole rundown.
	The interview will be broadcast across ABC news platforms, including World News, Good Morning America, This Week.
	I mean, it's a PR briefing.
	Yeah, ABC, not NBC. I thought I said ABC. Yeah, ABC. Which means, here it says, full-length treatment across the digital space.
	This is PR talk.
	For ABC News, this now includes Yahoo as well, which means you can reach as many as 100 million people.
	ABC News and Yahoo recently joined forces, which is another reason why so many people now bring their interviews to us.
	Really?
	This is a PR briefing.
	And you're right.
	And so what?
	Yeah, I know.
	So what?
	But there's more PR going on.
	I just caught this this morning on CNN. I mean, CNN itself does these.
	Thank you.
	Well, here's CNN playing along nicely.
	CNN next Sunday night, 8 Eastern.
	A collapsed cooling tower.
	Leaky pipes.
	Why is this nuclear power plant still online?
	So no one's going to talk to us?
	No.
	CNN presents Nuclear Standoff, next Sunday night, 8 Eastern.
	Nuclear Standoff.
	Get rid of all nukes, because gas is coming.
	Gas will save you.
	Get rid of nukes.
	Nukes, bad.
	Nuclear power plant's bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
	Actually, we both of us got an email from Atomic Rod.
	Yeah, we did.
	Which was a really beautiful email.
	Because he believes there is, and he's, you know, I mean, I think he's got his very...
	Set opinions about energy.
	Atomic Rod Adams, who was a long-time supporter of the show, was on a nuclear sub for many, many years.
	And he does work in the Navy.
	He works in the Navy.
	And he says, look, man, backyard nukes are not far away.
	It's clean.
	All this propaganda.
	It's all propaganda.
	Of course, Rod has his own agenda.
	And I wish...
	See, I can make a combustion engine here at home.
	I mean, I can get a lawnmower, and I can get some parts together, and I can create a generator.
	If I could do that, if I could split a couple atoms here at home, and I wouldn't die from it, then we would have a different story.
	But it's so embedded into the psyche.
	Well, and you heard it in that teaser where they said, why is it still online?
	Why is it still online?
	Well, maybe because it's just producing energy and it's not doing any harm.
	So maybe that's why it's still online.
	But this slanted pro-petroleum, which, you know, we're a petroleum economy, and anything that threatens it is always like...
	It's always like meets with ruination.
	Always.
	Yeah.
	Nuclear.
	You're going to die.
	The thing that happened in the 70s, which is going to happen again, you can count on it, which is the...
	No, no, no.
	It only has to happen every 30 years.
	We had Fukushima.
	It's done.
	It won't happen for a while.
	I'm talking about the clean energy movement that takes place with the wind power and all these other things.
	The thing you do is you jack up the price of oil as high as you can.
	You try to manipulate it up, up, up, because it really should be selling for $25 to $40 a barrel max instead of $100.
	So you jack it way up and then all these other things look like, well, you know, this is affordable.
	We should do this.
	And you get everybody to invest their money into all this green stuff.
	And by the way, those funds are all underwater.
	Put all your money in the green stuff and then you pull the rug out from under them.
	I've seen this happen before.
	Boom!
	The price of oil goes back down to where it belongs.
	$25.
	All these companies go broke overnight and it just sets them back 20 or 30.
	They can't threaten again.
	It's just a real common...
	Because we've got so much oil that it's almost crazy to do anything but burn it.
	Yeah, but we've been mind-controlled, dude.
	We've been mind-controlled.
	Of course, we're killing the earth.
	We're killing each other.
	Peak oil and all the rest of it.
	Peak oil, all this stuff.
	Yeah, we're all going to die.
	And now nuclear.
	And, of course, I'll reiterate that right after Fukushima, then Germany said, oh, we're shutting everything down.
	No more clean, beautiful nuclear energy.
	Right, and if you can be one of the guys involved in a, since you're not sharing the wealth when you find all this oil, you just control it somehow, you can make a heck of a lot of money just pumping stuff out of the ground.
	I mean, there's no work involved except for putting in a pump and you hire somebody to do that.
	It's a killer moneymaker.
	I mean, that's why you have all those rich guys in Texas.
	I mean, you know, they're some of the dumbest people you've ever met.
	Rick Perry, case in point.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Thursday, February 16, 2012.
	Time for Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 383.
	This is No Agenda.
	Going generic here at Camp Mofo in the capital of the drone star state, Austin, Texas.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where you can't tweet anymore without hitting the feather button.
	Whatever is that?
	What's the feather button?
	I'm John C. Devorak.
	It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill.
	I thought you couldn't hear me or something.
	You're just grumbling through my whole...
	And I don't know what happened, but ever since the Leviathan Project, if you haven't heard of that, go to 381.nashownotes.com or leviathanpipeline.com, which is a PR effort from one of our producers, which is now forwarding to 381.nashownotes.com, which is now forwarding to 381.nashownotes.com, leviathanpipeline.com, which is a great one.
	So easy to remember.
	If you said, hey, you want to learn about something cool, then go to leviathanpipeline.com.
	And I want to mention that you did, you know, when you came up with your thesis, which is actually reality, it's not much of a theory at this point.
	And you still find a way to downplay it, no matter how good it is.
	It's just kind of reality.
	It's reality.
	It's not really that great.
	But I've been on the lookout for some confirmations of your theory.
	They're everywhere.
	Even though nobody, they report something.
	As soon as they do it, I'm sure our listeners do the same thing.
	They go, ah!
	Yeah, I know.
	But this goes right over their heads.
	I know.
	Boom.
	I know.
	Here, play this from Democracy Now.
	Okay.
	And then I have a couple more...
	I just want to reconfirm what you were thinking.
	Okay.
	Well, what's the name of the clip?
	Confirmation of Curry Theory.
	Hello?
	Hello.
	Raids against opposition activists have also been conducted in the capital Damascus.
	In humps, an oil pipeline was attacked earlier today, setting off a major blaze.
	I know.
	I got a couple of clips as well that I have to play.
	I know.
	I mean, literally, it's like, I tripped on the stairs.
	See, the theory works!
	I mean, it's crazy.
	It's not a theory, it's reality.
	It's everything.
	Yeah, it's reality.
	I'm a reality theorist.
	No theory anymore.
	I mean, they report it and they don't even think twice about it.
	I know.
	Then I want to, here's one that everyone can go to.
	What's going on with Syria?
	And it's all related to Iran, of course, as well.
	You had that Syrian pipeline clip.
	Here's my Syrian pipeline clip.
	And you saw how it's nighttime now in Syria.
	It's actually just before 11 o'clock there, 11 o'clock at night.
	But much earlier, darkness clouded the city.
	In fact, these are images.
	This is the daytime.
	Look at the sky.
	Pitch black.
	That is because of this oil pipeline explosion.
	Opposition activists say the Assad regime is to blame.
	But the government has a different story.
	The government has a different story.
	Why would the Assad people be to blame for blowing up their own pipeline?
	And the way she says it, though, the government has a different story.
	Like, they're lying.
	They're lying.
	You know they're lying.
	They're totally lying.
	It can't be true.
	I'm a journalist.
	So now we have this new woman.
	Here's Pooper, Anderson Pooper, with Arwa Damon.
	Arwa Damon, who, just the setup alone is hilarious.
	Particularly harshly on Holmes, which has become an opposition stronghold.
	Eleven people were killed there today, according to activists.
	Arwa has crossed into Syria.
	We're not going to say exactly where she is.
	No, because it's in the studio next door.
	She is for her own safety and the safety of her team.
	Safety of her team.
	Her team!
	She has a team?
	She doesn't have no team.
	Does she play baseball?
	What's the deal?
	She's got a whole team there, apparently.
	I spoke with her just a short time ago.
	Opposition groups are reporting that at least 30...
	Opposition groups are reporting.
	You've got to listen to what these people are saying.
	Opposition groups are reporting.
	What opposition group?
	We have CNN Syria?
	Who are these reporters?
	People have been killed today in Syria.
	What are you seeing on the ground?
	Well, we're basically in a safe house.
	So I'm seeing nothing.
	We cannot disclose.
	I can't disclose because I'll be killed.
	And there has been a nonstop flow of traffic here from members of the Free Syrian Army who have just defected.
	The Free Syrian Army?
	The nonstop traffic?
	She's not on the ground.
	She's holed up somewhere, if she's actually in Syria.
	And she's just talking out of the side of her ass about, yeah, all these guys came in and told me what was going on, so let me report that as truth to you, Pooper.
	Also in this location, at the scene, what is a medical clinic, however, because the area that we're in is effectively under siege, as are many...
	Effective?
	Effectively under siege, huh?
	The other areas around it, a lot of those in need of medical treatment have not been able to reach this particular location.
	What's the level of...
	The big edit, by the way.
	The whole thing is edited because she's...
	And I'll tell you who she is.
	Arwa Damon, born in Boston, Massachusetts.
	She graduated from Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey.
	In Turkey.
	Her father, teacher at the American Community School of Beirut, she's an asset.
	We've never heard of this woman before.
	I've never seen her anywhere.
	But here's what's very interesting.
	She covered the Middle East as a freelance producer working with CNN, PBS, Fox News, and others.
	She began her journalism career at Camera Planet working to get correspondence for Peter Arnett's team into pre-war Iraq.
	Well, you remember Peter Arnett, and there's YouTube videos everywhere, of Peter Arnett and his team sitting in a green screen.
	You've seen these, right, John?
	You've seen the green screen videos?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And pretending like, oh, oh, oh, oh, there's another one, there's another bomb.
	And then the camera kept rolling, and they were sitting in front of a green screen with plants they took from the hotel lobby.
	She's a phony.
	Organization that you're seeing among opposition forces.
	There is a fairly impressive amount of organizations.
	Fairly, and so the video is guys getting into a Toyota, a blue Toyota with AK-47s and masks on their face.
	Impressive organization, Anderson.
	At this level, the Free Syrian Army units on the village town-to-town level appear to be fairly well organized.
	They are, of course, lacking in weapons.
	They can't really conduct offensive operations.
	This is a little code.
	Of course, they're lacking weapons, so, you know, it would be good if America sent some weapons over there.
	And then the activists themselves are incredibly well organized, whether it's trying to disseminate...
	Incredibly organized.
	She's seeing all this from her undisclosed location where she hasn't left the room.
	Information.
	With a crack in the wall behind her.
	I love that.
	That's great.
	Her team did well.
	Hey, let's get that crack in the wall behind you.
	That makes it look like you're in a bombed out place.
	We can get information around.
	There is a constant flow of information.
	There have been increasing reports of weapons being sent into Syria from a lot of different groups, a lot of different countries.
	Allegations by the regime that Al-Qaeda is behind some of the suicide bombings.
	Is there any truth to that?
	Oh, oh, okay.
	Al-Qaeda behind it.
	Hmm, let's listen.
	You do see weapons, and the largest weapon we've seen has frankly been an AK-47, and after that a rocket-propelled grenade, really no match for what the government has at its disposal.
	Yes, people say there's been a very slow trickle of weapons coming across various borders, but it really isn't going to be putting the opposition...
	Answer the question!
	Fighters in a sort of military stance.
	And what we keep reiterated to us time and time again is that the opposition, the fighters even themselves, do not want to and did not want to have to pick up weapons.
	But it has been the regime's brutality that has forced them into this position.
	And when it comes to the issue of al-Qaeda, look, even the U.S. has said that they believe that some sort of al-Qaeda-linked group is perhaps behind the mass bombings in Damascus, behind the bombing that just took place in Aleppo.
	But they also do believe that this is simply because al-Qaeda, being the network that it is, is one that is fully capable of exploiting the kind of security vacuum that exists here.
	But it is in...
	So there's the shift in the story.
	The shift is, because there's a vacuum in authority, a vacuum in the regime, that's why Al-Qaeda's coming in, because they blow up stuff for a living.
	That's what they do, essentially.
	Well, the whole thing...
	I did a bunch of work on this, too.
	And I kind of went in a different direction.
	All right.
	I went to...
	There's a document floating around, which was a leaked document from the Arab League, the Arab League of States Observing Mission.
	You've seen it.
	And there's a couple of things that were interesting in it.
	One was a list of all these journalists from around the world that were brought in to basically look around, which belies the argument that no journalist can get in.
	Well, there's journalists from everywhere, and they're all over the place.
	And there's good documentation of them right up to TBS, Japanese Broadcasting Network 3-1-2012, sent in.
	Italian official television, French journalist Hervé de Gaulle.
	And one after another.
	So I decided to start looking at some of the French...
	Actually, I looked at any number of these people, including one woman who was listed as...
	I got her name right.
	Yeah, Elizabeth...
	No, this is a different one.
	Elizabeth Palmer.
	I don't have her name.
	But anyway, Elizabeth Cocker.
	So you couldn't find her because her name is actually Elizabeth Phelan.
	This is an old maiden name they had on there.
	So I finally found her stuff.
	She works for Russia Today and a bunch of other Canadian outlets, and she says the whole thing that's over there is a bunch of bull crap, and they won't print any of it.
	And so then I said, well, let me just look at some of the foreign publications.
	And so I started looking at the French stuff, going through a bunch of different translators.
	I actually retranslated most of these documents three different times to figure out what the hell they were talking about.
	And the...
	The French guys were saying this whole thing is crap.
	They kind of shut down somebody or another, started attacking them, and they all grouped together and met.
	And there's a number of French guys met at a nun's place out in the middle of nowhere at a secret meeting to discuss what's going on with this Catholic nun who's French that's living in the area.
	And she goes on this long tirade about this is all a bunch of bull crap dreamed up by Western media.
	She doesn't know why, and this is all reported in La Vie, among other French publications.
	So I'm thinking this whole thing is just...
	I mean, we can't even use...
	Anything, because this is all bullcrap.
	I mean, it's such bullcrap that even the stuff that we try to deconstruct is just completely off the rails.
	And the people behind this, by the way, this raiding of Syria, it seems to me, if you start looking at the public relations agencies involved, all stem back to the Muslim Brotherhood.
	These are the Muslim brothers who have taken over the area.
	They've taken over Egypt.
	They've taken over Syria.
	Looks like they're trying to take over Tunisia.
	There was a really good report over the last few days about what's going on in Tunisia.
	There's a big battle where they should put Sharia law in.
	Wasn't that the whole point?
	Is to have everyone freaking out?
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's what the point of the Leviathan Project is.
	Then you can just run the Israeli gas into Europe and everybody's happy camper.
	Meanwhile, the Israelis are surrounded by a bunch of maniacs.
	So this is where it gets very interesting, back to the Leviathan Project.
	So first of all, we had, very interesting, we had Bebe.
	Show up in Cyprus.
	Bibi Netanyahu made his first visit to Cyprus ever by an Israeli Prime Minister this week.
	He said that he and President Dmitry Christofus discussed a variety of ways the two countries can work together in agriculture, tourism, science, and, oh yeah, energy exploration.
	Really?
	Yeah, it's always the last on the list.
	Yeah, both leaders declined to speak publicly about...
	Maybe nobody will read that far.
	Yeah.
	So, of course, this relates back to Greece.
	And on Sunday's show, while we were wrapping up the show, Greece was on fire, essentially.
	Just on fire.
	A couple of interesting things happened.
	Well, here's the first one that got reported on Monday.
	I think it is quite serious.
	Make no mistake, Hugh, that EU officials are playing it tough.
	I think for the moment, certainly, this second Greek bailout is on hold.
	And the reason for that is that the EU officials do not believe that Greece has met conditions, crucial conditions.
	They want key political leaders to give written guarantees that after elections in April they will fully implement these new austerity measures.
	They also want further budget cuts.
	But I am detecting growing tension between some Greek ministers and some European ministers.
	One Greek minister today did say, quite simply, the Greek people have had enough and can't take any more.
	But also some European ministers are discussing the possibility of a Greek default in a way certainly they weren't a year ago.
	The German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, said, compared to two years ago, we are much better prepared to survive a Greek default.
	Now, against this background, the Greek economy seems to be collapsing.
	In the last quarter of last year, it contracted by 7%.
	Right.
	So, what is happening here?
	And there's a document floating around.
	Now, I read a blog by this guy named John Ward.
	And John Ward was a big advertising executive in the 80s and early 90s in the United Kingdom.
	And he has a blog called The Slog.
	He's retired.
	You can find it at hat4uk.wordpress.com.
	Hat4uk.wordpress.com.
	And he has a lot of friends on the inside.
	And he posted today...
	Greek default exclusive, senior U.S. bankers give an explicit timetable for Athens default.
	And by the way, lots of countries default.
	It's not like, you know, the end of the world.
	But March 23rd is, and apparently Barclays has it and one other bank who he can't mention.
	But I trust this guy.
	He's been right about a lot of things.
	March 23rd, a close of business.
	That's a Friday.
	And Monday, the banks will not dispense money in Greece.
	So that'll be the 26th.
	And everyone's been kind of waiting for this moment.
	And the reason why is the privatization deals are done.
	China Three Gorges, G-O-R-G-E-S, has finalized their purchase of the stake in the EDP, the Greek energy company, $3.5 billion.
	The committee that was appointed just a few months ago, China has said, you know what, we're probably going to have to have the state give up every single bit, everything, all of their stake in the Greek energy infrastructure, and it's the Chinese...
	Although there is one Azerbaijan company who was also in on it.
	But the Chinese are the ones that are purchasing and buying all of this up.
	And that flows right in.
	There's another Lucifer Clinton connection there.
	That's the Far East Energy Corporation.
	So I think that this has been a total Chinese setup for purchasing the assets, the deals will be done, and then it's just like, screw them.
	Let them burn.
	Just let them burn.
	And Italy will be next.
	Because Italy already has the pipeline, by the way, that was built in 2010.
	They have the pipeline with Greece.
	And Italy will be the next country that will have to privatize everything.
	That's really what these austerity measures are about.
	No one in the elitist world in the oil cabal gives a crap about the people.
	It's all about the privatization of the companies.
	And then we had Haiku Hermann.
	And for some reason I can't find my...
	Where's my clip of Haiku Hermann?
	Hmm.
	Let me grab it from YouTube.
	Haiku Herman was, let me see, where was he?
	Oh, gee!
	Do you think he was in China this past week?
	It becomes so transparent.
	He was in China while the vice chairman was in Iowa?
	Is that right?
	I don't know about the vice chairman, but here's Haiku Herman talking to the Chinese at a press conference.
	Listen to the words that he's using.
	It's quite impressive.
	We welcomed the declaration of Premier Wen last week in which he said that China will consider to be involved deeper in European integration.
	Yes, by buying all of our sheet.
	We take note of it and we welcome it.
	Noted!
	Second point is, in the past already, China has shown in a concrete way its interests in the Eurozone by investing in sovereign bonds of individual countries and by investing in European stability instruments.
	Third point is, It is up to China to make its own decisions in order to contribute to the stability of the Eurozone.
	We agreed that we will consult and cooperate with each other in these matters.
	So Haiku Herman basically went on his knees and blew the Chinese.
	Please hook us up.
	Just come on, man.
	You're going to get the infrastructure.
	Just come on in.
	You've got to participate in the ESM, the European Stability Mechanism.
	Please!
	But of course the guy, the only guy who really has the story straight and was really going on is our buddy, Nigel Farage.
	It's always fun to hear a little bit of Nigel bitching at the European Starfleet Command.
	Well, Commissioner, you picked the right man.
	Puppet Papademos is in place.
	And as Athens caught fire on Sunday night, he rather took my breath away.
	He said, violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.
	What democratic country?
	He's not even...
	A democratically elected prime minister.
	He's been appointed by you guys.
	And Greece isn't run through democracy now.
	It's run through a troika.
	Three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.
	The violence and destruction that you saw on Sunday is being caused directly because people are having their democratic rights taken from them.
	What else can they do?
	And I must say, if I was a Greek citizen, I would have been out there joining those protests on Sunday.
	I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.
	And in his efforts, in the puppet's efforts...
	To get the MPs to vote for the bailout package, he warned them that if they didn't do so, there would be a dramatic decline in living standards.
	Well, has he looked outside the front door?
	Has he seen the fact that 50% of the young people are unemployed already?
	Has he seen the fact that the economy, far from stalling, has contracted for five years in a row and is now accelerating on a downward death spiral, a contraction of 7% per annum?
	Grease is being driven into the ground.
	And I think, frankly, when it comes to chaos, you ain't seen nothing yet.
	I love that reference.
	That's going to be the new theme song.
	I think you're missing the whole point on this one.
	I don't think so.
	Well, let's take a look at what's going on.
	You're taking the perspective that they're going to just let Greece fall apart and fuck these guys.
	No, no, no.
	Let me just tell you what's really happening here.
	This is a complete setup.
	There's no way that the Chinese are going to be allowed to own this thing because the Chiners are out of the picture.
	We don't want them in North Africa.
	We definitely don't want them in Greece.
	This whole thing is designed to create a collapse of Greece, a revolution, a refoundation, probably kick them out of the EU, refound the government, nationalize all that stuff that they privatized, and go right back to square one the way the Greeks always operated.
	And they've done this before.
	They have had these revolutions in Greece over the years.
	And they nationalize everything.
	That's an old trick that's done in South America, and that gets the Chiners out.
	Well, bear with me.
	Then you're taking it one step further, so it is correct.
	They're bringing the Chiners in right now.
	I mean, the press releases are there.
	They've purchased the assets.
	And then they go and nationalize and kick them out.
	Is that what you're saying?
	Yeah.
	That way they get the money.
	I like that.
	They get the money.
	They get their pipeline back.
	They get their old system back.
	And then there'll be you and them maybe make friends afterwards.
	Okay.
	This whole thing is designed to screw the Chinese.
	Nice.
	No, I'm liking that one.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	And Sunday, February 19, 2012.
	Time for Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 384.
	This is no agenda.
	Measuring the balance of the universe here at Camp MoFo in the capital of the drone star state, Austin, Texas.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where bonds backed by mortgages regain allure.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's crack.
	You know you're not on the Horowitz show, right?
	It's gotten worse.
	Angelina Jolie is now confirmed to be an asset.
	It's unbelievable.
	So she does this movie about Bosnia.
	And wasn't Bosnia, John, am I crazy in not remembering?
	Wasn't that also about a pipeline?
	I think there may have been...
	I'm sure there was a pipeline involved.
	Wasn't that a Balkans pipeline type thing deal?
	It could be.
	I'm sure it wasn't.
	Let me look it up.
	The elitists don't really give a crap.
	So anyway, she does this movie where she says she financed herself.
	A big chunk of change.
	Probably $15-20 million.
	Wait a minute.
	Before we go on...
	Apparently now there's a new initiative, the Ionian-Adriatic Pipeline going through Bosnia, which is a natural gas proposed pipeline.
	There you go.
	Which may have something to do with your other...
	The Leviathan Theory, absolutely.
	Well, she's now coming, as part of the Leviathan Theory, she's now coming out and says, this is Angelina Jolie, it's time to intervene in Syria.
	Hmm, isn't that interesting?
	And then she's at an awards...
	What's she got to do with it?
	Well, people listen to her.
	Come on, man.
	She's hot.
	Sexy.
	Do you want to steal some kids, or what's the deal?
	No, no, no.
	She's an asset.
	Remember, she is the United Nations ambassador for refugees.
	So she's a confirmed asset.
	I think Syria has got to a point, sadly, where certainly some form of intervention is absolutely necessary.
	Jolie told Al Jazeera Balkans in an interview shown on the channel's internet site.
	It's so sad.
	It's so upsetting.
	It's so horrible what's happening.
	At this time, we just must stop the civilians being slaughtered.
	And then she goes to Egypt.
	And we have the former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, also a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Shil of the Crisis Institute, the guy who was supposed to go in and become president of Egypt, Al Baradai.
	And Al Baradai gives her some award and kisses her.
	Ha ha ha.
	Ha ha ha.
	So, you know, it's like...
	Anything to get a cheap kiss.
	Apparently she's like five foot three.
	Did you know this?
	I thought she was like six foot tall.
	Well, this is the right we've said this a million times.
	This should be in Wikipedia.
	I've been told that she's like one of these, you know, like a pixie.
	Well, that could be because, I mean, you don't know, but it seems as if Brad Pitt is not a tall man.
	No, he's not.
	He's not.
	And let's see if we can get, I'll look up Angelina Jolie height, and usually they have a few references.
	That's always wrong, by the way.
	Yeah.
	Angelina Jolie weight, because they lie.
	But she's 5'5".
	I bet she's smaller than that.
	No, wait, no, that's just somebody else.
	No, it says she's 5'7".
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	No, no, no.
	I was speaking to people who have met her, and they said, no, she's like a pixie.
	She's like a little, teeny, dainty little thing.
	You just want to pick her up between your thumb and index finger and put her over there.
	I don't believe she's 5'7".
	She's very thin.
	Well, yeah, but that's what I mean.
	She's like a little pixie.
	But she's 5'7", it says by everyone.
	Yeah, I don't believe that.
	Apparently, recently, she's down to like 100 pounds or something.
	Now, I don't have to tell you how I know that a lot of these things are wrong, but a lot of these things are wrong, particularly when it comes to height, weight, and age.
	But I'd say height and age are the two most lied about things on Wikipedia.
	I think weight is right up there.
	Maybe.
	Here's one where she says he's 5'8".
	Please!
	No way!
	Even that I know is not true.
	No way.
	That can't be.
	No way.
	So, anyway.
	Yeah, we got it.
	We got it.
	Because there is something else going on with Kosovo.
	What's going on?
	I keep reading about this.
	That would be this natural gas pipeline.
	Hold on a second.
	Because I actually didn't pull the clip.
	But Lucifer Clippity Clop.
	Let me see.
	I bet you this is about it.
	While you're doing it, you want to take just a quick aside?
	I think somebody's listening to our show.
	You think?
	Yeah.
	Well, because I watched the children's show Doodle Bops, which is the worst piece of crap ever produced for children.
	Doodle Bops.
	And there's a reference to our show in there.
	there.
	If you play the clip, just as a shorty, you tell me that you can spot it.
	Come on, Mo, let's go!
	That was a good hiding spot.
	I'm Deedee Doodle!
	I'm Rooney Doodle.
	I'm Moe Doodle.
	And we're the Doodle Bops.
	The Clippity Clops.
	Yeah, the Doodle Bops.
	Well, that's just silly.
	The Clippity Clops.
	Writers are writers.
	They write for the Doodle Bops who are listening to our show.
	Hey, we're moving up in the world.
	Yeah, Clippity Clop was out there with, let me see, let me search for the word Kosovo.
	There it is.
	Oh my goodness.
	She was out with Kathy Ashton, and they were like blowing each other again.
	I saw the picture of the two of them.
	I saw a picture of Hillary and Ashton recently.
	Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
	Those two, Clippity Clop and Ashton.
	They look like gay lovers.
	They would make a handsome couple, wouldn't they?
	I think so.
	Let's see.
	Hillary doesn't look good.
	She's gaining weight.
	She looks tired.
	I think they're ruining her.
	Clippity-clop.
	Let me see if I can find this.
	It's always a pleasure to welcome my friend and colleague, the high representative.
	What's this high representative bullcrap?
	The high representative.
	She's stoned, man.
	She's stoned.
	She's high.
	What else could it mean?
	Kathy, man.
	Hey, man.
	Hi, representative.
	Pass on the crack pipe, man.
	I want to get high, too.
	You can't be the only one who's high.
	...union here to Washington.
	We always have a lot to discuss, and we are always relying on each other because, as I said in...
	Munich, a few weeks ago, Europe remains America's partner of first resort on all of the global challenges we are confronting together.
	I know that Kathy understands the significance of our ongoing violence against Syrian people.
	Yeah, by the way, this was kind of weird.
	This Anthony Shadid deal.
	Yeah?
	Yeah, so this is a prize-winning journalist.
	He's been shot.
	The guy sounds like one of these characters you run into when you read about the Civil War and these guys are basically running around with no arms or legs and they're still fighting.
	And so he's in Syria.
	And I see the guys from CNN are just now on the street in homes.
	They're not on the street, but he had to climb through barbed wire through Turkey and come into Syria.
	When you read the story of his passing because of an unfortunate bout of asthma...
	Yeah.
	Did you have like a, hmm, really?
	Two to the head.
	Yeah.
	I mean, because the guy speaks fluent Arabic, multiple dialects.
	I'm thinking he found out what the true bullcrap is, and I'm like, sorry, man.
	Good work.
	But...
	I mean, it's horrible.
	I think most people, not most people, but at least listeners to this show and others have deconstructed some of this.
	I think there was something more than anything we've even thought of that he must have uncovered.
	He's one of those guys that's digging around constantly.
	Yeah, he's really digging deep.
	I mean, it's something that if anyone knew, and we obviously don't know what it is, there would have been a disaster for someone.
	Who knows?
	You may have run into a whole...
	I have no idea.
	A poker party with Jimmy Carter, for all we know.
	I mean, who knows?
	Or maybe the third Obama.
	I have no idea.
	Let's listen to Lucifer, because she does mention Kosovo in this.
	The opposition and to provide relief to the people of Syria.
	I will be attending the Friends of Syria conference in Tunisia next week.
	Friends of Syria conference?
	Did you get an invite to that?
	Oh, I got snubbed!
	A number of nations will work to intensify pressure on the regime and to mobilize the humanitarian...
	Yeah, so here it comes.
	Actually, there is something going on with Kosovo, which we weren't aware of, and she's going to bring it up.
	I'm looking at the transcript, since I didn't clip this, so I'm kind of filling time.
	Regime's actions tear the country apart.
	Here it comes.
	We're looking for...
	Let me forward it.
	Here we go.
	...leading to try to advance Euro integration for both Serbia and Kosovo.
	Deputy Secretary Burns is encouraging both sides to remain flexible and open to compromise.
	Okay, so what is going on?
	That must be the pipeline.
	Yeah, obviously that's all she's on right now is the pipeline stuff.
	Everything that she's doing, if we've just listened to the last five or six shows, and actually any shows after Leviathan, she's always connected to this thing somehow.
	Right with the noble oil thing.
	I mean, everything is connecting her to this, and so she's going to be, I don't know, she may be the quality control person, the front man, the person, the guy who goes ahead, advanced person.
	She's the advanced man for everything, making sure everything, all the ducks are in a row so nobody screws up when they put all these things together.
	So there's a couple of interesting news articles where we just stick on Leviathan for a second.
	And by the way...
	It is the largest natural gas offshore discovery in the world in the last decades.
	Leviathan!
	Leviathan!
	It's a little long, but I like it.
	It's a little long.
	So, I've gotten a lot of insider emails.
	And these come in encrypted.
	You can use PGP encryption.
	And even after I've read it, I delete it.
	And hopefully that protects you and me.
	Right, and I don't do any of that.
	No, please don't send it to John.
	Whatever you do.
	Just in case.
	So, Solar Turbines.
	Have you heard of this company?
	I'm sure I will.
	So, Solar Turbines was purchased by Caterpillar.
	It's a caterpillar company.
	And my source has a source well positioned at solar.
	And so my source, that's Adam here, said to his person in that organization, so how are you doing with solar turbines?
	It sounds so innocuous.
	Like it's about turbines for solar.
	Or something.
	Yeah.
	But apparently not.
	Apparently they're making an effing killing on their natural gas turbines.
	Yeah.
	Huge.
	Huge.
	I'll read from their website.
	Products from solar turbines may play an important role in the development of oil, natural gas, and power generation projects around the world.
	It's huge, apparently.
	Now, Turkey, as you know, Turkey kind of got cut out of this Leviathan gas field in Israel and Cyprus deal.
	And Turkey are now starting to freak out as Israel and Cyprus signed their agreement that will allow Israeli defense planes and ships to use Cypriot airspace and territorial waters.
	And Turkey's saying, oh yeah?
	Well, we're turning our ships around too.
	So we could see an actual war happening there because Cyprus, part of that is Turkish.
	Am I correct in saying that?
	Yeah.
	So here's the way this could play out.
	So the Syrian thing is just a show to force the Russians to take some positive side in the Cypriot action.
	So Russia's going to do something.
	This would be my prediction for the Red Book.
	There's going to be some sort of weird activity with a confrontation between Russia and Turkey.
	And when the Russians finally make the Turks back off, then the Syrian thing calms down.
	Because the Russians are the ones that are hurt most by the Syrian thing.
	Yes.
	It's all about Russia.
	Well, thank you so much, Stephen Anto, for putting together that pipeline special.
	It really kind of covers all the ground.
	Yeah, I think this is actually kind of another good introductory show.
	It's kind of an eye-opener, I'd say.
	You did a great job.
	I mean, this is really on you, I think, more than anything, because your pipeline analysis has never been done like this by anybody.
	I was actually...
	You nailed it.
	I have to give you kudos on the whole thing.
	Well, I have to say there's nothing that gives me...
	There are few things in the world that give me more pleasure than bringing something out that you are actually into and like.
	Well, thank you very much.
	Does that make any sense?
	The fact of the blather is you actually, you stumbled, I don't know how you found this.
	This is the original Leviathan thing.
	It was astonishing.
	And now, of course, we use it as one of our benchmarks.
	We check the, you know, when you do our Google search, we always like to put in, you know, something.
	And we have different code words that we put in our Google.
	And you can now, pipeline is always, boom, number one, there's a pipeline excuse for something going on.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's actually ridiculous.
	Yeah.
	Well, it's ridiculous that we weren't onto it, you know, like, I don't know, 15 years ago.
	Yeah, as investors.
	Damn, another missed opportunity.
	We missed out on that.
	We missed out on the drones.
	Boy, we suck.
	So a reminder that this, of course, has been a slow week for us, so we'd really appreciate it if you could go to...
	And support our programs moving forward.
	We'll be very happy to thank everybody, all of the producers, executive producers, associate producers, on the upcoming No Agenda podcast, which will be this coming Thursday.
	Ms.
	Mickey and I fly back on Wednesday, and I'm sure I'll have some stories.
	Well, I know I'll have some stories.
	From the lowlands, because you meet a lot of people, you hear new things.
	Of course, we're having this big party at the Supper Club with a lot of No Agenda people will show up.
	So you get the locals, man.
	It's just like the Hot Pockets Tour, which I'd like to point out, one week after we're back, we're on the road.
	Some way, shape, or form.
	I want to remind everyone who has birthday call-outs, we'll do them on that following Thursday.
	And that includes my daughter, by the way, whose birthday is on the 11th.
	And she's going to be 17 now?
	18.
	Wow.
	Hey, hey, hey.
	Is that legal?
	I've got to come to town and take Jay out.
	21, I think.
	I have one question for you.
	Let me borrow your gun, by the way.
	I have one question for you.
	Sure.
	Of all the things related to the show, obviously, is there anything you would like me to change or do differently?
	Well, you're catching me off guard because I have a laundry list somewhere.
	No, I'm just kidding.
	No, I think the show is good to go for another few years.
	As long as people support us.
	It's not me that has the final say, it's the listeners.
	And the listeners mostly know that, and we hope that they stick with us.
	Well, that's nicely done.
	But there's nothing.
	If Curry would only not do that, if he could only change this, there's nothing, huh?
	Well, you know, the slide whistle copycat thing is a little annoying, but I'll let that slide because you're actually pretty good at it.
	I do have one thing for you.
	There's only one thing I would like you to change.
	Uh-huh.
	This is the set.
	Yeah.
	Well, I gave you all the opportunity, didn't I? Okay, go.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, well...
	Could you please, for the love of God, please change your picture on Skype?
	I have to look at that stupid picture photoshopped of you with a mustache and a beard and hippie hair.
	I actually made about ten of those pictures up.
	I'm going to switch to number two.
	I look at that picture five hours a week.
	It's pretty gruesome, isn't it?
	But I've seen it for four years now.
	Oh, yeah.
	I'll change it to one or the other.
	In fact, I'm going to make it the album art.
	You won't like it anymore.
	I'm going to make it the album art so everyone can see what I've been looking at.
	Who made that?
	Did you make that?
	Yeah, I did it in Photoshop.
	That's horrible.
	And otherwise, keep it exactly the same.
	Ever-changing.
	Ever-changing.
	Exactly the same.
	Don't go changing, baby.
	All right, everybody!
	We'll be on our way back.
	Can't wait to be back at home base, Camp Mofo.
	Again, just for a week.
	Hopefully, we have a trailer by now.
	I don't know.
	We'll have a week to sort something out.
	So we are looking for that for the Hot Pockets 2009 tour, which will take us through...
	Oh, what is it?
	Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Montana, Idaho...
	That's kind of the route.
	Ms.
	Mickey's all over that.
	We're coming to you from the fake Amsterdam location, because I'm really still in Camp Mofo.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, because I haven't moved an inch.
	I'm sitting in the same chair.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Looking forward to talking to you all on Thursday here on No Agenda.

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