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	We do not do discounts.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, May 30th, 2013.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 517.
	This is No Agenda.
	Did you just blow your nose?
	Coming to you from the Travis Heights hideout in Austin, Texas in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley.
	No, I didn't blow my nose.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's crack, ball, and buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	I'm telling you, it sounded like I opened the show and you blew your nose.
	What was that?
	You made some kind of snorted.
	I don't know.
	I think it was an escape anomaly.
	I don't think so.
	I think you snorted.
	Here's John on a chaise lounge.
	Mind you, I've never ever seen your studio.
	I was not allowed to go the one time I was at your house.
	Not allowed to look at it.
	So we only have an imaginary vision of your archive with your chaise lounge.
	And now I... What?
	Yeah, I'm sitting there blowing my nose.
	So now I did all my printouts because I like to have...
	Oh, God.
	I think you were doing a line.
	Yeah, sure.
	Time to do the show.
	Ah, yeah.
	I feel I have a lot more energy.
	Yeah.
	So, um, so I have, ah, nuts.
	What?
	So I print out my clips.
	Yes, we know.
	Well, apparently the printer had been defaulted to printing landscape, so I can't possibly read.
	It's like in two-point type.
	It's just horrible.
	So who messed with your printer?
	Was that BuzzFeed Jr.?
	No, I was printing some stuff the other day, and I think I did it.
	So you're one of the few people I know who has a need to print something in landscape.
	Oh, yeah.
	What was it?
	Oh, yeah.
	No, what it was, was I... You know what's been bothering me is this conspiracy.
	It's a conspiracy.
	Conspiracy theorists.
	Conspiracy...
	You know that whole thing?
	Yeah.
	I live with it every day.
	Yeah.
	So I... I think...
	Well, you know...
	What...
	We're not talking about conspiracies.
	We're just talking about people that are lying to us and trying to get around the lie and figuring out what's really going on.
	And so I went out of my way, since I do have a New York Times subscription, to dig up the old original writings on the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which is another one of those things that during this period, you people would say, oh, you're just a conspiracy person.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Now, when was this?
	When was the Gulf of Tonkin?
	What year was that?
	It was 1964.
	Right.
	I have all the printouts.
	Right.
	Landscape.
	Right.
	Because it's the New York Times.
	So, 64.
	But, of course, since then, obviously, you know, we've become so transparent and it's just, you know, the government doesn't lie to you anymore.
	Yeah, why would it get worse?
	No, that's impossible.
	So, anyway, so here's an example of, now, you would have been, oh, you're a conspiracy theorist.
	It's because you think that there was no attack.
	Now, the funny thing was there was two incidents that took place one day after another.
	The second day, and this, by the way, is what created the Vietnam War for everybody.
	Yes, it was very important.
	It was a false flag.
	Yeah, well, no, it wasn't even a false flag.
	No, it wasn't a false flag.
	It was bullcrap.
	There was no...
	They ate up out of whole cloth.
	Yeah, okay.
	Here's what happened.
	There were two days.
	The first day was apparently we had a ship way offshore and there was a couple of PT boats from the North Vietnamese coming out there to take a look, see what was going on.
	We took a couple of shots at them.
	Much later determined that the first story was, oh, they shot at us and so we had to fire back.
	The real story that came out later was, no, we shot at them to get them away.
	So nothing happened.
	Somebody must have come up with a bright idea.
	Right.
	That the next day, we were under attack by the North Vietnamese out here in the middle of the Gulf of Tonkin.
	Yes.
	That day, nothing happened at all.
	In fact, Lyndon Johnson was recorded as saying...
	He was golfing, wasn't he?
	Was he just hanging out by the pool?
	He said, I think they must have been shooting at whales or something.
	What are you talking about?
	But anyway, so the idea was it was just a lie.
	There was nothing.
	And this lie persisted because here's an article from 1967.
	This is three years later.
	Can I just say one thing?
	So I'm not quite sure what you were doing with the printouts, but if you're walking around and saying to people, I'm not a conspiracy theorist here.
	Look at this printout from 1964.
	No, I want it for the show.
	I'd like to recommend you not do that because that doesn't really work.
	It's for the show.
	Okay.
	Nobody thinks I'm a conspiracy nut anyway.
	Uh-huh.
	Except everyone on Twitter.
	Senator J.W. Fulbright, in a statement, confirmed it.
	This is like three years later, during another one of those hearings that they're having.
	Did this ever really happen?
	Confirmed today that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
	clear up uncertainties about reported encounters between the United States destroyers and North Vietnamese torpedo boats.
	Right.
	Just three years later, they're doing a little look into it.
	The Defense Department issued a statement emphasizing that the evidence that two American destroyers were attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats was conclusive.
	it.
	Any suggestion that the August 1964 attacks on the U.S. destroyers in the Tonkin Gulf did not occur is contrary to the known facts the Pentagon statement said.
	So, yeah, so now if you're back there, and by the way, there was a lot of, there were sailors on the ships, and they told their mates and their girlfriends and other, you know, there's nothing happened.
	I don't know what this is all about.
	Oh, nothing happened, and you go out and say, nothing happened, this is bullcrap, and you would be dubbed a conspiracy nut or something like that.
	This is just a way to marginalize the realities that are behind most of these stories.
	And this went on for, this was three years later, they're still denying it.
	Well, it's interesting you bring this up because I... And I'll just roll into a quick clip here of Dick Durbin.
	What is he...
	What is Dick Durbin's position?
	Well, let's take a look in the Book of Knowledge.
	Book of Knowledge, yeah.
	So he was on...
	He's the head of a couple committees.
	Yeah, he's a...
	But he's a congressman or a senator?
	Senator, is he not?
	Senator Dick Durbin?
	Yeah, he's a senator.
	Yeah, senator.
	And so he was on some stupid show that I was, of course, watching.
	And it's exactly this where, of course, now because of an alternative distribution method, we are now actually the majority media and, oh my God, MSNBC now has lower ratings than HLN. I didn't know it could go any lower than that.
	So all the cable news stations, except probably for Fox, they're down too, are really down below 200,000 people at any given moment, certainly during prime time, which is really...
	It's the complete minority media...
	But because there's so much minority media altogether, which makes up the mainstream, it kind of looks like that's the truth.
	But obviously we know that other things are taking place and there's an alternative distribution of which the best podcast in the universe is a part of.
	So Dick Durbin brings back the old meme, which we've heard several times now, about the Constitution.
	Of course, the First Amendment would be the right to free speech, the right to a free press.
	It's number one in the Constitution, because I think it probably was an important one.
	They say, hey, you know what, let's make this number one.
	But obviously, John, as you know, that was written 200 years ago, and free speech was different then.
	...with the idea that the President has asked the Attorney General to review the Attorney General's own actions.
	Well, you've raised an important point, and I heard Senator Graham call for special counsel.
	I'm not ready to do this at this moment.
	I'd like to know if Holder has any conflict in here beyond what we've heard when it comes to the Fox case.
	But here's the bottom line.
	The Media Shield law, which I am prepared to support, and I know Senator Graham supports, still leaves an unanswered question, which I've raised many times.
	What is a journalist today in 2013?
	We know it's someone who works for Fox or AP, but does it include a blogger?
	Does it include someone who's tweeting?
	Are these people journalists and entitled to constitutional protection?
	We need to ask 21st century questions about a provision in our Constitution that was written over 200 years ago.
	Oh, there you go.
	It's time for the t-shirt.
	I tweet, therefore you can kill me.
	This is your brother.
	Lock me up.
	I have no freedom of speech because I'm a blogger.
	Actually, it's more like it was back then with bloggers, the type of people that were voicing their opinions in newsletters and elsewhere.
	Yeah, you're right.
	Flyers, pamphlets, scandal sheets, and all the rest.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Which was in the 1700s.
	It was very popular.
	There wasn't a giant conglomerate like the New York Times or the Times Corporation or any of these places.
	There was no radio and TV. There was none of that.
	It was more like bloggers.
	So, I mean, it should be actually more applicable, not less applicable to the 21st century demands.
	Thank you.
	This guy should be...
	Voted out?
	Why does he get voted in, this guy?
	He's against the Constitution, against the Bill of Rights, it sounds to me.
	No, he's all for the Constitution, but only if you work for Fox or AP or Reuters.
	If you're a blogger or a tweeter, it does not apply to you.
	So we have a similar situation.
	Shut, slave!
	Mentioning MSNBC, I was for some reason sickly watching Martin Bashir, and he had some black professor on in Crystal Ball who talks like she's a valley girl.
	Again, the whole idea of your name being Crystal Ball, and I guess it really is her name.
	It would have to be.
	No one except a stripper would call herself Crystal Ball.
	And she could be a stripper.
	And she could be a stripper and it would be Crystal Balls.
	In the morning.
	There you go.
	So we have them talking about the shield law.
	Now we already know from a previous show because we had the right class.
	Let's explain the S.H.I.E.L.D. law.
	We need to roll back.
	They're busting the journalists at the AP, and they've got this Fox guy, you know, under...
	I don't know if he's indicted yet, but he's, you know, passed on secret information.
	Co-conspirator.
	Co-conspirator.
	So, in the process of attacking the First Amendment, Obama has come out and said...
	He's a poor reporter.
	He's doing it.
	Yeah.
	He's saying we need a shield law, which is nothing but suspicious.
	Yeah.
	And so he's putting a shield law together, which is to support – there is – the First Amendment is the shield law, by the way.
	So we don't need a shield law.
	And the Republicans aren't going to vote for the shield law because they think it's a waste of time anyways because it's not going to do anything – And it's already been determined that the SHIELD law would not protect the AP or anybody else, because within the SHIELD law, there will be a national security provision.
	Yeah, if it's about terrorism.
	Or anything like that, that S.H.I.E.L.D. law won't apply.
	So what they're actually trying to do is institutionalize a S.H.I.E.L.D. law that would actually give them more power.
	Yeah.
	Well, of course.
	This is what I always say.
	It's all upside down.
	So if they say, oh, this is for your protection, then of course it's not really for your protection.
	It's exactly the opposite.
	Maybe we should do everyone a little favor.
	Oh, my browser's locked up.
	The Internet is just, everything just sucks.
	Dropbox was down.
	While you're doing that, you can play the Bashir clip with Crystal Ball.
	You can hear they're talking about all these guys revealing secrets and the rest.
	And because it's MSNBC, which is essentially might as well be just coming out of the White House, the kind of – you can't call it lying, but misleading the public with this sort of chatter is amazing to me.
	It really makes you itch to listen to this.
	Honestly, this kind of transparency in the aftermath of these things is something that I'm not sure we would see under other administrations.
	That we get it right with the media shield law, which again, scandals are as scandals are.
	Let's focus on the issues.
	We do need a media shield law, and we do need to have this public conversation about the balance between national security and aggressive reporting and journalism.
	Indeed, and final question to you, Crystal.
	Republicans oppose the shield law.
	Yes.
	Well, and I think that speaks to Dr.
	Peterson.
	Is the guy laughing?
	Is someone laughing?
	Yes, he's laughing with kind of a sick chortle.
	Bashir?
	Yeah!
	It's like Quentin Tarantino laughs during an interview.
	Yeah.
	That's weird.
	It's like...
	Get back.
	It's really creepy.
	Republicans...
	Aggressive reporting in journalism.
	Indeed.
	And final question to you, Crystal.
	Republicans oppose a shield law.
	Well, and I think that speaks to Dr.
	Peterson's point, which is that if this was a Republican president who was going after leakers in an aggressive way, they would just stonewall.
	They would say, this is national security.
	This is what we need to do.
	There would be no dialogue.
	There would be no openness to change.
	So the fact that it's happening under this president, under a Democratic president, I think means that there will be more transparency and potentially there will be policy and legislative changes.
	All right, let me...
	By the way, she says change and he says let's hope so.
	Hope and change.
	Hope and change.
	Very good.
	I like that one.
	Before you go on.
	This is the number one administration for busting whistleblowers.
	This is the worst group of people and they're just defending them.
	It just makes me anxious.
	I need to read this for people who are not familiar with the American Constitution, which I think includes most Americans.
	The First Amendment is not your right to free speech.
	Would you agree with me, John?
	I don't know where you're going.
	It's the same thing with the Second Amendment.
	It is not...
	I'm going to read the text to you.
	Oh, no.
	It's...
	No, you don't have...
	No, it's a...
	Let me read it.
	It's holding the government.
	Thank you.
	It is saying exactly what they want to do.
	It is saying you cannot do this.
	So, important we just read this.
	The First Amendment of the United States Constitution, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of So it is not you have the right to free speech.
	It's very important that you understand.
	By the way, this will get you laid at cocktail parties.
	Big time.
	Because everyone's like, the First Amendment is a bad right to free speech.
	No, it's not.
	It is actually saying that the Congress, the federal government, may not make a rule against the free press.
	The freedom of the press and freedom of speech.
	In other words, the shield law is by definition unconstitutional because Congress cannot make a law about the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press.
	And this shield law, it's a law!
	Right, we always have to remember the Constitution was designed to make the government back off.
	Fact!
	Fact!
	And it wasn't, it's not about what powers they, it delimits their powers, it proscribes what they can and cannot do.
	And yeah, you're right, that's actually a very good point.
	This shield law is not constitutional.
	Completely, by definition.
	It's a bullcrap law anyway.
	It's like, I mean, unfortunately that joke becomes like, yeah, the portions are so small.
	But it's, I don't understand.
	I don't understand why, well I do of course, but it is beyond me.
	And no one is doing this.
	Not on any media, any of the mainstream media.
	You're not seeing it.
	No one is saying, hold on a second, it's a law, and the First Amendment says Congress shall make no law.
	I mean, how hard can it be?
	That seems pretty clear-cut.
	Yeah.
	Sorry.
	I mean, I may not be a constitutional law professor.
	Well, that was not the most complicated thing in the world to read that.
	Well, apparently, hey, that was uncalled for.
	It's that simple.
	So the whole conversation is mute.
	It's mute, too.
	Sorry.
	Not only am I not a constitutional law professor, I can barely speak English.
	Alright, what's the second clip?
	Anyway, to listen to these people, and the Durbin thing is like ludicrous.
	I mean, these guys don't care about anything, but their welfare, their personal welfare.
	What's your second Bashir thing you got here?
	What's this?
	This is a WTF bumper.
	So they're playing out with a clip from an old movie about Nixon.
	I've read all the...
	King's Men.
	I forgot the name of that movie.
	All the President's Men?
	All the President's Men?
	Yeah, that's it.
	So they're playing out with a clip from that.
	That's Obama's movie, All the King's Men.
	Yeah, I get it wrong.
	So anyway, they're playing out, and then they go to their bumper, and then they go to a commercial, and the bumper has nothing to do with anything, but it got my attention.
	Attorney General, the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in this country is a crook.
	Just be sure you're right.
	Huh.
	That's the magic number What?
	What?
	It is It's the magic number What?
	Free Somewhere in this House rule number 53 Big time taste.
	Should fit in a little time cup.
	Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
	So, that was also old footage?
	No, the thing at the end was a commercial.
	No, but the 33 song.
	Here's what they played.
	They played the old footage from the movie, and then they shot a picture of the White House, and the bumper was that music.
	What?
	Yeah, and they played out, and then they went to a commercial that said 53, which I think was just a coincidence.
	But what does that music have to do with anything?
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Nothing.
	Nothing to see here.
	Don't worry about it.
	It's nothing, John.
	Just ignore it.
	And whenever you hear that music, that means nothing's happening.
	Nothing's happening.
	Wow.
	That is nuts.
	So, I don't know.
	That's what I said.
	Wow.
	That's why I named the clip WTF. Yeah, wow.
	Wow.
	Okay, let's just stick on the conspiracy theorem for a moment.
	So when we heard that they had shot and killed one of the Sinareff brothers in Florida, Immediately, on the heels of two of the SWAT team members who were involved in capturing the so-called Boston bombers, who died jumping out and pushing, whatever, falling out of a helicopter.
	And then, by the way, have you seen this, kids, from Florida?
	Yeah.
	It's Kevin Rose.
	Yeah.
	I'm telling you, it's Kevin Rose.
	They just took Kevin Rose's picture, and here it is.
	Here this morning from the Washington Post, a friend of Boston's suspect, Tamer Lansarnaev, who was killed during questioning, was reportedly unarmed.
	Law enforcement originally told reporters that Idrahim Todashev, quote, went crazy and stabbed an FBI agent with a knife.
	Yeah, and now this morning just came out.
	They got pictures.
	His father held a news conference, and they had a kill shot to the top of the head.
	Six to the body, one to the top of the head.
	Yeah.
	Okay, but I'm just a conspiracy theorist, obviously.
	Did you read the Atlantic article?
	Maybe not.
	What do you have?
	Okay, there's a great article in The Atlantic.
	Somebody sent it to us.
	And it goes on with a timeline.
	You're talking about conspiracy theories.
	Where the story changes and changes.
	He's lunging for a samurai sword.
	He was coming at him with a knife.
	He overturned a table and threw a chair at him.
	Every story is different.
	The cops were there.
	The cops weren't there.
	Nobody witnessed this.
	Two guys witnessed it.
	No, nobody witnessed it.
	It's like the whole thing is a fiasco.
	This was a hit.
	You're just a conspiracy theorist.
	I mean, it's impossible.
	There were so many people involved.
	How could they hide that from the media?
	All they have to do is tell the media.
	So last night, a couple of things happened.
	First of all, I'm all alone here.
	Miss Mickey has been gone since Sunday.
	Yeah, and you know what?
	It sucks.
	I'm lonely.
	I really am lonely.
	Yeah, I'm a little lonely.
	How do you do it?
	Easy.
	Easy.
	Maybe it's after you've been married for a little bit longer.
	I don't know.
	So I'm very lonely.
	And Miss Mickey is doing great.
	Her show is tomorrow.
	She's got all kinds of...
	She's living it up.
	Living it up in Europe.
	Having a great time.
	She tries to get back.
	And so...
	There's two things I want to watch.
	One is on PBS and was hyped all week on NPR because, of course, you know, Ms.
	Mickey normally does the NPR scanning.
	She'll tell me what bullcrap they're promoting.
	Besides making breakfast and all that, now I've got to listen to NPR as well.
	And they're promoting this manhunt.
	Manhunt!
	How technology was involved and was responsible for finding the Boston Bombers.
	I'm like, wow, I gotta watch this.
	So I recorded it because, of course, the first thing I had to watch by request was Beyond the Candelabra.
	You actually asked me if I had watched that.
	I was like, why is he asking?
	There must be some reason for this.
	There must be something really important about this movie.
	You know what, John?
	Fuck you.
	That's two hours of my life gone for good.
	That was the most, I mean, it was the most senseless.
	It was painful.
	Did you watch it?
	Well, it took me three viewings because I was morbidly curious because it was a piece of crap.
	Let's start with that.
	It was the absolute.
	There was no reason for it.
	Everything was gratuitous.
	You know what my theory is?
	My conspiracy theory?
	I believe, after watching the movie, that Michael Douglas, maybe when he was younger, maybe his dad introduced him to Liberace at some point.
	And I think Liberace either tried something or did something or somehow offended little Michael.
	And this is his way of getting back at him posthumously.
	This is a...
	I mean, this is not a complimentary portrayal in any sense.
	He's a bald pervert who is just played up as not only a bald pervert, but a backstabber, a creep.
	This is the worst.
	I mean, his legacy is embodied in this movie.
	Michael Douglas got back whatever justice he felt necessary to do.
	There's something behind this story.
	I totally agree.
	And although the gratuitous ass shots of Matt, what's his name?
	Matt Damon.
	Matt Damon.
	I mean, alright.
	Nice butt, Matt.
	Thank you.
	After the tenth time I've seen you getting out of the hot tub.
	He loves his butt.
	He loves showing his butt with his little tan line.
	The thing that really bothered me about this, and it kind of dawned on me, as everyone knows, I think, you know, I'm completely bi-curious, the It's one thing to be bisexual, and I have to say homosexual, male homosexual.
	And of course this was a period piece set in the 70s and all the way through the mid-80s.
	But the whole...
	The way gay guys act in this, it's annoying.
	It seems like it's more than just a sexual thing.
	It's like a whole lifestyle that is just tiring.
	You know what I mean?
	It's just tiring.
	I'm going to fit into this group.
	I'm vicarious, but I can't get into the whole...
	I can't get into that.
	It's like, what?
	And I know a lot of gay guys who are not like that.
	They're just gay.
	I think most of them are.
	Thank you.
	But whatever is portrayed on television, certainly in this case, it's just like, ah, really?
	One of those again?
	And then at the end, it's like Liberace dies.
	And you're right, because that was the tell, the giveaway.
	It's like they would not let him cover the fact up that he died of AIDS. Right.
	That was like the big thing at the end there.
	So anyway, thank you for ruining two hours of my life.
	Oh, you loved it.
	And I tried to get it back with it.
	Yes.
	You must have been seated.
	I was really pissed off.
	I was mad.
	I'm like, this is...
	Anyway, so I watched this manhunt on PBS. And of course, the whole thing from beginning to end is a promotion for facial recognition for the Microsoft.
	It's basically a Microsoft promotion, although they...
	For Kinect.
	Well, Kinect is a part of it because Microsoft has built the whole New York domain system.
	What do they call that?
	They call it the...
	What is it called, John Holmes?
	A New York domain of awareness or...
	Dome of silence.
	No.
	Come on, help me.
	I don't know.
	I don't know anything.
	I have no idea what you're talking about.
	This is the most advanced domain awareness.
	There you go.
	Domain awareness.
	It is touted as the most advanced system.
	Microsoft and New York City went to London and they looked at their system.
	They're like...
	Bitch!
	We can do better than that!
	And then they went to New York and they built this system, which they showed.
	I mean, it's very impressive.
	All kinds of monitors.
	And you want someone who is wearing red?
	We can find him in two seconds.
	I swear to God, John.
	That's what this was about.
	The whole thing was promoting.
	Now I feel like I should go see that if they show it again.
	Well, you're going to want to see it because what's interesting is it's sold as how technology helped find the Boston bombers.
	And then almost at the beginning, it's like, well, we really couldn't recognize their faces.
	We didn't have any videos.
	So it was really sheer luck that we got this.
	And it was interesting that they...
	They changed the title of how technology didn't help.
	That's what it should have been.
	But then, of course, Microsoft will do all of it.
	And the Kinect is definitely a part of that.
	I mean, it makes so much sense.
	You might as well.
	Because what they had to do in the Boston bombing, so this documentary touts, Is they had to go to every single business on Boylston Street to get their video of their camera.
	And by the way, they got it and they took it, right?
	So there's also no evidence left because they basically have all the, I guess, files.
	I don't know if it's...
	A lot of it's on CD-ROMs.
	I don't know what they do with the original material.
	But of course, I'm watching this for one reason and for one reason only.
	Because I want to see the video where they see the guys putting their backpacks down and then walking away.
	Because that is what we've been told.
	There's video.
	And it's an hour-long show.
	And we've got video and pictures and it's flying.
	Zoom and hands rotate.
	Everything's going just like CSI. And then this.
	From there, within a day or so, we identified an individual who was very suspicious.
	He appeared to have a package with him.
	He put the package down and we realized that this is most likely the bomb.
	Police say it's a smoking gun video that has not been publicly released.
	It shows a young man with a baseball cap worn backwards, leaving a backpack on the sidewalk not far from the second detonation site.
	Now, let me just stop here, because this isn't all you needed to hear.
	First of all, it's the smoking gun evidence that we once again are not able to see.
	We've seen everything else, but not the actual evidence we deserve to see.
	It's not being shown because, I don't know, Muslims will riot and it will put our troops in danger.
	I mean, I don't know why they're not showing it.
	I know why.
	You do know why they're not showing it.
	Of course, because it doesn't exist.
	Right.
	But we're now being told, once again, with the voiceover, the giant voice system is telling you, so it's now being cemented into your mind.
	But did you catch what he said about the backpack?
	Yes.
	No, I mean, no.
	I heard him talk about it, but I don't...
	Let's listen again.
	It's a smoking gun video that has not been publicly released.
	It shows a young man with a baseball cap worn backwards, leaving a backpack on the sidewalk not far from the second detonation site.
	Hold on a second.
	Leaving a backpack on the sidewalk not far from the second detonation site?
	Well, then it didn't detonate, did it?
	Oh, that's interesting.
	Are you kidding me?
	If it's not far from the detonation site, then it's not the detonation site.
	No.
	Not the way they said it.
	No!
	Maybe, by the way...
	Now, again...
	What if this was actually done to tell people...
	Exactly what you observed.
	In other words, what can we do to let people know that this is bullcrap?
	Oh, that's interesting.
	Oh, okay.
	So let's...
	Because they won't show us the video, so let's just put something in here that's a signal to the people who are paying attention.
	Huh.
	How's that for a possibility?
	Yeah, no, totally possible.
	Let's listen to it again.
	We put the package down, and we realize that this is most likely the bomb.
	Police say it's a smoking gun video that has not been publicly released.
	It shows a young man with a baseball cap worn backwards, leaving a backpack on the sidewalk not far from the second detonation site where two people died.
	It's not exactly clear that it's a backpack initially, but later, you know, you clearly see where he placed it, how he placed it there, and then how he walked away from the scene after the first detonation, and then you see the second detonation occur.
	It seemed like it was well rehearsed.
	They focus on finding more images of the white hat suspect.
	And before long, he leads them to another man wearing a black hat.
	It's so contrived.
	Let me see who produced this broadcast credits.
	Let's see.
	Miles, produced and directed by...
	Because it could be...
	You could be right.
	Miles O'Brien...
	Wasn't he the engineer on the Star Trek Next Generation?
	Scotty?
	Miles.
	Miles O'Brien, producer.
	Let's see what else he's done.
	Can you look down the LinkedIn?
	Yeah, hold on.
	Because I don't have an account.
	You got the Facebook, I got the LinkedIn.
	Yeah, I'm looking at the Wikipedias.
	Miles O'Brien.
	Oh, interesting.
	He started as CNN's Chief Technology and Environment Correspondent.
	The network's space and aviation correspondent, occasional standing anchored.
	He anchored the Situation Room in 2008, covered the terrorist attack in Mumbai, the Taj Mahal.
	Okay, so, you know, he looks like a typical producer.
	Oh!
	Oh, dude!
	Dude!
	Dude!
	He is in a relationship with Zeni Jardin.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	That's obscure.
	And it's funny because she was promoting it, boing boing.
	Oh, huh.
	Shocker.
	Yeah, but that's very good.
	Did she say it was her boyfriend's production?
	Let me see.
	I think not.
	She would have to disclose that, wouldn't she?
	It's the top hit if you look for Manhunt PBS. Oh, this guy, no wonder that they ran it.
	He used to be out here at KQTV. Oh, no, KQTV. No, never mind.
	Let's see.
	Now, this guy's a lawmaker.
	He used to be at NBC, PBS, blah, blah, blah.
	For the past few weeks, I've been in Boston hanging out.
	Science Monitor, CNN. What is NASA? Hold on a second.
	This is interesting.
	This is Zenny's...
	For the past few weeks I've been in Boston hanging out at WGBH's Miles O'Brien and the PBS science program NOVA worked to put together this documentary on the science and technology inside the Boston bombing Manhunt and investigation.
	It airs tonight and is pretty phenomenal.
	Manhunt Boston Bombers premieres Wednesday, May 29th.
	Check local listings.
	Let me see if you scroll down here.
	It's talking about the world of terrorism.
	Boing Boing editor, partner, tech, Jenny Jorgen, hosts and produces, breast cancer, and I'm sucking his cock.
	Yes, there it is.
	It says right there, John.
	Yeah.
	She disclosed it.
	Huh.
	Not.
	Where'd you get that?
	Oh.
	I'm reading from Boing Boing.
	She should have disclosed that.
	I think that's really bad.
	If she's seeing him or dating him...
	Well, she's saying for the past few weeks, she was actually with him in Boston as Miles O'Brien and Nova have been putting the documentary together.
	So she should say, you know, because we're in a relationship...
	Yes, you should.
	That would be the proper thing.
	I don't give a crap, but it would be the proper thing.
	No, I don't care either, but it would be more appropriate.
	More transparent.
	But it doesn't matter because maybe Miles is a good guy.
	And that's why he put that in.
	I like it.
	I like it.
	I think that's...
	But we're just making assumptions.
	We may be reading more into it.
	Well, I'm sorry.
	When you don't show the video and you say it was put near the blast site, it's not the blast site.
	There's no two ways to view that piece of information.
	Yeah, no, I think you're right.
	All right, let's thank some...
	Oh, in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
	Well, in the morning to you, Adam Curry, and in the morning to all ships that see boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the knights and dames out there.
	Indeed, and to our producers, human resources, in the chat room, noagendastream.com, noagendachat.net.
	Nice to have you all lined up, ready to go.
	Depleting your $9.2 million valuation.
	In the morning to all of the artists, and thank you, Melissa Schultz-Jones, for the artwork for episode 516.
	NoGenArtGenerator.com is where you can find all of the art that has been generated for each individual episode.
	Although only one can be chosen, they're all great, and we often go back and use them as evergreens or for the newsletter, etc.
	So thank you so much.
	And we only have a couple people to thank because I... You know, we had a short week and it's reflected in our numbers.
	I think it was a shitty newsletter.
	Oh, okay.
	It was different.
	It had actual news.
	Yeah, I know.
	We probably shouldn't put any news in the newsletter.
	That's clearly a mistake.
	I was actually, wow, this is really good.
	And I even added the European stuff.
	We collaborated back and forth on the newsletter.
	And there you go.
	Ha ha!
	So we have Sir Random Hillbilly, who's executive producer for show 517-33333.
	I don't choose what show I send money to.
	It's more when I can shift money around to pay you before the IRS sees it.
	Good for you, Random Hillbilly.
	Good work.
	Thank you.
	Sir Chris Wolfe in Mooresville, Indiana, 233.33.
	He'll be the associate executive producer for show 517.
	Payment toward my smoking hot MILFs damehood.
	A birthday present to myself, May 30th.
	Do we have that on there?
	I hope so.
	Let me double check.
	I have it on the printout, but I can't read the printout.
	Because it's in portrait, landscape mode, whatever.
	And for some reason, instead of putting it up at full size, it went down to two-point type, I believe.
	Yeah, it's on there.
	If I get the magnifying glass, I could do it.
	It's on there.
	Birthday present myself.
	What's a night without a dame?
	Just a pre-boner.
	Oh!
	Hello!
	And May is Masturbation Month.
	ITM, is it really?
	Yes, May Masturbation Month.
	Everyone knows that.
	Okay.
	So Chris Wolfe of StuffAin'tRight.com.
	I don't know what that means.
	Excellent.
	Remind people that we do have a show coming up on Sunday.
	We need to make up for this crappy day.
	StuffAin'tRight.com is actually quite good.
	It shows up on the news network all the time, so I know he's put his RSS feed in there.
	Yeah, stuffain'tright.com.
	And go to devorek.org slash nachanneldevorek.com slash nannogentashow.com and nogentination.com.
	Click on the donate button and help us out for the show 518 coming up.
	Well, not just help us out, but give us some value here.
	I mean, my God, we're really working it for you.
	Yeah, most people have said their last couple months of shows have been dynamite.
	I agree.
	I think we've been running at a fever pitch for some reason.
	I think we finally got in the groove.
	I will attribute at least 60% of that to you.
	Yeah, you've somehow stepped up your game to a good level.
	You've got some good stuff.
	You used to phone it in.
	you know no it's fax it it is to fax it dvorak.org slash n that's right Well, thank you so much.
	These are real credits.
	And of course, we still need to go out and propagate the formula.
	Whoa, crash!
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Build.
	Water.
	Order.
	Yeah, tell them what to do there, slaves.
	Shut up, slave.
	Just got a quick couple of PR mentions I wanted to get out of the way.
	First of all, I want to send some karma to Black Knight George from Bouncing Hill in Gitmo Nation Lowlands.
	He has a lung embolism, which sucks.
	So he's in the hospital.
	This is where you go, oh...
	A little sense of karma out to him.
	You've got karma.
	You've got a black knight down.
	You've got to step right in.
	In the show notes under the PR section, you'll see a great video of one of our producers, Producer Dodge, in Pensacola, I think.
	Was that the big Monsanto demonstration down there?
	The one that was barely covered?
	Yeah.
	Well, there was a video and he's walking around with a big no agenda sign, which made it onto the local news.
	We like that.
	That's good.
	We need more of that.
	And even though this is below the typical mentioning level, I wanted to read this note.
	It's weird.
	I'm not quite sure how this happened, but a box showed up the day before yesterday, which had gone to the old address here in Austin.
	The Postal Service is great, of course.
	They're like, oh, just bring it over here.
	Somehow they figured it out.
	But, of course, we have producers working at the post office.
	So it showed up, and it's a very heavy box.
	And it has a note, and in the note there's 33 individual dollars.
	Magic number here.
	And it says, Hello, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	And it's just plain paper printed in portrait mode.
	My name is Keegan Sullivan.
	I am 16, in high school, and an amateur metal worker.
	I have sent you these no-agenda nail clippers for your opinion and approval.
	Please keep in mind they are just a prototype, proof of concept.
	They don't have any paint, polish, or fine cleaning.
	If you and or Mr.
	Dvorak would like a high-quality unit, I would be glad to make them free of charge.
	Thank you for your time.
	Please go, John, to clippers.curry.com to have a look at what our producer Keegan has produced.
	clippers.curry.com Okay.
	Hang on a second.
	Go before the chat room crashes the site.
	You got it?
	No.
	What?
	It's coming.
	Holy crap.
	I guess it would be good for cutting a lock off a good thing.
	Cutting your finger off.
	How awesome is that?
	And it works, too.
	It works for what?
	It just functions.
	The mechanics function.
	Oh yeah, I'm sure they do.
	I think this would be an outstanding product.
	What do you think?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Way to get out of a, if somebody's changed to a fence.
	I really loved it, Keegan.
	Thank you very much, and thank you for your contribution to the show.
	And I also want to thank producer Mike, who dropped by, and he actually took me out.
	People are really nice, like, oh, he's so lonely, I have to take him out.
	I went to see a guy play fiddle.
	But he made me some actual mead.
	Oh, mead.
	Mutton and mead?
	Yeah, well, not the mutton part, but I didn't even know what mead was until I drank it.
	No, I didn't.
	I didn't realize it was in England.
	They drink mead by the gallons.
	I didn't.
	No, I've never had it.
	I did not.
	It's an actual alcoholic beverage.
	Yeah, it's actually good if it's done right.
	So he did it with honey.
	That's what they usually do.
	Water.
	And he said he cheated.
	He put a little champagne yeast in.
	Yeah, that's what you have to do.
	But it really, oh my God, it was really good.
	We got messed up on it, too.
	Huh.
	Good work.
	It's not like you're that lonely.
	Getting drunk on mead with locals.
	With dudes.
	With dudes.
	This may not be a good thing.
	Hey, by the way, I want to remind people that, you know, even though we came up short, that you do have alternatives, and we're going to be very generous with this information.
	There's other podcasts out there that you might want to listen to once in a while, and then compared to what we do on our show, we have a little clip from one of them right here.
	Okay.
	Well, Eric, we're live.
	That's definitely not something you want to hear right when you're live.
	We're live.
	That's nice.
	How's the lag this evening?
	I was thinking about a couple seconds, I think.
	Yeah, not bad, not bad.
	I'll just pause, and we'll have a gentleman's conversation.
	Yeah, you know what?
	We make it look easy, John.
	This is where people forget.
	Oh, they just show up and they just talk for a couple hours, just bullcrap back and forth, play some little clips, talk some conspiracy theories.
	Yeah.
	And there you go.
	There's an element to that.
	Well...
	Like, right now.
	Right now there's an element.
	But, no, that's not what we do.
	No, we perform a function...
	So, yeah, we do.
	And it's funny because we're kind of against the, I mean, we've both been in broadcasting, but the broadcasters seem to be in a panic mode.
	And now, it's the first time I've ever seen a PSA from the National Association of Broadcasters with a bullcrap message because we've had these studies, we've run through them, the broadcast news people have a very poor reputation amongst the public.
	Most people think that, I think, 33% of them.
	Don't think they're full of crap.
	Did you really just throw out the magic number?
	Yeah, I did.
	So, here's their PSA. In times of joy, in moments of grief, we are there.
	When the world looks for truth, broadcasters come through, even when all else fails.
	Today, with more ways than ever to experience the moments that transform our lives, Americans still choose broadcast television and radio more than all other media combined.
	Television and radio are still the most trusted sources for news and entertainment.
	And our web and social sites are among the most visited sites in our daily lives.
	When important moments happen, both big and small, we're the first informers to history.
	We are the pioneers, the innovators, the local broadcasters of radio and television.
	Reaching more people, touching more lives.
	Oh, man.
	That's what I said.
	Wow.
	And first of all, we know it's not true because we know when panic strikes, when you want to know what's going on, we know that it's the ham radio operators that everyone turns to.
	I mean, that's obvious.
	Yeah, where's their PSA? We need to do one.
	We should do a PSA for the ham radio operators.
	Well, we just lost a huge piece of lobbying.
	The ARRL lobbied for certain notching filters to be enhanced on broadband over power lines, which of course is going to ruin ham radio.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's a known fact.
	It's going to be really bad.
	But this is very interesting because you're so right.
	This is what you do when you're in panic mode.
	And they are in panic mode.
	I mean, NBC just canceled.
	They canceled broadcast, essentially, in my favorite shows.
	Actually, the shows I like, Smash.
	Which, you know, was my total bicurious, woo, dance.
	And by the way, the reason why it got canceled and why I lost ratings is because they start off great with all kinds of Broadway musical dancing and singing, and that became more and more drama.
	It's like, ugh, that was dumb.
	Well, it's because they fired the show's creator.
	Oh, really?
	I didn't even know that.
	Yeah, no, the show's creator, they fired her because she was doing too much bullcrap dancing and singing, I guess.
	But that was the best part.
	And she also ran it.
	The storyline was all long arc, which they don't like at NBC. They all want short arc.
	I don't like it either.
	You don't like long arc?
	No, it's unnecessary.
	I just want...
	I know, but that's what she was doing.
	She had a long arc with a lot of dancing and singing, so it was really kind of a...
	Well, it was also a show about writers.
	This is the problem.
	It was about writers of the Broadway shows.
	Well, whatever the case was, they got rid of her, and they put a new person in with a different vision, and now you get what you wanted.
	Short arc crap.
	And then there was the Matthew Perry show.
	I watched that, which is about, you know...
	I didn't even know there was a Matthew Perry show.
	It was called Go On, and it was very good.
	It was about a bunch of insane people at an insane people talk group.
	It was good.
	Oh, that should have been funny.
	It was funny, and he's funny.
	I never even saw a promo for it.
	Anyway, but the point is, if you look at the ratings, except for The Voice, everything else just pales in comparison.
	And they're barely making money, which of course is why...
	I spoke to my buddy Matthew Lesher, super agent Lesher, who has like 20 clients you've never heard of.
	They're all on these pretty little liars, all these...
	And I've known him for 25 years.
	And he says, it's such bullcrap.
	Everyone is freaking out in Hollywood because...
	Why because?
	Because...
	If you say Mad Men, everybody you know will go, oh, I love that show, right?
	Pretty much.
	No one watches it, John.
	That doesn't surprise me.
	Not even a million viewers per episode, and Duck Dynasty gets 10 million.
	So it's obvious where television goes.
	It's about making money.
	And Mad Men, it costs more than a million an episode to make.
	It really does.
	They're just not making the money on it.
	So now it's a lost leader.
	And everyone's like, oh yes, I love it.
	What would Don Draper do?
	You're not watching the show, people.
	You're full of crap.
	You're lying.
	You may be torrenting it or something like that.
	It's not making its money.
	So it's clear.
	The only show that really is hot...
	And by the way, they are going to screw this up.
	The voice will get screwed up, too.
	Right now, they've turned it into, you know, basically, it's a variety.
	It's a huge musical show.
	It's like a concert.
	But they're taking it too far.
	I can see they've got stylists in, and they're over-styling these people.
	They're going to mess it up.
	You can put that in the book.
	That's NBC.
	Of course.
	Yeah.
	I can see the stylists and they're all wearing the same type of jewelry and I see these things.
	I don't know.
	Maybe I've been in this world a long time.
	But it is so true that people are just walking away from it because inherently they feel it.
	They're cutting the cable.
	They're coming to...
	You know what?
	Even though that podcast that is an alternative to what we play...
	What podcast was that, the one we just played?
	Yeah, I forgot.
	Oh, that's not nice.
	I'm not going to badmouth the guy and then mention his name.
	Well, then you're no better than that, Kevin Smith.
	Okay, it was...
	I think the problem is I didn't write down the name.
	I think it's Attack of the Android.
	Okay.
	But, you know, it's like if we're going to make fun of someone's podcast, at least let's promote him.
	Attack of the...
	Yeah.
	Well, what do you mean?
	We bitched about Kevin Smith doing that.
	Yeah, we did.
	So let's be cool, man.
	Okay, well, go to Attack of the Androids.
	It's about Android phones.
	It's literally a show that discusses the latest builds.
	Well, that's kind of cool.
	Well, yeah, I guess.
	Let me give you a little tip, people.
	A little tip from the podfather here.
	When you have a podcast, get right into it.
	Alright?
	Don't do an opening theme song of two minutes.
	Oh, there's a couple I clipped that I was going to use as the ridicule clip.
	It's not ridicule.
	It's an alternative.
	The alternative clip?
	But the theme song was like five minutes.
	It's so stupid.
	It just goes on and on and on with this song.
	Just blah, blah, blah.
	And there was another one.
	There's a podcast which I... One of the clips, which is another pagan podcast.
	You should check that out.
	And they play a full song of some sort, illegally, I might add.
	I'm sure I'm not.
	Whatever.
	It's okay, yeah.
	They'll play some whole song, and then they yak amongst themselves about the song, and then...
	Who's not there this week?
	And then they start bitching about pagans.
	I mean, they start bitching about people who hate pagans.
	So my, without a doubt, my hobby, my passion outside of this program is high-frequency radio transceivers and antennas.
	I'm really into it.
	God knows why.
	There's something going on that I'm being pushed by the universe into this.
	So I go looking for podcasts.
	Because, you know, I don't know, I had something to do with that.
	And it's like, oh, this could be great because, you know, you're not going to find this on NBC. Discovery Channel that doesn't have, like, a thing.
	Yeah, maybe a ridicule.
	So there's all these podcasts.
	Linux and the Ham Shack, Ham Nation, Ham Radio Today.
	And let me tell you something.
	They all suck balls.
	Every single one of them.
	It's horrible.
	And people think that it's fun.
	It's not fun to listen to you talk bullcrap about yourself for an hour before you get into what it's really about.
	What the point of your show is about.
	Yeah.
	I mean, yeah.
	Unless you have a show that's about talking bullcrap.
	Well, okay, then that's good.
	But get into it.
	And you might want to consider when you do it, get a chat room who can sit there and yell at you.
	As far as annoying as it is, it works.
	Yeah, no, I think the chat room is valuable.
	Even though I'm sorry I said that.
	Wow, hold on.
	Let me pick myself up off the floor.
	It's valuable.
	Alright, now let's have a little fun here, because this was just about the funniest thing that I read.
	So Robert Mueller, who...
	Has he quit yet?
	So he wants to quit, and I think...
	Now, let's look...
	So he's the current director of the FBI. Right, and for a little background, since we're doing background today, we should mention that the FBI, after J. Edgar Hoover basically took over the place and created a sort of secret police, they passed legislation that said, no, you can't be in, and I don't remember, I think it's four years, you can't be the director for more than just a very short time.
	No, no, no, I think it was like eight years, let me see, director...
	Well, Mueller has been extended and extended.
	For like 13 years.
	12 years.
	Yeah, he was in for 12 years and they extended him, which is not the point.
	The point was that you've got this limit because you can become the head of the Stasi, the secret police, if you stay there too long because you know where too many bodies are buried.
	And we bitched and moaned about this when Congress just said, yeah, no, that's a good idea.
	He's doing a really good job.
	He knows the ropes.
	He knows everything.
	He knows what he's doing.
	He knows where all the bodies are buried.
	That's what's so obvious.
	And he was instated, mind you, three months before September 11, 2001.
	All of this, like, just very coincidental stuff.
	So he was brought in.
	Then, of course, we have 9-11, and then all this stuff, all the way up to the Boston bombing.
	And face it, the FBI has been running honeypot, honey traps for years.
	So anyway, so now he's finally tired.
	Or it's getting too hot for him or whatever, so he wants to get out.
	So the president...
	Decides to do something very bold, but hilarious.
	He decides to nominate a former Bush official, who was Assistant Attorney General during Bush, W. Bush.
	And he's also a Republican, and he wants him to be the next FBI director.
	And his name is James Comey, C-O-M-E-Y, James B. Comey.
	So I'm looking into this guy's history, and it's like, it couldn't be any funnier.
	It really couldn't be.
	So, first of all, this is the guy who takes credit for busting and convicting Martha Stewart.
	Oh!
	Yeah!
	Yeah, okay.
	That's the guy.
	Wow, what a coup.
	But check this out.
	In early 2013, he left Bridgewater to become Senior Research Scholar and Pertog Fellow, which is a great title, by the way, on national security law at Columbia Law School.
	He also joined the London-based Board of Directors at HSBC. Which is the bank that has been money laundering drug money for years.
	Yes, that's the money laundering.
	The big one.
	So it is the money launderer.
	He's on the board of directors and now he's going to be the FBI director?
	Are you shitting me?
	I mean, is this like some joke?
	Like we can't even read Wikipedia?
	Like we don't get what's going on here?
	That's bad.
	It's horrendous.
	It's atrocious.
	You think Obama could find somebody that didn't have these connections?
	No, no, but he's not looking for it.
	This is what he's doing.
	This is intentional.
	There is no other way to look at it.
	Okay, so let's see.
	Oh, by the way, let's look really tough for a moment and do this.
	Arrested as he was about to board a flight to Costa Rica, the alleged mastermind of a massive online money laundering operation.
	Ukrainian-born Arthur Budovsky is one of seven people charged by US prosecutors.
	Together, it's claimed they ran a company called Liberty Reserve, a digital currency exchange which became the bank of choice for the criminal underworld.
	No, I'm sorry.
	The bank of choice for the criminal underworld is HSBC. It's not Liberty Reserve.
	No, have you noticed this?
	We saw this on, I think, the last show or the show before.
	And I have some more clips about this because there's been a lot of hearings on this over the last week or two.
	Where anyone running guns to anyone other than the Sinaloa cartel Was arrested.
	Yeah!
	It's like, no, if you run into the Sinaloa, that's good.
	Because we're controlling all this.
	It's like we're the master mobsters of the country itself.
	You've got to back up.
	So I explained the HSBC drug laundering deal, and now we have a board of director member who is more powerful often than the chief executive officer is the board of directors.
	He is becoming the main guy responsible for stopping money laundering, etc., Into the United States.
	He's becoming the director of the FBI. Now, go back and explain what we're talking about with the Sonola cartel.
	Okay, well, the Sinaloa cartel, we've got the document.
	It was in one of the newsletters, actually, where they busted some guy that they couldn't seem to get out of this bus, and he says he's going to spill the beans on the whole scam, which was the Fast and Furious initiative by the Justice Department to, essentially, he says, to arm the Sinaloa cartel to the point where they can beat the other guys up, and then we only have one guy.
	A group of gangsters to deal with, and we can work with one.
	To do business with.
	To do business with.
	So let's play a couple of clips here.
	Yeah, please.
	That have to do with this.
	For one thing, I didn't realize the AK-47 numbers were what they were.
	So let's start with gun walking in Mexico, AK-47 numbers clip.
	There has been a worsening general perception of U.S. operations in Mexico.
	A turning point for Mexican public opinion about U.S. helping the war on drugs occurred after a whistleblower uncovered the so-called fast and furious operation carried out by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives between 2006 and 2011 which allowed more than 2,000 AK-47 weapons to walk into Mexico to try to arrest kingpins.
	This operation unraveled after the tragic death Due to one of these weapons of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
	The Mexican Attorney General has confirmed that some of these weapons have been recovered in crime scenes where at least 150 Mexicans were maimed or lost their lives.
	But few officials have either from the U.S. or Mexico even blinked an eye.
	As of February 2012, more than a thousand of these weapons remained walking around Mexico.
	So we're becoming gun runners, apparently, in our country, our executives.
	But there's a lot of stories that I got from this guy.
	This guy's a professor at, I think he's at John Hopkins or one of the schools.
	I have his name somewhere.
	But anyway, he's giving testimony before Congress.
	And he had two horrendous stories that I never heard of either one of these situations.
	But it's like, I want you to play clip two and tell me if you knew about this.
	...of suspects or civilians.
	Meanwhile, criminal gangs have fragmented.
	They have diversified their criminal portfolios and drawn much of their income from...
	Is this clip two?
	Yeah, it says...
	Guns walking two, did we know about this?
	No, I'm sorry.
	My mistake, right.
	My mistake.
	Here it comes.
	Another incident that acted as a significant eye-opener for both Mexican society and the U.S. government was the ambush of a U.S. vehicle with diplomatic plates.
	Yeah, we remember this.
	We talked about this.
	It was crazy.
	Carrying two CIA agents which came under attack by Mexican federal police forces.
	In addition, President Calderón allowed US unmanned planes to operate in Mexican territory without even most of his close collaborators knowing about this.
	For many, Calderón's strategy had gone berserk, and as a consequence there was a significant public opinion backlash against the no-strings-attached access given to US law enforcement, intelligence and military forces.
	Kind of an odd way, it's like there's a weird war going on with Mexico, in Mexico, between different kinds of factions in Mexico itself.
	It's very strange.
	And the thing that really gets me, and I want everyone to listen to this next clip, which is number three, the horror story.
	Can I just say, can I interject for one second?
	Because something happened to me.
	I just want to say it now before I forget.
	There were...
	I can't remember what it was either when I saw your clip list come in or something happened this morning and I had this really faint notion, I've learned to listen to it, that somehow all of these things are going to get tied together and I'm talking about this.
	But I'm also talking about Newtown, Connecticut.
	Remember these were Germans come up from Mexico?
	I just wanted to mention it.
	I had this like weird thing that there is so much more connected than we can even figure out.
	And now we got this director from HSBC. There's something big going on that maybe we just haven't seen the full picture yet.
	I just want to put it out there.
	I think we're slowly getting there.
	So this is a reason that I'm just going to say this.
	This next clip is the reason I don't think, personally, that anyone should go to Mexico over the next few years on a vacation.
	This is clip three.
	Yes, it says horror.
	Point number three.
	It is my view that it is right that lowering the levels of violence, official impunity, and homicides has become the Mexican government's top priority.
	My own position, after having heard many family, friends, working colleagues, acquaintances scattered around my country, from Mexico City to Morelos to Michoacán to Jalisco to Coahuila to Nuevo León, Is that everyday living conditions during the last six years have deteriorated significantly.
	Extortion, almost unheard of among the backbone of middle class Mexico, doctors, lawyers, economists, engineers, has become endemic in the last few years.
	A case that helps to illustrate the climate of intimidation that society is under, given the collusion between drug trading organizations and high-ranking members of local, state, federal governments and police and military officers, occurred to someone my family knows well.
	The individual in question is a prestigious heart surgeon who is well known for his involvement with good causes in his city.
	A military platoon was sent to take over his house without a search warrant.
	His crime, his daughter's mother-in-law, was a state attorney general who resigned and threatened to go public about systematic corruption and close links between the military stationed in the area and the drug trafficking organizations.
	The military ransacked, robbed, destroyed, and defecated in the doctor's house.
	The doctor, an influential individual in the city, went to see the general in charge of the garrison station there.
	He was told that the action had been just a taste of what could happen to him and his family if his daughter's mother-in-law opened her mouth.
	I will poop in your house.
	Ha, ha, ha!
	Thank you very much.
	Mickey keeps trying to get me to want to go to Mexico.
	I'm like, no, I don't think it's a good idea.
	Play that clip to her.
	Don't worry, she heard it.
	She heard it.
	That's very good.
	So we have the...
	Now, after he spoke, another guy came up to give a rundown of the situation.
	And this is the other guy, and the winner is a clip.
	This is what brightened me up and made me get all these clips because this again brings back home what that guy is going through in Chicago and what he threatens to blow the whistle on.
	It is right here.
	...of suspects or civilians.
	Meanwhile, criminal gangs have fragmented.
	They have diversified their criminal portfolios and draw much of their income from local revenue sources such as drug peddling in the increasingly large local drug market.
	I love how it's a business.
	I love all the business terms.
	They've got advertising budgets, direct marketing, PR people.
	Extortion, kidnapping, theft, and other activities.
	The most formidable of these organizations is known as the Sithas, a military-minded group that is focused on controlling physical territory and has a wide portfolio of activities.
	It has also grown exponentially during the last few years.
	Because its revenues come from local criminal activities that can be practiced anywhere and by virtually anyone, the CETES have created the ultimate democratic model of organized crime.
	It is a model that can be easily replicated across Mexico and is therefore inherently vulnerable to suffering internal splits itself.
	Perhaps the most enigmatic example of these challenges that the Mexican government faces and during the last five years of its time is Ciudad Juarez.
	Between 2007 and 2011, this city went from about 300 homicides per year to over 3,500 per year.
	The astounding spike in violence during that period has been matched only by the surprisingly precipitous drop in homicides, which is back down to about one per day.
	There are many ways to explain this drop in violence.
	The most cited explanation is that in the war between the two largest criminal groups in the area, one became the winner, the Sinaloa cartel.
	Right.
	In this narrative, this criminal group is maintaining order in the underworld, something that seems like an oxymoron and hardly sustainable.
	Yep, exactly.
	That's our boys!
	Good work!
	Go Team S! There's only one murder a day now, down from ten.
	Yeah, that's good.
	It's good work.
	Yeah, we do good work, our attorney general and the boys.
	Meanwhile, if I just glance over at the CNNs, right now at this very moment, they're playing this.
	The authorities say a Disneyland employee has been arrested on suspicion of putting a so-called dry ice bomb in a trash can where it exploded yesterday.
	Police say 22-year-old Kristen Barnes was arrested.
	Oh shit.
	A dry ice bomb.
	A million dollars bail!
	A blast.
	The blast.
	I got an email from someone and it was so...
	How pathetic did it become?
	And why doesn't somebody at CNN say this is stupid?
	Well, you know the answer to that because...
	And this is what people are seeing.
	It's like you...
	It's the same people who run the Sinaloa cartel deals run the media.
	It's the same people.
	It's the same people.
	It's the same corporate...
	You know, this is...
	I was listening.
	There's this whistleblower from the World Bank.
	I must say, she was brought to my attention because she was a guest on the Alex Jones show.
	And I don't like promoting him because, you know, he's a seed seller.
	It was quite funny, actually.
	So she's at the World Bank, and she has been blowing the whistle since, I think, 2006...
	Yeah.
	She's probably out of breath.
	Yeah, let me write that down.
	That was a good one.
	That was 112.
	And so she got fired.
	She was the top economist inside the World Bank.
	And she said, look, the whole thing, it's corrupt, and we probably will not be allowed to choose the president of the World Bank by 2010 if we keep on going like this.
	And, of course, that came true.
	We no longer choose the president of the World Bank.
	But the World Bank is a part of the global financial system, really of the new world order, if that's what you want to call it.
	And it was pretty interesting because she said a couple things.
	Is that the global corporation really does exist through directorships.
	And I saw this on a smaller scale in Gitmo Lowlands when I was in the Netherlands.
	Where everybody's on each other's board.
	And we have that.
	We've seen it too, John.
	You and I have seen this personally.
	But when you really look at the scale of like an HSBC... And now we've got one of the boys.
	Our boy is going to be running the FBI. It's not hard to see how the criminal activity takes place at this high, high level.
	And she was really good because what I liked about what she was saying was that at this point, Europe is completely screwed because they've given up all their sovereignty to Brussels.
	But America is doing quite well because we have all our local governments.
	And we're just not at the end of the day, maybe California, but we're not going to take the crap from the federal government.
	And right now, all the federal the federal is are trying to do is control their own demise to make the landing as soft as possible because it is coming apart at the seams.
	And part of that is what we do.
	And I'll give other shows like that some props as well.
	What was funny at the very end of that segment, and what was her name?
	Huda's, I think.
	Karen Huda's?
	Let me just check.
	She has a website with all her documents.
	Let me just check.
	I think it's Huda's.
	Maybe not.
	I'll look it up.
	At the very end, she's saying, but it's okay because we're going to be okay.
	Yeah, we're going to go through a rough period, but...
	You know, there's not going to be any killing.
	You know, the federal government's not going to come shooting everybody.
	We're not going to have to begin the gunfights.
	And it was funny because Alex Jones' head I thought was going to explode.
	He couldn't.
	He was like, yeah, but we're in a war.
	We're in a war.
	It's an info war.
	It's a war.
	They're going to come for our gun.
	We're going to blow it.
	Let's go to a commercial.
	Buy seeds.
	Buy guns, buy storable food, buy some water filters.
	But it was really funny that way because I was like, wow, this woman is actually saying something really smart.
	And you know some producer got fired over that interview because she was actually really quite good.
	And this is really what's happening.
	And I really do...
	Yeah, kaqds.net.
	So KiloAlphaHotelUniformDeltaEchoSierra.net.
	And our website has all these documents about the World Bank and everything.
	It's all PDF stuff.
	It's an interesting, very interesting story.
	And, of course, she's been completely marginalized.
	And, you know, it's like...
	Yeah, you can't win.
	No, you can't.
	But that is kind of what I like, is because people's minds are changing, and it's still going to take a long time.
	And we are in a huge reality show, and there will be contestants voted off the island.
	I'm very sorry.
	A lot of you are going to have to go.
	And I don't know where you're going to go, but you fall off.
	And it's not you listening to this show.
	But everyone else, you know, who's going to be like, oh, crap.
	You know, you're going to lose.
	But it will, you know, it'll be okay.
	I think.
	I hope.
	I hope.
	Well, it took, you know, that book, you got a copy of it, the one about the family that moved to Nazi Germany.
	Yes, I've started that.
	I put it in the book club show notes for the last show.
	Yeah, what's the name of it again?
	Do you have it handy?
	Yeah, I can go into the show notes real quick.
	And it was 516.
	Count it down.
	5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
	There we go.
	And book club.
	I'm really good.
	Book club in the Garden of Beasts.
	Right, in the Garden of Beasts.
	Bam!
	That was good.
	It's interesting because Germany had slipped into kind of a bad scene, to say the least, especially during the Hitler era where they were beating people up, just generally.
	And I was thinking that what...
	Because the reason we even talked about this book is because we have to sit around the dining room table saying, what if we were in Germany in the late 1930s?
	What would we be talking about?
	How would it be different than the way we're leading our lives now with this kind of Kind of a semi-corrupted system.
	Semi?
	Okay, a corrupted system.
	I don't think everybody's corrupt, but it's kind of a fascist-like environment we're in.
	The shield laws, the bullcrap on television, the MSNBC shills, the whole thing, it's just all bad.
	It's a bad scene.
	Would that be similar to Germany?
	And then...
	I think there's a lot of similarities, but not the violence in the street, even though there's some perpetrated by the government.
	And I know that they do it a little bit.
	I think they probably did beat up a bunch of these protesters that were in the Occupy movement, which may be the same.
	But this actually, that book indicated to me that this mentality of Germany to be a bunch of militaristic thugs really began in the 1890s.
	And it's made very clear in that book.
	So it actually took...
	40 to 50 years to get where it got, where the country was destroyed by the rest of the world because it had become such a bunch of a-holes.
	Did you just say that basically the Holocaust was a bad scene?
	It was a bad scene.
	It was a bad scene, man.
	Of course, we know that certainly with Operation Paperclip, there was a lot of Germans, and certainly Germans with this type of attitude, moved to the United States.
	So, are we now 40, 50 years on?
	Is it now our time?
	Is it time for a bad scene here?
	I don't know, but it seems like we're sure leading up to one.
	Yeah, but of course they didn't have interwebs and stuff like that.
	Yeah, maybe the internet will save us.
	I think the internet could be turned against us rather quickly.
	I disagree.
	I am going to disagree with you big time.
	And I think I have said this before.
	If you consider Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.
	to be the internet, then yes, yes, that is against us already.
	It has happened.
	Well, most people don't ever get off their Facebook page.
	Right.
	But if you look at the network that is the network...
	The internet sees Facebook as a bug to be routed around.
	There's no necessity for it.
	In fact, it's funny because I've been working with Dave Jones on the Freedom Controller.
	The show has been running on the Freedom Controller for...
	I'd say almost over a year now.
	And it's really the crux of the system that works for me, at least, for maintaining all of the show notes, for really keeping track of stuff, that in conjunction with a couple other technologies.
	But really, we are going to make...
	What bugs me is we've got like 2,500 producers actively posting stuff to Google+.
	And some of these links are really, really good.
	Now, what is annoying is it's not easy to unsubscribe from an individual who just posts crap that you don't want.
	I mean, all these things that we've solved a million years ago when it wasn't a centralized Google experience.
	And hopefully within the next, I'd say, three to four weeks, we'll have an open sign-up for all of these producers.
	I want to hijack all of you and grab all of you and bring you away from Google into the Freedom Controller.
	We're going to even try and make some of it look like the Google +, kind of like we have a post with a picture, just so you can feel comfortable.
	But we need to get everyone...
	And there's no money.
	I'm not going to make any money on this.
	It's funny.
	On Memorial Day, my ex-wife called me.
	And she's bitching about money.
	And our divorce is done and finalized three years ago.
	And I got no money.
	She's like, hey, you should give me money.
	It was essentially her.
	She called you to ask you for money.
	She's still working?
	Yeah, but she wrote this tell-all book.
	And she made a big mistake.
	In the tell-all book, she wrote that she slept with John DeMole.
	And John DeMole is one half of Endemole, you know, producers of The Voice.
	But a huge, huge entertainment conglomerate.
	He not only owns one of the networks, but he produces half the shows for all television in the Netherlands, which is what my ex-wife does.
	And it was like she slept with a couple of people.
	This was part of her book.
	That's because the publishers really pound a poor book writer.
	Come on, you've got to get some dirt in there.
	You're never going to sell a copy if you don't get some dirt in there.
	No, I think she also wanted to say this.
	I think it was a part of her mistake.
	It was a mistake because, first of all, the other guy denied it.
	One guy denied it.
	It was pretty bad.
	It's like, uh-uh.
	That's bullcrap.
	But then John Lamont also denied it.
	And he said, this book isn't written, isn't worth the trees that were pulled down for the paper it was written on and she'll never work again in this business.
	And guess what?
	What was she thinking?
	I don't know, man.
	I don't know.
	That's what I said.
	I said, well, you better start writing some more books.
	It's a bestseller.
	Whatever that means.
	Maybe she's a good writer.
	That's what she's going to have to do then.
	She didn't write it.
	You don't write that sort of thing until it's your deathbed.
	You've got the book in advance that's going to come out after you die and your kids are going to get the money.
	That's where those things happen.
	So her sequence of events was differently and it results in, hey, you should be paying me some money.
	Now, how was I getting to this?
	There was a reason for me bringing this up.
	Besides just complaining.
	Yeah, I was on the holiday.
	I got it.
	And then she's like, well, you know, a long story short, I'm like, you know, I do a podcast now twice a week and I ask people to send me money.
	That's how I live.
	And I live in Austin.
	I don't live on the coast.
	I live in the middle of America.
	It's much cheaper.
	So you're asking me for money?
	I said, no.
	Whatever my daughter wants, when she needs help, I help her out.
	And they said, but you always said that you were going to change the world and you're going to do something.
	I said, yes.
	And I am positive.
	You never said it was profitable.
	That's exactly what I said.
	I said, I know I'm going to change the world for sure.
	I don't think I'm going to make a dime with it.
	I'm going to change the world.
	And I think the Freedom Controller, freedomcontroller.com, you can already download the sources and you can set up your own version of it.
	And they all tie together in a distributed network without a central hub.
	So there's no central system.
	Yeah, there's no Google server.
	There's no...
	That they can flip the switch on.
	Exactly.
	Hey, flip that switch!
	Yeah.
	So when I look at the internet, when you say they can turn it against us, yes, of course, they can turn the web portion, which is already being turned against us.
	I mean, my God, it's a piece of crap.
	The web is just crap.
	And the technologies that flash, it's just like, it's killing my life.
	Waiting for this stuff to work.
	But, you know, you see it now.
	It's funny because I have a...
	We now have a...
	Before you go on, let me finish my little bit.
	Sorry.
	I got excited there.
	Which was that I thought that things were, you know, going to turn sour and that we might be in the...
	Here's this clip here, which is the Department of Homeland Security and Phoenix.
	This was about...
	When Occupy was in Phoenix, and I think that this happened everywhere, because Occupy has kind of fallen off the face of the earth, and maybe what's described in that book that we're talking about, where the street beatings were taking place, it may be upon us that we're just not noticing it in the positions we're in.
	Matt Rothschild is also the author of You Have No Rights, Stories of America in an Age of Repression.
	Matt, welcome to Democracy Now!
	Just lay out what you have found.
	Hey, Amy, thanks for having me on.
	Yeah, I mean, these documents from the Center for Media and Democracy and DBA Press show that law enforcement and homeland security have equated protesters, left-wing protesters, as terrorists.
	They've diverted enormous amounts of resources from counterterrorism efforts to spy on these local protesters.
	And then they've collaborated with the private sector, some of the very institutions, banks, that these protesters were aiming at.
	And as you read in that statement from the Phoenix Police Department, the effort was to mitigate these protests.
	I mean, why is law enforcement, why is Homeland Security in the business of mitigating protests?
	Well, because we've got to shut them up.
	That's why.
	Let's shut these people up.
	Hey, banker, what else do you want us to do for you?
	We'll crack heads if you want.
	But just look at who's running it.
	Now, you know that Mickey had to get a parole?
	Did we talk about this?
	No.
	Okay.
	So, because the green card application is in process, and on June 18th, I think, we go in for the interview.
	This interview!
	Where we have to prove that, you know, it's not some sham wedding that we, just so she can get her green card to suck off the resources of America.
	She's a contributing, tax-paying member of society, but okay.
	So she has to leave to do her show.
	Because you just can't wait until after June, you're not going to do an art show.
	So she has to get parole.
	It's literally called parole.
	And it consists of a document, John, I thought I was in frickin' Russia.
	It's this whole document that says, because of the important contribution to the monetary success of the American society, she can go work and has her picture embossed into this, and there's a big raised seal stamp on it.
	And then there's a circle for when she comes back into the country for the agent there to stamp.
	It's frightening and embarrassing, completely embarrassing that this is what the country has become.
	And you look at Janet Napolitano and just put a mustache on her and she's Hitler.
	Sorry, couldn't resist.
	Kind of a chubby Hitler.
	But of course, you know, everyone is a terrorist.
	Now we have this poor kid.
	This is my favorite report because, well, he has a rare disease, which I guess I have too.
	Frigantino.
	He held on $2 million bail after planning to kill his classmates at his high school.
	Today, students return to class with some extra security on campus as we learn new details about the alleged deadly plot.
	Mr.
	Accord, can you hear me?
	Yes, Your Honor.
	Grant Accord looks like most other high school students, but this 17-year-old...
	That's very important, by the way, how they set that up.
	He looks like most other high school students.
	Could be a high school student right now sitting next to you.
	He's accused of plotting to kill his classmates and teachers at West Albany High School in Oregon.
	Accord faced a judge and some serious charges the same day his classmates returned to school with extra police on campus.
	We're not scared as a school of the whole thing.
	We're...
	Now this kid is being titled as the hero because he saw something and said something.
	You know, shocked that it happened here at West South.
	I.e.
	NSB, the National Socialist Bundes, the Hitlerjugend.
	The brown shirts, yes.
	Well, NSB actually...
	That's right, the Brownshirts were some huge long name, I can't think of.
	Yeah, the NSB was actually the collaborators who would then rat on you if you were hiding Jews.
	I mean, you know, I never would have imagined anything like this happening.
	Police began investigating when a fellow student reported overhearing a cord make threats to blow up the school.
	And according to court documents, police found a hidden compartment in his bedroom.
	Oh, okay.
	Now we're getting somewhere.
	Yeah, with his porn.
	For some reason, when I heard that bit, I immediately thought of office space.
	And again, you know, I'm going to blow up the place.
	I'm going to take the place on fire if I don't get my red stapler back.
	I immediately thought porn magazines, because I had a secret hiding spot too.
	With six destructive devices, including pipe bombs, Molotov cocktails, and Drano bombs, along with written and typed plans to carry out a mass murder.
	In another report, by the way, they talked about him having a napalm bomb, which is like, really?
	His plan was laid out in detail.
	Approach the school with a duffel bag and a napalm bomb.
	Napalm bomb, of course.
	What does napalm bomb consist of, John?
	Well, as far as I know, it's jelly gasoline.
	Is that Drano?
	No.
	No.
	As far as I know, I'd have to look it up while we're playing this, but it's generally only useful as an aerial device because when it hits, it throws this fire.
	Right.
	It's like a...
	You would put it in one spot, it's not going to do anything.
	It's like a joke.
	Right.
	It'd be like lighting a sterno can and throwing it.
	I guess.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	...firing and then coolly state the Russian Grim Reaper is here.
	All right.
	There's so many memes and this is great.
	Investigators don't know why Accord wanted...
	Why this is all pre-crime.
	The kid did nothing.
	...hurt his classmates and then kill himself.
	In a written statement, his mother said, my heart goes out to everyone affected by Grant's struggle with Pandas.
	Ah, there it is, Pandas!
	Now, do you remember Pandas, John?
	Remember when we talked about Pandas, what this was?
	Vaguely.
	This is like some ailment.
	PANDAS was the ailment that all those girls with tics that were diagnosed with.
	Oh, right.
	The ones that we surmise had to do with the Gardasil vaccine.
	The Gardasil shots.
	Right.
	So PANDAS is basically Tourette's syndrome.
	A rare form of OCD. Which is also a form of Tourette's.
	This is a challenging and confusing time for everyone who knows Grant.
	Classmates describe him as a quiet student who often slept at his desk.
	I thought about that all weekend.
	I can't take it anymore.
	He slept at his desk.
	He's some poor kid and he's writing some fiction.
	Yes.
	But then, so the whole idea is He's frustrated.
	He's getting it out of his system.
	They're trying to keep this from happening.
	So, you know, when I was a kid, they used to have cowboy and Indian fights.
	And there's now, you know, they don't do it.
	What happened to the cap gun?
	Hey, hold on a second.
	Stop, stop, stop.
	I'll bet you that if you do cowboys and Indians in school, that you get suspended.
	Because, you know...
	Oh, yeah, absolutely.
	You can't do it.
	For more than a few reasons.
	Yeah, one.
	Racism, violence, guns.
	Wow, I hadn't even thought of it.
	We used to play Cowboys and Indians.
	That's what she did.
	What are you going to do?
	What are you going to do?
	I'm going to play Cowboys and Indians.
	Okay.
	And then we had rock fights.
	You ever have a rock fight?
	But the Cowboys, you used to have these cap guns.
	Yeah.
	You can't find a cap gun if you...
	I don't know where you'd get one in an antique shop, but then you can't find the caps for it.
	It used to be these long strings of things.
	You roll it in there and you could shoot 20...
	I think it was about 100 shots.
	Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.
	And it'd make a loud bang.
	A boom.
	Which brings us to this note sent in by R. A producer in St.
	Louis.
	...has been sad about the cons of always carrying your cell phone in hand.
	But roughly around 11 Tuesday morning at the University of Missouri-St.
	Louis, it proved to be a very good thing.
	Now, this is a note he sent us about the giant voice system which has been implemented at his school, which is not an actual giant voice system, but it is a text message system.
	Listen to all the memes in this and what actually happened that triggered this giant voice system to go off and everyone to be warned about the terror.
	There's people in class that are like freaking out and they're putting chairs in the door.
	I was so silent and my hands were sweating.
	All students and most staff received an alert saying man with guns seen in Lucas Hall.
	Police have been unable to confirm this.
	Avoid Lucas Hall.
	Secure in place.
	Don't come to campus.
	I'm glad I got the alert right away.
	I mean, we knew everything was going on right when I got it, the door shut.
	You hear this person speaking?
	She's one of the people who will get voted off the island, okay?
	Just so you know, so you can identify them.
	And then when I was lifted, the door opened.
	Campus police, who had swarmed the building, put it on lockdown, and searched from room to room quickly determined it was a history professor who'd been spotted with a six-foot-long musket-type rifle, an antique prop for his class.
	Poor professor, you know.
	I hope that doesn't deter him from bringing his props to school.
	It may have seemed to students like nothing more than a mistake, but to school officials, it was proof that a new text alert system put in place a week ago works.
	Oh, how coincidental!
	What school was this?
	USML. What's that?
	UMSL, sorry.
	University of Missouri-St.
	Louis.
	Huh.
	Some guy brings a prop, a musket.
	Of course, nobody knows what a real gun looks like anymore.
	No.
	This is slave training, John.
	This is slave training.
	Yeah, it works.
	It works.
	At least we got to test it.
	Let me just stay on this and then we'll go to break because I got emails to read.
	I got so much.
	I don't have enough.
	You know, it's like I just don't have enough show to get everything in.
	This is Mount Vernon, New York.
	You want to talk about slave training, man.
	Our hangouts filling up with people coming in long after the gates are locked.
	So let me explain what the story is here.
	So, playgrounds.
	Now, remember what we used to do?
	I mean, you know, it's like after school or at night.
	Hey, where are you going to go?
	You know, this is beyond the playing cowboys and Indians stage.
	Yeah, I'm going to go hang out at the basketball, the playground, whatever.
	Where are you going to the playground?
	Yeah.
	You know, hang out, you know, because the kids are all gone, and that's when you come out, then you hang out.
	What do you do?
	You smoke cigarettes, you know, you exchange your porn mags, you know, talk about, you know, chicks who you'll never get, you know, and then, ooh, maybe someone brought some reefer, ooh, you know, stuff, right?
	No longer, my friends.
	The giant voice system is here.
	Now, one local city has had enough, and its leaders are taking steps to put a stop to it.
	Iowa disease reporter Marcus Solis has the story.
	Like any surveillance camera, the ones going up in Mount Vernon take pictures.
	But get this, they talk too, giving trespassers the following warning.
	Stop.
	This is a restricted area, and your photograph was just taken.
	We will use it to prosecute you.
	Leave the area now.
	How awesome is that?
	Wow, that's great.
	Now listen to them justify it.
	Today, Mount Vernon officials showed off the city's newest crime prevention tool.
	The cameras are meant to deter illegal activity and vandalism at parks and playgrounds after hours.
	We want to send a message that this is, if you're going to do evil things, this is not the city to do it.
	I think that this one...
	Really?
	This is how you do it, huh?
	Help ensure the different parks in Mount Vernon to ensure that other people can live safely and children can live safely.
	So this is kind of...
	Hold up in their house, shivering behind the furnace.
	They're just shaking and worried sick.
	That's how they live safely?
	By staying home and curling up like a ball?
	Is that the idea?
	There's no community centers or anything anymore in any of these towns.
	The whole situation is completely out of control.
	One of these kids are like going nuts.
	There's some balance in this report, as you'll hear, where people said, well, this is a ridiculous expenditure.
	Why not, I don't know, make the playgrounds nicer?
	Cameras are solar-powered and motion-activated.
	The flash is powerful enough to photograph a suspect up to 100 feet away, even in darkness.
	Each unit costs $6,000.
	And there are a number of residents who say the money is being misspent, given the poor conditions in some of the playgrounds.
	Cue poor black people.
	There's nothing in here, so why you got cameras in here?
	Don't nobody be in here?
	It's really sad, because these kids don't have nowhere to go.
	No way to play.
	What are they gonna play on?
	Everything over there is tore up and messed up.
	But officials say they can't fix up the parks until they crack down on vandalism, hence the cameras.
	As for those concerned about invasion of privacy...
	Oh, okay.
	You ready for this?
	What would the line be from the city officials about being concerned about your privacy with these cameras?
	You're not doing anything wrong.
	You'd hear people say, why all these cameras?
	But if you're not doing anything wrong, don't worry about the cameras.
	Can I nail it?
	It's a no-agenda show, ladies and gentlemen.
	It's Brain Daddy.
	The best podcast in the universe.
	I would like to point out that we have not spoken before this program.
	We never talk, in fact, because we've had enough of each other by the time we're done with the show.
	So this is literally just because...
	And everyone else who listens to the show knows you knew it was coming, didn't you?
	You knew it.
	You knew it was coming.
	This is slave training, people.
	So allow me to...
	Just take a moment here and I guess this will actually give you a little break.
	Hold on a second.
	Where is it?
	Yes, here it is.
	Adam's gonna read his email.
	On the No Agenda Show. .
	Now, we didn't get to it on Sunday, so I want to make sure, because we're kind of talking about the slave training, these are the notes that we get.
	We get them from predominantly young people who are very creative, by the way.
	Witness, our producer who made the giant nail clippers.
	I mean, come on.
	That is the stuff I love.
	I love seeing creative people and young people who understand that the future is not what is being portrayed on the telescreens.
	So the first one is from, I think I have to keep him anonymous.
	Okay, seventh grade, a couple of years ago, I had some crazy notion that pranks were okay.
	You know this can't end well.
	So I wrapped a piece of copper wire around the two prongs of a lamp in my English classroom so that when it was turned on, when class began, the short circuit would cause an exciting pop sound and as I had tested this at home, I knew nothing too horrible would happen.
	This sounds like something I could have done, by the way, when I was a kid.
	However, after events like Columbine, already power-hungry administrators and staff saw this as an act of terrorism and I was found to be a suspect.
	I was questioned by the assistant principal and a police officer.
	I did not know my rights, nor did I know that what I confessed was being put in a police report that would be used in court when the case was pursued as felony arson.
	My parents had not been notified until after my confession, despite the fact I was a minor.
	I was sent to the alternative school for a semester and some months where I was separated from the other kids and the only student there who was not yet in high school.
	Incidentally, the only one not sent there for either fighting or drugs on school grounds.
	From what my friends back at the middle school told me, my English teacher was once heard referring to me by name as the kid who tried to blow up the school.
	Isn't that great? - Great.
	This is bad.
	This is fantastic.
	These are great teachers, too.
	I strongly believe this circumstance did a number on my social skills, but who knows?
	I failed a couple of classes thanks to teachers not consistently sending over the work I was missing.
	I'd never been a problem to any of my teachers.
	This ruined my reputation, cost my parents a good amount on court costs, and finally the judge settled on $20 compensation to the school so they could replace the wall outlet cover.
	If that isn't enough, it turns out the officer who questioned me illegally had been really into child porn and lost his job forever.
	Although that bit made the local paper, no mention was made of him being the cop that was designated to the halls of the middle school.
	I know this may not be considered typical, but feel free sharing anything but my name if you see fit.
	This happened in my hometown, a suburban area, an hour's drive straight north of Dallas, Texas.
	And by the way, I like what you're doing in John Bova.
	Thank you very much.
	I was bred on the techie...
	The techie pablum, so I'm in the typical listener.
	Okay, great.
	So that was the kid who blew up school, basically just a prank.
	A prank.
	And this is how crazy it's become.
	No offense to our producer, but it was kind of a lame prank.
	Yeah, but still funny.
	Yeah, and it probably did like $5 to $6 worth of damage, maybe, if that.
	$20.
	He wound up paying $20.
	Here's a second one from...
	It's ridiculous, by the way.
	That whole story is...
	It just shows you how sick this system has become.
	So I'm not sure...
	Oops, hold on a second.
	So...
	Hold on, let me just get this here.
	And by the way, don't start confessing.
	No, never, never, never, never.
	Certainly not if you're, just never.
	Don't confess anything.
	Certainly not with a cop.
	It used to be different.
	Alright, so this is from a father, as in a religious father, and I'm not sure if I can mention his name, so I won't.
	In the morning, Adam, here's another story about training drills at schools with a little different spin.
	I'm the pastor of a small parochial school in a town of about 10,000 people.
	After Sandy Hook, because parents and staff were freaking out about school safety, we called the local police department to send a liaison to do a walkthrough of our facility.
	After the walkthrough, the liaison recommended that we invite the county's tactical response team, their version of SWAT, to provide training for our staff.
	Ah!
	Ah!
	This is great stuff, by the way.
	This is fantastic.
	During a teacher in-service day, when there were no students at the school, the TRT, the Tactical Response Team, came to train our teachers.
	While I was expecting a morning of being told to hide in the corner of a classroom if an armed assailant entered the school, it was a bit of a surprise when we learned that the TRT wasn't there to train the school staff.
	No, they were there to run drills themselves.
	They had 9mm Glocks and AR-15s set up to shoot paint-filled gas cartridges at each other.
	They were happy to have the floor plan of our school to add to their database and spent the morning shooting at each other and the walls and the hallways of the school with paintballs.
	The three scenarios that they set up were a random bad guy taking a class hostage, an angry parent taking a class hostage, and a U.N. Bomber-like lookalike wearing an IED... Again, taking a class hostage.
	It seems that the proper response to each threat was to scream at the assailant and then light him up with paintballs.
	Father, you're great.
	Except the IED-wearing perpetrator.
	Once the IED was identified, which in this case was a piece of cardboard with the word BOM written on it taped to his chest, they were just supposed to shoot him until he dropped.
	The best part was when they asked if I wanted to run through the scenarios.
	Not wanting to miss the opportunity to shoot off-duty police officers with paintballs, I gladly accepted.
	Yes, a man of the cloth.
	When the training was over, the officers swept up the empty gas cartridges and did their best to wash up the paint-filled walls.
	The next day, when the students were back in class, they discovered a few random paint splatters that were missed in the cleanup.
	When one of the students asked their teacher about the splatter, what else could she say other than, the paint is there to keep you safe?
	I will say, because this is a small town, I know a few of the officers in there are good guys.
	It's just unfortunate law enforcement training has turned into combat training, a fact you and John talk about regularly and hopefully is appreciated by your listeners.
	Yeah, the militarization of the local police.
	It's a military state, so let's make the cops part of the military.
	Exactly.
	They dress like it.
	They wear the armor.
	They hold that gun in that funny position, that funny, crazy position.
	Yep.
	And they got automatic weapons and the whole thing.
	Yeah.
	Why does little towns even need a SWAT team?
	It's crazy.
	And then shall we do this note?
	It's a tactical response team.
	It's not quite a SWAT team.
	Producer Iman from the Netherlands, you said I should read this on the show.
	Should I read this?
	Yeah, yeah, I want you to read that.
	I thought there was something funny in there.
	There is.
	Yeah, it's actually a good lead-in, because he's a donor for this program.
	Hello.
	First of all, it has to be a miracle that you two are still alive.
	The way you expose the truth or your interpretation of the truth, real surprise that you are not taken out by some secret government agency or some 18-year-old Chechens.
	They're our listeners.
	Yeah, thank you.
	You guys are great.
	I'm a huge fan.
	I am somewhat of a boner, but times are hard in Gitmo Nation lowlands.
	Lately, your episodes are simply brilliant.
	So this week, it will be mac and cheese for me.
	See attachment.
	I guess he donated.
	Thank you.
	I even started watching Twit and I tell you watching John trying to keep his No Agenda opinion to himself is hilarious.
	Today I hit my best friend in the mouth.
	He has long been a crackpot and I thought the No Agenda show was right up his alley.
	He's from Serbia and he lived there during the war.
	He was a Serb in Croatia at the time.
	You can imagine that was not fun.
	Yeah.
	He has seen a lot of horrible things and endured great losses.
	He has a piece of shrapnel in his head.
	Yeah, this is a hilarious note, John.
	He has a piece of shrapnel in his head to prove it.
	But of all the stories he told me, this one fits the show best.
	This story is true.
	Where he lived in Croatia, he could see the hospital of the area.
	He was a young boy looking out of the window, and he saw a group of people making a huge pile of car tires.
	So he talked to his mom about it and asked what those men were doing.
	She could not give him an answer, so they both watched how the men then set fire to the tires, and this in front of the hospital.
	Huge black smoke filled the sky.
	They both thought, it is war.
	This is nothing special.
	But then when they turned on the news that night, there was a report about the hospital that apparently had been attacked by Serbs, and this was a tragedy, and many people had died.
	They showed the hospital in these huge black clouds.
	At that moment, they both looked out of the window again and looked at the hospital.
	Nothing was going on.
	Just showing you how it really works over here.
	Greetings from Gitmolo Lanzimod.
	And he donated $7,268, his PayPal balance.
	Originally, he wanted to send swazzle enough, but he thought, hey, you deserve it all, and it'll take a couple days before you have it in.
	So there you go.
	Straight from the front lines, this is exactly how it works.
	Yeah, I remember when we were talking about the early, when they were still working on the script for Libya, Egypt, and the rest of these...
	Arab Spring, and we'd have...
	We'd get some...
	It was only the Russians, which I think is part of the reason we're still...
	We've still irked at them.
	They would pull...
	There'd be some huge...
	Sort of a, some sort of a protest or something, and then they pull the camera back, and it was some staged, it was staged for CNN. Yeah, yes.
	And this is going on over and over again.
	Of course, this again is, all right, it's a conspiracy.
	So, obviously, I'm annoyed by this.
	Dude, who pissed in your cornflakes with the conspiracy theory?
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	It's just something...
	Who said it?
	This Adolfo Tompkins thing has just got Tompkins.
	Someone said something to you in the past week.
	No, no.
	Really?
	Have you been out of the house?
	No, it just triggered.
	It's like that song that I kept hearing.
	I don't even think of what it was because I don't hear it anymore.
	No.
	But...
	Really?
	So this is interesting because normally Because it seems to me that this is, I mean, to throw this accusation out left and right, they do it constantly, especially on these, you know, alphabet soup networks.
	It's called marginalizing someone.
	That's what it is.
	And it's like, I mean, but again, you know, go look it up.
	Old crap from Gulf of Tonkin.
	And they lied for years.
	I am happy when I wear this as a badge when someone calls me a conspiracy theorist because the alternative of being shot in the head is not what I want.
	So I'd rather they call me a nutjob.
	Well...
	And there's that, yes.
	Adam's gonna read his email on the No Agenda show.
	I'm gonna show my soul by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	In the morning.
	Alright, we got a few people to thank for today's show.
	517, David DeRuce in Zrindrecht.
	Zwingdrecht.
	Zwingdrecht.
	Yes, exactly what I said.
	Which means swine quarters.
	Huh.
	He wanted to hear the butchering of the name by me.
	133.33.
	I will complete my first step in becoming a knight.
	I will enjoy my grand gentleman ship in the meantime.
	I will continue on my way to Esquire.
	Keep up with the best podcasts in the universe and a random shot of karma he asked for.
	No problem.
	No problem.
	You've got karma.
	Thomas Pridgen, I'm guessing, is in East Rochester, New York, $125.
	Catherine Anderson, South Penrith, Australia.
	I think we...
	Do we have a Tuesday?
	Do we have a call-out for her on her birthday?
	Let me check.
	Now, I had that printed out, by the way, so you don't have to check anymore.
	Yeah, you sent it to me.
	You said, put this in.
	You sent me an email, and you said, put this in.
	No, it was a different one.
	No?
	That was for a guy's 48th birthday.
	No, Katherine Anderson.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yes, it's all there.
	It's all good.
	And I have Brian, yes.
	Okay.
	I had printed these out, by the way, so you don't have to keep going to the list because I can do it on the fly.
	But it's in landscape.
	But I can't read the printout.
	Landscape mode, two points.
	El Cid Campador!
	El Cido!
	In Oklahoma, $100.
	He says round of karma to everyone.
	I think we all deserve that, so I'm going to hand it out.
	You've got karma.
	There's Sarah.
	Yeah, and she's sending out a birthday call-out for her husband.
	I hope that's on there.
	I can't tell.
	It is.
	Yes, it is.
	It is.
	It is.
	$100.
	Maxwell Fry in Brooklyn, New York.
	Uh-oh.
	$69.
	$69.
	$69, dude!
	You know who Sarah and Mike are, right?
	Yeah.
	No, you don't.
	Yeah.
	Don't lie to me.
	No, you don't.
	Hey, they're the ones in Pennsylvania.
	You stayed with them.
	Oh, you're right.
	I'm sorry.
	I stand corrected.
	Of course, she mentions D.D. Dinah, which now I have to deal with.
	It's in your head again.
	Maxwell Fry, Brooklyn, New York, 6969.
	He calls this a dronation because he's drunk and stuff.
	Oh, nice.
	Good one.
	I like that.
	Sir Thomas Nussbaum in Virginia Beach, Virginia, 6969, and he's happy to get his art in.
	Dennis...
	Denise in Piscataway, New Jersey.
	He puts the word three retards in here.
	I'm not sure what that means.
	Anyway, Patrick Bastien in...
	Socorro, New Mexico.
	6969.
	Thomas Lee's in London.
	Dodge Gaskill in Pensacola, Florida.
	Oops, we're done.
	That was it.
	69!
	69!
	We're pretty much done with donations.
	Light for a Thursday.
	This is more like a Sunday show.
	Is it Sunday or is it Thursday?
	It's Thursday.
	Dodge Gasco, Pensacola, Florida.
	Dr.
	Sharky, sir.
	And Jackson, Tennessee, 5517.
	Andre Mickelson in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
	You guys should hook up, you two guys.
	Yeah, he sent me...
	Didn't he send an email?
	Yeah, he said he sent an email to Adam to read.
	On the subject line is Adam's going to read this email.
	I think that may be the...
	Yeah, you know what?
	Yes.
	Thank you, Andre.
	I'm going to read that on Sunday because there was some research associated with it.
	Oh, and can I just stop here for a second?
	People.
	If you just give me one more minute, we'll be stopped.
	No, it's important to say it now.
	Stop sending me just emails of a cool link you got.
	Or like, hey, this is a great podcast.
	Or this is a great interview.
	You want to help?
	You want to be a producer?
	Do some work.
	At least give me a time code.
	Clip something.
	Okay?
	Don't just send random emails.
	I'm looking at you, Jeffries.
	It's getting annoying, okay?
	This is why we need the Freedom Controller and people need to get on that so that we can move that off somewhere else.
	You're ruining email and it's not helpful because you go through this stuff, it's like...
	You know, like someone had the Klaatu sent me this link.
	You know, it's like, oh, you got to take a look at that.
	And by the way, if you're sending me a CC with a whole bunch of people, you're blocked.
	I'm deleting your emails forever.
	Okay, play the pet peeve.
	Come on.
	I don't see Curry's pet peeve all the day.
	No, but, you know, it's like you said you sent an email about the YouTube video.
	Remember the woman, the confused reporter who they scrambled her brain?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And then he's like, oh, look what we discovered if they played it backwards.
	And so this video goes on for eight minutes, playing it backwards at different speeds, finally really slow, and you still don't know what the hell she's saying.
	And then the flash of the screen is like, it's hooking them, or some bull crap like that.
	It was stupid.
	You wasted eight minutes of my life.
	Hey, you already played them.
	You want to play it again?
	No.
	Okay.
	I think you've made your point.
	Where was I? I was at Dodge Gaskill, Pensacola.
	Dr.
	Sharkey, 5517.
	Andrew Mickelson in Virginia Beach, double nickels on a dime.
	Matthew Frescura in Orlando, double nickels on a dime.
	Kevin Payne, Richmond, Virginia, 5001.
	And then for $50, we've got Todd Brink in New Berlin, Adam Morey.
	In Middleton, Laura Murphy in Evanston, Illinois.
	And finally, Peter Totes, a regular $50 donor.
	And do you have a happy birthday for Eric Hoover?
	I'm looking.
	Yes, I do.
	I do.
	Okay, we're all done.
	I do.
	That's it?
	That's it.
	That's what we got, yeah.
	Yeah, it's what you call lousy.
	Yeah.
	And the thing was, there was no...
	You know, normally on this Thursday, I go to the post office on Wednesday to get the checks.
	Yeah.
	So, yeah, we got like three...
	Wow.
	I don't know.
	They weren't working, I guess.
	I don't know what was going on.
	Very bad.
	Yeah, well, thanks.
	Hey, those of you who did contribute, thank you very much.
	Appreciate it.
	I think it's a good deal.
	By the way, just cut off your cable.
	Just stop it.
	It'll save you $200 a month.
	Maybe $150.
	What do you pay for cable?
	No, you got the Dish Network, right?
	You don't have cable?
	Right.
	So what do you pay?
	$125?
	I don't know.
	It's got to be up there.
	My most expensive is Comcast.
	Oh, of course.
	But do you just cable the channels?
	They won't give you just the internet.
	Oh, right, right, right.
	You can't get that.
	So I hook a sling box up to the...
	It's got to be $200.
	It's nuts.
	It's not that much.
	It's like $199.
	It's not as much as $200.
	Time Warner here is $240.
	It's too high.
	Yeah.
	And I need some of that, because otherwise, you know, I'd have to be able to watch Beyond the Congolabra.
	I mean, you know, obviously, I need my HBO. And this is what we do.
	We assassinate media.
	Yeah, and it costs us a lot of money to do it.
	Exactly!
	to borac.org slash na.
	It's your birthday, birthday.
	Hey, hey, hey!
	We all know my champion!
	Here we go.
	So Chris Wolfe congratulates himself celebrating today.
	Katherine Anderson celebrates her own birthday.
	She turned 33, magic number on the 28th.
	Send pictures.
	Brian Vaughn turns 48 today.
	Happy birthday to himself.
	Sarah Greer says happy birthday to her lovely husband, Mike, and don't we love them both?
	And Laura Murphy says happy birthday to Eric Hoover in advance.
	He'll be celebrating on June 20th.
	I'm sure we'll be hearing from you again around that time.
	Happy birthday from your friends here at The Best Podcast in the Universe!
	And we have no nights, no title changes, no nothing.
	However, I do have some exciting news, John.
	Okay, so this is exciting because I can once again play Amaze the Professor at our next dinner party here in Austin with our club, our Obama Bot Dinner Club.
	Now, remember, I amazed the brain professor when I told him that the National Oceanographic Institute Association, and that's how I said it, had changed the earthquake measurement from the Richter scale to their bullcrap scale.
	Right.
	And now we have another one.
	We do indeed.
	Apparently, the measurement that is used for hurricanes and tornadoes, the Fujita scale, which used to be signified by an F number, has now changed to the enhanced Fujita scale.
	Did you read about this thing?
	Yeah, it's great.
	Hey, these global warming numbers aren't adding up.
	It's not high enough.
	I got an idea.
	Let's make a new one!
	So the new scale was unveiled, and we missed this one, at the National Weather Service at a conference of the American...
	You totally missed this, and I feel so bad about it.
	I feel bad, too.
	At the American Meteorological Society in Atlanta, February 2, 2006...
	It was developed between 2000 and 2004 by the Fujita Scale Enhancement Project of the Wind Science and Engineering Research Center, of course, at Texas Tech, which brought together dozens of expert meteorologists and civil engineers in addition to its own resources.
	But here's what was interesting.
	And it's very similar to what they did with the earthquake.
	So the Enhanced Fujita Scale is a damage scale.
	And only a proxy for actual wind speeds.
	So while the wind speeds associated with the damage listed have not undergone empirical analysis, so they don't actually stand there with one of those egg cup things that whips around really fast to get a speed.
	They do it all post the fact.
	Did you know that?
	Yeah, apparently they have, I think one of our producers told us that the way they do it now allows for F3s and F4s to be recategorized as F5s, which allows the warmest to come out and say, oh, there's going to be a lot more F5 tornadoes, and that's because of global warming.
	That's exactly what it is.
	And they just leave off the E and just say F. It should be E, F, but it's not.
	They just say F. So damage indicators, there are 28 damage indicators which help determine this number, such as types of structures and vegetation destroyed, each with a varying number of degrees of damage.
	This is so unscientific.
	This has nothing to do with the actual science of measuring a tornado.
	I had no idea it was such bullcrap.
	It doesn't surprise me.
	But this is crazy.
	So this thing...
	No, I know.
	What's weird to me is that some of the most unscientific stuff is all part of this admixture of bullcrap to create some supposed agreement with scientists.
	We're getting so unscientific, it's unbelievable.
	Shut up already!
	It's science!
	Yeah, listen to Dr.
	Kiki.
	She knows what to do with you.
	Hold on a second.
	I have...
	Where is it?
	I was a little unprepared, sorry, but here we go.
	Now entering second half of show.
	All right.
	Not one, but two similar stories today which need to be discussed.
	This is about NASA's Curiosity rover, which has been in the news again.
	I keep seeing whatever bullcrap story they're talking about.
	Now, of course, we all know my theory.
	This thing is just parked somewhere in Arizona.
	And so there's two stories.
	The first one is, and so this thing is sending pictures from Arizona back to home base.
	And so now we have found a rat on the surface of Mars in the pictures, which no one else can explain.
	And a lizard has also been spotted on the surface of Mars.
	Both of these stories are linked in the show notes at 517.nashownotes.com.
	They got Gila monsters on Mars.
	Yeah, so there is a rat.
	They got like a little desert rat.
	It's sitting between the rocks there.
	And where are all the scientists now?
	How are you going to explain this one away?
	Is it just a figment of my imagination?
	Photoshop.
	Photoshop did this kind of...
	Photoshop.
	No, it's from the raw image files that NASA makes available.
	It's from their raw image files.
	Somebody slipped it in.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	Here, Mars Rat spied by NASA's...
	This is from...
	This is Fox News.
	Fox News.
	They're not reliable.
	They're liars.
	Right-wing Fox News.
	Photo taken September 28, 2012 depicts the Rock Nest site where NASA's rover took a scoop full of sand.
	Creature was identified by a blog...
	And, I mean, you look at the picture and it looks like a rat sitting right there.
	It actually looks more like kind of a hamster-y type animal.
	Is there a video of this?
	No.
	So, yeah, alright.
	And then the lizard link.
	These both came out today.
	I'm telling you, this is bull crap.
	They didn't go to no Mars.
	Or at least I have a reason to doubt the official story.
	This is from the Daily Mail, just as reliable as Fox.
	Sharp-eyed UFO fan claims to spot lizard on Mars in footage from Curiosity rover.
	And you look at it, it looks like a friggin' lizard.
	Looks like one of those, what do you call them?
	Not a...
	What do you call those big...
	Leela monster.
	No.
	No.
	You have him in the tropics.
	Oh, gecko.
	No.
	Gecko.
	No, he's bigger than a gecko.
	Anyway.
	But the funniest thing has got to be...
	So I go looking for this thing.
	I get the International Science Times.
	And before I can even go to the store, I get the big flash pop-up.
	Like us on Facebook!
	Screw you!
	Alright, hey, here is Chan, the president...
	What?
	What?
	Looking at the pictures, bullcrap.
	Anyway, go on.
	I'm moving on.
	Here's more bullcrap.
	The novel coronavirus is not a problem that any single affected country can keep to itself or manage all by itself.
	The novel coronavirus is a threat to the entire world.
	So that is the director of the World Health Organization.
	That's not that same...
	Yes, it is.
	It's Chan.
	Idiotic woman who called a pandemic on a...
	Yes, it's Chan.
	So 27 people...
	Why is she there?
	She can barely speak.
	Have you seen...
	It looks like Starfleet Command that she's got there.
	She says on this panel, this room must be 100 feet high.
	Have you seen that thing with the big logo and everything?
	No.
	Anyway, so here's Brolf, who takes that news and turns it into this.
	Still rising right now from a newly discovered respiratory virus that health officials are calling, and I'm quoting them now, a threat to the entire world.
	Say it again.
	So far.
	49 people have been infected in 8 countries, most of them in the Middle East.
	The World Health Organization says as of today, 27 of those patients have died.
	And that number will likely get higher because experts don't understand how the virus is spreading.
	Let's get some background now.
	Mary Snow is joining us.
	Let me guess, what are you learning?
	Mary, what are you learning?
	How serious is this?
	Well, the big reason the World Health Organization is so concerned about this virus is there is no known treatment at the moment.
	Scientists around the world are looking for answers, and that includes a team here in New York.
	All right.
	So we're all going to die.
	There's no known treatment?
	No known treatment.
	You can't hospitalize them and give them water, fluids, or anything?
	You can't do anything?
	No known treatment.
	You cannot hide fact.
	The whole world, you're going to die.
	Now, let's take a quick trip around the elites of the world and let's laugh at them.
	First we go down under to Australia where we're very happy that this took place and I think it's a very good thing we all can learn something from the Australian producers.
	Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been forced to dodge a flying sandwich for the second time this month.
	She was greeting children at Lynham High School in Canberra when a student flung the salami snack.
	I think I must have thought I was hungry.
	I thought I was hungry.
	Flung the salami snack, I tell you.
	Very good.
	Very good.
	So we're very, very happy with that.
	I think that's a good idea.
	You know, in Eastern cultures, we typically throw a shoe.
	Yeah, but shoes cost money.
	Yeah.
	Here, it's just a salami sandwich.
	And it's funny because the video, you see that, it's a shitty throw, by the way.
	It's like, it's not the knife-throwing, you know, crocodile Dundee that did this, but I think it's funny.
	Don't you think that should be our thing now in America?
	Throw salami sandwiches?
	Bologna.
	Bologna sandwiches.
	Oh, bologna would be better, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Just throw a bologna sandwich at your politician if he's full of crap.
	Who else is full of crap and has literally crapped in the White House is Al Roker.
	Listen to this news.
	Hey, thanks so much, guys.
	These folks from More Oklahoma, they survived that EF5, and there could be more bad weather like that.
	Take a look at this.
	I will say he actually said EF5. I'll give him that one.
	He did put the E in front.
	But now...
	Kansas.
	This is Kansas.
	Smith Center, Kansas.
	Let's go to the video of this storm.
	And you can see this EF3 tornado.
	It was captured by two guys, Sean Casey and Brandon Ivey.
	They have a special vehicle that actually went over and it actually hunkers down.
	It weighs 16,000 tons.
	They were able to survive this.
	Don't try this at home by any...
	16,000 tons.
	Really?
	I don't think that's right.
	It's like 3 million pounds, Al?
	16...
	Oh, okay.
	Now, my...
	16,000 tons.
	What do you get?
	Another day older and deeper in debt.
	Here's Al Sharpton.
	Now, I hate, you know, I kind of hate to make fun of him, but damn, it's so much funny because, you know, he says stuff like, There's no real conflict!
	So let's listen to what Al says today.
	The party has been reinvigorated based on a number of these things.
	And I think it's imperative that we know what the truth is, know what the facts are, and have our presidents back as he has ours to push through this like he has had to almost every single year he's been in office.
	Well, there's no doubt about the fact that they want to put, I heard someone say, I think it was Matthews, that they want to put an Aztec next to his name like they have done.
	An Aztec?
	Aztecs!
	I want to put an ass stick next to his name.
	Let's do that again.
	This is genius.
	This guy is just great.
	He's fantastic.
	They want to put an ass stick next to his name like they have done.
	NBC should be so proud of this fine broadcaster.
	An ass stick.
	They want to put an ass stick next to his name.
	Amazing to me that this guy is on the air.
	Just put an ass stick next to his name.
	It's just fantastic.
	Hey, did you see the...
	So the Mokhtar, our buddy there...
	Oh yeah, Mokhtar Mokhtar.
	Yeah, of the Marlboro Man.
	Yeah, yeah, that guy.
	Isn't he dead?
	Yeah, he's dead, but I think it was the telegraph.
	So they somehow magically found a letter from Al-Qaeda Central.
	Sent to him.
	Did they write Al-Qaeda letterhead?
	Yes.
	The Al-Qaeda letter found by the Associated Press inside a building formerly occupied by their fighters in Mali.
	Now, you remember that we played all the video of the Mali.
	They found like an AK-47 and three bullets.
	This was the big terror threat in Mali.
	Yeah.
	This letter that the Associated Press found...
	It's an intimate window into the...
	They just found it?
	Yes, it's just like, oh, what's this?
	Why, it's a letter.
	What does it say?
	It wants a glimpse into the inner workings of a highly structured terrorist organization that requires its commanders to file monthly expense reports.
	Oh!
	Are you kidding me?
	No, I'm not.
	Expense reports?
	Yeah, listen.
	And they were mad at him because he didn't file his expense reports on time.
	What, does he work for a dot-com?
	I'm telling you!
	This is unbelievable.
	Yeah, the letter signed by the group's 14-member Shura Council, or governing body, describes its relationship with Bel Mokhtar as a bleeding wound and criticizes his proposal to resign and start his own group.
	I'm going to start my own group, okay?
	I don't need you and your damn expensive parts.
	Hello?
	First and foremost...
	Did you get your budget in?
	Hey, we're not going to be blowing anything up for the next month until all the budgets are in.
	No, there was 30 bullet points in this letter.
	First and foremost...
	Bullet points.
	Bullet points.
	And we got some takeaways in this note.
	Who's doing the meeting notes?
	First and foremost, they quibble over the amount of money raised by the 2008 kidnapping of Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler, the highest-ranking UN official in Niger, and his colleague.
	Balmokhtar's men held both for four months, and in a book he later published, Fowler said he did not know if a ransom was paid.
	The letter reveals Al-Qaeda wanted to use the kidnapping to force concessions in the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, but the plan was stymied when Balmokhtar struck his own deal for about $900,000 for both men, far below the $3 million per hostage that the European governments were normally paying, What is this?
	What?
	I know!
	Is this crazy?
	This is a business they're running.
	No wonder they have action items in a memo.
	Yeah!
	What's our budget?
	Looks like we're getting about $9 million this month.
	We're going to do $100 million for the year.
	What's our delta?
	Oh, man.
	What's the delta on our revs?
	I'd like to meet the chief revenue officer for Al-Qaeda, please.
	This is nuts.
	And I really have to believe this.
	Do you think it's true?
	Well, I know that we've actually discussed this before and I know there's been clips that have come and gone that indicate that they were running a business which was a hostage for money business.
	So you'd steal some diplomat and you'd get a check to give him back and that's what people would do over and over again and I didn't I don't know what the payouts were, but it's 3 million bucks a pop.
	But from the EU, that's pretty good money for a week's work.
	I've got to read you some more.
	The list of slights is long.
	He would not take management's phone calls.
	Refused to send administrative and financial reports.
	You get those TPS reports, Bill Mokhtar?
	He ignored a meeting in Tumbuktu.
	Ha ha ha.
	Screw that meeting in Timbuktu.
	I'm not going.
	Tell them to pound sand.
	Calling it useless.
	He even ordered his men to refuse to meet with al-Qaeda emissaries.
	That's the one.
	Emissaries.
	And he aired the organization's dirty laundry in online jihadist forums, even while refusing to communicate with the chapter via the...
	I hate the COO. Sounding like managers in any company, the Shura leaders accused Belmokhtar of not being able to get along with his peers.
	They charge that he recently went to Libya without permission from the chapter, which had assigned the Libya dossier to a rival commander called Abu Zaid.
	And they complain that the last unit they sent Belmokhtar for backup in the Sahara spent a full three years just trying to contact him before giving up.
	That is just too funny.
	The sharpest blow in the council's letter may have been the accusation that despite this history of terrorism, Belmokhtar and his unit had not pulled off any attack worthy of mention in the Sahara Desert.
	Quote, Any observer of the armed actions carried out in the Sahara will clearly notice the failure of the mass brigade to carry out spectacular operations, despite the region's vast possibilities.
	There are plenty of Mujahideen, funding is available, weapons are widespread, and strategic targets are within reach.
	Your brigade did not achieve a single spectacular operation targeting the Crusader Alliance.
	You, my friend, are demoted.
	Isn't that nuts?
	It's totally nuts.
	Huh.
	I wonder where that note came from.
	I mean, in reality.
	I'm sure nobody stumbled upon it.
	Well, that's what they say.
	They say that the Associated Press found it inside a building.
	In Mali.
	Well, it's not completely unbelievable that a note like that existed.
	So there is the...
	Well, it's a translation, of course, but it is from the AP. It's in the show notes.
	PDF. And it's a translation of what they say is the note.
	Funny, isn't it?
	So, on one hand, it kind of...
	You can't segue out of this piece.
	No, but...
	I know.
	I, too, am just baffled.
	It's too ridiculous.
	I, too, am just baffled.
	But if you read the whole letter, and how many pages...
	It's pages and pages.
	I mean, I've seen some letters in my time where people are pissed off, and you've got to fire someone, or you're not doing a good job.
	But this just blows everything away.
	You know, it's like, I was just not doing his job.
	Does the inadequacy come from consultation and coordination, which we are in system, or does it come from unilateral behavior along the lines of our brother Abu Abbas, which produced a blatant inadequacy, trading the weightiest case to Canadian diplomats for the meager price of 700,000 euros?
	So they're like bitching about sales.
	Yeah, the guy, he couldn't close the real deal.
	He had to take a discount.
	We do not do discounts.
	I'm going to write that down.
	That was 220.
	We do not do discounts.
	We do not do discounts.
	That was my German.
	That wasn't good.
	But isn't that sad?
	It's very funny.
	Yeah, well it just shows you that it's just nuts.
	So I'm watching C-SPAN and of all people that are on...
	Call Human Resources.
	We gotta call Human Resources about this Mukhtar guy.
	Oh yeah, Mukhtar.
	So Amy Goodman's being interviewed.
	Oh, really?
	And it was so funny to listen to this one.
	I have two clips.
	Well, I actually played the short clip first because she's just babbling and she's throwing in memes and she doesn't know what she's talking about.
	I'll just play this clip.
	The media is what message.
	And I'll ask you when she says...
	She's describing how green they are in the studio.
	Let me just say that this is Amy Goodman.
	She hosts the National Treasure...
	Democracy Now!
	Public television program, so basically government approved, Democracy Now!
	Obamabot approved for sure.
	She's a major Obamabot, even though every story they bring up recently is like, why would you support this guy?
	Which is the great irony of the show.
	Cycled bottles, cemented together.
	In data centers in our machine room that all TV stations and radio stations have to deal with, and lots of places deal with data centers, we really pioneered a way to, because all the electronics give off so much heat, to work out a way to try to use less energy in dealing with this, because we really do believe that the medium has to be the message.
	What?
	What is she saying?
	I'm asking you!
	So, okay, so here's what she's saying, that the data center is so warm and they've pioneered ways to, I don't know, I guess not make it warm because the medium is the message and vote Obama.
	Green is good.
	Up is down.
	Black is white.
	Yes is no.
	Truth is false.
	The medium is the message.
	Throw that in.
	Throw it in.
	It doesn't mean anything.
	The message is in the music.
	Now, you can play all or part of this next clip, but this one here is...
	Unfortunately, I'm hoping you'll have to cut it short because it's too long, but here's what...
	Let me describe.
	Describe.
	She gets to get it.
	They take calls on.
	So somebody gets a call and he starts to extol the virtues of democracy now and the stations that play it.
	Yes, of course.
	And she starts to beam.
	I've never seen her look like this.
	Big shit, eat and grin, smile.
	Big, big, big, big, big smile.
	And then the guy turns on her.
	Turns on her.
	She goes lump, and then she goes creepy looking, and then she's like, damn near shaking like a leaf before she, she never does answer the guy's accusation.
	Oh, good.
	Oh, I can't wait for this.
	Can I play?
	Yeah.
	Amy Goodman, Lee in Rockville, Maryland, here in the suburbs.
	Hi, Lee.
	Good afternoon, Amy.
	Thank you for coming.
	Oh, it's great to be here.
	I'm a longtime...
	Hold on a second.
	Is she promoting a book or something?
	What's going on?
	Why is she being interviewed?
	What is happening?
	I don't know how she got this gig, but there's no book involved.
	There's got to be a reason for it.
	I don't know.
	It's just killing time.
	I have no idea.
	You got nothing better to do?
	That's what I'm guessing.
	Listener, I listen to you every morning when I drive to work, Democracy Now!
	Where do you listen, by the way?
	In Washington.
	On WPFW 89.3 FM. Hey, good work there.
	I'm promoting the affiliates.
	Andy, you're fantastic.
	Very, very good.
	We really do appreciate you doing that.
	Justice Radio.
	Right.
	I'm a contributor to WPFW. Excellent.
	And I've been a contributor for many years.
	I really take issue with your reporting on Israel.
	You vilify Israel and vilify Israel and vilify Israel.
	And I'm glad you pointed out this morning, this afternoon or earlier, how objective you are.
	Because when Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke to the joint session of the Congress a year and a half ago, He got 20 or 30 standing ovations, 20 or 30 standing ovations by the members of Congress.
	When Democracy Now!
	reported on it, it was not objective, Amy.
	What you said was...
	Something to the effect of, Prime Minister Netanyahu shouted down by a pro-Palestinian demonstrator.
	One, one woman got up and started yelling, Free Palestine.
	And she was, you know, in the Arab countries she would have been carted off and thrown in jail and beaten and raped.
	But in the United States and Israel, they don't do that.
	They just took her off and, you know, read her rights and let her go.
	And your reporting was that Netanyahu was shouted down by a Palestinian demonstrator, not that he got 20 or 30 standing ovations.
	Do you remember that?
	Let's get a response.
	Well, I want to address the larger issue that you've raised, which is a very serious one, and it's covering the Israel-Palestine conflict.
	We don't care.
	We really don't care.
	You had to see her face.
	No, it's funny.
	I get it.
	Big smile because he's got a fan on the line.
	It was an ambush.
	It was great.
	I've seen him for a while on C-SPAN. So I've been talking to my contacts regarding Israel, Syria, and let me just tell you what's happening.
	Of course, we had John McCain.
	This kind of ties into Israel.
	John McCain in Syria with advisors, of course.
	By the way, we have American troops in the Sinai Desert as we speak.
	Remember we talked about Jordan?
	Jordan, of course, borders Syria to the south.
	Guess what's taking place in Jordan?
	I think it's, let me see if it's this week.
	Let me just look at the schedule here for a second.
	Well, we do know that one of the top army guys has been there for a number of years.
	So there'll be an exercise taking place, I'm sure, that will be similar to what's actually going to happen, I'm guessing.
	You know, I just don't have to show up anymore.
	I mean, it's like...
	I got to pat her down.
	Here it is.
	It's called Eager Lion 2013.
	More than 15,000 soldiers from 18 different countries will take part in a joint military exercise in Jordan in the coming weeks.
	That's right.
	Troops from Britain, Bahrain, Canada, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Iraq, Italy, Lebanon, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, war games.
	There you go.
	Jordan, a major beneficiary of U.S. military economic aid.
	Of course, he granted $2.4 billion in the past five years, according to the official figures.
	So, the thinking is that this, of course, is going to turn from an exercise into real-world scenario.
	And yes, the Russians will be shipping the anti-aircraft weaponry to Syria.
	We are in a proxy war with Russia, for sure.
	And the important thing here is the Golan Heights, which is what has been subject to dispute for decades, as long as I've been alive.
	And probably what we will see, according to my sources, and they've been pretty right, particularly when it comes to military exercises, you can put in the red book, we will see a suicide chemical bomber attack in Israel.
	So this sounds like it's rigged.
	Yeah.
	Well, when John McCain shows up, are you kidding me?
	Yeah, McCain shows up out of the blue for some reason or other.
	Well, you know what he's doing is he's doing the pre-deals.
	Yeah.
	Because what happens, look at Libya.
	Well, when they start blowing places up, they want to make sure that we only blow up the ones who don't go along with the program.
	And here's what his buddy Lindsey Graham was doing.
	A Republican senator is facing backlash for a questionable tweet about Senator John McCain.
	This tweet came from Lindsey Graham.
	It reads, Best wishes to Senator John McCain in Syria today.
	If he doesn't make it back, calling dibs on his office.
	McCain is in Syria to meet.
	This is how much hubris these cocksuckers have.
	Seriously.
	Because they know what's going on.
	They know exactly what's going on.
	Like, oh, I got dibs on his office.
	If he doesn't come back.
	Because we know what's really going on.
	That's too funny.
	Douchebags.
	Yeah, well, those two guys are the worst.
	New law in Connecticut, John.
	Okay.
	Yeah, new law.
	You see something, you have to say something.
	If you don't, you're going to jail.
	Actually, there are laws similar to that.
	The staff of the state's top prosecutor and the governor's office have been working in secret with General Assembly leaders on legislation to withhold records related to the police investigation into the December 14th Newtown Elementary School massacre, including...
	Victims' photos, tapes of 911 calls, and possibly more.
	So, just like...
	Obviously, we cannot even play 911 tapes...
	Because that would cause either too much distress for the families of the victims or it might cause Muslims to riot in other countries, making our soldiers unsafe.
	This is just my standard answer now.
	So they are hiding what is, I feel, necessary information, particularly in light of, you know, so they're going to They flatten the school.
	I love flattening the school.
	Flatten the school, and they lock up all of the tapes and photos and everything.
	Particularly after the confusion.
	But, you know, you get in Boston, or in Florida, you get the guy whose kid was shot in the head.
	Kill shot, top of the head.
	He's got a picture.
	That Florida thing is ridiculous.
	But put this under your Gulf of Tonkin thing, John.
	What will be allowed, according to this legislation, they will be allowed to release transcripts of the 911 calls, but not the actual recordings.
	Because, of course, it's much easier to put out a fake transcript than it is to let us listen to the actual tape.
	So they're going to put out...
	Oh, that's unbelievable.
	It's not unbelievable.
	It's just how it is.
	Let me see.
	How much time do we have?
	We should get out of here.
	I got a couple more.
	Well, let me play a couple of these last clips on the marijuana thing.
	Oh, really?
	Because this is coming to a head with a bunch of hearings.
	What's the thing about the marijuana?
	Who cares?
	Just smoke it and shut up.
	What's the problem?
	Well, it's interesting because I sent you the document.
	The Brookings Institute did a huge thing on marijuana, and they concluded that That the public opinion about the whole thing has switched so radically to pro-legalization that now it's impossible to back off and stop it.
	And it turns out that, and you can play the Brookings Institute clip, this is just part of it.
	I'll have you cut it off at a point.
	I read the report since you rarely send something for the show notes.
	When you do, I always read it.
	My takeaway was smoking marijuana makes you feel good.
	That was my takeaway.
	Public perceptions of basic facts.
	Have changed in ways that prepare the ground for a shift towards pro-legalization sentiments.
	Let me just list two of the major perceptual shifts.
	First of all, marijuana is no longer considered worse than alcohol, along the dimensions that most Americans bring to that judgment.
	Second, and perhaps even more important, there has been a sharp decline in the percentage of Americans who see marijuana as a gateway drug to things that are harder and even more dangerous.
	That percentage now stands at only 38% versus 58% who don't see marijuana as a gateway drug.
	Here's the other aspect.
	Okay, you can stop it.
	I'll summarize it.
	He talks too slow.
	But this is across all the entire spectrum of America.
	Blacks, whites, Mexicans, Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, they've all gone on.
	The majority of Americans, they think that the marijuana laws and the whole war on drugs is a waste of money.
	That is the majority opinion.
	It's just weird to me that this, again, you know, the elite media and everybody else, they will not...
	The majority opinion is the majority opinion.
	That's why it's been legalized in Washington and Colorado.
	And California, of course, idiotically voted no.
	So I'm watching all these things and I go to C-SPAN. There's a bunch of drug hearings.
	There's a crap load of them.
	And I got the biggest kick.
	Apparently the OAS, the Organization of American States, came out with a report essentially...
	You know, condemning the $20 billion that's spent in Latin America to fight drugs.
	And they just say that, again, it's another big waste of money.
	But here's the takeaway from this guy who's a drug czar, or he's not really the drug czar, but he's an undersecretary of state.
	I got his name here somewhere.
	Let's see if I can find it.
	He's on our side?
	He's one of our guys, but he's William Bromfeld, but he's just kind of an apologist for the State Department.
	It's actually kind of funny to listen to him talk because he's a funny-looking guy.
	Let's not go into detail on the drug study, Congressman.
	It's a very long document.
	It's over 200 pages in length.
	My simple summary would be the first part of it, the so-called analytical part, was not bad, professionally done.
	The second part, the so-called scenarios, what might happen if the following things happened, was bad.
	I found less satisfactory.
	At the end of the day, the report was not actually the resounding call for legalization that the media has suggested.
	And I must admit, I went online and I entered in OAS drug study.
	15 screens of what I got all had the title, OAS Calls for Legalization of Marijuana, which actually was not what the drug study said, but you would have to get to the 16th screen before you would realize that, had you gone online to read it.
	You don't have to now.
	I have saved you a vast amount of searching.
	We have gone at this and we've made three or four basic fundamental points.
	One, all governments of all countries of this hemisphere have signed on to the three UN international drug conventions.
	We all must abide by those because we have ratified them.
	Okay, so I thought this guy was full of crap, so I went to look at the OAS drug study by doing that exact same search.
	Curiously, he's right.
	15 screens, yeah.
	It's OAS drug study.
	Look it up.
	It's, you know, the drug study IES. It always had the exact same wording, IES legalization, E-Y-E-S. All of these 16 screens are one AP story that has been regurgitated throughout the media in a very humorous way because it's like outlet after outlet, TV station, radio station, newspaper, just 60 pages of this ICE legalization term.
	All the same exact AP story.
	Very few people did any work at all.
	They just took that story from the AP, which says ICE legalization, and ran it.
	And I just thought it was just another, it was just like ludicrous condemnation of the media.
	I mean, this is, if you're going to just load up with AP stories without even adding your own words to the headline, the headlines were all exactly the same.
	It was actually unbelievable.
	And so what really got to me, though, this is the kind of thing that Google says doesn't happen on their search engines.
	Yeah, no.
	It's the exact same thing over and over and over and over again, all pointing to the same story.
	Why isn't Google, like, cutting out 15 of these 16 pages?
	Do you question the grand gentleman Matt Cutts?
	Just saying.
	By the way, they were slamming you, dude.
	Oh, they were?
	Yeah, on This Week in Google.
	Oh.
	So This Week in Google has Jeff Jarvis, who needs a teeth job, and Matt Cutts.
	So it's the Google guy, the Google stock owner, and this is a show about Google.
	Yeah, it's a Google guy guy with Google stock.
	Well, that's what they would do.
	They'd be all pro-Google.
	But then it comes to, you know, like, oh, well, you know, Dvorak, stupid, crazy...
	And don't really address the issue at hand.
	Anything.
	At all.
	At all.
	Why didn't they address the fact that you were getting the same notice and all you had was a photo, a JPEG, which is not something that you can do much with in terms of creating a virus or anything on your site.
	And so you got blackballed.
	Did they address that?
	They must have talked about that.
	Yeah, of course.
	Oh, in great depth, yes.
	No, it's just you're crazy, you're nuts, and I think Leo actually said he's fucking stupid.
	Oh, I'd like to get that one.
	It was something.
	I think you swallowed the F word.
	It was like, fuck, stupid.
	Like, stupid.
	But, you know, you are.
	I'm just trying to get you all riled up.
	Oh, wait, it's not Sunday.
	Damn.
	Yeah.
	I've got to get you on that show again.
	I haven't put you on for a while.
	It's no good.
	Well, you know, if I don't get on, I will just start a show.
	Oh, I can't wait.
	It would be so great to do...
	The new guys at Ziff want us to restart Cranky Geeks.
	The new guys?
	They got new new guys?
	They got new new guys all the time.
	They got bought by a company in November.
	But they kept the old CEO at Ziff Davis.
	Wait a minute.
	Wasn't there some...
	But it's a new owner and they keep throwing money at him and he keeps buying little operations here and there.
	Wasn't there some like Asian guy who owns it now?
	No, it's owned by a company called J2. Oh.
	And they've seriously contacted you and said, start Cranky Geeks again?
	They're talking about it, yes.
	They want Cranky Geeks and they want some other thing.
	And what did you say?
	Talk to my manager.
	Let me see what this, they have a studio.
	Talk to my manager.
	It has a studio in the city.
	I have to go look at it and see if you can even do a show there.
	I don't know.
	I have no idea I'm going to go visit.
	But would you want it?
	I'm just talking, you know.
	They keep bringing me back.
	I keep going to video.
	You've got to be on the video.
	You're like bad Mexican food.
	Just keep coming back.
	Just don't stop.
	Well, that would be great.
	But, of course, I can't be a guest on that show because, you know.
	You can't be.
	You have to be in the studio.
	That's what I mean.
	I can't really be on.
	I can't be in the studio.
	No, this whole idea of having all these guys on Skype, I find it annoying.
	It is.
	If you're doing a video, but you know what?
	I am going to tell you this, and I'm going to say it once, okay?
	If you start a show, if you restart Cranky Geeks, I will compete with you.
	And I will start an audio-only podcast, and it will beat you, it will beat Twit, because the video thing is useless.
	All it does is it costs a lot of money for the 2,000 people who watch the video.
	That's about it.
	It's really, you know, there's 1,500, 2,000 people watching live, and then maybe, okay, I'll give you an extra thousand who watch the video.
	It is completely pointless.
	Well, you know, I think the numbers will bear you out, which is that when we were doing Cranky Geeks, and I think Leo's numbers are the same way, the number of people that just download the audio and listen to it in the car or off their...
	It's 95%.
	Yeah, it's a big number.
	Yes, and...
	I don't see any reason, you know, I think that's one of the things, you know, Leo's always concerned about the 5x5 network, which is his operation.
	He should be, because they got good audio.
	They do lots of just pure audio podcasts.
	Yeah, they do.
	Well, they used to have some video ones, but I haven't seen one for a while.
	Yeah, and I talked to the guy.
	I talked to the founder.
	I was like, Dan, what's his name?
	Benjamin.
	Yeah, I had lunch with him and everything.
	I'm like, come on, man.
	Let's compete with Leo.
	Let's just do an audio-only show.
	The thing is, I said I didn't want to do ads.
	I just want to do donations.
	I think that kind of irked him.
	That's out.
	I think that irked him.
	We'd rather have no ads, which is essentially what they've got.
	No, 5x5 makes money.
	Does it?
	Every host gets paid.
	Not a lot, but everyone makes money.
	That's my understanding, at least.
	My understanding from one of our producers is that they had to lay off a lot of their hoes, or a number of their hoes that made the most money or whatever, so whether they're making money is another issue.
	I know Leo's making money.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I'm sure he is.
	With This Week in YouTube.
	Well, I don't think any of that...
	Alright, let me...
	Speaking of stupid mainstream applications on the internet, it's about time and finally it's happening.
	We knew it would happen.
	It is the War on Men.
	This is against Facebook.
	And they're doing exactly, and I know who's doing it too, they're doing exactly what cannot happen to us on this program when you don't like what you see.
	Facebook, as it was first known, got started.
	It was very simple, with few controls on what users could say.
	Indeed, Mark Zuckerberg's firm prided itself on the way users policed themselves.
	Now it's a huge global business earning billions from advertisers and Facebook has to listen if they don't like what they see next to their ads.
	And here's what one of those advertisers nationwide is saying.
	Sites like Facebook should have stringent processes and guidelines in place to ensure that brands are able to protect themselves from appearing alongside inappropriate content.
	There's no advertiser or no brand in the world that would want to be associated with the kind of content that's been publicised over the last seven or eight days.
	And so I think that certainly in the short term, until Facebook get a grip on it and until that content has been resolved and until the wider issue of gender hate has been resolved, I think that advertisers will be thinking about how they spend their money.
	Gender hate.
	And now it all clicked in my mind, John.
	All of a sudden, I figured it out.
	This is why it's all been this women, women, women thing that Hillary Clinton's been on.
	Because when you organize the women, and they have this womenactionmedia.org known as WHAM! W-A-M. Go to womenactionmedia.org.
	You can then control speech.
	Because what is gender hate?
	Gender hate is not illegal.
	Okay?
	If I just say, hey, I hate bitches...
	That is not illegal.
	It's inappropriate and it's lame, but it's not illegal.
	But so what they're doing now is they're taking the biggest platform for the reality show people of Gitmo Nation and they are placing restrictions on what you can say and they're policing it.
	Wow!
	Take action to end gender-based hate speech on Facebook.
	Yes.
	And so, interesting, this womenactionmedia.org, I'm looking at it, who are these people?
	Where is this coming from?
	And it took me, because you look at the website, you can't find out who they are, there's no about us, there's only an address.
	Right.
	And of course I did the old address trick, which is...
	What is this?
	Stupid.
	Shut up!
	Hold on a second.
	Got something running in the background.
	Yeah.
	Inaugural Wham!
	D.C. Happy Hour, June 5th, 2013, Washington, D.C. Want to hang out with other amazing lady journos?
	Journos?
	Journos and activists?
	Here's a video.
	Here's a video.
	Hold on.
	We are women sitting at the table, but women of many backgrounds are sitting at the table.
	What?
	I can't hear you.
	Because, you know, our fight is everybody's fight.
	So if you care about...
	These are all journos.
	Women journos.
	So I'm like, wow.
	And they have chapters in Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Ottawa, Vancouver.
	And I'm like, well, where is this coming from?
	So I saw their address in Cambridge.
	And guess who's at that address?
	Okay.
	The YWCA. Okay.
	Whoa!
	That was an unexpected answer.
	It was.
	And if you go to ywca.org, I think, you'll see it's the same website design with the orange and everything.
	It's the same thing.
	And it is surprising.
	And so I started to read a little bit about the YWCA, the Young Women's Christian Association, support this.
	They started in the United Kingdom, which I didn't know.
	I thought that YMCA and YWCA, I thought that was all essentially American.
	Since its inception in 1891, the YWCA has advocated for women's rights and provided affordable accommodations and support services for women.
	But now apparently they're in the business of going after companies' advertisers.
	And yeah, it was very surprising to me, the YWCA, really.
	I think they've been taken over by somebody, because if you go to worldywca.org, you find a very activist-oriented website done by a different group.
	But it's a YWCA, so something's up with the YWCA. Yeah, there's been some co-option there.
	Yeah, somebody took it over.
	We have to get to the bottom of this.
	So the YWCA Cambridge is a 501c3, not-for-profit organization.
	You know, I haven't really...
	That's kind of stupid.
	I didn't even see that one.
	YWCA Cambridge.
	We can do it real quick and just see what their deal is.
	So when I saw that, I was like, okay, something is definitely going on.
	You agree, right?
	There's something weird happening here.
	When you go to the world site, it's weirder.
	What do you see?
	Well, I'm not there now, but you see a bunch of, you know, women will change things.
	It's very aggressive, almost a feminist site.
	You wouldn't think it's what, you know, I always think of the YWCA, which is kind of a club where you go exercise and you can, you know, take out a book from the library and stay the night, maybe.
	Yeah, meet hot chicks.
	Maybe not.
	Okay, so they have the Cambridge YMCA did...
	Let's see, do they have their forms?
	They don't have their 2012 form-up, of course.
	This is the Form 90s, my favorite pastime.
	This is their 2011 form.
	They did $3 million in revenue.
	That's just a Cambridge operation?
	Just Cambridge.
	Okay.
	Let me see if I can...
	It's a 501c3, so that means they will disclose their donors.
	Let me see if I can find anything real quick.
	This may be something we have to do for Sunday.
	But I agree, there's something going on.
	In general...
	The subtitle from World YWCA is Women Leading Change.
	Oh boy.
	You can make a difference.
	Support women and girls to claim their rights.
	We've got to put these women in their place, John.
	Common concern coming up...
	And they did World YMCA events at the 23rd session of the Human Rights Council.
	Listen to this.
	This is very interesting.
	This is the organization.
	This is their official tax form.
	You tell me if this sounds like what they're doing.
	The organization provides 35 programs to promote and inspire lifelong development for children, adults, and families through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all the organization's membership services program, providing a diverse client population with a broad continuum of services providing a diverse client population with a broad continuum of services which include aquatics, yoga, aerobics, basketball leagues, personal training, martial arts, and numerous classes for all
	Nowhere does it say, oh yeah, and we go after advertisers.
	Strange, huh?
	Yeah, it's become a pressure group.
	Yeah.
	Well, we can figure this out quite easily.
	We'll do it in the future because the show's over.
	Yeah.
	But we will do it by finding out who the new person is that came in.
	We'll make that promise.
	Fact!
	We'll find out who it is.
	There's a person that came in to change things.
	That's right.
	Okay.
	I was going to play something as the last clip.
	What was there, something that you had that was really good?
	I just can't remember what it was.
	Hmm.
	I don't know.
	Anyway...
	Oh, yeah, you can play some tech analysis from idiots.
	Okay.
	Hey, you know what?
	If people support the show enough, then why don't we just add a whole bunch of tech to the show?
	We can do it better than anybody else.
	Well, we can definitely do it better than these idiots that you're going to hear.
	All right, I'll play that.
	We'll be back on Sunday, and I'll just bring you some tech analysis, because I think it's time we start putting more of that in the show.
	Coming to you from the capital of the Drone Star State, home of the cross-dressing governor.
	In the morning, everybody, my name's Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Talk to you again on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
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	I spoke earlier with Mario Armstrong, digital lifestyle expert for HLN, and Katie Linendoll, tech analyst for ESPN and Spike TV. Katie Linendoll, how would you describe the combination of old internet giant Yahoo and new kid on the block Tumblr?
	Well, it's probably not the most appropriate analogy, but I like to say this is like the super hot super model paired with the old creepy guy.
	And you're like, this just doesn't kind of work.
	What's going on here?
	Oh, the old creepy guy has a billion dollars.
	That's why there's a mismatch.
	That's why I like to think of Yahoo Tumblr.
	The old creepy guy is headed by a woman, the young CEO, Marissa Mayer.
	And in the official press release announcing the billion dollar acquisition of Tumblr, she vowed not to screw it up.
	Why'd she say that?
	Because she better not.
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