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546: Munich Moment

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	It's all a great idea.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, September 8th, 2013.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 546.
	This is No Agenda.
	With a whole new meaning for PGT Tips.
	Here at the Travis Heights Hideout in the capital of the Drone Star State, Austin Tejas.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where there are new sources of news, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Yeah, there we go.
	We are connected somehow.
	You tagged it right.
	What do you mean I tagged it right?
	When I finished my little ditty, you hit the stinger.
	Yeah, yeah.
	For those of you wondering, we are trying Mumble today, which is the open source product.
	So nice of everyone to respond trying to help us out with our connectivity woes.
	We have spent countless hours over the past two days working on every possible...
	We're a version of what we think the problem could be or a solution.
	And for every email we've received, no two alike.
	We're talking about hundreds.
	I mean, everybody's an expert, that's for sure.
	If you turn the microphone and you give it a small turn to the left, you get a much better response.
	Your microphone needs to be turned and it needs to be pivoted.
	It's just like, wow.
	But we've gotten all the way down to guys who work at cable companies and are talking about the temperature of the coax outside.
	And I actually buy that.
	I'm buying that there's, you know, and thermostores are broken.
	There's all kinds of things that can be wrong.
	But I think we've pretty much ruled out that it is really anything within our control because we've tried VPNs, different machines, different devices, different microphones.
	Now, of course, whatever is going on, it affects Skype more than it affects Mumble.
	So we've just decided to use Mumble, which has its own little interesting quirks.
	Yes, it's not very good as a product.
	For instance, all of a sudden, I'll make a joke, and then sometime tomorrow, John will get to the punchline.
	It's just the latency builds up for some reason.
	Exactly.
	Okay, so there's a lot of news that happened.
	Indeed.
	And I think the funniest piece of news was...
	And by the way, this is interesting, because JC works in the high-tech community as one of the coders over at one of these startups.
	Yeah.
	And he went over there and said, you know, the NSA has this, they have all the encryption codes.
	There's no such thing.
	The banking community, everybody else is up in arms about the fact that they can get anything they want, any financial data or whatever.
	And I guess nobody else in the whole community knows about this.
	Well, you know, I'm not a security expert by any means, but it seems to me that even if you just look at where certificates come from, if you have access to the root certificate and it's been rumored that these things have been hacked, stolen, whatever, long ago, years ago, duh, it's not that hard.
	You don't even really need to do any hard work.
	Compromised.
	Yeah, I would believe that that's at the core, that it's all compromised.
	Sure.
	It's funny, though, to see people going, uh, what now?
	No.
	Well, what now?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Have we built up a delay already?
	Have we built up our latency?
	Well, actually, Buzzkill Jr.
	came up with an idea that I think we should put a little team together.
	The buffer?
	Yeah, I think we should restart it right now.
	Well, that's easily solved.
	Let me just reconnect myself.
	I got back before you did.
	Yes, you did.
	Well, I have to walk across the room because I set up a whole new machine for this.
	Okay.
	So tell me what Buzzkill Jr.'s idea was.
	Well, the NSA was always the go-to people to verify encryption schemes.
	They would be the certifiers.
	Right.
	So you develop an inscription scheme.
	Now we can't trust them.
	So you start your own company with a bunch of experts to certify encryption schemes, make sure there's no back doors and stuff in them.
	And then once you get going and you get big, you sell right to the NSA. I mean, this is an easy turnover of a company here.
	Hey!
	Once again, another great idea we will not implement for ourselves.
	Right.
	It is a good idea.
	Yeah.
	You actually wrote a column, and a couple things about this column.
	One, it's an outstanding product.
	Two, it's so much better than what you write for PCMag.
	This is for a new domain.
	Is that what it is?
	A new domain dot net?
	A new domain dot net.
	Yeah.
	So on the stuff you make no money on is where your best work comes from.
	Okay.
	As witnessed by this show.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And you kind of pulled a crackpot there.
	You actually saw something in the documents which was overlooked by, I think, all four of the publications who are complicit in this scheme, which now includes ProPublica, which for some reason ProPublica gets a pass.
	Have you noticed this?
	No, I didn't.
	Now that you mention it, though.
	Well, ProPublica is like, oh, well, this is a non-profit news organization.
	Oh, really?
	Okay.
	Could you stop messing with your mic?
	You're moving the mic or something?
	You're doing a lot.
	No, I just closed the window.
	Oh, okay.
	So ProPublica, they were now added to this mix, I guess, to somehow to make the story more credible, which to me immediately makes it less credible.
	Very interesting, if you look at this story on their webpage, it even says, this story does not adhere to our typical...
	Bullcrap guidelines.
	No, no, the...
	Standards of ethics.
	No, the copyright.
	Their typical Creative Commons copyright.
	Oh!
	So you can't take it from their page like you normally can under the Creative Commons, which I think is share-alike attribution.
	Right.
	Because all these jabronis are involved, but if you really look into this outfit...
	Who get $10 million a year to run their newsroom, their non-profit newsroom.
	This is from the Sandler Foundation.
	And the Sandler Foundation was Herbert and...
	It was Herb and his wife...
	What was his wife?
	Marion, who founded Golden West Financial Corporation, and of course that later became Wachovia.
	Small little outfit there that I think had some problems in the financial crisis.
	Huh.
	And so they sold it for $2.6 billion, and they promised that they would make $1.3 billion available to the Sandler Foundation, let's see, for, what is it, fighting predatory mortgage lending?
	Which is funny.
	Like the Asthma Foundation and fighting corruption.
	And then you look at this ProPublica outfit.
	Look at the board of advisors.
	I mean, why not just call it mainstream media?
	I mean, this is who they've got on as directors of their...
	So, obviously, Paul Steiger, he's the executive chairman.
	He comes from the Wall Street Journal.
	And then, of course, we have the...
	I think, by the way, that...
	The guy who's funding it should not be on the board, but okay, Herbert Sandler's on the board.
	Then we've got a guy from Warburg Pincus, Mark Colony, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
	You go down the line, there's top lawyers, top venture capitalist guys, and then we have Jill Abramson.
	She's from the New York Times.
	David Boardman from the Seattle Times.
	It's just a whole bunch of douchebags who are all over the mainstream media and they hang out in this little club, I guess.
	And I think they misused the ProPublica in this case.
	Trying to make it all look legit or something.
	Huh.
	Well, something's up with that story.
	Yeah, how about it's not true?
	How about it's just put out there to make us feel that we're hopeless, like there's nothing we can do.
	Wow.
	Really?
	Well, there isn't.
	Except start our own company to do certification.
	Yeah.
	This is not working out, John.
	We're talking three-second delay now.
	What?
	Between me saying something...
	The latency problem is really...
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's weird.
	It's like this thing starts off okay.
	Right, right, right, right.
	I understand.
	I understand.
	Alright, so I don't think our own company is the solution.
	Although, isn't this what the IETF is talking about now?
	Or as I read everywhere, a panel of internet experts has now planning to do XYZ, including Vintzer from Google.
	Well, I think anybody's from Google, they're compromised, so that you can forget that.
	Yeah.
	I think the real problem is everyone's compromised.
	Yeah.
	That article I wrote essentially said Congress is compromised, the Senate is compromised, Marco Rubio is compromised.
	Just explain the article for a second, just the main crux, because it was really brilliant what you found.
	Well, if you read through the documents that were revealed by Snowden, the word to describe the American public, the banking system and large corporations and everyone in between, they were all called adversaries by the NSA.
	So apparently the American public is an adversary.
	When you look at the definition of adversary, it's a simple definition.
	It means enemy.
	And so they have redefined the American public as the enemy.
	And thus they might as well just tap everybody because we are the enemy according to the way the NSA thinks in confidential documents.
	Apparently we're the enemy.
	And so I went off on a rant about that.
	And I didn't blame the NSA. They're just taking advantage of the situation.
	I blamed these congressional oversight committees of the Senate and the House.
	And they got a bunch of creepy douchebags in there, like Rubensberger, that guy, and Mike Rogers, and some of these other guys.
	And you hear them apologizing and wanting the head of Snowden.
	Now I know why.
	So here's the beauty of what you found in the document, according to The Guardian, which, of course, is supposedly handed to us by Snowden.
	These design changes make the system in question exploitable through SIGINT collection with foreknowledge of the modification to the consumer and other adversaries.
	That was the key.
	Not just adversaries, but and other adversaries.
	Right.
	When using the word other...
	Included consumers.
	Because it's an inclusive word.
	If it said the consumers and adversaries, then I wouldn't have gone off the deep end.
	But they said you and the other gays.
	Yes.
	I'm sorry.
	You have my attention.
	Did someone call?
	That would be...
	Indicating that you're gay.
	Right, exactly.
	And that's what they think.
	So the consumers, the public, are adversaries.
	This isn't right.
	No!
	Now, do you think it's actually true?
	They're cavalier about spying on the American public and collecting all our phone numbers, emails, and everything in between.
	They don't care.
	They do it with impunity.
	They use that word, floating around.
	And it seems like a no-brainer.
	So yeah, I think it is true.
	And I think they have to be called to task on this.
	Right.
	Everything you read, though, because what I like doing is I'll go to The Guardian, I'll go to The New York Times, The Post, and ProPublica, the non-profit independent news organization funded by bankers, I might point out.
	And I'll read the comments.
	And here's the sad thing.
	All I read is, well, it's kind of like this show where 80% is like, here's how you do it.
	You get your VPN and you double encrypt backward, flip that in through the Tor browser and the onion router.
	But people are missing the point.
	And I think this is the point of your article.
	We have to impeach everybody.
	Can we impeach all these efforts?
	No, no, you can't impeach.
	You just vote them out.
	They're not impeachable.
	Can we kill them?
	Well, you can't do that either because that's illegal.
	Oh, damn.
	Okay, we can't do that.
	Off with their heads is what I want to say.
	Well, the head on a stick, I mean, yeah, that's also not kosher.
	You just have to vote them out.
	But people, the idiots that voted them in are very reluctant to vote them out because, oh, he's our guy.
	You know, the incumbent thing is the worst phenomenon we have in this country.
	Right.
	But the opportunity to do this is November 2014.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	So, essentially, we have a year.
	And a lot can happen in a year, because people will forget.
	Yeah.
	No, they will.
	You have to remind them constantly.
	In fact, I think most people haven't even noticed this.
	They're too busy with Syria.
	Right.
	Syria's getting a lot of attention.
	Yeah.
	So, why don't you start us off with a clip while I go get my list of the clips.
	Okay.
	Do you have something specifically?
	No.
	I have a bunch of clips that are kind of interesting.
	Well, I get the list.
	Or do you just want me to play something on my own and just share it with the group while you're not here?
	Well, now that you mention it, I do have some clips.
	No, no, I'll tell you what.
	I will play something here from Al Jazeera America, which is a new...
	Oh, I got a lot of clips from Al Jazeera America.
	The show is getting better.
	The production values are still off a little bit, but it's better.
	And they got the cutest, or maybe the prettiest, and kind of, she's slightly voluptuous, blonde weather girl.
	Oh, I haven't seen her.
	No, I have not seen her.
	Rebecca?
	No, I haven't seen her.
	I haven't seen her, no.
	A clear choice by the Curry Dvorak.
	Oh, really?
	Well, let me play this little...
	I split it up into two parts.
	I thought there was something interesting about this...
	About the NSA cracking all encryption messaging that they were.
	Of course, Al Jazeera America, and as is most news organizations, is one way or the other psychological warfare on the viewers and propaganda at best.
	The U.S. Cyber Spy Agency has cracked many of the codes that are meant to keep sensitive internet communications private.
	According to new documents released by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, Which is patently not true because they were not released by him.
	Parts of it were published by newspapers.
	We don't even know if they actually got it from him.
	And they were shown to officials and they were redacted.
	This is WikiLeaks all over again.
	The NSA has invested billions of dollars in custom-designed, super-fast computers to break encrypted communications, including banking transactions, consumer e-commerce, corporate trade secrets, medical records, and other ostensibly confidential information.
	Now, I heard this.
	I'm like, hold on a second.
	Where are they taking this report?
	The documents also show the agency secretly persuaded or legally forced technology companies to provide it with the keys to their encryption programs.
	So here they're saying that they may have basically been in cahoots with companies.
	Now we kind of know that or have already suspected that.
	But now we have another one of these non-profits funded by dubious sources in my book who all of a sudden comes into this story.
	The British agency reported it had developed what it called access opportunities to Google's encrypted traffic.
	There are over 400 million users of Gmail.
	Other companies targeted by codebreakers include Yahoo, Facebook, and Microsoft's Hotmail.
	The documents collected by Snowden have been shared with the New York Times, the Guardian, and the non-profit news organization ProPublica.
	The revelations coincide with a new poll released by the Pew Research Organization.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	They coincided?
	I think not.
	Showing half of Americans are worried about the information available about them online.
	Ah, wait a minute.
	We're going to spin this a little differently, John.
	You feel what's coming?
	I'm just listening.
	It sounds good so far.
	Here is the Pew Research Center report that coincidentally came out with this revelation.
	Anonymity, privacy, and security online.
	Despite their precautions, 21% of online adults have had an email or social media account hijacked.
	And 11% have had vital information like social security numbers, bank account data, or credit cards stolen.
	And growing numbers worry about the amount of personal information about them that is available online.
	This report is not saying, hey, we want to be anonymous.
	No, no, no, no.
	This report, in fact, I will read to you what they are reporting.
	It's about keeping your information safe from hackers.
	This is part of the big cyber scam that the government has been trying to pull on us.
	And here's the...
	Right here, the top of this report.
	Hijack email, social media accounts, stolen information, social security numbers, credit card information.
	21% of internet users have had an email or social networking account compromised or taken over by someone else without permission.
	13% of internet users have experienced trouble in a relationship between them and a family member or a friend because of something the user posted online.
	12% of internet users have been stalked or harassed online.
	11% have had important information stolen.
	6% have been victim of an online scam or lost money.
	6% have their reputation damaged.
	4% have been led into physical danger.
	1% have lost a job opportunity or educational opportunity because of something someone had posted online.
	Now, if you go down into the report, users are trying to avoid the following, and it's beautiful right there at the top.
	Hackers or criminals...
	33%, the magic number.
	Advertisers, that's number two that we're trying to avoid online, 28%.
	How that fits into the security report is interesting.
	Yeah, what do you make of that?
	That's kind of interesting.
	Well, 19%, number three.
	You're not giving us enough money.
	Certain friends.
	19% for a shared place, 3 and 4, people from your past.
	It goes down to 70% for people who might criticize you.
	14% for family members or romantic partner.
	11% for an employer.
	And way down at the bottom, John, the bottom two, users are trying to avoid with a whopping 5% the government and a whopping 4% law enforcement.
	So, for all of you, those who...
	Oh, this is...
	Okay.
	I would give you a clip of the day, but there's no clip here.
	No.
	This is a...
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I think you're on to something here.
	Here it is.
	Page 15.
	Users...
	Oh, we don't care about the police.
	Snoopy.
	No.
	Users do not think current laws provide enough protections.
	Asked whether they think current privacy laws provide reasonable protections for people's privacy on their online activities.
	No.
	Which of course is all about hackers and losing your identity and advertisers, but not about the government, is 66%.
	24% said they'd provide reasonable protection.
	So what this is about is bringing in new laws to protect you, you see.
	We need to protect your privacy.
	Right, the various consumer protection, the Internet, and these sorts of things that have been promoted by the NSA. In fact, if you look at the House Committee on Intelligence Oversight, the one with Mike Rogers, right on that front page of that committee is a bunch of promotions for CISPA. Oh, of course.
	It's time to bring that back, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	So they want, you know, it's all part of a grand scheme to subjugate the public to government scrutiny on a 24-hour basis.
	And I think it'll probably go something like this.
	Well, look, you know, it was so easy, ultimately, for us.
	Just little old us, little old NSA you've barely heard of.
	Yeah, we were in a movie once, you know, like Enemy of the State, but that was years ago.
	It was pretty easy for us to crack everything.
	Don't you want us to protect you?
	So this can't be done by other rogue governments or hackers from China.
	Don't you want us to protect you?
	Hey, you know what's going to happen?
	Everyone's going to go, yo.
	Exactly.
	That's good.
	They are.
	Yeah, let's do that.
	Yeah, well, that's because we've dumbed down the public with bad education and everything for the last, what, 30 years, 40 years, 50 years, maybe, with just crap, you know, let's don't be competitive, let's hug each other, self-esteem, oh, you're going to hurt her feelings, all this stuff, and no education whatsoever, just a lot of feel-good stuff, and now this is the result of what you've got.
	You've got it public.
	And I think those numbers are probably right.
	I'm sure they're confirmable.
	5% and even less think that the police...
	Or any sort of a problem, despite that we've militarized the police completely.
	Most municipalities of any size have a non-necessary SWAT team.
	They have military gear.
	They look like the military.
	And nobody cares about that because they're worried about some hackers from China.
	And this is nonsense when all the hacking that takes place worldwide tends to be from us.
	We're the hackers.
	We're naturally hackers and the government's a hacker.
	And what's interesting, of course, is the coincidental release of this report.
	Now, let me tell you, it's not like the Pew Research Center went, oh, wow, gee, we just finalized this report, and we just happened to release it at this very moment.
	This is not how things get released into the wild.
	This is not how it works.
	This is a coordinated effort, which, to me, immediately diminishes any credibility Pew had.
	Oh, by the way, on Friday, Friday night, Ms.
	Mickey was out, and I was at home, and I watched by recommendation from one of our producers, the President's Analyst.
	Oh yeah, right.
	Was it a James Coburn movie?
	James Coburn, yeah.
	Okay, first of all, everybody, do not watch this movie.
	It will hurt you unless you are really into 1970s Americana, bad acting, bad quality, bad everything.
	But the premise of the movie, which I will spoil it for you right here, James Coburn is a psychiatrist.
	He becomes the president's psychiatrist because the president needs to unload from time to time.
	And this is 1969 or 70 when this movie was produced.
	They have the CIA and the FBI, except they call them the CEA and the FBR in the movie.
	They are at war with each other, and the FBR doesn't want the psychiatrists at all, and the CEA, they're the ones that really want the psychiatrists, and then the FBR wants to kill them, and then the CEA wants to kill them, and then of course there's all these spies, the Chinese, the Russians, the Indians, everyone's trying to get this guy to get the information out of his head.
	And it turns out that there really is one overarching agency that has all the information and has a bunch of bots running the whole outfit.
	And they have all the guns and they ultimately run the country.
	And that is the phone company.
	Yeah, I remember that now.
	It's hilarious.
	It is kind of funny when you see the movie.
	But you don't have to see the movie to understand the premise.
	And that it was kind of way ahead of its time.
	Makes so much sense.
	Yeah.
	Everyone's trying to run the country, let's face it.
	Phone companies got as good a shot at it as any they could.
	They may be calling the shots of the NSA for all we know.
	Not the other way around.
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	Maybe that's why they got the moats and stuff over at the headquarters, because they're a phone company.
	Anyway, okay.
	So, we got any more on this NSA thing?
	No, I think that's kind of it.
	Well, it does come back in my continuing analysis of Syria and the TTIP, but I wanted to save that for a second.
	And first, I wanted to congratulate you, John.
	Today is, of course, National Day of Prayer and Remembrance by Presidential Proclamation.
	And yesterday, I'm sorry we missed it, yesterday by Presidential Proclamation was National Grandparents' Day.
	Oh, that's nice.
	I didn't get a card.
	Actually, I'm sorry.
	It's today, September 8th.
	You didn't get a card.
	And our donations are down.
	So, I mean, what sense does this make?
	What good does it do?
	Not much.
	And also, I wanted to say hi to our producers in Australia who have a new prime minister.
	Yeah.
	Bad guy.
	Well, it should be interesting.
	This is Tony Abbott.
	He is of the Conservatives, the Conservatives Party, and I believe that Clive Palmer, the big mouth, I think he got a seat.
	Oh, that's good.
	Yeah, so...
	We should be able to get material from Australia on an occasional basis because of him.
	I think it'll kind of be like the Farage Down Under is what we're going to...
	Yeah, the Farage Down Under.
	So I'm excited about that.
	Good.
	And in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
	And in the morning to you, and in the morning to all the Aussies out there.
	And we hope that you will be sending us the Clive Palmer stuff.
	Also in the morning, too, the boots on the ground, feet in the air, and the subs in the water, the dames and knights out there.
	Yes, I also want to thank the artists.
	Let's see, who did our art for the previous episode?
	Thorin helped us out for episode 545.
	And we'll be choosing art from the No Agenda Art Generator, noagendaartgenerator.com, for 546 a little bit later on today.
	And we're going to request all of our artists do us a Christmas card donation.
	Art, which we're going to choose one from, and use it for a special purpose.
	Okay.
	To request the artist.
	But that's not, it won't be used for, do we have a special page for that?
	You know, here's what I'm thinking.
	You're just shooting off.
	I don't think we've produced this properly yet.
	No, no, I agree.
	I am just shooting off because I keep forgetting to talk to you about this project, which is Project X. You should have brought it up in the meeting.
	We're too busy trying to make mumble work.
	I just got to get this done in advance.
	If we can kill the project, I don't care.
	It has to be emailed in because it cannot be of the square format that we use on the art generator.
	The art generator just won't take it.
	So, I mean, it would be nice if the art generator had some more versatility, so we just put anything in there, but it's what it is, and that's what it's for.
	So, just throw it out there.
	Otherwise...
	I don't understand.
	Are people uploading this to the art generator or not?
	No, they can't, because the art generator...
	All right, all right.
	Let's do this.
	Hey, we didn't say anything about the Christmas album art, or Christmas art, or Christmas card art.
	We have no way to handle this yet.
	Just send it to me, johnatdivore.org.
	I love email.
	I love email.
	Good.
	And put in the subject line, CHRISTMAS ART in all caps.
	Yes, and if you send it to me, I will not open it.
	I will delete it.
	He will.
	In fact, he barely reads his email now.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Well, let's thank a few producers.
	We'll talk about this other project later.
	Could you do me a favor?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Let's shortlist today.
	Yeah, this is funny.
	Dame Cathy and Sir Greg Simonich gave us 546, the other West Chicago, and they have a note, which I left on the other desk.
	Hold on.
	Okay.
	We will hold one second.
	Well, John gets...
	I didn't...
	He has room for two desks.
	That's interesting by itself.
	All right.
	Anyway...
	Dame Cathy writes, as promised, we are donating by check, screw PayPal, and Visa.
	Shows have been great lately.
	Sir Greg and I are co-sponsoring Show 546 with this donation as we did with 513.
	We'll wait to get double knighthoods together and become baronet and baronetis.
	Is that right?
	Yeah.
	Thanks for all you do.
	Good climate gate karma is always welcome.
	Okay.
	I got some climate gate karma for you.
	Let me see.
	Here we go.
	To the gate, to the gate, to the climate gate.
	You've got karma.
	You've got karma.
	Alright, thank you so much, and together you will be the sole members of the 546 Club for episode 546 of the No Agenda Show.
	And coming in as an associate executive producer from Tigard, Oregon, Duke Sir Dwayne Melanson, Duke of the Mystery and the Pacific Northwest of some region, Oregon, sends a note.
	In the morning, gentlemen, I'll be mailing a special donation next week, but due to the light donations lately, I felt compelled to send this.
	It's a bag of deuces.
	It's a bag of deuces.
	2-2-2 dot 2-2.
	Call the deuce bags.
	Gotcha.
	That's interesting.
	That's a good one.
	I like that.
	A bag of deuces.
	Yes, a bag of deuces to urge all the deuce bags who aren't donating to pony up.
	And finally, Daniel Carta, who I don't have a note from, from 211.33 from Littleton, Oregon.
	He might be in the email.
	Let me take one quick look since we apparently have more than enough time to do this.
	I have a problem.
	I keep putting the keyboard on the floor.
	Well, I lean it up again.
	Are you on the Shays' Lounge again?
	You are, aren't you?
	No, I'm sitting in my regular chair.
	First donation, Daniel Carter writes in, first donation.
	I just sent in my first donation.
	I've...
	Not been listening long, but your show certainly seems like the best podcast in the universe.
	I'll try and get my knighthood by my birthday next July.
	Keep up the great work.
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	And, well, I guess the 211.33 is just magic numbers right there, so that makes sense.
	Yeah.
	And that will be our associate producers and executive producers for show 546.
	We do have 547 coming up.
	We hope to do a little bit better on the producership side.
	I think particularly when you see what we've been doing, what kind of analysis we have for you today.
	In the PR world, I do want to mention that Echolink Node 3373 is still open and available for all No Agenda hams.
	I check in there.
	It kind of died off when...
	Remember when we got exiled to Amsterdam for six weeks?
	And the whole thing just kind of collapsed.
	But I'm still on it and other people are still on it.
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	The No Agenda hams.
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	Two new entries in the Urban Dictionary attributed to the No Agenda show.
	It always takes a little while, but one of our Hushmail producers, which means he's extremely anonymous, has entered the Berkeley Hummer into the Urban Dictionary.
	Yes, I saw this.
	This is great.
	Berkeley Hummer, a person often of elitist persuasion, often women.
	God.
	Who maximizes the duration of words while minimizing the duration of spaces between words because A. The person wishes to prevent interruption during speech and or B. The person requires more time to create connecting sentences due to the influence of mind-altering chemicals such as marijuana.
	Okay.
	I like it.
	I think it's a good definition.
	It's pretty accurate.
	And then we also have another entry, Ummer.
	Which is a person who speaks at least 14 ums per minute, where uhs are equal to half an um, according to Dvorak's Hummer theory.
	That's not a theory, it's a fact.
	And this is now in the Urban Dictionary.
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	Dvorak.org slash N-A. And of course, we always appreciate when anyone goes out there and propagates the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	we go out we hit people in the mouth and i also do need to say in the morning to the chat room and the human resource is there and Oh, John, did you see that we had a little Red Book action going on yesterday?
	No.
	What?
	Yeah, I'm sure you must have seen this.
	Everyone was tweeting it.
	Vice President Joe Biden made it clear Friday how he feels about departing Homeland Security Secretary Jeanette Lucy Napolitano.
	I think Jeanette Napolitano should be on the Supreme Court of the United States.
	Yes, another no-agenda prediction come true.
	Well, I hate to point this out, but it is my no agenda prediction.
	Well, okay, you can take credit for the whole thing.
	Even though it's the discussions between the two of us that generate the...
	Yeah, I think that if you actually went back on this one, you kept saying, no, she's going to recruit spies at Berkeley.
	And I kept saying...
	She is going to do that.
	Yeah, okay.
	Alright, I won't take it all to myself.
	Oh, so in other words, you're claiming this is a single one-sided prediction because I said no.
	Well, yeah.
	Well, here's the deal.
	Just because Joe Biden says he wants her in there doesn't mean she's going to get in there, so I'll stick with that.
	She's not going to be the Supreme Court Justice.
	Okay.
	You're doubling down on the Red Book.
	Doubling down.
	She's going to be recruiting spies from Berkeley.
	That's what you do.
	Doubling down on the Red Book.
	Nice.
	Nice.
	On my side of the argument.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	So I've been...
	Do you want to talk about Syria?
	Yeah, I've got too many clips on Syria.
	We should get them out of the way.
	All right.
	Can I just...
	One thing right off the bat.
	Because this watermelon head, this guy is amazing.
	He is going all out.
	Did you see what he did, what Kerry did in France?
	Yeah.
	Thank you very much, Mr. Minister.
	It's really a pleasure.
	And I thank you very much for your honor.
	It's a great pleasure for me to be a member of the foreign affairs minister.
	Fabulous.
	First of all, Carrie's French is good.
	Yeah, it's a little flat, but it's better than mine.
	Yeah, and I'm impressed, and I think that this is all part of the John Kerry can beat Lucifer Clinton campaign.
	I really think he's going to go for it.
	I think he's going to try and stand up, and he's going to...
	Yes, look at...
	He's really trying...
	I'm putting that in the Red Book as a prediction by you.
	Yeah, please do.
	Well, I'm going to agree with you that he might try to run, but he definitely won't get nominated.
	Well, I mean, he's tried to go before.
	He got nominated before he lost.
	Let's just say that he's a part of the team that makes everything happen, and we get our trade agreement, and all of a sudden, the economy of America...
	Three years is tight, three and a half years tight, but you could actually have some real recovery if we don't have the October crash.
	And he could get credited for it.
	He's not going to get credited for anything.
	So there's this writer named Bacevich or something.
	He wrote a book called...
	There's a number of books.
	He's out of West Point.
	He's in the military.
	Lots of experience as an analyst.
	I don't know exactly where he sits in the scheme of things.
	I'm thinking CIA because he's attacking the administration in a certain kind of normal way.
	His book is Breach of Trust...
	This is a very interesting interview, and I have a few clips of him, and it kind of leads into my serious stuff.
	He was on the Moyers show, but Moyers wouldn't interview him.
	Moyers was supposedly on vacation, and Phil Donahue...
	Really?
	Filled in, and to me, it was because this guy is so anti-Obama and Obama policies, and just, I don't think Moyers, Bill Moyers, who's an Obama bot to the max, I don't think he could do it.
	He didn't want to deal with it, right.
	I think he didn't want to deal with the reality of it.
	But I have three or four clips, actually, from this guy.
	They're all very interesting.
	He's a very entertaining talker.
	But let's start, since you mentioned Kerry, with his commentary on Kerry.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	I have to say I'm just struck by the fact that Secretary of State Kerry has become the leading proponent for war.
	That's our Secretary of State's job.
	He threw his medals back.
	Well, that's why it's doubly ironic that the Secretary of State is the war promoter and that our Secretary of State happens to be a guy who came into politics basically advertising himself as the guy who, because of his...
	Vietnam experiences, understands war, understands the lessons of Vietnam, and is therefore going to prevent us from doing dumb things.
	On the contrary, he's the lead cheerleader to go do another dumb thing.
	Before you move on with Babish, I just have to play this one.
	Did you hear what he said yesterday, Kerry?
	No.
	He just made a comparison, which I just have to play for you.
	For nearly 100 years.
	So this is our Munich moment.
	This is disgusting.
	So when he says this is our Munich moment, and this, by the way, is exactly the same thing, except they played it a little differently in Libya.
	I didn't have enough time to...
	It's very hard now on the search engines to find anything with the name Obama or anybody in it before yesterday.
	There's too much flash.
	It's way too much.
	When he says the Munich moment, he is referring to the 1938 Munich Pact.
	And this is the famous pact where Nazi Germany, under the auspices of Neville Chamberlain, under the so-called appeasement, I took over the border areas of Czechoslovakia, and of course, this was the start, the historians will say, this was really the start of the Nazi occupation of Europe, and that this is our Munich moment.
	In other words, we cannot be Neville Chamberlains, and this is a direct slam, of course, to Cameron.
	For not being able to join in the warmongering.
	And he is hereby also equating Assad to Hitler.
	The thing that bothers me, though, is that exactly, if you'll recall, and of course it was several years ago, when all this bullcrap was going on about Libya, the same thing.
	Remember there was even arguments?
	Someone was saying, well, you sound like Neville Chamberlain and the appeasement policy.
	Do you remember that, John?
	No.
	I vaguely remember that, but it didn't stick with me.
	I went looking through the clips, because I only heard this this morning.
	I'll be able to find it, and it was Obama, I think, who was talking about appeasement.
	But for Kerry to be talking like this, that's some pretty big balls that he's waggling around now.
	Yeah, for appeasenic.
	Yeah.
	So we start with the Bechevich discusses bombing.
	It's the Bechevich on bombing Syria.
	This is how he began his little discussion with Phil Donahue.
	Okay.
	Well, I mean, if I could have five minutes of the President's time, I'd say, Mr.
	President, the issue really is not Syria.
	I mean, you're being told that it's Syria.
	You're being told you have to do something about Syria, that you have to make a decision about Syria, that somehow your credibility is on the line.
	I'd say, Mr.
	President, that's not true.
	The issue really here is whether or not an effort over the course of several decades...
	Dating back to the promulgation of the Carter Doctrine in 1980, an effort that extends over several decades to employ American power, military power, overt, covert, military power exercised through proxies, an effort to use military power to somehow stabilize or fix or liberate or transform the greater Middle East hasn't worked.
	I mean, if you think back to 1980 and just sort of tick off the number of military enterprises that we have been engaged in that part of the world, large and small, you know, Beirut, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, and on and on.
	Are we awesome or what?
	And ask yourself, what have we got done?
	What have we achieved?
	Is the region becoming more stable?
	Is it becoming more democratic?
	Are we enhancing America's standing in the eyes of the people of the Islamic world?
	The answers are no, no, and no.
	So why, Mr.
	President?
	Do you think that initiating yet another war, because if we bomb Syria it's a war, why do you think that initiating yet another war in this protracted enterprise is going to produce a different outcome?
	Wouldn't it be perhaps wise to ask ourselves if this militarized approach to the region may be as a fool's errand?
	Well, he's not really getting into it.
	I'm not that impressed with what he said there.
	I like this first quote, but this is like, meh.
	Well, I'll tell you this.
	It plays into my thesis, which is that all we want to do is mess up the place.
	Now, hold on.
	You're on board with my thesis.
	No, I think your thesis is correct, too, but I think the basic thing, and your thesis came after we've been messing up the place a long time longer than this little thing that you've come up with.
	Yes, I'll agree that I think it is to the strategy's advantage if everything in Northern Africa and the Middle East is just a mess.
	It's even better if it's just a mess.
	I think we began that before.
	I'm all on board with your thesis, which you might want to reiterate, but essentially is that it's about...
	I've got a whole bunch.
	We'll talk about that in a minute.
	Before we go on with any more of this guy...
	He did mention that the attitudes that are getting more and more common in the Middle East.
	Let me play a couple of off-the-wall clips.
	The one I'm going to explain is the real rationale for the delayed bombing.
	This is a fighter from the opposition, and apparently, and you know as well as I do, the Middle Easterners love to argue about things, and they love to come up with these damn interesting theories.
	And apparently now the opposition believes that We threatened to bomb Syria, but didn't do it, so Syria could get their ducks in a row, and it was all part of a great scheme of the evil United States.
	Oh, good!
	The international community knows the regime is weak, and military action will give the rebels the chance to enter Damascus and take over strategic locations.
	That is why they delayed the strike so Assad can prepare the army to absorb the hits.
	Yes, I do it!
	Oh, I see.
	Yeah, well, you know what?
	I'll even buy that one.
	So we delayed it so they could get ready so it could be more of a match.
	We could volley back and forth a little better.
	Yeah, oh no, it wouldn't even surprise me, John.
	This whole thing is one big, massive theater.
	It's great.
	So, they started the new PBS weekend, the news hour on the weekend.
	Okay, here's the first irony.
	The news hour is a half hour.
	I was just about to say, yeah.
	Yeah, of course.
	Just for an intro, let's play the opening of that and get it out of the way.
	And so we can hear how it starts.
	And there was two things that caught my eye in the opening, besides all the new-sounding foundations and individuals who are supporting this thing.
	They listed and named a bunch of them.
	Then they showed a bunch of them and didn't name them.
	They got the same music.
	Hello, everybody!
	Welcome!
	On this edition, aid officials prepare for a new flood of refugees from Syria.
	In our signature segment, Israel's huge energy discovery.
	How will it change life there and throughout the region?
	That's the equivalent of taking all the cars in Israel off the road for over a year.
	So it's a big thing.
	And why were Seattle police handing out bags of Doritos?
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	So who was on the screen but not mentioned?
	Just a bunch of people I've never heard of.
	But it is obviously they have a fee schedule.
	So you get your name mentioned if you give this much.
	If you don't give that much, you get this other list of names that we don't, and we refuse to mention your name.
	They could have said something, but they didn't.
	Do they have black and white logos and color logos as a difference?
	No, no, no.
	So they could do that, though.
	So anyway, on the show, the show's got the same...
	I don't see it as that much difference, except it's all features.
	Right.
	There's no real news.
	But going back to the guy, the rebel saying the United States is a bunch of corrupt bastards who are not bombing, and then everyone's being bent out of shape about one thing or another, and the United Nations is everywhere else...
	This is the most interesting little tidbit I got is Margaret Warner in Egypt.
	She's been in Egypt for a while.
	They've shipped her off.
	And she reports on the anti-American sentiment.
	Apparently, this Obama is the great leader that's going to bring us all together.
	Just listen to this report.
	...the United States.
	Would they support it?
	Hari, I have talked to dozens of Egyptians in this past week.
	I have not met one, not one, who supports the idea of a strike against Syria despite their compassion for the people who were gassed in the chemical weapons attack.
	They all talk about Iraq, the fact that U.S. intelligence was faulty, and the fact that Iraq now has descended back into sectarian strife and, in fact, is exporting jihadi terrorists to Syria, and some they fear to Egypt.
	The other thing, Hari, is that this is exacerbated here by the strongest strain of anti-Americanism I have ever felt.
	The pro-military ouster of Morsi camp feels strongly that we, that is, the Obama administration, coddled President Morsi as he became more and more autocratic.
	Morsi supporters, Muslim Brotherhood supporters, went to a rally yesterday, angrily say to me, why won't your president call what happened a coup?
	And so it's coming from both sides, and that has definitely made itself felt on us.
	We've been thrown out of restaurants.
	We've had people refuse to be interviewed because we're Americans.
	We've had our local producer called a traitor to Egypt for working with us.
	So there is not much of a feeling of connection right now between average Egyptians and really anything the Americans do.
	Okay.
	Anti-Americanism.
	Thrown out of restaurants, condemned.
	But what I like, again, it's like the guy in Syria, both sides blame us.
	So we can't get on either one of the sides because the anti-Morsi military guys say that we coddle...
	It's our fault.
	And then the Marcy guys say, you won't call the military coup a coup, which we won't.
	And so they blame us.
	It's just that this is the worst kind of...
	Our foreign policy has got to be a massive disaster.
	Either that or it's all part of a scheme that just doesn't make any difference.
	It doesn't matter one way or the other.
	Yeah, we really don't care if Margaret Warner gets thrown out of arrest.
	No, I don't think we care.
	I don't think anything matters.
	As long as Egypt is just a mess.
	I think that's the win, John.
	That is the win.
	We need to keep the canal open, the Suez Canal.
	We'll keep sending them money so we've got it all in place there.
	And otherwise, just keep it a mess.
	It is the best strategy.
	We know what we need to do.
	I say we, the royal we.
	The royal we.
	Let me get into this.
	Do you want to do part two of Margaret?
	No.
	No, we don't need this part two of Marvel, which is good though, but we do have to, there's a couple of clips in here I still want to get back to, but go on.
	I think you'll have stuff that'll fit in.
	Okay.
	Now, because I've done a lot of work on this TTIP, the so-called Transatlantic Foreign Trade Agreement.
	We also have one, by the way, that we're working on with Asia.
	And it's very interesting.
	I've gotten a lot of people say, hey, it's very funny to see that we're reading stuff about the Panama Canal.
	The Panama Canal has to be widened.
	Do you know why it has to be widened, John?
	Yeah, for the Chinese ships, I believe, or something.
	No, no.
	It's for the liquid natural gas ships.
	Oh, right, right, right, right.
	It's for our liquid natural gas.
	I didn't make that change.
	But I can see with your thesis that that would make sense.
	Well, of course, now that I have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
	But I'm actually...
	Of course, that's the other reason for probably the eventual use of the Keystone Pipeline, which goes...
	To send it back, to send it other places.
	Yeah, and it comes out of Texas, so you don't...
	Go to the canal at all.
	You just go outside of Galveston and you're on your way to Europe.
	Yeah, these tankers are huge.
	They're massive.
	Yeah, and they literally do not fit through the Panama Canal.
	And people are emailing me stuff in Brazilian, Portuguese.
	Saying, oh wow, look what I read.
	Now that I heard the thesis about this, it makes so much sense.
	They're trying to widen the Panama Canal for LNG tankers so we can get the stuff over to Japan.
	And all of this fits together.
	Because who just got the 2020 Olympics?
	Tokyo.
	Guess what you need when you have Olympics?
	You need a lot of power.
	You're going to be building stuff.
	You need a lot of energy to do this.
	And the choices were Turkey, Istanbul, and was it Mexico?
	No.
	I think we promoted Chicago on this.
	No, no, no.
	That was the previous one.
	No, no, no.
	No, but anyway, Tokyo was just awarded the 2020 Olympics.
	And of course, that's exactly who you want them to have it.
	So by then, we'll definitely be shipping them our natural gas.
	Well, I'll tell you this.
	The Japanese are going to be sorry.
	Like the Greeks, you mean?
	Well, I had a clip on the last show we never used, but some discussion about these Olympics and what they cost.
	Do you know what it cost the Greeks?
	They lost money on their Olympics, as most Olympics do.
	I think it was $10 or $15 billion or some crazy number like that.
	It was a lot of money on a per capita basis, per household.
	It cost the Greeks $60,000 a household.
	Spain was the other country that was up.
	Madrid was up.
	We can't have that.
	Yeah, $60,000 per household.
	It tanked Greece.
	It was part of the tanking of Greece.
	Yeah, so let's tank Greece by giving them their Olympics back.
	Right.
	Anyway, so it made sense to me when they said, oh, Tokyo, you can have that.
	Great.
	You'll be using our natural gas.
	We're going to tank Japan.
	Perfect.
	Perfect.
	So now we have two things going on.
	One, I have gotten really deep into the TTIP, as it's known, TTIP, the Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership, and that is what you have to be looking for, TTIP. If you want to find something at the European Union websites, good luck.
	There are so many websites.
	And then you have, like, the EPP group is where I actually found a lot.
	They're the People's Party.
	They're the biggest party in the EU. And they have their own television network.
	And everyone's got their own thing going on.
	It is impossible to find anything.
	However, if you go to Twitter, and this is like, guh, what a revelation, and you do hashtag TTIP, This is where I discovered that the G20 was not the meeting.
	It was the Vilnius meeting in Lithuania.
	Everybody was there!
	So Obama's running cover at the G20, talking...
	I mean, the guy is so off the radar.
	Here's an example of it.
	These kinds of interventions, these kinds of actions, are always unpopular.
	Because they seem distant and removed.
	And I want to make sure I'm being clear.
	I'm not drawing an analogy.
	I'm not drawing an analogy.
	To World War II. I'm not drawing an analogy to World War II. Other than to say, when London was getting bombed, it was profoundly unpopular.
	Wait, isn't he drawing an analogy?
	Both in Congress and around the country to help the British.
	So he is completely out of his league, and he knows what he's doing.
	He knows all he has to do is just get through this, because Kerry was in Vilnius.
	So we've got the watermelon head there.
	We've got the no-chin monster, Baroness Van Ashton.
	She's there.
	And if you look, if you go to Twitter and just in the search box type in hashtag TTIP, All the elites are like, hashtag TTIP. Can't wait to meet Kerry.
	Gonna have a good lunch with him.
	Hashtag TTIP. Yeah, no, I'm looking at it now.
	It's pretty global.
	This is where, yeah, but this is where the meeting really was.
	Why?
	I have the timeline now.
	So here is the timeline.
	And this kind of fits into Snowden stuff as well, which is creepy.
	And again, I have a hammer now with this.
	And just to revisit, the thinking here is that keeping North Africa, the Middle East in shambles, threatening with Syria is all a tactic.
	To get the free trade agreement between America and the European Union so we can start shipping all of our gas over, which will essentially save the world economy.
	That is the thinking.
	So they had their first round in June, and the second round is in October, and that's when it has to be finalized.
	This explains exactly why everyone's in such a hurry, because we have new elections for the EU coming up in May.
	So if we don't get it done in October, then it won't happen.
	Because then, you know, it'll go through Christmas and everything, and then everyone's ramping up, and everyone's in the middle of elections, and it could be a whole new bunch of people sitting at the table, and that will ruin it.
	So the idea is, get it done in October, then you have the elections in May, then we have to get it ratified before the midterm elections in November, otherwise it can get screwed up on our side.
	So this thing has got to move.
	It's really got to go.
	Now, what's interesting about this timeline?
	What happened around June, July?
	Around June, July, everything, and this is the first round of the TTIP talks, the talks were in jeopardy.
	The reason was, all of a sudden, Snowden was in Russia, and word comes out that the Americans were spying on the Germans, on the Brits, and everyone in Europe went, oh, really?
	You want to be our transatlantic partners?
	We've got to stop spying on us.
	So I'm thinking that was a plant, that was propaganda from the Russian side to screw up the negotiations.
	And it really starts to make sense when you look at everything like this.
	Now...
	No, people out there should pay careful attention to this thesis, because when you start watching the news, it all fits into this thesis.
	There's nothing that has shown up yet that would contradict any of this conceptually.
	Well, make it even better, Elmar Brock, who is the German Europarlementarier for, I want to say he's, I'm not sure exactly what he is, but he denounced, I denounced Russia.
	He said, I denounced the use by Russia of trade and energy sanctions for political purposes against its neighbors and their sovereign decisions, particularly regarding Syria.
	In other words, the Russians have already said, as predicted, hey, if you guys are going to go in on Syria, which the EU has now said they're waiting until the report which comes out in, oh gee, October, how convenient, just when the second round of talks is supposed to start.
	Putin is already saying, you know, I might start to, you know, raise the prices a little or cut off a little bit of gas, you know, make it a little complicated for you.
	Here is Pia Hansen of the European Commission.
	And this really freaked me out when I heard the phrase she used here because it's like this is where everything starts to really fall together.
	Short clip of her being interviewed.
	Is the Commission worried that with groups and lobbyists already saying take this off the table or take this chapter out of it, it's going to stall the negotiations before they get started or at least put a sort of a spanner in the works?
	I think it's important to maintain the ambition but also to be very clear that we have some red lines which are never going to be touched on safety, on cultural diversity, and that's very clear.
	I just found it interesting that red lines is now used in these negotiations as well.
	Before, I think, the President used his red line.
	It's code for something.
	Well, yeah, it's code for we're in negotiation.
	That's what it seems like code to me.
	Well, you've got to remember Obama did that almost two years ago.
	Oh, yeah, no, I know.
	It's at least a year ago.
	Yes, but this is just a couple weeks ago.
	But really before the whole thing came back again.
	So all of this was going down in Vilnius.
	October is when the second round of talks take place.
	This has to get done right now.
	We are not going to do anything with Syria until October.
	The EU has said, nope, we're going to wait for the weapons inspectors report, which apparently they need to compile all of this into a report, and it won't be done until October, very convenient.
	And we're just going to be spinning our wheels, which is great, because it covers up all kinds of other crap that's going on.
	There's going to be debates.
	Nothing's going to happen.
	You can put it in the book, but nothing is going to happen.
	And they're doing stupid stuff like this as Feinstein, one of the leaders of this charade, gave us some inside information as to what we're doing now to convince everybody.
	I had asked the CIA to prepare a DVD which would have specific instances of evidence, largely victims, and what we see means, what pinpointed eyes mean, what the convulsions mean, a number of aspects.
	And we received that this morning.
	And it's horrendous.
	That was quick.
	So we're having that DVD multiplied.
	And we're going to get it out to every member of the Senate.
	And possibly members of the House.
	So that they can, at their leisure, go through.
	At their leisure.
	At home, on the couch.
	Just zip things.
	So these are 15 different videos.
	And of course they were leaked immediately.
	Jake Tapper had them on CNN. Now, a couple of things I need to point out about this.
	Now, this is supposed to be sarin gas, and these are all videos that not a single news organization will verify, because we've seen all of them.
	We have no idea where they were shot.
	The science, if I can just say...
	The science doesn't even work out.
	And this may be really people who are dead.
	They may really have been poisoned with something.
	But sarin gas, okay?
	First of all, apparently this magic sarin gas doesn't kill any women because there's no women in any of these videos.
	Zero.
	Not a single woman.
	It's all dudes and children.
	And apparently this is not the sarin gas that can linger and stay in someone's clothes and kill you if you come in contact with it up to 30 minutes afterwards.
	This is not the sarin gas that usually kills people within a few minutes.
	Now apparently they still have time to be dragged into the hospital.
	These videos are certainly inconclusive at best.
	And this is what they're peddling?
	No, no.
	And it's on cable news the same day that she has been multiplying the DVDs for Congress to look at their leisure at home?
	Are you kidding me?
	This is psyops on the American people.
	Which is also illegal, I should add.
	No, that's not true.
	Remember, they just passed the law.
	They passed the law saying you can do this.
	You can do this.
	No, this is legal.
	You can screw with the public.
	Well, they think they were the enemy.
	Why not?
	So, let's go over some logic here.
	So, there's a logic that we have to deal with.
	Okay.
	And just tell me if you think this is possible.
	All right.
	So you've got, you're in an area and you're one of these, we saw there's a couple of videos out there of these guys saying, hey, okay, okay, cue the gunfire.
	Well, that was Siri and Danny and that was like two years ago.
	Right, we already know that guy was a fraud.
	But let's just say, you've got a bunch of kids running around, they'd like to have fun.
	Okay, Billy, I'll tell you, I'll give you a hundred dinars if you do the following.
	First, you're really good at, remember that trick you do with the snot coming out of your nose?
	Yeah, okay, yeah.
	Can you lay on your back, and we're going to film this, lay on your back and make the snot come out, and then wiggle around a lot like you're just dancing or going crazy.
	Just do that.
	Ready?
	Okay, three, two, one, go!
	Oh, there's one.
	That's a good one.
	Just do it again.
	Let's get a safety.
	Let's get a safety.
	There's no reason that the kid wouldn't do that.
	Well, I mean, look, I would take it further.
	There's no reason these people have not been killed with cyanide or, you know, first of all, I'm not counting 1,400 people or 400 children in these videos.
	By the way, I think the observation that there's no women because they're beneath contempt in this particular, I suppose, Radical Muslim community, the radicals, they wouldn't have the women in there.
	So there's no...
	It just won't do it.
	And so there's no women.
	Okay, good work.
	Yeah, there's no women in there.
	Explain that.
	But regardless, regardless, what difference does a few hundred people make?
	If you're an a-hole elite and you're going for saving the world, which, believe me, President Obama believes he's capable of that.
	I mean, and I think that his handlers also are like, we have to save the world.
	Kerry believes it.
	He's turned from a pacifist anti-war beatnik into the guy who's saying, you know, this is Hitler and this is 1938 all over again.
	But these people really believe what they're doing, John.
	They really believe it.
	And it may be for financial gain, you know, in some way for all of them, but there's some real dedication here.
	Well, talking about the hippie that is like on the other side of the argument nowadays...
	There's this report that came out.
	I think this was on Al Jazeera.
	The international news...
	Well, one of the international news sites.
	This is international news with Samantha.
	Samantha Powers has had to...
	She is, if anybody, is a Berkeley Hummer...
	You know, pacifist, her and her husband.
	Listen to her.
	It was left to the US ambassador to the UN of all people to make it clear that on the subject of possible action in Syria, the US now believes the UN is irrelevant.
	Not only that, that the diplomatic track is closed.
	Ambassador Samantha Power said that if they get the congressional vote, military action is the only option.
	For more than a year, we have pursued countless policy tools short of military force to try to dissuade Assad from using chemical weapons.
	We have engaged the Syrians directly, and at our request, the Russians, the UN, and the Iranians sent similar messages.
	But when scuds and other horrific weapons didn't quell the Syrian rebellion, Assad began using chemical weapons on a small scale multiple times, as the United States concluded in June.
	Very different views, of course, coming from senior UN officials.
	The UN and Arab League envoy on Syria, Lagdar Brahimi, went all the way to the G20 to lobby world leaders to stress that his view is that the only solution is a political solution.
	He was asked about the international legality of US military action.
	I think the Secretary General or myself, we don't express personal opinion.
	We say what international law says.
	And international law says that no country is allowed to take the law into their hands.
	They have to go through the Security Council.
	Oh, please.
	Security Council Schmousel.
	It's a fact.
	We signed on to that.
	We signed the document that puts us as a treaty.
	Nah, but please.
	We have to abide by it, and why aren't we?
	Why?
	Because we're going to save the world, John.
	Yeah, but we're not going to bomb anyway.
	I think this whole thing is a scam.
	But this is exactly the same principle that Clinton used with Kosovo.
	This is why we had the Kosovo precedent, which is also couldn't get a UN Security Council resolution, so we just go around and use the NATO side of it, you know, the war side.
	Yeah, but we haven't even done that much.
	Well, patience.
	We're traveling around a lot.
	Everyone's busy.
	We have done something to strike back at Putin.
	We've given...
	Yeah, we have.
	This is all part of the FUSA, F Russia.
	Today, three waivers of restriction of assistance came out for Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan.
	This is Section 7031B3 waiver.
	The Secretary of State may waive the limitation on funding...
	On a country-by-country basis, based upon a waiver, if it is important to the national interest of the United States.
	So if you go and take a look at Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, that's a big FU to Putin, saying, oh, by the way, we're going to fund these guys with anything they need.
	It would be like the Russians funding Arizona.
	You know, they can have Arizona, for all I'm concerned.
	Take it.
	If it will end this facade...
	Jeez, did you...
	It's getting so annoying when it's just get on with it already.
	And it's not going to happen.
	It's going to be...
	And it makes so much sense.
	It's covering up everything.
	Now, unless, of course, we...
	People will get tired.
	I don't think they can take this all the way through to October.
	But we get douchebags like Sheila Jackson Lee...
	Who get airtime.
	She is our representative from Texas.
	A disgrace.
	And I will be voting her out of office.
	I mean, I'll do my best in just one vote.
	But I will try to vote her out.
	She is...
	She's a congresswoman.
	She's not in your district.
	Yes, she is.
	Houston.
	The redistricting of Austin.
	We don't have a representative in Austin anymore.
	So who do you vote for?
	This is her.
	No!
	Yes!
	Yes, we have...
	But wait a minute.
	I'm telling you...
	Are you telling me the smartest people in Texas generally are either the rich folks in Fort Worth or all the left-wing Obama bots, but the intellectual college grads in Austin, because that's what the University of Texas is.
	You're telling me that all these people with all this brain power vote that idiot in over and over?
	I'm not sure when the redistricting went into place because I've only been here for a year and a half.
	But here we go.
	Austin, who represents me?
	Districts by city.
	Literally, we do not send anyone to Washington anymore.
	Austin, which is the oasis.
	The oasis of blue.
	Let me see.
	Who do I have here?
	She's blue.
	Yeah, no, she's blue, all right.
	Let me see.
	I should look at my zip code.
	This is, I think, the Republicans who did this to you, which is funny.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, no, of course they did.
	Well, listen to what she said, and we deserve her.
	Decision will be based upon the...
	Not the issue of credibility.
	And I wish we'd not hold that standard up.
	I think America has shown itself to be credible.
	Our president has shown himself to be credible.
	And I'm saddened that our memory fails us and that this is a president that captured Osama Bin Laden.
	Oh, really?
	Oh, really?
	Captured Osama Bin Laden or killed him and dumped him in the ocean before we could see it?
	And we're still not allowed to see the pictures?
	Seriously?
	Wow.
	Yeah, I know.
	Maybe she knows.
	Is she on one of those intelligence committees?
	I think she might be.
	Yeah, I think she is.
	Yeah, you're right.
	Maybe that was a slip.
	That's very possible.
	Very possible.
	Anyway, maybe just good here to wrap up my part of the segment with the President's plea to the American people, which of course falls on deaf ears and blind eyes, because it's part of his YouTube show that he does every single weekend, which about 335 people watch, including me.
	And that's about it.
	It will get clipped by some news organizations.
	It is so good, John, we just have to comment on all two minutes of it.
	And of course, when he's really serious, he does not start off with a hile, everybody.
	were murdered in the worst chemical weapons attack of the 21st century.
	Really?
	And the United States has presented a powerful case to the world that the Syrian government was responsible for this horrific attack on its own people.
	This was not only a direct attack on human dignity.
	It's a serious threat to our national security.
	There's a reason governments representing 98% of the world's people have agreed to ban the use of chemicals.
	I'm so done with these percentages.
	Who are those 2%?
	I'd like to know, because we need to out them.
	There's 2% somewhere who think it's good.
	Chemical weapons.
	Not only because they cause death and destruction in the most indiscriminate and inhumane way possible, but because they can also fall into the hands of terrorist groups who wish to do us harm.
	Which, of course, really isn't the problem with chemical weapons.
	The reason you don't use chemical weapons is because you shoot that stuff and the wind blows and it can come back at you.
	It's very ineffective.
	This is not a great weapon.
	Let me stop the thing for a second.
	Also, I want to mention, 25 years ago, with the help of our intelligence community, the Halabja gas attack, where the Iraqis killed a bunch of Kurds using gas with...
	Expert help.
	It was always believed that we sold them the gas.
	From us.
	Yeah, from us.
	No, this is, everyone's, well, the internet's bubbling about this.
	Yeah, sure.
	And, but I just want to throw the number out, since, you know, these guys like to throw numbers around.
	So that was the worst, according to Obama.
	This attack killed an estimated 5,000.
	Oh.
	Which tops the Obama numbers.
	So this should be number two with a bullet.
	Right.
	It's not even number two, I bet, if you really look into it.
	It's down on the list.
	Well, he said worst of the 21st century.
	So, you know, he's very slick.
	Did he sleep in 21st?
	I thought he said the...
	No, he said 21st.
	He's always got some out.
	Yeah, he's slick.
	He's slick.
	Well, you know, here comes this other big one that I have a problem with.
	That's why last weekend I announced that as Commander-in-Chief, I decided that the United States should take military action against the Syrian regime.
	By the way, he's saying it here.
	Just so you know, he's saying the United States should take action.
	It doesn't matter what Congress says.
	This is not a decision I made lightly.
	Deciding to use military force is the most solemn decision we can make as a nation.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah.
	And here it comes.
	I know that the American people are weary after a decade of war, even as the war in Iraq has ended and the war in Afghanistan is winding down.
	That's why we're not putting our troops in the middle of somebody else's war.
	But we are the United States of America.
	We cannot turn a blind eye to images like the ones we've seen out of Syria.
	Failing to respond to this outrageous attack would increase the risk that chemical weapons could be used again, that they would fall into the hands of terrorists who might use them against us, and it would send a horrible signal to other nations that there would be no consequences for their use of these weapons, all of which would pose a serious threat to our national security.
	That's why we can't ignore chemical weapons attacks like this one, even if they happen halfway around the world.
	And that's why I call on members of Congress, from both parties, to come together and stand up for the kind of world we want to live in.
	The kind of world we want to leave our children and future generations.
	That's very unfortunate, but for some reason, the piece...
	Didn't he either give this entire speech before or he ran another clip that was very similar?
	Yeah, well, the thing...
	The same...
	Yes, the thing that I'm...
	Points.
	The thing that I'm bummed about is it kind of...
	It kicked in the middle there because what he said is, as the world's oldest constitutional democracy, somehow that...
	Which we talked about on the last show.
	Yeah, so he's doing that again.
	Because before that, we mentioned Iceland's the world's largest, oldest democracy, but constitutional is a weasel word, he put in, to make us different.
	He might as well say, we're the oldest democracy in the entire universe based in Washington, D.C. Yes, on the east coast of America.
	Well, so of course this is the Obama...
	I'm just going to call them the O-Twins now.
	This is the Obama that is the war Obama who goes out and sells anything he is told to you.
	Wind him up and he goes.
	The Syrian ambassador actually is on to your theory about this.
	...on purpose, whether they are Republicans or Democrats.
	I mean, here I am referring to the hardliners in the Congress and the Senate.
	They want Obama to have his hands, to have blood on his hands, the way George Bush had it in Iraq.
	Barack Obama put an end to the American military presence in Iraq.
	Barack Obama promised to withdraw from Afghanistan.
	Barack Obama got the Nobel Prize laureate.
	Barack Obama went to Cairo to address the Arab and the Islamic war, and he said there that there will be no more wars.
	Where is this Barack Obama?
	Yes, that's a very good question.
	I think he is in the fridge.
	He's in the fridge in the basement.
	Now, one of our producers sent me an email.
	He also tweeted about it because we noticed that the president in his speech in Russia said aberrant instead of abhorrent.
	And we've noticed this H problem.
	And I went back into the archives.
	Let me just refresh your memory.
	This is the president.
	For some weird reason, this word does not exist.
	I don't know why he doesn't say abhorrent instead of...
	He says aberrant.
	It is just...
	You never learn this word.
	This is very similar to Stewie Griffin's little speech anomaly.
	And people who watch The Family Guy will crack up at that comment.
	Go on.
	First of all, I didn't set a red line.
	The world set a red line.
	The world set a red line when governments representing 98 percent of the world's population The use of chemical weapons are abhorrent and passed a treaty.
	Abhorrent.
	Abhorrent.
	Yeah, not aberrant.
	Abhorrent.
	Abhorrent.
	So this Obama says abhorrent because he can't say, he should be saying abhorrent.
	He can't say the H. Now listen to the other Obama, much friendlier, and his programming overemphasizes the H....balanced way by making necessary reforms and asking every American to pay their fair share.
	I'm honored and humbled.
	Honored and humbled.
	Honored.
	I love that one.
	That's the Stuart Griffin one.
	But I'm telling you, these are the two guys right here.
	And the programming in the chip, one of them says can't do the H and the other one overemphasizes.
	That's how you can tell them apart.
	Well, we need to get more clips to prove this point.
	These two aren't going to do it.
	No, but it's a start.
	It's a start.
	Yeah, we'll start listening for it at least.
	Yeah.
	And our listeners out there and producers will catch these for us, I think, on occasion.
	I do have to...
	We skipped one of the clips before on a show where one of the...
	Some guy at Brookings or someplace else, he was talking and yakking about something, and he went into your similar conceptual issue that you have with gas.
	Right.
	Actually, I just want to say, in the show notes, I have a Brookings Institute report from 2012 about this very thing.
	And this Bacevich guy, he's also on your page, and I think we should find this.
	It's one of the last two clips.
	I believe it's the Bacevich answers Phil Donahue, and you'll have a different opinion of the guy when you hear his basic argument, which is your argument.
	President Obama would say to you, these are children being...
	Being grossly and painfully killed.
	How can you watch these videos with the foam coming out of the nostrils and we've got to do something?
	Well, the attack is a heinous act.
	Now, does the fact that they were killed with chemicals make it more heinous than if they were killed with conventional munitions?
	I'm not persuaded.
	I mean, I think one of the issues here, to the extent that moral considerations drive U.S. policy, and I would say, as a practical matter, they don't, but...
	Let's pretend that they do.
	To the extent that moral considerations drive U.S. policy, there's a couple of questions to ask.
	One would be, why here and not someplace else?
	I mean, just weeks earlier, the Egyptian army killed many hundreds of innocent Egyptians.
	And we sort of shook our finger at Egypt a little bit, but didn't do anything.
	So why act in Syria?
	Why not act in Egypt?
	I think that needs to be sort of, that needs to be clarified.
	And the other question would be, well, if our concerns are humanitarian, why is waging war the best means to advance a humanitarian agenda?
	If indeed U.S. policy is informed by concern for the people of Syria, Let's just pretend that's the case, even though I don't think it is.
	If it's informed by concern for the people of Syria, why is peppering Damascus with cruise missiles the best way to demonstrate that concern?
	It's fun!
	I mean, a little bit of creative statesmanship, it seems to me, might say that there are other things we could do to actually benefit.
	I like it, I like it, I like it.
	Suffering greatly.
	Who are fleeing their country into hundreds of thousands.
	Who are living in wretched refugee camps.
	Why don't we do something about that?
	Because it's far better for ratings.
	Does he really need to know this?
	Blow things up.
	Yeah, it's good for ratings.
	Hello!
	Skip right to this clip on the refugee camps that was exposed on PBS, but go to the clip that says refugee report in French hospital, and there's a little tidbit in here that I didn't know.
	All along this road, shops have opened on a street where the French government opened the hospital.
	It's known as the Champs-Élysées, or people here call it Champs-Élysées, Champs meaning Syria in Arabic.
	It is now the second largest refugee camp in the world, and that has put a strain on nearby communities in Jordan where water is often scarce.
	Sham?
	Sham?
	Doesn't get much better than that.
	Wait, wasn't there a terrorist group that were called sham as well?
	Yeah, right.
	There was some sham term.
	Sham the man or something.
	Do they have to throw it in our face all the time?
	So they took some shots of this refugee camp from the air.
	Oh my God!
	It looks like the San Francisco Bay Area of tents.
	It's huge.
	I guess anyone who's not fighting is already out of Syria.
	What is the total population of Syria?
	Hold on a second.
	I mean, is it 50 million?
	So the sham is they got streets, they got roadways, it's all done.
	It looks like they'll put this thing up.
	And she's this woman and PBS is wandering around and she's walking past anything short of a Gucci store.
	There's all these shops.
	What?
	I'm telling you, there's a whole street.
	The Shams Alize is a street of stores that the Syrians put up.
	And if you think about it, the Syrians, the Lebanese, that whole area of the world, these people are shopkeepers to an extreme.
	And so they build a refugee camp.
	The first thing half of them do is put up a shop.
	Dalal and nine others live in an unfurnished 200-square-foot tin shed.
	They sleep on mattresses on the floor, use communal bathrooms several hundred feet away, and rely on a gas cylinder to cook.
	They get free rations of oil, sugar, tea, and rice.
	When we visited, she was cooking something called mahshi, zucchini stuffed with rice.
	She can purchase vegetables and other items at shops in the camp.
	Yeah.
	But were they selling, like, leather goods?
	They might be, but there was a lot of...
	Yeah, maybe.
	There must have been hundreds of them.
	Those big fedora hats that you get in Italy?
	Fez.
	Fez.
	Yeah, you know, we laugh, but it's sad when 10%, actually, I think there's 4 million refugees now in neighboring countries.
	Oh, it's terrible.
	So that is, that's 20%?
	Yeah.
	That's 20% of the population.
	Has left.
	And of course, that would be pretty much all of the population that is not fighting in Damascus and homes and everywhere where there's a pipeline.
	Basically, here's the deal.
	If you're in Syria and you can look out your window and see a pipeline, get the fuck out.
	Go away.
	Because you are in harm's way.
	Now, I'm really skeptical because, you know, I was hearing that John Kerry thing this morning.
	And I've got to be careful with this, because Miki, you know, she's unicorns and rainbows, man.
	I can only do this once or twice a week, because she gets really bummed out.
	Remember, the Second World War in the history books, if you ask kids today, what was the Second World War about?
	I'm afraid that the answer you're going to get is going to be something like, well, Hitler hated the Jews and he gassed them all.
	You know, I think it's way beyond.
	I don't even think that's in the lexicon anymore.
	I think it's like, was that what happened when they busted the drug cartels in Mexico?
	I don't think the kids today know anything about the Second World War.
	They think it's the Korean War.
	It's all lost.
	That's not true.
	I don't think the Jews and Hitler and the rest of it, unless it's the History Channel, which they don't, that's all lost.
	It's bold.
	You can see it constantly when anybody goes out on the street and just interviews anyone.
	Yeah, they don't know.
	World War II was.
	They have no idea.
	They have no idea.
	You know, they're fighting Canada.
	I mean, I've heard these kinds of answers.
	You know, the Canadian, Mexico, we're fighting the Mexicans.
	There was a drug wars.
	You know, the war on drugs.
	Is that Second World War?
	Seriously.
	No, no, no.
	You've not heard that.
	I bet you I could get that out of somebody.
	If you question it right, they'd agree.
	Of course, they'll agree with anything when you're on the street with a microphone.
	But it's kind of pathetic.
	And here's a little twist on things.
	Tell me you've heard this...
	Now, we did hear a story of they launched a spy missile off of Vandenberg Air Force Base with an Atlas III, right?
	Yeah.
	Play the what the fuck clip at the end of this thing here and tell me if you've heard this at all.
	Well, you're looking at live pictures from Wallops Island, Virginia, of NASA's pending return to the moon.
	On top of that rocket is the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer.
	What a beautiful sight.
	Clear skies, 50 degrees.
	Engineers call this rocket LADEE. It will fly a six-month mission to the surface of the moon.
	A spacecraft will study the moon's thin, dusty atmosphere.
	What a shot.
	The mission will also be NASA's first test of laser communications between Earth and a spacecraft.
	It'll be up there for six months.
	Right.
	So I was saving this for second half of the show, but I think I have to bust it out now.
	You know about this, then?
	Yeah, I know about this.
	This is the so-called attempt to get to the moon.
	We're not going to get there yet again.
	We're going to fly around it to see...
	I mean...
	I'm going to save this.
	You know what?
	I'm going to save this right now because...
	Okay, let's do our thing.
	Because I have a thought on it.
	It sounds to me as though your thought's not going to coincide with mine.
	Okay, we'll be comparing theories in just a moment.
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	69.39 from Hamburg, Deutschland.
	I need some serious travel karma.
	I just could spot a special emotional offer of the Tel Aviv Hotel just across the street from the U.S. Embassy.
	He's going to go over there and do some reporting for us.
	So why don't you get us some travel karma to him?
	Absolutely.
	I'd love to do that.
	You've got karma.
	Richard Chow in Fullerton, California.
	6666.
	This is all 6660s.
	This showed up short, too.
	In Fullerton Cal, Chuck Bennett, 6666.
	Asheville, North Carolina.
	Sir Sam Lung in Toronto.
	Kent O'Rourke in Frostburg, Maryland.
	Sir Michael Miller in Tiburon, California.
	Maybe Sir John Anderson, Lafayette, Louisiana.
	Peter Morris in 6666ville.
	David Carey in Claremont.
	Clermont, Florida.
	And finally, Peter Tagstrom in Holland, Amsterdam to be exact.
	Onward, 5774 from EA in Woodland Hills.
	Sir James McSheehy, Grand Junction, Colorado, 5555.
	Michael Britton in Alfreda, Georgia, 5555.
	Sir Kevin Payne, Charity Chantilly, Virginia, 5069.
	Jake Smith, 50-33 out of Seattle, Washington.
	And finally, the $50 guys are Patrick Maycomb in Mount Vernon, New York, and Sir Alan Bean over here in Oakland.
	And they just do $50 a month and should be proud of themselves for doing that.
	Indeed.
	That'll be it.
	We have no nightings, no changes in titles today, which is always a little sad.
	There you go.
	And I also attribute our sound quality.
	I think it hurts people.
	Yeah, a lot of people complain about it, but other people still say, well, it's still the best thing we listen to.
	Yeah, I know it is.
	We had this issue before, and I don't know if it was a year ago, a year and a half ago, where we tried the mumble thing and it didn't work out.
	I'm convinced that part of this is not so much on this show, but on the Thursday shows, because I just think the network is overcapacity.
	Well, when you already have a problem in the network, and then you have more capacity issues, and who knows?
	I mean, it can be all kinds of things.
	But just so everyone knows, we have tried everything.
	Different machines.
	I mean, we've tried everything.
	The only thing we can't do is change networks.
	So the last thing we can do, John, is you need to order U-verse.
	That would be funny.
	I knew that would get a rise out of you.
	All right.
	Thank you, everybody.
	My work.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, well, different network.
	It's the only thing we can try.
	We really appreciate the 6666, the bag of sixes.
	For our birthday celebration coming up in October.
	Conveniently timed with the T-tip, I might add.
	And, of course, our executive producers, associate executive producers.
	We will need a little bit more help, though, on Thursday, so please consider us at...
	Dvorak.org slash NA.
	It's your birthday, birthday.
	I'm no budget.
	All right, we got Sir Thomas Nussbaum saying happy birthday to Sir Craig Denniston.
	Well, there you go.
	There's the knights looking out for each other.
	They got each other's back.
	Rochelle Gohan says happy birthday to Peyton Turn 6 and her wonderful husband, James Gohan, all celebrating.
	And we say happy birthday from your friends here at the best podcast in the universe.
	Yeah, so I got a different report on this rocket that is going around, and I got it from the CBS Morning Show with Charlie Rose, and that crazy Japanese scientist guy?
	Who I think...
	But the guy with the white hair.
	The white hair.
	I think he tells the truth.
	And so tonight, go outside.
	What?
	Say what?
	That's the string theory guy, if I'm not mistaken.
	He has all kinds.
	He's a showboater.
	He's on everything.
	Yeah, that's why I like him.
	Look southeast, and you'll see a speck of light going over the horizon.
	It's not a flying saucer.
	It's not a UFO. It is the lightning space probe, which will solve this old What's the mystery?
	Just before dawn on the moon, our astronauts saw this glow that lit up the sky.
	It shouldn't be there.
	The moon has, quote, no atmosphere, so it must be dust of some sort.
	But that could interfere with a man's permanent space presence on the moon if we have a station there.
	And so we have to know more about the atmosphere and the dust.
	So this probe is going to skim the moon at a distance of about 30 miles, skim the moon, and give us the latest information about the dust, the atmosphere.
	We need a little update on the moon, everybody.
	Hopefully.
	Hopefully in preparation for a permanent presence on the moon one day.
	So after this moon skimming, what might scientists in the future learn?
	Well, we'll learn about, for example, the other planets, Mercury and the asteroids.
	How does that work?
	Because that's one of the goals of NASA, to go to the asteroids to Mars.
	There's all these myths about the dust from the moon could help cure cancer or other things.
	What about that?
	And they call me a crackpot.
	I don't think so.
	I think they're just real life tales, basically.
	We learn most of what we can learn from the moon.
	Hold on a second.
	Yeah.
	How's dust on the moon an old wives' tale?
	It's never been in the conversation normally.
	I've never heard this.
	Back in the 1500s, somebody's looking up, you know, that moon looks dusty.
	I'll bet you it cures cancer.
	Yeah.
	I've never even heard this one myself.
	So this thing is going to skim the surface of the moon at 30 kilometers.
	I mean, it does nothing but add to my argument.
	What argument?
	That our presence on the moon is sketchy at best.
	What is this, 40 years now and we don't know about the dust and it's a mystery?
	Yeah, I've got a simpler explanation.
	We're getting an update from the, I mean, my thinking of moon bases makes more sense than this crap.
	Well, there's also the other possibility, which is, I don't think this is the case, but I like it, is that they've got to drop some debris in that area where we landed.
	So if the Chinese ever get up there, it shows that we had actually been up there.
	Well, interesting you say that, because here's the last 30 seconds of his report.
	No, people think that we know everything about the moon, but actually we know very little about the moon.
	We've only landed there a few times in a few selected spots.
	We don't know how thick it is.
	We don't know the density.
	And if we're going to have a permanent presence on the moon, we're going to have to know a lot more about the surface.
	When will we have a permanent presence on the moon?
	Well, we don't know for sure.
	However, we're going to get a shot in the arm in 2025 when the Chinese put the Chinese flag on the moon.
	We may have a Sputnik moment at that point.
	And that, of course, will spur interest in the moon once again.
	So NASA, I think, is covering its back.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Thank you.
	That confirms the bullcrap, the crazy theory.
	I like your theory.
	We need to drop a flag.
	Yeah, we've got to drop some stuff down there, so it looks like we were there.
	A golf ball.
	Yes, a golf ball, an old crappy flag.
	Let's drop some mirrors, because you know the MythBuster guys apparently shined a laser on them.
	Anything we can get, basically.
	A golf cart.
	To go back to taking myself out of that realm of thinking, I think this is merely to test...
	Secure communications using a laser because we're being spied on to such an extreme.
	And the real problem is the satellite communications, which is used by us for targeting purposes.
	And we exchange this information between satellites up there.
	And if there is a sketchy satellite just hanging out behind one of our satellites, it can pick up all the transmissions.
	And so we need to have something that is extremely targeted.
	But we don't know...
	If our lasers are good enough, so if you shoot it down to Earth, will it be a 10-foot dot?
	Will it be a 2-mile dot?
	Right.
	We really haven't done enough experiments, so we need to get something way out there and then pound the Earth with some sort of, you know, the beam.
	But remember, wasn't the last thing we did is we shot a...
	Didn't we shoot a probe into the moon and we blew it up and...
	Remember that?
	Yeah, that's right.
	We sent something to the moon and blew it up.
	What was the point of that?
	I forgot that already.
	You're asking me?
	Why don't we just go land there again, okay?
	Just go land there, do a cookout.
	Yeah, dig a hole.
	Yeah, do a fun little show.
	Why not do CBS Morning Show from the Moon?
	It was 40 years ago.
	Let's send Anderson Cooper there.
	Yes, now you're talking.
	But I'd also like Charlie Rose and Gail up there.
	I think that would be kind of fun.
	How about Morning Joe?
	Yeah, send them all up there.
	Yeah.
	Alright.
	I got a...
	Actually, whoops.
	I should probably preface this with the jingle.
	Adam's gonna read his email on the No Agenda show.
	Got an email from Dame Sarah there in Shikshinny, Pennsylvania.
	Remember the Log Cabin House?
	Oh yeah.
	And she has been doing some work for us.
	She went to a seminar, and this is not, as far as I know, not for work or anything.
	She went to a seminar on the DSM-5, just for us.
	I remember her threatening to do this.
	Yes, and she says, okay, I was note-taking during the conference and all I could do is think to myself, Adam is going to love this!
	Yes, indeed.
	So here's her notes, and it's literally just a set of notes, but I think they're good.
	The DSM-5, she says, was supposed to be published in 2015.
	However...
	The task force ran out of money, so that's why they're publishing ahead of schedule.
	Now, for those of you not familiar with the DSM, this is the fifth edition, and the DSM is the Bible for psychiatry.
	This determines the sicknesses, the new brain sicknesses that you can have, and luckily it also, as she says here, the codes for DSM-5 luckily will now match the upcoming ICD-10.
	The only reason the codes didn't match up in the first place was because the American psychiatrist that devised the DSM thought the ICD was inferior, partly to the fact that the ICD was designed by European doctors.
	Oh, my goodness.
	So now it's all...
	We have the same billing codes, you see.
	This is great.
	So we can have a code, and then we know what to prescribe, and everyone can give you the same stuff.
	Right.
	It's like a...
	At a car repair place, they look the car up and they charge X amount for changing the transmission of a Lexus, for example.
	Exactly.
	And then it also has a skew aspect to it, so it's got an SKU, so they can barcode that in and it all goes to the computer.
	Yes, and it goes straight through to the insurance and the world is beautiful.
	So here we go.
	Restless leg syndrome made it into the DSM-5.
	Woo!
	Yeah, baby!
	The panel that looked at it as a diagnosis, having doctors on from the pharmaceutical company that just developed a new drug for the condition.
	So, good news.
	You can have it and we can fix it.
	We have an actual diagnosis now, John, for forgetfulness in the elderly.
	I will not make any jokes.
	What was the first one?
	The first one was restless leg syndrome.
	This is a joke.
	Yeah, I know.
	And I fell for it.
	Yes, you did.
	Yeah, I did.
	Let's see.
	We have...
	Just skipping a little forward here.
	Disassociative identity disorder.
	Formerly known as multiple personality disorder.
	Now, this was going to be dropped from the new DSM because it turns out the hallmark for multiple personality disorder, the case, I guess, is Sybil.
	Is that a famous medical case?
	That turned out to be...
	It's a movie.
	Yeah, they made it into a movie.
	Yeah, that turns out to be fake.
	However, Dr.
	David Spiegel, who made a career out of the...
	She says dissociate identity disorder.
	Maybe it is dissociate.
	Identity disorder diagnosis promoted himself to the task force for the DSM-5 and forced a re-evaluation of the possibility of dropping a diagnosis.
	Lo and behold, it is now current in DSM-5.
	Even though it had a kappa reliability score of 2, when everyone else has to have a minimum of 4, a.2 or.4, the associate identity disorder is in the DSM-5 and you can be diagnosed with it.
	So this is all very, very good news for our pharmaceutical industry.
	Yes.
	Very happy with that.
	I wonder what they do to you if you have that.
	I mean, what drug would they give you?
	Heldol.
	Oh, Heldol.
	There's no money in Heldol.
	Yeah, there is.
	Yeah, I'll just close it up with that.
	I think that's all we got.
	I had an email from some a-hole who was mad at me about the fake Ashima stuff, but I'm not going to do that.
	I'm not going to...
	One of the atom haters.
	Yeah, it's a real hate email.
	And in fact, he's an atom hater.
	Well, he is a hater.
	Actually, I'm going to tell you.
	It made me so mad.
	It's like, and you call yourself an analyst, is the subject.
	Get your facts straight if you like to spout off, especially when you understand nothing about a topic.
	Why don't you take a couple minutes and look at pretty pictures I've sent here for you.
	Alpha radiation consists of helium nuclei and is readily stopped by a sheet of paper.
	Beta radiation, consisting of electrons or positrons, is held by aluminum plates.
	That means alpha particles will be stopped by a sheet of paper and not beta particles like you said.
	Good luck with your next Google search.
	I understand computers aren't for the elderly, but get with it, old man.
	I like the guy's voice.
	He's got an interesting voice.
	So I went back to the source on this, because I talked to a nuclear engineer about it, Sir Rod Adams, and I actually put in the show notes, he sent me the EPA, and said, yeah, beta radiation will get through tracing paper, but it won't even get through clothing.
	And this relates back to this fake Ashima story about, you know, if you're anywhere near this radiation, these 1,800 millisieverts, that you will die within four hours.
	Yeah, only if you're laying with your face in the puddle of water.
	If you're drinking it, yeah.
	Even then, you could probably get away with it.
	Maybe.
	Yeah.
	So, Al Jazeera has been, you know, I've been watching it.
	Now, do you have it on the dish or do you have it on the cable?
	I have it on the dish.
	I'm jealous because we don't have it on Time Warner.
	Oh, well, that figures.
	There's some stink about that, too, by the way.
	Yeah, no, it's nice and HD. They still have a few glitches, amateur hour glitches, where the guy's interviewing some guy off camera and then the host's mic is dead.
	So you hear...
	And so then what do you think about the...
	Yeah, that kind of thing.
	And then they cranked the mic up.
	So they're having some issues.
	I will say we're the last people to laugh at other people's technical issues at the moment.
	Hey, do we have the money from the monarchy of Qatar?
	At this point, I'll take it.
	Okay, so there's always one of these, and I've come to the conclusion that Al Jazeera is going to have one problem, and that's their name.
	Play the congratulatory note that the guy's talking, he's being interviewed, and listen to what he says.
	From San Francisco, welcome, Gary.
	Good to see you.
	Well, it's nice to see you, and congratulations to Al Zira for putting this all together.
	Al Zira.
	Hey, everybody, it's Al Zira.
	Hey, Al Gore-Zira.
	So Al Zero needs to change his name again, because when they're interviewing people in the field, they say, back to you, I'm Kathy Combs from Al Jazeera.
	I like Al Zero better.
	They're going to have to change the name to the AJ or AJN. Or AJA Network or something like that.
	So this is reporting for AJA Network or AJ Network or AJN. I like AJN better.
	Or AJC. Anything.
	You can't keep saying the Al Jazeera thing because somebody in Qatar thinks it's a cool word.
	It's horrible.
	Got to rebrand.
	Why don't they, I mean, should this be our new target for the Curry Dvorak Consulting Group?
	Should we now be going after them instead of RT? I mean, we've been unsuccessful getting any of their work.
	Well, let's say, who do you think would give us the most money to help them if we could get them to use our help?
	Al Jazeera.
	RT is a cheap operation.
	They're cheap.
	They're a cheap operation.
	Typical Russian.
	They're cheap.
	They don't even know what the good-looking women should be on the show.
	Even Al Jazeera has a couple of cuties.
	What's the name of the weather girl you were talking about?
	Rebecca.
	Al Jazeera America Rebecca.
	And she's very personable.
	Okay, let me see if I can find her here.
	I'm bummed out because I would have this thing on all the...
	Rebecca Vincent?
	I don't know.
	Is she blonde?
	Well, I'm just looking...
	I'm not there yet.
	Yes?
	American British...
	No, that's not her.
	That's an American British human rights activist.
	No.
	But I'd like to have her representing me.
	Let's go to the weather.
	Rebecca Murray, maybe?
	This is hard, John.
	See, this is already...
	I've identified a problem.
	There's no website where you can look up the hot babes on the channel.
	Yeah.
	Oh, Rebecca Stevenson.
	That could be.
	It sounds right.
	Could that be her?
	Let me see.
	Yeah, let me check.
	Oh, there's a whole Facebook page for her.
	Well, somebody's got to give her some publicity.
	She comes from Seattle.
	She was the chief meteorologist on TV in Seattle.
	Oh, and that's why she looks so familiar.
	She used to be at Cairo.
	When I saw her on Cairo, I said, wow, this girl's the one that you'd hire for a network.
	She looks great.
	It's not that she looks great in the fall.
	She is so personable to watch.
	You just want to listen to her.
	Seriously.
	She just yaks away and you go, oh my God, what she's saying is so interesting.
	And what is the weather forecast for the San Francisco?
	I have no idea.
	Well, speaking of dingbaths, here is our friend, Marie Harf.
	The dingbat from the State Department, former CIA spokeshole, with her opening statement from yesterday.
	Welcome back to Friday Briefings.
	I'm sorry that August is over.
	Oh, and this one time at band camp.
	I don't have anything at the top today.
	I stuck a flute in my pussy.
	What?
	Yeah, that was a little remix we did.
	It sounded like her.
	Yes, do you know the...
	You kind of talked over the punchline.
	Oh yeah, play the whole thing again.
	I was stunned.
	Welcome back to Friday Briefings.
	I'm sorry that August is over.
	Oh, and this one time at band camp...
	I don't have anything at the top today.
	I stuck a flute in my pussy.
	I'm sure you haven't seen the movie.
	Who's the we who remixed this?
	I did it.
	You should have kept the gains closer.
	It was very hard to do because the bit from the movie has music under it and everything.
	So I did the best I could.
	It was the best I could do.
	But popular culture buffs who know the movie about Bandcamp will appreciate it.
	Yeah, that's a movie I missed.
	Yeah, I think you did.
	What you didn't miss, of course, is the jobs numbers.
	This is one of your favorite topics, John.
	You probably want to get the official numbers up on your screen there from, what's our buddy there who does the actual stats?
	What is it, shadow stats?
	Oh, shadow stats, yeah.
	Why don't you get that up while I play this report about our jobs here.
	There is news this evening about American jobs and the long slog of recovery for so many Americans.
	There were 169,000 new jobs produced in August.
	Pretty modest number as they go.
	The unemployment rate ticked down to 7.3%, but largely because they say fewer people are even looking for jobs.
	And an old plot line is back again.
	A lot of the jobs they're finding are part-time with low wages, And few benefits.
	Woo!
	So this, of course, is the track that we're on.
	This is the only way to do it.
	This is what Germany has done when everyone talks about how great Germany is and everyone has a job.
	They're all, you know, not part-time.
	They did it a little smarter, and they called it the social contract where everyone just works, you know, what is it, 22, 23 hours a day?
	A week?
	Yeah, we finally reached our goal of a 20-hour work week.
	Yeah, which is exactly what you're getting.
	Exactly what you're getting.
	The problem is you're getting paid for 20 hours.
	This is kind of a bummer, yeah.
	Well, the shadow stats unemployment rate is still...
	Actually, it looks like it didn't go up again.
	It didn't drop as precipitously as the UK, which has a nice little down.
	But it's still about 23.5% to 24% true unemployment.
	Versus the 7.3% that we are being batted around the ears with.
	Isn't that amazing?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	How do they come up with it?
	How can they even...
	Well, it's amazing to me.
	Amazing.
	That's two uses of the word amazing in a row.
	Yes.
	Well, so I've been working on the Ultimate Podcast device.
	And so, you know, I have a new version coming, I think, Tuesday, so I'll be using that on Thursday's show.
	And it's basically the same thing, only, you know, it doesn't have, like, crocodile clips and broken pieces hanging off of it.
	I'll be able to actually use this, and I'll take it with me to, we're going to be in Los Angeles the week after next week.
	And then we're going to Revision 2, which will have the digital audio converter in it and everything.
	So essentially, you'll be able to use this to podcast.
	And I've been talking to manufacturers.
	And I've been pretty hell-bent on having this made in the USA. And I have also checked...
	Because, you know, you'd be amazed what you learn with this kind of stuff.
	It's like, you know, if you have...
	If the board has components on both sides, you know, it's an extra 20 cents because it's got to go through the machine again.
	And you pay, like, you know, 4 cents per pin of a whole...
	Through a whole component...
	And, you know, if you have 200 capacitors, you know, that is, you know, of 10 microfarads, you have to buy a roll of a tape of 4,000.
	I mean, it's stuff like this, right?
	Like, what?
	Because I've never...
	Hold on.
	These fabricators don't have their own rolls of capacitors that you have to buy?
	Don't they have just a bunch of them lined up?
	Because I've seen these machines.
	They've got these rolls of capacitors on this strip.
	Some do.
	The point I'm going to make is that I also talked to some Chinese companies.
	And by the time you are done with shipping and import, and I'm just calculating an X percent that it's just going to suck.
	Just because it's Chinese crap.
	And because you hear all the time they substituted something without telling you or whatever.
	And I call one company, the CEO was on the phone first call.
	He had no idea who I was.
	He was like, oh, they're just small companies like up in Seattle.
	They're like 25 people.
	And I'm like, it's going to be cheaper at the moment to do it in America.
	And I'll be able to put a big Made in the USA stamp on it and be contributing to the American economy.
	We are becoming cheaper than China.
	I think that's probably been true for a while.
	I didn't know this.
	This is a revelation.
	There's something else, but there's other reasons people use the Chinese, but especially if you have to really ramp, they're really good at that.
	But there's all these new rules about importing anyway.
	You should listen to Eric's horror stories about bringing some from China.
	Yeah, no, I've heard some of them, yeah.
	It's just like a nightmare dealing with our own government when it comes to importing.
	I mean, we...
	Unless you're a big company and you essentially have your own division devoted to importing and they know what they're doing to an extreme, it's really hard for a small...
	The small manufacturer in this country has been screwed over by big corporations.
	Yeah, but I'm thinking that now with our cheap gas, and we should be having cheaper energy.
	I'm not seeing it, but we should have cheaper energy at the moment.
	Yeah, I'm not seeing it either.
	Yeah.
	I think we're competitive again.
	I really do.
	It's nice to see.
	Well, let's get this product done.
	We should do a transistor radio next.
	It's funny, you know, I've done lots of things.
	I've done all kinds of companies, but it's been service or software, but I've never done hardware.
	And it's funny how people think about it.
	You have no idea what goes into this.
	And I love the chatroom, like...
	Just use a 3D printer!
	Yeah, yeah.
	Oh, God.
	Are these guys out to lunch?
	That'll be real cost-effective.
	The myth of the 3D printer.
	You couldn't do it anyway.
	No, no.
	Well, you can make the board, maybe.
	That's about it.
	You can make the printed circuit board.
	Yeah, and it would cost more to make the board than making ten of them completed in a normal manufacturing.
	No, those are for 3D printing, which is way ahead of the curve in terms of public awareness.
	Because they're not ready for prime time by any means.
	They're just kind of a gimmick right now.
	And they're only for one-off parts.
	And I've met there was a 3D printer guy when I did the last twit.
	And he's got a really nice little printer, and he gave one to Leo, and he says, you know, I know Leo's never going to use it, but some of the people around here might use it.
	And it's just, you know, they use it, but they only make doodads.
	There's a little Twit logo.
	Napkin rings.
	Napkin rings, exactly, is what these things are good for.
	No, it's good for Legos, because Legos, of course, is out of patent.
	So you can make Legos, you can make napkin rings.
	And by the way, this is another one of those things that just, you know, whoa, 3D guns, and it's just off the radar.
	All of these news stories, all of these crises that the media whips you up into a frenzy, I mean, who even remembers Sandy Hook?
	Right, yeah.
	Who even remembers Aurora?
	Aurora is still only remembered in Colorado as they try to pass more weird legislation.
	Yeah, but it's really, you know, there's an assault on your noggin.
	Wow, I still have this Rebecca Stevenson on my screen.
	Yeah, I just took her off a second ago because I was losing concentration.
	Yeah, I got to do that too.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me get rid of her.
	Go away, Rebecca.
	Go away.
	Anyway, so that was just my little contribution there.
	I just thought it was interesting.
	Yeah, well, it's going to be a learning process.
	Yeah, that's for sure.
	That's for sure.
	Well, the good thing is that people want to send checks just to be first in line.
	They don't even care what it is.
	They'll send you a check.
	I want you to wait.
	It's going to be a little while longer.
	Great article in Der Spiegel about the high cost and errors of German transition to renewable energy.
	Yeah, this is a great article.
	It's in the show notes.
	It's translated into English.
	Not always, but they do.
	They're an international version.
	And so if you'll remember, after Fukushima, Germany said, that's it, we're getting rid of all of our nuclear.
	We're shutting it all down.
	Which was, you know, this is actually Angela Merkel's big project.
	They call it the Energiewende, or the energy revolution, or the turnaround, I guess.
	It wouldn't be a more direct translation, but the energy revolution.
	And it's so bad that they expect energy costs to rise up to 40% for Germans.
	And currently, because everything is so discombobulated, because the big thing is offshore wind, they are using diesel power to keep the windmills turning so they don't rust.
	This is how bad it is.
	We discussed this before.
	And by the way, maybe thinking back on it, is it possible that this whole thing was to derail Germany?
	Well, yes.
	This is what the hammer does when I see the big meta-ness of all of this.
	It is Libya, it is Egypt, it is Syria.
	And then Fukushima, which, wow, that was like one crazy tsunami.
	And of course, there is some concern about the tsunami bombs that were tested off the coast.
	So whether that was man-made or not, the result...
	It was a new market for the United States with our gas in Asia, and essentially creating more demand for natural gas in Europe, predominantly in the number one industrial country, which is Germany.
	So, yeah.
	And if you look at this article, I mean, there's too much to really parse through it right now.
	But the whole thing is that when you have no wind and no sun, then it's all going to be natural gas kicking in.
	And by the way, a lot of that is also GE, so I guess that in a way is kind of good for the United States, except for the GE plants that are in China.
	Which are plentiful.
	Yeah.
	But they've even shut down.
	I didn't know how this worked, but they had these really cool hydro plants where during the day, when there's lots of sunlight, they pump water up 140 feet higher than the basin.
	And then at night, when the sun is down and there's no wind, then the water falls down and that creates the generation.
	But they're not even investing in that.
	They're closing these hydro plants down.
	It's crazy.
	This is like the Greens have gotten...
	They've gotten their way.
	But it's not the Greens who've gotten their way.
	It's the natural gas guys.
	Which is our guys.
	That's the sad fact.
	The sad fact is...
	I think it was...
	The more I look at it, the more I'm like, wow, what a scam.
	What a scam.
	And it was so well executed.
	Well, the Germans shutting down...
	Perfectly good news.
	At the dinner table last night, we were talking again about the backyard nuke, the little ones.
	And J.C. knows about this because one of his buddies, a nuke guy, knows all this stuff.
	And apparently, the size of the backyard nuke that would supply all electrical needs for your house for 400 years is the size of a large grapefruit.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And it's got like a teaspoonful of something in it that is the dangerous part.
	And then once you get the thing going and you shield it, it just cranks out energy for 400 years through various mechanisms.
	And I guess, according to the sources, that General Electric actually sells a small nuke that is...
	Yeah, they do.
	They don't sell in the United States, but it's a small, small nuke that is big.
	I mean, it's not as big as a plant, but it's one of these self-contained units.
	It's about maybe 20 feet high, about the size of a dining room, let's say, and tall.
	Wow.
	And that'll power a whole neighborhood and a small area.
	And you could put these in the suburbs of some town and it would just power the town.
	And again, it's closed.
	There's no waste or anything.
	It's a closed system and it goes for like 400 years.
	And then you haul it off.
	I don't know.
	I mean, none of this is being either explored or talked about.
	And I would love to have the grapefruit-sized one.
	I mean, we've had these small nukes.
	I mean, what about a nuclear sub?
	They have, there's a submarine, it's got a power plant in it that's a nuke.
	Yeah.
	It's not that big.
	No, and I know plenty of people who listen to this program who've been on them and are still alive.
	Right.
	All the subs are powered that way.
	They don't have a gasoline, a diesel engine pumping gas into the cockpit.
	It's just...
	We've got to get up so we can get rid of ours.
	Yeah, well, that's not going to happen.
	In fact, it's even worse because the new study out now, we bring in the smart grid, because that's really what's taking place here.
	We're going to give you the illusion that this is all you've got, and we're going to put smart meters into your house.
	New survey here.
	Being watched makes electricity users consume less.
	So now we know that we're going to teach you, you see.
	We're going to train you.
	The smart grid will turn things off for you.
	But meanwhile, your price is just going to go up.
	Because that's the game.
	That is the entire game.
	It's to screw you.
	There's just no two ways about it.
	The whole thing is about screwing the public.
	Yeah, it's been that way.
	All of this show talks about is the mechanisms in place to screw the public.
	And nobody in the mainstream media ever discusses it that way.
	It's all a great idea.
	Or it's all about World War III, which is just not.
	So chill out.
	Have yourself a great Sunday.
	Relax.
	We're not going to have World War III. This is not our Munich moment.
	It's not.
	It's just not.
	The U.S. Postal Service, by the way, is in trouble.
	And that's another one of those bullcrap...
	Initiatives.
	It looks like they're going to have to seek emergency increases in stamp prices.
	Oh, well that verifies the need to buy those forever stamps.
	What is this?
	Well, that's what you do.
	You go to the post office and you can buy stamps at any denomination, but there's a forever stamp that's been out for about two or three years now.
	They first came out when they jacked up the price from 40 cents to whatever.
	Whatever it is now.
	45, 46, 40, I don't know.
	I can't keep track.
	Before I send anything out in the mail, I always have to look up the price.
	Right.
	Well, the forever stamps belay that because a forever stamp is like, you buy this stamp, it's first class mail forever.
	If it becomes five bucks an ounce, you use a forever stamp.
	Okay.
	So you buy, I have the, I have, I bought a bunch of these.
	The Kwanzaa.
	Oh.
	Forever stamp.
	No!
	Don't.
	Would you send me a...
	How many do you have?
	Can we send out our No Agenda Christmas cards with Kwanzaa stamps?
	I don't think I have enough of those for that.
	We have to send it...
	I'll find a good stamp that's like that.
	So I saw this email.
	We have Miss Mickey and Eric and Mimi, I guess, and they're splitting up the stuffing the envelopes.
	We're making them do hundreds?
	Okay, what we're going to do...
	Let's have the meeting now.
	We're going to find all the donors.
	Not just newsletter people, but the donors.
	The top donors.
	Mostly it's going to be knights and people who have...
	Already we have a discrepancy.
	I've heard people want to do the top 500 and I've heard that you only want to do the top 100.
	No, I've never said that.
	Oh.
	I've never said that.
	That's a lie.
	Okay.
	All right.
	I've heard it was going to be the top 1,000 or the top 500.
	Oh, maybe I'm wrong.
	I've never narrowed it down to 100.
	Maybe I'm wrong.
	Then, okay, I'm with the top 500.
	Yes, but the top 500, this requires a lot of work.
	No kidding.
	And, um...
	Assigning a lot of cards.
	And are we personalizing each one?
	It's possible that we...
	Are we personalizing each one?
	Right, it's also possible we should just do the nights.
	Only nights.
	Oh, come on.
	We should do the top 500.
	Okay, we'll talk about this more.
	Anyways, some people are going to get a Christmas card.
	With photos and signatures.
	It's going to be a collector's item.
	We're checking our list.
	We're going to see who's been naughty and nice, if you get it or not.
	President Obama has a list.
	He has a nice list.
	Making headlines right now.
	A U.S. drone strike in Pakistan kills at least seven suspected militants.
	That drone firing two missiles struck a house near the Pakistan-Afghan border.
	Villagers say four men were seriously injured and taken to hospital.
	The strike was the 20th deadly missile attack carried out by U.S. drones on Pakistani soil this year.
	Good work!
	I love how they now have B-roll of the predator drone firing Hellfire.
	Nice.
	It's actual B-roll they've got.
	B-roll.
	They probably got it from the White House.
	Yeah, we are such a bunch of horrible, horrible people.
	I apologize, rest of the world, for what we're doing, but it's all for the good.
	You might as well play the clip from the PBS Hour, Gas for Israel, which discusses something, I don't know, we talked about what?
	A year and a half, two years ago?
	Was it episode 181 or something?
	It was way back there.
	We used it as one of our evergreens.
	And now I guess it's becoming news.
	Yeah.
	And play it.
	Yeah, play it.
	It's a running joke here in Israel.
	Moses led the Jews through the desert for 40 years to the only place in the Middle East with no oil and no gas.
	So for all its 65 years, Israel has been almost totally dependent on fuel imports for energy.
	Costly and precarious for a nation surrounded by often hostile neighbors.
	Is it 230?
	But now that's all changing.
	Israel has at last discovered so much natural gas, it's heading towards energy independence, a gas exporter in just a few years.
	56 miles off Israel's Mediterranean coast, the Tamar Reservoir started flowing earlier this year, with enough gas to supply Israel for decades.
	Another field nearby, almost twice as big, should be pumping in three to four years.
	Israel believes both fields lie well within its maritime borders, though the Lebanese government has challenged that.
	The stakes are high because there are also reports of huge oil deposits near the very same gas fields.
	Some call these new discoveries an economic miracle.
	Amazing, amazing, amazing story.
	And that joke about Moses?
	We proved that joke to be wrong.
	It all began with Gidon Tadmor and his small Israeli company, which began drilling for oil and gas onshore in 1991.
	Obviously, we needed luck and God's help.
	We needed the resources to be underground.
	But I think the unique contribution that we were able to bring is the human spirit and the belief.
	Tadmor, a lawyer by training, also needed partners with drilling experience willing to invest millions.
	He had a hunch there was gas in Israeli waters because Egypt had found some nearby, and he sought investment from the Texas oil giants.
	But he says nobody bit, afraid, Tadmor believed, of upsetting their much bigger customers, the Arabs.
	Finally, a small Texas company with no Arab clients, today called Noble Energy, agreed to invest in the Israeli dream.
	Started the energy industry here in Italy.
	Interesting.
	And of course, advisor to Nobel Energy is the one and only Bill Clinton.
	Yeah, isn't it funny they don't mention the name Leviathan at all in that report?
	Oh, they said there was a second one that was bigger, and they never mentioned the name.
	But on the screen...
	It said Leviathan?
	Yes.
	And that's what changes the world, ladies and gentlemen.
	That is how it works.
	And that's why we have the Qataris now building $10 billion worth of infrastructure in Texas.
	That's why the Panama Canal is being widened.
	These are big, big changes.
	And if the shale gas revolution in America is true, then we're going to see...
	Well, what are you laughing about?
	The whole thing is ludicrous because all the...
	And this has happened before.
	We saw this in the 70s.
	All the Arabs have to do if they want to just put a stop to all this is just turn up the weld, just crank out the oil by the ton and they'll drop the price like overnight.
	But right now they're kind of basking in this $100 thing and think, well, it's pretty good to gouge everybody.
	Let's gouge how we can.
	And then if somebody gets into our business, these other guys will...
	Just pour it out.
	They would just flood the market with cheap oil, back to $40 a barrel.
	Yeah, but that's the oil.
	They don't have the gas.
	They don't have the gas.
	The gas tends to be in Russia, the United States, and other places.
	Right, right.
	The oil can be pretty cheap.
	Yeah, of course it can be cheap, but why?
	It's too much fun to watch people suffer.
	Yeah, well, there's that.
	Let everything burn.
	Let's make everything look the same.
	Turn it into a rubble.
	And you don't think Lebanon...
	We've rubbleized.
	We've rubbleized the Middle East.
	And if you look at the map, please, I encourage you to do this.
	And go look at Israel and move up a little north.
	You'll see where Syria and Lebanon are.
	And then you'll see right there, on the way to Greece, you'll see Cyprus, And then it starts to become clear.
	But that's not for a couple more years.
	But it doesn't matter because it's a Texas company anyway.
	We're in there.
	We're in.
	We're in.
	We rock!
	Team America!
	Yeah, well, it's good for us.
	You know, thinking about the petroleum economy, and I'm watching, I'm on top of a hill where I can look down on the freeway, see all these cars going by, just by the tons.
	Oh, there goes a Tesla, you know, electric car.
	That's a spit in the bucket.
	And it's just gasoline being burned by the, you just, this is it.
	We're in a petroleum economy.
	Nobody wants to admit it.
	Yeah.
	I mean, the paint in the house is made from petroleum products.
	The plastics are made from petroleum.
	Everything except wood is made from petroleum.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	Anyways.
	Well, even the Tesla automobile is ultimately made from petroleum products.
	Yeah, I'm sure most of the glue, because it's pretty much glued together.
	Really?
	Are those things glued together?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	And I got into a beef with somebody, because I was talking about how maybe the riveting may fail on these things.
	We don't know.
	They haven't been on the road enough.
	Oh, they're glued together.
	They're glued together like a modern airplane.
	Oh, really?
	Like an Airbus.
	Yeah.
	And they were defending the gluing instead of riveting.
	I mean, I'm old school.
	I'd rather have a car that was riveted together, but you're not going to see that.
	No, I'm with you on the old school.
	Well, we're taking an old school road trip in the old school Ford.
	In the expedition, we're going to Marfa tomorrow.
	Marfa, yeah.
	The art capital of Texas.
	The art capital of Texas.
	Lori, one of our Obot friends, has an expo there.
	And this is one of these places where if you live in Texas, you'll never go unless there's a real reason.
	So we're taking this as a reason.
	It's like people never go to Alcatraz.
	They live in San Francisco.
	And by the way, Alcatraz is fascinating.
	Yeah, and we have a producer who works there and who will gladly walk you around.
	Ranger Craig, I think is his name.
	Or Frank.
	Was it Craig?
	No, I think it's Ranger Craig.
	I think it's Ranger Craig.
	He's on Twitter.
	If you're ever in the Bay Area, you can pretty much throw him in the morning and he'll hook you up.
	I feel stupid.
	And he gives a good tour.
	Have you done the tour with him?
	Oh, yeah.
	And he takes you, at least with me, he took me, I took my daughter and her girlfriend, the three of us, and he took us on a back tour, you know, like the behind-the-scenes tour.
	So we were on his little cart, you know, the little electric thing, driving around.
	And we weren't with the tourists.
	We were around all these secret routes in the back, and we got to go into some facilities that are...
	Blocked off and you get to see some stuff you'd never get to see.
	It was a great, great tour.
	Very cool.
	Very cool.
	Alrighty.
	That's about all I've got for today, John.
	I basically spent a lot of time marking up the documents following the T-tip.
	So unless you've got something to close with.
	I'm going to get rid of a couple clips here.
	This is Hollande from France.
	He backed off.
	He was going to be the big, oh, shaking the fist and all that.
	And apparently he was badgered by the international community with a WTF, are you doing?
	And now this is his commentary as he kind of gives up on siding with Obama.
	Unanimously agreed that chemical weapons had been used.
	There was no agreement, though, on who was responsible for them.
	And there was further this very strong argument about going to the UN, which the president addressed today before he left.
	Right.
	And so this is really the challenge for the president to try to find some other international support.
	And he has not gotten to the point now of reaching out to additional support from international players beyond the French?
	No, that's very clear.
	The French, obviously President Hollande was in Russia as well.
	He took a beating from the EU, clearly said you must wait for a UN resolution.
	At home, 64% are opposed.
	And when it came down to it today, President Olan took the opportunity to step back.
	We're now going to wait for the decision of the Congress of the American Senate, the Chamber of Representatives, and then the report by the inspectors.
	And once we have looked at these elements, I will make a decision.
	Yeah.
	Beautiful.
	We don't care how much Kerry speaks French.
	Although, I'm impressed by that.
	That was good.
	And then there was a piece of contrary information that makes you wonder what side the New York Times is on, because they ran this front-page horrible picture that was obviously going to be used to sway votes in the Congress.
	But play the background on this picture.
	I've got to click on it.
	And I want to refer to a picture that we saw in the New York Times this morning.
	Very, very disturbing images from Syria, and this makes it difficult as well.
	This is a picture that comes from, it's a screen grab from a video that the New York Times got a hold of yesterday.
	It shows rebels executing Syrian soldiers.
	This is, obviously, this is a civil war.
	Horrible, horrifying things happen in the civil war.
	But in terms of lawmakers and how they are making their decisions, this is playing into the questions about who are American allies on the ground.
	Are there any good guys?
	Are there any good options?
	And increasingly, for many lawmakers, the answer seems to be no.
	But it's great for the ratings!
	So everything's working out.
	Yeah.
	Well, we'll see.
	I'm ready to go, Jean-Claude.
	You should throw down some French from time to time.
	Si, senor.
	I gotta say, I was impressed.
	It would be cool if Obama just threw down some French, you know?
	Can you imagine?
	Well, if he can read French with the right accent, he could pull it off.
	He doesn't have to know what he's saying.
	Yeah, but the H is silent in French, so it might be a problem.
	It's perfect for the one guy.
	For the one guy, yeah.
	All right, everybody.
	We'll be back on Thursday.
	I'm sure tons of stuff will be happening.
	I'll have a report from the road as we travel through West Texas.
	Maybe I'll be able to bring you some Gitmo Nation news from FEMA Region 6.
	Currently here in the capital of the Drone Star State in Austin, Texas.
	In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, otherwise known as FEMA Section 9, I think.
	Is that what we are?
	Region 4.
	Region.
	I'll get it eventually.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll talk to you again on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
	No Agenda.
	The government totally sucks.
	Welcome back to Friday Briefings.
	I'm sorry that August is over.
	Oh, and this one time?
	At band camp?
	I don't have anything at the top today.
	I stuck a flute in my pussy.

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