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582: Eradicate Misery

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	I'm always confused.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	Look at all...
	I'm sorry.
	Sorry.
	What was that?
	That was a mistake.
	I messed it up.
	All right.
	Give me another cue.
	Ten, nine...
	Hit it!
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, January 12, 2014.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 582.
	This is No Agenda.
	Looking over here, we're told to look over there at FEMA Region 6 here at the Travis Heights Hideout in Austin, Texas.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we're looking nowhere, I'm John C. Devorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	I don't know.
	They're telling me to look over here, there, somewhere else.
	We don't start looking for stuff for another, what, two weeks?
	Oh, for the six-week cycle, you mean?
	Yeah, that's coming up.
	By the way, I'm totally convinced it's going to be in Indianapolis.
	Okay, well, do you recall one of your predictions for 2014?
	No.
	The end of the six-week cycle?
	No.
	Oh, yeah.
	Right.
	Well, I think your prediction is going to come true sooner than you expected, my friend.
	Oh?
	Yeah, we've been busted.
	Oh.
	Well, we've been busted by a bunch of people.
	Well, this is our producer, Matt.
	He sent me a note.
	He said, in the morning, this morning, my 16-month-old woke me up at 5.40 a.m.
	to clean his shit-filled diaper.
	So the only thing worth watching on TV was C-SPAN. I was only able to get through on the Republican line.
	Have you seen or heard his outstanding PR moment for the No Agenda show?
	Yeah, it was quite good.
	Here's Matt from Reno, Nevada.
	Republican line, hello.
	In the morning.
	I was just calling.
	I'm a watcher of C-SPAN and also a listener of the show called No Agenda.
	I'm with Adam Curry and John C. Devorak.
	All right, right there.
	Great.
	Great.
	It's about time.
	Finally!
	Finally!
	And by the way, Matt was calling and the guest on the Washington Journal for the call-in show was the president of the FBI Agents Association, which I think is kind of like a drinking club, maybe, John?
	Is that what that sounds like?
	It's probably a combination drinking club and internal lobbying operation.
	And this guy was very interesting, particularly his answer to Matt's question, which I'll play without further interruption.
	I'm a watcher of C-SPAN and also a listener of this show called No Agenda.
	I'm with Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak.
	They bring up an interesting point a lot in their deconstruction of the media and also what's Sort of going on with our FBI and our federal agencies.
	The guy, by the way, he's looking at the camera like, what?
	What's this?
	And they bring up a good point of every six weeks almost.
	To the week you're on the dot, there's some type of FBI sort of bust that goes down.
	And it's been explained, too, that it's possibly a cycle that they like to have because otherwise...
	You can't really keep the American people scared.
	Now, when he mentioned the six weeks, the FBI guy, he squirmed a little.
	There's some subtle movement.
	The body language shifted just ever so slightly.
	I was just wondering what your comments were on that.
	And also, is it legal to sort of entrap people like those guys in Ohio who didn't have the capability or means to actually detonate or set up a bomb on a bridge, but were arrested and thrown in jail, and the last one's actually just trying to fight for his life.
	All right.
	So here's what I would recommend for Matt.
	And good job, by the way, Matt.
	That was a complicated example.
	It probably would have been better if you said, you know, that guy that you hounded for two months and set him up with fake explosives and then made him go to the Wichita airport.
	That would have been a little easier, more recent example.
	I think a lot of people have forgotten about that.
	The bridge example.
	But anyway, let's listen, because I think the FBI agent, or the president of the Agents Association, kind of confirmed it.
	Caller, we'll leave it there.
	Mr.
	Terici.
	The FBI investigates thousands of cases with proper media attention to those cases.
	We like to show the American people what it is that we do to keep them safe and also...
	Wait, didn't he just agree?
	Yeah.
	Didn't he just say, yeah, we're keeping you safe, citizen?
	Try to show criminals and terrorists that we, the FBI, are out there.
	We're boss.
	I'm not aware of any six-week cycle that you're talking about, and I'm not aware of the facts of your case.
	All that I'll say is the individuals that you referenced were brought through a very regimented legal process with a strict adherence to the Constitution of the United States of America, and a jury of their peers will decide whether...
	They did what they were accused of doing.
	Wow.
	Good job, Matt.
	Excellent.
	Excellent.
	Yeah.
	Well, maybe you're right.
	Maybe the six-week cycle would be canned in favor of something a little.
	You know, what they need to do is an offset cycle for a four-seven.
	You can't go too far.
	You can't go too long past six weeks.
	I think Matt kind of hit it, which is our thesis, which is the American public starts to relax.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So you've got to keep them tense and on edge.
	So they could do...
	But they still have to forget the other one.
	You know, six is the magic number.
	I don't know what they're going to do about it.
	Well, let's just say, screw it.
	Who listens to those idiots?
	That's probably what's going on right now.
	Hey, boss, I got this call about the six-week cycle.
	Who is it?
	I don't know.
	They're talking about some dudes.
	Some guys.
	We looked it up.
	It's a stupid podcast.
	It's a podcast.
	Wait, are you telling me a podcast you're concerned about anything that podcasters are doing?
	What are you, an idiot?
	No, no, it went like this.
	Did they win any of the podcast awards?
	No.
	Oh, please.
	Those guys can't be taken seriously then.
	They're nuts.
	I'm driving in San Francisco.
	I'm going up Gary Street, and then two lanes over, I hear in a loud voice, ITM! Yeah, of course.
	And I look over, and it's a cabbie.
	Oh, really?
	That's cool.
	Oh, wait, was it Tony the Terrorist, maybe?
	I don't think so.
	I couldn't see him.
	He was way over.
	He spotted me somehow.
	Maybe he was following me.
	Whatever.
	And the San Francisco cab companies on the side, oh, there's big giant yellow cabs.
	It says, it has their phone number, 333-3333.
	Yeah, what does that tell you?
	So, anyway, so he took off.
	I gave him a thumbs up.
	That's funny.
	Were you in the Acura?
	Acura?
	I was in the old Lexus.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Acura.
	Lexus, yeah.
	Why did I think an Acura?
	I don't know.
	I'm not a Honda person.
	No.
	Well, what is Lexus?
	Lexus is Toyota?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	That's a good car.
	How old is it?
	Almost 21 years old.
	Yeah.
	I was thinking the other day, I said to me, Mickey always thinks her car is dangerous because, well, it is dangerous.
	It's a cardboard box with a Corvette engine.
	Because, you know, it's meant to have children or, you know, I don't know, stuff in the back.
	So it's the Ford Expedition.
	Yeah.
	So if it's just her and it's a little wet, yeah, you know.
	Yeah, she'll flip up, flip it over.
	Yeah.
	I said, you know, go easy on the corner.
	But I said, this is a good car, you know.
	But it's 2005.
	It's now nine years old.
	Yeah.
	Wow, it's getting...
	Well, here's the weird thing about this old Lexus.
	Hmm.
	There has not been one taillight, headlight, interior light.
	Really?
	There hasn't been one bulb that has burned out in that car 21 years.
	Wow.
	When I see that, obviously they can make bulbs that last forever if they want to.
	I just replaced a couple bulbs in the kitchen and it's these 38 watt God knows what they are.
	It says on the box 1,000 hours.
	What is that?
	Yeah.
	It says right on the 1,000 hours.
	Yeah, it blows up in 1,000 hours.
	No, no, it blows up around 900.
	Well, what are you going to do about it?
	Yeah.
	Anyway, so that really made my day when I heard that.
	And it just goes to show that it can be done.
	Well, here's what's going to happen.
	They probably won't drop the cycle.
	I think our fake conversation is probably pretty accurate.
	And the other thing is, eh, it's working.
	They've got one or two guys.
	What difference does it make?
	The public doesn't care.
	The big media doesn't do anything about it.
	They're just going to keep lapping this stuff up.
	Yeah, that's true.
	But I still think Indianapolis...
	We had that message from Pelly about the guy in Indianapolis shoveling snow.
	That was the Mexican in Indianapolis.
	Yeah, the Mexican in Indianapolis.
	So wait, this is new.
	You didn't tell me you thought that...
	The last I recall...
	So the six-week cycle, which would kick in around February 1st or 2nd, you were saying possibly Super Bowl.
	It would be even better because it's at the Meadowlands, which is New Jersey.
	It's right near New York.
	No, I've actually specifically said that I don't believe they would attack a sporting event like that because it would hurt business.
	You can't hurt business.
	Right, I agree.
	You just want to terrorize the public.
	Remind them who's boss.
	Now, Indianapolis came up in that report from Scott Pelley where he said this guy in Indianapolis is shoveling snow, and it had nothing to do with the report or anything else, and it specifically was Indianapolis.
	And so then I'm watching the PBS show, and they have changed.
	I was watching the end.
	It's only the BBC America.
	They have this little ending where they show this kind of a weird globe, and it's kind of just...
	It's kind of made out of ribbon and it's kind of spinning and there's little cities floating around on the screen.
	And then they cut away and the thing reappeared and Indianapolis came out into the middle of the screen and slid off to the left.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Now, if anybody's watched the series Rubicon, this is the kind of thing that is like, is this code?
	I mean, we don't know anything about how 33 even works, but we do notice these things.
	And this crazy report where this guy's from Indianapolis, and now I'm seeing Indianapolis.
	Why Indianapolis would come out of this BBC logo is beyond me.
	But I'm suspecting that Indianapolis has got something.
	Something's going to happen in Indianapolis.
	Okay.
	Well, it's as good a place as any.
	I mean, come on.
	It's a good middle America.
	I mean, Wichita, Kansas?
	If that's where they're going for, they might as well do Indianapolis.
	Yeah, well, Indianapolis has got a little more going for it than Wichita.
	Yeah, I'll have to agree.
	Not much, but...
	No, no, I've been to both places, and I would have to agree, Indianapolis has a lot more going for it.
	But they've got to hurry up, because...
	Here's an Ask John.
	Can you tell me what this is?
	Any ideas?
	I would suspect that's a food riot.
	Very close.
	It is a riot.
	It is indoors.
	There are things being thrown, but not food.
	Laptops, water...
	Uh, shoes.
	That is the Turkish Parliament last week.
	Where they're fisticuffs, but there are people jumping up on chairs and jumping down on people.
	This is Turkish Parliament.
	Yeah, you used to see this in the Taiwanese Parliament.
	Yeah, but now it's happening in Turkey.
	There's 20,000 people protested on the streets of Ankara yesterday.
	Oh, I'm sorry, you didn't see that on CNN? Gee, I wonder.
	And what is taking place is, I've been keeping my eye very closely on what's happening in Turkey, it being the gateway for Russia and China, for Russia for gas, for China for the trans-Eurasian rail system, high-speed rail.
	Of course, there's all kinds of competing interests.
	There is now talk of, and I've found this interesting, Erdogan is now being accused of, Of trying to stage a civilian coup.
	Which I don't quite understand how you can stage a civilian coup.
	I thought a coup was...
	You kind of had to have the army involved.
	I think a coup is a coup.
	Well, he's already in charge.
	This is what's interesting.
	Yeah, so what's he going to do?
	I'm taking over from myself.
	Yeah, well...
	And then punch himself in the nose.
	It started December 17th.
	Investigation into corrupt practices of many Turkish bureaucrats, ministers, mayors, was started by the Justice Department, which, and I think we've talked about this before, is run by a lot of Gulenists.
	I should pronounce that properly.
	Gulenists, who were educated in the Gulen schools run by Fethullah Gulen.
	This is the imam who is in self-imposed exile in his compound in Pennsylvania.
	In the Poconos.
	Yeah, and runs all of the Gulen schools, the Harmony schools in over 160 countries.
	The Gulenists also run the largest newspaper in Turkey.
	And so what they found was millions of, equivalent of dollars, but of course it was Turkish lira, millions in shoeboxes stuck away in some of these member of parliament's closets.
	And people have been arrested.
	And there's a takeover taking place.
	And now you have this organized protest.
	Because whenever you see 20,000 people with identical flags all nicely on poles and stuff.
	Yes, it's a bad sign.
	Yeah, that's an organized protest.
	And the only thing that I think you and I really agree on here is rubble is coming.
	Well, Turkey would be a real, making Turkey into rubble is going to be not easy.
	And I don't know why we want to do it.
	It just depends on what part.
	Well, yeah, you could do it to the eastern part of Turkey, which is where the Kurds are.
	You know, I keep looking at this, they keep doing this Iraqi thing.
	Northern Iraq, the Kurds you mean?
	Well, I know all the stuff that's going on in the country as a whole, and now I'm noticing every time they show a picture of Iraq on any of these TV shows, they always have that one Anwar province as a separate color.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, always.
	Always.
	And then there's greater Turkey.
	I'm sorry, greater Iraq.
	And then you have this province.
	And I believe they're going to try to divide that country up into at least three separate countries because there's no way that this is going to continue the way it's going.
	It's not naturally that big country anyway.
	It's unnatural.
	I've really been trying to understand the entire region.
	I don't think people like us, you and I, John, who were born and raised in the West, I don't think we are equipped to really understand the true culture.
	And these are all made-up countries.
	Iraq, Iran, Syria, none of this existed.
	Was this 1918 in Paris when we said, oh, let's draw some lines here?
	Was that 1912?
	It was right after the war.
	After the Great War, the First World War.
	We just drew up some lines and, oh, here it is.
	And this will just have to do.
	But it seems like the...
	And a lot of people who are from Turkey have been emailing me.
	I've been talking to journalists who are working on exposés of the Gulenist movement, by the way.
	I pulled out a Form 990 of the Cosmos Foundation.
	The Cosmos Foundation runs the Harmony Schools, which are all over Texas, but they're all over the United States.
	They received, in just this one Gulen-related organization, in 2012, I'll get you the exact number, I'm pulling up the form here, their income from government grants was $168,372,729.
	Wow.
	From government grants.
	From our own government.
	What does that tell you?
	Yeah, and it's all these charter schools.
	I guess if you start a charter school, the government gives you money.
	Is that how it works?
	Not that I know of, but I guess it is how it works.
	Well, they're getting something, and then there's all these government bonds, which is about another $50 million that they participate in.
	Anyway, total assets for just this one non-profit organization, $308 million.
	Dude, you only got to skim 10%, and you can print up some nice signs in Ankara.
	You know?
	10%.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it's really quite, and this is just one of the many organizations.
	This thing is so deep, and it's just, wow.
	And it's all taxpayer money.
	There must be at least half a billion a year of taxpayer money going into this outfit.
	And here's Erdogan's quote.
	He, of course, is the prime minister of Turkey.
	He says, this is a conspiracy.
	The United States and Israel are behind it.
	I'm fighting words right there, I'd say.
	And of course, he could be right.
	All I know is that we are scheduled to connect the Nabucco pipeline.
	Which is Hillary Clinton's work from Azerbaijan, from Baku.
	And Azerbaijan, of course, has huge natural gas resources.
	The pipeline runs through Tbilisi, which is Georgia, where the crazy Thai nut job was.
	And then it goes right through Turkey and all the way into Austria, into Europe, to feed anything but Russian gas.
	And, you know, there's a lot going on.
	And then you have the religious, you have the two religious factions, the way I'm understanding it.
	Of course, you have the Shiites and the Sunnis.
	And, you know, there's a big movement to bringing back the caliph, the caliphate, the Ottoman Empire.
	Yeah, that's kind of pathetic.
	Yeah, but it's stuff that I can't even fathom it, other than looking historically, understanding how big the Ottoman Empire was.
	Constantinople was the center of the known universe at the time.
	Is that a song I should recognize?
	Yeah, yeah, it's got the word Constantinople.
	So something is brewing, and I guess what will be interesting to see is if the secular Erdogan gets kicked out with all of his guys, if there will truly be some form of a coup.
	And who's really running everything behind the scenes and what it will mean longer term, I would say, for the prosperity of Europe, the European Union.
	It truly is the gateway for them.
	Well, the Turks are knee-deep in the Syrian issues, and they're the ones that are one of the pipelines that the CIA is using to move armaments into the scene for the rebel building.
	And it's interesting because Turkey...
	I don't know, something's weird about Erdogan, because he originally came in as an Islamist.
	And then he got, he started doing all kinds of improvements to the country.
	I mean, to the point where he was going to close parks and build giant malls.
	And he became this ludicrous capitalist.
	I think what happened first is that everyone, you know, in the past, almost the past decade, everybody was talking about the Turkish wonder and how, oh, it's unbelievable.
	Look at the economy.
	Look at the Turkish lira, which now is, of course, collapsing.
	Because all of that was...
	The way I understand it, it was kind of Goldman Sachs.
	They were doing the same thing they did in Greece.
	Just dumping money in.
	Oh, here's some more money.
	We'll put some more in.
	And now that's kind of stopped.
	Which could also be a tactic.
	There's that element.
	And the other thing is, I was thinking about this rubble building, which is, you know, creating rubble everywhere.
	Yes.
	Which I like to use a lot in general conversation.
	Well, it's happening everywhere you look.
	Yeah.
	And it just seems to be very beneficial to do this, if you just think of Halliburton and Bechdel and all these guys.
	Oh, the rebuilding, yeah.
	The rebuilders.
	Right.
	So Central African Republic, of course, is going to be the big target for really making...
	I mean, it's already a mess.
	But it's easier to have the country ruin itself and kill half the public than it is to come in there with bulldozers to do it.
	So it's almost like an organic process if you think about it.
	You let the country go to pot.
	You create all kinds of, you know, influence kind of a dissolution of public safety and security.
	You have a mess where people start killing each other left and right, so you knock the population way down.
	And then they burn everything to the ground and then take the rocks that are around and throw them around so they scatter the rocks so you have a nice, you know, done by hand, of course.
	Nice even rocks at each other.
	Bedrock, yeah.
	And then the places, finally, they run out of steam because you can't just butcher everybody.
	At some point, people come to their senses.
	And then you move in the big companies, the big rebuilding companies, and you get big fat contracts, and they take a piece of the actions.
	The Chinese are looking forward to this, too, but I think we're the guys who do the best job of it.
	Well, from the 33 World News website, which is all news that has the number 33 in it, received today 33,000 foreign nationals evacuated from the Central African Republic.
	Code?
	Yeah, well, the original is from the voice of Russia.
	So it'd be interesting if the Russians know what the code is.
	You know, I wish we could figure out the code.
	What do you think is next for the CAR, for the Central African Republic?
	Is it just time to have this rebelized?
	I think it's already in the process.
	There's a lot of reports that Doctors Without Borders have to...
	They've mostly vacated because they can't be in there because the rebels are coming into the hospitals and butchering people in there.
	The machetes are out.
	This is a Rwanda fractal.
	Right.
	And we've done nothing about it.
	We've sat silently...
	Because the French, you know, said...
	Yeah, it's their job.
	It's their job, and they've sent in all of 1,600 troops.
	Peacekeepers.
	Yeah, peacekeepers.
	And the country is about the size of France, so it's nothing.
	It's ridiculous.
	And I think it's...
	And all the reports are that it's just going to be all...
	If it's not already broken loose, it's breaking loose quickly.
	And it'll be too late by the time we take action, so it's going to be a mess.
	Well, I think what will need to happen is it'll have to be a U.N. resolution.
	Don't you think?
	It's already too late.
	No, no, no.
	But in order for us to go in.
	So the French are in.
	We won't go in.
	They're doing their thing.
	I believe we need to have some kind of Security Council resolution or whatever.
	Let me just see.
	So to the east of the Central African Republic is, of course, South Sudan.
	And that would be handy.
	Let me look at this for a second.
	People, you've got to get a map.
	It's very important to use maps, particularly when it comes to the continent of Africa, because those names change, you have no idea what's going on.
	So if South Sudan, of course, there's all the oil, and the Chinese want to have their pumping it up north to Port Sudan, to the Red Sea.
	So there's a lot of crap going on there.
	It would be advantageous to move it west through the Central African Republic.
	No, maybe not.
	That's not going to happen.
	No, you're right.
	Let's see what's going on around it.
	Cameroon.
	I should mention something.
	When we used the Hiroshima Effect title and then you had some links, apparently you linked to one of Buzzkill Jr.'s friends' pro-nuke website.
	He's an engineer in the industry.
	Yeah.
	And they got a bunch of hits, and now we're getting a lot of nuke engineers listening to the agenda.
	Yeah.
	Like lots.
	Yeah, no, I know.
	There's a central blog, which I think is pro-atomic bloggers or something.
	Maybe that's what I linked to.
	I don't know.
	Yeah.
	So, of course, one of our knights is Sir Rod, Atomic Rod, who spent his entire naval career on a nuclear submarine.
	And the Hiroshima...
	No, it's not called Effect.
	It's called the Syndrome.
	Yeah, the Hiroshima Syndrome blog is written by another...
	That's the one, the Hiroshima Syndrome blog.
	Oh, I was referred to that through Atomic Rod.
	That's one of Buzzkill Jr.'s buddies?
	One of the guys in there.
	At least he's connected to it somehow.
	Yeah.
	In fact, we talk about this because Buzzkill Jr.
	is so tuned into this stuff that he's talking about...
	General Electric, by the way, is going to have a big nuke push in the next two years.
	This is kind of not known to anybody.
	And they are going to start promoting the little...
	The little bitty nukes.
	The little ones.
	Oh, really?
	The backyard nukes or the neighborhood nukes?
	Backyard.
	Huh.
	And neighborhood.
	There's apparently one...
	There's one...
	They've done some calculations.
	This was...
	I don't know how much confidence this was given to me in, but...
	Ah, screw it.
	What do you care?
	Apparently, the government working with GE has developed another technology, nuke technology, who...
	Which is something like 900 square foot product.
	Uh-huh.
	That is enough to power the whole country kind of thing.
	Shh!
	Shh!
	We can't have that.
	We can't have any solutions.
	So as we got to this conversation, and not only that, but for pretty much infinity.
	Yeah, shh!
	Don't tell anyone we can do that.
	So we're talking about the effect of petrodollars and how the world works with the American dollar and how every time someone tries to circumvent it because petrodollars allow us to have this huge debt because we really control the world's currency.
	And which is why we go and kick...
	If you're thinking of selling your oil for anything but United States dollars, you could wind up either hung on YouTube...
	Yeah, like Gaddafi.
	Yeah, or you're in a gutter.
	You're coming out of the gutter pipeline.
	Yeah, we'll shoot you there.
	So it's not a good idea.
	But it would fundamentally change the way the world works if...
	And you brought this up.
	If China says, okay, we're done with playing these games...
	Right, which is what they're saying.
	Which is what they're saying.
	We have lots of engineers in China, and we can point them in any direction we want because our education system is pretty much government-controlled, and we've turned them into nuke engineers.
	If they go all nuclear, besides solving their air pollution and energy problems and putting them on a completely independent path, it would be a fundamental change to world politics.
	And it would get all the stuff that's going on, what we follow, the pipelines and all the rest of it, just over.
	Could you imagine how much more money there would be to do other things with if our energy wasn't based on oil and gas?
	And if it also wasn't based on solar and wind, which is farcical, but something real, something that really works, and once you've done the initial investment, it rolls on.
	It's just like a little football thing that's sitting in there, and it's good for 40 years.
	Or longer.
	More longer.
	More like today's technology.
	So we talked about the Chinas looking at going very heavy into nuclear.
	Ukraine, of course, which has been right in the middle of this...
	Well, they've kind of been torn on both sides.
	Either join the European Union, get a little bit of cash, you know, and help us out, or strengthen the ties with Russia.
	And, of course...
	80% of Ukraine's gas transits into the European Union.
	And so it's kind of unresolved, although they've said, well, we're not really going to join the European Union.
	Now Russia has given Kiev a $6 billion loan to develop atomic energy resources, which makes nothing but sense.
	I learned something else that's interesting.
	Chernobyl was never meant to be a power generating facility.
	No.
	Yes, of course I knew this.
	It was a bomb maker.
	It was an actual weapons plant.
	Yeah, and they jerry-rigged it.
	It was poorly designed, by the way, and they did a dumb test and that's what made it blow.
	Yeah.
	They did a really stupid test.
	Apparently this was built without the Ukrainians' knowledge by the Russians secretly when they were still under Soviet control.
	And to this day, the Ukraine, because half of this area is kind of contaminated, and to this day, there's one of the reasons the Ukrainians just hate the Russians.
	The real Ukrainians, not the Russians living in the Ukraine.
	But it's interesting.
	This whole thing, the nuke thing, it has to happen.
	I mean, and not only that, but the people that are against it just per se, because they don't know any better, who are also pro-global warming, they put themselves between a rock and a hard place with their logic.
	Well, it's risk.
	Human beings inherently do not understand how to gauge risk, where, of course, you are much more likely to get in your car, drive to work, and be killed on the road, like magnitudes more likely, than you are to be killed by a terrorist or a nuclear plant disaster.
	There's tons of radiation coming over from Fukushima.
	It continues.
	It does not stop.
	And there's a couple things that I want to talk about today as well, where I find myself now not on the side of the quote-unquote alternative media.
	And it's scary territory for me.
	And it really started with the nuclear...
	I'm going to be scared.
	You've never been on the site of alternative media.
	Well, if you look at...
	Well, no, alternative media in general, I think that's not true.
	John, we attack the status quo.
	We attack what the mainstream media is propagating.
	But then when you look, it really started with the nuclear fear-mongering and taking oceanographic maps of wave patterns and turning that into this is how the radiation is flowing.
	And then these bullcrap stories about sailors...
	Dying from radiation sickness on the nuclear aircraft carrier.
	And all of these stories which are being propagated throughout the alternative media like a wildfire.
	And they're saying, oh, the mainstream media is covering it up.
	And yeah, the mainstream media doesn't cover a lot of things, whether that's called a cover-up or not.
	But then you get into other areas.
	For instance, I've been reading up on the TPA. You know what the TPA is?
	This is this bill that has been proposed, which would allow...
	It's basically fast-track authority for the president to negotiate...
	To sign off on treaties.
	Right.
	The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the TTIP, which would be for the European Union.
	And the whole alternative universe is, yeah, we can't have this!
	New old order!
	They're going to fuck us!
	Internet freedom's going to go away!
	We won't have drugs!
	We're not going to die!
	You've heard that guy?
	Yeah, that guy.
	He's around.
	And so, you know me, it's like, I'll get the TPA bill, and I read it, and I'm like, you know, this doesn't sound too bad.
	And I'm afraid.
	I'm literally afraid.
	That's not too bad.
	Well, have you looked at it?
	No.
	It's not all that bad.
	Oh, if you say so, you like to look at this stuff, and I take your word for it.
	I love to look at this stuff.
	So, we're talking about...
	I think we need to put these agreements in place as the United States.
	And we need to put them in place because we've got nothing going for us except for really our gas.
	What else do we have?
	We already, you know, selling stuff that blows people up and flies around and blows people up and flies without pilots and blows people up and tanks.
	Now, we're good.
	That would lock.
	We locked in is good.
	We know how to do that.
	I'm just being nationalistic here for a moment.
	Apparently.
	Well, look, you take that away.
	You want to stop the military-industrial complex?
	Fine.
	Can't.
	Starve.
	No, of course you can't.
	That's what we run on.
	So the alternative idea, which is what President Obama has pushed from day one, is natural gas, and that is achieved by a lot of fracking.
	Yeah, I mean, it's all pumping crap into our water supply.
	I'm sure we'll talk about that as well.
	But in order to effectively compete, we have to start shipping that stuff.
	We're isolated here.
	So the TPP allows us to ship it off to mainly Japan, which is really the key ingredient.
	We need to get it to Japan before it comes in from the Russia and China cabal.
	We need to get it there first.
	And then the TTIP, while Turkey is exploding, we need to get our gas into Europe.
	It's that simple.
	And if we don't want to do that, fine.
	But then don't complain.
	I'm being pragmatic.
	I really wish it was rainbows and unicorns and we all could tiptoe through the tulips, but if you want something to go, then this is it.
	And the way these things are put together, I'm hearing really stupid things being said about this process, and WikiLeaks is jumping on top of it, and they release the intellectual property document, which said nothing other than, gee, no one really agrees yet, and it's not a document, it's just a working rundown.
	But I have some of the basic points of what this is about.
	Now, we're talking 11 Asia-Pacific economies, 28 European Union member countries, 28 countries that don't fit in those two.
	It is New World Order, by the way, totally.
	159 members of the World Trade Organization.
	This is really, really big.
	We're talking about opening up a market of 1 billion consumers to United States.
	They don't say it this way, but I'm going to tell you, to United States petroleum products.
	That's what this is about.
	If you're worried about unions, that's the least of your worries.
	And this TPA, this authority bill, it expired in 2007, so it's really a renewal in order to get this done before Before other countries start delivering gas to Japan and before the European Union elections in, I believe that's in May.
	Because if we don't have an agreement in place with the EU by May, then it's not going to happen.
	And it's going to really hurt the United States.
	And I think it'll also hurt Europe.
	The Russians, I think it would be good for our European brothers and sisters to have a little competition over who's supplying your electricity to charge your Tesla.
	And with Congress the way it is currently, it takes too long here.
	You just don't get anything done.
	This isn't really nothing new.
	It's just people freak out about it.
	Yeah, they do.
	They are freaking out about it.
	Do you think it's legitimate?
	I would take your analysis of it above most people, so I would just take your side because you're very kind of you.
	That's very kind of you.
	I'm a very kind person.
	No, you're not.
	You're a grumpy, mean man.
	So, no, not in the list.
	I don't know where you get these ideas.
	Well, let me give you a few of the relevant things that this TPA, that this authority will do and allow.
	And by the way, there's all kinds of commissions and there's ways to stop it.
	And, you know, it's no more rigged than any other process we have.
	So it just streamlines it a little bit.
	Okay, establishes new goods and services objectives for the digital age.
	Updates objectives to facilitate digital trade, including protections for cross-border data flow.
	This is the Hollywood, obviously.
	So, yeah, Hollywood gets that little thing in there to make sure.
	And I'm not against that.
	You know, I like people in the creative industry to be paid.
	I'm just not for that kind of piracy.
	This morning I said, please take me off your email list, Klaatu.
	I'm not interested in receiving emails about how I can watch stuff for free.
	I gladly pay for the entertainment that I receive.
	And if I can't afford it, then I won't watch it, or if there's a value for value, I'll give what I can.
	But I think the majority of people who are whining and bitching about this just want free shit.
	And look, I'm against that.
	It's not okay.
	TPA 2014 maintains strong objectives to eliminate barriers to cross-border investments and protect U.S. investors from unfair treatment.
	This is all about your...
	They don't even mention gas in this, but that's what it's about.
	Updated provisions for cyber theft, protect trade secrets, facilitate legitimate digital trade.
	Yeah, that's going to be just more of the, you know, that'll be lots of bull crap we'll have to deal with.
	But at least we'll be dealing with it with the entire world and not just us alone.
	Currency manipulation.
	Yeah, I'm all for that.
	I think we should, you know, we should be looking out about what's happening in other countries with currencies.
	Just so you know how it works in Congress.
	Every member of Congress will have access to the negotiating text.
	That's what it says right here in this bill.
	So I don't see how there can be anything more secret than it already is.
	Every member of Congress should have access to it.
	It doesn't say secret access, or it even says statutorily ensures.
	Of course, no member of Congress will ever care to look at it.
	No, they won't read it.
	They're not going to read it.
	But they may have one wonk in the office.
	It doesn't promise anyone's going to do anything about it.
	United States trade representatives will meet and consult with any interested member of Congress at any time.
	Key word, interested.
	I thought that was pretty funny to put that right in the bill.
	Hey, is anyone interested in this?
	Oh, all right.
	Well, if you're interested, you can take a look at it.
	Any member of Congress can be designated a congressional advisor and accredited to attending negotiating rounds.
	And these negotiations are about a lot of stuff.
	A lot of stuff.
	But here's the one that is most important to me.
	Oversight for ongoing negotiations.
	TPA applies.
	Oversight consultation requirements are built right in.
	And the TPA can be disallowed if agreement makes inadequate progress in meeting objectives and new language extends disapproval to all notice and consultation requirements.
	Now, I don't expect our representatives to do a good job regardless of Really, regardless.
	But we need to move this along.
	And what I'd like to ask you, John, is people keep referring to NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and saying that that destroyed so much that this would be a global NAFTA and we can't allow it.
	And I don't think that's true.
	No, that's not a global...
	NAFTA was problematic because it essentially moved...
	It was an easy thing to do.
	You could set up a factory just on the border, the Texas border on the Mexican side, and now environmental laws and labor laws and all these things didn't apply, and so you have companies like Maytag closing shop In the U.S. and in moving stuff, that's a lot.
	This is nothing like that.
	Right, but that's also different because that is...
	It's funny because I was...
	Miki caught a whole thing on...
	She's my NPR canary in the coal mine.
	She heard a whole thing about the electricity in Texas and, you know, we're buying so many things from Mexico.
	And yes, GE has also moved plants down to Mexico, but the problem is the FDA and EPA... Restrictions and regulations that are put in place in the United States, not that Mexico...
	I don't think it was some ploy...
	It's just we need to loosen restrictions or at least revisit what we're doing.
	Well, everything is a cost-benefit analysis, right?
	I mean, that's the way business works, and people always kind of lose sight of that.
	Yeah, of course.
	It's not like some evil guy drooling in the quarters thinking different ways of screwing people.
	So they do a cost-benefit analysis, and it turns out you can actually build a factory from scratch, build it up, hire people, and all the rest of it.
	Now, yeah, it's not necessarily, and then do it cheaper than keeping your employees, but there is also social responsibility involved with certain corporate decisions, and sometimes it's like, is there any way you can keep the factory open in the Maytag factory, for example, and keep these people employed because they're very skilled?
	Are you losing any money in the process?
	Are you making so much more money doing it the other way?
	Generally speaking, you're not.
	In fact, a lot of people are pulling back from the offshoring.
	It's like Boeing and that Dreamliner.
	They lost their ass on that jet because they outsourced everything.
	It turns out that they got crap back.
	Great batteries they got there.
	They've got just junk.
	Outside of the U.S. and actually Europe probably, or let's say Germany, outside of certain countries, Japan also would be in that category.
	Most of the stuff is low quality.
	Although they've been changing that because Japanese firms run a lot of the better Chinese companies, and we've got some of our engineers in China.
	So China's actually producing some good stuff along with a lot of garbage.
	But generally speaking, if the factory's right next door in California, let's say, and it's making stuff and it's inferior, they're going to hear about it as opposed to people just bringing garbage in and then...
	What are you going to do about it?
	I got this lecture from a guy who fixed my refrigerator.
	He says, don't buy a Samsung refrigerator.
	Oh?
	You can't...
	You should try to get parts for the thing.
	Oh, you can't repair it, yeah.
	You can't repair it, and they don't work that well.
	Yeah.
	So it's like you've got to start to think logically sometimes.
	Anyway, I'm sorry.
	So the final thing I'll say about this is the president cannot sign this and make it done.
	The president has a lot of power, by the way.
	There has to be a vote.
	But it will be an up or down vote, no possibility for amendments, which is, that's really the fast-track portion of how this bill sees the authority, which has just been, I mean, I didn't hear anyone complaining about this in 2007 when it was still there.
	So the Congress ultimately still votes on this.
	They will have a period of time to review the entire agreement.
	Now, I commit to you that I will read the agreement.
	You know, your members of Congress, your elected representatives, you know that they're not going to do it.
	They're getting blowjobs while snorting coke.
	That's what they do.
	I'm generalizing.
	Yeah, not all of them snort coke.
	Most of them like the lewds.
	I will read it and I will comment on it and then you can contact your representative whether you think they should vote for it or not.
	We still, the people still technically have the power.
	Well, you're an optimist today.
	I'm going out on a limb because I read things.
	I really take time.
	And I'm not knee-jerk about alternative websites saying that we're being sold down the river.
	We'll never have health.
	We'll never get medicine.
	We'll be slaves.
	Like, we're not slaves now?
	So, yeah, I'm a little optimistic, and I'm just...
	No, I'm pragmatic is what I am.
	Pragmatic.
	I would love nothing more than nuclear energy to power my child's future.
	I'm bearish on that.
	But when it comes to the next steps for what the United States should do in this current situation where almost a half a million people disappeared from the workforce...
	Just disappeared, became, I don't know, bums?
	Then this is a pretty good deal if we can get this going.
	Did you hear the analysis of this, by the way, of the jobs numbers?
	Which, I mean, I was laughing out loud.
	I heard on NPR, how can this be?
	We don't understand.
	What's wrong with these numbers?
	Was it too cold?
	Were people too cold to go out and look for jobs?
	Or, wait, Thanksgiving?
	You sound like the cookie monster.
	Here's CNN's analysis.
	Hilarious.
	Quick backstory to this.
	The jobs numbers have always been cooked, and the unemployment rate...
	Although it may be a true number, it is based upon the actual number of people who are looking for jobs.
	And when they go away, then that number goes down.
	And just before the election, you'll recall there was a huge fracas over the reported jobs numbers.
	Even, what's the guy from GE? Jack Welch.
	He's like, the books are cooked.
	This is phony baloney.
	And of course, when you close out the year, and these are December's numbers...
	You've got to even it out somehow.
	So they said, ah, screw it.
	Just dump it all into December and we'll take the hit as crappy numbers.
	And here's how the prostitutes talk it away.
	Big surprise.
	A big miss.
	A big miss.
	Economists really got this wrong.
	74,000 jobs created in the month, the last month of the year.
	Only 74,000.
	You remember, you had economists all week revising upward their expectations, closer to 200,000.
	Here's the real shocker.
	The jobless rate drops.
	Drops to 6.7%.
	Which we should be cheering.
	How can that be?
	The lowest jobless rate since 2008, basically?
	More than half a million people just left the job market.
	Just stopped looking for work.
	Now, the logical question is...
	How do they survive?
	What are they eating?
	How do they get by?
	Total jobs created for the year, 2.2 million, making you basically on par with 2012.
	So basically, last year we created as many jobs as we did the year before.
	Now we have a whole year's picture for the month.
	74,000 jobs, that is a big disappointment.
	A lot of economists thought that it'd be much better than that.
	Then you look at the jobless rate, it fell, in part because people simply gave up.
	Where did they go?
	They don't ask that question, but let's take a look at ShadowStats.
	I recommend you go to ShadowStats.com.
	And we take a look at the true unemployment rate, which is the shadow stats statistic.
	We have the U3, the U6, and shadow stats.
	And we do see that when Obama got elected, it took in two different directions.
	The number you want is the shadow stats number, because that's the one that is most directly comparable to old calculations done during, like, say, the Depression.
	And this is like, you know, what they've done is it's almost like Say you change the way baseball home runs are calculated.
	Like you all of a sudden add all the near misses or fouls that went over the fence.
	Close enough.
	Hey, it was close.
	Give him half a point.
	That means you can't compare Babe Ruth to a modern player, which is what they've done with unemployment.
	So we don't get a true picture.
	Correct.
	And we still have it looking at about 23.5% unemployment rate based on old calculations put to today's public.
	And it's still under the 33% I think it reached during the Great Depression, but it's still headed up.
	It's still headed up.
	It's not headed down.
	Well, the president did his podcast, which, by the way, I don't think has ever been nominated for a podcast award.
	I don't think he's been nominated.
	You're right.
	He's not been nominated.
	Nobody listens to it, but you.
	Yeah, no.
	There's probably about 800 people who subscribe to his podcast.
	And, well, I was surprised.
	And to me, it sounded like he thought everything was great.
	Economists had over-predicted the number of jobs created by 300%.
	That'll teach you to believe economists.
	But the president, it's all peachy keen.
	Hi, everybody.
	Hi, everybody.
	Yesterday, we learned that in 2013, our business has created 2.2 million new jobs.
	Now, we just heard that that's exactly the same as the year before.
	So it's not like some great, you know, great upward trend.
	Including 87,000 last month.
	Woo!
	Do you see how he just does that?
	Including 87,000 last month.
	He doesn't say we expected three times that.
	Our unemployment rate is the lowest it has been since October 2008.
	Because all these people are gone.
	Because they're all bums.
	Across our broader economy, there are signs of progress.
	Our manufacturing and housing sectors are rebounding.
	Our energy, technology, and auto sectors are booming.
	Booming!
	Booming, I say!
	Thanks in part to the reform...
	You know, it just galls me that the government does this.
	I mean, just saying it doesn't make it so.
	This is not the government, John.
	This is our leader.
	This administration, just bold-faced lies.
	Our energy, technology, and auto sectors are booming.
	Thanks in part to the reforms in the Affordable Care Act, health care costs now eat up less of our economy.
	I don't think that's true either.
	No, it's a bold-faced lie.
	Over the past four years, costs have grown at the slowest rate on record.
	And since I took office, we've cut our deficits by more than half.
	What?
	Are you still there?
	Yeah.
	Oh, no, I thought you crapped out for a second.
	Well, anyway, I did have an idea as I was watching the President's podcast.
	So there's been this big talk about extending the unemployment benefits.
	And the way I understand it...
	So we do have unemployment benefits in the United States of America as part of the safety net.
	And it's not a lot of money.
	It's about $1,000 a month, I think, per person.
	If you're still looking for...
	And how long is it?
	Maybe six months, I think, or...
	I don't remember anymore.
	It's been so muddied by these never-ending extensions.
	Right.
	And they've been extended since we've been doing this show, I think, John.
	Yeah.
	This has been extended, extended, extended.
	And whenever something like this happens, I'm in a conversation with someone, I say...
	Well, you know, things are more expensive.
	You're paying more for your own health care.
	You're paying more for gasoline.
	You're paying more in taxes.
	It is to help your fellow Americans.
	Are you okay?
	This is how it's being spent.
	And it always gives people a second to think about it.
	But I had an idea.
	So this extension for another six months for 1.3 million Americans, as you're about to hear the president say...
	We'll cost six billion dollars, and now this is a stalemate.
	It's stuck in Congress.
	Well, we can't pay for this.
	Where are we going to get the money from?
	And when I hear the president say this, I'm thinking, all right, I have an idea.
	...jobs and new opportunities for American families.
	With Congress, or on my own, and with everyone willing to play their part.
	And that action should begin by extending unemployment insurance for Americans who were laid off in the recession through no fault of their own.
	Now, he says through no fault of their own.
	And this is a constant theme.
	So boo-hoo, through no fault of your own.
	Whose fault was it?
	I think we can all agree it was greedy bankers and banks.
	Is that generally accepted?
	I don't think that was really...
	I mean, that's who is blamed.
	That's fine.
	That's all I need to know.
	It doesn't mean they're at fault.
	No, no.
	That's who's being blamed, and that's who's being penalized.
	J.P. Morgan, for their part in the credit default swap scandal and rip-off...
	That is specifically being blamed for the 2008 economic, the greatest recession since the Great Depression, have been fined $20 billion for their complicitness in that event.
	Why can't...
	Where's that $20 billion go to?
	Why don't you take that $20 billion, take out $6 billion, give it to the people who need unemployment benefits?
	Why don't you go to all the banks and get a billion from each of them?
	Where does that money go, by the way, the $20 billion?
	It goes into the Treasury.
	Yeah, well, then go back...
	And it goes into making more drones.
	Well, no, it should go to the Americans who need unemployment insurance.
	Yeah, well, that's probably a good idea.
	Good luck.
	I think anybody could help.
	Where did they get all the money?
	J.P. Morgan has been fined.
	We talk about this on DHN Plug.
	I heard you talk about it.
	Where does the money come from?
	And Andrew Horwitz always goes, No, he doesn't.
	These guys have bottomless...
	Talk about deep pockets.
	Yeah.
	Okay, you're fining another $5 billion.
	Oh, I left my wallet at home.
	All they have to do is go to the Fed window, drive by, say, give me $5 billion.
	And they say, that's fine.
	No interest for you.
	That's where it's coming from, I presume.
	By the way, what is this thing about this new Fed guy?
	How can they get away with it?
	I mean, we have enough suspicions.
	You mean the Bank of Israel?
	Yeah, play the Fed bankers clip.
	We can get a background on this.
	Well, we did mention this before it even happened, so...
	President Obama has tapped a former head of the Bank of Israel, Stanley Fischer, to be vice chairman of the Federal Reserve.
	The nominee is currently a professor at MIT and holds dual citizenship in the US and Israel.
	Well, the Fed is a private organization.
	Whose interest is a guy like this going to serve?
	Israel or the United States?
	It doesn't matter.
	It's a private organization.
	We have no say over it.
	They can do whatever they want.
	We don't even know who the Federal Reserve is.
	We don't even know which banks are really a part of it.
	So what are you complaining about?
	Now you have a problem with the Fed?
	How about Janet Yellen?
	Please.
	Yeah, well, I was kind of rooting for her until she showed up.
	So she shows up, and then they dump all this unemployment crap on her.
	Hey, Yellen, welcome to the job.
	They just want to make sure they keep that free money coming into the system.
	That's exactly the point.
	I think Jack Welch was right all along, and I think he's probably still right, even though he was roundly, soundly blasted by everybody else.
	Scalded, scolded.
	But again, at least we can understand the plan.
	So...
	There was brief talk.
	Bernanke had to leave.
	He's tired.
	He wants to yacht around the world.
	Whatever he's going to do, hop on a couple of boards.
	He's time to party.
	Good on you.
	Time to party.
	Go do whatever you want to do.
	But, of course, he had to start kind of talking about tapering off of the $60 billion a month that is being printed and buying our own bonds and securities and stocks.
	That was a threat.
	Yes.
	Tapering was a threat.
	Right.
	But then they actually start talking about a slight taper, and then, boom, you hit the numbers.
	And so Yellen, the new person, comes in and says, well, we've got to keep printing.
	We've just got to keep going.
	And at the same time, we protect the actual value of the dollar by killing anyone who doesn't want to trade oil or gas in dollars.
	Right?
	This, by the way, is also part of what Erdogan did.
	Erdogan was doing backroom deals with Iran.
	So I think he screwed some stuff up there that has not yet come to light.
	Yeah, that wouldn't be good.
	Yeah, so he screwed some stuff up there that is kind of coming to light now.
	And we'll just continue.
	It's a big kick of the can down the road, as far as I can see.
	I just don't see much different.
	Until Hillary comes in, of course.
	Yeah, that would be interesting.
	Well, they're definitely doing their best job of making Christy look like an idiot.
	Right.
	I have a Christy clip, which is just kind of summarize.
	It's so funny, yeah.
	It's so funny that I really, I so don't care about this.
	Everyone, you know, it's a non-stop media story.
	No, I think it's going to die on the vine, but I still think it's amusing, and I just love listening to Christy say stuff like this clip has it.
	And I apologize to the members of the state legislature.
	Uh...
	I am embarrassed and humiliated by the conduct of some of the people on my team.
	For nearly two hours, Governor Chris Christie apologized, announcing he'd fired his deputy chief of staff, Bridget Ann Kelly, for lying about her role in lane closures that crippled traffic in Fort Lee, New Jersey last fall.
	I am a very sad person today.
	Come on, this is humorous.
	Yeah, that's funny.
	I agree.
	I'm a sad person.
	And then it goes on for an hour.
	Just today.
	Just today, though.
	Just today.
	Hey, thank you for your courage, John.
	And in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
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	And as is customary...
	We do not take any advertising money, underwriting, sponsorships, call it whatever you want.
	We have actual producers, executive producers, and associate executive producers who we'd like to give credit in a special credit section of the show, which is designated for people who are actually making this program possible through your contributions.
	It's a very unique...
	I tried to explain it to...
	We had dinner Friday night.
	Oh, is this a bot dinner?
	Well, the jury's still out.
	He is a New Yorker and he's a banker.
	Oh, well then maybe not.
	Banker, yes.
	Banker, I think trying to get out of banking, but derivatives too.
	Very interesting.
	It's hard to break through to a banker, to have a real conversation where you don't feel like...
	My experience with financial people is they have a way to turn off all empathy.
	Because if you have empathy in finance, you will never win.
	You know what I mean?
	You have to be a heartless bastard.
	Yes, or you have to be able to turn it on and off.
	Well, it generally sees you just to keep it off.
	Yeah, well, anyway.
	The guys are crying.
	Honey, you're crying in the middle of the night.
	Why are you crying?
	I rolled out my Hillary on him.
	That was kind of funny.
	Oh!
	What was his reaction?
	You might want to remind listeners what that is.
	Yes.
	Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the United States because she is uniquely qualified to run the empire.
	Yeah.
	And I don't think he was expecting it from me.
	I think that was the main thing.
	He was like, what?
	You know, because I'm an MTV guy.
	He's my age, so he knows me from MTV. His wife had listened to the show.
	She liked it.
	She thought it was funny.
	We're hilarious.
	Exactly.
	Those two idiots are funny.
	Now, you sent out an emergency notice yesterday.
	Yeah, because I was looking at the...
	I'm off a day, by the way.
	To me, this is Saturday.
	I'm just completely off on a lot of stuff.
	In general or just this week?
	It's been for about a week now.
	Okay.
	I don't know what it is, but I'm just...
	It's funny.
	Can I just say, because normally, we have this unwritten...
	First of all, John and I have no contracts, agreements, nothing.
	We've never even discussed anything.
	Have we?
	We've never even shaken hands on anything.
	It just, it is.
	You know, you don't wash.
	No, I'm not just kidding.
	Go on.
	But it kind of breaks down like this.
	I do the production and the show notes, and John does and manages, I would say, all finances in and out, as well as the peerage and the spreadsheet and the donations, all of that, and also the newsletter.
	The marketing.
	The marketing.
	Thank you.
	The marketing.
	That's...
	Oh, it's marketing.
	It's marketing now, is it?
	Okay.
	It is marketing.
	And typically, John will say, I get a text message on Wednesday or sometimes Tuesday.
	You know, it depends on this day or Friday or Saturday.
	It's like, you know, take a look at the newsletter.
	And I'll take a look and, you know, and I'll send some comments.
	And usually it's no more than maybe a spelling thing or something.
	But I didn't get one Saturday.
	And then all of a sudden, I did get the newsletter.
	And it was like a desperate plea.
	It was.
	It was like, we're screwed.
	I don't think I sounded that desperate, but we did get some emails from people saying I sounded desperate.
	It came across as desperate.
	And by the way...
	Did it come across as desperate to you?
	A little bit, yeah.
	I saw the newsletter, and I realized, hey, no one asked me.
	You didn't send me the newsletter to look at.
	So, oh my God, things are bad.
	That was my thought.
	And I didn't tell Mickey.
	Well, there were.
	There was no money in there.
	So we could thank a few people.
	There was nobody to thank.
	So I sent the thing out.
	And immediately, and this is what just, I was glowing all night.
	Immediately, there were producers, there were knights, there were people who are on $11 a month.
	Everybody stepped up.
	Yeah, we ended up with a good day, and a lot of people came in as executive producers, which we'll mention in a second.
	It was truly heartwarming.
	To me, it was like...
	Usually, if we sound desperate, we usually get some results, because people are saying, well, because we're not insincere about this.
	I mean, when I looked at the thing, I said, oh, this is ridiculous.
	Because I was actually at the...
	Here's the backstory, just for your information, if anybody wants to know.
	I was so off that I realized it was like 5 or 6 o'clock in the evening and I said, ah, I forgot all about my weekly book that I send out.
	Were you drinking?
	No, I wasn't drinking.
	I was drinking later.
	But I wasn't drinking and I... And I said, oh, well, maybe we can just skip it this week.
	It's not that important.
	I don't really have yet.
	Then I went and looked at the PayPal.
	I said, holy mackerel, there's like nothing in here.
	So I sent out that note.
	Right.
	Because I figured we could coast, you know, or I could coast off of not doing it because I'm off.
	I'm off a day.
	I thought it was Friday.
	I don't know what.
	And so I sent this thing out.
	It was short.
	It was just three sentences.
	I said we didn't get any money for their support show 582.
	And I appreciated if people would contribute to show 582.
	It was really not much more than that.
	No, I understand that.
	But now I understand the back story that there was no newsletter.
	Now I get it.
	So what we learned here is why put all the effort into a newsletter?
	You know, we've talked about this before.
	Like on the Tuesday one, we actually both work on it.
	The long one, it goes out Tuesday or Wednesday.
	Usually Wednesday, I guess.
	And if it's got lots of information in it, nobody cares.
	Yeah, but it was different because this time it had a picture of a kitten in it.
	The kitten thing.
	I got a lot of play with that.
	Yeah!
	I know.
	I'm doing the thing.
	I want some art, some kind of positive art.
	I want some positive feelings.
	And so I typed something into the Google Image thing, and I don't know why this kitten came up.
	I said, oh, that's so cute.
	Everybody likes a kitten.
	Yeah.
	So I ran the kitten picture.
	I liked it.
	It worked for me.
	It was a little bit of a non sequitur, that kitten picture.
	I got comments on people like, more newsletters with kittens, please.
	Good work.
	Anyway, so the whole idea is, I'll just repeat and then we can get into it.
	This program works and we can do the research and we can basically spend our entire day reading, investigating, understanding, watching, recording, editing, doing all of this because you support the show.
	And it's great to see people step up and help us when it was tough and it worked out great.
	Thank you very much.
	Highly appreciate it.
	So let's thank these executive producers and associate executive producers for show 582, including David Daniels, who came in from Dallas, Texas.
	He's a member of the 582 Club now.
	And he wants karma for all no-agenda producers.
	I'm sorry, that's all he wants?
	That's what it says.
	That's easy.
	You've got karma.
	Thank you very much.
	Archduke of Silicon Valley, David Foley, came in with 500, which is odd because he usually jumps onto the club thing with no note, and I can't find any notes, so he's the 4K TV special guy.
	What's his website?
	Go to 4kspecial.com and use the code NA for your $50.
	He knew it said something on the 5th, which was that, hey guys, quick note to let you know how well No Agenda Karma worked today.
	We won the Storage Visions Award at CES for the Visionary Home Entertainment product, which I guess was the day before the show.
	But if you look into Foley, he's been in the business forever.
	He's like a...
	Is he a...
	Oh, he's...
	Okay, so he's a...
	Maybe we can get a gig.
	Yeah, at his next startup.
	He's always...
	And I think he does the 4K TVs as a side thing just to...
	Because he wants some...
	I don't know.
	But he's been around the block.
	Sir Wire of the Hidden Jewel, James Pyres of Escondido, $333.33.
	Thanks for your courage.
	I couldn't resist John's pathetic Saturday night booty call.
	Make it rain, John.
	A question for Adam regarding the moon landings.
	If the six Apollo moon landings, by the way, I did read the Wagging the Moon Doggy blog you suggested, and it was a pretty interesting read, were actually faked, and the U.S. achieved this in the 60s.
	And why no other country, especially Russia or China, faked the same thing in the past 40-plus years?
	Hello?
	Hello?
	China is faking it as we speak.
	I would like to hear you and John's...
	Yeah, well, you've already talked about that.
	Thanks for the great work you guys both do in real news on a regular basis.
	The show just keeps getting better.
	Can't wait to hear the next In the Club segment.
	Coming up maybe Thursday.
	Carmen to A.I.E.J. Ed, Chris the Dude, and Sinclair.
	Two shots to the head to the big guy on behalf of Hillary.
	Thanks, Sir Wire of the Hidden Jewel.
	Let me do the...
	Almost too delicious to believe, my friend.
	There you go.
	And did he need karma for those?
	Yeah, karma for his buddies there.
	You got it.
	Thank you very much.
	You've got karma.
	Sir Weyer of the Hidden Jewel.
	James Spitzer, Baron of Jamaica Plains and the surrounding plantations.
	$333.33.
	Sir Jim, who we met in Boston.
	Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
	Responding for the call just for support.
	Jim Spitzer, Baron of Jamaica Plain.
	Robert Randall, no note, $300 from Portland, Oregon.
	Kick-Ass Pixels in Emeryville, California, right up the street from me, $250.
	James Luca, $246.88 from Norwalk, Connecticut.
	I'm so glad my husband turned me on to the show.
	Some of my favorite quality time is when we listen together on long road trips.
	Aww.
	$246.88 is to say how much I appreciate the No Agenda show.
	Please send karma to my husband for career happiness, whether this means taking a new job or having our small data security business actually generate income.
	GreatSwan LLC has set up Swiss emails.
	That's interesting.
	That's some code there, man.
	I don't know what's going on.
	I just want him to be as happy as he makes me.
	He is my P. That's a P in a pod reference.
	You know, the couple that listens to No Agenda Together is a happy couple.
	And a little karma for...
	Yeah, here's the karma for career happiness.
	You've got karma.
	Heck yeah.
	John, John, 2333 from Arvada, Colorado.
	Hello from Gitmo Nation Pot Cookies.
	Saw your call for donations.
	Had to step in and help.
	It's been a while since my last donation, so it's time for some value for value.
	Keep up the great work, guys.
	Thank you very much.
	Peter O'Connell in Stockholm, New Jersey, 2-20-11.
	Happy New Year's, John and Adam.
	Stellar analysis as always.
	Oh, Jeff Yerke over here in Concord, California, $202.02.
	Dear Benjamin and Mrs.
	Robinson, apologies for being MIA for a while.
	I want to thank you both again for completely ruining the lamestream media for me.
	Now all I have on TV is cartoons and the Popeil Gadget Channel.
	Good news is I have not had to melt down John's Red Fox records for heat.
	We digitize old Red Fox albums.
	And anyone who has any of those, we'd love to get a hold of them.
	It's a little side project.
	Please de-douche me and throw in a shot of karma, Jeff Yerke.
	Okay, happy to do that.
	You've been de-douched.
	By Ayn Rand.
	Hello.
	You've got karma.
	I found that one yesterday.
	Sir Joseph Frost, 200 bucks from Wooddale, Illinois.
	I was listening to Thursday's podcast tonight when I got John's donation message.
	I said I had been selfish and not donated to the best podcast in quite some time.
	So here's a wannabe value for your value.
	Good luck on this week's donations.
	Thank you.
	Barry Kroger, Greeley, Colorado.
	Keep up the good work.
	A shot of karma for my family.
	You've got karma.
	Those are the executive and associate executive producers for show 582.
	I want to thank them all and we'll get to the rest of the donors later on in the show.
	I want to remind people that we do have a show coming up on Thursday.
	Dvorak.org slash NA is the place to go.
	Also, we already did our PR, of course, from Matt, who did a great job.
	There's a new meetup.
	Let me just open this up, which I'll put into the show notes.
	Meetup.com slash no-agenda-meetup.
	This is the Secret No Agenda Society of New Jersey and New York.
	So that was a request.
	If I would put that in the show notes, I'll have a look at that.
	Of course, we're always looking to expand the family, and I know we have a lot of people in that area who definitely could get together and hang out.
	Thank you all so much.
	These are actual credits.
	You can use them anywhere.
	Credits are accepted.
	This will work on your IMDB. But also apparently works really well on your LinkedIn account.
	We can't explain why, but you get views and people get job offers.
	So have a look at that.
	And as John said, please think of us for our show on Thursday.
	And we always want you to be thinking about doing something which is propagating the message.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Order!
	Order!
	Shut up, slave!
	Shut up, slave!
	I, just before the show started, and this kind of goes with what we were talking about, the U.S. economy, I received a tweet, which was one of these things I received a tweet, which was one of these things that, they do it to, well, of course, I'm still well known in Gitmo Nation Lowlands,
	So you see someone you don't know tweeting something saying, hey Adam Curry take a look at this!
	And then if you click on that person you'll see they have one follower.
	Yeah, I just bullf**k those guys.
	Yeah, well but then they've tweeted the same message to a whole bunch of celebratis.
	And it was for a European Union project and a vote, and they need a million votes, for something called the Universal Basic Income.
	Have you ever heard of this?
	Yeah, this is actually not a new idea.
	In fact, we actually talk about this around the dinner table.
	In fact, I think Buzzkill Jr.
	said that when we played that clip of that county clerk who didn't want to do any...
	Didn't want to do her job because she was busy tweeting.
	He in particular said she's perfect for this sort of thing because she would be better off being paid not to be in the workforce because these people are counterproductive.
	Right.
	And it was actually Nixon who proposed a universal income where you had essentially everyone would get money just to exist.
	Yes, just for being.
	Right.
	Yeah, just for being.
	Okay, so this is...
	You can find it...
	It's not completely crazy.
	No, it's not.
	And I want to play this video, which is promoting the idea.
	And you can find it basicincome2013.eu.
	And it's the Unconditional Basic Income, or UBI, Citizens' Income, which is guaranteed.
	And the way these guys are playing it is that it is a human right, as per the Human Rights Council.
	Yeah, well, that's bullcrap.
	Yeah.
	Do you want to hear the little commercial thing they've got here?
	Yeah, of course.
	Because this is, of course, meant to convince citizens that they need to sign up for this.
	And they only need a million signatures.
	And I'm thinking this is a great deal.
	Today, austerity seems to be the only answer given to remedy the economic crisis in Europe.
	Yet people are getting poorer and poorer.
	Automation and manufacturing and wealth accumulation by financial institutions are changing our approach to work.
	More and more is produced with fewer and fewer people.
	Unemployment rates have skyrocketed and pay work is no longer a right for everyone.
	The good news is that never before in history have human societies generated so much wealth.
	But while this wealth is produced by the work of all, past and present, this wealth is unevenly distributed among citizens.
	We as European citizens propose an alternative.
	It's not a new idea, but now is the time to put it into action.
	It's called unconditional basic income.
	Have you heard of it?
	Not yet.
	Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care, and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness.
	There it is.
	Basic income should be universal, individual, unconditional, and high enough to ensure a dignified existence and participation in society.
	This new fundamental right for humanity not only would eradicate misery, it is also a way to develop non-market-orientated work, such as artists, parents, and volunteers.
	But it's also an economic measure.
	A basic income for all means supporting local business.
	Therefore, it would enable us to fully exercise our citizenship.
	How do we finance it?
	Easy.
	We have several proposals.
	Financial and high income taxation, a consumption tax on luxury goods and polluting products, and mainly self-financing by simplification of a very long list of current social transfers and associated public services, which have become obsolete.
	What we propose would be much simpler, equal, and transparent.
	Everyone gets a basic income without even asking for it.
	But then, of course, it's up to you to work if you want more money.
	We as European citizens have now launched an official petition called the European Citizen Initiative to make the European authorities examine our manifesto.
	So, what's the deal?
	So.
	So.
	First of all, we have to surpass a minimum threshold of seven countries minimum.
	Okay, I think...
	Wow!
	What?
	I think you can stop it.
	It's almost over.
	20 seconds.
	What part of Europe is this guy from?
	He sounds like he's from Southern California.
	Let me just do the last 20 seconds.
	At least let him get through the pitch.
	...campaign and are getting ready to collect signatures.
	Hopefully others will join up soon.
	The European Commission must consider our proposals when we reach the 1 million signatures required.
	If accepted, studies of the different models and amounts of basic income will begin.
	We must mobilize by organizing events, creating local groups, and creating a buzz by telling your friends and everyone around you that a new idea is growing.
	Free money!
	Thank you for visiting basicincome2013.eu.
	Create a buzz.
	Create a buzz by telling everybody there's free money for just breathing.
	Hold on a second.
	Let's take a look at this.
	You know, can I just suggest one thing here?
	Should we try your other network for a moment?
	Anyway, this is not a new idea.
	But I went to, while we had that little issue, I believe that this is nothing more.
	For one thing, this guy sounds like he's in Southern California, which bothers me.
	I think this is just a mailing list scam.
	A mailing list scam?
	It's an official EU initiative.
	I'm telling you, there's a mailing list involved in this.
	You know, okay, this is very interesting because I was looking at the initiative here.
	Hold on, there's frequently asked questions.
	There was something about, it's funny you say this.
	Hold on.
	Let me scroll down to it.
	How can I help collect?
	Why do I have to provide so much sensitive private data when I sign up?
	Yes!
	Really, John?
	Did you nail this somehow?
	What is going on?
	Every time I see anything like this that's asking for your signature or your mailing address, I always think mailing list scam.
	This has been going on.
	Mailing list scams are great.
	We should do one to get more people on our mailing list.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me see who is behind basicincome2013.eu.
	Now you have me...
	Freak out.
	Because this says sign online.
	Well, there's an EU website.
	Yeah, so what?
	Yeah, yeah, true.
	It looks pretty official.
	It doesn't look official to me.
	Well, none of the European Union sites look really great.
	Let me see.
	Whois Basic Income 2013.
	Can I even get that through the Whois if I want to find out?
	Yeah, here we go.
	Not disclosed.
	Okay.
	Go to...
	Hold on.
	Go to...
	EURID.EU for web-based WHOIS. Ugh, now we're going to get all this crap.
	That WHOIS database doesn't always work so well.
	Okay, let's see.
	Okay, so that's not going anywhere.
	Okay.
	I don't know.
	Maybe someone in the chat room can figure that out for us.
	Are you still there, John?
	Yeah, I'm listening.
	I can't find it either.
	Okay, here it is.
	Basicincome2013.eu I'm going to have to do the.eu on this web-based system.
	Go!
	All right, tell me who is doing this.
	And let me ask you, why does the guy sound like a Southern California surfer?
	Oh, because they...
	Oh, this is interesting.
	Huh.
	Well, he sounds like a California surfer because they put out a...
	You know, they clearly put out an audition.
	I'm surprised I didn't get asked to read for it.
	Registrant is a Dutchman named Robin Ketelars, and he lives in Draunervain, His email address is robincathardsoft.nl This is sounding a little sketchy.
	Hmm.
	I don't know, man.
	Maybe it's just a local initiative.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Let's put it this way.
	A name on a mailing list is worth a minimum of $10.
	One name?
	Yeah.
	On any mailing list?
	Yeah.
	Really?
	Yeah, if you own that name, it's worth $10 at least.
	Wow.
	It could be more if it's really a great list.
	Hmm.
	So, there's been a lot of these guys who did...
	You remember the computer professor?
	You see him on television all the time.
	Hi, I am a computer professor, and I have a disc on how you can learn word.
	Oh, is this the tech guy?
	I don't know who he is.
	Just kidding.
	No, it's not the tech guy.
	Does this call for help?
	I have a disc and it's free.
	Oh, yes, I have.
	Send us your name and address and you'll get a free disc.
	We even pay shipping.
	Well, that is a mailing list.
	It's not a scam.
	It's just a mailing list scam.
	The idea is to get the names that you can put on a mailing list and those are all addresses.
	They're worth a minimum of $10 a pop.
	And you rent them over and over and over again.
	That particular list is probably worth a fortune.
	Well, that kind of deflates the whole excitement I had about getting money for just breathing.
	I was kind of excited about that.
	I was ready to tell Mickey that we should use her European Union citizen status to go back, find a nice place to live, and just live and get paid.
	And if we ever feel like making extra money, then we can work.
	Do these things work out?
	Has anyone really looked at this model of this can actually succeed?
	Yeah, yeah, it could work.
	Really?
	It wouldn't in a million years because no one would put up with it.
	It's just not going to happen.
	How does this UBI differ from communism or socialism?
	The communists make you do some work.
	Okay.
	So it's kind of, it starts off by, hey, you don't have to do anything, and then slowly it's like, well, you know, you might want to, you know...
	The mindset of the Westerner is not amenable to this.
	Okay.
	Well, I think it's an interesting concept.
	And I can see where a lot of people would be, yeah, I'm all in on that.
	Just pay me to be alive, and then I can be a musician, I can be an artist, I can be a podcaster.
	That's on the mailing list with a bunch of demographics.
	Perfect.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Okay, switching gears, John.
	Of course, it is 28 more days until the start of the Sochi Olympics, and we need to constantly remind everybody that that is coming up.
	And what better way to remind the American public, particularly if you are hosting this on your television network, such as NBC or any of the affiliated NBC channels, to remind people how horribly dangerous Russia is.
	And maybe the State Department could put out a little memo to remind us about how dangerous Russia is.
	And if you're planning on going to the Sochi Olympics, which start in one month from now, set your VCRs, everybody.
	Then that would be very handy to propagate that message.
	Tonight, the U.S. State Department has issued an alert warning any Americans planning to travel to the Olympics in Russia.
	This is about the potential danger following terrorist threats, and the opening ceremony is exactly four weeks from tonight.
	Don't you love that?
	Like, the opening ceremony?
	You always want to catch the opening ceremony.
	And of course you're watching NBC. Yes, of course you're watching NBC. It's four weeks from tonight.
	Our chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel is live for us in Moscow tonight.
	Richard, what brought this about today?
	Man, I can't believe he has the guts to stand in Moscow.
	I mean, he could get killed at any minute.
	Good evening, Brian.
	We understand that there's no specific threat, but security is the overwhelming concern that Russia has in the lead-up to these games.
	And Russia is imposing some very severe security restrictions, already banning all liquids on flights, not just large amounts of liquids, but any liquids of any kind.
	Also, about 40,000 police and soldiers are imposing a so-called ring of steel Around the venues at Sochi.
	The ring of steel.
	The FSB, which is the new KGB. Hold on a second.
	Hold on a second.
	I'm not going to accept that.
	I mean, you can F Russia all you want, but when they go on the news and say, the FSB is the new KGB, I'd say that's quite a stretch.
	The venues at Sochi.
	The FSB, which is the new KGB, is responsible for security overall.
	Don't you find that hilarious?
	It's very funny.
	The main concern, obviously, is terrorists, specifically someone coming from the North Caucasus.
	And over the new year, there were two bombings that put this country on alert.
	U.S. officials tell us they are not overwhelmingly concerned about the Olympic venues themselves, but concerned that something could happen at a train station or a transport hub, a softer target that could be attacked during the games.
	Richard Engel in Moscow.
	As we said, the opening ceremony is four weeks from tonight.
	Thank you.
	Just wanted to make sure we got the promo in there.
	Now, the best I've ever heard.
	Ron Wyden.
	Is he a senator or congressman, Ron Wyden?
	Senator, I believe.
	Senator.
	Okay.
	He is brought in to promote the Games.
	And of course, you know, the way we promote this is by talking about how horrible Russia is.
	And what he was saying, maybe he's...
	Is he on the Olympic Committee?
	We have to check this for a second.
	That I know of.
	Well, let's see.
	Ron Wyden, IOC. We'll just try that Google and see what happens.
	Well, hold on a second.
	I think he is somehow...
	Just a quick scan of the Google shows that he has some connection.
	He's one of the big critics.
	He's a critic of the Olympic Committee.
	There's an article from 1999 where he says it's corrupt.
	Hmm.
	Well, maybe they flipped him.
	Okay, so why do we not want to go to Russia?
	What are the most horrible things about Russia as we know it today?
	This is a question to you, John.
	It's cold.
	Yeah.
	There's a lot of hookers.
	Hold on a second.
	I lost my mic there for a second.
	No, no.
	What are the real...
	What is the real...
	What's the real messaging?
	Terrorism is one.
	Yeah, gonorrhea.
	Terrorism is one.
	Come on.
	You know the answer to this.
	Don't make me force you to say it.
	I don't know.
	They hate gay people.
	Oh, right.
	The gay thing.
	Here now to talk about this, Democratic Senator from Oregon, Ron Wyden, who is also a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
	Senator, thanks so much for joining us.
	You sit on the Intelligence Committee, Russian extremists have vowed to disrupt the games.
	Now, we understand, of course, the classified nature of a lot of the information you know.
	But what can you tell us, if anything, about the threat and the State Department's warning today?
	All right.
	So he's on the Intelligence Committee.
	And of course he can't tell us everything because of the classified nature, but he is going to tell us exactly what the problem is with the security in Russia.
	Without getting into classified matters, I do believe that the threat of terrorism and the very, very hostile actions Russians have taken towards gay people is a reason for Americans to be cautious about traveling over there.
	The very, very hostile attitude towards gay people.
	Very, very hostile, John.
	So they're just going to beat up Americans?
	Only if they're gay, apparently.
	So just to break it down, if a loved one of yours...
	Gay or straight...
	Loved one?
	Yeah, listen to this.
	This is great.
	...traveling to Sochi, what kind of advice would you give him or her?
	Would you say avoid...
	Don't drop the soap!
	Crowded buildings, avoid crowds, always have an escape route.
	Avoid gay people.
	Don't go.
	What would you say?
	I would say certainly follow the State Department travel advisories.
	I think they've consistently been on target.
	And as I've indicated, without talking about classified matters, the combination of the threat of terrorism...
	Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
	Besides having a lisp, which is telling, listen to, back it up a little bit and listen to White, and I didn't realize it before, but he sounds exactly like Steve Jobs.
	Who has a very similar lisp.
	You're absolutely right.
	And now listen to what he says, too.
	All the State Department travel advisories, I think they've consistently been on target.
	And we really are so proud of the work we've done at the Apple stores.
	And whenever we get excited about something, we like to make a video.
	Alright, here we go.
	I think they've consistently been on target and as I've indicated, without talking about classified matters, the combination of the threat of terrorism and these exceptionally hostile actions towards gay people is a reason for Americans to be cautious.
	I can't believe this is coming out of an elected official's mouth.
	This is the Clip of the Day played.
	Thank you.
	I was ready for it.
	Bang!
	Bam!
	Clip of the Day.
	Mickey and I were betting on this being Clip of the Day.
	It was.
	But there's more.
	Do you think gay and lesbian Americans, LGBT Americans going to the games should be particularly on their guard?
	If you're gay, don't go!
	Certainly the fact that the Russians have indicated that gay people are second-class citizens and exposed them to violence is certainly a cause for gay folks to be thinking carefully about going there.
	All right, gay folks, listen up.
	This is a lie.
	A bold-faced lie from a liar with a lisp.
	I mean, how can he say this?
	And clearly he must believe it.
	Not necessarily.
	If you are gay, there is no questionnaire you can go into the Russian military.
	If you are gay and you want to adopt a child, there is no questionnaire, no nothing.
	This is a made-up lie.
	The United States...
	My God!
	Ten years ago, we had Don't Ask, Don't Tell!
	We had...
	Fellatio was still illegal in 15 states!
	We are more anti-gay than Russia!
	Yet this is now being televised.
	If you are going to the Olympic Games and you're gay, you leave the rainbow pants at home and don't drop the soap because Russia hates gays.
	You're second class citizens.
	This to me is grounds for an international fracas.
	What Senator Ron Wyden is saying.
	It's not going to happen.
	I don't know if Russia lost their edge.
	What does that mean?
	They can't propagandize properly anymore.
	They used to have all kinds of good things to sucker people into believing their way was the best way.
	They're horrible.
	They need some consulting.
	I want to remind people that we, of course, have completely debunked this.
	And it's like rowing upstream the Niagara Falls.
	I mean, it's impossible.
	No one believes me.
	The white paper is, I guess, done.
	It hasn't been published yet.
	The one that our gay crusader, Brian, has been working on.
	I've read everything.
	I guess he's getting ready to publish it.
	But I don't think it matters.
	People have so bought into the idea that Russia hates gay people, they kill gay people, you can't say you're gay or you're locked up, you're thrown in jail.
	None of it is true.
	It's based on one law which says you cannot propagandize alternative lifestyles to minors, minors being under 13.
	That's it.
	And the Dutch...
	Who are, in general, smart people.
	There's an entire national outrage because the king and the minister of foreign affairs, I think the prime minister, have all said they're going to Sochi, they're going to the Olympic Games.
	Our king loves the Olympics, and he loves going there with his wife, and they get drunk, and they dance, and it's great to watch.
	And they love it.
	And they go to Holland House and they have this big party.
	And he's like, yeah, I'm going.
	Because he knows it's not true.
	But the country, the news, it's an outrage.
	He clearly doesn't care about the gay people.
	You're being played, people.
	You're being played.
	It's not true.
	Vote Ron Wyden out of office.
	Vote him out, liar.
	Moron.
	So let's talk about lying.
	Let's...
	And talking about the alternative media, let's talk a little bit about the chemical spill in West Virginia.
	Yes, I'm glad you have done some work on this because I haven't looked into it.
	I heard about it.
	All I thought was, maybe it's some fracking company that messed up, and that's all.
	I haven't looked at anything.
	Where are you at?
	It's a coal-washing chemical.
	They never tell you what the chemical is.
	I do have the chemical though.
	It's 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, which is a chemical used to clean coal.
	The early report said it was a foaming agent.
	I don't know what, maybe it's got some element.
	And why do you need the clean coal?
	Is it just you wash it?
	I guess there's a lot of dirt or stuff, you know, other things.
	I would burn coal once in a while.
	It would be this big rock.
	It looks a little like coal, but it's not.
	And it would end up in the fireplace.
	So let's just get a background here by playing WV, the dummy.
	Oh, no, not the dummy on the street.
	Ground Zero.
	Ground Zero.
	Okay, Ground Zero.
	It is...
	Boom.
	Ground Zero is this Freedom Industries plant that makes chemicals for the mining, steel and cement industries.
	State inspectors say a foaming agent used in coal preparation leaked from a 40,000 gallon tank yesterday.
	Some of it overran a containment area and ended up in the Elk River.
	An estimated 300,000 people are affected in nine counties, many of them reporting a smell like black licorice.
	Emergency hotline centers like this one are fielding calls.
	We've had some complaints about eyes burning, things about nature.
	Best advice is to stay inside right now until they get this taken care of.
	For now, people are being told to avoid using tap water to bathe, drink, cook, or wash clothes and dishes.
	Jeff McIntyre has the Charleston Water Treatment Plant.
	He says the chemical is not especially toxic, but it's not worth taking a chance.
	We don't know...
	Okay.
	Why take a chance?
	Why take a chance?
	So you listen to Twitter and Facebook and all these things, and all you hear is the same kind of story, which is...
	Oh, somebody took a sip and they ended up non-stop vomiting.
	They're dead.
	They couldn't stop vomiting.
	Right?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Vomiting.
	Oh, everyone's vomiting.
	It makes it sound like all of West Virginia is vomiting.
	So I want you to listen to this clip of the mayor and tell me if it kind of jives with this vomiting bowl of nonsense.
	This is the West Virginia mayor drinks the water.
	We heard that there's almost a smell of black licorice either in the air or of the water.
	Have you smelled it?
	Have you tasted it?
	I smelled it yesterday when a gentleman from the office across the street came over to my office to get me.
	He knew me and he took me across the street and I smelled it when I got outside.
	I'd been inside for that afternoon and then I went up to his water fountain and then I tasted it.
	And I took a big drink of it and I knew that there was something very wrong.
	And it was not much longer after that that the West Virginia Water Company and the governor and all those folks held a press conference.
	It wasn't the governor's press conference.
	He just happened to have been there.
	But it was West Virginia American Water Company.
	And they have nothing but bad news for these citizens and with no end in sight.
	Hmm.
	He didn't vomit.
	Apparently he didn't vomit.
	So that's bull crap.
	And that's played everywhere.
	In fact, I was looking at Think Progress and Green Progress, and that's all they're talking about is all the vomiting that's going on.
	They don't discuss the chemical at all.
	This was on PBS, so they had to at least, you know, do a little lip service to the model that you need for these shows.
	So they had a man on the street, a woman on the street.
	Yeah.
	And this is the classic.
	Again, let's go with our theory here.
	You're in West Virginia.
	This is obviously the way they all are, even though the mayor seemed pretty.
	And let me point out, I went to college shortly, but I went to college in West Virginia.
	I've been to Charleston.
	I've been to Clarksburg.
	I've been all over.
	So I know what the West Virginians are like.
	Let me guess, is this a toothless wonder type dude?
	Here we go.
	You're going to melt this down.
	That's what you're going to do like you did back in the modern days.
	Put a little tub, put them in there, and just take a, you know, like a bird bag.
	President Obama has declared a federal disaster in the affected region, expediting aid.
	That's good.
	I almost mama did.
	No, she had a big block of ice.
	A vomit.
	Ice vomit.
	I had some ice vomit.
	And she said she's going to put it in a tub and take a bird bath.
	With a vomit.
	I just like saying vomit.
	Wow.
	Oh, I don't know.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Now, let me ask you a few things.
	You've been an inspector.
	About air, water, all the same thing.
	Now, for this to even get in the water, is it not true that, in general, a lot of these heavy industry plants, they dump stuff in the water regardless?
	Isn't that how it works?
	I mean, they have to put stuff into the water to get rid of it, and it just flows away, and then the water plants pick it up, and they clean it out.
	Isn't that kind of the system anyway?
	Yeah.
	Right?
	That's how it works.
	They just dump that shit in the water, and then everyone knows, and they pick it up downstream, and they clean it out.
	You know, curiously, this chemical was patented as a room deodorizer.
	It smelled like licorice.
	It actually smells like mint, according to the rest of the publications.
	I vomited and it smelled like black licorice.
	This was a big dump.
	Generally speaking, these companies, they put stuff in the water, but it's not necessarily the drinking water.
	And it's not necessarily a lot of it.
	And what happened here was a tank, I guess, began to leak.
	I don't know how this could have possibly happened, but it leaked into the – most tanks have a little dam around them.
	So when the tank – if something happens and the tank starts leaking, the dam holds whatever it is that's in there.
	And then you can pump it out of that area when you get the thing under control.
	They said that the dam – it was leaking enough so that the dam overflue or busted or broke or the dam wasn't in good – it was a piece of crap is what it sounds like.
	And then they got into the water and the next thing you know they cut it all off.
	It seems like there's some political angle to this too because this mayor is very irked by this water company.
	Because apparently they own most of the state water and they could reroute water and get people water but they're just basically putting the screws to Charleston.
	Well, what do you think is going to happen?
	What's the bottom line here?
	Well, when you read about it, the bottom line is that this chemical has like a half-life in the wild.
	It'll just get eaten up by bacteria in about, I think, four days.
	Oh, so it goes away.
	All right.
	Yeah.
	Hmm.
	I like that.
	I saw some of the press conference from, I guess, the CEO of the water company.
	Where is he from?
	England?
	I don't know.
	Yeah.
	I think he has a British accent.
	There's something up with that water company, though.
	Yeah, you think we're not being told the whole story?
	They wouldn't even name the chemical.
	I had to research it to find the name of the chemical.
	No, there's a chemical spill.
	Chemical spill, I mean, the public is dumbed down enough.
	I mean, if they at least mention the chemical, of course, it would have frightened them.
	I don't think anybody cares in the press, in the media.
	They don't care.
	They just want the lead.
	They just want the headline.
	They want just death and destruction.
	Anything that's too complicated, keep it away from the stupid citizens of the United States.
	Too stupid to understand.
	Present company excluded, of course.
	The no agenda?
	Yeah, obviously.
	Obviously.
	Well, the people who care.
	We're not all scientists.
	We're not all brilliant.
	But we care.
	We care to think.
	Stop, think for a second.
	Hmm, maybe this is not true.
	There's a couple little news items I ran into that were not reported anywhere except on really...
	Our version of alternative media is the foreign media.
	Oh, is this a bank app?
	I got a bunch.
	I think this is from RT. Okay.
	This is the...
	I didn't know this at all.
	This is the story India Club Clothes.
	This is kind of interesting.
	India Club Clothes.
	Meanwhile, the U.S. Embassy in India has been notified by the Indian government that it has to shut down all business activities in the embassy.
	The U.S. Embassy has been running a club in this area for years.
	It has a swimming pool and a tennis field and is favored by Americans working in New Delhi for entertainment.
	But now India has said the running of this club for non-diplomatic personnel is against the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and has requested its closure.
	Local media interpret this move as an act of revenge in the latest diplomatic realm.
	At the same time, the U.S. Energy Secretary has cancelled his visit to India next week, the second such diplomatic disruption in the month.
	In response, India's Minister of External Affairs says he hopes the U.S. could handle the case in a friendly manner.
	We expect a friendly country like the United States of America to do what a friendly country does.
	If there is a problem about their internal processes and their laws, we are willing to help.
	We must, together.
	Hmm.
	We had a club.
	This, by the way, was CCTV. This was China.
	With a swimming pool, apparently.
	And a tennis court.
	And a lounge and a spa.
	Probably a bar.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I didn't know this, and I thought it was kind of interesting.
	Then the Indians decided that it wasn't licensed or something, so they shut it down.
	They're still irked about it.
	Oh, no.
	I've been reading a couple of Indian blogs, and they're very pissed off about this search that we did, this cavity search we did of this woman.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, this is not over.
	And it's funny how that just goes on and on and on.
	Yeah, it's going to keep escalating.
	Mm-hmm.
	And Joe Obama himself apologizes.
	Or something like that.
	I'm sorry.
	I didn't mean it.
	There's also something weird going on in France with this comic.
	Oh, this is the Quattenel, the inverted Nazi salute?
	The upside down Nazi salute.
	Yeah, I've been following this a little bit.
	Yeah, this is the story here.
	This guy, I don't know, he's a goofy looking guy.
	He looks like he's probably pretty funny.
	And he does this, the upside down Nazi salute is holding your hand down, pointing it kind of at your toes.
	Well, apparently his routine has, well, what I've read, his routine has a lot of anti-Semitism jokes in it.
	Which, by the way, we have a lot of anti-Semitism jokes in America.
	Comics do that a lot.
	We make jokes about everybody, I think.
	But it's illegal in France.
	I guess.
	No, no, it is.
	It's illegal.
	There's no freedom of speech.
	I would like to get some translations of his act to see what the hell he's doing.
	But apparently, here's what's going on.
	It's a big deal in France.
	Here in France, the row over a comedian at the center of an anti-Semitism debate continues.
	Giudonné Mballa Mballa was banned from performing on Thursday night, just hours after a court in the western city of Nantes said he could go ahead with his show.
	Well, this amid an ongoing tug-of-war with the government and controversy over his so-called canal hand gesture.
	Is this the first of many disappointments for the fans of Giudoni?
	France's top administrative court overturned a decision by a local judge to let the controversial comic take to the stage.
	In our society, we can't accept even slight complacency with regards to anti-Semitism, which so goes against our values and principles.
	Diodonné insists he's merely anti-establishment and anti-Zionist, and denies his trademark canal gesture as an inverted Nazi salute.
	Still, local authorities in several other cities, like Nice, Marseille and Bordeaux, have issued a ban against his show, The State Council's swift ruling came as a surprise and Diudoni's lawyers called into question his validity.
	It was simply impossible for me to make it on time for the hearing held in Paris at the Council of State.
	It's a very clear violation of the defendant's rights.
	Previous attempts to ban the comedian's show had been systematically rejected by appeals courts, on the grounds there was no evidence the show would stir public disorder.
	It remains unclear whether yesterday's final ruling will set a precedent.
	In the meantime, Giudoni said he would file an official complaint with the European Court of Human Rights.
	Many today wonder if the publicity gained by the comic from this ongoing judicial saga doesn't, in the end, defeat the purpose of the government's attempt at silencing him.
	So I have a thought here.
	First of all, this is obviously a part of the intolerance or tolerance laws that are being written EU-wide, where you just can't be intolerant towards anybody.
	You just cannot say that.
	So this is your basic freedom of speech.
	In the European Union.
	But there's also a slight problem with President Hollande.
	He's been caught cheating on his girlfriend.
	Yeah, the clip there.
	Oh, you got a clip of that?
	Yeah, I'd say this is a distraction.
	Anything to take the heat off of him.
	Let's hear your clip here.
	France Vanquette's Florence Vumino there a little earlier.
	Well, staying here in France, and President Francois Hollande is considering suing a magazine after it claimed he was having an affair with an actress.
	The latest edition of the weekly tabloid Closer features seven pages about his alleged affair with Julie Gaye.
	Well, in a statement obtained by AFP news agency, Hollande called the report an attack on the right to privacy.
	The president, who has never married, has four children with politician Ségolène Royal, and has been living in recent years with journalist Valérie Trivella.
	Well, it's considered France's first lady.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, whatever.
	This guy gets around.
	He's got four kids, never got married.
	Yeah.
	And he lives with some journalists, and now he's having an affair with his hot actress.
	And he lives in a palace.
	Yeah.
	He goes over to her place.
	Yeah.
	So he's denying this.
	He's just suing for an invasion of privacy.
	Yeah.
	And they did Man on the Street?
	Everybody in France is on his side.
	Yeah, they're like, hey, look at her.
	Hey, look at her!
	She is a hot piece of ass!
	Come on!
	No, no.
	We got problems back here.
	That's where the problems are.
	Of course, we know that according to the United Nations Office of Drug Tracking, what the hell was the name of that report they come out with every year we look at it?
	Yeah.
	Well, I forgot what it's called now.
	Poppy production in Afghanistan, all-time high.
	Yeah.
	All-time high, of course.
	That's what we're there for.
	Go look at where the camps are, where our bases are, and then look at the poppy production.
	We're protecting it.
	And it's paying off in spades.
	Even a pristine place like Vermont has a major drug problem, most especially heroin.
	In every corner of our state, heroin and opiate drug addiction threatens us.
	Governor Peter Shumlin devoted his entire State of the State speech to this one issue, forcefully calling to have this gripping documentary on Vermont's drug addiction shown in schools statewide.
	The first pill I used was a Percocet and Vicodin, and then it moved on to OxyContin.
	Then it went to heroin.
	Why Vermont?
	One theory, higher prices in this rural area.
	That means bigger profits for dealers.
	Nationwide, more people die of drug overdoses than from motor vehicle crashes.
	That's triple the number from 1990.
	As we discovered on a recent ride-along with police in New Jersey, heroin is cheap and readily available.
	Heroin is much, much cheaper than prescription medication.
	Give me the ratio.
	A 30-milligram oxycodone pill, $30.
	An 80-milligram oxycontin, $80.
	A bag of heroin, $4.
	And now a governor has joined the chorus of concern.
	$4 for a bag of heroin?
	Not that hard to believe, but again.
	Well, it's Jersey.
	Wow.
	But notice how the kid got hooked on opium products through the pharmaceutical industry first?
	Looks like a charm.
	It does.
	You know, get the kids on the synthetic stuff, and then you show up on the corner with your $4 baggie.
	Maybe a very small bag.
	That's what's so sad.
	That is so...
	That saddens me.
	It really does.
	I don't know about heroin.
	I've never done it.
	Good thing.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I mean, I have no idea.
	I know people who have done it.
	Doesn't sound great.
	Well, it doesn't...
	It's zoned out.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, well, I mean, there's got to be something about it.
	People seem to like it.
	Seem to be using it over and over again.
	A lot of people have a dick and I like a lot of different weird things.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I don't know how some of this stuff, how people can like a lot of this stuff.
	It just seems to me to be counter.
	It's not a product.
	No.
	It's what we call not an outstanding product.
	So I was watching somebody, I was listening to some radio guy, and he's going on and on about the sexual innuendo on CBS's Two and a Half Men.
	I have it on here as sexual innuendo on ABC, but CBS... And how it's like completely out of control, sexual innuendo.
	It's just non-stop, the whole show.
	So I decided to see if this...
	And in fact, it is not only true, but it's actually beyond just...
	Here's a segment I just thought would be a nice break in the action for our show.
	This sexual innuendo is just completely over the top.
	It was fun at the same time.
	I'm sorry.
	You have a whole new sound right now on the Skype.
	Good.
	I just got invited to a party in the hills tonight.
	You guys want to go?
	Yes!
	Come on, aren't you having fun?
	Look, if you don't want to go, I can give guys a ride to the party.
	Jeff in the front, Larry in the rear.
	It'll be tight, but we can make it work.
	I don't think it'd be that tight.
	I gotta start watching this show again.
	Man!
	Isn't that like over the top to you?
	Wow!
	Yeah, well especially because they throw the laugh track in there the whole time.
	Yeah, I thought it was an over the top, especially with the final punchline, it wouldn't be that tight.
	Which is the insult line.
	Wow, yeah, that's pretty good.
	The entire show is just sexual innuendo.
	Yeah, well, people want that.
	It's what people like.
	Yeah, come on, this is what media is.
	Oh, I can't believe he said that.
	This is what the old, that's the old world, and that old world, it's coming to an end.
	Slowly it's coming to an end.
	Less and less people are watching.
	It'll just all end.
	We might even witness the end of it.
	Let's hope.
	So Target finally announced they had 110 million people, not 40.
	But not just 110 million people, but also, I guess this is from their own card system, because they had names, email addresses, physical addresses.
	And I have to question if even the 110 million, I think they may be lying about that.
	And then apparently Neiman Marcus got the same hack.
	And according to Reuters, there are more who have not even been reported yet.
	They say that they know who, but they can't report it or whatever.
	But there's a lot more retail outlets who have been cracked during the same period.
	Yeah.
	Well, you know what that means?
	Government.
	Yeah.
	And time for some cyber legislation, everybody.
	That's what we need.
	It's coming.
	Yeah, something is up with this hack.
	We have to do a little research, but I'll bet you there's a reason Target became the target.
	Well, I do know that, and I found this interesting, Target actually operates, as one of their businesses operates, you probably got an email about this too, a forensics laboratory specifically for cyber forensics, which I found to be quite interesting.
	I didn't even know that, you know, I didn't know they had diversified that much.
	So they are now, in fact, I guess, investigating their own hack, maybe even because this target forensics lab works for the government.
	But really what's happening is we're seeing the legislation.
	I think I have a copy of it.
	It may even be in the show notes.
	I'll have to take a look of what some of this proposed legislation is going to look like.
	Here we go.
	It's the CFAA. This is the Leahy bill.
	And there's going to be a lot of penalties specifically for retail if they allow their customers, which I think is, I'm not quite sure how they can do that.
	I guess they can pass whatever bill they want.
	Let me see here.
	The administration's proposal to update the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, yeah, that's the CFAA, attempted computer hacking and conspiracy to commit computer hacking offenses will now, its proposal, to be subject to the same criminal penalties, and it'll be a felony.
	So even if you conspire to commit this, you will be guilty of a felony, which is interesting.
	And there will be a lot of penalties for not reporting data breaches.
	And actually, if a data breach takes place, then you, even as a retail outlet, can be prosecuted.
	I'm not quite sure how that works.
	It's pretty odd.
	And how does it affect banks?
	Those guys are getting hacked constantly.
	Well, actually hacking into bank banks?
	Like the real, like into the system?
	I don't know if that's really happening.
	Oh, yeah.
	I know they're getting DDoS, and I know that the sites are being brought down.
	No, they're getting hacked.
	There's no question about it.
	There's been no reporting of it.
	It gets reported once in a while, but it's incredibly hushed up.
	Hmm.
	So these are the amendments coming to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
	It will make it a crime for a person who knows of a security breach, which requires notice to individuals.
	So if you don't report it, see something, say something.
	So that's the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act.
	I don't know, John.
	What we do know is that for the banks, this is kind of a wash, particularly with all the free money they're getting.
	It doesn't matter.
	Well, not only that, but the 18% interest rate they charge most people for their cards covers all this fraud.
	Wow.
	You have a card with only 18%?
	Which bank is that?
	I think it's more like 23% or 27%.
	It's to cover the fraud.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, they could tighten things up, but they won't.
	They have no incentive.
	They have no incentive.
	But even that, I mean, this is, you know, Kaczynski was right.
	There is no stopping this.
	For every new security measure implemented, there will be cracked, hacked insider jobs.
	This is a never-ending story.
	I don't see how it will ever change unless we just start using cash again.
	That's what I do.
	Are you completely off of plastic altogether?
	It can't be off plastic altogether.
	I can't order from Amazon with cash.
	Right.
	Yeah, that would be the one, man.
	If Amazon got hammered like that, wow.
	That would be the one, eh?
	Because they got my card.
	They got my info.
	Yeah, they got everything.
	So it looks like global cooling is being reconfirmed, although they won't say it.
	Oh, man.
	I'm seeing so much protest this is what I'm seeing and I don't know if you have any clips or anything I'm seeing a lot of real angry protests against the suggestion that, hey, maybe it's cooling a little bit and it's got really cold...
	And I'm seeing here Salon, those infographics of scientists who doubt human-caused climate change, and it's like a pie chart where you see a little thin line.
	Oh, it's bullcrap.
	And that's the one guy who disagrees.
	The one guy who disagrees, I looked at that, and I downloaded the spreadsheet that the guy had.
	Those were papers that had nothing to do with anything.
	I know, I know.
	It was just a...
	One guy.
	Anyway, but I think this report, this global cooling report that I have, it just tells me that something's up and nobody wants to use the C word, the cooling word.
	We end tonight with a mystery of nature.
	Majestic birds, usually found this time of year near the top of the world, are flocking south to parts of the United States.
	Jim Axelrod now, on this Winter Wonder.
	Well, right now we're just trying to get a look at a snowy owl.
	It is just about the best winter ever for bird watchers in the Northeast, at least for those interested in the snowy owl.
	We don't want to disturb it, but we want to get a decent look at it too.
	But the trip they've been making 3,000 miles from their usual habitat in the Arctic Circle has put these magnificent creatures in danger.
	Norman Smith is a director of the State Audubon Society.
	We removed 53 from Logan Airport.
	And in a normal winter, how many might you see?
	Six.
	We're not even a month into winter yet.
	You're right.
	So this will be the biggest year for snowy owls that certainly I've ever seen.
	The snowy owl.
	Yeah, of course.
	They're not stupid.
	They're spreading out.
	They're not stupid.
	They can't read.
	Al Roker, who is the weatherman on the Today Show, who I've worked with quite a bit back in my Z100 days.
	Z100. Z100, everybody.
	And I can safely say, at the time, at least when I worked with him, he was an incredible dick.
	Self-obsessed, just dick.
	So he got really...
	He was freaking out because...
	And there's no reason for him to do this, by the way.
	This is what makes me suspicious.
	Of course, the polar vortex, there was a lot of noise saying, oh, this is made up and it's brand...
	We know that it's not new because this showed up at least in 1974 when global cooling at the time was blamed on the polar vortex.
	But Al Roker, for some reason, feels he has to yell and scream and protest about this, that it's not some conspiracy about global...
	I'm not quite sure what is going on, but for the first time, people like him are really on the defensive about their stance on climate change.
	And it's interesting and of note, I feel.
	Wonderful.
	Folks have been saying there's no such thing as a polar vortex and that it's some left-wing media conspiracy.
	What?
	Let me tell you something.
	First of all, we've never used the phrase global warming or climate change in conjunction with this.
	This is from my textbook from college, the Glossary of Meteorology from the American Meteorological Society, copyright 1959, okay?
	And here we go.
	Take a look right here, okay?
	Polar Vortex.
	There it is.
	Okay?
	So for all the doubters out there, stop it!
	Some are saying that, A, we've created this phrase to hype it and to create hysteria, and that we have made it a political issue by linking it to either climate change or global warming.
	I will give anybody who can prove that I have ever linked this with global warming or climate change, I will donate $1,000 to your charity.
	All right?
	A little weird, this protest of his.
	I think so.
	Who was accusing him of anything?
	I don't know.
	He probably got some email from some guy saying, eh, and he just flew off the handle.
	Just Justin, and then we should go and thank some people.
	Adam, from Brian the Gay Crusader.
	Your commentary on the Wyden comments has inspired me to spend the next 24 hours finalizing this thing, this is the white paper, and get your blessing pushing it out.
	Well, you have my blessing.
	I've been having cold feet about the potential backlash, but I can't let egregious lies being pushed by people like Wyden, who I actually admired for the Clapper thing, stand.
	Even if my fellow gays turn on me, at least I'll have the truth and facts on my side.
	Thankfully, the boys I date are far prettier than they are worldly, so I don't anticipate a backlash in that department.
	Really?
	24 hours, you'll have it all.
	Alright, cool.
	About time.
	There we go.
	We've inspired him.
	All right, well, let's thank a few people.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda in the morning.
	And there are a few people to thank, including Stan Salisbury in Gainesville, Florida, $157.56.
	And he had a guilty conscience, apparently.
	The 2007 MacBook Pro gave out.
	He wants to give us a donation for 2013.
	He puts a bid for tomorrow's show, and he goes on.
	It sucks that Apple's latest podcast app cannot display the artwork.
	But, you know, some people are getting it, some people aren't.
	So I think, you know, you have to try either resubscribing to the show or deleting the app and reinstalling it.
	I don't know.
	It's a black box as far as I'm concerned.
	We try.
	I've got the tags in there.
	We're doing the best we can.
	Christopher DiBiase.
	Yeah, that old bar.
	How did that get in there?
	I have no idea.
	$149 of Macedonia, Ohio.
	Barron Sam Lung in Toronto, our good man up there, 12407.
	He needs some job karma.
	Since he's a baron, he will get his job karma for a smoking hot girlfriend.
	She has an audition on Wednesday, and he needs to get her back to the same time.
	All right.
	Well, we'll do the jobs karma here.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yay!
	You've got karma.
	There you go, Jobs.
	Karma, we do that for our knights.
	By the way, Christopher, he does get a knighthood and a birthday call out today, later.
	Dame Andrea Garnier in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, Canada, where all the money is 1-2-3-4-5.
	Thanks for getting Sir Kelly and I through the Blue Monday, slaving over hot computers.
	Andrew Lamesini in Colorado Springs, Colorado, 111-14.
	He actually has some interesting donation notes of palindromes coming up this year.
	And we need everyone to be on the lookout for cool numbers.
	So 4-10-14 will be 4-1-0-1-4, 1-1-1-1-4.
	There's a whole bunch of great numbers coming up.
	Ten days of palindromes in April.
	Wow.
	That is interesting.
	4-10-14 to 4-19-14.
	Europe gets theirs in October.
	Surround in 1-11-11, Spring, Texas.
	I'd like to make it rain for Rio, Tony, and Kiana.
	My ex will put them on the list.
	He says, Crazy Bitch had multiple personalities.
	I'm not joking.
	Tip for other producers, it's the sort of thing you want to know before you married.
	Let me just write this down as a good tip.
	Check multiple personalities before nuptials.
	Got it.
	You know, that is the MKUltra nutcases all claim that that's a giveaway.
	Multiple personalities?
	Yeah.
	Makes sense.
	Anonymous in Brooklyn, New York, 111.11.
	Maxwell Thin?
	Yeah.
	Thin.
	Thin.
	In Seattle, Washington, 111.11.
	Elaine?
	What is that?
	Hengem, I'd say.
	Hengem.
	It's like Hengem in Gainesville, Florida, 101-01.
	Thank you.
	Christopher Luna in San Antonio, Texas, 100.
	Stager, or Stager, or Stager, Stager.
	In Troy, Ohio, 100.
	Archibald Kelly, Niagara Falls, Ontario.
	Niagara Falls, 100 dollars.
	Frenzy Designs in Bradenton, Florida, 100 dollars.
	And as I scroll up, Charles Bennett in Boise, Idaho, $100.
	And he's got to call it to the stage.
	No, no, you can't do that.
	You've got to have the Make It Rain donation.
	Yeah, which is $111.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 He's a recent college grad.
	And we'll give him some karma.
	He needs job karma at the end of the session.
	Yeah, you got it.
	Karma for everybody.
	Baroness...
	Baron...
	Baronettes.
	Janice Kang in Milpitas, California.
	88, 88.
	Kyle Leckie in Kirkland, Washington, which is where Costco is.
	Frank Pugh...
	That's 88 dollars.
	Frank Pugh, 75 from Tallahassee, Florida...
	73-73.
	Call in 7373.
	Streamwood, Illinois.
	Brian Williams.
	Naveed Khan.
	Jersey City.
	And?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Hold on.
	I'm trying to go as fast as I can, man.
	We actually got a...
	It's back.
	What happened?
	We got a bunch.
	Yeah.
	David Kahn, Jersey, Grand Duke Stephen Pelsmacher's not one to give it up in Belgium.
	Well, hold on a second.
	You didn't have to play the Pelsmacher's thing.
	Jeez, this is crazy.
	Who expected this?
	There we go.
	The Lord's Day is night, slaves and elites.
	Please be outstanding for another donation from the Grand Duke, Ron Pelsmacher.
	Hey!
	Bam!
	And all Grand Dukes will get that forever.
	Well, as long as we can take it.
	Which means Foley's going to have to get a pretty soon.
	Gregory, well, we'll have to take a look.
	Gregory Worley in Edmonton, Virginia.
	Nick Barnes, these are all 69, 69.
	North Canton, Ohio.
	Shane O'Hare in Wasila, Alaska.
	Get Monation, I can see Russia from here.
	Yes.
	James Murray in Houston, Texas.
	Clay.
	Well, you got me on this one.
	Baccheviche.
	Baccheviche.
	In Tucson, Arizona.
	I'm guessing witness protection for some of these people.
	Oh yeah, for sure.
	Well, look at the names.
	Hello.
	Ronald Sedaro in Riverview, Florida.
	Sir Mike in Rancho Cucamonga.
	California.
	Victor Gregg in Decatur, Georgia.
	This is a big list.
	It is a great list.
	Cole Kalistra in North Attleboro, Massachusetts.
	Matthew Morgan.
	Mongan.
	Mongan.
	Mongan Eat.
	6969 Hampstead in Maryland.
	And Michael Greer.
	Hey, Shikshini.
	Shikshini.
	And finally, James Butcher in...
	Dalwilinu, Western Australia.
	69!
	69, dudes!
	Wow, good showing.
	It's back.
	The Swazilov Karma pays off in spades.
	Apparently.
	Mickey Van Leeuwen.
	Van Leeuwen.
	In?
	What's the name of the place here?
	Wageningen. Wageningen. Wageningen. Wageningen. 6111.
	Philip Koster in Rosendal.
	In Roosendal.
	No, you had it right.
	Roosendal.
	Daniel Torello.
	Daniel Torelli on Charleston, South Carolina.
	Beautiful town, by the way, $60.
	John White, Jackson, Tennessee, $58.20.
	Sir Michael Randall, Halifax, Nova Scotia, $57.75.
	Tom Miller, Napierville, Illinois, $55.55.
	Jeremy King, Gilmer, Texas.
	Gilmer, $55.55.
	Shane Pett in Cartersville, Georgia, $55.55.
	Eric Scherer, double nickels on the dime in Anchorage, Alaska.
	And finally, Scott Carbon in Waterford, Michigan.
	Double niggles on the dime along with Jacqueline Champlin.
	In Laguna Hills, that's 55, 10.
	That's a lot of, that's a beautiful area.
	She's got money.
	Philip Merkitt Merkitt in Rothenminster.
	I can't tell if I'm missing one.
	Rothenminster.
	Rothenminster, I think.
	In Deutschland.
	These are all 50, these are the final ones, $50.
	And Stephen Fettig in Delavan, Wisconsin.
	And Adam Tucker in Morabah.
	Moranba.
	Moranba.
	Oh, Moranba.
	Yeah, Moranba.
	Matt Comstock in Wolcott, Connecticut.
	And finally, David Goguen in Westminster, Massachusetts.
	Michael Middleton, Chicago, Illinois.
	Michael Madaloni.
	I don't know where...
	I don't know what's wrong with me today.
	Yeah, Madaloni.
	Hey, Madaloni, sorry.
	Tom Wolfe, Johnson City, Tennessee.
	John Grumling, Battle Mint Mesa, Colorado.
	These people are scattered.
	DePrato in Somerset, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
	Hold on a second, John.
	You cut out.
	You cut out there.
	Anthony W. DePrato in Somerset, Kentucky.
	And then Jeffrey Anderson in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
	Jason Fortune in Geneva, Illinois.
	Paul Vela, Milton Keynes, UK. Adam Hebert in South Windsor, Connecticut.
	Erez Schatz in Israel.
	Sukhovi Alexander, our buddy in Moscow.
	Which we need more reports from.
	And finally, John Strag and Scott Soltis in San Antonio and Indianapolis, respectively.
	And Indianapolis comes in right at the end, again, giving us an indication something's up.
	And let's hand out the general purpose karma for everybody who requested it.
	Thank you very much for your support of the show.
	You've got karma.
	Also known as the best podcast in the universe.
	And we really appreciate it.
	And it's great because we get to do the show the way you want it, with your input, with your information, with your knowledge.
	We have a lot of really educated, smart people in very specific areas that we know nothing about, that clearly never are asked anything by the mainstream media.
	No, they always talk to the toothless wonder on the street.
	I was going somewhere with that.
	Oh yes, here's where I was going.
	We don't have to go the route of the New York Times, who now, and I'm surprised, man.
	The New York Times now doing native ads.
	Have you seen these?
	This is a scandal in my opinion.
	In my opinion as well, I'm seeing huge, particularly technology, they were doing this week.
	Explain what a native ad is.
	Well, a native ad is essentially a story that promotes a product or a service that is written either by or in...
	What is the word I'm looking for?
	It's commissioned by the advertiser to write the story, and it is usually a positive story.
	It's a puff piece.
	It's a puff piece, but it's for the advertiser, and it is placed basically in the publication.
	So the New York Times...
	As editorial.
	As editorial.
	And the New York Times now says, paid post...
	But you go in, and I have to say, they're hiring real journalists, or real writers at least, and they have little stories, and Dell is the one that I saw, and they have little bits and pieces about, I think the one I thought was interesting was how Common Core standards will now...
	Ensure that the technology that is used for Common Core has to adhere to certain standards and there'll be tests.
	And of course, it turns out Dell actually is already ahead of the curve and they're ready for that.
	And for the New York Times to do that, I agree.
	I think it's scandalous as well.
	I mean, they clearly either can't make enough money to exist and so they just essentially create infomercials which now are called native ads.
	Yeah, it's the equivalent of an infomercial.
	It's actually more like the pieces that we catch being run on the regular news that promote McDonald's to lose weight.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Similar to that.
	Exactly.
	And it is the future of how media is going to work, and I think the lines blur way too much.
	That's okay.
	At least they're putting a little sticker on it.
	So far.
	Yeah, a little sticker.
	So we don't have to do that, and that is highly appreciated.
	Of course, we don't have the overhead of the New York Times.
	We also don't have the salary of a lot of the people at the New York Times, certainly not cumulatively.
	So the only way that we can maintain this is for you to support us through your donations.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. Dvorak.org slash NA. And we're also happy to congratulate people on their birthdays.
	If you send us the information, we'll do it for you.
	Christopher DiBiase says happy birthday to his wife, Heather.
	She celebrates tomorrow.
	Daniel Torellio.
	Torellio always says happy birthday to his mom.
	She turned 60 today.
	Tom Walfour turns 31 on the 14th.
	And Sir Ray Jacobson, 52 tomorrow.
	Happy birthday from all your friends here at The Best Podcast in the Universe.
	Yes!
	And then we do have one knighting.
	Christopher, let me see.
	I think Christopher had a note to go with his...
	Let's see.
	Yes, Christopher from Macedonia, Ohio.
	Put in $149 to the cause today.
	Last minute plea for donations made me look at how close to knighthood I was.
	This will complete my knighthood.
	Please wish my beautiful wife Heather a happy birthday.
	And we just did that.
	And so we'd love to have you step forward, Christopher.
	And John?
	Oh, sorry.
	That is good to go.
	Christopher DiBiase, step forward, my friend.
	Thank you very much for your last-minute donation.
	It really helped the show and puts you over the top.
	$1,000 or more gives you a seat at the table of the dames and the knights, and I hereby pronounce the Sir Christopher Knights of the Noah General Roundtable.
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	Six years and still going strong.
	With the model that no one understands.
	No, no one gets it.
	No one gets it.
	And it's okay because I'm happy with the club that we have.
	This is not a...
	It's actually a simple model, but in some ways there's some complexity involved.
	It's just baffling, I guess, to people that don't understand...
	Well, someone tweeted me today and said...
	Not sure.
	Someone tweeted me today and said, don't you hate begging for money?
	And first of all, no one's begging for money.
	This is a value-for-value proposition.
	Yeah, we're not standing on the corner delivering nothing.
	No, thank you.
	How many hours a week?
	Six?
	Six hours a week of show, and then we have at least three times that or more each on prep.
	That's all I do.
	Well...
	That's all I do.
	It's a lot of...
	And I do have to thank...
	I want to thank Dave Jones once again.
	Unsung hero of the No Agenda family who has really worked very hard with me creating the systems that make it all run.
	And everything eventually flows into show notes and that's some real value there.
	The value that continues to live in the show notes so you can always find all the stuff that we're talking about.
	The show notes are incredible.
	The show notes are worth the price of admission.
	People should spider those show notes.
	They're outrageous.
	Looks like the push for vaccination is just off the hook.
	Have you been following the news about the flu?
	Did you see a story about how this H1N1 is different than the other H1N1? Have you seen any of those pieces?
	I just find that weird.
	You're promoting the crap out of this thing.
	Yes, no they are.
	They're really pushing it very hard.
	And in fact, our Scandinavian friends are picking up on it.
	In Alberta today, you could be excused for wondering if the Flames or the Oilers were selling NHL playoff tickets.
	Hundreds of people, hours in line, queues snaking along city sidewalks.
	But no one was thinking slap shots.
	This was all about flu shots.
	And the goal wasn't a box office, just a pharmacy counter.
	The CBC's Chris Brown looks at what's driving a sudden fever.
	So, gee, I think we know what's driving a sudden fever is a bunch of fear-mongering about people dying.
	Yeah.
	Because this is what we saw in 2009 in the United States, and now they're doing it in Scandinavia.
	Given the choice between joining the flu shot frenzy or ignoring it, a lot of people in Alberta today played it safe and got the vaccine.
	I wasn't going to get one this year, but since there's been such a big outbreak, I figure I should.
	Such a big outbreak!
	Wow.
	You know, every year, if they just took this H1N1 off the table, they could do this death statistic in any area.
	Same thing.
	Two dead in Contra Costa County, one dead in San Francisco, one dead in Sonoma County, two dead in Napa County.
	Every year you could do this, but this year they've decided to do it with emphasis on H1N1 because that's the one that's been pre-promoted.
	Mm-hmm.
	From 2009 on.
	And they just want to get their money's worth out of the thing.
	That's the way I see it as well.
	And Jake Tapper, who of course...
	Jake is an interesting guy.
	Because he got fired from ABC for asking the wrong questions and they got demoted to CNN. He had the CDC's director of viral, it's like influenza, no, of stuff that makes you die.
	That director.
	And it's funny because the CDC directors, they always have uniforms on.
	For some reason.
	Like, I don't know, like some militaristic outfit.
	And so this woman comes on his show and she...
	Well, Jake is asking the right questions.
	The answers are interesting.
	So remember, it isn't too late to protect yourself against flu this year.
	A message for everybody listening right now, get a flu immunization if you have not gotten one already.
	There's the commercial.
	Okay, we're listening, Jake.
	But it is odd to me and counterintuitive.
	What makes young, healthy people more susceptible to the H1N1 strain?
	Now, this is a good question because this is the propaganda is young people, healthy people, healthy young people, you need to get the shot.
	And I think it's just, hey, healthy young people, they're walking around, they're outside, they got a couple bucks, go get a shot.
	We can sell it to them.
	That's my answer.
	But the CDC director will stumble a bit and come up with some answer.
	There are probably two reasons.
	One is that the elderly probably were exposed to an H1N1-like strain when they were young.
	Does this make sense, Dr.
	Dvorak?
	Well, there's a couple of ways of looking at it.
	If that's true, I mean, it makes sense logically.
	But if that's true, why is the second pandemic taking place in the first place?
	Because of all the shots that were given in 2009.
	Let's listen to the second reason.
	And so they have some natural immunity that has persisted.
	And then in terms of the other reason is that non-elderly people just aren't as likely to get vaccinated.
	We're doing better and better with children right now.
	Each year we're seeing rising rates of children getting vaccinated.
	It's becoming a norm really for parents to know that getting their kids vaccinated is the right thing to do.
	But adults, it's a little slower going, and so we're really encouraging people, especially pregnant women, people with chronic medical conditions, the extremely obese.
	These are groups that can be very hard hit with flu when they get it, and we're seeing a lot of hospitalizations in those populations.
	Oh, okay.
	That's not enough, though.
	I think we need to do more and to sell more.
	And we talked about how 10 children have died from flu-related illnesses.
	What's your advice for parents out there?
	How young is too young for a flu vaccine?
	At what age should they start to get one?
	Each one of these deaths is so tragic and we have already lost 10 children this year from influenza.
	Only one of those children was vaccinated so I strongly recommend parents to make sure your children are vaccinated appropriately.
	We recommend everybody six months of age and over get a flu vaccine.
	It can be a shot or a spray depending on your age and your medical conditions and some children under nine years of age need two doses.
	So if you're a parent and your child already got a flu vaccine, you might want to make sure, check with your doctor or nurse about whether the child needs a second dose during the season.
	What is that?
	Now you need a second shot?
	Oh, come on.
	That doesn't make any sense.
	Why did the kid die if he got the shot?
	It makes no sense either.
	I don't know.
	This just doesn't sound like it's real.
	Have we forgotten 2009 where it's now admitted?
	And by the way, why aren't they claiming a pandemic?
	Are we not at pandemic levels yet?
	I asked that question on a tweet.
	Oh, you did?
	Well, good question.
	Yeah, it's like, why is this not a pandemic?
	Because I was in response to somebody who said, if it gets any worse, they're going to have to call it a pandemic.
	It sounds like it's already way beyond what happened the first time that they called a pandemic.
	Let's look at, do we remember the definition of the pandemic?
	Because I know they changed that, but CDC definition of pandemic.
	It was really low, and I think we can probably call this, John.
	We can probably, let's see, pandemic definition.
	2009 revisions.
	This is from the Book of Knowledge.
	I should actually listen to it.
	Okay.
	It was a 2009 pandemic.
	A disease or condition is not a pandemic merely because it is widespread or kills many people.
	It also must be infectious.
	Okay, it is.
	In a virtual press conference May 2009 on the influenza pandemic, Director General said an easy way to think about pandemic is a global outbreak.
	Ah!
	It's not a global outbreak yet, John.
	That's the problem.
	Well, Canada, the U.S., they're just not playing it as global.
	No, not yet.
	It has to be in Europe.
	It's getting a little late.
	Well, maybe they can still have some time.
	Yeah.
	H1-1 global.
	Meanwhile, the true, of course, fix is Tamiflu.
	It looks like we have a shortage of Tamiflu now.
	Yeah, they're jacking up the price.
	Health News, the CDC said today the flu is now widespread in two-thirds of these United States.
	That is up sharply from just a week ago at this time.
	Now there's also a shortage of the main drug to treat it.
	While it is winter, this is flu season, it is worth paying attention to this growing threat.
	We get the latest on it tonight from NBC's...
	This, by the way, is a fine example of native advertising.
	Right here.
	That's what it is.
	All they need is a little sticker that says, paid post.
	This is native advertising.
	Janet Shamley.
	Is that a heart?
	Sean McCoy was surprised when his daughter Kennedy came down with the flu on New Year's Day.
	The two-year-old had a flu shot last fall.
	So did the entire family.
	Their doctor prescribed Tamiflu for all five of them.
	See, I don't get this.
	She had the flu shot.
	You have to get it every single year, I guess.
	Old people have resistance because they had it, but then you get the shot and then you have to have it again every year even though it's the same thing.
	No one is making any sense.
	Dr.
	Oz, please help me.
	Help me understand how it works.
	Do you have a Dr.
	Oz clip?
	No, I don't.
	I'll take it.
	I'll take it from Dr.
	Oz.
	I'll take it from that Sanjay Gupta, anybody.
	I'm looking at the global incident map for outbreaks, and it doesn't look global enough.
	It's only Belize, Romania, Canada, and the U.S. are the only places that have this flu on a different basis.
	There's an outbreak in Belize.
	There's one case of swine flu mania.
	Well, that won't do.
	It's just not good enough.
	No, this is weird that we have...
	This doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
	I don't know.
	It's weird.
	I'm very skeptical about the way it's working.
	I have a CES report.
	CES, the Consumer Electronics Show.
	Yeah, it was a big show in Vegas with a bunch of junk that they're trying to sell to the public.
	I heard that wearable technology is the buzzword this year, John.
	It was at the beginning, and then after the show was over, everyone said there's nothing, it's a dud.
	It's a dud?
	Yeah, dud.
	Flip?
	So I have this CES report.
	There's a thing a guy says in here that just, this is the reason I don't go to these events, and this is why I'm kind of, I'm going to tell you what it is.
	is it just galls me that these people get away with saying certain things.
	TVs.
	When it comes to glass, everything's curved now.
	And LG's new flex phone.
	And they say that they could actually come so thin that you'll be able to someday be able to fold your phone up.
	LG also unveiling home chat, turn your appliances on and off by text.
	We used to rush home to turn on the washer and dryer.
	Now we can hit send cleaning, send it a text message, and it'll start cleaning.
	My favorite?
	Go.
	We used to rush home to turn on the washer and dryer.
	I can't wait.
	Honey, let me do it, please.
	Who rushes home?
	I'm asking you.
	It doesn't ask Adam.
	Who the heck rushes home to turn on the washer and dryer?
	Oh, God, I got to get home on the washer and dryer because if I don't get there in time, I won't be able to turn it on.
	I mean, what is the logic here?
	Well, it's the same logic that makes my refrigerator know that I need milk and orders it for me.
	It's so galling to hear some idiot from LG say that we used to...
	No, we didn't.
	We never rushed home to turn on the washer and dryer.
	Nobody did.
	Ever.
	I'm also...
	It's funny because I'm also angry about dishwashers in general.
	Forget washer and dryers.
	I think dishwashers are failing.
	When you have to put the forks and the spoons upright in the little basket, otherwise they don't get clean, this technology is not good enough.
	You know what I mean?
	I like my washer.
	What kind of dishwasher do you have?
	I did a lot of research before.
	We used to have this.
	I think it was a Frigidaire.
	They don't even make them anymore.
	By the way, this is tech news that will really help you.
	High pressure stainless steel.
	It was like the thing kept blowing up.
	So I did some research and realized that you don't want a stainless steel interior.
	You want a plastic interior because it's really quiet.
	Stainless steel is really noisy, so you want to get rid of that.
	So I got a Kenmore.
	And you don't want electronic controls because it's a wet device and it's going to screw up.
	Because the water, the thing is just a water device.
	So you want just manual controls, simple plastic interior, Kenmore.
	Fantastic product.
	And cheap.
	And do you have to pre-wash your plates?
	No.
	It's got a grinder in it of some sort.
	Yeah, this is what I want.
	Get a cheap canmore that has the grinder, which grinds stuff with plastic interior, which is a lot cheaper than stainless steel.
	What do you want stainless steel in there?
	Who cares?
	And it's just a dynamite product.
	I'm looking now.
	Grinder, you say, huh?
	Yeah, it's got some sort of a thing that grinds.
	If food goes into something, it grinds up the big pieces.
	The chopper blade?
	Is that it?
	I don't know what it's called anymore.
	The Kenmore Elite dishwasher.
	Aha!
	That's probably electronic.
	You'd have to be skeptical.
	Cleaning the grinder of the Kenmore Elite.
	Aha!
	Well, of course, we are in a rental home because I can't get a mortgage.
	So we get a rental home dishwasher.
	And it's just no good.
	A lot of dishwashers are pretty crappy.
	Yeah.
	But we have nothing but good luck with this one.
	But one day you'll be able to fold up your phone.
	Yeah.
	And you don't have to rush home to turn on the washing machine.
	And what is the purpose of curved televisions?
	I have no idea.
	Oh, it's a beautiful world we live in.
	Well, while we're on the technology news, this is something that I am keeping a close eye on.
	And this cropped up a while ago, and now they're really pushing it.
	The idea of the sponsored data plan that AT&T and Verizon are talking about.
	where if you're watching, I guess Netflix is the example, then Netflix will pay for your data usage.
	And this is being watched very closely by people who believe that ultimately AT&T will degrade service of other data streams because it's not paid for or not paid for directly or sponsored.
	Have you been following any of this?
	Thank you.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I think this is all part of the Netflix move to stream 4K. Ah.
	Yeah, that's a good point.
	Because that's going to sink a lot of people.
	Do you feel there's a danger for net neutrality or whatever that means?
	I think the net neutrality argument, I don't know.
	That's an artificial construct.
	I'm not buying into it.
	John at Dvorak.org, everybody.
	John at Dvorak.org.
	All right, I'll wind up my end here, John.
	I've got a couple of snow job clips.
	First was John Miller, who was...
	I don't know if he's staying with CBS or not.
	I know he's joining the New York police...
	Armed Forces, because that's what they are in New York, as I guess he's going to be spokeshole or whatever.
	And he was on his CBS show that was Charlie and Gail.
	And he said something very interesting about the similarity between being a reporter and being an intelligence officer.
	Are you in your heart a journalist or a law enforcement official?
	I would recast that question to say, am I a journalist or an intelligence officer?
	Only because there's almost no difference.
	Intelligence is nothing more than understanding a problem.
	Intelligence with very good analysis is understanding a problem well enough to do something about it.
	The work of intelligence officers and reporters is extraordinarily similar.
	You become a briefer.
	You tell your boss, here's the bottom line.
	These are the potential responses.
	That's kind of what you all do.
	Or maybe you work for the same three-letter agency.
	There you go.
	That's the way I read his statement.
	Wow.
	Yeah, I think he actually said it.
	Just so you know what's coming, Jeffrey Stone, who was one of the...
	He was actually the Chicago lawyer, the only true lawyer, I think, on the panel who made 46 recommendations to the president.
	Of course, most of these will be implemented.
	The most important one being the metadata program from the NSA. And when you hear this clip, you will hear very specifically what is going to happen with the metadata program.
	The choices were...
	Leave it at the phone companies or put it into one private place.
	It's pretty clear what's going to happen.
	Our recommendations basically call for a number of changes in the program that are designed to enable it to continue to serve the purpose that it does in terms of protecting the nation, but at the same time to be more respectful of interest in privacy and transparency and to make sure there's a greater degree of judicial oversight of the use of the metadata.
	By keeping the metadata at the telecom companies?
	Either add the telephone companies or to create a separate private entity that would have control of the data, but not to allow the NSA itself to hold the database.
	Yes.
	That's the middleman.
	Give it right to God.
	Yep.
	It's going to be a real bonanza.
	A real bonanza.
	All right, John, what you got?
	Anything else before we get out of here?
	I got a bunch of corruption in China.
	These numbers are kind of interesting if you want to hear about what they're doing about corruption in China.
	The EU popularity is dropping like a rock.
	I'd like to hear that.
	Tell me about the EU popularity.
	Well, this is a report.
	Of course, this was on Russia Today.
	So they're trying to make it sound as though nobody, because there's elections coming up, and everybody thinks the EU stinks now, that they've gotten their money in the EU, and now they went on austerity.
	So you can play this clip.
	It starts off showing that Spain has 7% popularity amongst the public, and it's dropped to 27%.
	They never say that in the report, but they show it on a graph.
	You can hear the rest.
	Music.
	Years of austerity and bailouts are taking a toll on the public's confidence in the European Union, with latest polls showing people's serious disappointment in the bloc's leadership.
	That doesn't bode well for ruling parties with key elections on the doorstep.
	And here's RT's Peter Oliver.
	Now, in a few months, Europeans will be going to the polls in what could be the most important European parliamentary elections, but the latest Gallup poll statistics don't make good reading for those that will be standing for the top spots across the European Parliament.
	Even those countries that have received some of the most help Countries like Spain that received 41 billion euros to bail out its failing banking sector.
	Well, in 2009, 59% of the population said they had faith and they supported the European leadership.
	A country that's traditionally been very pro-EU is Ireland.
	They received 67.5 billion to bail out their failing banking system.
	70% of the Irish population had previously said that they supported the European Union.
	Now that number, 47%.
	Well, there's also been big declines for support of the EU in countries like Sweden, Finland, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark and the UK. For the first time since these type of statistics have existed, the United Kingdom doesn't finish last when it comes to those that support the EU. Currently, that statistic belongs to Greece, with only 19% of their population supporting the European Union.
	Okay.
	So, numbers are falling.
	In support, you mean?
	No, no, only 19% in Greece.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, numbers are falling.
	The support numbers are falling through the floor.
	It's just a matter of time.
	Yeah, well, Miss Mickey wanted an entry in the Red Book.
	She says, the war is coming.
	It starts in Turkey and spreads westward.
	She's not...
	There's no need to put a prediction in the Red Book, but I'll put it in.
	She also wanted me to say some other stuff.
	What?
	Well, she got a lot of grief for what I said about her in Israel.
	She didn't like it.
	She didn't have a good experience.
	In Israel?
	Yeah.
	Do you remember?
	Oh, yeah.
	You said that she hated it.
	I didn't quite say that, but I have to explain exactly what it was.
	She was there with her boyfriend at the time, and he was on the Israeli national basketball team.
	Dennis Reisman.
	I don't know what his name was.
	And she wasn't allowed to kiss him in the street.
	That was one.
	They detained her at the airport for four hours because they thought she was a terrorist and was going to blow him up, apparently.
	She almost missed her flight.
	And she didn't like the fact that when they were driving in the car, they said, please roll down your windows because in case there's a bomb explosion, at least the windows won't collapse in on you.
	And those were the three reasons she didn't have a good experience.
	That's not reasonable.
	Yeah, but she wanted me to make sure I mentioned that.
	I've gone through security.
	It's laughable.
	Yeah.
	You know, they got some douchebag that's had a lot of questions, thinking he's, you know, figuring something out.
	It's just a time wait.
	I mean, look at me.
	I look like a Nazi, essentially.
	Why would...
	Well, they were grilling me, but they were treating...
	They treat everyone as though they're Arab terrorists.
	Right.
	But whatever the case, I don't know.
	I enjoy Israel a lot.
	I think it's a very good place.
	The food is great.
	The views are good.
	Except for some are pretty gross.
	I mean, there's parts of Israel that are just dirty.
	Hey, we got to go, John, because your connection is degrading beyond intelligibility.
	All right.
	I'll call people up and complain.
	That's okay.
	It was good most of the show.
	When you hear the show, it's kind of funny.
	I'm doing my Nixon.
	In the morning!
	Alright everybody, thank you very much for your support.
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