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	We've been here six years, we're married, we've got two kids.
	Adam Curry, Chauncey Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, January 23rd, 2014.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 585.
	This is no agenda.
	Welcome to the only comedy podcast in the politics and news category on iTunes.
	From FEMA Region 6 in the Travis Heights hideout, Austin, Texas.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from the drought state called...
	Northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackball and Buzzkill in the morning.
	Yo-ho!
	I am sick as a dog.
	Oh, now what?
	Yeah.
	And here's the joke of it.
	You don't sound even...
	You know, here's the way I would...
	If I'm sick, I'm going to come on the show like this.
	Yeah, I'm very sick, and I can't breathe through my nose.
	But I can do okay, I'll be fine, I'll be fine, don't worry about it.
	Well, here's the difference.
	One, I control the board, so I've done some pre-filtering to make myself sound a little less nasal.
	But this is, have you ever had, or I'm sure you've heard of the cedar fever?
	Are you familiar?
	Excuse me?
	The cedar fever?
	I don't even know what you're talking about.
	Really?
	Okay, you know people have allergies to cedar, the cedar tree.
	Okay.
	Wow, you don't know anything about this.
	I can tell you.
	You're not kidding.
	Of course I'm not kidding.
	I never kid.
	In Austin, we have around this time of the year, it's always on schedule, We have a couple things.
	You know that last year, or the first year we were here, I discovered I had mold.
	Mold allergy.
	I had mold.
	I have mold in my butt.
	Mold allergy, which is prevalent here.
	Mold allergies are bad, mostly from black mold, yeah.
	And I've never ever in my life had any allergy issues until we moved to Austin.
	It's almost not worth living here for this.
	And I never had any cedar problems.
	Apparently the cedar count is off the charts.
	Was it last night?
	The night before, I wake up at four in the morning and I'm like, what is going on?
	My head is exploding.
	I can't breathe.
	It feels like someone's standing on my chest.
	No, it was Little Geisha Girl.
	No, and it is the worst possible feeling.
	And everyone in town has it.
	Everyone's walking around, sniffling and snorting, their eyes all puffy.
	I never heard of such a thing in Austin, Texas.
	It's called the Cedar Fever.
	I got a fever.
	And the only thing I need is more cowbell.
	Okay, that's just a joke.
	But anyway...
	So what's it from?
	Are there a lot of cedars around there?
	Oh, yeah.
	We've got tons of cedars.
	Well, cedars are very interesting as a wood.
	It's very aromatic, and it's used to, you know, I have a cedar-lying closet, and you don't get, supposedly, you don't get moths.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Although I question that.
	There's some tough moths around here.
	Those Northern California moths, they're like honey badgers.
	They don't give a shit.
	Yeah, exactly.
	No, but it's really, it's crazy, John.
	And I know Mickey had it, and that was the first year we were here, and I was like, okay.
	She's okay now?
	She's not having this effect you're having?
	Oh, no, but it's much better for her because she went to the voodoo doctor and got all of her magnolia and all the things you need, so she was prepared.
	And I wasn't because I thought it wouldn't affect me, and it just floored me, man.
	It's crazy.
	So you have to go to a voodoo doctor?
	What is wrong with you people?
	I go to a doctor who actually helps me.
	I go to the applied kinesiologist and acupuncturist.
	You know this.
	So she took some...
	Magnolia?
	Liquor?
	No, no.
	Magnolia.
	I have it here.
	This is the magnolia.
	I guess it's pure magnolia.
	Why don't you just take some and be done with it?
	I only went yesterday.
	It takes a day or two to kick in.
	I don't want to complain too much, but I just want to let you know that I'm dizzy.
	Oh, you're dizzy because you can't get enough oxygen.
	Yeah, I'm dizzy.
	It's the whole thing.
	I can blow some clips by it.
	I'm counting on you, Johnny.
	You got to get me through it, man.
	Well, I do have one clip that I want to play right at the start, just so, because this would be kind of the introduction to what I'm going through.
	Oh?
	Yes, this is the clip that would be, this is straight from the air.
	I just thought it was curiously ironic the way they did it.
	This is the weather clip, the weather juxtaposition clip that came off of Channel 2.
	In Minneapolis, extremely high winds created a ground blizzard.
	A windshield warning was issued for most of Minnesota today.
	Advisories warned of temperatures from 25 to 35 degrees below zero.
	Many schools across the state canceled classes today.
	Black ice and snow made driving vehicles.
	Very dangerous.
	Temperatures today were up there.
	Here are some of the records again.
	75 in Oakland.
	It was 74 in Mountain View.
	And a tide record of 72 in San Jose.
	Warm spot was Livermore at 75.
	So temperatures tomorrow are going to be slightly cooler than these numbers.
	Okay.
	Well, I just thought it was, we're watching this horrible situation in Minnesota, and we're having this heat wave in January.
	We got no rain.
	It hasn't rained for a year.
	And it's really nice out.
	So we're getting the cold front.
	We're getting a dusting of snow, apparently, this afternoon in Austin, in Texas.
	Yeah, no, I actually went to Texas once when it was actually...
	I flew...
	It was a weird one.
	I was in Hawaii on a little vacation, but I had to give a speech, so I had to fly from Hawaii to Dallas, and it was snowing, and the car door was frozen shut.
	So it's interesting to see, of course, that this weather has been fun to watch.
	Fun for the narrative from the Agenda 21 and climate change people.
	The climate change people!
	The liberty people!
	All those people!
	The BBC, of course, has to say something.
	Because none of this fits into all of the models.
	And I cut this, this was like a five or six minute report, and then I cut it down to about a minute and a half about the sun and where we actually may be heading.
	Of course, as a licensed ham radio operator, both of us, we know all about the solar minimum, the solar maximum, and the sunspots.
	And we know what it does for propagation of radio waves.
	But slowly we're bringing into the conversation the concept that maybe the sun has something to do with the temperature on Earth.
	It's a crazy notion, I know.
	Wow!
	It's crazy to think this.
	Come up with that idea.
	...spots is a fraction of what scientists expected.
	Solar flares are half.
	Richard Harrison is the head of space physics at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire.
	He says the rate that solar activity is falling mirrors a period in the 17th century where sunspots virtually disappeared.
	The Mondominium, of course, was a period of almost no sunspots at all for decades, and we saw a really dramatic period where there were very cold winters.
	By the way, the Mondominium was 70 years of very, very cold weather.
	In the Northern Hemisphere, it was a period where you had a kind of a mini ice age.
	You had a period where the Thames froze in the winters and so on.
	It was an interesting time.
	Rivers and canals froze across northern Europe.
	Paintings from the 17th century show frost fairs taking place on the Thames.
	Isn't that cool?
	Frost fairs on the Thames?
	I love them artists.
	Yeah.
	During the great frost of 1684, the river froze over for two months.
	The ice was almost a foot thick.
	The Monde Minimum was named after the astronomer who observed the steep decline in solar activity that coincided with this mini ice age.
	The Monde Minimum came at a time when snow cover was longer and more frequent.
	It wasn't just the Thames that froze over, the Baltic Sea did too.
	Crop failures and famines were widespread across northern Europe.
	So does a decline in solar activity mean plunging temperatures for decades to come?
	Wow, let's ask a scientist!
	We've been making observations of sunspots, which are the most obvious sign of solar activity, from 1609 onwards, so we've got 400 years of observations.
	The sun does seem to be in a very similar phase as it was in the run-up to the Monde Minimum, so by that I mean that the activity is dropping off cycle by cycle.
	Lucy Green is based at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory in the North Downs.
	She thinks that lower levels of solar activity could affect the climate, but she's not sure to what extent.
	It's a very, very complex area, because the Sun's activity controls how much visible light the Sun gives out, but also how much ultraviolet light and X-rays that the Sun emits.
	And they create a web of changes up in the Earth's atmosphere.
	Producing effects that actually we don't fully understand.
	Okay, we don't fully understand it!
	We don't understand!
	I thought all scientists agreed.
	When I was watching this report, and there's a couple others like it, you're seeing some of this solar minimum, solar maximum, mondo minimum now being talked about across the Gitmo Nation media.
	It might be possible that as part of the setup, For the bogative climate, I'm sorry, global warming, which then turned into climate change because the sun basically did not participate with the script.
	This whole thing was launched on the upswing of the solar maximum, which pretty much ends this year.
	And maybe it was planned all along.
	It's like, oh, we're going to have lots of sunspots.
	It'll start heating up a little bit.
	We'll be able to point to it for sure.
	And the sun just didn't cooperate, and that's what blew it all apart.
	It may have been timed perfectly for this, which is once every 11 years.
	Oh, that's an interesting point.
	Yeah, you might be right, because that's why I think they're in a panic right now.
	Yeah, because they were like, holy crap, this wasn't supposed to happen.
	And so let's hurry it up.
	When was the first time you heard that if we don't do something this year it will be too late?
	It was 2005 and I was at Pebble Beach I think it's Pebble Beach.
	No, no.
	Where's the...
	In California where there was a Kleiner Perkins who were an investor in Podshow at the time.
	That would be probably Pebble Beach.
	Pebble Beach, right?
	Down...
	What's it?
	Monterey?
	Monterey.
	Yeah.
	And so...
	This is very funny.
	They have these getaways for all of the CEO weekend.
	And it's really horrible because you go there and you have to bring your spouse or whatever and you stay at this...
	Like a nice hotel, but it's all...
	It's for golfers.
	It's for golfers, and I had to go golf.
	I can't even hit the ball three feet.
	It's horrible.
	But that's where you're talking and you're doing the business.
	Pick it up and throw it.
	They actually gave me a prize for most strokes of the entire...
	It was very embarrassing.
	Anyway.
	Yeah, and that wasn't even on the course.
	Hey!
	Hey, everybody!
	John C. Dvorak there, also known as Dingo.
	And so you have speakers, and it's a whole weekend.
	And on Saturday, or maybe it was before the weekend, Thursday or Friday morning, I didn't think we were doing the show at the time.
	It was before the show.
	Via satellite, they had Al Gore...
	Talk about an inconvenient truth, and they showed the movie.
	They screened the movie before it was in the theaters, and they had a copy of his book there for everyone to take home with you.
	That's the first time I heard of it.
	Yeah.
	How about you?
	Well, the first time I think I heard that if we don't do something this year, it will be too late.
	Which, by the way, reminds me of the Feinstein clip.
	Where, you know, five years ago, we're going to have an attack on the homeland in the next six months.
	I need to find that clip again.
	I feel bad.
	I do have a copy.
	By the way, for one of my clips today, if I go on an exposition, try to find the clip which I'd like to play, which is Obama saying the first thing he's going to do when he gets in office is to shut down Gitmo.
	We have the payoff to that one.
	I know that.
	You can take that to the bank.
	I don't want that.
	I want the clip because it just ties in.
	Anyway, the first time I think I heard it was around 2007 when they were getting panicky and they kept saying, if we don't do something this year, it will be too late.
	And I think I started paying attention to it the next year when they said the same thing.
	But it seems to me that if you didn't do something in 2007 or whenever, 2005 in your case, it will be too late.
	It's too late.
	So why do we keep harping on this problem?
	Oh, let me see if this is what you're looking for.
	I can save this for later.
	I think I have it here.
	Okay.
	I don't have it.
	Yeah, okay.
	I got it here.
	But it's always been too...
	But it seems that more recently there's a panic that you can just sense.
	Yeah.
	Because the numbers aren't starting...
	The numbers stopped adding up the way they wanted it to add up.
	Exactly.
	And they come up with these excuses.
	And on that list, by the way, of...
	There's a document floating around on how to attack people who are denialists.
	Yes.
	And one of them is they attack the notion that anyone would accuse the sun of having anything to do with this.
	And there's some rationale.
	Scientists agree it's not the sun or something like that.
	I don't know what their argument is.
	Well, you've just got to call them deniers no matter what.
	And then go after them.
	And fools and idiots and Republicans.
	Oh, yes.
	And go after their...
	Go after their advertisers.
	Do something like that.
	Yeah, do that too.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	Oh, man.
	Well, there is...
	I'm a little...
	Well, not a little.
	I'm quite annoyed by the Geneva 2 protocol, which is the official title.
	This bait-and-switch that took place and assisted by some crazy PR which was so incredibly easy to see through, so transparent that it's insulting to me.
	I don't understand why the...
	You want your propaganda to be better quality.
	Yeah, I want to have to think about it.
	Give me a brain teaser.
	Do something.
	So in Syria, we're supposed to have the next round of peace talks, which kicked off yesterday.
	And the first thing that happened, well, if you followed the general news, Iran was going to be at the table.
	There would be 30 countries, including Syria, of course.
	And then all of a sudden...
	And John Kerry starts yelling that, oh, well, no matter what happens, we cannot have Assad has to step down, which the whole point of getting rid of the chemical weapons was to subvert this conversation.
	And so it's like a bait and switch.
	And then also 10 more countries were invited, all anti-Syria, and Iran was uninvited.
	And then what happens?
	Some report comes out, which I have, of course, and I've looked at.
	This is the Syria Board of Inquiry.
	How insulting can you make it?
	Apparently there was a whistleblower, an informant named Caesar...
	And Caesar's contact person was, unfortunately, with an Al-Qaeda group, but okay, it doesn't matter, apparently still valid.
	And he had 55,000 copies of emaciated, tortured, beaten-to-death bodies in Syria.
	And this is being touted by John Kerry as proof that Assad is killing his own people.
	While the document itself does not assign any proof to anyone other than the proof that photographs are real and most likely of actual Syrians.
	But here's the problem.
	This report is not a government report.
	This report was commissioned...
	Well, I'll play this clip.
	The three guys who are in the committee are all big power players.
	They're from the International Criminal Court.
	They prosecuted Milosevic.
	They're really high-end attorneys.
	And they have a lot of credibility.
	And they show up on BBC and they're just completely open about it and just say, oh, well, here's what the report is about.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I have to point out that the story was broken by Christiana Anumpur on CNN, and she's very suspicious to me.
	Ever since she kind of did her round of ABC and back and forth, I'm pretty sure that she's on board.
	I'm very disappointed with how she turned out as a journalist.
	But anyway, she's breaking this report.
	The most respected and experienced international prosecutors.
	They say, quote, there is clear evidence of systematic torture and killing of detained persons by the agents of the Syrian government.
	Agents?
	Mind you, agents of the Syrian government.
	Not the Syrian government, agents of the Syrian government.
	Their source is a defector who had been in the Syrian military police, an insider they've codenamed Caesar, who smuggled out tens of thousands of graphic images of corpses emaciated and severely beaten.
	Let me ask you first, Sir Desmond, as chairman, what was your mandate?
	What were you asked to do?
	Now, this is very interesting.
	She positions it beautifully for the uninformed.
	What was your mandate?
	What were you asked to do?
	And it all sounds very governmental and very official, and these guys have been in all these official, quasi-official outfits like the International Criminal Court.
	It was an inquiry into reliability.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	An inquiry into liability?
	Sounds like a lawsuit.
	The London firm of Carterac asked me to put a team together for the purpose of investigating the reliability of a defector.
	Now, when a guy can't say the word reliability, you've got to think he's lying.
	Play it again.
	Graphic images of corpses emaciated and severely beaten.
	I'm sorry, I went back a little too far.
	Let me ask you first, Sir Desmond, as chairman, what was your mandate?
	What were you asked to do?
	It was an inquiry into reliability.
	The London firm of Carter Rock asked me to put a team together for the purpose of investigating the reliability of the defector.
	What?
	The reliability, the reliability.
	You didn't do that?
	You didn't mess with that?
	No, no, no.
	It almost sounds like I doubled the audio.
	No, no, that's exactly what he said.
	No, it sounds like a glitch.
	It doesn't sound like anyone's saying anything.
	Believe me.
	He closes his eyes and tries to get it out.
	The reliability of a defector from Syria, who I understood.
	So the mandate from Carter Rock.
	Now, Carter Rock is a law firm.
	So these guys were hired by Carter Rock International Law Firm who really deal mainly with incredibly wealthy people who have been sanctioned by a country or their funds have been frozen.
	That's what they do.
	This is not...
	You don't go to these guys if you have, like, some dispute with your neighbor.
	Now, this is if you...
	Well, let's see.
	Carter Rock has developed a particular expertise in cases arising out of the events of 9-11 and the subsequent War on Terror.
	It is currently representing clients in relation to such matters in litigation in the European Court of Justice, the New York District Court, and High Court in London, and has been involved in negotiations on behalf of its clients with the United Nations and with representatives of many national governments.
	In the autumn of 2008, the firm's international law team won a major victory before the European Court of Justice on behalf of its client, Yasin Qadhi, by which EC regulations freezing Mr.
	Qadhi's assets were struck down.
	These are the guys they go and they sue the United Nations on your behalf.
	So you're big guys when you're playing with Carter Ruck.
	And they represent entire countries, as it turns out is the case.
	Remember, John F. Carey, on the very day...
	The Geneva 2 protocol starts.
	He is touting this report, which has been commissioned by a commercial law firm, As proof that Assad has been committing war crimes.
	First of all, the coincidence is too crazy.
	Second of all, this is not a governmental report that has been vetted by anyone.
	...
	could comment on some 55,000 images of people who have been tortured and killed.
	And are you convinced of the reliability of the defector code name Caesar?
	I mean, the defector codenamed Caesar, could it get any sketchier?
	Yes, I am.
	Yes, I am.
	Sufficiently so.
	I think all of us were in agreement that...
	Now, pay attention, because he's going to tell you what this report is really for.
	His account was essentially true.
	Essentially true?
	Not entirely, but essentially.
	It had the hallmarks of truth.
	The hallmarks?
	What are the hallmarks of truth, John?
	My goodness.
	The hallmarks.
	The hallmarks of truth would be somebody saying it's true.
	Yeah, that's not the truth.
	The hallmark.
	Yeah, thank you.
	Saying it's spelled properly, maybe.
	Flabbergasted, I am.
	And it would stand up in the court.
	Ah, it would stand up in the court.
	That's what...
	So we have...
	This is essentially saying, yes, this is true.
	It has all the harm on it.
	It looks true.
	We think it would stand up in court because we are the Honorable Sir Desmond De Silva, we are Professor David M. Crane, and we are Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice.
	And let me be very clear.
	Who funded this investigation?
	Ah, any guesses, John?
	Well, it wouldn't be the law firm.
	It'd probably be some group that is looking to get some money out of this deal.
	I think you need to be a little more simplistic.
	Obviously, the report would be someone who wants to get Assad out because that's what the report is being used for.
	Well, it wasn't the Russians.
	Let's put it that way.
	No, it's not the Russians.
	It's not the Russians.
	Yeah, it could be the USA. No, no.
	Who were the guys that funded the terrorists?
	No.
	You give up?
	Yeah.
	The solicitors who instructed me were funded by the government of Qatar.
	What?
	The government of Qatar.
	Yeah.
	The guys who financed the terrorists are now paying for these jabronis to come up with a report to say, see, Assad has to go.
	It could not be more obvious.
	This is what I mean by insulting.
	They're just on television saying it.
	Well, it's because nobody's paying attention.
	Well, there's that.
	So they can say whatever they want.
	Yeah.
	If the guy came out and said, well, it's not really reliable, and this is something of a scam, but we think it's going to hold up in court.
	And that's just the way it is, because he's a horrible man.
	And everyone would go, okay, whatever.
	Hey, what's Justin Bieber doing?
	Hey, man, I heard he got busted for DUI. I think that was a red book, John.
	Did I not say Justin Bieber to get arrested?
	Did I not put that in the book?
	Can you just check real quick?
	I have three books to plow through.
	Now, the last one, it was a new book.
	It was not actually read.
	And on the last show, I said Justin Bieber has to get arrested, and he got arrested.
	Yes, I remember you saying that.
	But you were saying it kind of...
	Cavalierly.
	You weren't taking it too seriously, but you were saying it because you need...
	I think it was an offhanded comment.
	It was not a Red Book entry.
	Well, it did happen, and it's...
	Yeah, yeah, okay.
	Well, next time you should be more serious about your little offhanded stuff.
	And it's so nice to see that while the world is being converted into rubble before our very eyes, the news media is only talking about Justin Bieber.
	It is...
	It's great.
	It is great.
	It's great for this show, that's for sure.
	It's like, wow, it's just like this stuff writes itself.
	Don't give away our secrets.
	Okay, so let me just review for a moment.
	We have the bait and switch in, and by the way, it's in Montreux.
	It's not in Geneva.
	Have you ever been to Montreux?
	No, I have not.
	I've been multiple times.
	We used to have the Montreux Rock Festival.
	And MTV would go there, and that's the first time the Beastie Boys and Run DMC did their thing together.
	I was at Montreux.
	Then there's always the Montreux Jazz Festival.
	But it's a pain.
	At Montreux, I don't know why they chose it.
	It's a pain in the ass to get there.
	You have to drive for hours or take a train and there's still another hour from the train station.
	It's not convenient.
	I don't know.
	It's very strange.
	But it's beautiful right there on Lake Geneva.
	It's nice.
	It's a nice area.
	It's very nice.
	Alright, so they're in Montreux.
	It's a bait and switch.
	The Syrians, the Assad regime is outraged.
	They called a press conference.
	They said, hey, this is bullcrap.
	Iran gets uninvited.
	You know, one of the guys who would actually be pro-Syria.
	Instead of it being a peace conference, it's all about, I'm sorry, we have to have a transitional government.
	We're back to that again.
	To back up the claims, on the very same day, we have this clearly fabricated report.
	Whether it's Whether people have been killed or not is almost beside the point because the report is paid for by the very people who want Assad out and who have been financing the terrorists in the country.
	And then all of a sudden Ban Ki-moon comes out with...
	I thought Syria was not that important.
	We're missing something big.
	Listen to what the...
	What is he of the UN? He's the...
	He's the Secretary General.
	Secretary General, thank you.
	Listen to what he's talking about.
	The 2014 appeal for Syria, launched today in Geneva, is the biggest in the history of the United Nations.
	He's talking about some money that they've collected, which I knew nothing about.
	Six point five billion dollars.
	What?
	To meet these inside Syria and to help the more than two million people who have fled the country.
	Now, hold on a second.
	We're coming up with six and a half billion dollars?
	For what?
	Somebody's, line someone's pockets.
	I agree.
	Either there's something in Syria that we really need to have, or...
	It's just like Haiti.
	No money will go into Syria and it'll just be stolen.
	And listen where the money's coming from.
	Mr.
	Bond made the announcement Wednesday after a donor's conference in Kuwait, part of a U.N. effort to raise $6.5 billion this year, the largest ever funding appeal for a single crisis.
	He said the fighting in Syria has set the nation back years, even decades.
	The people of Syria want peace and hope.
	Yet all they see is death upon death.
	All they hear is talk after talk.
	People are dying.
	Families are fleeing.
	Serious fires are spreading.
	They may soon engulf the whole region.
	Kuwait pledged $500 million to the effort, while U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced $380 million.
	Remember when it was $20 million?
	It's throwing our taxpayers money at this, too.
	Don't put up!
	Remember when it was like $20 million or maybe $50 million?
	Now it's $380 million?
	New aid from the United States.
	Some of our support will help Syrians immediately as they cope with one of the cruelest winners on record.
	Oh, you know what that means.
	And with our contributions today, we're providing specifically fuel for heating and cooking.
	We're providing thermal blankets.
	Send your blankets.
	We just need cash.
	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
	Just send your cash.
	And other critical winter supplies for tens of thousands of people.
	Yeah, that's what you need $380 million for, for some blankets.
	It's so insulting.
	Hmm.
	Never ends.
	That's what gets me.
	I think it...
	But I believe somehow this ties into Turkey.
	Turkey's got something to do with it.
	There's just a lot of activity going on right now.
	There was...
	I mean, the Ukraine is in flames.
	Well, can I give you...
	Let's just stay here for one second.
	We'll come back to Turkey later.
	So the MIT, which is the Turkish Secret Service, because of the riff there that's going on between Erdogan and the Gulenist movement, so the Secret Service was stopped...
	At the border between Turkey and Syria and they had to open up their containers and it was filled with weapons.
	So Erdogan, the current Turkish government, is sending weapons down to Syria.
	I believe it may have something to do with the Kurds as Turkey has now started taking oil from Kurdistan.
	And there's a connection between the Iraqi Kurds in northern Iraq and the Syrian Kurds.
	It's the same people.
	There's also the Turkish Kurds, which the Turks don't like.
	Hmm.
	The Turks have this issue because the Kurds, there's three groups of these Kurds.
	The ones in Iraq, the ones in Syria, the ones in Turkey, but the big group is in Iraq, and their buddies, they seem to think that their pals in Turkey should have been, they should join up and make a country.
	And it would take a chunk of Turkey away.
	And Turkey's a big country, and they're always fearful that people want to take a chunk of it away.
	Of Turkey.
	They have a weird attitude about this.
	It's kind of like the Russians, they don't want to give up Chechnya, or any of these other places.
	Dagestan.
	And I don't think we should be giving up Texas, necessarily.
	So you can see how these countries react to this sort of thing.
	They figured, well, the Kurds in Turkey should, you know, just stay calm and be Turks.
	Right.
	So there's a bunch of, there's a lot of geopolitics here that are not fully understood by anybody.
	It does seem, of course, I've been so, so deep in Turkey.
	I've been meeting with people who are doing all kinds of stories.
	There's reporters.
	And they find, we find each other.
	And they've been finding me.
	In particular, of course, in Texas, it's funny you bring it up, Texas is extremely related to what's going on in Turkey because of the Harmony Charter Schools, the most are in Texas, run by Gulen, this imam who is apparently creating the war with Erdogan.
	Yeah, with somebody's help, it would be my guess.
	Well, I reached out to my Jewish handlers in Los Angeles.
	You know, the ones who have helped me with so much already, understanding other sides of stories.
	And she got back to me with a whole thing about how the CIA was paying off Gulen with heroin money from Afghanistan.
	And it seems like the CIA and Gülen, they thought they were kind of helping each other.
	They're like, hey man, you control Turkey and do whatever we ask you to do there, and we'll make sure that you get all the dope money, and then you can start up all these schools.
	But of course, these schools are starting to pay off.
	Now we've got kids who have graduated throughout all of Europe, all of Western Europe.
	They're now in government positions, in parliamentary positions.
	And it feels a lot like we're getting towards the next wave.
	The Ottoman Empire has to expand.
	And it's crazy because I have such a hard time wrapping my head around it.
	There's a concept that I've learned called Eurabia.
	Have you ever heard of this?
	Yeah, yeah.
	No, Arabia, that first showed up actually just before 9-11.
	Oh, really?
	There was a lot of websites, because when 9-11 happened, I went out and I did a site myself that linked to all these sites, because they were fascinating.
	Yeah, in fact, that's how I met a number of people, because they tracked me down.
	I said, I was getting all these weird links.
	I was wondering where they were coming from.
	And it was kind of an informational site, and one of the things that cropped up was these maps that have all been taken down, and it's really one of my first early lessons about if you see something really cool, get a screenshot, save that page, do anything, because it's not going to be there long.
	It'll be gone, exactly.
	And it had all these cool maps with timetables about when the Muslims were going to take over certain parts of the world.
	And Arabia was one of them.
	And that was going to be...
	It was going to start with France.
	That would be the first to go.
	And then it was going to kind of domino effect around.
	But they had the United States on there, too.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Oh, no.
	So there's a...
	I looked up...
	If you go to the Book of Knowledge and look up Arabia...
	It is right there at the top.
	The concept was coined by Gisela Littman in the early 2000s.
	That must have been when you heard about it.
	Her pen name is Bat Yeor.
	Denotes a conspiracy theory.
	Right off the bat there.
	Everything is a conspiracy theory, apparently.
	Anything interesting.
	It goes much deeper.
	So I'm just going to read you directly from the Book of Knowledge.
	It denotes a conspiracy theory where European and Arab powers aim to Islamize and Arabize Europe, thereby weakening its existing culture and undermining previous alignment with the U.S. and Israel.
	And then it actually goes further to compare this conspiracy theory to the protocols of the elders of Zion, basically saying, you're batshit crazy if you ever think this is true at all.
	But the problem is, I lived in Europe, and what this Eurabia concept is, is the bloodless jihad.
	And it's happening.
	It's happening in Belgium, Brussels in particular.
	It's happening in France.
	It's happening in the Netherlands.
	It's happening in the United Kingdom.
	We've played these clips where you have patrols at night.
	Muslim area, can't come here.
	Not with a skirt on.
	Muslim area, you're drunk.
	Go away.
	And I'm shocked.
	And myself thinking, can it really be true?
	Is this really happening?
	And it seems like it is.
	And the deeper you dive into it, and I found a great book, by the way, which I'm not done reading it yet, but it's called Europe Globalization and the Coming of the Universal Caliphate, which is written by this woman who apparently, this Batya Orr, Who created the conspiracy theory, I guess.
	And it's fascinating to read.
	And I'm thinking maybe what's happening here...
	Is Gulen wants to stop Turkey from ascending to the European Union, which is what Erdogan is in Brussels, as we speak, trying to do.
	And, of course, the European Union is going, hey, dude, you're firing police officers, you're firing your Justice Department, what is going on?
	Yeah, this doesn't look good.
	You don't have the situation under control, you're not ready to join up.
	And in that regard, it makes sense that someone who would want to...
	To create the...
	To reinstate the caliphate in the Ottoman Empire, you can't really do that if you're part of the European Union.
	The whole idea is to slip in, as Gulen said in one of his internet speeches, and to get into the arteries of the system.
	And then when it's time, you pop up like a little whack-a-mole and we're good to go.
	I like that alien creature coming out the gut.
	Yeah.
	And I'm like, wow, yeah.
	Possibly.
	But this is the kind of, and in America, this is the kind of stuff that, you know, you have the, what is it, seven or eight senators wrote a letter and said, hey, you know, we've got this Muslim Brotherhood all over the place.
	They've got security access, the Department of Homeland Security.
	We've got to be careful of this.
	Right.
	And then they're all...
	Abedin.
	Oma Abedin.
	And there's another term I got for you.
	Dimitude.
	What?
	Dimitude.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, the dim...
	Yeah, uh-huh.
	So a dim...
	No, that's not a...
	That was also a term that I'm familiar with.
	A dhimmi, D-H-I-M-M-I, a dhimmi refers to a non-Muslim subject of an Islamic state.
	Right.
	You have to pay a special tax, and you're supposed to get, and you can't testify in court.
	You're pretty much a slave.
	Yes, slave.
	One step above a slave.
	What's interesting about the dhimis is, depending on what books you read about it, The Muslim scholars or some Muslim sympathetic historians like to say that this shows how great the Muslims were because they let these people roam around freely, even though they had to pay a special tax.
	Just to breathe, yeah.
	And they couldn't also testify in court, and if you raped one of them, it was too bad for them, kind of thing.
	And...
	And the other ones, there's some great material on how these, you know, the type of oppression that took place.
	I mean, the whole idea is to get the dimmies to...
	Give up and become Muslims and just shut up.
	If you become a Muslim, then everything that is theirs is yours and you're in the club.
	But you can't quit.
	No, no, no.
	You can't quit.
	Then you're a dead man.
	And so, coming from the Netherlands specifically, where I know two people who...
	It's now 13 years ago, said, oh, we've got to be careful of this, being Teofel Hoch, filmmaker, shot, killed in broad daylight, blown off his bike, throat slit, knife stuck in his chest with a note.
	Of more people who were next.
	And Pim Fortuyn, who was, his whole platform was to stop the Islamification of the Netherlands, assassinated one week before the elections, which is party one, posthumously.
	I believe that every single politician who has any power or who is creating law or policy in European countries, because of this, they are so afraid.
	That they don't want to be branded as an Islamophobe, which is the term.
	Holland has that one Muslim parliamentarian.
	She's against all the Islamification.
	No, no, no.
	It's him.
	It's Heard Wilders.
	No, there's a woman.
	And I'm sure she's in Holland.
	She's a very famous Muslim woman.
	Iron Hirsi Ali is who you're talking about.
	Ayan Hirsi Ali, and she was in Dutch Parliament, and she left, and now she's at all kind of think tanks, and she's married now to that Neil Ferguson guy, Niall Ferguson.
	Okay, okay, she's not there anymore.
	No.
	And she made the film with Theo van Gogh, and he got killed over that.
	Yeah, well, she's been threatened.
	Oh, she's been under protection forever, yeah.
	Yeah.
	So here's the thing.
	Here's kind of the realization I had.
	It's so hard in my mind, from where I come from, how I was raised, it's so hard to believe that there possibly could be an entire, like, billions of people who actually do believe that if you don't convert to Islam, then you're either a dimmy or you're dead.
	There's a show title.
	Be a dimmy or you're dead.
	There's a rap title, actually.
	It's so hard to believe that, John.
	But yet, the deeper I get into it, this can't all just be conspiracy theory, Islamophobic crap that I'm reading.
	I mean, there are people actually killing people and blowing themselves up and claiming jihad, and these things are real.
	Well, there's a couple of things I like to always think, at least from my personal perspective.
	Yes, please.
	First of all, the notion of blowing yourself up a kamikaze style has always been perceived as a last-ditch thing, that this is where you are losing and this is how you have to react to it.
	Which I believe is somewhat true.
	And the second thing, and I say that because the number of Muslims that are involved in this jihad is such a small minority, but it's big in total numbers, but it's a small minority of the total population.
	And there's some...
	We tend to be pushing this because I've said it before.
	If you really go out and look around Muslim sites, you'll find more Muslim sites bitching about this.
	Yes, I agree.
	There's middle class Muslims, the ones that are just...
	They don't even...
	They're just like everybody else.
	They're not nuts about their religion.
	They just happen to be culturally Islamic.
	And maybe they go to the mosque once in a while.
	Maybe they don't.
	But they...
	They like a decent life.
	I think this was parodied once on a Saturday Night Live show where these two guys are leading a great middle class life in Topeka.
	And then they get the call from some guys.
	Okay, okay, I have been...
	Muhammad, Muhammad.
	Muhammad, you've got to go now.
	You've got to go now.
	It's time.
	But we've been here six years.
	We're married.
	We've got two kids.
	And they start, you know, it gets into a big argument about it.
	I'm sure this was many, many years ago.
	This would be politically incorrect to do on Saturday Night Live today.
	Maybe.
	It wasn't that long ago.
	It was after 9-11.
	And whatever the case, it's just not resolved very well.
	I have a thought on how to resolve this.
	I have a thought on how to resolve this.
	And it is literally the difference between the Muslims and the...
	And we should do a website.
	We should do an aggregation of the Muslim websites who are bitching about this and saying we've got to stop this crap and all this caliphate stuff and the Ottoman Empire or whatever.
	Although that's much more about power than religion.
	I think the Hulin guy, he just wants to be the ruler of the world.
	It wouldn't surprise me.
	There are megalomaniacs.
	There's plenty of them.
	We work in the Silicon Valley people, or with the Silicon Valley people.
	Half of them would love it.
	You met a couple of them at that Pebble Beach place.
	But I've been to Iraq.
	I was in the rubble of Iraq in 2003, and I saw how the young children are living and growing up.
	I went into many, many towns, and it was relatively calm at the time, although anything could have happened.
	And, you know, we need...
	What they have there is rubble and satellite television that's running CNN and BBC News all day.
	We've got to give these people some culture, like Love Boat episodes, I Love Lucy, Three Stooges, Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
	That'll change your attitude a little bit.
	Send them some Xboxes.
	Get these people to enjoy some of the crazier things that we do over here.
	It's a distraction.
	Because I'm telling you, there's a reason why Americans are not on the streets protesting, like in Ukraine.
	It's because we've got too much distraction, too many fun things to do.
	Yeah, we keep busy.
	Take your $300 million and send some video game consoles to the terrorists in Syria.
	I know it sounds simplistic.
	Well, look at what happened at the end with...
	Give him some comedy, man.
	Give him something funny.
	With Bin Laden.
	He was playing some Xbox game or something.
	Yeah, that's why he was totally docile.
	Yeah.
	I tell you, all you need to do...
	Grand Theft Auto's a good game.
	Look, if you want Syria, just dump some fluoride in the water supply, send them some Xboxes with Grand Theft Auto, and walk right in and take whatever you want.
	And...
	I mean, the human brain still works the same, except these brains have been programmed to go to the ultimate sacrifice of blowing yourself up when the call comes.
	It's much more fun to, you know, blow away hookers in GTA V. I don't know.
	Something has gone wrong with the American media system.
	We didn't propagate that properly.
	We can make just as much money, like the military-industrial complex.
	I don't know what happened, but it just definitely fell apart.
	We...
	I don't know.
	It's the reason we do this show.
	I think most of the show is like an exploration of trying to find, you know, we're just seeking.
	This show is the two of us seeking answers.
	Some sort of a larger meta-reality that we can't, you know, every week we discuss these issues to try to figure it out more.
	It's like the 33.
	It's just never going to happen.
	Well, there's something, yeah, exactly.
	Some things we will never, ever find out.
	And some things in the universe must remain a mystery, John.
	It's important.
	Anyway, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C. Duarte.
	In the morning to you, Adam Curry.
	In the morning to all the ships at sea, by the way.
	Also, the boots on the ground, the feet in the air, and the subs in the water, and all the dames and all the knights out there.
	And, of course, to our human resources in our chat room, always here to give us some feedback.
	NoagendaStream.com, NoagendaChat.net, as well as our artists.
	Thank you very much to, let's see, SuperLeon.
	Gave us a very colorful piece of artwork for the previous episode, 584.
	And, of course, we look forward to checking out NoahArtGenerator.com to see what will be submitted for 586.
	I saw you use some beautiful artwork that was submitted for the newsletter at the top.
	I also had a kitten in there.
	You had just about the best kitten picture.
	And it's funny because I know you a little bit.
	I can just see you finding this picture and laughing.
	Oh, this is perfect.
	I'll put this one in.
	I'm telling you, that picture in the newsletter, they had the two pictures that were interesting in this newsletter.
	One was the big fat guy kissing the face.
	Which a lot of people said, no fair, you're not allowed to put yourself in the newsletter.
	Yeah, I know.
	This is our audience.
	They're just a bunch of wise-assers.
	They better get a clue.
	Whatever the case is, because I was talking about the media, and we'll talk about later in the show, native advertising, and essentially that picture, because when you were reading, you'd see that picture and you would think advertisers, the big fat guy, and the media, this gorgeous woman being kissed.
	She's being assaulted, essentially, by some sugar daddy, which is the word that was used in the previous graph.
	So that was the idea, to get that image.
	Then I had to soften that image.
	By the way, none of this proved to make the newsletter any better than any other newsletter.
	It actually brought in less interest than most of them.
	But whatever the case, but then I had to put the kitten picture in there because I knew that...
	We needed a kitten picture, and that was a gem.
	Yes.
	And every time I saw it, I cracked up.
	I couldn't stop laughing.
	It's so funny.
	It's beautiful.
	And Miss Mickey actually went, oh, this picture makes me want to have a kitten.
	Oh, God.
	That's not going to happen.
	That's not going to happen.
	If you want to see what all the hullabaloo was about, you can sign up for the newsletter.
	Any of the show notes have a link, and today's link will be 585.noagendanotes.com.
	And in our value-for-value model, which allows us to talk like this, it's really cool.
	I just got a back-channel message from Sir12InchVoid0, who runs the infrastructure.
	He says, you guys are the only show in the world talking about this stuff.
	He said, the only people who dare to even explore the topic of what's going on.
	And we can do that because the only way that we will go off the air, well, there's a couple ways.
	Death would be one.
	Death by bullets.
	A hail of bullets.
	Hail.
	It has to be a hail.
	A hail.
	If it's not a hail, I'm not interested.
	Yeah, really.
	Don't take me out stupidly.
	Just do it with a hail of bullets.
	Or people stop supporting us because they don't like what we're doing.
	But you can't go after our advertisers because we have none.
	We only have producers.
	Although we did get some, I got a note, I went back and forth.
	Well, don't you say when you say, you know, what 4K television guy.
	Hold on, I'm sorry, 19 inch, not 12 inch.
	I underestimated, sir, Void Zero.
	19 inch, uh-huh.
	Yeah.
	Isn't that the same thing as advertising?
	No, plugs are not the same thing as advertising.
	They never really have been.
	And a plug is just what it is.
	And it's just casual.
	And it's like one of these things we don't even have to do it.
	But advertising, you pay for advertising.
	You have to perform like the monkey you are.
	Yeah.
	You're taking advertising money.
	Yeah.
	And let me tell you.
	So we take money from our, we take contributions the way we like to call them from our listeners who are dedicated.
	And we'll start with today's executive producers.
	We have two of them.
	We have three associate executive producers.
	Sir Fred Lutz with no comment.
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	Gregory Wilson, 313, I'm sorry, 333.13, he says he recently canceled his multi-year subscription to The Economist, an ad-supported rag, which resulted in a refund of $225.
	Oh.
	Very expensive.
	Yeah, that's...
	I'm rounding that up to 333.13 and sending it to you as my first donation to the cause.
	I'm also pledging $13.13 per month going forward.
	It's bad luck to be superstitious.
	This should result in knighthood in March 2018 if the government hasn't shut you down by then.
	Thanks for all you do, especially for the detailed show notes, which, by the way, are fantastic.
	Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
	I have a jingle for that now.
	We got a new jingle.
	Awesome!
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	Awesome!
	Everything is awesome!
	I don't know what kind of a jingle that is, but it's an interesting little hit.
	Little tidbit.
	So he wants you to play D-Douche, Karma, Dr.
	Kiki, shut up, two shots to the head, oh geez, one, two, three, four, five, six, six is too many.
	I got this.
	It's too many, but I got this.
	You've been D-Douged.
	You've got karma.
	Shut up already!
	Science!
	Yay!
	Oh, and then...
	Don't look over here!
	Nothing to see here!
	Look at that!
	I almost got it all right.
	You almost had it.
	I tried, I tried.
	It's too much, people!
	Sir Atomic Rod Adams 234.56 from Forest, Virginia.
	Adam and John, thank you for your courage and questionable attitudes.
	No, not questionable.
	He says questioning, not questionable.
	Uh-huh.
	Well, it's a psychological thing.
	And your questioning attitudes.
	Following your lead, AtomicInsights.com recently completed a value-for-value model.
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	The natural gas industry hates what we do, but no agenda listener should have no fear.
	And give everyone a shot at karma.
	Yeah, thank you very much, Sir Rod.
	You've got karma.
	It's funny.
	This donation came in after I sent him a question.
	Whenever I have a...
	There's a couple of go-to people.
	We have lots of go-to producers on the show.
	And I sent him a question about the term meltdown.
	Because we had been laughing about Amy Goodman using that term.
	And one of our producers said, well, technically...
	The term meltdown is not recognized by any atomic agency.
	So she, as a term, she is allowed to use it.
	And I'm like, wait a minute, isn't the term meltdown really, does it mean something?
	And so I sent it off to atomic Sir Rod Adams, and he says, you know, well, it's true that technically there is no real meltdown, but people think of a meltdown as...
	In relation to the China Syndrome, where the core would melt and melt all the way down, a hole through the earth, down to China, which is hence the China Syndrome.
	So that, of course, is, he says, absolutely not possible.
	But the cores of Fukushima Diachi did partially melt.
	So, while we laugh, because, of course, we know that Amy Goodman really is aiming more towards a China Syndrome concept, meltdown, it is a term that can be used.
	So, I question him, and he gives me an answer, and then he donates.
	Good.
	Is this awesome or what?
	Ask more questions.
	Thank you, Sir Rod.
	All right.
	Onward to Awesome Johnson, 220-222 in Boston, Massachusetts.
	ITM, Crackpot, and Buzzkill.
	Been enjoying the show since October.
	Needed to hear more.
	John and his occasional twit visits.
	Would like to call SF Hustler Club day shift half of famers A.I. Iko and Emma to the stage.
	They'll come up later.
	It's a double make it rain, John.
	It's a 1-11-11 time show.
	Yeah, right.
	So he's got two women.
	Are we doing that today?
	We'll probably do them Thursday.
	Thursday.
	Next Thursday.
	Today is Thursday.
	Next Thursday.
	You know, the club is emptying up, man.
	I'm working on it.
	I'll do something on Sunday for sure.
	Sunday?
	Can we count on you?
	Sunday.
	Sunday.
	Hopefully an associate executive producer credit for No Agenda is just the start.
	He wants to get out of his dead-end telco terminal field technician job and make use of my film degree.
	All right.
	Wow.
	That's going off.
	Kind of sliding to the side.
	Yeah.
	Well...
	I have a degree in film.
	Do you want to go out to that terminal box over there and switch out the ISDN lines?
	No.
	Okay.
	Well, yes.
	Well, you put this associate executive producer credit.
	Yeah, you get that.
	On your LinkedIn.
	And you can start an IMDB. With this credit, you can start an IMDB profile.
	Yeah, get going.
	Yep.
	Jessica Wyatt, and by the way, I could use a bit part in one of these films.
	Yeah, no kidding.
	By the time, there'll probably be 80.
	Oh, I gotta...
	Put me in a chair.
	I gotta tell you something really funny.
	Jessica Wyatt, $200 from San Antonio, Texas.
	San Antonio!
	I would like to donate on behalf of my husband Andrew Wyatt as a birthday present.
	Aw.
	That's sweet.
	I know he's been eyeing the producer title for a while, and I'd like him to be a producer on his birthday, which is Sunday, actually, but we'll give it to him today.
	He likes to listen to you guys, and I must admit, at first I didn't get what was going on, and I still don't half the time.
	I refer to No Agenda as his Talking People Show.
	Hello, it's the Talking People Show here.
	We do people talk.
	But I have grown to appreciate the show very much, even though most of it still goes over my head.
	Oh, and if Adam is ever in San Antonio, he should go to one of the two green restaurants.
	They have very tasty, if spicy, kale salad.
	So you're now known as the kale guy.
	I am the kale guy.
	I can't wait.
	I'm very excited, Jessica.
	When we go to get Miss Mickey's permanent green card, because there's two years and she's on probation, and then we have to go back and I have to say if I think she's done a good job or not, we'll go to the green kale restaurant.
	There's two of them.
	You can have one lunch and one dinner.
	These are our associate executive producers and executive producers for show 585, which is a palindrome nobody picked up on, which is fine.
	Even though I announced it, I told everybody.
	We want to thank everyone and all the rest, which we'll thank many of in the second half of the show, and remind you to go to dvorak.org slash na, channeldvorak.com slash na, also the noagendashow.com site, which has a donate button, as does the noagendanation.com site.
	And I continue to...
	I continue to do auditions for commercials to pick up the slack.
	Yeah?
	And I got one yesterday.
	What?
	You got a commercial?
	You got a job?
	No, I got an audition.
	Oh.
	But I know I'm going to get this one.
	I already read for it.
	I already sent it in.
	But I'll just read you the text so you'll know why I'm going to get it.
	So this is for Chevrolet.
	I'm not going to do an audition read.
	read.
	I'll just read through it.
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	I'm like, you know I'm gonna get this gig.
	And I'm gonna have to say, change your icon.
	You mean you just think that because of the world's natural ironic nature.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	That's exactly what I think.
	The karmic irony.
	Precisely.
	Is going to force you.
	It means you'll get this commercial just because you've been bitching and moaning about this stuff.
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	So you hear about the Black Widows?
	Oh, you mean the ones in Chechnya who are going to ruin the Olympics?
	Sochi.
	Sochi.
	Here we go.
	Let's take a small ice cream treat.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	The Winter Olympic Games just less than three weeks away.
	There are new and specific threats to the global event.
	Female terrorists called Black Widows may have succeeded in infiltrating Sochi and are out for vengeance.
	Out for vengeance!
	Is this NBC who's doing the promotion for the Olympics?
	Who was it?
	May have been it.
	Yeah, I think it was NBC. Probably NBC. Yeah, because they have the Olympics.
	They've got to promote it.
	NBC Bay Area's Terry McSweeney is live from near the Golden Gate Bridge with more on the threats and reactions.
	I'm going to stop.
	I can't set this up.
	Here's the way this is done.
	I think all the affiliates have this same...
	They send them all a package.
	And so they fronted the package with the local report.
	And in this case, they put the guy over by the Golden Gate Bridge on a remote.
	Because that's where the Black Widows usually are?
	About the Black Widows.
	And so he says, well, you know, if it was here, they'd want to blow up this bridge.
	That's the connection.
	So, you know, when people send us the...
	The Conan stuff was like, look, all the TV stations are saying the same.
	Yeah, we know.
	Okay, we know.
	But now you're getting a real look behind the scenes.
	So again, every NBC affiliate, they have the Olympics, the Winter Olympics.
	They're promoting the Winter Olympics.
	They have to promote it with fear, because that works.
	Promoting anything with fear works best.
	Fantastic.
	Oh, God, we'll have to watch it because maybe someone will get killed.
	Yeah, the Golden Gate Bridge has been the subject of terror threats and terror alerts over the years because of the international publicity such an attack could bring to a terrorist group.
	Now, imagine if a group could pull off an attack at the Sochi Olympic Games 18 days from now, what kind of publicity that group might get.
	And think about the ratings!
	That just such a plot may be well underway.
	At Sochi Airport these days, travelers are closely watched as Russian security forces search for as many as four women, suspected suicide bombers, who may be targeting the Olympics.
	This is one of them, 22-year-old Rosanna Ibragamova.
	She's a so-called black widow.
	She got that scar on her cheek during a raid by Russian forces last year that killed her husband.
	Add to all this a threat from the grave.
	Two men in this video released yesterday claiming they're preparing to carry out last month's suicide attack on Volgograd and warning of attacks on the Olympics.
	They, like a Bragamova, are from Dagestan, a Muslim republic where many hate Vladimir Putin and want independence from Russia.
	Residents say Russia's reaction to Dagestan terrorist attacks has been harsh and pervasive, sometimes in mosques during prayer.
	It's from the grave.
	It is so...
	I mean, it has a lot of good elements.
	I'll give them that.
	They don't have this, by the way.
	These reports about the Black Widows are rarely on...
	If they are, they're short pieces.
	They're not really on anything but NBC. No, of course.
	Yeah, I'm just pointing it out, the obvious.
	I'm wondering, though, how the package was presented.
	I'd love to get a hold of it, because all these B-rolls and all this stuff from these airports elsewhere, we're not sending anybody here from San Francisco to check this out.
	This has all been provided.
	But I'm wondering, because it seems to me this was the way I would send out the video package from the network.
	I'd say, can you...
	Hold on, hold on, hold on a second.
	I'll be NBC San Francisco.
	It's like...
	Hello, KNBC Programming Department.
	Yeah, this is Network.
	Hey, Network, what's up?
	Bill and Network, we've got a package coming your way.
	It's going to be a video package.
	Video package.
	We're just going to require a little local color.
	Okay, we'll get a guy out, yep.
	It's going to be about the Olympics.
	Make sure you get the 18 days.
	Make sure you get the date that it begins on the network.
	It's got to be in the report.
	Got it, got it, got it.
	NBC, here's the channel.
	Here's what we're looking on.
	Here's what we're trying to do.
	We want everyone to do this.
	It makes it a little different in every market.
	All right, Bill, what you got?
	You know, we did this with Indianapolis because they got that big pillar that's in the middle of town.
	We want you to go to one of your landmarks.
	Oh, you mean that?
	It's a terrorist target.
	Oh, of course.
	We'll do the bridge.
	The bridge.
	Yeah, you got a bridge there, right?
	Perfect.
	Yeah, the Colgate Bridge.
	Put a guy there and then talk about that for a second, then kick it to the report.
	We have the rest of it covered.
	Great, great.
	Yeah, no, it's great.
	It's always good to make people think about how scary it would be if they blew up the bridge.
	Perfect.
	Yeah, budget about four minutes for the video.
	You can pat it as much as you can.
	Make sure you get the 18 days in there.
	Make sure they know when the Olympics begin on the network.
	Bill, what is the chyron for this?
	Who's the perpetrator?
	What do I put on the lower third?
	There's a sheet of paper that has all your lower thirds.
	Okay, so it'll be...
	Oh, I see it here.
	I got it.
	Black Widow.
	Got it.
	Got it.
	We're good to go, man.
	All right.
	See ya.
	All right.
	Bye.
	Wow.
	We...
	We're uncannily good.
	Nailed it!
	Wow.
	You up-talked and nailed it.
	Nice.
	But just to show people how insane the promotion is for the Olympics, Hugh Laurie?
	Hugh Laurie is the house.
	On the series House.
	Yeah.
	He's the doctor with the cane.
	So he goes on Twitter and says, I'm pouring this vodka down the drain because Russia hates gays.
	Hugh Laurie, House is on NBC, I just want to remind you.
	It's so obvious.
	It actually was on Fox.
	I thought, no, I think it's NBC. No, it was Fox.
	I think it's NBC. I'm pretty sure House is on NBC. Just do a...
	Book of Knowledge?
	I'm going to do a search of the...
	I'm pretty sure it's on NBC. Network.
	Mm-hmm.
	Fox.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Well, then Hugh Laurie is just a douche.
	Well, maybe he's trying to get a job at NBC. That could be.
	Now, did you...
	I don't know if you're doing this on purpose.
	Are you staying out of the white paper?
	You just don't want to deal with it?
	Am I staying out of the what?
	Well, I forwarded you the final draft of the...
	I never saw it.
	This is a problem.
	I don't know what's going on.
	Alright, I'll forward it through your Gmail or something.
	Because I got the final, final, final...
	It might be in there.
	I mean, my box, now that I turned off the thread view, it's now filled with crap that I don't want.
	You thought you got no spam, but you just had everything to thread view.
	No, this is not spam.
	This is all, you know, people.
	Yeah, people.
	You're getting emails all of a sudden.
	Lo and behold, it turns out if you turn off ThreadView on Squirrel Mail, you actually...
	Squirrel Mail.
	Well, I always deal with the top stuff.
	I usually do your...
	I do searches for certain people and I just read all your stuff at once.
	That makes sense.
	It would be great if you could look at that because Gate Crusader Brian has put the finishing touches...
	Here he is.
	For your review, the complete white paper.
	Yes, exactly.
	Exactly.
	It would be great if you can have a look.
	I'm confident you'll have ideas that will be helpful to him.
	Yes.
	About the layout and everything.
	And you'll have a look at it later.
	Okay, I'll look at it later.
	I have it now.
	But what happened in just a few days that were not on the air, the Washington Post literally comes out with a headline, Russian President Putin links gays to pedophiles.
	Now, while technically true...
	I can see that.
	I can see how you could dream that one.
	That's beautiful.
	Yeah, while technically true...
	I mean, I had Mr.
	Oil getting translations of transcripts and everything.
	In fact, when you really read what President Putin said, it could not be further from the truth.
	And in fact, in September of 2013, the Russians signed all these agreements to protect and really enforce all kinds of law against violence against LGBTQI. And even in this report, in the transcript of his interview, He does not say, hey, you pedophile gays, stay away from our kids.
	But that is pretty much the way certainly the American media picked it up.
	And it's despicable to see this from the Washington Post.
	Despicable.
	And CBS. And they should be ashamed of themselves.
	Ashamed.
	So I'm not going to go through it again because I'm a broken record on this stuff.
	But anyway, parts of that will be in the white paper.
	And I'd just like John to take a look at it just to look at format.
	I don't think the executive summary is in there yet.
	It's a big document and it's really good.
	And Brian is very courageous for doing this.
	And we'll put it as an attachment.
	On the newsletter.
	On one of the newsletters coming up.
	Oh, absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	So, you know, just be...
	A link will link to a PDF that you can download.
	It's going to be great.
	It really is.
	Well, it's going to just blow the lid off the media's corruption.
	No, no.
	It will make zero difference in the world.
	It will make no difference at all.
	Zero difference.
	But at least everyone will have something to point to.
	Yeah.
	You say, look at this white paper.
	Yeah.
	I have no time for such white papers.
	I just read the headlines.
	I have no time for such nonsense.
	Yeah, exactly.
	All scientists agree.
	Oh, no.
	98% of all scientists agree.
	It's a big difference.
	How could that be bad?
	No, but it's just...
	There's something...
	I've got a couple of weird things here.
	Well, here...
	Let me go into a couple of Tom Hartman clips.
	From...
	Sorry.
	Yeah.
	He...
	His show, which he's been trying to do...
	He's so anti-Republican.
	And this is where I need the clip of Obama talking about Gitmo.
	But he's so anti-Republican.
	I have the clip if you want the clip.
	I have a clip.
	After you play, I play this clip.
	As soon as this clip's over, then you can play that clip.
	This is the Gitmo clip.
	And he is so...
	I was watching him do his show on RT. And I realized that...
	And he just does anything he can just to try to be...
	He's kind of a milquetoast character.
	He's not...
	He tries to get angry, but it's like his eyes bug out.
	This is rather new for him, though.
	Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
	And I finally figured out what it is.
	Since they moved Chunk and these other guys off at MSNBC, he knows what they're getting.
	Some of these guys get paid over there.
	I'm convinced of this, and when you hear this clip, you'll see what I'm talking about.
	He's looking for a gig, is what you're saying.
	He is trying to get a gig with MSNBC because he can make a lot of money.
	RT's not paying him anything.
	He's probably doing what he can to make money on his radio show.
	If you can bring in a sponsor, we'll give you a cut.
	Yeah, there's that too.
	That's probably the deal they made for him.
	So he's trying to get everybody...
	The follow-up clip is just to remind people that...
	This is nonsense because you have to remember when he says what he's about to say here, you have to remember that Obama had the House to himself, he had the Senate to himself, and he had the executive office.
	He had two years he could have shut down Gitmo because he had everybody, they were all Democrats.
	But somehow it was still the Republicans that were at fault because that's what Hartman's going for here.
	So let's play this.
	The good.
	The anti-Guantanamo generals.
	On Tuesday, 31 retired American generals sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to fulfill his promise to close down the Guantanamo Bay prison complex.
	The group, which included a former Air Force Chief of Staff and the head of the military's Middle East Central Command, said that Guantanamo does not serve America's interests.
	As long as it remains open, Guantanamo will undermine America's security and status as a nation where human rights and the rule of law matter.
	I couldn't have said it better myself.
	But the failure to close Guantanamo is not President Obama's fault.
	Republicans in Congress, Republicans, have blocked every attempt to transfer detainees out of the prison or otherwise close that complex.
	Regardless of whose fault it is, though, it's encouraging to see people in the military call out Guantanamo for what it is, a national embarrassment.
	There are different things that you could do early pertaining to executive orders.
	One of them is to shut down Guantanamo Bay.
	Another is to change interrogation methods that are used by U.S. troops.
	Are those things that you plan to take early action on?
	Yes.
	I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that.
	I've said repeatedly that America doesn't torture.
	There you go.
	Well, that's actually the 60 minutes.
	Yeah, that's a different one.
	That one's actually a better clip than the one I was looking for because it mentions that he could do this by executive order, which puts Tom Hartman as just a hypocritical creep for blaming everything, but he's only doing that to grab the attention of MSNBC. It's the Republicans' fault.
	The Republicans are creeps.
	Put me on MSNBC so I can make some money.
	I'm dying.
	So he's lying is what you're saying.
	Yeah, totally.
	All right.
	Well, here's the other one.
	I noticed this, too, and I got a couple of clips.
	I got Hartman on the Second Amendment, and then I have Bill Maher, who's also harping on this, and he's from that same show.
	You didn't get these clips off of him, but I got one.
	But play first Hartman on this.
	These guys are going after the Second Amendment.
	He's got a new segment on the show where he puts two...
	Right-wingers, and it's called the lone liberal, and he argues with these two guys.
	It becomes a...
	You can cut it off when you feel like it.
	I have an idea.
	I have an idea.
	Because I always like doing this.
	Before we play the clip, why don't we just remind everybody...
	It's very short.
	Why don't we just read the Second Amendment real quickly so everyone just remembers what it is.
	Is that an idea?
	It's three sentences.
	Okay.
	The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.
	A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state...
	The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
	And I read that specifically so you understand that this right of the people, which apparently already existed before the Second Amendment, shall not be infringed.
	So it does not say you have the right to have guns.
	No.
	Your already existing right shall not be infringed.
	That's what the Constitution says.
	A study by researchers at the UC San Francisco has revealed that people who have access to guns have an increased risk of both suicide and homicide.
	In fact, people with access to guns are two times more likely to commit suicide or be killed.
	That's 100% more likely.
	Every year 31,000 deaths between suicides and homicides by guns.
	51.8% of suicides are gun-related.
	66.5% of homicides in the United States.
	When Australia, after the 1996 slaughter in Tasmania, and Australia said, okay, that's it, we're horrified by this.
	They actually showed the pictures of the victims on national television.
	And John Howard, George W. Bush's good buddy, the conservative prime minister, the very, to the right of the Republican Party prime minister, said, enough.
	The states, as they decreased the number of guns in the states, Tasmania was the first.
	They did the biggest gun buyback, and then, you know, it went all across the country.
	Suicide rates and homicide rates decreased in each one of those states following the gun buyback programs.
	It was an absolute relationship, and to this day it is held.
	I think, by the way, this suicide argument, I've never understood.
	You know, it's, so what?
	If people want to kill themselves with a gun, and it's their own gun?
	So what?
	It's messy.
	It's messy.
	I mean, there's cleaner ways of doing it.
	Yeah, somebody's got to clean up the mess.
	Yeah, it's messy.
	It's very inconsiderate.
	Well, you know, but there's also, you know, the hanging thing is like you got to, you know, you got to, the light fixture gets ripped off the ceiling and stuff.
	That's also annoying.
	But yeah, the suicide argument, I don't...
	Let's listen to more.
	Thank you for irritating me with this Thom guy.
	Should we not say...
	Actually, let me take it a step beyond that.
	Should we not say that because the Second Amendment is archaic...
	We said slavery was archaic, right?
	It was from another era.
	As long as you can see that the first is also archaic.
	No, I won't.
	Who's that?
	Who said that was a funny line?
	Yeah, no, he has these two right-wing guys that argue with him.
	And by the way, beat him at almost every turn.
	The First Amendment's archaic.
	He's got to remove the segment.
	He looks like an idiot.
	That's archaic.
	Let's get rid of that First Amendment thing.
	That's no good.
	Wait, Tom goes on here.
	You have to listen carefully.
	He goes on and claims that the Second Amendment was only put in by some Virginians who wanted to make sure they had guns to shoot any slaves that tried to escape.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	It's like, what?
	I think the First Amendment didn't exist when they wrote the First Amendment.
	We still have newspapers.
	But we don't have slavery.
	And the Second Amendment was passed to protect slavery.
	I'm sure you know.
	The Virginia Ratifying Convention, the Virginians were the guys who were demanding that there be a Bill of Rights attached.
	Tom, that is absolutely absurd.
	Yeah, everybody wanted guns.
	Slaves didn't have guns.
	If they had had guns, had they been allowed to exercise a Second Amendment right, perhaps slavery wouldn't have existed.
	Let me explain.
	In the fashion that it did.
	Sorry, too much.
	It's just that it falls apart because all these guys are arguing at once.
	It's a terrible segment.
	But this guy is off the deep end.
	You hate him.
	This is a personal vendetta you have against Thawm.
	No, I don't care one way or the other.
	I find, actually, I've listened to his radio show, and every once in a while, he just goes right to the heart of the matter.
	He nails a topic.
	He's really actually pretty good from his perspective, and I enjoy it.
	But on this TV show, it's so obvious he's trying to get out of RT to get a gig with MSNBC that I find that extremely annoying.
	He's also not fit for television.
	His eyes bug out.
	Obviously, he's not a nearsighted guy, so when he wears glasses, because he's farsighted.
	People who are farsighted when they have their glasses on, their eyeballs are double the size.
	Yeah.
	And it's creepy.
	So let's go to Bill Maher and start with...
	So he's on two tirades.
	He's won against guns.
	But the other one caught me a little off guard because I had predicted this in an essay I had written about 10 years ago.
	And I got excoriated for it.
	And my basic thesis...
	Well, first play Bill Maher 1 and then I'll tell you what my thesis is.
	Wait a minute.
	Bill Maher 1?
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry.
	I got the wrong clip here.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Here we go.
	And as we start a new year, let's start a new tradition, a good tradition, to replace one of our stupid traditions, like the Electoral College.
	Okay, so he starts off by saying we have to replace a tradition.
	This is not a tradition, by the way.
	The Electoral College is not a tradition.
	No, it's a documented process.
	It's a process that's in the Constitution.
	So I had this thesis at least 10 years ago, and I stick to it, and I've always believed it.
	By the way, that's a very good catch.
	Him saying stuff like that is pretty outrageous.
	Yeah.
	Well, before I go on to my thesis, let's play the second Bill Maher clip, which includes some other stuff, but he still brings up the Electoral College.
	This is Maher on the guns?
	On guns and more.
	But we're not going to drop that bad habit without making another important resolution, which is to stop hanging on to stupid stuff long after it's relevant, just because it's tradition.
	We don't need the Electoral College, or the drug war, or the penny.
	Or farm subsidies.
	Or an amendment in the Constitution about how citizens need rifles in case they have to take over the government.
	Hey, people who clapped, you're the first to go.
	Yeah, let's hope.
	The first to go.
	Whatever the case.
	And by the way, he uses the word relevant, which is the same thing Thawm used, that same word, relevant.
	So these aren't relevant anymore.
	But...
	We know they're going to go after the Second Amendment.
	There's been a policy.
	It's a self-identifier.
	We also know why.
	And the reason is not even to actually rid the country of guns.
	The reason is to ensure that no woman in America ever votes for a Republican.
	Right, it's to get everyone off, yeah, because you associate guns with Republicans, and then you scare women with dead kids, and then they vote Democrat, and that's kind of the reason for the whole thing, which is just a great ploy.
	It's a great ploy.
	And so you get more women voting Democrat than Republican for some reason, and that's the reason.
	I think it is very important to point out that I really do not believe any Democrat, of course there's some crazy ones, but don't actually care.
	They don't really want the guns gone.
	They just want to get re-elected.
	They just want to have the power to continue.
	Yeah, they're all shooters.
	In fact, Tom Hartman admits he likes to go target shooting.
	Well, so does Bill Maher says he has guns.
	Yeah.
	So this is a bunch of hypocrites.
	Whatever the case, it's the electoral college thing.
	It's a new thing they snuck in there.
	And I didn't say I predicted it.
	I did.
	I predicted this over a decade ago.
	And here's the reason.
	Here's the rationale.
	I believe that they've been going after...
	They want to go after the electoral college because, for one thing, there's always this argument that...
	I think you need to stop for one second.
	I believe, due to the nature of...
	This program's audience, the producers worldwide, I think we need to briefly explain the Electoral College.
	Yes, good point.
	The Electoral College is a group of people that actually pick the president in the presidential race, and it works like this.
	Every state's numbers come in, and if the state of Florida elects George Bush...
	Then the Electoral College members from Florida cast their vote for Bush in the Electoral College.
	And how does...
	What determines how many state has...
	How many electoral votes?
	It's all done by the state's population.
	Okay.
	And who chooses the people who cast the electoral votes?
	I think the local legislatures, they pick some people.
	And the whole thing process is really kind of just a rubber stamp process if...
	Here's what the problem is.
	The electoral college can be voted...
	Your state has the policies on how to put the electoral college votes in.
	So if it's a winner-take-all state, everybody votes for the winner.
	Okay, so there are differences in each individual state how the electoral college votes.
	My understanding is everybody does winner-take-all.
	That's why when you see the elections...
	But I think they can do whatever they want.
	In fact, I think they can even say the other guy if they wanted to, which is one of the reasons people want to get rid of it.
	But generally speaking, that's why when you see the elections, they say, oh, they won Florida.
	That's 25 votes in the Electoral College.
	And that's all that counts.
	And so what's happened over the years is that smart politics...
	And I think this began with Reagan.
	Began to target the populous states that had the most electoral college votes and just win those states.
	And then, yeah, whatever.
	Nebraska, Kansas, who cares?
	They can go either way.
	So you have this thing now where you have all the states that really picked the president...
	You can count them.
	There's California, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, and a couple others.
	And those are the states that everyone tries to win.
	Nothing else matters.
	Because nothing else matters.
	Because if you can just win these big electoral college states, you can win the election.
	So the possibility always exists...
	It's happened once or twice.
	I think it happened, I can't remember which presidents, but it's way back in the 1800s it happened once.
	And I think it could be argued that it happened with George Bush's initial election.
	I'm not sure.
	Whatever the case is, the possibility exists because of this mechanism that you could have a popular vote way for one guy and the electoral college, the other guy wins.
	Right.
	Which is always...
	And the reason for the Electoral College has been specifically for that, so that if for some reason somehow everyone was paid off and they voted for the wrong guy, the Electoral College, it's like a backstop.
	The Electoral College could still say, nah, that was...
	It's an insurance policy.
	It's an insurance policy process.
	And this has been in place since day one of our...
	I believe so.
	Okay, all right.
	Now...
	But here's the real problem.
	Screw all this nonsense about the process.
	It's gotten to the point where local TV markets in states like Kansas and elsewhere, they get no advertising.
	No money.
	And they need money.
	Because nobody gives a crap who wins Kansas.
	And so there's no money trying to make the election go one way or the other.
	And so the Kansas local markets are both...
	Okay, now I know where you're going.
	It took me...
	Now, yes, this is actually a current theme which returns about every four years, and it's a good one.
	And so every newspaper and local magazine and TV and radio outlet in many states get none of the money that you see pumped into Ohio.
	Which is literally billions.
	Billions.
	It's like 3 billion or something total.
	Now, nobody really cared too much about this for a while.
	Until, let me guess, until it turned out that in California, everyone's so in for the Democrats that they also were getting no money.
	Right.
	California, big budget, large media markets, because they're all in on the Democrats, everyone in California is a Democrat, they were getting no money.
	And they should be getting a big pot of money.
	So the reason for this, of course, is the electoral college.
	Yes.
	Now, without an electoral college, now you can't play the game of just targeting one or two states.
	California finally gets its money.
	So it also behooves the big media outlets to propagate this idea of removing the electoral college because they want the money.
	So when I first wrote this up, this idea, the result was, oh, you're nuts!
	That's a conspiracy theory.
	Really?
	Anyway, yeah.
	The reaction to it wasn't very positive.
	But it's so obvious that that's what has to happen.
	Right.
	Well, of course.
	And it's all happening now because we have to get this going.
	This is where the money comes from.
	This is so much money is involved in this.
	And it all flows through top-down.
	That's $3 billion at least.
	Kind of on that minor topic, just a little side note.
	You'll recall I was doing a show in the Netherlands on a radio station.
	The one that was burnt to the ground after you left because you said something?
	Yeah.
	Do you remember what it was I said?
	You said somebody was a pedophile.
	Yeah, right.
	The Secretary General of the Justice Department in the Netherlands, Joris Demink.
	And I didn't just say that.
	I said, look, here's the evidence.
	Here's what's going on.
	And I was removed from the station.
	The station's financing was removed.
	Their license was revoked.
	And it turned to rubble.
	Good work, Adam.
	Yes, on Tuesday, the Justice Department...
	Now, this guy retired two years ago.
	After, I think, blackmailing people and propagating all kinds of crazy crap throughout the Justice Department and the entire Dutch government, the Justice Department said, it looks like we indeed have to prosecute Joris Deming for suspicion of his crimes of pedophilia.
	Well, aren't you happy that you did this?
	Because it was obviously your reporting that resulted in the final justice being met out.
	Well, I'm sure I contributed in some small way, but it's one of those things where you can say after the fact, like, see...
	I told you something.
	I mean, I have no job, and the station is rubble-ized, but we were right.
	Yeah, well, that's the reason we have no station.
	We have no advertisers.
	We can say what we want.
	Well, we can't say what we want.
	We can't libel people.
	No, we can't.
	I'm going to show my school, but don't...
	Was it too early for that?
	No, don't.
	If I jump back in, don't stop.
	Okay, don't stop.
	I'm going to show my school, but don't I? Don't stop the new agenda.
	Don't stop the music.
	Don't stop the music.
	I actually wanted to stop it for myself because I learned a new word.
	It's called a slap.
	S-L-A-P-P. Have you ever heard of a slap?
	No, I have, but I don't know what it is.
	Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation.
	Oh, that's neat.
	And what this is, essentially, is if...
	If you say something mean about somebody and it's not really liable, but the person or the company wants to get you, Then they file what is known as, you know, this slap lawsuit, which essentially just bleeds you dry.
	So it's just a way, it's under tort, you know, because tort law is so weird in America.
	They just bleed you dry until you give up, or you run out of money, which is very, you run out of money very quickly, or you just die or whatever.
	Yeah, most of these, the most trivial of lawsuits cost 40 grand minimum to get just a...
	And so a friend of mine is very worried about SLAP because he's doing a documentary and there's some stuff going on.
	And so he has errors and admission insurance and all kinds of stuff.
	But it turns out that there's jurisprudence for us.
	There was a talk show host who was sued, I'm trying to find, I have the, Martino, Tom Martino I think is his name, I have no idea who that is.
	And they tried to slap lawsuit on him and it was thrown out because the judge said, even though this guy presents things as facts, because he's a comedian and makes jokes all the time in the show, no one could possibly think that everything he says is true.
	Oh!
	So what about the flying saucers, Adam?
	Exactly, John.
	Moon bases.
	We never landed there.
	So I'm reading this book.
	I'm reading what I consider alternative reality books.
	Some of them are very interesting.
	Where's John C. Dvorak?
	Who are you?
	I'm thinking about the slap suit as we speak.
	And I have to say that I'm going to discuss this in a future segment because I've got two books to recommend people for alternative reality books.
	Which, one of them is extremely well documented, which indicates that the Germans actually had an A-bomb.
	And they blew it up in October of 1944 and took out the Berlin power grid.
	Give me the name of this book?
	It's not one of these.
	It's a privately printed book someplace that is very well documented.
	The name is a mile long.
	It's in my bedroom.
	I can't remember the name offhand.
	I'll get it for you.
	Okay.
	And the book is, it talks mostly about, it's just a fascinating tale that has got stuff in there.
	And every time, here's one of the little tidbits.
	There's documentation that indicate that we actually dropped two bombs on Nagasaki.
	The first one was a dud.
	Really?
	And it was recovered.
	And...
	And it was given to the Germans to use whatever, to see how the explosive, how it worked, because there were some issues with getting these trigger mechanisms to work properly.
	And the first Nagasaki bomb apparently had this problem.
	The other one was, we had two kinds of bombs we dropped.
	We dropped a uranium bomb and a plutonium bomb.
	This is documented.
	We never had enough uranium to make the uranium bomb, right up to the last minute, until we robbed a German transport of highly fissable uranium that they had been developing and working on, and we stole it and used it in our bomb.
	Now, this goes on and on with all kinds of these tidbits, and I will bring this book up on the Sunday show.
	Nice.
	I like it.
	It is just like, and it's not as if this guy's just blowing smoke.
	He's got newspaper articles.
	He talks about the EMP that probably happened, that took out the Berlin electrical grid, which was the most modern in the world, in 1944 for 60 hours.
	Wow.
	Right when they were supposed to be testing this super...
	It was called a disintegration bomb.
	Wow, this is...
	That's what they called these things.
	This is great stuff.
	And they blew this bomb up as a test, and they blew it up on a bunch of Jewish prisoners that they put in housing development and wiped them out.
	As one does.
	Yeah.
	And apparently they also dropped one of them.
	You couldn't make too many of these, but they dropped one of them on the Russians, on a specific Russian regiment and took the whole group out.
	And the Russians refused to talk about it because they didn't want to give anybody any edge.
	Heads up that it was real.
	But anyway, this kind of thing is what I'm looking at.
	Would you please let us know on Sunday what that is?
	I already told people, the book stuff is good, and we've gotten away from that a little bit, although I'm now reading Gates' book.
	See if I find anything interesting that hasn't been discussed.
	Because, you know, no one in the mainstream has actually read it.
	Yeah, there'll be something.
	No one reads those books.
	Not anymore.
	Although on the Kindle, you can read, for some reason, I would recommend this to people.
	It's a plug.
	The Kindle Paperwhite.
	Yeah, I got Mickey one of those for Christmas.
	Oh my God, that thing is...
	The Paperwhite?
	Yeah, the Paperwhite, yeah.
	You can plow through books with that thing.
	You know what I like about it?
	It also, depending on your speed at the bottom, it'll tell you how many hours left to finish the book.
	Yeah, it tells you how many minutes a chapter.
	Yeah, but I switch back.
	I don't have the Paperwhite.
	I have the original Kindle, but I also use the...
	I find the Kindle app on my iPod Touch is really quite fantastic for reading at night in bed.
	But the Paperwhite, it does...
	It really beats everything.
	It is...
	It's unreal.
	Yeah, I'm astonished.
	I can't even read a regular Kindle now because the paper white...
	And the great thing is you don't need a lot of light in the room.
	I mean, it lights up the place.
	But you can plow, really read fast, and your speed just goes faster and faster.
	Anyway, that's a recommendation.
	I agree.
	Let's thank a few of our contributors for this show.
	Yes.
	Beginning with Kenneth...
	Gross.
	$129.58 from Felton, Pennsylvania.
	And he did send a note in.
	Of course, let's again move things around.
	Begin the segment when I'm not expecting it.
	I'm sorry, you know, I'm just trying to keep the show moving along, you know.
	I'm just trying to make it happen.
	No, this is Tim Oregon.
	That's actually a pretty good...
	Oh, here it is.
	This must be it.
	No, that's Ken's note.
	Kenneth Roche.
	Or is it's note?
	Kenneth Roche.
	All right, we'll get back to it.
	I'll find it.
	Oh, man.
	Okay, all right.
	Anyway, he's cutting-edge solutions in Scotland, $111.11 from Glasgow.
	Make it rain!
	Yeah, but I didn't get a note from him.
	Oh, well, that's wrong.
	Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
	Well, he has until Sunday to send it in.
	Yeah, and we'll have to remind...
	I don't know.
	Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, making it rain.
	Club 33, JCD. Yeah, can it send me an email and I'll read it in the next show.
	Sean Coffey, $80.80 from Annandale, New South Wales.
	We might as well read it.
	The list is short today.
	Yeah, the list is very short.
	This newsletter with the kitten didn't work out.
	We had a kitten fail.
	I think it was that fat guy.
	I think he just turned people off.
	They got sick.
	They never saw the kitten.
	I think they didn't even want to scroll down.
	He's like, ah.
	Hey, Ringo and Bingo, donating this amount again as I thought at Christmas you would starve, so it is 8-0-8-0.
	Oh, I like that.
	8-0-8-0, 80-80?
	Nice.
	I like that.
	Yeah.
	You have a lot of Aussie producers.
	We should all start a fund to get the whole Duo Plus on a Hot Pockets tour down under and get Ringo and Bingo meet up with the Dingo.
	This is in the planning.
	I mean, I... Again, we're going to have a very busy year, but I really, really, really want to go.
	And Miss Mickey really wants to join me.
	We did two hot pies.
	It's so tiring.
	I'm so tired.
	And I'm not feeling well.
	Yeah, well, today in particular.
	Yeah, today is not a good day to talk about traveling.
	However...
	69!
	69, dudes!
	Back with a vengeance.
	So we have 69ers here, a couple of them.
	Quite a few, actually.
	Swazzle enough karma, just for people who are questioning where this came from.
	Edward Granado in West Hills, California.
	69, 69.
	He says he's also known as Porn Valley.
	Woo-hoo!
	Long time, first time, desperately need job karma.
	At the end of 69, 69, we'll give a bunch of job karma out.
	Okay.
	Yeah, onward to Rob Warren in Sunderland, Tynan Ware, UK. Anthony Garlinger in Downers Grove, Illinois.
	You can read these and see if there's anything I need to say there.
	This is Heil, Guardians of Reality.
	Thank you for your courage.
	I have hit another milestone in my life, so it's time for another donation.
	My wife and I are officially expecting a new human resource.
	Well, two, actually.
	Hey-o.
	Both shall be raised to question authority, think for themselves, and do their own research before believing what bullcrap is fed to them.
	See, this puts a smile on my face.
	Yeah, it does.
	But, you know, it doesn't necessarily work out that way.
	What is that?
	Hello, Debbie Downer.
	I'm going to just tell her like it is, like my daughter, for example, who goes to kind of a conservative university, Willamette, she's still subject to the same propaganda stuff, and I tell her, no, no, no, you can't, no, no, look at it this way, and then she's like, you're a dad, you're, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I think it's still, I think it's still, it rubs off, and there will be some, the questioning of, come on, Jay questions authority.
	Yeah, usually mine.
	Well, it's training wheels, daddy-o.
	It's important.
	That's how it starts.
	Now, when people say to me, well, what good do you think you're really doing with that no agenda show?
	Is that that same guy?
	No, it's a different guy.
	Will you stop talking to him?
	It's a different guy.
	That's actually, okay.
	And I say, well, you know what?
	One by one, one little person at a time, we're making our little difference.
	And it's mainly by making them laugh and making them feel good about, you know, the constant assault of bull crap that's being thrown over them.
	And if you can get your kids into this at an early age, it will make them happier people.
	I think.
	Well, I think, well, yeah, maybe.
	Oh, wow.
	Maybe if they listened to the show, it would help.
	Well, yeah.
	But not everyone can listen to the show.
	People who don't have a commute will never listen to the show.
	It just doesn't happen that way.
	No, it's true.
	People really do need to be a commuter to listen to this show.
	I had a man date.
	You had a man date?
	What was your man date?
	I had two man dates.
	The first two ones I've had in Austin.
	Oh, you mean a man date?
	Yes.
	But I like saying a man date.
	You had a date with a man.
	I had a date with a man.
	Two men.
	One at a time.
	Monday with my buddy Mark.
	And it's great because we just talked all about Turkey.
	And Caliphate, and who else except you and my wife will talk to me about this stuff.
	And then on Tuesday, I had drinks and dinner, well, more bar food, with Eric, the constitutional lawyer, who, of course, he can't talk to anybody in Austin.
	He can't talk to a single person.
	And it's so nice when you can just have a conversation about the bullcrap.
	You know what I mean?
	And so this is what we do as a show.
	We give you the understanding that you're not alone.
	But even I have that sometimes.
	There you go.
	Yeah, no, I think a lot of people got a clue.
	Yeah, well, they do, but they're often worried.
	Many of them are listeners.
	They gravitate toward our show.
	Many had a clue before the show.
	Now they're just, ah!
	Exactly.
	John Geiser in South Elgin, Illinois.
	He was a boner, now he's a donor.
	Nice.
	James Smith in Ottawa, Canada, 69, 69.
	And finally, Scott Check, and I got a note.
	Okay.
	I got a note from...
	Harwick, Pennsylvania?
	I wonder if that's anywhere near the Gulen compound.
	He just says he's got a birthday.
	That's all the note says, really.
	Oh, is that on the list?
	I don't see...
	Hmm.
	Oh, yeah.
	He's not on the list, man.
	Do I need to put him on the list?
	Wait a minute.
	Need some Swazilnav, December 1st birthday.
	I didn't put it.
	I had to write this out for Eric.
	I didn't put the birthday on there.
	And it was December 1st, but give him a birthday call out.
	Okay, December.
	Scott, check eye.
	Okay.
	69!
	69, Dave!
	All right, that's it.
	Thank you very much for the Swazenov karma.
	It's usually used for getting laid.
	Also, you wanted me to do a quick jobs karma for everybody who needs it.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Just throwing it in there.
	I have a note here from, what is this, 5754?
	Well, first we have Stephen Morris.
	Okay, no, I'm just still digging around.
	Stephen Morris in Holly Springs, North Carolina, $60.
	Narada Stapel in Safety Bay, Australia, $58.50.
	Timothy Organ in London, Ontario, $57.34.
	He has a very long note.
	I'm trying to see what he said here that might be worth repeating.
	While you're looking at that, I'm just going to go back to Narada Staple for a second.
	Again, it's a short list today.
	So as I type this, my wife's mom is having an operation for brain cancer.
	Can I have an F cancer karma for her recovery?
	Yeah, of course.
	Absolutely.
	And a lot of people want that.
	Why not?
	You've got karma.
	Why not?
	Screw the cancer.
	Anyway, he says a bunch of links, especially about Rob Ford and some other stuff that we'll look over.
	And he says he wants to thank us for the great show.
	It's a podcast that is very well done.
	That's a compliment to the producer.
	Everyone's a producer.
	Is it Machi, Machi, Machi, Machi, Machi, Machi, Stolowoski?
	Machi, Machi, Machi, Machi.
	We decided on.
	We knew how to pronounce it.
	He's in Calgary.
	She's in Calgary.
	I can't even remember if it's a man or a woman.
	Macy Stolowski.
	I thought it was Macy.
	We suck.
	I can't believe this.
	I'm almost convinced that he's donating only for this purpose.
	I know Dutch people do it.
	Watch this.
	And then $50 each from Peter Colvin in the UK. T. Abel in Bergfield, Berkshire, the UK. We got the UK today.
	Jason Daniels in Dallas, Tex Nuts.
	Voodoo Video Unlimited in London, London, UK. Eric Veet in Dublin, California, just up the street from me.
	David Trotsky, who does reminisce about his name.
	He says, can you imagine being a kid in high school during the Cold War with the last name Trotsky?
	Yeah.
	Uh-huh.
	He's in Romeoville, Illinois.
	Hey, Trotsky!
	Got your ice pick for you.
	And finally, Benjamin C. Smith in Oakland, California.
	50 bucks each.
	We want to thank them and all the others that came in with lesser amounts for helping us out here on show 585.
	As we had 15 shows from now to show 600, which is something to think about.
	Yeah, that's true.
	600.
	Almost there.
	Seven weeks.
	Oh, you've actually done the math on it.
	No, I mean, this is 15 shows.
	It's two shows a week, seven weeks, seven and a half weeks.
	Oh, man.
	Not a lot of math to do.
	No, we still got to get some other gigs going.
	Well, you got your voiceover at work.
	Yeah, I will soon be the voice of Chevrolet.
	Yeah, all right.
	Um...
	Well, obviously, this is our value-for-value proposition.
	People like it.
	People support it.
	We thank you very, very much for that.
	And again, also thanks to our executive producers, our associate executive producers.
	Remember, we have another show coming up on Sunday, and there will be more to pull apart as we continue.
	I mean, I'm just doing the deep dives on the caliphate, on the Ottoman Empire, on Turkey, how it connects with Syria.
	It's...
	I don't think anyone else is doing this, quite honestly.
	So if you want more of it, support us.
	Go to Dvorak.org slash NA.
	It's your birthday, birthday.
	I'm so much younger.
	William Durkin congratulates his twin sister Beth, his nephew Patrick, and himself celebrating on Friday the 24th.
	Tomorrow, Jessica Wyatt says happy birthday to her husband Andrew Wyatt.
	He'll be celebrating on Sunday, the 26th, where she got in on time.
	Happy birthday.
	Kenneth Gross, also on the 29th.
	And Scott Chechei, belated happy birthday for December 1st from your buddies here at the Best Podcast in the Universe.
	It's your birthday, yeah!
	And no nightings today.
	We only had a short list, what's to be expected.
	Whenever we do well.
	It's the yo-yo effect, which I could do without, by the way.
	You can't get away from it.
	The yo-yo effect.
	Just a little much for me.
	Oh, boy.
	Let's see how Justin Bieber's doing in the news.
	Danica Patrick's in the news.
	Yeah, they had to...
	You know, I got some quick fun stuff.
	Caught the president with a flub.
	Always funny just to laugh at the president.
	One of them.
	It's Stefan Rodriguez, who also is here.
	Where is he?
	There he is.
	Good-looking young guy right here.
	Could not speak a word of English when he moved to the United States from the Dominican Republican.
	There he is.
	The Dominican Republican.
	This is a prompter flub.
	He's so used to seeing the word Republican on his teleprompter.
	That it just flips out now.
	Yeah, that's exactly what that was.
	The prompter thing is...
	He's not that bad as an ad-libber when he comes on and does Leno, especially with Letterman, because apparently the two of them like each other.
	Yeah, but that is all pre-produced and pre-discussed.
	To a point, but it's not so well rehearsed.
	It's better than his prompters stuff.
	He doesn't have the prompters out.
	I think they should be...
	Now, if Letterman had a sense of humor, when they brought the president out, they'd have two prompters up there just as a joke.
	That's funny.
	I like that.
	There's a term going around which I think we should pay attention to because I'm not quite sure it's well understood.
	Here's a CBS... Throwing it out there in an interesting context.
	Demonstrators blocked private shuttle buses operated by Google and Facebook in San Francisco Tuesday.
	Several tech companies use the shuttles to transport workers to and from their jobs in Silicon Valley.
	Some 35,000 passenger pickups a day.
	This seems to be about more than shuttle buses...
	Oh, of course it is.
	Of course it is.
	The private buses have become symbols of income inequality.
	Income equality.
	What?
	This is a big term.
	Income...
	Well, it's either income inequality or income equality.
	Apparently, the president is striving for something called income equality.
	And I'm not sure if this is based upon gender or just, you know, you make that, we got to make the same.
	I hear it all the time.
	It seems to be a meme that is floating around, hasn't quite found a home yet.
	You haven't caught this?
	Oh, no.
	This came up weeks ago.
	Yeah, they've been talking about this.
	I don't know where they're headed with it.
	That's why I haven't really discussed it or thought much about it.
	But, yeah, no, it's all over the place.
	And this Google thing is apparently a worldwide thing.
	I have a clip from France Van Kat on the San Francisco Google bus international coverage, and this is the way they handled it.
	Well, first of all, they got cool music.
	I mean, hello, right there.
	That's much better.
	American rap group Cashbox have released a song criticizing Google buses, the ultra-luxury vehicles driving around San Francisco.
	Provided by the web giant to transport employees, the buses are targeted as the level of comfort they offer is deemed indecent as satirical video Fueling the debate which has continued to grow in amplitude in recent weeks.
	Last month, the inhabitants of San Francisco and its suburbs blocked Google buses on several occasions and even broke the windscreen of one vehicle in Oakland.
	Chanting slogans such as, San Francisco is not for sale, the protesters criticized Google in particular for causing rent increases by encouraging rich employees from Silicon Valley to move to San Francisco, leading to thousands of evictions.
	San Francisco!
	There are even signs of the protests on the city's walls.
	As shown by some social network users, many posters denounce these buses, which have become symbols of inequality between inhabitants, whether they are owned by Google or by other Silicon Valley companies, such as Apple, Facebook and Yahoo.
	The debate has also inspired two San Francisco artists.
	Colleen Flaherty and Matteo Bitanti, who depict miniature Google buses in a series of sculptures entitled The Street Views of San Francisco.
	The sculptures can be seen on their site, which highlights changes to the urban landscape, where instability and wealth rub shoulders.
	A phenomenon which, according to the two artists, has led San Francisco to lose its soul.
	San Francisco apparently has lost its soul.
	Also, Oakland is part of San Francisco, according to that report.
	I lost my soul.
	Somehow, Oakland, they stopped the bus in Oakland.
	I don't know what they've got to do with anything.
	I'm just thinking now...
	Is there something more going on here?
	Is everyone you know in San Francisco all pissed off about this?
	Is it really the huge outrage?
	Do you think this is some sort of a crazy publicity stunt that is so deep?
	Maybe.
	What I do is question things.
	That's all I can do.
	I know.
	I've been questioning it myself, and I like the report.
	Well, for one thing, it's a pro-Google report because of this information that came out in this report.
	They go...
	The rap group is mocking these buses because they're too luxurious.
	Yeah, right.
	They're so luxurious, they're sinfully luxurious.
	We don't see any...
	I've never seen a picture of the inside of these buses, but I know that type of bus.
	It's just a bus.
	It's got nice seats and it's a bus.
	It's not got a bunch of go-go dancers in there.
	It's all symbolism.
	And I guess the question...
	Because typically when things are going well in the economy of a city like San Francisco, people are happy because money flows.
	So either A, the money's not flowing...
	And all I hear is rent's going up, rent's going up.
	The poor people of San Francisco can't afford to live there anymore.
	They can't even afford to live in Oakland.
	They can't even afford to live wherever.
	Now the latest thing is San Jose.
	As far as San Jose.
	There is a couple in the downtown, not right downtown, but right in the main part of San Jose.
	There are apparently a couple of these, they call them trailer parks.
	Now, when I was up in Oregon last time, and I don't know why this is, and you probably haven't done it either, but...
	I've actually never driven through one.
	I mean, there's two kinds of trailers parks.
	There's the park that's got a bunch of trailers in it, and then people travel around, they park their trailer, and then they...
	Yeah, that's like an RV park.
	It's similar to an RV park, but they're usually longer term.
	There's an RV park, let's make it three kinds.
	There's the RV park, there's the short term.
	We stayed at an actual trailer park when we did our first tour in North Carolina.
	Right.
	Yeah, so I've stayed at a trailer park.
	Okay, but you've never been into one of these, what they call a trailer park, but it's actually a small housing development that has nothing but very elaborate double wides.
	Double wides, yeah.
	That are permanently installed.
	Yes, no I haven't.
	You can't drive your RV in there and park it.
	No, and I didn't, yes, correct.
	Have you ever been in through those things?
	Yeah, that's the one in North Carolina.
	Well, how did you get to park?
	There's no room to park in those things.
	One of our producers, his name evades me for a moment, he runs the trailer park.
	Oh, and he lets you park in his driveway or something like that?
	Yes, exactly.
	Okay.
	All right, well, those trailer parks, I was up in Oregon with my daughter, and we're driving somewhere, and there's one of these parks, and I said, let's go in here.
	Of course, on the spur of the moment, we drove through the thing, and it's like all the houses.
	This is where she starts questioning your authority.
	Dad, I don't want to drive to the trailer park.
	She was fascinated as much as I was.
	Okay, good.
	We drove through the thing, and it's got, like, streets and, you know, cross-sections.
	It's like a little town.
	There's no room for it.
	I mean, it's all permanent with gardens and driveways and special garages.
	It looks like houses, but it's actually these mobile, double-wise, these things that are sold just for this purpose.
	You don't really drive around the country with them.
	And modular housing is what it amounts to.
	So there's one of these in San Jose, and they're going to tear it out and put in a high-rise.
	And so they were interviewing these women that were living, a mom and a daughter, a 90-year-old mom and her 70-year-old daughter living in one of these things.
	And they're talking about how they're getting rousted, and there's no place else for them to go, and what are they supposed to do?
	You can't really move these things.
	And I just think, you know, this is one of the things that is going on.
	They're uprooting...
	Things like these parks, because essentially it's a real estate idea.
	You build a bunch of these, put people in these things, and then you have a whole bunch of land that you own.
	The guy, in your case, owns most of the property, I'm sure, and those guys just play squatters' rents, right?
	Well, this is kind of the perverseness of when people really want to help.
	Brad Pitt It was going to put 150 houses in New Orleans in the Ninth Ward.
	And of course these were also houses that Brad Pitt designed, because Brad Pitt is a frustrated architect.
	And I think they only put 40 or 50 in, and instead of the people whose lives were destroyed and devastated, you know, you got kind of upward, like more like yuppie types coming in.
	Boom, immediately, all the clubs everywhere that used to have no cover charge to come in and watch a band, now they're charging cover.
	And then the people who live there, who actually these houses were intended for, they have to move away.
	Yeah.
	So this does happen all the time.
	And it's good intentions, I think, but it always kind of backfires.
	I think it's good intentions too, but it's like naive good intentions because it never works out.
	Especially when you have guys that just got the money touch.
	Yeah, the money touch.
	They do.
	So there are some people that whatever they do that just makes money at the expense of the locals.
	The whole hipster thing is kind of like that.
	It's like Austin.
	Austin is changing that way.
	Rapidly.
	Something I've been holding on to, it was just kind of fun, just a couple fun clips that we could listen to.
	You know, marijuana is still a big conversation in the United States.
	And there was this DEA agent, I think it was like a deputy something or other, Capra is his name.
	And he testified about marijuana and how the DEA has to deal with it.
	And I just wanted to, you know, this is all kind of federal and he was testifying in front of Feinstein and It's just kind of funny how he was freaking out about how marijuana is just so horrible.
	You want to listen to just a couple clips here?
	Yeah, I'm always interested in that stuff.
	I have to tell you this.
	I have to.
	And I served in the great state of California for nine years as a new agent.
	And I went with you to Redding, California.
	You don't remember.
	There was more hair here when we established an office up there for meth.
	I must tell you this because it would be wrong for me to tell you.
	Going down the path to legalization in this country is reckless and irresponsible.
	The department has set up factors, sir.
	And I get that.
	I'm talking about the long-term impact of legalization in the United States.
	It scares us.
	Now listen very carefully.
	The treatment people are afraid.
	The education people are afraid.
	Law enforcement is worried what is going to happen.
	In every part of the world where this experiment has been tried, it has failed time and time again.
	No, no, that's not true.
	This is just a blatant lie.
	In Portugal, where all drugs were decriminalized, it's been very successful.
	Very successful.
	Yes, it's an out-and-out lie, but I love how it's in every place in the world.
	When does somebody that's listening to this say, what about Portugal?
	We've got plenty of numbers on Portugal, and this is not the case.
	And I think you can make the same rationale for Holland when it was, like, normal.
	Yeah, now that, of course, that had to harmonize, and that's all screwed up.
	Now he comes with some alliteration.
	Alliteration?
	What is it?
	Alliteration.
	Anyway.
	People think that DEA and law enforcement officers around the world are interested in Billy and his bong in his basement.
	Come on.
	That's a good one, man.
	Come on.
	I love that.
	That's like building bombs in your basement for Boston is Billy and the bong in the basement.
	It's beautiful.
	We're not.
	We never have been.
	That's his mother and father's problem.
	That's not the federal government's problem.
	That's not Jimmy Capper's problem and DEA. That's a mom and dad problem.
	What I'm interested in, what DEA has always been interested in, is the trafficking groups that want Billy to be puffing on his bottom, the groups that are selling dope to our kids because they live off the backs of addiction, that's what they want.
	And by the way, we've never gone after it and have done that because people thought we're going after small-time traffickers.
	I've been DEA for 27 years, never arrested an attic, and I don't have any small-time traffickers.
	We don't have time for that because we're dealing with things like this on a global scale.
	Yeah.
	Really?
	That's another lie.
	Yeah.
	Oh, I know.
	The prisons are filled with not only small-time traffickers, but users.
	I know.
	They're filled to the gills with these guys.
	And, of course, they're part of the prison corporation manufacturing segment of the country, which allows us to have prison laborers.
	And so this guy is just a blatant, this guy should be ashamed of himself.
	He's just lying through his teeth.
	Because, well, of course, what is he going to do if it was all legalized?
	He wouldn't get a job.
	Obviously, he's got no other skills.
	Meanwhile, the deferred prosecution agreement between the Justice Department and HSBC, the bank that was reached in December 2012, was approved on Monday.
	The settlement for the bank failing to stop billions of dollars in drug money from flowing through the bank from Mexico.
	They will pay $2 billion in fine, which is about five weeks worth of profit, to avoid criminal charges.
	Oh, good for them.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Meanwhile, some kid gets picked up because, you know, they're getting home from a Friday night high school football game.
	Here is a statistic I did not know, and I have no way of checking it.
	There are more dispensaries in Denver than there are Starbucks.
	Now, do you think that's true?
	Yeah, I heard this before.
	This is one of their little common things they like to drop out there, and it is true.
	Wow.
	Awesome.
	I think you're telling me that federal law ought to be enforced.
	There's what it's all about.
	There you go.
	Was that grassly?
	No, no, no, that's not grassly.
	I forget who that is.
	But that's really what it's about.
	So I had a nice conversation with Eric, the constitutional lawyer, about this.
	Oh, good.
	And I asked him, because he was doing some permitting for a gas-fired electricity generation plant in El Paso.
	And it is a four-turban.
	He says it's pretty much like having a 747 on the tarmac, revving its engines full speed.
	That's what this is.
	And it can provide enough wattage for a quarter of the population of El Paso, probably about 200,000 people.
	And he said, what should just be a matter of just getting a building permit because of the EPA, he says, turns into this huge, incredible litigation.
	And I said, well, I don't understand.
	How come, why is it that you can't just, like Colorado with their weed?
	You know, it's like the feds don't come in and bust everybody because they don't really have the right.
	And he says, yeah, he never thought of it that way.
	But it turns out Texas has some of the most, the toughest environmental laws anywhere.
	And because of that, people can, which I didn't know either, by the way, people can just throw up roadblocks all the time.
	Eventually, they get it done.
	But again, there's no way that federal law trumps the state law.
	Even the EPA really, they can make it very tough for everybody.
	They can't really stop it.
	But because everyone believes that federal law trumps everything, and we have this conversation all the time, and my God, how many lawyers do we have listening to this show that write us and say, you're wrong, federal law does trump state law.
	Well, generally speaking, like the last guy who did that, they tend to be law students.
	Yeah, that's true.
	That's true.
	Which says to me, what does that say to us?
	It says that the law schools are the ones teaching this concept.
	Yes.
	Because you're coming out of law school and you've got this just built in, you know, so it's your lockstep, you know, Hitler salute built into your studies.
	Really?
	You will spew this and it becomes part of the, you know, just make it universal.
	In fact, the one guy was going on, I said, well, then, okay, explain to me.
	And this is what I thought was really said it all.
	Why you had to have the amendment to the Constitution to outlaw alcohol, the prohibition.
	Exactly.
	A 12th Amendment.
	Another perfect example.
	Repealed it, one of the two.
	Anyway, so you had to have a constitutional amendment, which means why didn't you have to have a constitutional amendment to make marijuana illegal?
	And his response was a convoluted one that said...
	Back then, it was different because there's been certain court cases, certain Supreme Court decisions, and also new ways of doing things that now would make it...
	If we wanted to do prohibition today...
	According to him, we wouldn't need a constitutional amendment.
	We just need a federal law.
	Right.
	Well, that's just not true because we have a federal law for pot and no one's enforcing it because they know they can't.
	They don't want to get into a Tenth Amendment beef at the Supreme Court level when all of a sudden all their laws are crap.
	So they're not doing anything.
	They're scared to death.
	Oops.
	Wait a minute.
	Now everything's off the table.
	Can't have that.
	Well, there's something happening in the Euroland zone as well.
	In fact, the Netherlands just had a citizens' initiative for an EU referendum.
	Which is interesting because the Netherlands are pretty docile people.
	They're kind of all in on everything and, oh, hum, whatever, just go along.
	Even though it was the Netherlands and France, you'll recall, who in 2005, in referenda, voted against the European Constitution, which resulted directly in the Lisbon Treaty, which was not voted on.
	The only country that was allowed to vote on it was Ireland.
	Ireland said, no, we don't want it.
	Then we had a do-over.
	And said, look, you're going to vote yes.
	And then everybody voted yes somehow.
	It was very interesting how that happened.
	The Netherlands, they got 63,000 signatures or more than for this citizens' initiative.
	They want a referendum to stop more power going to Brussels, to the EU, and even...
	Specifically, removing themselves from the EU. Not that I think that will happen.
	I don't even know if they'll get a referendum the way they want it, because that is not the system of government in the Netherlands.
	It typically is a representative government with a coalition.
	But it is interesting that it's happening, and it's a lot more than I expected.
	I didn't think this would take place at all.
	And it does seem that They're going to have to do a lot of shut-up to a lot of slaves because I'm feeling that there is some movement.
	Nigel Farage will be leading some of that with Le Pen from France and Geert Wilders from the Netherlands.
	And I think there's someone in one of the Scandinavian countries who I can't think of at the moment.
	And there is some movement going, and they're going to have to shut this down quickly.
	Because this vote is coming up in, I think, May.
	And I know, it's just, I can feel some movement here and there, and it's kind of a similar thing.
	We'll follow that, obviously.
	I try to.
	I would, again, listening to some of these foreign news reports, this was, I found, just for the...
	Audiences, not entertainment, but just, I thought this was interesting.
	This is a clip that's dubbed Refugee Numbers, and it discusses the number of refugees from various conflicts in countries and whatever today, compared to what we had in 1975, which you'd think would be, you know, maybe ramp up with the population, double, let's say.
	But the numbers are quite...
	I'd ask you, what do you think the number, how many refugees there were in the world in 1975 and how many do you think there are today?
	And your guess would be hard to come close to this.
	Listen to this and just listen to these numbers.
	In 1975, there were some 1,400,000 refugees across the world.
	In 2012, this figure stood at close to 18 million.
	This interactive map focuses on the numbers of people fleeing conflict in their home country or political or religious persecutions over the past 40 years.
	I'd say Syrian refugees by themselves is a million.
	Yeah.
	This is outrageous.
	The rebelization of the world is creating this outrageous refugee problem.
	We went from a million five or so in 1975, which was a period of a worldwide depression, essentially.
	It was a bad era.
	To 18 plus million?
	Aimlessly roaming around and living in camps?
	This is terrible.
	A lot of that, I believe, is happening in the Middle East.
	I think Africa as well.
	Yeah, Africa and the Middle East is where most of it's happening.
	And also, I think...
	By the way, as part of the...
	Just a little callback to the Eurabia and as part of the Caliph and the Caliphate and all this stuff that I've been reading about, Africa is a big part of this.
	There is a big...
	the Muslim conversion process is also all over Africa.
	And this creates wars and that creates the same thing.
	More people moving around, moving in tents.
	And you know who's in charge of this at the big United Nations level?
	You know who is the ambassador of refugees? - Well, is it Hillary?
	Angelina Jolie?
	Oh!
	So I think we need to fire her ass.
	She's doing a horrible job.
	She is.
	She's not doing anything good for the refugees.
	It's only gotten worse.
	Kinky sex, that's the problem.
	You need to get George Clooney in there.
	Get someone in there who will do something.
	Yeah, get George Clooney.
	I'm trying to cue you for the call Clooney.
	I didn't feel it was...
	It's my favorite clip.
	I didn't feel it was time to do it.
	George Clooney.
	It's a spine.
	I like that one better.
	I know you do.
	You love that one and you never play the other one.
	You like the Call Clooney better?
	Yeah, it's a toe tapper.
	You've got something going on and you need a distraction.
	Call Clooney.
	Call Clooney.
	It's...
	Really, it's a toe tapper.
	Very nice.
	Let's talk about native advertising for a minute since I teased it in the newsletter.
	I want to just get a couple names out there for people.
	Let's explain.
	You want to run it by everybody?
	This is the new thing.
	Everyone's into it.
	It's the New York Times is doing it.
	Washington Post is doing it.
	It seems to be the only way now that you can make money on the internet with content.
	Yeah, and so native advertising, which means it appears in your publication natively as though it was an article, is actually an advertisement.
	And a good native ad, and you see these all the time.
	I've bitched about it in print myself.
	I'll probably complain more.
	Even though if I was running a magazine or a newspaper, a normal one that was not like ours, which actually gets to the bottom of things, but something that's just weak entertainment for the masses, I would probably be all in on this.
	One of the biggest operations out there is Mashable, which is completely not only all in, but it's a poster boy with Cashmore appearing on the website of the number one agency in the country, the MSL Group, is the number one native advertising the MSL Group, is the number one native advertising operation pushing it.
	I don't know if they invented it.
	It's hard to tell where it actually came from.
	I mean, it's been around for a long time, but nobody – Everyone was always rebuked.
	If I can just interject, I think the main difference here is that these publications are allowing the advertisers direct access into their content management system.
	So there's no editorial process.
	It flows right through into the native advertising section.
	If you want to see this in action, you'll get a kick out of this because you know these systems.
	Mm-hmm.
	The company you're looking for there is called Nativo.
	N-A-T-I-V-O. Nativo.
	And essentially, you subscribe to them, and then they take the crap that you want to put in the New York Times or one of these other places, and they just drop it in.
	And in real time.
	Let me read you from the slideshow that MSL Group has.
	I'm just going to read from the slides.
	You can see what they're talking about.
	Where can native advertising be executed?
	Native advertising.
	This is a deck.
	Native advertising can be executed across a variety of media publishers and platforms such as publisher sites and blogs such as BuzzFeed, Business Insider, CNN Money, Entrepreneur, Forbes,
	Kiplinger, Maxim, Motor Trend, Reader's Digest, Source Interlink, The New York Times, TheStreet.com, USA Today, WebMD and a few thousand more.
	It's everywhere.
	All the top social networks have native products.
	Facebook, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter and Tumblr.
	So this is a plague on anyone, actually, on real news coverage or reporting.
	No, no.
	This is just essentially taking ads.
	And they show up on all the TV shows.
	In fact, you're getting that Chevy job.
	And you can't even spot them because a good native ad, we've spot them all the time, of course.
	But every once in a while you wonder, is this a native ad?
	Or is this like, generally speaking, if they're eating McDonald's Big Macs on a TV show and talking about how great they are, that's a native advertisement in some way, shape, or form.
	And that's what we saw with the Five or whatever it is on Fox.
	Well, let me just say, there's a difference between product placement, which is, so for instance, Morning Joe has Starbucks coffee, as does The Voice, by the way.
	American Idol has Coca-Cola.
	And they're paid?
	Of course.
	And they're taking a sip, etc.
	Then there's a difference where they actually do a segment about healthy eating and the panel in the morning is talking about how McDonald's has salads.
	So that is the real native advertising.
	We ran across one in the Wall Street Journal.
	Which someone sent to me, it was about the James Pennebaker's book, and of course we talked about him months ago.
	This is the UT of Austin professor who taught us about performatives.
	And so there's an article in the Wall Street Journal, and you think it's about this book and the performatives, but then it very slowly moves into this outfit that, let me see, what's the name of it here?
	I'm sorry.
	It turns into some company, some communication skills training company, Syntaxis, and that's really what it's about.
	And whether that's a PR job or a paid-for, whatever it is, they misused editorial to flow you into this organization.
	And that, to me, is like, I felt that was an advertisement.
	I can't I can't say for sure, but I think it was.
	Yeah, I really think it was.
	We've seen a lot of these things.
	We try to pull them when we see them, and then, you know, in some cases you can kind of guess who paid for this spot, and sometimes it seems like a regular report.
	Then somehow or other you realize it may have been paid for, but if it's really well done, you don't know for sure.
	That's the really great native advertising.
	That's what's actually dangerous.
	I have one example of that here, which is, I don't know if this was paid for by anybody.
	There is a prominent name that comes up, which indicates it might be.
	But I have no idea if this is a legitimate report, if it was a video press release or what it was.
	But you can play this clip.
	It's a blow for Honda story.
	Okay.
	A blow for Honda today as Consumer Reports says it can no longer recommend the Honda Fit after it placed last on a crash test.
	The test looks at how well cars hold up when they hit a wall on the driver's side at 40 miles an hour.
	The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says the structure of the Fit car collapsed around the driver.
	The steering wheel moved and the driver's head hit the instrument panel.
	In addition to the Honda Fit, five other so-called minicar cars rated poor on the crash test.
	The Fiat 500, the Hyundai Accent, Toyota Prius C, the Nissan Versa, the Mitsubishi Mirage.
	The Chevrolet Spark was the only small car to receive an acceptable rating.
	Well, yes, we know that Chevrolet has a media buy.
	In fact, how do we know that?
	Because I'm doing voiceovers for them.
	I'm auditioning.
	So yeah, Chevrolet is spending money.
	So I would say yes.
	It was well done enough, though, that except the thing that was kind of the giveaway, it looked to me like it was native advertising, was they had at the end when the punchline of the Chevy got away without getting a bad rank, they had a B-roll of the little car bouncing around.
	To me still, John, I think the difference in where it matters to us Is the direct access to the systems.
	So you're in the publishing system of the New York Times.
	It's a little different than something on television.
	I think native ads on television are probably in some ways, if they're done well, are more sinister.
	Because they really, you can't really, it's not, and yeah, it's true, you can't just drop one and you have to run, you got to get them to buy it.
	But is that product placement or, you know, what?
	I think that's a native ad and I think it's, I think it's, and I think it's slightly sinister.
	Well, I'm happy.
	I don't think there's anything worse than this Nativo thing if you look at that website.
	They got a video.
	They essentially give you an API for the New York Times and you can, and they give you what's called an editorial well.
	Mm-hmm.
	And that is wide open.
	It's wide open for you to put your article in.
	Let me see if I can play this video.
	I don't know if Shockwave Flash is going to be happy.
	This is one of the reasons that I think people really have to think about this show and what we're doing.
	Because you're getting so much crap from everybody.
	...has built the first truly scalable and automated native advertising platform, allowing the instant distribution of branded content across any site type, all automatically matched to be native to each publication.
	Here's how it works.
	This is a piece of T-Mobile branded content, ready to be placed on sites that are contextually relevant.
	All we do is click play, and the native ad is then automatically placed directly into the content well.
	Okay.
	Was that it?
	Was that it?
	If the content is added, the Nativo technology will automatically determine contextually relevant placements and optimize them in real time.
	A-B headline testing, third-party tracking, and retargeting is all built in.
	You know, so there's a couple things I'm not against.
	I very much like what Red Bull does.
	I think those guys are smart Red Bull.
	Red Bull, they...
	Oh, Red Bull.
	Yeah, they create content with their Red Bull Air Races.
	Yeah, but that's different than what we're talking about.
	No, I know, I know.
	But I think that is where they should be headed.
	And all this other stuff is bullcrap.
	Well, it's a lot of wheels spinning.
	Now, the key word here, and the reason that you brought the TV thing versus this, this, and...
	Generally speaking, native advertising was always done like that little Chevy thing.
	It was done on a onesies basis.
	And that's why this company, TiVo, came up because they say they can do it to scale, which is why they have this automated system that pops it in.
	So you come up with your T-Mobile ad or article about how great T-Mobile is because they got satisfied customers.
	No, it was worse.
	It was a story about a guy surfing.
	But it's all brought to you by...
	I think they're kind of doing...
	This is what's so dumb about it.
	They're making content.
	They're hiring people to create content that then they attach T-Mobile's name to.
	And this is kind of what they've always wanted to do, is have stories that they think fit their audience demographics.
	So I guess the typical T-Mobile subscriber will be interested in surfing and hot babes and guys and whatever.
	And they slide the T-Mobile message all over it because they're sick and tired of dealing with publications and getting them to write something that they want to be a part of.
	So it's...
	I'm happy with it because let everyone do that.
	Sick and tired of dealing with publications that...
	Here's what it always reminds me of.
	It's the...
	During my heyday as a writer, which is...
	That's long gone.
	Many, many moons ago.
	Because the internet screwed me.
	Yeah.
	So you'd go out and you'd have a meeting with some public relations woman and maybe some other...
	But it was two or three people together.
	And she'd pitch you to...
	So who are you working with now?
	She says, I'm working with the ABC Accounting Company.
	And we're trying to get some articles written about how great our accounting software is.
	Right.
	And I would say, this is like the boringest thing ever.
	I can't write about this because I'll just lose my readers.
	I can't bore them.
	And I would actually say this, by the way.
	I can't bore them stiff with a crappy accounting company story.
	And you wonder why your writing heydays are behind you.
	And so I would say, I would just express, and she knew this, by the way.
	They always knew this.
	And now they got this opportunity to screw it.
	We don't have to get some dumb screwball like Dvorak to write about our accounting company because we'll just go through this system, write about it ourselves and how great it is.
	And that's why all these publications are dying.
	Nobody wants to read this stuff.
	It's just all garbage.
	Well, yes and no, because I'm a student of this and I look at What BuzzFeed specifically is doing, and they are really creating content for the masses of morons.
	They really are.
	And I have to say, they're doing an outstanding job, and it's always six things about, five things you've never seen, ten things of this.
	It's lists, people love lists, and it's dumb stuff, and put in celebrities, and it's good to go.
	No, I see those things.
	I don't know how long this is going to last, but those teasers, and there's a bunch of operations that run these things, that are on the bottom of almost every webpage now.
	It's like some crazy teaser.
	The one food you didn't know will kill you.
	Yes, exactly.
	You know, those things, those kinds of little, and you always, every once in a while, there's one thing, ah!
	I got to see what this is.
	You click on it, it's always a disappointment.
	It never tells you what you want to know.
	It's just bullcrap.
	These are all teasers.
	These are a bunch of teasing a-holes, and I have nothing good to say about it.
	It's funny, because I've gotten to the point where, you know, with the research that we do, and we figure stuff out, and sometimes I actually walk into the office and I think, oh, I'm going to write a blog post about this.
	And I think, no.
	Now, that medium no longer works.
	You can't get someone to read more than five paragraphs of information, which is why I like doing the show, because people are trapped in their cars, in the subway, wherever.
	They got nothing better to do.
	And then we can explain it to them and they can look at stuff later.
	This is true.
	We actually do have something of a captive audience.
	Although there are volunteer captives, the ones that are in the gym or the ones that do housework around the house and they clean up and they keep their iPod or whatever.
	And apparently we have an uncanny amount of accountants and auditors listening to the show.
	Did you notice this after we talked about banking?
	No, I have not.
	Oh my gosh.
	I must have gotten 30 different emails from highly qualified accountants and auditors talking about double entry bookkeeping, how you can scan.
	Well, how the banks work.
	Well, there is settlements, and a lot of people talked about that, but also that the, and this is really the fractional banking thing is what we forgot to talk about.
	Ah, right.
	So, you know, the bank's balance sheet, you really only need to have, it's less these days, I think, but 10% of the money that you have, that you can provide in loans, you only really have to have in cash.
	But it was just interesting to see how many highly qualified people In the field of accounting and auditing, listen to this show.
	And whatever happened, by the way, to the...
	And do they listen to this show?
	Are they listening to it while they do the books?
	I think so.
	Are they listening to it over lunch?
	I don't know.
	If they're commuters, it makes sense.
	They'll let us know.
	They will let us know.
	And whatever happened to the good old public service announcement?
	Next, an international public service announcement by the United States government.
	The Rewards for Justice program is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of any individual responsible for the September 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks.
	The U.S. guarantees that all reports will be investigated, and the identity of all informants will be kept confidential.
	If you have such information, contact the Regional Security Office at the nearest U.S. Embassy and the tip line at www.rewardsforjustice.net or email information to rfj at state.gov.
	That was an international public service announcement by the United States government.
	That's real, by the way.
	And that aired on Voice of America.
	Wow, what a crappy PSA. I know, right?
	You know, we can do PSAs.
	I think we've talked about this in the past.
	Yeah, I think we have, too.
	Another fine idea that went nowhere.
	Another fine idea that we'll never do.
	Oh, man.
	You know, people don't know this, but you see this all the time.
	There's a couple of them floating around on local radio.
	When I keep hearing them over and over, I get really annoyed.
	But a PSA, in the olden days of radio, there used to be a couple different kinds of PSAs.
	Most of them came in as printed.
	And you would get a...
	Yeah, you would read it.
	You would read the PSA and record it.
	Yeah, it would be a sheet that said PSA. And you'd send them out.
	They were like press releases.
	You'd send them out to all the local stations.
	Usually they were from the American way.
	Remember that?
	I don't remember any of them, to be honest about it.
	But I do remember the basic format, which is they're all in capital letters.
	They're double-spaced.
	And every line was supposed to represent one second of reading.
	And so you have X number of lines.
	And there was a little time at the bottom.
	It said, you know, 20 seconds, PSA, 30 seconds.
	Sometimes you get three or four of them.
	You get a 15-second or a 20-second version and a 30-second version, and then a long one.
	And they would go out that way, and then they came up with the idea, which seemed logical to do.
	It's easier now, which is they have them pre-recorded, and they come in on a tape.
	But I think it's a lost art.
	Oh, dude, this whole show is a lost art, man.
	What are you talking about?
	No video, just theater of the mind, two guys talking, jingles, giving you a vibe, putting you into a...
	It's all a lost art.
	DJs who used to choose songs on the radio, lost art.
	No, no.
	Enjoy your Spotify and your Pandora.
	You don't know what you're missing out on.
	But it's a lost art.
	It'll come back.
	It'll boomerang back eventually.
	Everything comes back.
	Well, a lot of people do listen to podcasts.
	This is true.
	And podcasts are mostly, you know, they're not necessarily, they don't put as much effort into research as we do.
	But there's generally a bunch of guys chatting.
	If the guys are interesting, you'll listen.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I listen to a few.
	Very few, but I listen to a few.
	By the way, Davo is on.
	And proof that Davo has completely jumped the shark...
	You mean Davos?
	Davo.
	They have the Young Global Leaders...
	Guess who's a young global leader this year?
	Scoble.
	I think he was last year.
	No, it was a couple years ago Scoble was.
	Randy Zuckerberg.
	Oh!
	Randy Zuckerberg?
	She's like a failed producer of...
	Weddings.
	Reality shows.
	Weddings?
	No, she has a Zuckerberg Media.
	I think she produces Weddings or something.
	Oh, Weddings.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's pretty bad.
	A quick note, Blake says, yeah, I know you guys don't have a great history of finishing books, but how about doing the 2030 Survival Guide?
	We can crowdsource each chapter or section from the No Agenda community.
	Well, I don't know about crowdsourcing.
	We have no good luck with that.
	I think that's doable.
	2030 Survival Guide.
	This is for the 2030club.com, by the way, which I'm still maintaining.
	I still have not done the center, black, red thing.
	Take your time.
	Well, do you have the 20-30 donation level yet?
	I haven't figured it out.
	Probably $20.30.
	I don't know.
	Okay.
	And let me see.
	We'll have some stuff maybe saved.
	Do we have anything about Kiev briefly?
	Ikea?
	No, Kiev.
	Kiev, Ukraine.
	Oh, yeah.
	I have a short Ukraine report.
	It says Ukraine.
	Okay.
	Oh, good.
	Yeah, I see it here.
	Let me see.
	Fires broke out today in the midst of protests in Ukraine.
	The situation is increasingly volatile and for the first time in four months of demonstrations, at least two protesters were killed by police.
	Demonstrators are angry that the Ukrainian government decided to forge ties with Moscow rather than the European Union.
	One opposition leader today issued an ultimatum to the government to call snap elections or he says he would lead an attack in the capital of Kiev.
	Yeah, this is this is pretty much.
	An F Russia.
	Thing that's going on, and I caught a while back, maybe two weeks ago, there were some congressional hearings, and Victoria Nuland, who used to be the spokeshole for the Department of State, now is an assistant.
	No, is she Deputy Secretary of State, I think?
	Or something, yeah.
	She testified.
	These events included the violent action by security forces against Maidan protesters on November 30th, the lack of government accountability that followed that, The second attempt to use security forces to shut down the Maidan in the wee hours of December 11th, an evening that EU High Representative Kathy Ashton and I were both in Ukraine.
	By the way, Kathy?
	Kathy and I were both in Ukraine?
	And finally, the Ukrainian government's decision to accept $15 billion in Russian bailout money.
	The Ukrainians tell us that over those weeks, the movement that started as a demand for a European future grew into a protest for basic human dignity and justice.
	Whenever you hear these words, and now of course, just like Turkey, they now have draconian internet laws.
	Draconian!
	Whenever you see that, it's time for the internet in the suitcase and we're trying to start another Facebook war.
	For clean and accountable government and economic and political independence of Ukraine.
	So why does the United States have an interest in how this turns out?
	Yeah, why do we have an interest in that?
	I mean, why?
	Do you think it could be to stop Russian gas going to Europe so we can provide it?
	What could that be?
	What is the American interest for her to be in Kiev handing out pretzels to everybody and testifying and spending money and being there with High Representative Kathy Ashton?
	What could that be?
	Our chairman and ranking member have spoken to that.
	It's because countries that live freely and independently and respect the rule of law are more stable and they make better partners for the United States.
	Oh, yes.
	That's it.
	Because of democracy.
	It's better.
	It's better for the world.
	The unicorns can't fly if it's not stable.
	The same principles and values that Ukrainians are fighting for are the cornerstone of all free democracies.
	And America supports these values in every country on the planet.
	Oh, yes!
	That's even funnier.
	I hadn't even heard that one.
	The Euromaidan protesters, students, workers, pensioners, priests, entrepreneurs, business moguls, and pop stars are all calling for the same basic rights that we hold dear here in the United States.
	They want to live in a country where their government truly represents the wishes of the people and where they can safely exercise their rights without fear of oppression.
	So that $15 billion of bailout money, as she says, from Russia, it just paled in comparison to the $1 billion that the European Union was offering.
	That's it?
	And I don't understand why anyone would want to be a part of the European monetary system right now.
	That would make no sense to me.
	The whole thing doesn't make sense.
	We do have one of our producers send me a note...
	Talking about one of his buddies working on this.
	Apparently, we're setting up along the Gulf Coast and I guess the East Coast.
	We're setting up a number of natural gas terminals just designed to fill these big boats up.
	Yeah, to export.
	There's Virginia, I think, is one.
	Of course, Texas, there's a number of them.
	And I think I might have received the same email.
	It sounded to me like those things are being built as if everyone knows that the TPP is going to happen.
	Yeah, it's a done deal.
	Do you think, and this will be my last question.
	It's kind of nice just to talk a little bit, and that's been kind of cool.
	Maybe there's, you know, how we're so good at going into countries and stirring up a ruckus with our NGOs and, you know, we get people to start posting things on Facebook and tweeting about how horrible it all is.
	Is it possible that, you know, because once again we got another chapter of the TPP leaked through WikiLeaks, and I think we both have our questions about WikiLeaks, Is it possible that maybe Russia is behind the incredible outrage over the TPP here in America, which is pretty much based on no information?
	But do you think it's Russia?
	Who's the greatest beneficiary of the outrage?
	Yeah, Russia.
	There's nobody else.
	It's not the nuclear guys.
	It's not the oil guys.
	There's only one.
	It's not environmentalists.
	They're usually used, and so they're not really creating anything.
	I find it so interesting when I read lots of blog posts, and it's very comparable to nuclear sphere.
	About the TPP, I see people that's going to hurt us, jobs, intellectual property, and I see no factual basis for that.
	I read whatever comes out, I read.
	First of all, there's no decisions, but it's all just, it's going to be horrible, and look at NAFTA, which is something completely different.
	And I'm just like, where are you getting this from?
	It'll come out in the wash.
	But talking about these protests, before we get away from that too much, there's a weird phenomenon.
	And I think that when I got this clip, I get it from Van Kat.
	When I got this clip, I think it's one of the most...
	I don't know.
	I think it's one of the most important clips I've ever gotten.
	Not because of what's actually being said here, but the possibility that this is not just some isolated situation.
	We know that there's a bunch of crap going on in Thailand.
	Mm-hmm.
	In fact, you can't even walk two people at a time now, and there's all kinds of draconians.
	There's this weird element that was exposed by Van Kat that is very disconcerting, but I actually think it's an important change in the way things work in terms of how do you get these kids, these millennials, to actually get jacked up about stuff.
	Play this clip, Thailand Fashionable Protests.
	In Bangkok, anti-government protests sometimes look more like catwalk shows.
	On social networks, young fashionistas show off in photos during gatherings, often wearing blue, white and red, the colors of the national flag.
	And a Facebook page, more resembling a beauty contest, is entirely dedicated to the protests' most beautiful women.
	Despite the violence, taking part in the protests against Prime Minister Yingluck Xunwat has become fashionable among the country's upper classes.
	Numerous celebrities, such as actor Tak Faruño, attend protests and pose for photos with the movement's leaders.
	Model Metini Kimpayom openly expresses her political involvement and has posed to advertise a designer T-shirt created to support the protesters.
	A fashion on which specialized magazines are surfing, just like Image magazine, which in recent weeks has published a series of pictures on the theme of glamorous protesters, offering advice to readers on ways to protest in style.
	And industrial players are clearly not being left out.
	Several designers have launched clothing ranges sold in the surroundings of places occupied by protesters.
	Meanwhile, a television channel supporting the movement has opted to tap into the whistle market.
	Which has become the symbol of the anti-government revolt, with a gold version sold for 100,000 baht, or 2,000 euros.
	This is kind of blowing my mind.
	So the whistles, $2,000 gold whistles, because, you know, this is one of those protests, like, I've seen this, I saw it in Spain some years ago, where they, you know, everyone's got a whistle, a police whistle, and they're blowing it and making a racket.
	So now there is a fashionable whistle that sells for $2,000.
	And the whole thing, this is the weirdest story I think I've caught for, I don't know, months on end.
	This is like the strangest phenomenon.
	Well, there is a huge disparity in the people who are protesting in Thailand and the wealth that surrounds the country.
	And so maybe that's just a way to have fun with your buddies.
	Get the right color t-shirt and get the whistle.
	If anything, we should be selling whistle.
	We've talked about whistles.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, we talk a lot about stuff.
	Anyway, I just thought that could happen here.
	Oh.
	It's only one step above changing your Twitter icon, honestly.
	You know, just wearing the right color T-shirt.
	Yeah, you have to wear a certain T-shirt.
	Once our celebrities are read in, like let's say Clooney, and they get involved in something.
	Yeah.
	Then it's all over.
	I mean, everyone's going to be buying $2,000 whistles and wearing the right tennis shoes.
	I'd go to noagendanation.com and pick me up one of those slave silk ties.
	That's what I'd suggest.
	Actually, yeah.
	Eric does have a new...
	People should go there and check out his new offerings.
	He's got a slave tie and some new t-shirts that are kind of cool looking.
	Okay.
	You got me out of steam, brother.
	This is it.
	The cedar has me now down.
	I can't make it anymore.
	I'm barely standing here.
	Yeah, well, I'll cedar you later.
	Yeah.
	I got a fever for the cedar.
	By the way, according to Shpreyo in the chat room, this show is psyops, people.
	Exactly.
	To which I say...
	Yeah, yeah, right.
	Where's our money?
	Exactly.
	That's always my response.
	And I'm not being paid enough.
	So you can continue to...
	Government money.
	Where are the Koch brothers?
	Yeah, where are they with all their money for us?
	Nope, that's not how it works.
	We only survive with your support.
	I want a t-shirt.
	I'm a psyops.
	Right here.
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	We'll be back on Sunday with more for you, more media deconstruction, and I'm sure we'll have some stuff that we've researched.
	Coming to you from FEMA Region 6, in the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
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