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	Big Bang Theory?
	Are you kidding me?
	Who cares?
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, May 1st, 2014.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 613.
	This is No Agenda.
	Celebrating the fruits of our labor here in FEMA Region 6 in the Travis Heights Hideout in Austin, Texas.
	Good morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's hot as hell and I'm late and I don't know what else to say, I'm John C. Devorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Oh, man.
	It's one of those days, John.
	Yeah, it happens.
	It's a random number.
	It's one of those days where I realize, man, we make it all look easy.
	We really do.
	One little tweak and we're toast.
	Just to catch everybody up to speed, we do have people on the stream now as well.
	Oh, good.
	So, first of all, I've been really sick for two days.
	In bed, 48 hours straight.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	And this is from allergies?
	You say you have a cold.
	No, no.
	Saturday we went to that art thing for Miss Mickey's...
	Oh, you shook a lot of hands.
	No, someone spit in my face.
	You know how that always works.
	Like, hey!
	I know who it was.
	Somebody sneeze in your face or just spit when they talk.
	Yeah, when they talk, exactly.
	I hate it when that happens.
	So I picked up something really bad.
	I woke up Monday with a throat ache, but then Tuesday I was really, really bad.
	And then I had this whole week planned that I was setting up the new gear for the new podcast setup, which is this cutting edge It really is cutting, cutting edge, brand new stuff that is only just now on the market.
	And so I also didn't sleep a lot.
	I was spending a lot of time getting it all configured.
	Oh, I see.
	So you were up a little late.
	You weren't getting a lot of sleep.
	No, no, all of that.
	Now, this gear, this gear, just give me the volumetric.
	Differences between this new rig and the old rig.
	Okay.
	Well, there were two rigs.
	There's the rig at home, which I typically would use in the studio, which is...
	I have a whole 19-inch rack with all this outboard gear.
	I have a separate mixer.
	I'm pretty much an analog guy, and we like to do everything live to tape.
	So you don't want to be going back and doing your sound processing later.
	I mean, who has time for that?
	We don't edit anything.
	Right.
	But I also have to be able to hear...
	So, I'm continuously mixing the levels, making sure everything sounds right.
	We are, of course, the...
	The best podcast in the universe!
	We have standards.
	And this is what I do.
	Hey, one of the buttons is...
	Let's turn John down a little bit here.
	There we go.
	What?
	What are you doing?
	Nothing, go on.
	What are you doing?
	Yeah, that button.
	Turn John down button.
	No, so whenever I was on the road...
	I had the ultimate podcast device.
	So it has to be analog because you can't do real-time monitoring in software.
	There's always a delay.
	So on the road for the past six years, whenever I was doing the show, I would actually have like a quarter to a half-second delay that go through USB or Firewire, but still there was always a little bit of delay.
	But certainly if you want to do any kind of real-time processing where you can actually hear yourself, There would always be a delay.
	And Universal Audio has come out with a thing that is small enough to take with me on the road.
	Essentially, it's a duo-core computer in a little mini box with all the required connections and software.
	So essentially, my mixer, all my outboard gear has now all moved into software.
	I can actually monitor everything in real time so the entire studio That would take up, you know, you couldn't even carry it if I wanted to.
	That's how much it weighs, all this outboard gear, and it's just huge and unwieldy.
	Now it all fits in one MacBook Air and one small, let's see, this thing is five by six inches.
	One small external box and then the microphone.
	And, of course, I have a MIDI-controlled mixer just to control the faders, and I have a really small one, a really cute one from, I forget who makes it, like Bose or something, like a really, really tiny one.
	So this could fit in a shoulder bag that I just sling over my shoulder.
	But as with everything with cutting-edge stuff, you know, this is the first show that we're actually using it, so I don't know how the sound is, but of course my sinuses are all messed up, so I have no idea what I'm hearing anyway.
	And then all of a sudden, little stupid things happen, like the recorder just stopped working.
	And before, the whole Mac froze.
	This is a brand new Mac.
	Are you there?
	Oh, that was your old clunker.
	No, no, no, no.
	I spent a lot of money on this setup.
	I really went all out now.
	Well, it's the future.
	It's an investment in the future.
	It's an investment in the show, for sure.
	But, you know, anything could happen.
	Now, what was your old...
	Portable rig was never that bad, and it was kind of okay.
	It was the most annoying...
	I had no enjoyment doing the show because of just the sound.
	I would not be able to hear everything properly.
	At the end of the day, I could make it work properly, but it was...
	How can I explain it?
	It's a piece of crap.
	Yeah.
	It's a difference between putting on your comfortable overcoat The one that you're used to and it fits nice and you're walking down the road and you feel good.
	And then some crappy windbreaker that is not working right.
	And they still keep out the elements but not the way you want it to.
	But I'm a little worried about this Mac freezing all of it.
	And this is Mavericks and all this stuff.
	And Steve Jobs is dead.
	So God knows what's going on with these devices now.
	Well, it pays your money, it takes your chances.
	Yeah.
	But if it does work, then we could live anywhere.
	This is what I told Mickey.
	Honey, we could live anywhere if this works.
	I could live anywhere anyway.
	No, because that's the problem.
	It's okay once in a while on the road to have a crappy setup, but to have it all the time or to be somewhere else or be traveling often, no.
	I need a good sound and now I have it.
	If it will just hang together, that's all I'm asking for.
	It sounds like you're flying a biplane that's strapped together with bailing wire.
	Well, that's Apple Macintosh for you.
	Well, it sounds good.
	Anyway, so I was actually watching a lot of television while I was in bed and just moving through whatever was out there.
	Wow.
	I mean...
	Where are we?
	What are we doing?
	What is going on?
	Are we at war yet?
	Well, not yet, but according to your buddies in Europe, it's going to be another week and a half.
	Well, I think I found the ultimate sign that war is coming in Europe and that Ukraine is involved.
	I think I have the ultimate proof.
	Okay.
	Did you hear about George Clooney?
	Well, that's funny you would bring that up.
	Because I know that Clooney bailed, which is the reason I'm now thinking that we're starting to see this gay stuff come out.
	Okay, I see you have a Clooney clip.
	What do you have?
	And then I'll roll it into my...
	Well, this Clooney clip is just another example.
	And there's another one.
	There was a printout.
	I think it was in Salon Magazine or one of these magazines that were going on and on about how Clooney's not gay.
	Which is the worst thing you can write, right?
	This one here...
	Seriously, he's not...
	This one here is actually about him being engaged, but it's put in such a way that I think there's a lot of innuendo here.
	And this is from CBS's Dave Letterman.
	Business capital of the world.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I still have friends in Hollywood.
	A buddy of mine called me today.
	He said he, earlier in the day, had received a call from George Clooney.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	George Clooney screamed in the phone, I'm what?
	What?
	I did what?
	Now, this is just recent, and I think this is...
	I don't want to sound like I'm completely nuts about this, but it seems to me that he was put in play as an agent.
	And he's decided that he's sick of it.
	Well, I don't think so.
	Okay.
	So he was put in play as an agent.
	He was put in play, of course, in Sudan.
	And now he has left his post as special UN peacekeeper spokeshole.
	But at the same time, his girlfriend, he has not, but his girlfriend has announced that they are indeed engaged.
	His girlfriend's name is Amal Alamuddin.
	Amal Alamuddin.
	Right.
	Yeah, and she's a Lebanese.
	Lebanese.
	And she speaks fluent Arabic.
	And she's a lawyer.
	Right.
	And who is she a lawyer for?
	Okay.
	With me is Amal Alamuddin, Yulia Timoshenko's lawyer.
	She is the gas princess's lawyer.
	Okay.
	Welcome to you.
	Thank you very much indeed for being with us.
	We'll try and bring those pictures in a moment.
	Just to answer me this, is Yulia Timoshenko part of the solution for the new Ukraine or part of the problem?
	Well, I think she can certainly be an important part of the solution.
	I mean, she's already been asked to be the leader of the national unity government that's been formed.
	She was asked to be the Prime Minister during this period and she has declined that.
	But obviously the big question is, will she run for the presidential elections?
	You're writing my interview brief for me.
	You've said, will she run?
	Will she?
	Well, it may be a bit of a Hillary Clinton situation where people think that she's going to run.
	You know, it's widely expected that she will announce it.
	She hasn't announced it yet.
	But obviously we are operating under quite a tight time frame for these elections.
	It's been announced that they'll be held at the end of May.
	So I think, you know, if there is to be such an announcement, we can expect it quite soon.
	So she's intimately involved in the Ukraine political scene.
	This cannot be coincidence, John.
	No, no, this is nonsense, especially with that crooked Yulia woman.
	Yeah!
	Yes, so luckily the jingle still applies.
	George Clooney!
	George Clooney!
	Now, of course, everyone is distracted by the fact that I believe she also did some work with WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, but that only more solidifies her involvement in Ukraine.
	I was blown away.
	You can't make it any funnier than that.
	Clooney's tired of the dying black people.
	Let's face it, they've got flies on their face and everything.
	It's annoying, those pictures.
	You could be taking pictures with cute girls in Ukraine and be there with your woman.
	Yes, I support what's going on here.
	That's right.
	And, of course, his handler for Sudan was the guy from the New York Times.
	What's his name?
	No, he wasn't from the New York Times.
	He was from an NGO. Oh, sorry.
	I'm thinking Crystal.
	What's his name?
	Yeah, that guy.
	He was a pockmarked, horrible-looking guy.
	Yeah, with the long hair.
	So that guy was annoying.
	You don't want to be hanging out with him.
	No, that guy is not attractive.
	I can see.
	Even you, John, can see that that guy's just not attractive enough for George.
	No, it's not possible.
	I mean, George has his standards.
	He's not going to hang out with guys like that for long.
	But as I was writhing in feverish, what do you call it?
	You were in a feverish, not a stupor, not a coma.
	Close.
	Delirium.
	Delirium, yes.
	That's it.
	All of a sudden, things made so much sense when you see how it all clicks together, when you see how the real problem, what happened here, and Syria is, of course, completely connected to this, The whole idea was we were supposed to be able to have the pipelines running the gas up from Qatar through Syria into Turkey before the Ukraine situation,
	before we cut the gas off from Russia.
	So now we don't quite have the Syria thing all set up, and the pipelines are pretty much there.
	Right, we don't have the leverage.
	Yeah, and the reason why is because Syria wanted the Islamic pipeline, the Iran-Iraq pipeline, which is all Russian-involved.
	Russia has their port there in Syria.
	And they stand to make a lot more money from that pipeline instead of the Qatari pipeline.
	And that's what all of this is about, and it just kind of all came together for me.
	I'm like, ah...
	It's so obvious what's happening, but someone messed it up.
	I think Obama messed it up, really, by not going in and bombing Syria when everyone was ready for it.
	Well, that was going to be a tough thing to sell, especially as it's fallen apart.
	The rationale has already been debunked, that these gas attacks were actually done by the rebels.
	Apparently, everyone's agreed to that.
	Including the international bodies.
	So the whole thing was based on a false premise.
	And as we watched it unfold, we have to admit that it seemed like a panicky thing to do.
	They were trying to get this bombing to take place before the jig was up.
	And they couldn't pull it off because there was too many people in the Congress and just here and there generally saying, no, you can't do it.
	Just wait.
	What's the rush?
	And what's the rush argument was the one that won...
	Yeah.
	Because what's the rush?
	What's the rush?
	Well, the rush is...
	We were getting the Euro Maidan.
	We got the Maidan cookies, as it's now called.
	Victoria Nuland handing out her pretzels or whatever, her cupcakes.
	Yeah, that was already in play.
	Yeah, they were gearing up, and now...
	They botched it.
	Yeah, the timing is all off.
	So the choices are, Israel, of course...
	You nailed this.
	Yeah.
	This is a mistimed series of operations that were supposed to run in parallel, reminding me a little bit of the Benghazi fiasco, which apparently had two operations running at once.
	Yeah.
	And this is what happens when one of the operations fails.
	Now...
	But, you know, these are very poorly designed, it seems to me.
	Well, but it's so big, and...
	The way I see it now, and seriously, this delirium helped me a lot.
	Yeah, I bet it did.
	The Obama administration has absolutely no idea what they're doing.
	This is all the State Department.
	This is all Kerry.
	This is the Atlantic Council.
	This is the Trilateral Commission.
	And he's visiting all these places.
	This is the Export-Import Bank.
	It's everything but the actual White House who were involved in this.
	And I'm pretty sure Hillary Clinton set a lot of this up.
	And they just ruined it.
	And mainly because they're not in sync.
	Now China has come out and they're supporting Russia.
	Which is key because we...
	You know, I just want to stop you before we get too far ahead on the timeline.
	You have to admit that Putin has been playing this well.
	We have to throw this one little fact in.
	You have to remember that the entire bombing Syria thing, just at the point where they still could have probably pulled it off, was submarined by Putin.
	Let's get those.
	We'll help you take the gas out of that place.
	Yeah, this is why you read in policy documents, Putin's playing chess, Obama's playing checkers.
	Right.
	And it's true, and you're right, Putin totally came out of left field and everyone else went, oh, okay, well, that's a good idea.
	We came out of left hand.
	We're all flat-footed.
	Wait, I'm going to ask you this rhetorical question.
	Don't they have people in the White House, in the State Department, sitting around presupposing these possibilities in advance?
	Apparently they don't.
	No!
	No!
	They have no strategy going on whatsoever.
	But mainly there's no coordination and Kerry is just out of control.
	So he spoke at the Atlantic Council.
	Are you familiar with this outfit?
	Oh yeah, we've talked about it before.
	So the Atlantic Council, famous for their document from a few years back.
	Let me see, who wrote this document?
	I forget.
	This is kind of like the operation in the Rubicon series, the Atlantic Council.
	The Atlantic Council truly is the New World Order.
	Everybody's in it.
	Everybody's in it.
	These are the guys who want the New World Order, and they have their entire structure set up.
	This document from August 15, 2013, the line is, and this was a big news item at the time, Without an extraordinary crisis, little is likely to be done to reverse or limit the damage imposed by failed or failing governance in the United States.
	And, of course, when you hear an outfit like the Atlantic Council write something, you hear it say that or they write this, you want to be looking out for some kind of crisis.
	Oh, isn't that special?
	So here is Kerry at this Atlantic Council, and he gets, and of course they love him, because he's doing exactly what they want.
	Yeah!
	You know, we're going to push Russia away from, because, you know, Putin is getting Eurasia set up.
	This is so like 1984, it's not even funny anymore.
	What did they call it?
	We were always at war with Eurasia.
	No, it wasn't Eurasia.
	No, I forgot what it was.
	Go on.
	So, you know, we have Russia and China, and they're moving westwards.
	And, you know, these elites are just like, no, that's not going to happen.
	We're pushing back.
	So Kerry is the man.
	He's making it all happen.
	And he gets this, you know, this great intro.
	From the president of the Atlantic Council.
	And, well, here you go.
	Join me in welcoming one of the great American public servants of our generation, of our times, a strategic thinker, a creative diplomat, a principled patriot, and Atlanticist, the 68th U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry.
	So after that, I thought I'd just stand up and say I accept the nomination.
	LAUGHTER See, this is what he's thinking.
	I'm going to be president one day.
	I'm the man.
	I can do this.
	Yes!
	Fred, thank you very, very much.
	Very, very generous comments.
	Thank you all for the privilege of sharing some thoughts with you at this both timely and very, very important gathering.
	Yes, very important gathering.
	This is how...
	That's how he thinks.
	Very, very important.
	Very, very.
	Very, very.
	So at this Atlantic Council, he is...
	Do you remember we had...
	We talked about the saying, Bort for you, Culp?
	I'm sorry to say that again?
	The Dutch saying, and Bort for you, Culp?
	Yeah.
	So you have a big plank of wood in front of your head, and you just plow forward, and you don't see anything, because you've got this big plank of wood in front of your head?
	That's Carrie.
	And he, even though the news media has completely debunked these bogative photos...
	Of the bearded, you know, the Duck Dynasty guys in Georgia and in Crimea.
	Right, who looked exactly the same after six or eight years or whatever.
	Yeah, but they also did look like the Duck Dynasty guys.
	Yes, I know.
	There probably was one.
	He still is propagating this at the Atlantic Council, and this is two days ago.
	What we hear are the outrageous claims.
	Outrageous!
	From certain people.
	That the CIA somehow invented the internet in order to control the world.
	He's still on this, which we know is not what Putin said.
	He's still on this trip.
	Or that the forces occupying the buildings, armed to the teeth, all wearing brand new military uniforms with the same lack of insignia, with the same faces, in some cases, of people who are identified as being in Crimea and in Georgia.
	They somehow want to assert to people that these people moving in disciplined military formation to take over buildings and then bring the local separatists in to occupy the building while they move on to another building in an orderly, absolutely discernible, trackable fashion.
	They assert that these people are merely local activists seeking to exercise their legitimate rights.
	Why don't they bring some of these provocateurs, these Russian agents, why don't they go grab one?
	Didn't they have one?
	They had proof?
	I don't know why they don't go grab one either.
	Yeah, put them on TV so we can see.
	Yeah, take the mask off and make them speak Russian.
	As we have made clear...
	Those kinds of claims are absurd.
	Absurd?
	They defy any common sense.
	They defy the facts.
	And worse, they're an indicator of the disingenuous dissembling, the policy of complete fiction that is being pursued in an effort to pursue their own goals and their own ends.
	Oops.
	Yeah, you flubbed that one, Kerry.
	So here's the pitch.
	And this is really where he's at right now.
	This is the entire pitch to NATO. And I didn't know some of these figures and numbers, but it's a sales pitch.
	And this is what this is really all about.
	We know all wars are banker wars, and it is, of course, about gearing up for war, whether we actually go to war or not.
	This crisis is a wake-up call for us to accelerate the other work we've been doing to promote a stronger, more prosperous transatlantic community.
	So to start, we cannot continue to allow Allied defense budgets to shrink.
	Clearly, not all allies are going to meet the NATO benchmark of 2% of GDP overnight or even next year.
	I didn't know this.
	I didn't know that there's a NATO mandate apparently.
	2% of GDP. That's a lot.
	No kidding.
	That's a lot of money.
	And where did they buy that stuff from?
	Well, who do you think?
	Well, the French get a few contracts.
	But it's time for allies who are below that level to make credible commitments to increase their spending on defense over the next five years.
	That's a little finger-wagging, I'd say.
	Yeah, to those countries, especially in Eastern Europe, that have been coasting, like Moldova.
	Are they part of NATO? No.
	I think they are now, aren't they?
	I don't know.
	I'll have to look it up.
	Whoever it is.
	Before you go too far, because it's something he just said a second ago about the marching in lockstep, I want to play a little, just a little more background on what's going on in Eastern Europe from my go-to guy, Bald Herbert.
	Yeah, Baldy, yeah.
	On France 24.
	This is...
	You know, his incredulity over this, oh, you know, these guys, they take over the place and then they rouse everybody.
	I want you to play this police in eastern Ukraine commentary.
	Betrayal?
	What have the police been doing as far as you've seen?
	Well, listen, he has a point in a sense because there's a sense of the law and order that the central authorities in Kiev are losing control of the police throughout the east of Ukraine.
	When the police aren't complicit altogether with the separatists, you often see them taking a very sort of standing on the sidelines, not intervening, not trying to take any forcible actions to try to prevent these seizures of buildings from happening.
	The police themselves, they don't feel a lot of solidarity in this region with Kiev.
	They're not well paid at all, about 100 euros a month.
	They feel a little bit scorned and misunderstood by Kiev.
	So if anything, they're showing more solidarity, a lot of the police force, with the separatists, with the pro-Russian cause, than with the authorities in Kiev.
	And that is a big problem, and that is what the president is talking about.
	He's talking about the treason.
	He's losing control of his police force.
	Yeah, these guys are not going to do it.
	They don't want to go in and fire on anybody.
	The army doesn't want to do it.
	The police force doesn't want to do it.
	No one's on board with this.
	Yeah, that's right.
	But Carrie is painting a different picture.
	Oh, no.
	But this is it.
	This is not World War III. It's World War III. It's just a bunch of propaganda, and certainly in the United States.
	I'm not too sure about the United States of Europe.
	But people have no idea the lies and just the bullcrap that is flowing out of particularly this man's pie hole, which is a tiny little hole.
	They have this new player on C... Have you?
	No, seriously.
	On C-SPAN, they have the...
	I'm sorry, it's not C-SPAN. On the state.gov website, I get a lot of videos of him there.
	And they say, play an accessible player, which is really the only player that's any good.
	But it goes almost like full screen.
	And his face, man, it's like a sphincter, his mouth.
	It's really, it's weird to look at.
	And his tongue keeps darting in.
	Yeah, well, that's the bullshit meter.
	And this is what I've learned from CIA contacts.
	Whenever someone is telling a lie, they will stick their tongue out, which essentially means bullcrap.
	And he does it all the time.
	And if we're going to move the trend line in a positive direction, this has to be an alliance-wide effort.
	Two.
	Two.
	If we want a Europe that is both whole and free...
	This is like some rebelization threat or something.
	Then we have to do more together.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	When he said whole and free.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	No catch.
	More together immediately with a sense of urgency.
	To ensure that European nations are not dependent on Russia for the majority of their energy.
	In this age of new energy markets, in this age of concern about global climate change and carbon overload.
	Carbon overload.
	He's making it up now.
	Carbon overload.
	He's just making it up.
	What's wrong?
	I have carbon overload, man.
	We ought to be able to rush to the ability to be able to make Europe less dependent.
	And if we do that, that will be one of the greatest single strategic differences that could be made here.
	We can deliver greater energy independence and help to diversify energy sources that are available to the European markets, and we can expand the energy infrastructure across Europe, and we could build up energy storage capacity throughout the continent.
	Now, this is very interesting.
	So the storage capacity is one thing, but he's looking at the new routes, and they all go through Turkey, by the way.
	And Vladimir is right there.
	He's already talking to Turkey about selling some gas directly to them.
	This is why Crimea was so important, because Crimea has all these routes as well.
	It really is an energy play.
	And they're trying to route the South Stream pipeline via Turkey.
	People are scrambling.
	They've really, really, really messed this up.
	Here, energy mystery...
	The Turkish energy minister is now talking to Russia.
	So, you know, Turkey is not our friend in this.
	They should be, but they're all over the map.
	Yeah, they're not.
	They're not.
	Okay, let's go to number three from our friend Kerry here.
	Third, we have to invest in the underpinnings of our economic partnership.
	We are together, Europe and the United States, two of the largest markets in the world.
	And the fact is that we can seriously strengthen our economic ties and accelerate growth and job creation and serve as a buffer to any negative impacts of some of the steps we need to take if we move on both sides of the Atlantic rapidly to complete the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
	I see.
	He's throwing that in.
	So we need to...
	This is a cornucopia.
	Yeah.
	And meanwhile, of course, the news came out.
	All right, so lots of chatter about a possible bailout from the IMF for Ukraine.
	Well, now we have those headlines crossing.
	The IMF executive board is approving, in essence, what is a $17 billion, what they call a standby arrangement, what is in essence a bailout loan.
	$17 billion over the next two years, $3 billion of which will be made immediately available to Ukraine.
	Again, $3 billion immediately available with other payments or other program, again, payments out of this loan program made when they meet certain performance criteria.
	So, again, the IMF approving a $17 billion loan package for Ukraine over the next two years.
	The first $2 million goes to Russia.
	I heard Lagarde tell about this, and I remember when she was going on about how, well, you know, we're going to do the 17-minute deal, but this is nothing.
	We're not just going to start giving you money.
	No, no, no.
	So all of a sudden, they're just starting to give them money, because there is no way they could have gone through any books or looked at any details to approve this $2 billion or $3 billion.
	She said $2, I thought, but she said $3 billion.
	Yeah, no, one is ours.
	$1 billion is...
	Did you just send a check to the Treasury?
	That's your money.
	You're sending it.
	Meanwhile, the Shanghai Cooperative continues.
	I think Putin is laughing.
	He's cut off a MasterCard and Visa...
	Because of these sanctions.
	And he did a big speech.
	He got a transcript of it here in the show notes.
	He says, well, you know, okay, so you cut us off.
	We probably should have had our own payment system by now anyway.
	Lots of countries have their own.
	So, alright.
	They'll never get back in.
	MasterCard and Visa, you're out.
	That's a big deal.
	Yeah, they're never going to get back in.
	No, no, no, no.
	And of course, the MasterCard and Visa guys were told to do this, and so they did it, because they know there's all this leverage over their heads.
	And now they're going to forever bitch about this.
	Yeah.
	To the U.S. government.
	Every time now you get your new president, that crazy woman from Massachusetts, when she gets in, Elizabeth Warren, and she tries to do something about the credit card scams like the one you experienced, they're going to say, yeah, all the good you did is with this Russia thing.
	We lost all our business.
	What are we supposed to do about that?
	How are we supposed to make that up?
	Yeah.
	So Russia is now...
	So nothing will happen.
	Russia is extending their railway through North Korea to China.
	So they're connecting the Silk Road there.
	There's all kinds of connections.
	But we've always known that was going to happen.
	And here it is.
	So now you see the strategic importance of North Korea as it connects China to Russia.
	So that's opening up.
	Russia is building a $30 billion oil pipeline to India through northwest China.
	Oops!
	That's exactly what our Afghanistan business is all about.
	We were supposed to build all of that through Pakistan to India.
	We're on the losing end of this, John.
	We're looking bad.
	Well, that could explain a lot of the craziness that I'm hearing.
	I got a Kerry clip, but I'm not sure where it came from.
	But I just thought this was odd, because this is one of his discussions about the Ukraine.
	It may have been at the same meeting.
	This is his Russian intentions?
	The Russian intentions speech.
	Russia seeks...
	To change the security landscape of Eastern and Central Europe.
	We have to make it absolutely clear to the Kremlin that NATO territory is inviolable.
	We will defend every single piece of it.
	Yeah, I saw this.
	Inviolable?
	Inviolable, or whatever it is.
	He, of course, Ukraine is not NATO, so what is some evidence that they're doing, and neither is Crimea.
	So what's he talking about?
	I don't know.
	That's what I was just wondering.
	It just sounds like he's making idle turns.
	I think what he's trying to do, and I think this is to the media and the public, I honestly believe he's trying to associate Ukraine with NATO. So at some point, if you go out and ask a man on the street, if the Russians walk in some, which I still don't know that they will, go into Ukraine.
	Oh, we have to defend them.
	They're a NATO country.
	Right.
	So I can just say it.
	Or they're, like SAG, NATO eligible.
	You know, you could be SAG eligible for the union.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, some SAG eligible.
	And we're NATO eligible.
	But they're not because of Article 7 or whatever it is, that if they have some kind of beef, you can't become a NATO country.
	Right.
	You have to resolve all that.
	But this is just insane people who, and to me, all of this means, and I didn't hear your show with Horowitz, I saw the title of it, which was Countdown to Boom or something, like Countdown to Doom or Death.
	To me, this can only mean that there is some collapse in the financial markets on the way, and that everyone's just hustling and bustling to get something moving as quickly as possible and be ready for it.
	And a war is a perfect thing to go along with that.
	I don't see why they're doing it otherwise.
	Kerry has two more years at least before he has to step down as Secretary of State and can run for president or whatever he thinks he can do.
	Why all the hurry?
	Why is everyone freaking out right now?
	Yeah, this rushing around.
	Well, we saw the rushing around, again, when they wanted to bomb Syria.
	And then we see the reason why, because it was a timing deal.
	You had all these things in play.
	There must be something else going on that we're not either paying attention to.
	It may have something to do with Asia and Obama's quick trip over there.
	It was just a quick trip.
	Well, that's China.
	The whole pivot to Asia is to contain China.
	Keep China back.
	Slow them down.
	We have the Strait of Malacca.
	We got a new deal with Indonesia.
	We got a new deal with Malaysia.
	We're putting bases in the Philippines.
	Why are we putting bases in the Philippines?
	Because that's the Strait of Malacca right there.
	Yeah, you're doing it to guard the area from the Chinese.
	Yes, yes.
	Hey, China man!
	You can't come here!
	The douchebags, of course, are out in full force making tons of money on all this.
	There was a speech at the...
	What institute was this?
	One of these douchebag institutes, and it was Panetta and Dick Clark.
	Of course, they have a consultancy together.
	Yeah, Richard Clark.
	And the third guy, a former NSA guy who also left, what's his name?
	Ah, clean cut guy.
	Oh, Hayden.
	No, not Hayden, not Hayden.
	It doesn't matter.
	And so they essentially, they're on the dais, and it's about, the title of the conference is High Stakes in Cybersecurity.
	Oh, yeah.
	Easy money.
	I'll play it in reverse order because we're talking about Ukraine.
	just listen to this bull crap about why cyber, and it's all CEOs in the audience, and they're there, oh yes we clearly have to hire these guys because they know how to protect us and they had the whole first whole half of the of the conferences about how you've already been hacked there are two people who've been hacked those who've been hacked and are being hacked now and don't know they're being hacked you're all hacked, you're all hacked because if we move to the heavy sanctions the sectoral sanctions this is Richard Clark, douchebag
	What was he before?
	What was his position?
	He was like the head of counter-terrorism.
	I think he had something to do with Osama bin Laden's stuff.
	He wrote a bunch of books.
	He's a big book writer, CIA. The Russians aren't just going to take it, right?
	The Russians are going to strike back in some way.
	And they can't strike back in a commensurate way because they can't put economic sanctions on us that would have the same kind of effect.
	So what are they going to do, John?
	What are they going to do?
	Cyber attacks.
	Cyber attacks.
	What they can do.
	This guy is so authoritative as well.
	What they can do, listen carefully.
	I would like to know if this guy even knows.
	No, he doesn't even know how to turn on his computer.
	Which is how to turn on a computer.
	No, no, no, no.
	Covertly, so we'll never be able to finger them and say they did it.
	Now, this is the best part.
	So with all of our smarts and everything, Russia will be able to do something covertly And we won't be able to finger them.
	By the way, nice language, Clark.
	You're not going to finger anybody.
	And that's bull crap.
	So now, all of a sudden, we don't even know who's doing it?
	It would have the same kind of effect.
	What they can do, and do it covertly so we'll never be able to finger them and say they did it, is a cyber attack or a series of cyber attacks to get back at us for the sanctions.
	Attacking our financial institutions.
	Attacking our financial institutions in ways that we'll never be able to prove it was them, but we'll suffer the pain.
	Interesting.
	Interesting.
	That's the moderator.
	Interesting.
	Oh, yes, interesting.
	He's getting a big fat check for this.
	Tell us, so de voce, you know, that was us.
	But, you know, when I was in government, we thought that the Russians were the best in the world at this sort of stuff, except for ourselves.
	We were number one.
	They were...
	Now listen to this.
	Okay.
	I've done pitches where I was kind of the color commentary guy.
	You know, oh, this is Adam.
	He's the cute guy from television.
	And you're going to hear a pitch.
	It's really good.
	So you have Panetta, Clark is talking, and then this NSA guy, and he's the color guy.
	He's the color commentary.
	His job is to say, oh yes, indeed.
	You're right, sir.
	So Clark is now going to say the Russians are really good.
	For ourselves.
	We were number one.
	They were a close second.
	I don't know, Chris, if that's still your view.
	That's still a prevailing view.
	That's still the prevailing view.
	See, this is the pitch.
	Confirmation.
	It's a pitch.
	Yeah, it's a pitch.
	They're just missing a PowerPoint.
	Yeah, that's right.
	That's right.
	So, Panetta...
	He is...
	He, of course, has no clue.
	And he is able to not only turn Superstorm Sandy into Hurricane Sandy during this event...
	But he takes it one step further.
	Frankly, I think the issue of a cyber attack...
	Now, this is the former...
	He ran the Defense Department, he ran the CIA, and now he's a consultant with Dick Clark to all these companies.
	A major cyber attack itself on the United States.
	It's not something that was focused on that much until more recently, the last few years.
	Although it was raised by people like Dick Clark and others as a potential hazard, it really didn't get the attention it did.
	When we were hit by Hurricane Sandy in the Northeast, not a cyber attack, but Hurricane Sandy basically took down Shut down the electrical grid in that part of the world.
	Shut down the transportation systems.
	You couldn't get gas.
	You couldn't operate hospitals.
	You essentially paralyzed the Northeast as a result of Sandy.
	You can do that with a cyber attack.
	Ah, there it is.
	Using a very sophisticated virus.
	Very sophisticated virus.
	Very sophisticated.
	And as a result of that, I think, in more recent years, the issue of a potential cyber attack and the damage that it could do to this country is getting greater attention.
	You see, that's how you do it.
	You draw an analogy.
	Just bullcrap.
	Yeah.
	And by the way, they didn't shut down anything.
	It disconnected.
	Yeah.
	Because it was a storm knocking all the wires down.
	That's hardly the same thing as a cyber attack.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, but he's in sales mode.
	And now let's go back to...
	Well, before you go on, let me add another little comment.
	I'm reminded by these two guys, but Dick Clark is the real, real genius at this.
	I mean, we should be...
	Having him give us lectures on how to exploit the system.
	He's reminding me of John McAfee in the early days of the virus world.
	McAfee invented the modern virus by promoting it and then getting people to start writing them by doing a harem scarum kind of newsletter.
	He used to have a newsletter.
	He called everybody and made us all read it.
	And it was about the latest virus attack, the latest crazy new virus that was being written by some kid.
	And then that became, he managed to, it was a great job of marketing.
	And then he started his antivirus company.
	And this is what we're dealing with with these jokers.
	This kind of, you know, create something that doesn't exist and then exploit it.
	Yeah.
	That's genius.
	And you know these guys don't know crap about computers.
	Not a single thing.
	I mean, Panetta's used the secretary all his life.
	He probably doesn't even know how to use a keyboard.
	But let's, again, the title is High Stakes in Cybersecurity.
	Let's ratchet it up just a little bit more.
	The Attorney General, Eric Holder, said a little while ago that there are only two kinds of companies in the United States.
	Those that have been hacked and know it, and those that have been hacked and don't know it.
	So here you have our top law enforcement officer putting us all on notice.
	Notice.
	That you have been hacked.
	You have been hacked.
	Now, there's a lot of information that...
	Hold on, stop this idiot.
	Why isn't, with this being true...
	Why hasn't every bank account, every social security number, every single piece of...
	Why hasn't the entire company been robbed?
	The entire country, every company, every bank, been robbed.
	Robbed blind.
	Well, essentially what he's saying is that people don't talk about it.
	So they have been robbed blind.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But they just don't talk about it.
	That's what he's saying.
	It usually shows up in the 10K if you've been robbed blind.
	Corroborates that statement.
	Secret Service did a survey of companies that had been hacked and discovered that three-quarters of them didn't know they had been hacked until the government came knocking on their door.
	So for all the money they spend on IT, they weren't able to detect the attacks.
	The Poneman Institute then looked at how long these attacks had been going on before the companies were informed.
	How long do you think it was going on?
	Apparently forever.
	And on average, companies had been hacked for 253 days before they realized they were hacked.
	Oh, wow.
	Okay, what does this mean?
	What does hacked mean by this guy's definition?
	I mean, does it mean that somebody, you know, snuck into an IRC room?
	He's going to tell you right now.
	Okay, I'm all ears now.
	Companies have to realize, while we're waiting for the cyber Pearl Harbor...
	Oh, while we're waiting for the cyber Pearl Harbor...
	Do they have this scheduled?
	Can we get the invite?
	I mean, that's a little creepy to say that while we're waiting for it...
	Yeah, no, it is.
	It's like something's planned.
	...attack the nation and then become a national problem.
	Companies have a problem every day.
	Every day.
	Companies are hacked.
	It's just a given.
	Whether or not you can detect it, it's happening.
	And what you are losing every day is intellectual property, research and development, business intelligence.
	And you're losing money because they actually come in and create accounts payable and send money offshore.
	If you're in any sort of international competition, you have governments who are hacking you.
	This isn't the 14-year-old boy who can't find a date on a Saturday night.
	This is the government of China.
	And they're coming in on behalf of Chinese industry and stealing any piece of information, however ephemeral the value of that information.
	I mean, right now, if I'm a CEO, I'm pooping in my pants.
	Unbelievable.
	Well, a smart CEO is not pooping in his pants.
	Well, unbelievable that we're not in this racket.
	That's what's unbelievable.
	I know.
	Yeah, you're right.
	This is a huge racket.
	Million dollar racket.
	And we're not in it.
	And these guys are in it.
	And these guys, they're just beside myself.
	When I think of Richard Clark as this computer expert, it's an eye roller.
	And if you have a chance to see that video, whenever Panetta or the other guy, the NSA guy, are talking, Clark is just sitting there with a big smile.
	He's like, yeah.
	He's just counting the money.
	Like, look who I got.
	I got the former CIA director and the Secretary of Defense and the NSA guy, and they're selling for me.
	And I'm going to advise everybody.
	They didn't know they'd been hacked until the government came a-knocking.
	They don't even know you're being hacked.
	They're just selling you stuff that's not even happening.
	No, that's what you sell.
	Yeah.
	Vaporware.
	Vapor, vapor, whatever.
	Vapor situations.
	Hey, looking at the clock, John, it's been a rough show so far, but I, of course, as always, wanted to thank you for your courage and say, in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
	Well, in the morning to you, Adam Curry, and in the morning to all ships and sea boots on the ground feeding the air subs in the water and all the dames and knights out there.
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	God, I feel poorly today.
	Can you hear my voice?
	It's getting worse.
	Yeah, it is.
	You're getting clogged up.
	I would gargle.
	I've done the neti pot.
	I don't know what that means.
	It's like, it's a thing you stick in your nose and then you inhale and then you squeeze the bottle and the water with the stuff that shoots up your...
	Ah, I don't hear anymore.
	It sounds like an enema.
	Yeah, it's a nose enema.
	Exactly.
	Well, it does help.
	It sounds healthy.
	It doesn't sound right.
	Well, I want to thank a few executive producers and associate executive producers for the show.
	It didn't have a lot today.
	As I said in the newsletter, we're getting kind of low.
	It's that time of year.
	But, yes, it is, and it's going to get any better.
	But luckily, Sir David Foley came in for a second week in a row.
	With $613 to become a show 613 member with 33 cents.
	ITM, John and Adam, please find my club's 613 membership, plus 33 cents for your courage.
	Please send some of the wonderful Noragenda karma, as it always seems to hit the spot.
	Keep up the amazing analysis and tremendous value for value every week.
	Not necessary to...
	Has this got more on here?
	That's all I have, too.
	I don't have anything...
	I know what he's saying.
	He says it's not necessary to plug his 4K TV business.
	Oh, 4kspecial.com?
	We'll just give him the karma, no problem.
	You've got karma.
	I don't mind plugging it, man.
	And then we ended up with having, because his donation last week came in like a minute after midnight.
	We put it on the other spreadsheet, but it came in because the way the spreadsheets are done, it showed up again.
	Did you open up the window again?
	Well, barely.
	Yeah, I can hear it.
	I'm sorry.
	Invest in a little climate control there.
	Okay, we move on to Michael Baker.
	Now, I don't know if Michael Baker sent us an email.
	Let me take a quick look.
	Because there's nothing here.
	He's $300, which puts him on the cusp for either associate executive or executive.
	I was going to make him executive.
	Baker.
	Michael Baker.
	Here it is.
	April 30th.
	Oh, yeah.
	Michael Baker and Helen O'Toole sent a thanks note.
	Thanks very much for all your great work.
	Please find and attach my donation receipt from PayPal.
	I thought it better to donate and give the money to you before our government introduces their new deficit levy.
	And the Australian tax office comes a-knocking.
	Apparently, that's like the government coming a-knocking.
	Apparently, a levy is not a tax.
	Yeah, well, we have this situation in our country where a fee is not a tax.
	Or a, uh, what, the Obamacare thing is not a tax.
	No, it is a tax.
	It's literally a tax.
	Yeah, they just like to change the name of it.
	Yeah.
	All the best, Sir Michael of Woolowin.
	Woolowin.
	Okay.
	Let's...
	Back to the spreadsheet.
	If I can just click on something that would open it.
	There it is.
	Anyway, Sir Michael Baker.
	Incognigro, who's also a knight, Sir Incognigro, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, $250.
	This is...
	It says...
	Bonarism.
	He says, I've been unemployed for eight weeks now.
	Oh, no.
	Bipolar implosion now on medication.
	If bonarism hurts too bad, get on board, you cheap bastards.
	The guardians of reality need your support.
	In fact, he's right.
	Slave strong boys, request to take your medicine, slave.
	Floor it in my cup and karma, welcome.
	All right, here we go.
	Just take your medicine Just take your medicine Best part of waking up It's fluoride in my cup.
	You've got karma.
	There you go.
	And finally, Sir Bass Brunick in Worst.
	It's Sir Bass Bruininks.
	Sir Bass Bruininks.
	Bruininks in Worst.
	Very good.
	Don't look for a note.
	There is none.
	Sir Bass.
	Excellent, Sir Bass.
	That's all we've got for show 613.
	I want to remind people 614 is coming up on Sunday.
	Short couple days.
	And I want to hope that we get some support from people that apparently are going on vacation left and right.
	And God knows what.
	Did you know the school...
	I don't know.
	When you were a kid, did you get out of school in May?
	No, I don't think so.
	My daughter goes to a college, and the college is out in May.
	And then I'm looking around, apparently a lot of places out in May.
	Are we just done?
	I mean, out until when?
	Until next August or September.
	What?
	Yeah.
	Well, that makes no sense.
	They're short-sheeting us.
	But do you pay for a full year?
	Yeah, I guess.
	It's a jip, whatever it is.
	The whole thing's a scam.
	It's just turned into a unique scam.
	Yeah.
	Anyway.
	Well, these are, of course, real credits.
	They are valid wherever credits are accepted, just like Hollywood.
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	Put them on your LinkedIn account or your IMDB, and we'll be thanking our other producers later on in the program.
	Please support us for Sunday's show at Dvorak.org slash N-A-M.
	And we can always use a little bit of help going out there and propagating our formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Order!
	Shut up, slave!
	Shut up, slave!
	You know, with the combination of this and the allergies, I've got a lot of people telling me, you know, say, oh, you should, you know, everyone has an opinion on what to do with allergies.
	Yeah, one of the things that does work, it's a wives' tale, but it works, my wife Mimi has a horrible allergy to acacia, which is very common around here.
	And so the old wives' tale is you take the honey from those plants.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	The local honey.
	The local honey.
	So she took acacia honey, even though there's not a lot of it around here.
	We got even the German stuff, and the allergy went away.
	And then I mentioned to her and other people, there's no real honey for mold.
	No.
	I don't think mold honey would really be something to be too attractive.
	But it's not just mold.
	It's pecan.
	It's cedar.
	It's oak.
	It's got...
	Yeah, there's no honeys for these things.
	But people have come up...
	I mean, and very nice.
	Everyone has a different opinion.
	You know, there's some drops and, you know, the herbal stuff.
	And then there's, of course, there's all kinds of shots, which is like hormone.
	There's prednisone.
	People have...
	Prednisone?
	Isn't that like a cancer drug?
	No, it's a steroid.
	And then the worm therapy, have you heard of this?
	No.
	Oh yeah, where you get a tapeworm and all your allergies go away.
	Yeah, you eat the worm.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	That doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
	Apparently it works.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Apparently the body gets the tapeworm and it goes, oh my God, we got more important things to do that should show off the allergies.
	What are we going to do about this damn worm in this guy?
	And it shuts down the allergy mechanism.
	Yeah, it's not a tapeworm.
	It's something with an H, like a...
	Hookworm.
	Hookworm.
	Yeah, that's it.
	Hookworm.
	I thought it was a tapeworm.
	No, hookworm therapy.
	Ugh!
	Hell wants a bunch of hookworms every time.
	I don't want to go into it, but it's just disgusting.
	Apparently there's no side effects except for the first time you do it.
	I'm like, okay, that doesn't sound good.
	I'm not in.
	No side effects.
	This is the state of the art in medicine today.
	How different is this from leeches?
	Maybe leeches will help.
	No difference.
	No difference at all.
	Hey, today is the start of a brand new month.
	We're very happy, of course, that the President has proclaimed this month a number of things.
	And, of course, all these different outfits will share the month of May 2014.
	Are you ready for the rundown?
	Go for it.
	By Presidential Proclamation, this is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month.
	Woo!
	It is also Jewish American Heritage Month.
	And it is Corporation for National and Community Service Month.
	Ah-oh!
	No, sorry, that's not right.
	It is National Foster Care Month.
	Here's my favorite, National Building Safety Month.
	If you wonder what that is.
	During National Building Safety Month, we celebrate the dedicated professionals who keep our buildings secure.
	Really, this is not helping my illness.
	And we recommit to maintaining resilient, energy-efficient infrastructure.
	Very nice.
	But most importantly, and at first I was just going to laugh and make this all about you, but then I found out I'm very close to being the right age.
	This is by Presidential Proclamation.
	Let me read it.
	Older Americans have fortified our country and shaped our world.
	I fortified myself last night.
	I had some things I just don't want to know about, John.
	They have made groundbreaking discoveries, pioneered new industries, led our nation's businesses, and advanced our unending journey towards a more perfect union.
	So let's kill them all now!
	They have raised strong families and strengthened communities, and with unwavering courage and patriotism, many rose in defense of the land we love.
	But that's not you.
	Well, they're talking about World War II veterans, most of whom are over, you know, there are not that many left.
	This month, we celebrate the remarkable contributions and sacrifices of our elders, and we offer our renewed gratitude and support for, by presidential proclamation, for Older Americans Month 2014.
	And at first, I was going to laugh and do some ageist crap on you.
	But do you know, he speaks specifically here, I encourage older Americans to learn about opportunities in their area by visiting SeniorCorps.gov.
	And do you know what a senior is, according to this website?
	Anyone over 50?
	55!
	Oh, that's you!
	Yeah, I'm five more years and I'm a senior!
	What is up with that?
	That's deplorable.
	I don't think anyone 55 is a senior.
	Anyone.
	Unless he's a physical wreck.
	And then he's still not a senior.
	He's just a physical wreck.
	What the president is saying here is, if you're 55, can't drive 55.
	You're a senior.
	Yeah, that's just to demarginalize the older.
	Because nobody over 55 can get a job, except working at McDonald's or being a greeter at Walmart.
	So let's marginalize them.
	Call them seniors and say, yeah, it's too bad.
	They're seniors.
	What do you expect?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, this is just another scam to get rid of older people.
	Died too bad.
	Eh, seniors, you know, they can't be expected to live too long.
	Screw them.
	I don't know.
	Screw them.
	This is definitely a screw the seniors moment.
	Screw the seniors.
	I find it somewhat unnerving to hear all this.
	Yeah.
	Because once you become 55, you're a senior and you're screwed.
	Where's that gonna go?
	Anyway, you're next.
	Yeah, no, I'm totally next.
	And I was all laughing, like, oh, this is funny.
	Not so funny now, eh?
	Okay.
	Let me do a little side thing.
	Yeah, please.
	I wanted to point out that the war against pot is still...
	Especially on Fox for some reason with people like Bill O'Reilly.
	This was on yesterday.
	I just happened to catch it.
	I was flipping around.
	Here he is answering his letters at the end where he has somebody who writes in a letter.
	Here's the way the letters work on this guy's show.
	Somebody writes in a letter, and he says, no, you're wrong, because criticizing.
	No, you're wrong, and here's the reason.
	And then here, no, you're wrong, here's the reason.
	Yes, you're right, because you agree with me.
	Yes, you're right, you agree with me.
	And then he does a slams pot, and then he does the last letters are, I read your book, Bill.
	It's fantastic.
	And he says, yeah, I love my book.
	I like that book.
	I hope everyone gets a copy.
	So here's the pot segment.
	Dr.
	Michael Sullivan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
	Bill, do you really think the fourth-grader selling pot in grade school has anything to do with legalization in Colorado?
	Of course it does.
	The drug's now socially acceptable, and the kid in Greeley knows it.
	The drug is now out in the open, and the kid in Greeley got it from his house.
	Do the math, Doc.
	Patrick McCarter, Denver, right on O'Reilly.
	The Denver Post is the mouthpiece of the marijuana industry in Colorado.
	No doubt, Pat.
	Check out the ads.
	Now, I don't know if anyone else agrees with this, but I think this guy defines glib.
	Yeah, I can't watch him.
	I typically just don't.
	Well, he's the number one guy on cable.
	Well, in prime time, yeah.
	So?
	I'm just saying, somebody's watching them and they're going, yeah, Bill, go get them.
	Yeah, have you seen the demographics?
	It's seniors.
	Yeah, they're all over 55.
	Yeah, it's all seniors.
	It's not important.
	Anyway, that's my little...
	Yeah, we had this...
	There was a big fracas here in the United States of Gitmo Nation, which I think one piece has not been analyzed properly.
	About this Sterling guy, the NBA owner.
	I was even thinking of getting a clip.
	I avoided it.
	Uh-huh.
	But, yeah, go on.
	Why don't you explain it, and I'll tell you my take.
	You probably have the same take.
	Well, I'd like to hear your take, and then, if you don't mind, because, you know, as usual, mine's elaborate.
	Okay, well, mine's not elaborate.
	Yeah, I didn't think so.
	And I would say, if yours is elaborate, you may be onto something, because something's fishy about this.
	First of all, it's a violation of some sort or other, because these are private conversations.
	The guy's 85 years old, and he never used the N-word, and he's dating a black woman, but somehow...
	He doesn't have any...
	He made a big stink about her having her picture taken with black guys and posting it on Instagram.
	And the only analysis that makes any sense is that, besides the fact the guy is a notorious douchebag, but the only thing that makes any sense is that he's humiliated by the fact that she's having her picture taken with all these black basketball players and posting them around as though she's fucking him because he's inadequate at 85 years old and she's a hottie in her 20s who's Already soaked them for $1.8 million to do this tape.
	Obviously, that's not what I'm looking at.
	Okay, but there are some pieces there.
	Can I make one last point?
	Yeah, of course.
	Which may work into yours.
	This guy has been notorious for all kinds of...
	He wouldn't have rent to blacks.
	He had a bunch of lawsuits because he's supposedly a slumlord, but won't rent to blacks, which kind of is contradictory, it seems to me.
	And the League has known about him being a douchebag for 20 years, but they haven't done anything, and now they're going to do something.
	Right.
	I find it odd.
	Okay.
	Well, there's a lot more.
	This was so weird to me.
	Let me set it up by this.
	So first of all, this went all the way to the president, who's in Malaysia doing a press conference.
	Which is peculiar.
	Well, very peculiar.
	And we know these questions are not...
	As a member of the press, traveling with the president, going to Asia, do you really think someone just gets to ask a question that is not known before or scripted?
	No, they have to be scripted.
	No, of course not.
	We know this.
	So when someone says, hey, what's your take on that douchebag?
	That's a set-up question.
	Why does the president need to address this?
	First, let's hear what the president actually said, which I found peculiar in itself.
	I don't think I have to interpret those statements for you.
	They kind of speak for themselves.
	You know, when people...
	When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything.
	You just let them talk.
	And that's what happened here.
	Now, he didn't advertise his ignorance.
	He did not.
	It was a private conversation in his home.
	So why does the president say this?
	He didn't advertise anything.
	It was taken by Harvey Levin.
	I'm saying that specifically, of TMZ, and edited.
	His comments were, of course, by now everyone knows how it was put together.
	But backing up a little bit, this woman, which I think is also debatable, but that's just my wishful thinking.
	I'm like, yeah, that's a cute lady boy.
	But anyway, she is being sued by this douchebag's wife, Sterling's wife, For trying to get this $1.8 million back.
	So there's a lot going on there with the family.
	And she, of course, wants to blackmail him.
	But something happens that needs to be used and needs to be covered up.
	And what really happened, the day before this whole thing happened, Is Secretary Kerry saying the following?
	With his effort to broker a Mideast peace deal faltering, Secretary of State Kerry resorted to politically charged language when in private comments to the Trilateral Commission at a swanked D.C. hotel on Friday, he warned Israel of the consequences of failing to achieve a two-state solution with the Palestinians.
	The unitary state winds up either being an apartheid state with 75-class citizens or it winds up being a state that destroys the capacity of Israel to be a new state.
	It's kind of hard to hear there, but what Kerry said, and which started to turn into a big deal, was Israel, Israel might turn into an apartheid state.
	Right, and that was getting traction.
	That was getting some play, and that needed to be covered up.
	And we needed to cover that up with Sterling.
	But listen to what Sterling actually said in this piece of audio that came out later.
	You think I'm a racist?
	I don't think you're a racist.
	Yes, you do.
	Yes, you do.
	I think you...
	Evil heart.
	I don't think so.
	I think you have an amazing heart, honey.
	I think the people around you have poison mind and have a way of thinking.
	It's the world.
	You go to Israel, the blacks are just treated like dogs.
	So do you have to treat them like that too?
	The white Jews, there's white Jews or black Jews.
	Do you understand?
	And are the black Jews less than the white Jews?
	And is that right?
	It is a question.
	We don't evaluate what's right and wrong.
	We live in a society.
	We live in a culture.
	We have to live within that culture.
	So this tape was taken by Uber Jew Harvey Leavitt.
	I'm just going to call him out like that.
	Because there's a couple things you don't do.
	One, you don't call Israel an apartheid state, John Kerry, moron.
	Two, Sterling, you don't let anybody know that the Jews hates the Schwarzes.
	This is the biggest gaffe ever, so Harvey Levin ran interference and had to do two things here.
	He had to, one, help cover up Kerry's gaffe, and boy, did it blow out.
	Everybody got the memo.
	We're only talking about Sterling, not about Kerry.
	But he had to do something quick before the real audio came out.
	What he just said there, that is really damning.
	That's some horrible crap that he's saying.
	True or not?
	That is not...
	That's like saying the Jews own the media.
	Seriously, it's that egregious.
	So they had to do something really quick to get it out, which, by the way, this girl, I don't think she...
	She doesn't get to blackmail them the way she wanted to now.
	She's going to be a victim in all this.
	I don't feel bad at all.
	But that's really what's going on here.
	And every other analysis is, yeah, of course it's correct.
	But, you know, why was this now all of a sudden a big deal?
	Because they needed to cover up Kerry's incredible gaffe with some news, and that's now pretty much gone.
	No one knows about it.
	Gohmert tried to do something.
	That's the Republican from Texas.
	Today Secretary of State Kerry accused the Jewish people of Israel of risking guilt for the crime of apartheid.
	He said that about Israeli Jews who the UN unanimously provided a nation after the worst genocide in world history.
	Secretary Kerry is both ignorant of history and of the offensive apartheid.
	Our Secretary of State has effectively cursed Israel.
	It's not Israel who sent suicide bombers against Palestinians, nor denied the right of Palestinians to work in Israel, nor advocated for completely wiping them off the map, nor taught their children in their textbooks to hate others like vermin or rats, nor named landmarks nor taught their children in their textbooks to hate others like vermin or rats, nor named landmarks and holidays for murderers with suicide bombs, nor launched rockets every day
	It's Israel that's fought against such racism and hatred.
	Secretary Kerry stands for those who support the destruction of Israel.
	He should not be speaking for this nation.
	He needs to stand down before he brings judgment against us.
	So we needed to run a little bit of interference, and the president took the question for that very reason.
	But wow, I think the stuff that Sterling really said, that, I mean, you haven't heard a single person say, hey, what's this about the Israelis hating black people?
	What's up with that?
	Yeah, well, there's definitely, it was a...
	I avoided doing this sort of analysis on it, although I think you're correct, because the giveaway was the president discussing it, because that draws attention to it, and everyone says, well, it must be important, because the president is the moral leader, and so if he is addressing it in any way, just by acknowledging he knows about it, then you have to react to that.
	So that was, I think, that's the interesting takeaway that you came up with.
	The rest of it, still, Kerry and this stupid apartheid's comment, I don't think it would have gotten that much traction anyway.
	But it definitely blew it out.
	I looked at the timeline, and it was Carrie first, and then this thing.
	I mean, it was pretty...
	Well, you can't take a chance.
	You know, why take a chance?
	So you roll this thing out, and Kerry's reprimanded, I'm sure, by Schumer and the rest of these guys.
	Yeah, you think just Schumer?
	Well, Schumer, for sure, he's the one that's the leader, and he would be the one who would make the biggest fuss.
	And how about Jack Lew?
	I was looking into this Jack Lew guy.
	We could do a whole show on that guy.
	He's an Orthodox Jew.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, he's the first Orthodox Jew ever to be this high in any administration.
	Oh, I didn't know he was Orthodox.
	Yeah, Orthodox.
	That's wild.
	The story goes that the President called him during Sabbath and he didn't take the call.
	Right.
	Why would he?
	He's orthodox.
	You can't do that.
	But I didn't know that.
	I didn't know he was orthodox.
	Orthodox anything kind of freaks me out.
	I don't care what religion you are.
	I'm not sure that the orthodox Jews would be more adamant about the Israeli situation than Chuck Schumer.
	True.
	Because most of the Israelis, and the ones I know for sure, they don't even like the Orthodox Jews that are there.
	No, they don't.
	They hate them.
	They think they're nuts.
	Yes, they think they're nuts.
	The Israelis are very practical people.
	You know who's really nuts is Barbara Boxer, your girlfriend.
	Did you hear her little spiel?
	On what?
	Oh, you'll love this.
	Suppose the other side had taken that attitude.
	Don't raise it.
	Well, it would still be, I guess, a buck an hour, 50 cent if you were kids.
	Today, 50 cent is a singing group, right?
	Am I right about that?
	Okay.
	What a moron!
	He's a singing group.
	50 Cent is a singing group, am I right?
	The kids are all into that.
	What a douche knuckle.
	Stupid.
	So here's a story that you may get a kick out of that.
	I wonder if you have a take on it.
	This is the story about, apparently China has banned a bunch of American television shows.
	And it's become kind of a big stink, especially in China and on the online forums, especially about one show in particular.
	Play this clip. Play this clip.
	The Big Bang Theory, The Good Wife, NCIS and The Practice have all been pulled from China's mainstream online video services.
	To the great dismay of fans, they've taken to the web to share their disappointment.
	The Big Bang Theory alone generated a thread of over 300,000 messages on China's Twitter equivalent Weibo.
	Web users say they don't understand the move, saying there's nothing controversial or offensive about the show.
	Certain media outlets have expressed a similar viewpoint and questioned the motives behind the censorship, as the full series don't contain scenes of violence or explicit images.
	In this online article, the Chinese edition of the Wall Street Journal suggests the government doesn't like the very westernized lifestyle conveyed in these programs.
	Hmm.
	Content that had apparently not been submitted for validation to the national body tasked with regulating audiovisual programs under new rules issued by the authorities in March.
	It comes in the midst of the massive government crackdown on online content initiated a year ago following the appointment of Xi Jinping as China's new leader.
	Hmm.
	All right.
	So why the Big Bang Theory?
	Is that the question?
	Yeah, I mean, it's...
	Now, it's possible that this is just a paperwork issue.
	But I don't see, for example, the NCIS folks, which is the top show in the United States, way above everything else, wouldn't have done the paperwork.
	And that's CBS, and so is Big Bang Theory.
	So the whole paperwork issue, either they dropped the ball at CBS or...
	Or there's something else going on here.
	But Big Bang Theory?
	Are you kidding me?
	Who cares?
	Maybe it's because they don't want their people to know that we have smart kids.
	It's a stretch.
	I don't know.
	I mean, I'm at a loss for ideas here.
	Yeah, I don't have analysis either.
	I just thought it was interesting.
	I think that it's one of those things I just wanted to throw in because it's going to, I think...
	Something's going to happen on the show in the next few months and we're going to go, ah!
	That's why they killed that show.
	I just believe there's something's up, something's screwy.
	Maybe messaging?
	I don't know.
	Here's something to happen in Hayward.
	I just want to...
	I'm going to stop these crazy little clips here for a while, but this is a story about...
	This just happened like yesterday.
	Tell me if this would have happened if this was you speeding down the street 18 miles an hour over the speed limit in a 35 mile an hour zone.
	And this is the clip is County Cops Kills Pedestrian.
	4.30 in the morning.
	There's generally not a lot of people walking around at 4.30 in the morning.
	The department says Deputy Jonathan Hamm was going 53 miles an hour, 18 miles an hour over the speed limit.
	He hit two pedestrians on Mission Boulevard and one of the victims died.
	The Alameda County District Attorney has decided not to file criminal charges.
	Okay.
	If this happened to you, you'd be in the slammer.
	Yeah, I'd be getting those bogative drugs to kill me.
	What was the cop going so fast for?
	And of course, these cops probably don't realize that they have these little built into the car, whatever speed they're going at any given time.
	Which, by the way, I think all cars are going to have if they don't already.
	So when you get to your next accident, and you say, oh no, I was only doing 25, they'll just pull the chip and figure out you've been doing 50.
	And I don't know, just a bothersome clip to me.
	Got a lot of tweets from people regarding a bill, which is, in fact, I think even Eric tweeted this.
	Maybe that's where I saw it first.
	A real shut-up slave moment about, this is Senator Markey and Congressman Jeffries have introduced legislation to examine and prevent the promotion of hate crimes and hate speech in the media.
	And I just wanted to clarify what the bill actually is.
	We're not there yet.
	It actually only calls for a report and adds internet to the mix.
	Oh, nice.
	Yeah, so this act may be cited as the Hate Crime Reporting Act of 2014.
	And it refers to Section 155 of the National Telecommunications Information Administration Organization Act, which I think was signed into law by George Bush.
	And what is required is a report, not later than one year after date of enactment of this act, with the assistance of the Department of Justice, the Commission, and the United States Commission of Civil Rights shall submit a report to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
	That's what these guys are, they're in that committee.
	A report, the scope of the report, analyze information on the use of telecommunications, including the internet, broadcast television and radio, cable television, public access television, commercial mobile services, which could be your phone, I guess, and other electronic media to advocate and encourage violent acts and the commission of crimes of hate, as described in the Hate Crime Statistics Act.
	And that's, yeah, that's, of course, that's what you want to go and look up.
	It's the Hate Crime Statistics Act, and that was signed into law in, I think, 1990.
	And it requires the Attorney General to collect data on crimes committed because of the victim's race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity.
	Signed into law by George W. Bush, and was really the first federal law to recognize LGBTs.
	So the way I read this is the legislation forthcoming.
	Not this.
	This is just a report.
	It's just a report to gather some data.
	It'll take a couple of years.
	But the true laws will be about hate speech against LGBTQIAAP. That's the way I read it.
	And if you say something hateful...
	Against LGB... Well, you know the acronym by now.
	There will be laws against that, which of course is inherently unconstitutional in the United States, but these laws are being put in place everywhere.
	So we do have to be on the lookout for what's coming.
	But it's not like there's an anti-hate speech law just yet.
	Well, this is kind of interesting because I'm not going to use the term gay agenda, but there was a screwy commercial that I saw.
	This was a Toyota commercial, and they never say the word Toyota, but they do show the signage at the end.
	It says Toyota, Oakland or something.
	But this is a commercial.
	This is the risky Toyota market.
	I think this is risky marketing, but very interesting.
	Honey, I know I told you to meet me at the dealership, but I bought the car.
	No, I'm not kidding.
	They had the exact car we wanted.
	The discounted price was posted right on the window so there was no negotiation.
	And just one person handled everything, so...
	Oh, wait.
	Let me guess.
	Honey turns out to be a woman?
	Well, it was really fast.
	And the sale was so transparent, I didn't even have to tell them I was married to an attorney.
	You want to see it?
	Come outside!
	Nailed it!
	Nailed it!
	Lesbians!
	Yeah, lesbians.
	Well, you nailed it.
	I think it's a nice setup.
	It was obvious.
	It made it obvious.
	So what is going on here?
	There's a couple of things.
	One, I think this is slightly insulting to the LGBTQ whatever community because it's a trick commercial.
	It's like to lead you down one path.
	By the way, neither one of these women look very lesbian to me.
	Were they hot?
	They were just actresses.
	They were like, you know, journeyman actresses.
	Okay.
	That didn't look, you know, any kind of orientation whatsoever, which I think was part of it.
	You don't want, you know, a couple of diesel dykes or anything.
	We're not lipstick lesbians.
	That's what we want in our Toyota commercial.
	So they did this, and I just thought, this is a very unusual marketing ploy.
	It was kind of funny, but then at the same time, you're like, wait a minute, why are they trying to trick me?
	Is that a punchline?
	I don't know what to make of it, but I thought it was very peculiar.
	Well, this is just the beginning.
	My thesis is if you really want to Get people behind climate change.
	All you have to do is find some connection between climate change and the killing of gay people.
	The minute you do that, everyone's like, well, we've got to stop this climate change thing.
	No, no, no.
	This is impossible.
	Well, I wouldn't say that.
	We have our EPA administrator, Gina, what's her name?
	She's from Boston, Massachusetts.
	She has a huge accent.
	And she, I guess she couldn't make it, but she sent in a video to the Hip Hop Caucus.
	Which, by the way, as far as I can tell, is kind of bogative.
	I did a lot of NGO and non-profit research today.
	The Hip Hop Caucus, they say that they're a non-profit, but they actually run their donations through the Network for Good, which is one of those, in itself, a non-profit.
	That collects money for non-profits because they have the agreements with the mobile phone operators, etc.
	So you can't really...
	And of course, I go to GuideStar, I look for Hip Hop Caucus, cannot find anything, although apparently they've been around forever.
	So I'm always very suspicious of this.
	But she's all in on trying to connect climate change to killing black people.
	And by the way, she's completely into the lingo of the kids these days.
	Hey, everybody.
	I'm Gina McCarthy, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
	Let me start by thanking Reverend Yearwood and the Hip Hop Caucus for putting all of this together.
	I also want to give a shout-out to Reverend Durley and everyone else at the Hip Hop Caucus' climate tour.
	Now she's doing shout-outs, John.
	Let me give a shout-out.
	Shout-out, y'all.
	Hip Hop Caucus.
	We'd be down with the kids.
	At EPA, it's our job to protect public health and the environment.
	Too often, low-income neighborhoods and communities of color are overburdened by air pollution, water pollution, and contaminated soil, as well as dangerous floods, fires, and storms that have been worsened by climate change.
	In the U.S., an African American child is five times more likely than a white child to die from an asthma attack.
	And climate change means hotter temperatures and even more air pollution, which especially burdens minority communities.
	This is a stretch, I think.
	There's more white people who are in ghettos than black people.
	It's fact.
	So I don't know where she's getting off with, oh, this is only for minorities and people of color.
	Bull crap!
	It's tough to go to school or to find a job when you're sick or caring for a child who is sick.
	Pollution is holding back millions of African Americans fighting for middle class security because the first few rungs of any ladder of opportunity are clean air to breathe and clean water to drink.
	Not in China!
	Obama calls closing those gaps of opportunity the defining issue of our time.
	Yeah.
	So she's making the connection there.
	Yeah, it's very poorly done.
	Well, but there's not a stretch.
	I mean, surely we can do something with the LGBT... Climate change killing gays somehow.
	Yeah, that's what gets everybody all riled up.
	That would be the goal.
	Yeah, we'd have to have the top ad agency people in the same room.
	That'd be a tough one.
	We can't even do a skit on that.
	There's a strike going on in London.
	I have part of this, if you want to just play the beginning.
	I just thought something was quite funny when I watched this on...
	I think it was on the BBC, I'm not sure.
	Or no, it was on Al Jazeera.
	Now, if you're in London this Wednesday...
	No, France 24.
	France 24.
	This is the one, though, right?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	You get the right one.
	You'll be aware that it is somewhat harder to get around the city than usual.
	A strike by workers on the underground train system is into its second day over plans to close all ticket offices, putting close to 1,000 people out of work.
	Now, with only half of normal services running and more than half of all stations closed, Londoners have been finding ways to adapt, as Siobhan Silk has been finding out.
	On their bikes, on the bus, or in their walking shoes, for the second day, hundreds of thousands of London underground...
	I want you to stop it.
	I'm just going to summarize, because the clip is too long.
	So everybody in London is adamant about this.
	Oh, these douchebags, you know.
	And then they had Boris Johnson come out and say, we're going to modernize whether anybody likes it or not.
	And he's the mayor, right, of London.
	I used right, sorry.
	And I'm catching myself in the fly.
	Are you okay, John?
	You seem a little off.
	Do you need a breath?
	Do you need to get some water?
	I do.
	The clip goes on and it has all these people bitching and moaning.
	And then they could only find one person.
	And if you could go to the end of the clip, to near the end, and then you're going to hear the one person that said it was okay for these people to strike because they need jobs.
	And the rest of it.
	And this is not a person from, obviously not a person from England.
	And when she spoke, I just said, oh, this is hilarious because of where she's from, obviously.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	Because I had already dumped the clip out.
	You kind of caught me off guard there.
	Oh.
	And for some reason, I can't get to it.
	What's going on here?
	No, I can't do that.
	Okay.
	I'm sorry.
	It was hilarious.
	Yeah.
	Probably the funniest thing you've ever heard.
	We'll fix it in post.
	I promise.
	I promise.
	I don't know.
	This stuff's a little weird today.
	Well, then let's go to the new bedbugs trend.
	Instead of bedbugs, this is my prediction.
	I'm putting it in the red book.
	We're going to see story after story about this.
	Bedbugs.
	Remember bedbugs?
	It was like two or three years ago.
	Yeah.
	You couldn't get through a news story or news hour without bedbugs.
	Now we haven't heard about bedbugs.
	No.
	Okay, rats.
	This is the new...
	San Francisco's building boom south of Market is displacing many of its long-time residents.
	But we're not talking humans here.
	These are the four-legged, long-tailed residents.
	Yeah, ABC 7 News reporter Vic Lee has more on a rat infestation in parts of the city.
	Under the cloak of darkness, rats sneak out near the 4th Street off-ramp south of Market in San Francisco looking for food.
	They'll even chew through plastic trash cans to get it.
	How big are they?
	Um, they're between 6 and 8 inches long.
	Dark-colored, uh...
	You know, mangy looking, not the kind of rats you'd want to hold.
	People in the neighborhood say the rat population boomed two years ago when work started on a new subway extension.
	Over here, crossing the street, they come out late at night.
	But it's just one of many major construction projects in the neighborhood now.
	I mean, you see little things off in the peripheral, scurrying around.
	We went looking for rats around the city, and we found them all over the place.
	Now, at the south of Market, off-ramp, we found a thriving infestation.
	Not only were there dozens of adult rats, but babies as well.
	I used to see, once in a while, a couple now.
	Like, the other night, I swear to God, I must have seen 50 of them.
	Exaggerating?
	No, I'm not exaggerating.
	I kid you not.
	They were just coming out of these garbages like it was nuts.
	It was like a waterfall full of rats.
	Rolando Hernandez is even worried the rats will hit a ride home with him to San Mateo.
	I don't want to get bitten by one.
	I suppose they take one home and they keep it in the house and they bite somebody else in the house.
	Go down the street, open up the hood, check inside, make sure there's nothing in there.
	Johnson Ojo is with the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
	He says rats are just part of urban life, and they show up all over the city.
	Left unchecked, they can spread bacteria like salmonella.
	When you drink water or food that is contaminated by rat feces, you're more likely to get the bacteria also.
	Stop this thing.
	Meanwhile, the head of the Department of Health is some guy from Africa.
	Where's he from?
	Johnson Ojo.
	I think that's a Kenyan.
	I just thought that was weird.
	Whatever the case, I'm predicting more and more stories about rats.
	Do you think that's a real issue?
	That this is a real problem?
	It's always been a problem in San Francisco.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	I thought Twitter was the only rat problem you had.
	Well, there's that.
	Those guys are going fast nowhere.
	Or nowhere fast, I should say.
	It seems to be, yeah.
	Well, they don't have a business model.
	No, they lose money.
	Yeah, they lose money.
	I was thinking about this.
	Not that we want to talk about tech.
	Yeah, we do.
	We can.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	What happens?
	I mean, if Twitter just keeps losing money and losing money, they don't have the kind of play that Amazon does.
	Amazon has a lot of, you know, fireworks and they make it look great.
	Even if they lose money, they're doing great.
	Twitter doesn't.
	It's pretty much what we get.
	You know, they're going to have to do something drastic to get any sort of revenue to break even.
	But let's say they never do it.
	They can't pull it off.
	And people start bailing out.
	What alternative?
	Because the idea of Twitter is now in the public consciousness.
	Where you have a giant forum that is set up exactly the way Twitter is, which is followers and people you block and all the rest.
	What takes its place?
	I don't think anything takes its place.
	I think either...
	Well, the government takes over.
	That's what's going to happen.
	Yeah.
	No, I think so.
	You sent me...
	I think it was an email...
	From the USAID. Yeah.
	About the Global Development Lab, which is essentially a venture capital company, an incubator, if you will, paid for by the U.S. government with a fund of $1 billion.
	$1 billion.
	Nice fund.
	Right.
	I'm thinking these guys will either recreate Twitter...
	Or buy it, or buy some assets or something.
	To me, it seems like that's the obvious.
	What's not so apparent or obvious is why the hell is the U.S. government making...
	Why are they running an incubator?
	Well, let's think about the Twitter thing first.
	Twitter is used by the State Department as a weapon.
	Yeah.
	So you might be right.
	The government could take it over or at least phony up some way of funneling money into it to keep it going because it's very valuable.
	It's a very valuable weapon.
	Very easy to do if you just follow all the NGOs.
	Very easy to funnel money in.
	Very easy.
	But, you know, the NBC Universal executives are saying, yeah, Twitter doesn't really work.
	The Financial Times had this report.
	It said Alan Wurzel, who does all the ratings, he says, yeah, it may sound great, but we really can't point to Twitter helping us with the ratings.
	And that was kind of what Twitter was hoping was going to be their place, along with the roving screen as a part of television, and it's just not working.
	And now NBCUniversal is saying this.
	Well, one of these days they're going to say the same thing about almost all these social things.
	Of course!
	None of them work.
	Once everyone figures out that Facebook's revenue comes from people accidentally clicking on ads.
	Oh, shit.
	On mobile.
	No, it's all going to go away, John.
	You and I will witness that.
	We're still young enough, even though we're seniors by the U.S. government standards.
	We will witness that.
	I'm convinced of it.
	Well, these things don't last that long before they...
	The cycles are short in tech.
	They always have been.
	It's never been, you know, even the Sony Walkman.
	How long was that around?
	Yep.
	Like the big thing.
	Everyone had one, and then the next thing you know, it doesn't exist anymore.
	Well, this is where the Freedom Controller comes in.
	This is what I've been building for years.
	So there is a way to do this, and there is a way to do it decentralized.
	But will it catch fire?
	Will all the stupid slaves understand it?
	Unlikely.
	No.
	It's not possible.
	It was funny.
	Bibi Netanyahu, he was waiting for some, I think he was doing a satellite thing.
	So he's the Prime Minister of Israel.
	And so you always have to be very careful before a satellite interview because people are recording what you're saying.
	Yes.
	And he goes off on the crew and he's saying, what are you doing?
	And saying, well, taking a selfie.
	And a lot of it's in Hebrew, so I cut that part out.
	But he's funny.
	He goes back and forth between Hebrew and English.
	And he's like, well, why are you doing that?
	I said, well, because you...
	And this is the camera guy or gal, someone from the production crew off camera, they're saying, well, if you don't take a picture, then you can't really prove that you did this.
	And he's like, this is nuts.
	I've never had to do this.
	Live a little.
	Just live your life.
	This is crazy.
	You don't need to prove pictures.
	What are you doing with the picture?
	He's going off.
	And then he winds up with this gem of a line.
	So I'm the only person here?
	One minute.
	Without all these electronic devices.
	Okay?
	I'm a free man.
	And you're all slaves.
	You're slaves to your gadgets.
	You're slaves.
	I couldn't care less.
	You're slaves.
	He just rose 15 points in my book.
	Yeah, I've given him full credit for that idea.
	And you can rest assured that Dick Clark feels the same way.
	Oh yeah, oh yeah.
	Speaking of slaves, in New York City they've come up with a genius idea Well, I'll play the clip and then I'll tell you what I think is really going on.
	Behind me here at the City's Office of Emergency Management, construction is taking place on a project that will potentially help thousands of people who've been displaced from their homes after a natural disaster.
	It's called the Urban Post-Disaster Housing Prototype and it's a 1.5 million dollar project being funded by FEMA and the City.
	This will be the first shipping container-based model of its kind in the country That will serve to house New Yorkers either temporarily or permanently should they be displaced from their homes after a natural disaster.
	So they've got these shipping containers and they're stacking them up and they're putting four people to a container.
	Welcome New Yorkers, this is your new life.
	That's your new life, exactly.
	That's your new life.
	Quick update before we go into our little thank you segment here.
	On Malaysian Airways flight MH370. CNN's still all over it.
	Although it's a little bit less now, because luckily they had, you know, some other, like, racism to talk about.
	Sarah Bejik is still the go-to gal, but she's slipping up really bad now.
	Oh, this is the woman who, yeah, okay.
	Yeah, so this is who we believe is an asset, a CIA or some agent, whose job it is to go on every single television station and talk about this aircraft.
	Now, there's this new outfit, and I haven't really delved into it too much, but this company that apparently has located something.
	This is what they do for oil and gas exploration.
	They've located...
	Something that has the dimensions of an aircraft at the bottom of the sea, and it could be in a spot that makes sense, but it's 3,000 nautical miles away from where anyone was searching, and it doesn't really look like anyone wants to go and take a look.
	Now, one of the main conspiracy theories that, and we haven't really talked about that too much here, because as far as I'm concerned, I don't even know if this plane crashed.
	One of the main conspiracy theories is that this aircraft was taken over by remote control, As the 777 does have a fly-by-wire system, it could be, I guess, technically, it's comprehensible that it could happen.
	And there's all kinds of websites that talk about patents that Boeing has that have been classified by the United States military.
	And I didn't give much credence to these theories until I heard Sarah Bajak on, and this was, I guess, yesterday or two days ago, On with Erin Burnett.
	And she said something in this little piece here that made me think, well, hold on a second.
	second.
	If our go-to girl is saying these things, what might really be true?
	Well, it does feel that way, but I also understand it.
	I mean, the likelihood of there still being floating debris is pretty small, and I would rather see those assets used in some other way.
	However, the pull back in general on a global level of pursuing finding this plane is troublesome because this is still a very serious security concern for every single person who gets on an airplane.
	Really?
	Really?
	Why is that a securities concern for every single person who gets on an airplane?
	Hmm.
	Well, it's interesting that you read that into that.
	Well, what else could it be?
	What is the issue?
	Of course, when you get on an airplane, anything can happen, but she's...
	I don't know.
	But then, just to give me a little more juice, just listen to the words she uses and tell me this woman is not...
	Some agent of some agency or just, I mean, just listen to what she's talking about.
	Well, I hope it is not the plane, but I do believe it's worth looking into.
	I mean, we're talking about, you know, either an Indian or a Chinese Navy vessel with some sort of sonar capability to go to that spot.
	It's only about a two hour distance from the coast of Bengal.
	It is not a huge leverage of assets.
	But it would confirm or deny a reasonably plausible lead.
	It's not a huge leverage of assets.
	Yeah, this is how I talk all the time when I'm...
	Nobody says that unless they're working in some agency and they're hearing that kind of chat all the time.
	Leverage of assets.
	Why would some woman out of the blue who supposedly is only on the air because she had a loved one on the plane...
	Her partner.
	Her partner...
	Talk like this.
	You're right.
	They're a bad giveaway.
	A little more.
	You know, these people need to be trained better.
	They need to call the Curry DeVore Consulting Group.
	How many times can I say it?
	I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda in the morning.
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	That's an adjustment for PayPal fees.
	First donation after a year of habitual listening.
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	Huh.
	Anyway, he's on his way tonight.
	I'm not sure what that means.
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	$111.
	We'll get you dedouching at the end, but we do have to call out Ross and Jerry as boners.
	That's what her message says, which I think requires a douchebag.
	Okay.
	Douchebag.
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	I got the Bosch-chits, man.
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	Really?
	That's what he said.
	Well, I think it was hard for you this last episode.
	Well, I was surrounded.
	Yeah, you were surrounded by...
	I felt like I was the one Indian surrounded by Custer.
	You were surrounded by incompetence, is what it was.
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	And finally, good old William Baumann in Port Wyneme, California.
	We did have a few notes, just mostly telling us how they love the show.
	Let's see what we got.
	Scott Hamilton had a large note.
	Let me read that.
	In close, please find my initial donation.
	This is his first donation for the valuable work we do.
	I have to thank my 17-year-old son, Matthew, of whom I'm most proud for his ability to think for himself, for hitting me in the mouth last June when we started listening to your show together on our daily drives to his college for summer classes.
	Your podcast has made me laugh almost as much as it made me think, and my life is richer for it.
	As much as your show has done for me, it has done even more to help me relax about the future of our nation.
	Why?
	Why?
	Because we are passing the baton to young people like my son who will not be shackled or stifled and will ask questions and demand answers.
	We need more people like you guys, and my son is one of them.
	That's very nice.
	They got a tough road ahead of them, though, I'll tell you that.
	Especially with this Common Core stuff.
	Now, we didn't get a donation for the Club 33.
	We did reopen the club.
	Oh, okay.
	Hold on a second.
	This is news.
	Wait, wait.
	Let's get this.
	We'll do it right after the whole segment's over.
	I recorded the entire, I would call it a situation, and you're just going to have to listen to it and figure out, you know, it's not good news necessarily, but it's interesting.
	Okay, so what you're saying is we now have...
	Something that we rarely do on this program.
	A complete production.
	Ladies and gentlemen, I present you with...
	Are you ready for it?
	Yeah, let's do it.
	Club 33.
	And a big welcome to Club 33.
	Tonight, a reopening.
	One quarter million dollars worth of stage, equipment, junk tanks, and everything in between.
	We want to introduce the new lovely ladies of Club 33.
	Bring them out.
	We're going to put them all up on stage one.
	They'll all take a bow.
	Gina, Raina, Tony, Lisa, you from Stockholm, Jessica, Maxwell, Megan, Naomi of Oregon, Gina Bina, Jenny, Patricia, I'm Nicole and Citizen X, get up there.
	Patricia, Beautiful, Tracy, Jamie, Young, Geeky, Angel, and Dasha, Missy and Joanne, Dead Girls, Buffy, Randy, Hillary Clinton, and Chelsea, with Chris No fighting in the club.
	No fighting in the club.
	No fighting in the club.
	Hey.
	Hey! - Hey!
	Hey!
	There's some cops and they want to see the owner!
	Hey!
	Hey!
	Hey, you!
	There's some cops out here and they want to see the owner.
	What's going on?
	Oh, shit!
	What the fuck are you doing?
	What the fuck are you doing?
	What the fuck are you doing?
	to the exits.
	Please proceed. Please proceed.
	Please proceed.
	Please proceed. Please proceed. Please proceed. Please proceed.
	Oh my God, they've gone crazy.
	Let's eat chicken.
	Don't touch them.
	Give me back my shit, sister.
	Somebody's coming from burning it.
	Fire! Fire! Run! Fire! Run!
	Bye.
	Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.
	laughs That was so realistic.
	As good as the bus and marathon.
	Wow.
	I have to give it to you for sure.
	There's no doubt about it.
	Your own Grand Theft Auto five and a half here.
	Pretty much, yeah.
	That pretty much wraps up the Club 33 for good, I'm sure.
	People actually left the chat room while that was playing.
	It was burnt to the ground.
	What am I supposed to say?
	People are actually like, what is this?
	I'm leaving.
	I'm out of this show.
	They're actually leaving the show.
	Yeah, well, screw them.
	That was good.
	Good work.
	Well, thank you, everybody.
	I want to also thank Dame Tanya for contributing with a couple of her friends, The Screams and some of the other things, and also Jennifer Briney.
	Oh, from Congressional Dish.
	Yes, she has a microphone, so I said, can you do this?
	And I wrote a script and she put it in.
	And did you use Miss Mickey?
	I couldn't hear her.
	And Miss Mickey was right at the beginning.
	She said, what's going on?
	Oh, that's what's going on here.
	That was her.
	And she also had a couple of little things you couldn't hear because a lot of it was just under...
	Well, it was highly produced, so it was all mixed in.
	Yeah, it was like lots of dimensionality.
	Yes.
	Oh, dimensionality to the max.
	Yeah.
	Well, thank you, everybody.
	No wonder donations are down.
	What are we doing?
	Good work, John.
	That was funny.
	I liked that a lot.
	It was, I tell you, very realistic.
	A lot of noise.
	Choppers.
	I had a lot of stuff going on.
	Thank you all so much for supporting the show.
	We could do a lot better on Sunday.
	We have to, quite frankly.
	And I'm also going to be working like a dog for the next couple of days, figuring out why stuff is crashing and why stuff is bogan out.
	But, it's what we do.
	And you can support us by going to...
	Dvorak.org slash NA.
	It's your birthday, birthday.
	Oh, no, I'm sure.
	And Rob Boersma says happy birthday to Stefan Klassen, celebrated on the 29th, as does Eric, who gets happy birthday wishes from Kitty.com.
	Happy birthday from all your buddies here, the best podcast in the universe, the No Agenda Show.
	And as you already guessed, no title changes, no nightings, no nothing.
	I'm just glad I'm barely alive here.
	Yeah.
	I feel like we need to continue discussing the net neutrality stuff a little bit, seeing as you...
	Well, you saw how people think about this.
	Yeah, it's just what they think.
	And the first thing, I got a pretty cool note...
	I will admit that I dropped the ball because I was getting some of your messages and I missed the one I should have gotten.
	I was on the Twitch show and we discussed this and I was the idiot.
	And you tell me in the chat room, Dvorak is an idiot.
	He doesn't know what he's doing.
	And I really missed it because one of the things that I've been arguing about for years...
	And I dropped the ball, I admit it, when Leo brought up, he says, well, the internet should be like a utility.
	And I dropped the ball because I have always argued that the internet should be metered.
	Yeah.
	And Leo's always said the internet should never be metered.
	But now here he is.
	He hands me this...
	He tosses me this softball and he was just beside myself.
	You blew it.
	And I was on my deathbed.
	I swung and missed.
	I know.
	I know.
	It's alright.
	I was on my deathbed.
	Actually, I didn't even swing.
	The ball went right by.
	Strike.
	I was on my deathbed texting you like...
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Well, whatever.
	It's beside the point.
	Well, so our, and we're in agreement on this, our thesis is network neutrality is, first of all, it's just a buzzword.
	Oh man, there's these outfits.
	What is this one that I found the other day?
	Fight for the future.
	I received an email from Kevin from Fight for the Future.
	I have no idea how I got on this list.
	Hi!
	Hey, Kevin from Fight for the Future.
	I noticed you haven't signed this important petition yet.
	Will you stand up for net neutrality?
	Last week, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced a proposal for new rules that would allow for a fast lane of internet traffic for content providers.
	And so we keep on going, this whole thing about how horrible it is, and do you want to support us in the fight for net neutrality?
	Donate $15 today.
	That's fightforthefuture.org.
	And I go looking for who this is.
	And, of course, it's not really an org.
	Fight for the Future was established in late 2011 under the legal name Center for Rights in Action, with seed money from the Media Democracy Fund.
	Are you with me, John?
	I'm following you.
	So, I'm looking up all these different, and so Center for Rights in Action also doesn't exist.
	None of these have filed any kinds of paperwork, but it eventually leads back to the Proteus Fund, And the Proteus Fund, throughout our history, Proteus Fund has managed and provided a range of services to family foundation clients.
	These foundations turn to us because we provide a personalized approach and scope of work tailored to their specific goals and support needs.
	So the way this works is families, and now we don't know which families because no one has to disclose this on any of this paperwork.
	They funnel money through the, what is it, the Media Democracy Fund, who then give it to the Center for Rights in Action, who then give it to Fight for the Future, which is essentially two people with $100,000 between them to split to go and send emails all day.
	This nonprofit work is bogus.
	And it's very, very annoying because you can't find out who is actually behind this stuff and who is pushing this.
	But luckily, when John and I take our stance saying, you know, you may not want to be all in on this network neutrality because it may get you exactly what the ISPs want, which is metered service.
	And I got in at first, Mike D., one of our producers, he says, Adam, I'm a network engineer, Cisco certified professional.
	I know about quality of service, traffic shaping, packet queuing, prioritization.
	I can explain how to implement them on routers and switches using access lists, traffic classes, policy maps, but I won't.
	It's boring.
	Suffice to say, I know a little bit about this stuff.
	I didn't specialize in this area during my first 15 years in IT, but I can confidently say that most people who don't specialize in it don't understand it at all because I was one of them.
	Being good with other techy things or knowing how to configure your home router does not even come close.
	Anybody who would suggest that, quote, all bits should be treated equally is deeply ignorant of networking and would be better served to take some classes rather than spouting such nonsense.
	If I continue their stupid analogy about roads, it would be like arguing that all traffic should drive the same speed, whether it's a semi or an ambulance or whether it's through a residential zone or on a highway.
	It's ignorant nonsense and I don't want to propagate the stupidity.
	Traffic shaping protocols exist for a reason.
	They are created to improve the performance of a network.
	Time-sensitive traffic should be prioritized over traffic that is not.
	Bandwidth hogging traffic should be rate-limited and segmented from other traffic so that everything performs better.
	Failure to do so is negligent and wasteful and increases the amount of congestion.
	None of these protocols were developed to make someone's experience worse and to suggest that they will is ignorant nonsense.
	All of these methods are standard practice in a corporate network.
	If I went to my bosses and insisted that all packets should be treated the same, I would be fired.
	If our CTO instituted a policy of net neutrality and proposed buying more hardware to solve the congestion instead, he would be fired.
	Anyone who argues that carriers and ISPs should not be allowed to use protocols and best practices of network engineering and traffic shaping should be fired, or at least shut up until they know what they're talking about.
	Sorry for the long rant.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Now, so this is someone who knows what they're talking about.
	And by the way, if we're talking about net neutrality, why isn't it bi-directional?
	I don't hear anyone talking about that.
	If you really want all packets to be equal, why can't I run a server?
	You don't hear anyone talking about that, do you?
	They're only thinking about their Netflix.
	That's what the net neutrality Nazis are thinking about, is only the downstream, because you're playing into actually Google's cards, I believe.
	But Tim Wu is the guy who came up with the term net neutrality.
	And I figured I'd do something completely radical, and I'd pull his original document from 2003, where he said we need net neutrality, and what he said that was.
	Is that a crazy idea for me to do that, John?
	That's nuts!
	You wouldn't expect anyone to do that, particularly not a journalist.
	There is reason to believe that open access alone can be an insufficient remedy for the likely instances of network discrimination.
	The basic principle behind a network anti-discrimination regime is to give users the right to use non-harmful network attachments or applications and give innovators the corresponding freedom to supply them.
	On the whole, evidence suggests that the operators often pursue legitimate goals such as price discrimination and bandwidth management.
	In short, the recent historical record gives good reason to question the efficacy of self-regulation in this area.
	I'm jumping around to stuff I've highlighted.
	You'll find it in the show notes.
	Network neutrality, as shorthand for a system of belief about innovation policy, is the end, while open access and broadband discrimination are the means.
	You see, if you go through this document, it was just crazy that I did this.
	He actually says at the end...
	The technical reason IP favors data applications is that it lacks any universal mechanism to offer a quality of service guarantee.
	IP doesn't care.
	It runs over everything.
	Network design is an exercise in trade-offs.
	True application neutrality may, in fact, sometimes require a close vertical relationship between a broadband operator and the internet service provider.
	OG! An internet service provider in this case means the Netflix.
	Delivering the full possible range of applications either requires an impractical upgrade of the entire network or some tolerance of close vertical relationships.
	The guy who came up with net neutrality is advocating this.
	And he actually advocates metered service.
	If chat programs have...
	So here's an example.
	If chat programs have positive externalities for other network applications, say if a chat program is middleware for a file exchange program, as in the case of Amster, this is 2003, dependent applications are heard as well.
	Second to the degree other applications depend on a critical mass of high bandwidth users, they are heard by potential subscribers who at the margin are not willing to pay for broadband without the chat programs.
	Do you see?
	The only way to have what people call net neutrality is to meter your usage.
	And we knew 10 years ago, 11 years ago, that video was going to mess it up.
	And you think you get a free ride with your Netflix for $5 a month or whatever, now it's $7.
	Even if it was $10, it doesn't matter.
	It's a very, very small amount of money.
	That is going away.
	You already have this on mobile.
	People don't talk about that.
	You have caps and limits and you can't go over it.
	This is going to happen to the home.
	But you're playing into Google's cards and the ISP cards by demanding this net neutrality bullcrap.
	And look at your electric bill and your water bill.
	They are not $50 a month.
	So everyone who's doing this, you are actually making it worse for yourself if it becomes regulated that all packets have to be equal.
	And the only way for the networks to manage it is by bringing in new hardware and providing more bandwidth.
	You are going to be paying for it.
	Goodbye to the days of eat all you want.
	It's gone.
	So stop the insanity.
	Does that make any sense, John?
	It's going to make no sense to anybody.
	You are peeing into the wind.
	Well, put it in the red...
	Do you hear my voice?
	I'm so shocked.
	Put it in the red book that you're screwed.
	You are screwing yourself on this.
	You really are.
	Putting you're screwed in the red book has been in the red book.
	Make a whole page.
	You're screwed.
	Here is Michael Powell.
	He is the chairman of the National Cable Television Association.
	He's Colin Powell's kid, of course.
	And this is apart from his keynote at the recent NCAA meeting.
	Where he explains why you must be happy that broadband is not a commodity.
	He does in a very funny way, though.
	It's that Internet's essential nature, however, that fuels a very heated policy debate.
	That the network cannot be left in private hands, and instead should be regulated as a public utility.
	Following the example of the interstate highway system, the electric grid, and drinking water.
	The intuitive appeal of these arguments is understandable, but the potholes visible through your windshield, the shiver you feel in a cold house after a snowstorm knocks out your power, and the water main breaks along your commute should restrain one from embracing the illusory virtues of public utility regulation.
	The Federal Highway Administration estimates that $170 billion is needed annually just to fix our congested and crumbling roads.
	Most Americans' drinking water infrastructure is nearing the end of its useful life.
	There's an estimated 240,000 water main breaks per year, and reports say the water system needs $1 trillion in improvement.
	America's electric grid is no better.
	It's suffering and desperately needs a $768 billion shot in the arm by 2020 to keep it from failing.
	And the number of massive blackouts have increased.
	That, by the way, was a sound effect he had on stage.
	In 2007, there were 76 major blackouts.
	In 2011, there were 307 blackouts.
	Now can you imagine if the internet blacked out 300 times a year?
	No.
	Because it doesn't.
	Because the internet is not regulated as a public utility, it grows and thrives, watered by private capital and a light regulatory touch.
	It does not depend on the political process for its growth, or the extended droughts of public funding.
	This is why broadband is the fastest deploying technology in world history, reaching nearly every citizen in our expansive country.
	Okay, a couple takeaways from this.
	One...
	Our future is one where everything is shit except we have broadband.
	Because the toilet's not going to work, no water, the roads are going to fall apart.
	But we'll have broadband.
	We'll have a house of cards.
	Two, if this net neutrality bullcrap goes through, which it's going to happen, because you're right, the storm is so huge.
	People are lobbying for this.
	But you know who's really behind this?
	Google.
	Google.
	Because they will become the competitor.
	This you can write in the book.
	I'm from the future, you know.
	I'm a time traveler.
	This is why I know this stuff.
	I'm listening.
	I'm all ears.
	People are going to see that their bills are going to triple or quadruple for what you're using with your Netflix and all your porn and everything you like to use and all your YouTube videos.
	And Google is going to come into every single community with their fiber and they're going to say, oh, we're going to give it to you for free.
	We have one package and one package only.
	Free.
	But we get to do everything we want with your packets.
	For advertising.
	They're already making this offer in Austin.
	Take your Google Fiber.
	It's not free.
	I think it's like you pay once.
	You pay for the setup.
	And it's free.
	And then they get to do deep packet insertion of ads.
	That is what you are doing if you are for this net neutrality bullcrap.
	What you want is you want the smart engineers who really know how to do this stuff to manage the network, try and make the services work.
	You definitely want Netflix to pay more money to be inside your local provider.
	And yeah, that will cost you more.
	Whoop-dee-doo!
	But if you choose for the net neutrality route, you're going to get metered service, and the only alternative will be Google, who will be tracking you for everything, and will basically own you.
	Was that an applause?
	Uh, applause.
	That's the best I can do.
	Yeah, that's where it's headed.
	That's what's going to happen.
	I like it.
	I think it's a good analysis.
	I think it's incredibly sad is what I think it is.
	I think the combination of the...
	If it wasn't for my clip, I would have given the Michael Powell thing a clip of the day.
	Um...
	I think the Michael Powell clip combined with the letter that we got from our producer, I think summarized it better than anything.
	It was definitely better than a bunch of people just willy-nilly running around, waving their arms in the air while I was spinning in circles, screaming, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god.
	Yeah.
	Net neutrality.
	We need net neutrality because we're going to be screwed because Comcast is going to...
	And these imagined scenarios.
	That's why I died on the show.
	I saw it happen.
	It was so stupid that you couldn't even get into it.
	It was imagined scenarios that are just unlikely.
	But it always goes like this.
	Imagine where you can't watch Twit, or imagine where you can't watch Young Turks, or imagine, imagine, imagine, or when it slows down.
	This makes no sense.
	And they call me a conspiracy theorist.
	Yeah, that's the irony.
	And everybody is all in on this.
	I don't understand it, man.
	It's horrible.
	What's going to happen?
	What's going to happen?
	Well, this and that and the other thing, and I said that again.
	I'm making mistakes today.
	Wow.
	But they would go on with their analysis, which was just borderline hallucinatory.
	But what are you going to do?
	I mean, you can bitch and moan, you can make your arguments, and you've still got powerhouses that are pushing this.
	Well, the problem is we need more people like Mike D to jump in their pens and write something and say, you're wrong.
	This is not how it works.
	This is not how it works.
	It goes back to your Twitter question.
	So what do we do when Twitter just basically has to fold?
	Well, there's a lot of things we could do.
	A lot.
	But people don't want to take the effort, don't want to put in the elbow grease to make the network actually, I'm doing it.
	Screw it.
	There'll be enough people who I care about who will be doing this.
	This is protocols.
	We've got RSS. We've got all kinds of things that work.
	Perfectly fine.
	It works.
	But no, it's not great for following celebrities.
	Yeah, okay.
	So that's a problem.
	Or for following the Common Core teachers.
	Let's talk some more about Common Core.
	Here we go!
	Of course, there's big problems now with Common Core.
	People are catching on.
	Even Louis C.K. I loved his tweet.
	If you saw this, this went pretty viral.
	It says, my kids used to love math, now it makes them cry.
	So this is now becoming a problem for the Common Core people.
	And this is the latest public service announcement that they are rolling out.
	There's a lot of confusion about new standards in education called Common Core.
	As teachers, we're on the front lines.
	And we support Common Core.
	So here are the facts.
	Common Core is not some Washington mandate.
	That myth gets an F for misleading.
	Common Core is about raising standards, so our students learn more and go further.
	All decisions on how to teach are made at the local level.
	Go to LearnMoreGoFurther.org and get the real story on Common Core.
	So you go to twitter.com slash USTeacherFaye, F-A-Y-E, and you can see these fake actresses with their fake Twitter accounts telling you fake information about how Common Core is, ooh, that's not some government thing!
	Parents want to know what's going on with testing and standards.
	As teachers, we're on the front lines.
	And we're excited about a new plan for higher standards called the Common Core.
	Common Core is about learning to apply knowledge and critical thinking.
	Not just testing rote memorization.
	The new standards will be challenging.
	But students will learn more.
	Which will help them go further to college and good jobs.
	Get the good news about Common Core at learnmoregofurther.org.
	Yeah, and if you follow the Learn More Common Core, learnmoregofurther.org, you eventually wind up at ACT. Again, you just have to follow.
	It's all these websites.
	They're all fronts.
	There's now three, four layers deep.
	And then when you finally get to ACT and Active, it's Bill and Melinda Gates!
	Did you see the...
	I'll put it in the show notes.
	One of our producers went to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation headquarters and took photos.
	And so they have this plaque outside the building.
	Yeah, you got a kick out of this plaque.
	And it's a bunch of vaccine...
	Vaccination...
	Not needles, but the tops.
	In bronze.
	I'm looking at the picture here.
	Quote, vaccines save lives.
	They are the simplest, most inexpensive, most effective way to give all children a shot at a healthy, productive life.
	Bill Gates These people have to be stopped.
	They are crazy.
	Well, I think the wheels are coming off the Common Core train.
	A little bit.
	A little bit, but it doesn't take much.
	You've got people like Louis C.K. and some of these other celebrities who are actually influencers.
	Made me very happy to see him jump on this.
	That's good news.
	So you're going to end up with certain kinds of ridicule.
	They're going to try to get him on board.
	In other words, they're going to send some agents over there to try to find out what's wrong.
	We'll see.
	But...
	If the wheels come off this thing, which hopefully it will, it's going to put the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on a rocky footing.
	And let me mention something else about that group.
	There's a special right now, it's this week's Frontline, I think it's an hour and a half, on the prison system.
	And they go on and on, they show some guys, these poor bastards, they go into the, you know, this is cradle to prison is what we're dealing with.
	Oh no, instead of cradle to career, we're cradle to prison?
	That's the way it looks like.
	We need something catchier, like penis to prison.
	So these kids, they're all black mostly.
	And they show these guys, they get in, once they get out, they can't get a job because it's impossible, especially if they're older and they're not educated well and nobody's rehabilitated in prison anymore.
	That ended.
	And then they show this poor bastard who was in a small halfway house.
	And he's then talking about how, you know, how they don't have enough money to get by.
	And these halfway houses are a godsend.
	Some of these halfway houses in certain parts of the South, especially places like Kentucky, are a godsend to these poor bastards because they would be on the street, they'd have to commit crimes to go back to jail.
	Right.
	Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gives money to the prison, the private prison system.
	But do they give money to any of these halfway houses that are actually doing good work?
	I'd like to know.
	I'm going to look into it.
	I doubt it.
	But if they're going to give money to the correctional corporation of America, which has got nothing to do with charity, And they're going to invest in that operation and not invest in these halfway houses?
	This is going to be a black mark on this operation.
	But how do you see?
	The problem is they have the media so locked up.
	They've got the PBS and NPR, which are really the only two outlets, and the New York Times, the only outlets that people who are intelligent or think they're intelligent, like the Obama bots, We'll take seriously as, oh, I heard it on NPR, so this must be true.
	They sponsor so much, they pay for so much of the programming indirectly, there's no way that these guys are going to bite the hand that feeds them.
	The system won't work that way.
	Well, that level of corruption at some point, it's too corrupt.
	I mean, corruption is corruption, but I mean, there's a point, you know, every culture has this level of corruption.
	If you live in Chicago, it's different than if you live in San Francisco.
	Although it's bad in San Francisco, but it's different if you live in the middle of nowhere, Indiana, let's say.
	And if you live in the Ukraine, the corruption level is very high and it has its elements and you have to work within that corrupt system.
	But when you go completely out of control with a type of corruption that's not acceptable...
	In other words, it's beyond corruption.
	It's bad for the body politic, which is what seems to be going on with both Common Core and what the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation may be doing with this investment in the Correctional Corporation of America with private prisons, which has nothing to do with any charity I can think of.
	I'd like to, I think it's just a matter of time before this thing comes crashing down.
	I don't care what support they have from these stooges and Obama bots.
	Well, the question is, there's so much money.
	If you look at all the connections, you know, this happened right under our noses.
	It is the Governor's Association of America, the NGA, National Governor's Association, I should say.
	That's where the $5 billion federal money went into, and under the, you know, the Race to the Top Head Start programs.
	And these people got their hooks in it, and now it's so hard.
	Every single day, there's another non-profit that is thrown up with basically, it's the same as instead of hiring someone, instead of expanding the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation building and putting another wing on it to house all these people, They find someone and they say,
	oh, you're going to start this non-profit and we're going to fund you with $125,000 and you're going to get it from this non-profit, which really isn't a non-profit, but it's from that non-profit which handles money from families who do non-profits.
	And so it's untraceable where this money comes from, but they still get the same talking points and the messaging.
	And that's all they do.
	Go out and tell people that it's great.
	And of course, in Bloom, someone made a very good point.
	The data repository, that is shut down, but someone made a good point to me.
	He said, oh yeah, you just watch.
	They'll come back with a new name.
	I'm like, oh yeah, of course.
	How stupid am I? It'll just come back as a new name, a new non-profit with a new name.
	These non-profits, there should be better disclosure.
	This is a big problem to me.
	Because I read these forms religiously, and 98% of the time, you can't find out where the money's come from.
	You just can't find out.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that has to be more transparent.
	But transparency, the theme of the Obama administration, has never gotten anywhere.
	Well...
	It's like anything but.
	Well, that's depressing.
	Have you?
	Yeah, no.
	Yeah, and the Club 33 burning to the ground.
	I don't know what kind of a show we got here.
	I was going to make it even worse.
	Have you ever seen, in all your 60 years, John, have you ever seen it this bad in the world?
	Well, I'm not going that far.
	But it was pretty bad during the, I believe, during the 50s when kids were forced to duck and cover.
	Right.
	What's the difference now?
	It's the same thing.
	It's just to frighten the public.
	Shelter in place.
	Duck and cover.
	Cower in the corner.
	Same thing.
	Same thing.
	Nothing's changed.
	It began in 1947 when we put in a security state that Truman put in.
	And we began the CIA and all these other agencies.
	We're all kind of...
	We've formed at that moment, and we've turned the country into security-conscious netballs.
	There's a thing that was called History Commons.
	It's on the internet, historycommons.org.
	And I downloaded this.
	Actually, when I was at Mevio, I got a reputation at Mevio for doing this.
	I probably went through three reams of paper.
	I downloaded the entire document on freedoms in the United States and how they've been impinged upon.
	And it starts in 1770.
	The law was passed, or some law, and it was impinging on free speech.
	And so I printed the whole thing out from 1777 to probably 2013 or 2012.
	And it was so obvious that after 1947, it was 90% of the document.
	Thousands of pages.
	90% of it all started in 1947.
	And they got thicker and thicker to this day.
	So every year since 1947, the number of impingements on American freedoms and liberties has gotten bigger and bigger and bigger to the point where I don't know that we have any.
	I think it's a miracle we can do this show.
	Yeah.
	Well, we're coming up on an hour, so everything's about to break by itself anyway.
	All right.
	But I do want to say that I want to help my wife not go through all this hassle coming into the country.
	And I got lots of email from people hooking into your freedom speech here.
	Coming into the country through Houston with green cards, detained for 13 hours.
	No reason why.
	So I want to set her up with global entry, which, you know, essentially you get your biometrics.
	It's slave scanning.
	And so I go to the website.
	Oh my god.
	I spent three hours going through this yesterday.
	It's a nightmare.
	I've tried to go through it myself.
	And I've actually got an account.
	Because you have to wait and then you get an email.
	But you don't get an email.
	They never tell you your account.
	No, you don't get an email.
	And then they cancel it.
	At the end, they don't even give you a date.
	They say, oh, keep checking back with the website.
	Yeah.
	No, that's it.
	And it's the only website in the universe that I've come across that asks for dates of expiration dates, year, month, day.
	What is that?
	So instead of a regular date structure, it's reverse.
	The whole thing is perverse is what it is.
	Yeah, well, okay.
	Yeah, I had the same problem with them.
	It's a police state.
	Well, I'm speaking up about it, and I'll go down fighting.
	Okay, I'll be watching.
	You'll be right there, right behind me.
	I'll be saying, go, Adam, go.
	Go, go, go, go, go.
	Quit hitting him.
	Quit hitting him.
	Don't tase him.
	All right, everybody, thanks for sticking with us.
	Tough show today, but somehow we made it through.
	We always do.
	Just a reminder that we make it really look easy.
	And I guess I'll figure out what's killing my kernel.
	Hopefully someone has recorded the whole...
	I think I have the individual files, but if someone could drop those in a box somewhere so I can bring in the recording, that would be very, very helpful as well.
	And please remember that we need your support to continue this analysis.
	Even though you may not like it, and you may want to change your icon for net neutrality, I think it's worth giving us a listen.
	We've been around for a while.
	We've got no dog in the hunt.
	Yeah, we're seniors.
	We've got no dog in the hunt here.
	So go to Dvorak.org slash NA to help us out.
	Coming to you from FEMA Region 6, close to my deathbed.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	I'm from Northern Silicon Valley where it's getting hotter and I had to reopen the window.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
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