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	So we blew up the Brotherhood pipeline.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, June 19th.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 627.
	This is no agenda.
	Commandeering six screens simultaneously and coming you from FEMA Region 6 here in the Travis Heights head out in the capital of the drone star state.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I've got one crummy screen, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Well, I gotta tell you, I'm very...
	I'm freaking out.
	I'm so happy, John.
	Okay.
	Now, on Sunday, I told you about...
	Wait a minute.
	This has nothing to do with Benghazi?
	No, I'm not happy with that.
	No!
	No, no, no.
	This is much better than Benghazi.
	On Sunday, I told you that I had this issue where I have the new podcast set up in the rig running on a MacBook Air...
	And that's where kind of a lot of the audio stuff happens.
	And then I have these other screens, which is kind of the legacy system.
	But they're big screens, and that's where I've got the show prep and the show notes and the web browser and everything.
	And inadvertently, I'll be typing on one keyboard going, ah!
	And it's not the one for the machine I'm on.
	Okay.
	And, you know, helpful producers sent me tons of ideas.
	KVM switches.
	Yeah.
	God, those things.
	And then, producer Mike DeCock, he was the first, and a couple other people sent it, blew my mind.
	Woo!
	With this thing called The Synergy Project?
	No.
	Oh, man.
	So the Synergy Project, open source, works on PC, Linux, and Mac.
	You load it on the main machine that is going to be like the server, but is the one that has the keyboard and controls you want to use.
	Synergy-project.org.
	And then you load the client on any other machine, and then you can position these screens virtually.
	So I now use the one mouse and keyboard, and I go down to the bottom of the screen, and it appears on my MacBook Air.
	I go to the right, and it appears on the Windows machine that's running my ham stuff.
	It's the freakiest thing you've ever seen.
	Wow.
	It's really cool.
	It sounds cool.
	Well, nerdily, it sounds cool.
	Oh, but I mean, how often have you had like, you know, like, oh, if only I could have all these systems integrated.
	I hate going back and forth between...
	So it's called a Synergy project.
	Yeah, synergy-project.org.
	And it's open source.
	I donated $50 to the guy immediately.
	People, you have to support independent software developers like this.
	This probably saved me $1,000 on a stupid Apple monitor I would have had to buy.
	Well, if it saves you $1,000, it's well worth $50.
	Yeah!
	Well, it's values.
	Hell yeah.
	I'd never even heard of this before.
	Huh.
	Well, that's the problem, you know.
	In the olden days, when I was a kid, a young writer, we used to write about stuff like this.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And it would be great, and it'd be successful for the guy, and then he could go to these little conventions and put his floppy disks in a plastic baggie and sell it for $25.
	In a plastic baggie, you got it.
	Yeah, right?
	Yeah, now they just write about phones.
	Oh, the new phone is a different shade of yellow.
	Oh, look at it.
	And you can drop it from a half a foot, six inches, and it won't shatter.
	Oh, I have to say, I was watching, I was flipping around watching the coverage of the Amazon Fire phone.
	Yeah.
	And it was really funny.
	If this thing had come from, if this had been from Apple, People would have been, oh, they're so genius over there at Apple!
	And now it was all this disdain.
	It's true.
	It's Amazon.
	Oh, well, oh, yes.
	And I think, you know, I don't want this phone because, yeah, I don't need more cameras tracking my face, thank you.
	But from Amazon's perspective, I think it's a genius move.
	That's a beautiful phone.
	It's a beautiful phone, and you get a free year of Prime with it, so it's almost free.
	Not quite.
	It'll be free one day.
	Yeah, it will.
	That's the joke of it.
	It's got stuff in it that people actually care about.
	Oh, yeah.
	Let me just...
	I got this.
	Buy this.
	It's a cash register.
	I know.
	But just the disdain of the tech press because Amazon...
	Exactly.
	It's funny.
	The joke of it is that the tech press, of which I am still a member, the tech press in general is just, they're not an analytic anymore.
	But let me give you another example.
	So also yesterday...
	And they're all in.
	Let me tell you this story.
	This is from years ago when Mac user was...
	Hey, welcome to the Walter and Statler show, everybody.
	So this was years ago.
	One of the editors of PC Magazine says to me, he says, you know, I don't believe that the kind of lack of objectivism there's involved with some of these people that are writing.
	This was a while ago, where the Mac user staff was in a meeting with the PCMag staff in a meeting with the shopper.
	There was a big, giant editorial meeting of all these hot shots.
	And the Mac user staff gets up This woman, I think her name was Pamela something.
	They get up and as they leave, they say Mac forever.
	Macintosh Uber Alice.
	It's like, what?
	Wow, really?
	Yeah.
	So here's another example.
	There were a couple of different things announced yesterday.
	Yesterday, T-Mobile unveiled their UnRadio service.
	I'm not sure what they're calling it, but the idea is if you're streaming music on your T-Mobile phone, That data will not count towards your overall data usage and help, you know, that will make you hit your eventual data cap.
	Yeah, T-Mobile's kind of oriented toward unlimited data anyway.
	Right, but where is the outrage over net neutrality?
	This is, I mean, so wait a minute, so if you stream the No Agenda show, that does get counted against your Data cap because we're not on Pandora or whatever other service.
	Right.
	But where is the tech press going?
	Well, this is a fine example of...
	No, instead they're fawning over it.
	Oh, great!
	Free all-you-can-slurp music!
	Yeah, no, it's true.
	I don't see anyone saying that.
	I don't see anyone saying that.
	Yeah, no, it's a pathetic operation right now.
	I mean, there's just a bunch of, I don't know, I'll complain about it in my memoirs.
	When we're dead.
	As long as people are helping us out on this show, I'm fine.
	Right, when we're dead, we'll talk about it.
	Dead, that's where we're dead.
	That guy sure held a grudge.
	He held a grudge into the grave.
	Oh, man.
	Well, well, well.
	Hey, I'm sorry to hear about your dog.
	Oh, jeez.
	And I heard about your dog on Facebook.
	Yes, and this is what irks me.
	I haven't really called her out on it yet.
	My wife's dog died.
	Her favorite dog.
	We have lots of dogs.
	It's a pretty dog.
	It's a pretty dog.
	But there's a favorite dog, this Basset Hound, who made nothing but a racket constantly ever since she was born.
	Oh, it's the one who would always be barking back in the day.
	Yes, indeed.
	And you'd always complain about this dog.
	Oh, now I feel bad.
	It's your fault.
	And so the dog was all...
	In fact, I still have a bunch.
	I should have...
	Oh, you know what?
	I'll do it for the next show.
	I'll clip some...
	I've got clips of the dog howling.
	It used to be kind of funny, but we're talking five, six years ago.
	This is a long time ago.
	Well, the dog finally died because she had cancer that was unoperable.
	But Mimi, the dog was supposed to die like two years ago, like within a couple of weeks.
	So about two years ago, when the dog was diagnosed with cancer and gonna die in two weeks, Mimi started just, you know, pampering the dog.
	And so the dog went for two years.
	Sleeping on her bed.
	Listen, I've had plenty of pets.
	I know the curve.
	So the dog goes two years, even though she's supposed to die in two weeks, all the expertise out there.
	Let me guess, two years and how much?
	I don't know.
	Thousands.
	I bet thousands of dollars.
	Oh, no, no, no.
	No, we got around that one.
	It was just really feeding her custom-made food.
	And it turned out she lived even longer due to the fact that the dog really perked up when she was given Vienna francs.
	But Vienna, of course, it's not because you're going to hear what I say.
	Vienna Franks are one of the worst abominations ever put in a can.
	These are canned Frankfurters.
	And they come in these little cans and these little frankfurters.
	I think some people actually eat these things.
	And whatever the case is, the dog loves them.
	So she'd go through cases of these things.
	And so here's what dulls me.
	My wife tells her Facebook community before she tells me about the dead dog.
	I knew that was extremely offensive.
	I knew that was the case.
	Just another element of the reason I hate Facebook.
	How gay people have to these anonymous Facebook followers.
	And of course, do you want me to read some of what the people said in response?
	Oh my god, only if it's funny.
	Well, what do you think it is?
	I doubt it.
	Oh, I'm so sorry.
	I know you love the dog so much that I feel for you and the dog.
	God bless.
	God bless.
	So here's the posting is from Mimi.
	Hannah, June 2004, June 18, 2014.
	Most demanding, stubborn dog I've ever known.
	Oh, I didn't know she went June to June.
	That's interesting.
	Yeah.
	Huh.
	10 years, I guess.
	Yeah, 10 years, which is, you know...
	Okay, 28 comments.
	Let's see.
	28 comments.
	Oh, I'm so sorry.
	OMG, I am sorry.
	Sending love and hugs to you!
	Hugs.
	Now that's saying something.
	H-U-G-Z? No, hugs in asterisks.
	So sorry for your loss.
	Happy trails, Hannah.
	Say hello to my gang at the Rainbow Bridge.
	So sorry, Meanie.
	Hope you feel comfort in that you gave her the most loving home and lots of love for her life and may have been something she wouldn't have had without you.
	R.I.P. Hannah.
	Sorry, Mimi.
	Never easy.
	Oh, I'm so sorry, beautiful dog.
	Godspeed, Hannah.
	I do love me some hounds.
	And then there's a couple people just liking it.
	That's kind of weird.
	Just like.
	I like the dog dead.
	So sorry for your loss.
	I'm so sorry for you, Hannah.
	I hope you connect with my Kobe.
	You will get along great.
	Mimi, two years on 22nd.
	My Kobe had gone to the bridge.
	I'm with you.
	God.
	Stop.
	Stop.
	Yeah, it's pretty...
	I mean, that's all that Facebook really is, is reminding you that it's someone's birthday so you can do something completely uninteresting like, hey man, I remembered your birthday!
	Because of course you didn't.
	And it's...
	So we have an...
	We have an MTV alumni private group.
	It's people who worked there in the 80s and 90s.
	And at a certain point, I posted in there, I said, look, the only thing I ever hear here is about reunions and who died.
	I'm opening up a dead pool.
	This is you.
	This is you getting kicked out of a group.
	No, I'm still in the group.
	But I said, hey, Kalman, my money's on you.
	I know he had cancer.
	So I'm like, you're going to be next.
	He has to laugh.
	We're very morbid like that.
	Of course, now I haven't heard from him for seven months.
	I don't believe he's dead.
	The Facebook thing, it's just interesting because never does anyone go on and say, my life sucks.
	I'm depressed.
	I hate everything.
	Even when someone dies, like, oh, Godspeed, sending you hugs.
	Yeah, you've made this point before, and I think you're, because I'm not a member, and I've really avoided it because I just don't have the time.
	And I don't have the inclination.
	I don't care.
	But I think you're probably, your analysis of Facebook is probably as good as any.
	What, that it's bad for your health?
	Well, that and all the other stuff you've said.
	But the trick I do...
	You're still in it, which is like...
	Well, the trick is I have my...
	So my RSS feed from my microblog automatically goes to...
	I can select if I want that post to go to Twitter.
	And probably about 70% does.
	And then anything that's posted on Twitter gets posted on Facebook.
	And then once a week, my daughter deactivated her account, so now it's less.
	I want to see what Mickey says.
	She deactivated what account?
	Her Facebook account.
	Your daughter?
	Yeah.
	She quit Facebook?
	Yeah.
	Well, good for her!
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, she's sick and tired of it.
	And, you know, I'll go on and people will be responding and they'll have like a whole conversation about a post that was automatically reposted from my blog to my Twitter to Facebook.
	You know, like, these people have a whole conversation.
	They think I'm in it.
	And I'm not, because I didn't post it there.
	It just kind of showed up.
	Yeah, that's another thing that galls me.
	I've always been annoyed by these reposts.
	In fact, that's why I've said this before.
	Anybody that I follow on Twitter, and I follow a few, I think 900 people or so, if they're posting, if I see Foursquare something, something, something, they're boom.
	They're blocked.
	Blocked.
	I don't want to...
	If I want to hear where they're having a hamburger or they're...
	Ooh, I'm at Denny's eating a double Denny's.
	I don't care.
	Foursquare has got their check-in.
	They're done.
	I don't need them.
	I don't want to know this.
	I don't care.
	I don't think it's clogging up my brain.
	I don't even look at the people I follow on Twitter.
	I only go on to see what they're saying to me or about me.
	Well, that would be you.
	Yeah, that makes sense for you.
	However...
	Google Plus.
	I do use the app on my Nexus because it's like a news group.
	All the ham guys are on there.
	That's kind of cool.
	Which is another reason I wasn't really involved with news groups.
	I mean, I've followed them once in a while, but I always have...
	No ads in the news group!
	You're ruining the internet!
	You're ruining the internet with ads!
	What happened to those guys?
	Well, they're now hams!
	They've always been hams.
	So, right off the bat, I just want to say I have been evaluating the World Cup soccer.
	Oh, right.
	We do have to discuss this because I want to remind people, especially newcomers to the show, that the two of us have predicted every World Cup winner since the inception of the show, which I think is only one or two matches.
	And we've also predicted the Pope.
	We've predicted, also predicted, Super Bowls.
	We predicted, what else did we predict?
	Olympic champion.
	We predicted a lot of stuff.
	And we base it on the idea that the games are rigged.
	Yes.
	Political leverage.
	And this is not just some conspiracy in the cloud.
	FIFA admits themselves that there's, particularly with these World Cups, you've got, aren't these guys, it's mainly Chinese, and actually they'll come onto the field, they've got the backstage passes, and they'll bribe players, particularly players of poor countries who aren't making mega-million salaries like some of these European guys are.
	And if you've seen some of the highlights recently of these goalies that drop, that can't quite catch the ball quite to them, and then they throw it into the net.
	Yeah, oh well.
	Have you seen those?
	Yeah, of course, of course.
	Jeez, come on.
	Oh, the guy feels so bad.
	Even the FIFA guys, the football association at the very top, is pretty well known.
	In fact, there's a big scandal now about the 2022 World Cup going to Qatar.
	After Bill Clinton brought in Brad Pitt, this was supposed to be our year in 2022, and it went to a place with a desert where it's 120 degrees.
	And that's in the morning.
	Hey, hey, hey.
	In the morning.
	And now, you know, it's coming out that all of these FIFA guys, you know, were all bribed.
	You know, one guy's 10-year-old daughter has a $2 million bank account, you know, in her name.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, so it was very obvious that they were just bribed into choosing.
	So, now this is probably the most challenging year we've ever had because so many countries have so many problems.
	And there's also just a general, you know, sometimes it's just a general kumbaya feeling that a country has to receive because they're being screwed in a particular manner by the elites.
	And then there's also just...
	Who is mighty and who wants to show that they are the shit?
	And Germany, very interesting, Germany this year, besides having the hottest footballers' wives ever...
	Have you seen some of these women from the German team?
	No.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, but there's no sympathy for hot wives.
	No, no, no.
	But, again, this is for the...
	We're all powerful.
	And the Germans are kind of doing that.
	And they've always gotten quite far in the World Cup.
	They built a camp in...
	In Brazil.
	A 25 million euro camp.
	By the way, they're good at building camps.
	Sorry.
	Hey, I delivered, didn't I? Good.
	Actually, one of my Jewish friends gave me that line.
	Now you're ruined.
	Yeah, the Jewish lesbian.
	A 25 million euro camp.
	But it's like 500 miles away or kilometers away from the stadium.
	Well, it doesn't make any difference because the matches are like thousands of miles away.
	But they're right near the airport, so they hop on the private jet.
	But it's like a resort.
	And they're really all in on winning this thing.
	This is a big deal to them.
	Yeah, well, what do you...
	So let's get to the...
	Okay.
	Well, here's what I'm...
	So let me just give you...
	It's also, it's a little early to tell because...
	Yeah, we like to pick these.
	I mean, of course, this is...
	Well, you always pick Get Lucky at the end.
	I've already got my pick.
	And I have a rationale for it.
	Let me give you the field.
	Obviously, Brazil, although they did quite poorly, Brazil would be top of the list because they put $400 million in stadium and people are eating rats.
	They're eating each other in the streets.
	So it's obvious that it would be nice to kind of smooth that over.
	And make everybody feel happy because they're rioting and they have to kill the slaves because they're angry about this whole thing taking place.
	That would be the obvious choice.
	Yeah.
	That, by the way, is my choice.
	Yes, of course.
	And I want to put it up there.
	But there are some other obvious ones.
	I would say Nigeria, for a number of reasons, should have a shot.
	If only for the fact that, was it just yesterday, 14 people were killed, they were watching the World Cup and someone blew them up.
	That's kind of, it's a tell, usually.
	But also, let me see if I have this here.
	Argentina.
	Yeah, no, Nigeria, I can see the rationale, but the problem there, of course, is the team isn't any good.
	Well, you know, the strangest things have happened.
	That's true, but they're not going to give it to an African team.
	The Argentinian thing is a political nightmare, because what happened, and I know what you're saying, because Argentina's...
	I have a one-minute clip.
	We can play the clip and people understand the Argentinian situation.
	The International Monetary Fund has warned Argentina that its legal defeat against hedge fund investors may have wider implications.
	Buenos Aires has already agreed a restructuring plan with the majority of its investors holding its defaulted debt.
	But on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the remaining bondholders who've refused to cut a deal.
	They're demanding that Argentina pay them almost €950 million.
	Yeah.
	We can't be prevented from honoring the commitments we've made with our creditors and bondholders who agree to the restructuring of our debts.
	That's 93% of our creditors who are collecting payments and have collected them on time and have control of their bonds.
	And by the way, I think it was the US Supreme Court.
	That made a decision.
	Isn't that funny?
	That determines if they're going to go broke or not.
	When I first heard this story, I thought it was their Supreme Court.
	No, it was ours.
	And so the woman that runs Argentina, she goes, we're not going to be extorted.
	We don't have to pay our bills.
	And she's the wife of the guy who died, right?
	Yeah, this is a classic Argentinian thing.
	I like her, though, because she's kind of hot.
	I don't think so.
	She's got that milfy kind of thing.
	No, I'm not in agreement on this.
	I like powerful women.
	That's what it is.
	Well, that could be.
	So, you know, Argentina, Nigeria, Germany, just because they've put so much in and they need to show that they are uber alas?
	Uber alas.
	Now, how's Ukraine doing?
	Does Ukraine even have a team?
	I don't know.
	I don't think they're...
	I haven't heard anything about the Ukraine team.
	Let me see.
	Well, and it's also...
	They might not even be in it.
	It's so far away before the finals are played.
	Let me see.
	Well, we can wait until we get to the final eight.
	We'll call it at eight.
	And, of course, everyone's excited about the Netherlands, but the Dutch always choke at the end.
	No, they're a good team, though.
	It's a great team, but they always choke.
	Well, I don't think they choke.
	They're just not allowed to win.
	Yeah, I think if anyone takes bribes, it's those guys.
	Yeah, there you go.
	For sure, for sure.
	And, you know, USA would be nice, but...
	Nah, give us a break.
	Nah, it's not going to happen.
	Not going to happen.
	But I think it would have to be an African nation or a South American nation.
	I just don't see it making sense for it to be...
	If the Germans would win, I mean, really?
	Nah, that's not going to work.
	It's got to be Brazil or Argentina, but I think Brazil, because they're the ones who made the huge sacrifice, got blood in the streets, and they still have the Olympics to go, which is going to, like...
	Yeah.
	Create a revolution if something is done.
	But the Brazilians would be so happy because they always...
	The Brazilians think of themselves as the best soccer players in the world, period.
	Yes.
	Nobody's as good.
	And so they would be, you know...
	See, it was worth it.
	It was worth all the money we spent.
	Yeah.
	That would be the way to do it.
	It just makes sense to me.
	And they had to have a couple of clinkers in there so they won't lose a game.
	Right.
	Just to make it look good.
	So I go to the meat market, which is an Italian place with all Mexicans inside.
	And they're all listening.
	You hear this thing on the radio, the Mexican-Brazilian games in Spanish.
	I once went to the Galleria Mall in Los Angeles.
	During the semifinals, and I think it was Mexico then as well, or maybe quarterfinals.
	Yeah.
	And the whole mall was...
	There was no one in the shop.
	They were all congregated around the food court where the game was playing.
	It was weird.
	Yeah, well, anyway.
	So they're playing this thing, and everyone's cheering in the place.
	Yeah.
	And I'm going through the checkout, and I'm saying, you know, you guys couldn't beat Brazil if you had to.
	You know, just a...
	I just was checking out before they could spit in my food.
	Yeah, right.
	And she screeches, yes, yes, yes!
	And I said, what happened?
	She says, it's a tie.
	Yeah, well, that's good.
	That's good.
	And I said, okay, Brazil.
	And I'm assuming that there was like 1-0 and Mexico tied the game with a goal.
	There was no goals.
	And you were listening to this Mexican announcer literally going berserk as though this is the most exciting thing in the world.
	It was good.
	A 0-0 game.
	Yes.
	It's a great game, isn't it?
	This is why it will never work in America.
	We don't get excited over 0-0.
	I'm sorry, nil-nil.
	Yeah, nil-nil.
	It's not the American culture.
	No, we need points.
	You get the ball in the net, we want six points.
	Not one.
	The UK is in trouble, though.
	There is a huge cocaine shortage in the UK. And people are very mad.
	The Brits need their coke when they're watching the games.
	Apparently there's like some...
	That's a good use of cocaine.
	Yeah, well.
	Watching sports.
	Well, no, but what happens is they drink, you see.
	They drink so much and then they need to do a little toot for the snoot and then they're okay.
	And if you don't, then they become annoying and they start fighting.
	I live there.
	This is very important for British culture.
	I guess some shipment got picked up or something.
	Bad news.
	Just to spike prices.
	Well, it could be because it's time to jack up the prices.
	During the World Cup.
	Something we didn't discuss.
	The Dutch female field hockey team won the World Championship.
	As you know, I'm a big fan of the sport.
	Yeah, well, you just like the shorts.
	Well, you should just Google...
	Dutch female field hockey team.
	They are super hot.
	I'd rather watch the Brazilian volleyball team.
	But anyway, go on.
	Otherwise, I've just become completely obsessed.
	With what?
	The Kagan's.
	Oh, the Kagans.
	The Kagans.
	Do we have a jingle for them?
	Yeah, we have a whole bunch of jingles for them.
	I like the shout, but this is also...
	Rubble!
	Brought to you by Clan Kagan.
	Do we have that?
	Yeah!
	And then just the Kagans.
	What happened is...
	And you kind of turned me on to her.
	So it is partially your fault.
	You turned me on to Kim Kagan.
	Screw Kim Kardashian.
	Kim Kagan is the way to go.
	And she was on that C-SPAN call-in show.
	Oh, I missed it.
	I've been watching nothing but C-SPAN. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And, of course, no one from our show called in.
	I didn't catch it live.
	I saw the repeat on C-SPAN. Because you would have called in.
	Oh, yeah.
	There were some good call-ins.
	Nothing that I clipped for the show.
	But there were some people just saying, Oh, look, hey, it's the same people who brought us into Iraq the past time.
	We're doing it again.
	But, of course, the questions all get...
	It's not really a good show.
	But right from the get-go...
	She had me...
	Now, her cadence, the way she talks...
	Oh, yeah.
	It's odd.
	And she's pretty to look at.
	She's very pretty.
	She has this kind of...
	Now, this is C-SPAN, so it's not like you're getting hair and makeup.
	Right.
	But her hair was kind of very dark, curly, a little oily, but long.
	She's very pretty.
	Awkwardly pretty.
	Thank you.
	That's the word.
	Awkwardly pretty.
	But she talks like she's an MKUltra patient.
	Totally.
	Oh my god.
	So just listen to the cadence.
	And this is after the introduction, which I just cut off.
	And she's being introduced.
	And this is the first minute out of her mouth I'm going to now explain the whole thing in one minute.
	She's been drilled as to what to say.
	The president has to take military action in some way, shape or form right now in this changing situation.
	In point of fact, airstrikes are obviously being discussed and are on the table.
	The theory being to bomb some of the positions held by ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq, and Sham, the extremist group.
	Now, very interesting.
	She continuously refers to ISIS. As the...
	Let me just see what she...
	Let me get the exact wording.
	Hold on.
	This is important.
	Bombed some of the positions held by ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Shamm.
	The Islamic State of Iraq and Shamm.
	And she's very consistent about this.
	She insists on using the accurate wordage.
	And this is very important.
	And it's glossed over.
	And I have not seen anyone in the media properly address this.
	I think we're the only ones who keep saying, what is it?
	ISIS or ISIL. Right.
	In fact, a lot of people say both.
	They say ISIL or whatever you want to call it.
	Well, worse, Associated Press has released their styled guide, and they say it's ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
	Right, which is bullcrap.
	It's bullcrap.
	Now, ISIL would be a little more correct, because it's the Islamic State in the Levant.
	Right.
	Right.
	And Levant, if you Google Levant, you will see that the Levant is really the whole region that includes Syria, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, southern Turkey.
	And I did some research.
	Heaven forbid we bring that up.
	Yeah.
	Well, that would be the reason.
	And Al-Sha'am is the proper word for the Levant.
	So it means the same thing.
	And I believe she is correct.
	Right.
	No, she is correct.
	She's the only one.
	I would say right now, she is the go-to girl.
	Yes.
	We want to get what's going on.
	From her.
	Oh, yeah.
	This crazy woman is the one.
	So, what I liked about my research into the Levant, or Al-Sham, is it takes us back to something you brought into the group many years ago with the film Paris 1919.
	Or was it 1912?
	I think it was 1919.
	It was after World War.
	And it's a documentary type film about the divvying up of the Middle East.
	By the Brits, basically.
	Well, it is the Sykes-Picot Agreement.
	This is what drew these lines.
	So it was the Brit Sykes and the Frenchman Pico, and after the First World War, they essentially divided everything up, and they drew these lines.
	So Britain, you know, they got, essentially, they got Israel, and they created that, and then the French, they got southern Turkey, and they got Iraq.
	I thought the Brits got Iraq.
	I'm looking right now.
	No, I don't think the Brits got it.
	I think the Brits had part of Syria.
	Oh, here it is.
	Well, anyway, the Russians, they got Istanbul.
	It was essentially just drawing lines.
	So there is definitely a geopolitical strife happening that is meant...
	And if you Google the Sykes-Picot and you go back in the news reports back to even a year and a half ago, you'll see that this is in play.
	And the idea of removing these fictional borders...
	I was talking with Nicky about it this morning, and it's kind of like...
	Imagine you have a country called Iraq, and it consists of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.
	It's like three very different cultures, three similar yet very different dialects and languages.
	Oh, and add to it this religion thing.
	And this is the thing that slays me the most, is that the people of the world actually believe that this is all about religion.
	Yeah.
	Well, and so does Harry Reid, by the way.
	Actually, all of our Congress does.
	Oh, yeah.
	They're all in on this.
	And to me, if you're fighting about religion, everybody deserves to die.
	What the hell kind of religion is it then?
	It's stupid.
	The whole idea is insane that that's what you're fighting about.
	No.
	This is about oil, plain and simple.
	And we'll get to that.
	Let's continue with Kim's explanation.
	You're right.
	And she, of course, founded the Institute for the Study of War, which they have RSS feeds.
	I've been following that.
	And every day they have an update with a map.
	And God, I love what she's doing.
	Dreamist group that has taken over the city of Mosul and is moving southward.
	Stop, stop, stop.
	I want to, this cadence that she has, you can back it up.
	This cadence that she has, and I want you to look this woman up to take a look at what she looks like.
	This sounds exactly like this woman, Pastor Melissa Scott.
	Is she the one with the crazy long hair with the blackboard?
	Yeah.
	I've seen her, yes!
	Yes, you're right.
	He married a younger woman, which is this woman, who's a, I guess she knows 30 languages or something, and she has this exact same weird way of talking, this kind of stilted, hard to explain, kind of stiff, precise.
	She's a televangelist, right?
	Yes.
	Yeah, she's a televangelist.
	Yeah, she has this whiteboard, and she's walking up and driving.
	And she's fascinating to watch.
	I don't think I would know where to see her other than on the internets, but I used to, like, bump into her show.
	She's on TV. Yeah, no, I'd bump into it sometimes, but I don't surf around anymore.
	But anyway, that's who this...
	Yes.
	Who is Gene Scott?
	Gene Scott was this great televangelist who would stay on the air 24-7 begging for money and pretty much doing nothing else.
	Right.
	And he was fascinating.
	He wasn't an evangelical.
	He's dead.
	I think he's dead, isn't he?
	No, he died years ago.
	My God, this Melissa Scott is smoking hot.
	Yeah, she's gorgeous.
	Wow.
	Gene Scott used to...
	They have these crazy theories, and he was an offbeat theologian.
	I think he got a degree in religious studies at Stanford.
	This is the kind of women crackpots attract.
	Nice.
	Very much like Kagan.
	Good call.
	It's a group that has taken over the city of Mosul and is moving southward.
	But airstrikes alone do not actually help with the core problem, which is shoring up the Iraqi security forces, which have received a terrible blow to their confidence and which need assistance commanding and controlling which have received a terrible blow to their confidence and which need assistance commanding and controlling their movements from where they are to where they need to
	In short, the United States really ought to send advisors to help in small groups with the Iraqi security forces.
	Small groups.
	And also to make airstrikes effective because we need good ground intelligence to make sure that airstrikes do not kill civilians.
	And there is a huge mobilization of the Sunni population alongside of ISIS right now.
	And the potential for killing civilians is actually really high.
	So here she's pitching the idea of advisors.
	We'll come back to that in a moment.
	Let's just go through a couple things about how big the problem really is.
	Now, there's a number of players on the field here, and the ones that are most quiet at the moment are the Kurds.
	Who now have the Kyrgyzstan oil fields, the refinery.
	Yeah, they're making out like a bandit on this deal.
	And they've got the pipeline going right up into Turkey.
	So they're quiet and they're doing their thing.
	And then we have, of course, the Malachi government.
	And this guy is now in military fatigue.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, he's walking around in a military uniform.
	What an a-hole that guy is.
	And so apparently, you know, the Iranians might be helping him.
	And then we have this group led by the al-Baghdadi.
	This is fantastic.
	Which is a fictional character.
	Al-Baghdadi.
	It basically means the dude from Baghdad.
	Like, I could be Al-Austini.
	Or Al-Bundi, for all I care.
	Al-Baghdini to Bundi.
	And even the...
	Just last week...
	What's his name?
	Brigadier General Kevin Bergner, in a news conference, said this guy doesn't exist.
	There is no real leader.
	Of course not, because this is obviously funded by the Arabian states that are friendly to the United States.
	Because the whole idea here, as you pointed out, is to rebelize, is to turn this into a huge mess and have all Iraqi oil pumped up.
	I was circumventing anything Russia does, because remember, Syria also used to be a Russian issue.
	We were talking about Syria, we'd talk about Russia and Iran.
	And then with only Syria, it would only be Russia.
	And then we cut Russia off in Ukraine, and now we're cutting them off down below.
	I want to stop you there with al-Baghdadi being a totally fictitious character.
	It's possible that he is, but the other possibility is he's actually a trainee.
	Well, he's a brand.
	Well, he may be, but he came from us.
	He's one of our boys.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	I want you to play this clip, which I didn't know at all.
	Okay.
	And this was the hearing that took place this week.
	There's a bunch of hearings on the trade of the five Talibanis for the one deserter, and everybody's up in arms about it.
	And this little tidbit came up.
	This is the one soldier, five Taliban clip.
	This little tidbit came up that I didn't know.
	Hold on a second.
	Was the transfer of one American soldier for five Taliban a wise decision, in your opinion?
	Congressman, I think we should look at this policy as a whole and learn from it.
	Right now, a gentleman by the name of Mullah Abdul-Zakir is the head of the Taliban military committee that we released previously from Guantanamo.
	And we're paying that price now.
	And further, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of ISIS that's terrorizing Syria and Iraq right now, Was also detained in Camp Buca.
	And we need to learn lessons from these releases that we're paying for later.
	So in your opinion, it's probably not a wise policy to implement.
	Okay.
	Right.
	So this guy came out of that one camp, which is very suspect to me.
	In Jordan.
	I think we trained all these guys.
	We trained these guys in Jordan.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, they're trained somewhere.
	That's the reports I have.
	They were trained.
	Look, this whole thing, it's fantastic.
	So ISIS, and we'll call it ISIS, Islamic State in Shaham, just to be correct.
	They've got a Twitter app.
	Yeah.
	Well, there's Iraqis.
	Which I couldn't find, by the way.
	I couldn't find.
	They shut down the internet.
	Well, it's probably because they shut down the internet coming out of Iraq.
	Well, there's lots of news stories, but no one actually has a link.
	And I tried to, apparently only on Android.
	So I tried to find there the ISIS Twitter app.
	But they also have a really nice annual report, which they released.
	Did you see their annual report?
	No, you got me on that one.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, it's a whole PDF. Now, the cool thing is, the original is hard to find and, of course, is in Arabic.
	But the Institute for the Study of War, obviously, they have a shortened version in English, and they've done not just the translation, but No, no.
	They've done a whole beautiful layout.
	I'm sure they did the original as well, is what I'm getting at.
	And it shows...
	Well, it's interesting.
	I'll bring it up right now.
	It shows how many suicide vests they've exploded with graphs and bar graphs and charts.
	Let me show you what they've got.
	It's the ISIS annual reports reveal metrics-driven military command.
	I haven't seen this for American military command.
	Annual report organization.
	Okay, they have the attack types, assassination, armed attack, bombing, bombing and burning houses, prisoners freed, suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices, suicide vests...
	Motorcycle-borne improvised explosive devices, knife attacks, targeted attacks, sniping, apostates repented, cities taken over, checkpoints set up, and they've got bar graphs for every single one of these metrics.
	Operations by province, percentage of attacks.
	It's fascinating to watch, but beautifully recreated by Kim Kagan's group there.
	And Kim Kagan's group, I need to point out, this is the group that also produced Elizabeth O'Baggie.
	Remember her?
	No.
	This was the girl who, and she was perfect.
	She was the go-to girl for Syria.
	And she was...
	In fact, it was John Kerry and John McCain who would be quoting her research.
	And then it turned out that she didn't have a PhD and she had to go away.
	Do you remember this story?
	Yeah, I remember that vaguely.
	She was from the Institute for the Study of War.
	Uh-huh.
	And the problem was, she was advising military...
	Politicians and industry simultaneously.
	Some would say a conflict of interest.
	Some might say it somewhere.
	Okay, here's Akin regarding really the scale of this and that it's much bigger than just Syria and Iraq.
	We're doing this to provoke sectarian violence.
	And the lie that it's for sectarian violence, okay.
	We have to remember that ISIS actually wants to provoke sectarian violence.
	It is trying to create a sectarian war throughout the Middle East with violence that goes from south of Baghdad All the way through Syria, into Lebanon, and into neighboring states.
	And this civil war will make what we saw in Iraq in 2006-7 pale in comparison.
	It's going to be a bonanza!
	It's going to be a big one, baby!
	All the way down to Jordan.
	The rivers of Jordan are deep and wide.
	It's been hinted at that Jordan would get sucked into this early on.
	Fair warning.
	If you're paying attention, you'd know that this is going to happen.
	Now, Biden said a number of years ago, man, we should split this place up anyway, which of course is the mission, is to create a new state, have the Kurds have their thing with the oil, which all of this is really about at the end of the day.
	Right, I think the Kurds are the key to this.
	That's why they don't get mentioned much.
	And here is the C-SPAN guy.
	There are guys, by the way.
	The Kurds, yeah.
	Yeah.
	And here is the C-SPAN guy bringing this Biden thing up.
	This is a comment from David who says, Vice President Biden might have been right when he said that Iraq may need to be carved up.
	This may happen regardless of what any president does.
	He made that comment back in 2008.
	I think that Iraq has tended to want to be a unified state.
	And we saw that even in the 2010 Iraqi parliamentary election.
	I think, however, after this particular inflection, we may see the separation of Iraq rather unnaturally into component parts.
	Now that the Kurds Unnaturally.
	Good word.
	Through their Peshmerga forces have control over Kirkuk, a prize that they have sought through constitutional means for a decade.
	And now that we have a Shia mobilization, that will secure southern Iraq in a way that's very different from how western Iraq works.
	It may or may not be secured.
	This is an unnatural state and it will have consequences through the region in taking away the boundaries and borders of the states that have formed the core of the alliance system that we have worked with for so many years.
	And this is actually what the Islamic State of Iraq wants.
	It wants to erase the borders in the Middle East So that it can create its own emirate, perhaps on the road to a caliphate that spans through Islamic countries.
	It's always great to throw in the C word.
	If you throw in the caliphate word, people just shiver.
	Caliphate.
	Alright, I'm narrowing this down to the big crescendo, but first we have to recognize that, of course, the Kagans...
	Specifically, Robert Kagan were Bush cronies.
	This is all William Crystal.
	These are the neocons, the Project for a New American Century.
	But they've now spread over to the other side through Victoria Kagan, nay, Noodleman, nay, Newman, whose husband Frederick is brother of Robert, brother of Kim.
	And there's a great article, by the way, about...
	What's his name?
	Frederick.
	Yeah, Frederick.
	Interviewed at his library home in Virginia because he's a historian.
	Bunch of a-holes these people are.
	So, of course, the obvious question is, well, wait a minute...
	Isn't this Bush?
	Didn't Bush do all this?
	Isn't it a Bush mistake?
	Didn't Bush screw it all up for us?
	Now, whenever someone asks you a question that you don't want to answer, what is a good go-to way to circumvent that?
	You've taught us this, John.
	I don't know.
	No, what did I say?
	You're asking the wrong question is what you need to say.
	Oh, yeah, you start with you're asking the wrong question.
	The right question is blah, blah, blah.
	I didn't go to that.
	Now that you mentioned the blaming Bush, blaming Obama thing, it seems to be the model that's going on here.
	And I want to play something from the Senate floor, which is Harry Reid on what he's claiming is a civil war and why we shouldn't be in there.
	And he kind of addresses a few of these things that you're talking about.
	And these guys in the Senate are just superficial about this.
	And it's actually fun to listen to them yak about this.
	And this is just as part of a longer speech.
	That servicemen and women from Kentucky and other 49 states across this great country should be inserted in the middle of their civil war?
	I don't think so.
	Fighting between sectarian factions in Iraq cost thousands of Iraqi and American lives over the last decade.
	And it's spawned a new breed of terrorism now.
	Yet the original architects of the war, of the invasion of Iraq, would have us believe that this is all President Obama's fault.
	Mr.
	President, think about that.
	Wait, I had to think about that.
	Okay, I'm ready.
	Anything that could be further from the truth?
	I don't think so.
	This is an Iraqi civil war.
	And it's time for the Iraqis to resolve it themselves.
	Those who attack President Obama for bringing our troops home from Iraq are wrong and out of step with the American people.
	After a decade of war, the American people have had enough.
	American families have had enough.
	Yeah, but you know who's not had enough?
	No, no, they're just getting started, everybody.
	All right, so here's Kim answering the question with a denial of the question.
	Of course, it's the wrong question to ask.
	Rick makes this point on our Twitter page.
	No WMD, weapons of mass destruction, no yellow cake, no aluminum tubes.
	Why did Bush elect to invade Iraq?
	Again, I really think that we're asking the wrong question if we go back and focus on the decisions and actions in 2002 and 2002.
	I think it's even better to say we're asking the wrong question.
	You involve yourself, you see.
	We're asking you might as well.
	2003.
	Again, I will emphasize that what decision makers thought at the time was that Saddam Hussein had a chemical weapons program.
	And we have discovered that that's not true, that he was engaged in concealing the fact that he did not have one.
	But you mistake the issue if you go back to try to relitigate the situation.
	We're in an emergency crisis now.
	And that emergency crisis I love the emergency crisis.
	This is a great term.
	It's an emergency crisis.
	Is that an Al-Qaeda splinter is...
	Ow!
	Ow!
	I have an Al-Qaeda splinter in my finger.
	It's taking control of terrain in the heart of the Middle East from which it will launch terrorist attacks and establish a state.
	It has an organized army.
	So the question is not re-litigating what happened in Iraq before.
	The question is...
	No, don't re-litigate.
	That's not the question.
	The question is...
	What do we do about the fact that there is a large al-Qaeda splinter that has a terrorist safe haven right now in Iraq and Syria?
	She's almost done.
	Do I have to stop?
	A couple of things.
	I want to add, it seems a lot of, this is, I'm actually disappointed that she went this way.
	Well, wait until I'm done with her.
	I mean, the big finish is coming.
	Okay, well, why don't you finish that?
	Because I have to play another couple of Senate clips.
	Yeah, I do want to finish off with that.
	Let me finish off with Kim.
	Okay, finish her off.
	In fact, I'll stop this clip and I'll finish her off with...
	Now, this rarely happens.
	Only on C-SPAN, I have to say.
	Again, quite impressed with the C-SPANs.
	Where is my thing here?
	Okay.
	The question is...
	What is the Institute for the Study of War, and who is funding you?
	I think this is a very good question.
	What is the Institute for the Study of War, and who funds your organization?
	The Institute for the Study of War is an organization that does not advocate war.
	We study it.
	Now, he didn't say, hey, you advocate war, what are you all about?
	He said...
	What are you about?
	And she immediately goes on the defensive by saying, we do not advocate war!
	No one said you did, but maybe you're a little too defensive?
	And we study ongoing conflicts in order to provide policy makers and decision makers with...
	The best possible information about what's going on in war zones, including Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and to help them by giving them the best possible information to make their own...
	Wait, wait, wait!
	Wait!
	Okay.
	Wait!
	Decisions about matters of war and peace.
	The organization is funded through private donors, foundations, corporations, and I think most importantly, does not take any money from the United States government in order to keep itself fully independent from the United States does not take any money from the United States government in Let's go to the documentation.
	Documentation.
	Of course, I was more than happy to pull their Form 990 for 2012, which cleverly obfuscates any contributions from anybody.
	It's not required by law.
	They do a little under $2 million.
	All of it goes into salaries and conferences and travel.
	That would sound right.
	The only person who is on the payroll is Kim.
	But of course, not much.
	$150,000.
	Very meager, I thought.
	Yeah, well, she's got other means of income, I'm sure.
	But of course, you cannot take money from individuals and corporations without thanking them.
	Ah!
	You have to hunt around.
	Their website is not very easy to navigate to find that.
	But in their 2012 annual report, they thanked the following...
	For their sponsorship of the Institute for the Study of War.
	Are you ready for the list?
	This is good.
	General Dynamics.
	Okay.
	War.
	DynCorp International.
	War.
	Palantir.
	Huh.
	War.
	Yeah, those are the guys who do spying.
	Northam Grumman.
	War.
	And my favorite...
	C-A-C-I. Now, C-A-C-I should ring a bell, if not because I just rang a bell.
	These are the guys, these are advisors, you see.
	This is what she's talking about.
	The advisors that need to be sent in.
	They were the ones that were blamed for the atrocities at Abu Ghraib, if you'll recall.
	CACI awarded 31 million prime contract to continue modernizing U.S. Navy personnel and pay systems.
	It's a good computer operation.
	No, CACI... Ever vigilant.
	CACI were running the Abu Ghraib prison.
	And there was a big lawsuit.
	And the judge dismissed the lawsuit alleging that CACI employees directed mistreatment of detainees.
	But he did not dismiss it because they were not guilty.
	He dismissed it because the judge I have it.
	The judge did not explicitly rule on CACI's role in the alleged abuse, instead deciding that because the incidents happened overseas, the U.S. District Court in Alexandria has no jurisdiction to hear the case.
	Nah.
	These were the people who, these are the bad guys.
	These are the horrible a-holes who directed electrocution of detainees nuts.
	These are a-holes.
	And she is all in her job.
	And here's the pitch.
	I have it right here.
	Is to get these people in right away.
	What I think is really incredibly important right now is to understand that we're not talking right now about reinvading Iraq.
	And we are not talking right now about sending boots on the ground.
	What are we talking about?
	Here's the one.
	Here comes the pitch.
	Combat forces in large numbers to Iraq.
	There is an Iraqi security force there.
	It needs to be bolstered.
	Bolstered, John.
	That's the word.
	We need to bolster the Iraqi security forces with...
	And it needs to be bolstered through advisors who can help overcome the flaws that we have seen.
	Advisors from, you know, companies like CAC. She's a saleswoman.
	Frankly, emerged over the past year.
	That the Iraqi security forces have low morale.
	That they have not replenished their units with new soldiers as they have sustained losses against al-Qaeda splinters and other enemies.
	Can I just point out that we've spent, according to the Defense Department, $20 billion to train these Iraqi forces.
	This, by the way, that's where that number comes from, the $20, $25 billion.
	Everyone's talking about, oh, we spent $25 billion.
	It's not on the whole war in Iraq.
	It's just on training the forces.
	No, actually, Harry Reid, in his little long speech, brought the number up.
	It's $1.2 trillion.
	Right.
	That's the overall number.
	Right.
	But the number that we question, oh, we spent $25 billion in Iraq.
	Yeah, you're right.
	This is a propagandistic technique to make people stick with that number.
	Right.
	So it's in your brain, oh, well, I guess we could afford it.
	$1.2 trillion.
	And I think that's a low ball.
	I think that's a low ball, too.
	But anyway, the 20, he now says 20, but I've heard 25 billion was only for the training of these guys, which I with my own two eyes saw was a scam.
	That is absolutely correct.
	That is absolutely correct.
	I need to say these long, drawn-out sentences while I think of what I'm going to say next.
	And I think that part of the problem that we have had over the past two years is that we have thrown money at training the Iraqi forces rather than sustaining some of the programs that were effective.
	We're effective at keeping the Iraqi Security Forces effective.
	We have sold weapons, we have sold weapons systems, but we removed our embedded advisors from the Iraqi Security Forces.
	We've got to bring them back!
	So what do you think?
	So I'm looking at CACI. It's a stock.
	It sells for $71 a share.
	It's a huge upswing.
	If you'd invested in this company in 1990, you'd have made a lot of money.
	What do you think their annual sales are in revenue?
	CACI? Yeah, just guess.
	Well, they have 16,000 employees.
	So I'm going to guess each employee has to be bringing in at least...
	I'm going to say $16 billion in sales.
	No, no.
	Only $3.5.
	Okay.
	I'm too optimistic.
	Only $3.5 billion in sales as consultants.
	As consultants.
	Advisors.
	Advisors.
	And I'd like to point out this little non-discussed item from May 14, 2014.
	When the United States military-industrial complex...
	In fact, the Pentagon Defense Security Cooperation Agency, that's the guys who sell on behalf of the military-industrial complex in the Pentagon, informed Congress of a planned sale of $1 billion worth of warplanes, armored vehicles, and surveillance aerostats to Iraq, Quote from the document, the vehicles will help Iraq's ability to defend its oil infrastructure against terrorist attacks.
	We could have seen this coming in May.
	We sold them the stuff.
	We sold it right into it.
	What a scam!
	Hey, quick, quick, quick, guys, quick!
	Let's sell some stuff.
	They're going to need it.
	So that is Kimberly Kagan.
	Kagan!
	Now, she's not the end of the Kagan's, but I'd like now to...
	Well, I want to point something out here that we haven't pointed out, which is the obvious.
	This woman dropped out of the blue in a parachute.
	Yeah, and she's perfect because she's pretty.
	She has a good...
	She has a bit of a pleading thing.
	And by the way, there's also this Anne-Marie Slaughter...
	And I heard, I could not find it on NPR. I heard her on NPR. She is the CEO of, now this is a real Silicon Valley group.
	She is the CEO of, what is this thing called?
	The New American Foundation, I think?
	She literally wrote the New World Order book.
	She wrote a book called The New World Order.
	And this New American Foundation, you know, top sponsors with a million plus, Eric Schmidt and his wife, Mil and Belinda Gates.
	You know, and she goes on, and she's like, that's why I'm pissed I couldn't find it.
	Every question she'd answer, instead of this pleading like, well, people are dying, she'd go, ha, ha, people are dying.
	Ha, ha.
	Don't you see people are dying?
	She had this little irritating laugh.
	Well, one of those people that laughs at the end of every sentence.
	No, before.
	She laughs at the beginning.
	Oh, she laughs before.
	Like, what a stupid question.
	Don't you see people are dying and we have to do something about it?
	I'll find it for Sunday because I just didn't post it, I guess.
	Yes, please.
	So these are the salespeople to be dropped in to sell the idea, Because President Obama is ineffective at this point, and he's not running this show.
	And these are all Yalies.
	Every single one of them.
	Yeah, he's a Harvard guy.
	He's out!
	If he even went to Harvard.
	Losers!
	Yeah, loser.
	Yeah, these are all Yale people.
	Even Clinton's a Yale, isn't she?
	No, I think she was Yale Law School.
	Right.
	Let me look it up while you're talking.
	Well, how can that be?
	I'm looking it up while you're talking.
	No, no, no.
	You're looking it up.
	Oh, yeah, okay.
	Yale Law School.
	Yes, Yale.
	Yeah, Yaley.
	Yeah, Bill's the Harvard guy.
	Yeah.
	So these are all Yalies.
	And the idea is rubblization.
	I'll give you a rundown, and I'd love to hear some of your clips.
	So we have ISIS has taken over the Baiji Refinery.
	And, of course, we had the Brotherhood Pipeline.
	I'm sorry, that's Ukraine.
	I'm confused.
	Wrong pipeline.
	I got a whole pipeline thing here.
	We're blowing them up everywhere.
	We're just blowing up pipelines wherever we can.
	We're blowing up pipelines, but funny we're not blowing up the refinery.
	No!
	Why would we do that?
	That would make no sense.
	They did shut it down, but it still is a sitting duck.
	You hit one of those things with a few rocket launchers, and that thing is done.
	That's the prize.
	We're not going to blow that up.
	No, that's going to happen.
	And so, now of course, there's a lot of players in the game, and blowing up the pipeline, the Northern Route pipeline, which only takes a couple days to repair, that's very good because that will...
	Remind us here in America that it does affect us.
	When the pipeline goes, and Iraq of course is arguably the largest producer of oil used by the West, it affects our prices.
	So you watch the gasoline prices go up.
	Actually the largest producer of oil used by the West is actually Russia.
	The largest producer of oil used by us is Canada.
	Right.
	Iraq has the largest reserves.
	They're big.
	That's why there's this war going on.
	What do you think this is all about?
	I'm a disco jockey.
	What the hell do I know?
	It's huge.
	Let me play this.
	Back on the scene, and now doing his own show without McCain, is Lindsey Graham.
	If you see Lindsey Graham, tell him, hey, Lindsey, Adam Curry says you're an asshole.
	Give him my email address.
	This guy...
	I thought John McCain was bad.
	Well, I think it's a toss-up.
	No, I think Lindsey Graham...
	You think he's worse than McCain?
	Yes.
	So he's interviewing Dempsey, who of course is our little gnome guy.
	And Dempsey they're out to get.
	Well, but yeah.
	But Dempsey is all in on this.
	I think Dempsey's knuckling under.
	McCain has been out to get Dempsey now for months.
	Right, but this is Graham and Dempsey.
	So Graham and McCain have split.
	And Graham is all in.
	I don't believe that's not true.
	Well, let's listen to this.
	Where we have Dempsey and Hagel.
	And Hagel, of course, he's just a yes man.
	He wouldn't know what an about face meant.
	And now they're just talking.
	ISIS, ISIL.
	It's not ISIS.
	It's not ISIL.
	It's OIL is what it is, people.
	Now to Iraq.
	Is it possible, General Dempsey, to stop ISIS without U.S. air power?
	ISIS, ISIS, whatever we call them.
	The Ash?
	This is new to me.
	The Ash?
	Gosh, but gosh.
	Are the people that Al Qaeda kicked out?
	Or who broke contact because they're more radical than...
	Yeah, yeah, these people.
	Right.
	Yeah, oh yeah.
	I suspect...
	Well, first of all, we have a request from the Iraqi government for air power.
	You do?
	We do.
	Air power.
	Do you think it's in our national security interest to honor that request?
	It is in our national security interest to counter ISIL wherever we find them.
	Wherever we find them.
	Oh, under the bed!
	Because, and I want the American people to understand...
	There's a lot at stake for us, right, Secretary Hagel?
	Okay.
	Leading the witness.
	Leading the witness.
	Yes, man.
	Hey, let's get the yes man to say yes.
	There's a lot at stake for us, the region.
	If Iraq falls and Iran dominates the south and this group, ISIS, owns the Sunni territory all the way from Aleppo to Baghdad, Kurdistan breaks away.
	That would create economic chaos in the region, which would affect us here at home.
	Is that a fair outcome?
	Leading the witness!
	Well, I don't know what an outcome would be if that occurred.
	What a dick!
	Senator, all I can tell you is what we are looking at providing to the president...
	Well, the economy of Iraq would collapse.
	Well, I think that's right.
	If they lose their oil...
	He's an economist now.
	Don't question it.
	Yes.
	Yeah, that's right.
	And if ISIS has assets from Aleppo to Baghdad, they're enriched.
	The country we know as Iraq financially collapses.
	Don't you think that would affect the region and energy prices?
	From the average American point of view, Iraq matters.
	Well, it does.
	We've got to make you know Iraq matters, people.
	But also, as you know, you've been there many times, Senator.
	The southern part of Iraq possesses a tremendous amount of oil, so different scenarios that you're talking about.
	So if the Iranians dominate the southern part of Iraq because the central government collapses and there are no force in Baghdad, the Iranians are enriched and I think the world as a whole suffers particularly.
	We'll get hit in the wallet.
	But ISIS, General Dempsey, they have- How does that work?
	We'll get hit in the wallet!
	How does that work?
	How's the logic here?
	I don't get it.
	Shut up!
	Just say yes!
	Vow to attack the United States, is that fair to say?
	Oh, whoa, whoa, back it up!
	We're about to be attacked, John!
	Hold on a second!
	General Dempsey, they have vowed to attack the United States, is that fair to say?
	Oh, vowed.
	There is open source reporting that they...
	Open search reporting?
	What?
	Did he say open source?
	What is open source?
	Is that Twitter?
	Yeah!
	Is that fair to say?
	There is open source reporting.
	I've never heard of open source reporting.
	We're using it.
	I love it.
	Open source reporting.
	Twitter!
	They, although currently a regional threat, they do have aspirations to attack Western interests.
	And if they have a safe haven in Syria and Iraq and operate from Aleppo to Baghdad with impunity, that's a bad scenario for us, is that true?
	That is a high-risk scenario.
	Yeah, to our homeland being attacked by this group.
	Over time, not at this time, but over time.
	Ah, wait a minute.
	Overtime.
	Not at this time, but overtime.
	Not exactly what Lindsay said on Meet the Press Sunday.
	Syria is a launching pad, and it's all come together.
	It's a launching pad.
	They're going to be terrorists.
	They strap rockets to their back, and they launch right into America.
	We need air power immediately to stop the advance toward Baghdad.
	Stop it!
	If the central government in Iraq collapses, and that's the goal of ISIS, Iran will own the southern part of Iraq.
	That's where the Shias live.
	They can operate ISIS from Baghdad to Kurdistan all the way into Syria.
	They will eventually march on Jordan and Lebanon.
	Our best ally in the region is the King of Jordan.
	And they will attack us from that part of Iraq and Syria, according to our own national...
	Director of National Intelligence, FBI Director.
	The next 9-11 is coming from here.
	Woohoo!
	Yeah, bitches!
	The next 9-11.
	It might be on 3-14, but it will be the next 9-11.
	It's coming from there.
	But I don't understand.
	Because these are our terrorists, and now this douchebag, Cameron, is saying that they're going to attack them!
	The Prime Minister chaired a meeting of the National Security Council in response to the crisis in Iraq before speaking in the Commons.
	But I'd also disagree with those people who think this is nothing to do with us, and if they want to have some sort of extreme Islamist regime in the middle of Iraq that won't affect us, it will.
	The people in that regime, as well as trying to take territory, are also planning to attack us here at home in the United Kingdom.
	No!
	They're attacking us!
	They can't attack you!
	Everyone's taking credit for the attack!
	Here's what bothers me.
	First, let's play the McCain clip that I have, which shows that he's still in...
	I believe what you're observing, that you think there's a rift between McCain and Lindsey Graham, that is not the case.
	I just think that they're sick of McCain, because he's a tub-thumper, and I think the media is tired of him, so he gets to go up in front of Congress, he gave a long speech, I just took a clip of it, and say stuff like this...
	The Obama administration blames Iraqis for failing to grant the necessary privileges and immunities for a U.S. force presence beyond 2011.
	This, too, is totally misleading, because as we saw firsthand, Senator Graham and I traveled to Baghdad, to Erbil, and we met with Maliki, we met with Alawi, we met...
	We met with all of the leaders of the main political blocs and we heard a common message during all of these conversations.
	Iraqi leaders recognized that it was in their country's interest to maintain a limited number of US troops to continue training and assisting Iraqi security forces beyond 2011.
	But when we asked Ambassador Jim Jeffery and the Commander of U.S. Forces in Iraq, Lloyd Austin, in direct response to a question in a meeting with then Prime Minister, with Maliki, he said, okay, I want to know how many troops and what their missions are.
	We turned to General Austin.
	The answer was that they had still not made a decision.
	In Erbil, Barzani said he would fly to Baghdad.
	Alawi, the actual winner of the election, said that he would agree.
	I'll go in with you on that.
	Everyone, including the media, are just sick of him.
	And I think he overdid his exposure before all this.
	You could always call McCain for anything.
	Yeah.
	And he's...
	Boring.
	He's annoying.
	He's boring.
	And he goes on and on and on.
	Now, here's the disappointment.
	We'll go back and discuss more of the details of what we think is going on here, which I think you've already outlined mostly, which is a scam.
	This is the big disappointment in my opinion, which is that Marco Rubio, who purports to be a candidate for the presidency, although there's no way he's ever going to get elected, is one of the guys who got into office by being a Tea Party guy, kind is one of the guys who got into office by being a Tea Party guy, kind of espousing the thoughts of the Ron Paul camp in these conservative meetings, which Stop doing this.
	Stop doing that.
	You know, legalize drugs.
	Let me guess, did the check show up from Halliburton?
	Well, you listen to the clip and you tell me.
	And that is why it's so critical that we be engaged here.
	The reason why we should care about this issue is not because we want to force upon Iraq democracy or force upon Iraq the type of kind of government we think they need.
	The reason why we care is because we cannot allow a safe haven to develop there that can be used to carry out attacks that can kill Americans, including here in our homeland.
	This is why we should care.
	That the commander-in-chief of the United States, the president, come as quickly as possible before the American people and before this Congress with a plan to address this risk.
	Well, he doesn't need to do that.
	Now, I have the Rubio.
	That's the short clip.
	Play the longer clip, which is weirder.
	And we again hear this thing, the same thing we're hearing from these other nutcases.
	Let's go.
	Let's send them in.
	Let's go.
	Let's spend some money.
	Because they're going to bomb us here at home, these guys.
	Yeah.
	Woo-hoo!
	Woo-hoo!
	And look, they got Stinger missiles.
	I don't think they can fly all the way over.
	Well, the Stinger missiles, and a lot of people don't, you know, most of these missiles that we supplied are...
	We sold.
	We sold, yes.
	We sold.
	They have beacon awareness.
	Oh.
	And so when an American plane is flying around...
	Yeah, they fly away from it.
	They won't, the missile won't...
	Won't do it.
	...hit the plane ever.
	No, of course not.
	And you can't fix that.
	That's a hardware.
	It's in the EEPROM. We've burned it in.
	Now, the EEPROM. Wait, wait, wait.
	Does ISIS have box cutters?
	I don't know that these missiles, besides just missing the plane, I don't know for a fact, and I think I would program this way, if it was fired at an American target, the missile should turn around and blow up the guy firing it.
	Like a boomerang.
	Yeah, I don't see any reason you can't do that.
	That's what I'd do.
	If you play Rubio's longer...
	Well, no, actually, don't play it.
	I'll just say what he...
	He went on and on about, oh, we're going to be under attack.
	Now, here's kind of the irony to the whole thing.
	It's only a minute.
	I'm happy to listen to it.
	Well, play it, and you'll hear more of his panic.
	That's good.
	We need to understand how afraid we have to be.
	...grown in strength over this time, and they have begun to grow in their influence in Iraq, and their goal is simple.
	They want to establish the premier Islamic caliphate in all the world.
	Caliphate!
	We need a new jingle.
	Caliphate!
	You just yell that anywhere people go, oh no man, it's a caliphate.
	People don't even know what it means.
	Sunni Islamic caliphate in the region.
	Caliphate basically means Islamic kingdom.
	And they don't care about existing borders.
	The kingdom they envision is a vast safe house, safe haven, that encompasses portions of Syria that they already have under their control and portions of Iraq that they're now gaining control of.
	And what is their goal for this place that they're trying to set up?
	Their first goal is to institute Sharia law, and they have a particularly brutal brand of Sharia that they have forced upon people both in Syria and now increasingly in Iraq.
	But their second goal is to establish an Islamic caliphate state, a safe haven from where they can plan and train and ultimately carry out terrorist attacks against the United States and other countries, including attacks here in our homeland.
	Okay, let me say this.
	There were hundreds of guys at HamCom, where I was, who would listen to this and go, Yeah!
	Yeah, let's go get him, fuckers!
	And I think he's, unfortunately, when he pulls out Caliphate, Sharia law, and then attack on the homeland, I think he actually does get a large portion of his audience riled up.
	Whether he's initially part of the Ron Paul substitution movement or not, these people have been programmed that way.
	They live here in the United States, and there's a lot of them.
	Now, I think that, just to finish my thought, all we need to do, what the President needs to do, and this is what, I don't understand, we are not that stupid.
	All you have to do is, we have a solution, we're going to send in the Triple Canopy, the Academy Blackwater Z guys, what was the name, the Castilian group, CACI, and here's the bill, and they've already given us an estimate, and we agreed, you know, estimate plus 20%, and that's what it's going to be, and they're going to go take care of our business for us.
	The American public is so tired of war, but also so insanely programmed, we would go, yeah, good idea.
	You know what?
	Can you get some free mugs with that?
	Yeah, we're all in.
	Yeah, and it would be done with.
	But no, we have to scare everybody and trick them into being afraid.
	And they end up doing the same thing, sending these guys in.
	Well, here to me is the anomaly, which no one wants to bring up or ever brings up.
	The entire concept of the modern terrorist movement is that's an asymmetrical warfare, which means there are non-nation states, terrorist groups that do not have a place to hide, that are causing these problems.
	Once you establish a nation state that can't be bombed into submission, it's no longer viable as a terrorist organization.
	Excellent point, Mr.
	Dvorak.
	I think that we should...
	Now I revise my strategy.
	Let's sit back, wait until they're a nation-state.
	Then we go bomb them to kingdom come.
	Yeah, you know where they are.
	They got a flag.
	They got a flag.
	We can declare war on them.
	Yeah, they got a little parliament.
	Yeah.
	Judges.
	Yeah, we can go declare war.
	Exactly.
	Yeah, now we have somebody to declare war on.
	We never have before because nobody can surrender.
	Now we have people that can even surrender.
	So what's the problem?
	Well, then we can't use words like Al-Qaeda splinter anymore.
	It's so fun to say.
	So the president, of course, he's doing his little bit there and he's calling on his war powers and powerful.
	I... Hold on.
	I have war powers!
	We can tell you that in just the last few minutes, the White House has released a letter that the President has sent to the Speaker, John Boehner.
	This is a war powers letter that was sent over to Congress officially notifying lawmakers that the President has He authorized the deployment of 275 U.S. Armed Forces personnel.
	Those personnel will basically be in Baghdad there to provide security and support for U.S. personnel on the ground in Iraq, in Baghdad, and also to the embassy in Baghdad.
	So he just uses his war powers, and he'll do nothing otherwise.
	Interesting guy back on the scene was Petraeus.
	And I want to mention, before you bring that up, for some reason, again, I shortened a McCain clip, McCain again, and I've seen this three and four and five times, McCain going on and on about how we should bring Petraeus back into the game.
	What is the deal with those two?
	Well, as I've mentioned before, the military would be all in.
	And I hear from Agent Orange, so that's a EU military, everywhere that he's going to run.
	And he's a serious contender.
	I don't know if he can really do it.
	But he shows up on the scene, and he actually says something kind of funny.
	It has to be a huge idea here, and it has to be that...
	And when you say huge idea, that means you've got to have a guy to run the program.
	This is not just like...
	You've got to have a plan, people.
	It has to be a huge idea here, and it has to be that...
	If there is to be support for Iraq, it has to be support for a government of Iraq that is a government of all the people and is representative of and responsive to all elements of Iraq.
	President Obama has been quite clear on this.
	This cannot be the United States being the Air Force for Shia militias or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight.
	It has to be a fight of all of Iraq against extremists who do happen to be Sunni Arabs.
	So we can't just be supporting the Shias, but unfortunately the other guys are the Sunnis.
	That's just too bad, isn't that?
	That's a little transparent, Petraeus.
	Sorry.
	He doesn't have any presidential timber in his voice.
	He just has a uniform.
	That's the only thing that might work for him.
	Yeah, well, that's, you know, he looks again, I've said it before and I'll say it again, he looks, when he wears his uniform, when he used to, he looked like a generalissimo from Chile, with all the crap hanging off of it, much of it meaningless, you know, minor, you know, kept his room neat, folded, you know, a badge for that, folded his bed well, you know, good corners, you know, he had a badge for that, he had it all hanging from him.
	He was an Eagle Scout, I believe.
	It was just, like, ridiculous.
	And we've gotten to this discussion before, and I've gotten many letters.
	People say, well, he has to.
	He has to wear all that crap.
	No, it's not true.
	Any general can do whatever he wants.
	He can wear a blazer.
	In fact, the Navy guy wears a blazer, one of them, the Joint Chiefs.
	He can wear a blazer.
	He can wear khakis.
	He can wear a short thing.
	He can wear a tube top.
	And he's fine because he can design his own uniform.
	And that's...
	The fact that he doesn't do that and design something tasteful, in the case of me, he's not presidential caliber.
	Going back to my favorite angle on the issue, the oil and the resources, some interesting moves.
	Royal Dutch Shell is selling almost all of its stake in Australia's biggest oil and gas producer, Woodside.
	And the reason they're doing that is because Woodside withdrew from the Leviathan gas deal.
	They were supposed to be a contender and a member of the...
	And Leviathan is the Israeli gas field that was discovered a couple of years back, which turns Israel into a player on the market.
	And they didn't, you know, Israel has been trying to screw all these partners, but with a tax that would be higher than, you know, it's all about money, obviously.
	But the guys who are really in are Nobel Energy from Houston, who have, oh, Bill Clinton as one of their advisors.
	And the Israel-Turkey pipeline is in the works.
	So there's yet another...
	And they're very quiet right now.
	You don't hear Israel saying too much.
	But you're not even mentioned.
	It's funny because you'd say, well, this caliphate's going to attack Israel because they seem to have...
	The Levant region goes all the way to Egypt, according to the old maps.
	Right, and it takes over Israel.
	Yeah.
	No one mentions this.
	This is dropped from the conversation just the same way as state-sponsored terrorism is.
	It's just dropped from the conversation.
	We're not even watching a real conversation.
	The public, the American public, is watching a scenario.
	No, no.
	We're watching World Cup.
	We're watching World Cup.
	We're not watching anything.
	It's true.
	The World Cup.
	The exciting World Cup.
	Another nil-nil game.
	Who did nothing?
	The world, not just the American public, the entire world is being spoon-fed this bullcrap of terror and just lies and just nothing at all that even comes near the truth.
	And I'm going to tell you, When you see Anderson Pooper doing a live stand-up from Baghdad, you know it's phony baloney.
	When something really heavy is going down, Anderson Cooper, a Vanderbilt, does not go there, CIA guy.
	He works for the CIA. But when Anderson Pooper is live from Baghdad, you know it's a set-up.
	Please!
	Remember the first time?
	Tahir Square?
	He was there because that was all set up.
	Every other time after that?
	Oh, crap.
	People are really killing people.
	I'm not going to do it now.
	Fuck you.
	I'm not going.
	No way.
	I'm Anderson Vanderbilt pooper, people.
	So, it's a scam.
	And it's all about...
	Okay.
	Sum it up for us, John.
	From the North and the South, obviously this is about the oil.
	It seems to me that if we look at the Kegans in the North and the Kegans in the South, it's about cutting Russia out of everything, North and South.
	The Russians are the target.
	We're cutting them out until they give us back Snowden, and then we're still going to cut them out.
	But Snowden, I still believe, is part of this issue.
	And especially when they renew his, you know...
	His visa, his asylum.
	And the idea is, of course, we've wanted to do this forever, which is to let the Kurds take over the real...
	Since 1990, I think we've been trying to do this.
	Yes, we've wanted them to take this over because we can work with them.
	They're good businessmen.
	They're not nutty.
	They're not shooting each other.
	There's nothing crazy going on with them.
	They have nice cuisine.
	And now there is a moment apparently the Turks are actually contemplating giving them part that part of Turkey that they've been fighting over because it will save the Turks a lot of money and it will be in exchange for either a pipeline running through Turkey and a payment probably a lot of money involved and the Kurds can run their little businesses and that would be the best thing for us the rest of these guys can fight it out we're not going to ever get the Iranian oil fields that's not going to happen and this thing we're going to let it burn out.
	We'll make a lot of money on the side because we can send in all these consultants and the taxpayer can take another hit of billions and billions of dollars.
	These guys do nothing and then everyone's waves their arms screaming and running in a circle.
	And I'd also like to point out that while we have literally blown up the pipeline now from Russia through Ukraine to Europe, even though Russia doesn't really want to turn off the gas because they're customers on the other side of Ukraine, so we blew up the Brotherhood pipeline.
	We have the Baku-Tbilisi pipeline, which comes right into Europe.
	Baku, we own that.
	Baku is us.
	Georgia-Tbilisi is us.
	They've got a George W. Bush airport, please.
	And Clinton was there.
	We've got the U.S. Coast Guard protecting the pipeline coming in from Baku into Georgia, into the north, into our region.
	And by the way, I want to mention something here about that pipeline being blown up.
	They were showing some footage.
	That was not of a 200...
	Yeah, go ahead.
	Well, they were showing different footages, but they were showing some spots where the pipeline was still intact.
	Somebody was in...
	This is France 24.
	That pipeline that was built is old.
	Yes.
	And it needs to go.
	And I think the Russians would like to put in some new pipes in.
	I mean, they showed one of these systems in the Ukraine side.
	The Russian side is gorgeous.
	They show it's beautiful, all high-tech, good-looking pipes painted yellow and blue.
	And then the other was rusty, bent.
	The Ukrainian stuff was just a disaster.
	Yeah.
	It was just like a bunch of crap that was lucky it could hold together.
	And I think there's maybe even more to this insurance scam or something like that.
	Reuters reports Iraqi Kurdistan has built a link connecting Kirkuk to its newly built pipeline into Turkey.
	Kirkuk is the thing that Kurds just took.
	Yeah, and that's where the refinery is, and over in the fields.
	Cementing Kurdish control over the northern oil hub and reducing its reliance on Baghdad, which, as we know, is just a show.
	It's a big show there.
	The link will allow the Kurds to start exports of Kirkuk crude oil through their own network, giving them a major source of independent revenue and boosting any ambitions of sovereign statehood as Iraq falls into increasing disarray.
	So there's the prize.
	There is the prize.
	And that is your play.
	That is your third act.
	Yep.
	Create this situation, give the Kurds what we've wanted them to have, because we're buddies with the Kurds, big time.
	And listen to this, from Reuters again.
	Iraq's Kurdistan region is ramping up independent oil exports, with a third tanker set to load a cargo of crude from its disputed pipeline as Iraq struggles to stop an insurgency.
	The third tanker is scheduled to depart Turkey's Mediterranean port of Seyhan...
	The one that we showed to you on the show on Sunday, that will leave June 22nd, carrying oil pumped through Kurdistan's new pipeline, which bypasses Baghdad, and that is according to Turkey's energy ministry.
	So, there you go.
	They're pumping it straight.
	It's their own pipeline network, people.
	These are not just a bunch of towel heads on camels, which is what you're supposed to believe, by the way.
	Well.
	So, how sad is it?
	I think we pretty much beat this to death.
	Unfortunately, we're going to have to talk about it more because they're going to come at us from all kinds of different angles with more bullcrap about how the homeland's going to be attacked by these idiots.
	The homeland is under attack by the...
	Kagan's!
	It's the Kagan's!
	Yeah, we are under attack, but by our own government.
	Yeah, oh yeah.
	Ugh, and then Kerry wants to draw Iran in.
	I guess that's just the whole idea.
	It's just this talk of, oh, Iran can come and help.
	I think that's just to bring him in to rubble eyes them, too.
	Well...
	Do you see it?
	I don't know if we even need to get into it, because I'm so tired.
	Yeah, I don't know what that's all about, to be honest about it.
	I mean...
	I have no idea.
	I think it's just to bring him in just to rubble eyes.
	Just to connect it all.
	Well, maybe if they're that stupid.
	I think they're pretty...
	A lot of these Middle Easterners, you know, they talk a lot.
	And I think a lot of them have some common sense.
	Because, you know, they know what...
	Well, what's interesting is that...
	They should know better.
	Right now, if you want to understand what's going on in your world, and I can really...
	I can speak on behalf of Dutch, Belgians, a little bit of the Brits, The population, and certainly the United States, the population has no, and I'm like 0.1% education of these affairs in the Middle East and in Eurasia.
	This is not taught in your common core.
	It's like, even when I was going through school, what's Egypt?
	Pyramids and the Sphinx.
	And the pharaohs and the Cleopatra.
	Right.
	And what else did you learn?
	Nothing.
	Zero.
	Der Schule is meant to dumb you down and not actually teach you anything.
	Nothing.
	And I'm struggling.
	It is worse than ever.
	And I'm struggling myself.
	I'm a disc jockey.
	I dropped out of college after three months because the radio station was at Tulane.
	And people were just doing drugs and drinking, and I was interested in being a disc jockey.
	And now I'm struggling to catch up and understand this stuff.
	And going back, and we should probably recommend everyone watch that Paris 1919 movie.
	It does give you a good...
	You'll be blown away when you see a hundred years ago, there was no Iraq and Syria and Turkey per se.
	These lines were drawn up, and it was made up, and there was negotiation.
	And there was weeks of infighting about who would get what, and it was the spoils of war, and who was going to pay how much, and how much was the citizen worth.
	It's a fascinating thing.
	I'm sure we can find it online.
	We'll post a link to it.
	It's probably on Amazon.
	Or Netflix.
	And it's just sad.
	And sit your kids down.
	And force them.
	Say, have you heard of Iraq?
	What?
	Is that Minecraft?
	Actually, if we went onto the street today and asked people to tell us where Iraq was, probably one out of 20.
	Could point it out on a map?
	Or point it out even in a region?
	If you drew four quadrants on the paper, they might be able to point to one of the four proper quadrants.
	Yeah, one chance out of four.
	25% chance, yeah.
	But that's okay.
	That's not what our listeners are about.
	But understanding that this is now 100 years, 100 years...
	Of this bull crap.
	And it's coming to a head.
	And yes, of course, there's, you know, because of McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken and Internet and CNN, people in the regions are going, F that!
	What is going on here?
	So, of course, they're easy.
	They got nothing better to do than to join up.
	And seeing that they're being raped for a hundred years by the Brits and the French and the Americans.
	Then them damn Turks up north?
	And the Kurds?
	Yeah, it's logical.
	But we have no understanding of the culture, of the history.
	And I'm really mad.
	I feel gypped.
	Why do you feel gypped?
	You know more than most people now.
	I feel gypped.
	I thought I had an education.
	I got no education.
	I got nothing.
	Zero.
	Total gypped.
	Gyp.
	Yeah, it's a gyp.
	You're being a racist against the gypsies.
	Yes, I am.
	And screw the gyps.
	Well, besides it being, by presidential proclamation, National Day of Making 2014, as the president had a maker fair at the White House, Well, I thought that's funny, because I thought you were going to say in the morning to me.
	I was going to say thank you for your courage, and in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak!
	Well, in the morning to you, Adam Curry.
	Also, in the morning to all ships that see, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	And in the morning to the human resources in the chat room, noagendastream.com, noagendachat.net.
	In the morning to Sir 19-Inch Rack...
	Void Zero is working on the new infrastructure for the show.
	I'm very happy that we're getting all that fortified for delivery outside of, you know, completely independent of...
	Of everything.
	Of everything.
	And of networks.
	And in the morning to Nick the Rat, who delivered us the fine artwork for episode 626...
	Which is starting to show up now on all the different podcatchers.
	Thank you all very much for yelling and bitching and moaning and groaning at all these different apps out there where our feed was broken.
	Yeah, a lot of them got fixed.
	Yes.
	And you know what it really told me?
	There is such a market for doing this right.
	I mean, seriously.
	Well, maybe there's something we should think about.
	Yeah.
	No one is really doing the podcast player right.
	Can you spec out the proper way to do it and have one of our geniuses code it and start a little thing on the side there?
	I think if we...
	You'd have to bring in Dave Weiner.
	You know, Weiner's a weird character because he's kind of like an idiot savant genius.
	When you actually talk to him, it's like, oh, that's a great idea.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	I never thought of it that way.
	He can be challenging to work with.
	It's impossible.
	No, you can't work with him.
	So I think you have to bring him in as an advisor in the region.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And, yeah, I think that we are uniquely qualified to create a podcast app that actually does what it says on the box and how it's supposed to work.
	Right.
	With all the error back end that takes care of podcasts that aren't formed properly.
	Just make it work.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Alright.
	And of course, noartgenerator.com is where you can find all of the artwork.
	I thought that's what Pod Show was supposed to do.
	That was my idea.
	Well, hmm, interesting.
	All right, let's thank a few people that helped us out here as executive and associate executive producers for show 627, including Sir Papsmear from Mount Stewart, Tasmania, Australia.
	$627.33 coming all the way across the water.
	ITM, John, and Adam wrote a big message in the PayPal comment section, but the browser timed out.
	A synopsis of the message.
	Sorry for not donating since my knighthood, but I've been hitting people in the mouth, my wife and daughter included.
	Hope donations pick up.
	Otherwise, the daughter's education fund might need to be rated.
	No need to reach out.
	It's not worth it anyway.
	You won't learn anything!
	He says you don't have to read this out, but he just would like to have some karma and an OMG amazing jingle, which makes him laugh every time.
	He says, our work has been outstanding lately.
	Thank you.
	And he's been intending to donate for a while.
	Okay.
	By the way, he calls himself Sir Papsmear, and his wife has been demanding he change it, but he's not going to do it until he gets his second knighthood.
	Okay, thank you very much.
	Thank you.
	You've got karma.
	Oh my god, that is amazing!
	A lot of people like that jingle.
	Where does that come from?
	I have here on my sheet, Rona Thorne Archer.
	I have no idea.
	I guess it's from a movie?
	Yeah, it sounds like it's from a movie.
	Oh my god, that is amazing!
	It is pretty good.
	People are like, I want that as my ringtone!
	Sure.
	Yeah, it's not annoying enough.
	Ian.
	Ian.
	Very good.
	You said it right.
	In Auckland, New Zealand, came out at 333.33.
	It's been three weeks since my last deconstruction.
	I've been listening to your show for some time now and have found a great deal of value in it.
	I have tried to give value for value, however, because John ruined a great marketing idea by burning Club 33 to the ground.
	John can't figure out how to make Windows 8 boot to the desktop.
	What?
	I used the classic shell.
	It boosted the desktop fine.
	Adam has an atrocious fake Australian accent.
	This is his bitches.
	So we have to read him.
	Of course.
	Executive producer credit.
	John cannot pronounce my name correctly.
	What did I just do?
	You did it correctly.
	You said Ian.
	I don't know what his complaint is.
	Somewhere along the line, non-donors changing from boners to douchebags.
	Well, we didn't do that.
	No, we don't have anything to do with that.
	There has been too little mockery of the British Parliament.
	Well, we just mocked them now for stealing our terrorists.
	John cannot pronounce Auckland correctly in a Kiwi accent.
	Orkland.
	Gas is $2.20 a liter, about $7 a U.S. gallon.
	That's not my fault.
	Blame it on ISIS. I'm unwilling to let another day go by without donating.
	And if any of the producers have doubts about the way media works, I can say that until recently I worked in a large media company.
	The way news works is really about advertising, and the pressure is placed on media by advertisers to write stories and not print stories based on ad revenue.
	It's outrageous.
	Well, I'm trying to restructure a sentence and wonder what he meant by that.
	Well, he says, the way news works is really about advertising and the pressure that is placed on media by advertisers to write stories and not print stories based on ad revenue is outrageous.
	It's a run-on...
	Issues you have with a cold read, which I'm a specialist at.
	I'm pretty good at it, too.
	Recent news is ignored while drivel is published as news that is really just puff pieces, and there's always a counter-argument to any negative threads that have to be published due to a profile of story.
	It sickened me so much, I quit!
	And on behalf of the kittens everywhere, I salute you.
	And he says he sent us the money after he got laid off.
	Wow.
	He'll be back.
	There's no way.
	Like you said, I got laid off today and I'm still throwing down the gauntlet to other boners.
	Yes.
	Thank you, Ian.
	And now we have a theme.
	Oh, boy.
	I hadn't even seen this.
	No.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm getting there.
	8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
	Yeah, for some reason it didn't, uh...
	Reach...
	This is very strange.
	Let's try it again.
	Here we go.
	There we go.
	Took a while, but...
	Sorry.
	Yes, our original first Grand Duke comes in.
	Way behind on my episodes.
	He came in at 333.33.
	Way behind on my episodes, unfortunately.
	So way behind on my support.
	I humbly apologize.
	If not, it's not in my case because I like to show less or do not value what you do.
	I can't speak for the other listeners.
	Please do keep the great work and analysis coming.
	It's appreciated more than you may know.
	LGY Karma for all my friends in need of love and better health or general good cheer.
	Ah, that's so kind from our grand dude.
	You've got karma.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	This is Scott Spence in Dawsonville, Georgia, 33333.
	Black Knight Scott, you don't need to read this on the air, but thank you for your courage!
	This is a drunk donation.
	But he says it's a drunk donation.
	So I suppose he wants me to read it such.
	Yes, of course.
	This is a drunk donation.
	Just asking for some jobs karma, followed by some Dr.
	Kiki.
	John, get your ass on HF. You also need to visit some of our North Georgia wineries.
	Adam, give me a call any time that you and or Miss Mickey have any problems in Atlanta.
	Black Knight Scott.
	And he's known to be barren.
	November, November for whiskey.
	That's a short one.
	He must be an expert.
	An extra.
	That doesn't mean he's not an expert.
	No, that's true.
	You've got karma.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yay!
	Shut up already!
	It's science!
	I'm sure he's an expert.
	I am apparently just losing my grip on the ham.
	I have to get back on track with this.
	I'm telling you, this D-Star thing, it's for you.
	You tell me that.
	Yeah, but why is it so special?
	What would be the reason I'd want it?
	It's because it really is simple to operate.
	I mean, that's why I like it, too.
	So you're calling me an idiot.
	No, no, no.
	I'm using it, too.
	I like it.
	There's a big Linux hacker culture around it because it is kind of...
	The ICOM has kind of cornered the market, and it's cool because people like to try and hack against that.
	At the same time, they all have ICOM gear, so it's kind of cool.
	But what's nice about it is it really does work anywhere, and you can communicate anywhere.
	And through the Internet, that's worldwide.
	And, of course, in an emergency, it could save your life.
	What way?
	Because then you can still communicate without the internet, you see.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, that's what I would assume.
	But it's essentially, it's a social network for people who had to take a license.
	I think that last night, you know, I listened on Reflector 33 Charlie, of course.
	33 Charlie you were on, huh?
	That's our number, 33 Charlie.
	Yeah, 3-3 Charlie.
	You know, you get like guys, hey, in the morning, they just pop in and pop out, you know, and we're just hanging out there, and it's all digital, so the quality's really nice, and I have a little hotspot now, which is basically like having a little repeater you can take anywhere, you plug it into your computer, and now people are hacking Raspberry Pis and, you know, and adding a Wi-Fi hotspot, and they drop it somewhere, and you've got a...
	Essentially a repeater for this whole network anywhere you want it.
	It's interesting.
	It's very hacker-ish.
	Yet internet, RF, it's like a radio phone network.
	And I'm telling you, the NSA is not listening in on this.
	Believe me.
	Believe me, they're not interested.
	All right.
	Well, I said that, you know, we have a good donation, Dave.
	I'll get one of those.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Now we're onward.
	Yes.
	Oscar Zamora.
	Oh, looks like he sent an email.
	And here it is right here in front of me.
	Wow.
	Amazing.
	Dear Adam and John, long-time boner, first-time donor.
	He said long-time boner, actually.
	It happens.
	I'll accept that.
	Okay.
	What finally got me to donate was your discussion of the B-1 friendly fire strike on U.S. troops in Afghanistan and your analysis that was connected to the retirement of the A-10, otherwise known as the Warthog.
	As a self-proclaimed history and military buff since a young age, I should do this.
	I'm sure there's a way.
	I would like to point out the real reason for the retirement of the U.S. only purpose-built ground attack and support aircraft, the A-10.
	To pay for a huge price is to pay for that piece of junk, the F-35.
	I think our analysis included that, did it not?
	Yes, we talked about this.
	And I have included a link to an interview with Pierre Spray, the designer of the A-10 and F-15.
	I think that's the guy we played.
	I think so.
	Yeah.
	Two planes that are beloved by pilots and ground troops alike for the ground attack roles.
	In particular, the case of the A-10, the last gunfighter with a 30mm anti-tank Vulcan cannon for ground attack.
	Hmm.
	Planes are universally loathed by the Air Force brass as the Air Force hates to run ground attack missions as it makes them feel subservient to the Army Marines.
	Oh, yeah.
	That would make sense.
	Yeah.
	And would rather fight its own.
	Here I come!
	I do wonder why the Pentagon made a point of blaming the friendly fire incident on such an aircraft like the B-1 strategic bomber.
	That is wholly inadequate for ground attack roles.
	In the interview, Pierre Sprite points out the F-35 can't turn, can't climb, is totally useless as a ground attack plane, and a stealth tech in general is totally bogus.
	And he goes on with what we played on the clip.
	And I think that thing is...
	He would like more Al Sharpton clips.
	Oh.
	I believe that thing has also cost...
	What is it now?
	$600 billion or something?
	It's a fiasco.
	Some outrageous amount?
	It's a fiasco.
	Which, uh, we have, uh...
	Oscars in San Francisco.
	There's no real conflict!
	You know, I just throw out a conflict.
	That's good enough.
	Yeah.
	Dame Astrid's here.
	Dun-da-da-da.
	Wait, I don't have her.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, Sendagaya.
	Yes, Dame Astrid.
	to Tokyo.
	Tokyo.
	She says, I've been listening for years.
	You guys make me laugh.
	She's giving us a background on what we know.
	She's been listening for years.
	You make me laugh and think you are my friends.
	It's a twice-weekly date.
	And you don't have to wake up with us all smelly and stinky in the morning.
	Yeah.
	How lucky am I? So no, there is no alternative to the best podcast in the universe, but we need to talk about those UGGs, Adam.
	You wear Uggs?
	All the time.
	Ugh!
	Don't raff!
	Thank you always, Dame Astrid, Viscountess of Tokyo.
	Don't raff!
	Why are you raffing?
	Shut up!
	I owe her a picture.
	She gave Mickey and I both a Kiana?
	Kiana, I think?
	It's a version.
	It's kind of like a kimono design bathrobe.
	Uh-huh.
	And I wear them with my Uggs.
	Okay, we don't want to imagine that.
	Yeah, you do.
	No, no.
	Arthur Gobitz.
	Thank you, Dame Astrid.
	In Zondam.
	Very good.
	$303.
	Six years later, and he's nailed it.
	Dear John and Adam, in order to keep you two out of the poorhouse, we decided to again donate.
	Last week's 3333 did not bring you guys food on the table.
	Hope today's amount will help a bit more than the 303 amount.
	Brings me a whole dollar over 1K. Yeah!
	Hey!
	I did it.
	Oh, we didn't get this noted.
	Please knight me.
	Put it on the list.
	He's on the list.
	Please knight me.
	Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle of Camelot, king of the Britons, defeater of the Saxons, sovereign of all England.
	Hey, no, that line's been taken by Graham Chapman.
	Okay, just knight me.
	Arthur, hugger of kitties.
	So he will be knighted.
	Arthur, hugger of kitties.
	Thank you.
	Your continued verbal efforts keep me of legal and illegal medication.
	Keep me off of legal and illegal medication, which is probably true.
	Please, please, please look into some decent whiskeys to try out.
	Adam Suntory is a brave attempt into the real stuff.
	So is riding a tricycle.
	Thank for all this and grote, nufel, van, min, three brave attempt, oh, three brave monsters, Rambo, Kenny, and Lila.
	That was pretty close.
	Dank für alles ein Grote Knüffel.
	Grote Knüffel.
	Knüffel.
	Knüffel.
	Like a knish, but say knüffel.
	Knüffel.
	Knüffel.
	No, no.
	Connect the K in the end.
	Knüffel.
	Knüffel.
	There you go.
	That's a hug.
	Thomas Weeer.
	Kumi, I give you a lekkere knuffelknul.
	In Norway, $300.
	I can't find a note from you, Thomas.
	Oh boy.
	But you sent $300 in, which is nice.
	Sir Craig Jones in Danville, Pennsylvania, $300.
	John and Adam, thanks for all you do.
	The show is better than ever and you deserve some more support.
	I'm a grad student studying education who hasn't donated much since becoming a knight three years ago.
	So dedouche me if you feel a necessary relationship.
	Karma would be great too.
	Keep the great work.
	Shameless plug for my humble little podcast on the No Agenda Radio Network, Just Getting Tech.
	That's the name of it, I guess.
	So he needs a karma and a dedouche.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	My mistake.
	That was for me.
	You've been dedouched.
	You've got karma.
	I don't think I've heard Just Getting Tech.
	I have.
	Fantastic.
	Sir Tom Dari in somewhere.
	Japan.
	He's in Yokosuka.
	244, associate executive producer.
	Having been contributing 42 monthly since August 2012.
	Check on that, by the way.
	This should bring one to an even $1,200.
	In recognition of my daughter's recent graduation from high school and her birthday on June 17th, I would like to bestow Dame Ashley...
	To a baronetist.
	Very nice.
	She'll be attending Lawrence University in the fall, Lawrence University in the fall, and will need an LGY karma shot.
	Also, when can we expect to see the ultimate podcast, the podcaster for sale as your device?
	Well, when?
	Well, the problem with this...
	Well, let me guess what the problem is.
	The problem is you ran into some other gear that took you off the track and this thing will never be available now.
	No, that is incorrect.
	But I most definitely ran into the gear that we're using now that is just so incredibly good that I would not want to sell anybody something that is not equally as good because then it couldn't be called the ultimate podcast device.
	Oh, a rewrite of what I just said.
	Now, here's where it gets more interesting.
	The setup that I'm using for most podcasts would probably come in if you already have the laptop.
	You have to have a modern Apple Macintosh laptop.
	Would come in at around $600.
	What, I'm going to come in at $400 and think that this is, you know, it's no.
	So, I would rather, quite honestly, I would rather hook up with these guys at Universal Audio and create the Ultimate Podcast Package and help them market it.
	That's what I think would make more sense.
	Okay.
	That's reasonable.
	I'm not going to argue about that.
	The goal is to get something to people that works.
	If I can do this with something that already exists but just needs to be configured in a certain way, that seems like a good idea.
	And Universal Audio has almost all the pieces.
	I could show them what we need to finalize it and market it properly, and I think that it would open a whole new market for them.
	There's your answer.
	Okay, I'll buy that.
	And I think it would be better for you, because you don't really want us to be selling hardware.
	It's a lot of work.
	And, uh, sounds right.
	Alright, let me hand out the Karma, as requested.
	You've got Karma.
	And LGY. Yay!
	So you want to put her on the list for the...
	No, we mentioned the titles.
	Baronet.
	Tess.
	Nick Johannes in St.
	Louis Park, Minnesota.
	Nuts.
	20627.
	Could John call my non-contributing friend who introduced me to the show a douchebag?
	Douchebag.
	Oops.
	I slipped.
	I'm bad on the douche today.
	That's okay.
	You can do it again right here.
	His name is Eric Humphreys.
	Douchebag.
	Douchebag.
	Adam should tell him to finally get his ham license, too.
	Well, tell him.
	Hey, Eric Humphreys, get your ham license already.
	But seriously, it's us, he says, it's the us or Alex Jones comic that really hit home.
	It worked.
	Good work.
	It's true.
	Yeah.
	I think there'd be some more alternative media outlets, but no, no.
	They're all lockstep in with some advertiser, and I would include Jones with that.
	1776 is upon us!
	It's going, it's coming down, it's coming for Agdans!
	You know, I've heard one podcaster do an imitation of him with that Paul Lippey voice.
	And you really have to have...
	I don't know how...
	I don't think you...
	You're not even close.
	I don't even want to try.
	No, you blow your vocal cords out.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Kelly Sandin in Birmingham, Alabama, $200.
	My brother Stephen Sandin punched me in the mouth a while ago.
	I'd like a douchebag to my boyfriend, Jordan Davis.
	Douchebag!
	He won't even listen to the show with me.
	I need some job karma because I'm going to take the bar in July for Tennessee, and I need a job offer after that.
	Love you guys.
	Kelly.
	Let me tell you, it might be time to look for a new boyfriend.
	Yeah, really.
	You've got to be honest.
	If he won't even listen to the show with you, that's a big, giant wedge in the relationship.
	Yeah, find somebody else.
	You've got karma.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Most of these Alabama women get a pick of the litter anyway.
	They're generally gorgeous.
	Gorgeous, yeah.
	Thomas Imbrex.
	I'm thinking.
	In Namor, Belgium, $200.
	One step closer to knighthood, you matter more than you might think to a lot of people.
	Oh, thank you.
	Regime Books.
	Says Regime.
	In Perth, our favorite town in Australia.
	$200.
	I've never been there.
	One step...
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Please credit Nathan Hondros.
	I heard JCD on Twit when they started talking about Jolie O'Dell's poetry.
	Leo brought up a collection she published, Mankey by Regina Alexandra and Google Scanned, and I wrote the foreword.
	Ha!
	Figured that the universe was telling me to crank up my support for the best podcasts in the universe.
	Meanwhile, I've been hitting every artist and writer I know in the mouth.
	They're the ones that used to have the courage before sucking on the sugary tit of government funding.
	P.S. Google can bite my ass.
	Any chance to shut up, slave, and a karma?
	You bet.
	Shut up, slave!
	You've got karma.
	Happy to do that.
	Always happy.
	That was a pretty odd coincidence.
	Yeah.
	Don't you think?
	I think that whole episode of This Week in Tech was interesting.
	Why?
	What was it about it that you think made it...
	That I've been banned because of my denialism?
	What did you think?
	Well, that's not why you've really been banned, and I made that clear on the show.
	That's not true.
	Because after you left...
	There was a whole conversation.
	Oh, really?
	After I left her talking behind my back?
	Oh, they even ragged on you.
	John, the last couple of times, John has really just taken the show off the rails.
	What is it with him?
	Who said that?
	Leo.
	He said I took the show off the rails?
	Not just this show, the last couple of times.
	Oh, you mean I took the show off away from the pandering to advertisers?
	Yes, yes.
	That would be the definition of off the rails, yes.
	And why is it just the last couple of shows?
	You've been a bad boy.
	Ugh.
	Anyway, anyway.
	Was Jolie there to defend me, or did she leave already?
	Uh, no.
	This was when, no.
	I think she was gone.
	She was not sitting at the table.
	She was gone?
	Yeah.
	But no, I can't have Adam on a news show.
	He doesn't believe in the moon landing.
	Which is not what I said, by the way.
	I said, I question the official story.
	That's different than, I don't believe it, he doesn't, he's crazy, but I can have him on triangulation.
	Yeah, you can sit in my triangulation, douche.
	Oh, God.
	Sorry.
	And finally, last but not least on our list of associate and executive producers, Neil Liston in Edinburgh, UK, $200.
	I do not have a note from him that I can find, and Neil, if you have something to say, let us know and we'll say it.
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	Well, I got a couple of things that might be good segues.
	Yeah, please.
	Seg us into something new.
	This upset me.
	Play the France giving up on nukes.
	Oh, okay.
	What is this going to be about?
	Let's come back to France, shall we?
	One of President François Hollande's electoral promises overhaul France's energy sector.
	He's handed that task to the Environment Minister, hasn't he?
	Ségolène Réal.
	That's right.
	So it was a tricky task trying to live up to your campaign promises.
	Well, three-fourths of France's energy comes from nuclear, the highest level among developed economies.
	The socialist government wants to drastically shift that focus to non-nuclear renewables.
	The new law does not specify whether any of the country's 58 nuclear plants will close, but the cap makes it seem inevitable.
	But the government says going green will create 100,000 new jobs.
	Luke Brown has all the details.
	We have to diversify our energy sources.
	So the level of nuclear power has to be stabilised and then it has to be reduced when it comes to electricity production.
	Despite calls from the anti-nuclear lobby, the government has no plans to force the closure of any ageing plants.
	But with a new cap on total nuclear production, electricity utility EDF will likely be forced to shut some as new generation sites come online, a deadline that opponents say will cost France dear.
	Very soon it'll be 2025.
	This means we have to close more than 20 reactors.
	That's ruinous.
	Ruinous for jobs.
	Ruinous for our ability to compete.
	Ruinous because it will cost the state to pay back EDF. Well, break my baguette.
	These guys are nuts!
	This is the most effective nuclear power generating...
	State-run society in the world.
	They're the head of the curve.
	This is crazy.
	Everything's standardized.
	And it's never had...
	What's the big accident that they had?
	Did they have something that wiped out the vineyards of Chinon?
	This is just...
	This is big...
	Well, of course, this is all about subsidies.
	In Germany, all of the solar and the wind...
	It's all subsidized.
	And every single windmill in the Netherlands is its own LLC. And they have shareholders.
	And it's a big money maker.
	Not because of the energy it's produced, but because of the subsidies.
	When I was floating around the Netherlands looking at some of these farms, and apparently you put one of these up in your farm, you don't have to do any more farming, which a lot of people are not doing.
	They just stop farming because they're making just enough money off the phony baloney subsidies for these things.
	And by the way, two things.
	I didn't find a bunch of dead birds under any of them.
	But it makes a creepy whooshing sound that apparently drives people nuts.
	Oh yeah, there's lots of examples of that.
	Of the sound pollution, and it's an eyesore.
	Yeah, and it's an eyesore.
	I once flew down with the Cessna to Cannes from the UK, and I flew past a number of these reactors in France.
	It's beautiful!
	So nice to see.
	But you can't come too close, of course, because they will shoot you out of the sky.
	They're pretty clear about that.
	They got AWACS flying around.
	It's all protected.
	Sir Rod Adams will, I'm sure you can clue us in as to exactly what this is all about, but this sounds like a money grab from a bunch of douchebags who just want to be a part of the hip new crowd, which is really, it's stealing money from the public.
	It makes no sense to me.
	Renewables.
	Sir Rod Adams, a call out to you, and I'm sure he'll have an answer by Sunday.
	Well, anyway, I found that a very disturbing story.
	It was like, here's the leader, world leader in the whole process of independence.
	And the standardization, you're absolutely right.
	Well, there's a lot going since you bring in the Agenda 21 climate change.
	What is the percentage of scientists that agree that...
	97%!
	When it comes to climate change, when it comes to food security...
	We are literally facing a moment of adversity, perhaps even dire necessity.
	It's hard to convince people.
	Hard to convince people of a challenge that isn't immediately tangible to everybody, particularly.
	But it is clear to at least 98, 99% of all the scientists in our country...
	Oh God, he's up to number!
	...to confront these challenges.
	That's Kerry.
	98, 99.
	Whatever.
	Yeah.
	So I have some climate change clips because there was another hearing.
	Oh, yes.
	With Whitehouse and Markey, the two guys that are just lockstep into this.
	Now, unfortunately, I have two of the clips named Climate Change Botkin 3.
	Yeah, but one is dash one.
	Oh, one is just a duplicate.
	Never mind.
	Okay.
	You have Climate Change Botkin 1.
	No, I don't see that.
	There should be three clips.
	No, I have two, and I have three, and I have a duplicate of three.
	Right, which is actually a duplicate.
	That's a real duplicate.
	Yeah, did you...
	I did not see...
	I can look in the...
	Okay, I don't have it.
	Well, let's start with climate change.
	Do you want to email me something real quick and I'll play another?
	No, I don't have it.
	This is what I got.
	I've seen everything I have.
	So let's start with two.
	And this is an emeritus professor being grilled by one of the guys.
	I think this is the right clip.
	Hit it.
	Emeritus, that means...
	That means he's retired.
	University of California, Santa Barbara, very famous guy.
	And he's one of the 97%.
	That means you're retired and you deserve it.
	Exactly.
	It's unacceptable that scientists like Dr.
	Botkin and others are being on.
	Stop, stop, stop.
	This is the one you told me to play.
	Yeah, I know I did.
	Now I'm very disturbed because I don't have the opening clip.
	Interesting social media, Dr.
	Oz.
	Let me change Botkin too.
	Huh.
	Well, that's disturbing.
	It happens.
	Because it's the setup for the punch.
	Well, do you want to just hold it until Sunday?
	Yeah, let me hold it till Sunday because it's the same old story.
	Yeah, I'll hold it till Sunday and then we'll deal with it.
	It's another disgusting series of clips.
	Well, let me come in to save the day.
	Okay.
	Have you noticed an abundance of seagulls recently in your area?
	Not at all.
	It's natural to see California gulls by San Francisco Bay, but not in the numbers seen today.
	It's just an absolutely amazing increase from 20 to over 53,000.
	And that's still growing.
	It is still growing, absolutely.
	Katherine Burns of the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory cites all the available food in the Bay Area.
	So, you know, like people moving to California, the gulls are now moving to California?
	The word is out.
	They've discovered the Bay Area, yes.
	Man, you sure you haven't noticed this?
	There's not a bird in sight.
	And pilots are discovering the gulls.
	We 1118 just hit a bird, declaring an emergency, returning to San Jose.
	This sounds really bad.
	We've got to do something about this.
	At San Jose Airport, there were 95 plane bird collisions last year, often with gulls.
	Oh!
	At San Francisco's AT&T Park, huge flocks scavenge for food.
	They show the whole stadium filled, empty of course, filled with seagulls, John.
	I cannot believe this.
	Hold on a second.
	This is not new.
	For the last 30 years, the stadiums, mostly Candlestick Park and then the new Giants Stadium, when you go to a game there, and this has been going on for years, you go to the game there, when it gets to the ninth inning, the birds start to show up.
	And they start to ring the stadium, and pretty soon by the end of the game, it's wall-to-wall birds, and they sit there.
	And then when everyone leaves, the birds swoop down and eat all the french fries and potato chips and all the shit that people throw on the ground when they're eating their food at the park.
	And that's been going on forever.
	It's kind of a sight, because the whole place is ringed with thousands of birds.
	Yeah, that's what they're showing.
	Yeah, so what?
	That's been going on forever.
	Ah!
	Well, I think this report, now I'm convinced of the bogativity of it, since you are telling me there is no increase in birds.
	They've just pulled out some bird watcher to say there's more birds.
	But there is a more nefarious reason.
	Disgusting fans with their droppings.
	The gulls eat just about anything.
	Rick King runs Newby Island Resource Recovery Park, commonly called a garbage dump.
	He sees gulls as a sanitation threat.
	The seagulls are incredibly smart and well organized, believe it or not.
	Using flares, they frighten the gulls away.
	On the ground, they unleash the dogs.
	In the air, they employ falcons to keep the gulls from congregating.
	Okay, where do you think it's going, John?
	What could this be?
	What could the cause be?
	It costs this one dump $300,000 a year to control the gulls.
	And they're pretty determined.
	But so are we.
	So far, it's a stalemate, with scientists unable to say whether it's climate change or a shortage of predators.
	Climate change!
	There you go.
	Oh!
	Usually climate change will be killing off them.
	Whatever it is, they're killing them off its climate change.
	Too many birds.
	Now, these seagulls, by the way, I have not seen an increase in any of them.
	I mean, it's just a steady population.
	Sometimes they do, if there's a storm coming in, they all move inland.
	It's kind of interesting to get them all over the place.
	But I have been to the park a number of times, and they're not crapping all over the patrons.
	They patiently wait.
	For the stadium to clear out, they might crap on the people that are trying to clean up the place afterwards, but they don't necessarily crap on the people.
	And the other thing is, this has been going on, the seagulls around here have been doing this crap forever.
	One time, just a story, I was at the Sam's or someplace, it was an open air restaurant in Sausalito.
	I was eating with somebody there, and there was a bunch of, the birds like to sit around the outside in case somebody drops something.
	They'll swoop in and grab it and fly off.
	So there was this one woman sitting there gesticulating with her left hand holding a burger.
	And she's waving her hands around.
	And this couple of birds were looking at this.
	And I was watching, too, because I wish I had my camera running.
	Because I knew what was going to happen.
	She says something.
	And the bird swoops down.
	One of the seagulls swoops down and grabs the burger from her hand and flies off with it.
	This is what these seagulls do.
	They're just astonishing.
	Yeah, they're great.
	Have you heard about these new ants?
	New ants?
	Well, I know they're not new, but it's a new plague in the...
	I think it's in the southeast.
	These ants have been around for a while.
	They have jaws that are so powerful they can fling themselves through the air.
	Yeah, what is it called?
	They're like lockjaw ants or something?
	No, I've not heard this.
	I don't have it in front of me, but I've read something about it.
	Well, let me go to this, since I don't have my global warming clips in order.
	Let's bring up something that happened, which is Dr.
	Oz had to testify...
	Yeah.
	Before Congress.
	And I promise I'd discuss this a little bit.
	Because there was one note of humor.
	Actually, two notes of humor in here.
	But let's start off.
	What was it about?
	What was going on?
	It was about false advertising.
	It was an FTC hearing.
	And it was done by a Senate committee.
	And Claire McCaskill was the one that was reaming this guy.
	So they started off by playing this embarrassing commercial, which he denied have anything to do with.
	But this is the Dr.
	Oz commercial that they played in front of Congress.
	Ah!
	You may think magic is make-believe, but this little bean has scientists saying they found a magic weight loss cure for every body type.
	It's green coffee beans.
	And when turned into a supplement, this miracle pill can burn fat fast for anyone who wants to lose weight.
	This is very exciting and it's breaking news.
	Millions of you love coffee, but now you're gonna love it for a whole other reason.
	A staggering newly released study reveals that the coffee bean, in its purest, raw form, may hold the secret to weight loss that you've been waiting for.
	The study, presented at a meeting of the world's largest scientific society, triggered unprecedented excitement for a weight loss study.
	It showed women and men who took green coffee extract, lost an astounding amount of fat and weight, 17 pounds in 22 weeks, by doing absolutely nothing extra in their day.
	Could this be the magic weight loss beat to help melt away unwanted pounds that you've been waiting for?
	Go now to poopitout.com.
	Now, he claims over and over again that he doesn't get paid for any of this, and I'm thinking, what bullcrap is.
	So here's, I got two clips of McCaskill reaming him out, and this is clip number one, which is the long one.
	McCaskill reams Dr.
	Oz.
	I can't figure this out, Dr.
	Oz.
	You know, I... I get that you do a lot of good on your show.
	I understand that you give a lot of information that's great information about health, and you do it in a way that's easily understandable.
	You're very talented.
	You're obviously very bright.
	You've been trained in science-based medicine.
	Now, here's three statements you made on your show.
	You may think magic is make-believe, but this little bean has scientists saying they found the magic weight loss cure for every body type.
	It's green coffee extract.
	Quote, I've got the number one miracle in a bottle to burn your fat.
	It's raspberry ketone.
	Quote, Garcinia cambogia.
	It may be the simple solution you've been looking for to bust your body fat for good.
	I don't get why you need to say this stuff because you know it's not true.
	So why, when you have this amazing megaphone and this amazing ability to communicate, why would you cheapen your show by saying things like that?
	Science!
	Well, if I could disagree about whether they work or not, and I'll move on to the issue of the words that I used.
	And just with regards to whether they work or not, take green coffee bean extract as an example.
	I'm not going to argue that it would pass FDA muster if it was a pharmaceutical drug seeking approval, but among the natural products that are out there, this is a product that has several clinical trials.
	There was one large one, a very good quality one, that was done the year that we talked about this, in 2012.
	It's an...
	I want to know about that clinical trial.
	Because the only one I know was 16 people in India that was paid for by the company that was in fact, at the point in time you initially talked about this being a miracle, the only study that was out there was the one with 16 people in India that was written up by somebody who was being paid by the company that was producing it.
	Shut up already!
	It's science!
	So he goes on defending himself, and then she comes up with a second commentary, which is McCaskill.
	This is a second McCaskill clip.
	There were internet scam ads picking one or two supportive words where, of course, I support them.
	I wouldn't be talking about it otherwise.
	It still ended up out there.
	Listen, I'm surprised that you are defending...
	I mean, I've tried to really do a lot of research in preparation for this trial, and the scientific community is almost monolithic against you in terms of the efficacy of the three products that you call miracles.
	What trial?
	She's a trial now.
	Can I just say something about this for a moment?
	Yes.
	Alright.
	And we have discussed this on the show when it started.
	Dr.
	Oz, by the way, he's part of the Oprah Empire.
	Yes.
	Harpo.
	He is part of Sharecare.
	If you look at his website, ShareCare.com is the big connection.
	And I'll just read to you from the New York Times in 2010 when this started.
	Website to offer health advice, some of it from marketers.
	And this is ShareCare.com.
	Those behind ShareCare, a company formed last year, to operate it and hope its features will enable the new website to thrive in a crowded field.
	Others in the online healthcare category include About.com, AOL, CNN, eHow, Everyday Health, Health.com, MSN, WebMD, and Yahoo!
	ShareCount will begin with content contributed by organizations like AARP, the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, the American Red Cross, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins, the National Academy of Sports, along with medical professionals like Dr.
	Mehmet Oz.
	Those contributors are to be known as experts on the site.
	There is another label...
	Knowledge partners for marketers that are paying an estimated $1-7 million to become sponsors of ShareCard.com, including Colgate-Palmolive, Johnson& Johnson, The Medicines Company, Pfizer, Unilever, Walgreens, and of course we know that Dr.
	Oz Schild for the Walgreens vaccines.
	This is a known...
	Bull crap operation.
	And I don't know what McCaskill is going on about, but hello?
	What is this?
	The whole thing, you're just pulling one guy about one coffee bean?
	What about the real shit that's going on here?
	Well, they still focused on him because I think he's a celebrity, and so they were all asking him questions.
	But then, you know how people always tell the truth?
	Yeah, without wanting to do it.
	Without wanting to do it.
	There's a very interesting truth-telling thing here in the Dr.
	Oz clip itself.
	And in your testimony, you address online advertisements.
	What would you like to see done?
	If I can just give three ideas.
	I'm just trying to be constructive.
	I'd like to hear them.
	I'd like to hear them.
	I think the private sector can help by creating a quick reference registry that lists celebrities who are legitimately connected to products.
	So I don't happen to have any products that I sell, but whether the services are being promised and involve Ellen DeGeneres, Jimmy Fallon, Rachel Ray, and a list of scam celebrities goes on.
	What?
	laughs What did he say?
	Did he say Ellen DeGeneres?
	He said the list of scam celebrities goes on.
	Including himself.
	But what he meant, or he wanted to say...
	Is the scam advertisers.
	The scam advertisers.
	Yeah, no.
	You're heading up the list, my friend.
	So the list of scam celebrities.
	Scam celebrities.
	Yeah.
	That's pretty funny.
	Which is what I think they are.
	They're scam celebrities.
	I think most celebrities are scam celebrities.
	I think Freeman Dyson would be a real celebrity.
	Well, that's a good question.
	It's not really a question.
	It's a statement.
	Well, you said, I think.
	Yeah, it is a statement.
	You're right.
	I believe.
	I want to say this about that.
	There's a couple of...
	So, of course, Hillary Clinton doing the rounds.
	Live CNN town hall with Christiana Anandpour.
	Just when I had respect for Christiana Anandpour, she goes back down in the toilet.
	Flush her down with the pandering bull crap.
	Apparently the book has only sold 60,000 copies.
	Yes, this was a clip I had for the last show I wanted to play, but I forgot, which was a listing of all the top ten best non-fiction sellers, and it included at number eight Elizabeth Warren's book.
	And the question was going to be to you, what book is missing from this list?
	It was on Book TV on Sunday.
	Yeah, of course.
	And Hillary's book is not up there.
	And even though she sold 60,000 copies, that's not enough to make a real list.
	No, no, no.
	And I think this book's a dog.
	I think it's a turkey.
	I mean, they spent, I don't know, what, eight million bucks for her to do this book or something?
	I think they have to recover...
	I didn't do the calculation, but I would guess they probably have to sell at least a quarter of a million to half a million books to break even.
	Now, you are a, without a doubt, you have experience in the literary field.
	Why is it that even I, who will read a book from Cass Sunstein...
	Why?
	I mean, I'll read a book from anybody.
	Why am I not interested?
	What did they do wrong?
	Somehow they did something wrong with this book.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, now you ask the question, I have to think about it differently.
	There was errors made in the marketing of this book.
	I think one of the errors is Hillary herself.
	They sent her on a book tour.
	She had nothing interesting to say, and all the feedback on the book was, oh, she's soft-peddling, she's not really telling the truth, she's just covering her ass for the Benghazi thing.
	Everything that she has said about the book herself is not interesting.
	She has not...
	We had a clip of her sitting down.
	Yeah, it was completely...
	She's boring, and she's not making the book sound any very interesting.
	And the name of the book, Hard Choices.
	Yeah.
	Bad Choices would have benefited.
	Yeah, bad title.
	What is it?
	Maybe it's the...
	The book cover is horrendous.
	Yeah, I was just going to say, let me look at the cover.
	It's a very unattractive photo of her, I believe.
	I mean, I've seen...
	Let me see.
	The picture itself is not appealing.
	Yeah, it's not really an interesting...
	She's staring at you.
	It's kind of creepy.
	And the book's long.
	It's too long.
	Elizabeth Warren's book is short.
	It's not short, short, but it's short.
	Yeah, it is a little creepy.
	600 pages of what?
	It's 600 pages, that book?
	Really?
	Yeah, I believe so.
	Again, I didn't get a copy either.
	But it's not...
	Well, there's another problem.
	Maybe they didn't see the media properly.
	That's it.
	There was no...
	Okay.
	I think that she did too much pre-stuff before the book came out.
	And don't forget, remember the leaked chapter that came out?
	Who cares?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Not well executed.
	No, who is the publisher of this?
	Let's see who they are.
	Somebody's heads should roll.
	Yeah, well, I have no idea.
	This is the worst book than Nancy Pelosi's book when she came out with a book.
	Nobody bought it, period.
	Yeah, I didn't buy that one either.
	This is pretty much in that same league.
	I think also what hurts the book sales is the whole idea of, you know, the only question we want answered is, yeah, I'm going to run.
	I think that's also a problem.
	That's all that the questions are about.
	I watch the CNN town hall.
	Please.
	Town hall.
	Every single time, as I wrote in the book, as I wrote in chapter 29, as I say in the book, enough already.
	She does a lot of that.
	Enough already.
	Why are you here?
	Let's just go read the book.
	Go home.
	Anyway, there is some anti-Hillary sentiment out there, of course, fueling your...
	Before you go to that, I want to just throw this in, which is Politico.
	You can see where they're coming from.
	Sources, Hillary books sell strong!
	100,000 copies.
	Officials with Hillary Clinton's publisher, Simon& Schuster, insist her book has fared well.
	The bid reports of weak sales.
	Well, I don't see her on any list.
	Not that I care.
	Here is CNN, and this is...
	You'll recall Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, the squirrel who was killed in Benghazi.
	One of the agents there, and she was the...
	You'll recall she was bitching and moaning about everyone hugging her, but no one followed up, and they're all liars, and she's back.
	Yeah, she was great.
	Yeah, well, she's still great.
	Wait, what does justice look like for you?
	Justice for me?
	I don't think there is justice for me.
	My son is gone.
	He's dead.
	Nobody has been standing up to say it's their fault, and they stand up for it, and this is the reason why.
	That's what I want to know.
	Why?
	Why were those decisions made?
	Not a bunch of baloney that they've been handing out, but why were those decisions made?
	Why?
	Just why?
	A whole bunch of whys.
	Because nobody's talking to me about anything.
	Not about anything.
	And yes, I'm upset.
	And I think I'll be upset until the day I die.
	I'm sorry.
	You have every right to be upset, and you deserve all the answers that were promised to you.
	But they don't care!
	They don't give a damn!
	Nobody, you would think that after all this time, all I've asked for is for Hillary to give me a telephone call and tell me what happened.
	If it's classified, fine.
	Whisper it in my ear.
	But just tell me.
	But no.
	She gets to know.
	Everybody else up there in the big shot wing gets to know.
	But the mother of the son that got killed is not allowed to know these things.
	Oof.
	I'd say that's some anti...
	Where'd she get that clip?
	That's from CNN in the midday shift with Brooke.
	CNN has a poll.
	Quote, most Democrats not enthusiastic about Hillary for president.
	CNN is...
	Maybe she should...
	Maybe that's why she had to do that town hall.
	Maybe she should have sent some books over there.
	There's another idea.
	Now, here's the thing that I find very interesting.
	So then we capture this Ahmed Abu Katala, who turns out is the mastermind behind the Benghazi attack.
	Who has been interviewed by newspapers and television interviews in the past.
	Nice timing.
	Yeah, but...
	Wait a minute.
	Even Bill Maher said, we all know that that was the video.
	Everyone's saying it was the video.
	But this guy didn't produce the video.
	So what is it?
	Was it the anti-Muslim video?
	Was it this guy?
	I mean, I don't understand.
	And then we have, and this will lead me into a nice slew of clips with our State Department spokeshole.
	Here is Rosen from Fox.
	Asking some very obvious questions.
	You know, why did it take so long to find this Katala guy when he was doing interviews with the press?
	And respectfully, I submit to you that that is not properly framing the question, as no one would expect a terrorist to show up for a scheduled meeting with the U.S. Special Forces.
	The question being put to you, it seems to me, is why U.S. Special Forces couldn't have an unscheduled meeting with this individual in a period of time less than, as you put it, just a few years.
	Well, James, with all due respect, I would say there are reasons why individuals, including terrorists, meet with reporters to gain more attention for their issues or their agenda.
	That is entirely different from any operation to take these individuals into custody.
	And there are a range of factors taken into account.
	Where we are today is that this individual with the support and leadership of the military, the Justice Department, a range of officials in the interagency has been apprehended.
	That is an important step forward in our view.
	So I guess the question, following your own logic, the next question to be propounded to you is, Why didn't we pose as a reporter to capture him then?
	Well, we appreciate your view.
	If you're volunteering yourself for future endeavors, we'll take that into account.
	That's not posing as a reporter.
	He is a reporter.
	So when she turned it back on him, he should have called her on that.
	The whole...
	Poor Jen Psaki.
	She just gets relentless.
	She deserves it.
	We'll do a couple clips after our thank you segment, which I would like to lead in with something from Cairns Lions, John.
	Are you familiar with Cairns Lions?
	No.
	In Cannes.
	C-A-N-N-E-S-L-Y-O-N-S. Cannes.
	It's Cannes in the south of France for the Lions Conference.
	This is a big douchebag meeting.
	Douchebag gathering.
	Yes, a gathering of the...
	It's a...
	What is the...
	If you have a flock of geese, what do you have with douchebags?
	Murder.
	A murder of crows.
	A murder of douchebags?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	And all the advertising world is down there.
	I think a pack of douchebags.
	A pack of douchebags.
	Do they travel in packs?
	I think so.
	A pack of D-bags.
	And they all are down there to talk about how awesome they are with their campaigns, and in particular, online and viral.
	Oh, yeah.
	And what I was looking for, because I saw in the Freedom Controller in my river, a story about Marissa Meyer.
	And, you know, I'm a fan of Marissa Meyer.
	Oh, you're one of her biggest supporters.
	I am.
	I'm a big supporter of Marissa Meyer.
	And I wanted to see her thing, because people are like, oh man, it was like a big pitch for Yahoo!
	Yeah, that's what everybody does.
	The whole thing is a pitch.
	Yeah, of course.
	Twitter had a whole thing, and they bring out their clients.
	It's essentially, you fly your clients to Cannes, you get them laid, get them high, get them drunk, feed them, hang out on the yacht you rented, and then you sign them up.
	And you sign up the deal.
	That's exactly what it is.
	And oh, and then I'll interview you on stage, and it'll be on YouTube.
	So, unfortunately, Marissa Meyer's speech was not put on YouTube.
	But, I did find a little ditty from the Twitter guy.
	And the Twitter guy, what a scary individual.
	And he's just bringing out one client after the other.
	And I wanted to play 40 seconds of his client from American Express.
	Now, the lady from American Express...
	And she is in charge of all marketing for American Express.
	And I just want you to listen.
	Sometimes we bring out the bullcrap generator that just strings a whole bunch of words together.
	Right.
	Silicon Valley bullcrap.
	And she's got on a leather sleeveless outfit that looks like a Gucci thing.
	And you can just tell that everyone's afraid to say to her, hey lady, you're full of crap.
	Yeah.
	What we did here was we took your American Express identity and we connect it with your Twitter identity.
	And we took a tweet, which we turned into a transaction, which we turned into a conversation.
	And if you think about the connection points between commerce and conversation and content and influence and word of mouth and peer to peer, all of these things are happening around us every single day, every second of every single day.
	And I think as marketers, the bar is very, very high.
	We have to enter the conversation.
	We have to shape the conversation.
	We have to empower our customers to have the conversation.
	And we have to do it in a real, authentic, dynamic, honest, fun way that really enables us to cut through.
	Wow.
	She's totally full of crap.
	Lady, just process my credit card purchase.
	Yeah, don't screw up.
	That's all we're asking for.
	My goodness.
	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 Yo.
	We have a number of people to thank for sure.
	There's a number of people who want to turn into a conversation and have the transaction become the viral tweet so that we can go into the...
	And thank you all very much so that we can be a part of your life and your conversation so we can really, really get through.
	Claudia Gerber in Brisbane, Ohio.
	$150.
	No note.
	Claudia, hello.
	V-V-V-V-Vilo in Eindhoven.
	I think...
	Are you sure that Claudia didn't have a note?
	I couldn't find it.
	Let me take a look.
	In Eindhoven, $110.20.
	Double nickels on the dime doubled.
	Okay.
	Oh, nice.
	He says he made a double nickels on the dime donation earlier, but received a mention for twice on the show.
	Worst thing is that the original donation got canceled.
	Oh, no.
	Therefore, a double nickels on the dime for a dime donation.
	Hope the support picks up again.
	Oscar Nadal in Tijuana, Baja, California.
	Sir Oscar, as a matter of fact, $101.01.
	Martin Frasu in Woodland Hills, California.
	It's pronounced Frasu.
	$100.
	Now, these are also Father's Day.
	Yeah, I'll mention them at the end of the show.
	All right, good, good, good.
	Jonathan...
	Bigam in New Providence, New Jersey, $100.
	Sir Bruce Salkovich in Warrington, Pennsylvania, $100.
	Ignacio Garcia Perez in Madrid.
	It's Garcia!
	He's returned!
	Hey, good to have him back.
	He's not giving us any reports, but we're very thankful for that.
	Well, they have a new king, and it was a pain in the ass.
	And have you seen the queen?
	I'm now wondering whether Garcia is a monarchist.
	Have you seen the new queen?
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	Yeah, that'll keep him in business for a while.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's time to move to Spain, baby.
	Yeah.
	That'll shore everything up there.
	So, Garcia's back.
	Oh, his name's Ignacio.
	I like the name Garcia.
	Edward Berthusen.
	Berthusen.
	Berthusen in Amstelveen.
	Amstelveen.
	Amstelveen.
	Ah, yes.
	75 bucks.
	I'll take some Dutch so I can pronounce these things.
	No, you won't.
	Sebastian Alsher in Frankfurt, Deutschland.
	Hail the kale, he says.
	I like that.
	75.
	Hail the kale.
	Hail the kale.
	$75.
	That's a good one.
	Sir Schwartz in Denmark, $69.69.
	Matthew Link, $69.33 in Columbus, Ohio.
	Carlos Sanchez in Chicago, Illinois, $65.
	Sir Sam Leung, Baron of the Great Lakes up there in Canada, Scandinavia, $55.55.
	Christopher Gray, Palm Bay, Not Palm Beach, but Palm Bay, Florida.
	Last two nations for house selling and approval for new mortgage.
	Karma worked perfectly!
	Nice.
	Karma works.
	Donate people, he says.
	Erik Nagel.
	Erik Nagel.
	Bunchschoten.
	Bunchschoten.
	Spakenberg.
	Yeah.
	Yeah?
	It's from his daughter, Olivia.
	Yeah.
	So there you go.
	Which is not a Dutch name.
	Olivia.
	Olivia.
	I guess it is if you pronounce it that way.
	C-squared production, not Sir-squared.
	5510 Chicago.
	Chicago.
	Rants...
	I think Ranjith Parasurinaman something.
	He's from India.
	Yeah, he's in Bangalore.
	This is our other Indian donor.
	Yeah.
	He says, Bangalore is sometimes called the Silicon Valley of India.
	We have reached a decently healthy startup scene, and I am myself part of a startup.
	Look forward to donating regularly.
	thank you and he'll give us an interesting perspective from india yeah we need other indian never did yeah he's just bitched at us yeah more important yeah indeed contributions are highly appreciated but perspective particularly on this modi guy and what i'd like to know is how is modi connected to uh pierre drive my car you know that there's a connection there right No.
	Yeah.
	Pierre Drive My Cars guy, who was like, he was a high, like, chief marketing officer or something at his nonprofit.
	He quit to go become Modi's campaign manager.
	I'm not sure.
	Yeah, something like this.
	I don't believe it.
	Yeah, and now that, yes, and now Modi is opening up the Indian market to eBay.
	Interesting.
	Green Team Cleaning, LLC in Manchester, New Hampshire, 55 double nickels on the dime.
	ITM, I emailed John and he responded.
	Maybe it's the dream I had meeting with you both.
	Okay.
	Heather, I read all my email, by the way.
	Heather Fushinari. Fushinari. Fushinari. In Santa Ana. Fushinari.
	Fucinari.
	Fucinari.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Matt Seaver, Knoxville, Tennessee.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Heather says, I'm finally able to continue now that Hubby and I are back to two incomes who recently got our technician tickets.
	Good.
	So loving the ham talk.
	Hey, send in your calls.
	Guys, you got one here.
	Klu Klux 6.
	Maybe, maybe, every day.
	I hadn't seen that.
	Okay.
	Kilo Color 6 mic mic echo.
	Matt Seaver, Knoxville, Tennessee.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Sir Maxwell Roberts, Manhattan, Kansas.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Also, Alexi Walensky in Albany, New York.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	You skipped Fernando.
	Fernando de los Reyes in Sierra Vista, Arizona.
	Double nickels.
	Bruce Klassen, double nickels from Valencia, California.
	Stacey Santamond, 5432 from Kingston, Ontario.
	Eric Borden, Kentwood, Michigan, 5420.
	Martin Van Galenlast.
	Martijn van Galenlast.
	Van Galenlast.
	Beneden Leeuwen.
	Yes.
	50.
	These are all $50 donors.
	Roger Grigsby in Santa Cruz, California.
	Do you think that the Dutch are only even contributing, so I have to mispronounce their names?
	Do they have that sort of sense of humor?
	Yes.
	Well, you remember, most of the Dutch names, when Napoleon conquered the Netherlands, they made up new names.
	And they made up crazy ones.
	So a lot of people, Jomsen, which is John's son, or Fronsen, which is France's son.
	And you've got some really weird ones.
	So the Dutch have a cultural history of having fun with their names, particularly foreigners.
	Okay.
	Roger Grigsby in Santa Cruz, California.
	These are all $50 donors.
	Michael Gates in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
	Andrew Haverson in Gravenhurst, Ontario.
	Josh McDonald in Mount Waverly, Victoria, Australia.
	John Camp in Antlers, Oklahoma.
	Regime Books, who we already had earlier.
	Noranda.
	This is a double up because it's...
	My dad gave me some high...
	Help out cash.
	I'm spending it wisely on the best podcast in the universe.
	Dad, if you're listening, can I borrow another 50 bucks?
	Jeremy Falk in Muna, Yucatan.
	Oh, another guy from Mexico.
	Jill Font in Edmond, Oklahoma.
	Kathy McCormick in Chicago, Illinois.
	Probably owns McCormick Place.
	Josephus Theobode...
	Thibodeau, Thibodeau in Dayton, Texas.
	Carter Blummeyer in Windermere, Florida.
	Charles Eves in Hawthorne Woods, Illinois.
	And finally, Akem Wacht in Deutschland, Köln.
	Andy Bird in Lincolnshire in the UK. And finally, Eric Grunewald.
	In South Africa.
	I want to thank all these folks for donating 627 to help us out on this show.
	We have 628 coming up.
	Go to dvorak.org.
	And we will have the readout of all the Happy Father's Day laggards.
	Not that they're laggards in real life, but they are on this list at the end of the show.
	Okay.
	It's only a few.
	I'll remind you to do that.
	We have no birthdays for today.
	That's strange.
	I noticed that, yeah.
	We do have one title change, and that is Dame Ashley.
	And one knighting.
	Yes, Dame Ashley was damed on episode 370, and she becomes a baronetess today.
	And we have a knighting of Arthur Gobetz.
	If you can grab your sword there, that would be helpful.
	That was your bell.
	There you go.
	That's the sword.
	Perfect.
	Arthur Gobetz, come forward and kneel before the sword, as we are very proud to present you with a ring and a title.
	You are hereby henceforth known as Sir Arthur Hugger of Kitties, and we welcome you to the Noah Jenner Roundtable for you.
	Whiskey and Wet Rites, Hookers and Blow, Red Boys and Chardonnay, Connelly Yoga and Jambo, Bad Science and Putney Breast, Three Geishas and a Bucket of Fried Chicken, And thank you very much for your support of the best podcast in the universe.
	And please continue to support the program, because we're open-source reporting, everybody!
	Dvorak.org slash NA. Something like that.
	Hey, finally, something new on The Intercept.
	Oh, The Intercept.
	I forgot about that.
	Who even goes there?
	They must have the worst numbers.
	I want to mention something.
	I noticed when I first started blogging, that if you want to get your numbers up, you have to post a lot.
	At least four times a day.
	Yes.
	Probably more.
	And you have to have titles like, 13 things Ed Snowden eats for breakfast!
	Otherwise no one will click on it.
	Right.
	Yeah, so I subscribe to the RSS feed.
	Now, let me tell you.
	First of all, we welcome a new...
	They have no stories, but they do have a new person joining the team.
	Why?
	Yeah.
	Well, I'll tell you why.
	As Pierre DriveMyCar says, the challenge we have set for ourselves at First Look Media is to do things we haven't done before.
	To find...
	We should do some echo on this.
	Hold on a second.
	Yes.
	To find ways to combine journalism and technology to improve society!
	We're hard at work establishing a foundation for the company, and part of that process has involved consulting with a number of people to help test our vision!
	Among those has been a former partner, John Temple, who helped found my first journalism startup, Honolulu Civic Beat.
	Today, I'm pleased to announce John is joining First Look in a...
	Leadership Role!
	John is our president of audience and products.
	What?
	They've got no audience.
	They've got no product.
	This is like one of those guys, you know, he gives you, here's my card.
	He says, CEO, president, and chairman of the board.
	And you say, really?
	Well, how many people in the company?
	Oh, it's just me.
	Just me, yeah.
	But he's president of audience and products, of which they have none.
	That's great.
	So he's joining.
	That, of course, means that basically, all you need is, well, you need three things.
	Audience, product, and revenue.
	None of that.
	Everyone's just sucking off the teat of the elite.
	Elite teat!
	And so there was a new story.
	And this was from...
	I got the story elsewhere before I saw...
	Posting it.
	That the United States, apparently, their biggest...
	Spying station in Europe is Germany.
	They have a number of spying stations, which fits in completely with my theory that all these people there, Applebaum and Laura Poitras, they're all spies in Germany.
	They're all just sitting there.
	Yeah, no, you've said this from day one.
	Yes, they're working for the NSA. I don't trust these people at all.
	But even more funny...
	Uh, right after, uh, Grant Greenwald was so smug and all full of himself, like, oh, yes, Sony!
	They're gonna do a movie of me!
	A movie about me!
	Oh, and this other guy named Ed Snowden!
	And a movie about me!
	My movie!
	By the way, his book showed up at number nine.
	On the bestseller list?
	Yeah.
	Oh, that would make sense.
	But there's now a competing movie, and this must gall him to no end.
	The competing movie is from the guy at The Guardian, his book, and Oliver Stone is going to direct it.
	Well, that's the end of this genre.
	Goodbye.
	Goodbye, Greenwald.
	He must be so pissed.
	Yeah.
	You know, if he would have reached out to Oliver Stone at the beginning, Stone would have taken him on.
	You know, Greenwald's an arrogant prick.
	You know it.
	You know he screwed himself on this one.
	Yeah.
	I think it's hilarious.
	I was laughing.
	Oh, sorry.
	Sorry.
	Ah, yeah, you got Sony with an option on your book.
	Yeah, that's all the money he's ever going to get is the option money.
	Yeah, which is what, 15 grand maybe?
	Well, it can be up to 50.
	Oh, really?
	Well, that's not bad.
	And as you predicted, all the guy's doing is just doing talks everywhere.
	He's on his whole tour.
	I see pictures all the time.
	He's in some, like, Marriott Express, you know, Marriott, whatever, dining room with people taking selfies.
	He is moving copies, so that's a plus for him.
	Well, yeah.
	But, you know, where...
	He's out of the loop now.
	He's done.
	Oh, yeah.
	He's completely...
	Oh, done, over, and sayonara, baby.
	Yeah, completely done.
	It's too bad.
	You know, but he still has old documents, and I don't know what this Pierre is doing.
	The whole thing is just, what a sham.
	And all the good journalists are gone.
	And they're not doing anything.
	Matt Taiby, Rolling Stone, gone.
	Yeah, he's over at that same operation.
	Gone.
	They've all been bought off.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	All that's left is open source journalism.
	Twitter.
	Let's see what happens.
	We're talking about Twitter and open source journalism.
	Let's just play this clip.
	This is from France 24.
	This is interesting social media stats I thought you'd be interested in.
	Which I have twice, but I presume it's a duplicate.
	Either one.
	They're both the same.
	100 hours of video content is uploaded to YouTube every minute.
	500 million messages are posted to Twitter every day.
	This infographic was put together by the Digital Insight platform, which has studied stats from the leading social networks.
	We also learn that over 20 billion photos have been shared on Instagram to date, and 400 million fleeting photos are sent via the Snapchat app every day.
	What a waste of bandwidth.
	These numbers are ludicrous.
	Yeah.
	100 million hours.
	Really?
	Yeah, no, it's a total waste of bandwidth.
	5 petabytes!
	They forgot that one.
	Yeah, they could have added that, I'm sure.
	They could have easily added some petabyte data.
	I'd like to get these better numbers.
	So stupid.
	Here's a little tidbit that I picked up.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Can I just hook into your social media thing?
	If you've got something.
	Yeah, I do.
	Oh, yes.
	Big conversation on Morning Joe about the social media and the search engines and how they're bullying them.
	They're just bullies and they should be sent to jail.
	You know, some things that are written on Twitter or Facebook would never be said to anyone.
	Everyone here has been through this.
	Never be said to your face.
	Right?
	Yeah, like you're a horrible child of an elite asshole.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Did I say that on Twitter?
	Okay, the Supreme Court has agreed to take up a case that may change the way people talk to each other online.
	Let us hope.
	This is very interesting.
	Let us hope, he says.
	Oh, oh, no more freedom of speech.
	Let us hope.
	The justices will review the conviction of a man who wrote on his Facebook page about killing his wife after their separation.
	He says the postings helped him deal with the situation and he never posed any true threat.
	The court will have to decide whether a reasonable person would feel threatened even if the man never intended actual violence.
	The answer is yes, right?
	Right.
	Wouldn't you?
	Yeah, I mean, yeah, seriously.
	Okay, so Joe is thinking...
	Who gives a crap about anybody else?
	Let's talk about me.
	Double standard that we're supposedly grappling with.
	We need to stop grappling with it.
	We need to start treating what's on websites the same way we treat things that are published in newspapers.
	And for these internet providers, these service providers like Google, Yahoo, Bing, these other things, that decide where to place things and take the most vile garbage from the internet and put it at the top of the search engine.
	Could they please take this vile garbage podcast and put it at the top of the search engine?
	Please, please, oh please?
	They're promoting it.
	They're the ones that are providing what's called false light.
	False light?
	What?
	It's called, it's what's known as false, I'm surprised you don't know.
	Who?
	Everybody, obviously, in the media industry knows it as false light.
	And take the most vile garbage from the internet and put it at the top of a search engine.
	That's another angle of this.
	They're promoting it.
	They're the ones that are providing what's called false light.
	And they need to be sued, and they need to be taken to the bank, and they need to clean up their act.
	And right now, they don't have to.
	It's a wild west.
	We can destroy people's reputation if we want to.
	And all they're actually trying to do is drive internet traffic so they can get higher ad revenue.
	It is despicable.
	And it's disgusting.
	And whether you're talking about public figures who aren't going to run for political office, Because of the disgusting tactics that these organizations use?
	Or a 13-year-old girl being bullied at school because of what's online?
	It is outrageous.
	It's time for this Wild West mentality to end.
	This is where we live now.
	This is not some offshoot of society.
	This is where our children live.
	And it is time for the Supreme Court and it's time for lawmakers in Washington, D.C. to stop treating it like it's some Esoteric new technology that we need to put over in the corner and treat specially.
	No, you're absolutely right.
	Stomp out this hate speech.
	If it's not allowed on this, it shouldn't be allowed on the internet.
	People need to be held liable.
	They need to be held liable.
	The man's attorney in this case says the legal test of reasonable threats don't apply online because it may not be obvious when someone is simply blowing off steam.
	That's absolutely garbage.
	Garbage!
	So what do you mean they need to be taken to the bank?
	I have no idea what he's talking about.
	You can take that to the bank.
	Take him to the bank.
	What?
	Okay, so he's irked by, because he gets a lot of negative.
	Yeah.
	And he apparently spends all his time online looking at it.
	Looking at it, yeah.
	And, you know, he says children live there.
	No, they don't have to live there.
	Why don't you just tell them to get offline?
	This whole thing is artificial.
	But I will say this, I have a story.
	Oh, we love your stories.
	I had some douchebag, call me a racist pig or something, for something I said.
	That was yesterday for me.
	Yeah, well, on the Twitter.
	So I did my normal thing.
	I thought, well, I was just going to screw this guy.
	Block him.
	I block people because I don't use Twitter to listen to feedback like that.
	So I went to block him, but now I see there's a whole new process.
	You can now squelch him.
	Mute.
	Mute.
	Or if you decide to block him, they put you through a huge questionnaire.
	Oh.
	And then you get to answer whether you think it was abusive.
	Oh.
	All the stuff that you talked about on this clip that you played.
	And you can go down the line and say abusive, and then you find the exact comment that he made that you thought was abusive.
	Oh.
	And uncalled for.
	And you get the URL, and you post it in there, and then it goes into their process where the guy could get kicked off of Twitter.
	And arrested, and black-bagged, and renditioned.
	Whatever the case was, I said, oh, this is great!
	So now, instead of just blocking somebody, I'm reporting them.
	Interesting.
	Let me see.
	Really, there's a whole thing that goes through?
	Yeah, it's a whole elaborate structure that you're invited to go and click a bunch of boxes saying this guy's a douchebag and he's got vile language and you go through the whole thing and then you give them the exact tweet by clicking on him.
	You give them the exact tweet you thought was offensive or illegal or horrible and you give it to them and then it goes into their record.
	Wow.
	This started about a week, a week and a half ago.
	Another reason to get off.
	Man, this centralized service, this is what you get.
	Yep.
	You're going to get kicked off.
	Probably.
	Wow.
	Shut up, slave!
	Meanwhile, in government...
	We now have six more people working at the IRS whose emails cannot be found due to a computer crash.
	Can you play my missing emails kicker?
	Oh, yeah.
	Hold on a second.
	I didn't even know you had one.
	Ooh, nice.
	They do have a clip.
	Because there's hearings going on.
	Yeah, well, of course.
	With us now, attorneys and Fox News analyst Kimberly Guilfoyle and Elise Wheel.
	Now, Britt Hume on the show last night said nobody believes it.
	You guys don't believe they lost emails, right?
	Well, the computer crashed.
	The dog ate the homework.
	But they can still get it.
	Of course they can go back and retrieve.
	Exactly.
	No, this is ridiculous in this day and age.
	So it's ridiculous.
	You both agree.
	Everybody pretty much agrees it's a big fraud.
	So, can anyone take action against the IRS for this alleged deception?
	Absolutely.
	The U.S. attorney in D.C. can start an investigation.
	Holder, Attorney General Holder, could appoint a special prosecutor outside of the Department of Justice.
	But now you're into the fabric of the Obama administration.
	Well, you are.
	As you recall, anyone who listens to the show, I had a clip describing the DCDA and the federal guy there.
	Won't do anything about contempt of Congress.
	He won't do anything.
	The guy is a stooge.
	Nothing can be done about this.
	They're just going to let this go.
	This is going to go.
	They're not going to be able to do crap about it.
	The new spokeshole for the White House, Josh Earnest, which I just find to be a funny name for someone who is a press informer.
	Josh.
	Josh Earnest.
	Both names!
	Yeah, Josh Earnest.
	Yes, I do earnestly.
	Yeah.
	And so there's no audio of this because it's what's known as a press gaggle.
	This is the official term.
	A gaggle!
	Are you familiar with the term gaggle?
	Never heard it.
	Well, they call it the press gaggle aboard Air Force One.
	Press gaggle.
	So there's...
	Well, that's what it's called.
	There's no audio or video, but there is always a transcript.
	Q! Just one...
	So this is a question from a reporter.
	Just one thing about the IRS. The IRS said that a computer crash led to an untold number of lowest learners' emails being they just disappeared, apparently.
	Do you think that's a reasonable explanation?
	I think a lot of technical experts say, well, you know, emails aren't stored on a computer, they're stored on a cloud somewhere.
	This is your press, by the way.
	They're stored on a cloud somewhere!
	Thanks.
	This guy's on Air Force One with this question.
	Hello?
	Yeah.
	Let me on board, okay?
	I got some questions.
	Does that seem like a reasonable thing for the IRS to be telling congressional investigators who are outraged that these emails have gone missing?
	And here's the answer for Mr.
	Ernest.
	You've never heard of a computer crashing before?
	What?
	Yeah, that's his answer.
	And the question I would follow up with, well, yeah, computers crash all the time, but usually the hard disk data remains intact.
	Ah, so the answer to that is the hard disks were recycled.
	They were thrown out because, you know, they were no good, so they tossed them out.
	That's bull crap.
	Yeah.
	In addition, important emails...
	No IT operation would do that.
	In addition, important emails at the IRS need to be printed out...
	In hard copy.
	I find this to be of such an...
	Someone who has dealt with the IRS unhappily many times, I find this to be quite the outrage.
	You should try that.
	I don't have that from four years ago.
	Ah!
	You've got to keep five years!
	It's really, really not okay.
	No, it's not okay at all.
	But they're politicizing it.
	Well, obviously it tells me that the whole IRS scandal was from the White House.
	Otherwise it wouldn't be going through this extreme.
	Obviously.
	Here's a little tidbit I didn't know.
	That, you know, we're talking about, oh, every kid can't leave any guy behind.
	This is one of the hearings again.
	This isn't a hearing.
	And this one guy just chimes in with this little tidbit.
	This is the deserter in Korea clip.
	Oh, hold on.
	I had the wrong one.
	I thought you were going to go to a different one.
	Dr.
	Jacobson raised the issue, the case of Mr.
	Jenkins, who deserted into North Korea.
	To my knowledge, there were no attempts to bring him home until he appeared 40 years later in Japan.
	Really?
	A little tidbit for you guys out there talking about we can't leave anyone behind.
	All right.
	Four years later, show is up.
	While we're doing tidbits, this is, as you know, and even as showed up in Hillary's town hall, the farcical number of 74 school shootings since Newtown.
	It's crazy.
	Everyone's just shooting kids everywhere.
	Of course, statistics and the actual numbers tell us differently.
	This is James Alan Fox.
	He's a criminologist, a professor, and he did a survey and study of mass shootings, which apparently are not on the rise at all.
	I have to say, it's hard to believe when it seems like every week we're reporting another mass shooting, many of them at schools, that this isn't an increasing trend, but that's what your data shows.
	I have to ask, though, your figures only go to 2012.
	Could there have been a spike in the last two years?
	Sure there could be, but there was a spike in the early 2000s, there was a spike in the late 1990s, there was a spike around 2005, and usually spikes are followed by troughs, so we shouldn't jump to conclusions.
	There was additional gun control in the 90s, and then some of that has expired since then.
	Did that have any effect one way or the other on these shootings?
	Well, no, actually not.
	I did measure the impact of the federal weapons ban, the assault weapons ban, that we had for a ten year period of time beginning in 1994 on mass shootings and the impact was negligible.
	Most mass murderers don't use assault weapons.
	They use semi-automatic handguns, that's the most common weapon, but not what would be declared an assault weapon and banned.
	To stop these, what does society need to do?
	Well, if you want to stop them, there's things we can do, but I don't think we will do them.
	I mean, are we going to eliminate private ownership of the handguns?
	I doubt it.
	Are we going to round up and arrest everyone who looks a little bit bizarre or wears black clothing or has a scary Facebook page?
	I doubt it.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Not so sure about that one.
	You see, we treasure our personal freedoms in America.
	And unfortunately, occasional mass shootings, as horrific as they are, is one of the prices that we pay for the freedoms that we enjoy.
	There you go.
	That is the bottom line.
	I hate to say it, but that is the reality of it.
	But of course, this is not how it works.
	We've been scared to such a degree that we come up with crazy things.
	Here's some legislation that is House Bill 347 for the state of Delaware.
	The title of this bill is an act to amend Titles 14 and 29 of the Delaware Code relating to school safety.
	Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware, the Facilities Management Section shall review all building design construction operations, and the Delaware Code will be added and deletions to what shall be included into schools.
	Whenever a new school building is constructed or a major renovation undertaken, the construction or renovation must include at a minimum the following.
	Bulletproof glass in all vestibules, lobby and office areas, as well as any windows or doors opening from a classroom into the interior of the building.
	Thank you.
	Two.
	Classroom doors which can be locked from both sides with a key.
	Three.
	Installation of an intruder alert system compatible with the fire alarm system and capable of being activated from the office.
	And four...
	Intruder!
	Intruder!
	Bullet-resistant whiteboards in every classroom!
	What?
	I knew you'd like it.
	Bullet-resistant whiteboards.
	So somebody can't shoot up the presentation?
	And there's a company already offering these, of course.
	You think?
	Yeah.
	This is the...
	What is the name of this outfit?
	Anyway, they're 18 by 20.
	This is relatively small.
	But they're about 400 bucks a piece, and every kid has one of these whiteboards.
	And so if someone comes in to shoot, they can hide behind the bulletproof whiteboard.
	Yeah, that's going to do the trick.
	Why don't we just teach kids in prison and just leave them there?
	Yeah, that's what we should do.
	That's where they're going to wind up anyway.
	Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
	You know what?
	Here's the solution to school shootings.
	Homeschooling!
	How about that for an idea?
	Yeah, I mean, why would you send your kid to school?
	Not in these circumstances.
	You have to be dead.
	Hope schooling does take some effort on the part of the parents, and only no agenda listeners would take it on.
	It's real effort.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's no joke.
	My last clip was on C-SPAN. They had one of these conferences, the Brookings are one of these, because they had a Democrat and a Republican pollster, and they were yakking about this and that and how Hillary's going to win and how Elizabeth Warren is a long shot and all the rest of it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And this is premature, too.
	You should say this, that, and the other thing.
	And this, that, and the other.
	So they...
	The guy asked an interesting question at the end about which states in the next couple of years are going to switch from red to blue or blue to red.
	In other words, turn red or Republican or turn blue Democrat.
	And I found this to be a very interesting answer.
	Oh, this is...
	I've heard this answer many times already.
	40 seconds left.
	Name a state that will surprise people by going red in 2016.
	30 seconds.
	Iowa.
	What will be a state that goes blue next?
	Doesn't it have to be 2016 that will surprise people?
	Georgia.
	Georgia.
	Well before Texas?
	Texas will be reliably blue, but it's going to take another generation to get there.
	So Georgia is sooner than that.
	Reliably blue!
	Texas, reliably blue.
	I hear this all the time.
	All you Texans.
	All Democrats stooges.
	You hear this in Austin all the time.
	People say, well, if only the Texans came out to vote, we'd be a blue state.
	Oh, okay.
	I got it.
	Austin?
	Yeah.
	Go out to Lubbock and see what they think.
	Yeah.
	It's just funny.
	So you knew this already?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	I hear it all the time.
	Oh yeah, Baez.
	Reliably blue.
	This is really a blue state.
	Yeah, good luck with that.
	Not going to flip-flop.
	It's going to be like California.
	Just blue.
	Well, they are really working on it under the so-called net neutrality, the reliably blue net neutrality, I would say.
	This was a story about high school firewalls.
	Woodbury student Andrew Lampart showed us screenshots of the internet taken from within Nonawag High School.
	Many of so-called political or advocacy websites blocked by the school's firewall.
	But the high school senior says he was truly shocked by what wasn't blocked.
	The firewall was very one-sided with what it blocked and what it was unblocked.
	Lampard said he discovered a bias while researching for a classroom debate on gun control.
	First, he was unable to reach the website for the National Rifle Association.
	So I went over to the other side, and I went over on sites such as Moms Demand Action or Newtown Action Alliance.
	And I noticed that I could get on these websites, but not the others.
	But Lampard took his investigating a step further, searching for Connecticut's political parties.
	I immediately found out that the state Democrat website was unblocked, but the state GOP website was blocked.
	Then, for abortion issues, National Right to Life website...
	Blocked at the high school.
	Planned Parenthood and Pro-Choice America...
	Are both unblocked.
	Lampard even says he found Christian sites blocked, including the website for the Vatican.
	However, Islamguide.com is unblocked.
	He claims he informed Woodbury's superintendent of his discovery, but after a week, nothing was done.
	It's the caliphate!
	The caliphate is coming!
	Isn't that an unbelievable story?
	No, it's completely believable.
	No, not at all.
	Noagendershow.com is blocked at many schools.
	I hear this all the time.
	Yeah, it sucks.
	Wouldn't surprise me.
	This is the way it's going to go.
	Yeah, that's your...
	By the way...
	We need as much help as we can get, as long as we can get, and then we have to expand our audience so we have somebody to complain.
	The CEO of BitTorrent reached out to me.
	Oh, good.
	Yeah.
	They reached out to me a long time ago.
	It's funny you mention that because that was mentioned.
	Yes, I'm sure it was.
	Where's Dvorak?
	Dvorak didn't do anything.
	Yeah, that's kind of exactly what I heard.
	Yes, well, I'm sorry.
	I really am sorry.
	But I knew that this would work out anyway.
	So I said, yeah, but he's a LIFO guy.
	It's true.
	It's a problem.
	What can I say?
	It's the only way I can get by it.
	I said, you know, I'll work with you.
	I'll work with you guys.
	Meanwhile, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, there's a bill that was put in by the Democrats to direct the Federal Communications Commission to promulgate regulations.
	Promulgate?
	What does promulgate mean?
	You know, to promote.
	It's a form of the word promote.
	Why did they just say promote?
	Well, I think it means promote and expand.
	Using expensive words.
	To confuse me.
	To confuse simple people like me.
	It's more than promote.
	It's promote and make bigger.
	Promulgate regulations that prohibit certain preferential treatment or prioritization of internet traffic.
	And this is very interesting.
	This act may be cited as the Online Competition and Consumer Choice Act of 2014.
	And the Commission shall promulgate regulations that prohibit a broadband provider from entering into an agreement with an edge provider under which the broadband provider agrees for consideration in transmitting network traffic over the broadband internet access service of an end user to give preferential treatment or priority to the traffic of such edge provider over the traffic of other edge providers.
	And prohibit a broadband provider in transmitting network traffic over the broadband internet access service of an end user from giving preferential treatment or priority to the traffic of content, application, services, or devices that are provided or operated by such broadband provider over the traffic of other content, application, services, or devices.
	Now, fine.
	I immediately thought of a column.
	I don't know if you actually wrote the column or if you just mentioned it on the show where you said, how about...
	The surgeon is performing open-heart surgery, and you might want to have those packets not delayed if he's doing it via TCPIP. Yes, I did write about this.
	Well, I look for the exceptions.
	Certain traffic not affected.
	Nothing in this section shall be construed as superseding any obligation or authorization a broadband provider may have to address the needs of...
	Emergency communications or law enforcement, public safety, or national security authorities, consistent with or as permitted by applicable law or as limiting the ability of the provider to do so.
	So they kind of forget this, don't they?
	Yeah.
	Morons.
	So a surgeon now can't do remote surgery?
	Well, he can, but he just has no crutch.
	Not if somebody's watching a Netflix movie.
	Hey, I'm watching Orange is the New Black.
	I don't care about your heart.
	It's not my problem.
	Hmm.
	Very sad.
	Well, that's the way it goes.
	It's almost like this survey.
	You'll see this now.
	This is your open source journalism press.
	Oh, FCC did a survey.
	DSL are lying about their speed.
	So are the cable guys.
	Yeah, I read the whole report.
	And, you know, it's like halfway down page two where it says something in the caveat.
	Notably, in this graph, it's DSL providers who overstate what we actually were able to achieve.
	But if you look at how they did this and they worked only with Level 3 and there's all these disclaimers and there's all these disclaimers by the cable companies about their DOCSIS 3.
	I mean, please.
	I'm not sure why this was done, other than to promote cable broadband over DSL.
	That's what it looks like to me.
	That's certainly the way it's being spun.
	What a waste of time.
	Just a waste of time.
	These people are panty waist, my mom would say.
	They're panty waist.
	Panty waist.
	My dad used that term, too.
	What does that mean?
	Panty waist.
	It means he's a pussy.
	That's what we would use today.
	Panty waist.
	All right.
	Hey, let's do our belated Father's Day greetings and get out of here.
	Our latecomers, everyone calls out.
	These are call-outs to either your dad or to us, the show.
	We don't know because a lot of times it doesn't say.
	But let's go with starting with Thomas Wee in Norway.
	The top of the list.
	And then Martin Frasu.
	Jonathan Bingham.
	Eric Nagel.
	Nagel.
	Oh, Nagel.
	C Squared Productions.
	And if you see me missing, let me know because I'm scrolling funny.
	Regime Books.
	The Great Regime Books.
	Mark Gill.
	Stephen Vischer.
	Nightlight Snacks.
	Michael Pollack.
	Daniel Hoffman.
	Martin Van Velsen.
	Mark Hegstrom.
	Robert Hanks.
	Down to the cheap seats with Alan D. Peterson.
	Paul Maurer.
	Wasden Carasquillo.
	I guess it's Carisco.
	Carisco.
	Michael Homuth.
	And then into the bleachers, we got Pablo Jorge Eduardo Rodriguez in Buenos Aires and Miguel Tompkins and John Staum over there in Waco.
	All would like to wish us a happy Father's Day, or their dads a happy Father's Day, or themselves a happy Father's Day.
	We thank them for coming in with this.
	And for their courage, obviously.
	And for their courage, of course.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Well, I didn't even get to a lot of Ukraine stuff, but I'll save that for Sunday.
	About the Ukraine on the Sunday.
	Yeah, the Ukraine on the Sunday, exactly.
	Wow.
	And, well, you know, we'll see what else happens in the never-ending story of the Middle East.
	Al-Sham.
	And I'll have my eclipse from the latest hearing about climate change.
	Yes, indeed.
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