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	Do they even know how to hold a taco?
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, June 22nd, 2014.
	It's time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 628.
	This is no agenda.
	Dodging house hunters here in Fever Region 6 in the Travis Heights hideout in the capital of the drone star state.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where the Alameda County Fair has finally opened, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Does this mean you'll be getting cotton candy later?
	This is like anybody cares.
	No, I probably will go to the thing.
	It's a nice fair.
	I remember you going with Jay to that.
	I think I recall you talking about that on the show.
	Could be.
	Do they have the bearded lady at this fair?
	They might.
	Yeah.
	They've got a five-legged goat, you know, stuff like that.
	We have fairs like that here in Austin.
	We've got all kinds of weird stuff like that.
	Actually, the really good one there in Texas is the Texas State Fair in Dallas.
	I've been to it a couple of times.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	Houston is a great ride.
	Dallas is a bit too far.
	No, it's too bad.
	You know, it's at three and a half hours, and it's...
	You went to Plano, which means you went through Dallas to go further.
	Yes, this is why I am saying this.
	This is why I'm an authority on the topic.
	It's a little bit too far.
	If you go to the state fair, though, it's kind of just so, you know, it's something to do.
	Get up at six in the morning, get going.
	Be there by 9.30, 10 o'clock.
	No, what you got to do is you do a show, you know, you edit the show, you post the show, then you get in the truck and drive.
	Let me tell you, that was a rough getting up there after the show.
	Well, you got a lot of good responses from people.
	They thought it was a good report.
	Interesting you say that.
	Yeah, a number of people said, oh, we want to hear more and you should do a blog post to help hams get started.
	I'm like, no, wait a minute.
	You can Google, how do I get started, and there's a lot of information.
	I don't mind passing on some of my findings from time to time, but there's a lot.
	They're turning to you, Adam.
	They want you to guide them.
	They want you to guide them.
	Is there really such a need for that?
	I mean, it was at the farmer's market.
	Harry, the guy with the wife from the Thai.
	The guy with the Thai wife.
	He's like, yeah, we want to have a ham radio out on the farm.
	I said, okay.
	What do I need?
	Well, you know, there is this issue with podcasting, for example.
	People want to podcast, but they don't know what to do.
	If you know what to do, then you realize, looking back on it, you go, well, this isn't very difficult.
	You just need this piece of equipment and some cables and a microphone.
	Right.
	But there's some differences.
	That's not entirely true.
	Even just setting, there's a difference.
	People say, I want to do a podcast.
	Yeah, because they listen to us and they go, oh, that's easy.
	Let's do that.
	And then it turns out it's not so easy.
	Well, yes, that is what ends up happening, because it's not...
	But I think the only way...
	You really have to go out and discover things for yourself, and that's the only way to really learn, I believe.
	I believe.
	Yeah, well, I think you should work in the business.
	I wanted to start off with something a little different this morning, just to change things up.
	There's this blog I read.
	A dog with a blog?
	A dog with a blog.
	A.Nolan.
	And actually, as I was reading this post that inspired me to play this little clip...
	I now wonder if Adot Nolan maybe is female.
	For some reason, I just kind of assumed, oh, it's a dude.
	And from time to time, I pick up some interesting stuff, particularly about Applebaum and Snowden and the Berlin Cabal.
	There's some interesting stuff that's on this blog.
	And so this Adot Nolan person writes about something that he or she calls the thinking person sickness.
	And it's not exactly what...
	That's not the definition I would use.
	But posted a link to a clip from this woman, Dr.
	Kathy McMahon.
	And she is a...
	I don't know if she's a psychologist or a psychotherapist.
	Anyway, it's an older clip.
	But it kind of reminded me about things that you and I kind of take for granted because we're essentially immune for the bull crap that most people get spewed over them like, you know, just like a vomit of fear and things that are thrown at them on a daily basis.
	And this is a little clip, it's about peak oil.
	And so this is old, because of course now I think the whole world probably recognizes peak oil was bogative.
	There's nothing to it, it didn't happen, there seems to be more oil than ever.
	In fact, we're fighting over, there's so much oil, we don't know which war to focus on.
	There's so much of it.
	Correct?
	Absolutely.
	All right.
	But of course, when this first came out, this peak oil, and this was, what was this, maybe three, four years ago when this really came into the forefront and was being pushed very heavily?
	No, it was before that.
	But we were doing the show.
	By the time we had started our show, it was already falling apart.
	Really?
	Yeah, Peak Oil, when I first heard it, I was working actually at Union Oil, and that was in...
	Yeah, but I mean really the mainstream Peak Oil...
	I think we caught it right at the tail of the peak, maybe.
	Maybe.
	But of course, you and I are like, whatever.
	Peak oil, sure.
	Yeah.
	In fact, I think one of our main theses was, you know, peak oil is great because then we don't have to worry about global warming.
	There'll be no more carbon fuel to burn.
	This is your gimmick.
	Once you came up with this gimmick, which you might as well reiterate, what became humorous was that the gimmick stopped working within about a year of you developing it.
	Yeah.
	So the idea was, if someone is all in on peak oil, and you say, oh, you know...
	No, it's all in on global warming.
	Yeah, climate change, global warming.
	Global warming.
	Yeah, and you say, oh, man, so peak oil, you're all in on that as well.
	And say, yeah, absolutely, we're running out of oil.
	Well, then you've got nothing to worry about.
	Global warming and climate change will solve itself once we're out of oil.
	We might have to walk to work, but everything will be fine.
	Right, and that would be fuddled.
	And then you go wandering off like a frog with a scrambled brain.
	Ha!
	Exactly.
	It didn't work for you.
	It only worked for about a year.
	So I just want to play this clip.
	This would be...
	I would classify this person most likely as an Obama bot, although I'm not sure that when the time this was recorded Obama was president.
	And it's two women, and they're doing a coffee clutch about when they first heard about Peak Oil.
	And remember, the woman, Dr.
	Catherine McMahon, is a psychotherapist or a psychiatrist, and she treats people who have anxiety and fear and all kinds of emotional issues.
	My own reaction seemed so crazy to me.
	What was your reaction?
	You mean hearing the news about peak oil?
	Learning about peak oil.
	What was your own reaction?
	I remember it like it was yesterday, actually.
	We were putting in a new floor in our bedroom, so I was in a little room, and my husband would print out material from the Internet, and he'd bring it in to me, and he'd say, here, read this.
	And I'd read it, and I'd become increasingly, like, shocked and appalled.
	And then after I was just about finished with that, he'd bring in another piece and say, here, read this!
	And I was, like, completely overwhelmed.
	I was shocked.
	I was...
	I couldn't believe it, and yet I kept looking for credible, you know, skeptics that I could believe.
	And, um...
	I couldn't find any.
	And so I noticed over time, I began to go through this emotional process of saying, okay, I have to collect food.
	I have to madly, you know, I went through what I call a salad dressing period.
	I bought all the salad dressing.
	And then, you know, a year later, I never used it because I started making my own salad dressing.
	But at the point, I just had to all of a sudden feel like I had to accumulate everything in order to be safe.
	So you were accumulating hoarding, all this stuff, because the world was going to...
	Right.
	I was expecting something dramatic to happen.
	Any moment that this big drama was going to happen.
	I sort of had that same feeling when I learned about peak oil.
	My first thought was, we're six miles from town.
	Okay, what if we can't afford the gasoline?
	You know, should I be growing food?
	All that kind of stuff.
	And you had to do it all yesterday.
	Yeah, yeah, because it's going to happen right now.
	Yeah.
	I think you and I sometimes overstep that and don't realize, or lots of people, how horrible it really is when people are bombarded daily about your house is going to burn down from the fires from climate change and your children will never see snow ever again and they will die before they're 25 and just this incessant fear-mongering.
	And there you have it, two, I would say, intelligent women who were, and there may be some matriarchal feelings that are mixed in there, but that's pretty insane how frightened these women were.
	Yeah, yeah, that's true.
	Which brings me to a clip, if you want me to keep the same track.
	Yeah, please.
	This was actually a clip I was thinking would be a really ideal clip to play just before one of our little segments where we're thanking people for helping contribute to running the show.
	This is the Glenn Beck fail.
	Glenn Beck, I was listening to this clip and he did some interesting things.
	He was criticizing the Obama administration for capturing the guy behind Benghazi when he's been floating around free.
	The guy who had been doing all the interviews with CNN. Yeah.
	So Beck points this out.
	And then Beck, this is not too long, but it's a little long.
	But what it is, what the clip does is Beck is doing, I think, reasonably, he's a little emotional, but he's doing a reasonable thing.
	And then he flips into his advertising.
	Okay.
	And the worst part about it is the fear-mongering in the advertising is shameless.
	And I think it is a straight reflection of what these women were thinking.
	They're on the other side of the political spectrum.
	But both sides of the political spectrum are bombarded with this bull crap.
	Play this and you'll see what I'm talking about.
	The Benghazi ringleader, Ahmad, what's his name?
	Abu, what's his face?
	Abu Katala.
	Yeah, thank you.
	I love him.
	Two years ago, the president vowed to do everything he could to bring him to justice.
	And yet, the guy did interviews in public, in public with CNN, the New York Times, other Western journalists.
	In fact, if I may, let me play a little bit of the CNN interview.
	Whoa!
	U.S. officials have often suggested that they would be interested in speaking to a man named Ahmed Abu Khatala about the events the night of the attack.
	He's really not that difficult to find.
	We met with Ahmad Abu Khatala in public at the coffee shop of a well-known hotel here in Benghazi for around two hours.
	Amazing.
	Not hard to find.
	Not hard to find.
	The president hasn't taken any responsibility.
	The State Department said, well, it's easy for them to find it.
	It's harder for our Navy SEALs to find him.
	Come on!
	Come on!
	And this is only a partial list.
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	Yeah.
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	This is so sad when these guys do that.
	It's unbelievable.
	I hear this all the time.
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	Yeah, no, you know, it's borderline pathetic because, you know, some of these guys actually do analysis that's interesting and then they just blow it up.
	They blow it up their own bullcrap.
	How do you believe someone who says that the dollar is going to collapse?
	Yeah, really.
	Or at least listen to a show where there's two sides of that opinion, not just one.
	It's horrible.
	You know, my obsession continues, I have to say.
	My obsession with the history of the Middle East.
	This is so weird.
	My mom is probably looking down on me going, what?
	What?
	You're interested in what?
	What?
	You were just a goofball when you were a kid.
	I was a goofball up until my 40s.
	Not just when I was a kid.
	And now I'm just obsessed with...
	Every day there's...
	And it's not just me stumbling upon stuff.
	We have a fantastic audience of producers who will send me things.
	And often...
	In fact, I got reminded by one of our producers...
	It's interesting how sometimes it's female producers...
	Who liked to go back and say, oh hey Adam, maybe you should revisit this.
	And I was very happy one of our producers said, you should go back and take a look at Brzezinski's The Grand Chessboard book.
	And I did.
	Because, you know, Brzezinski...
	Now, Zbigniew Brzezinski...
	I think we actually have...
	Don't we have an official pronunciation for that guy from somebody?
	It involves a lot of spitting.
	Here it is.
	I've got the official pronunciation.
	Zbigniew Brzezinski.
	There you go.
	Zbigniew Brzezinski.
	Yeah, we're not going to be pronouncing it that way anytime soon.
	Whose daughter is...
	Mika.
	Mika.
	Mika there on the Morning Joe show.
	And he calls in from time to time.
	Of course.
	And she'll even say, hey dad, how you doing?
	It's kind of cute, I have to say.
	Even elitists can be cute.
	So I did go back and I looked a little bit at some of the things.
	Here's a quote from The Grand Chessboard.
	This is from 1997, I think.
	Actually, the full title of the book is The Grand Chessboard, American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives.
	Now again, not a book until I was doing the show that I would go, this looks like some nice reading.
	And Brzezinski was...
	You know what I'm saying, right?
	That's funny.
	This is some light reading.
	The show has ruined our lives.
	It has.
	What am I doing?
	Now, he was the...
	Was he Secretary of State for Nixon?
	I know he was...
	No, no, no.
	He was a Carter guy.
	Carter, I'm sorry.
	He was advisor or...
	I think he was...
	Was he Secretary of State, actually?
	While you're discussing this, I'll look his...
	Yeah, you'll consult the Book of Knowledge.
	That's very important.
	Okay.
	How do you spell Brzez?
	Oh, it's B-R-Z-E-Z. Right, B-R-Z-E-Z. I-N-S-K-E. Yeah, that's one name that just doesn't...
	No, no, it does not stick to your ribs, I know.
	It's very hard to remember.
	Well, that's...
	Yeah, there's never...
	Identity thieves are going to have difficulty with that guy.
	All right.
	Or forms an alliance with the major eastern actor, that could only be China, then America's primacy in Eurasia shrinks dramatically.
	Ah, by the way, he was the national security advisor.
	Oh, national security advisor, right.
	Well, he's the guy that brought the initial guns to the Mujahideen, I think.
	Maybe.
	Yeah, I think so.
	There's video of him going out there and talking to these guys.
	He was partially responsible for the financing of the Mujahideen.
	Yes, exactly.
	America's primacy in Eurasia shrinks dramatically.
	The same would be the case if the two major Eastern players were somehow to unite.
	Finally, any ejection of America by its Western partners, that's the French and the Germans, from its perch on the Western periphery, Europe, would automatically spell the end of America's participation in the game on the Eurasian chessboard, even though that would probably also mean the eventual subordination of the even though that would probably also mean the eventual subordination of the Western extremity to a revived player occupying the middle space, which, of course, would
	So when you read through this grand chessboard, and it's challenging to get through it, I found.
	Essentially what he is saying is, Everything in the world on this grand chessboard is all about essentially the energy business.
	Who has it, who sells it, and who needs it?
	Or who has it, who needs it, and who supplies it?
	And there really are only two sides momentarily.
	You have the US, the UK, and the EU, and Japan on one side, and the other side you have Russia, China, and Iran.
	And that's pretty much the game.
	And if you keep that in mind with everything, things start to become very, I mean, very, very, very clear, particularly when you take into account our recent knowledge, really, of how the energy flows, which is, you know, you're growing up as a kid, you see a big tank, oh yeah, there goes some oil.
	No, but it's really pipelines.
	And so this most recent move in Kurdistan and northern Iraq and Iraq, and of course everything that's going on all over Iraq, and now the expected expansion of this rebelization into other places like Jordan, I'm like, okay, let's look into why is Jordan being pulled into play?
	Do you have any idea, John?
	Yeah.
	Well, I mean, besides the memes, the standard litany, I read all the material I could on ISIS. And, you know, Jordan is just a phony state that they believe shouldn't even be there, so they would just take over that whole area.
	But it's also really an American ally.
	There's a concerted effort going on to kind of...
	get us out of the game and i think that's zabrinsky's book probably talks about some of it i ran into a uh an odd piece of uh or an odd scene it was uh lagarde doing a press conference and there's the you familiar with the imf reforms yes the 2010 reforms of the united states is not ratified yes this is what will bring in the sdr yes well i i don't see it bringing in the sdr
	of course, because I don't think the SDR is the key here.
	But it is an attempt to screw us.
	You're taking me off my oil thing, but okay.
	No, this is about the oil.
	All right, good.
	Because it's all about the same thing.
	But anyway, I've got this clip that is interesting because I finally figured out what's going on.
	With the reform.
	The reform is restructuring.
	It's more about Jabrinsky's chessboard than it is about your oil thing.
	So finish your oil idea.
	No, no, no, no.
	If you want to bring in IMF, that's okay.
	Okay, bring in IMF. Reforms?
	Yes.
	From the front.
	Good morning, Stefan Grobe, Euronews.
	The statement doesn't mention the ongoing unwillingness of the U.S. authorities to support and implement the IMF reforms.
	Have you given up hope on this?
	No way.
	No way.
	I would never give up.
	Never give up.
	And, you know, I was a player in this organization, except on the other side, when the US authorities campaigned actively for the reform, and I want to see it through.
	So I would certainly hope that...
	The authorities, both at the administration as well as at the legislative level, understand and appreciate how helpful and necessary it is to actually implement the reform so that the IMF can continue to play its role as prescribed by the articles.
	Okay.
	So I was listening to this going, what's the big deal?
	Why are we not signing off on whatever these reforms are?
	Because it puts China in the hot seat.
	Well, no, what it really does is it eliminates...
	We have right now...
	IMF, we have to remember, and we keep forgetting...
	We don't keep forgetting, but we don't bring it up a lot.
	We use it as an implement for the economic hitman so we can, you know, be in the Middle East creating havoc and rebelizing.
	And the only way we can do that is if we have veto power over what the IMF does.
	Yes.
	Right now, we're right at the point, we have 16.75% of the vote.
	The major decisions of the IMF have to be done with what's called a supermajority, which is 85%.
	They want to bring in Brazil, Russia, India, and China into the IMF's voting bloc.
	This would reduce our...
	Our share to, like, less than 15%, which eliminates our ability to veto anything.
	I disagree.
	I disagree.
	That has been one of the main promises of the ratification of the 2010 reforms, is that it would not remove the United States' veto power.
	Can it in the future?
	Yeah, of course.
	It immediately gives us...
	It's a small percentage, but it gives the United States a smaller percentage of the vote.
	But one of the big promises has been, if you look at the documents, it will not change our veto power.
	But it does put China at number two, and currently they're number six, I think, on the board.
	If you look at all the voting share, whatever it's called, of the IMF. I looked into this extensively when I was talking about the SDR table.
	Yeah, you and your SDR thing is like...
	Well...
	What you're doing, what you just did, is that you denied the possibility...
	No, I didn't.
	...but it's your argument.
	I'm not denying the possibility.
	I'm telling you what they're saying.
	I know what you're saying, but I'm just saying you're on the other side of this argument.
	I don't understand why you would...
	I'm not.
	...support the reform.
	I'm not.
	I didn't...
	What do you think I am, some fucking politician?
	I'm telling you what they're saying.
	I don't give a shit.
	I'm like, oh, don't touch my dollar!
	I don't care.
	I'm here to tell you what I'm seeing and what I'm hearing.
	I'm not here to be on his side.
	Excuse me, did you wake up and think I was Newt Gingrich on Crossfire or something?
	No.
	Go on, go back to your oil.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, you should be.
	Alright, have you ever heard of the Mosul Haifa oil pipeline?
	On this show?
	No.
	I've never heard of this.
	Okay.
	The Mosul-Haifa oil pipeline, and Mosul, if you'll all look at your maps, is right smack in the middle of the Kirkuk oil field.
	And it's also going to be the new capital, according to Kimberley.
	Which, yes.
	So it's very much in play.
	Initially was constructed in 1932.
	I think it was commissioned in 1932, and it was in full swing in 1935.
	Haifa, for those of you who don't know, is in Israel.
	And for more than a decade, oil was being pumped from Mosul, now known as the capital of Kurdistan, to Israel.
	No, no, that wouldn't be Kurdistan.
	It's going to be the capital of the ISIS territory.
	I'm sorry, I stand corrected.
	But it is Kurdish oil.
	They claim to own this now.
	Yeah, this is, yes, of late.
	They've got quite the website, by the way.
	The Kurdistan Regional Government.
	They've got a news agency.
	They've got all kinds of things.
	It's one of the big PR companies.
	They even were bitching about Bloomberg's reporting of cheap oil they were selling to Israel.
	They're pretty incredible.
	Anyway, so this was a pipeline that was encased in cement and ran underground.
	And it was the lifeline for Israel.
	It was a decommission.
	I think around 1954, this thing was essentially done with.
	It had been blown up in many parts.
	I think in 1948, the Arab-Israeli War, that's really when the pipeline kind of ended.
	And Looking back in my research, Bibi Netanyahu apparently made some big blunder around 2003 when George W. Bush and cronies said, hey, let's go liberate Iraq.
	And he said, ah, oil will flow once again from Mosul to Haifa.
	And apparently that was like a big no-no, because that was exactly the plan.
	And now, in hindsight, if you look at this pipeline, you'll see that many of the bases, the U.S. bases, were along this route.
	And the beauty of the Mosul Haifa pipeline, which is being, right now, version 2.5 essentially is being built, was the commission went to hunt oil.
	And you may remember Hunt Oil.
	It was talked about a lot back in the day and was one of George W.'s buddies.
	Yeah, H.L. Hunt and the boys.
	Yes, exactly.
	And if you look at their website...
	You know, they're the same people behind Hunt's Foods.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	At some point, I don't think they are anymore.
	If you look at where their big oil exploration and production is, they're not just out there poking holes in the ground.
	They actually do the production and run the stuff.
	Headquartered in Dallas, of course.
	They also have huge operations in Romania, Yemen, and Kurdistan, of course.
	So these guys are still kind of in on that game.
	And the way the pipeline ran and the way it's supposed to run again is through Jordan.
	And that's why Jordan is now in play.
	Jordan's in play.
	That would make sense.
	That makes more sense than the memes.
	Exactly.
	So I pick up this little piece from a much longer piece, about a minute and a half, of Brzezinski.
	He's on the Morning Joe show with his daughter.
	And there's a couple of these.
	I didn't even write down the names of these guys who are also on the show.
	But it becomes very clear, now that you have this knowledge of this pipeline running from Mosul, And the Kirkuk oil fields through northern Iraq, which is now being protected, essentially, and being distracted by the ISIS calamities.
	It's all distraction.
	So the Kurd oil can now run nicely through Jordan right into Israel.
	It may not be Haifa, where it comes out again, but into Israel.
	With that knowledge, now listen to these analysts, who probably they all know what's going on.
	None of them actually say it.
	And Brzezinski is the one who even...
	And that's a question that did not emerge clearly from yesterday's press conference.
	And I would simply say, I do not think it is any more in the interest of the United States to do that.
	To do what?
	To keep Iraq as a single nation state.
	I essentially think that has been eclipsed by history.
	Dr.
	Brzezinski, will you agree with that?
	I agree with it, but I wouldn't be saying it formally insofar as the United States is concerned.
	I think that is a fact of life, however.
	So we have to prop up what can be saved.
	We can prevent, perhaps, Baghdad from falling.
	But Iraq as an entity, viable entity, a national entity, was somewhat of a fiction, and we demolished it starting with 2003.
	So listening to you, Doc, the priorities, the unspoken priorities right now would be save the Kurds in the North, they're our allies, take care of our friends, the Kurds in the North, take care of Jordan, make sure that Israel doesn't launch on its own a nuclear strike against what's going on in Iraq, and basically petition off Iraq and let them go at it?
	Is that the deal?
	And some accommodation with Iran, because Iran can become a source of instability in the region if things get worse between them and us, or it can find some merit and its own national interest being served by some accommodation with us.
	And of course, as we all agree, I think, Jordan has to be propped up as much as possible, and what happens across the Jordan River is very important for Jordan's stability.
	Okay, so he's laughing at it.
	He's like, yeah, we've got to get all this in play.
	I like the way he said demolished.
	It's just another word for rubbleized.
	And now he says something very important.
	And now the pieces start to fall into place.
	What Kerry has been working on so hard to the point where people are calling him a douchebag is this Palestinian deal with Israel.
	Today, in the news, Robert Sary...
	Now, Robert Sari, where have we heard this name before?
	He is the United Nations Special Coordinator.
	We heard this name not more than six weeks ago, right after Victoria Nuland's famous FTEU quote, and she was saying, yeah, we've got Yats, we'll bring him in, and I hear we've even got Robert Sari coming in.
	Do you remember that?
	No.
	Okay.
	Well, we looked him up and he's a Dutchman and he is a United Nations special coordinator.
	He was the guy that tried to come into Ukraine and was then held and rejected.
	And they would they held him for like 24 hours.
	This is right in the beginning of the fracas.
	You know, you may not remember.
	I don't.
	Well, he now shows up as the United Nations special coordinator for the Middle East process, which is all part of the same thing.
	The Ukraine and it's all about the same energy blocking Russia and China and Iran.
	And he is accused of trying to funnel 20 million dollars to Hamas against Israel's wishes.
	Hamas apparently has a payroll problem.
	That's literally the report.
	Yeah, we've got a payroll issue.
	We need a bridge.
	I'm not kidding.
	This is the real report.
	We need a bridge loan.
	And Israel said, no, you can't do that.
	And he tried to do an end-around and have Qatar transfer it.
	So they're trying to make peace, not necessarily with Hamas but with the Palestinians, Because of this ultimate goal of this oil coming in, which they will have to share with their neighbors to make it a...
	And again, that's all that this is about.
	All of this Jew, Arab stuff, you know, Arab, Arab, Sunni, sushi, whatever, it's bullcrap.
	All of that is bullcrap.
	And it's proven when you see that...
	The Kurds, they currently have a pipeline that goes to this port of Sehan, which is in Turkey.
	And you need to go to kurdoil.noagendanotes.com, John.
	kurdoil.noagendanotes.com.
	And there we have a good overview.
	Of the oil fields, the gas fields, the current Kirkuk-Sehan oil pipeline.
	And then you'll see what this map calls the pipeline under construction.
	And that is essentially the Mosul-Haifa pipeline 2.0 that is now under construction.
	And who knows who's doing that?
	That could be Brechtel, for all I know.
	We don't know.
	Bechtel.
	Bechtel, yeah.
	Those guys.
	So this is what this entire thing is about.
	It's what 2003 was about.
	But now we just have a different way of going about it.
	And that is we've created this ISIS group.
	And make no mistake, we have created this ISIS group.
	And they are the big distraction.
	And while this happens, you can see right there what Kurdistan is doing.
	And I encourage everybody to go to the website.
	It's very interesting to read what they have.
	Let me see.
	What is the actual website they have here?
	KRG.org.
	There you go.
	That is the Kurdistan regional government website.
	They got it in English, and they got some JavaScript going on.
	It looks pretty legit.
	These guys know what they're doing.
	And they got all their statements that they're pissed off.
	You know, crazy to think that Bloomberg would actually report that we sold a whole tanker full of oil at half price to Israel.
	Please, that is an insult.
	Now, I'm sure the Israelis did some kind of deal.
	But here's the end game for this piece of the chess game, at least.
	The Iraqi oil gets pumped to Israel.
	Israel, who are now building a...
	The pipeline is on to Italy, and there's another pipeline to Greece through Cyprus.
	They are building the infrastructure into Europe, circumventing Turkey.
	This is why Turkey is so pissed off.
	And of course, we've been trying to cause havoc there.
	I think that's where...
	Fethullah Gulen, you know, the reason why he is in Pennsylvania, this is the so-called cleric in Pennsylvania with all the charter schools, and, you know, like 1,200 people have been fired from the Turkish government because they were all Gulen shills trying to Upset the apple cart from the inside.
	And I believe Erdogan figured it out and he's thwarted this.
	But it was essentially a regime change or globalization plan from the Western partners.
	And the whole idea is stop anything coming from Russia.
	We've successfully done that in Ukraine.
	Belarus, be on the lookout.
	And now there's this fight between Russia trying to connect a pipeline through the South Stream, which goes underneath, which goes through the former Yugoslavian Republic, and they're trying to get into Europe that way, and Europe now saying, oh...
	No, no, no, no.
	We'll do a deal.
	We'll take your gas directly and if Ukraine wants anything, we'll reverse the taps and we'll sell it back to them.
	This whole thing is about stopping those guys.
	Everybody.
	Every single person.
	Maybe we'll do a little deal with Iran.
	Maybe it might be fun to play with them.
	But Israel, that's why they've been so incredibly quiet.
	Is just waiting to get their oil so they can sell it into Europe and other Western partners.
	That's all that this is about.
	That's what 2003 was about.
	And, of course, all we get here is...
	I got the Anne-Marie Slaughter clip that I wanted to play.
	She is a version of Kimberly Kagan.
	She is the CEO of the New America...
	Foundation, I think.
	She's your typical elitist.
	She's on the Council of Foreign Relations.
	She was State Department advisor to Hillary Clinton.
	And now she's running this big NGO funded by Eric Schmidt and Mill and Belinda Gates.
	Listen to the disdain in her voice as she's explaining to the NPR person.
	I only clipped out a little bit.
	She's laughing at every question like, you stupid idiot, don't you know?
	It's because, of course, this is not about anything but religion and we need to save people.
	So if the U.S. goes after ISIS and Assad, that's confusing because ISIS is kind of our friend in Syria because the United States opposes Assad, but ISIS is our enemy in Iraq because they're fighting the government that we helped put into place, right?
	Well, it's always confusing in the Middle East, but the way to think about...
	It's so confusing for you peons.
	This is, ISIS is certainly not our friend anywhere, but neither is the Syrian government.
	The Syrian, except when they were our friends.
	She was in Vogue magazine, and Brad Pitt and Angelina hung out with them.
	And what I was arguing in the Times is, you can't talk about Iraq, and you can't solve Iraq without recognizing the roots of this problem in Syria.
	How can the United States attack Assad and try to get help from Iran?
	I mean, their close allies.
	So that is unquestionably complicated.
	And one of the arguments for not using force in Syria has been, if we use force in Syria, it will torpedo our negotiations with Iran.
	And we are talking to Iran about this whole tangle.
	I think that's a smart policy.
	But I think we also need to signal to Iran that we are, in fact, prepared to use force to...
	We are, in fact!
	What is this thing?
	She laughs in the middle of her sentences.
	Yeah, we are prepared because, you stupid Iranians, don't you know we will kill you if we feel like it?
	Protect the Syrian people and the Iraqi people.
	How do you know, Anne-Marie Slaughter, how do any of us know what the Iraqi and Syrian people really want?
	Well, in the first place, the...
	I've got to tell you, you're so stupid.
	Syrian people have been begging for our intervention.
	The majority of the Syrian people.
	I don't think it takes a great leap of imagination to know that they no longer want barrel bombs dropped on them.
	They want an end to the killing.
	And similarly for the Iraqi people.
	And my point is, there are things we can do.
	There are ways we can use force that will change the situation on the ground enough to force a political negotiation that gets a...
	She sounds like she has the same laugh and she has the same cadence as Hillary.
	Exactly.
	Every once in a while she actually sounds like Hillary.
	She sounds a little less ragged than Hillary.
	She has a little more cleanliness to the cut of her speech.
	She's finishing up and she'll do another little chuckle here.
	That gets a decent government and that allows multiple nations then to fight a terrorist group that we need to take on.
	It's a difficult situation.
	It doesn't really look like there are many good options.
	Well, I think we have better options than...
	And we recognize it's very hard.
	I'm not faulting the president for not immediately knowing what to do.
	But what I am saying is you cannot say for two years, as he said, that Syria is not in our vital interest, so we shouldn't use force, and then turn around and say against the very same group, it is in our vital interest to use force in Iraq.
	This is the same problem.
	So I find it very interesting.
	She's obviously one of these uber, uber liberals running in the uber...
	I mean, when you have Eric and Wendy Schmidt donating over a million dollars to your NGO, and Mil and Belinda Gates doing the same, you are in the top echelon of obottedness.
	And they are now trying to find beautiful words and ways...
	To explain why we need to go kill brown people in sand.
	Because that's what she's saying.
	Limited strikes.
	I haven't heard the surgical yet, but I'm waiting for that.
	That's more of a Republican term.
	But it's the same thing.
	Oh, just limited, and we'll just blow a couple people up, and we limit civilian casualties.
	These people are just as warmongering hungry as any Republican.
	Oh, at least.
	And now here's Ted Cruz, who also...
	And again, it's so disappointing that no one just really says what it's about.
	And I think this is going back to the beginning of the show...
	If people really knew what this was for, if every single war is always about turf and resources and maybe a hooker or two, we really would protest this.
	But now when you bring in patriotism and be afraid, it's a launching pad, it's jihadi Disneyland, they're going to come and kill you in America, and oh, and the Britons, oh, they're going to kill us in the UK. And oh, think of the children, the humanitarian crisis, bullcrap.
	I don't know if Cruz is onto it, but at least he's calling out some spades.
	Indeed, an obvious question that the administration should answer.
	Is has the Obama administration ever armed ISIS? Has the administration given lethal weapons to ISIS? We are doing so to rebels who are fighting alongside ISIS in Syria.
	And it's an obvious question to ask whether we have in fact armed these radical Islamic terrorists as well.
	ISIS is much more than a local or even a regional threat.
	They are among the worst of the radical jihadis who attacked us on September 11, 2001.
	Oh!
	And again on September 11th, 2012.
	See, this is now the new meme.
	These guys, they're not Al-Qaeda.
	These guys are so bad that Al-Qaeda's afraid of them.
	Yeah, there's been...
	They tried to make this meme stick a couple of times.
	The first time I saw it, they played with it, was in 2006.
	When the Washington Post did an article with, I think it was the initial article where they said, oh, they were an affiliate of Al-Qaeda and the Al-Qaeda people didn't want to have anything to do with them because they were too brutal.
	They're too crazy.
	Which, of course, is the idea is to get the public freaked out about these guys because how could you be more brutal than Al-Qaeda?
	Yeah.
	Well, there's one other term we've got to throw in there.
	It always works.
	So bad, in fact, that the, quote, core al-Qaeda.
	Core al-Qaeda.
	As President Obama likes to call the terrorist cells in Pakistan and Afghanistan, have renounced them.
	Their goal...
	Is to establish a new Islamic caliphate.
	There it is, ladies and gentlemen.
	Caliphate! Caliphate! Caliphate! Caliphate!
	There it is, everybody.
	Gotta get that in there.
	Thank you very much, Roberto Suarez, Jason Scott, and...
	Everyone's sending in caliphate jingles now.
	But that's it.
	And this is nothing but unhealthy for you listeners.
	It's horrible for the poor public.
	I want to mention one little thing since you brought that in.
	I didn't clip it.
	I should have.
	I had it somewhere.
	I just didn't get to the clip.
	It was one of the shows on Fox, Fox News.
	And then they said, do you think that there's anything we should do about...
	And then they described the ISIS thing as the Al-Qaeda army.
	Really?
	Yeah, that is the term used on Fox.
	It was the Al-Qaeda army.
	Interesting.
	I thought that was really interesting.
	Haven't heard that one yet.
	Well, I think it has to do with, you know, I'm guessing it's possible, like when they did the study on the global warming phrase as opposed to climate change.
	Right, right.
	Somebody said, you know, this ISIS, ISIL, nobody can pick up.
	That's not working.
	Just call it the Al-Qaeda army.
	So let's change it to Al-Qaeda army.
	Have you done a recent Google search on that?
	No, not really.
	It just came to mind.
	You may want to use a proxy.
	Let's see.
	Al-Qaeda army.
	We're already listed on that.
	Let him go.
	Here it is.
	O'Reilly.
	Okay, it's a Fox meme right now.
	O'Reilly, expect Obama to start bombing Al-Qaeda army.
	Okay, this wasn't on O'Reilly, so now we know it's a network-wide phenomenon.
	Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
	So that seems to be Mike Rogers.
	There's an Al-Qaeda army on the move.
	Mike Rogers, our buddy.
	Hold on a second.
	Let's see.
	This was on...
	You want to hear him say that?
	Yeah, if you got him.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Hold on a second.
	I can patch it through.
	With ISIS moving so fast, do we have several days for him to review options and...
	He said basically it was contingent on Maliki reaching out.
	If Maliki does not reach out to the Kurds and to the Sunnis and decides to stick with the Shia base, what does the U.S. do then?
	Well, again, leadership is important.
	Absence of leadership and decisiveness is important in this.
	It's too late to have long political reconciliation meetings that will last weeks or months to try to get through even the finest points of difference.
	You have an Al-Qaeda army on the move.
	Well, he's on board.
	He got the memo.
	Yeah, so we're going with that.
	The other thing I've noticed, which is another slight meme, which is they're describing their actions of the Al-Qaeda army as they took over in a blitzkrieg fashion.
	Oh, nice callback.
	Right?
	Blitzkrieg.
	They must be Hitler.
	They must be Nazis!
	So you use the Blitzkrieg, and that immediately brings to mind, especially after all these recent celebrations about D-Day and all the rest of it, a lot of World War II specials were on.
	So now it brings to mind the atrocities of the fascists.
	Lovely.
	So you see the word Blitzkrieg, which was a specific type of thing the Nazis did.
	Very unlike what these guys are doing.
	The Blitzkrieg was almost like the shock and awe of the day.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It was the Nazi shock and awe.
	They were called shock troops.
	Yes.
	That meme came back.
	And storm troopers.
	The ISIS shock troops.
	We can always write it.
	We should be working for the government.
	What else can we do to fight the public?
	We would be great writers.
	So they're voting for us, or vote us back in, because they'll be so scared.
	Well, luckily, somebody in this whole thing has some humor.
	And I'm enjoying it thoroughly, because we know that ISIS are...
	These, of course, are social media experts.
	Well, as government forces battle Islamic militants for control of Iraq, both sides have claimed the upper hand.
	Terrorist supporters are also waging a propaganda war online, posting a photoshopped mockery of the First Lady's Twitter campaign to free those girls kidnapped in Nigeria.
	Instead of saying, bring back our girls, the hashtag reads, bring back our Humvee, a reference to ISIS's threat, theft rather, of a truckload of U.S.-made Humvees that happened last week.
	So whoever's running that show has some humor.
	And it's clearly, you know, obviously there's someone in some meeting somewhere going, I got an idea.
	Let's do this.
	And oh, by the way, where's all the outrage about our girls?
	That got dropped pretty quickly, didn't it?
	It never got any traction.
	No, it wasn't working.
	So they dropped it.
	Even Michelle Obama.
	Who went on for hours about women being denied education.
	Oh, well, whatever.
	Screw it.
	I'm running for Senate.
	Who cares?
	Here's the president.
	I have two clips back-to-back.
	The president and then Carl Levin.
	And this is about the 300 advisors.
	Now, people need to listen very, very closely to what is being said here.
	This is the military-industrial complex.
	This is not your...
	I want to mention something.
	I was reading some research on this too.
	We left 6,000 people there.
	I think we have 6,000.
	We reassigned them.
	They have new titles.
	They're not soldiers anymore.
	They're something else.
	So what do we need 300 more for?
	It's showboating.
	It's complete showboating.
	And it's 275.
	And it's a small number.
	75?
	These are right out of one of the Kimberly Kagan related operations.
	But they're not U.S. military.
	And the president is very clear.
	This is going to the commercial companies.
	By the way, it's not C-A-C-I. It's Kaki.
	You pronounce it Kaki.
	We've learned it.
	Yeah, we got a bunch of letters from our insiders on that.
	Yeah, we appreciate it.
	We learned something this way.
	See, that's a good name.
	Get it?
	Get it?
	So listen carefully to what the president is saying, what he isn't saying, and then we'll have Carl Levin's interpretation.
	He's a real boob.
	He just comes out and says it like a moron.
	The United States will continue to increase our support to Iraqi security forces.
	We're prepared to create joint operations centers in Baghdad and northern Iraq.
	Joint operations centers.
	What the?
	We have that here in Texas.
	This is intelligence centers everywhere, joint operations centers.
	It's just like Iraq here.
	To share intelligence and coordinate planning to confront the terrorist threat of ISIL. Okay, and notice he's saying ISIL. This is not insignificant.
	There's a reason for this.
	And I believe you're right.
	I believe that the president will soon pivot towards the Iraqi army.
	He's not going with the plain old ISIS. Al-Qaeda army.
	Al-Qaeda army.
	Thank you.
	Through our new counterterrorism partnership fund.
	Ah, the new counterterrorism partnership fund.
	That is the $5 billion fund that is intended to be used For counter-terrorism, and it goes to commercial companies.
	Otherwise, he would just say, it's coming out of our regular Department of Defense Fund.
	No!
	It's coming out of the new Partnership Fund.
	Through our new Counter-Terrorism Partnership Fund, we're prepared to work with Congress to provide additional equipment.
	We have had advisors in Iraq through our embassy, and we're prepared to send a small number of additional American military advisors.
	American military advisors is not the same as Advisors who work for the American military.
	It's very different.
	Up to 300.
	To assess how we can best train, advise, and support Iraqi security forces going forward.
	American forces will not be returning to combat in Iraq, but we will help Iraqis as they take the fight to terrorists who threaten the Iraqi people, the region, and American interests as well.
	And you are completely correct, John, when you say we transferred, it was five or six thousand And they're now making three or four times as much as they were working for Uncle Sam.
	And they're now working for private contractors.
	And that is all around the largest embassy, I think, in the world.
	Yes.
	The Baghdad U.S. Embassy is unbelievable in scope.
	And here's Carl Levin, who comes out, and of course he has to do some kind of speech.
	I support the strategy that President Obama outlined yesterday, and here's why.
	And here's also the factors that I believe should govern our approach moving forward.
	The decision to send a small number of U.S. non-military advisors is a prudent decision.
	See?
	Non-military advisors.
	He says it properly.
	They're not military advisors, people.
	This is the military-industrial complex going in to steer the operations.
	Let's make sure, hey, hey, hey, we're building a pipeline over there!
	Move your fighting over there!
	They can help assess the situation on the ground, support Iraqi efforts to defeat the Islamic militants that Iraq faces, and help the Iraqis make best use of the ample intelligence support that we're already providing.
	So, Malachi's out.
	Malachi didn't do his job.
	Maliki should have helped with this operation in Mosul, where apparently also that's where they got the $400 million or whatever they got in gold or whatever it was.
	You know, this is another thing.
	I was trying to do some work on this.
	I got nowhere.
	Yeah, it's hard.
	For one thing, what modern banks have that much money cash?
	I read there was a lot of gold.
	Well, there's a lot of gold.
	Yeah, you read.
	There was a lot of gold.
	And there's also a lot of gold in town.
	I mean, most of these Middle East, if you've been to the Middle East and you go to these cities, there's gold shops.
	And that's all they do is sell gold.
	And if you're raiding the place, you just bust into the gold shop and just steal all the gold.
	You say, give us the gold.
	And these guys are out of business now.
	And I'm sure they did a lot of that.
	And if you start looking into it, these guys are like classic mafia-style mobsters in the old Syrian sense, because the Syrians used to do this as a state-sponsored terrorism operation years ago before the new Assad came into being.
	And so none of these methodologies are completely alien to these people that are involved with this gangsterism.
	But still, $400 million, and apparently their net worth, their total nut that they have access to, according to some sources, is $2 billion.
	Oh, sure.
	Why not?
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	But that's not even half of what we've actually made available with the 5 billion anti-counterterrorism fund.
	I know they've got plenty.
	They've only got a chunk of it.
	In fact, they're using...
	It's like a scam of the highest proportions.
	They're using that as leverage.
	Hey, we got a cosigner!
	We stole it from the bank.
	I don't believe this.
	I agree.
	I agree.
	Nowadays, banks, you know, they only have safe for people with safe deposit boxes.
	They don't carry any money.
	Everything's done electronically.
	In fact, this has probably been launched into the world as a ruse to empty out some slush fund.
	Oh, they stole it.
	I had it sitting there in Mosul.
	What did you know?
	They got to me.
	They stole it.
	Yeah, it was a money laundering scam.
	So with this, we can learn that if you look at history, you can see that it pretty much always repeats itself.
	Certainly, if people don't read history, it's always going to repeat itself.
	And the grand game is very clear.
	It's all the same people to the north and to the south block out Russia.
	Lockout, well, by proxy Iran.
	This Anne-Marie Slaughter, she's all over bombing Syria, apparently.
	I'm not quite sure what her beef is, but she goes, oh, we have to bomb Syria.
	Yeah, why not?
	We got nuked, just nuked the whole place.
	Oh no, that might disturb your actual oil transport.
	Just keep your eye on Israel's moves, because they're the recipients.
	And they are the traffickers.
	They're going to traffic it up to Europe.
	We cut everybody off.
	Next move, I think, is China.
	China has been doing some interesting things.
	Of course, they now are hooking up directly with the Canadian tar sands.
	I guess we've waited long enough on that.
	Yeah, they're running, I think, a pipeline from Alberta to the coast.
	The other way, as opposed to Keystone, which I think one of the reasons we have so many people pushing for Keystone to finish it is...
	To sell it to China.
	No, because that's going down to...
	I don't think so.
	I think that's to sell it to Europe.
	Okay.
	So keep it away from China.
	And we're in the deal if we're selling it to Europe.
	But the Chinese deal would be straight Canadian to China's sales.
	We'd have nothing to do with it.
	And it looks like they've got a done deal now.
	Canada approves new oil pipeline to the Pacific Coast.
	Yeah, that would go out to probably...
	Vancouver.
	The big port is in Vancouver.
	And so they would haul big giant tankers full.
	I don't know how deep that port is, if it's a super deep water port, but they can dig it up.
	And the Chinese, they're sly, man.
	So here's a couple other headlines.
	I tell you, you gotta watch.
	Keep your eye on them.
	That's very, very sneaky.
	Sneaky bastards.
	Chinese premier vows to invest in Greek railways to improve transport link to Europe.
	So, oh, you know what?
	If we're not going to bring it into Europe, well, at least we'll transport it through Europe.
	They really don't care.
	China also agreeing to design and run the new United Kingdom nuclear power plants.
	What?
	Yeah.
	China wins stake in British nuclear power and high-speed rail.
	Here you go.
	Well, that one snuck by us.
	Uh-huh.
	Let me see who's reporting that.
	I don't see that on the evening news.
	That's a big deal.
	It is a big deal.
	Well, here we go.
	Shh, shh, China.
	China's been given the chance to take a decisive stake in the next stage of Britain's energy and transport infrastructure as Chinese companies won the right to own and operate a nuclear power station and to help build high-speed rail lines.
	Well, listen, nothing can be worse than that virgin crap.
	So, you know, people are probably so...
	Exasperated.
	Like, okay, we'll take it.
	Why would you use the Chinese technology as opposed to the French technologies?
	The French are the inventors of high-speed rail.
	They still have a very...
	They have a beautiful network, and it works on both high-speed and low-speed tracks.
	They have it figured out, and they are really the engineering...
	Well...
	Experts in this regard.
	Well, this is interesting from a geopolitical strategic standpoint.
	The agreements were among trade deals worth 14 billion pounds agreed with Beijing during the visit of the Chinese premier, Li Kenjiang, which prompted David Cameron to declare Britain is playing a part in the rise of China, which he calls a defining event of the 21st century.
	They should be voted out.
	Well, yeah.
	The Prime Minister said, quote, Ours is truly a partnership for growth, reform, and innovation.
	Our partnership goes well...
	Let me finish the quote.
	Our partnership goes well beyond the economic field.
	The UK recognizes the rise of China as one of the defining events of our century.
	Sounds to me like someone got on his back and put his legs up in the air and went, do me.
	Okay, so here's what happened.
	They wanted to put some high speed rail in because it was the thing, right?
	England is so small.
	By the time the train gets up to speed, you're already there.
	It's useless.
	I mean, the difference...
	The high-speed rail, they had this...
	I took the high-speed train in Sweden between Stockholm and Gothenburg.
	And they took this...
	But then the train stopped in the middle of the trip because there was a cow on the track.
	But be that as it may...
	The old train took like an hour longer, and it was a luxurious train.
	This train they have, which is one of the ones that swivels on the track, makes you sick when you get on it.
	It's like a nauseating ride.
	It's horrible.
	They don't need these kinds of high-speed rails in these very short trip areas.
	I mean, where are you going to be going from and to that you need high-speed rail in England?
	If you can think of a place, I can't.
	Oxford to London.
	New Key.
	We need to go to New Key to party.
	Yeah.
	But they put it out anyway because it was important because it was again the liberals in the parliament thinking it's a great thing to do.
	They put it out for bid.
	The French came in with a reasonable bid, probably what it would cost.
	It would have kept the money within the EU because there's supposed to be all these partnerships that go on within the EU and the French should have gotten that contract.
	Can I give you the answer?
	Can I just give you the answer now that I've found it?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	That was one side of the deal.
	On the other side of the deal, up to 12 billion pounds close, a gas supply contract Was unveiled by major UK firms during the Premier's visit.
	The deal will provide state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation, CNOOC, with liquefied natural gas for 20 years.
	Meanwhile, Royal Dutch Shell extended an agreement with CNOOC to work on energy projects around the world.
	In other words, it's about the gas.
	It's not at all about the stupid trains.
	Okay, this brings in two other points.
	I don't think it's just about the gas.
	I also think the Chinese lowballed the French.
	I mean, there's no way the French are going to go.
	Oh, no, but they do that everywhere.
	Of course they lowball the French.
	Yeah, that's a lowball operation.
	Yeah, of course, of course.
	Whatever it is, we'll just lower the price hell with it.
	We don't care.
	And Rolls-Royce also got a deal to build stuff for the nuclear reactors.
	Well, they're putting a nuclear reactor and the Chinese are taking this gas.
	That means there's going to be fracking all over England.
	Yes!
	It's a huge scandal if you watch the four overseas reports.
	Yes!
	The French will not do this, by the way.
	No, no.
	The French have said no to fracking, so they're not going to have their country all shaking and rattling and rolling.
	Now, this is a mess.
	What is wrong with England?
	Well, have you ever been there?
	It doesn't take long.
	You lived there for a couple of years, you figure it out.
	It's no more or less that's wrong here.
	It's just we're much bigger.
	We're just bigger.
	We're fracking all over the place, but it doesn't really bother me here.
	And we can put the high-speed rail in.
	You know, we have that high-speed rail line they want to put in between San Francisco and Bakersfield.
	That's going to pack them in.
	Oh, yeah.
	Big hit.
	Yeah, honey, what are you going to do this afternoon?
	I'm going to take the high-speed rail to Fresno.
	What are you going to do in Fresno?
	Well, nothing.
	Well, this is very interesting, the things that are happening.
	Just staying in Europe for a moment.
	And then we should thank some people.
	But...
	Now, there's two major presidencies up for grabs.
	And I think I made a mistake.
	Now, I believe that Hela Thorna Jurgensen, whatever her name is, the girl from Denmark, that she will become president of the EU. But she will not...
	The two jobs that are up for grabs are Haiku Herman's job.
	That's the one that she will get.
	Then the other one is Barroso's job.
	And that is the one that Merkel, who of course really is the president of the EU, she's really running the show, she wants Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Central Bank dude, To take over the Barroso job, which Cameron doesn't want, and Cameron is now saying, oh, we're going to leave the EU if you bring that guy in.
	In fact, today, now the press is getting in on it, because that has to be fun.
	Which article is there?
	This is the Daily Mail, of course, if you want something accurate, is quoting the Cameron camp as saying, this Jean-Claude Juncker guy, he drinks cognac for breakfast.
	He's a drunk.
	We can't have him running the EU. And I have a picture of him eating and his wine glass is being filled up and he's ogling this wine glass like, fill it up more, more, I want more.
	They're calling him a drunk.
	That's good.
	A little slander, a little smear.
	It's good.
	So Cameron, he might as well just get ready to leave.
	He has to leave the EU, not the UK. He has to get out.
	He's completely messed it up.
	Then we have, and I'm a little concerned about this, the Euroskeptic parties have not completely joined all forces.
	As Nigel Farage and UKIP, that was the whole point, is to have all these Euroskeptic parties bond together in the European Parliament, have a bloc vote that they could take over some power.
	Unfortunately, Le Pen and Wilders have been cut out of the deal.
	So now it's Farage with UKIP and the Swedes and some French members of European Parliament, but not Le Pen and Wilders.
	And now you've got to question Farage.
	Why would he cut those guys out of the deal?
	Well, that is a good one.
	I don't know.
	Why?
	Well, for one, I know one thing.
	He's not going to get as big a block as he wanted.
	I thought Le Pen's party was pretty powerful.
	You know what?
	Because people called her dad a neo-Nazi?
	Because Wilders apparently hates Muslims?
	I mean, what is the deal?
	All of a sudden, now he's holier than thou?
	Well, I know that Farage is paranoid about the name-calling.
	You know, when they say, oh, it's a Nazi party, it's a fascist, a bunch of fascists, you know, they're essentially a form of libertarianism the way I see it.
	But there's a lot of skinny heads in the UKIP and that sort of thing.
	And I think he's like, so he wants to distance himself because I think he's...
	He's more interested in the English success in England so he can become prime minister.
	Good point.
	He doesn't even care about the...
	He thinks they use a bunch of bullcrap anyway.
	Good point.
	Well, there you have it.
	Let's keep it at that analysis.
	He doesn't really care about Europe.
	He only cares about England.
	And honestly, that's all he ever talks about.
	Yeah.
	No, he's a nationalist.
	And then in Poland, this is pretty cool.
	You won't hear much about this.
	There was an audio tape revealed by a Polish magazine of the...
	Interior Minister of Poland and the Central Bank Chief of Poland, in this recording, which was made last July in a private room of a Warsaw restaurant, the two men were discussing how the Central Bank would help the government out of its economic troubles if it's heading for election defeat.
	So they're kind of stacking the deck, like, hey, we'll do this for you guys if you do this for us.
	And so it looks like we might have snap elections very quickly in Poland, because this is a huge scandal.
	And then the authorities tried to raid the magazine's offices and grab all of their files, and of course, rightfully so, the editor of the magazine is making a big stink about it.
	He says, oh, okay, what are we now, in Nazi Germany?
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	Well, that makes sense, and now we should be investigating all central bankers and their connections to the political establishment.
	Yeah, well, that would include us, big time.
	All right, well, I'm tired now.
	Okay, well, let's take a look at it.
	Let's thank some...
	It was good.
	Well, it...
	It was impounding the same oil drum, but...
	Hey, hey, hey-o!
	I hate to say it, but...
	If all your evidence leads to the same thing, the same oil drum you pound...
	It's turf, it's resources, and hookers.
	You have no choice.
	I wish we could find some of the hookers that it was about.
	They don't seem to pop up anymore.
	The hookers thing is...
	Yeah, I know.
	It actually makes it less interesting.
	Alright, let's thank a few people who gave us some help.
	We got a lot of executive producers today.
	Oh, really?
	And there seemed to be like a run.
	A bunch of people realized that for $200, they can get us to say stuff.
	Yeah.
	Oh, is it one of those?
	All right.
	So there was a number of interesting $200 donations that came in.
	But a lot of the donations have these messages.
	And we are obliged by our own rules to read them, and we'll take up some time.
	Yes, so to reiterate, executive producers and associate executive producers, these are the people who have helped out the most on each individual episode.
	Just like Hollywood, we give you a credit.
	After the opening of the show, we're still somewhere after the opening of the show, they are actual legitimate credits, and in our case, since we don't have, you know, you can't hang out with the actors or anything, we will read your notes on the air.
	And we do edit some of them, you know, a little bit, because some of them get burdensomely weird.
	I want to mention that anyone who gives anything at $5.10 and $12, we look at those, I mean, those are all, and people put notes there sometimes.
	We read all that to each other, and those are just, they're just as useful, and I don't want to dissuade anyone from, you know, donating $14.
	But Sir Don Tommaso de Toronto from Kettleby, Ontario, came in with a show number of 628, and John and Adam catching up in the old shows where you opened on the war, you opened, opined, on the war on men.
	The man-hating version of misogynist is misandrist.
	And if you hate everyone, kind of like John, you're a misanthrope.
	Dvorak!
	Here's my donation for episode 628.
	Greetings from the Northlands and TYFYC. Thank you for your courage.
	Thank you for your courage.
	I'd like to love some karma.
	Oh, absolutely.
	Don Tommaso di Taranto, as requested during his nighting.
	You've got karma.
	Thank you very much.
	And he will be the sole member of the 628 Club today.
	Marvin Britton in Bellevue, Nebraska, 44444.
	May want to warn Adam to find the Manning clip I'm asking for.
	It's been a while since it's been played in a case.
	Quattro Cinco donation.
	It should be Cinco Quattro, it seems to me.
	Don't you think?
	I don't know.
	It's, you know, anyway, is it okay to say I punched my wife in the mouth a while ago?
	I'm a long-time boner and my wife has been the voice of guilt about my lack of donations.
	We both decided to forego a couple of gift opportunities to each other to pool the money and make a decent repayment of value for value.
	Thank you for the infotainment.
	Can we get a de-douching, a short version of the whoop-em with the Constitution and a general karma?
	Absolutely.
	That's Marvin and Peggy Britton from Bellevue, Nebraska, who have foregone giving each other gifts for a while.
	That's sweet.
	This is a gift.
	It's the gift that keeps on giving.
	Well, that's really appreciated, guys, for sure.
	You've been de-douched.
	Whoop it! .
	You've got karma.
	Sir David Foley, our old buddy there, the Duke of, the Grand Duke of the United States, as a matter.
	I still feel bad.
	We have not received a GMO for him yet.
	It was over a year before we got one for Pelsmacher.
	Well, we're waiting for it.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, so we could get Foley!
	I don't know if we have.
	Do we have a Foley?
	I don't think we have Foley, you know.
	Anyway, 3.30, 3.33 in the morning, John.
	I was truly impressed with your on-the-fly breakdown last week.
	Please shoot some of that amazing No Agenda Karma my way as my newest product starts shipping in volume.
	Here you go.
	We are shooting you the karma.
	You've got karma.
	Grand Duke of the United States of Gitmo Nation.
	I'm assuming that's a 4K streaming device.
	Well, and, yeah, was it?
	Yeah, it must be.
	4kspecial.com.
	Is that it?
	Jessica Wyatt, 33333 in San Antonio, Texas.
	And she wrote in a little note.
	She sent this, it came in as a check, directly to the post office, Box 339, El Cerrito, California, 94530.
	And she sent a note that was actually the envelope.
	It was kind of a weird thing.
	You had to tear the envelope open carefully, a handwritten note, and then a card that contained a very cute card.
	Caricature of the two of us.
	Oh?
	Which I will send a scan of to you.
	Oh, that's nice.
	Yeah, it's very cute, actually.
	And it vaguely looks like us both, too.
	Hello, my favorite talking people.
	First off, thank you for mentioning my husband and giving him a birthday shout-out.
	This is handwritten, by the way.
	She writes small.
	A few shows ago, it really took him by surprise.
	We enjoyed your Detroit-Japan reports and look forward to having more of your travel ventures.
	If I may, I would like to ask for travel karma.
	We will be leaving for Japan on June 28th.
	Oh, that's right.
	Returning July 10th.
	We're going to go to Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyo, so and so on.
	Well, you definitely need to go to Osaka.
	And she wants some pointers.
	Yes.
	Also, my husband would like to request a Trains Good, Planes Bad, and a Chemtrails.
	I'm hoping to surprise him, again, by getting him a Lucky Show 333 producer credit.
	So this goes to her husband, who is Andrew.
	She's very serious about this Tokyo trip because she did email me and said, do you have any tips?
	And she said, while you were there, did you have the I don't know if I ate that.
	I might have.
	She's really into it.
	Okay.
	Well, let me finish your note.
	Lucky is the name of her cat, so that's a double win in my book.
	And as an aside, have you all received any more kale in your healthy surprise lately?
	I guess she's a subscriber.
	I haven't.
	I suspect kale shortage, and I miss it.
	Please.
	Anywho, thank you for your courage and karma.
	Please give producer credit to my husband, which is Andrew, and she needs the trains and chemtrails karma.
	Okay.
	And I do have one tip.
	When you're in the Tokyo train subway system, you stand to the left to let people pass by.
	When you're in the Osaka train subway system, you stand to the right to let people pass by.
	Jeez.
	Fact!
	That's a fact!
	Fact!
	All aboard!
	Trains good!
	Planes bad!
	Woohoo!
	Chemtrails!
	You've got karma.
	There you go.
	And we will quote him.
	We will credit him for this donation.
	Jason Kiefer, Tallahassee, Florida, 3333.
	Another thing that came in directly to the box.
	I provided quintuple threes for disaster release from your recent donation drought.
	Hope this reaches you guys by show 627.
	Guess not.
	I've never used and refused to use PayPal.
	That's the check you are receiving.
	This is not quite enough to fully pay back from being a boner since you guys started taking donations.
	I've been listening from nearly the beginning.
	I'm currently a grad student getting by and trying to break through the grossly oversaturated market in the field of meteorology.
	Too many graduates with degrees, not enough jobs, and employers want comprehensive skill sets they demand to have developed somehow in college.
	The global warming climate change industry is huge.
	Well, he's got to find one of these guys.
	He's got to salute the climate change god.
	If you want a job.
	One day I hope to achieve knighthood.
	I've never been formally douchebagged.
	Use your discretion as to whether I should have a de-douching.
	However, if you don't mind, I could use some karma for, well, everything.
	Thank you for making the best podcast in the universe one of my primary sources of entertainment and my primary lens into the seriously screwed up world that we live in today.
	Alright, karma for you as requested.
	Happy to bring it to you.
	You've got karma for you.
	Onward!
	Blake Israel, 284.70 in Los Angeles, California.
	Mac and cheese for you two slaves for a year.
	39 cents a box times 365 times 2.
	It comes out to $2.84.70.
	Yeah, the 39-cent stuff is the stuff we really like to press.
	I really love that.
	It's there.
	This is mac and cheese, karma for all!
	You slaves can get used to mac and cheese.
	Mac and cheese.
	Mac and cheese.
	Cheese macaroni and cheese cheddar melted together.
	Mac and cheese.
	Mac and cheese.
	Living the mac and cheese life.
	Mac and cheese.
	By Ayn Rand.
	You've got karma.
	Chris Hefley in Galleon, Ohio, $250.
	Hey, Getty and Alex, I figured since the time, this time last year, I asked for front row Rush ticket karma and it worked.
	There is no tour this year.
	There is time to direct my...
	Yeah, this is the guy who wants to know what you think of Rush, the band.
	Anyway, he wants to direct his hard-earned money to the best podcast in the universe, especially after listening to John give us the alternatives of what we'd have to listen to if this show were to go away in episode 625.
	I want to avoid this and any douchebagger that comes with not donating.
	Can I get a don't laugh jingle and don't laugh?
	Don't laugh.
	And a general karma for everybody, especially you two.
	I don't know what I'd do without the show.
	Do I have to answer that?
	Yeah, I think so.
	I like Rush.
	I'm not a Rushie.
	I'm not one of those people who are crazy.
	It's a Canadian group.
	It's still in business, I think, right?
	Oh, yeah.
	They tour all the time.
	That's what they do.
	And then people who are really into Rush proclaim them without shame or question as the best band ever.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's always been baffling to me that anyone would make that assertion.
	I mean, they're a good band, but I don't seem, you know.
	John at Curry.com, everybody.
	Don't laugh.
	Why are you laughing?
	Shut up.
	You've got karma.
	Shut up.
	Helen Barber in Willeton, Perth.
	Western Australia, our favorite place.
	230-678.
	This donation is to mark my birthday on Monday, 23-678.
	Hence, 23-678.
	I want to hear Adam talk about Orange is the New Black.
	John, you keep shutting him down each time he tries to talk about it.
	One or more of its writers is clearly a member of the No Agenda family.
	Did you see the episode about Cindy, the TSA agent?
	Yeah.
	The dope-smoking TSA agent.
	Yeah, and iPad stealing.
	Yeah, so that's the last episode I've seen.
	I've seen up to episode six, and I guess there's 13 in this series.
	And quite honestly, we haven't sat down to watch any more yet.
	It's not been compelling.
	Do you see any possibility that one of the writers is a no-agenda listener?
	They usually signal it somehow or some shape or form.
	No.
	Not yet.
	The signals would be very obvious.
	There would have to be a 33...
	An in-the-morning combo.
	In-the-morning.
	That would do it, yeah.
	Yeah, in-the-morning with a 33 combo, something like that.
	Yeah, that would be the key.
	But just because other people are on to this fact that TSA is not necessarily there to protect you from box-cutting, boob-bomb-wielding terrorists, that doesn't necessarily mean they listen to No Agenda.
	I would just say, be happy at least some people also have a clue.
	But mind you, this is on Netflix.
	This is not on ABC or CBS or NBC. It's Netflix.
	That should give you a clue.
	Yeah.
	You're not going to see this necessarily on the big networks, where you are meant to remain indoctrinated and kept stupid.
	Ryan Spletzer in Midland, Michigan, 22222.
	I wanted to show my support after the show 625's Lack of Producers, which you guys do on a twice-weekly basis.
	Saves me tons of time, not to mention my...
	Sanity!
	By not having to watch the lamestream media, I'm glad to hear the Synergy project came up on the show.
	Wow, a lot of people responded to that.
	Yeah.
	I'm a fellow developer and a heavy user of the Synergy program and like this show.
	It deserves the support of its users to keep it going.
	Support your software developers and make quality open source products.
	Can you get a George Clooney's Spy Karma?
	Absolutely, Ryan.
	Thank you very much for mentioning that.
	Yes, support your independent developers, people.
	George Clooney's Is a spy!
	You've got karma.
	Rob Wales in Concord West, New South Wales.
	Another Aussie coming in at 2202.
	Back home in Oz after a three-week holiday in the States, I have a few observations to make.
	Chemtrails everywhere crisscrossing the sky.
	Fluoride working well.
	Everyone was polite, friendly, and calm.
	Almost no aggro at all.
	Medical marijuana in California also working well.
	The homeless just get stoned and hang out and sell a bit of their stash to make some easy money.
	Coffee, very ordinary.
	I couldn't get a rich, creamy cappuccino anywhere, and the coffee, you went to Starbucks.
	The coffee wasn't bad, but nothing to write home about.
	Perhaps they should introduce real, unadulterated cow's milk to the market.
	Hello!
	You'd love to taste a full cream milk Medical adds on...
	Oh, okay.
	You love the taste.
	You would, actually.
	When you go to Italy and you have a cappuccino, it's made with foam.
	Oh, my goodness.
	But they make it with 2% at the Starbucks and all these other places because it foams up faster.
	However...
	I have a cappuccino machine.
	I have done this.
	With a real full...
	With all that grease and normal milk, it takes forever to foam it up.
	However, when you order a cappuccino in the Italian caffaria, they do give you that look like...
	Why are you ruining this perfectly good coffee with milk?
	Well, they'd prefer you drink double espressos.
	Exactly.
	Medical ads on TV, they work.
	My son-in-law was wanting to buy one of the drugs being promoted.
	He reckons it sounds cool.
	Pawn shops and payday lenders everywhere seem like there was one on every corner in some places.
	There's a sign of the times that ever there was.
	TSA varies from place to place.
	I like this report, by the way.
	Yeah, it's a good report.
	Yeah, TSA varies from place to place.
	Coming in took hours to get through immigration to baggage collection.
	By the way, I need to say something important, people.
	TSA is not the same as Customs and Border Protection.
	The people who look at your passport are not TSA. I'm always baffled why people...
	Ah, TSA! You can look at your shit when you come into the country!
	No, TSA is Transportation Security Administration for Internal Use Before You Get Into the Safe Side of the Terminal, Customs Border Protection, CPB. They do work for the Department of Homeland Security.
	They have guns.
	And they're the ones sitting in the booth being rude to you when you try to enter our country.
	How dare you?
	Right.
	Well, anyway, he seems to be going from place to place within the country, so these are mostly TSA comments.
	Bob Hope in Burbank was great, reminding me of travel pre-WTC bombing.
	Vegas was a pain.
	Our line was so long for the body scan machines, the lady decided to put us through the metal detector, which moved much more quickly.
	He says mental detector, actually.
	Yeah, he says mental detector.
	Still, I had to take off my shoes and belt.
	SFO and LAX, same thing.
	Lines everywhere.
	People in a fancy dress, i.e.
	military uniform, shouting and waving everywhere, and I nearly lost my pants when I had to take my belt off.
	I go to listen to the show live for the first time, but I'm not happy with John.
	I was staying on a houseboat in Sausalito, kept waving across the bay, but he just ignored me and didn't wave back.
	Okay.
	And that would be Rob Wales.
	People do love you.
	It's obvious.
	They'd like to wave at me.
	We should get out of the way.
	Hans Peter Fjeld.
	Hans Peter Fjeld.
	Fjeld.
	Hans Peter Fjeld.
	In Oslo.
	$200.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Thor told me he was going to donate, so I figured I could not be any worse than him.
	Karma, please.
	Karma accepted and supplied.
	You've got karma.
	Karma accepted.
	Simon Alicia in Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia.
	Another Aussie.
	$200.
	It's Aussie Day!
	Did they open up the T1 line to Australia or something?
	Oh, we can download again!
	As my primary news source, you guys save me endless hours of time and deliver the truth, if not just critical thinking.
	Please give me a good shot at karma with the chaser of WTC7 won't go away.
	You've got karma.
	WTC7 won't go away.
	Then in Sedgefield, Cleveland, UK is Eddie Catflip.
	Or Catflap.
	Catflap.
	That's a bullcrap name.
	Sounds legit.
	Dear John and Adam, I've been boning you guys for so long.
	I'm lucky this isn't a child support payment.
	I decided to send you what I would have spent on beer and wine had England made it any further.
	See, I told you it's a disaster that they ran out of cocaine in the UK. Yeah, well, that's why they couldn't get anywhere in the World Cup.
	You get.
	Mike DeCock.
	DeCock.
	Mike DeCock.
	DeCock.
	In Chandler, Arizona.
	In the morning, I just short note to thank you for the great show and call out to people who make a producer-level donation.
	He says he wants to make a call-out to people who make a producer-level donation.
	Few things are as thrilling as being able to make your favorite host read your note on the air.
	I can even make John say, I'm a little teapot.
	Wait a minute.
	Wait a minute.
	You didn't do that.
	Let's do that with a little echo just to make it cool.
	You want me to do the echo?
	You want me to do the echo?
	No, no.
	I'll do the echo.
	You do the read.
	Okay.
	A few things are as thrilling as being able to make your favorite host on your air read your note on the air.
	I can even make John say, I'm a little teapot.
	It was funnier the first time.
	I could have done it myself.
	Give up the great work and some general karma to all the listeners.
	Absolutely.
	Thank you so much, Mr.
	Dukak.
	You've got karma.
	You've got karma.
	Thor Lee!
	So Thor, from Oslo, came in with $200, and he said, In the morning, John and Adam, long-time boner, first-time donor, thanks for a great show, and got to say thank you for relieving me of reading mainstream media, and for the laughs!
	Oh my god, that's amazing, cracks me up too!
	And I believe it's from Borderlands 2, or it sounds like Ashley Birch, who is voice acting Tiny Tine in Borderlands 2.
	Now we might as well talk about this briefly here, This is from the cartoon Archer.
	And Archer is, it's kind of a wacky cartoon.
	I think it was like an Adult Swim or something.
	And it's interesting because there's a call back to ISIS in there.
	They have like the International Spies Intelligence Service or something.
	There's a lot of stuff that kind of crosses over.
	And someone just clipped this one particular bit out and sent it to us.
	But it works really well.
	Oh my god, that is amazing!
	From Archer.
	Yes, that's one of our favorites.
	Onward.
	Last but not least, this is actually his real name, is Surface of FEMA 5.
	I think that's what the name he wants us to use.
	Okay.
	And he sent a note, and this came in over the mail.
	It's been a couple of months since my last donation, and my boner was starting to show.
	Along with my donation, you shall find a no-agenda...
	Coffee mug.
	Yes, he sent a coffee mug.
	It's a very pretty one, too.
	Sorry, Adam, I only had one to spare.
	That's all right.
	In other words, I got the coffee mug.
	May I get a Jobs Karma and Don't Raff?
	Writing to you from FEMA Region 5, Chicago, where the speed cameras keep the slaves in line.
	Okay, so he wants a Don't Raff and a Jobs Karma?
	Yeah, I guess so.
	Okay, we can do that.
	Not a problem.
	Don't laugh.
	Why are you laughing?
	Shut up.
	You've got karma.
	Shut up.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for...
	Do you find it odd?
	I mean, this, of course, is a function of the random number theory that we do get these multiple requests for the same out of the blue sound effect.
	Like, we haven't had Don't Raff for weeks on end.
	Well, that's why.
	I'm convinced that people sit around going, Hey, man, he didn't play Don't Raff again.
	I gotta go request it.
	Anyway, that concludes our group of great associate and executive associate producers, executive producers and associate executive producers for show 628.
	We do have a show coming up on Thursday, 629.
	Dvorak.org slash NA would be the place to go to jump on board.
	Yes, indeed.
	And we say congratulations to Stephen Schwartz.
	Kilo Alpha 5, Whiskey Juliet Yankee.
	Adam and John, you inspired me to get back into ham radio after several years off the air.
	Today I pass the exam for extra.
	Woo!
	That's the top of the bill.
	Thank you for your courage.
	73's to you, Stephen.
	Kilo Alpha 5, Whiskey Juliet Yankee.
	That's right.
	The No Agenda Show.
	Single-handedly bringing back ham radio into en vogue.
	And I'll give my call letters, too.
	Kevin Johnson 6, Liquid Natural Gas.
	Yeah.
	So we're like, is John really going to get on D-Star?
	Really, do you think he's going to get on D-Star?
	The ICOM guy, Ray, is like, hey, is John getting on D-Star?
	I'll play if the ICOM guy can set me up.
	You have no shame!
	I'm perfect.
	All right, everybody, please continue to do one very important thing.
	Your mission is to go out and propagate our formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Order! Order!
	Shut up, slave!
	Shut up, slave!
	Before we continue, I see you've got some fun clips, uh...
	Which, of course, I never hear the clips before the show.
	I have no idea what they...
	Well, I've got a couple of fun clips.
	You want to use a little segue of some humor?
	Well, I was just going to throw a couple things by you just to wrap up some housekeeping.
	Okay.
	One, thank you everybody for letting me know and apparently reminding John that the Reverend Melissa Scott, who sounds like Kimberly Kagan, used to be a porn star who went by the name of Barbie Bridges.
	And special thanks to the producers who took the extra effort to send me pictures.
	You are good doobies indeed.
	It's funny, and John says, oh yeah, I knew that.
	What?
	You didn't bring that up on the show.
	You know, for some reason I lost track of it.
	I didn't know it, though.
	Wow.
	And that's true.
	She really was a porn star.
	Yeah, that's how Jean Scott met her.
	Saved her.
	Turned to her minister.
	Yeah, she got saved all right.
	I'll bet she did.
	Thank you again to everyone who's been working diligently on having all of the plethora of podcast apps update to our feed, our new feed, which has been new for over two years.
	And thank you to, well, the Roku app now also has been updated.
	And sometimes it's a pain.
	Like the Roku guy, he had to resubmit his app to have the feed updated.
	And he says it could take two weeks.
	Anyway, that got fixed, so that's updated.
	Farmer Chris says, yeah, hey, he's very happy because now he's getting the show on his, whatever the name of that app was.
	I forget the name.
	And very important news, a bit technology-oriented.
	I learned something, which I actually wrote about and blogged about.
	You probably didn't see it, John.
	We've been using BitTorrent Sync for quite a while now and promoting its use as a The future of large media distribution.
	And I think it's been working quite well.
	People have been...
	I've heard no complaints from anyone who's gone on board.
	Well, there's a problem.
	Uh-oh.
	And I received an email from...
	And I replied immediately, but have not heard back...
	From someone at BitTorrent support...
	And here's what she said.
	Analyzing my debug logs made me think the problem, and the problem is apparently a lot of people are setting this up, and nothing happens.
	Nothing comes into the folder.
	The problem is caused by maximum number of peers allowed to connect being reached.
	This forced me to write you in order to investigate this issue.
	I don't think this person is a native English speaker.
	The thing is that only 50 peers are allowed to be connected to one share.
	In other words, once you have created a secret and shared it with others, only 50 devices can get connected to it.
	I suppose you spread your podcast all over the world and it's popular with a lot of people.
	I receive reports from the United States, Australia, all over the world.
	So when some U.S. clients close their devices or get disconnected, then other people, like people in Australia, can get connected and vice versa.
	I hope the situation is clear.
	Well, hello, BitTorrent.
	Unfortunately, the situation is all too clear.
	What the fuck?
	The whole idea...
	And you should name it something else other than BitTorrent Sync.
	The whole thinking is, if we all keep our clients up and running, we're actually going to help propagate the network.
	But if you have a 50 peer limit, what?
	No wonder it's not working.
	I turn my BitTorrent client on, it fills up with 50 people in 3 seconds.
	I think maybe...
	Maybe you can then get bounced around and pick it up from another one, but I'm hearing everybody's got at least 50 peers connected to them all the time.
	So either there's a...
	At best, there's a marketing mistake you're making here.
	I thought that they were doing something really great.
	It turns out they're just doing kind of a Dropbox.
	What is this?
	This is very disappointing.
	I didn't know this.
	This is all news to me.
	And if you look into the documentation, it mentions nothing about a limitation.
	Nothing in the FAQs.
	I found nothing on the forums.
	Well, why would they do that?
	Because BitTorrent itself doesn't have a limitation, does it?
	No, not that I know of.
	So the only thing I can think of, and this would be very disappointing, but the only thing I can think of is that there's a business model in their forum.
	Oh, you want more than 50 people?
	Now you have to pay for it.
	That's all I can think of.
	Why else would you do it?
	And is it 50 only to the originator of the secret key?
	Or is it 50 for every single peer that's connected?
	And maybe we do indeed need more peers?
	Because I know this problem really only started to get serious in the past couple of weeks.
	Yeah, because we've got more people using it.
	Yeah, but we've had more than 50 people for a long, long time.
	50 was maybe the first show, even.
	So it must be 50 per person who's actually connected.
	So either...
	I don't know if it helps if we can get more people...
	Do we need more people sharing or have more people disconnecting?
	I don't know.
	And I... Do you have a discussion underway?
	Are you in talks with the company?
	No, because I replied immediately and said, oh, well, holy crap, what do we do?
	What's the deal?
	What is the limitation?
	I get no reply.
	So then I write it up on my blog.
	I tweet it.
	I direct my tweet at the CEO of BitTorrent, who has raised his hand in the past.
	He's gone silent.
	What is it?
	We're like the number one promoters of this.
	And I feel boned.
	Well, you know actually what happened, right?
	You did make the fuss.
	You did point it in the right direction.
	They did get the message, and now they're having meetings.
	It's a company now.
	So nobody's saying anything until they're out of the meeting.
	Okay.
	Well, I hope they understand that I love this idea.
	And I'm okay with, you know, if we have...
	Look, I don't mind paying for software development or something.
	I mean, if it's going to be a license fee, that's probably not going to work for us because, you know, the whole idea of broadcasting podcasting is that the more people you have on board, the less your distribution should cost.
	And, of course, it's exactly the opposite, right?
	With bandwidth as well.
	The more listeners you have, the more infrastructure, the more bandwidth, the more you have to pay, which we do ourselves, I might point out.
	Yes, we have a system.
	Yeah.
	But it still has, it does have an upside limitation, and then it starts to become outrageously expensive.
	I mean, NBC... You know, you can't do it.
	You can't do anything.
	I mean, you can do download and play, but streaming or this sort of distribution mechanism where you'd hope that It was some sort of system that people shared.
	I mean, essentially, you know, the idea between BitTorrent is that there's so many people that are out there, they all have this piece of a file, and they share it.
	And what's interesting is, I'm just looking at the chat room, and they're saying, no, you need to seed, you need to seed.
	No, you don't understand.
	This is not the same as a torrent, apparently.
	We've been misled, I don't think, on purpose.
	But the whole, because the name BitTorrent is in, the way I viewed it is, this is essentially BitTorrent, where instead of going through the hassle of creating a torrent, uploading the torrent to a tracker, you know, which pretty much kills, you know, and then having someone, you know, download with a client.
	Crap!
	It says you install this thing, it works and feels and smells like Dropbox.
	Beautiful!
	Except it works like BitTorrent.
	That's what I understood this to be.
	Now it turns out they have a limitation on it, which is in fact very similar to Dropbox, where there is a limitation on how many people you can share your box with, unless you get into enterprise-level distribution.
	So, if all I need to know is, A... Is this limitation removable?
	If yes, what are the resources and are costs associated with it?
	I say resources specifically, because maybe the way it's set up, you know, it would flood my mind.
	I don't know.
	Who knows?
	Let me know.
	B, can we help build the distribution by indeed having more people connect and have their 50 fill up?
	Or do we need to have people disconnect from So that other people can come on board.
	Which is kind of the message I was getting.
	Is until people get kicked off or leave, other people can't come on.
	Which is counterintuitive to this thing that lives either in your system tray or in your applications menu.
	And it's kind of supposed to live there all the time.
	So you don't turn that off.
	This will resolve.
	I think your initial kind of sense might be correct.
	It's a business model.
	They see the success of Dropbox, and they really don't have a business model for BitTorrent per se, and that would make anyone a billionaire, which is what you want to do if you're living around here.
	Apparently, it's the only way that I guess you can get by.
	And they may have something going on and we're just unaware of it.
	Now we're going to find out.
	It will be within the next couple shows we'll have an answer back.
	I think they're just formulating something to tell you.
	Okay.
	And then I just have one thing for you, my friend.
	And I haven't pointed to it.
	I won't tweet it.
	I don't like that they do this particularly, but your most recent speech in Detroit was videoed and put online.
	Okay.
	And I'm not even going to say what it was because then people could find it.
	And I don't like that because I feel that's kind of...
	It's proprietary to you and it's kind of your speech and you're going to do it more times.
	Well, there's two things.
	One, I agree to do that.
	And I don't normally like the idea either.
	But one of the things that goes on with speakers bureaus, and I haven't been doing a lot of speeches recently because the speakers bureaus, they've changed their style.
	I mean, this happens all the time.
	They say, well, we need a video of you.
	Oh, they need to have that, right.
	Oh, so we can show that how incredibly great your pen joke is.
	So they need a video, and so I'm always looking.
	I had some old videos, but they're so dated, I mean, you know.
	And then there will be a Macintosh, and it will be available to all.
	Well, I do have a...
	It'll take the lease, it will no longer be sold!
	I do have a comment on your speech.
	It made me very sad.
	Oh, it was a depressing speech.
	Yes.
	And you email me separately.
	I hadn't even told you about this.
	And somewhere in the...
	Sometimes we have a little back and forth about a clip or something.
	And you said, yes, we are minutes from the meltdown.
	Luckily, I don't see a triggering mechanism yet.
	And I'm just like...
	And I had to think about this.
	And I've been walking around for a day or two thinking, you know, it really is...
	The crux of...
	The conclusion, I think, of a lot of what you were saying in your speech, and it's a very good speech, it's fun because you take us through a circular journey where, if you don't mind me just paraphrasing, where we start out where we as computer users were mastered, we had to suck the dick of the masters of the computer in the cloud.
	To get computer time.
	Please read my punch card!
	And we've come full circle.
	And it's gotten so bad, we now don't even use a computer.
	We use a little tiny piece of glass that fits in our hand.
	And we're still slaves to the master of the cloud.
	Yeah, that's pretty much the story.
	But of course, the way you tell it is beautiful, but very depressing.
	Well, I don't know how well the audience was mic'd, but I got...
	You got some good questions at the end.
	And I had a lot of people laughing at my material, which is what the goal is.
	If I don't get a laugh, I'm always a little bummed.
	But I got a lot of response.
	Everybody was in agreement with the thesis, which is that...
	And we've talked about it on the show.
	We've devolved.
	The whole scene has devolved into Facebook.
	Tweets and, you know, just nonsense.
	Everything...
	Would you like to sign in using your Facebook is the more recent thing that bugs me the most.
	I go to somebody's website and they say, you have to register.
	You can't look at this stuff.
	Okay.
	Would you like to use your Facebook to sign in?
	No!
	This isn't Facebook.
	Why should I even think about that?
	Why does anybody ask that question?
	What kind of deal does Facebook do with these little websites?
	It's a scam.
	Well, there's a lot going on there, obviously.
	Which I said, Netflix and Facebook is all about.
	We've just deteriorated.
	All of the tech reporting now is just about what color the new phone is and what new phone just came out and what new feature this one phone has.
	Ooh, it's got a 3D screen.
	Woo!
	We go on and on about it.
	Who cares?
	But what's really sad is that if you know the, really the history, and that's what you tell so well because you witness a lot of it, the history of the personal computing revolution and how we were going to have such control over what we could do with these nifty devices and how we have let that slip away so easily into, you know, worshipping apps and It's just sad.
	Yeah.
	It's sad.
	Anyway, the good news is, on this show, we still have such an instantaneous communication mechanism, and it's working so seamlessly that we can get this kind of thing while we're doing the show live.
	Fuck!
	There you go.
	Foley.
	John Fletcher to the rescue.
	John Fletcher, our man who can scream better than anybody.
	Essentially, John Fogerty.
	And I have one final, and then I'll shut up.
	I spoke to a guy who had not spoken for a long time.
	He's kind of a New York media executive.
	I knew him from the MTV days.
	He called me on something unrelated.
	And we were kind of catching up.
	And he says, oh, I did this documentary that never saw the light of day.
	And this is an Emmy Award winning guy.
	He said, what is it?
	It was John Kerry.
	It was called Inside the Bubble.
	And we were following him when he was running for president.
	But of course, he didn't win, so no documentary.
	Which tells me Kerry was financing it, but I didn't ask him.
	I said, well, tell me.
	My impression is the guy's dumb as wood.
	He says, you know what?
	Here's the thing with Kerry.
	The more you get to know him, the less you like him.
	Like, I need to quote you on that in the show.
	So yes, apparently we're pretty spot on with our analysis of Mr.
	Kerry.
	But also he said, as Secretary of State, he said that the amount, just the jet lag alone, he says, the guy, he can't be normal.
	He is a walking zombie.
	He says there's no normal human being can actually live that life and be any more than the zombie that he is.
	In fact, I wasn't going to do this.
	Do you remember that lame joke that Kerry pulled out a couple weeks ago about Churchill when people gave him a standing ovation?
	Remind me.
	He was like, Winston Churchill said the only reason people give you a standing ovation is to shift their underwear.
	And then he went on to say, but I'm sure you have much more noble reasons to give me a standing ovation.
	Oh yeah, I remember that.
	So now Kerry is late everywhere, and he's always blaming it on, I'm sorry, I can't help it, I'm busy, I'm trying to save the world in Iraq, Iraq, Iraq.
	And he did it again!
	Thank you, thank you very much.
	Thank you, thank you, thank you.
	Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
	I love it so much!
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	Oh, I love you.
	I love me.
	I'm awesome.
	I'm awesome.
	Yes!
	Thank you.
	I love me.
	Love me.
	I love me.
	Thank you.
	I'm awesome.
	Listen to this, Ed.
	This adulation is sickening.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you.
	I remind all of you that Winston Churchill said the only reason people give a standing ovation is they desperately need an excuse to shift their underwear.
	It works again.
	I have to do this all the time.
	But wait, I'll continue.
	I'm on a roll.
	I... He said that, I promise you.
	I'm proud he said that.
	What?
	But I know you had a much more noble cause in mind.
	Which would be me, of course.
	You actually love me.
	I was really baffled standing up here for a moment.
	I'm staring at this elephant.
	I kept looking around for the donkey.
	I can't find the donkey.
	Ha ha ha!
	Now people are just laughing because, like, that's dumb.
	Ha ha ha!
	Whatever.
	Don't you know?
	Ha ha!
	Oh, yes.
	Hilarious.
	Let's do more.
	I'm an equal stuffed animal opportunity guy.
	I'm an equal stuffed animal opportunity guy.
	What?
	But let's laugh anyway!
	Ha ha ha!
	I walked into the hold room back here where I had a chance to say hi to Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen and...
	Oh, you mean those guys who take money from anybody?
	Serene Highness and others, and at least they had the goodness to put us in a room where the sign above it said MAMMALS. Ha ha ha ha!
	So I fell right at home.
	Ha ha ha ha!
	What a dick!
	He's just trying to get a laugh.
	I don't think that makes him a dick.
	Oh, please.
	Come on.
	Doing old material.
	Well, I don't understand why he would do that because he gets recorded everywhere he goes.
	It's because he's so insane from the travel.
	You know, it doesn't cost that much to buy a joke writer.
	Well, that's what he thinks he can do it because he's getting that kind of laugh.
	He's like, oh, I can do this.
	I got this.
	I got it nailed.
	So there was an event this weekend, or this week, that was in Washington, D.C. It was done by your buddy Rex Reed, or whatever his name is.
	My buddy?
	Well, you know, you brought him up in the conversation a couple shows ago.
	Rex is not Rex Reed.
	Rex Reed is the gay movie critic.
	It's this other guy.
	Whatever his name is.
	Harry Reed?
	No, no, Reed, the kid, the Christian kid that got busted because he was involved with the lobbyist scandal.
	Okay.
	Well, whatever.
	I have no idea.
	The guy can still throw in events.
	We had this big event.
	They had Barbara Bachman.
	And Barbara Bachman, actually, this is a little clip of her speech.
	She was actually getting the...
	She gave the best speech.
	It was actually a rousing speech.
	But there was...
	She still makes these interesting little flaws.
	Where Hillary Clinton's foreign policy has gotten us today in the United States.
	Terrorists are on the march in Iraq.
	It was last week, this morning, when we woke up and found out that the worst of the worst, terrorists so brutal, so violent, that even Al-Qaeda has renounced them.
	They are called ISIS or ISIL. These terrorists virtually in a blitzkrieg took over one-third of Iraq in a stunning display where they have taken not only American tanks, American trucks, American high-powered weapons, they're also now reportedly taking over chemical weapon caches as well.
	A chemical weapon cachet?
	She was on a roll until she hit the...
	We're sorry.
	We have to vote you off the show!
	Cachet.
	How's your cachet doing?
	Oh, how's the chemical weapon cachet?
	I love that cachet.
	It's very beautiful.
	That's a good buzzer, by the way.
	Because my buzzer doesn't like that.
	Mine is...
	I like that buzzer better.
	Let me just hear this.
	Can you send me that buzzer?
	Because I wouldn't mind using that.
	Speaking over chemical weapon caches as well.
	That's a very good buzzer, Josh.
	Yeah, I saw parts of that speech.
	I didn't see that.
	But all she missed was saying the Al-Qaeda army.
	Yeah, she didn't say that.
	She got everything else right.
	That I recall.
	Yeah, she got everything else right.
	So I've got a couple...
	I guess just a little...
	This is the lighter part of the show right here.
	I want you to...
	What are you talking about?
	I thought the Iraqi...
	The ISIS army was...
	The Al-Qaeda army was the light part of the show.
	Yeah, that's...
	I got a couple quizzes for you.
	Oh, good.
	We love quizzes.
	What is the network?
	This is a show that's about the aliens when they invade and what we're going to do about it and all the rest of it.
	Oh, okay.
	And here's the clip, and I want you to tell me the network.
	That it ran on.
	But beyond.
	Okay.
	Alright, here we go.
	The theory is logical.
	Probes landed on the moon three years before humans did.
	NASA has sent probes to every planet in the solar system and beyond.
	If the aliens are not biological, the harvesters may not be collecting Earth's organic material for food, but for fuel.
	Processing our planet's life forms into long-lasting biofuel.
	If the invaders are simply drones, that is why they never answered our pleas for peace.
	That's why they display indifference at the destruction of intelligent life forms.
	If the aliens are machines, this may offer another tactic.
	In the case of non-biological attackers, there is one final step in the plans to fight the alien invasion.
	Somehow, we've got to get some troops inside the technology to shut the technology down, and a mission like that is definitely going to be high risk.
	The plan is simple, low-tech, and suicidal.
	Next.
	Well, this is an easy one.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Clearly, this is the Home and Garden Television Network.
	Close.
	I would say the History Channel, probably.
	Well, you know, that would make sense because most recently they haven't done anything on history.
	Yeah.
	Except unless it involves Nazi flying saucer technology.
	Yeah.
	Which is always nice.
	So this, no, this is, I think, another fine example of where this country's headed.
	This is the National Geographic Channel.
	Wow, Nat Geo, huh?
	Interesting.
	So instead of actually providing us with any useful information, we're actually doing reports that might have something to do with the National Geographic magazine, or at least the way we used to think of it.
	What happened to naked brown chicks?
	We used to watch for the boobs.
	We'd get the magazine.
	Hey, man, my parents got National Geographic Magazine.
	There's some naked boobs in there.
	Anyway, so I just thought that was...
	Well, just to give you...
	Okay, since you got that one wrong, I'm going to have to do one more.
	Oh, no!
	Yeah, one more.
	This is...
	What is the movie?
	Guess the movie.
	Oh, hold on, hold on.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
	Hold on, we have a...
	Don't we have a jingle for that?
	Yeah, we do.
	Hold on a second.
	Here we go.
	Guess that movie.
	And now it's time for another episode of Guess That Movie.
	All right, everybody.
	Time for Guess That Movie.
	It's the show where if I get wrong, my nuts get electrocuted.
	This has happened before, thousands of years ago.
	And the ancients were there to see it.
	All the great constructions.
	The Mayans, the Chinese, the Egyptians.
	They made use of the gravitational effects of the convergence.
	And they left us a map.
	Stonehenge.
	Snowden.
	Great Dormer.
	These are all coordinates taking us...
	Here.
	Greenwich.
	The walls between worlds will be almost non-existent.
	Physics is going to go ballistic.
	Increases and decreases in gravity, spatial extrusions.
	The very fabric of reality is going to be torn apart.
	I better get my pants.
	Well, this is another obvious one.
	You make it way too easy for me.
	You haven't been right ever.
	Clearly this is Ferris Bueller's day off.
	Or it could be Journey to the Center of the Earth.
	Or Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
	Yeah.
	This guy got his pants at the end.
	What?
	So, no.
	This is Thor The Dark World.
	It's on HBO or TMC or something as we speak.
	I have not seen that.
	Oh, then you're not keeping up.
	By the way, Wag the Dog apparently is playing this month on HBO. If you have not seen Wag the Dog...
	It is very apropos, and perhaps somewhat of a...
	Coincidence?
	I think not!
	...that it is playing right now on HBO. It's a message.
	Here is a quick clip speaking of conspiracy theories.
	We have a new spokeshole in the White House administration.
	For those of you who are not savvy to the American lingo, when someone's name is Josh Earnest, it is kind of like a disc jockey being named Bubba the Love Sponge.
	So, earnest means someone is forthright, upright, honest.
	And Josh is pretty much taken from the to Josh someone, or to rib someone, or to poke fun at, make fun of, or perhaps maybe lie a little bit.
	Have I explained that properly?
	That's good enough for me.
	And this is regarding the IRS emails.
	And now the reason I will stay on this...
	On this particular topic.
	In fact, I'm very happy.
	Someone sent me a link to Steve Stockman.
	Steve Stockman is a congressman.
	And this is on his congressman website at stockman.house.gov.
	And he has a little joke.
	So this is an official government website.
	The Stockman bill allows taxpayers to use same lame excuses as IRS. Stockman's bill will be known as the Dog Ate My Tax Receipts Act.
	And taxpayers who do not provide documents requested by the IRS can claim one of the following reasons.
	1.
	Dog ate my tax receipts.
	2.
	Convenient, unexplained, miscellaneous computer malfunction.
	3.
	I traded my tax receipts for five terrorists.
	Four, burned for warmth while lost in the Yukon.
	Five, left on table in Hillary's book room.
	Six, received water damage in the trunk of Ted Kennedy's car.
	That's pretty low, by the way.
	Seven, forgotten gun case sold to Mexican drunk lords.
	Eight, forced to recycle by municipal green czar.
	Nine, was short on toilet paper while camping.
	And ten, at this point, what difference does it make?
	I thought that was kind of cool.
	And I am, as an American...
	David Letterman show all of a sudden?
	Yeah, that's what...
	Well, this is Stockman.
	I like it.
	Who is he?
	What is his...
	Oh, he's from Texas.
	Oh, there you go.
	That's why I like him.
	Because, of course, they're claiming a computer glitch.
	And if anyone who has dealt with the IRS in any capacity...
	And believe me, I can't remember the last time I got a check from them...
	Yeah.
	But I have gone through the mill many...
	In fact, they came with guns in hand to my office because I... Yeah, I've got to tell it again, because they couldn't find my tax returns, even though I paid taxes in Europe.
	And it took me years.
	And salary...
	What do you call it?
	Yeah.
	They grab your money.
	They grab your money.
	You know, but they apparently can get away with murder.
	And it pisses me off.
	So anyway.
	A couple of things.
	I want to take the other side on this.
	Okay.
	Now, there's two things.
	First of all, the question that everyone really has to ask, because there's all these hearings, and I have a bunch of clips, too.
	So we'll talk about this for a few minutes.
	Okay.
	Where is the IT guy testifying?
	How come he hasn't been subpoenaed?
	Well, I think this is going to happen.
	You've probably seen now that multiple tweets and blog posts regarding the actual company, which is, let me see, SonaSoft.
	Who actually promoted the fact that they have been working for the IRS since 2005.
	In 2009 is when they started tweeting about it.
	That they provide the email archiving solution, which is, quote, ideal for small, medium, business, and government agencies.
	So, you would expect this outfit to get subpoenaed very soon.
	I would suspect they should have been by now.
	The other thing is, anyone who's...
	The real joke of this is the hard drive failures.
	I work with drive savers over in Marin County a couple of times in my life, and there's, I think, three companies that do this.
	They have literally taken drives from a burning building.
	Oh, yeah, and they can still retrieve it.
	They put them in a clean room, and they take the platters out, and then they reconstruct the drive.
	They've done it for years.
	It's very rare that there's a crash drive they can't fix.
	So that's nonsense.
	If I can just say...
	The press, because that really comes down to the media, accepted the whole concept of a glitch with healthcare.gov, and no one really did anything about that bullcrap.
	And so now, it's very easy to say, what, you have never had a computer crash?
	You've never heard of a glitch before?
	Actually, I blame the technology reporting press and media for this.
	Okay.
	You had a clip?
	Yeah, I thought you had more.
	Oh, no, no.
	Well, here's the other thing.
	So they got this new guy that's the new commissioner, this guy who's been around the block.
	He's done a lot.
	He's a hit man.
	He's a corporate turnaround guy.
	He's one of those axe guys that comes in.
	And this guy's named John Koskinen.
	He's frightening.
	He looks like a lizard.
	He doesn't blink.
	He doesn't sweat.
	He doesn't move his head.
	He doesn't grimace.
	He doesn't smile.
	He stares and watches and listens and counter.
	This guy's the greatest guy ever.
	He's pretty cool.
	He's a cool cucumber.
	He's unlappable.
	Yeah, he's a cool cucumber.
	He just sits there and listens to these guys throw it at him.
	Well, the Democrats, of course, are defending him.
	But listening to, I got a couple clips that we have to play.
	I call him Mr.
	Cool.
	Ah, okay.
	So Mr.
	Cool, here's the initial exchange, and Mr.
	Cool, who is his new nickname.
	Mr.
	Cool.
	It doesn't care.
	And do you know who in Treasury told the White House?
	Yeah, this is a great clue.
	I have no idea.
	I have no communications with the White House.
	Well, you're the head of the IRS. You don't know something this important?
	Contacts between your agency and the executive branch?
	You're unaware of them?
	We are part of the executive branch.
	We have regular communications with Treasury.
	We issue regulations.
	We review them.
	We're in the process of reviewing, for instance, the regulations on the 501c issue.
	We have regular communication, particularly between our council's office and the Treasury Council.
	If the IRS knew in February or maybe even March, and Treasury and White House knew at least in April, but Congress and the American people didn't find out until June, were you purposely not telling us?
	Were you purposely not revealing this to the American people?
	My proposal wasn't, in fact, our original thought was to complete the Lois Lerner email production, complete the review of what other custodians had a problem, and produce a report to you laying it all out.
	So why did you tell, why did the IRS inform the executive branch agencies, the White House, the administration, but kept it secret from the Congress, who was conducting an investigation?
	We were not keeping it a secret.
	It was our public report to you that has, in fact, provided you this information.
	There's been no attempt to keep it a secret.
	My position has been that when we provide information, we should provide it completely.
	If we provide you incomplete information, people sometimes are tempted to leap to the wrong conclusion, not based on any facts.
	So we thought it would be important to give you the full description.
	It's okay for them to leap to a conclusion.
	Pardon?
	It's okay for the White House and Treasury to leap to a conclusion six weeks before the Congress.
	But my question also is...
	Yeah, it was pretty good.
	He also would say pardon when he wanted the guy to repeat, which is kind of like a snide question.
	He would do it commonly.
	Yeah, he's like, pardon?
	Pardon?
	What did you say to me?
	So here he is where he's called a liar by Paul Ryan, which everyone's heard about this clip, but no one's ever heard it.
	Monday, our investigators asked your agency whether any other hard drives crash, and we learned that six other hard drives of the people we're investigating were involved.
	You didn't tell us that.
	This must be some really shitty hard drives, man.
	Who makes those things?
	We told you on Monday.
	On Monday?
	And what did you do with the information?
	Because we asked you.
	Right, and what did you do with that information?
	You told us on Monday because we asked you whether any other hard drives crash.
	This is unbelievable.
	You told us on May that you were going to give us all of Lois Learner's emails, and you learned in February that this crashed.
	I did not learn in February it was a crash and we told you on Monday.
	I'm not asking you a question.
	I'm just making a statement.
	My apologies.
	You are the Internal Revenue Service.
	You can reach into the lives of hardworking taxpayers.
	And screw them up the anal cavity.
	And with a phone call, an email, or a letter, you can turn their lives upside down.
	Let's go get that curry guy.
	You asked taxpayers to hang on to seven years of their personal tax information in case they were ever audited, and you can't keep six months worth of employee emails?
	And now that we are seeing this investigation, you don't have...
	The emails.
	Hard drives crashed.
	You learned about this months ago.
	You just told us and we had to ask you on Monday.
	This is not being forthcoming.
	This is being misleading again.
	This is a pattern of abuse, a pattern of behavior that is not giving us any confidence that this agency is being impartial.
	I don't believe you.
	This is incredible.
	I have a long career.
	That's the first time anybody has said that you do not believe me.
	I'm actually...
	I don't believe you.
	That's fine.
	We can have a disagreement.
	I'm willing to stand on our record.
	I'm willing to remind you that it was not buried in 27 pages.
	Most of that 27 pages is exhibits.
	When asked about the custodians, we advised you what...
	Being forthcoming, which we knew for one day...
	Being forthcoming is to say...
	I'm sorry.
	You know what, investigators, Congress who's investigating...
	Will you let him answer the question?
	I didn't ask him a question.
	Yeah.
	I feel this one.
	All the other stuff, whatever.
	This one, it makes me angry.
	It really does.
	The arrogance, the hubris of this guy.
	This guy's outrageously talented at doing what he does.
	And I'll say that I have had to work with IRS... Agents and inspectors who, you know, once you get the accused and you shit us in, you have to prove that it's not so, you know, and then you come up.
	I found them to be reasonable.
	But I've had a lot of issues, not just with the American Internal Revenue Service, but certainly with the Dutch Internal Revenue Service.
	Not so much.
	But I've had my brushes with the UK. Look, I'm not an interesting guy.
	It's exactly me who they go and pick on.
	They're not picking on other people.
	And it's always a smaller guy.
	And I've been...
	Knock on wood, it's been many years since I've had a problem.
	But when you hear this, it's like, yeah, I want heads to roll.
	I really do.
	You know how many heads are going to roll?
	Zero.
	Exactly.
	But let me play my clip now before you go to your...
	I think you have a wind-up of Mr.
	Cool?
	I have another Mr.
	Cool clip.
	Let me slip in this.
	So this is how the...
	Now you pop up one layer, up to the daily briefing done by Josh Earnest, Bubba the Love Sponge, And his...
	So first, he's the guy that in the press gaggle, as they call it on Air Force One, said, what, you've never heard of drives crashing?
	Duh!
	It happens, you know, it happens.
	I should mention this.
	I don't have the clip, I don't think.
	When Mr.
	Kuhl, out of the blue, there's an awful lot of drives crashing, and Mr.
	Kuhl says, after warranty is up on a hard disk, the drive crash rate is almost 20%.
	Which is bullcrap.
	Does he drive a Range Rover too, by any chance?
	I have no idea.
	Really?
	We have to get that clip.
	That's hilarious.
	I love that.
	Oh, I see.
	It's findable.
	It's probably you have to listen to the whole hearing.
	That's very funny.
	But yeah, I came up with this 20%.
	It's 10 to 20% of the drives fail after they're out of warranty.
	That's nonsense.
	By the way, it's meantime between failure.
	That's what they use.
	That's the real metric, yes.
	Yeah, anyway, go on.
	All right.
	So he's Mr.
	Cool.
	Here's Bubba the Love Sponge.
	Our new spokeshole for the White House.
	And he's just going to say, oh, this is just conspiracy theories.
	Of the emails, did the investigators or the White House counsel look for emails between the White House and...
	The chief of staff or other aides.
	So basically the reporter's saying, hey, wait a minute.
	You know, there's another end, there's another side to the email.
	When an email is sent, it's sent to someone.
	Hey, has anyone at the White House perhaps looked for the lowest learner emails?
	Maybe you guys have it on your end?
	Are you asking about emails that would have been exchanged from the White House to learner's chief of staff or for other aides, top emails?
	Well, I guess I wasn't aware that that was a specific request from Republicans.
	Have they asked for that?
	I don't know.
	So I don't know if you're floating another conspiracy or if this is a request from Republicans who are floating a conspiracy or what exactly the suggestion is.
	But the fact of the matter is we've cooperated extensively, and despite that cooperation, we've seen continued allegations of Republican conspiracy theories that just never pan out.
	How can you say there's been extensive cooperation if two years of emails are just missing?
	You don't seem to be taking that point seriously.
	If the emails are there, you could show, hey, there's no conspiracy.
	That's the question.
	I understand you want to keep saying it's about the Republicans, but why are two years missing?
	Why are two years of emails missing?
	Because the computer crashed.
	And what we've seen is a demonstrated effort by this administration and by the IRS to try to cooperate with legitimate questions that have been posed by the committee on this.
	What's just as important for people to understand is that despite all of the data that has been provided to Congress, there's not a shred of evidence that substantiates Republican conspiracy theories.
	Now, this is an insult to people like me who actually come up with conspiracy theories.
	I'm very insulted.
	First by lumping me in with...
	Now, conspiracy theory is by definition Republican.
	That's very insulting.
	There's never been a Democrat with a conspiracy idea.
	And it's conspiracy theory.
	It's just the worst term.
	And a conspiracy is like...
	You know, it's a number of people gathering to blow up Parliament or something.
	I mean, it's like the whole idea...
	I've had somebody say, oh, it's just a conspiracy theory.
	They say, well, let's see.
	You have a situation, let's say.
	You have a guy who's an administrator, and he shreds all his documents, and when they come in to investigate the guy, the guy's got nothing.
	And then you say, you know what?
	The guy shredded all his documents.
	That's what happened.
	Oh, conspiracy theory!
	What conspiracy was involved?
	Some guy shreds documents.
	It's not a conspiracy when one guy does something.
	No.
	Well, I send all my emails away.
	There's no conspiracy involved.
	But everything has to be a conspiracy theory.
	You know, it's just like, I just don't like it.
	There's nothing you can do about it.
	It's become a national meme.
	Well, unfortunately, you know, this is what the public is trained to do.
	And it wasn't helped by Jesse Ventura and his show Conspiracy Theory.
	No.
	No, but this is what the public is trained to do, is now to laugh about it.
	Listen to every single O-Bot you know.
	The punchline is now, but even our chatroom, just ask the NSA! They've got copies!
	That's so disheartening and so sickening.
	That it has come to that, that these blatant violations of all kinds of laws and citizen rights and constitutional rights, and perhaps even if you believe in them, human rights, are now decimated down to a punchline that is...
	Pretty much you could hear on Doug Dynasty.
	Yes, it's demeaning.
	It's very demeaning.
	It really is.
	Nobody wants to talk about the issues, which is, again...
	People are afraid.
	They're afraid to be called out and say, hey, look, this guy that you voted for and the people that are working with him are just as big as assholes as everybody who's ever been in there, and they don't care about you.
	They just don't care.
	Never have, never will.
	It's frightening for people.
	This is the problem.
	Mickey explained this to me very well.
	When I said to someone somewhere sometime, I questioned the moon landing theory.
	The initial moon landing, I questioned the story.
	That's my stance.
	I questioned.
	I got lots of questions about it.
	I'm not all in.
	What happens is I blow up a bubble.
	Of millions of young boys who have now come of age who dreamed of becoming an astronaut, who dreamed of being Neil Armstrong.
	And when I say this, I pop such a huge bubble that people don't know how to handle it.
	I'm a bubble popper.
	Bubble popper.
	Well, something to be popping.
	Ooh, I'm trying.
	So I'm watching this, Mr.
	Cool.
	Mr.
	Cool.
	Mr.
	Roboto, Mr.
	Cool.
	And so C-SPAN plays a promotion for what's going to be on later today, and I would recommend people watch it.
	Cheryl Atkins.
	Oh, this is the woman who left CBS. She's the good-looking CBS correspondent who quit CBS because they wouldn't cover Benghazi.
	I had the sense that she knew something about what we've always discussed about Benghazi, which was a scam.
	And so she just quits CBS. And so they have a teaser, and you have to play the teaser because it kind of wraps up the IRS conversation and a lot of other stuff.
	I'm going to definitely record this thing tonight.
	Well, an F on transparency and freedom of...
	Is that the one, Cheryl Atkinson?
	That's the...
	Yes.
	It doesn't say teaser, that's why.
	Okay, here we go.
	Well, an F on transparency and freedom of information, and I think my colleagues in journalism would give a similar grade, whether they're liberal or conservative.
	The freedom of information process has become a joke.
	It was already well on its way prior to the Obama administration, but this administration has perfected the stall, the delay, the redactions, the excuses.
	And really, it's shocking because I feel very strongly that the information that they withhold and protect many times belongs to the public.
	We own it, but there's no sense of that when you ask for it.
	They covet it as if they're a private corporation defending their trade secrets rather than understanding that what they hold is information they've gathered on our behalf.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi.
	Well, she says it perfectly right.
	I think she nails it.
	It's too bad she works for the Heritage Foundation now.
	I think that is very disappointing that she essentially has gone to work for the Republican Party.
	Yes, well...
	Because I think that discredits everything she now is about to do.
	That completely has nothing to do with independence.
	Sorry, Cheryl.
	I like you a lot, but...
	Where will you be?
	Whatever.
	She should have done a podcast.
	If she had taken a vow of poverty, I would have been more into her.
	Yes, podcast.
	There you go.
	That's the way to go.
	We need more podcasts.
	What can I do?
	Amidst all this, actually, it's quite interesting.
	At least Jordan has been doing the rounds.
	At least Jordan is the widow of Michael Hastings.
	Oh, good.
	And she is now promoting his book posthumously.
	And this book is...
	I think it's called The Last Edition or something like this.
	It is a...
	And she's on Al Jazeera, CNN, MSNBC, everywhere.
	She's promoting this book.
	And apparently the story she's saying, telling, is that a colleague...
	I called her up and said, hey, you know, on Michael's hard drive, which didn't crash, there's this book he was writing, and you should have a read.
	And she reads it, she read it in one go, and she's now got it published.
	And she is the editor of the book.
	She edited it, and it's now published.
	And it's, as she says, and everyone else agrees, thinly veiled about the last days of Newsweek, where Michael Hastings worked.
	What's interesting is the coincidence of timing of this book, which is entirely about the days of...
	Well, it's really about the Iraq War and how all the liberals are trying to cover up their tracks that they actually voted for this and said it's a good thing, let's go in.
	Add to that the coincidence of the Bo Bergdahl interview that Hastings did, which really is getting no traction for some reason.
	I'm not quite sure what's going on there, but he had interviewed Bergdahl and his family had written a huge piece for Rolling Stone about this years ago before anybody even had heard really of the Bergdahl story.
	That is rarely brought to the foreground.
	And I'll remind everyone that the way they...
	And she's drop-dead gorgeous, this Elise Jordan.
	And they met in Iraq, or Afghanistan, one of the two, after Michael Hastings' girlfriend was killed in an unfortunate ambush attack.
	And we have seen interviews with them before, and my immediate impression was, wow, she's his handler.
	No doubt about it.
	Right, that was your first impression.
	Yes.
	And so now this is a year later, and she's out promoting this book, which, okay, I can see where she's just like, you know...
	I can only imagine myself, you know, if I lost my spouse, how it would feel?
	Would I be ready to go promoting a book only a year later?
	I mean, you can ask all kinds of questions, which I'm not qualified to answer.
	But here she is.
	I think this is, maybe this was on Al Jazeera.
	It's kind of a compilation of what she said on a number of interviews.
	It's all the same.
	I'd love to ask about you two as a couple, because I was fascinated by the two of you.
	I mean, you worked in the Bush administration.
	We talked about you being a speechwriter for Condoleezza Rice.
	Yeah, and then you have to point this out as well.
	I didn't actually realize that she was that close.
	She was the speechwriter for the Secretary of State.
	She's not just a fly-by-night.
	Yeah, she's not a slouch.
	In fact, that is the exact word which you will hear used in a moment.
	And then his life in Afghanistan.
	I mean, how did you tweet and get together?
	We actually met soon after he came back from Iraq.
	I had been in Iraq at the U.S. Embassy.
	His girlfriend had been tragically killed in an ambush.
	Yes.
	Tragically.
	Just the words are weird, John.
	Some of the words she's using.
	Is there an untragic killing?
	We met, I introduced family friends, my best friend from college's parents, and then we stayed in touch, and then we started dating about three years later, and we both were in Afghanistan.
	So, you know, I was so lucky.
	This past year has been horrible, but it was worth it just because being with him for even a short time was absolutely worth it.
	Everything I've read from you about him has been just beautiful and loyal and extraordinary.
	Loyal.
	Lots of weird words in here.
	Because of the controversy...
	Thank you.
	Yes, you've been loyal.
	Everything you've said has been loyal.
	Interesting.
	For even a short time.
	Everything I've read from you about him has been just beautiful and loyal and extraordinary.
	Because of the controversy, though, around particularly the McChrystal article in Rolling Stone that surrounded him, there have been all sorts of conspiratorial theories about...
	Here we go!
	It's even better, though, if you say conspiratorial theories.
	I think I shall use this.
	Don't call me a conspiracy theorist.
	Call me a conspiratorial theorist, please, by its proper name.
	Okay, so let's get into that.
	Now, this is something I did not know, had not heard about, find very interesting.
	Territorial theories about what happened to him.
	And do you care to address those?
	I mean, is that something that you investigated as well?
	Yeah, I hired an independent private investigator and really just went over everything about the accident.
	Just because, I mean, I wanted to know, to try to have, you know, some sense of closure for myself.
	And, you know, it really was just a tragic accident.
	And I think that he...
	Wow.
	Ciao.
	you So she hired a private investigator to get some closure and it really was just a tragic accident.
	I wanted to know, to try to have, you know, some sense of closure for myself.
	And, you know, it really was just a tragic accident.
	I think that he was such a larger-than-life character, and he did such important work that sometimes we would like to make things have more meaning than they do when, and explain the unexplainable.
	And, unfortunately, it just was a tragic accident.
	Well, all this interview about Michael, we should say that you're no slouch yourself.
	So what is next for you?
	I don't know.
	I'm kind of, I'm enjoying getting to talk about how wonderful Michael is and the work and getting to focus on the work and how this, I mean, and it's been amazing for me just, you know, the Bo Bergdahl story that he wrote, the original Bo Bergdahl story.
	Well ahead.
	Prophetic almost.
	Exactly.
	The recording has stood up so well.
	And then this book right now, The Last Magazine, at this time, pivotal time, we're discussing going back into Iraq.
	And what he is talking about in this book about the drumbeat to war and all of the liberal hawks who suddenly wanted to race from the stage that they had ever supported the war.
	That's what's happening right now.
	So it's so amazing what his legacy, and I look forward to seeing his legacy develop even in the years to come.
	Wow.
	You know, the only thing I missed there was her saying...
	Oh my God, that is...
	It's so coincidental that a former insider of the Republican Party has this book coming out from the dead husband from a tragic accident that is coincidentally all about these a-holes trying to reverse their policies and hmmm.
	I don't like it.
	The first thing I thought of, too, when I'm listening to her and remembering what we initially surmised, which is she was a handler.
	I mean, she's in Afghanistan.
	She works in the embassy.
	She's in Iraq.
	She's a speechwriter.
	She's got all the earmarks of somebody who's...
	Spook.
	Spook.
	Was there something that in the original manuscript that they had to remove...
	And there's...
	Yes.
	And there's also...
	So we can read that book and we're not going to get...
	No, we're not going to get anything.
	It's like a link between somebody and somebody else.
	But I wish...
	So she should put to bed the conspiratorial thinking, perhaps.
	It would be easier, I think, if she said, not just it was a tragic accident, here's what happened.
	What actually happened?
	I'd like to know what happened.
	Why did he hit the tree by himself going 90 miles an hour?
	And then why did it explode in that way?
	Yeah, all these questions.
	But she had to shut up.
	You can't question a widow, obviously.
	It's almost as weird as this news that came out this morning.
	Connecticut State Police Major William Podgorski died at 49 Monday following a brief illness and surgery.
	Which normally you would think, okay, you know, just a...
	Just a tragic accident.
	Even more tragic that he was the lead investigator of the Sandy Hook investigation.
	It's kind of tragic.
	Tragic to pass at 49 after an operation and brief illness.
	Very tragic.
	What was the operation for?
	What was the brief illness?
	This has not been disclosed.
	His illness or the operation.
	He was a hero, though.
	This is not being disclosed by request from the family.
	Alright, so I got the things I promised last show I want to plan before we go take our little break.
	Alright.
	This is the climate, another climate change, these things are going on every week, another climate change thing, this time with White House, the guy, the idiot from Rhode Island, the senator from Rhode Island who was just all in, and he's not going to listen to anybody anymore.
	Say anything about anything.
	So there's a three-parter here.
	I've got climate change.
	We get to introduce Botkin, who's this professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who's part of the 97%.
	Or 98 or 99, if you believe John Kerry.
	Well, he sticks with the old school, which is 97%.
	And let's just play these clips in order, then you can see what a douchebag Senator Whitehouse actually is.
	Play climate change one, please.
	Thank you very much.
	So, Dr.
	Bakken, you'd be one of the 97% that's talked about.
	And certainly, you know, you feel like man is contributing and this and that, but certainly you're not one that feels like the models are acceptable.
	And I suspect that you have many of your cohorts that are in the same camp.
	Well, I think the key thing here is that science is not a rule-by-majority method.
	That's the important thing.
	It's discovery.
	And I'd like to quote Jonas Soth, the inventor of the polio vaccine.
	He said,"...I get into a dialogue with nature." And put the question to nature, not to my colleagues, because that's from whence the answer must come.
	And that's what I do.
	I always look at the data.
	And also Richard Feynman, one of the great 20th century quantum physicists, said, science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
	So, to keep saying it's a majority, that's not a scientific statement, and it's not correct.
	I've spent 50 years working on climate change in a very constructive way.
	And what I can tell you is that since about 1990, the data has started to move in the other direction, away from an important effect by human beings.
	And that's just what the facts show.
	I'd like to just reiterate, because I don't know if it was clear, John, from your intro.
	This is Dr.
	Daniel Botkin, and he has reversed his stance on climate change, and he has now said, and this is part of the hearings, I'm a skeptic.
	I think the IPCC report has errors, and this is why he's...
	Important, because he is saying, no, I don't think that this is man-made global warming, correct?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	He's about the man-made part.
	Yeah, the man-made part, exactly.
	Now, so here's this clip, too.
	He gets a little input from one of the other sides.
	It's unacceptable that scientists like Dr.
	Bartkin and others are being adversely treated as a result of their statements and scientific research that sometimes contradicts the powers that be.
	So thank you.
	Shut up already!
	Science!
	Be quiet, man!
	So the Republican on every one of these brings this issue up every time they have one of these hearings.
	And so here's the way it ends when White House decides to close the whole thing.
	And this is how he...
	To me...
	What you just heard was just nothing compared to how this asshole White House finishes the discussion.
	This was not a hearing on the science.
	It was a hearing with the experience of previous administrators.
	If we were to do a hearing on the science, then I think we'd be adding the scientists from NOAA. And the scientists from NASA and the scientists who back our United States defense establishment and a great establishment of scientists, every major scientific organization in the country.
	Perhaps Dr.
	Botkin is right and they are all wrong, but I'm not sure that would be the prudent course for our country.
	Thank you all very much.
	We are adjourned.
	The science is in!
	In other words, Botkin, fuck off!
	Yeah, screw you.
	I suppose it's possible that Botkin's right, and all these other people are all wrong.
	Exactly.
	Don't be a denier!
	The science is in!
	Science!
	Science!
	The White House guy is such a dick.
	And Mark, he's the other one.
	This is the Senate, of course, which is run by the Democrats, so they get to head these committees.
	And so you have these...
	How dare you question NASA? They've been to the moon and landed there, you know.
	That's part of the problem.
	If NASA's wrong, baby, look out.
	I'll be hosting to it.
	There you go.
	Wow.
	Yeah, that's pretty sad.
	But, you know, of course, that never makes any headlines, any kind of news, anywhere, ever.
	Because the only people, and it's happening in plain sight, the only people who even come close to vaguely reporting on it, as we can, by playing you clips from the actual people saying the actual words, is us.
	I don't know of any other place where you can get this, other than spending the time yourself, you know, watching it.
	Which, of course, is ludicrous.
	And why would the media bother covering it?
	They have their agendas and they go by their little script and that's the end of it.
	Whatever the PR person tells them to do, they do it.
	They're parrots.
	That's right.
	It's true.
	Yeah, it's exactly what it is.
	It's easier.
	You're getting paid, you know, you're not, there's no real, you know, you don't get any, you know, especially reporters, they don't get big bonuses or anything for doing anything.
	They just, you know, they want to go home and watch soccer.
	No one ever made it rich by telling the truth, John.
	What a mistake that is.
	I'm going to show myself all by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda.
	Ha!
	In the morning.
	I have a few people to thank for show 628.
	I came in with all kinds of varying amounts of money, and we always thank the ones that donate $50 or more.
	Nicholas McFall in Herndon, Virginia.
	We need some more of that Virginia money.
	$125.
	He, uh...
	Let's see what he said here.
	Well, he got some useful information from the show.
	One is using hey in the subject line to get someone's attention to an email.
	And of course, after hearing the advisors being sent to Iraq, he felt that he got some value.
	And seriously, at this point, you know, on Friday...
	Which, I always say Friday's my day off, but of course I wind up watching stuff and doing more than ever.
	And Mickey did a good thing.
	She said, no, first you're going to the spin class.
	Yes.
	Yes, dear.
	And then we're going out on the boat.
	And Dr.
	Ryan, who's her backcracker, and his beautiful wife, And their eight-week-old son.
	And he has a boat, a wake-wave-riding boat.
	And so we're on the lake all day.
	I had a tremendous experience, which included the kid having explosive diarrhea all over me.
	Nice!
	Where the beautiful women on the boat...
	That's bigger than C-SPAN. Yeah, no, the beautiful women on the boat, like, Hey, you hold the baby.
	Oh, doesn't he look cute holding the baby?
	Oh, the baby looks so good on you.
	It's like me, Ryan, and the kid were all in the water washing poop all over.
	Anyway, but it was so nice to not have to, you know, it was off.
	There was no interruption.
	And I advise anybody, twice a week, listen to our show, get what you need.
	You can hold a conversation easily.
	You will stand miles above anybody else who's bickering about stupid crap.
	And you can just, you don't have to say anything.
	You just sit there and smile because you know you are healthy.
	You are not affected.
	We don't care about the Kardashians.
	Well, there's that.
	Kristen Drenzek in Palmer, Alaska, Arkansas.
	No, Alaska, AK. Yeah, Palmer, Alaska.
	$111.11.
	Outstanding show, she says.
	This donation's not nearly enough.
	Also, belated happy Father's Day, first Father's Day to her husband, Tim.
	Tim.
	Tim.
	Sir Keith Edwards in Gilbert, Arizona, 105.33.
	And that is one of our donations.
	We had the special event for donations of the temperature.
	Yes, this was new.
	I like that a lot.
	Yeah, and he got the high number, 105, because he's in Phoenix.
	But you know, this is not...
	So I see what you're trying to do, but I think you're on the wrong track here.
	Okay.
	Because with global cooling, this is only going to drive the numbers down.
	We're going to go broke.
	Yeah.
	The more correct we are, the less money we get.
	This is not a good idea, John.
	There's that.
	Mike Madaloni, it's $100 from Chicago, Illinois.
	Keep doing what you're doing.
	James Wells, Flagstaff, Arizona, $100.
	Harshad Patel in Bilston, West Midlands, UK, $100.
	These are all $100.
	Jay Kumar, good old Jay Kumar in Beverly, Massachusetts, nuts.
	Uh, 24.
	I'm sorry, not 24.
	I gotta take you back, John.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm just reading this note from Mike.
	Yeah?
	Did you see what happened here?
	No, tell me.
	She says, um, I need a job karma for my wife.
	When she gets a new one, I'm hoping Swazzle enough follows.
	A few weeks back, you called Dame Jennifer from Charleston a swinger.
	Oh, right.
	Yeah, I wanted to read this.
	She's not.
	She's not a swinger.
	I don't remember us calling anybody a swinger.
	Probably me.
	She says, I ran into her and her husband here in Chicago the week after your accusation, and we got a good laugh, though her husband was confused.
	Probably doesn't listen to the show.
	Well, you better send them an apology.
	Give them a de-douching or something.
	Yeah, it's a de-swingerization.
	You've been de-douched.
	I'm sorry.
	You're not a swinger.
	I'm sure it was me.
	It sounds like something I would have said.
	No, it wouldn't come.
	I can't see saying that about somebody just offhandedly.
	That's only me.
	Yeah, we're sorry.
	Or he's sorry.
	Josh Mandel in Greenville, South Carolina, 93.80.
	Jason Daniels in Dallas, Texas, 86, which is the temperature.
	That's right.
	Hold on.
	86.
	I rain stick Dallas.
	You better.
	It sounded like you were frying an egg, though, on the sidewalk.
	Brian Hopkins in Honolulu, Hawaii, 82, by the way, which is the temperature in Hawaii all the time.
	Is that true?
	Yes.
	It's 82, 82, 82.
	It's like 82.
	That will be known as the Hawaiian donation.
	Yeah, the Hawaiian donation is 82.
	Armando Guerra.
	This is our local postal carrier.
	Oh, that's Armando.
	I don't think I've discussed this on the show yet.
	We're moving.
	Yes.
	We found another place, which is cheaper.
	Thank God.
	And it's only five minutes further south.
	And so Armando rings the bell, because we've got a sign in the yard, because obviously we're only renting, so we've got people walking to the house.
	Because we're trying to help our landlady sell the place.
	She wants it out of her life.
	I understand.
	So we're really trying to work with everybody.
	You know, 10 o'clock this morning, an hour before I start, there's people with their architects, you know, oh yes, we'll trash this, we'll just flatten all this, we'll do whatever.
	So Armando rings a bell, he's like, oh, you're moving.
	I say, yeah, oh man, the only thing we're bummed is that, you know, you're our guy.
	He says, well, where are you going?
	I said, you know, it's like three minutes away.
	I said, oh, I can get that added to my route.
	So I'm really hoping that works.
	And congratulations on your nuptials.
	Armando got married, didn't even tell us.
	Oh, he should have invited you.
	Well, there's two celebrities there.
	I think there's reasons why he didn't want...
	Who's these guys?
	Who are these two blonde jerks?
	They don't want these guys.
	Do they even know how to hold a taco?
	Let me write that down.
	Perfect.
	What was that?
	246.
	Okay.
	Not that, because Armando sounds Latino, that he eats tacos.
	No, you said it.
	You're going to have the entire La Raza after you, Amon.
	Anyway, he donated 78 for the 78 degrees.
	It was in Austin.
	Because it's so cool.
	72, 72, apparently in Harrison, Oregon.
	That's right.
	And then we have 6969, which I'm sure is not the temperature, in Warrenville, Illinois, from Gregory Lawrence.
	Did you get 78 in Buda?
	Oh, that was Armando, sorry.
	Okay, yeah.
	Daniel Kepler in Phoenix, Arizona.
	6336, which is not the temperature.
	Sir Skitz, double nickels on the dime.
	Also in Phoenix, coincidentally.
	Kevin Hine in Auckland, 55-10.
	Steven Schnellker in New Haven, Indiana.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Brandon, and these are all $50 donors.
	Brandon Mank in Tempe, Arizona.
	Jason Daniels in Dallas, Texas.
	T.A. Bell in Bergfield, Berkshire.
	Daniel DeGroff in Westminster, Colorado.
	He's a big fan of mine, apparently, which is good.
	That's easy to understand.
	Yeah, if you're in Westminster, Colorado.
	No.
	Eric Veet in Dublin, California, which is down the street from me.
	Sir Alan Bean in Oakland, California.
	Bogdan LeCendro in Irvine, Texas.
	And that's it.
	We just have an anonymous donation.
	And I do have a letter I want to read.
	By the way, I stand corrected.
	Your temperature donation is genius.
	I've only got a few.
	It's going to be great this winter.
	This winter.
	What a genius idea, John.
	We're going to get a lot of lowballers.
	So this comes in from, I think it's okay to use his name, it says Josh, Josh Mandel in Greenville, South Carolina, one of them listed there, but here's his note.
	First off, the analysis of ISIS, Iraq going on, you guys have provided on the past few shows, has been top notch between the Kagan web of control and profit that encompasses the whole thing in the utmost humorous geopolitical ramifications.
	It becomes unbearable to hear any more news readers talk about how it's all about religion, excellent work.
	And after your tirade against Lindsey Graham, unfortunately my U.S. Senator from South Carolina, I thought you'd get a kick out of this little anecdote.
	My wife and I attended a local Scottish Festival Highland Games event here in Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina a few weeks back.
	Being just before the South Carolina primary, Graham was invited to give a brief monologue during the opening ceremony about how long tradition of militarism, Reed killing people, and how important it is to continue the fight.
	read vote him in again afterward i guess he was roaming around kissing babies but without my realizing it my wife and i found ourselves standing right behind him as he was signing an autograph having my phone in hand in my trusty pocket no agenda app i thought it would be funny to hold it to my my ear like i was on the phone and hit the douchebag jingle douchebag as if i had called him by a childhood nickname.
	He spun around looking For the source and caught both of us by surprise.
	I guess when you're a douchebag, you answer to the call.
	Oh, by the way, if you have time, I personally like to call it Senator Graham as a douchebag on the show.
	Douchebag!
	Don't mind doing it.
	I hope $50 a month is sufficient value for value.
	Well, That's up to you, obviously, and for us, it's fantastic.
	I would hope that you're getting enough value.
	I don't have time to listen to every episode, probably one in four.
	If you have a way for me to send GBP, that'd be good.
	So yes, and do you still have that on the site, John?
	Does that work, that international transfer thing?
	I think it works.
	It's a problem because you've got to wait for their email to come and then you've got to fill out the same information again.
	I'm still working with it.
	And for everyone else who has delivered value to us under the $50 level.
	And also, I notice it's still a lot of $4 a month people.
	Quite a number.
	No, those are actually $4 a week.
	Oh, $4 a week?
	Oh, wow.
	That's a dollar a show.
	Oh, fantastic.
	Oh, okay.
	Love it.
	We appreciate every single donation that comes in.
	And we do read all your notes.
	This is just proof of it.
	And we try to fish one out from time to time as possible.
	And here's your general karma or jobs karma.
	Everyone can use some anytime, I'm sure.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	Oh my god, that is amazing!
	Dvorak.org slash N-A-N Okay, I got one here for Helen Barber who celebrates on Monday the 23rd.
	And I got a note from Craig Deacon who said, Hey Adam, on the last show he said no birthdays came in.
	I turned 27 on the 19th.
	I thought it would have been lame to submit on my own birthday.
	So, well, we're happy to do it for you then.
	Craig from Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
	Happy birthday from all your buddies here at The Best Podcast in the Universe.
	And we do not have any title changes or any knighthoods.
	I did find this interesting survey, which I thought would kind of fit in, of online advertising, particularly on video.
	56% of viewers skip online video ads.
	Almost half of people say, any ad over 15 seconds is too long.
	This advertising thing is not going to work out too well in the future.
	Well, they've got to do some work.
	They've got to study this, these advertising agencies.
	They're taking clients' money and throwing it away.
	The client, somebody's got to crack down on this.
	I think it's these big agencies, they try to gouge the client, whether these giant agencies, all the different advertising agencies that have similar clients that compete with each other, all part of a big umbrella corporation, which I think is a conflict of interest, but okay.
	And so then they take their money as much as they can, they take a piece of it, the 15% commission, whatever it is, the place ads everywhere, and these ads are useless.
	It's like...
	You know, if these guys...
	I don't know.
	Pretty much, yeah.
	This online advertising is just a joke.
	I love it when people are out tweeting all the time, like, I just tried to book a hotel.
	The hotel was full, so I couldn't book, but now every webpage I go to has an ad for the hotel that I could not get a booking in.
	Yeah, this is genius.
	Big data strikes again.
	And I got an email from Sir Rod Adams over there at atomicinsights.com.
	You brought to us a story that the French are planning on doing away, capping off their nuclear program.
	And so we have experts.
	We have experts in pretty much every field you can imagine.
	He responded, John.
	Adam and John, I heard you call out on episode 627 for insights into France's energy program.
	See how he does that?
	His website is Atomic Insights.
	He's kind of like, he's slipping it in.
	He's marketing.
	Oland and his socialist party ran on a platform that included scaling back France's dependence on nuclear energy.
	It was not a very popular part of his campaigning pitch, but Sarkozy was such a flawed candidate that Oland won anyway.
	Balland is trying to follow through on his promise, but there are plenty of well-connected and resourced people who oppose the idea.
	And he has a link, which I have in the show notes, to an article that points out some of the considerations.
	Actually, Atomic Rod wrote quite a blog post about this on Atomic Insights.
	I got a link to that as well.
	He says it is probably possible to trace some of the socialist party funding to Russian natural gas interests.
	Russia loves its own nukes, but spends quite a bit of time and money spreading propaganda, or FUD, about the nuclear programs in its customer and competitor nations.
	The unreliables industry...
	The unreliables industry is also well known for its complaints that nuclear crowds them out of the market.
	They're working hard to force middle-aged nuclear plants to shut down merely because they were initially licensed for 40 years.
	That period has nothing to do with the design life or the ability of well-maintained nuclear-heated steam plants to last at least as long as coal, oil, or gas-fired steam plants.
	And there you have it, straight from the horse's mouth, so to say.
	Yeah.
	Play the Putin thing.
	Putin!
	Putin!
	Yeah, it's sad how Kagan's have kind of eked Putin out of it.
	Yeah, well.
	There's another one, too, that came in.
	I just haven't had the chance to use it yet.
	LIFO! LIFO. Anyway, Tom McRod has a pretty good blog post titled, Hollande's Proposed Cap on Nuclear Electricity Capacity.
	And you can find that in the show notes, 628.noagendanotes.com.
	Here's an interesting little tidbit that came in off the local news about the kill switch in California.
	Ah, yes.
	Groups is crediting kill switch technology for reducing cell phone thefts by as much as 40%.
	Tonight, two more companies have had a change of heart.
	Google and Microsoft have both agreed to add kill switches to their phones.
	Right now, voluntary kill switches require users to opt in by downloading something or turning it on.
	But a bill being proposed by California lawmakers could require kill switches come pre-installed.
	If you have to opt in, you may not know about it.
	You may not know how to do it.
	It has to be opt out.
	But if the bill passes, it would fine retailers for selling phones without the kill switch.
	Fabulous.
	Well, this is time for all you practical jokers out there.
	Hey, man, I lost my phone.
	Well, do you have any...
	Oh, no, it's gone.
	I don't have the serial number because it's stolen.
	You've got to stop it quick.
	Kill switch.
	What's your number, sir?
	Yeah.
	That's how it'll go.
	That's what I'd do.
	I mean, does anyone see the obvious thing that is in play here?
	That this is intended to be able to kill your phone whenever it's handy for other people, not just to stop thieves?
	What's next?
	A kill switch on my car?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Are you nuts?
	Of course.
	Yeah, where's Curry?
	I don't know.
	Let's stop him and find out.
	This is the point where I recommend everyone go and read the Unabomber Manifesto once again.
	It's quite an interesting document that pretty much describes exactly where we are right now.
	For instance, in this world where we are today, if your kid went to school...
	Now, John, your kids are grown up like mine, but let's say Buzzkill Jr.
	is in 5th grade, 4th grade.
	And he takes a little water pistol to school, and he's playing at recess around in the yard, and he says, hey, if any guys write anything bad about me on the bathroom wall, I'm going to kill you.
	You're going to die.
	You get it.
	What do you think would happen to him in today's age?
	Oh, they throw him in the slammer.
	This is Joe Biden, the Vice President of the United States, at his annual retreat there where he invites the press to come have a picnic with him, and he's walking around the yard with a super soaker and says the following.
	I want to announce...
	Next year when we do this, God won't, the crick not rising, anybody who writes a bad story about me is dead.
	I just want you to know that.
	Get this straight.
	We're not going to kid around about this.
	Right, guys?
	And that's your example.
	Well, he should be throwing in the slammer.
	I agree.
	Of course, he actually means it.
	It's possible.
	He's not joking.
	I will have to kill you if you write something bad about me, because I am running against the...
	What do they call her now?
	The Hildebeest?
	The Vildebeest?
	No, the Hildebeest.
	The Hildebeest?
	Yeah, this is this new book.
	Is that what you're calling Hillary?
	Yeah, this new book.
	The Hildebeest?
	There's a new book out.
	I haven't read it.
	Let me see.
	This is the promotion for the new book, obviously.
	It's pretty good.
	The Hildebeest book.
	Hold on.
	I spelled it.
	Hildebeets.
	That's no good.
	Hildebeest.
	What's the name of this book, John?
	I don't know.
	I don't know anything about Hildebeest.
	Okay.
	It's a book about the Clintons and the Obamas.
	Why can't I find this?
	I guess I'll have to go do it.
	Yeah, I'm really sorry.
	I'm not finding this now.
	It's all over the news today.
	Okay, so it's a book that certainly...
	I don't know who it's meant to discredit or what it's supposed to do.
	The Hildebeest Returns, Esquire.
	Hold on, it's a book.
	The Hildebeest Walks at Night, according to the book, HRC. Here it is.
	New book.
	The Blood Feud.
	That's what it's called.
	Blood Feud.
	Okay, Blood Feud.
	New book on bitter feud between Obamas and Clintons.
	Clintons.
	I hate that man, Obama.
	More than any man who ever lived, says Bill.
	This is great.
	He said that, really?
	Oh, yeah.
	In this book.
	Could have.
	Who wrote this book?
	Any man who ever lived?
	This is written by Edward Klein.
	Veteran journalist Edward Klein.
	Let's look him up.
	Yeah.
	And in this, apparently, Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarrett sit around at the end of the day drinking Chardonnay in the corner.
	I believe that.
	Laughing about Hillary Hildebeest, as they called her.
	It's very believable.
	Sure it is!
	It's so sad that, you know, what's the name of the show?
	The Spacey Show.
	The House of Cards.
	Yeah, it's real.
	It's pretty real.
	It's exactly what it is.
	On most evenings, Michelle Obama and a trusted advisor, Valerie Jarrett, met in a quiet corner of the White House residence.
	They'd usually open up a bottle of Chardonnay, catch up on news about Sasha and Malia, and gossip about people who gave them heartburn.
	Their favorite bête moire was Hillary Clinton, whom they nicknamed Hildebeest.
	Ha ha ha!
	Here's his bio.
	He's got a blog.
	Of course, it's edwardkline.blogspot.com, so he's not right up to speed.
	But Edward Klein was born in Pittsburgh in 1946 after graduating from high school, in which he learned nothing of value.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	Pittsburgh.
	So he's a Joe Biden guy.
	It could be.
	And his stint in the Air Force, he pursued his ambition to become a novelist.
	He's a novelist.
	His first detective novelist.
	There you go.
	His first novelist, first prize, was published in 1988.
	So he's a late bloomer.
	His first suspense novel, 1992...
	First published...
	He's a novel.
	He's a writer.
	And he's got a blog post.
	His latest blog post is Journalism's Jihad Against Journalists.
	Journalism's Jihad Against Journalists.
	And he goes on about this.
	So I don't know that he...
	He's not an insider.
	A Woodward imbroglio is just not a storm in a teacup between a White House underling and a liberal journalist to dust up.
	He goes on about politicians.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Anyway.
	I don't have a handle on him.
	I don't think it's something I want to read.
	It's just a bunch of...
	I'm sure it's to discredit the Clintons and it's good for Biden.
	It's a Pittsburgh guy.
	It has Joe Biden written all over it.
	You know he's walking around, ah, screw that Hilda Beast.
	Well, I would guess.
	It sounds like him.
	His last blog post was in March of 2013.
	Yeah, way to go.
	I would guess that this is one of those books that's handed to you.
	Why would this guy...
	Oh, no.
	Why would he have this inside info?
	No, I agree.
	Of course not.
	Yeah, why would he have anything?
	And who is uniquely qualified to have that kind of information?
	Biden.
	Joe Biden.
	He's walking around, and he's lurking in the corner.
	Oh, those bitches I hear him talking about Hildebeest.
	Right.
	They won't even offer me any Chardonnay, those bitches.
	Well, here we go.
	As we get closer to the FAA trying to figure out if it's safe to have drones flying over the United States of Gitmo Nation.
	A year-long investigation by the Washington Post exposes the dangers of opening the American skies to drone traffic.
	The fact that hundreds of large military drones have malfunctioned and crashed into homes, farms, runways, highways around the world since 2001.
	It raises some serious concerns about their use here in the U.S. and that use is expected to surge.
	National reporter Craig Whitlock writes all about this in his piece, When Drones Fall from the Sky.
	And Craig joins me now.
	Craig, with a welcome to you.
	Why are these drones crashing?
	This is really great.
	Every single thing we have talked about drones, and we've been on this way before anyone talked about it.
	We were about the dangers, how you really want a pilot in aircraft.
	This is not a good idea.
	If it's an expendable thing over some sandy place with some brown people, whatever.
	But over the civilized areas like America, you don't want this, and here's why.
	Is it technological?
	Is it just not working?
	There's three main reasons why the drones we've looked at crash around the world.
	One is the satellite links, the GPS links that the pilots use, the pilots on the ground to fly these things by wireless radio signal, they go down quite a bit.
	So most of the time the drone's flying just fine, but sometimes they lose the signal and they just go where they're not supposed to.
	Other reasons are mechanical problems, just basic mechanical problems, electrical problems in midair.
	And the third big category is pilot error.
	We found cases of pilots flying drones upside down, pilots pressing the wrong buttons and the drones crashing, pilots not seeing where they were going, just basic aviation mistakes.
	And now I'm starting to get a little, because now the number is 400 apparently, which is really in aviation terms, so what?
	So it's now 14, it's 13 years, so what is that, like 30 a year for a new category?
	And only half of that has been crashing in the States, so maybe one a month.
	But of course these are big drones, right?
	These are Shadows and the big boys.
	Yeah, the big ones, predators.
	But now, this does give a little more credence to my theory about some of these mysterious gas explosions.
	And we have these all over the country, and people really just don't question it anymore.
	Oh, the house was blown to smithereens!
	Which even Mythbusters could not recreate.
	This is a Bourne identity type theory that you can leave the gas on, I guess you leave the oven on, and somehow the house is so perfectly hermetically sealed and then the toaster goes off.
	And that creates a spark and then the whole place is blown to kingdom come.
	Here is a piece of...
	So this happened in California just this week.
	Another house blown to bits.
	Here is the direct...
	I got the live feed from the helicopter pilot who's flying...
	You know, he's one of the first guys on the scene.
	So this is not actually on the news.
	This is him talking while they're recording his footage.
	And I did chop it down a bit, but listen to his commentary.
	Dabu7, you were looking at footage.
	of a house explosion in Thornton, Colorado.
	Right now there is no word on exactly what caused the explosion.
	Some are saying it may have been a natural gas explosion.
	Other people are just not sure.
	They have no proof of anything right now, except for the house is completely blown apart.
	Now, we've seen before in certain explosions where they have certain characteristics, like the house will blow out and the roof will still be intact.
	And then in different situations, if the house is completely obliterated like this, it could mean something else.
	You could see debris What is going on, people?
	I'm telling you, people are being either droned...
	Or maybe armed drones are crashing?
	I don't know what's happening.
	It could be.
	How about this for a couple of ideas?
	Well, and of course, it could be target practice, because there's usually nobody home when it happens.
	Right.
	But I'm thinking you got a...
	Target practice.
	I'm thinking it's even more sinister, which is it's a mafia operation, and it's a version of Italian lightning.
	Italian lightning?
	Your house has got a lot of mold problems.
	You've got issues with the neighborhood.
	You can't sell the damn place.
	It's in a bad neighborhood.
	You've got some good insurance ready to go.
	Boom!
	John, I have never heard this phrase.
	Italian lightning.
	Yeah, it's an old phrase.
	I've never heard of this.
	What is the old version of Italian lightning?
	Italian lightning.
	There's no old version.
	Arson is what it is.
	House catch on fire.
	Arson.
	Seems to me you could get a hold of a couple of these things and blow up a few, you know, for a few pennies.
	You blow the guy's house to smithereens.
	He collects the insurance.
	They blame it on the gas.
	There's no way they're going to, you know, what else they're going to do is what it is.
	Sounds like a good idea.
	Sounds like a business.
	I don't know.
	Under the vaccine heading for today, Doctors Without Borders are now saying Ebola is out of control.
	Yeah, yeah.
	This is the outbreak in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Lyon, and Liberia.
	Yeah, so it's all over the place down there.
	There's 400 dead so far.
	Yeah, so what can you tell us about this?
	You being obviously the chemical...
	I don't know anything about it.
	All I know is it spreads so fast and it hits you so hard that it supposedly can't get out of control because...
	You get it and you're dead in 24 hours.
	So you can't get on a plane and actually have the plane land.
	Everyone will be dead on the plane by the time you get there.
	Oh, interesting.
	So, I mean, it's supposed to be self-controlling.
	If there's a new version of Ebola that takes like a couple of days to catch on, then I think it could be a problem.
	Let's see.
	International organizations and governments involved need to send in more health experts and increase public education messages about how to stop the spread of the disease, said Bart Janssens, sounds like a Dutch guy, director of operations for the medical group in Brussels.
	Oh, there you go.
	The reality is clear that the epidemic is now in a second wave.
	And for me, it's totally out of control.
	End quote.
	Be afraid, regardless, people.
	That's important.
	The Ebola virus, which causes internal bleeding and organ failure, spreads through direct contact with infected people.
	There's no cure or vaccine, so containing an outbreak focuses on supportive care for the ill and isolating them to limit the spread of the virus.
	The current outbreak, which began in Guinea either late last year or early this year, had appeared to slow before picking up pace again in recent weeks, including spreading to the Liberian capital for the first time.
	Hmm.
	Should we be afraid?
	The experimental Ebola vaccine is being tested for safety in over two dozen volunteers.
	Who volunteers for that?
	Well, anyone in that area would.
	That's true.
	So there is a vaccine they're playing with.
	I think this is a scheme here.
	Keep your eye on that.
	It's stomatitis virus.
	The Ebola vaccine is well tolerated.
	If you have officials saying it is out of control, I mean, that's quite dangerous to use those words.
	And I think it should get more airplay, quite honestly.
	We have to scare them about other things.
	Well, the Gardasil virus, I'm very happy to announce.
	We are familiar with the HPV.
	This was initially invented to prevent the human papillomavirus, HPV.
	Also mentioned by some people who I know as slut cancer.
	This is a...
	Which is, by the way, the whole thing is a scam.
	It doesn't really stop any...
	It doesn't necessarily stop cancer.
	A lot of this is genital warts, which go away by themselves.
	You can test for this with vinegar.
	You really need to read up on it.
	You certainly should think twice about spending $300 on these shots for your daughter.
	And of course, then it went to, we knew that you could get throat cancer from it.
	Oh, yes.
	So we have to give it to boys now as well.
	And now, luckily, approved by the FDA for the prevention of anal cancer.
	That's right.
	Everybody should take your Gardasil.
	And I had to lie when reading this.
	Who was the douchebag that was behind the whole thing?
	One of these politicians.
	Remember, we used to talk about him, and then he got left out of the conversation.
	Ah, well, Rick Perry was one of them.
	Rick Perry was bought off.
	It was a big scandal here in Texas.
	He wanted to make these shots mandatory for every school child.
	And it turned out he got a payoff of $5 million somehow to his campaign.
	And, oh, I'm sorry.
	Oops.
	Didn't mean that.
	Now, this Gardasil is a humongous scam.
	It certainly does not stop all versions of HPV, which they admit readily.
	But, you know, the scam goes as follows.
	Oh, yes, you know, you have a...
	Looks like you're precancerous.
	We saw on your test.
	Well, we should probably do a, you know, do a biopsy.
	And, well, you didn't have cancer, so you're only precancerous.
	But probably should take this fine Gardazil shot just in case for the future.
	It's very disturbing.
	And of course, there have been many documented cases of adverse reactions to it.
	So, it's okay.
	Just all more stuff to scare you.
	Like Senator Tom Carper.
	This is the last one I've got for the scare meme.
	Senator Tom Carper did an hour and a half session with some douchebaguettes from Homeland Security and some other consultants about dirty bombs.
	Well, not again.
	Hold on a second.
	I meant dirty bombs.
	They will kill you!
	And this is how you do it in your opening.
	This is his opening statement.
	A little over a year ago, the city of Boston, as we'll recall, was struck by a tragedy during the running of the 117th Boston Marathon.
	Two terrorists detonated pressure cooker bombs near the finish line.
	As you'll recall, they killed three people.
	They injured nearly 300 more.
	And by the way, this has not all actually been tried in court.
	We don't actually...
	This is not...
	Not the final summary of this, but okay, this will be the lexicon that these were the two terrorists and pressure cooker bombs.
	Okay, we'll believe you.
	The horror of this attack, which we viewed again and again on television.
	Yes, that's how it works.
	You show it again and again and again, and then you just tell people that we have video of them putting their backpacks into the trash can, even though no one has seen the video, but just tell them you saw it, and they'll believe it eventually.
	And again, on the first anniversary of the attack, will never be forgotten.
	Today, as we strive to improve our counterterrorism efforts, we have the opportunity to look back at the Boston Marathon bombing and ask ourselves this question.
	Okay, what could the question be?
	The question would be, since we have so much security and surveillance in this country by the NSA and others, they're watching our every move, the question would be, how come we couldn't stop these guys in advance?
	What if the attack had occurred differently?
	What if it was even more deadly?
	What if the pressure cooker bombs weren't just simply bombs, but dirty bombs?
	What if, you know, if the queen had balls, she'd be king!
	A dirty bomb is any kind of crude explosive device that, when detonated, disperses radiation around and beyond the blast.
	If a dirty bomb successfully goes off, those who survive the blast can be exposed to harmful amounts of radiation that could cause sickness or even death.
	Moreover, a dirty bomb could render areas uninhabitable for not just days or weeks or months, but for years, making that particular weapon a highly disruptive weapon.
	If the Boston Marathon terrorists had turned their pressure cooker bombs into dirty bombs, then the consequences of that tragic day could have been multiplied by an order of magnitude.
	I want us to think about that for a minute.
	Yeah, you know, what I'd rather think about is, well, what if the terrorists had turned their little pressure-kruger bombs into actual hydrogen bombs and blew up the entire city of Boston?
	Well, that would have been terrible, and it's just very easy to do.
	You can get one of these hydrogen bombs from some other terrorists, and they would be part of a network, and they could have blown up Boston completely.
	We have to take action now.
	We do.
	You didn't wind it up right.
	You've got to say, I want you to think about that.
	I want you to think about that.
	I want us just to think about that for a minute.
	Think about that for a minute.
	And it takes this pause while you're thinking about it for a minute.
	Let me think.
	Think about it.
	Think about the hydrogen bomb.
	Radiation.
	I'm going to die.
	And then if I'm actually trying to help, I'm running towards the radiation.
	Today's hearing will focus on how we can ensure that this hypothetical situation does not come to pass.
	Ah.
	Bullshit!
	You fear-mongering a-hole, you.
	Who is that guy?
	That is, um...
	His name is...
	Senator Tom Carper.
	Carper?
	Yes, of Delaware.
	C-A-R-P-E-R? Yes, Carper.
	Well, he's a nobody.
	Well, he's trying to be a somebody with this.
	Well, he doesn't sound like, oh, this guy.
	Oh, yeah.
	Mr.
	Excitement.
	But this is so wrong.
	And everyone on the panel is like, yeah, we need more security, more police state.
	We need scanners everywhere.
	Hear about this thing in Chicago now they have on the street lamps.
	Let me see where I have this.
	Uh, here it is.
	Sensors.
	Yeah, the gun sound.
	The gunshot sensors.
	Uh, no, these are different...
	The smooth perforated sheaths of metal are decorative, but their job is to protect and conceal a system of data collection sensors that will measure air quality, light intensity, sound volume, heat, precipitation, and wind.
	The sensors will also count people by observing cell phone traffic.
	It's a metadata sucking device.
	It's funny.
	Hey, people, opt out.
	You don't need a cell phone.
	I've been living perfectly well without one.
	Just some annoyance from Mickey from time to time.
	She's a little annoyed that it's not that easy to get a hold of me.
	You're not at her beck and call.
	Yes, that I'm not at her beck and call.
	But in general, we get by quite well.
	You really don't need this slave bracelet attached to you.
	Get yourself a D-Star radio.
	D-Star from Icon.
	No, it's not from Icon.
	Now you're really pushing it.
	You're really pushing it now.
	Alright, besides that, of course, Google acquired Skybox.
	Hello?
	Hello?
	They acquire Skynet.
	Hold on.
	Well, he goes on.
	On his merry way.
	I thought it was like...
	That was Mickey?
	Was it somebody roaming around your house?
	I had no idea.
	It was one of those.
	I don't know.
	It was weird.
	It kind of sounded like...
	More for me, then.
	Okay, so Skybox, I think is what it's called, isn't it?
	Skynet.
	No, no.
	It's called Skybox.
	I don't know what it is.
	They acquired a company called Skybox, and with this company...
	Okay, what do they do?
	It will make Google Maps images live, in many cases, and visible down to 31 centimeters.
	Okay.
	Each pixel.
	So I can go right now and go watch what's going on in downtown San Francisco on a certain street to see if there's a long line in front of a certain restaurant so I can go in there and get some food?
	That is the idea.
	They call it manhole to mailbox.
	And this comes on the heels...
	You don't have that kind of coverage from these satellites.
	Yes.
	So the Department of Commerce...
	A week after this acquisition, I guess Google knew it was coming, lifted restrictions on the resolution.
	In the past, collecting sub-50-centimeter resolution required chartering and flying aircraft.
	Now, here's Digital Globe, who also provides this service.
	We are very pleased and appreciative that the U.S. Department of Commerce has made this forward-leaning change to our nation's policy that will fuel innovation, create new high-tech jobs, and advance the nation's commanding lead in this strategically important industry.
	And that is the sub-50 centimeter resolution.
	And DigitalGlobe and Skybox will now be able to provide and or sell images that show features as small as 31 centimeters.
	So yes, they will be able to see, in theory...
	In theory, and Google bought one of these companies.
	Okay, here's the deal that I have a problem with.
	This Google Maps has been deteriorating on a weekly basis.
	Well, the traffic directions have been deteriorating.
	That's different.
	That's different.
	You don't like the navigation feature, but the...
	The navigation's off, but it shows me on wrong streets.
	That's more than just the navigation.
	That's how they start.
	This is what they're doing.
	They're confusing the public, John.
	It's like an ant experiment, where Google is not, hey, let's mess with the navigation.
	Let's see what happens.
	Well, I do that with ants.
	Yeah.
	It's the Google version of frying ants with a magnifying glass.
	Yeah, well, that's what they're doing with their eventual goal of the Google glass.
	There it is.
	Skybox.
	Oh, my eye!
	I find this interesting on one hand, but on the other hand, of course, completely creepy.
	You know, that they can...
	So eventually, I guess, if you do live...
	Live video or maybe delayed with a snapshot.
	Well, that's what you want.
	I don't want that.
	Oh, look, there's Adam.
	He's coming out of his house.
	You think that's him?
	Yeah, you can tell by the hair.
	Okay, there we go.
	Oh, there comes Mickey.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	Oh, they're getting picked up.
	Hey, wait.
	By a limo.
	That's not Mickey.
	Let's follow the limo and see where it goes.
	The limo?
	Oh, that's interesting.
	The limo?
	Where's the limo taking me?
	Please, I need to know how this dream ends.
	It's going to the airport.
	Oh, now you're going to have some trouble finding...
	Well, no, there he is.
	You can't miss him.
	Wow, that hair really makes him easy to spot.
	All right.
	Nice.
	What plane did they get on?
	I don't know.
	We've got to go to the cameras inside the airport to figure that out.
	I'll wind it up here with a little ditty from the United Kingdom, which just like, as we know, Amsterdam, we track this going back a couple of years where there is a complete war on cash.
	In many grocery stores, you cannot even pay with cash.
	You cannot pay with a credit card.
	You have to pay with a PIN card.
	This slave device will be introduced here in the United States as well.
	And now they did a big experiment in the United Kingdom of Gitmo Nation East, experimenting, and this is how it starts.
	Hey, let's do a cashless weekend!
	Yes!
	On the high street!
	And let's interview people about what they think about going cashless.
	Guess what?
	It is fantastic!
	Every business on this road, which is lined with independent stores and cafes, now accepts cards.
	Some do so more reluctantly than others.
	But they're taking part in this cashless experiment, as many shoppers now prefer plastic.
	Do you prefer to use cash or card?
	Card, it's much easier.
	Much easier.
	I prefer the use of a card and it's less in my pockets.
	Yeah, I use cash for small amounts, but a card if it's a bit more expensive.
	Last year, spending on cards reached a record £500 billion here in the UK. Cash use has dropped by 14% over the last five years.
	But more than half of all small businesses still won't let their customers pay by card.
	That's often because of the cost to the store, particularly if people aren't spending much.
	It's not ideal for us to take credit and debit cards, as there is a charge associated with them.
	It costs us 17p for a debit card, 1.6% for a credit card, plus a penny for authorisation.
	We normally charge 30p to the customer if they spend less than £6.
	But today, to encourage them to use cards, we're going to waive those charges.
	Is it alright if you use the contract?
	But retail experts believe advances in technology mean the costs will come down, encouraging more and more businesses to take hard.
	I think there will be a point when we don't use physical cash anymore, and I don't think it's that far away.
	No!
	We've reached a point where we don't use...
	This is a retail expert and consultant, of course.
	I don't know where the last time I wrote a cheque was.
	And I think that, you know, the only reason we carry money around is because it was the way to pay for things in the past.
	The way to pay for things in the future isn't going to be with physical cash.
	So, not long.
	Cash is a way to pay for things in the past.
	you Yeah, you old-fashioned bastard.
	I still write checks.
	I love writing checks.
	I write checks.
	I like writing checks.
	I only have three bills, I think, that come in here.
	We have rent.
	I write a check.
	We have utilities.
	Water and power comes together.
	I write a check.
	And what is the third thing?
	We like checks at the No Agenda show.
	Yeah.
	I love writing a check.
	It also reminds me that I'm spending something.
	I'm promising.
	I'm putting my signature and saying, I promise I will pay you this.
	It's like my own little Federal Reserve note.
	I would prefer to walk over with a bunch of cash and say, here.
	Which apparently is no longer allowed at Chase Bank, we heard from our Grand Duke.
	You cannot deposit cash in someone else's bank account if you are with Chase.
	And why might that be?
	Because you're probably funding a porn operation or terrorists or something else incredibly lame like that.
	Don't do business with Chase.
	Alright, Jean-Claude, let's wrap it up for today.
	We've got a lot of work ahead of us for the coming week as we continue to evaluate the work of the Kagans, the Neocons, the Caliphate.
	Anything else?
	Caliphate!
	Anything else coming down the pike?
	We'll be all over it for you as we continue to also evaluate who we believe will win the World Cup.
	Looks like Brazil is still a pretty good contender considering the economic state of affairs.
	Yep.
	Which is what it's all about.
	I'm sticking with that one, but you may have some other logic when we discuss it more seriously on Thursday.
	Well, it's a long competition.
	It takes forever.
	Yeah, I think it's get over with like a golf game, you know, it's just in a weekend.
	Now, if you found some kind of value in this program, we'd appreciate you to provide some value back for us in the form of a financial contribution at Dvorak.org slash NA. And evaluate John's new temperature donation.
	It seems to be interesting and catching on.
	Until then, coming to you from the Travis Heights Hideout here in the capital of the Drone Star State in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where for some unknown reason the freeway is jammed up on a Sunday, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll be back on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
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