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	Under the lights on Friday night, information competition with double-A fuel dragsters going against funny cars.
	Adam Couring, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, July 6, 2014.
	It's time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode.
	6, 3, 2...
	This is No Agenda.
	The fix is in and we're on it!
	From FEMA Region 6 here in the Travis Heights hideout in the capital of the drone star.
	Stayed in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, we're the fix is in and we're in it.
	I'm John C. Devorak.
	It's crackpot and buzzkill in the morning.
	Hell yeah!
	Yeah, we're good, man.
	We are just good.
	Well, I mean, I don't know how much talent does it take once you figure it out.
	Once you know how it works, it doesn't take any talent.
	But let me just explain what we're talking about.
	So yesterday, the Netherlands beat Costa Rica in a...
	Mind-numbing nil-nil game.
	Everyone's tweeting me.
	Oh, John must love this nil-nil game.
	Tweet him, not me.
	I want to know about you.
	Nil-nil.
	Nil-nil.
	A fantastic strategy to replace the goalie in the last minute of overtime.
	The Netherlands, they're crazy.
	They can't believe it.
	Now, who is it?
	The Dutch are the ones who replaced the goalie?
	Yes.
	Okay, let me get this straight.
	So the goalie maintains a nil-nil game, and they swap him out.
	Yeah, because they knew that they were going to go for penalty kicks, and so they wanted the fresh guy in.
	Oh, they wanted to get us a little quicker.
	Well, this was a make-or-break strategy, and it's funny because I was doing some...
	You have to add some sort of drama to it.
	Well, totally.
	Yeah.
	And Miss Mickey's watching this thing.
	And I was running some errands.
	I come back.
	She's like, oh, come on.
	The game is great.
	I'm like, where's Mickey?
	Who are you?
	He never watches sports.
	But she's watching it on Telemundo, which I have to say enhances the viewing experience.
	Yeah, there was a Simpsons parody of soccer once in one of the really old episodes.
	It was a while ago.
	Not the more recent one where they talk about the corruption.
	Right.
	And they had these guys watching the game, and there's nothing going on.
	There's just two guys kicking the ball back.
	There's absolutely nothing going on in the field.
	They have the American announcer going in, and Bills and Jenkins kicks it to Roscoe, and Roscoe kicks it to Jenkins.
	And then they switch over to the Telemundo guys, who are screaming their heads off as though this is the most exciting thing ever.
	I don't even understand that much Spanish, except vacumunados, which apparently is not a real Spanish word.
	They also say, go!
	Yeah, they did that a couple times.
	Or when it was almost.
	During the penalties.
	But yeah, I just hear them.
	Oh, an extraordinary replacement there, obviously, the last minute.
	Anyway, so here's what it boils down to.
	We have on Tuesday, remember, we choose the winner of the World Cup and other such events based solely on geopolitical aspects of what we believe is a completely rigged game and tournament.
	From the top in Switzerland at FIFA all the way down to Cameroon and Ghana.
	And we really know very little about the game itself, as is self-evident when we discuss it.
	Yeah, people criticize us for being boneheads.
	Continuously.
	Stop with the soccer talk.
	All right, well, if you want the same analysis on soccer you get from everybody else, then you should not listen to us.
	So we have on Tuesday the semifinals, which will be the semis, which will be, we have the Netherlands-Argentina.
	That's not Tuesday.
	I think that's Wednesday.
	The Netherlands-Argentina is interesting by itself because we have our king, King Beer, King Pils.
	It was better when it was Prince Pils.
	Now it's just King Pils.
	He's married to Maxima of Argentina, so everyone's like, oh, it's gotta be tough in the bedroom for those two.
	What a coincidence.
	Hard for her to root for Argentina.
	And, of course, the other semifinal is Brazil versus Germany.
	Now, we have had, besides our pick, which couldn't even happen technically, that's how much we know about the game.
	We knew that this would happen.
	Brazil, Germany, and I believe our 2-1, the score 2-1 is our prognosis.
	But here's what's interesting.
	All of our prognosis, by the way, is 2-1.
	Here's what's interesting.
	Three of the most important players for Brazil are out.
	Neymar, Silva, and now William Borges.
	No, wait a minute.
	That is William Borges de Silva is out.
	So maybe it's two players.
	Yeah, there's this one guy, I guess, the top player, whose name I can't pronounce it, they're all nicknames.
	Brazilian players don't have any real names.
	They're all nicknames.
	And this guy's got a broken back or something.
	So let's face it.
	If Brazil wins...
	With two or maybe even three of their top guys out, is anyone going to start believing us that this is fixed, this is rigged?
	I mean, please.
	So, of course, Brazil will win, Argentina will win.
	There's really only two outcomes.
	It can either be Brazil-Argentina, which is the one that makes the most sense, or a rematch of 1970-whatever-it-was, 1944, of the Netherlands-Germany.
	Which is what the Dutch want, but I'm afraid that's just not going to happen.
	Well, there's a third possibility.
	Yes.
	Which is kind of your possibility, but you didn't explain it correctly.
	Okay.
	There's a possibility that it's going to be Brazil against anybody, and they're going to win.
	Right.
	And then there's a possibility Brazil's either going to lose the final game or not even get in the finals, resulting in the burning down of the stadium and probably revolution in Brazil.
	Right.
	We were having dinner Thursday night after the show.
	And there was a table next to us.
	There were like four or five girls.
	And at a certain point, Mickey's talking to one, and she's from Brazil.
	And so, of course, they have their little, well, I'm for the Netherlands.
	Oh, I'm from Brazil.
	I can't believe I'm hearing this.
	But then I get involved and say, well, obviously it has to be Brazil.
	And she says, oh, yes.
	Otherwise, there will be big fire.
	Yeah.
	Uh-huh.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	They know it.
	Everyone's well aware.
	Yeah.
	Well aware.
	Anyway, so that's...
	I think that's...
	Wait, I have a clip here.
	You're going to have to red card probably the best German player so to make it at least look like it's not totally rigged or...
	Yes.
	I think you were talking about this, or somebody, maybe it was Buzzkill Jr., that all soccer is is just a bunch of guys kicking the ball around, and then one guy who's really good...
	No, that's not exactly true.
	Can you get into the goal?
	No.
	All these teams have one guy who's really good.
	He's actually a freak of nature.
	End of show clip today, I will roll out John Cleese explaining football to Americans.
	Which is a classic John Cleese bit.
	Because it's not true.
	Violate the rule that you established that we're not going to play end of show clips?
	Was that a rule?
	That's the one you put together.
	Well, I hereby rescind the rule.
	Well, then I can do end-of-show clips now again.
	Yes, of course you can.
	Now, there's another angle to this, which I think is very important to discuss, because this is now ramped up with such fervor.
	We have been tracking, although it's been going on longer, since the bee colony collapse...
	The theory has been propagated by the President's Special Committee on Pollination, whatever it is, that has been directly traced back to German pesticides.
	Right, the same ones they use in Australia, which doesn't have the problem.
	Right.
	The Deutschlandblitzkrieg has ramped up to an astounding degree.
	And maybe I should play...
	Let's see, I have two clips for this.
	Here we go.
	This is what has kind of been going on in the past day or two.
	The German authorities have arrested an employee of the country's intelligence agency on suspicion of spying for the United States.
	The German foreign ministry said it had summoned the U.S. ambassador in Berlin over the incident.
	Mann is said to have been trying to gather details about a German parliamentary committee that's investigating claims of U.S. espionage.
	Yes, it's all coming down to this.
	So, the back story to this is interesting.
	There's a blogger who posts to the No Agenda News Network, noagendanewsnetwork.com.
	Anyone can add their RSS feed.
	So, apparently, this spy...
	First, he said, look, I'm working for the Russians...
	And I want to expose myself.
	It's a little complicated.
	But then the BND, which is the German Secret Service, Intelligence Services, so they get in touch with him.
	There's some undercover back and forth.
	They wind up going to his apartment.
	And they find on his computer, and I haven't seen this reported anywhere, and I've only read it from this, and it's in German, so I may be getting something wrong, but apparently they found on his laptop, he had a weather app, and when you ask for the weather in New York, it opens up this crypto window where he was sending secret messages back to home base as a spy for the United States.
	I gotta get me this weather app.
	Who are you going to send messages to?
	I don't know.
	Well, I don't know whoever pops up at that moment.
	So this is now a constitutional crisis.
	Well, not only a big issue or a chilling situation between the United States and Germany, as if we didn't know that was already happening, but internally as well.
	This parliamentary committee was investigating U.S. spying on Germany.
	Now it appears it may itself have been spied on.
	A 30-year-old employee of Germany's intelligence agency is reported to have been an American double agent, accused of stealing confidential documents and passing them to Washington.
	This is a very serious incident.
	That's why the federal state prosecutor has become involved.
	Espionage activity for foreign intelligence services isn't something that we treat lightly, but it is a matter for the federal state prosecutor and the investigating federal criminal office now, and it's in very good hands.
	The suspect was originally arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia, but he told his interrogators he was working for the US. The White House has refused to comment on this latest arrest, but German politicians are outraged.
	If these spying allegations are confirmed, it would be an outrageous attack on the freedom of our parliament and against our democratic institutions overall.
	There is no justification for this whatsoever.
	Should these allegations prove true, it would be a veritable scandal.
	In constitutional democracies, parliaments control intelligence services.
	Intelligence services do not control parliaments.
	So we hope for a quick clarification, and if necessary, severe legal consequences.
	This is just the latest and it puts the U.S.-German ties under further strains.
	Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden last year revealed Washington was spying on its ally.
	The revelations include mass surveillance of German citizens, including monitoring Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone.
	An attempt to create a new intelligence relationship between Germany and the U.S. collapsed in May when Washington refused to rule out spying on its allies.
	After the Snowden leaks, President Barack Obama ordered a complete review of spying on its allies.
	But now with these new revelations, the implications could reach beyond Washington and Berlin.
	It's a double whammy because the intelligence services were spying on parliament.
	And it turns out that guy was apparently a double agent, which is so far only an accusation from the Germans.
	We have not copped to that because, you know, the State Department doesn't do press conferences on the weekend.
	We don't know.
	We need a jingle for this segment.
	The German.
	Yeah.
	Deutschland Blitzkrieg.
	Deutschland Blitzkrieg.
	Deutschland Blitzkrieg.
	Blitzkrieg!
	Something like that?
	That's good enough.
	Deutschland.
	That's Greek.
	That's actually not bad.
	And I did that live.
	Yeah, that's pretty good.
	This is very interesting.
	And it seems to me that now with Angela Merkel starting a three-day visit in China, just to make matters worse, all of this, Ukraine, everything, it seems to be more about Deutschland than anything now.
	Well, they're not playing ball.
	No, no, no.
	They're firmly in the Russian camp.
	They're in the Russian camp.
	They won't play ball.
	The whole thing's a mess.
	And, you know, they're not even helping us get Snowden.
	They're going to have Snowden come and visit them without us grabbing him.
	Terrible.
	Terrible, those Germans.
	Well, just on Thursday, we played the clips of...
	The Courage Foundation run by Snowden's girlfriend.
	And everyone's talking about Berlin stands for Snowden.
	This has got to hurt.
	Berlin stands for Snowden.
	Yeah, that's what they were saying.
	Berlin stands for Snowden.
	Please.
	This would be resolved if the U.S. softened up on the Snowden thing.
	They're just making it worse.
	I think our State Department is screwing up.
	I could be wrong.
	Maybe this whole thing is part of a grander scheme that we're too close to.
	We're too wrapped up.
	We're missing the big picture.
	We have to back off.
	Well, there's a couple of other things.
	If you just look at the overall picture, the French are now offering a liquid natural gas pipeline To Germany to pipe into Europe as an alternative to Russian gas.
	I don't think the French have.
	They have, but I didn't know that it was enough to...
	It certainly can't be enough to replace all the Russian gas.
	So the French are now...
	I don't know what the deal is with that French gas, because I know they don't...
	They've banned fracking.
	Mm hmm.
	There's no fracking going on and they don't do a lot of oil drilling.
	It's a it's a nuke powered country.
	Maybe it's from a terminal or something where we're going to send them the gas.
	It's going to go into a French terminal and then get pumped up there.
	Oh, that could be.
	We have the trans Anatolian pipeline.
	That's the one that's always been planned from Turkmenistan.
	No, but that's going to go into the Netherlands.
	So the trans-Anatolian pipeline goes through Georgia and it goes to the, I guess, is it the Caspian Sea?
	What's off Georgia?
	I don't know.
	All I know is there's too many of these damn pipelines.
	But then it goes into a terminal in the Netherlands.
	And so it doesn't seem like, well then, from the Netherlands to France?
	I don't know.
	But there must be something else.
	There must be something about this.
	Because, you know, Barack Obama did the whole Brandenburg Gate thing.
	Maybe he's still pissed about the weather when he went back there and he was just sweating in that box.
	Remember that, just before the second election?
	I don't think that would be it.
	It has to be Snowden.
	It's not something minor, like he had boils or something sitting on his butt too long while at the German airport.
	Is it really such a big deal that we have to go through all this to discredit Deutschland?
	And to, obviously, if we're any good, we're going to mess up their game on Tuesday.
	That would be...
	You know, that would be...
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Well, definitely the Germans can't get any further in the tournament.
	I don't know.
	I mean, if the U.S. was still in the tournament, it would be more interesting.
	But of course, we shouldn't have been in the tournament in the first place.
	Now, on the other hand, I will say...
	That the past, let's see, that previous thing, that previous world war and the one before that, it's pretty much Deutschland who gets blamed.
	So does this mean we're setting them up?
	Maybe.
	There is a cycle that takes place.
	Ah, here we go.
	Okay.
	Now I want to hear.
	Every 80 years is a major conflagration.
	And World War II was the last one, and it would be 80 years in around 2020.
	And so that's when the Civil War, whatever the heck happens, breaks out.
	I don't know.
	But what have we got to do with any of this?
	It's got to be...
	Well, play this clip that I have, because there was just a little...
	Wait a minute, let me close this off.
	Deutschland Blitzkrieg! Deutschland Blitzkrieg!
	Deutschland Blitzkrieg!
	This was actually a clip about the Deutschland Blitzkrieg, so closing it off was not...
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I misunderstood.
	Actually, this is about Austria.
	We've seen these clips before.
	This was on RT. They showed it again, and they just had a little zinger at the bottom.
	Play the South Stream deal clip.
	Ooh, oh, you're getting on my pipeline turf here.
	Austria doesn't seem to be all that enthusiastic about more sanctions either.
	Vienna and Moscow this week struck a major gas pipeline deal with President Vladimir Putin in attendance.
	And the issue of Ukraine came up during a lighthearted exchange.
	But the South Stream gas pipeline deal between Austria and Russia isn't sitting all that well with Washington.
	You can find out why on our website.
	I don't think I need to go to the website to find out why.
	Now, that whole clip included a little back and forth with Putin in Austria, and he speaks fluent German, so he has a repartee with the Austrian guys who speak German, and I think that bugs us, because they're speaking in a language we can't understand.
	They're talking in code.
	What could it mean?
	And they're talking to each other, and Merkel speaks Russian.
	Yeah, and they speak Russian and German together.
	It's like we're being cut out of the deal.
	I think there's some sense of that.
	We're being somehow...
	This is what I would think just as someone trying to analyze these news stories.
	It's possible that the way...
	There are...
	We see ourselves being screwed.
	Yes.
	That would be the reason for all this stuff going on.
	And we can't even make any moves against Russia because, well, if you play, there's another good clip here.
	We can't even get our own people on board.
	The clip...
	What is it?
	DHS, Americans doing business in Russia.
	Play Americans doing business in Russia, and I'll give you some of the numbers that came up on the screen.
	Seeing staunch opposition from Western businesses, and here's why.
	Russia, being an emerging market with a growing income, has been quite attractive for U.S. companies.
	The possibility of being cut off from that market is making American business bosses nervous.
	But just who's involved in Russia?
	Well, Boeing buys nearly a third of its titanium here.
	And the country is also one of the fastest growing markets for Pepsi.
	U.S. car manufacturers also have a huge interest in the Russian market, with General Motors and Ford selling tens of thousands of vehicles here last year alone.
	Now, the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers have launched an ad campaign to explain just why new sanctions will backfire.
	They say it will leave U.S. companies scrambling to keep up with firms from other countries.
	Earlier, we spoke to the president of the Franco-Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
	Hmm.
	So, we have Pepsi, 7% of its total revenues come from Russia.
	Sure, sure.
	Which is a lot.
	Yeah.
	So, you know, and this is, you know, a company that's...
	Donates to the various parties.
	When they said tens of thousands of cars, General Motors and Ford combined sell 350,000 cars into Russia.
	And, you know, this is not...
	You can't just all of a sudden start sanctioning, you know, stop and trade.
	It's not Iran.
	You know, we got no business in there anyway, so who cares?
	Let me try this on you.
	Let me try this on you.
	So what I didn't hear was, American oil and energy companies are pissed off.
	I didn't hear that.
	This is a Russian, this was RT again.
	Okay.
	So you're not going to get, you know, they, I don't even know if the Russians themselves get the importance.
	Let's try this on for size.
	So who are the people doing this?
	We know, we don't quite have all the evidence in Iraq and the new caliphate.
	Of course, we do know in Ukraine, it's Noodleman, it's the Kagans.
	Yeah!
	And they specifically work for BP and Shell, etc., Chevron, Exxon, whatever you want to call it.
	So their idea there was cut it all off, and then I presume we are in charge of that pipeline that's coming in through Georgia, and that'll be ours.
	But also, I'm reading now...
	That Shell Oil, and this of course would be more UK but also US, have had long-term plans to develop the Yuzov field in the east of Ukraine, Donetsk and Kharkiv region.
	And in June, they confirmed their intention to go ahead as agreed.
	But here's a little extra bit that I learned.
	We have this new agreement...
	And I'm not sure if this is part of the European agreement, but it's Article 37.2, probably of a lot of their leases.
	Local residents in these regions are obliged to sell their land and property if requested by one of these multinationals.
	So, kind of like what we have here, eminent domain.
	And where is all the killing going on right now?
	Which, actually, this is kind of disturbing to me that is so underreported.
	We have...
	Ukrainian stormtroopers killing Ukrainians.
	You don't have to do too much work to go and see video of people really being maimed and killed by Ukrainians who are being driven by this puppet regime in Kiev.
	It's like an ethnic cleansing, almost, what's going on here.
	And it is so poorly covered.
	But it seems like just clear it all out, let those guys come in.
	Putin, I think, he's backed off completely.
	He doesn't give a crap about this.
	Let them wear themselves out.
	But it's obvious that we have the pure evidence that Victoria Nuland, she set it up.
	These are the people coming in.
	It's exactly those people who are running it.
	F the EU. And that was supposed to be it.
	We'd be in charge of it.
	We would control the flow of gas.
	We have Putin under control.
	And then we have all these alternative routes, which, if you follow all the way through, includes oil and gas coming from Kirkuk into Sehan under Turkey via Israel or maybe later on direct into Cyprus, Greece, Italy, etc., And that's how we spread that empire, the energy empire, which is pretty much what it's always about.
	Wars are rarely fought over Pepsi-Cola.
	No, but Pepsi-Cola gives money to candidates.
	Sure.
	Probably more so than the oil companies do.
	I think the insurance companies give the most.
	So there's other things going on.
	The whole world is just not...
	I agree with you.
	I think most of it's about that.
	And we also have another more messaging going on.
	You always like to follow the President's weekly podcast.
	Yes, his podcast.
	And I was very disturbed by his podcast this week.
	I want you to play it, but first I have the...
	No, I'm not going to play it.
	I just wanted to say I was disturbed.
	He did not have any makeup on.
	He was shiny.
	What?
	Yes!
	The first time I've seen this happen, he had no makeup on, he was shiny and sweaty, and it was very...
	What was he thinking?
	I don't know.
	The Republicans have a weekly pitch that they do, and they play it on C-SPAN. So here's a piece of it.
	I want you to just play a little bit of it, or play this clip.
	And then it's got a bunch of cliches.
	The Republicans have all these cliches, and it's all in with a bunch of stuff.
	The guy sounds like a pitch man for some soap.
	And here it is.
	We back projects onshore and offshore, creating more jobs and eliminating our dependence on unstable parts of the world.
	We establish predictable regulations, the kind of certainty that allows businesses to plan ahead, invest here, and bring jobs back to our main streets and town squares like this one in Bentonville, Arkansas.
	We build a truly stable electric grid, protecting us from everything from blackouts to security threats.
	And we boost exports so we can supply our allies with affordable and reliable energy and fuel our economy at the same time.
	Who is this?
	Who did this?
	Some congressman from Arkansas.
	Do they actually believe that anyone is sitting there going, Yeah!
	Yeah!
	That was stupid and lame.
	It was very stupid and very lame, but it had all these kind of talking points in it, which were all bogus.
	One was the nonsense that we're supporting our enemies by buying oil from them.
	We get most of our energy from Canada.
	We've talked about this a million times.
	Mexico.
	So I don't know how that works, but they stick with it because it sounds good.
	Then they talk about the grid.
	What is that?
	What is, you know, squirrels eating the grid better by putting it on the Internet.
	That's a solution to everything.
	And nothing's safer than that.
	Yeah.
	And so then we're going to increase exports.
	Yeah, because we've turned the manufacturing over to China and they will ship us the product back.
	We can put our logo on it and then ship it to somebody else.
	That's our export business.
	Big deal.
	And then energy thing was another kicker.
	This is talking about all the gas and crap that we're...
	Now, you know, at first we're going to...
	Well, we need to make this, do the fracking and do the drilling so we can feed ourselves the oil so we won't be dependent on these horrible Saudis, which we don't get much oil from.
	But now it's exporting it.
	This is another, let's ship this stuff that we're going to supposedly use for ourselves to somebody else at a higher price.
	Why, you know, Americans aren't going to pay this kind of money.
	Wouldn't it be funny if there actually was just one dude behind a curtain pulling all these big levers and all these wooden gears are turning and it really was just like The Wizard of Oz?
	And none of this is true?
	It's just a bunch of robot-created news reports of bullcrap?
	Well...
	Seems like it.
	Yeah, unfortunately, running into people like Doodle Men over there floating around giving out donuts.
	While we're on the...
	On the energy and the grid thing.
	We didn't get to this on Thursday.
	Now this is so insulting.
	Now we have this new Stuxnet-like malware.
	If you had drawn a guy with a pointy hat and a Fu Mang Chu mustache and some crazy Boris-like character, that's the only way it would have been better.
	than describing this new malware from a group called Dragonfly, and it's called Energetic Bear.
	I mean, are you kidding me?
	So you're telling me that the Russians, of course, Energetic Bear, and we've got the Chiners, because they're the group called Dragonfly, and this malware is going to...
	It's going to creep into all energy systems everywhere.
	And who discovers this malware?
	Who?
	Kaspersky?
	No.
	RNSA? No.
	Carol Burnett?
	I don't know.
	It's those same guys who discovered the Heartbleed bug.
	Oh, those bones.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	All of a sudden, oh yes, we have discovered this.
	What was their name again?
	CrowdStrike, that's their name.
	Yeah, those guys.
	So CrowdStrike discovers this.
	We know these guys are phony baloney.
	They discovered this heart bleed.
	Coincidentally, the same day the Google guy discovered it, Who probably got a national security letter.
	Shut up.
	We discovered it.
	So now they have...
	You give them credibility.
	They discovered the heart bleed bug.
	Oh, now they have credibility.
	Never heard of these guys before.
	They're just a military contractor.
	Now they've discovered the...
	This group who apparently, as they were making this malware, they said, I have a good idea.
	Let's call ourselves Dragonfly.
	Dragonfly!
	And then we'll call the...
	Hey, bud, you could be Dragonfly, man, but how are we going to get to make a Russian meme?
	I know, we'll call it Energetic Bear!
	Get it?
	Energetic.
	Energetic.
	Yeah, bear.
	And we're supposed to believe in all this.
	Energetic Bear.
	Does it say that in the code?
	Yes!
	It's in the code.
	Energetic Bear.
	Come on, please.
	And we're supposed to be afraid now, I guess?
	The grid is coming down?
	It's really, really, really bad.
	But there you go.
	I guess someone somewhere is buying into it.
	Yeah.
	Yep, yep, yep, yep.
	Okay, what have we got for today's show?
	I do have something interesting.
	It's a little insight, maybe.
	I'm not sure it's good or bad insight, but it is insight.
	I want you to play stormtroopers numerology.
	And sometimes they marched along the street and were singing, we are the murder stormtroopers 33.
	They were proud of the name given to them by left papers.
	It was the men of Storm 33 who were destined to give the battle for Berlin a new twist of viciousness.
	On a dark winter night in 1930, a group of armed and drunken men from Storm 33 walked 200 yards from their headquarters to a popular left-wing social club.
	Okay, is this from the History Channel?
	Yeah.
	Alright, well, I wasn't going to roll this one out, but now you've forced my hand.
	33, of course, is the magic number.
	We've had a jingle about it for a long time.
	I'm still not sure exactly where it fits in, but I have been sent a clip from a couple months ago of Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund.
	Handing out what I believe, and many others in the circles in which I often travel believe, of the conspiratorial nature, is code for the beginning of the Armageddon.
	And I would like you to deconstruct it with me.
	Are you ready?
	Go!
	Now I'm going to test your numerology skills by asking you to think about the magic seven.
	Now, magic seven, which of course is also a very sacred number.
	Okay?
	Okay.
	Most of you will know that seven is quite a number.
	Yes, quite a number.
	It's not 33, but it's seven.
	In all sorts of themes, religions.
	A cult.
	And I'm sure that you can compress numbers as well.
	Now, this is very interesting.
	What do you think she means by the compressed numbers?
	I believe if she's talking about numerology, that means combining like a 3 and a 4.
	Yes.
	We have like 34, which is also 7.
	7, yes.
	You are correct.
	You are correct, sir.
	Hold on.
	Ding.
	All right, onward.
	If we think about 2014...
	All right, I'm just giving you...
	2014, you drop the zero.
	14, 2 times 7.
	Now, this is very interesting.
	I'm not quite sure why she said it that way, because 2 times 7 is 14, but what she really said is, drop the 0 from 2014, that would leave you with 2, 1, 4, which is 2, plus 1 is 3, plus 4 is 7.
	I'm not sure why she said it Well, it both works out, which makes it very interesting, because if you divide the first number into the second two numbers, you do get seven also.
	Correct, correct.
	So seven any which way you want to go, she just took a different route.
	But she does mean, with compression of numbers, she's talking about adding up the numbers to come up with a total, which is something that nut jobs do.
	Oh, total nutjobs.
	So this is Christine Lagarde.
	Yes, the head of the IMF. The head of the IMF, who apparently now is a Republican conspiracy theorist, global warming denier nutjob with her compressed number theory.
	Let us continue.
	She doesn't stop there.
	That's just by way of example.
	Oh yeah, just an example.
	We're going to carry on.
	Okay.
	Okay, that's just by way of example.
	I'm sorry.
	We're going to carry on.
	My mistake.
	So 2014 will be a milestone and hopefully a magic year in many respects.
	A magic year!
	It will mark the 100th anniversary of the First World War back in 1914.
	It will mark the 70th anniversary.
	70th?
	Anniversary?
	Drop the zero?
	Why?
	So it fits in with your crazy theory, Christine?
	Whether you drop the zero or not makes no difference in this model.
	But she's saying it.
	This is the head of the IMF, John.
	This is not Adam with a, we didn't land on the moon theory.
	This is Christine Lagarde.
	Of the Bretton Woods conference that actually gave birth to the IMF. And it will be the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
	Now she doesn't say anything here, but 25, compress the numbers, is 7.
	25th.
	So she says 25th, but she...
	She's like, this is very entertaining.
	She's like, yeah!
	Okay, onward.
	It will also mark the 7th anniversary of the financial market jeeters.
	The jeeters!
	The financial market jeeters!
	I think she means Jitters.
	Or maybe Jitters.
	Jitters.
	I like Jitters.
	Seven anniversary, is that right?
	Yeah, but seven is the Jitters.
	Okay, she says it happened in 2007, but we'll say 2008.
	Okay, fine.
	The Jitters.
	The Jitters.
	That quickly turned into the greatest global economy calamity since the Great Depression.
	Aha!
	The crisis still lingers.
	Yet, optimism is in the air.
	We've left the deep freeze.
	People have to realize as we're playing this, we're listening to one of the most powerful women in the world.
	Not just women, powerful people.
	Person.
	She is the most powerful person in the world.
	Beyond, you know, pretty much almost...
	Definitely top five.
	When there's a meeting of top leaders of countries, she's there.
	When President Obama is doing any kind of financial huge hoo-ha thing, this woman is everywhere.
	And she negotiates the money to save or create Ukraine.
	Greece, Greece who now have rolling blackouts.
	That's her.
	This woman is power.
	And she's doing this numerology crap behind us, and the horizon looks just a bit brighter.
	So my hope and my wish for 2014 is that after those seven miserable years, Weak and fragile.
	We have seven strong years.
	Now, I believe this is a, I know it's a, like a saying in Holland, you have safe and mach and a yard, so you have seven tough years, then you get seven good years.
	Is there some theorem behind this that you're aware of, John?
	Nope.
	Okay.
	I don't know whether the G7 will have anything to do with it.
	The G7? Not the G8. And this speech, by the way, was given before Russia was kicked out of the G8, and it reverted back to the G7. That's interesting.
	Let me just roll this back for a second, because here it comes.
	Here it comes, the one that's going to blow you away.
	We've had 2014, equals 7, 25, equals 7, 7 years, equals 7, G7. The G7 will have anything to do with it, or whether it will be the G20. What?!
	Who have never even heard of the G20? I have.
	Okay.
	How often does that come up in conversation?
	Not often, because it's a useless group.
	It's one of these where you bring everybody that are bitching and moaning about the G8. They put them in a room together, and then they make them think they're part of something bigger.
	Right.
	But if you are doing a whole speech about numerology, and everything is 777, oh, and then there's 20 for no reason?
	Anything to do with it.
	Hold on.
	Let me roll that back one more second.
	Seven strong years.
	I don't know whether the G7 will have anything to do with it or whether it will be the G20. I certainly hope that the IMF will have something to do with it.
	And this is also interesting language, but I'll let her slide because she's French.
	I certainly hope the IMF will have something to do with it.
	It sounds a little weird.
	Now, if I extrapolate this, and it's not hard to follow along with what I've done, the first secret, sacred number with compression dropped the 0214.
	It's 2014.
	The G7 would be the 7th month, and the G20 would be July 20th.
	I don't know what...
	But I'd say buy gold and seeds.
	Seeds.
	Hey, we missed our opportunity.
	So let's look for July 20th.
	I have no idea why else she was doing this.
	I don't know what she's talking about, and she says it's going to be seven years up.
	Yeah.
	So July 20th would mark, well, we just broke the 17,000 barrier.
	On the Dow.
	Yeah.
	Which means that the sky's the limit, even though it was, oh my God.
	Of course, the sky's the limit is also, this is classic.
	By the way, the higher it goes, the more likely it will lower it.
	17,000, drop the one?
	Drop the one.
	As it goes up, which I believe it will continue to do, it's fun to watch this because as it goes higher and higher, it begins to lure the public in, which are prone to buy high and sell low.
	Well, let's see what we have on July 20th.
	Okay.
	We have New York Yankees versus Cincinnati Reds.
	Ooh, Reds.
	We have...
	Ooh!
	The Pitchfork Music Festival.
	Uh-huh.
	Pitchforks.
	Oh, Devil.
	Now we have Reds and we got Devil.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	Uh-huh.
	And the Kansas City Royals take on the Boston Red Sox.
	Nor Reds.
	The Warped Tour.
	The Warped Tour?
	Yeah.
	The Warped Tour is on.
	Yeah.
	And it will be a Sunday.
	So this is good.
	So while Armageddon is striking, which could be positive, maybe it is a bonanza for everybody who knows how to play it.
	That means short everything.
	Well, July 20th, the market won't crash on a Sunday.
	That won't happen.
	And shorting things is a bad idea.
	You have to wait till the public gets in.
	The public will be lured in as the thing keeps going higher and higher.
	There's not a lot of volume, but the volume will increase.
	Well, I do see a donation...
	The public will get in, then you're short.
	I do see a donation opportunity, Dan.
	July 7th.
	What are we going to call it?
	I don't know.
	We'll think of something genius.
	But that's the day.
	That is going to be your ultimate Lagarde donation.
	Ugh, whatever.
	Sunday is also the seventh day of the week.
	Ooh!
	Yeah.
	Depending on your calendar.
	Well, that's true.
	Could be the first day if you look at it otherwise.
	Anyway, so, you know, all I know is, for all the...
	I have always stayed away from these compressed number things.
	You know, if you look at the Simpsons, and then they said this, and then you combine that with the seven towers, and you come up with 33 plus 7 equals 7 again.
	I've heard this so many times, but now, Christine Lagarde is doing it?
	That's a message to the occult, man.
	I don't know what that is.
	No, no, she's probably an ancient of the devil.
	It all spells Beelzebub to me.
	All right.
	Well, you have been warned, people.
	Take your measures.
	Take your countermeasures.
	Get your iodine.
	Whatever you need.
	Get your iodine.
	Get your boner pills.
	Get that other guy.
	Hey, I haven't heard this clip anywhere else.
	I have not seen it deconstructed on CNN. You've got to hunt around for these things to find them.
	I don't know where you got that.
	Well, the IMF website.
	Even that's not easy to navigate.
	Well, I'll give you...
	It's borderline clip of the day.
	Oh, thank you.
	Well, I won't accept it because...
	Well, let's see what happens.
	If we live past July 20th, then you can give it to me posthumously.
	I don't think anything...
	I think good things will happen on July 20th.
	We'll know from our donations.
	Then we just need to know how to play it, that's all.
	Stay away.
	That's how you play it.
	Anyway, I would like to thank you, John, for showing up once again.
	Thank you for your courage.
	And in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
	And in the morning to you, Adam Curry.
	In the morning to all ships that see boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	And in the morning to our artists, thank you very much for providing us with endless hours of entertainment and for making it entertaining to just open up your podcast app to see a new piece of art magically appear.
	It does work in most podcast catchers.
	Yeah, it looks great.
	This one guy sent a picture of his car.
	In his car.
	Yeah, that was cool.
	I love that.
	And that's the future.
	It's the future.
	Martin J.J. created the art for our previous episode, which is the Caliphate-y for empty.
	There's a lot of hidden messages in there.
	NoagendaArtGenerator.com is where you can find all of the art and where we will be choosing another artist once again right after the conclusion of this live broadcast.
	In the morning to all of our human resources in the chat room, NoAgendaStream.com, NoAgendaChat.net.
	We're testing out a brand new stream.
	If you want to give that a shot, listen.noagendastream.com.
	And I think this is one of those streams.
	Void Zero's been setting this up, our 19-track night.
	And it's one of those things where you connect and then it determines what bandwidth you need.
	So you don't have to hunt around for a low-bandwidth stream.
	Oh, nice.
	Yeah, that's what you call the modern.
	Yeah.
	It's actually doing their job.
	Yeah, like the 20th century, like 21st century stuff.
	It's crazy.
	Yeah.
	It's crazy.
	Tricky.
	Yeah.
	Now, this would have been a disastrous day were it not for a number of some well-established names and some new ones just jumping in.
	Yeah, we had a couple of instant nights, and Sir David Foley came in, and so we saved the day, the instant nights in particular, and let's thank them for And they don't have a lot to say.
	I do have the note from James Brown.
	Hey!
	So, we have, from Bone Crusher, who doesn't want to be named, he's in Wyoming, Delaware, or something.
	I don't know, can't tell where he's from, actually.
	He sent in 1776.33.
	Wow.
	And he wanted to be knighted as Sir Bone Crusher of Murder Hill 100.
	Murder Kill 100.
	Oh, I'm sorry, Murder Kill 100.
	And he says for some reason for that reference.
	He says, yeah.
	With regards to the title, I'm not a psycho.
	At least I don't think so.
	Bone Crusher is an old nickname, and Murder Kill 100 is a reference to where I make my home.
	Sounds like an archivist.
	Wow.
	Keep up the amazing work, and that's what he has to say, and it was pretty nice.
	So we'll be knighting him, but I guess, will he be sending in for his ring, or does he not want that?
	No, he'll see.
	If he wants to get a ring, he goes to noagendanation.com slash ring.
	So Murder Kill 100 is in Wikipedia.
	It was created in 1682 as one of the original Delaware Hundreds.
	It was divided into North Murder Kill Hundred and South Murder Kill Hundred in 1855.
	And that is Kent County, Delaware.
	So he's in Delaware, and curiously, by coincidence or not, our next instantite, James Brown, is from Middleton, Rhode Island, the neighbor of Delaware.
	And are these original colony states?
	Yeah.
	Uh-huh.
	$1,111.11, which was the old 11-11-11.
	He actually found the old link to it, and he has the 11-11-11 magic knighthood donation.
	Wow.
	And he has very little to say.
	uh, itm, John hope this donation helps.
	I've been listening to no agenda for about a year now and love the show.
	I was a boner for too long and finally decided I should atone for being a freeloader.
	Wow.
	Looking forward to many no agenda shows to come.
	He also sent us, I believe a secondary note, uh, He or one of the other knights said they believe they should be listeners for a year before they can be allowed the knighthood.
	I think that may be in one of the notes.
	That's interesting.
	You're too early.
	Go away.
	Your money's no good here.
	Anyway, I want to thank them, and they will receive their knighting later in the show.
	Sir David Foley, meanwhile...
	And here it is, another donation from the Grand Duke of the USA, Sir David Foley.
	Yes!
	Hey!
	Sir David Foley, the Duke of the USA, from Los Gatos, California.
	7-04-14, which is the date.
	7-04-14.
	Drop the zero.
	Drop the zero.
	Happy 4th of July from the road.
	In close, find my Declaration of Independence from the Shitteson Agenda donation at the airport yesterday.
	I watched a TSA Asian berate a guy for five minutes.
	Over accidentally having his half-consumed Gatorade bottle in his bag that he put through the x-ray machine.
	It made me think that I need to find a Wi-Fi connection and donate to the show.
	Please keep up the amazing research that can be found only, only here on the best podcast in the universe.
	The best podcast in the universe.
	Thank you very much for David Foley.
	He is the Grand Duke of the United States.
	All barons, baronets, etc.
	ultimately do report up to him.
	He's pretty lenient, though.
	He's kind of laid back.
	Well, at least in the Western Hemisphere.
	Yeah, but he's laid back.
	He's like, whatever.
	In the Eastern Hemisphere, it goes to Hellsmackers.
	Although Hellsmackers have France and Belgium, so they have to...
	Well, it's France in the...
	It's Eastern.
	Yeah, East and East.
	They don't have to fight.
	Grand Dukes don't fight.
	They do fight.
	You haven't followed your history very well.
	Someday it could result in a horrible conflagration of the two guys.
	Sir Ted Hossman in San Jose, California, $333.33.
	I just want to point out that America did beat Belgium in the World Cup.
	Well, then who beat America?
	Or did we lose?
	I can't remember.
	We were beat by Belgium.
	I don't know.
	Yes, there you go.
	You'll get it eventually.
	Yeah, I'm sorry.
	It's listed on the wiki.
	Sir Ted Hossman of San Jose here wishing my wife a happy 33rd.
	Is she on the list?
	Yes, she is.
	Melissa's on the list.
	By buying her an executive producer credit on the best podcasts in the universe, you have to make a note of that.
	If you would be so kind, we both laughed out loud at the two words for you, bingo, boom, shakalaka combo, on show 630.
	Can we get it again?
	I think so.
	I have two words for you.
	Bingo, boom, shakalaka.
	I was prepared.
	You've got karma.
	Yes, of course.
	All you gotta do is email me once, and I'm on it.
	Sir Tim Tillman, Baronet Tim Tillman from Prince George, Virginia, $200.33 to be associate executive producer for show 632.
	He says, excellent Hobby Lobby analysis, Adam.
	Throw me a Monsanto jingle.
	Oh boy, haven't heard that in a while.
	Monsanto.
	There you go.
	We're going to deal with that in the future.
	Robert Hill in Glen Rock, Wyoming, $200.
	Thanks for continuing to entertain and educate on a holiday weekend.
	That's 73s from KJ6HVC. And by the way, congratulations, John, on your first time hitting the repeater.
	Yes, I hit the repeater.
	I'm in QSL land.
	QSL. QSL. I have recorded some of that.
	Yeah, I got some.
	Here's Adam.
	He says, KF5SL... I said, yeah, yes, KJ6LNG to KF5SLM. N, N, N. And you go, no!
	It's SLN! I did not do it like that!
	Okay, well, then, so...
	So, I gotta tell the story.
	So, on Reflector 14 Charlie, which is somehow that's always connected to the repeater John has hit for the first time, pretty much the only thing he can hit, and he'll never be able to hit anything else.
	It's just, like, you don't even touch the dial, it's just always on that.
	And after Ham Nation, they have a D-Star net.
	Now, this is one of the sad things of amateur radio, where a bunch of guys sit around, and one guy is the net controller, and they say, check-ins, and you say, hey, I'm here!
	And then they say, how you doing?
	I'm doing good.
	Next.
	And so I checked in, and I said, yeah, it's KF5SLN, and yeah, we're just listening in.
	We've got John C. Devorak, KJ6LNG, on D-Star for the first time, and the net went wild.
	I remember him.
	Yeah, when floppy disks were made of wood, I read his columns, I did.
	When floppy disks were made of wood, I read his columns, I did.
	When floppy disks were made of wood, I read his columns, I did.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Anyway, that's your group.
	Anyway, Mickey, who listened to, and she actually forced me to record our last bit of me helping you in the final throes of getting you on the reflector.
	She, by the way, I think she actually did wet her pants.
	She said, John, this is so good what you've done for John.
	I said, what do you mean?
	I said, well, there will be a day when you really are both just too old to do this or whatever.
	And John will have his ham.
	He'll have his buddies and he can grouse like all those other guys on the ham radio.
	You know, now I think about it, you are uniquely qualified for ham radio, John.
	You really are.
	Looking forward to grousing in the future.
	I have grousing in my future.
	Anyway, welcome to Amateur Radio, my friend.
	So I'm listening to these guys.
	This guy goes, yeah, what are you doing?
	I'm just getting away from my, I'm taking Python.
	Because I know we need to learn how to program.
	The guy says, yeah, yeah, I've been wanting to do something like that too.
	He says, Python is good.
	Is that a good one?
	He says, yeah, yeah, it's named after Monty Python, you know, the English comic.
	And of course you jumped right in and went, that's wrong!
	I did not jump right in.
	Anyway.
	KJ6LNG, how's the weather there in San Francisco?
	KF5SLM? Oh, I thought that was the recording.
	No, that was me.
	I'm doing that live.
	Yeah, I'm an artiste.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Is this KF5SLB? Negative, negative, negative.
	This is KF5KiloFox5.
	Sugar, Lima, November.
	The weather here is sunny, overcast.
	Looks like fog's gonna roll in later today.
	Out.
	That's funny.
	When I was in San Francisco, I remember the days in July would be really, really nice and awesome.
	No, this is not true.
	It's never been nice in July.
	You lie.
	That would be funny.
	It's the you lie guy on the ham radio.
	Alright, onward, onward.
	And finally, our last donor for show 632.
	Not our last donor, but our last executive associate executive producer.
	Sir Chad Biderman, or Biderman, Biderman, Biderman, Biderman.
	Biderman, I think.
	$200 from Round Lake, Illinois.
	As far as I wanted to contribute to your 74-14 promotion, I just didn't feel like it was enough when stacked up the truly stellar content you guys have cranked out all year long.
	No one, absolutely no one performs the kind of analysis you guys do.
	May the feds become confused on the way to your houses.
	Because, hey, let's listen up on these guys before we go bust their heads and black bag them and send them off to Gitmo.
	Hey, what?
	Wait a minute, what?
	Say what?
	I'm confused.
	No, somehow I don't think so.
	Sir Chad has Sir Chad.
	Oh, that was our list and really the saving grace.
	You'll see how quickly we'll wing through our donation segment today.
	Of course, it's a Fourth of July holiday that we had here in the U.S. And we're working.
	Yeah, we're working.
	Everyone blows their money in the air on fireworks.
	What'd you do for the Fourth?
	Did you do anything fun?
	I had my daughter and her boyfriend and Buzzkill, we had a dinner, a big dinner.
	Which meant you were cooking.
	And we watched off the porch and we can watch the local Berkeley fireworks.
	You couldn't see San Francisco because it was completely fogged in.
	It's always fogged in 4th of July.
	No, I know, but sometimes you can see under it, you can see a flash.
	You can see something that goes way too high and gets above the fog once in a while.
	No!
	Nothing!
	Zip!
	There was not a thing you could see.
	And from where I am, you can see San Francisco fireworks, Tiburon fireworks.
	I think there's something in Sausalito.
	You can see Great America.
	It's not Great America, but whatever it is up in Vallejo, you can see their fireworks.
	You can see the Oakland Lake Merritt fireworks and Berkeley fireworks.
	And the Berkeley fireworks are close enough outside the fog.
	We got to see that.
	You can't see anything.
	It was all foggy.
	Hey, by the way, you know, Python.
	I always thought Python was...
	It's a Dutch guy who actually developed Python.
	I always thought it was a reference to the way the code flows like a Python.
	Yeah?
	From the Book of Knowledge, which I actually did consult.
	Consult the Book of Knowledge!
	Python's name is derived from the television series Monty Python's Flying Circus.
	Yes, but Monty Python is not an English comic.
	No, I understand.
	But I even thought the Monty Python reference was wrong.
	That was from a snake.
	I always thought it was a snake.
	Well, I learn something every day.
	Probably, if you take the course or read the book, it probably is the first thing you read about, the derivation of the word.
	And this guy is studying it, so that's what he read.
	Anyway, the H-E-B, H-E-B, the heebie-jeebies, this is our Texas supermarket.
	I've been to Aheb.
	Aheb, yeah, H-E-B. And they always do a big fireworks show.
	But now, because Austin's money center is pretty much around...
	Some people call it 360 or...
	It's the Circuit of America.
	This is where we have Formula One and we have the X Games now and we have MotoGP.
	So it's a big money maker.
	But they moved all the fireworks out there.
	So you've got to get in the car or whatever and go drive 20 minutes.
	Except the Country Club in Austin.
	They still do fireworks.
	And Joe and Karen Draker, who are friends of ours.
	Now, Joe, they're both born in...
	Karen, I think, is not born in Texas.
	Arkansas.
	She's from Arkansas.
	She used to be married to Charlie Sexton.
	And Joe Draker is, you know, he's a first, like, original Austin guy.
	And he, have you ever been to Austin, Maudie's Tex-Mex restaurant?
	You ever hear of that?
	No.
	He owns it.
	There's a couple of them, actually.
	He's a real, he's a good old boy, but, you know, he doesn't show the Republican side of him in Austin, of course, because you get run out of town.
	And he said, ah, you know, the kids are out.
	Why don't you guys join us?
	And he has like a real older-fashioned ski boat.
	These days they're all fancy.
	He has the one with basically a huge Corvette engine in the middle of the boat.
	You ever see these?
	You have to turn on this blower for half an hour so you don't explode when you start the thing.
	And it's just this...
	In the dark.
	And, you know, with champagne, like, and we're right there on Lake Austin as the fireworks are being shot up over the country club, which, of course, we can't get into, you know, because you're not posh.
	It's restricted?
	Yes, restricted.
	No Jews, no blacks, no podcasters, no nothing.
	I'm just guessing.
	So it was really nice.
	It was kind of interesting.
	They'll hang out with you, but you don't have to be a member of the club.
	Right.
	Have you ever been in the club?
	No, no, I've never been in the club.
	But it was interesting, because I told Joe previously, a couple months ago, that Hillary Clinton's uniquely qualified, because he's like, oh, who's going to, will it be the big man?
	This is the guy, remember I talked about, will it be the big man?
	Who's the big man?
	Chris Christie?
	No.
	There's no chance in hell.
	He said, watch, Hillary Clinton, she's going to be good for the country, she's the best Republican the Democrats have ever had.
	He was like, what?
	And now I had to disappoint him.
	Yeah, we're going to get a real socialist in there.
	Pocahontas is coming, my friend.
	Pocahontas.
	He didn't get that reference either.
	Nobody does.
	Listeners to the show do.
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	He says, I like maps.
	So when I saw the map of the Caliphate from the July 2nd newsletter, I did some research.
	A reverse Google image search led to a 2006 PowerPoint by Captain Steve Miller titled, The Global War on Terrorism, The Long War.
	On their version of this map, its source is listed as islamic-youth.net.
	I researched this, but the site wasn't online.
	Didn't have an entry in archive.org.
	It was unregistered!
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	It's now forwarding to noagendashow.com.
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	Islamicyouth.net.
	Very good.
	With a hyphen there, by the way.
	There was a number of...
	I wish I had done...
	I was smarter then than I am now.
	Which is...
	Right after 9-11, most of these radical Islamic sites were still up.
	And I'm sure that was one of them.
	And there was one site that showed the progression of the Islamic takeover of the world.
	And they had all these different countries, and they show what year they were going to be taken over.
	I think France and Great Britain were the first two to go in Europe.
	And then, I guess, pretty soon they took over Europe.
	And then they started taking over Canada, and then they took over the United States.
	And it was a great map.
	They said, look at these guys.
	They're crazy.
	But then I didn't do save pay jazz.
	Oh, man.
	And there I am.
	Or print as, save as PDF, which you can do on the Mac.
	Yeah, you can do that nowadays.
	You can do that on the PC, too.
	For a while, we can do that.
	But...
	Okay.
	Two more.
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	I don't think you heard it.
	I can just give you a quick little preview of it.
	It's kind of nice.
	It's actually kind of a dancey little ditty here.
	I like that.
	You know, stuff like that.
	It's kind of catchy.
	All of a sudden you're like, yeah!
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	And then finally, Jim, in the morning, Adam, in the morning, John, being an IT slave, I'm loving your dude named Ben saga.
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	No, I saw the t-shirts.
	The dudenameben.com t-shirts?
	Yeah.
	It's really funny.
	I like it a lot.
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	All righty.
	I was marking something up here.
	A couple of interesting things I ran into.
	Here's an interesting clip.
	It doesn't go anywhere, but it's interesting.
	This is the clip.
	I was watching C-SPAN and Jay Rockefeller.
	You can get the idea of what I think here.
	The clip is called Jay Rockefeller's Dick.
	And he decides to do an investigation out of the blue of e-cigarettes and just condemns the whole idea.
	And he says, you guys didn't even wait until the research was in on this.
	It could be killing people and you're getting kids addicted and all the rest.
	Now, I remember the first time I experienced or knew about e-cigarettes...
	Do you remember when Mickey was still living in Amsterdam and she had a big party at that place?
	Yes, at the supper club in Amsterdam.
	Yeah, that's the year I floated around most of Holland with Jan Aylman.
	Wasn't that Queen's Day?
	It was Queen's Day, but what year do you remember?
	It was about five years ago, wasn't it?
	I'm going to say 2009.
	Okay, let's say 2009, five years ago.
	That's when at that event, at her party, or the party that the club had, they had, the e-cigarettes were being given out, and they had blue tips, and I think the company's still called Blue Tip or something like that.
	And so these things were in play now for five years.
	And you know what?
	All the people who attended that party are now dead.
	Possible.
	But whatever the case is, it's not as though these things showed up last week, and whatever research had to be done should have been done by now anyway.
	But I just want to put that as a preface to what you're going to hear with this guy.
	Hey, the committee is examining the marketing of e-cigarettes, and I should warn you that emotionally I'm on edge.
	On this whole subject.
	I'm on edge.
	A product whose popularity has recently been soaring, including and especially among young people.
	We will hear today, I assume, from the tobacco companies or whatever they call themselves, that they will be, they're just marketing to adults, which I'm going to find an amazing answer.
	We will probe that.
	E-cigarettes are battery-operated products that vaporize a liquid containing something called nicotine.
	And we all remember that, don't we?
	Eight people with their hands raised, all the rest of it.
	Now, we know that a cigarette and an e-cigarette are somewhat different.
	But nicotine is nicotine.
	Little kids are little kids.
	Just stop there.
	That's a jingle right there.
	Nicotine is nicotine.
	Little kids are little kids.
	I know, it's idiotic.
	Non sequiturs are us.
	They're looking for things.
	And they're looking for things which they get to see a lot of in advertising.
	Like porn?
	One of the nice things that you can sort of mimic the act of smoking.
	It's cool.
	Kids are cool.
	These products are relatively new and their long-term health effects are unknown at this point.
	Which to me raises the question, why in heaven's name are you going ahead and marketing these things and selling these things and putting them online when the results of the health studies which are being done seriously are still out?
	Why would you do that?
	You want to make money.
	That's your answer.
	That's your answer.
	You'll tell me you're just talking to adults, but you're not.
	You want to make money.
	So you plunge in, get what you can, and then the studies come out, then you'll go right ahead and do it.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	You know, it's like, you should also...
	From a Rockefeller, by the way.
	Oh, of course.
	Douche.
	You should put a helmet on your kid when he goes out, knee pads.
	Make sure it doesn't eat any dirt.
	That's what this is.
	This is all of that.
	What a dick.
	So who's paying him?
	He's probably...
	It's probably the tobacco companies paying him to do it, to promote.
	Until they own these guys.
	Yeah, because kids are watching C-SPAN, of course.
	Hey, that sounds good.
	That sounds illegal.
	I think I shall do some of that.
	Yeah, if it's...
	There was...
	I got a note from one of our producers about this drug, and I have this clip that's been floating around.
	I've been meaning to play it.
	I might as well play it so people don't keep pestering us.
	Ah, yeah.
	Which is...
	This is a very interesting drug that I don't know why anyone in their right mind would take it, but...
	This is for psoriasis, I think?
	Kind of.
	It's like for bad complexion.
	Yeah, bad skin.
	This is Stellara.
	This is the ad.
	And this is like, wow.
	I'm ready to try some of this.
	I'm Carrie D. English, winner of America's Next Top Model.
	I have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.
	So I talked to my doctor about my condition and my treatment options.
	He told me about Stellara.
	In a medical study, 7 out of 10 Stellara patients saw at least 75% clear skin at 12 weeks.
	And 6 out of 10 patients had their plaque psoriasis rated as cleared or minimal at 12 weeks.
	Stellara may lower your ability to fight infections and increase your risk of infections.
	Some serious infections require hospitalization.
	Before starting Stellara, your doctor should test for tuberculosis.
	Stellara may increase your risk of cancer.
	Always tell your doctor if you have any sign of infection, have had cancer, or if you develop any new skin growths.
	Call if your doctor have new or worsening problems, including headaches, seizures, confusion, and vision problems.
	These may be signs of a rare, potentially fatal brain condition.
	Serious allergic reactions can occur.
	Tell your doctor if you or anyone in your house needs or has recently received a vaccine.
	Every two starter doses, I take Stellara more times a year.
	And my skin is clearer.
	Talk to your doctor to see if Stellara is right for you.
	I'm confused and I'm growing a third leg, but look at my complexion.
	laughter I'm dying of cancer, but look at my complexion.
	It's so nice.
	I ran into another ad.
	I know, that's the worst.
	I don't understand, you know.
	And someone's buying that.
	Who was pitching it?
	Who was that?
	This woman who won America's Top Model or something.
	I think I had a different...
	Very good-looking woman, I have to say.
	Now, did I have a different version of that commercial?
	I don't know, did you?
	You might have.
	Hold on a second.
	I had...
	That's kind of weird.
	I had...
	Well, maybe I don't have it.
	All right, don't worry about it.
	Let's just...
	Onward.
	Well, I thought the more interesting commercial was this one.
	Which was very entertaining.
	And I said, I had no idea.
	Now, somebody, we have a knight or one of our producers from Medina.
	Medina or Medina?
	Well, I thought it was Medina.
	I think I pronounced it Medina, but I think it's pronounced Medina.
	Isn't it funky called Medina?
	One way or another by this polka party ad, because apparently these polka parties up there in the Wisconsin, Minnesota areas or wherever, North Dakota, that kind of place, I guess are extremely popular.
	This particular one, which is being promoted here by this woman who plays every instrument, usually at once, they have a list of all the bands that are playing over a four-day period of polka madness.
	There must be 50 bands, and they're all crazy-sounding bands with, you know, very polka-ish sounds.
	But play the ad and see the kind of thing that goes on where we're completely unaware of, and they don't even have this sort of thing in Texas.
	We're having a polka party!
	It's time to get your tickets for the next Molly B. Poké Party.
	Our next event will be August 7th through the 10th in Medina, Minnesota at the Medina Entertainment Center.
	Don't miss your next chance to be a part of the Molly B Polka Party and dance to some of the best bands in the Midwest and be on TV with me, Molly B. We're going to have a polka party in Medina, so I will see you there.
	Be sure to reserve your daily tickets now for just $20 each or $25 at the door on the day of the show, or purchase a four-day pass for just $60 by sending your check or money order to RFD-TV, Molly B. Polka Party.
	9500 West Dodge Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.
	You may also order by using a credit card by going to RFDTV.com and clicking the Molly B. Polka Party banner.
	Or simply call 402-991-6290 during weekday business hours.
	We're going to have a polka party in Medina, so I'll see you there.
	And boom shakalaka, brother!
	Boom shakalaka, boom shakalaka, boom shakalaka, boom shakalaka.
	Dingo, boom shakalaka.
	All right.
	Four days?
	Yeah.
	Somebody has to report in about this.
	People are serious about their polka.
	I mean, to tell you.
	Yeah, I mean, I don't condemn it.
	I don't condemn it.
	I'm just stunned.
	I tried pulling a clip from Reefer Madness, which is a classic, classic movie.
	Very hard to do.
	There's nothing, because a lot of it's so visual.
	Well, the sound quality stinks.
	Yeah, the sound stinks.
	It's optical sound.
	It is a classic movie that was ultra-propaganda against marijuana, and it was really well done for the time.
	And they have like, watch the paranoia strike and you see a guy smoking a doobie and like freaking out.
	But there's no clips.
	It's very visual.
	And the other thing that I thought was counterproductive about that movie in terms of getting people not to use marijuana was they were all having sex.
	The chicks were all loose.
	If you give a girl one puff, she turns into a nymphomaniac.
	How does this dissuade you?
	They were trying to play into people's morals, but obviously that was...
	They got it wrong.
	So I wish I could find something that would fit in, because the type of reefer madness propaganda against marijuana that we're seeing now is, I mean, it's just history repeating itself, except instead of women getting all sexed up and nympho, you're gonna die.
	How's your Monday, good?
	Six months ago, recreational pot sales caught fire in Colorado.
	Business has boomed, but so have concerns about safety.
	A 19-year-old fell to his death from a balcony after eating a cannabis cookie.
	And this man is behind bars, accused of shooting and killing his wife while reportedly high on pot and other drugs.
	He told me that, uh...
	You know, he doesn't remember anything.
	It's not clear what caused either of these incidents, but a common link?
	Marijuana edibles.
	Ah!
	The edibles do have a different effect on people.
	With edibles, it takes longer to feel the effects of THC, marijuana's mind-altering ingredient, which can lead to people eating too much too soon.
	Now, let's just stop here for a second.
	There's not a lot of things I'm actually an expert in.
	Aviation, I'm pretty damn good.
	Well, the only second one would be marijuana.
	I think I have some experience with the magical herb.
	You were strung out on pot for decades.
	Strung out.
	Hey, John, I can't do the show, man.
	I'm strung out.
	I might jump from the balcony.
	Now, there's a couple things they're introducing now.
	So one is the concept of edibles.
	Now, in the Netherlands, where I grew up and where I learned to consume the magical plant, we'd call space cake or hash brownies.
	It's been around forever.
	Now, of course, we're calling it edibles.
	And it contains too many doses.
	Now this is very interesting.
	This is also very typical American somehow, but since it's unregulated, they're trying to bring in some form of regulation.
	Anything, please, we need to label, we need to do something to protect the children from the edibles.
	So they're coming up with this concept of a dose.
	And I guess what they're trying to say is one dose would equal one marijuana cigarette, which of course is ludicrous by itself.
	Especially in today's market, where if you could actually smoke a whole marijuana cigarette, you'd be passed out in two seconds.
	Well, there's something else that I think we've discussed from time to time on the show, but with marijuana, it's kind of a reverse system, where the less you smoke, the better the high.
	If you smoke a lot, it's really just going to start not working that well.
	Whereas, we used to call it studying for the test, where you wouldn't smoke for a week, and then you'd take one puff after that week, and then, well, you'd go kill someone, of course, and jump off buildings.
	But you'd literally just be floored, like, where the M&M's and turn on the Cartoon Network.
	You're not going to go out and kill anybody.
	But now they've determined that this is a dose, and they're calling it 100 milligrams of THC. I don't think any of this makes any sense, but now they are propagandizing this to these shittisons by showing candy bars and asking, of course, the man on the street, how many servings do you think this is?
	How many servings in this candy bar?
	It is completely insane.
	The side effects can be serious.
	Serious!
	What?
	You might eat everything in the house.
	True.
	Hey!
	Who is giving this report?
	Where did you get this?
	This is CNN. This is more lies.
	Yeah.
	Hey, that cat looks very tasty, dude.
	Dude.
	They should be ashamed of themselves preventing this.
	Here, let's play the clip from the guy who is...
	I don't get to finish my clip?
	Oh, is there more to it?
	Oh, please!
	This is going to make me annoyed even more.
	Including delirium and psychosis.
	Oh, yeah.
	Delirium.
	I'm delirious.
	Everybody loves their chocolate.
	And when it comes to tasty treats like candy or cookies, looks can be deceiving.
	Here's your regular candy bar, and here's one of those marijuana-infused candy bars you can see outside the package.
	They look practically the same.
	They smell almost the same.
	Let me tell you something.
	If you've ever smelled an edible candy bar, It does not smell like there's no weed in there.
	No, they stink.
	They smell like weed!
	Come on, it's not practically the same.
	A lot of folks might eat one candy bar in one sitting, but that's where people are getting into trouble because this candy bar actually contains five doses of edible marijuana.
	Five doses!
	Would the average person know what one dose looks like?
	Now, this is pretty funny.
	They did put a funny dude in here just to mix it up, and most of it's like, oh, I can't believe it.
	We put it to the test using a smaller but even more potent candy bar containing 100 milligrams of THC, what's considered 10 doses of marijuana.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	That's 10 doses of marijuana.
	10!
	I mean, John, if you had 10 marijuana cigarettes all at once, you would probably go kill someone?
	It could have serious side effects.
	How many servings do you think is in this?
	I would have no idea.
	I know nothing about it.
	I would say probably two.
	Would it be two servings?
	The whole thing.
	I like that.
	No, that's one serving.
	The stoner dude says, that's one serving, man.
	Yeah, it is.
	That looks like one serving to me.
	The whole thing.
	So you think this is one serving?
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	My guess is it's probably pretty potent.
	Maybe four.
	Well, you're right.
	It is pretty potent.
	There are 10 doses of marijuana in this small bar.
	Wow.
	That's a lot.
	This is actually 10 doses of marijuana.
	Oh, my.
	That's terrible.
	Oh, my.
	That's terrible.
	That's terrible.
	I just think it takes a level of education to the consumers so that people are using them responsibly.
	Adults aren't the only ones ending up in trouble.
	The Children's Hospital Colorado reports a surge of kids admitted after consuming edible pot.
	They've treated at least nine children since January, six who were critically ill.
	There's basically three doses in them.
	State regulators are now looking into stricter requirements, including better labeling, and no more than one dose per package.
	Until then, industry insiders urge edible enthusiasts to consume with caution.
	Consume with caution, citizen!
	Last time I had an edible, which was some time back, I went to a Super Bowl game, and...
	My wife's brother was there, and he brought a bunch of brownies that I did not know were laced with dope, but he's a pothead.
	I didn't add two and two.
	So I ate about three or four of them.
	And of course, when you eat this stuff, it doesn't have the same impact.
	It creeps up on you.
	I'll say.
	So I'm about halftime, after the halftime show, I'm watching the game, I'm going...
	I just had this, like, what?
	Huh?
	Wait a minute!
	And so then I realized that I had ingested a bunch of this stuff, and the game was a little brighter.
	My eyeballs were open.
	And so I said, what was the...
	I was just very confused by this, and my wife says, didn't you know?
	That's why I didn't have any.
	Okay, fine.
	So I was completely wasted from these brownies.
	But, you know, it's not even...
	I don't know how much you'd have to ingest gallons of this stuff before it really has...
	Because through the digestive system, it's extremely slow metabolizing.
	It's not like if you smoke 10 joints...
	Can I ask you a couple questions?
	No.
	But you can ask, and it means I'm not going to say anything.
	Well, I just wanted to know, how long did it last?
	And were you at any point saying, oh crap, I wish it was over?
	I didn't say that, but I was annoyed that I didn't get to...
	I was just annoyed by the fact that I didn't know that I was going to get high from this stuff because if I knew in advance that I could have enjoyed it or I would have had a different approach to it.
	Let me ask you a different question.
	But all of a sudden, say you just get wasted by accident, it's annoying.
	I mean, this is like the experiments they used to do with LSD and the rest of it.
	Right, right.
	Let me just ask, have you ever before or since...
	Been at a baseball game where someone said, hey, want a brownie?
	No.
	No.
	So how stupid are you?
	Come on.
	When someone offers you a brownie at a baseball game?
	Come on, John.
	It was a football game.
	Anyway, the point is that...
	You think.
	You don't know.
	Who knows?
	You could have been a solid man.
	Dude!
	Dude, this is nonsense.
	Now, this is all coming out right now.
	They're pushing as hard as they can because the numbers have come in from Colorado.
	The tax numbers are the kind of money they're making.
	All those numbers are now showing up in the mainstream media.
	And Colorado is making a ton of money.
	Free tax money.
	And the government knows that everybody else is going to look at these numbers that Colorado's released and they're going to say, oh my We're throwing money away by not legalizing it, and the legalization movement is now going to go into high gear, and these assholes at CNN and these other stooges are just being fools.
	Well, this is interesting.
	This is exactly why the No Agenda show is the best podcast in the universe, where I pick up on the Bogut of Edible story, and you come in with the zinger, which I presume is this Colorado clip, No, actually, I don't have that specific clip.
	No, the zinger is the zinger.
	The Colorado clip is more interesting.
	This is the guy who is the head of the Marijuana Industry Association.
	His name's Elliot, I think.
	And he talks a little bit about the pot situation in Colorado, and then another guy comes on who's kind of stoned, I thought was kind of funny, the pot and hemp diatribe, which is a different one.
	But this is the situation with Colorado, and he's bitching about The banks and the government being against the whole thing because of the Department of...
	I have that, actually.
	I have a follow-up to your follow-up, so we'll get to that in a minute.
	Let's play this, though, because this is a good backgrounder that I think people need to listen to after listening to that CNN crap you just played.
	By being illegal, actually, we're hurting the miners.
	No, no, no.
	This Colorado Pot...
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Okay, I misunderstood.
	That's the other question.
	Got it.
	We've been Colorado-centric, trying to make this program work, and that's what I see my job as being, is making Colorado's program work.
	But what we're finding here is that there's only so much we can do in Colorado, because our banking laws are...
	These are federal banking laws.
	It's the Federal Bank Secrecy Act.
	That is interfering and disrupting the banking relationships here in Colorado and causing tremendous public safety issues.
	Also accountability and transparency issues because it's really difficult to audit a marijuana business that doesn't have a bank account.
	We're also dealing with other tax issues.
	And then, you know, marijuana is still a schedule one controlled substance.
	It's in that category of the most dangerous drugs in the world according to our United States government.
	Just look at you, John.
	It's killed you.
	You went from a successful journalist to a podcaster after three brownies.
	The government says there's no medical value to marijuana whatsoever, so all those kids with epilepsy that have been getting so much attention that have been coming to Colorado from across the country, the federal government must think that they're all lying.
	And it's an absurd situation where, I guess from Colorado, it kind of feels like so many federal government entities just have their head in the sand about this whole thing.
	And particularly with banking, it is literally causing public safety issues here because the federal government has not been willing to take more action and solve this problem.
	Ah, okay.
	Now my clip makes even more sense.
	So what I'm hearing now, and I believe there was some pot bank that is coming online for the marijuana only, but essentially, here's what needs to be done.
	As we see that the sale and taxation of marijuana is a bonanza for the state of Colorado, and I presume it's going to be great for Washington and other states, and of course that makes so much sense.
	This is a huge problem for the federal government, where the drug is classified Class A, whatever, most dangerous drug in the world.
	And, of course, you want to now slowly move that towards what is our go-to goal whenever we want to remove something from Of course it's helping the terrorists.
	And you're helping the terrorists win the war on terror.
	And now this clip, which is about the fake pot...
	Is just a stepping stone to the real pot.
	Federal authorities are concerned that the next source of terrorist funding could come from a very unlikely place, convenience stores right here in the United States.
	You're not supposed to ingest these, but people do anyway.
	Synthetic drugs known on the street as fake pot.
	Small packets sold with names like Scooby Snacks, Crazy Clown, Spice.
	It's not really synthetic pot, it's synthetic poison.
	For the last year, federal drug agents have been raiding gas stations in mini-marts across America.
	Not because the synthetic drugs are necessarily illegal, but because the money, officials believe, is going overseas to fund terrorism.
	We have seized over $100 million worth of assets.
	This, by the way, is a guy from the DEA. Yo, $100 million of assets we've seized!
	We have arrested hundreds of individuals all around the United States.
	Funding terror!
	We have seized guns all over the place.
	Guns!
	If a mini-mart is operating in our country and they're sending $40, $50, $60 million back, we're very concerned about that.
	Yeah, there's probably some towel heads sending it back over to Iraq in that ISIS outfit!
	Tens of millions of dollars.
	The bulk of the money, according to the DEA, going to places like Yemen, Syria, and Lebanon.
	As state sponsorship has declined, terrorism fueled by criminal activity is on the rise.
	It makes sense.
	And by the way, in this report, they actually showed the dudes on the monkey bars.
	You remember that terrorist clip from the Al-Qaeda trade?
	Yeah, they pulled back and out is the monkey bars.
	There's no actual smoking gun tying synthetic drug money from the U.S. to terrorists.
	I know.
	They say it right there in the report.
	No, I know.
	You don't have to tell.
	I'll roll it back for you.
	But this is how nutty it is.
	This is only a stepping stone.
	Crazy clown.
	Crap, I went too far back.
	It got stuck.
	I'm sorry.
	I didn't mean to do that.
	Let me summarize while you're rewinding it.
	That's all right.
	We don't have to hear the whole thing.
	This is happening, and the woman then says, there's no evidence that this is happening.
	Yeah.
	And that's their report.
	Yeah, and this is obviously a stepping...
	First of all, it's not known on the street as fake pot.
	Like, hey man, got any fake pot?
	No.
	That's bullshit.
	Hey Ahmed, you were in the convenience store.
	Got any fake pot?
	No.
	Give me some Scooby snacks, yo.
	This is just pointing towards one thing, which is drugs equals funding terrorism.
	Because you see the guy with the towel in the mini-mart.
	They actually say mini-mart.
	It's almost racist.
	We know the Indian guy in the mini-mart.
	I don't know if he's Indian.
	He could be Al-Qaeda, for all I know.
	He looks like Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
	And he's selling fake pot, which is funding terrorism because he's sending money to terrorists in suitcases full.
	This is really...
	It's so transparent.
	It's funny.
	Where did you get that one?
	Also CNN. These people have got to screw loose.
	They're on the wrong side of history.
	They're on the wrong side of history.
	It's not a mistake.
	This is happening.
	This is done on purpose.
	Yeah, they're telling them to do it, and they do it.
	Yes, sir!
	And people question what I say when I say, or what I mean when I say, you know, Facebook, really, the media is continuously doodling and tweaking and messing with your emotions.
	So we just heard the children are dying because they're eating candy bars that are laced with 12 doses of pot.
	And you could jump off the balcony or kill someone without knowing it.
	And the guy that sold them the pot or even the fake pot.
	It's so bad it's fake pot.
	It's funding dudes on monkey bars.
	Who of course will spill over...
	From Syria and Iraq to kill people in America.
	Yeah, that's happening any minute.
	And at what point does anyone say, except us, this is bullshit.
	Stop!
	I know nobody says this.
	What is wrong with the media?
	They all know it's bullshit.
	They just won't say it.
	Well, I'll add a little bit.
	A little bit of help comes to us from The Guardian.
	The Guardian newspaper, Phoebe, sat down with Hillary Clinton.
	She is now in the United Kingdoms of Gitmo Nation East, visiting the Queen, no doubt.
	And she did a sit-down interview.
	She was asked questions from multiple people, including Sarah Silverman with a videotaped question, and Arianna Huffington.
	It wasn't set up at all.
	But then she is asked about the State Department's use of social media.
	And when you listen to this with no agenda ears, you kind of hear that that dude in the chat room right now, that a-hole, is probably State Department.
	It was a way of getting the message out, especially when you're in countries that try to control what the United States Ambassador or a Secretary of State can communicate to the public.
	So it was both a tool to convey information, but also it became a source of information.
	What are people saying on social media about the United States, about our policies?
	And then we saw through the era of the Arab uprisings how many of those were catalyzed and organized by social media.
	The question is, who was organizing?
	We have to be on social media.
	There isn't any choice.
	The other piece that I focused on was how we debated and tried to checkmate jihadist groups, particularly al-Qaeda and affiliates.
	And podcasters.
	Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula or Al-Shabaab or any of the other groups.
	They were using the internet to convey propaganda.
	Sometimes Just gross and gory videos.
	Gross and gory videos.
	I think that would convince me.
	Hey, look at that gross video.
	I think I want to go and join them.
	Sometimes recruitment, sometimes telling people how to make dangerous weapons.
	So I recommended forming a group inside the State Department to monitor their media and to be not just passive observers, but to intervene, to basically get in there, those chat rooms and those discussions and saying, you know, who's killed more Muslims in the last 30 years?
	The jihadists.
	Who goes after innocent women and children?
	The jihadists.
	By the way, I have seen this written in forums.
	I have seen this exact language.
	Yeah.
	And so that's the State Department.
	Cut and paste.
	Yeah.
	And to really take the fight to them informationally.
	We did a great job in past years, particularly in the struggle against international communism, in, you know, being out there, you know, sending artists and...
	Oh, sending artists?
	Yeah.
	Dangerous people in the world.
	Around the world to convey American ideals.
	Standing up for our values through culture and media, Voice of America, and all of our related efforts.
	And that podcast.
	She said past years, that was a slam against Kerry.
	Of course!
	Of course!
	It kind of went down after the Cold War ended, understandably.
	People thought, well, thank goodness, it's the age of democracy.
	Now we see different threats from terrorist groups, from autocracies and the like.
	We have to get back into that information exchange.
	We have to be standing up for our values.
	We have to be calling out the people who are...
	Saying and doing things that are antithetical, not just to the United States, but to people of good faith everywhere.
	You gotta speak truth to power!
	Just a reminder...
	So what is Kerry doing with his time?
	He's just yacking away.
	He kind of got excluded from the 4 plus 1.
	Excuse me.
	It's alright.
	They had this meeting and there was going to be a truce and a ceasefire and Putin was there and Poroshenko was there.
	Everyone's there except Kerry wasn't there.
	He was kind of excluded from the deal.
	So he's been running around.
	I guess now he's just talking Iran or something.
	It's also summertime.
	The ratings are down.
	No one really cares.
	It's not the fighting season right now, John.
	We just have to cool it for a little bit.
	We'll be back around end of August.
	It'll probably be a little slow.
	Unless something real happens.
	You know?
	Do you want to hear what Hillary had to say about Snowden?
	I'm all in with Hillary.
	Yeah, because this...
	Beside the...
	You know, her problem is...
	She doesn't know when to shut up.
	Exactly.
	Well, so not only did she blow it, and you are so right, everyone is all over her tits about this.
	It's like, oh, she's playing the poor card.
	And now she has the audacity to come out and say, I've given it to charity!
	What?
	Yeah, the Clinton Global Initiative.
	She's giving the money to the CGI. Oh, no, I've given the money.
	That's even worse.
	She's just digging a deeper hole.
	She is so stupid.
	I gave my money to Bill.
	And then when you add her thinking about Snowden, this is not what the...
	I do not believe the American people want to hear this.
	But the other issue that has never been satisfactorily answered to me is, if his main concern was what was happening inside the United States, then why did he take so much about what was happening with Russia, with China, with Iran, with Al-Qaeda?
	This is interesting because I have never heard anyone say this specifically.
	In fact, I've heard the opposite.
	I have heard the intelligence community say, we don't actually know what he took.
	And now she somehow has this knowledge that he took this information on Russia and China and Iran and all our enemies.
	Al-Qaeda.
	I had not heard this.
	That's the part that most objective observers who might very well say, you know, he may have helped the debate on what our laws should be and how we should be thinking about this.
	But then...
	What was he doing downloading all the rest of this stuff that could only help Chinese surveillance, Russian surveillance, Al-Qaeda, and their methods and communication?
	That's never been answered, and I don't know the answer to that.
	I also don't think it's ever been exposed.
	This has not been released?
	It's never been published?
	Because she's making it up.
	I mean, what it did reveal was the huge extent of American surveillance globally.
	I mean, you've described the U.S. as leaders in Internet freedom.
	You've criticized China for attempting to hack into Google, even the Russians as well, having to leave your mobile phone on a plane because of their aggressive intelligence.
	And yet it's the U.S. more than anyone else that's invested, what is it, 75 billion in the private companies that are helping the NSA in this global spying network.
	Why is it?
	That it's one rule for America, another for the rest of the world.
	Well, as an American, because I honestly believe that our acquisition of information saves lives and protects not just the United States, but our friends and our allies.
	Right now...
	Saving lives everywhere.
	You know very well here in the UK, we have a serious, credible threat about terrorists getting on airplanes, going to the United States, intending to blow them up.
	Killing That didn't happen by accident, that this is a credible threat.
	I think it would be shocking to most people if the United States stopped gathering information and we basically said, okay, everybody, you're on your own.
	We can't tell our allies in Asia what's happening.
	We can't share information with our allies in Europe.
	We're going to stop.
	Well, that's just not the way the real world works.
	Oh, okay.
	Excuse me.
	Let me get back into my make-believe world here.
	This woman...
	Is an asshole.
	She is blowing it!
	Yes!
	And we do have to have more restraints, and as I say, that debate is going on, and I think we're making some good changes at home.
	But when it comes to the information competition that exists between the West and the rest...
	The West and the rest!
	Woo!
	Love that!
	The information competition between the West and the West.
	On Friday night.
	I think it would be an abdication of responsibility not to be gathering information that we can use to protect ourselves and, as I say, our friends and allies.
	Bullshit!
	Under the lights on Friday night.
	Information competition.
	Hold on a second.
	You've got to do that again.
	Ready and go.
	Under the lights on Friday night, information competition with AA Fuel Dragsters going against funny cars.
	That's right, John!
	It is the West against the rest!
	It's nuts.
	Well, she is blowing it.
	Yeah.
	It's fun to watch.
	That, for me, yeah, that was a big shark jump right there.
	Of course, it comes right on the heels of, and this is very interesting, in light of the whole, Don Raff, Graham Rival, and The Intercept, and Pierre, drive my car.
	The Intercept, which, I think there are 800 journalists working for this outfit.
	They output nothing.
	There's nothing on their $250 million WordPress blog.
	There's nothing.
	Even a guild member of any newspaper in the country would roll their eyes at the low productivity, and they'd get fired.
	There's nothing going on.
	And then the Washington Post, they get the big scoop about...
	Did you read this article?
	No.
	Oh my goodness.
	This is...
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Well, before you go there, I do want to play a clip that kind of relates back to Hillary.
	This is very important, though.
	We have to come back to this.
	Okay.
	No, no.
	Play it then, and I can go back to this, because I have...
	Well, actually, let me play mine first, and I'll...
	I don't have a clip.
	I just want to tell you what's in this article.
	Oh, I thought you had a clip.
	Okay, what else?
	No, I don't have a clip.
	What has happened now...
	Is Snowden, apparently, and I don't know how this works because he said he didn't have anything, but I guess he did.
	He gave the Washington Post, because he felt the Washington Post would know what to do with it, i.e., sorry, Gren Greenwald, but you're not my bitch anymore.
	He gave them like 100,000 different pieces of target information.
	And I can't believe you didn't see this.
	No, no, this is not a new story, though.
	This is the target information that Greenwald claims to have.
	Yeah, but they released, so they didn't release the raw information, but they're talking about these 70,000 different pieces of emails that the NSA collected and had stored for easy retrieval and searching.
	And it includes pictures of babies, naked babies, they're quick to point out, women doing selfies and in bathing suits and people showing their abs and romance and heartbreak, and they're really, really pouring it on.
	And essentially saying, this is all a big lie.
	The NSA keeps all of your information.
	For the one terrorist that they call a target, they'll capture nine people's emails.
	90% is just captured and stored.
	And apparently they have this.
	Yeah.
	But where's Greenwald with his story?
	I don't know.
	I've been waiting.
	Yeah.
	Well, I think this is very interesting.
	There is a rift.
	Greenwald is out.
	He's just out.
	He's not receiving anything anymore.
	And then this...
	Yeah, it may be an old story, but now the Washington Post gets it.
	They get all of the...
	Which, by the way, is the non-Pierre Drive My Car publication.
	Yeah, this is Jeff Bezos.
	Yeah, well, you'll recall that Pierre looked at it, too.
	Yeah.
	There's, you know, you gotta add that into the mix.
	There's some going on with these guys.
	You gotta add that into the mix.
	Big, giant dick fight.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, with weenie boys.
	So let's go back to this Hillary thing for a second because she's talking about this kind of, you know, the terrorism and all the rest.
	Now, you had a nice discussion on the last show about the phony baloney threat, you know, that's going on, and DHS has got to up the ante on everything.
	Oh, yeah.
	After we did the show, PBS ran the same story.
	Now, this is about the upping the fees?
	Is that what you're talking about?
	No.
	Well, that was how the conclusion was.
	It's just an excuse to up the fees.
	Right.
	But the way the stories all ran was that there was a threat, but there's nothing expressed.
	Threat, but no threat.
	Yeah.
	And there was no threat, but there's a threat.
	There's a no threat.
	There's a threat.
	Well, PBS, I thought, was interesting because they not only handled it differently, they never once said there was no threat.
	Oh.
	They just kind of played it straight.
	They actually gave the worst report.
	And, of course, this is the new PBS. Ah.
	Ah, yes.
	New production.
	No more McGlare NewsHour guys.
	Yeah, McGlare guys are out.
	Right, right, right.
	And there was a kicker at the end.
	And you have to remember that when you hear the kicker at the end...
	Okay.
	This ran on Thursday night.
	So something was supposed to happen.
	Play the clip and you'll see what I'm talking about.
	New worries over terrorist threats are prompting American officials to take additional safety measures at a number of airports in Europe, the Middle East and Africa that have flights directly to the U.S. Airports on both sides of the Atlantic ramped up security after American officials warned of potential plots to smuggle bombs on flights to the U.S. They said al-Qaeda affiliates in Yemen and Syria are trying to make bombs
	that current security measures won't detect.
	The Secretary of Homeland Security, Jay Johnson, appeared last night on MSNBC. People should not overreact to it or over speculate about what's going on, but There clearly are concerns centered around aviation security that we need to be vigilant about.
	There is a terrorist threat to this country that remains.
	Al-Qaeda's Yemen branch, known as AQAP, was behind the so-called underwear bomber on Christmas Day 2009.
	A Nigerian man tried and failed to set off plastic explosives inside his underwear on a flight to Detroit.
	The following year, AQAP tried again, placing bombs in printer cartridges on cargo planes bound for the U.S. They were intercepted and disarmed.
	Now the Department of Homeland Security is asking for expanded passenger screening, with special emphasis on smartphones and shoes.
	British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged his support today.
	This is something we've discussed with the Americans, and what we've done is put in place some extra precautions and extra checks.
	You know, the safety of the traveling public must come first.
	Also, the U.S. Embassy in Uganda warned of a threat to attack Entebbe International Airport tonight.
	Ah.
	Oh, okay.
	Tonight.
	Tonight.
	Yeah, that was on Thursday.
	That was last Thursday.
	Tonight.
	There was going to be a threat.
	So how does that work?
	Do they call?
	What happened?
	I didn't, by the way, I have not seen any news stories about the Entebbe Airport blowing up.
	Well, but that's what I'm kind of asking.
	It's like, maybe it goes like this.
	Yeah.
	Hello?
	Hello?
	Is this PBS? Yeah.
	Yeah, PBS. PBS! Hello!
	This is AQA Maghreb.
	Oh, good to hear from you.
	Hello!
	We're going to blow up something in Entebbe tonight.
	Goodbye!
	Okay.
	Gotcha.
	We'll put it on the news hour.
	Number one on the list, if you look at Entebbe Threat and you Google it, number one, of course, the story first crops up and shows up immediately on CNN. It's the top one.
	Now, I just found this to be, and there's no follow-up.
	Nobody said, I guess nothing happened.
	There was no follow-up to this story that Entebbe was going to be bombed or some damn thing was going to happen.
	The specific threat.
	I think all of this, I think the entire DHS thing, the entire enhanced security, this PBS story, and Tebby, Jade Johnson getting out there, everyone freaking out, the two three-minute-long packages on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, ABC, is all to cover up one thing.
	Yeah, they're going to charge us more at the airport.
	No!
	No!
	What?
	It is this information that came to light.
	And do you think that the country will see the first, the United States will see the first gay president or the first woman president?
	Well, we already have it with Obama, so let's just calm down.
	Got it.
	You know Michelle is a trans.
	I'm sorry, she's a what?
	A transgender.
	We all know.
	Oh my gosh.
	Oh God.
	It's okay.
	I think there was, they have to kill Joan Rivers now.
	They needed to cover this news up.
	She's blowing the lid.
	Okay, you get Clip of the Day.
	She's letting everybody know that the president's gay and his wife is a transgender.
	This is clear, obvious.
	Clip of the Day.
	That took a little work.
	I do love me some Joan Rivers.
	I have worked with this woman and I find, and now that she's really getting up there, she's in her 80s, I think.
	Yeah, 82, 83, I believe.
	I don't know, let's take a look.
	I like so much because she just doesn't give a crap.
	This, you know, she just, and of course she means that she's being funny.
	She's 81.
	There you go.
	I've worked with this woman.
	She is a genius.
	She's very dear to my heart.
	And I would take Joan Rivers as a comedian over any of these jabronis.
	Because she gets in trouble because she really goes all the way.
	And I think this is funny.
	This is just stick on the street, John.
	She's walking into a building.
	And she says, oh, the president's gay, and we all know Michelle's transgendered.
	It's okay.
	It's fine.
	We're all fine with it.
	What a woman.
	What a woman.
	Only on No Agenda.
	I'm going to miss her, I'll tell you.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	You're not going to see that on Extra Extra tonight with Mario, whatever his name is.
	They're not going to show that clip, I don't think.
	We do have a few people to thank for making this possible to do this show.
	Do indeed.
	Mikael Garber in Issaquah, Washington, 13333.
	And he wants to thank us for our continued awesomeness.
	Yeah, dude.
	Jonathan Halper in Charlotte, North Carolina.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	You gotta do something with that.
	People like doing the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	Yeah, I know.
	I gotta put it in the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	He started listening beginning with the first episode.
	Nice.
	He sent his first 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 donation right after the 2012 election.
	That's interesting.
	Jaeger in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
	$100.
	Just old Jaeger.
	Good catch there, Eric.
	Amari Alexandru Mihai from Romania.
	Read what is coming from Romania.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Please deduce me for not donating in more than a year now.
	Oh no, lately I was feeling kind of shitty because of my bonerism despite the stellar quality of the greatest podcast in this universe just trying to keep myself sane while living the American dream here in Romania.
	I'm going to deduce you for sure.
	You've been deduced.
	If not only just for that horrible accent that I just did.
	Very, very bad, Boris.
	Thank you.
	Michael Hall in Pohanal, Maine, 9010.
	He says, huge note, by the way, but it was interesting.
	I want to read this part.
	Please accept my donation of 90.1, which represents the FM dial location of my local NPR station.
	Hmm.
	I think we can, that's cool.
	That's a good donation.
	I like it.
	It's 90.1 here as well, I think.
	Or no, 90.5 here.
	Cool.
	Okay, well that would be $90.50.
	Yeah.
	Dane Coleman, Dayton, Ohio, $73.33.
	Brian...
	$75.33.
	$75.33.
	What'd I say?
	$73.
	No, $75.33.
	Now we have a bunch of July 4th donors, and I'm going to read them in order.
	All $74.14.
	This is Brian Pollack in Overland, Missouri.
	Christopher Walker...
	Hortonville, Wisconsin.
	He's the knight I was confused with.
	In Hortonville, Wisconsin, he's going to be a knight.
	He's on the list, isn't he?
	Yes.
	That's why he's in blue.
	Yes, he is.
	By the way, we have a color-coding system here on the show.
	Blue means someone's a knight.
	Yellow means they're on the birthday list.
	And red is a douchebag call-out.
	Yes.
	Hell yeah.
	Yeah, we're slick.
	And it's all on punch cards.
	We only have, by the way, one, two, three, four, five, six of these, which is kind of a disappointment.
	Brian Maddox in Plainville, Indiana.
	Judson Noel in Oxford, Mississippi.
	Leslie Satao Zanotti in Camarillo, Brillo, California.
	And Kirk James in Decatur, Alabama.
	Is MS Mississippi or Missouri?
	Mississippi.
	Mississippi?
	Okay.
	MO is Missouri.
	Ah, yes.
	Right, right.
	Derek Deck in...
	Merrick.
	It's Merrick Deck, I think.
	Merrick Deck in Taishi.
	Oh, in Poland.
	Yeah, he's in Poland.
	And he says he's donating his money.
	He was saying to pay the welfare state tourist visa application.
	Free mac and cheese can wait.
	Keep on eating kielbasa for now.
	Also, I'd like to thank...
	I'd like to be thankful for the calling out of Jakub Wojcik.
	Who hit me in the mouth about a year ago who might have become a douchebag since then because he never told us.
	Okay, so this is someone who liked our Poland visa issue.
	Yeah, good.
	We'll have more news from Poland shortly.
	Janet Repke in Sioux City, Iowa, 60.
	Yeah, this is, we did the...
	They call out for Sir Bernie.
	Right, which we did on Thursday in advance of this donation.
	Right.
	So that's Ben Dunn.
	And let's see.
	We got finally $50.33 from Eric Asbury in Brandon, Florida.
	Jim Zuckel, he's got a birthday something coming up in Los Angeles, California.
	$50.
	And Christopher Walker again.
	He's all over the place.
	$50.
	And...
	Yeah, he just likes his name.
	And finally, Matthew Januszewski in Chicago, Illinois.
	$50, and that concludes our donor segment for show 632.
	Yes, and thank you everyone who also donated lesser amounts under the $50 level, which of course is usually done for anonymity, or just people who are on our regular subscription donations.
	We got a lot of the 33-33s, 12-12s, 11-11s.
	We have 5, 4, 4.
	We got people with $4 a week.
	All of this helps incredibly.
	And we are very appreciative because otherwise this show would not exist.
	We can't do it with sponsors.
	We certainly can't do it by selling you seeds.
	So this is the only way it works and it seems to be...
	Plowing ahead, I would say.
	Plowing.
	Yes, plowing.
	So please consider us for Thursday, where we will have, yet again, more grandiose dissections of media and news for you.
	Dvorak.org slash NA And Sir Ted Hosmer congratulates his wife, Melissa, says a very happy 33rd birthday to her, the magic nutter.
	Jana Ruki, of course, congratulates Sir Bernie before and now with their donation after his birthday, which was July 5th.
	And Jim Zukal, a happy birthday to him.
	He celebrates today, July 6th.
	Happy birthday from all of your friends and relatives here at the Best Podcast in the Universe.
	It's your birthday, yeah!
	And then we have one, two, three.
	Of course, we had two insta-knights and Christopher Walker, who sent in his accounting, and he is going to be knighted today.
	So let us grab these swords to get everything good and ready.
	All right, John.
	All right, Bone Crusher of Murder Kill 100, step forward, James Brown, Christopher Walker, all of you are welcome here, to join the roundtable of the Knights and Dames as I would like to proudly pronounce thee the following.
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	And hop on over to noageneration.com slash rings and pick up your coveted and well-deserved ring.
	And thank you very much from everyone here at The Best Podcast in the Universe.
	I have a question for you, John.
	I came across something which I wanted to ask you about because it's something I'd not heard of before.
	It is the Cloward Piven strategy.
	Oh, yeah.
	Have you heard of this?
	Yeah.
	So, I ran across this...
	If I had another couple seconds, I could tell you what it is.
	Go ahead.
	But I have heard of it.
	It comes up in the conversation every so often.
	So this is not new?
	No.
	Apparently, it was a political strategy outlined in 1966...
	Yeah, this is by these two sociologists, I believe, and it had to do with how to subvert something.
	Well, the idea was, it was Richard Cloward and Francis Fox Piven, I guess they were, maybe they were married, I don't know.
	Yeah, they were married, I'm reading from the Book of Knowledge now, so who knows what it really is.
	The two stated many Americans who were eligible for welfare were not receiving benefits.
	Oh, right.
	That a welfare enrollment drive would strain local budgets.
	Here it comes.
	Precipitating a crisis at the state and local levels that would be a wake-up call for the federal government, particularly the Democratic Party.
	There would be side consequences, which would include easing the plight of the poor.
	So the idea was essentially to overload the system, I guess.
	Which would then blow everything up, and the ultimate objective is to wipe out poverty by establishing a guaranteed annual income.
	Which continues to crop up, including now, uh, Scandinavia is talking about it again.
	With a $20,000 guaranteed per person minimum income.
	And we've discussed this several times on the show.
	It's coming back more often.
	I don't know if that's just because of the internet that we...
	Well, you know, even Richard Nixon floated the idea of what he called, and I think it's a little different way of looking at it, a reverse income tax.
	Right.
	Which it is, truly.
	Which is essentially...
	Which would make it more of a sliding scale.
	But, yeah, I mean, this is not a...
	This is something that...
	I don't know.
	I think the strategy is not the way that you wanted to implement something like this.
	You could hurt a lot of people in the meantime.
	It would be fun to watch.
	You could do a cool reality show.
	Well, they believe that the sudden emergence of thousands of kids crossing the Mexican border just by themselves in some scheme, along with a bunch of gangsters, I guess, from the cartels trying to sneak into the country, is part of this strategy.
	Yes, exactly.
	To overload the system.
	Yeah, to overload the system in a couple of specific states, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas would be another one.
	Your boys.
	And of course the Austonians would be all for it, you know, because they're all a bunch of communists.
	Yeah, commies.
	Damn commies.
	Yeah.
	I just thought...
	I'd never heard of the tournament.
	I just thought it was interesting and just wanted to bring it up so people can pay attention to it, see what happens.
	So I'm watching our friend...
	Amy Goodman doing Democracy Now from Sweden.
	Oh, she's gone from Bonn, Germany, and where is she now in Sweden?
	She's at this stupid convention.
	Is this the War and Peace Report?
	Thewarandpeacereport.org.
	Why is it called the War and Peace Report?
	Who knows?
	This is dumb.
	So she's in Gotland at the El Madalen Week, which I guess has been going on since the 60s.
	And if you listen to this, listen to the way they pitch this event.
	Because then I have to read.
	I have a follow up after you play the clip to this of this crazy event, which is brings everybody together in one Kumbaya moment.
	Me Goodman, we're broadcasting from Visby, Sweden, from the largest Swedish island of Gotland, where Amidalan is taking place.
	That is this mass gathering of tens of thousands of people, of every party, debating the issues of the day.
	Sort of like a political convention in the United States, except all of them together and more.
	So we're joined by Dennis Kucinich.
	That might surprise some of the people who are listening and watching right now, the former Congress member who lives in Washington right now.
	What are you doing in Amidalan?
	Well, I found out about this amazing event here, and I had to see it for myself.
	Can you imagine where people of every political persuasion come together in an open space, freely discussing and debating, in a sense of joy, like a festival, and the thinking is very deep.
	Wow.
	Every political persuasion coming together.
	You clearly missed it.
	Here it is.
	Here it is.
	No, I'm playing this for you.
	Bullshit, though.
	Let's watch.
	Bullshit.
	This is bullshit.
	This is a left-wing congregation.
	Let me read from Al Jazeera.
	Because he makes it sound like, oh, everybody's coming together.
	Yeah, if you're green.
	Now, I don't want to say that the Nazis should be there, but the Nazis were there.
	Let me read something from the Al Jazeera.
	The far-right Sweden Democrats who entered Parliament in 2010 are present in Visby as something of a black sheep.
	This is not welcoming if they call them black sheep.
	And they're also the far-right Sweden Democrats are in Parliament.
	Also present, but not part of the official program, is a fringe party even further to the right, the Nazi-labeled party of the Swedes.
	Nice.
	As the party leader claimed to be unofficially inaugurating the week, called for an immediate end to all immigration.
	This is what the Nazis are in Sweden.
	End all immigration.
	A few hundred protesters gathered in the park to shout down his speech, chanting Nazi swines and jingling keys.
	Now, this is not an all-inclusive kumbaya event.
	Oh my god, that is amazing!
	It's bullcrap.
	And so they are presenting us with essentially a report of lies.
	Yeah.
	Nice.
	Very annoying.
	And I was very keyed up after you played the Amy Goodman crap about the Supreme Court decision.
	I have a little follow-up to that, by the way.
	I would love to hear it.
	Yeah.
	So now I see where this is going.
	First of all, the New York Times confirms in...
	Was this an op-ed?
	Let me just pull this up for a second.
	At the very end, if I'm not mistaken.
	Yes, Robert Pear and Adam Liptak.
	At the very end, they confirm by saying...
	I'm scrolling down...
	Some religious organizations are using that arrangement.
	Employee benefits, in part because insurers and third-party administrators have had to foot the bill for contraceptive coverage without any immediate offset or reimbursement.
	They're not being paid.
	They have no prospect of being reimbursed.
	Now, the whole article or op-ed kind of makes it look like The president is running around to figure out how we can save these women.
	Well, in the meantime, it's just not true.
	The insurance companies have to pay for employees whose firms opt out under the Religious Belief Act.
	Now, what is interesting, I have three different articles now.
	From Democrats and Republicans alike that the solution to this...
	Are you ready for this, John?
	The solution is to make all birth control and contraception, because there's two separate things, really, over-the-counter drugs.
	In fact, Plan B is already over-the-counter.
	You don't need to go see the doctor for that.
	You can just go to the pharmacy.
	And I think you don't even have to show ID for how old you are.
	We've talked about that in the past.
	And so the solution is, let's just make it all over the counter, which would be a win for the insurance companies, because they're off the hook.
	And this stuff, you know, there's no patents on this anymore.
	This stuff has been around for 40, 50 years.
	And it would be over the counter, so you wouldn't have to pay for the doctor's visit, for the prescription, etc., etc., etc.
	Yeah, save the insurance company money that way, too.
	Yes, exactly.
	Exactly.
	And I have, so here, House Republicans should pass a bill allowing over-the-counter birth control, says Washington Post.
	Seven reasons birth control pills shouldn't require a prescription, says Vox.
	You know, these guys are all in Vox media.
	Sure.
	The Denver Post, women should be able to buy the pill without a prescription.
	This is it.
	This is, and whether this was the plan all along, I don't know.
	But maybe the President will come out with this as his genius solution to certainly save his buddies at the insurance companies, i.e.
	banks, a little bit of money.
	You can take that to the bank.
	You know, it would be genius.
	You'd have to say if this whole thing was a setup with Hobby Lobby, an unwitting participant, and then they go for the Supreme Court with a weak argument, not the Hobby Lobby people, they come up with some good lawyers that are provided for them to win they come up with some good lawyers that are provided for them to win the case, and then the other side has some weak lawyers to lose the case so they could Interesting, right?
	Well, I will say, this is three articles in a row, boom, boom, boom, two days later.
	I think this may have been a fix, though.
	In other words, you go through the process of having this situation occur, maybe the whole thing was sincere, the insurance companies were stuck holding the bag, they had a meeting, and then out of the meeting, because they have all the top PR people in the world they can afford, so they have some of the greatest strategists...
	In history, meeting and saying, here's how you guys get out of this.
	And the bonus is you'll even be able to save even more money on those doctor visits.
	And here's your solution.
	And so I believe this came out of a strategy meeting after they lost.
	It was a quick one and it was a good one.
	And I agree.
	Vox Media, they don't do things under embargo.
	They're too stupid.
	Someone sends them a press release and they write it up.
	You know what I mean?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's a great strategy.
	I don't know.
	Maybe there is someone really smart who saw this coming or figured it out or had it ready.
	I think you put those people, these real high-end PR guys are all working for two companies now.
	Yeah, they're good.
	Put a bunch of them in a room and they will come up with this within just a couple hours.
	What do you think they charge for a strategy like that?
	A hundred grand.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	With expenses?
	Yeah.
	Well, there'll be some add-ons, yeah, sure.
	Follow-up, follow-up.
	A report.
	To the gate, to the gate, to the climate gate.
	Oh, John, I have a few things I just want to share with you.
	In the Climate Gate Agenda 21 category, United Nations now saying, we need to investigate and take a look We may have to amend international refugee law to accommodate climate change.
	So you can claim you are a refugee if your country is falling apart due to climate change.
	This is a very interesting development.
	So you can go up to Canada.
	Yeah, I could claim asylum in Canada as a refugee from the United States.
	In Scotland, experts have now claimed that if climate change continues, redheads could become extinct.
	What?
	Yes, the gene that causes red hair, i.e.
	gingers, is thought to be an evolutionary response to the lack of sun in Scotland.
	We may lose the ginger persuasion due to climate change.
	Yes.
	What comes up with this stuff?
	A travesty.
	Well, here's the best one.
	I love this.
	Now, if you really want to go big, right?
	If you want to put something onto the public, then you really want to get a guy who can sell it to people.
	Now, there's a couple guys you can call in the world.
	Of course, we know Clooney.
	That's kind of our American go-to guy.
	He's so go-to that...
	He's so go-to, he went.
	Well, we even have jingles for them, you know.
	You've got something going on and you need a distraction.
	Call Clooney, call Clooney.
	Now, in order to push the concept of smart meters in Gitmo Nation UK, and these cost 200 pounds a pop, it's about an 11 billion pound...
	So that's...
	What is that?
	Like 18 million dollars?
	Billion dollars?
	Something.
	The British government has enlisted the help of Sir Bob Geldof.
	Oh, God.
	Who is going to help the government's plan to put smart meters into every British home.
	And Bob Geldof has admitted that he's being paid for this.
	That's nice.
	But when asked how much, he said, none of your fucking business!
	And so there you go.
	They call in Bob Geldof, Sir Bob, to help put the smart meters into every home in the UK. What do you think he's going to get?
	I would guess a quarter of a mil.
	Um...
	It's either in that range...
	It actually could be over a million.
	I don't think he starts the car for under a million, quite honestly.
	It'd probably be a couple mil.
	Plus expenses.
	Well, of course.
	That's where you rack it up.
	How is this guy going to sell anything?
	The way he always does it.
	Children in Africa are dying from this.
	97% of all scientists say, I agree.
	We need to put these in every home!
	Of course, this is all just a minor distraction from something I have been talking about for years and years and years, and now it's here, and now I'm not really that interested in talking about it.
	But after the cover-up of Sir Jimmy Savile abusing children in hospital beds and And the dead.
	And the dead.
	Abusing corpses.
	We've been waiting for the Elm House report.
	I've told everyone who emails me about it.
	We've mentioned it on the show.
	I said, look, in Britain, there is something really bad going on, and you only have to look at the out of Jersey and all the stuff that's been happening, the connection with the Belgian scumbag Dutroux and all this stuff.
	I've said it's the politicians, the royal family, and then the cover-up, the shield, if you will, is the show business people.
	There has been some weird, twisted, pedophile, child abuse thing going on in Britain for decades.
	And now, finally...
	We have the Westminster Pedophile Ring.
	And now they're still talking about people who are dead.
	But at least 40 UK politicians were complicit in this pedophile ring.
	This is now the news coming out of the UK. And by coincidence, they're all pretty much from the Labour Party, which is kind of funny.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	But you wait.
	There will be tie-ins to the royal family, and it was unavoidable that this is going to happen.
	No, no.
	This is the pedophile information exchange.
	Okay, we'll see.
	But David Cameron has ordered new inquiry into Westminster child abuse claims.
	Yeah.
	Politicians, man!
	It's wrong.
	Yeah, once they're dead, they say anything they want.
	Yeah, they really do.
	They really do.
	And where was this leading?
	I didn't know.
	I just wanted to say, because we've talked about, I've talked about, you usually don't like me talking about it.
	No, it's kind of sick.
	Yeah, but it has to be pointed out.
	And the Netherlands is always involved in Belgium.
	The one prime minister that apparently was bringing the boys out to the boat and then murdering them.
	Well, there's that.
	This also has to do with the Dutch Secretary of Justice, Secretary General of the Justice Department.
	Your fabulous, disgusting Dutch story about the creep that rubbed up against your first wife during a parade.
	Yeah, he was a royal.
	And left a mess.
	It's disgusting.
	Yeah, the whole thing is...
	It's messy.
	It is a messy, messy business.
	Why else do you think these people are...
	Stop.
	Just stop me from talking about this.
	It goes nowhere, ultimately.
	No, it never goes anywhere.
	It goes nowhere.
	Let me go back to a couple of just random clips.
	Okay, well I had one more thing for the Netherlands.
	I just wanted to throw in and then we'll go back.
	Alright.
	You sound like you're a rapper.
	You're giving me bad...
	I'm sorry.
	No, my cues are off.
	My cues are off.
	So back on the table now, due to a court decision in the Netherlands, this is topical because we discussed the racist Dutch making fun of the Mexicans with their big sombreros.
	That woman...
	Fucking the Mexicans.
	I'm sorry?
	They were mocking the Mexicans.
	Vereen Shepard is back.
	This is the United Nations woman.
	We went through this, and that's why I'm flabbergasted that this is now back in the news in the Netherlands.
	So the thing was, they have this Black Pete and Sinterklaas.
	And this is on December 5th.
	Sinterklaas is, you can look it up, but I'll just give you a quick summary.
	He's a guy who essentially looks like the Pope.
	That's why this thing is so stupid.
	This guy looks like a Pope.
	He's got a big Pope hat.
	He's got a big golden stick.
	And he has these black peats who run around and they go on the rooftops and they go down chimneys and they give kids a presence.
	And if you're bad, then you get thrown into the sack and you're taken on the steamboat back to Spain.
	And then I guess you become a black peat.
	This has been tradition in the Netherlands for hundreds of years, and it has become a topic of big controversy, particularly toward this woman, Vereen Shepard, who is from Jamaica, but she is on some UN working party, which means she has letterhead, and she's essentially a consultant and brought in to write a paper about something.
	But she is really a part of this working group that is trying to get, what do you call it, Reparations.
	Reparations, thank you.
	Money from countries who had slaves in the Caribbean.
	And she is now, it's essentially a form of blackmail, I guess, but she's going after...
	It's a form of extortion.
	Extortion, yes.
	Going after the UK, France, Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands, because, of course, the Netherlands, you know, they had their colonies, and, you know, you have to pay the people.
	And it starts with her again coming out and saying, you know, this is crazy.
	You've got to stop.
	You don't understand that this is a slavery mentality.
	And a Dutch court came out with a decision, an opinion, and said, you know what?
	Amsterdam should evaluate whether they should supply the license for the Sinterklaas Black Pete Parade, which happens every year around November whenever he comes in, for this December 5th.
	Sinterklaas Day.
	Now, here's what you need to know.
	In the Netherlands, you have Sinterklaas, this is the guy who looks like the Pope, with his black peats on December 5th.
	On December 25th, they have Christmas.
	And you mentioned that the reason these guys are black is because they go up and down the chimney and they're covered with crap.
	Yeah, yes.
	Soot.
	Soot, exactly.
	Which means when they actually appear in public to an American, it would look like white guys in blackface.
	Yes, which is absolutely not true.
	But now she comes out, and I'm going to play this little clip.
	Remember, they have December 5th with the Sinterklaas and Black Pete, and they celebrate Christmas.
	Christmas has been celebrated with Mass, and not really with the Santa Claus, but completely separate from this December 5th, 20 days later, three weeks later, they have Christmas.
	Here's this Vereen Shepherd lady talking about the Netherlands and their racist attitude.
	I am not seeing...
	You should ban your Christmas celebration where the Saint Nicholas is concerned.
	I am saying the relationship between Saint Nicholas and the Blackfeet figures is problematic.
	Okay, so she says, I don't think they should give up Christmas.
	They just, the relationship between St.
	Nicholas and Black Pete is a slave mentality troubling relationship.
	She is confused and believes that this happens during Christmas.
	This is how stupid this woman is, because she's really only there to extort money for the Caribbean islands, and she's using this, I guess, as some kind of stick.
	Here's what I want to say, and it'll be my final word, because the Netherlands needs to start using this.
	Sure, if you want to ban the Black Peets and make them rainbow colors or whatever because of some racial undertone, overtone, etc., be that as it may.
	May I point out that there is a dude who looks like the Pope with a big golden stick who is coming to your children.
	Hello!
	Hello, people!
	That's the guy you gotta be afraid of!
	Do not let children cozy up to this dude!
	Well, that was anticlimactic.
	Yeah?
	Yeah, it was.
	Maybe you don't read anything about the Catholic Church.
	No, I know about the Catholic Church, but it's like a callback.
	It didn't work.
	Okay, I'm sorry.
	In my opinion, maybe we can get some supporters to write in.
	I hope so, because it's very problematic.
	Let's go back to fixing this problem.
	Would it be okay with the Dutch to change the name of Black Pete to Soot Pete?
	No, no, no.
	It's the curly hair.
	No, it's completely a caricature.
	How about instead of all blackface, you take some of the soot and you just smudge, you just run your fingers down so you have smudges all over your face instead of being in blackface.
	I have a better idea.
	I say, cancel Christmas, cancel Santa Claus, and tell the kids, she did it.
	No, that would be good.
	Name her.
	Is that a comeback?
	Do I have a little comeback there?
	No, that's a good one.
	That was your...
	You fixed it.
	I fixed it.
	I did.
	I think I fixed it.
	Just have a...
	Every December, have a picture of Vereen Shepard and say...
	And she'll be Vereen.
	This is why there's no more Christmas.
	That's right.
	She took Christmas and sent Santa Claus away from you.
	Yeah.
	I'm sorry.
	You can't have any presents.
	No.
	And everybody wins.
	Parents get to keep some extra money in their pocket.
	Well, the kids don't win.
	Not everybody wins.
	Yes, they do.
	They're saved from...
	Bull crap propaganda.
	Yeah, they're saved.
	The association of saying there's no such person.
	It's always like the Americans are, you know, all the kids are taught that there's a Santa Claus.
	Right.
	And then at some age, every kid does it their own or they pass it around amongst themselves.
	They're 8, 9, 10 years old.
	I don't know what age they switch over.
	Right.
	But they all of a sudden discovered this is bullcrap.
	They've been fed a bunch of bullcrap all their lives.
	Yeah.
	And then they snap out of it, and they were slightly annoyed by this.
	A little.
	And a lot of them go right back into believing bullshit.
	They joined the Democrat or Republican Party.
	It's training, I tell you.
	Wait a minute.
	Didn't you learn anything from the Santa Claus experience, you idiot?
	That's very interesting.
	You're trained, and then you're disappointed, and then you're given a new Santa Claus to believe in.
	That's a pretty good idea.
	Yeah, well, it works.
	I like that.
	Meanwhile, it's the pastors who are ratting out people and getting them in trouble here in America.
	This is in Colorado.
	This is that girl who was arrested because apparently she was going to aid and abet terrorists.
	This 19-year-old in Colorado.
	The guy you're going to hear talking is the pastor from her church.
	A Colorado teen is in jail tonight accused of assisting the terrorist group ISIS. Investigators busted 19-year-old Shannon Conley at the Denver International Airport.
	They say she was trying to head to Turkey where she planned to meet an active member of al-Qaeda and ISIS. She became engaged to a 32-year-old man after meeting him online and described herself as a Muslim convert interested in guerrilla warfare.
	Investigators say Conley actually joined the U.S. Army last year to learn more about military tactics and firearms so she could wage a holy war on America.
	When she first showed up, it became obvious that she stood out, just from the apparel that she was wearing.
	She was carrying a backpack, and she had a notebook pad out, taking notes at different places.
	So that alerts us right away.
	She became a little bit more hostile.
	Then eventually we came here and said, listen, it's just probably better that you not come back.
	Conley now faces charges of terrorism.
	This is the pastor.
	And they're showing his church.
	These guys are all in.
	They have a direct line to the...
	Look for him!
	Okay.
	Alright.
	I'm on his side.
	Please.
	He sees something.
	He said something.
	Exactly.
	If he sees something, say something.
	That's how it works.
	So I was watching this.
	I didn't realize that Niagara Falls is a scam.
	This is a part of a long report that has some old clips and there's some new clips and it's a very interesting little scam story.
	Engineers are always on guard for signs of erosion, ready to dynamite away sections when cracks appear in the lips, a telltale mark of danger.
	People come to Niagara Falls because they believe they're seeing something natural, but the false has been completely manipulated About two-thirds of the water is now going through pipes.
	It's not going over the falls anymore.
	So, in a sense, when you look at the Niagara Falls, you're not looking at something natural.
	You're certainly not looking at what people looked at in the 19th century.
	Now, if they wanted to, they could remove 85% of the water from above the falls, if they wanted to.
	But by treaty with Canada, the United States agreed, in 1950, that they would only take out, at most, 75%.
	The treaty specifies that approximately 45 million gallons per minute must be flowing over the falls by 8 o'clock in the morning during the tourist season.
	They needed to reshape the bed of the Niagara River above the falls, and so they built coffer dams and deepened certain parts of the river above the falls and where the intakes were for the power plants.
	To assist in this planning, a hydraulic model of the Niagara River was built at the core of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station.
	This comparison, showing the original conditions on the bottom portion of the picture, and those of the final plan in the top portion, points up the improvements, particularly on the Goat Island Plain.
	During the fall, winter, and early spring, when you go to the falls, you're only seeing 25% of the water going over the falls that could be going over.
	I didn't know any of this.
	I didn't know any of this either.
	Now I feel like I've been gypped.
	Hey, hey.
	That's racist.
	It's ridiculous.
	Interesting.
	And so who's running this, Walt Disney?
	So they've rigged the fall, so it's just a bullcrap exhibition.
	Apparently it must have been spectacular with like 3x more stuff going on.
	It was Tesla who originally harvested and harnessed, I guess, the initial hydro energy from Niagara Falls with the turbines and created the first power plant.
	I know that.
	But I doubt he put all these bogated pipes and everything in place.
	That's weird.
	That's strange.
	Yeah, I feel now as I was scammed when I went there.
	I saw the Niagara Falls.
	Well, I've seen it a number of times.
	I've been there.
	I've been there, but I was only there on the Canada side.
	I've never been there from the Buffalo, New York side.
	I've been on the Buffalo, New York side only.
	Yeah, but now I feel as if I didn't have any idea this was a complete bullcrap.
	Bullcrap!
	What else we got here?
	Well, I'm ready to wrap up.
	I'll throw some things at you.
	Yeah, you get the last thing.
	You get that last whatever it was going to be.
	I do want to play this clip before, because it's going to get old.
	This is the Obama will do things without Congress clip, where I just thought he sounded like he wanted to be Hitler.
	I believe Speaker Boehner when he says he wants to pass an immigration bill.
	Now, just so you know, you actually just compared the president to potentially wanting to be like Hitler.
	Did I? Yeah.
	That's the end of the show.
	That is kind of a showstopper when you say something like that.
	Yeah, it probably was a mistake.
	I'm just letting you know.
	I think he genuinely wants to get something done.
	But last week, he informed me that Republicans will continue to block a vote on immigration reform, at least for the remainder of this year.
	Some in the House Republican Caucus are using the situation with unaccompanied children as their newest excuse to do nothing.
	America cannot wait forever for them to act.
	And that's why today, I'm beginning a new effort to fix as much of our immigration system as I can on my own, without Congress.
	What?
	If House Republicans are really concerned about me taking too many executive actions, the best solution to that is passing bills.
	Do as I say.
	Pass a bill.
	Solve a problem.
	Do as I say.
	He's high.
	I'm telling you.
	He's high.
	He's high on brownies.
	He's high and I have proof.
	I have proof.
	Finally, I have to mention a man who's made Life of the White House very sweet.
	This is one of Michelle and my favorite people, our executive pastry chef, Bill Yosses, who's here tonight with his husband, Charlie.
	Where's Bill?
	But he's leaving.
	This is the problem.
	We call Bill the crust master because his pies...
	I don't know what he does, whether he puts crack in them or...
	Yeah.
	And then, you know, Michelle says...
	I got it.
	I got it here.
	But...
	No, he doesn't.
	There is no crack in our pies.
	There's no crack in our pies.
	Drap the luck.
	Yeah.
	You know, I had that clip, too.
	I've had it for a couple days.
	It was funny.
	It's funny.
	It's very funny.
	In fact, I'm surprised we didn't play it before.
	Well, you know, it's because we get busy.
	Now, do you want to do any tech stuff before we leave, seeing as, you know, the situation?
	What tech stuff do you want to talk about?
	In a situation where I've been benched?
	Yeah, like that one.
	Oh, that situation.
	Yeah.
	There's no tech news this week.
	No new phones came.
	Yes, I have.
	No new.
	Is there a new phone out, John?
	Well, there's a great new website that I found.
	Yeah, okay.
	Called whatthefuckismywearablestrategy.com.
	Oh, jeez.
	Here we go.
	Let me see if I can...
	It's all kind of rank.
	If you refresh, you get a new one.
	Let me see.
	Call Robert Scoble.
	I just invented a pair of sunglasses that glistens when you run 10K. It's all things like this, but it's a pretty cool website.
	Yeah.
	I just invented a jumper that trembles when you have a pint at lunch.
	A little wearable.
	It's British.
	It must be British.
	Some of it is, yeah.
	Matt Cutts, the grand gentleman of Google.
	We all know him.
	Yeah.
	He is on indefinite leave.
	Why?
	He says he wanted to spend more time with his family.
	What?
	Nobody says that unless it's bullshit.
	Well, he said that he had promised his wife.
	I think she'd threatened to leave him or something.
	I'm leaving.
	And he said he's going to be gone until at least October, maybe longer.
	And he's the guy that essentially puts the whole thing in the, you know, kills you, kills your business.
	If you have a business that's based on Google, then he's the one that kills you, right?
	Yeah, he's the guy.
	Okay.
	He's the killmeister.
	Google has killed Orcut.
	Yeah, that's weird.
	I guess the Brazilians.
	Brazilians are the ones that kept supporting that thing.
	Yeah, the Brazilian.
	Wasn't it the transgender community?
	Just everything.
	Brazilian.
	Well, here's the thing that I think will be a major topic on all of the tech news.
	Tech news.
	And it's been launched by TechCrunch.
	And it's a movement.
	People are getting mad.
	It's called Stop the Jerk Tech.
	Stop the Jerk Tech.
	Are you going to play bongos?
	Keep going.
	I'm just punching it up for you.
	So there's an anger brewing...
	About tech startups like Parking Monkey and Reservation Hop.
	Are you familiar with these apps?
	Yes, I am.
	So the idea is that these are disruptive apps that screw with people by essentially capitalizing on huge, obvious loopholes to put homeless people in parking spaces to reserve your spot.
	And it's kind of like Silicon Valley is going, that's not funny, guys.
	Really?
	This is not, you know, you've got to stop the jerk tech.
	Like, let's talk about phones, let's get some new phones, and some GPS systems, and some wearables, and smart watches, but you can't be doing this.
	Get rid of the jerk tech.
	And I'm thinking, I'm all for this jerk tech.
	I think jerk tech is great.
	I like it.
	I like the idea.
	What else can we come up with of stuff that is just annoyingly useful?
	I don't know.
	We can start a company.
	That's what I mean.
	Yeah, jerktech.com.
	I should have registered that.
	I'm too late now.
	Maybe I'm not.
	Huh.
	Okay.
	That's the tech news.
	And there's no new phones this week.
	Oh, no.
	What are they going to do?
	I don't know.
	What's everyone going to talk about?
	I think we'll talk about Android L. Android L. That would be good.
	Do you know what that is?
	I have no idea.
	No, I have no idea.
	Android L. I think that will be the new one.
	Okay.
	Do your last story and then I'll see if I can get this.
	Well, let's see.
	We got...
	Well, let's play this crazy clip.
	This is part of this Michael Elliott again talking about pot.
	This is the call-in show on C-SPAN. So some guy calls and some stoner calls in.
	Talking about all the mis...
	And then Elliot actually explains a couple of things.
	Then he throws a couple of bombs at the end.
	And I mentioned these two bombs at the end to Mimi.
	And she said, this has got to be bullcrap.
	I have not been able to document this either.
	I'm not sure which one I'm supposed to play.
	This would be the pot and hemp diatribe with Michael Elliot.
	Ah, yes.
	Here we go.
	By being illegal, actually, we're hurting the miners.
	And also now, Mr.
	Elliott, what I want to ask you here is we're all worried about monies and factories and everything else.
	Marijuana is probably the top, number one, green energy that America can produce.
	And reproduce every year.
	Being the first diesel motor was made to run off of hemp diesel, we could produce marijuana diesel, start running it in our refineries, in our trucks, in our diesel motors, and it's a multi-trillion, not billion, trillion-dollar turnaround for this country.
	Be in Colorado is a step ahead of everybody else.
	I hope that you can take this and look into it, get into this energy, not just smoking it, not just people feeling good by using it, but there's a thousand sources what to do with marijuana, and it's not just the smoke.
	Colin, thanks.
	Michael, go ahead.
	Shut up.
	You know, when Amendment 64 passed, it really had three different sections.
	One was decriminalizing marijuana so it's no longer legal to possess it.
	The second part was creating this business regulatory framework.
	And the third part had to do with allowing the growing of hemp, of industrial hemp.
	And Colorado is implementing that aspect of the program right now as well.
	It's new and we're going to have to wait to see how it goes.
	But I would agree with the caller that hemp is a pretty amazing agricultural item.
	Fun facts, our Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
	Our original American flag was made out of hemp.
	So many things have been made out of hemp that a couple years ago I would not have believed it didn't make any sense to me.
	But clothing and food items and so many other items and certainly energy.
	There's actually a hemp house being made here in Colorado, which it's my understanding that the entire house is going to be made out of hemp, except for the glass.
	That's true.
	Hemp burns hotter than coal.
	Well, the thing about the diesel, apparently Rudolph Diesel, who died in 1913, invented the diesel engine hazard named after him.
	I don't, you know, the claim that he used hemp oil.
	I'm not so sure that's true either.
	It comes from hempcar.org.
	If you go there, a lot of this stuff comes from there.
	I think hempcar.org is making stuff up.
	I'm not sure.
	I'm going to look into the...
	There's three assertions in here.
	One is that the first diesel engine, which would be Rudolph's little invention, was powered on hemp.
	It would have to be oil, hemp oil.
	And then the...
	I'm not buying that the Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper, because it would have been written on parchment, because it was that kind of a document.
	And then the flag made out of hemp?
	I'm not sure of that either.
	I think this is a myth.
	It's also completely unimportant.
	It's being used to pander to a certain audience.
	Yeah, stoners.
	Dude, man, the Declaration of Independence, man.
	They wrote that shit and then they smoked it.
	And then they made copies on papyrus.
	The Declaration of Independence and you get a buzz.
	Right, man.
	And they had to make copies.
	That's on papyrus because they smoked the original, man.
	Don't you know that?
	Come on, man.
	Yeah, and the diesel...
	When he came to burning the flag, there was a reason for it.
	I think he saw Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke, I think.
	But my understanding is true that hemp does burn hotter than coal, and of course it is a magical plant, and I'm all for it.
	And it was, of course, outlawed because, you know, wasn't it Hurst who said, hey, I got all these tree farms and I can't be having people making it out of weed.
	Yeah, I know.
	The crazy Mexicans are smoking it, coming to kill you.
	I think they should bring that one back.
	That's the way to go.
	Just blame it on the crazy Mexicans smoking the weed.
	Alright, I guess that's about as far as we can go today.
	It is.
	We will be back on Thursday, of course, with another edition of the best podcast in the universe.
	Coming up, the final end of show clip, which I guess I've reinstated.
	I'm sorry, I didn't know I'd banned it.
	You did.
	John Cleese explaining to us, Americans, the difference between football and football.
	And why we don't understand it here.
	And until then, I say that I'm coming to you from FIBA Region 6 here in the capital of the drone star state in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's sunny and mild, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll be back on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
	The wonderful thing about football is how creative it is.
	And this is why it has never caught on in America.
	You see, in America, the action is deliberately kept short so that the sponsors can get in as many commercials as possible.
	And also, so that the players don't have to think for too long.
	They get instructions from the quarterback, who has, in turn, received them from the offensive coach.
	No one has to think for themselves.
	This is the Dick Cheney version of creativity, otherwise known as doing exactly what you're told.
	So, you get four seconds of extremely violent action, and then the only genuinely creative activity involved, a beer commercial.
	So, American football is played like a series of advertising jingles, while soccer is played like jazz.
	And while we're on the subject, why do the Americans insist on calling it soccer?
	Why do they have such a problem calling it football?
	It's a game played with a ball that is struck with the foot.
	Hence, football.
	You see?
	Are you following this, America?
	The clue is in the title.
	It's not that difficult.
	Whereas American football, as they call it, is a game where an object that's not really a ball at all, it's the wrong shape for a ball, is carried around by hand and occasionally thrown for other people to catch in their hands.
	You see?
	Only one person in each team is allowed to actually kick the ball, and they have to be specially brought onto the field to do it.
	I suppose, in its own way, that is a form of creativity.
	It's quite a creative use of language.
	You know, saying one thing and meaning something completely different.
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